General Notes

[spelman.FTW]

REFN: 664
Was probably born at least as early as the eleven-hundred-forties, a s he
was evidently of age in 1167, when he had succeeded to his father's
es tates. He lived during the reigns of three English kings--Henry II,
John, and Henry III.
He was credited, in Roll XV of the Pipe Rolls for Hampshire, 3 Joh n,
1201, with having paid to the Sheriff of the County, for the Crown,
twen ty shillings for his sergeantry. In the Hampshire Pipe Rolls of the
reign of Henry III it is noted that he paid one hundred shillings for a
fine and seize n on land which had been his father's. In Testa de Nevill,
in Liber Feodorum, a book of transcripts of Inquisitions concerning
persons and villages, serge antries and knight's fees, held of the King
under the feudal system of tenure , he is mentioned as holding of the King
one carucate of land in Brokenhurst for providing the service of an
Esquire "in Coat-of-Mail" for forty days in E ngland, and for providing
litter for the King's bed and hay for the royal pal freys, when the King
should lie at Brokenhurst. So Brokenhurst Manor housed a king of England,
and William Spileman was a monarch's host.
He died before 1231-1232, as in that year his son, Sir William, was
holding his lands, the l atter having succeeded his brother, Peter. The
wife of William Spileman II, a nd the mother of his three sons, Peter,
William, and Henry,--the last the anc estor of the American Spelmans,--was
Matilda, daughter of William, Lord of Sa rum, Knight.