• General Notes

  BARONY OF DEVEROIS or DEVEROSE (I) 1299
  
  Sir William DEVEROIS, DEVEROSE, or DEVEROUS, of Lyonshall, Holme Lacy, and Stoke Lacy, co. Hereford, and Lower Hayton, Salop, son and heir of Sir William DEVEROIS, of Lyonshall, &c. (who was slain at the battle of Evesham, 4 Aug 1265) (c), by Maud (who d. in Aug 1297), daughter of Sir Hugh Giffard, sometime Constable of the Tower of London. His father's lands had been forfeited, and granted, 20 Nov 1265, to Roger de Mortimer, but he recovered the manors mentioned above. In May 1286 he demised all his lands in Cheddar, Somerset, to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, to hold for a term. He was on the King's service in Wales in July 1287. On 14 Oct 1290 he was sentenced to major excommunication by the Bishop of Hereford for detention of the tithes of his manor of Lyonshall, but was absolved 7 Nov following. He was summoned for Military Service from 12 Dec 1276 to May 1297, and to Parliament 6 Feb 1299, by writ directed 'Willelmo de Ebroicis, whereby he is held to have become LORD DEVEROIS. In 1300 he granted the manors of Holme Lacy and Stoke Lacy, and the castle and manor of Lyonshall, to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to hold for life. He m. Lucy, who survived him. [Complete Peerage IV:302-3]
  
  (c) In 1166 Roger de Ebroicis held 4 fees, and Walter de Ebroicis 3 fees, of Hugh de Lacy of Ewyas and Weobley, co. Hereford. Roger is usually supposed to have been ancestor of the family of Deverois of Lyonshall, Walter of that of Deverois of Bodenham, but this conjecture is untrue; for it appears from Bracton's "Note Book", no. 227, that Roger de Ebroicis, living in the reign of Henry II, held 2 knights' fees in 'Eylnathestona and Puttelega', and dsp. leaving his sisters his heirs. Stephen de Ebroicis was granted the vill of Frome 'Herberti' by his uncle, Stephen de Longchamp, in 1205, and the manor of Wilby, co. Norfolk, by the Earl of Pembroke. He gave lands in Lyonshall and Frome to Wormsley Priory, m. Isabel de Cantelou (she m. 2ndly, Ralph de Penbrugge), and d. shortly before 17 Mar 1227/8. William de Ebroicis confirmed the grants of his father Stephen to Wormsley, 25 Mar 1250. In 1264 he pledged his manors of Soke Lacy and Lawton for 1,000 marks to Roger de Mortimer for the ransom of Adam le Despenser, taken prisoner at the battle of Northampton. William, son and heir, confirmed the grants of his grandfather, the Lord Stephen de Ebroicis, to Wormsley.
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  from: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest Webpage on Rootsweb.com by Jim Weber, November 11, 2004
  @http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I14645
  
  NOTE: CP does not mention any other wife for William (such as Agnes de Grandison). In fact CP indicates that it is usually supposed that the Deverois/Deverux of Bodenham were descended from Walter Ebroicis (and then rejects at least part of the supposition regarding a Roger de Ebroicis). I am following the line of Brian Walls (SGM), who self-admittedly does not have great sources, just a pedigree "given by others". In support for Brian Walls' pedigree, CP doesn't even have birth/death dates for this William (only Brian Walls has), indicating that CP has little information on William. Most importantly CP does not explain how the manor of Lyonshall descended to John 1st Baron Devereux of Lyonshall, according to CP, probably son of William Deverose of Bodenham. The descent through Agnes de Grandison does explain the linkage of this William Deverois of Lyonshall with the later William Deverose of Bodenham, father of John Devereux of Lyonshall.

Details of William's family with Alice De Grandison