William Devereux 
William was born in 1219 in Lenhales, Herefordshire, England.1 William's father was Stephen Devereux and his mother was Isabel de Cantilupe. His paternal grandparents were Eustace Devereux and Cicily de Longfield Heiress of Lyonshall; his maternal grandparents were William Cantelou I and Sibil. He had a sister named Margaret. He was the older of the two children. He died as a war casualty, Battle of Evesham, at the age of 46 on August 4th, 1265 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England.1 General Notes
William Devereax, who in the 42nd of Henry III,. had summons to attend the king at Chester, with horse and arms to restrain the incursions of the Welsh, and in two years afterwards, being then one of the barons marchers, received command, with the others, to repair to the marches without delay, for a similar purpose. He subsequently attended the king at the battles of Lewes, but there he foretook the royal standard, and afterwards fell fighting on the side of the barons at Evesham, in the 49th Henry III, whereupon Maud, his widow, sister of Walter Giffard, bishop of Bath and Wells, applied to the king, for "certain jewels and harnes," which hade been deposited in the church of Hereford by the deceased baron, and obtained precept to the treasurer of the cathedral, for their deliverence to her. [Dominant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages, p169 Devereux, Barons Devereux]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1066 in Herefordshire, England
- b.1092 in Herefordshire, England d.1140
- b.1074
- b.1118 in Herefordshire, England
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- b.1160 in Herefordshire, England d.1204
- b.1070 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.1090 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.1163
- b.1070 in Herefordshire, England
- b.1133 in Herefordshire, England
- b.1100 in England
- b.1179 in Castle Frome, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England d.1228 in Wilby, Wayland, Norfolk, England
- b.1138 in Lyonshall, Kington, Herefordshire, England d.1197
- b.1159 in Lyonshall, Herefordshire, England
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- b.1219 in Lenhales, Herefordshire, England d.04 Aug 1265 in Evesham, Worcestershire, England
- b.1074 in Canteleu, Normandie
- b.1102 in Canteleu, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
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- b.1126 in Longueville, Jersey, Wales d.1182
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- b.1159 in Reading & Ellesborough, Bucks, England d.07 Apr 1239 in Ellesborough, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England
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- b.1179 in Aston Cantlow, Alcester, Warwickshire, England
- b.1160
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Details of William's family with Matilda de Giffard
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