William de Whitechurch (William de Blancminster) 
William was born in 1205 in Blancminster, Norfolk, England.1 William's father was William FitzRalph and his mother was Lucy Toret. His paternal grandparents were Ralph de Warenne and <Unknown>; his maternal grandparents were Peter Fitz Toret and Lucia Haget. He had two brothers named Roger and Ralph. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 55 on June 11th, 1260.1 General Notes
William, who died before June 11, 1260, left four daughters; the eldest, Berta, was an imbecile, and died in 1281; the fourth of the manor of Whitchurch, which had escheated to the King by reason of her imbecility, was granted by him to her sister Eleanor to hold at will at a rent of œ17 12s. per annum. The third daughter, Johanna, married William de Barentyn; and Matilda, the youngest, was the wife of Robert de Brascy. Fulk, the son of Robert le Strange and Alianora, eventually inherited his mother's third of Whitchurch, and apparently purchased the two other thirds, as at his death in 1324 the inquest finds him to have been seised of the whole manor. Shortly after Robert's death his widow married Bogo de Knovill, then Sheriff of Shropshire, but had no issue by him. Eyton, to whom I am indebted for most of these particulars, mentions that she was buried at High Ercall, and that she was probably living in 1301, but died before 1306; he says that--
Her monument consists of a slab of grey marble, sometime inlaid with a fleury cross and two shields of arms, but the brasswork of these is gone. Her epitaph remains:
DAME ALIANORE LESTRANGE DE BLANCMINSTER GIST ICI. DIEU DE SA ALME EIT MERCI.
(Le Strange Records, page 172-173)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1020 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1074
- b.1055 in Bellebcombe, France d.24 Jun 1088 in Pevensey, Sussex, England
- b.1030 in Normandie, France d.1076
- b.1083 in Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Lewes, Surrey, England
- b.1025 in Flandres, France d.1053
- b.1055 in Normandie, France d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1122 in Warenne, Sussex, England
- b.Apr 1008 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry, Brie, France
- b.1057 in France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Asia Minor
- b.1036 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1076 in France
- b.1081 in Vermandois, Normandy d.17 Feb 1130 in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.1028 in Vermandois, France d.1080 in France
- b.1062 in France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.1080
- b.1155 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England d.1240 in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England
<Unknown>
- b.1205 in Blancminster, Norfolk, England d.11 Jun 1260
- b.1100 in Moreton, Wirral, Cheshire, England
- b.1135 in Moreton, Wirral, Cheshire, England d.1194 in Moreton Toret, Shropshire, England
<Unknown>
- b.1177
- b.1100 in Bainton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England
- b.1137 in Bainton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England d.1205
<Unknown>
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Details of William's family with Clemencia de Dauntsey
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I13151
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