General Notes

William was Chamberlain to Henry I, and was granted by Henry I the Barony of Hameslape, together with the office of Exchequer to the King, and all lands belonging thereto in Normandy and England, particularly the Castle and Honour of Porchester. He married Maud de Mameslape, whose family name originated from a parish on the border of Buckinghamshire, extending to Northampton, later called Hameslape. There was a William de Hameslape on the Humdred rolls of County Bucks, 1273 A. D. Maud's father Michael de Hameslape is addressed by King Henry I, in a charter made at Rockingham about the year 1101 in favor of the See of Lincoln. He is also mentioned as once lord of the fief which Henry I bestowed on William Malduit; but Bank's Dormant and Extinct Baronetcies says, "Mauduit marrying Maude, daughter of Michael de Hameslape, acquired with her the barony of Hameslape in County Buckingham," she being the sole daughter and heir. There seems to be no earlier history of the Hameslape family than the mention of the charter in 1101.