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Family Subtree Diagram : ..Ralph de Brereton (1224)

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# Note: on the history of the Earldom of Huntingdon:

    After Earl Simon's [Matilda's 1st husband] death, his Widow married David I of Scotland, who consequently became Earl of Huntingdon too, keeping the Earldom even after he succeeded his brother as King of Scots. He sided with the Empress Maud against Stephen I but came to terms with the latter and made the Earldom over to his son Henry. Henry swore fealty to Stephen but subsequently fought against him under the Scottish banner, which may account for Simon de St Liz's son, another Simon, being recognized as Earl of Huntingdon before Henry's death in 1152. Thereafter the Earldom was more or less bounced back and forth between the de St Liz family and the Kings of Scotland, first being held 1157-65 by Malcolm the Maiden and (1165-74) by his brother William The Lion, King of Scots, then by a Simon de St Liz (grandson of the first Simon and son of the second) from 1174 to 1184.

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    When the third Simon de St Liz died in 1184 he left no surviving issue and David, younger brother of the Kings of Scots just mentioned, assumed the Earldom from 1185 (on the handing over of it to him by William the Lion) till it was taken away from him in 1215 or 1216 by King John. He got it back again in 1218, however. It is this David's daughter who married Sir Henry de Hastinges, ancestor of the Lords (Barons) Hastings of which the current Hastings holdersof the Huntingdon Earldom are cadets....A little over a century later the then Lord Clinton was promoted Earl of Huntingdon. Apart from his wife being the widow of Lord Hastings he seems to have had no family connection with the title's previous holders. [Burke's Peerage]

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Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
Page: 93-27

Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
Page: 7-3 1241 William de Brereton 1203 William Brereton It is said that a valet had the audacity to interrupt Sir William at dinner, whereupon seeing his master's anger, fled upstairs; but Sir William pursued him there and in his ungovernable rage, murdered him.
Sir William, in fear and consternation of the deed and its probable consequences, went to London to plead for pardon with the King, for the royal authority was great in those days. Sir William went on his knees before the King and confessed his crime. The King was obdurate and refused to pardon him immediately, but offered to give him a chance. He said he would allow Sir William three days in which to invent a muzzle for a bear; if it proved efficacious, his life would be spared, if not -- well, the bear would provide his punishment!

For three days Sir William was shut up in the tower. At the end of that time he was brought before a bear. The bear was let loose. The prisoner flung his newly invented muzzle over its head and escaped unharmed.

From that time the muzzled bear became the emblem of the Breretons.

(In olden days, bear baiting was a popular form of sport and the bear wore a leather muzzle to prevent it from biting the dog.)

Sir William de Brereton, heir to his father, by deed without date, receives from Randle de Torhaunt, later called Thornton, in frank marriage with his daughter Margery, all the rents which Thomas de Warin held from Peter de Torhaunt, father of the said Randle, in Middlewich Hundred. This Randle de Torhaunt must have been Randle le Roter, Lord of Thornton, who became possessed of the Manor of Thornton and is stated by Collins to have been a son of David le Clerk, Secreta Randle Blundeville, Earl of Chester. Randle assumed the name of le Roter, and also of Thornton from his place of residence, and is sometimes designated by both. Randle Thornton died before the 28th of Henry III, having married Amicia, daughter of Richard Kingsley and his wife Joan, daughter and co-heiress of Alexander Sylvester, Lord of Stourton and Forester of Wirral, and had a son Ranulph, who died sine prole, and 5 daughters: Amicia, Emma, Agnes, Joan and Margaret, of whom Amicia, the eldest, was mother of Margery Thornton, wife of Wm. Brereton
 1238 Margery Brereton 1180 Ralph Brereton 1205 Gilbert Brereton 1145 William de Brereton 1150 Margery Bandle 1180 Margery Brereton 1115 Ralph de Brereton Ralph de Brereton, joins with Orme de Davenport in witnessing a deed of Gilbert Venables in the time of William II, called Rufus, the Red.

The first reference to Brereton is in the Doomsday Book which refers to the 'Manor of Bretune'. The authentic family tree begins in 1175 with William de Brereton of Brereton. It is said that he was named William after William the Conqueror and it became a recurring name within the family. The history of the house spans a 414 year period. The twin towers were originally adorned by copper cupolas, but these were removed, presumably because of their weight. The last Lord Brereton, Francis, died in 1722 a batchelor thus ending a six hundred year lineage. Since then the estate has had several private owners. A 60 page booklet :- 'The Story of Brereton Hall, Cheshire' by Arthur L.Moir, provides a comprehensive account of Brereton family history.
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 1147 Gilbert de Brereton 1150 Isolda de Brereton 1205 Margery de Thornton Margery de Brereton 1224 - 1280 Ralph de Brereton 56 56 Sir Ralph Brereton of Brereton, Knight, said in some pedigrees to marry Ada, daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, and his wife Maud or Matilda, daughter of Hugh de Keveliock, Earl of Chester. This gives t Breretons Royal Descent because she was great-granddaughter of David,
King of Scotland, and maternally the Earls of Chester were Royal Earl who possessed jura regalis in the Palatinate of Chester. They also la claim to royal descent from the Venables, who was a relation of Steph of Blois and William, the Conqueror. At first the descent of the Breretons from the royal blood of Scotland was mentioned as a mere claim,
which was found in Collins' Peerage and in Dugdale's British Peers, b a copy of the patent or grant of creation to Sir William Brereton, of the Barony of Brereton, has since been procured and in that instrument su royal descent in Scotland is expressly recited and recognized in the following terms: "We, considering with mature deliberation the free and
true services of Sir William Brereton, and that he is sprung from an ancient, noble and most renowned family, inasmuch as he is descended, through many illustrious ancestors, from Ada, sister of John, surnamed le Scot, 7th Earl of Chester, and daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, Lord of Galloway, within our kingdom of Scotland." (This quotation is found in Archaeologia, or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Vol. 33, p. 59.)
 1087 William de Brereton 1057 Ralph de Brereton 1020 Gilbert de Venables 1050 Gilbert de Venables 0999 Gilbert de Venables 0969 Eudo de Venables Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.