William le Meschines

  General Notes:

Dictionary of National Biography in the article on his brother, Randulf le Meschin, Earl of Chester, William received a fief in Lindsey. He aquired the honor of Skipton in Yorkshire by his marriage with Cecilia.

~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 40:24, 132B:26, Given as the father of Alice de Rumily who married William Fitz Duncan and Cecily de Rumily who married William de Meschines. ¹⁶⁰

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 40:24-5, Amabel Fitz William, heiress of Copeland & Egremont, Cumberland, married Reynold de Lucy. Amabel was the daughter of William Fitz Duncan and Alice de Rumilly, daughter and coheir of William le Meschin. ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Chart, "Lisle of Rougemont & Lisle of Kinston), Vol. VIII, between pages 48 & 49, William de Meschines, brother of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and married to Cicely, daughter and heir of Robert de Romelli, lord of Harewood. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, William Fitz Ranulf.
William Fitz Ranulf Meschin was the son of Raulf Vicomte d Bessin and his wife, Marguerite d'Avanches [Domesday Descendants, p. 675]. He married Cecily de Rumilly, daughter and heiress of Robert de Rumilly of Skipton. The Cronicon Cumbriæ records that William I King of England granted "totam terram de comitatu Cumbriæ" to "Ranulpho de Meschines, et Galfrido fratri eiusdem…et Willielmo fratri eorundem terram de Copland" [Dugdale Monasticon III, Wetherall Priory, Cumberland, XVI, Cronicon Cumbriæ, p. 584]. Orderic Vitalis records that "Guillaume son of Ralph the vicomte" was present at the capture of Nikaia in 1097 [Orderic Vitalis (Chibnall), Vol. V, Book IX, p. 59]. "Ranulfus Meschinus" donated property to Wetherhal priory, Cumberland by undated charter, witnessed by "uxore mea Lucia et Willelmo fratre meo…" [Prescott, J. E. (ed.) (1897) The Register of the Priory of Wetherhal (London) ("Wetherhal"), 3, p. 10].

William Fitz Ranulf de Meschines married Cecily de Rumily, daughter and heir of Robert de Rumily. "Willielmus de Meschines et Cecilia uxor mea" founded Bolton Priory by undated charter [Dugdale Monasticon VI, Bolton Priory, Yorkshire, II, p. 203]. "Cecilia de Romeli" donated property to Bolton Priory by undated charter which names "gener meus Willielmus nepos regis Scotiæ Duncani" [Dugdale Monasticon VI, Bolton Priory, Yorkshire, III, p. 203]. "Willielmus filius Ranulphi" confirmed the foundation of St Bee's priory, Cumberland by undated charter, dated to (1105/20), which refers to donations by himself and "uxoris meæ Ceciliæ…concessione Ranulphi filii mei" [Dugdale Monasticon III, St. Bee's Priory, Cumberland, III, p. 577].

William married Cecily de Rumilly, daughter of Robert de Rumilly Lord of Harewood and Unknown.¹⁴¹ (Cecily de Rumilly died in 1151-1155.)