William de Stuteville Lord of Cottingham

  General Notes:

~ Records of the Anglo-Norman House of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880 p. 68, "Suteville/Glanville Pedigree", William de Stuteville is given as the son of Helwisa and Robert de Stuteville. William, along with his wife, had the Manors and Mordships of Leyburne and Braham; ob 5 John. William's wife was Berta de Glanville, daughter of Sir Gerard de Glandville and Emma de Cukeney, daughter of Thomas de Cukeney. Bertha was the niece of Ranulph de Glanville, Lord Chief Justice of England, Earl of Suffolk, ob. 1190. ⁹⁹⁶

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁹²⁵
William de Stuteville was governor of Topclive Castle in 1174, and of Roxburgh Castle in 1177 [Rog. Hov. ii. 58, 133]. He was a justice itinerant of Yorkshire in 1189, and in the following year was sheriff of Northumberland. He remained in England during the third crusade, and was the first loyal supporter of Richard's interests. William de Longchamp sent him to arrest Hugh de Puiset in April 1190. In 1091, he was made sheriff of Linchonshire. Afterwards he seems to have been won over by John, and in Mar 1198, he joined with Hugh Bardolf in preventing Archbishop Geoffrey of York from besieging Tickhill [ib. ii. 35, 135, 206]. Stuteville was nevertheless reconciled to the king, and in 1194, was one of the commissioners whom Richard appointed to settle the dispute between Archbishop Geoffrey and the cannons of York [Madox, Hist. Exch. i. 33]. On the accession of John, William de Stuteville received charge of the counties of Northhumberland and Cumberland [Rog. Hov. iv.91]. From the new king, he received a grant of fairs at Butter-Crambe and Cottingham, and by his influence at court was able to obtain a settlement of his dispute with William de Mowbray [ib. iv. 117-118]. John visited him at Cottingham in Jan 1201, and in that same year made him sheriff of Yorkshire [ib. iv. 158, 161]. This Robert Stuteville died in 1203, leaving his wife Berta, niece of Ranulph de Glanville, two sons, Robert who died in 1205 and Nicholas who died in 1219.

[Sources: Roger Hoveden's Chronicle (Rolls Ser.); Gesta Stephani and Chronique de Jordan Fantosme ap. Chronicles of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I (Rolls Ser.) Foss's Judges of England]

~C.L.Kingsford, The Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. , p. 139-140

William married Berta de Glanville, daughter of Sir Gerard de Glanville Knight and Emma de Cukeney.