William Bunbury Lord of Bunbury

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸⁴⁸
William de Bunbury, lord of Bunbury, son of Alexander, married Matilda or Maud with whom he had two sons, Hugh and Henry. William died 16 Edward I. Henry, as his uncle had done, took the name Beeston. Hugh succeeded his father.

~Kimber & Johnson, The Baronetage of England, Vol. II, p. 455-456

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁷
Patrick Bunbury was the father of Alexander de Bunbury, living A. D. 1230. Alexander de Bunbury had two sons : William, the elder, was the ancestor of the Bunburys of Stanney; and Henry, the younger.

~Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. XXI, New Series, p. 124

• Family. ⁷¹³
Ormerod gives William's death as 26 Edward I. The children give by Ormerod for William de Bonnebury are:

• Mabell de Bunbury, wife of Matthew de Hulgreve
• Richard de Bunbury, lord of the moiety of Bunbury, son and heir of William de Bunbury by deed of Henry son of Alexander de Bunbury
• Hugh de Bunbury, appears in records, 31 Edward I and 3 Edward II, by deed of Henry de Bunbury
• Adam de Bunbury, presented to Rood chapel, Feb 1301
• Henry de Bunbury, a possible son and vicar of Neston in 1307

~Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. II, p. 395, Pedigree of the Bunbury Family, confirmed by William Dugdale in the Visitation of 1663