Sir William de Meynell Knight

  General Notes:

~Nichols's The History of the County of Leicester, Vol. II, p. 532, William de Meynell was a great benefactor of Yeaveley Priory.


Pedigree from The Topographer and Genealogists, Vol. I, pp. 357

Geoffrey le Savage had a half a knights fee in Hints, co. Stafford
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Geoffrey le Savage = Letitia, daughter of Seward de Arderne son of Turketil Earl of Warwick.
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Geoffrey le Savage, of Bagginton Castle, Warwick, Lord of Hintes, ob. 1221 = Petronilla, daughter of Hugh le Despencer
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Geoffrey le Savage, ob. 1221
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Philippa who married Hugh de Meignell of Langley Meignell, Knight, 1251
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William de Meignell, of Langley Meignell, Lord of Hints, ob. 1313
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Hugo de Meignell ⁸³²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁰²⁵
The manor of Baddesley Ensor was held by William Savage in 1258, when he died, leaving as his heirs Thomas de Ednesor, son of his sister Lucy, and Philippa wife of Hugh de Meinil, his sister. [Chan. Inq. p.m. 43 Hen. III, 23 (8)] The name Ensor, now always used with Baddesley to distinguish it from Baddesley Clinton, is derived from Thomas's family name. Philippa died in 1285, leaving a son Sir William, [Cal. Inq. p.m. ii, 561] but had apparently relinquished her claim, as Thomas was holding the whole manor as one knight's fee at the time of his death in 1285. [Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. I, 41 (5)]

~A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. IV, pp. 19-21