Sir William de Stanley Knight

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Stanley of Hooton Pedigree, p. 415, Ormerod shows William de Stanley as the son of Adam de Stanley ⁷¹³
~Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 225 gives William de Stanley's father was Walter de Stanley, he cites Irvine's Transition Historical Society of Lancanshire and Cheshire, 105:45 ⁷²¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ^713,721
On 1285, on his father's death, William sued as William the son of Walther de Stanley his neighbors the brother Robert, Stephen and John de Bagenhold, and other for insulting and iltreating himself near Leak, claiming damages of £40. These brothers had been recorded as being involved in numerous robberies.

In 1287, William and his wife Joan borrowed money from Robert de Whitmore, a merchant in Chester, and this loan was still being repaid in 1324. During this generation a grant of twenty marks every year was given because of deforestation which meant the end of forestship. This began in 34 Edward I (1306/07). His children were John, who married Emma, Adam and possibly an unnamed daughter*.
~Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 225

*Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Stanley of Hooton Pedigree, p. 415, lists a daughter named Sarah, the wife of Sir Roger de Hausket, knight.

• Background Information. ⁷⁸¹
Sir William de Stanley, knight, feudal Lord of Stanley, and in right of his wife, Johanna, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Phillip de Bannvile, Lord of Storeton. He was forester of the forest of Wirral, which office he held in 1317.
~Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, p. 477

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
William de Stanley was the son and heir of Walter de Stanley. In 1292/93, he sued the Prior of Trentham for land and wood in Over Elkeston, Staffordshire, of which he claimed that the Prior had unjustly disseised master John de Stanley, his uncle, whose heir he was. In the same year, John along with his wife, brought proceeding for breach of agreement whereby he had conceded a wood to William de Bagenhold in return for a mill.

William de Stanley married, 27 Sep 1282, Joan, eldest daughter and coheir of Phillip de Baumvile at the church of Astbury, Cheshire, at a banquet given by his Uncle, Master John de Stanley, rector of Astbury.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Stanley), Vol. XIIA, p. 247

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Earls of Derby (Stanley) - William Stanley, son of Walter de Stanley, was the heir of us uncle John de Stanley. William married in Astbury, Cheshire, 26 Sep 1282, Joan, daughter and co-heir of Philip de Baumville and his wife Agnes de Stouton. Their only know child was John de Stanley.

William married Joan de Baumville, daughter of Philip de Baumville Forester / Wiral and Unknown, on 27 Sep 1282 in Astbury, Cheshire, England ^141,713,721 (Joan de Baumville died after 1326 in Stafford Castle, Staffordshire, England ¹⁴¹.)