William de Notton

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁴
In 1202, Gilbert and his son William de Notton, contributed to the third scutage of King John and to the aid levied that year, in respect of their thanelands [Pipe Rolls, pp. 55, 152] Abot 1200, William de Notton married Cecily, daughter and ultimately heir of Edith, Lady of Barton, who shortly after married Gilbert de Notton, father of this William. Cecily died before her mother, but upon the death of Edith de Barton early in 1222, Gilbert de Notton, son of William, by Cecily, daughter of Edith by her first husband, Augustine de Barton, succeeded to the manor of Barton.

~Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids, p. 61

• Background Information. ⁹⁴⁶
William de Notton, second son of Gilbert the Seneschal, married Cecily, daughter and heir of Edith, lady of Barton, and step-daughter of his father. She probably died young, having had issue two sons, Gilbert, her heir and Matthew. William de Notton is named in the Inquest of Lancashire, taken in 1212, as lord of Breightmet, which estate probably descended to his younger son, Matthew, whose heir was Avina, who married Sir William de Samlesbury of Samlesbury, and Harewood, to whose daughters and coheirs this estate descended. William de Notton is definitely described as the husband of the daughter of Edith de Barton, in her grant of the moiety of Cadishead to Stanlaw Abbey, which she made "with the assent and good will of my husband, Sir Gilbert de Notton, for the health of our souls, and for the health of John de Barton, my son, and for the health of my daughter, to wit, the wife of William de Notton." [Whalley Coucher, p. 521] Edith de Barton, her husband Gilbert de Notton, the Seneschal, and his son, William de Notton, all before 16 Oct 1220, at which date their heir was under age and in the ward of Robert Grelley. [Close Roll, 4 hen III, m. 1d]

~The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey, Vol. II, P. II, pp. 728-729

William married Cecily de Barton, daughter of Augustine de Barton and Edith de Barton.⁸²⁶ (Cecily de Barton died in Lancashire, England ⁹⁴⁶.)