Sir William de Stanley Knight

  General Notes:

~J. Horace Round in V.2 of Peerage and Pedigree, 1970 reprint of the 1910 work, pages 35-36, tells us he "married the Hooton heiress, and founded the Stanleys of Hooton" and that he had a brother, Sir John de Stanley, who married "the Lathom heiress and was ancestor of the Earls of Derby."
~A Genealogy of the Southworths (Southards), by Samuel G. Webber (1905) (p 433) calls him William de Stanley, Esq., of Stanley, Storeton, and Hooton.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
Sir William de Stanley, knight, was Lord of Stanley and Storeton in Wirral, Cheshire. He was aged 30 on 16 June 1398 and died 2 Feb 1428. He was just a child when he married, sometimes around 1376, Margaret de Houghton. Due to this marriage he secceeded to Hooton in 1396, and in 1397, he received "a grant of a life annunity of 100/- upon being retained for service for life." In Fed 1399, he was commissioned to raise an army of eighty-eight archers, which he was to take to Ireland in service of the King. He was likely a sympathizer of Henry, Earl of Lancashire, and received an arrest warrent on 15 May 1399. His name again appears in records as conservator of the peace in the Cheshire hundred of Wirral by 28 Jan 1400. By 22 Sep 1401, he is listed as a knight who had rendered homage.

He surved his brother as Lord Deputy in Ireland in 1401, and helped build defensed against Owain Glydwr and his Welsh rebels in the summer of 1402. His post mortem inquistion was dated 6 Henry VI (1427-1428).
~Boyer's Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 228

William married Margaret de Houghton, daughter of Sir William de Houghton Knight and Katherine de Torond, about 1376.