Sir William Odingsells Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 30:29, Ela Fitz Walter, d. abt. 1312, married William de Odingsells of Maxtoke & Solihull, Warwick, Justiciar of Ireland, d. 1295, son of William de Odingsells, of Maxstoke and Solihull, Warwick, d. abt. 1268, by his wife Joan.¹⁶⁰

Richardson's, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 553-554 ⁵⁹⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³¹³
Overhall Manor was held prior to the Conquest by Norman and at the time of the Domesday Survey, by Ralph de Limesi who married Christina, one of the sisters of Prince Edgar Atheling, grandson of King Edmund Ironside who was brother of Edward the Confessor. Ralph de Limesi died in 1093 and was succeeded by his son and heir, Ralph who married Halewise and was succeeded by his son and heir Alan and he by son and heir Gerard. Gerard de Limesi married Amy daughter of Trian de Hornelade of Bidun-Limesi, and had issue John de Limesi who married Alice, daughter of Robert de Harcourt, afterward wife of Wlleran Earl of Warwick and died in 1198 leaving a son Hugh who died in1228 without issue. Gerard also had two daughters, one being Basilia, married to Sir Hugh Odingsells who died in 1238 leaving three sons, Hugh, Gerard and Sir William de Odingsells of Warwickshire. Hugh, the eldest son succeeded and died without issue. Gerard the 2nd son succeeded and apparently on his death was succeeded by his brother, the 3rd son, Sir William de Odingsells who married Joan and had a son, another Sir William de Odingsells who inherited the one moiety of the manor which came from his grandfather, Sir Hugh de Odingsells.

~The Manors of Suffolk: The Hundreds of Babergh and Blackbourn, pp. 58-59

William married Ela Fitz Walter, daughter of Sir Walter Fitz Robert Knight and Ida de Longespée.¹⁶⁰ (Ela Fitz Walter died about 1312 ¹⁶⁰.)