William (Brereton) of Brereton (abt. 1389 - 1415)

Born about 1389 in Brereton cum Smethwick, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Corbet) Streteley — married 1407 in Leighton, Montgomeryshire, Wales

Descendants

Died 1415 at about age 26 in Harfleur, Normandy, France

Biography

Sir William Brereton was a member of the aristocracy in England.

William Brereton was born circa 1389 at Brereton, Cheshire, England.

He was the son of William Brereton, Kt.^[1]

William married Alice Corbet, sister and heir of Richard Corbert,^[1] of Leghton, in the barony of Caux.^[2] She was the daughter of John Corbet.^[3]

William and Alice had children:

1. Sir William Brereton b. c 1410, d. 1484
2. Ralph Brereton b. c 1408
3. Isabel Brereton^[4] b. c 1412
4. Alice Brereton b. c 1414

William died at the seige of Harfleur, in 1415.^[2]

On 24 February, 1410-11, a writ of livery was issued to William son of William Brereton, Kt, and Alice his wife, sister and heir of Richard Corbert kinsman and heir of Dame Mary le Roos, of the manor of Stapleford-Foulk, held in capite of the Earls of Chester, and in the hands of the Earl by the death of Richard, who died a minor without heirs of his body.^[1]

After William's death, the widowed Alice married John Streteley, esq. [Inq p m 37 Henry VI]^[2] Alice died circa 1459.

Research Notes

On 2 June, 2016, a previous editor incorrectly cited "Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 57-58" as the source for stating William Brereton's birth year was 1389. There is no mention of William's year of birth in that book.^[5]

A Google search indicates the statement probably came from this website; the information was edited on 4 April, 2020, and as of 14 September, 2022, there is no source attributed for William's year or place of birth. However, the website states that William married Alice Corbet circa 1407, citing "Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry [2004], p. 47; Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, (2011), Vol. I, p. 57-58; Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, [2013] Vol. I, p. 176." Magna Carta Ancestry does not mention the date of William and Alice's marriage,^[5] nor does the 2011 edition of Plantagenet Ancestry.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix II: No 1. Welsh Records: Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester, to the End of the Reign of Henry IV", The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [13 February 1875], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1875), 55, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/annualreportdep02offigoog/page/55/mode/1up : accessed 12 April, 2022). [11& 12 Hen. 4 m. 2. d. (10).]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), III:88, e-book, HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088434059?urlappend=%3Bseq=113%3Bownerid=13510798902313265-135 accessed 12 April, 2022).
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 176
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Douglas Richardson, 124. Plantagenet Ancestry : a Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, , 2nd Edition, ed. Kimball G Everingham, (2011). e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/plantagenetances0000rich/page/124/mode/1up : accessed 14 September, 2022).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, ed. Kimball G Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: self-published, 2011), 58. e-book Google Books.