Biography of William Peverell 1040-1115

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William Peverell and Adeline Unknown were married.

Around 1040 William Peverell was born.

Around 1080 [his son] William "The Younger" Peverell was born to William Peverell (age 40) and Adeline Unknown.

Around 1090 William Peverell (age 50) built Peverell Castle.

. 1094. The earl [Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy (age 43)], driven to extremity, brought his suzerain, king Philip, with a French army into Normandy, who laid siege to the castle of Argentan, and on the very day he sat down before it, took seven hundred of the king's knights prisoners, with as many squires, and the whole garrison of the place, without loss of blood. He then returned to France, having given orders that the prisoners should be detained in custody until they paid their respective ransoms. Earl Robert also besieged the castle called Holme, until William Peverel (age 54) and eight hundred men who defended it surrendered to him. When the king was informed of this, he sent messengers to England with orders that twenty thousand foot soldiers should be levied and despatched to his aid in Normandy. They were mustered at Hastings, in readiness for crossing the sea, but Ralph Passe-Flambard, by the king's command, withheld the pay which had been allotted for their maintenance, at the rate of ten-pence for each man, and gave them orders to return to their homes: the money he remitted to the king. Meanwhile, all England was distressed by heavy and constant taxation, and by a mortality which was very general in this and the following year.

Around 1100 William Peverell (age 60) was granted Bakewell, Derbyshire [Map] by King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 32). The Anglo-Saxon Minster was demolished and a new church built.

In or before 1110 [his son] William "The Younger" Peverell (age 29) and [his daughter-in-law] Avicia Taillebois were married. She the daughter of William Taillebois and Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick.

Around 1115 William Peverell (age 75) died.

[his daughter] Adeliza Peverell was born to William Peverell and Adeline Unknown.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

[his daughter] Maud Peverell was born to William Peverell and Adeline Unknown.

Biography of William Peverell 1040-1115

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