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     William I de Lancaster was probably born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, between 1100 and 1110.² He married Gundred de Warenne, daughter of William II de Warenne and Elizabeth de Vermandois, circa 1154.^3,4,5 William died circa 1170.²
     

     William was a very important man and married Gundred de Warrene, an important member of one of the most powerful families in England. He lived through a Scottish invasion and must have served under three competing claims to the monarchy above him during the anarchy in Britain (King David of Scotland, King Stephen of England and Mathilda his competitor in England). Several websites claim that he served as castellan of Egremont in Cumberland in 1138 to William Fitz Duncan, a member of the Scottish royal family. A charter refers to him as if were lord of Muncaster, which is also in Cumberland and apparently a lordship which would have come under Egremont. In one article it is claimed that the de Lancaster arms are derived from this Scottish William.⁶

     After the chaos of King Stephens reign, William, son of Gilbert de Lancaster was fully established as baron of Kendal and Lord of Warton, Garstan[g]. He changed his name to de Lancaster on the orders of the King, Henry II, and was summoned to Parliament. Before 1139, William gave land in a place called Suartheued, in Hensingham, or Preston, near Whitehaven to St. Mary and St. Beda and the monks of York.⁴

     About 1130-1140 Carnforth was included in a feoffment made to William son of Gilbert de Lancaster, whereby it afterwards became a member of the barony of Kendal, and descended in the same way as Nether Wyresdale and Ashton. In the time of Henry II an eighth part of the township was given by William de Lancaster I to Robert the Falconer to hold by knight's service.⁷

     The marriage date for William to Gundred de Warenne is questionable. Some sources put it as 1154. This causes problems with the birth date of Avice of circa 1134. Gundred was married previously circa 1130 to Roger, Earl of Warwick, by whom she had several children. Her birth date is given as 1117. This would make the marriage date to William of 1154 sound more reasonable. Was Avice a daughter of William by a previous marriage? Given his estimated birth data of between 1100 and 1110 it would be reasonable that he had a first wife before Gundred who may be the mother of Avice.

     Before the conquest Scotforth was, with Ellel and Ashton, held by Cliber, Machern and Gillemichael, and was assessed as two plough-lands. Afterwards it came into the hands of Count Roger of Poitou and later was granted to the Lancaster family. It descended among the heirs of Lancaster and was held later by Gentyl, Washington, Lawrence and Gerand. William I de Lancaster granted two ploug-lands in Scotforth to Hugh de Norreys or Norman, to be held by knight's service.⁷

     In 1066 the manor of Forton was held by Earl Tostig. Later it was a member of the Garstang or Nether Wyresdale fee and was granted by William de Lancaster I, except for demesne and wood, to Warine de Lancaster. The gift was confirmed by William's son; the vill ws to be held as 2 oxgangs of land where twenty-four flough-lands made a knights fee.⁷

     In 1150-55, Roger de Mowbray gave to William, son of Gilbert de Lancaster in fee and inheritance all his land of Lonsdale, Kendale and Horton in Ribblesdale, to hold by service of 4 knights' fees.⁸

     The manor of Yealand Redmayne was the result of a partition of Yealand made probably by William de Lancaster I in the time of Henry II.⁷

     The manor of Broughton was in the Fells and was held of the Lancaster family as a member of their barony of Ulverston. It probably became attached to the Lancaster family after the partition of Furness Fells about 1160, William de Lancaster choosing the western moiety, which would include Broughton and Dunnerdale. William de Lancaster gave or confirmed Broughton to Ailward de Broughton to hold of him for by knight's service.⁷

     Ulverston was part of the honour of Lancaster in 1127, when Stephen Count of Boulogne named it to be included in his grant of a moiety of Furness to found an abbey. It was probably at that time held by the Lancaster family. In 1162 Henry II confirmed an agreement made between the monks and William de Lancaster I as to the division of Furness Fells.⁷

     Before 1176 William de Lancaster I granted Yeland and Silverdale, as a plough-land and a half, thie being apparently a moiety of the whole, to Adam de Avranches.⁷

     William II de Lancaster married Hawise de Stuteville.³ William died circa 1184.²
     

     William died 1 Richard I (1184) leaving his wife and only daughter Hawise, who was married by King Richard to Gilbert, son of Roger FitzReinfrid. Hawise de Stouteville, the widow, married secondly Hugh de Morvill, a brother of Richard de Morvill who had married Avice, William II's sister. The fee held by the family of de Lancaster, within the county of Lancaster, was of abnormal size, consisting of twenty-four carucates, in addition to twelve and one half carucates held in demesne, or granted in franklamoign.²

     There was a grant from William de Lancaster II to Gilbert, his son, of a moiety of the manor of Sockbridge, witnessed by his wife Helewise, Elias de Stiveton, Will. de Loncastre. Was this an illegitimate son or was he referring to his son-in-law Gilbert FitzReinfrid? The latter makes sense as the Sockbridge manor descended via the illegimate son of Gilbert FitzReinfrid's heir, William III.² My analysis indicates that the latter does not make sense as William's daughter was not given in marriage to Gilbert FitzReinfrid until after the death of William. Her marriage took place in 1189.

     William de Lancaster II granted land in Tover to Augustine de Heaton, and this charter was before 1199 confirmed by Gilbert FitzReinfrid to Roger, Augustine's son.⁴

     In 1184, the men of William de Lancaster of Kendale render 10 m. for some plea by the hands of Ranulf de Glanville.⁵

     William III de Lancaster married Agnes le Brus, daughter of Peter II le Brus and Hawise de Lancaster.² William died on 12 November 1246.² Conflicting evidence states that he died on 29 November 1246.³
     

     On May 6, 1220, the land of Gilbert FitzReinfrid is taken into the king's hands and nothing removed therefrom until William de Lancaster, son and heir of Gilbert, does what is due to the king. Mandate to William de Lancaster to deliver to Theobald son of Theobald Walter his siter Matilda whom king John committed to Gilbert FitzReinfrid, William's father to bring up.⁴

     William succeeded to the Honor of Lancaster in the 4th year of the reign of Henry III, the de Lancasters being back in favor by this time. He was Justice Itenerant for Cumberland in the 10th year of the reign of Henry III. William III was given back the Kendal Castle and was the Sheriff of Lancaster from 1232 to 1246. The de Lancasters were very close to the de Brus family. William married Agnes de Brus, his brother married Margaret de Brus, and his sister, Hawise, married Peter le Brus. After Williams death in 1246, Agnes held the manors of Crossethwait, Gresmere and Lych for life.² Some indicate that William and Agnes had no surviving children. Stirnet Genealogy names one daughter who married Sir William de Lindsay, Lord of Lamberton.

     Between 1222 and 1246, William de Lancaster grants to the free burgesses of the borough of kirkeby in Kendale certain privileges and liberties to be held of him and heirs forever, freely, quietly and honourable, namely that each burgess may take as many tofts as he will, yielding to the grantor and his heirs the rent of 6d. yearly for each toft, and that they may take of his wood between Kent and Wynandermer their necessaries without view of his foresters, and that they may have common of pasture on that side of Kent on which the grantor's hay is, outside the covert, and on the other side of Kent unto Leesbeck, and common of pasture after the corn and has has been cut and led away elsewhere with the grantor's other men: Also that they may take dead wood with view of hsi forsesters between the highway and Mynnte, which way extends by the hospital of St. Leonard unto Fowbeck, and following Fowbeck until it falls into Mynt and following Mynt in descending to the bridge, and on the other side of Mynte between the same Mynte and the highway which leads to the messuage of Patrick de Skelemssergh unto Whitwell and so over against and by the bounds of Skelemessergh unto Mynte, and they may take dead wood there in like manner.⁴

     In 1224, on August 18 Williamd de Lancaster is at Bedford in the king's court. The demand against William for the scutage of Montgomery is put in respite.⁴

     In 1225, a mandate is issued to William de Lancaster to disafforest certain woods in Westmerland afforested by Henry II or Richard I, the men of the county having complained that he still held certain woods and moors afforested as from that time in the same state as they were, contary to the terms of the king's carta de foresta.⁴

     In 1234, William de Lancaster and his 2 knights with others are directed to remain at Shrewsbury until the Purification, for safety of those parts.⁴

     In 1235, William de Lancaster holds 2 fees of his barony of Kendale.⁴

     In 1236, a mandate to William de Lancaster to send to the king the sturgeon taken on the sea sands, although it was found within the liberty of the abbot of Furness.⁴

     In 1242, William de Lancaster was summoned to serve over seas.⁴

     In 1242, Mathew son of Henry de Redmayne held part of Yealand of William de Lancaster III.⁵

     Between 1220 and 1246 William de Lancaster III granted all the land of Forton to Ellis le Fleming for a rent of four barbed arrows; he also gave to the canons of Cockersand in alms all his demense land and his wood of Forton, Ellis releasing to them his right ot pannage.⁵

     In 1242 William de Lancaster III held half a knight's fee in Ulverston in demesne, paying to the Abbot of Furness 30s. a year.⁵

     In 1245, William de Lancaster is on the king's service in Wales. He surrenders the county of Lancaster (i.e. the office of the sheriff), to Matthew de Redeman, to whom the king has committed it.⁴

     In 1246 Roger de Heaton complained that the superior lord, William de Lancaster III, had thrown down his mill at Torver, and was compelling his tenants to grind at the Ulverston mill. An agreement was afterwards made by which William de Lancaster III released his claim to suit of mill and allowed Roger to erect and maintain his own mill at Torver.⁵

     Peter, the son of Peter de Brus, and William de Lindsey, husbands of William's sisters, Hawise and Alice, were William's next heirs. The castle and manor of Kendal were given to Peter de Brus, but, in 1266, the Honor of Lancaster was conferred upon Henry III's son, Edward Crouchback, who also obtained Leicester and the lands between the Mersey and the Ribble. The latter had by this time been inherited by the Earl de Ferres, a supporter of Simon de Montfort in his rebellion against Henry III, and Leicester was Simon's seat. Both were forfeited in the aftermath of the rebellion's failure.²

     The advowson of the church at Warton was held with the manor by the Lancasters and was first recorded in the inquisition after the death of William III de Lancaster in 1246. It appears on division about 1250 and appears to have been assigned to the Brus family, and on the later division to the Thwengs; thus it descended to Lumlely and others, one portion being acquired by the Lawrences of Ashton, who presented several times.⁵

     In 1246 Godith daughter of Bernard de Kerneford released a fourth part of Carnforth to William de Lancaster III, the chief lord, who appears to have aquired nearly all of the freehold lands in the manor for the enlargement of his demense. William gave part of his demense in Carnforth to Robert de Kerneford. After the death of William a division of the manor of Carnfoth was made between Lindsay and Brus.⁵ Also after his death his manors of Whittington, Thornton, etc., remained for some years in the king's hand for debt. In 1254 they were leased by the tenant, Sir William de Valence, to Walter de Lindsay.⁵

     On the division of the Lancaster estates after 1246 Ulverston was held in moieties like Nether Wyresdale. The Lindsay moiety passed to Coucy and on escheat to the Furness monks as superios lords; the other moiety was granted to Roger de Lancaster.⁵

     William de Lancaster married Margaret de Hollebeck.¹
     

     William was also known as [Sir] William de Lancaster.

     William de Lancaster married Alice de Gernet, daughter of Thomas de Gernet, before 1329.¹ William died on 6 October 1361.^1,2,3
     

     The web site The de Lancaster Family has William as the son of Richard, son of Sir John de Lancaster of Howgill. The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster has William as the son of Sir John de Lancaster of Howgill. I am going with the latter.

     Upon the death of Thomas Gernet before 1317 the manor of Caton was divided into moieties between Thomas's daughters Alice (or Aline) and Agnes. Alice married William, son of Sir John de Lancaster of Howgill in Westmorland. Agnes married John de Culwen or Curwen. The Lancaster moiety descended to William son William de Lancaster, who proved his age in 1365, having been baptized at Caton Church in September 1344.²

     William de Lancaster was baptized in September 1344 in Caton Church.³ He married Christiana ?.² William died in 1398/99.^2,3
     

     William was also known as [Sir] William de Lancaster.

     Sir William de Lancaster went to Ireland in the 1360s. He proved his age in 1366, was Sheriff of Westmorland in 1380, and Steward to the King's lands in Penrith and Sowerby in Cumberland in 1382.⁴

     Sir William de Lancaster of Canton died in 1399 holding the moiety of the manor of Priest Hutton of the rector of Warton by the rent of 6s. His widow held similiarly in 1405. Sir John son and heir of Sir William had livery.³

     
     

     In 1346 a Preston man complained that the bailiffs of Lancaster had in May 1343 seized two of his cloaks at the Marketstead there. The defendants said they took the goods because plaintiff would not pay the toll of 1/2d. The reeve and burgesses had held the town in fee-farm of the king for 20 marks a year, with right of fair, market and 'through toll' on goods in transit any day; more recently there had been a mayor and bailiffs. Judgement was give for the defendants. The palintiff's name was William son of Adam son of Simon de Lancaster.²

     William died in 1407.²
     

     On 8 January 1394, at Westminster, "Parton to William de Lancastre, son of William de Lancastre, knight, for the death of Nicholas Dobson, killed a Schallyng in Skirwith on Wednesday the feast of St. Barnabas in the fiftteenth years." This may refer to this William.²

     Begga of Landen was born circa 613.² She married Ansguises of France, son of Arnulf of Metz and Dode of Old Saxony, before 639.^3,2 Begga died circa 698.²
     

     Begga was also known as [Saint] Begue.

     Eleanor Langdon was born circa 1840.¹ She married Daniel Lawrence, son of Stephen Henry Lawrence and Eliza Halstead.¹

     Constance de Langley was born circa 1374.¹ She married Thomas le Despenser, son of Edward le Despenser and Elizabeth de Burghersh, before 1384.² Constance died on 28 November 1416.¹

     Siegfried Langobarde was born in Parma.¹ Siegfried died after 958.¹
     

     Siegfried was a nobleman who went from Lucca to Lombardy.

     Bertrada II of Laon was born circa 720.² She married Pepin III of France, son of Charles Martel and Rotrud of Alemania, circa 740.^3,2 Bertrada died on 12 July 783.²
     

     Bertrada was also known as Bertha.

     Caribert de Laon married Bertrada ?.²

     Charles of Laon was born in 953.² He married first Bona ?.³ Charles married second Agnes ?.³ He married third Adelheid de Ardenne before 979.² Charles died on 21 May 992.²

     Martin of Laon married Bertha of Merovia, daughter of Theodard.¹

     Roger I of Laon married Heilwise of Friuli, daughter of Eberhard of Friuli and Gisela of France, after 895.^2,3 Roger died in 926.²

     Unknown of Laon married Bernard, son of Charles Martel and Rotrud of Alemania.¹

     Alvar Fernandez de Lara married Maria Alfonso, daughter of Alfonso IX of Leon, circa 1236.² Alvar died in 1239.²

     Garcia I Fernandez de Lara was born circa 940.² He married Aba of Ribagorza, daughter of Raimundo II of Ribagorza and Gersinde of Fezensac, between 958 and 961.² Garcia died on 29 July 995 near Cordoba.^2,3 He was buried in St. Peter of Cerdana.³

     Gonzalo Fernandez de Lara married Munia of Castile, daughter of Nuno Nunez and Unknown of Castile, before 912.² Gonzalo died in 932.² He was interred in Cereso de Rio Tiron.²

     She married first Enrique of Castile & Leon, son of Fernando III of Castile & Leon and Beatrice of Swabia, in 1299.² She married second Ferdinand II de la Cerda.² Juana died circa 1350.³

     Malfalda Gonzalez de Lara married Alfonso de Molina, son of Alfonso IX of Leon and Berengaria Alfonzez of Castile, in 1240.² Malfalda died before September 1244.²