1st Lord Ros of Helmsley; Sir Knight; MP
veteran Wales campaigns; military council in Gloucester (1287); against Scots (1291); Battle of Falkirk (22 July 1298); Siege of Caerlaverock Castle (1300)
22 Gens. (AC: Thos Clffrd, 1414; Mrg Frvll, 1395)
23 Gens. (AC: Isbl Wllghby, 1413)
Il est marié avec Maud Vaux.
Ils se sont mariés entre le environ 1275 et le 1287 à England.
Enfant(s):
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William de Roos (or Ros), Knt., was the son and heir of Robert de Roos, Knt., by his wife Isabel d'Aubeney, daughter and heiress of William d'Aubeney by his second wife, Isabel.[1][2][3] He was born about 1255 (aged 30 in 1285),[1][2][4] possibly at Helmsley, Yorkshire, where his father had lands.[5]
Lands: Helmsley and Hunsingore, Yorkshire; Beauvoir, Leicestershire, etc.[1] William had writ for livery of his father's lands on 27 June 1285.[3]
Titles: Governor of Wark Castle, Warden of the Marches[1][2] Knighted 1282.[3]
Marriage and Children
William married before 1287[2] to Maud de Vaux, younger daughter and co-heiress of John de Vaux[3] by his wife Joan.[1] William and Maud had four sons and three daughters.
William, Knt.,[2] 2nd Lord Roos,[1] son and heir, received writ for livery of his inheritance on 20 August 1316.[3] He married Margery Badlesmere, had five children, and died 3 February 1342/3.[1]
John, Knt., Lord Roos of Watton,[2] married Margaret de Goushill (no issue) and died shortly before 16 November 1338.[1]
Thomas[1][2]
George[1][2]
Agnes,[2] married first to Sir Pain de Tibetot, 1st Lord Tibetot, and second to Sir Thomas de Vere.[1]
Alice,[2] married Nicholas Meinill, Knt., Lord Meinill of Whorlton.[1]
possibly Margaret[1][6][7]
Service and Acquisition of Lands
William served in Wales 1277, 1281, and 1282 as part of the service due from his father.[3] He also served there in 1277, 1282 and 1283[1] against Llewellyn.[3] He was summoned to a military council in Gloucester in 1287 and served against the Scots in 1291.[3] He served in Gascony in 1294 and in Scotland in 1300,[1] and was continually employed in the Scotch Wars, until his death[1][2] in 1316.[3] He fought in the Battle of Falkirk on 22 July 1298 and was at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle in 1300.[1]
In 1291, William was one of the candidates for the throne of Scotland, by virtue of his descent from William the Lion, King of Scotland.[1][2][3]
He was summoned to Parliament from 6 February 1298/9 to 16 October 1315, by writs directed Willelmo de Ros de Hamelak, at which time he likely became Lord Roos of Helmsley.[1][2][3]
He joined with the barons in signing a letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301,[3] as Dominus de Hamelake, and on 16 July 1301, he had livery of Belvoir Castle, and other lands that had been his mother's.[1][2] Also in 1301, William was involved in a land dispute with William de Carlyle and asked King Edward I for his assistance. The king had Carlyle imprisoned.[1]
After William's cousin, Robert de Roos, led a rebellion, the king took Wark Castle (Northumberland) from Robert and granted it to William in December 130[2][1] for good service in Gascony and elsewhere.[3]
In 1304, he and his wife granted an acre of land in Shotesham, Norfolk to Pentney Priory, together with the advowson of the church there.[1][2]
In 1307, he was appointed Joint Warden of Northumberland and on 21 June 1308, as Joint Lieutenant and Warden in Scotland.[3]
In February 1307/8, he was summoned to attend the Coronation[3] of King Edward II.[1] In August 1309, William joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope about abuses in England.[3]
In 1311/2, he and his wife settled the manor of Stoke Albany, Northamptonshire on themselves and his heirs. He was also a benefactor of the religious houses of Belvoir, Pentney, Warter, the Friars Minors of Beverley, and Thornton in Craven.[1][2]
William was among those ordered to remain in the North against the Scots in February 1312/3.[2][3]
Death and Burial
Sir William de Roos, 1st Lord Roos of Helmsley, died testate on 6 (or 8) August 1316 and was buried at Kirkham Priory, Yorkshire.[1] Joan probably predeceased her husband.[3] The body of his wife was buried at Pentney Priory in Norfolk and her bowels were buried in the chapel of St. Mary at Belvoir Priory, Leicestershire.[1][3]
Research Notes
Second Cousins
Note: Two Williams de Ros—both descended from their great-grandfather, Magna Carta surety baron Robert de Ros—are often confused:
William de Ros, born at Helmsley in 1255, was the son of Robert de Ros, son of William.
William de Ros, born at Kendal in 1250, was the son of Robert de Ros, son of Robert.
Disputed Children
There is confusion about Margaret de Ros because of speculation as to the wife of Henry Scrope (a daughter of possibly Lord Ros or Lord Fitz Walter, according to Henry de Scrope's profile as of 3 January 2021).
Margaret Fitz Walter attached as Henry's wife.
Margaret de Ros (the profile for this William's "possibly Margaret" daughter) had also been attached, and married to Edward de Bohun. The Margaret who married Edward is this William's granddaughter, daughter of his son William (Ros-37 and Ros-25, respectively).[7]
Margaret de Ros, daughter of William, 2nd Lord Ros, married Edward de Bohun before 1332. Edward died 1435; she died 1441 (Richardson's Royal Ancestry does not mention other marriages for either).[7]
Additional children had been attached to this profile, but were detached due to insufficient evidence. Tudor Place listed two of these daughters, but did not include sources. Please let me know if you have evidence that William and Maud had daughters named Joan, Matilda, and Mary. Noland-165 17:14, 13 August 2015 (EDT)
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