William De Courcy (died C
William de Courcy may refer to: * William de Courcy (died circa 1114), Anglo-Norman baron * William de Courcy (died before 1130), son of the above * William de Courcy (died 1171) William de Courcy (sometimes William de Curci;Warren ''Henry II'' p. 239 died 1171) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and baron. William was the son of William de Courcy (died before 1130), William de Courcy and Avice de Rumilly, the daughter of Will ...

William De Courcy (died Circa 1114)
William de Courcy (died c. 1114), feudal baron of Stoke Courcy (modern Stogursey) in Somerset, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. William was the son of Richard de Courcy by his wife Wandelmode. The family was from the Calvados region of Normandy.Loyd ''Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families'' p. 36 William inherited the English lands of his father in about 1088.Keats-Rohan ''Domesday Descendants'' p. 428 On the accession of King Henry I of England in 1100, William was appointed a royal steward,Green ''Henry I'' p. 50 or ''dapifer''. There were probably four stewards in the royal household, and Henry kept in office the three he inherited from his brother King William II, namely Eudo, Haimo and Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk. William was the only new appointment to this office at the start of Henry's reign. In March 1101 William served as a surety for Henry fulfilling a treaty with Robert II, Count of Flanders. William pledged 100 marks as security that would have been forfeit ...
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William De Courcy (died Before 1130)
William de Courcy was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and baron. William was the son of William de Courcy and his wife Emma de Falaise.Keats-Rohan ''Domesday Descendants'' p. 428 Through his mother, William inherited the barony of Stogursey in Somerset, as his mother was the sole heir of William de Falaise, the lord of Stogursey in ''Domesday Book''.Sanders ''English Baronies'' p. 143 William and Emma were also the parents of two other sons: Richard and Robert. William married Avice, the daughter and coheir of William Meschin, and Cecily de Rumilly. The marriage took place around 1125. William, along with his brother Robert, confirmed the gift of his father of the advowson of the church of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire to Abingdon Abbey. This reconfirmation of his father's grant was recorded in the abbey's chronicle, the ''Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis'', like the original grant had been. William then gave further lands to the abbey, including a meadow named "cow mead" and a past ...
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