William Malbank (also William de Malbanc and William II de Malbank) ( 1125 – 1176
was a
Norman
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landowner who was the third Baron of Wich Malbank, now known as
Nantwich
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, in
Cheshire
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. His
grandfather of the same name was the first Baron.
[Hall, pp. 17–24]
Biography
The son of Hugh Malbank, 2nd Baron, and his wife, Petronilla, he held substantial lands in and around the
salt
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town of Nantwich, amounting to much of the Nantwich hundred. His father founded
Combermere Abbey
Combermere Abbey is a former monastery, later a country house, near Burleydam, between Nantwich, Cheshire and Whitchurch in Shropshire, England, located within Cheshire and near the border with Shropshire. Initially Savigniac and later Cisterci ...
in Cheshire in around 1133, and William Malbank is known to have confirmed the foundation and added further gifts.
Little else is recorded of his life. His wife Andilicia probably died early in the reign of
Henry II. They had no male heirs and, on his death, his lands and the privileges of the Nantwich barony were divided between his three daughters.
Philippa, the eldest, inherited
Nantwich Castle
Nantwich Castle was a Norman castle in Nantwich, Cheshire, England, built before 1180 to guard a ford across the River Weaver. The castle is first documented in 1288. It was last recorded in 1462, and was in ruins by 1485. No trace now remains abov ...
as part of her share of the town. She married
Thomas Basset of
Headington
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in Oxfordshire. The second daughter, Eleanor, did not marry; her lands were granted to Henry de Audley.
Auda (also Adena), the youngest daughter, married Warin (also Warren) de Vernon; their daughter Auda (also Aldetha) brought
Sandon in Staffordshire by marriage to Sir William Stafford, a member of the great baronial family of
Stafford Castle
Stafford Castle is an ancient Grade II listed castle situated two miles west of the town of Stafford in Staffordshire, England. From the time of the Norman Conquest and as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 it was the seat of the powerful Ang ...
.
[Sandon history]
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See also
* Malbon, the modern version of the Malbank surname
Footnotes
References
*Hall J. ''A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester'' (2nd edn) (E.J. Morten; 1972) ()
1120s births
1176 deaths
Anglo-Normans
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