Sir William West, aka West-246 West-246 Before ''This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.'' === Name === : Name: William /West/<ref>Source: [[#S004444]] Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/amtcitationredir.aspx?tid=13078823&pid=653027661</ref> :: Name Suffix: 1st Baron de la Warr === Birth === : Birth: :: Date: ABT 1520 === Death === : Death: :: Date: 30 DEC 1595 :: Place: Wherwell, Northampton Co, Eng === Event === : Event: 1st Baron de la Warr under restitution. :: Date: 1578 : Husband: [[West-426 William West]] : Wife: [[Strange-78 Elizabeth Strange]] : Child: [[West-425 Thomas West]] :: Date: BEF 1555 === Parents' Marriage === : Husband: [[West-427 George West]] : Wife: [[Moreton-3 Elizabeth Moreton]] : Child: [[West-426 William West]] :: Date: BET EST 1497 AND 1531
== Sources == : Source <span id='s4423'>s4423</span> Title: <i>dandridge.ftw</i> * Source: <span id='s004444'>s004444</span> Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Repository: [[#R44]] This person was created on 27 March 2011 through the import of fitzmaster032511.ged. * Source <span id='s185'>s185</span> Title: GEDCOM file submitted by Thomas Gull - from Rootsweb.com gedcom file, tmrgull@msn.com. Imported on 30 April 2010. * Repository: <span id='r44'>s44</span> NAME Ancestry.com : ADDR http://www.ancestry.com === Footnotes === <!-- Please edit, add, or delete anything in this text, including this note. Be bold and experiment! == Acknowledgments == * [[Newman-910 Kathryn Newman]], [[Newman-910 Kathryn Newman]], [[Williams-5764 Ted Williams]], [[Draper-310 Richard Draper]], [[Rivers-5 } Anonymous Rivers]] and all who contributed to this profile. See the Changes tab to see the details of edits. West-246 with strike-throughs ''This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.'' === Name === : Name: William /West/<ref>Source: [[#S004444]] Page: Ancestry Family Trees Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/amtcitationredir.aspx?tid=13078823&pid=653027661</ref> :: Name Suffix: 1st Baron de la Warr === Birth === : Birth: :: Date: ABT 1520
=== Death === : Death: :: Date: 30 DEC 1595 :: Place: Wherwell, Northampton Co, Eng === Event === : Event: 1st Baron de la Warr under restitution. :: Date: 1578 : Husband: [[West-426 William West]] : Wife: [[Strange-78 Elizabeth Strange]] : Child: [[West-425 Thomas West]] :: Date: BEF 1555 === Parents' Marriage === : Husband: [[West-427 George West]] : Wife: [[Moreton-3 Elizabeth Moreton]] : Child: [[West-426 William West]] :: Date: BET EST 1497 AND 1531 == Sources == : Source <span id='s4423'>s4423</span> Title: <i>dandridge.ftw</i> * Source: <span id='s004444'>s004444</span> Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Repository: [[#R44]] This person was created on 27 March 2011 through the import of fitzmaster032511.ged. * Source <span id='s185'>s185</span> Title: GEDCOM file submitted by Thomas Gull - from Rootsweb.com gedcom file, tmrgull@msn.com. Imported on 30 April 2010. * Repository: <span id='r44'>s44</span> NAME Ancestry.com : ADDR http://www.ancestry.com === Footnotes ===
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{{magna carta}} Sir William West is a descendant of Magna Carta surety baron [[Mowbray-151 William de Mowbray]] Sir William West, born before 1520,<ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ ref> was son and heir of [[West-427 Sir George West]] by his first wife, [[Morton-1958 Elizabeth Morton]], widow of Robert Walden.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, V 5, pages 350-352.</ref><ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> On 1 Feb 1549/50, by Act of Parliament, William was disabled from all honors after it was found he had prepared to poison his uncle, to whom he had been adopted as heir.<ref>''royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref><ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> In April of 1556, William and a cousin, Edward Lewknor, were found guilty of treason after taking part in a conspiracy against Queen Mary I.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref><ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ ref> In an effort to prove the queen was ineligible to wear the crown, they procured a copy of King Henry VIII s will as proof.<ref>''royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> In the Complete Peerage notes there is a good chronicle of him refusing to answer to William West, Esquire, and demanding to be recognized as Lord De la Ware, thereby deserving the right of trial by his peers. The judges and heralds proved he was not yet a Lord and refused this request. He subsequently answered to William West, Esquire, and was found guilty.<ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> He was later pardoned.<ref>''royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> During Jul 1557, he was a Captain in the army at the siege of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Battle_of_St._Quentin_%281557%29 St. Quintin in Picardy].<ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> On 5 Feb 1569/70 he was knighted by the Earl of Leicester and created Baron Delaware.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> In 1579 William mortgaged the manor and lordship of Manchester, Lancashire, to a merchant, John Lacy.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> After failing to redeem the mortgage, the manor passed to Lacy.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> Sir William married (1st) before 1555, [[Strange-78 Elizabeth Strange]], daughter of [[Strange-79 Sir Thomas Strange]].<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref><ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> Elizabeth was living 15 May 1579.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref>
Sir William married (2nd) Anne Swift, widow of Thomas Oliver, and daughter of Henry Swift, Esq., by his wife Elizabeth.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref><ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> ===Issue=== William and Elizabeth had two sons: # [[West-3 Thomas]]<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> # William<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> William and Elizabeth had three daughters: # Mary<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> # Jane<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> # Elizabeth<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref> ===Death=== Sir William West died 30 Dec 1595.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref><ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> Administration of his estate was granted to Richard Nesfield on 12 Feb 1600/1.<ref>''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, page 352.</ref><ref> Complete Peerage, New Ed, V 4, pages 158-159.</ref> == Sources == :See also: * Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families''. Vol. 5. Salt Lake City, UT.: Douglas Richardson., 2013. Pages 350-352. * Richardson, Douglas. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families''. Edited by Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. CreateSpace, 2011. Page 323. * Cokayne, George E. ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant''. New ed. Vol. 4. London: St. Catherine Press, 1910. 159. <center>edited for January 2014 Style Standards. Gedcoms in Changes.</center> <!-- Please edit, add, or delete anything in this text, including this note. Be bold and experiment!