William Willoughby, 5th Lord Willoughby

William de Willoughby

• 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby
• M, b. circa 1370, d. 4 December 1409
• Father Sir Robert Willoughby, 4th Baron Willoughby de Eresby3,16 b. c 1349, d. 9 Aug 1396
• Mother Margery la Zouche d. 18 Oct 1391

William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, KG (c.1370 – 4 December 1409) was an English baron.

Biography

William de Willoughby was born circa 1370 at of Eresby, Lincolnshire, England, the son of Robert Willoughby and his first wife Margery la Zouche. He was his father's main heir. He was said to between 24 and 30 when his father died in 1396, pointing to a birth year in the period 1365-1372.

William married twice. He and Lucy le Strange obtained a marriage license on 3 January 1383 at Middle, Shropshire, England; They had 2 sons (Sir Robert, 6th Lord Willoughby, Comte de Vendôme & Beaumont-sur-Oise; & Sir Thomas) and 3 daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Sir Henry, 5th Lord Beaumont; Margery, wife of Sir William, 4th Lord FitzHugh; & Margaret, wife of Sir Thomas Skipwith, & of Sir William Oldhall).

Sir William de Willoughby, 5th Lord Willoughby married Joan Holand, daughter of Sir Thomas Holand, 2nd Earl Kent, Lord Holland, 6th Lord Wake, Lord Woodstock, Marshal of England and Alice FitzAlan, between 1 August 1402 and 9 August 1404; No issue.

Family 1

Lucy le Strange (b. c 1364, d. bt 28 Apr 1398 - 9 Aug 1404) was the daughter of Roger le Strange and Aline FitzAlan. They married after 3 January 1382/3, when a licence for their marriage was dated.[1][2] They were certainly married by 3 April 1383 when William's father gave a recognisance to Lucy's mother.[4] They had five children.

The children of Lucy le Strange and William de Willoughby were:

1. Sir Robert Willoughby, 6th Lord Willoughby b. c 1385, d. 25 Jul 1452. Married 1) Elizabeth Montagu 2) Maud Stanhope
2. Elizabeth Willoughby b. c 1388, d. 14 Nov 1427, who married Henry Beaumont.
3. Margaret Willoughby b. c 1393, d. c 1455, who married Thomas Skipwith and William Oldhall.
4. Sir Thomas Willoughby b. c 1395, d. b 1 Jul 1439. Married Jane FitzAlan.
5. Margery Willoughby b. c 1400, d. b 22 Oct 1452, who married William FitzHugh.

Family 2 Joan Holand b. bt 1380 - d. 12 Apr 1434. (No children)

Lady Joan Holland (d. 12 April 1434), was the widow of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York when she married William Willoughby. After his death his widow married, thirdly, Henry Scrope, 3rd Baron Scrope of Masham, who was beheaded on 5 August 1415 after the discovery of the Southampton Plot on the eve of King Henry V's invasion of France. She married, fourthly, Henry Bromflete, Lord Vescy (d. 16 January 1469).

Sir William de Willoughby, 5th Lord Willoughby died on 4 December 1409 at Edgefield, England; Buried at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, with his 1st wife. A chapel in the church at Spilsby still contains the monuments and brasses of several early members of the Willoughby family, including the 5th baron and his first wife.

Writs for his Inquisitions Post Mortem were issued on 10 December 1409. It show him holding lands in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire and Suffolk.

In Shakespeare

William has a minor appearance in Shakespeare's Richard II (Act II Scene I, where he is critical of Richard II's government).

Origins

Lady Alice Skipwith, {Fictional} was not his mother.

"Robtus Dns Willoughbie de Eresbie ob: Anno 20: Ri:. 2 = Dau of the Lo Zouch" [Reference: H. St. George, Wiltshire Vis. Peds. 1623 (H.S.P. 105-106) (1954): 216–218 (Willoughbie pedigree)].

Also see Douglas Richardson, Nov 30, 2013, posts at <Soc.Gen.Medieval>

Heraldry

Garter stall plate of William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby KG, showing on a shield couchée the arms borne by Willoughby: Quarterly 1 & 4: Sable, a cross engrailed or (Ufford); 2 & 3: Gules, a cross moline argent (Bec of Eresby)

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References

• The historic peerage of England: exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement ... By Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, William Courthope Pg.510 http://books.google.com/books?id=5HwaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA503&lpg=PA503&dq...
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• 3. [S01352] ~Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London, 1938. 118
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• William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby at Wikipedia has errors (wrong mother)
• “Sir Robert Willoughby 4th Baron de Eresby/Eresbie” (Nov. 30, 2013) <soc.Gen.medieval> discusses parentage correction
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Willoughby-68