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[[File:Arms William I DeCantilupe Died1239 TracedFromHisSeal.svg|thumb|Arms of William III de Cantilupe: ''Gules, three fleurs-de-lys or'' ("Cantilupe Ancient"). These arms are [[blazon]]ed in Glover's [[roll of arms]]<ref>Glover's Roll, part 1, B27, William de Canteloupe</ref>{{primary source inline|date=March 2018}} and are as depicted by [[Matthew Paris]] (d.1259) in his ''Historia Anglorum'',<ref>Chronica Maiora - Royal MS 14 C VII, (The Historia Anglorum, or "History of the English", by Matthew Paris (d. 1259), a history of England covering the years 1070-1253. Begun in 1250 and perhaps completed around 1255) arms of William III de Cantilupe, folio 165v [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_14_c_vii_f001v]</ref> see below]]
'''William III de Cantilupe''' (died 25 September 1254) (anciently '''Cantelow, Cantelou, Canteloupe''', [[List of Latinised names|Latinised]] to '''de Cantilupo''') was the 3rd [[Feudal barony of Eaton Bray|feudal baron of Eaton Bray]] in Bedfordshire,<ref>Sanders, I.J. ''English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327'', Oxford, 1960, p. 40</ref> and ''[[jure uxoris]]'' (in right of his wife [[Eva de Braose]], heiress of the de Braose dynasty of Welsh [[Marcher Lords]]) was [[Feudal barony of Totnes|feudal baron of Totnes]] in Devon<ref>Sanders, I.J. ''English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327'', Oxford, 1960, p. 90</ref> and [[Baron Bergavenny|Lord of Abergavenny]]. His chief residences were at [[Calne]] in [[Wiltshire]] and [[Aston Cantlow]] (named after his family), in [[Warwickshire]], until he inherited [[Abergavenny Castle]] and the other estates of that lordship.
==Origins==
He was the eldest son and heir of [[William de Cantilupe (died 1251)|William II de Cantilupe]] (d.1251) by his wife Millicent de Gournay (d.1260), a daughter of Hugh de Gournay and widow of [[Amaury VI of Montfort-Évreux]] (d. 1213), [[Earl of Gloucester]]. His uncle was [[Walter de Cantilupe]] (1195–1266), [[Bishop of Hereford]] and his younger brother was [[Thomas de Cantilupe]] (1220–1282), [[Bishop of Hereford]] and [[Lord Chancellor|Chancellor of England]], canonised in 1320.
==Marriage and progeny==
[[File:BraoseArms PartyPerPaleIndented OnHeaterShield.svg|thumb|Arms of [[William de Braose (died 1230)|William V de Braose]] (d.1230), as drawn by [[Matthew Paris]] (c.1200-1259) in his ''Historia Anglorum'' (folio 116): ''Party per pale indented gules and azure''<ref>They appear as a marginal drawing of an inverted shield referring to his "impious murder" (''Nota impiam murthram''). ''Historia Anglorum, Chronica Majora'', Part III; (1250–59) British Library MS Royal 14 C VII  f. 116 [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/ILLUMIN.ASP?Size=mid&IllID=34227]
However Matthew Paris depicts different arms for him in his ''Chronica Majora'', Part III, fol.75v, in an inverted shield: ''Gules, four piles meeting in base or'' (Lewis, Susanne, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora)</ref>]]
At some time before 15 February 1248 he married his father's ward [[Eva de Braose]] (d.1255), a daughter and co-heiress of [[William de Braose (died 1230)|William V de Braose]] (d.1230), "Black William", [[Baron Bergavenny|Lord of Abergavenny]], by his wife [[Eva Marshal]], daughter and eventual heiress of [[William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke]]. Eva's wardship and marriage had been purchased by his father in 1238. Eva is said to be represented by the surviving recumbent female effigy in the [[Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny]] (formerly the church of [[Abergavenny Priory]]), most of whose body is covered by a large shield sculpted with the arms of Cantilupe ancient (''three fleurs-de-lys''), and holding a heart in her hands.<ref>[http://www.ipernity.com/doc/stiffleaf/44551994/in/keyword/21655/self See image]</ref> By Eva he had the following issue:
[[File:Eve de Braose.jpg|thumb|left|Effigy in the [[Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny]] believed to represent [[Eva de Braose]] (d.1255), wife of William III de Cantilupe.]]
*Sir [[George de Cantilupe]] (1251–1273), Lord of Abergavenny, only son and heir, who inherited vast estates aged 3 and died in 1273, aged 22, shortly after having reached his [[majority]]<ref>Age of majority for males was 21</ref> and recovered his lands from royal wardship. He married Margaret de Lacy but died childless, leaving his sisters or their issue as his co-heiresses.
*Millicent de Cantilupe (d.1299).<ref>Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.40</ref> Her first marriage, before 1254<ref name="Sanders, p.40">Sanders, p.40</ref> was becoming the second wife of John de Montalt,<ref name=odnb>{{harvnb|Stacey|2004}}</ref> who died post-1265<ref name="Sanders, p.40"/> without issue. Secondly, at some time before 1273, she married [[Baron Zouche|Eudo la Zouche]] (d.1279). Eudo was the younger son of Roger la Zouche  (c.1175-1238) of [[North Molton]] in Devon and of [[Ashby de la Zouch|Ashby]] in Leicestershire and the brother of [[Alan la Zouche (1205–1270)|Alan la Zouche]] (1205–1270), the latter of whom would become the grandfather of [[Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Ashby|Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche]] (1267–1314) "of Ashby." Millicent's [[moiety title|moiety]] of her fraternal inheritance included: the [[feudal barony of Eaton Bray]]; the manor of Calne in Wiltshire (her father's seat); a [[moiety title|moiety]] of the [[feudal barony of Totnes]] in Devon; the entire [[English feudal barony|feudal barony of Bulwick]] in Northamptonshire<ref>Sanders, p.23</ref> and the manor of [[Harringworth]] in Northamptonshire, which her Zouche descendants made their seat, her son [[William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche]] (1276–1351) being created [[Baron Zouche]] "of Haryngworth" in 1308, to distinguish himself from his cousin [[Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Ashby|Alan]] who had been made a baron in 1299.
*Joan de Cantilupe (d.1271), who married [[Henry de Hastings]] (1225–1268) of [[Ashill, Norfolk]],<ref>{{harvnb|Kingsford|2004}}</ref> whose wardship and marriage her father had purchased from [[Guy de Lusignan]] in about 1252.<ref>Dugdale, William (1605-1686), Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656, p.616, re manor of Aston Cantlow [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36791.0001.001/1:18.117?rgn=div2;view=fulltext]; M Julian-Jones, Thesis on de Cantilupe and Corbet families, 2015,  Online Research @Cardiff (ORCA), Cardiff University, p.83 [https://orca.cf.ac.uk/69064/1/2015julian-jonesmphd.pdf]</ref> Her [[moiety title|moiety]] of her fraternal inheritance included the vast lands of the Lordship of Abergavenny and [[Aston Cantlow]] Castle in Warwickshire, one of her father's principal seats.<ref>Dugdale</ref> Joan was buried in the [[Greyfriars, Coventry]], Warwickshire, in the ''Hastings Chapel'', together with her husband Henry de Hastings and her son John de Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny, all commemorated by effigies (now lost), as related by Dugdale.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/antiquitiesofwar00dugd/page/114/mode/2up Dugdale, William, ''Antiquities of Warwickshire'', 1666 edition, p.115]</ref> However Joan de Cantilupe's heart was buried in Abergavenny Priory, and "her effigy there shows her holding a heart in the palm of her hand".<ref>according to Monastic Wales: New Approaches edited by Janet Burton, Karen Stöber [https://books.google.com/books?id=92GuBwAAQBAJ&dq=eva+abergavenny+priory&pg=PT105]</ref> The effigy supposedly of Eva de Braose with the Cantilupe shield is also holding a heart, but with both hands.<ref>[http://www.ipernity.com/doc/stiffleaf/44551994/in/keyword/21655/self see better image]</ref> Her sons were:
**[[John Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings]] (1262–1313), Lord of Abergavenny, eldest son, who in 1273 inherited a moiety of the lands of his childless uncle Sir [[George de Cantilupe]], including the Lordship of Abergavenny and the Cantilupe seat of [[Aston Cantlow]] in Warwickshire. He was [[Hereditary peer#Writs of summons|summoned]] to Parliament as [[Baron Hastings|Lord Hastings]] in 1290. His grandson was [[Lawrence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke|Lawrence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke, 3rd Baron Hastings]] (1318–1348).
**[[Edmund Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings]] (post 1262-circa 1314) "of [[Inchmahome]]" (anciently ''Inchmacholmok''), Perthshire, Scotland, summoned to Parliament on 29 December 1299 as "Lord Hastings". He died at the [[Battle of Bannockburn]] in  1314, having married but without issue.<ref>G. E. Cokayne, ''[[The Complete Peerage]]'', n.s., vol.VI, p.384</ref>
==Death==
[[File:Death WilliamIIIDeCantilupe 1254 HistoriaAnglorum MatthewParis f165v.png|thumb|Record of the death of William III de Cantilupe made by [[Matthew Paris]] (d.1259) in his ''Historia Anglorum'' (folio 165v).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_14_c_vii_f001v|title = The British Library MS Viewer}}</ref> His shield of arms is depicted in the margin inverted]]
Cantilupe died in 1254,<ref name=odnb /> at about [[Michaelmas]], 29 September. His death is recorded by his contemporary [[Matthew Paris]] (d.1259) in his ''Historia Anglorum'' thus:<br/>
:''Obiit Will's de Cantelupo; Anno eodem circa festum sancti michaelis obiit Will(ielmus) de Cantelupo juvenis elegans et dives in dolore multorum quia ille tertius iam fuit Cantelupinorum qui infra paucos annos de medio sunt sublati'' ("W. de Cantilupe died; In the same year (i.e. 1254) around the [[Michaelmas|feast of St Michael]] died William de Cantilupe, a fine and rich youth, in the grief of many because he was already the third of the Cantilupes who within a few years were lifted up from their midst").
(His father William II died in 1251 and his grandfather William I in 1239). One of the chief mourners at his funeral was [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]], a close friend of the family.<ref name=odnb />
==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book| title=Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem| year=1912| volume=III| publisher=[[HMSO]]| location=London| ref={{harvid|Cal Inq PMs III|1912}}}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Kingsford |first=C.L. |date=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12573 |title=Hastings, Sir Henry (1235?–1269) |editor= Ridgeway |encyclopedia =Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12573 |access-date=26 November 2012 }}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Stacey |first=Robert C. |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4574 |title=Cantilupe, William (III) de (d. 1254) |encyclopedia= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4574 |access-date=28 November 2012 }}
==Further reading==
* [[Bernard Burke|Sir Bernard Burke]] C.B., LL.D., [[Norroy and Ulster King of Arms|Ulster King of Arms]] (compiler). (1996). ''A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire''. Baltimore:: Genealogical Publishing Co, pg. 101.
* {{Citation |last=Cokayne |first=G. E.| editor-last   =Gibbs| editor-first  = V.|author-link=George Cokayne |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant |edition=new, 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959)|location=London|publisher=The St. Catherine Press Ltd. |year=1912 |volume=II}}
* Frederick Lewis Weis (with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr. and assisted by David Faris). (1992). ''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700''. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, Line 66.29. Lines: 39–29, 39A-29, 93A-28, 232A-32
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