8388608. William Montacute Baron
Served in several expeditions into Scotland in the reigns of Edward I and II.
Obtained the royal charter for free warren at his manor of Aston Clinton in
Buckinghamshire, as he did afterward for those of Saxlingham, in the County of Norfolk, Knolle in the County of Somerset, and Woneford in the County of Devon. In the same reign he was governor of Berhamstead Castle and steward of the King's household; and had a grant of the bodies and ransoms of Rene ap Grenon, Madock ap Vaughn and Audoenlap Madock, Welsh barons who had rebelled and been taken prisoners. Moreover, he obtained from the King a special license to make a Castle of his house at Kersington in the county of Oxford, and was appointed Seneschal of the duchy of Aquitain and at last in 1318 of Gascony. In the 11th and 12th of that reign he had summons to parliament and died in 1320 in Gascony, but was interred at St. Frideeswide, now Christ Church Oxon. Reference: "A Chronicle of the Kings of England by Sir Richard Baker, Knight" London 1660.