 Sir William VI Brereton, son of Sir William V Brereton and Margaret Bosley.Born ± 1320 at Malpas, Cheshire, England, died ± 1381 at Hartfleur, France, approximately 61 years Sir William Brereton, of Brereton, was living 49th of Edward III, 1375. He married 1st Ellen, daughter of Philip Egerton, and sister and heiress of David Egerton of Egerton, representative of the Norman Barons of Malpas, and by her had a son Sir William, his successor. He married 2nd Margaret, daughter of Henry Done, and had a son and two daughters. From this marriage with Ellen Egerton the Breretons derived large possessions and splendid descent; but at the time of the marriage, David de Egerton being then living, the marriage portion of the lady was only œ100, for which William Brereton gave his receipt at Egerton, 27th of Edward III, 1353. Ellen's son, Married/ Related to:  Margaret Donne, daughter of Henry Donne and Margaret de Thornton.Born ± 1340 at Utkinton, Cheshire, England Children: 1. Joan BreretonBorn ± 1360 3. Alice BreretonBorn ± 1364 | |||
| 2nd marriage/ relation Sir William VI Brereton, son of Sir William V Brereton and Margaret Bosley.Married/ Related to: Ellen De Egerton, daughter of Philip "le Large" de Egerton, Lord of Egerton and Ellen St. Pierre.Born ± 1325 at Egerton, Cheshire, England, died after 1379 Baroness of a moiety of the Palatinate Barony of Malpas. Child: 1. Sir William VII BreretonBorn Feb 14, 1347/48 at Egerton, Cheshire, England, died 1402 at Hartfleur, France, approximately 55 years Baron of half of Malpas, lord of Egerton and Brereton Governor of Caen. Born 14th February 1348/9 at Egerton baptised at Malpas, Died of "honourable wounds" at Harfleur in 1402. | Married at Audley, 1386. Sir William Brereton, of Brereton, married his cousin, Angella (Annilla or Anylla), daughter of Hugh Venables, Baron of Kinderton, who died 41st of Edward III, and his wife Agatha, daughter of Sir Ralph Vernon, Baron of Shipbrooke. This marriage was confirmed by dispensation, which indulgence states that it was granted in consequence of the services of his father in the crusade against Henry of Castile, under Edward, the Black Prince. This William served with great distinction in the French Wars of Henry V. Chandler, in his Life of Bishop Wainfleet, speaks of Sir William Brereton, who through his daughter Margery was grandfather of the founder of Magdalen College. Chandler states Sir William to have afterwards been Governor of Caen, and to have routed a numerous army of French near Mont St. Michel, and to have returned home "with glory and increase of fortune." Sir William died in 4th of Henry VI, 1425, probably of honourable wounds received at the Battle of Pontoisan. By his first wife Anylla he had William, Hugh and Matthew and two daughters, Elizabeth, of whom further, and Margery, wife of Richard Patten alias Wainfleet. By his 2nd wife, Elena, daughter of Sir William Massey, he had a son Thomas, rector of Brereton 1433. William succeeded not only to the Brereton estate, but also in right of his mother to a share of the Barony of Malpas, which Elena's sister Isabella Delves had succeeded in wresting from David Malpas, the Bastard. William's 1st wife was related to him in the 4th degree on each side, in consequence of their mutual descent from Sir Ralph Vernon. This marriage took place at Audlem in 1386. He held in demesne as of fee one-fourth and a moiety of a fourth of half the Manor of Malpas, a third of Pickton, and lands in Wordhull, Crouton, Charleton and Northwick. | |||