William Waterton

Please see Wikipedia: Hugh Waterton; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Waterton#CITEREFRichardson_III2011 (Steven Ferry, November 30, 2022.)

Norman de Normanebi, Reiner de Waterton & Ralph de Normanebi [1]

Norman de Normanebi was a younger son of William I's (William the Conqueror) companion, Norman d'Areci, who was given 33 manors in the county of Lincoln. His principal seat was at Nocton where his eldest son established the noble house of Darcy, but at his manors in the north of the county at Flixborough and Normanebi (Normanby), he established his younger son Norman (so named because their house was Norman; they were not of Saxon origin as Stonehouse[2] would have it).

It was this Norman's elder son, Reiner de Normanebi who took advantage of the situation when Roger de Mowbray, Lord of Axholme, rebelled and fell foul of King Henry II (reigned 1154 - 1189)[3]. Mowbray's lands were confiscated and given to the Abbot of Selby (Gilbert de Vere) who quickly parcelled out these lands to provide income for the church. The deed, which is still extant, was undated but it had to be about 1176/7 and provided for the payment of 12 shillings each year, to be paid to the priest at Luddington on the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary (2nd February) for the Vill & Manor of Waterton. Thus, Reiner became 'de Waterton' whilst his brother Ralph remained 'de Normanebi.'

(The current representative of the Waterton family still attends the church at Luddington each year on the 2nd February [Candlemas] to pay 12 shillings to the priest in a short religious ceremony).

Norman d'Areci

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Norman de Normanebi

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Reiner de Normanebi > became Reiner de Waterton

From d'Areci to Normanebi to Waterton

1. Principal source for this page: Lord Everingham of Laxton, 2004.

2. The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme: being that part of Lincolnshire which is west of Trent. William Brocklehurst Stonehouse. Longman Rees Orme & Co., London 1839.

3. In 1174 Roger de Mowbray joined a conspiracy with Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham, to replace the King with his cousin, Prince Henry. However, the king was ably served by Geoffrey Plantagenet, the Bishop-elect of Lincoln and an illegitimate son of the King, and the rebellion failed. When William the Lion, King of Scotland, who supported the rebellion, was captured; Roger de Mowbray saw that resistance was futile and he surrendered; later receiving a pardon. Various sources.