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761 APPENDIX I PEVEREL OF NOTTI NGHAMC) In this Appendix it is not proposed to do much more than to collect the principal extant charters concerning the family of Peverel of Nottingham, with especial reference to the marriage of Adelise Peverel to Richard de Reviers, and that of Margaret Peverel to Robert, Earl of Ferrieres. Of William Peverel of Nottingham, the elder, very little is known. He is usually said to have been an illegitimate son of the Conqueror, but as this statement cannot be traced farther back than to the time of the Tudors, it is worth little or nothing. C") His wife's name was Adeline, and he had at least four children — William, who died v.p.,{^) another William, who succeeded him, and two daughters, Maud,('^) and Adelise wife of Richard de Reviers. The Conqueror gave him the custody of Nottingham Castle when it was built in io68,() and extensive possessions, afterwards known as the honour of Peverel, consisting of about 100 lordships in cos. Notts and Northants, 14 in co. Derby, and some 20 in cos. Bucks, Leicester, Oxford, Beds, Berks, and Essex. He founded the Priory of St. James at Nottingham, (*) This Appendix is by G. W. Watson. (•>) He had a brother named Robert, which fact does not make the statement in the text more probable. A charter by which Henry I conceded the church of Lenton to the monks of Cluny bears the attestations of (among others) Willelmi Pevrelli de Notingaham, Adeline sue uxoris, Roherti fratris IVillelmi Pevrelli, and JVillelmi Pevrelli filii eorum. (Bruel, Charles de l' Abbaye de Cluny, vol. v, no. 3813; Duckett, Charters of Cluni, vol. i, p. 62: the names of most of the witnesses are omitted in the Monasticon, vol. v, p. 1 1 3). (=) " Obitus dni Witti PeuereH fundatoris dom^ see T'nitat de Lenton v. kalenS Februar. A° dni Mitiio. C°. xiij°. Obitus Adelyne v5is ei' xiiij° kalenS Februa?. A° dni Mitiio. C°. xix™°. Obitus dni Willi filij dci dni WiWi Peuereft [x cut away' vj°. kalenS Maij. A° dni MiJtio C°. xj°." [Cartulary of the Priory of St. James at Northamp- ton — Cotton MSS., Tiber., E 5 — f. i v: on f. 234 the same is repeated, except that the last date is "xvj. kin Maij. A°. do'. M°. C™°." with an erasure [? xj°] after it). One of these dates appears to be incorrect, for on the Pipe Roll ot 31 Hen. I, p. 12, is the entry — " In Pdon. p bf I^ . . . Adeline matri Willi Peuf de Noting .xviij.s." Bridges and Baker, in their Histories of Northamptonshire, give other dates for the death of William Peverel the elder, each citing the said Cartulary with a different error. {^) " In pdon. p. br. I^ . . . Mathildi sorori WiHi Peur de Noting .xxj. s.T;. vj.a." {Pipe Roll, 31 Hen. I, p. 86). (') Ordericus, lib. iv, cap. 4. 96