William de Glanville 1
- Marriage (1): Beatrice de Sackville
General Notes:
Sir Robert de Glanville was succeeded in these Lordships by William de Glanville, who in the reigns of William Rufus and Henry I. held a high position among the Norfolk and Suffolk Barons. His possessions in lands were extensive, as he not only founded a Priory but left his eldest son to inherit considerable property.
In the year 1113 A.D. he founded Bromholm Priory, in the county of Norfolk, and made it subordinate to the Cluniac Monastery of Castle-Acre, and dedicated it to St. Andrew. He endowed it with lands here, and in his Lordships of Bacton and Ceswick. At the same place, says Weever, was also a priory of Black Monks (Cluniacs), dedicated , to St. Sepulchre, founded by G. de Glanville, and value, at [pound sterling]149 19s. 0 1/2d. per annum.
[Records of the Anglo-Norman house of Glanville] 1
William married Beatrice de Sackville, daughter of William de Sackville of Fawley and Albreda.
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