"William de Cantelupe son of Walter de Cantelupe" donated rent received "annually from Samson his free man of Leg" to Montacute priory by undated charter, witnessed by "William de Cantelupe my son and heir…Gilbert de Sai…". Matthew Paris names “...Willelmus de Cantelu et Willelmus filius eius, Fulco de Canteleu...” among the "consiliarios iniquissimos” of King John. Henry III King of England notified the pardon of "Willelmo de Cantilupo junioris" in return for payment of a fine dated [Oct] 1224. "William de Cantilupo" was granted land "in Caleston which Fulk de Cantilupo his uncle formerly held of the bail of King John" dated 20 Dec 1227. A charter dated 17 Dec 1243 mandated to "W[illiam] de Cantilupe seisin of all the lands which belonged to Hamo de Valoignes in Ireland…with the marriage of Hamo’s heirs".
The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death in 1251 of “Willelmus de Cantilupo in Cathedra Sancti Petri”. 1
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2 May 1222, Westminster
To William de Cantilupe . The king has rendered to Hugh, son and heir of Hugh de Gournay all lands and tenements formerly of Hugh, his father, that are in William’s custody and fall to him by hereditary right. Order to cause Hugh to have full seisin without delay, saving to the king the land that Hugh, his father, held by bail of King John, father of the king, in the soke of Waltham ....
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 6 Hen. III, 183
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22 Apr 1223, Westminster
Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire that if William de Cantilupe junior gives him surety that he will satisfy the king upon the sheriff’s next account at the Exchequer for the demand of 10 m. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer for an amercement of the king’s forest, then he is to place that demand in respite until that account....
12 May 1223
Order to the sheriff of Northamptonshire to place in respite the demand that he makes from William de Cantilupe junior for trespass of the forest, until upon his next account at Michaelmas forthcoming in the seventh year....
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 7 Hen. III, 155, 171
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23 Oct 1224
To the barons of the Exchequer. The king has pardoned to William de Cantilupe junior a moiety of the 18 m. which they exact from him to the king’s use for the king’s first scutage from the land formerly of [Henry de Stuteville ] in his bailiwick, and the king has given him terms for the other moiety, namely that he is to render the moiety, 9 m., to the king at the Exchequer of Easter in the ninth year, and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the same year....
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 8 Hen. III, 420
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5 Jul 1229
[Order] to the sheriff of Buckinghamshire to take into the king’s hand without delay, for trespass of his forest, all land of William de Cantilupe junior in his bailiwick and to keep it safely with the chattels found therein, so that nothing is removed therefrom until the king orders otherwise.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 13 Hen. III, 250
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18 Jan 1237
Order to the sheriff of Leicestershire to cause William de Cantilupe junior to have full seisin of the king’s manors of Great Bowden and Market Harborough with appurtenances, which the king granted to him for life.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 21 Hen. III, 25
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After 15 Jul 1238
William de Cantilupe junior has made fine with the king by 500 m. for having to himself and his heirs or assigns the custody of the lands and of Juliana, daughter and heiress of Hugh de Gournay . He is to render 60 m. of that fine per annum at the Exchequer, namely 30 m. at Easter and 30 m. at Michaelmas until it is paid.
12 Dec 1238, Clarendon
The king has granted to William de Cantilupe junior that, of the 200 m. which he received as a loan from the king in the Wardrobe , he may render 50 m. at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the twenty-third year, 50 m. at Easter in the twenty-fourth year, 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and 50 m. at Easter next following.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 22 Hen. III, 58, 23 Hen. III, 37
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4 Mar 1251, Westminster
The king has granted to William de Cantilupe junior that he may render £30 annually at the Exchequer of the £7 10s. of the remainder of the farm of Calne, of the £201 and one mark of several debts, of 50 m. of a prest [made] by Paulinus Peyvre and Thomas of Newark, of £193 and half a mark of the remainder of a fine for having the custody of the lands [and heir] of Hugh de Gournay, of £90 6s. 0½d. of the remainder of the farm of Bridgwater, of 60s. of the aid to marry the king’s daughter from a fee of Hugh de Lisle, of 20 m. of the prest of Brittany, of 8s. of the chattels of a fugitive, and of 200 m. of a prest made by Brother Geoffrey to the king’s beloved and faithful William de Cantilupe senior, which debts are exacted from William de Cantilupe junior, son and heir of the aforesaid William, namely £15 at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the thirty-fifth year, £15 at the Exchequer of Easter next following, and £30 thus from year to year at the same terms until all of the aforesaid debts are paid to the king. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to have the aforesaid terms and to cause this to be done and enrolled thus. By the king and his council.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 35 Hen. III, 354
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19 Nov 1254, Westminster
[Appointment during pleasure] of James Fres[el], and Henry de Malo Lacu to extend the lands late of William de Cantelupo, Gilbert de Segrave and Michael de Maunoer in demesnes, homages, rents, villeinages, knights' fees, advowsons of churches, woods, meadows, pastures and other issues of land, and to enquire how much they hold in chief and how much of others, and by what service, and how much by knight service, and how much in socage, and who are the next heirs.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, p. 392
Orthographic variations: DE CANTELOU, DE CANTILUPE