Talk:William Brereton (courtier)

Was William the sixth or seventh son of Randle?
My source for sixth son was the lecture on William Brereton and the Pork Barrel: Travails of Political Ascendancy given by the historian Prof.E.W. Ives. Ives is a greath authority on these times. I have also quoted freely from his book about Anne Boleyn given in the article references.

User:Mcginnly has pointed out to me a web page which gives William Brereton as the seventh son, e.g. at the web site of a person called Craig Thornber. This web page gives 3 references as follows which should be checked:


 * 1. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Ed., revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq., published by George Routledge and sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882. This is now available from the Family History Society of Cheshire on CD ROM. A reprint of the work was published by Eric Morten of Didsbury.


 * 2. Burke's Peerage, 106th edition, 2003.


 * 3. The House of Commons 1509-1558, by S. T. Bindoff, Secker and Warburg, London, 1982. This has an article on Sir Hugh Cholmondeley the elder.

Some work is needed to investigate this, which I will do on my next library visit! -- Op. Deo 08:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

(Pipera (talk) 05:57, 18 February 2020 (UTC)) I cannot dind any marriage of Elizabeth Somerset to a William Brereton, also I canot find any birth of a William Brereton. I cannot see that he would be the son of a Randel and Eleanor Brereton, as Randel was born circa 1485, and Eleanor was born 1484. John Savage is my second cousin 14 times removed, Elizabeth Somerset is my third cousin 14 times removed. I am the second cousin 15 times removed of Urian Brereton Groom of the Kings Chamber.