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William de Vescy of Kildare

William de Vescy, sometimes spelt Vesci, Baron de Vesci, was an illegitimate child of William de Vesci and Devorgille, daughter of Donal Roe Macarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond. He was born in Kildare, Ireland. As he was illegitimate, he had no right to inherit any of his father's properties. In anticipation of this, his father had therefore entered into a number of covenants with Antony Bek, Bishop of Durham designed to enable his son to acquire the properties through entail. Early in Edward I's reign, William asked the king to intervene to enforce the implementation of these covenants.

Marriage and legacy
Although it is sometimes said that he married Maud, widow of Thomas Neville of Cleatham, this is unlikely. On his death without children, his estates in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire were inherited by a distant relation, Sir Gilbert Aton. ==Arms==
Arms
William's coat of arms is recorded by the fourteenth-century Parliamentary Roll. It is emblazoned: Or, a plain cross Sable. The same coat of arms was borne by his uncle, John de Vesci (died 1289). William's stone effigy of an armed knight, that seems to have originally sat at St Mary's Abbey, shows the Vescy family coat of arms differenced with a bend sinister, a symbol of bastardy. ==Citations==
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