William de Babington

     William de was born. The family of Babington was seated in Northumberland, temp. William the Conqueror, according to Bigland (Gloucester Cathedral) and Noble, (College of Arms) ; but Hutchinson, in his History of that County, merely states that the family was as old in England as the Conquest. The first who is known to have been seated in Northumberland, is John De Babington, Lord of Babington, in the barony of Umfraville, where he resided in the reigns of Kings John and Henry III. The pedigrees make him succeeded by his son William, but it is probable that a generation has been omitted, and that William was his grandson, being the son of Robert de Babington, who occurs in the Great Pipe Roll for Northumberland, 32 Henry III.³ He was living at Little Babington in 1271. William departed this life after 1271.