page_title: William Russell (knight)
section_title: Succession
hierarchical_section_title: William Russell (knight) / Succession
caption_attribution_description: English: A rubbing of the monumental brass of Sir Maurice Russell (2 February 1356 – 27 June 1416; right) and his wife Isabel Childrey at St. Peter's Church, Dyrham, South Gloucestershire, England, UK.
context_page_description: Sir William Russell was an English nobleman, knight, and holder of a moiety of the feudal barony of North Cadbury, Somerset, but spent most of his life engaged in the administration and defence of the Isle of Wight, where he obtained by marriage the manor of Yaverland. He served as constable of Carisbrooke Castle, and sat in parliament on two occasions, firstly as burgess for Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, and then for the County of Southampton. As a baron his military service was called on several times by King Edward I Hammer of the Scots.
context_section_description: William's infant son Theobald (1303–1349) was granted in wardship to Ralph III, 1st Baron Gorges (d. 1324) of Knighton manor, Isle of Wight, Wraxall, Somerset, and Bradpole, Dorset. Gorges married off his young ward to his second daughter Eleanor, who eventually became one of three co-heiresses to her brother Ralph IV, 2nd Baron Gorges (d. 1331). Theobald and Eleanor had five sons. The eldest was Sir Ralph Russell (d. 1375)  who inherited his patrimonial Russell lands,  whose adult male line was to die out on the death of his third son and eventual heir Sir Maurice Russell (1356–1416) of Kingston Russell and Dyrham, Gloucestershire. Theobald I & Eleanor's second son was Theobald II Russell, who was made the heir of his uncle the second Baron Gorges, who had died without male issue and left him the bulk of the Gorges lands on condition he should change his family name and arms to Gorges. This he did and founded a new line of “Gorges” based at Wraxall. The history of the youngest three sons, William, John and Richard, is not recorded, although William, apparently based at Knighton, is known to have died without male issue on 24 March 1343.
caption: Sir Maurice Russell(1356-1416) and first wife Isabel Childrey. Rubbing from funerary brass, Dyrham Church, 1416[3]
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