William II de Cantilupe
d. 1251
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William de Cantilupe the second, Steward of the Household to King John and Henry III, was the father of a saint: his son Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, was canonised in 1320, the last Englishman made a saint in the Middle Ages. William died in 1251, a career courtier whose house produced, in one generation, a baron, a bishop-saint, and the ancestress of this line.
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✓ WILLIAM II de CANTILUPE (d.1251), Steward of the Household; m. Millicent de Gournay; father of William III (our line) and of ST THOMAS DE CANTILUPE, Bishop of Hereford (canonised 1320). DOCUMENTED FLOOR of the wired Cantilupes; the elder Cantilupes note-only. Standard well-documented English baronial genealogy (CP; web-confirmed 7 Aug 2026); contested rungs note-only, not hardened.