Waleran de Wellesley

Waleran de Wellesley (died c. 1276) was a judge, statesman and landowner in thirteenth century Ireland.

[1] The family held the office of standard-bearer to the King, and a Wellesley accompanied Henry II of England to Ireland during the Norman Invasion in the late twelfth century, but evidently did not settle in that country.

In 1297, on the death without issue of the Justiciar of Ireland, William de Vesci, Wellesley, as tenant, was granted a part of his lands in County Kildare, which had been de Vesci's share of the enormous inheritance of his great-grandfather William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

[3] William de Wellesley, probably the son of the second Sir Waleran, was appointed Constable of Kildare Castle for life in 1310.

[7] He married after 1317 Elizabeth, widow of Walter l'Enfant the younger, Lord of Carnalway, Naas, the Chief Judge of the Justiciar's Court.