1300 William Vavasour fought with Edward at the Battle of Caerlaverock in Scotland. A poem [1] about the victors, witten at the time, records:
| Ede cele meis part Fu Guillames Ii Vavasours, Ky de armes ne est muet ne sours; Baner avoit ben conoissable, De or fyn o la dance de sable. | (And also of this same division) (was William le Vavasour,) (Who in arms is neither deaf nor dumb;) (He had a very distinguishable banner) (Of fine gold with a sable dauncet) |
"1st Lord (Baron) Vavasour (e), so cr by writ of summons to Parl (according to later doctrine) 6 Feb 1297/8; b c 1265; granted leave to crenellate his house at Hazlewood 1290, fought in vanguard at Battle of Falkirk (Edward I's victory over Scots under William Wallace) 1298; at Siege of Carlaverock in Scottish wars 1300, Keeper Pontefract Castle to May 1311; m by 1280 Nichole ___ and d just before 22 March 1312/3" [2]
"Sir William was summoned to parliament as a Baron, in the reigns of Henry III. and Edward I. He had leave to castell his house at Haselwood, and served in the wars, and was at the siege of Kalaverock Castle, 1300: he married Nicholaw, daughter of Sir Stephen, and sister of Sir Richard Walleys, of Newton, by whom he had four sons, 1, Waller, summoned as Baron to parliament, 7th Edw. II. died S.P.; 2, Sir Robert, of Shipley, in Derbyshire, living 1284, died before his father, unmarried; 3, Sir Henry, his heir; 4, William, ancestor of the Vavasours of Deneby, in Yorkshire." [3]
[1] Thomas Wright, The Roll of arms of the princes, barons, and knights who attended King Edward I. to the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300 (London : J.C. Hotten, 1864), xiii, [HathiTrust].
[2] Charles Mosley, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, & Knightage, 107th edition, Vol. 3 (Willington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage & Gentry, LLC, 2003), 3984.
[3] William Beltham, The Baronetage of England, Vol. 5 (London: Lloyd, 1805), 426, [GoogleBooks].