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His distant ancestor, Baldwin de Redvers was given the title in 1142 a reward for backing Empress Matilda's right to the throne.

He is predeceased by his first wife, actor Sylvia Kay, and granddaughter Matilda.

The source also told the magazine that Williams’ eldest, daughter Matilda, whom she had with late “Brokeback Mountain” co-star Heath Ledger, “has been doting on her younger siblings.”

Williams, who had Matilda in 2005, three years before Ledger’s death, told Variety in an interview published in May 2022 that “there’s nothing that makes you committed to a better world than raising a great kid.”

His passengers, Harry Purcell, 17, Matilda "Tilly" Seccombe, 16, and Frank Wormald, 16, all died.