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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland, Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Staveley, Derbyshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire, etc., son and heir, born about 1234 (a minor at his father's death in 1241, and came of age c.1254/6). He married after 19 Nov. 1242 ISABEL FITZ JOHN, daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Justiciar of Ireland, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk [see VERDUN 8 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Isabel and Idoine (wife of Roger de Leyboume and John Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell). In 1256 he made fine with the king by five marks of gold for having respite from his knighthood, and for having a charter for a market, fair, and warren. In 1258 he sued Walter, parson of Newbiggin, Northumberland for poaching in his deer park. The same year he fought in Wales. In 1258 John de Gravenel granted him by fine the manor of Eyworth, Bedfordshire, for which Robert granted him a moiety of the manor of Buckland, Buckinghamshire for life, except the hall, with 12 librates of land in Newbottle, Northamptonshire. He was one of the most violent of the barons in arms against King Henry III, he being an adherent of Simon de Montfort. His name occurs among the list of barons whose seal was required to ratify the peace between King Henry III and the barons in 1261. In 1263 he excused his absense as plaintiff in a plea in Westmorland on the ground of infirmity. ROBERT DE VIPONT died testate shortly before 5 July 1264.
Nicolson & Burn Hist. & Antiqs. of the Counties of Westmorland & Cumberland 1 (1777): 265-292. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (chart). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): Co/L Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 123-126. Eddison Hist. of Worksop (1854): 170-171. Notes & Queries 4sh Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Aveling Hist. of Roche Abbey (1870): xxi-xxii. Taylor Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland (1892): 17-24. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Prescott Reg. of the Priory of Wetherhal (Cumb. & West. Antiq. & Arch. Soc. Recs. 1) (1897): 328-330,363-364. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 230-233. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328 240. (Vipont arms: Or six rings gules). Fowler Cal. of Feet of Fines for Bedfordshire (Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 6 (1919): 168. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 4. Foster Final Concorde of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1921): 179-180. C.P. 5 (1926): 437 chart, 439-441 (sub FitzJohn). Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 5-16. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254 (Vipont arms: Or six rings gules). Fowler Cat of IPM 2 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): facing 170 (Vipont chart 6). Year Books of Edward 1110 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26. Trans. Dumfriesshire & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Soc. 3rd Ser. 33 (1956): 91-106. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 220: 1,562: 4. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 103-104. VCH Oxford 10 (1972): 206-210. National Archives, SC 8/172/8596 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Robert de Vipont, by Isabel Fitz John:
i. ISABEL DE VIPONT [see next].
ii. IDOINE DE VIPONT, younger daughter and co-heiress, born about 1259 (aged 25 in 1284). She married (1st) before 1276 ROGER DE LEYBOURNE (or LEYBURNE), in right of his wife, of Brough under Stainmoor, Westmorland, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire, etc., younger son of Roger de Leyboume, Knt., of Elham, Kent, Steward of the King's Household, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Warden of the Forests beyond Trent. They had one son, John. In 1276-7 Emma wife of Alan de Galwithia arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against Roger and his wife, Idoine, touching a tenement in Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire. In 1280-1 Thomas de Hellebek' arraigned an assize against Roger and his wife, Idoine, touching common of pasture in Brough-under-Stainmore, Westmorland. ROGER DE LEYBOURNE died shortly before 21 Feb. 1283/4. In 1293-4 his widow, Idoine, was summoned to answer the king by what warrant she claimed to have free warren in Bawtry, Kimberworth, and Austerfield, gallows, infangthief, and outgangthief in Bawtry, and a market and fair in Kimberworth, all in Yorkshire. She was co-heir in 1297 to her uncle, Richard Fitz John, Knt., Lord Fitz John. Idoine married (2nd) before 25 June 1302 (later dispensation dated 15 March 1317, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) (as his 2nd wife) JOHN DE CROMWELL, Knt., of Carlton on Trent, Nottinghamshire, Beeston, Cheshire, Englefield, Flintshire, Hope, Shropshire, Austerfield, Yorkshire, etc., Constable of Chepstow Castle, 1307-8, Constable of the Tower of London, 1307/8, 1310-23, 1326/7-35, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1317, Admiral of the Fleet, 1324, and in right of his 2nd wife, of Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Staveley, Derbyshire, Moulton, Cromwells (in Potterspury), and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham) and Maltby, Yorkshire, etc., younger son of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., oi Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, daughter of Roger de Somery [see STAFFORD 4 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. He was engaged in the French and Scottish wars. In 1305 he accused Nicholas de Segrave, Knt. of treason and was defied by him to battle. He was summoned to Parliament 10 March 1307/8 to 1 April 1335, by writs directed Jobanni de Crimped' or Crumbewelr, whereby he is held to have become Lord Cromwell. In 1308 he and his wife, Idoine, obtained a grant of free warren in several manors including Kimberworth cm Rotherham), Yorkshire, Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, and Essendine, Rutland. In 1313 he obtained a papal indult for a portable altar. In 1317 he and his wife, Idoine, obtained a pa indult to choose their confessors. In 1318 he complained that his park in Essendine, Rutland was broken into. hr 1319 he and Robert de Umfreville, Knt were appointed wardens of Northumberland, and the parts adjacent. In, 1320-1 John and his wife, Idoine, settled various manors, including Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Potterspury, and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc. on. themselves for the life of Idoine, with successive remainders to Hugh le Despenser, Knt., the younger and Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the elder for life, and thence to Edward son of Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the younger and his heirs. He fought on the part of the king at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2. In 1325 Robert de Wombwell and Robert Tree were fined £300 for damages done by wilful entryof the manors of Moulton and Yardley, Northamptonshire, where they devastated the goods and furniture of John de Cromwell and expelled him by force and arms. He was a supporter of Queen Isabel and fled abroad with her in 1326. That year King Edward II seized all of John's lands, including those held in right of his wife, because he stayed out of England without license. In August 1326 his wife, Idoine, was allowed to receive the issues and profits of the manors Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, and Essendine, Rutland during pleasure, and to retak her own robes, beds, and jewels, and other things pertaining to her chamber. John probably returned to England early in the reign of King Edward HI, as he was suing his bailiff touching his accounts for the manor of Essendine, Rutland in 1327. He was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Carlton on Trent, Nottinghamshire in 1328. In 1330 John and his wife, Idoine, claimed view of frankpledge in the manor of Moulton, Northamptonshire. In 1331 he and his wife, Idoine, and his son, Richard, obtained papal indults far plenary remission at the hour of death. In 1331 John and his wife, Idoine, took advantage of the statute annulling all fines levied by force and duress after the exile of the Despensers, and tried to obtain an annulment of the fine of 1320-1, which they said had been so levied. They were evidently unsuccessful. His widow, Idoine, died shortly before 18 Nov. 1333. SIR JOHN DE CROMWELL, Lord Cromwell, died shortly before 8 October 1335. Whatley England's Gag. 2 (1751) (sub Perlethorp). Throsby Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 169-171. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 120-124 (sub Cromwell). Coll Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 217 ("Idonea de Leyburne filia et una heredum Rob'ti de Wespunt" included on list of people owing military service in 1300). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 123-126. Eddison Hist. of Worksop (1854): 170-171. Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 12 (1869): 24. Aveling Hist. of Roche Abbey (1870): xxi-xxii. Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 478. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 10; 45 (1885): 128-129; 46 (1886): 203; 47 (1886): 147; 50 (1889): 39, 162. D.N.B. 33 (1893): 209-212 (biog. of Roger de Leybourne). Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 111 (Richard de Cromwell, rector of Olney, Buckinghamshire, styled "kinsman and clerk" of King Edward II in 1313 [but see, however, English Hist. Rev. 11 (1896): 564 which corrects entry to read that Richard de Cromwell was actually kinsman of John de Cromwell, not King Edward II), 115, 137 (dispensation dated Id. March [15 March] 1317 granted to John de Cromuel, knight and Ydona, his wife, to remain in marriage which they contracted), 143-144, 353, 430, 443. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Prescott Reg. of the Priory of Wetherhal (Cumb. & West. Antiq. & Arch. Soc. Recs. 1) (1897): 328-330, 363-364. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 315-316. C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 121; 4 (1912): 85, 285, 300. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 230-233. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328; 3 (1925): 372-376. C.P. 3 (1913): 553 (sub Cromwell); 5 (1926): 437 chart, 439-441 (sub FitzJohn); 14 (1998): 224 (sub Cromwell). Carter Lay S ubsi dy Roll for Warwickshire of 6 Edward III (1332) (Dugdale Soc. 6) (1926): 16. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 5-16. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 88-94; 5 (2002): 289-345. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 1) (1939): 129. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Year Books of Edward II 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 30 (seal of John de Cromwell dated 1316 - A shield of arms: six annulets; between two wyverns.). English Yorkshire Hundred & Quo Warranty Rolls (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 151) (1996): 239-241. Vale Princely Court (2001): 313. National Archives, SC 8/11/525; SC 8/172/8596 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ISABEL LE BIGOD, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, son and heir apparent of Walter de Lacy, Knt., of Weobley, Holme Lacy, Mansell Gamage, and Yarkhill, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Rock [Farm] (in Ludlow), and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, lord of Meath, Ireland, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of William de Brewes. Isabel's maritagium included lands in Great Connell, co. Kildare, Ireland. They had one son, Walter, and two daughters, Margery and Maud. Gilbert was hostage for his father in August 1215. GILBERT DE LACY died shortly before 25 Dec. 1230, and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Wales. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 12 April 1234 JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, Whaddon, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Redmarley Adam (in Great Witley), Worcestershire, etc., Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234-6, Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, Justiciar of England, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare [see ESSEX 2 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205. They had two sons, John, Knt. [Lord Fitz John] and Richard, Knt. [Lord Fitz John], and four daughters, Maud, Isabel, Aveline, and Joan. In 1227 he sued the Abbot of Missenden for 22 acres of meadow in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in which the abbot had ingress only through Ralph de Chenduit to whom William [de Mandeville], Earl of Essex (brother of the said John), demised the meadow for a term. He was granted the manor of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire about 1230 by Henry d'Oilly' his possession of the manor was confirmed by the king in 1232 following the death of Henry d'Oilly. In 1233 he was summoned to respond to Henry de Kemeseck regarding the right of presentation to the church of East Tilbury, Essex. John replied that that the church belonged to the hospital which his father, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, had built upon land purchased from Clement de Monasterio, who held it of the church. Clement was present and said that Geoffrey had taken the land from him by force. It was admitted that the land on which the hospital was built pertained to the church, which in its turn pertained to the ancestral fief of the earls at Pleshey. Consequently John lost his case. Sometime in the period, 1233-6, his half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, quitclaimed to him 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted him the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In 1237 he was sent to the Council of Lyons to protest against the papal tribute. In 1240 the king granted him the manor of Ringwood, Hampshire, it being described as "of the lands of the Bretons." The king granted him the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire in 1242, which Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, had surrendered to the king of the lands of the Normans. The same year the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vipont was granted to him for a fine of 200 marks. In 1243 Roger de Clere conveyed the manor of Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex to him. In 1253 the king granted him the cantred of the Isles of Thomon in Ireland. In 1254, at his instance, the king gave a charter to his nephew, Richard de la Rokele, for free warren in Richard's demesne lands in the counties of Kent, Wiltshire, and Essex, together with weekly markets and annual fairs at his manors of Wokenden, Essex and Marke Lavington, Wiltshire. SIR JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY died 23 Nov. 1258.
Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi 1 (1835): 158. Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 26 (Marshal ped.: "Matilda [Marshal] nupsit Hugoni Bigot, comiti Norfolciæ, qui jure uxoris fait mariscalcius Angliæ, hic ex ea generavit Radulphum Bigot, pattem Johannis Bigot, qui fuit filius dominæ Bertæ de Furnivall, et Isabelle de Lacy uxoris domini Johannis fitz Geffrey; mortuo autem Hugone Bigot cornite Norfolciæ, Johannes Garrune comes Surricæ ex filia filium nomine Ricardum et sororem Isabellam de Albeney, comitissam de Arundell." Eyton Ataiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 122 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1258: "Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Clementis [23 November] obiit nobilis vir Johannes filius Galfridi, justiciarius regis in Hibernia."). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ...Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 797 (seal of John Fitz Geoffrey dated 13th century - A shield of arms: quarterly, a label of (five?) points [FITZ PETER]); 3 (1894): 170 (seal of Gilbert de Lacy son of Walter de Lacy, of co. Salop [ob. A.D. 1234] dated early 13th Cent. - A shield of arms: A fess. Legend: "SIGILLVM GILBERTI DE LACI." Beaded border.). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. List of Sherffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 161. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 113. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 1-5. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 319, 346. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 341. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 86-92. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1216-13333 (1920): 232 ("In a quit-claim to the advowson of the church of Kenles in Fothered, Richard de la Rochelle calls John Fitz Geoffrey his avunculus: MS. Kilkenny Castle, dated 1264."), 286-287 (Lacy ped.); 4 (1920): 61. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 372-375. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7 (arms of Fitz. John: Quarterly or and gules a border vair), 12-19, 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76, 100-102, 226-229. C.P. 5 (1926): 434, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn), 629 (sub Geneville); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c; 12(2) (1959): 248. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1 227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 220: 1-2, 310: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 243, footnote 7 (identifies Richard de la Rokele as nephew of John Fitz Geoffrey). Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 188 (charter dated 1234 of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey), 189, 191 (charter dated 1233-6 of Maud, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother' [fratri] John Fitz Geoffrey), 192-193. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 1 (Selden Soc. 111) (1996): 16-17,84-91. Prestwich Edward I (1997): 13, 22 ("One of the most important of Edward's English councillors was John FitzGeoffrey, a man of impeccable curial background"), 24-25. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00110962,00320330 (charter of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey dated 1234) (available at http:// res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rollsofarrns/rolls/gloversBl.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of John Fitz Geoffrey: Quarterly or and gales overall a bordure vair).
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by Gilbert de Lacy:
i. WALTER DE LACY, son and heir. He married ROHESE (or ROSE) LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), daughter of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler. They had no issue. WALTER DE LACY died between 15 May 1238 and 1241. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5.
ii. MARGERY DE LACY [see next].
iii. MAUD DE LACY (or LASCY), younger daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238-41. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire. She married (1st) before 15 March 1244 PETER (or PIERRE) OF GENEVA (or GENEVE), Governor of Windsor Castle, 1248-9, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, eldest son of Humbert, Count of Genevois. He was a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy. He first appears in connection with English affairs in 1242, when King Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave him custody of the land and heir of William d'Aubeney. In 1245 he was granted the manor of Dilwyn, Herefordshire and the custody of the land formerly belonging to Richard de Kaynes till the dower lands of his wife's inheritance should be delivered to him. In 1248 he was granted custody of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, and two other royal castles. PETER OF GENEVA died shortly before 29 June 1249. She married (2nd) before 8 August 1252 GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE (or GEYNVILL, JOINVILLE), Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs (Meuse, ax. Commercy) in Champagne, France, Justiciar of Ireland, 1273, King's Marshal, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, and Drogheda and Blathagh' Castles in Ireland, younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville (Haute-Marne, ar. Saint-Dizier) in Champagne, Seneschal of Champagne, 1204-33, by his 2nd wife, Beatrix, daughter of Etienne III, Count of Burgundy and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226. They had eight sons, Geoffrey, Peter, Knt., Walter, John (or Jean), Simon, Nicholas, Peter (2nd of name), and William, and two daughters, Joan and Katherine [Prioress of Aconbury]. He arrived in England soon after 9 March 1250/1. In 1252 he and his wife, Maud, had livery of all the liberties and customs of Meath, which her grandfather, Walter de Lacy, had held. In 1254 they had livery of the Castle of Trim in Ireland, and a moiety of 40 marcates of land. The same year he was granted 50 livres toumois by the king to sustain him in the king's service. He was in Gascony with Edward the king's son in August 1255. In 1259 he and his wife, Maud, gave 40s. of annual rent from lands by Kenlis to Beaubec Abbey. In 1260 he partitioned the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire with his wife's brother-in-law, John de Verdun. He was summoned by the king to serve against the Welsh in 1260, 1276, and 1282. Following the capture of the Irish justidar in Dec. 1264, Geoffrey, who was already a member of the council in Ireland, assumed control of the government and secured reconciliation between the warring parties. In 1266 he and his wife, Maud, obtained permission from Gilles, Bishop of Toul, to found the collegiale of Vaucouleurs. The same year, with consent of his wife, he gave the affouage in the woods of Vaucouleurs for the house of Utigney, which Rieval Abbey possessed at Broussey-en-Blois. In 1267 he was appointed with Robert Walerand to treat of peace with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales. In 1267 he granted the manor of Stanton to his wife's aunt, Katherine de Lacy, for a term. The same year he and his wife, Maud, gave to the Prioress and Convent of Acombury a moiety of four mills in Ludlow, with the suits thereof, together with half a merk rent. In 1270 he accompanied Edward the king's son on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1270-1 he gave the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit of Rome the "maison-dieu" of Vaucouleurs, together with 20 joumaux of arable land and four journaux of vignes. In 1272 he was summoned by the king of France against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix. He accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land but returned before him. He was made Justiciar of Ireland in October 1273, which office he held until 17 June 1276. In 1277-8 Katherine de Lacy arraigned an assize of novel dissseisin against him and Gilbert de Lacy regarding a tenement in Downton, Shropshire. In 1280 he and his wife, Maud, had attorneys nominated for them for three years, they then going to Lorraine. In 1280 he and Maurice de Craon rendered an account of their mission to the king of France on the subject of the peace concluded between the kings of England and Castile. In 1283 he and his wife, Maud, granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter. In 1287 he received letters of protection, he then being in Flanders in service to the king. In 1290 he and two masters of civil law were sent by the king to Rome to discuss the king's expedition to the Holy Land. In 1293 he made an exchange with the cure of Mauvages. In 1294 the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the king's hands, was restored to him. This liberty was soon afterwards taken again into the king's hands for Geoffrey's contempt in not executing the king's mandate concerning Nicholas Bacun, a prisoner in the gaol of the liberty. In 1295 the liberty of Trim was again restored to him, in consideration of his services in Welsh wars. In 1297 he was a commissioner on the king's part to settle the difficulties between the Constable and Marshal, which resulted in the king appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable. In 1298 and 1299 he was sent to treat with the envoys of the King of France concerning peace. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 3 Nov. 1306, by writs directed Galfrido de Genevill', GEYnvill', and Gienvill', or the like, whereby he is held to have become Lord Geneville. In 1299 he was one of the magnates representing the English king at the treaty of Montreuil 19 June 1299. In 1300 he was one of envoys sent to Rome to negotiate the peace between England and France. In 1302 the liberties of Trim and Meath, which had been taken into the king's hand for contempt, were restored to him and his wife, Maud, for a term. His wife, Maud, died 11 April 1304. In 1307 he obtained license to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan his wife (granddaughter of Geoffrey) the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the courtesy after the death of Maud his wife. He subsequently retired to the House of the Friars Preachers in Trim. SIR GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE, Lord Geneville, died 21 October 1314, and was buried at Friars Preachers in Trim. Smith Annales de Monte Fernandi (1842): sub A.D. 1273 (“Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."). Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 46 ("[A.D. 1302. Obiit Matilda de Lad, uxor Galfridi de Genevile."). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 8-11, 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 92-93,104-105. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 626 (seal of Geoffroi de Joinville dated 1299 - Equestre, aux armes (comme dessus). Legend destroyed; Contre-sceau. Pierre gravée. Un masque a trois visages. Legende: + DE IONIVILLA DNI VALICOLORIS). Régeste Genevoir (1866): 194, 197, 198, 203. Brewer & Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1871): 447 (charter of Geoffrey de Geynville and Maud de Lascy his wife dated 1259). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 186; 47 (1886): 207, 230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 298 (seal of Geoffrey de Joinville dated 1259 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet and vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping at full speed. For arms, see the description of reverse. Reverse. Within a pointed gothic quatrefoil, and suspended by the loop from a hook between two sprigs of foliage, a shield of arms: three horses' bits, on a chief a demi lion issuant [JOINVILLE]). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 54 (1893): 334-343. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 318-322, 329, 331, 339, 342, 344, 349 (Geoffrey de Joinville, Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs styled "dear uncle" [chier oncle] by Beatrix de Viennois et d'Albon, lady of Faucigny, in 1270), 350-351, 358, 364-367, 369-372, 374-376, 377-383, 385, 387-397, 399, 401-403, 417-418. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5 ("The arms of Peter of Geneva, according to M. Paris, were Sable a lion rampant Argent), 73-78. Wrottesley Pedf. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161, 333. Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 7. C.P. 5 (1926): 628-631 (sub Geneville) (arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Azure, three brays in pale or, on a chief ermine a demi lion rampant gules, issuant). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 245: 1-3; 310: 5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95-96. Hand English Land in Ireland (1967): 13, 18, 27, 83, 102, 124-131, 133, 138, 151, 157, 202-203. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 32 (arms of Peter of Geneva: Sable, a lion rampant argent). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): xxix (chart), 112-113. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. Irish Hist. Studies 33 (2001): 457-477. Duffy Medieval Ireland (2005): 195-196 (biog. of Geoffrey de Geneville). National Archives, SC 8/114/5665; SC 8/174/8660 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marshal2.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Vert on a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules).
Child of Maud de Lacy, by Geoffrey de Geneville, Knt.:
a. PETER DE GENEVILLE (or VAUCOULEURS), Knt., of Ludlow and Stanton-Lacy, Shropshire, married JOAN (or JEANNE) DE LA MARCHE (or DE LUSIGNAN) [see LUSIGNAN 8].
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt.:
i. JOHN FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Ringwood, Hampshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, Cherhill and Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc., Sheriff of Westmorland, 1264, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1264, son and heir. He married before 18 Feb. 1258/9 MARGERY BASSET, daughter of Philip Basset, Knt., of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, etc., Justiciar of England [see LONGESPEE 5.viii], by his 1st wife, Hawise, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt. They had no issue. He had livery of his father's lands 18 Feb. 1258/9, while yet a minor. He was one of the most conspicuous members of the baronial party. As a supporter of Simon de Montfort, he agreed to submit to the arbitration of the King of France 13 Dec. 1263. He, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Munchensy commanded the second division of the army of the barons at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He was summoned for military service against the Welsh, 1258-63. He was summoned to Parliament 24 Dec. 1264, by writ directed Johanni filio Johannis. He was prohibited from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple in 1265. He was wounded at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and taken prisoner. He was pardoned and admitted to the king's peace 10 July 1266, and recovered his lands under the Dictum of Kenilworth. His lands were again taken in the king's hands in 1268 for contempt. In 1270 he was one of those appointed to treat with Llywelyn at Gresford. His wife, Margery, died sometime before 29 October 1271. SIR JOHN FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died testate at Lambeth, Surrey shortly before 6 Nov. 1275. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 16, 104. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76. C.P. 5 (1926): 433-435, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn) (arms of John Fitz John: Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 42-43. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191, 258.
ii. RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, etc., Constable of Rockingham Castle, 1295, Captain of Bourg-sur-mer, 1296, 2nd son, born about 1245-51 (aged 24-30 in 1275). He married EMMA ___. They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John Fitz John, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz John. He had livery of his brother's lands in England 8 Dec. 1275, and in Ireland 5 May 1278. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He served in the army in Wales in 1277, 1282, 1287, and 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295, by writ directed Ricardo filio Johannis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz John. In 1295 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Edmund the king's brother. SIR RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died in Gascony shortly before 5 August 1297. His widow, Emma, married (2nd) by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt. [see MORLEY 7ii], of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall, Norfolk, Frarnsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Framsden, Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., by Joan, daughter of Roger de Mowbray, Knt. [see MORLEY 7 for his ancestry]. He was born 25 March 1274. They had no issue. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut He presented to the church of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire in 1306. In 1310 he was summoned to answer William de Bernake of a plea that he permit him to present a fit parson to two parts of the church of Atdeborough, Norfolk. In 1312 he had license to settle the manor of Kenninghall, Norfolk on himself and his wife, Emma, and their issue, with remainder to his right heirs. In 1313 he owed a debt of 140 marks to John de Haudlo. In 1327 he settled all of his estates including Mold, Hawarden, Castle Rising, etc., together with the Stewardship of Chester, on himself and his wife, Emma, for life, and his own issue male, with remainder in default to Queen Isabel, her son John of Eltham and his heirs, and the king successively, for which the king paid him 10,000 marks. SIR ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Lord Mohaut, died 26 Dec. 1329, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. On 3 Dec. 1331 his widow, Emma, surrendered to Queen Isabel her life interest in the lordships of Mold, Hawarden, etc. for an annuity of £400. Emma died 26 Jan 1331/2, and was buried in Stradsett church, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 216-218; 9 (1808): 42-46 (seal of Emma de Mohaut dated 1331 - two shields of arms, one being quarterly, with a bordure [FITZ JOHN], the other a lion rampant [MOHAUT]). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 107-109 (biog. of Robert de Montalt) (Montalt arms: Azure, a lion rampant Argent). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 231. Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 252-253. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349; 44 (1883): 104; 46 (1886): 260. Cox Notes on the Churches of Detishire 3 (1877): 507. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 326. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 233, 237, 275. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 96-97. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 457, 463. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 129-130. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37, 102. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 153-154 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 531-532. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436 441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 43-44 (biog. of Richard Fitz John); 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 172-174 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Richardson & Sayles Rottuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 43 (Deed A.S.247), 44 (Deed A.S.251). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. VCH Sussex 5(1) (1997): 190-204; 7 (1940): 258. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 90 ("One lady, whose claim to be a patron was the unique and surely very personal inscription on her tomb at Stradsett, Norfolk, 'Ici gist Dame Emme de Mouhaut Femme de Deux Barons.' As well as receiving dower from her first husband, Richard FitzJohn, of several manors, townships, knights' fees and advowsons, there are references to lands being held jointly with her second husband, Robert Mohaut (Montalt), who settled all his estates on himself and his wife for life, his own male issue, and the remainder, should there be no heirs, was to go to Queen Isabelle, John of Eltham, his heirs, or the king, who had, in return, paid Robert Mohaut (Montalt) 10,000 marks."). National Archives, C 131/174/49; SC 8/329/E945 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iii. MAUD FITZ JOHN, married (1st) GERARD DE FURNIVAL, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see BEAUCHAMP 9]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 9].
iv. ISABEL FITZ JOHN, married ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 8].
v. AVELINE FITZ JOHN, married WALTER DE BURGH, Knt., 2nd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see BURGH 4].
vi. JOAN FITZ JOHN, married THEBAUD LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), of Arklow, co. Wicklow [see BUTLER 5].” 		Fitz John, Isabel (I7208)
 
6652 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland, Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Staveley, Derbyshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire, etc., son and heir, born about 1234 (a minor at his father's death in 1241, and came of age c.1254/6). He married after 19 Nov. 1242 ISABEL FITZ JOHN, daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Justiciar of Ireland, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk [see VERDUN 8 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Isabel and Idoine (wife of Roger de Leyboume and John Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell). In 1256 he made fine with the king by five marks of gold for having respite from his knighthood, and for having a charter for a market, fair, and warren. In 1258 he sued Walter, parson of Newbiggin, Northumberland for poaching in his deer park. The same year he fought in Wales. In 1258 John de Gravenel granted him by fine the manor of Eyworth, Bedfordshire, for which Robert granted him a moiety of the manor of Buckland, Buckinghamshire for life, except the hall, with 12 librates of land in Newbottle, Northamptonshire. He was one of the most violent of the barons in arms against King Henry III, he being an adherent of Simon de Montfort. His name occurs among the list of barons whose seal was required to ratify the peace between King Henry III and the barons in 1261. In 1263 he excused his absense as plaintiff in a plea in Westmorland on the ground of infirmity. ROBERT DE VIPONT died testate shortly before 5 July 1264.
Nicolson & Burn Hist. & Antiqs. of the Counties of Westmorland & Cumberland 1 (1777): 265-292. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (chart). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): Co/L Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 123-126. Eddison Hist. of Worksop (1854): 170-171. Notes & Queries 4sh Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Aveling Hist. of Roche Abbey (1870): xxi-xxii. Taylor Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland (1892): 17-24. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Prescott Reg. of the Priory of Wetherhal (Cumb. & West. Antiq. & Arch. Soc. Recs. 1) (1897): 328-330,363-364. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 230-233. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328 240. (Vipont arms: Or six rings gules). Fowler Cal. of Feet of Fines for Bedfordshire (Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 6 (1919): 168. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 4. Foster Final Concorde of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1921): 179-180. C.P. 5 (1926): 437 chart, 439-441 (sub FitzJohn). Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 5-16. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254 (Vipont arms: Or six rings gules). Fowler Cat of IPM 2 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): facing 170 (Vipont chart 6). Year Books of Edward 1110 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26. Trans. Dumfriesshire & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Soc. 3rd Ser. 33 (1956): 91-106. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 220: 1,562: 4. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 103-104. VCH Oxford 10 (1972): 206-210. National Archives, SC 8/172/8596 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Robert de Vipont, by Isabel Fitz John:
i. ISABEL DE VIPONT [see next].
ii. IDOINE DE VIPONT, younger daughter and co-heiress, born about 1259 (aged 25 in 1284). She married (1st) before 1276 ROGER DE LEYBOURNE (or LEYBURNE), in right of his wife, of Brough under Stainmoor, Westmorland, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire, etc., younger son of Roger de Leyboume, Knt., of Elham, Kent, Steward of the King's Household, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Warden of the Forests beyond Trent. They had one son, John. In 1276-7 Emma wife of Alan de Galwithia arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against Roger and his wife, Idoine, touching a tenement in Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire. In 1280-1 Thomas de Hellebek' arraigned an assize against Roger and his wife, Idoine, touching common of pasture in Brough-under-Stainmore, Westmorland. ROGER DE LEYBOURNE died shortly before 21 Feb. 1283/4. In 1293-4 his widow, Idoine, was summoned to answer the king by what warrant she claimed to have free warren in Bawtry, Kimberworth, and Austerfield, gallows, infangthief, and outgangthief in Bawtry, and a market and fair in Kimberworth, all in Yorkshire. She was co-heir in 1297 to her uncle, Richard Fitz John, Knt., Lord Fitz John. Idoine married (2nd) before 25 June 1302 (later dispensation dated 15 March 1317, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) (as his 2nd wife) JOHN DE CROMWELL, Knt., of Carlton on Trent, Nottinghamshire, Beeston, Cheshire, Englefield, Flintshire, Hope, Shropshire, Austerfield, Yorkshire, etc., Constable of Chepstow Castle, 1307-8, Constable of the Tower of London, 1307/8, 1310-23, 1326/7-35, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1317, Admiral of the Fleet, 1324, and in right of his 2nd wife, of Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Staveley, Derbyshire, Moulton, Cromwells (in Potterspury), and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham) and Maltby, Yorkshire, etc., younger son of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., oi Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, daughter of Roger de Somery [see STAFFORD 4 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. He was engaged in the French and Scottish wars. In 1305 he accused Nicholas de Segrave, Knt. of treason and was defied by him to battle. He was summoned to Parliament 10 March 1307/8 to 1 April 1335, by writs directed Jobanni de Crimped' or Crumbewelr, whereby he is held to have become Lord Cromwell. In 1308 he and his wife, Idoine, obtained a grant of free warren in several manors including Kimberworth cm Rotherham), Yorkshire, Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, and Essendine, Rutland. In 1313 he obtained a papal indult for a portable altar. In 1317 he and his wife, Idoine, obtained a pa indult to choose their confessors. In 1318 he complained that his park in Essendine, Rutland was broken into. hr 1319 he and Robert de Umfreville, Knt were appointed wardens of Northumberland, and the parts adjacent. In, 1320-1 John and his wife, Idoine, settled various manors, including Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Potterspury, and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc. on. themselves for the life of Idoine, with successive remainders to Hugh le Despenser, Knt., the younger and Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the elder for life, and thence to Edward son of Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the younger and his heirs. He fought on the part of the king at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2. In 1325 Robert de Wombwell and Robert Tree were fined £300 for damages done by wilful entryof the manors of Moulton and Yardley, Northamptonshire, where they devastated the goods and furniture of John de Cromwell and expelled him by force and arms. He was a supporter of Queen Isabel and fled abroad with her in 1326. That year King Edward II seized all of John's lands, including those held in right of his wife, because he stayed out of England without license. In August 1326 his wife, Idoine, was allowed to receive the issues and profits of the manors Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, and Essendine, Rutland during pleasure, and to retak her own robes, beds, and jewels, and other things pertaining to her chamber. John probably returned to England early in the reign of King Edward HI, as he was suing his bailiff touching his accounts for the manor of Essendine, Rutland in 1327. He was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Carlton on Trent, Nottinghamshire in 1328. In 1330 John and his wife, Idoine, claimed view of frankpledge in the manor of Moulton, Northamptonshire. In 1331 he and his wife, Idoine, and his son, Richard, obtained papal indults far plenary remission at the hour of death. In 1331 John and his wife, Idoine, took advantage of the statute annulling all fines levied by force and duress after the exile of the Despensers, and tried to obtain an annulment of the fine of 1320-1, which they said had been so levied. They were evidently unsuccessful. His widow, Idoine, died shortly before 18 Nov. 1333. SIR JOHN DE CROMWELL, Lord Cromwell, died shortly before 8 October 1335. Whatley England's Gag. 2 (1751) (sub Perlethorp). Throsby Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 169-171. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 120-124 (sub Cromwell). Coll Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 217 ("Idonea de Leyburne filia et una heredum Rob'ti de Wespunt" included on list of people owing military service in 1300). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 123-126. Eddison Hist. of Worksop (1854): 170-171. Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 12 (1869): 24. Aveling Hist. of Roche Abbey (1870): xxi-xxii. Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 478. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 10; 45 (1885): 128-129; 46 (1886): 203; 47 (1886): 147; 50 (1889): 39, 162. D.N.B. 33 (1893): 209-212 (biog. of Roger de Leybourne). Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 111 (Richard de Cromwell, rector of Olney, Buckinghamshire, styled "kinsman and clerk" of King Edward II in 1313 [but see, however, English Hist. Rev. 11 (1896): 564 which corrects entry to read that Richard de Cromwell was actually kinsman of John de Cromwell, not King Edward II), 115, 137 (dispensation dated Id. March [15 March] 1317 granted to John de Cromuel, knight and Ydona, his wife, to remain in marriage which they contracted), 143-144, 353, 430, 443. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Prescott Reg. of the Priory of Wetherhal (Cumb. & West. Antiq. & Arch. Soc. Recs. 1) (1897): 328-330, 363-364. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 315-316. C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 121; 4 (1912): 85, 285, 300. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 230-233. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328; 3 (1925): 372-376. C.P. 3 (1913): 553 (sub Cromwell); 5 (1926): 437 chart, 439-441 (sub FitzJohn); 14 (1998): 224 (sub Cromwell). Carter Lay S ubsi dy Roll for Warwickshire of 6 Edward III (1332) (Dugdale Soc. 6) (1926): 16. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 5-16. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 88-94; 5 (2002): 289-345. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 1) (1939): 129. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Year Books of Edward II 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 30 (seal of John de Cromwell dated 1316 - A shield of arms: six annulets; between two wyverns.). English Yorkshire Hundred & Quo Warranty Rolls (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 151) (1996): 239-241. Vale Princely Court (2001): 313. National Archives, SC 8/11/525; SC 8/172/8596 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ISABEL LE BIGOD, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, son and heir apparent of Walter de Lacy, Knt., of Weobley, Holme Lacy, Mansell Gamage, and Yarkhill, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Rock [Farm] (in Ludlow), and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, lord of Meath, Ireland, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of William de Brewes. Isabel's maritagium included lands in Great Connell, co. Kildare, Ireland. They had one son, Walter, and two daughters, Margery and Maud. Gilbert was hostage for his father in August 1215. GILBERT DE LACY died shortly before 25 Dec. 1230, and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Wales. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 12 April 1234 JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, Whaddon, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Redmarley Adam (in Great Witley), Worcestershire, etc., Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234-6, Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, Justiciar of England, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare [see ESSEX 2 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205. They had two sons, John, Knt. [Lord Fitz John] and Richard, Knt. [Lord Fitz John], and four daughters, Maud, Isabel, Aveline, and Joan. In 1227 he sued the Abbot of Missenden for 22 acres of meadow in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in which the abbot had ingress only through Ralph de Chenduit to whom William [de Mandeville], Earl of Essex (brother of the said John), demised the meadow for a term. He was granted the manor of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire about 1230 by Henry d'Oilly' his possession of the manor was confirmed by the king in 1232 following the death of Henry d'Oilly. In 1233 he was summoned to respond to Henry de Kemeseck regarding the right of presentation to the church of East Tilbury, Essex. John replied that that the church belonged to the hospital which his father, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, had built upon land purchased from Clement de Monasterio, who held it of the church. Clement was present and said that Geoffrey had taken the land from him by force. It was admitted that the land on which the hospital was built pertained to the church, which in its turn pertained to the ancestral fief of the earls at Pleshey. Consequently John lost his case. Sometime in the period, 1233-6, his half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, quitclaimed to him 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted him the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In 1237 he was sent to the Council of Lyons to protest against the papal tribute. In 1240 the king granted him the manor of Ringwood, Hampshire, it being described as "of the lands of the Bretons." The king granted him the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire in 1242, which Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, had surrendered to the king of the lands of the Normans. The same year the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vipont was granted to him for a fine of 200 marks. In 1243 Roger de Clere conveyed the manor of Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex to him. In 1253 the king granted him the cantred of the Isles of Thomon in Ireland. In 1254, at his instance, the king gave a charter to his nephew, Richard de la Rokele, for free warren in Richard's demesne lands in the counties of Kent, Wiltshire, and Essex, together with weekly markets and annual fairs at his manors of Wokenden, Essex and Marke Lavington, Wiltshire. SIR JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY died 23 Nov. 1258.
Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi 1 (1835): 158. Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 26 (Marshal ped.: "Matilda [Marshal] nupsit Hugoni Bigot, comiti Norfolciæ, qui jure uxoris fait mariscalcius Angliæ, hic ex ea generavit Radulphum Bigot, pattem Johannis Bigot, qui fuit filius dominæ Bertæ de Furnivall, et Isabelle de Lacy uxoris domini Johannis fitz Geffrey; mortuo autem Hugone Bigot cornite Norfolciæ, Johannes Garrune comes Surricæ ex filia filium nomine Ricardum et sororem Isabellam de Albeney, comitissam de Arundell." Eyton Ataiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 122 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1258: "Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Clementis [23 November] obiit nobilis vir Johannes filius Galfridi, justiciarius regis in Hibernia."). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ...Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 797 (seal of John Fitz Geoffrey dated 13th century - A shield of arms: quarterly, a label of (five?) points [FITZ PETER]); 3 (1894): 170 (seal of Gilbert de Lacy son of Walter de Lacy, of co. Salop [ob. A.D. 1234] dated early 13th Cent. - A shield of arms: A fess. Legend: "SIGILLVM GILBERTI DE LACI." Beaded border.). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. List of Sherffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 161. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 113. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 1-5. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 319, 346. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 341. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 86-92. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1216-13333 (1920): 232 ("In a quit-claim to the advowson of the church of Kenles in Fothered, Richard de la Rochelle calls John Fitz Geoffrey his avunculus: MS. Kilkenny Castle, dated 1264."), 286-287 (Lacy ped.); 4 (1920): 61. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 372-375. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7 (arms of Fitz. John: Quarterly or and gules a border vair), 12-19, 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76, 100-102, 226-229. C.P. 5 (1926): 434, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn), 629 (sub Geneville); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c; 12(2) (1959): 248. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1 227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 220: 1-2, 310: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 243, footnote 7 (identifies Richard de la Rokele as nephew of John Fitz Geoffrey). Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 188 (charter dated 1234 of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey), 189, 191 (charter dated 1233-6 of Maud, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother' [fratri] John Fitz Geoffrey), 192-193. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 1 (Selden Soc. 111) (1996): 16-17,84-91. Prestwich Edward I (1997): 13, 22 ("One of the most important of Edward's English councillors was John FitzGeoffrey, a man of impeccable curial background"), 24-25. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00110962,00320330 (charter of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey dated 1234) (available at http:// res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rollsofarrns/rolls/gloversBl.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of John Fitz Geoffrey: Quarterly or and gales overall a bordure vair).
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by Gilbert de Lacy:
i. WALTER DE LACY, son and heir. He married ROHESE (or ROSE) LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), daughter of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler. They had no issue. WALTER DE LACY died between 15 May 1238 and 1241. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5.
ii. MARGERY DE LACY [see next].
iii. MAUD DE LACY (or LASCY), younger daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238-41. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire. She married (1st) before 15 March 1244 PETER (or PIERRE) OF GENEVA (or GENEVE), Governor of Windsor Castle, 1248-9, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, eldest son of Humbert, Count of Genevois. He was a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy. He first appears in connection with English affairs in 1242, when King Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave him custody of the land and heir of William d'Aubeney. In 1245 he was granted the manor of Dilwyn, Herefordshire and the custody of the land formerly belonging to Richard de Kaynes till the dower lands of his wife's inheritance should be delivered to him. In 1248 he was granted custody of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, and two other royal castles. PETER OF GENEVA died shortly before 29 June 1249. She married (2nd) before 8 August 1252 GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE (or GEYNVILL, JOINVILLE), Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs (Meuse, ax. Commercy) in Champagne, France, Justiciar of Ireland, 1273, King's Marshal, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, and Drogheda and Blathagh' Castles in Ireland, younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville (Haute-Marne, ar. Saint-Dizier) in Champagne, Seneschal of Champagne, 1204-33, by his 2nd wife, Beatrix, daughter of Etienne III, Count of Burgundy and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226. They had eight sons, Geoffrey, Peter, Knt., Walter, John (or Jean), Simon, Nicholas, Peter (2nd of name), and William, and two daughters, Joan and Katherine [Prioress of Aconbury]. He arrived in England soon after 9 March 1250/1. In 1252 he and his wife, Maud, had livery of all the liberties and customs of Meath, which her grandfather, Walter de Lacy, had held. In 1254 they had livery of the Castle of Trim in Ireland, and a moiety of 40 marcates of land. The same year he was granted 50 livres toumois by the king to sustain him in the king's service. He was in Gascony with Edward the king's son in August 1255. In 1259 he and his wife, Maud, gave 40s. of annual rent from lands by Kenlis to Beaubec Abbey. In 1260 he partitioned the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire with his wife's brother-in-law, John de Verdun. He was summoned by the king to serve against the Welsh in 1260, 1276, and 1282. Following the capture of the Irish justidar in Dec. 1264, Geoffrey, who was already a member of the council in Ireland, assumed control of the government and secured reconciliation between the warring parties. In 1266 he and his wife, Maud, obtained permission from Gilles, Bishop of Toul, to found the collegiale of Vaucouleurs. The same year, with consent of his wife, he gave the affouage in the woods of Vaucouleurs for the house of Utigney, which Rieval Abbey possessed at Broussey-en-Blois. In 1267 he was appointed with Robert Walerand to treat of peace with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales. In 1267 he granted the manor of Stanton to his wife's aunt, Katherine de Lacy, for a term. The same year he and his wife, Maud, gave to the Prioress and Convent of Acombury a moiety of four mills in Ludlow, with the suits thereof, together with half a merk rent. In 1270 he accompanied Edward the king's son on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1270-1 he gave the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit of Rome the "maison-dieu" of Vaucouleurs, together with 20 joumaux of arable land and four journaux of vignes. In 1272 he was summoned by the king of France against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix. He accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land but returned before him. He was made Justiciar of Ireland in October 1273, which office he held until 17 June 1276. In 1277-8 Katherine de Lacy arraigned an assize of novel dissseisin against him and Gilbert de Lacy regarding a tenement in Downton, Shropshire. In 1280 he and his wife, Maud, had attorneys nominated for them for three years, they then going to Lorraine. In 1280 he and Maurice de Craon rendered an account of their mission to the king of France on the subject of the peace concluded between the kings of England and Castile. In 1283 he and his wife, Maud, granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter. In 1287 he received letters of protection, he then being in Flanders in service to the king. In 1290 he and two masters of civil law were sent by the king to Rome to discuss the king's expedition to the Holy Land. In 1293 he made an exchange with the cure of Mauvages. In 1294 the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the king's hands, was restored to him. This liberty was soon afterwards taken again into the king's hands for Geoffrey's contempt in not executing the king's mandate concerning Nicholas Bacun, a prisoner in the gaol of the liberty. In 1295 the liberty of Trim was again restored to him, in consideration of his services in Welsh wars. In 1297 he was a commissioner on the king's part to settle the difficulties between the Constable and Marshal, which resulted in the king appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable. In 1298 and 1299 he was sent to treat with the envoys of the King of France concerning peace. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 3 Nov. 1306, by writs directed Galfrido de Genevill', GEYnvill', and Gienvill', or the like, whereby he is held to have become Lord Geneville. In 1299 he was one of the magnates representing the English king at the treaty of Montreuil 19 June 1299. In 1300 he was one of envoys sent to Rome to negotiate the peace between England and France. In 1302 the liberties of Trim and Meath, which had been taken into the king's hand for contempt, were restored to him and his wife, Maud, for a term. His wife, Maud, died 11 April 1304. In 1307 he obtained license to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan his wife (granddaughter of Geoffrey) the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the courtesy after the death of Maud his wife. He subsequently retired to the House of the Friars Preachers in Trim. SIR GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE, Lord Geneville, died 21 October 1314, and was buried at Friars Preachers in Trim. Smith Annales de Monte Fernandi (1842): sub A.D. 1273 (“Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."). Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 46 ("[A.D. 1302. Obiit Matilda de Lad, uxor Galfridi de Genevile."). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 8-11, 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 92-93,104-105. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 626 (seal of Geoffroi de Joinville dated 1299 - Equestre, aux armes (comme dessus). Legend destroyed; Contre-sceau. Pierre gravée. Un masque a trois visages. Legende: + DE IONIVILLA DNI VALICOLORIS). Régeste Genevoir (1866): 194, 197, 198, 203. Brewer & Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1871): 447 (charter of Geoffrey de Geynville and Maud de Lascy his wife dated 1259). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 186; 47 (1886): 207, 230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 298 (seal of Geoffrey de Joinville dated 1259 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet and vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping at full speed. For arms, see the description of reverse. Reverse. Within a pointed gothic quatrefoil, and suspended by the loop from a hook between two sprigs of foliage, a shield of arms: three horses' bits, on a chief a demi lion issuant [JOINVILLE]). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 54 (1893): 334-343. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 318-322, 329, 331, 339, 342, 344, 349 (Geoffrey de Joinville, Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs styled "dear uncle" [chier oncle] by Beatrix de Viennois et d'Albon, lady of Faucigny, in 1270), 350-351, 358, 364-367, 369-372, 374-376, 377-383, 385, 387-397, 399, 401-403, 417-418. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5 ("The arms of Peter of Geneva, according to M. Paris, were Sable a lion rampant Argent), 73-78. Wrottesley Pedf. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161, 333. Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 7. C.P. 5 (1926): 628-631 (sub Geneville) (arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Azure, three brays in pale or, on a chief ermine a demi lion rampant gules, issuant). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 245: 1-3; 310: 5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95-96. Hand English Land in Ireland (1967): 13, 18, 27, 83, 102, 124-131, 133, 138, 151, 157, 202-203. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 32 (arms of Peter of Geneva: Sable, a lion rampant argent). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): xxix (chart), 112-113. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. Irish Hist. Studies 33 (2001): 457-477. Duffy Medieval Ireland (2005): 195-196 (biog. of Geoffrey de Geneville). National Archives, SC 8/114/5665; SC 8/174/8660 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marshal2.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Vert on a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules).
Child of Maud de Lacy, by Geoffrey de Geneville, Knt.:
a. PETER DE GENEVILLE (or VAUCOULEURS), Knt., of Ludlow and Stanton-Lacy, Shropshire, married JOAN (or JEANNE) DE LA MARCHE (or DE LUSIGNAN) [see LUSIGNAN 8].
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt.:
i. JOHN FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Ringwood, Hampshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, Cherhill and Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc., Sheriff of Westmorland, 1264, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1264, son and heir. He married before 18 Feb. 1258/9 MARGERY BASSET, daughter of Philip Basset, Knt., of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, etc., Justiciar of England [see LONGESPEE 5.viii], by his 1st wife, Hawise, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt. They had no issue. He had livery of his father's lands 18 Feb. 1258/9, while yet a minor. He was one of the most conspicuous members of the baronial party. As a supporter of Simon de Montfort, he agreed to submit to the arbitration of the King of France 13 Dec. 1263. He, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Munchensy commanded the second division of the army of the barons at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He was summoned for military service against the Welsh, 1258-63. He was summoned to Parliament 24 Dec. 1264, by writ directed Johanni filio Johannis. He was prohibited from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple in 1265. He was wounded at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and taken prisoner. He was pardoned and admitted to the king's peace 10 July 1266, and recovered his lands under the Dictum of Kenilworth. His lands were again taken in the king's hands in 1268 for contempt. In 1270 he was one of those appointed to treat with Llywelyn at Gresford. His wife, Margery, died sometime before 29 October 1271. SIR JOHN FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died testate at Lambeth, Surrey shortly before 6 Nov. 1275. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 16, 104. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76. C.P. 5 (1926): 433-435, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn) (arms of John Fitz John: Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 42-43. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191, 258.
ii. RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, etc., Constable of Rockingham Castle, 1295, Captain of Bourg-sur-mer, 1296, 2nd son, born about 1245-51 (aged 24-30 in 1275). He married EMMA ___. They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John Fitz John, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz John. He had livery of his brother's lands in England 8 Dec. 1275, and in Ireland 5 May 1278. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He served in the army in Wales in 1277, 1282, 1287, and 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295, by writ directed Ricardo filio Johannis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz John. In 1295 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Edmund the king's brother. SIR RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died in Gascony shortly before 5 August 1297. His widow, Emma, married (2nd) by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt. [see MORLEY 7ii], of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall, Norfolk, Frarnsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Framsden, Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., by Joan, daughter of Roger de Mowbray, Knt. [see MORLEY 7 for his ancestry]. He was born 25 March 1274. They had no issue. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut He presented to the church of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire in 1306. In 1310 he was summoned to answer William de Bernake of a plea that he permit him to present a fit parson to two parts of the church of Atdeborough, Norfolk. In 1312 he had license to settle the manor of Kenninghall, Norfolk on himself and his wife, Emma, and their issue, with remainder to his right heirs. In 1313 he owed a debt of 140 marks to John de Haudlo. In 1327 he settled all of his estates including Mold, Hawarden, Castle Rising, etc., together with the Stewardship of Chester, on himself and his wife, Emma, for life, and his own issue male, with remainder in default to Queen Isabel, her son John of Eltham and his heirs, and the king successively, for which the king paid him 10,000 marks. SIR ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Lord Mohaut, died 26 Dec. 1329, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. On 3 Dec. 1331 his widow, Emma, surrendered to Queen Isabel her life interest in the lordships of Mold, Hawarden, etc. for an annuity of £400. Emma died 26 Jan 1331/2, and was buried in Stradsett church, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 216-218; 9 (1808): 42-46 (seal of Emma de Mohaut dated 1331 - two shields of arms, one being quarterly, with a bordure [FITZ JOHN], the other a lion rampant [MOHAUT]). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 107-109 (biog. of Robert de Montalt) (Montalt arms: Azure, a lion rampant Argent). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 231. Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 252-253. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349; 44 (1883): 104; 46 (1886): 260. Cox Notes on the Churches of Detishire 3 (1877): 507. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 326. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 233, 237, 275. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 96-97. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 457, 463. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 129-130. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37, 102. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 153-154 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 531-532. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436 441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 43-44 (biog. of Richard Fitz John); 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 172-174 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Richardson & Sayles Rottuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 43 (Deed A.S.247), 44 (Deed A.S.251). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. VCH Sussex 5(1) (1997): 190-204; 7 (1940): 258. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 90 ("One lady, whose claim to be a patron was the unique and surely very personal inscription on her tomb at Stradsett, Norfolk, 'Ici gist Dame Emme de Mouhaut Femme de Deux Barons.' As well as receiving dower from her first husband, Richard FitzJohn, of several manors, townships, knights' fees and advowsons, there are references to lands being held jointly with her second husband, Robert Mohaut (Montalt), who settled all his estates on himself and his wife for life, his own male issue, and the remainder, should there be no heirs, was to go to Queen Isabelle, John of Eltham, his heirs, or the king, who had, in return, paid Robert Mohaut (Montalt) 10,000 marks."). National Archives, C 131/174/49; SC 8/329/E945 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iii. MAUD FITZ JOHN, married (1st) GERARD DE FURNIVAL, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see BEAUCHAMP 9]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 9].
iv. ISABEL FITZ JOHN, married ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 8].
v. AVELINE FITZ JOHN, married WALTER DE BURGH, Knt., 2nd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see BURGH 4].
vi. JOAN FITZ JOHN, married THEBAUD LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), of Arklow, co. Wicklow [see BUTLER 5].” 		de Vipont, Robert (I7207)
 
6653 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland, Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Staveley, Derbyshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire, etc., son and heir, born about 1234 (a minor at his father's death in 1241, and came of age c.1254/6). He married after 19 Nov. 1242 ISABEL FITZ JOHN, daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Justiciar of Ireland, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk [see VERDUN 8 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Isabel and Idoine (wife of Roger de Leyboume and John Cromwell, Knt., Lord Cromwell). In 1256 he made fine with the king by five marks of gold for having respite from his knighthood, and for having a charter for a market, fair, and warren. In 1258 he sued Walter, parson of Newbiggin, Northumberland for poaching in his deer park. The same year he fought in Wales. In 1258 John de Gravenel granted him by fine the manor of Eyworth, Bedfordshire, for which Robert granted him a moiety of the manor of Buckland, Buckinghamshire for life, except the hall, with 12 librates of land in Newbottle, Northamptonshire. He was one of the most violent of the barons in arms against King Henry III, he being an adherent of Simon de Montfort. His name occurs among the list of barons whose seal was required to ratify the peace between King Henry III and the barons in 1261. In 1263 he excused his absense as plaintiff in a plea in Westmorland on the ground of infirmity. ROBERT DE VIPONT died testate shortly before 5 July 1264.
Nicolson & Burn Hist. & Antiqs. of the Counties of Westmorland & Cumberland 1 (1777): 265-292. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (chart). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): Co/L Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 123-126. Eddison Hist. of Worksop (1854): 170-171. Notes & Queries 4sh Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Aveling Hist. of Roche Abbey (1870): xxi-xxii. Taylor Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland (1892): 17-24. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Prescott Reg. of the Priory of Wetherhal (Cumb. & West. Antiq. & Arch. Soc. Recs. 1) (1897): 328-330,363-364. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 230-233. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328 240. (Vipont arms: Or six rings gules). Fowler Cal. of Feet of Fines for Bedfordshire (Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 6 (1919): 168. Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 4. Foster Final Concorde of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1921): 179-180. C.P. 5 (1926): 437 chart, 439-441 (sub FitzJohn). Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 5-16. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254 (Vipont arms: Or six rings gules). Fowler Cat of IPM 2 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): facing 170 (Vipont chart 6). Year Books of Edward 1110 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26. Trans. Dumfriesshire & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Soc. 3rd Ser. 33 (1956): 91-106. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 220: 1,562: 4. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 103-104. VCH Oxford 10 (1972): 206-210. National Archives, SC 8/172/8596 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Robert de Vipont, by Isabel Fitz John:
i. ISABEL DE VIPONT [see next].
ii. IDOINE DE VIPONT, younger daughter and co-heiress, born about 1259 (aged 25 in 1284). She married (1st) before 1276 ROGER DE LEYBOURNE (or LEYBURNE), in right of his wife, of Brough under Stainmoor, Westmorland, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire, etc., younger son of Roger de Leyboume, Knt., of Elham, Kent, Steward of the King's Household, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Warden of the Forests beyond Trent. They had one son, John. In 1276-7 Emma wife of Alan de Galwithia arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against Roger and his wife, Idoine, touching a tenement in Kimberworth (in Rotherham), Yorkshire. In 1280-1 Thomas de Hellebek' arraigned an assize against Roger and his wife, Idoine, touching common of pasture in Brough-under-Stainmore, Westmorland. ROGER DE LEYBOURNE died shortly before 21 Feb. 1283/4. In 1293-4 his widow, Idoine, was summoned to answer the king by what warrant she claimed to have free warren in Bawtry, Kimberworth, and Austerfield, gallows, infangthief, and outgangthief in Bawtry, and a market and fair in Kimberworth, all in Yorkshire. She was co-heir in 1297 to her uncle, Richard Fitz John, Knt., Lord Fitz John. Idoine married (2nd) before 25 June 1302 (later dispensation dated 15 March 1317, they being related in the 4th degree of kindred) (as his 2nd wife) JOHN DE CROMWELL, Knt., of Carlton on Trent, Nottinghamshire, Beeston, Cheshire, Englefield, Flintshire, Hope, Shropshire, Austerfield, Yorkshire, etc., Constable of Chepstow Castle, 1307-8, Constable of the Tower of London, 1307/8, 1310-23, 1326/7-35, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1317, Admiral of the Fleet, 1324, and in right of his 2nd wife, of Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Staveley, Derbyshire, Moulton, Cromwells (in Potterspury), and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, Kimberworth (in Rotherham) and Maltby, Yorkshire, etc., younger son of Ralph de Cromwell, Knt., oi Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, by his 2nd wife, Margaret, daughter of Roger de Somery [see STAFFORD 4 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. He was engaged in the French and Scottish wars. In 1305 he accused Nicholas de Segrave, Knt. of treason and was defied by him to battle. He was summoned to Parliament 10 March 1307/8 to 1 April 1335, by writs directed Jobanni de Crimped' or Crumbewelr, whereby he is held to have become Lord Cromwell. In 1308 he and his wife, Idoine, obtained a grant of free warren in several manors including Kimberworth cm Rotherham), Yorkshire, Eyworth, Bedfordshire, Buckland, Buckinghamshire, and Essendine, Rutland. In 1313 he obtained a papal indult for a portable altar. In 1317 he and his wife, Idoine, obtained a pa indult to choose their confessors. In 1318 he complained that his park in Essendine, Rutland was broken into. hr 1319 he and Robert de Umfreville, Knt were appointed wardens of Northumberland, and the parts adjacent. In, 1320-1 John and his wife, Idoine, settled various manors, including Amersham, Buckland, and Singleborough (in Great Horwood), Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Potterspury, and Yardley, Northamptonshire, Perlethorpe, Nottinghamshire, Essendine, Rutland, Winderton (in Brailes), Warwickshire, West Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc. on. themselves for the life of Idoine, with successive remainders to Hugh le Despenser, Knt., the younger and Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the elder for life, and thence to Edward son of Hugh le Despenser, Knt. the younger and his heirs. He fought on the part of the king at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2. In 1325 Robert de Wombwell and Robert Tree were fined £300 for damages done by wilful entryof the manors of Moulton and Yardley, Northamptonshire, where they devastated the goods and furniture of John de Cromwell and expelled him by force and arms. He was a supporter of Queen Isabel and fled abroad with her in 1326. That year King Edward II seized all of John's lands, including those held in right of his wife, because he stayed out of England without license. In August 1326 his wife, Idoine, was allowed to receive the issues and profits of the manors Buckland, Buckinghamshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, and Essendine, Rutland during pleasure, and to retak her own robes, beds, and jewels, and other things pertaining to her chamber. John probably returned to England early in the reign of King Edward HI, as he was suing his bailiff touching his accounts for the manor of Essendine, Rutland in 1327. He was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Carlton on Trent, Nottinghamshire in 1328. In 1330 John and his wife, Idoine, claimed view of frankpledge in the manor of Moulton, Northamptonshire. In 1331 he and his wife, Idoine, and his son, Richard, obtained papal indults far plenary remission at the hour of death. In 1331 John and his wife, Idoine, took advantage of the statute annulling all fines levied by force and duress after the exile of the Despensers, and tried to obtain an annulment of the fine of 1320-1, which they said had been so levied. They were evidently unsuccessful. His widow, Idoine, died shortly before 18 Nov. 1333. SIR JOHN DE CROMWELL, Lord Cromwell, died shortly before 8 October 1335. Whatley England's Gag. 2 (1751) (sub Perlethorp). Throsby Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire 3 (1790): 169-171. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 120-124 (sub Cromwell). Coll Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 217 ("Idonea de Leyburne filia et una heredum Rob'ti de Wespunt" included on list of people owing military service in 1300). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 123-126. Eddison Hist. of Worksop (1854): 170-171. Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 12 (1869): 24. Aveling Hist. of Roche Abbey (1870): xxi-xxii. Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 4 (1879): 478. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 10; 45 (1885): 128-129; 46 (1886): 203; 47 (1886): 147; 50 (1889): 39, 162. D.N.B. 33 (1893): 209-212 (biog. of Roger de Leybourne). Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 111 (Richard de Cromwell, rector of Olney, Buckinghamshire, styled "kinsman and clerk" of King Edward II in 1313 [but see, however, English Hist. Rev. 11 (1896): 564 which corrects entry to read that Richard de Cromwell was actually kinsman of John de Cromwell, not King Edward II), 115, 137 (dispensation dated Id. March [15 March] 1317 granted to John de Cromuel, knight and Ydona, his wife, to remain in marriage which they contracted), 143-144, 353, 430, 443. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Prescott Reg. of the Priory of Wetherhal (Cumb. & West. Antiq. & Arch. Soc. Recs. 1) (1897): 328-330, 363-364. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 315-316. C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 121; 4 (1912): 85, 285, 300. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 230-233. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 328; 3 (1925): 372-376. C.P. 3 (1913): 553 (sub Cromwell); 5 (1926): 437 chart, 439-441 (sub FitzJohn); 14 (1998): 224 (sub Cromwell). Carter Lay S ubsi dy Roll for Warwickshire of 6 Edward III (1332) (Dugdale Soc. 6) (1926): 16. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 5-16. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 88-94; 5 (2002): 289-345. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 1) (1939): 129. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 2 (Dugdale Soc. 15) (1939): 111-112. Year Books of Edward II 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 30 (seal of John de Cromwell dated 1316 - A shield of arms: six annulets; between two wyverns.). English Yorkshire Hundred & Quo Warranty Rolls (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 151) (1996): 239-241. Vale Princely Court (2001): 313. National Archives, SC 8/11/525; SC 8/172/8596 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE TREGOZ, Knt., of Trégots, Favarches, and St. Romphaire (all in Normandy), Bailiff of Côtentin, 1180, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1191-2, Keeper of Salisbury and Clarendon Castles, and of Bristol, Warden of Gavray, Neaufle, and Similly Castles, and, in right of his wife, of Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire, Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, Lydiard Tregoz, Wiltshire, etc., son and heir. He married SIBYL DE EWYAS (or EWIAS), daughter and co-heiress of Robert de Ewyas, of Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, etc., by his wife, Pernel. They had three sons, Robert, John, and William [Rector of St. Keyne]. He was in constant attendance on King Richard I, witnessing a large number of his charters in England and Normandy. In 1194 the king granted him land in Martinsgrove (Groves in Oving), Sussex of the annual value of 100s. In 1197 he found a religious house near his castle as a cell to the abbey of Hambie. A few years later, he gave land in his manor of La Grave (in Oving), Sussex to Boxgrove Priory. He continued to enjoy royal favor under King John, many of whose charters he attested, and by his adherence to him lost his possessions in Normandy. In the inquest of 1212, he appears as holding in Herefordshire one knight's fee and a half in right of his wife. SIR ROBERT DE TREGOZ died shortly before 4 June 1214. In 1214 his widow, as Sibyl de Ewias, arraigned an assize of ultima presentacionis against the Abbot of Gloucester regarding the church of Brean, Somerset. In 1218 his widow, Sibyl, rendered account for 800 marks not to be distrained to marry, to marry as she chose, and to have her maritagium and dower of Robert de Tregoz [see Pipe Roll 2 Henry III, p. 93 (sub Herefordshire)]. In Nov. 1218 the lands of Robert de Tregoz in Tregots, Favarches, and St. Romphaire were granted to King Philip Augustus to Mile de Lévis. She married (2nd) before 13 Feb. 1216/7 ROGER DE CLIFFORD, of Tenbury, Worcestershire, Constable of Hanley Castle, 1216, Constable of St. Briavels Castle and Warden of the Forest of Dean, 1224-30, younger son of Walter de Clifford, of Clifford, Herefordshire, Corham, Shropshire, etc., Sheriff of Herefordshire, by Agnes, daughter of Roger de Condy. They had one son, Roger. He fought in Ireland in 1210. He adhered to King John against the Barons. In 1217 he was granted the manor of Axford, Wiltshire by the king. In 1221 he was present at the Siege of Bytharn Castle in Lincolnshire. In 1222 he brought a suit against the Prior of Gloucester regarding the advowson of the church of Burnham, Somerset, he pleading that the son of Robert de Ewyas, father of the plaintiff's wife, last presented to the church. He was granted a weekly market at Tenbury, Worcestershire in 1223 and free warren at Lydiard, Wiltshire in 1226. He was granted the manor of Severn Stoke, Worcestershire by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke about 1229. In 1230 he was granted the manor of Slaughter, Gloucestershire by the king. ROGER DE CLIFFORD died shortly before 28 August 1231, and was buried in Dore Abbey, Herefordshire. His widow, Sibyl, as "Sibyl de Ewias, lady of Burneham," acknowledged that Helias the chaplain and the canons of Wells have a right of way to carry wheat and hay through the land of her men of Burnham, Somerset, and common of pasture with them for 5d. yearly rent at Michaelmas. Sibyl died shortly before 1 July 1236.
Roberts ExceRpta è rotulis Finium 1 (1835): 8, 307. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarzi Normanniae 1 (1840): clxxiv. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 435 (sub Tregoz). Top. & Gen. 2 (1853): 124-136. Delisle Catalogue des Actes de Philippe-Auguste (1856): 408-409. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 32, 42, 107-109, 334-335, 398-399, 411, 428, 533-534. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 528. Cal. MSS. Dean & Chapter of Wells 1 (Hist. MSS. Comm., vol. 12B(1) (1907): 47 (charter for Sibyl de Ewias, lady of Burnham), 51,234. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 512-514. VCH Suirey 3 (1911): 365-370. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 228-234. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 192-197 (Clifford arms: Cheeky or and azure a fess gules), 362-371. C.R.R. 7 (1935): 196, 218, 261. Sussex Arch. Collr. 93 (1955): 34-38. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 134: 1. C.P. 12(2) (1959): 17-18 (sub Tregoz). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 43. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 75-90. VCH Somerset 6 (1992): 37-41. English Hist. Rev. 110 (1995): 277-302. VCH Gloucester 5 (1996): 413-415.
Child of Robert de Tregoz, Knt., by Sibyl de Ewyas:
i. ROBERT DE TREGOZ, Knt. [see next].
Child of Roger de Clifford, by Sibyl de Ewyas:
i. ROGER DE CLIFFORD, Knt., of Tenbury and Severn Stoke, Worcestershire, Bridge Sollers and Eardisley, Herefordshire, etc., Constable of Hereford Castle, 1263, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1263, Sheriff of Worcestershire and Herefordshire, Justiciar of Wales, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, 1265-70, son and heir, born about 1221 (of full age on 1 April 1242). He was made a ward of his uncle, Walter de Clifford, in 1231. He married (1st) before 1242 MAUD ___, widow of Hugh de Goumay. They had one son, Roger. In 1245 he was ordered to remain with John le Strange in the Matches at Montgomery for its defence. In 1246 he was granted £30 per annum for his services. He accompanied Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester on a pilgrimage in 1248. In 1249 he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Tenbury, Worcestershire and free-warren in Severn Stoke, Worcestershire. He accompanied Queen Eleanor to Gascony in 1254. In 1256 he had license to hunt the hare, fox, and cat, with his own dogs, in the forests of Gloucester, Worcestershire, and Shropshire. He fought in Wales in 1258. He was beyond seas with Prince Edward in 1260. In 1261 he and others were involved in a cause with the executors of William de Tregoz and Alan de Ardene. He joined the Barons under de Montfort in 1263. In 1263 Roger de Clifford, John Giffard of Brimpsfield, and other local dissidents successfully laid siege to Gloucester Castle in an attempt to remove the French knight Mari de Bezille from his office as county sheriff. The castle was later garrisoned for the Crown by Roger de Clifford who, having returned to his allegiance, was given custody of it at the end of 1263. In Feb. 1264 he was ordered to fortify and hold the bridge at Gloucester, while all other bridges on the Severn were to be destroyed. In 1264 he played a prominent part in the Siege of Nottingham, where he took Simon de Montfort the younger as prisoner. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264; he was among those who were released on condition of appearing in parliament when summoned. He fought for the king at the Battle of Evesham 4 August 1265. In recognition of his services, the king released him from a debt of £399 17s. and granted him lands in Warwickshire and Leicestershire. In 1270 he accompanied Prince Edward on Crusade to the Holy Land. He married (2nd) at St.-Georges d'Espéranche, France (a Savoy fief) in June 1273 COUNTESS (or COMTESSE) ___, Countess of Loreto, possibly the widow of Conrad of Antioch, Count of Loreto (living 1268). By an uncertain wife, he had one daughter, Alice. In 1273 he wrote to Walter de Merton, Chancellor, regarding his suit concerning Glasbury, Radnorshire. In the period, 1274-76, he was granted license by the king to alienate land at Tenbury, Worcestershire to a house of Fontevrault. In 1276-7 William de Berkeroles and Joan his wife arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Severn Stoke, Worcestershire. He was ordered by Pope Gregory X to pay 300 marks to the Dean and Canons of Hereford for his "confessions;" in 1277 he granted the canons his manors of Bridge Sollers, Herefordshire and Tenbury, Worcestershire as security for payment. In 1277-8 Nicholas de Sifrewast arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Bridge, Herefordshire. In 1278 the king ordered that "Contissa, countess of Lorett[o]," wife of Roger de Clifford, have ten oaks for timber. In 1279 the king ordered that "Contesse Loretti," wife of Roger de Clifford, have ten oak-trunks for fuel from the forest of Kynefar. In 1280-81 Richard de Kynardesleye arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him touching a mill in Bridge Sollers, Herefordshire. In 1282 he was granted custody of the lands and tenements of Mold, Cheshire and Hawarden, Flintshire, late of Robert de Mohaut, deceased, during the minority of the heirs of the said Robert. In 1282 David ap Gruffudd suddenly surprised Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, killed many of the knights and squires who formed the garrison, and carried off Roger as a prisoner into the hills. In 1284 Roger settled the manor of Severn Stoke, Worcestershire on himself and his wife, with remainder to his grandson, Roger de Clifford, a younger son of Roger Clifford, junior. SIR ROGER DE CLIFFORD died shortly before 3 April 1286. He left a will dated 26 October 1284, proved in 1286, requesting burial in the church of Dore. He mentioned his wife (not named) and his daughter, Alice. In 1282 the king ordered that the escheator on this side Trent not meddle with the robes, jewels, beds or other thing which pertain to the "countess of Lerett," late the wife of Roger de Clifford. In 1286 Roger, Vicar of Tenbury, was sued in the Exchequer by William Barrett, Chamberlain of London, and another for 12 marks which Sir Roger de Clifford, being deceased, owed the plaintiffs. In 1290 Cuntassa, late the wife of Roger of Clifford, requested the king's grace, stating that she has been grievously distrained by the sheriffs for various debts of her husband, but that she is not his heir, and only holds what the king has granted to her for life, and is unable to render the debts. In 1292 his widow was summoned by writ of Quo Warranto to satisfy the king whether she claimed to have free warren and hold pleas of the Crown in her manor of Bridge Sollers, Herefordshire. In 1293 Countess, late the wife of Roger de Clifford the elder, was granted protection for two years, she then going beyond seas. In 1295 she was granted protection for an additional year, she staying beyond seas. In April 1298 the king again granted the "countess of Loreto" letters ofprotection, she then staying beyond seas. Following her death, Countess was buried in Worcester Cathedral 29 Nov. 1301. Clifford Collectanea Cliffordiana (1817): 176. Hanshall Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester (1823): 465. Palgrave Antient Kalendars 7, Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty’s Exchequer 1 (1836): 57. Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Series 36) (1869): 550 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1301 - "Tertio kal. Decembris [29 November] domina de Clifford dicta comitissa sepulturam habuit Wygorniæ in dextera parte altaris in ecclesia cathedral"). Palatine Note-book 3 (1883): 210. MSS of the Earl of Westmorland, Captain Stewart,... & others (Hist. MSS Comm. 10th Rpt., Appendix, Pt. 4) (1885): 416. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 276; 47 (1886): 171; 50 (1889): 36, 39, 56. C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 20, 140, 342. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 450, 518. Giffard Reg. of Bishop Godfrey Giffard 2 pt. 3 (1900): 283. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. C.F.R. 1(1911): 225. C.P. 3 (1913): 390 (Countess, 2nd wife of Sir Roger de Clifford, is described by Dugdale as "Countess of Lauretania," who quotes Glover's Collections to the effect that he had married her at "St. George in France in 1 Edw. I."). VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 192-197. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 134: 1-2. Taylor Welsh Castles of Edward I (1984): 37-38. Prestwich Edward I (1988): 84, 182. VCH Gloucester 4 (1988): 18-22. C.R.R. 18 (1999): 79, 217. Bonivard Chroniques de Genève 1 (2001): 99. National Archives, E 36/274, f. 193b (document dated 21 June 1273 regarding the marriage of Roger de Clifford and "Contissa, Comitissa Lauretan'." [i.e., Countess, Countess of Loreto]; E 135/24/8; SC 1/7/81; SC 1/10/56; SC 1/16/44; SC 1/30/19; SC 8/89/4441; SC 8/219/10916 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of Roger de Clifford, Knt., by Maud
a. ROGER DE CLIFFORD, of Appleby, Westmorland, married ISABEL DE VIPONT [see CLIFFORD 9].” 		de Vipont, Isabel (I7206)
 
6654 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwell, Castellan of Gloucester, younger son. He married HAWISE DE REDVERS, daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon. They had one daughter, Mabel. Sometime in the period, 1141-61, he and his wife, Hawise, made a gift to Quarr Abbey. Sometime in the period, 1147-71, he witnessed a charter of his brother, Earl William, at Bristol to Gilbert Fitz John. Sometime in the period, 1147-50, probably before March 1148/9, he witnessed a treaty between his brother, Earl William, and Roger, Earl of Hereford. Sometime in the period, c. 1147-8, he witnessed a charter of his mother, Countess Mabel, and his brother, Earl William, announcing restorations made to Jocelin, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1154, as Robert son of the Earl of Gloucester, he conveyed to Richard the butler the manor of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwall for a payment 400 marks of silver and a silk cloth, and to his wife, "Harvisa" a palfrey. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT (or FITZ COUNT) died in 1170. In the period, c.1193-1211, his widow, Hawise de Redvers, gave the manors of Fleet and Ibberton, Dorset to her grandson, Jordan de Champernoun.
Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 3-4 (charter of Hawise de Rivers daughter of Earl Baldwin). Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 422-423. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1097-1098. Pertz Chronica et Annales avi Salici (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 6) (1844): 519 (Roberti de Monte Cronica [Robert de Torigni]) sub 1170 - "Mortuo Roberto filio Roberti comitis Gloecestrie"). C.P. 5 (1926): 686, footnote b (sub Gloucester). Collectanea Archaeologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 63, 97-98, 155-156 (Robert and his brother, William styled "my sons" [filii mei] by their mother, Countess Mabel). Bearman Charters of the Redvers family and the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 93n. (Hawise de Redvers was "benefactor of Quarr, Christchurch, Hartland Abbey in Devon, and the Knights Hospitallers."). Cornwall Rec. Office: Messrs Harvey and Co, Hay, H/236 (available at available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).”
 		de Redever, Hawise (I7287)
 
6655 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwell, Castellan of Gloucester, younger son. He married HAWISE DE REDVERS, daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 1st Earl of Devon. They had one daughter, Mabel. Sometime in the period, 1141-61, he and his wife, Hawise, made a gift to Quarr Abbey. Sometime in the period, 1147-71, he witnessed a charter of his brother, Earl William, at Bristol to Gilbert Fitz John. Sometime in the period, 1147-50, probably before March 1148/9, he witnessed a treaty between his brother, Earl William, and Roger, Earl of Hereford. Sometime in the period, c. 1147-8, he witnessed a charter of his mother, Countess Mabel, and his brother, Earl William, announcing restorations made to Jocelin, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1154, as Robert son of the Earl of Gloucester, he conveyed to Richard the butler the manor of Conarton (in Gwithian), Cornwall for a payment 400 marks of silver and a silk cloth, and to his wife, "Harvisa" a palfrey. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT (or FITZ COUNT) died in 1170. In the period, c.1193-1211, his widow, Hawise de Redvers, gave the manors of Fleet and Ibberton, Dorset to her grandson, Jordan de Champernoun.
Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 3-4 (charter of Hawise de Rivers daughter of Earl Baldwin). Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 422-423. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1097-1098. Pertz Chronica et Annales avi Salici (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 6) (1844): 519 (Roberti de Monte Cronica [Robert de Torigni]) sub 1170 - "Mortuo Roberto filio Roberti comitis Gloecestrie"). C.P. 5 (1926): 686, footnote b (sub Gloucester). Collectanea Archaeologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 63, 97-98, 155-156 (Robert and his brother, William styled "my sons" [filii mei] by their mother, Countess Mabel). Bearman Charters of the Redvers family and the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 93n. (Hawise de Redvers was "benefactor of Quarr, Christchurch, Hartland Abbey in Devon, and the Knights Hospitallers."). Cornwall Rec. Office: Messrs Harvey and Co, Hay, H/236 (available at available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).”
 		Fitz Robert, Robert (I6929)
 
6656 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).” 		Fitz Robert, Hamon (I6939)
 
6657 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).” 		Fitz Robert, Richard (I6938)
 
6658 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).” 		Fitz Robert, Roger (I6937)
 
6659 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).” 		Fitz Robert, Philip (I6936)
 
6660 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).” 		de Montgomery, Roger (I6935)
 
6661 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).” 		de Montgomery, Sybil (I6934)
 
6662 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).” 		Fitz Hamon, Robert (I6933)
 
6663 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).”
 		ab Ivor Bach, Gruffudd (I6931)
 
6664 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).”
 		of Gloucester, Mabel (I6930)
 
6665 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRY nicknamed “Beauclerc,” King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin, 4th son, born in 1068 or 1069. He married (1st) 11 Nov. 1100 MAUD OF SCOTLAND, daughter of Malcolm III (CeannMor), King of Scots, by his 2nd wife, [Saint] Margaret, daughter of Edward Ætheling [see SCOTLAND 1 for her parentage]. She was born in 1079. They had one son, William, and one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, died at Westminster 1 May 1118. He married (2nd) at Windsor, Berkshire 29 Jan. 1121 ALICE (or AELIZ, ALEIDE, ALEYDA, AELIDIS, ADELIDE, ADELIDIS, ADELAIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELIZE, ATHELICE) OF LOUVAIN, daughter of Gottfried (or Godefroy) I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Count of Louvain, by his 1st wife, Ida, daughter of Otto II, Count of Chiny. She was born about 1103. They had no issue. By various mistresses, he had eight illegitimate sons, Robert [Earl of Gloucester], Richard, Fulk, Reynold [Earl of Cornwall], Robert, Gilbert, William de Tracy, and Henry, and nine illegitimate daughters, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Rotrou II, Count of Perche), Alice, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Conan III, Duke of Brittany), Juliane (wife of Eustache de Pacy, seigneur of Breteuil and Pacy), Mabel (wife of Guillaume Gouet, seigneur of Montmirail), Constance (wife of Roscelin de Beaumont), Aline (wife of Mathieu de Montmorency), Sibyl (wife of Alexander I, King of Scots), and Isabel.* HENRY I, King of England died at Lyons-la-Forêt (near Rouen), Normandy 1 Dec. 1135, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) after Dec. 1136 but later than summer 1139 WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Lincoln, afterwards 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), hereditary Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor to King Henry I [see CLIFTON 3]. They had four sons, William [2nd Earl of Arundel or Sussex], Reiner, Henry, and Godfrey, and two daughters, Alice (wife of Jean I, Count of Eu and Alvred de Saint Martin) and Olive. He was a witness to King Stephen's 2nd Charter of Liberties in 1136. He was created Earl of Lincoln c.1138. He gave shelter to Empress Maud at Arundel Castle in 1139, but afterwards adhered to King Stephen. His earldom was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex before Christmas 1141. In his own later charters he is styled Earl of Chichester. About 1145 he witnessed a charter of Henry Hussey as "Consul Willelmo de Cicesterr." His wife, Alice, presented to the prebend of West Dean in 1150. Alice, dowager Queen of England, died as a nun at Affligem Abbey in Brabant 25 (or 26) March 1151, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1153, whereby the Crown continued with King Stephen for life, though the inheritance thereof was secured to Henry II. He subscribed his name to this instrument as "Comes Cicestrie." By grant dated c.1155, King Henry II confirmed to him as "William, Earl of Arundel" the Castle of Arundel, with the whole honour of Arundel and all its appurtenances. He served as Joint Ambassador to France and to the Pope in 1163/4. He served as Chief Ambassador with Princess Maud to Germany in 1168. He was appointed joint Commander of the royal army in Normandy in 1173. In Sept. 1173 he assisted in the defeat near Bury St. Edmunds of the Earl of Leicester. He founded Buckenham Abbey, Norfolk and Pynharn Priory, Sussex. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), died at Waverley Abbey, Surrey 4 (or 12) October 1176, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
[Footnote *: In 1824 the Scottish historian Chalmers stated that King Henry I of England had an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth, who married Fergus, lord of Galloway (died 1161). [see Chalmers Caledonia 3 (1824): 250, footnote k ("Fergus [lord of Galloway] ... was a prince of some note, even at the court of Henry I. of England, is certain : as he took to wife, according to the heralds, genealogists, and chroniclers, Elizabeth, the natural daughter of Henry I.")]. Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway), however, debunked Chalmers' statement, noting that the authorities quoted by Chalmers "do not bear out his assertion." Even so, other secondary sources have continued to repeat Chalmers' unfounded claim: See, for example, Mackenzie History of Galloway (1841): 167-172 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England"); Anderson Scottish Nation 2 (1862): 195 ("Fergus, lord of Galloway ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England ..."); M'Kerlie Galloway in Ancient & Modern Times (1891): 155 ("It is necessary to repeat here that Fergus married Elizabeth, the natural daughter of King Henry I. of England."); Maxwell Hist. of Dumfries & Galloway (1896): 47-48 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, natural daughter of Henry I., and sister of Sibilla, who married Alexander I., brother of David."); Ramsay Angevin Empire (1903): 90, footnote 7 ("Gunfrith [i.e., Godred] was son of Olaf, by Afreca, daughter of Fergus of Galloway, by 'Elisabeth,' reputed natural daughter of Henry I."); Oram Lordship of Galloway (2000): 60; Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Barrow Robert Bruce (1965): 36, footnote 2 notes that "Roger Howden calls Uchtred son of Fergus of Galloway a cousin of King Henry II (Gesta Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis, ed. Stubbs, Rolls Ser., i, 80)," a relationship which Professor Barrow states "is best explained on the supposition that Fergus married a bastard daughter of Henry I." However, given that King Henry II of England had a Scottish grandmother, a more likely explanation of the kinship between the Galloway and English royal families is that the wife of Fergus was near related to the Scottish royal family, possibly being a sister of William Fitz Duncan, whose grandfather was Malcolm Canmore, King of Scots [died 1093]. This arrangement would make Uchtred son of Fergus and King Henry II of England related in the 3rd degree of kindred (or second cousins).]
D'Achery Spicilegium 10 (1671): 612-613 (Continuatio Chronici Afflegemiensis: "Filia præfati Ducis Aleidis juncta matrimonio Regi Angliæ, post obitum secundi con jugis Afflegemiensis Claustri solitudinem ad reliquum vitæ ad humandum corpus elegit in domo turti Ecclesiæ contigua, cum una aut akera ancilla in Fratrum Afflegemiensiurn quieta taciturna multitudine solitaria habitavit, & beato fine quievit, de qua epitaphium: Aleidis Regina Anglim, filia Ducis Godefridi cum barba, Regnum suscepit in Anglia an MCXXI. obiit 9 Kal. Maii [23 April], sepulta è regione horologii nostri."). Rawlinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the City, and Cathedral-Church of Hereford (1717): Addenda, 30 (Kalendar of Obits: "IIII Non. December [2 December]. Obitus Henrici Regis."). Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 32-34. Morice Mémoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 130 (Extract of Cronicle of Robert, Abbot of Mont Saint Michel: "Anno 1135. Obiit Henricus I. Rex Anglorum in prima die Decembris, cum regnasset annis 35. & 4 mensibus."). Brequigny & Mouchet Table Chronologique des Diplômes, Chartes, Titres ... concernant l’Histoire de France 3 (1783): 236 (charter dated c.1155 of Alice Queen of the English [Adelaidis reginæ Anglorum]). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: Kal. Maii [25 April]. Ob. Alexander Rex Scottorum et Soror ejus Matildis Regina Anglorum."), 218 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "IV. Non. Dec. [2 December] Ob Henricus Rex Anglorum."). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Norrnands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXI)). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 169-179. Michel Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois D'Angleterre (1840): 69 ("Li rois Henrie, quant la roine Mehaus fu morte, prist à feme Aalis, la fille Godefroi le duc de Louvaing, la cousine Wistasse [Eustace] de Bouloigne; mais n'en ot nul enfant. Si ot-il de bas .vj. Ills et .vij. fines"). Strickland Lives of the Queens of England 1 (1840): 135-211 (biog. of Matilda of Scotland), 212-256 (biog. of Adelicia of Louvaine). Barrett Memorials of the parochial Church ... in the Parish of Attleborough (1848): 12-41. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 74 (Maud [of Blois], Countess of Chester, styled "niece" to King Henry I of England [neptis regis1). Ordericus Vitalis Ecclesiastical Hist. of England & Normandy 3 (1854): 482 (Roger Fitz Roger and Walter d'Aufay [Aufai] styled "cousins" to King Henry I at Battle of Bremule in 1119 by Ordericus Vitalis). Arch. Journal 20 (1863): 283 ("Adeliza appears to have used the identical matrux of the seal which had belonged to the first queen of Henry I., the name-Aalidis-having been substituted for Matli[Idis), 287-288 (charter of Queen Alice [Aelidis regina] ... There is appended ... a pointed oval seal of white wax .... device, a female figure standing ... The legend is + SIGILLVM • AALIDIS • SECVND[AE • DE]I • GRACIA • REGINAE • ANGLIE.), 288-289 (charter of Queen Alice [A. Dei gracia Regina]); 22 (1865): 152-153 (charter of William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Lincoln; charter names Queen Alice his wife [regina Adelidis]). Sussex Arch. Colls. 15 (1863): 112-113. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 14 (Margam Annals sub 1151: "Obiit Adelidis, regina secunda Henrici regis."); 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 433 (Bermondsey Annals sub A.D. 1121: "Hoc anno rex Henricus primus duxit Adelizam, filiam ducis Lovaniae, in uxorem, tertio nonas Februarii [3 February]."). Burke Gen. Hist, of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33 ("In the Register of the Priory of Bromhale, we find the record of his death under the date of the 4th day of October, 22nd of Henry II (A.D. 1176), in the following words, `obiit Willielmus Comes Arundel' (no mention of Sussex or Chichester), et `sepultus est in prioratus de Wymondham.’"). Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum 20 (1868): 67 (Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Liber X: Roger Fitz Richard [de Clare) styled "kinsman" [cognatus) of King Henry I of England). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 20, 104-108 (discusses evidence that King Henry I had an illegitimate daughter, Maud (or Mathilde)/Almodis, who was Abbess of Montivilliers). Ellis Antiqs. of Heraldry (1869): 206-207 (Aubigny ped.). Lower Compendious Hist. of Sussex 1 (1870): 70 (Robert de Haia, founder of Boxgrove Priory, styled "king's kinsman" [consanguineus] of King Henry I). Delisle Delisle Chronique de Robert de Tongni 1 (1872): 215 (sub A.D. 1139: "Invitarerat enim eos Willermus de Albinneio, qui duxerat Aeliz quondam reginam, quæ habebat castellum et comitatum Hardundel, quod rex Henricus dederat ei in dote."); 2 (1873): 63-64 ("Cessit etiam in fata Willermus de Albineio, quem vocabant comitem d'Arundel, relinquens filios quatuor, scilicet Guillermum de Albineio pritnogenitum, et alios tres natos ex Aeliza regina, uxore primi Henrici regis Anglorum."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 298 (sub 1176: "comes etiam Willelmus de Arundel obiit quarto idus Octobris [12 October] apud Waverle, et sepultus eat apud Wimundham, cellam scilicet ecclesiæ Sancti Albani, cujus cellæ patronus fuisse dinoscitur."). Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Obiit autem Matildis regina Anglia anno regni sui xviiio, kalendis Maii [1 May], et apud Radingas sepulta est."). Merlet Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): cvii-cviii (arms of Henry I, King of England, Duke of Normandy dated 1115: D'argent au cavalier d'azur). D.N.B. 1 (1885): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1(1886): 66 (sub Arundel). Raine Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1886): 169 (History of the Four Archbishops by Hugh the Chantor - King Henry I and Pope Calixtus II were kinsmen: "Nam præter spiritualem patris et filii relationem, carnali consanguinitate propinqui erant, quorum avus et avia frater et soror fuerunt." (Note: Pope Calixtus II was a younger son of William I, Count of Burgundy, whose mother Alice was daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy]). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 5-8 (seal of King Henry I - Obverse. King, seated in majesty, in an undercoat with sleeves tight at wrists, and loose skirts reaching below knees; and long flowing cloak fastened at throat and spreading out behind, which has a border, with indications of a fur of symmetrical pattern. On the head a cap-shaped crown, with three fleurs-de-lis, one at top and one at either side, and two chin-straps hanging loosely at sides, the ends having buckles in shape of trefoils. In right hand, extended outwards from elbow, a sword is held almost perpendicularly. In left hand, similarly extended, an orb, ensigned with a long cross pattee pommettee. Throne, apparently square, and closely resembling that of William II.; the centre curves with a bold cusp inwards, with a string-course, and is the narrowest part. In lower of two compartments thus made, is a footboard, not enough remaining to show original size. On throne a flat cushion with square edge, carrying at each end a hemispherical ornament, intended for pillow. Reverse. King, hauberk of chain-mail; conical helmet, having a blunt point at crown of head, and perhaps armed with projecting nose-piece; single pointed spur of goad form; long lance to which is attached a banner, charged with cross moline, and three pairs of waving streamers. No indication of sword. In left hand, held by interior strap, a kite-shaped shield, seen from within. The horse is walking to the right hand, caparisoned with breast-band, which is ornamented by five globular pendants equi-distant. Saddle of small dimensions; with stirrups. The loosely gathered reins are held up in left hand, which also sustains shield. Legend: + HENRIC' D... ... ...). Round "An Unknown Mistress of Henry I." in Eng. Hist. Rev. 5 (1890): 745-746. Luard Flores Historiarum 2 ((Rolls Ser.) 1890): 69 ("Anno gratix MCLIo [1151]. Obiit Adelicia regina, uxor regis Stephani;" the editor notes that the name "Stephani" is erased in Ch. and altered to "Henrici I."). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Docs. sur la Province du Perche 3rd Ser. 2) (1894): 40-43. Recueil des Historiens des Castles et de la France 23 (1894): 471 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 Mart. Obiit Adelicia regina."), 476 (Ex Necrologio Monasterii Crucis Sancti Leufredi: "25 Mart. [Obiit] Adeliza, regina Anglorum."), 578 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Mali. [Obiit] Matildis, regina Anglorum."), 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "12 Oct. [Obiit] Guillelmus, comes de Arundel."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Dec. [Obiit] Henricus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum."). Napier & Stevenson Crawford Coll. of early Charters & Docs. now in the Bodleian library (1895): 31 (William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Chichester dated c.1150; charter names his wife, Queen Alice [regina Adelide]). Bradshaw Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral Pt. 2 (1897): (obits. in the odd volume of the great Latin Bible), ccxxxviii (2 May - "Matildis regina uxor Henrici regis."), ccxlii (2 Dec. - "Henricus, pacificus rex Anglorum."). Trans. East Herts Arch. Soc. 1(1) (1901): 129-135 (charter of Queen Alice widow of King Henry I dated 1136 [Adelidis regina uxor nobillisimi regis Henrici & filia Godefridi ducis lotharingie]. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 530 (confirmation of gift of Alice, formerly Queen of England). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 316 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "kal. Maius [1 May] Ob. Matildis, Anglorum regina [1118]."), 523 (Prieure de Longpont: "kaL maii. [1 May] [obit.] Maltidis, Anglorum regina [1118]."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #14 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Lincoln dated c.1139-40; charter names his wife, Queen Adeleidis), #27 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Chichester dated 1151-2; charter names his wife, Queen Athelice). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 1-2 (sub Kings of Scotland). Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 25-34. Eng. Hist. Rev. 21(1906): 505-509. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 241 (Obituaire of Prieure de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Henricus, rex Anglorum, frater noster, III nonas decembris [3 Dec.] [1135]."), 661 (Nécrologe of Abbaye de Saint-Jean-en-Vallée: 12 Dec.] IIII non. Obiit Henricus, Anglorum rex [1135], ecclesiarum amator praecipuus."). Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway) ("[Fergus, lord of Galloway] is said to have married Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of King Henry I. of England, but the authorities quoted by Chalmers, who makes the statement, do not bear out his assertion."). D.N.B. 1 (1908): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 167-168 (charter of King Henry I dated c.1111=20). Gomme Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1909): 217 (sub A.D. 1100: Maud of Scotland, 1st wife of King Henry I, styled "kinswoman to king Edward [the Confessor] and of the true royal race of England."), 239-240 (sub A.D. 1127: Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone], Abbot of Saint-Jean of Angély (in Poitou), afterwards Abbot of Peterborough styled "kinsman" [mæi] of [Henry I] King of England and [Guillaume] Count of Poitou) [see also Earle and Plummer Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel 1 (1892): 257; English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-5601. CP. 1 (1910): 233-235, 237 (chart) (sub Arundel); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Round King's Serjeants & Officers of State (1911): 140-165. English Hist. Rev. 34 (1919): 303-382. Farrer Outline Itinerary of King Henry 1 (1920). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) XI 112. Rübel-Blass (1939) 257 (biographical information). G.H. White "Henry I's Illegitimate Children," in C.P. 11 (1949), Appendix D, 105-121. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 216. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19). C.R.R. 12 (1957): 157-158 (Sibyl de Falaise, wife of Baldwin de Bolers, styled "kinswoman" [nepte] of King Henry I of England). Stenton First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (1961). Davis King Stephen (1967): 137 ("[King] Stephen recognized three successive earls of Lincoln ... The first was William d'Aubigny pincerna who married Queen Adeliza, widow of King Henry I, and in her right became lord of the honour and castle of Arundel. He styles himself William Earl of Lincoln in three charters in which his identity is proved by references to his wife. They are in favour of Lewes Priory and the abbeys of Reading and Affligem-and in the case of Affligem there is also a charter of Adeliza referring to her husband as earl of Lincoln (Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville 3245; Warner and Ellis, Facsimiles, no. 14; E. de Marneffe, Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Affligem in Analectes pour servir à l’histoire ecclesiastique de la Belgique, 2o section, pp. 104,106). In royal charters it is usually impossible to distinguish him from his successor, William de Roumare, since the normal style of both was Willelmus comes de Lincolnia, or (before he was an earl) from his father, William d'Aubignypincerna, who died before June 1139 (Reg. iii. 973). If Robert de Torigny is right (Chronicles iv. 137) William had married Adeliza by September 1139, and it is tempting to assume that it was on his marriage that he was made earl of Lincoln, his connection with that county being that his mother, Maud Bigod, was a grand-daughter, and possible co-heiress, of Robert de Tosny of Belvoir. We do not know precisely when he was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex, but it was certainly by Christmas 1141 when he attested a charter as Comite Willelmo de Sudsexa (Reg. iii. 276)."). Chibnall Ecclesiastical Hist. of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80): 317 (Vol. VI, Book XII - Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone] styled "kinsman" [cognato] of King Henry I of England) [see English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-560]. Albion 10 (1978): 330-340. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 95 (sub Hainault, Brabant); 2 (1984): 81 (sub England); 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Green Government of England under Henry 1(1986). Hollister Monarchy, Magnates, & Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 301, 369, 476. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.1.423, XII.371, X11.644-X11.645, XIII.207. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 136 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "7 Kal. [Apr.] [26 March]. Obiit Atheliza regina."), 130 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit Rex Anglorum Henricus primus."), 146 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit rex Anglorum Henricus i."). Haskins Soc. Jour. 7 (1995): 101-116. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35, 57. Scottish Hirt. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Vincent Acta of Henry II and Richard I Pt 2 (List and Index Soc. Special Ser. 27) (1996): 143 (confirmation c. 1172/81 of grant made by Queen Adela) (original published in Jour. of British Architetural Assoc. 17: 312). Scottish Hist. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Harper-Bill Anglo-Norman Studies XXI (1999): 145-168. Bartlett England under the Norman & Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (2000). Hollister Henry 1(2001). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.), 313 (Scotland ped.). Weller Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert (2004): 464-4.76 (biog. of Königin Adelheid von England) ("On page 476, Weller states: "Seine Gattin Adelheid von Lowen, die ehemalige Konigin von England, war schon 1151 wahrend des Bürgerkrieges verschieden und wurde in Reading beigesetzt ... Der Begräbnisort Kgn. Adelheids geht aus einem Schreiben Jocelins v. Löwen an Bf. Hilarius v. Chichester eindeutig hervor, vgl. Reading Abbey Cartularies 1, No. 551, 416E; s.a. Bartlett, England 596. Nicht stichhaltig ist demgegeniiber die van Sanderus, Chorographia 1, 45, verbreitete Nachricht, wonach Adelheid vor ihrem Tod in ihre Heimat übergesiedelt und im Kloster Afflighem gestoren and begraben sei; heirnach auch John Horace Round in dem Art.: Adeliza of Louvain, in DNB 1(1885): 137f.; Complete Peerage 1, 235. Allerdings ist Kgn. Adelheid als Wohltäterin von Afflighem aufgetreten unde hat dem Kloster einigen Besitz in England gestiftet; vgl. Cart. Afflighem, No. 79, 121-124 (hier 122)."). Verbeke Medieval Narrative Sources (2005): 21-36. Fleming Henry I & the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister (2006). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006).
Children of King Henry I of England, by Maud of Scotland:
i. WILLIAM OF ENGLAND, son and heir apparent, born in 1103. As his father's destined successor, he received the homage of the Normans barons in 1115, and that of the English witan in 1116. He married at Lisieux in May 1119 MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ANJOU, daughter of Fulk V, Count of Anjou. He was with his father at the Battle of Bremule in 1119. Early in 1120 King Louis of France invested him with the duchy of Normandy. He was drowned in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Wharton Anglia Sacra (1691): 160 (Chronicon Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis sub A.D. 1120: "Willelmus filius Henrici Regis, & Ricardus frater ejus & Ricardus Comes de Cestria cum multis Nobilibus naufragio perierunt.”). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. D.N.B. 21(1909): 337 (biog. of William, son of Henry I, King of England). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.644. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 180-181, 192-193, 213-214. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
ii. MAUD OF ENGLAND, married (1st) HEINRICH V, King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor; (2nd) GEOFFREY V Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy [see next].
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by an unknown mistress, (possibly a member of the Bohun family):
i. ROBERT FITZ ROY, Earl of Gloucester, married MABEL FITZ ROBERT [see GLOUCESTER 3].
Illegitimate sons of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Ansfride, widow of Anskill, a knight who was a tenant of Abingdon Abbey:
i. RICHARD FITZ ROY, born before 1101. He served against the French in 1119, and was captured at Les Andelys. He was set free with his comrades by King Louis, because they had taken sanctuary in the church of Notre Dame du Grand Andely. Later the same year he was with his father at the Siege of Evreux and the Battle of Brémule. In Sept. 1119 he was sent to raise the Siege at Bréteuil. He was betrothed to Amice de Gael, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. He was drowned immediately afterwards in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Amice subsequently married Robert of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester [see LEICESTER 6]. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Alium quoque habuit filium Ricardum, et cessavit parere... Navis enim infausta qun regis gestabat filios Willelrnum et Ricardum, submersa est, periitque in scopulis Barbefluvii."). C.P. 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.646. Van Houts Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni 2 (1992): 248-249 (Robert de Torigny: "Ricardus autem, huius comitis uno de patre frater, cum fratre suo Willelmo in sepedicto naufiagio periit."). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
ii. FULK FITZ ROY. Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(II.647. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Sibyl Corbet:
i. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall, Sheriff of Devon, 1173-5. He married in 1140 MABEL FITZ WILLIAM, daughter of William Fitz Richard, of Cornwall. They had one son, Nicholas, and four daughters, Denise (wife of Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon), Maud, Sarah (wife of Ademar, Vicomte of Limoges), and Emme (wife of Guy V de Laval, seigneur of Laval). By a mistress, Beatrice de Valle (or Vaux) (afterwards wife of William Briwerre, Knt.), he had an illegitimate son, Henry Fitz Count. By an unknown mistress, he also had one illegitimate son, William. He was granted the lands of William, Earl of Mortain, amounting to 215-1/2 fees in Devon and Cornwall. He was created Earl of Cornwall about April 1141. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, were recognized by contemporaries as "the most powerful men in the kingdom." His wife, Mabel, fell into insanity in the 1140s. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1114-47. In 1153 he witnessed the agreement between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II]. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, acted as intermediary between the king and Thomas Becket at Northampton in 1164. He played a major part in opposing the rebels of 1173-4 in England. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall died 1 July 1175, allegedly at Chertsey, Surrey, and was buried at Reading, Berkshire. Dugdale Baronage (1675): 702 (sub Briwere) ("[William Briwere] having married Beatrix de Valle, a Concubine, as 'tis said, to Reginald Earl of Cornwall (which is probable, for in a Grant made by Henry Son to the same Reginald [Earl of Cornwall], unto this William [Briwere], of the Mannor of Karswell, and Land of Hakford, he calls him his Brother")) [Note: Dugdale evidently intended to say that Henry Fitz Count's brother was William Briwere the younger, as it was William Briwere the elder was the husband of his mother, Beatrice de Valle]. Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 6, 98 (undated charter of Reynold son of King Henry to William de Botreaux son of Alice Corbet his aunt [matertera]; charter witnessed by his son, Nicholas; his nephews/kinsmen [nepotibus], Ralph and Richard, and his brother, William), 112. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836 11): 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Stubbs Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis (or Chron. of the Reigns of Henry II. & Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192) 1 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 163 ("Deditque ibidem Hereberto filio Hereberti, et Willelmo fratri comitis Reginaldi, et Joelllano de la Pumerai, nepoti eorum, regnum be Limeric pro servitio sexaginta militum"), 172 ("Nam Herbertus, et Willelmus, fratres Reginaldi comitis Cornubiae, et Joellanus de Purnetia nepos eorum, regnum illud havere noluerunt; sed illud reddiderunt domino regi et Johanni filio suo liberum et quietum ab omni calurnnia eorum"). Le Fizelier Mémoire chronologique de Maucourt de Bourjolly sur la Ville de Laval 1 (1886): 136-142. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-253 (William brother of Earl Reynold [Willelmus frater Comitis Reginaldi] held 1/2 knight's fee of Robert Fitz Roy in 1166), 261-262 (William brother of the Earl [Willelmus frater Comitis] held four knight's fees Reynold, Earl of Cornwall in 1166). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 455-456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. C.P. 3 (1913): 429 (sub Cornwall); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 9, 219. English Hist. Rev. 62 (1947): 352-377 (charter of William de Marsh brother of Reynold Earl of Cornwall [Willelmus de Marisco frater Reginaldi comitis Cornubie]). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 6 (Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, styled "uncle" [avunculo] by Henry [II], later King of England, in charter dated 1147 or 1149). Minor & Butler eds. Letters of John of Salisbury 1 (Oxford Medieval Texts) (1955): 162-163. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 9-10 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1154-65), 10-11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1146-55), 11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 195-196 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1165-75, witnessed by his son, Nicholas), 196-197 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 197-198 (two confirmation charters of King Henry II of England naming his "uncle" [avunculus] Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, one dated c.1174-5, the other dated c.1174-6). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(11.651, X111.996-1000. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Hollister Henry 1(2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).Cornwall Rec. Office: Borough of Truro, BTRU/1 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1161-66) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, by Mabel Fitz William:
a. MAUD OF CORNWALL, married ROBERT II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 7].
Illegitimate child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, allegedly by Beatrice de Valle:
a. HENRY FITZ COUNT, of Liskeard, Cornwall and King's Kerswell, Devon, Constable of Totnes Castle, 1209, Governor of Portchester Castle, 1211, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1215, 1217-20, Constable of Launceston Castle and Warden of the Stanneries, 1215. In 1194 he was granted the manors of Liskeard, Cornwall and Diptford and King's Kerswell, Devon by the king. In 1196 he witnessed the Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by his alleged step-father, Sir William Briwerre. In 1215 he had a grant of the county of Cornwall from King John, to farm until the realm should be at peace. The grant was renewed by King Henry III 7 Feb. 1216/7. He resigned the county to the king in 1220, when he took the cross. HENRY FITZ COUNT died a crusader in 1222. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Hunter Catalogue of the MSS in the library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn (1838): 13. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1846): 924 (Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by William Briwer). Oliver Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis (1846): 174 (charter of Henry son of Reynold Earl of Cornwall; charter granted for the souls of his brothers and his mother), 179, 183. Trans. Exeter Diocesan Architectural & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 (1867): 133-134. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31(1870): 5. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 21. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 9 (1902): 295-296 ("But Reginald de Dunstanville [i.e., Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall] had also by Beatrix de Valle (who afterwards became the wife of William Brewer, the judge of Henry II. and one of the regents of Richard I.) an illegitimate son named Henry FitzCount (sometimes FitzHenry), who became in after years also Earl of Cornwall."). Genealogist n.s. 20 (1904): 10-11. C.P. 3 (1913): 430 (sub Cornwall). Painter Reign of King John (1949): 231, 290, 348, 358-359. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 116 (charter of Henry Fitz Count dated 1200-22; charter witnessed by William Brewer). North Devon Rec. Office: Chichester of Arlington, 50/11/29/3 (confirmation of a gift of land dated early 13th Cent. from Henry son of Earl Reginald to William de Tracy of all his land of Wollecombe [in Mortehoe] and Boklande, Devon, which William and his ancestors held of Henry and his ancestors, lords of Bradneys, as the charter of Hugh Ruffus testifies. To have and to hold to the aforesaid William, his heirs and assigns, of Henry and his heirs for ever, rendering all due and customary services. Seal of Henry son of Earl Reginald - Round, natural wax, armorial, surrounded by legend giving name of owner, chipped. The arms on shield resemble those of Courtenay family, but the Courtenays did not become Earls till 14th Cent.) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (Baldekin styled "kinsman" of H[enry] Fitz Count in a fine roll item dated 1220; by whom he was earlier granted lands in Cornwall formerly held by Robert de Tintagel) (available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_015.html).
Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith, daughter of Forne son of Sigulf, lord of Greystoke, Cumberland. Edith subsequently married ROBERT D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, Constable of Oxford Castle. They had two sons, Henry and Gilbert. He and his wife, Edith, founded Oseney Priory near Oxford in 1129. Robert d'Oilly died in Sept. 1142. Sometime in the period, c.1145-56, his widow, Edith, granted a toft in Huggate and 68-1/2 acres in the fields there to the poor of the Hospital of St. Peter, York. Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 50 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith), 92 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated before June 1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith, and his son, Henry). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 505-508, 510 (charter of Edith wife of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1145-56), 510-511 (charter of Henry d'Oilly dated c.1145-56; charter witnessed by his wife, Maud), 518-519. Hedley Northumberland Fares. (1968): 233.
i. ROBERT FITZ ROY. He held land in Devonshire in 1130. He witnessed a charter of his step-father, Robert d'Oilly, in the period, ?1130-35. He supported his half-sister, Empress Maud, in the Civil War. In the period, 1144-7, he witnessed a charter of his half-brother, Henry d'Oilly. In 1146-7 he witnessed a charter of Empress Maud and her son, Henry. About 1150 he granted 10 pounds of land in his manor of Wantage, Berkshire to the church of Oseney, with the counsel of Henry d'Oilly his half-brother. Sometime in the period, 1153-67, he witnessed a charter of Wigan of Wallingford. He married before 1162 MAUD D'AVRANCHES, widow of William de Courcy (or ?Geoffrey de Crimes?), and daughter of Robert d'Avranches, by ___, daughter of Gelduin de Dol. They had one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, was heiress of Richard Fitz Baldwin. In 1162 he granted St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter two ferlings of land in his manor of Calvalegie juxta Cobbalegiam, together with a man named Edwium son of Wranhi; charter was granted with with the consent of his wife, Maud d'Avranches. ROBERT FITZ ROY died 31 May 1172. His widow, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1173. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farms of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 188 ("C. Rob[er]ti filii Henrici Regis per concessionem Mathildis, filiz Roberti de Avrenchis et heredis Ricardi filii Baldewini, dans totam vincam quam Rob'tus fil. Baldewini et Ricardus fester ejus Eccl. S.N. dederunt."), 382 (charter dated 1162 of Robert son of King Henry, granted with consent of Maud d'Avranches his wife [Robertus filius Regis Henrici, assensu Matillidis de Abrinco uxoris meae to St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter). Dugdale Monasticon Anglican = 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Obijt denique vir ejus secundus, dominus Robertus filius regis Henrici anno Domini M.clxxii. pridie calendas Junii [31 May], et post ipsum vicecomitissa Matildis, itaque de Aubrincis ut prius nuncupata, undecimo calendas Octobris [21 Sept.] anno Domini M.clxxiii. et regni regis Henrici secundi 19."); 6(1) (1830): 253 (charter of Robert son of King Henry [Robertus Henrici regis filius]; charter names his [half-]brother [fratris], Henry d'Oilly). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Priory of Hexham 1 (Surtees Soc. 64) (1864): 138 (Chronicle of John, Prior of Hexham: "Emissi sunt autem ducenti milites cum Rodberto, filio Edae et Henrici Regis notho, et Johanne Marascaldo ...."). Freeman Reign of the Norman Conquest of England 4 (1871): 723. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 374 (charter of Robert son of King Henry dated c.1150). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 137-138 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that he was the son of Hawise, the first born daughter of Maud d'Avranches; Hawise's sister, Maud de Courtenay, who was the plaintiff in the lawsuit, in turn testified that the said Hawise was the daughter of Geoffrey de Crimes (or Crunes, Cruues), the 1st husband of Maud d'Avranches), 404-405; 3 (1887): 450-452 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that his mother, Hawise, was the daughter of William de Curcy, husband of Maud d'Avranches). Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 50-56. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-254 (list of knights fees held by Robert Fitz Roy in 1166). Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 73, 75, 101-102. C.P. 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2426-2428. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.650, XIII.995. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 62, footnote 26.
Child of Robert Fitz Roy, by Maud d'Avranches:
a. MAUD FITZ ROBERT, married REYNOLD DE COURTENAY, of Sutton, Berkshire [see COURTENAY 1].
ii. ALICE FITZ ROY. In the period, ?1130-35, she witnessed a charter of her step-father, Robert d'Oilly, and her mother, Edith. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 72-73 (Alice daughter of the king [Adeliza Lila Reg.] witness to charter of Robert d'Oilly, his wife, and son dated ?1130-35). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151.
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Nest, wife of Gerald of Windsor, Constable of Pembroke, and daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwt, Prince of South Wales:
i. HENRY FITZ ROY, of Pembrokeshire. He was killed during King Henry II's invasion at Anglesea in 1157 or 1158. He married ___. They had two sons, Meiler Fitz Henry [Justiciar of Ireland] and Robert, and presumably one daughter, Amabilis Fitz Henry (wife of Walter de Ridelisford). Williams ab Ithel Annales Cambriaes (Rolls Ser.) (1860): 47 (sub A.D. 1158: "Henricus filius Geraldi occisus est, velut alii volunt, filius Henrici regis ..."). Dimock Geraldus Cambrensis: Itinerarium Kambrice, et Descriptio Kambriæ (Geraldus Cambrensis Opera 6) (Rolls Ser.) (1868): 130 (Date: A.D. 1157: "Fuerant autem duo nobiles viti, et ejus qui scripsit haec avunculi, cum aliis hue a rege transmissi: Henricus scilicet regis Henrici primi filius, et secundi avunculus, ex nobili Nesta, Resi filii Theodori filia, in australi Kambria Demetiae finibus oriundus; et Robertus Stephani filius, Henrici frater non germanus sed uterinus."), 130, footnote 2 ("The death of Henry, her [Nest's] son by [King] H[enryl I., in this attack on Anglesea, is placed by Brut under 1156, in Ann. Camb. under 1158. By the former he is called Henry son of King Henry; by the latter, Henry son of Girald, or, according to others, son of king Henry. He was the father of the famous Meiler, the great hero of the Irish invasion."). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 30-31 (charter of Walter de Ridelisford to St. Mary's Abbey; charter granted with consent of his wife, Amabilis Fitz Henry and witnessed by Meiler Fitz Henry). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1 (1911): 18 (ped. chart). Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.656. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 298-299 (biog. of Meiler Fitzhenry). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith:
i. MAUD (or MATHILDE, MAHAUT) OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 (as his 1st wife) ROTROU II “the Great,” Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme, son and heir of Geoffroi, Count of Mortagne and Perche, by Beatrix, daughter of Count Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and Roucy. He was born about 1080. Her maritagium likely included the manors of Aldboume and Wanborough, Wiltshire. They had two daughters, Philippe and Felicie. During the 1st Crusade, he fought at the Siege of Nicaea in mid-1097. He commanded a division that broke out of Antioch in June 1098. He crusaded against the Muslims in Spain probably in 1108. In 1114 he aided his father-in-law, King Henry I, at the Siege of Belleme. At the request of his wife, Maud, a hide of land at Wanborough, Wiltshire was given to Lewes Priory. His wife, Maud, was drowned in the shipwreck of the White Ship 25 Dec. 1120. He was Governor of Tudela in Aragon and participated in campaigns in Aragon from 1123 until the mid-1130s. He returned to Perche by 1135. He married (2nd) before 1126 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPEE 2 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffroi, Rotrou (III) [Count of Perche], and Etienne [Archbishop-elect of Palermo]. After King Henry I's death in 1135, he and his nephew, Richer de l'Aigle, extorted the castles of Moulins and Bonmoulins as the price for their support for King Stephen. In 1139 he was taken in the English king's pay and defeated the unruly knights of Breteuil. ROTROU II, Count of Perche, died 6 May 1144 at the Siege of the Towe of Rouen, he then being in the service of Empress Maud and her husband, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braille [see DREUX 6], and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Bellème, younger son of Louis VI, King of France, by Alix, daughter of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and Maurienne [see FRANCE 5 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Breteuil, Guy II, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I, seigneur of Torote, Châtellain de Noyon, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). His wife, Hawise, died in 1152. Robert I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Des Murs Hist. des Comtes du Perche de la Fam. des Rotrou (1856). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 173-176. Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 13 (1881): 255 (Genealogiæ Fusniacensis: "Rotaldus comes, prefati comitis filius, duxit filiam regis Anglie, de qua filiam procreavit. "). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 3940 (charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche, dated c.1119; charter witnessed by his sister [soror], Juliane, and her son, Richer), 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe). Money Hist. of the Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury (1887): 62 (Perche ped.). Boulais Receuil des Antiquitéz du Perche (1890). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 33-35. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 419 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "6 [Obiit] Rotrodos comes."). Lalizel Abbaye Royal d'Arcisses (Archives du Diocèse de Chartres 10) (1900): 3-10 (charters of Rotrou, Count of Perche). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 174-186; 12 (1983): 67-86. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Traditio 41(1985): 145-179. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.649. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France (2002). Hollister Henry I (2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 360-361. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Geoffrey Grossus Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (2009): 71, footnote 1.
Child of Maud (or Mathilde) of England, by Rotrou II of Perche:
a. PHILIPPE OF PERCHE, married HELIE OF ANJOU, Count of Maine, younger son of Foulques V le Jeune, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, by his 1st wife, Eremburge, daughter and heiress of Hélie, Count of Maine. They had one daughter, Beatrix (wife of Jean I, Count of Alençon). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe [assensu generis mei Helie filieque mee Romanet de Beaune Geographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (1905): 30-31 ("... Helias vero ...comes Cenomannonun factus est, et xx annis adepto consulatu strenue potitis est. Heres quoque soceri sin Gervasii de Castro Lidi factus est, eujus filiam habuit, ex qua filiam nomine Eremburgem genuit, quam domino suo Fulconi, Andegavorum comiti, in matromonium copulavit … Uxor ejus ei filiam, Eremburgem nomine, peperit, quae, nubilibus annis, Fulconi, Andegavorum tunc comiti, nunc Ierosolymorum regi, nupsit et generosam sobolem genuit: Joffredum et Heliam, Mathildem et Sibyllam, quae filiis regum solemniter nupserunt"). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121.
Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by various mistresses:
i. GILBERT FITZ ROY. He was still young and unmarried in 1142. Nothing more is known of him. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 281 286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.660. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
ii. WILLIAM DE TRACY. He died soon after his father. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121 (author states in error that William de Tracy had a daughter and heiress, Grace, wife of John de Sudeley, of Sudeley Castle and Toddington, Gloucestershire). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.659. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
iii. MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ENGLAND, married CONAN III, Duke of Brittany [see BRITTANY 3].
iv. JULIANE OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 EUSTACHE DE PACY (or DE BRETEUIL), seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, illegitimate son of Guillaume, seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, by an unknown mistress. They had two sons, Guillaume and Roger, and two daughters. In 1119 he took part in the rebellion against King Henry I, who besieged his wife, Juliane, at Breteuil. She fled to Pacy, and in the autumn of 1119 Eustache and Juliane were pardoned by the king. A few years later she became a nun at Fontevrault. EUSTACHE DE PACY died at the beginning of Lent 1136, Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise (1895): 470-476 (Famille d'Ivry). C.P. 8 (1932): 209-210 (sub Lovel); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X11.648. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 304 (Fitz Osbem ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Norrnandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
v. MABEL OF ENGLAND, married be 		Fitz Robert, Mabel (I6392)
 
6666 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ ROY, in right of his wife, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, illegitimate son, probably born about 1090. He witnessed charters of his father the king from about April 1113. He fought at the Battle of Brémulé in 1119, where his father, King Henry I, defeated King Louis VI of France. He married before 1122 MABEL FITZ ROBERT, daughter and heiress of Robert Fitz Hamon, of Gloucester, Bristol, Tewkesbury, and Cardiff, seigneur of Creully in Calvados, and Torigny in Manche, Normandy, hereditary Governor of Caen, by Sybil, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. They had six sons, William [Earl of Gloucester], Philip, Hamon, Roger [Bishop of Worcester], Richard [seigneur of Creully], and Robert, and two daughters, Maud and Mabel. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Richard [Bishop of Bayeux]. He was created Earl of Gloucester between June and September 1122. In 1123 he brought a force to assist in the capture of Brionne Castle, which was held by rebellious Norman barons. In 1126 he had the custody of his uncle, Robert, Duke of Normandy, as a prisoner at Bristol, and later at Cardiff. The same year he secured a working relationship with the Welsh-dominated church of south Wales, under its aggressive bishop, Urban. In 1127 he did homage to the Empress Maud, recognizing her as his father's successor in the kingdom. In 1130 he sanctioned the foundation of Neath Abbey. In 1133, following the death of Richard, Bishop of Bayeux, he was sent by his father to Bayeux to enquire as to the fees and services due to the see by its barons, knights, and vavasours. He was present at his father's death at Lions-le-Forêt in Dec. 1135, and had 60,000 livres from him, apparently as executor. On Stephen's subsequent accession to the English throne and his recognition as Duke by the Normans, Robert gave up Falaise to his agents, but removed his father's treasure. In March 1136 he returned to England, and after Easter did homage for his English lands. About this time or in the following year he founded St. James's Priory at Bristol. In 1137 he accompanied Stephen to Normandy, but they quarrelled, and next year his English and Welsh estates were forfeited. Thereupon he prepared for war with Stephen and took up the cause of his half-sister, Maud, in Normandy. In Sept. 1139 he landed in England with Maud and took her to Arundel Castle, and became her commander-in-chief in the civil war that ensued. His first significant campaign, once the empress was established in England, was directed at the city of Worcester, which he sacked 7 November 1139. In May 1140 he was delegated by his sister to negotiate at Bath with the king' envoys, but nothing came of the meeting. Later in 1140 he and the Earl of Warwick led a successful raid on Nottingham. In 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, recruited a large army, including a force of Welsh under the kings of Glamorgan and Gwynedd. Their army encountered the king's army near Lincoln and dispersed it, capturing the king himself. The king was removed to Gloucester and then to Bristol, Earl Robert's principal English castle. He subsequently accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out, he fled with her to Oxford. He was captured at Stockbridge 14 Sept. 1141, and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards, he was exchanged for King Stephen. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England; Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in the campaign. Sometime between 1141-3, probably in June 1142, he signed a treaty friendship with Miles, Earl of Hereford, by which the two men agreed to support each other, especially in the war between King Stephen and Empress Maud. In 1143 he defeated King Stephen at Wilton. In 1144 he blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing to battle; but Maud's party was so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1144-47. In the spring of 1147 he took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou. In his last year, probably on his deathbed, he made moves to assist the Cistercians, who were attempting to set up a house in upland Glamorgan; the resultant abbey of Margam counted him as its founder. ROBERT FITZ ROY, 1st Earl of Gloucester, died at Bristol 31 October 1147, and was buried in the Priory church of St. James, BristoL His widow, Mabel, Countess of Gloucester, died 29 Sept. 1157.
Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 3-4 (charter of Roger de Creully, son of Richard, son of the Earl of Gloucester). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 1 (1848): 109 (Chronicle of Florence of Worcester: sub A.D. 1138: Philip [de] Gai styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Orderici Vitalis Ecclesiasticæ Historicæ Lbri Tredecim 5 (1855): 112-113 ([Christian], wife of William Fitz Alan, styled "kinswoman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [neptem Rodberti comitis Gloucestræ]). Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 8 (1862): 274 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub A.D. 1147: "Fundata est Abbatia de Margan a Roberto Comite Gloucestriæ qui constuxit castrum et turrim et Prioratum bead Jacobi Bristolliæ, qui comes eodem anno obiit et sepultus est in dicto prioratu."), 274 (sub A.D. 1157: "Obiit Mabilia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 47 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1147: "Illustris comes Gloecestriæ Robertus oblit."), 48 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1157: "Mabilia comitissa Gloucestriæ obiit"). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriæ 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 10-11 (charter of Robert Fitz Roy, "counsul” of Gloucester dated 1139-47), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 328-329. Handbook to the Cathedrals of England: Western Division (1874): 213-214. Arch. Cambnensis 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63 ("Earl Robert was one of the greatest soldiers and most prudent, or perhaps astute, statesmen of his day."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "29 Sept. [Obiit] Mabilia comitissa."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "31 Oct. [Obiit] Robertus comes."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 183-184 (two undated charters of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, son of the king, both of which name his wife, Countess Mabel). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 504 (Nigel Fitz William, owner of lands at Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Robert, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1128) [see also VCH Middlesex 2 (1911): 400; Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 2 (1956): 221, 362]. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1242-1244 (biog. of Robert, Earl of Gloucester). C.P. 5 (1926): 683-686 (sub Gloucester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. R. B. Patterson William of Maltnesbury's Robert of Gloucester: a Re-evaluation of the Historia Novella,' American Hist. Rev. 70 (1964-5): 983-997. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Robert fitz Roy or Robert de Caen, so called because he was the illegitimate son of Henry I by (probably) Sibyl daughter of Robert Corbet burgess of Caen, was created earl of Gloucester between June and September 1120 (Round, Geoffry de Mandeville 420 ff). On Henry I's death he at first hoped to raise Theobald Count of Blois to the throne, but eventually recognized Stephen as king in April 1136. After much hesitation he 'defied' Stephen after 22 May 1138, and from then until his death (31 October 1147) was the principal supporter of the empress Matilda."). Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973). Coss Langley Cartulary (Dugdale Soc. 32) (1980): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Gloucester dated 1122-35). D. Crouch, 'Robert, earl of Gloucester, and the daughter of Zelophehad,' Jour. of Medieval Hist. 11(1985): 227-243. Green Government of Henry I (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.658, XIII.1001-XIII.1005, X111.1179. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard II (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 191, 194-195, 249-250; 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 420-421, 600-601. Chibnall Empress Matilda (1991). Clanchy From Memory to Written Rec., England 1066-1307 (1993): 54-55. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Crouch 'Robert of Gloucester' Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire,' Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. Crouch Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (2000): 215 (Philip de Gay styled "kinsman" of Robert, Earl of Gloucester [quendam comitis cognatum Philippum Gal nuncupatum]). Hollister Henry I (2003). Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 94-95. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (biog. of Robert, first earl of Gloucester: "Robert of Gloucester was one of the great aristocrats of his age. Between 1121 and his death he was rarely rivalled in England for power, wealth, and politial influence. He was a consummate creature of the royal court, a great man of business, affable, and courtly."). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): xii. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810095 (agreement between Robert, Earl of Gloucester and Miles, Earl of Hereford dated 1141-43) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
Children of Robert Fitz Roy, by Mabel Fitz Robert:
i. WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Conarton, Cornwell, married HAWISE DE REDVERS [see CHAMPERNOUN 4].
iii. MAUD OF GLOUCESTER, married RANULPH DE GERNONS, 2nd Earl of Chester [see CHESTER 4].
iv. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married GRUFFUDD AB IVOR BACH, of Senghenydd, Glamorgan. They had one son, Rhys. At an unknown date, he granted Awenet to Brother Meiler for a hermitage or abbey. In the period, c. 1150-53, Earl William of Gloucester gave confirmation of this grant to Margam Abbey. About 1179 he granted land at Leckwith to Margam Abbey. Patterson Earldom of Gloucester Charters (1973): 115. Clark Carter et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 112-113 (charter of Gruffudd ab Ivor Bach dated c.1179; which names his deceased mother, Nesta; charter witnessed by his "kinsman" [nepote] Ivor Peredeu).”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRY nicknamed “Beauclerc,” King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin, 4th son, born in 1068 or 1069. He married (1st) 11 Nov. 1100 MAUD OF SCOTLAND, daughter of Malcolm III (CeannMor), King of Scots, by his 2nd wife, [Saint] Margaret, daughter of Edward Ætheling [see SCOTLAND 1 for her parentage]. She was born in 1079. They had one son, William, and one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, died at Westminster 1 May 1118. He married (2nd) at Windsor, Berkshire 29 Jan. 1121 ALICE (or AELIZ, ALEIDE, ALEYDA, AELIDIS, ADELIDE, ADELIDIS, ADELAIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELIZE, ATHELICE) OF LOUVAIN, daughter of Gottfried (or Godefroy) I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Count of Louvain, by his 1st wife, Ida, daughter of Otto II, Count of Chiny. She was born about 1103. They had no issue. By various mistresses, he had eight illegitimate sons, Robert [Earl of Gloucester], Richard, Fulk, Reynold [Earl of Cornwall], Robert, Gilbert, William de Tracy, and Henry, and nine illegitimate daughters, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Rotrou II, Count of Perche), Alice, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Conan III, Duke of Brittany), Juliane (wife of Eustache de Pacy, seigneur of Breteuil and Pacy), Mabel (wife of Guillaume Gouet, seigneur of Montmirail), Constance (wife of Roscelin de Beaumont), Aline (wife of Mathieu de Montmorency), Sibyl (wife of Alexander I, King of Scots), and Isabel.* HENRY I, King of England died at Lyons-la-Forêt (near Rouen), Normandy 1 Dec. 1135, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) after Dec. 1136 but later than summer 1139 WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Lincoln, afterwards 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), hereditary Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor to King Henry I [see CLIFTON 3]. They had four sons, William [2nd Earl of Arundel or Sussex], Reiner, Henry, and Godfrey, and two daughters, Alice (wife of Jean I, Count of Eu and Alvred de Saint Martin) and Olive. He was a witness to King Stephen's 2nd Charter of Liberties in 1136. He was created Earl of Lincoln c.1138. He gave shelter to Empress Maud at Arundel Castle in 1139, but afterwards adhered to King Stephen. His earldom was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex before Christmas 1141. In his own later charters he is styled Earl of Chichester. About 1145 he witnessed a charter of Henry Hussey as "Consul Willelmo de Cicesterr." His wife, Alice, presented to the prebend of West Dean in 1150. Alice, dowager Queen of England, died as a nun at Affligem Abbey in Brabant 25 (or 26) March 1151, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1153, whereby the Crown continued with King Stephen for life, though the inheritance thereof was secured to Henry II. He subscribed his name to this instrument as "Comes Cicestrie." By grant dated c.1155, King Henry II confirmed to him as "William, Earl of Arundel" the Castle of Arundel, with the whole honour of Arundel and all its appurtenances. He served as Joint Ambassador to France and to the Pope in 1163/4. He served as Chief Ambassador with Princess Maud to Germany in 1168. He was appointed joint Commander of the royal army in Normandy in 1173. In Sept. 1173 he assisted in the defeat near Bury St. Edmunds of the Earl of Leicester. He founded Buckenham Abbey, Norfolk and Pynharn Priory, Sussex. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), died at Waverley Abbey, Surrey 4 (or 12) October 1176, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
[Footnote *: In 1824 the Scottish historian Chalmers stated that King Henry I of England had an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth, who married Fergus, lord of Galloway (died 1161). [see Chalmers Caledonia 3 (1824): 250, footnote k ("Fergus [lord of Galloway] ... was a prince of some note, even at the court of Henry I. of England, is certain : as he took to wife, according to the heralds, genealogists, and chroniclers, Elizabeth, the natural daughter of Henry I.")]. Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway), however, debunked Chalmers' statement, noting that the authorities quoted by Chalmers "do not bear out his assertion." Even so, other secondary sources have continued to repeat Chalmers' unfounded claim: See, for example, Mackenzie History of Galloway (1841): 167-172 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England"); Anderson Scottish Nation 2 (1862): 195 ("Fergus, lord of Galloway ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England ..."); M'Kerlie Galloway in Ancient & Modern Times (1891): 155 ("It is necessary to repeat here that Fergus married Elizabeth, the natural daughter of King Henry I. of England."); Maxwell Hist. of Dumfries & Galloway (1896): 47-48 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, natural daughter of Henry I., and sister of Sibilla, who married Alexander I., brother of David."); Ramsay Angevin Empire (1903): 90, footnote 7 ("Gunfrith [i.e., Godred] was son of Olaf, by Afreca, daughter of Fergus of Galloway, by 'Elisabeth,' reputed natural daughter of Henry I."); Oram Lordship of Galloway (2000): 60; Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Barrow Robert Bruce (1965): 36, footnote 2 notes that "Roger Howden calls Uchtred son of Fergus of Galloway a cousin of King Henry II (Gesta Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis, ed. Stubbs, Rolls Ser., i, 80)," a relationship which Professor Barrow states "is best explained on the supposition that Fergus married a bastard daughter of Henry I." However, given that King Henry II of England had a Scottish grandmother, a more likely explanation of the kinship between the Galloway and English royal families is that the wife of Fergus was near related to the Scottish royal family, possibly being a sister of William Fitz Duncan, whose grandfather was Malcolm Canmore, King of Scots [died 1093]. This arrangement would make Uchtred son of Fergus and King Henry II of England related in the 3rd degree of kindred (or second cousins).]
D'Achery Spicilegium 10 (1671): 612-613 (Continuatio Chronici Afflegemiensis: "Filia præfati Ducis Aleidis juncta matrimonio Regi Angliæ, post obitum secundi con jugis Afflegemiensis Claustri solitudinem ad reliquum vitæ ad humandum corpus elegit in domo turti Ecclesiæ contigua, cum una aut akera ancilla in Fratrum Afflegemiensiurn quieta taciturna multitudine solitaria habitavit, & beato fine quievit, de qua epitaphium: Aleidis Regina Anglim, filia Ducis Godefridi cum barba, Regnum suscepit in Anglia an MCXXI. obiit 9 Kal. Maii [23 April], sepulta è regione horologii nostri."). Rawlinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the City, and Cathedral-Church of Hereford (1717): Addenda, 30 (Kalendar of Obits: "IIII Non. December [2 December]. Obitus Henrici Regis."). Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 32-34. Morice Mémoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 130 (Extract of Cronicle of Robert, Abbot of Mont Saint Michel: "Anno 1135. Obiit Henricus I. Rex Anglorum in prima die Decembris, cum regnasset annis 35. & 4 mensibus."). Brequigny & Mouchet Table Chronologique des Diplômes, Chartes, Titres ... concernant l’Histoire de France 3 (1783): 236 (charter dated c.1155 of Alice Queen of the English [Adelaidis reginæ Anglorum]). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: Kal. Maii [25 April]. Ob. Alexander Rex Scottorum et Soror ejus Matildis Regina Anglorum."), 218 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "IV. Non. Dec. [2 December] Ob Henricus Rex Anglorum."). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Norrnands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXI)). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 169-179. Michel Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois D'Angleterre (1840): 69 ("Li rois Henrie, quant la roine Mehaus fu morte, prist à feme Aalis, la fille Godefroi le duc de Louvaing, la cousine Wistasse [Eustace] de Bouloigne; mais n'en ot nul enfant. Si ot-il de bas .vj. Ills et .vij. fines"). Strickland Lives of the Queens of England 1 (1840): 135-211 (biog. of Matilda of Scotland), 212-256 (biog. of Adelicia of Louvaine). Barrett Memorials of the parochial Church ... in the Parish of Attleborough (1848): 12-41. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 74 (Maud [of Blois], Countess of Chester, styled "niece" to King Henry I of England [neptis regis1). Ordericus Vitalis Ecclesiastical Hist. of England & Normandy 3 (1854): 482 (Roger Fitz Roger and Walter d'Aufay [Aufai] styled "cousins" to King Henry I at Battle of Bremule in 1119 by Ordericus Vitalis). Arch. Journal 20 (1863): 283 ("Adeliza appears to have used the identical matrux of the seal which had belonged to the first queen of Henry I., the name-Aalidis-having been substituted for Matli[Idis), 287-288 (charter of Queen Alice [Aelidis regina] ... There is appended ... a pointed oval seal of white wax .... device, a female figure standing ... The legend is + SIGILLVM • AALIDIS • SECVND[AE • DE]I • GRACIA • REGINAE • ANGLIE.), 288-289 (charter of Queen Alice [A. Dei gracia Regina]); 22 (1865): 152-153 (charter of William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Lincoln; charter names Queen Alice his wife [regina Adelidis]). Sussex Arch. Colls. 15 (1863): 112-113. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 14 (Margam Annals sub 1151: "Obiit Adelidis, regina secunda Henrici regis."); 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 433 (Bermondsey Annals sub A.D. 1121: "Hoc anno rex Henricus primus duxit Adelizam, filiam ducis Lovaniae, in uxorem, tertio nonas Februarii [3 February]."). Burke Gen. Hist, of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33 ("In the Register of the Priory of Bromhale, we find the record of his death under the date of the 4th day of October, 22nd of Henry II (A.D. 1176), in the following words, `obiit Willielmus Comes Arundel' (no mention of Sussex or Chichester), et `sepultus est in prioratus de Wymondham.’"). Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum 20 (1868): 67 (Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Liber X: Roger Fitz Richard [de Clare) styled "kinsman" [cognatus) of King Henry I of England). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 20, 104-108 (discusses evidence that King Henry I had an illegitimate daughter, Maud (or Mathilde)/Almodis, who was Abbess of Montivilliers). Ellis Antiqs. of Heraldry (1869): 206-207 (Aubigny ped.). Lower Compendious Hist. of Sussex 1 (1870): 70 (Robert de Haia, founder of Boxgrove Priory, styled "king's kinsman" [consanguineus] of King Henry I). Delisle Delisle Chronique de Robert de Tongni 1 (1872): 215 (sub A.D. 1139: "Invitarerat enim eos Willermus de Albinneio, qui duxerat Aeliz quondam reginam, quæ habebat castellum et comitatum Hardundel, quod rex Henricus dederat ei in dote."); 2 (1873): 63-64 ("Cessit etiam in fata Willermus de Albineio, quem vocabant comitem d'Arundel, relinquens filios quatuor, scilicet Guillermum de Albineio pritnogenitum, et alios tres natos ex Aeliza regina, uxore primi Henrici regis Anglorum."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 298 (sub 1176: "comes etiam Willelmus de Arundel obiit quarto idus Octobris [12 October] apud Waverle, et sepultus eat apud Wimundham, cellam scilicet ecclesiæ Sancti Albani, cujus cellæ patronus fuisse dinoscitur."). Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Obiit autem Matildis regina Anglia anno regni sui xviiio, kalendis Maii [1 May], et apud Radingas sepulta est."). Merlet Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): cvii-cviii (arms of Henry I, King of England, Duke of Normandy dated 1115: D'argent au cavalier d'azur). D.N.B. 1 (1885): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1(1886): 66 (sub Arundel). Raine Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1886): 169 (History of the Four Archbishops by Hugh the Chantor - King Henry I and Pope Calixtus II were kinsmen: "Nam præter spiritualem patris et filii relationem, carnali consanguinitate propinqui erant, quorum avus et avia frater et soror fuerunt." (Note: Pope Calixtus II was a younger son of William I, Count of Burgundy, whose mother Alice was daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy]). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 5-8 (seal of King Henry I - Obverse. King, seated in majesty, in an undercoat with sleeves tight at wrists, and loose skirts reaching below knees; and long flowing cloak fastened at throat and spreading out behind, which has a border, with indications of a fur of symmetrical pattern. On the head a cap-shaped crown, with three fleurs-de-lis, one at top and one at either side, and two chin-straps hanging loosely at sides, the ends having buckles in shape of trefoils. In right hand, extended outwards from elbow, a sword is held almost perpendicularly. In left hand, similarly extended, an orb, ensigned with a long cross pattee pommettee. Throne, apparently square, and closely resembling that of William II.; the centre curves with a bold cusp inwards, with a string-course, and is the narrowest part. In lower of two compartments thus made, is a footboard, not enough remaining to show original size. On throne a flat cushion with square edge, carrying at each end a hemispherical ornament, intended for pillow. Reverse. King, hauberk of chain-mail; conical helmet, having a blunt point at crown of head, and perhaps armed with projecting nose-piece; single pointed spur of goad form; long lance to which is attached a banner, charged with cross moline, and three pairs of waving streamers. No indication of sword. In left hand, held by interior strap, a kite-shaped shield, seen from within. The horse is walking to the right hand, caparisoned with breast-band, which is ornamented by five globular pendants equi-distant. Saddle of small dimensions; with stirrups. The loosely gathered reins are held up in left hand, which also sustains shield. Legend: + HENRIC' D... ... ...). Round "An Unknown Mistress of Henry I." in Eng. Hist. Rev. 5 (1890): 745-746. Luard Flores Historiarum 2 ((Rolls Ser.) 1890): 69 ("Anno gratix MCLIo [1151]. Obiit Adelicia regina, uxor regis Stephani;" the editor notes that the name "Stephani" is erased in Ch. and altered to "Henrici I."). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Docs. sur la Province du Perche 3rd Ser. 2) (1894): 40-43. Recueil des Historiens des Castles et de la France 23 (1894): 471 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 Mart. Obiit Adelicia regina."), 476 (Ex Necrologio Monasterii Crucis Sancti Leufredi: "25 Mart. [Obiit] Adeliza, regina Anglorum."), 578 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Mali. [Obiit] Matildis, regina Anglorum."), 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "12 Oct. [Obiit] Guillelmus, comes de Arundel."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Dec. [Obiit] Henricus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum."). Napier & Stevenson Crawford Coll. of early Charters & Docs. now in the Bodleian library (1895): 31 (William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Chichester dated c.1150; charter names his wife, Queen Alice [regina Adelide]). Bradshaw Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral Pt. 2 (1897): (obits. in the odd volume of the great Latin Bible), ccxxxviii (2 May - "Matildis regina uxor Henrici regis."), ccxlii (2 Dec. - "Henricus, pacificus rex Anglorum."). Trans. East Herts Arch. Soc. 1(1) (1901): 129-135 (charter of Queen Alice widow of King Henry I dated 1136 [Adelidis regina uxor nobillisimi regis Henrici & filia Godefridi ducis lotharingie]. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 530 (confirmation of gift of Alice, formerly Queen of England). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 316 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "kal. Maius [1 May] Ob. Matildis, Anglorum regina [1118]."), 523 (Prieure de Longpont: "kaL maii. [1 May] [obit.] Maltidis, Anglorum regina [1118]."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #14 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Lincoln dated c.1139-40; charter names his wife, Queen Adeleidis), #27 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Chichester dated 1151-2; charter names his wife, Queen Athelice). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 1-2 (sub Kings of Scotland). Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 25-34. Eng. Hist. Rev. 21(1906): 505-509. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 241 (Obituaire of Prieure de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Henricus, rex Anglorum, frater noster, III nonas decembris [3 Dec.] [1135]."), 661 (Nécrologe of Abbaye de Saint-Jean-en-Vallée: 12 Dec.] IIII non. Obiit Henricus, Anglorum rex [1135], ecclesiarum amator praecipuus."). Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway) ("[Fergus, lord of Galloway] is said to have married Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of King Henry I. of England, but the authorities quoted by Chalmers, who makes the statement, do not bear out his assertion."). D.N.B. 1 (1908): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 167-168 (charter of King Henry I dated c.1111=20). Gomme Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1909): 217 (sub A.D. 1100: Maud of Scotland, 1st wife of King Henry I, styled "kinswoman to king Edward [the Confessor] and of the true royal race of England."), 239-240 (sub A.D. 1127: Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone], Abbot of Saint-Jean of Angély (in Poitou), afterwards Abbot of Peterborough styled "kinsman" [mæi] of [Henry I] King of England and [Guillaume] Count of Poitou) [see also Earle and Plummer Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel 1 (1892): 257; English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-5601. CP. 1 (1910): 233-235, 237 (chart) (sub Arundel); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Round King's Serjeants & Officers of State (1911): 140-165. English Hist. Rev. 34 (1919): 303-382. Farrer Outline Itinerary of King Henry 1 (1920). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) XI 112. Rübel-Blass (1939) 257 (biographical information). G.H. White "Henry I's Illegitimate Children," in C.P. 11 (1949), Appendix D, 105-121. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 216. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19). C.R.R. 12 (1957): 157-158 (Sibyl de Falaise, wife of Baldwin de Bolers, styled "kinswoman" [nepte] of King Henry I of England). Stenton First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (1961). Davis King Stephen (1967): 137 ("[King] Stephen recognized three successive earls of Lincoln ... The first was William d'Aubigny pincerna who married Queen Adeliza, widow of King Henry I, and in her right became lord of the honour and castle of Arundel. He styles himself William Earl of Lincoln in three charters in which his identity is proved by references to his wife. They are in favour of Lewes Priory and the abbeys of Reading and Affligem-and in the case of Affligem there is also a charter of Adeliza referring to her husband as earl of Lincoln (Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville 3245; Warner and Ellis, Facsimiles, no. 14; E. de Marneffe, Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Affligem in Analectes pour servir à l’histoire ecclesiastique de la Belgique, 2o section, pp. 104,106). In royal charters it is usually impossible to distinguish him from his successor, William de Roumare, since the normal style of both was Willelmus comes de Lincolnia, or (before he was an earl) from his father, William d'Aubignypincerna, who died before June 1139 (Reg. iii. 973). If Robert de Torigny is right (Chronicles iv. 137) William had married Adeliza by September 1139, and it is tempting to assume that it was on his marriage that he was made earl of Lincoln, his connection with that county being that his mother, Maud Bigod, was a grand-daughter, and possible co-heiress, of Robert de Tosny of Belvoir. We do not know precisely when he was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex, but it was certainly by Christmas 1141 when he attested a charter as Comite Willelmo de Sudsexa (Reg. iii. 276)."). Chibnall Ecclesiastical Hist. of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80): 317 (Vol. VI, Book XII - Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone] styled "kinsman" [cognato] of King Henry I of England) [see English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-560]. Albion 10 (1978): 330-340. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 95 (sub Hainault, Brabant); 2 (1984): 81 (sub England); 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Green Government of England under Henry 1(1986). Hollister Monarchy, Magnates, & Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 301, 369, 476. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.1.423, XII.371, X11.644-X11.645, XIII.207. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 136 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "7 Kal. [Apr.] [26 March]. Obiit Atheliza regina."), 130 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit Rex Anglorum Henricus primus."), 146 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit rex Anglorum Henricus i."). Haskins Soc. Jour. 7 (1995): 101-116. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35, 57. Scottish Hirt. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Vincent Acta of Henry II and Richard I Pt 2 (List and Index Soc. Special Ser. 27) (1996): 143 (confirmation c. 1172/81 of grant made by Queen Adela) (original published in Jour. of British Architetural Assoc. 17: 312). Scottish Hist. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Harper-Bill Anglo-Norman Studies XXI (1999): 145-168. Bartlett England under the Norman & Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (2000). Hollister Henry 1(2001). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.), 313 (Scotland ped.). Weller Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert (2004): 464-4.76 (biog. of Königin Adelheid von England) ("On page 476, Weller states: "Seine Gattin Adelheid von Lowen, die ehemalige Konigin von England, war schon 1151 wahrend des Bürgerkrieges verschieden und wurde in Reading beigesetzt ... Der Begräbnisort Kgn. Adelheids geht aus einem Schreiben Jocelins v. Löwen an Bf. Hilarius v. Chichester eindeutig hervor, vgl. Reading Abbey Cartularies 1, No. 551, 416E; s.a. Bartlett, England 596. Nicht stichhaltig ist demgegeniiber die van Sanderus, Chorographia 1, 45, verbreitete Nachricht, wonach Adelheid vor ihrem Tod in ihre Heimat übergesiedelt und im Kloster Afflighem gestoren and begraben sei; heirnach auch John Horace Round in dem Art.: Adeliza of Louvain, in DNB 1(1885): 137f.; Complete Peerage 1, 235. Allerdings ist Kgn. Adelheid als Wohltäterin von Afflighem aufgetreten unde hat dem Kloster einigen Besitz in England gestiftet; vgl. Cart. Afflighem, No. 79, 121-124 (hier 122)."). Verbeke Medieval Narrative Sources (2005): 21-36. Fleming Henry I & the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister (2006). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006).
Children of King Henry I of England, by Maud of Scotland:
i. WILLIAM OF ENGLAND, son and heir apparent, born in 1103. As his father's destined successor, he received the homage of the Normans barons in 1115, and that of the English witan in 1116. He married at Lisieux in May 1119 MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ANJOU, daughter of Fulk V, Count of Anjou. He was with his father at the Battle of Bremule in 1119. Early in 1120 King Louis of France invested him with the duchy of Normandy. He was drowned in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Wharton Anglia Sacra (1691): 160 (Chronicon Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis sub A.D. 1120: "Willelmus filius Henrici Regis, & Ricardus frater ejus & Ricardus Comes de Cestria cum multis Nobilibus naufragio perierunt.”). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. D.N.B. 21(1909): 337 (biog. of William, son of Henry I, King of England). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.644. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 180-181, 192-193, 213-214. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
ii. MAUD OF ENGLAND, married (1st) HEINRICH V, King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor; (2nd) GEOFFREY V Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy [see next].
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by an unknown mistress, (possibly a member of the Bohun family):
i. ROBERT FITZ ROY, Earl of Gloucester, married MABEL FITZ ROBERT [see GLOUCESTER 3].
Illegitimate sons of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Ansfride, widow of Anskill, a knight who was a tenant of Abingdon Abbey:
i. RICHARD FITZ ROY, born before 1101. He served against the French in 1119, and was captured at Les Andelys. He was set free with his comrades by King Louis, because they had taken sanctuary in the church of Notre Dame du Grand Andely. Later the same year he was with his father at the Siege of Evreux and the Battle of Brémule. In Sept. 1119 he was sent to raise the Siege at Bréteuil. He was betrothed to Amice de Gael, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. He was drowned immediately afterwards in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Amice subsequently married Robert of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester [see LEICESTER 6]. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Alium quoque habuit filium Ricardum, et cessavit parere... Navis enim infausta qun regis gestabat filios Willelrnum et Ricardum, submersa est, periitque in scopulis Barbefluvii."). C.P. 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.646. Van Houts Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni 2 (1992): 248-249 (Robert de Torigny: "Ricardus autem, huius comitis uno de patre frater, cum fratre suo Willelmo in sepedicto naufiagio periit."). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
ii. FULK FITZ ROY. Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(II.647. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Sibyl Corbet:
i. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall, Sheriff of Devon, 1173-5. He married in 1140 MABEL FITZ WILLIAM, daughter of William Fitz Richard, of Cornwall. They had one son, Nicholas, and four daughters, Denise (wife of Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon), Maud, Sarah (wife of Ademar, Vicomte of Limoges), and Emme (wife of Guy V de Laval, seigneur of Laval). By a mistress, Beatrice de Valle (or Vaux) (afterwards wife of William Briwerre, Knt.), he had an illegitimate son, Henry Fitz Count. By an unknown mistress, he also had one illegitimate son, William. He was granted the lands of William, Earl of Mortain, amounting to 215-1/2 fees in Devon and Cornwall. He was created Earl of Cornwall about April 1141. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, were recognized by contemporaries as "the most powerful men in the kingdom." His wife, Mabel, fell into insanity in the 1140s. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1114-47. In 1153 he witnessed the agreement between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II]. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, acted as intermediary between the king and Thomas Becket at Northampton in 1164. He played a major part in opposing the rebels of 1173-4 in England. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall died 1 July 1175, allegedly at Chertsey, Surrey, and was buried at Reading, Berkshire. Dugdale Baronage (1675): 702 (sub Briwere) ("[William Briwere] having married Beatrix de Valle, a Concubine, as 'tis said, to Reginald Earl of Cornwall (which is probable, for in a Grant made by Henry Son to the same Reginald [Earl of Cornwall], unto this William [Briwere], of the Mannor of Karswell, and Land of Hakford, he calls him his Brother")) [Note: Dugdale evidently intended to say that Henry Fitz Count's brother was William Briwere the younger, as it was William Briwere the elder was the husband of his mother, Beatrice de Valle]. Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 6, 98 (undated charter of Reynold son of King Henry to William de Botreaux son of Alice Corbet his aunt [matertera]; charter witnessed by his son, Nicholas; his nephews/kinsmen [nepotibus], Ralph and Richard, and his brother, William), 112. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836 11): 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Stubbs Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis (or Chron. of the Reigns of Henry II. & Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192) 1 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 163 ("Deditque ibidem Hereberto filio Hereberti, et Willelmo fratri comitis Reginaldi, et Joelllano de la Pumerai, nepoti eorum, regnum be Limeric pro servitio sexaginta militum"), 172 ("Nam Herbertus, et Willelmus, fratres Reginaldi comitis Cornubiae, et Joellanus de Purnetia nepos eorum, regnum illud havere noluerunt; sed illud reddiderunt domino regi et Johanni filio suo liberum et quietum ab omni calurnnia eorum"). Le Fizelier Mémoire chronologique de Maucourt de Bourjolly sur la Ville de Laval 1 (1886): 136-142. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-253 (William brother of Earl Reynold [Willelmus frater Comitis Reginaldi] held 1/2 knight's fee of Robert Fitz Roy in 1166), 261-262 (William brother of the Earl [Willelmus frater Comitis] held four knight's fees Reynold, Earl of Cornwall in 1166). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 455-456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. C.P. 3 (1913): 429 (sub Cornwall); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 9, 219. English Hist. Rev. 62 (1947): 352-377 (charter of William de Marsh brother of Reynold Earl of Cornwall [Willelmus de Marisco frater Reginaldi comitis Cornubie]). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 6 (Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, styled "uncle" [avunculo] by Henry [II], later King of England, in charter dated 1147 or 1149). Minor & Butler eds. Letters of John of Salisbury 1 (Oxford Medieval Texts) (1955): 162-163. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 9-10 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1154-65), 10-11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1146-55), 11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 195-196 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1165-75, witnessed by his son, Nicholas), 196-197 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 197-198 (two confirmation charters of King Henry II of England naming his "uncle" [avunculus] Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, one dated c.1174-5, the other dated c.1174-6). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(11.651, X111.996-1000. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Hollister Henry 1(2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).Cornwall Rec. Office: Borough of Truro, BTRU/1 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1161-66) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, by Mabel Fitz William:
a. MAUD OF CORNWALL, married ROBERT II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 7].
Illegitimate child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, allegedly by Beatrice de Valle:
a. HENRY FITZ COUNT, of Liskeard, Cornwall and King's Kerswell, Devon, Constable of Totnes Castle, 1209, Governor of Portchester Castle, 1211, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1215, 1217-20, Constable of Launceston Castle and Warden of the Stanneries, 1215. In 1194 he was granted the manors of Liskeard, Cornwall and Diptford and King's Kerswell, Devon by the king. In 1196 he witnessed the Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by his alleged step-father, Sir William Briwerre. In 1215 he had a grant of the county of Cornwall from King John, to farm until the realm should be at peace. The grant was renewed by King Henry III 7 Feb. 1216/7. He resigned the county to the king in 1220, when he took the cross. HENRY FITZ COUNT died a crusader in 1222. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Hunter Catalogue of the MSS in the library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn (1838): 13. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1846): 924 (Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by William Briwer). Oliver Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis (1846): 174 (charter of Henry son of Reynold Earl of Cornwall; charter granted for the souls of his brothers and his mother), 179, 183. Trans. Exeter Diocesan Architectural & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 (1867): 133-134. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31(1870): 5. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 21. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 9 (1902): 295-296 ("But Reginald de Dunstanville [i.e., Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall] had also by Beatrix de Valle (who afterwards became the wife of William Brewer, the judge of Henry II. and one of the regents of Richard I.) an illegitimate son named Henry FitzCount (sometimes FitzHenry), who became in after years also Earl of Cornwall."). Genealogist n.s. 20 (1904): 10-11. C.P. 3 (1913): 430 (sub Cornwall). Painter Reign of King John (1949): 231, 290, 348, 358-359. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 116 (charter of Henry Fitz Count dated 1200-22; charter witnessed by William Brewer). North Devon Rec. Office: Chichester of Arlington, 50/11/29/3 (confirmation of a gift of land dated early 13th Cent. from Henry son of Earl Reginald to William de Tracy of all his land of Wollecombe [in Mortehoe] and Boklande, Devon, which William and his ancestors held of Henry and his ancestors, lords of Bradneys, as the charter of Hugh Ruffus testifies. To have and to hold to the aforesaid William, his heirs and assigns, of Henry and his heirs for ever, rendering all due and customary services. Seal of Henry son of Earl Reginald - Round, natural wax, armorial, surrounded by legend giving name of owner, chipped. The arms on shield resemble those of Courtenay family, but the Courtenays did not become Earls till 14th Cent.) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (Baldekin styled "kinsman" of H[enry] Fitz Count in a fine roll item dated 1220; by whom he was earlier granted lands in Cornwall formerly held by Robert de Tintagel) (available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_015.html).
Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith, daughter of Forne son of Sigulf, lord of Greystoke, Cumberland. Edith subsequently married ROBERT D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, Constable of Oxford Castle. They had two sons, Henry and Gilbert. He and his wife, Edith, founded Oseney Priory near Oxford in 1129. Robert d'Oilly died in Sept. 1142. Sometime in the period, c.1145-56, his widow, Edith, granted a toft in Huggate and 68-1/2 acres in the fields there to the poor of the Hospital of St. Peter, York. Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 50 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith), 92 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated before June 1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith, and his son, Henry). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 505-508, 510 (charter of Edith wife of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1145-56), 510-511 (charter of Henry d'Oilly dated c.1145-56; charter witnessed by his wife, Maud), 518-519. Hedley Northumberland Fares. (1968): 233.
i. ROBERT FITZ ROY. He held land in Devonshire in 1130. He witnessed a charter of his step-father, Robert d'Oilly, in the period, ?1130-35. He supported his half-sister, Empress Maud, in the Civil War. In the period, 1144-7, he witnessed a charter of his half-brother, Henry d'Oilly. In 1146-7 he witnessed a charter of Empress Maud and her son, Henry. About 1150 he granted 10 pounds of land in his manor of Wantage, Berkshire to the church of Oseney, with the counsel of Henry d'Oilly his half-brother. Sometime in the period, 1153-67, he witnessed a charter of Wigan of Wallingford. He married before 1162 MAUD D'AVRANCHES, widow of William de Courcy (or ?Geoffrey de Crimes?), and daughter of Robert d'Avranches, by ___, daughter of Gelduin de Dol. They had one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, was heiress of Richard Fitz Baldwin. In 1162 he granted St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter two ferlings of land in his manor of Calvalegie juxta Cobbalegiam, together with a man named Edwium son of Wranhi; charter was granted with with the consent of his wife, Maud d'Avranches. ROBERT FITZ ROY died 31 May 1172. His widow, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1173. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farms of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 188 ("C. Rob[er]ti filii Henrici Regis per concessionem Mathildis, filiz Roberti de Avrenchis et heredis Ricardi filii Baldewini, dans totam vincam quam Rob'tus fil. Baldewini et Ricardus fester ejus Eccl. S.N. dederunt."), 382 (charter dated 1162 of Robert son of King Henry, granted with consent of Maud d'Avranches his wife [Robertus filius Regis Henrici, assensu Matillidis de Abrinco uxoris meae to St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter). Dugdale Monasticon Anglican = 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Obijt denique vir ejus secundus, dominus Robertus filius regis Henrici anno Domini M.clxxii. pridie calendas Junii [31 May], et post ipsum vicecomitissa Matildis, itaque de Aubrincis ut prius nuncupata, undecimo calendas Octobris [21 Sept.] anno Domini M.clxxiii. et regni regis Henrici secundi 19."); 6(1) (1830): 253 (charter of Robert son of King Henry [Robertus Henrici regis filius]; charter names his [half-]brother [fratris], Henry d'Oilly). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Priory of Hexham 1 (Surtees Soc. 64) (1864): 138 (Chronicle of John, Prior of Hexham: "Emissi sunt autem ducenti milites cum Rodberto, filio Edae et Henrici Regis notho, et Johanne Marascaldo ...."). Freeman Reign of the Norman Conquest of England 4 (1871): 723. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 374 (charter of Robert son of King Henry dated c.1150). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 137-138 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that he was the son of Hawise, the first born daughter of Maud d'Avranches; Hawise's sister, Maud de Courtenay, who was the plaintiff in the lawsuit, in turn testified that the said Hawise was the daughter of Geoffrey de Crimes (or Crunes, Cruues), the 1st husband of Maud d'Avranches), 404-405; 3 (1887): 450-452 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that his mother, Hawise, was the daughter of William de Curcy, husband of Maud d'Avranches). Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 50-56. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-254 (list of knights fees held by Robert Fitz Roy in 1166). Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 73, 75, 101-102. C.P. 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2426-2428. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.650, XIII.995. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 62, footnote 26.
Child of Robert Fitz Roy, by Maud d'Avranches:
a. MAUD FITZ ROBERT, married REYNOLD DE COURTENAY, of Sutton, Berkshire [see COURTENAY 1].
ii. ALICE FITZ ROY. In the period, ?1130-35, she witnessed a charter of her step-father, Robert d'Oilly, and her mother, Edith. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 72-73 (Alice daughter of the king [Adeliza Lila Reg.] witness to charter of Robert d'Oilly, his wife, and son dated ?1130-35). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151.
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Nest, wife of Gerald of Windsor, Constable of Pembroke, and daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwt, Prince of South Wales:
i. HENRY FITZ ROY, of Pembrokeshire. He was killed during King Henry II's invasion at Anglesea in 1157 or 1158. He married ___. They had two sons, Meiler Fitz Henry [Justiciar of Ireland] and Robert, and presumably one daughter, Amabilis Fitz Henry (wife of Walter de Ridelisford). Williams ab Ithel Annales Cambriaes (Rolls Ser.) (1860): 47 (sub A.D. 1158: "Henricus filius Geraldi occisus est, velut alii volunt, filius Henrici regis ..."). Dimock Geraldus Cambrensis: Itinerarium Kambrice, et Descriptio Kambriæ (Geraldus Cambrensis Opera 6) (Rolls Ser.) (1868): 130 (Date: A.D. 1157: "Fuerant autem duo nobiles viti, et ejus qui scripsit haec avunculi, cum aliis hue a rege transmissi: Henricus scilicet regis Henrici primi filius, et secundi avunculus, ex nobili Nesta, Resi filii Theodori filia, in australi Kambria Demetiae finibus oriundus; et Robertus Stephani filius, Henrici frater non germanus sed uterinus."), 130, footnote 2 ("The death of Henry, her [Nest's] son by [King] H[enryl I., in this attack on Anglesea, is placed by Brut under 1156, in Ann. Camb. under 1158. By the former he is called Henry son of King Henry; by the latter, Henry son of Girald, or, according to others, son of king Henry. He was the father of the famous Meiler, the great hero of the Irish invasion."). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 30-31 (charter of Walter de Ridelisford to St. Mary's Abbey; charter granted with consent of his wife, Amabilis Fitz Henry and witnessed by Meiler Fitz Henry). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1 (1911): 18 (ped. chart). Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.656. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 298-299 (biog. of Meiler Fitzhenry). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith:
i. MAUD (or MATHILDE, MAHAUT) OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 (as his 1st wife) ROTROU II “the Great,” Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme, son and heir of Geoffroi, Count of Mortagne and Perche, by Beatrix, daughter of Count Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and Roucy. He was born about 1080. Her maritagium likely included the manors of Aldboume and Wanborough, Wiltshire. They had two daughters, Philippe and Felicie. During the 1st Crusade, he fought at the Siege of Nicaea in mid-1097. He commanded a division that broke out of Antioch in June 1098. He crusaded against the Muslims in Spain probably in 1108. In 1114 he aided his father-in-law, King Henry I, at the Siege of Belleme. At the request of his wife, Maud, a hide of land at Wanborough, Wiltshire was given to Lewes Priory. His wife, Maud, was drowned in the shipwreck of the White Ship 25 Dec. 1120. He was Governor of Tudela in Aragon and participated in campaigns in Aragon from 1123 until the mid-1130s. He returned to Perche by 1135. He married (2nd) before 1126 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPEE 2 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffroi, Rotrou (III) [Count of Perche], and Etienne [Archbishop-elect of Palermo]. After King Henry I's death in 1135, he and his nephew, Richer de l'Aigle, extorted the castles of Moulins and Bonmoulins as the price for their support for King Stephen. In 1139 he was taken in the English king's pay and defeated the unruly knights of Breteuil. ROTROU II, Count of Perche, died 6 May 1144 at the Siege of the Towe of Rouen, he then being in the service of Empress Maud and her husband, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braille [see DREUX 6], and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Bellème, younger son of Louis VI, King of France, by Alix, daughter of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and Maurienne [see FRANCE 5 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Breteuil, Guy II, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I, seigneur of Torote, Châtellain de Noyon, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). His wife, Hawise, died in 1152. Robert I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Des Murs Hist. des Comtes du Perche de la Fam. des Rotrou (1856). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 173-176. Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 13 (1881): 255 (Genealogiæ Fusniacensis: "Rotaldus comes, prefati comitis filius, duxit filiam regis Anglie, de qua filiam procreavit. "). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 3940 (charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche, dated c.1119; charter witnessed by his sister [soror], Juliane, and her son, Richer), 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe). Money Hist. of the Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury (1887): 62 (Perche ped.). Boulais Receuil des Antiquitéz du Perche (1890). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 33-35. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 419 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "6 [Obiit] Rotrodos comes."). Lalizel Abbaye Royal d'Arcisses (Archives du Diocèse de Chartres 10) (1900): 3-10 (charters of Rotrou, Count of Perche). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 174-186; 12 (1983): 67-86. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Traditio 41(1985): 145-179. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.649. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France (2002). Hollister Henry I (2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 360-361. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Geoffrey Grossus Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (2009): 71, footnote 1.
Child of Maud (or Mathilde) of England, by Rotrou II of Perche:
a. PHILIPPE OF PERCHE, married HELIE OF ANJOU, Count of Maine, younger son of Foulques V le Jeune, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, by his 1st wife, Eremburge, daughter and heiress of Hélie, Count of Maine. They had one daughter, Beatrix (wife of Jean I, Count of Alençon). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe [assensu generis mei Helie filieque mee Romanet de Beaune Geographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (1905): 30-31 ("... Helias vero ...comes Cenomannonun factus est, et xx annis adepto consulatu strenue potitis est. Heres quoque soceri sin Gervasii de Castro Lidi factus est, eujus filiam habuit, ex qua filiam nomine Eremburgem genuit, quam domino suo Fulconi, Andegavorum comiti, in matromonium copulavit … Uxor ejus ei filiam, Eremburgem nomine, peperit, quae, nubilibus annis, Fulconi, Andegavorum tunc comiti, nunc Ierosolymorum regi, nupsit et generosam sobolem genuit: Joffredum et Heliam, Mathildem et Sibyllam, quae filiis regum solemniter nupserunt"). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121.
Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by various mistresses:
i. GILBERT FITZ ROY. He was still young and unmarried in 1142. Nothing more is known of him. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 281 286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.660. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
ii. WILLIAM DE TRACY. He died soon after his father. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121 (author states in error that William de Tracy had a daughter and heiress, Grace, wife of John de Sudeley, of Sudeley Castle and Toddington, Gloucestershire). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.659. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
iii. MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ENGLAND, married CONAN III, Duke of Brittany [see BRITTANY 3].
iv. JULIANE OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 EUSTACHE DE PACY (or DE BRETEUIL), seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, illegitimate son of Guillaume, seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, by an unknown mistress. They had two sons, Guillaume and Roger, and two daughters. In 1119 he took part in the rebellion against King Henry I, who besieged his wife, Juliane, at Breteuil. She fled to Pacy, and in the autumn of 1119 Eustache and Juliane were pardoned by the king. A few years later she became a nun at Fontevrault. EUSTACHE DE PACY died at the beginning of Lent 1136, Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise (1895): 470-476 (Famille d'Ivry). C.P. 8 (1932): 209-210 (sub Lovel); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X11.648. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 304 (Fitz Osbem ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Norrnandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
v. MABEL OF ENGLAND, married be 		Fitz Roy, Robert (I6391)
 
6667 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt., of Woodham Walter, Burnham, Henham, Little Dunmow, Roydon, Ulting, Wimbish, and Tey, Essex, Wesdey (in Westley Waterless), Cambridgeshire, Diss and Hempnall, Norfolk, Ashwell and Radwell, Hertfordshire, Poslingworth and Shimpling, Suffolk, etc., 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir, born in 1300 (aged 25 in 1326). He was never summoned to Parliament. He was contracted to marry 18 March 1304/5 JOAN BOTETOURT, daughter of John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt, Admiral of the North Fleet, by Maud, daughter of Thomas Fitz Otes, Knt. [see BOTETOURT 8 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. He married (2nd) JOAN DE MULTON, daughter of Thomas de Multon, Knt., 1st Lord Multon, of Egremont, Cumberland, by Eleanor, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Knt., 3rd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see HARINGTON 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1304 (aged 30 and more in 1334). They had one son, John, Knt. [2nd Lord Fitz Walter]. SIR ROBERT FITZ WALTER died 6 May 1328. On 12 Dec. 1328, his widow, Joan, had license to marry John de Weyland, if she gave her consent. Joan was co-heiress in 1334 to her brother, John de Multon, Knt., 2nd Lord Multon, by which she inherited the Castle and manor of Egremont, Cumberland, and 1/3 of the manors of Fleet and Beausolze (in Algarldrk), Lincolnshire. In 1361 Lady Joan Fitz Walter presented to the church of Wimbish, Essex. She died 16 June 1363, and was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex.
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 2-8. Nicolson & Burn Hist. & Antiqs. of the Counties of Westmorland & Cumberland 2 (1777): 69-77. Hutchinson Hist. of the County of Cumberland 2 (1794): 27-28 (Lucy-Multon ped). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 379-381 (sub Multon). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90,209 (Botetourt Peds.). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 672-673 (Multon ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 148. Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 379-380 (sub Multon). Arch. Aeliana 2 (1832): 384-386 (Tailboys-Meschens ped.). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 152. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 246; n.s. 18 (1902): 94. C.P.R. 1301-1307 (1898): 320. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: E 1314-1337 (1903): 229. Copinger Manors of Steak 1 (1905): 191-195; 2 (1908): 45-53. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 165-166,368. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 126-129. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 199-209,244-247. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 142 (sub Multon). Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 2-3,15,111-115. C.P. 5 (1926): 475-476 (sub FitzWalter); 9 (1936): 404-405 (sub Multon). Fowler Reg. Simonis de Sudbiria 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 34) (1927): 230. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 230: 5 (sub Fitz Walter), 394: 4. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 129-130. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 177-182. Biancalana Fee Tail & the Common Recovery in Medieval England (2001): 157.”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MAUD FITZ THOMAS, born about 1269-72 (aged 26 in 1295, aged 30 in 1302). She married before June 1282 JOHN BOTETOURT (or BUTETURTE, BOUTECOURTE, BOTECOURT, BUTECOURT), Knt., of Little Effingham and Upton, Norfolk, Great Bradley, Suffolk, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire, Linslade, Buckinghamshire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, etc., Admiral of the North Fleet, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Constable of St. Briayels Castle, 1291-1308, Governor of Framlingham Castle, son and heir of Guy Botetourt, Knt., of Little Effingham, Cantley, Cranworth, Fishley, Kimberley, Upton, and Woodrising, Norfolk, by his wife, Ada. They had four sons, Thomas, Knt., John, K.B., Otes, Knt., and Robert, and three daughters, Joan, Ada, and Elizabeth. He began his household career as a falconer in the 1270s. He first campaigned in Wales in 1282 as a squire of the household. His wife, Maud, was co-heiress in 1283 to her brother, Otes Fitz Thomas, and sole heiress in 1285 to her sister, Joan, wife of Guy Ferre, by which she inherited the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint, together with the manors of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Belchamp Otton, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfield, Essex, Woodmancote, Gloucestershire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and a one-third share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire. In 1286 he claimed view of frankpledge and free warren in Hamerton, Huntingdonshire. Sometime in the period, 1291-1302, Maud was heiress to her cousin, Joan, daughter of Hugh Fitz Otes, Knt., by which she inherited the manor of Isetthampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire. In 1292-3 he was a justice of gaol delivery in Warwickshire and Leicestershire. In 1293 he and his wife Maud his wife quitclaimed to the Abbot of Colchester their right to the advowson of the church of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire. In 1294 when the king faced the threat of French galleys raiding the south coast of England, he appointed two household knights, William de Leyboume and John Botetourt as captain and sub-captain of the fleet. In the following year they were described as admirals - the first use of the term in England. In 1296 he commanded 94 ships taken from ports between Harwich and King's Lynn, the great majority from Yarmouth. In 1298 and 1299 he served on four commissions of oyer and terminer. In 1298 he had letters of protection for one year, he then going to Scotland. He was accompanied in that campaign by his younger brother, Guy Botetourt, and his valet, William Botetourt. In 1300 he complained William de Wolcherchehaw, taverner, beat one of his carters and did "other enormities;" the defendant came into court and pledged a cask of wine to him. He was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300; the metrical chronicler of that siege described him as "light of heart and doing good to all." The same year he was appointed one of three commissioners to inquire into cases of exportation of sterling money, gold and silver, plate, wool, etc., and the exchange of the same for base coin which was imported into England and unlawfully changed. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301. In 1304 he led a raid into Nithsdale with 130 cavalry and 1,770 infantry. The same year the king ordered him to assist Robert de Brus, then on the English side, in transporting one great engine in preparation of the siege train for the siege of Stirling in Scotland. He was summoned to Parliament from 13 July 1305 to 13 Sept. 1324, by writs directed Jobanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt. In 1305 he was appointed one of the justices of trailbaston. The same year he was sent to treat with the Scots on the affairs of that kingdom. In 1306 he enrolled himself as performing the service of one knight in Scotland, but in fact he had a contingent of three knights and eleven squires with him. In 1307 he again commanded a raid against the Scots. Sometime before 1309-10, he and his wife, Maud, conveyed land in Linslade, Buckinghamshire to William Rous. In 1309-10 William Fitz Walter conveyed the manor of Great Bradley, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud. In 1310 he obtained a license to alienate lands and rents in Mendlesham, Suffolk in mot twain to the value of 100s. for a chaplain to celebrate in Mendlesham church. In 1311 he and his wife, Maud, were granted the reversion of the manors of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire and Great Carbrooke, Norfolk by Baldwin de Manners, Knt., who died childless in 1320. John sold the former manor to William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., Lord Zouche, and Alice his wife in 1323; the latter manor was held in 1327 by John Botetourt's son-in-law, William le Latimer. In 1312 John Botetourt and several others were granted letters of safe-conduct by the king to confer in London with Arnold, Cardinal of St. Prisca, and Louis, Count of Evreux, who were sent to help effect a reconciliation between King Edward II and the disaffected earls. In 1314 he commanded the fleet employed in the expedition against Scotland. The same year Peter de Burgate, Knt., released all his right in the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud. In 1315 he complained that those recruited for his company were "feeble chaps, not strong enough, not properly dressed, and lacking bows and arrows." In 1316 he presented his brother, Master Roger Botetourt, as rector of Great Bradley, Suffolk. In 1318 he again presented to the church of Great Bradley, Suffolk. The same year he and his wife, Maud, complained that Richard, Abbot of St. Edmunds, William de Cleye, and many others came to Tivetshall, Norfolk, where Maud and some of the servants of the said John were lodged, maliciously raised a hue and cry against them, expelled the said Maud and the servants from the inn, carried away the goods of the said John, and assaulted the said servants. Either he or his grandson, John Botetourt, was heir sometime after 1318-19 to his brother, William Botetourt, by which he inherited the manor of Cantley, Norfolk. In 1319 he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Woodmancote, Gloucestershire to Robert de Swynburn. In 1320 he obtained a license to alienate one acre of land in Fishley, Norfolk, together with the advowson of a moiety of the church of Fishley, Norfolk, to the Prior and Convent of St. Mary's, Weybridge, and for them to appropriate the said moiety, to find a chaplain to celebrate divine services for the soul of the said John and the souls of his ancestors. In 1321 he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire to John de Wysham, Knt., and his wife, Hawise de Poynings; in 1322-3 he conveyed the manor and advowson of the church of Little Effingham, Norfolk to the same couple. John joined the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2. He was subsequently fined £1000, and received a pardon 8 October 1322. In 1323 he and his wife, Maud, conveyed the manor of Isenhampstead Chesham), Buckinghamshire to Hugh le Despenser the younger, but, on Hugh's execution and attainder in 1326, the manor escheated to the crown and custody was re-granted to Maud Botetourt. In 1323-4 they made a settlement of the manor of Great Carbrooke, Norfolk, evidently in connection with the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to William le Latimer, as William was lord of this manor in 1327. In 1324 John paid the Italian bankers, the Peruzzi, 100 marks, evidently in payment of a debt he owed to Hugh le Despenser the younger. SIR JOHN BOTETOURT, 1st Lord Botetourt, died 25 Nov. 1324. In 1325 his widow, Maud, sued Andrew de Bures, Robert de Bures and his wife, Hillary, and John de Wysham and his wife, Hawise, for one third part of the manor of Little Effingham, Norfolk, which she claimed as her dower. In 1327 she likewise sued Robert son of John Botetourt, John de Wynchestre and others regarding unspecified land in Suffolk. In 1328 she obtained a license to enfeoff Master William Artoys of a messuage and land in Renhold, Bedfordshire. On 12 Nov. 1328 she obtained a license to convey to her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and William le Latimer, her share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire, including the manors of Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire. Maud, Lady Botetourt, died shortly before 27 Nov. 1328. In May 1329 her son-in-law, William le Latimer, was pardoned for having previously purchased from her without license the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint. In 1330 John and Maud's son, Otes Botetourt, obtained a license to alienate in mortrnain a messuage, 30 acres of land, and 30s. in rent in Mendlesham, Suffolk to a chaplain to celebrate divine services in the parish church of Mendlesham for the souls of his parents.
(Note: F.N. Craig published a brilliant article entitled "The Parentage of John Botetourt (died 1324)" in TAG 63 (1988): 145-153, which article provides compelling evidence that Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, is the son and heir of Sir Guy Botetourt (died c.1316), of Effingham, Norfolk, by his wife, Ada (living 1311-12). Specifically, Mr. Craig showed that Sir Guy Botetourt had the manors of Effingham (his chief seat), Uphall (in Cantley), and Upton, Norfolk, all of which passed to Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, or his descendants. For additional evidence of Sir John Botetourt's parentage, see Byerly & Byerly Recs. of the Wardrobe & Household 1286-1289 (1986): 258, which mentions Robert brother of John Botetourt. This Robert appears to be the same individual as Robert son of Guy Botetourt, a priest, who occurs in 1306; a Roger son of Guy Botetourt, also a priest, is named in 1306 [see Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 15, 211. In 1294 Roger Botetourt and his brother Robert [presumably the same individuals] jointly acquired a messuage in St. Michael's parish, Cambridge in 1294 [see Cooper Mems. of Cambridge (1861): 215]. In 1306 the king gave license to Master Roger and Robert Boutetourt to enclose the lane on the south side of their dwelling-place in Cambridge [see C.P.R. 1301-4307 (1898): 435]. Master Roger later sold this property alone in 1324 as "Master Roger, the son of the noble man Sir Guy Buttetourte." [see Cooper, ibid.; Procs. Soc. of Antiquaries of London 2nd Ser. 4 (1869): 200-201; Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rd Cambridge (1891): 90]. Master Roger is doubtless the same person as the Roger Botetourt who was rector of Little Effingham, Norfolk, which advowson was held by Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, in 1317 (see Watkin Inv. of Church Goods temp. Edward III (Norfolk Rec. Soc. 19(2)) (1948): 137, 215). Robert Botetourt also served as a feoffee in 1311, when Sir Baldwin de Manners settled the reversion of two manors on Sir John Botetourt and Maud his wife [see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 608; Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 101 (sub Manners); Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 891. Records further shows that Sir John Boteourt, who owned the manor of Great Bradley, Suffolk, appointed Robert Botetourt as rector at Great Bradley, Suffolk in 1311, and Master Roger Botetourt as rector of the same place in 1316. Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, also had three additional brothers, Ralph Botetourt, who joined his father, Guy Botetourt, Knt., and Guy's wife, Ada, in fines dated 1296-7 and 1297-8 (see Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 149, 151); Guy Botetourt, who accompanied his brother, Sir John, to Scotland in 1298 (see Gough Scotland in 1298 (1888): 22. 68, 166) and Thomas Botetourt, who in 1300 was owed a debt as "Thomas son of Guy Botetourt." (see National Archives, C241/35/295). In 1305-6 Thomas made a settlement of the manor of Cranworth, Norfolk, and property in Wood Rising, Norfolk on his parents, Guy and Ada Botetourt (see Rye Short Cal Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 230). In 1307 Thomas Botetourt, a subdeacon, was the pluralist rector of Tivetshall, Norfolk and Euston and Troston, Suffolk (see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 138; 2 (1739): 880); Tivetshall, Norfolk is the place where John Botetourt's wife, Maud, and his servants were expelled from the inn in 1318 by the Abbot of Sc. Edmunds and other men (see above). Taken together, the various pieces of evidence, the passage of lands, and the close association of these individuals make it clear that Sir John, Master Roger, Robert, Guy, Ralph, and Master Thomas Botetourt were all sons of Sir Guy Botetourt, Knt. (died c.1316), of Effingham, Norfolk, and his wife, Ada For further particulars regarding Sir Guy Botetourt (died c.1316), and his wife, Ada, see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 625; Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 11 (1810): 102, 106, 133; Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 678; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1(1885): 112, 130, 149, 151, 163, 165, 166; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 230; Genealogist n.s. 11(1894): 244; Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 437, 458, 471-473, 480, 482, 519; C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 31; Norfolk Arch. 21(1923): 8-15; 30 (1952): 241, 247, 271, 279-280, 285-286; National Archives, C 241/50/366. For further particulars regarding Sir John Botetourt's younger brothers, Master Roger (son of Guy) Botetourt, a priest, who occurs variously from 1294 to 1330/1, holding the benefices of Thompson, Norfolk, and Great Wigston, Leicestershire, and Robert Botetourt, a priest, who occurs variously from 1286/89 to 1311, holding the benefices of Caulebourne, Hampshire and Fomcett, Norfolk, see Potts Liber Cantabtigiensis (1855): 337; Rye Short CaL of Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 282, Willis & Clark Architectural Hist. of the Univ. of Cambridge 1 (1886): 162; Rye Short CaL Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 282; C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 245; Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 458; TAG 63 (1988): 153; National Archives, C 241/77/28, C 241/101/124. Finally, Mr. Craig in his Botetourt article in TAG 63 (1988): 146 (chart), 151 identified "John le Botetourt," brother of William son of Ralph de Saham, clerk, who occurs in a Norfolk pleading dated 1307 as being the same person as Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt; however, the person in the 1307 pleading appears to be a separate and distinct individual from Sir John Botetourt, as he was neither a knight or a baron [see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 10 (1809): 199; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 138].
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1(1739): 608. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 11 (1810): 103, 133. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90, 209 (Botetourt Peds.). Palgrave /Indent Kalendars & Invs. of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 78, 102. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 265, 272, 308. Ruding Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain & its Dependencies 2 (1840): 194. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 131 (sub Botetourt). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 4 (1847): 276 (Botetourt ped.). Foss Judges of England 3 (1851): 38, 57-59 (biog. of John de Botetourt). Gentleman's Mag. (1855): 159. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 4 (1869): 572; 4th Ser. 5 (1870): 131-132. Harvey Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundred of Willey (1872-8): opp. 4 (Beauchamp ped). Grazebrook Heraldry of Worcestershire 1 (1873): 66-67. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 63-64 (sub Botetourt). Bain Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 2 (1884): 258-259. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 254, 265, 268. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 11(1886-7): 233-242. Gough Scotland in 1298 (1888): 22, 67, 86, 146, 166. C.P.R 1327-1330 (1891): 125, 241, 337, 391, 551. Hill Hist. of Upton, Norfolk (1891): following 8 (Botetourt ped.), 9-10. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 89. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 220. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. Genealogist n.s. 11(1894): 110 (Parl. Roll of Arms - arms of Sire John Boutetor: de or a vn sautour engrele de sable). C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 458, 460-461. Genealogist n.s. 14 (1897): 251. Moore Cartulatium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 677 (fine dated 1293 between John Botetourt and Maud his wife and the Abbot of Colchester). C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 516. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 549, 552. Rye CaL Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 119, 152, 154. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: C (1901): 57-77; D (1902): 297. C.P.R 1317-1321 (1903): 179, 519. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 11(1903): 177. CP.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 210. Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 519; 5 (1908): 45. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238, 252. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 5 (1906): 129-130. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 909 (biog. of John de Bottetourt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 207. Index of Placita de Banco 1 327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 603. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 203, 256, 275; 3 (1912): 9-15, 46, 235. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. C.P. 2 (1912): 233-235 (sub Botetourt); 4 (1916): 744-745 (Appendix H); 5 (1926): 475-476 (sub FitzWalter); 8 (1932): 381, footnote g (sub Manners). VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 13, 46, 96, 235, 330. C.F.R. 4 (1913): 112-113. Cal. IPM 4 (1913): 64-65; 6 (1910): 367-368. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 45, 62. Norfolk Arch. 21 (1923): 8-15. Thomas Cal. Early Motor's Court Rolls 1298-1307 (1924): 53, 59, 142-169, 225. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 331-334. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 203-218, 387-391. Moor Knights of Edward II (H.S.P. sq (1929): 122-123. Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. 88) (1930): 300, 318. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67. Fowler CaL IPM 2 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): 150-151. Willard & Morris English Government at Work 1327-1336 3 (1940): 45. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 66-67. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 37: 1-8 (sub Beauchamp). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 10-12. Denholm-Young Hist. & Heraldry (1965): 38-39. Prestwich War, Politics & Finance under Edward I (1972): 57-58. MacCulloch Chorography of Suffolk (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 19) (1976): 32. DeWindt Royal Justice & the Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 562. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 15 (seal of John Botetourt dated 1315 - Hung from a hook, between two wyverns, a shield of arms: a saltire engrailed. Legend: ...[SI]GILL... IS:BOUTETOURTE. Very clear impression, edge partly lost.). Fryde Studies in Medieval Trade & Finance (1983): 6. Given-Wilson & Curteis Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 135-136 ("There a tradition that Sir John Botetourt, one of the knight's of Edward I's household, was really the king's bastard, and it is true that Botetourt's origins are mysterious; he styled himself Lord of Mendlesham (Suffolk) and other members of the Botetourt family held property in East Anglia, but there is no clear information as to who his parents were. [He] pursued a long and activie military career until shortly before his death in 1324."). Prestwich "Royal Patronage under Edward I" (13th Cent. England 1) (1986): 46 ("The accounts of dona suggest that Edward I was rather less generous than his son. John Botetourt was not rewarded for his services as admiral with a gift of £500 by Edward I, as he was by Edward II."). Byerly & Byerly Recs. of the Wardrobe & Household 1286-1289 (1986): 258 (Book of Private Prests: "xvo die Octobris domino Johanni Boteturte de prestito per manus Roberti fratris sui et Terrici scutiferi sui querentium pecuniam ham ad opus suum apud Queninton' percipiente thesaurario, lxvj. li. xiij s. iiij d. sterlingorum."). TAG 63 (1988): 145-153; 65 (1990): 24-32. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 213. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 134 (incorrectly identifies John Botetourt as illegitimate son of King Edward I of England). Prestwich Armies & Walare in the Middle Ages (1996): 43, 55 ("Evidence from tournament rolls in the early fourteenth century shows that the average age of the participants was just over thirty, with the oldest being in their fifties. War was not an occupation solely for the young."), 73, 124, 168, 276, 280, 291. VCH Gloucester 5 (1996): 413 115. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 65 (arms of John Botetourt: Or, a saltire indented sable; he "sealed with a pierced cinquefoil, each leaf charged with a saltire indented in 1297, 1301, 1307, 1310, 1315; his wife Maud impaled these arms, 1310 and 1327"). Prestwich Edward I (1997): 131-132 ("Edward [I] appears to have been remarkably faithful to his queens ... there is the curious inclusion of John Botetourt in a genealogical table in a Hailes Abbey chronicle. His name appears to be written over an erasure, and there is nothing in Botetourt's career to suggest that he was an illegitimate son of the king. He first appeared in royal service as a falconer, but rose to high rank, becoming a banneret in 1298. He was of East Anglian gentry origin, and became lord of Mendlesham through marriage. It is possible that the scribe intended to put the name of Edward's daughter Elizabeth's husband where Botetourt's now features. This evidence places no more than a question mark against Edward's fidelity. Edward's grandfather John and his great-grandfather Henry II had not been faithful husbands, but attitudes and expectations changed in the thirteenth century. Henry III's reputation had been impeccable, as of course had that of Louis IX. It would have been surprising had Edward not followed the precedent set by two kings whom he greatly admired. In general terms, the Hailes chronicle is a reliable source, but in the absence of any corroborative evidence, it is difficult to credit the evidence of this genealogical table. It is worth noting that Edward II's bastard son was duly acknowledged as such in a royal record, there is no such evidence in the case of John Botetourt"). Rodger Safeguard of the Sea (1998): 86, 131-132. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 136-143. Prestwich Three Edwards: War & State in England 1272-1377 (2003): 62, 75, 263. Barrow Robert Bruce & Scotland (2005): 185, 212, 221. National Archives, SC 8/90/4483 (petition dated c.1327 from Maud Bouteteurt to king and council, requesting a writ to the escheator to remove his hand from the manor of Iselhampstead [Cheniesi, Buckinghamshire Which is part of her inheritance, but which Hugh le Despenser the younger attached to him through his power and menaces because of her late husband's role in the first quarrel of Thomas of Lancaster); SC 8/95/4715; SC 8/171/8534 (petition dated c.1327 from Maud, widow of John Butetourt to king and council, requesting the restitution of the manor of [Iselhampstead] Chenies, Buckinghamshire which was her inheritance and she and her husband were forced to grant to Despenser for their involvement in his exile, and that the fine made by her husband while he was in prison because he was of the quarrel of the earl of Lancaster be annulled) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Maud Fitz Thomas, by John Botetourt, Knt.:
i. THOMAS BOTETOURT, Knt. [see next].
ii. JOHN BOTETOURT, KB., of Belchamp Otton, Essex, married MARGARET ___ [see HELION 9].
iii. OTES BOTETOURT, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, and Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, younger son, adult by 1329. He married SIBYL ___, allegedly the daughter and heiress of Deincourt. They had one son, John, Knt. In 1329 he acknowledged that he owed 43 marks to John de Saint Philibert; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Leicestershire. In 1330 he obtained a license to alienate a messuage, 30 acres of land and 30s. in rent in Mendlesham, Suffolk to a chaplain to celebrate divine services in the parish church for the souls of his parents, John and Maud Botetourt. SIR OTES BOTETOURT died 11 Nov. 1345. His widow, Sibyl, married (2nd) before 25 Sept. 1349 (date of commission) RICHARD TRULOVE (or TREWELOVE), Knt., King's yeoman, and, in right of his wife, of Mendlesham, Suffolk. On 25 Sept. 1349 a commission of oyer and terrniner was appointed on complaint of Richard Trulove, who alleged that John de Wynchestre, Peter de Hoo, parson of the church of Ode, and Robert de Stokton and others broke his close at Mendlesham, Suffolk, carried away his goods, and assaulted his men and servants. In 1349 he was pardoned of the king's suit against him for the death of John de Wynchestre, and of any consequent outlawry. In 1350 he was pardoned of the king's suit for the death of Robert de Stokton. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90, 209 (Botetourt Peds.). Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 551. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 182. C.C.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 520. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 215. CP.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 207. List of Inqs. ad Quad Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238, 252, 298. CC& 1346-1349 (1905): 2. C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 402, 443, 449. Norfolk Antiq. Misc. 2.d Ser. 1 (1906): 81-87 (Knyvet ped. dated 1651) (Sibyl, wife of John [recte Otes] Botetourt, identified as "una filiarum et heredum ... Domini de Dainecourte.") [Note: Sibyl was possibly a daughter of William or Reynold Deincourt, younger sons of Edmund Deincourt, Lord Deincourt, both of whom were killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 - see Paget Baronage 171 (1957): 3-5 (sub Deincourt)]. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. Cal IPM 8 (1913): 405. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 77. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67.
Child of Otes Botetourt, Knt., by Sibyl [Deincourt?]:
a. JOHN BOTETOURT Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, and Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, born about 1332 (aged 13 in 1345). He married KATHERINE DE WEYLAND, daughter of Robert de Weyland, Knt., of Charsfield, Suffolk, by Cecily, daughter of Thomas de Baldock. They had one daughter, Joan. In 1355 he granted an annual rent out of the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk to Ralph de Hemenhale, Knt. In 1355-6 he settled the manor of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire on Richard Trulove, Knt., and Sibyl his wife (John's mother); they in turn settled the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk on him. In 1360 he owed a debt of £80 to Alan Everard, Citizen and mercer of London. SIR JOHN BOTETOURT died shortly before 15 Dec. 1376, when his widow, Katherine, was assigned in dower a third of the profit of the weekly market and annual fair held at Mencllesham, Suffolk. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 209 (Botetourt ped.). Page Supp. to Suffolk Traveller (1844): 88-89. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 215. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. C.C.R. 1374-1377 (1913): 509. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8o Ser. 37) (1913): 77. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67. National Archives, C 241/140/130 (Debtor: John Botourt, of Mendlesham, Suffolk. Creditor: Alan Everard, citizen and mercer of London. Amount £80. When taken: 02/03/1360. First term: 24/05/1360. Last term: 24/05/1360. Writ to: Sheriff of Suffolk) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of John Botetourt, Knt., by Katherine de Weyland:
1) JOAN BOTETOURT, married JOHN KNYVET), Knt. of Southwick, Northamptonshire [see GURDON 13].
iv. ROBERT BOTETOURT. He was living 8 Jan. 1326 (date of license). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90 (Botetourt ped). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. C.P.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 207.
v. JOAN BOTETOURT, contracted to marry ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt, of Woodham Walter, Essex [see FITZ WALTER 9].
vi. ADA BOTETOURT, married (1st) JOHN DE SAINT PHILIBERT, Knt., of Eaton Hastings, Berkshire [see SAINT PHILIBERT 9]; (2nd) RICHARD FITZ SIMON, KG., of Dunmow, Essex [see SAINT PHILIBERT 9].
vii. ELIZABETH BOTETOURT, married (1st) WILLIAM LE LATIMER, 3rd Lord Latimer [see THWENG 10]; (2nd) ROBERT DE UFFORD, Lord Ufford [see THWENG 10].” 		Fitz Walter, Robert (I7007)
 
6668 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt., of Woodham Walter, Burnham, Henham, Little Dunmow, Roydon, Ulting, Wimbish, and Tey, Essex, Wesdey (in Westley Waterless), Cambridgeshire, Diss and Hempnall, Norfolk, Ashwell and Radwell, Hertfordshire, Poslingworth and Shimpling, Suffolk, etc., 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir, born in 1300 (aged 25 in 1326). He was never summoned to Parliament. He was contracted to marry 18 March 1304/5 JOAN BOTETOURT, daughter of John Botetourt, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt, Admiral of the North Fleet, by Maud, daughter of Thomas Fitz Otes, Knt. [see BOTETOURT 8 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. He married (2nd) JOAN DE MULTON, daughter of Thomas de Multon, Knt., 1st Lord Multon, of Egremont, Cumberland, by Eleanor, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Knt., 3rd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see HARINGTON 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1304 (aged 30 and more in 1334). They had one son, John, Knt. [2nd Lord Fitz Walter]. SIR ROBERT FITZ WALTER died 6 May 1328. On 12 Dec. 1328, his widow, Joan, had license to marry John de Weyland, if she gave her consent. Joan was co-heiress in 1334 to her brother, John de Multon, Knt., 2nd Lord Multon, by which she inherited the Castle and manor of Egremont, Cumberland, and 1/3 of the manors of Fleet and Beausolze (in Algarldrk), Lincolnshire. In 1361 Lady Joan Fitz Walter presented to the church of Wimbish, Essex. She died 16 June 1363, and was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex.
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 2-8. Nicolson & Burn Hist. & Antiqs. of the Counties of Westmorland & Cumberland 2 (1777): 69-77. Hutchinson Hist. of the County of Cumberland 2 (1794): 27-28 (Lucy-Multon ped). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 379-381 (sub Multon). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90,209 (Botetourt Peds.). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 672-673 (Multon ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 148. Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 379-380 (sub Multon). Arch. Aeliana 2 (1832): 384-386 (Tailboys-Meschens ped.). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 152. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 246; n.s. 18 (1902): 94. C.P.R. 1301-1307 (1898): 320. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: E 1314-1337 (1903): 229. Copinger Manors of Steak 1 (1905): 191-195; 2 (1908): 45-53. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 165-166,368. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 126-129. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 199-209,244-247. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 142 (sub Multon). Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 2-3,15,111-115. C.P. 5 (1926): 475-476 (sub FitzWalter); 9 (1936): 404-405 (sub Multon). Fowler Reg. Simonis de Sudbiria 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 34) (1927): 230. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 230: 5 (sub Fitz Walter), 394: 4. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 129-130. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 177-182. Biancalana Fee Tail & the Common Recovery in Medieval England (2001): 157.”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MAUD FITZ THOMAS, born about 1269-72 (aged 26 in 1295, aged 30 in 1302). She married before June 1282 JOHN BOTETOURT (or BUTETURTE, BOUTECOURTE, BOTECOURT, BUTECOURT), Knt., of Little Effingham and Upton, Norfolk, Great Bradley, Suffolk, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire, Linslade, Buckinghamshire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, etc., Admiral of the North Fleet, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Constable of St. Briayels Castle, 1291-1308, Governor of Framlingham Castle, son and heir of Guy Botetourt, Knt., of Little Effingham, Cantley, Cranworth, Fishley, Kimberley, Upton, and Woodrising, Norfolk, by his wife, Ada. They had four sons, Thomas, Knt., John, K.B., Otes, Knt., and Robert, and three daughters, Joan, Ada, and Elizabeth. He began his household career as a falconer in the 1270s. He first campaigned in Wales in 1282 as a squire of the household. His wife, Maud, was co-heiress in 1283 to her brother, Otes Fitz Thomas, and sole heiress in 1285 to her sister, Joan, wife of Guy Ferre, by which she inherited the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint, together with the manors of Mendlesham, Suffolk, Belchamp Otton, Gestingthorpe, and Gosfield, Essex, Woodmancote, Gloucestershire, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire, and a one-third share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire. In 1286 he claimed view of frankpledge and free warren in Hamerton, Huntingdonshire. Sometime in the period, 1291-1302, Maud was heiress to her cousin, Joan, daughter of Hugh Fitz Otes, Knt., by which she inherited the manor of Isetthampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire. In 1292-3 he was a justice of gaol delivery in Warwickshire and Leicestershire. In 1293 he and his wife Maud his wife quitclaimed to the Abbot of Colchester their right to the advowson of the church of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire. In 1294 when the king faced the threat of French galleys raiding the south coast of England, he appointed two household knights, William de Leyboume and John Botetourt as captain and sub-captain of the fleet. In the following year they were described as admirals - the first use of the term in England. In 1296 he commanded 94 ships taken from ports between Harwich and King's Lynn, the great majority from Yarmouth. In 1298 and 1299 he served on four commissions of oyer and terminer. In 1298 he had letters of protection for one year, he then going to Scotland. He was accompanied in that campaign by his younger brother, Guy Botetourt, and his valet, William Botetourt. In 1300 he complained William de Wolcherchehaw, taverner, beat one of his carters and did "other enormities;" the defendant came into court and pledged a cask of wine to him. He was present at the Siege of Caerlaverock in 1300; the metrical chronicler of that siege described him as "light of heart and doing good to all." The same year he was appointed one of three commissioners to inquire into cases of exportation of sterling money, gold and silver, plate, wool, etc., and the exchange of the same for base coin which was imported into England and unlawfully changed. He signed the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII in 1301. In 1304 he led a raid into Nithsdale with 130 cavalry and 1,770 infantry. The same year the king ordered him to assist Robert de Brus, then on the English side, in transporting one great engine in preparation of the siege train for the siege of Stirling in Scotland. He was summoned to Parliament from 13 July 1305 to 13 Sept. 1324, by writs directed Jobanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt. In 1305 he was appointed one of the justices of trailbaston. The same year he was sent to treat with the Scots on the affairs of that kingdom. In 1306 he enrolled himself as performing the service of one knight in Scotland, but in fact he had a contingent of three knights and eleven squires with him. In 1307 he again commanded a raid against the Scots. Sometime before 1309-10, he and his wife, Maud, conveyed land in Linslade, Buckinghamshire to William Rous. In 1309-10 William Fitz Walter conveyed the manor of Great Bradley, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud. In 1310 he obtained a license to alienate lands and rents in Mendlesham, Suffolk in mot twain to the value of 100s. for a chaplain to celebrate in Mendlesham church. In 1311 he and his wife, Maud, were granted the reversion of the manors of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire and Great Carbrooke, Norfolk by Baldwin de Manners, Knt., who died childless in 1320. John sold the former manor to William la Zouche Mortimer, Knt., Lord Zouche, and Alice his wife in 1323; the latter manor was held in 1327 by John Botetourt's son-in-law, William le Latimer. In 1312 John Botetourt and several others were granted letters of safe-conduct by the king to confer in London with Arnold, Cardinal of St. Prisca, and Louis, Count of Evreux, who were sent to help effect a reconciliation between King Edward II and the disaffected earls. In 1314 he commanded the fleet employed in the expedition against Scotland. The same year Peter de Burgate, Knt., released all his right in the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk to him and his wife, Maud. In 1315 he complained that those recruited for his company were "feeble chaps, not strong enough, not properly dressed, and lacking bows and arrows." In 1316 he presented his brother, Master Roger Botetourt, as rector of Great Bradley, Suffolk. In 1318 he again presented to the church of Great Bradley, Suffolk. The same year he and his wife, Maud, complained that Richard, Abbot of St. Edmunds, William de Cleye, and many others came to Tivetshall, Norfolk, where Maud and some of the servants of the said John were lodged, maliciously raised a hue and cry against them, expelled the said Maud and the servants from the inn, carried away the goods of the said John, and assaulted the said servants. Either he or his grandson, John Botetourt, was heir sometime after 1318-19 to his brother, William Botetourt, by which he inherited the manor of Cantley, Norfolk. In 1319 he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Woodmancote, Gloucestershire to Robert de Swynburn. In 1320 he obtained a license to alienate one acre of land in Fishley, Norfolk, together with the advowson of a moiety of the church of Fishley, Norfolk, to the Prior and Convent of St. Mary's, Weybridge, and for them to appropriate the said moiety, to find a chaplain to celebrate divine services for the soul of the said John and the souls of his ancestors. In 1321 he and his wife, Maud, sold the manor of Shelsley Beauchamp, Worcestershire to John de Wysham, Knt., and his wife, Hawise de Poynings; in 1322-3 he conveyed the manor and advowson of the church of Little Effingham, Norfolk to the same couple. John joined the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and fought at the Battle of Boroughbridge 16 March 1321/2. He was subsequently fined £1000, and received a pardon 8 October 1322. In 1323 he and his wife, Maud, conveyed the manor of Isenhampstead Chesham), Buckinghamshire to Hugh le Despenser the younger, but, on Hugh's execution and attainder in 1326, the manor escheated to the crown and custody was re-granted to Maud Botetourt. In 1323-4 they made a settlement of the manor of Great Carbrooke, Norfolk, evidently in connection with the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to William le Latimer, as William was lord of this manor in 1327. In 1324 John paid the Italian bankers, the Peruzzi, 100 marks, evidently in payment of a debt he owed to Hugh le Despenser the younger. SIR JOHN BOTETOURT, 1st Lord Botetourt, died 25 Nov. 1324. In 1325 his widow, Maud, sued Andrew de Bures, Robert de Bures and his wife, Hillary, and John de Wysham and his wife, Hawise, for one third part of the manor of Little Effingham, Norfolk, which she claimed as her dower. In 1327 she likewise sued Robert son of John Botetourt, John de Wynchestre and others regarding unspecified land in Suffolk. In 1328 she obtained a license to enfeoff Master William Artoys of a messuage and land in Renhold, Bedfordshire. On 12 Nov. 1328 she obtained a license to convey to her daughter and son-in-law, Elizabeth and William le Latimer, her share of the barony of Bedford, Bedfordshire, including the manors of Bromham, Cardington, Dilewick, Renhold, and Wootton, Bedfordshire. Maud, Lady Botetourt, died shortly before 27 Nov. 1328. In May 1329 her son-in-law, William le Latimer, was pardoned for having previously purchased from her without license the hereditary office of coiner of the Mint. In 1330 John and Maud's son, Otes Botetourt, obtained a license to alienate in mortrnain a messuage, 30 acres of land, and 30s. in rent in Mendlesham, Suffolk to a chaplain to celebrate divine services in the parish church of Mendlesham for the souls of his parents.
(Note: F.N. Craig published a brilliant article entitled "The Parentage of John Botetourt (died 1324)" in TAG 63 (1988): 145-153, which article provides compelling evidence that Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, is the son and heir of Sir Guy Botetourt (died c.1316), of Effingham, Norfolk, by his wife, Ada (living 1311-12). Specifically, Mr. Craig showed that Sir Guy Botetourt had the manors of Effingham (his chief seat), Uphall (in Cantley), and Upton, Norfolk, all of which passed to Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, or his descendants. For additional evidence of Sir John Botetourt's parentage, see Byerly & Byerly Recs. of the Wardrobe & Household 1286-1289 (1986): 258, which mentions Robert brother of John Botetourt. This Robert appears to be the same individual as Robert son of Guy Botetourt, a priest, who occurs in 1306; a Roger son of Guy Botetourt, also a priest, is named in 1306 [see Papal Regs.: Letters 2 (1895): 15, 211. In 1294 Roger Botetourt and his brother Robert [presumably the same individuals] jointly acquired a messuage in St. Michael's parish, Cambridge in 1294 [see Cooper Mems. of Cambridge (1861): 215]. In 1306 the king gave license to Master Roger and Robert Boutetourt to enclose the lane on the south side of their dwelling-place in Cambridge [see C.P.R. 1301-4307 (1898): 435]. Master Roger later sold this property alone in 1324 as "Master Roger, the son of the noble man Sir Guy Buttetourte." [see Cooper, ibid.; Procs. Soc. of Antiquaries of London 2nd Ser. 4 (1869): 200-201; Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rd Cambridge (1891): 90]. Master Roger is doubtless the same person as the Roger Botetourt who was rector of Little Effingham, Norfolk, which advowson was held by Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, in 1317 (see Watkin Inv. of Church Goods temp. Edward III (Norfolk Rec. Soc. 19(2)) (1948): 137, 215). Robert Botetourt also served as a feoffee in 1311, when Sir Baldwin de Manners settled the reversion of two manors on Sir John Botetourt and Maud his wife [see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 608; Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 101 (sub Manners); Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 891. Records further shows that Sir John Boteourt, who owned the manor of Great Bradley, Suffolk, appointed Robert Botetourt as rector at Great Bradley, Suffolk in 1311, and Master Roger Botetourt as rector of the same place in 1316. Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt, also had three additional brothers, Ralph Botetourt, who joined his father, Guy Botetourt, Knt., and Guy's wife, Ada, in fines dated 1296-7 and 1297-8 (see Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 149, 151); Guy Botetourt, who accompanied his brother, Sir John, to Scotland in 1298 (see Gough Scotland in 1298 (1888): 22. 68, 166) and Thomas Botetourt, who in 1300 was owed a debt as "Thomas son of Guy Botetourt." (see National Archives, C241/35/295). In 1305-6 Thomas made a settlement of the manor of Cranworth, Norfolk, and property in Wood Rising, Norfolk on his parents, Guy and Ada Botetourt (see Rye Short Cal Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 230). In 1307 Thomas Botetourt, a subdeacon, was the pluralist rector of Tivetshall, Norfolk and Euston and Troston, Suffolk (see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 138; 2 (1739): 880); Tivetshall, Norfolk is the place where John Botetourt's wife, Maud, and his servants were expelled from the inn in 1318 by the Abbot of Sc. Edmunds and other men (see above). Taken together, the various pieces of evidence, the passage of lands, and the close association of these individuals make it clear that Sir John, Master Roger, Robert, Guy, Ralph, and Master Thomas Botetourt were all sons of Sir Guy Botetourt, Knt. (died c.1316), of Effingham, Norfolk, and his wife, Ada For further particulars regarding Sir Guy Botetourt (died c.1316), and his wife, Ada, see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 625; Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 11 (1810): 102, 106, 133; Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 678; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1(1885): 112, 130, 149, 151, 163, 165, 166; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 230; Genealogist n.s. 11(1894): 244; Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 437, 458, 471-473, 480, 482, 519; C.Ch.R. 3 (1908): 31; Norfolk Arch. 21(1923): 8-15; 30 (1952): 241, 247, 271, 279-280, 285-286; National Archives, C 241/50/366. For further particulars regarding Sir John Botetourt's younger brothers, Master Roger (son of Guy) Botetourt, a priest, who occurs variously from 1294 to 1330/1, holding the benefices of Thompson, Norfolk, and Great Wigston, Leicestershire, and Robert Botetourt, a priest, who occurs variously from 1286/89 to 1311, holding the benefices of Caulebourne, Hampshire and Fomcett, Norfolk, see Potts Liber Cantabtigiensis (1855): 337; Rye Short CaL of Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 282, Willis & Clark Architectural Hist. of the Univ. of Cambridge 1 (1886): 162; Rye Short CaL Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 282; C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 245; Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 458; TAG 63 (1988): 153; National Archives, C 241/77/28, C 241/101/124. Finally, Mr. Craig in his Botetourt article in TAG 63 (1988): 146 (chart), 151 identified "John le Botetourt," brother of William son of Ralph de Saham, clerk, who occurs in a Norfolk pleading dated 1307 as being the same person as Sir John Botetourt, 1st Lord Botetourt; however, the person in the 1307 pleading appears to be a separate and distinct individual from Sir John Botetourt, as he was neither a knight or a baron [see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 10 (1809): 199; Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 138].
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1(1739): 608. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 11 (1810): 103, 133. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90, 209 (Botetourt Peds.). Palgrave /Indent Kalendars & Invs. of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 78, 102. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 265, 272, 308. Ruding Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain & its Dependencies 2 (1840): 194. Banks Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 131 (sub Botetourt). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 4 (1847): 276 (Botetourt ped.). Foss Judges of England 3 (1851): 38, 57-59 (biog. of John de Botetourt). Gentleman's Mag. (1855): 159. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 4 (1869): 572; 4th Ser. 5 (1870): 131-132. Harvey Hist. & Antiqs. of the Hundred of Willey (1872-8): opp. 4 (Beauchamp ped). Grazebrook Heraldry of Worcestershire 1 (1873): 66-67. Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 63-64 (sub Botetourt). Bain Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 2 (1884): 258-259. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 254, 265, 268. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 11(1886-7): 233-242. Gough Scotland in 1298 (1888): 22, 67, 86, 146, 166. C.P.R 1327-1330 (1891): 125, 241, 337, 391, 551. Hill Hist. of Upton, Norfolk (1891): following 8 (Botetourt ped.), 9-10. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 89. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 220. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. Genealogist n.s. 11(1894): 110 (Parl. Roll of Arms - arms of Sire John Boutetor: de or a vn sautour engrele de sable). C.P.R. 1292-1301 (1895): 458, 460-461. Genealogist n.s. 14 (1897): 251. Moore Cartulatium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 677 (fine dated 1293 between John Botetourt and Maud his wife and the Abbot of Colchester). C.C.R. 1330-1333 (1898): 516. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 549, 552. Rye CaL Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 119, 152, 154. Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: C (1901): 57-77; D (1902): 297. C.P.R 1317-1321 (1903): 179, 519. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 11(1903): 177. CP.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 210. Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 519; 5 (1908): 45. List of Inqs. ad Quod Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238, 252. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 5 (1906): 129-130. D.N.B. 2 (1908): 909 (biog. of John de Bottetourt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 207. Index of Placita de Banco 1 327-1328 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 603. VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 203, 256, 275; 3 (1912): 9-15, 46, 235. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. C.P. 2 (1912): 233-235 (sub Botetourt); 4 (1916): 744-745 (Appendix H); 5 (1926): 475-476 (sub FitzWalter); 8 (1932): 381, footnote g (sub Manners). VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 13, 46, 96, 235, 330. C.F.R. 4 (1913): 112-113. Cal. IPM 4 (1913): 64-65; 6 (1910): 367-368. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 45, 62. Norfolk Arch. 21 (1923): 8-15. Thomas Cal. Early Motor's Court Rolls 1298-1307 (1924): 53, 59, 142-169, 225. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 331-334. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 203-218, 387-391. Moor Knights of Edward II (H.S.P. sq (1929): 122-123. Salter Boarstall Cartulary (Oxford Hist. Soc. 1st Ser. 88) (1930): 300, 318. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67. Fowler CaL IPM 2 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): 150-151. Willard & Morris English Government at Work 1327-1336 3 (1940): 45. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 66-67. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 37: 1-8 (sub Beauchamp). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 10-12. Denholm-Young Hist. & Heraldry (1965): 38-39. Prestwich War, Politics & Finance under Edward I (1972): 57-58. MacCulloch Chorography of Suffolk (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 19) (1976): 32. DeWindt Royal Justice & the Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 562. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 15 (seal of John Botetourt dated 1315 - Hung from a hook, between two wyverns, a shield of arms: a saltire engrailed. Legend: ...[SI]GILL... IS:BOUTETOURTE. Very clear impression, edge partly lost.). Fryde Studies in Medieval Trade & Finance (1983): 6. Given-Wilson & Curteis Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 135-136 ("There a tradition that Sir John Botetourt, one of the knight's of Edward I's household, was really the king's bastard, and it is true that Botetourt's origins are mysterious; he styled himself Lord of Mendlesham (Suffolk) and other members of the Botetourt family held property in East Anglia, but there is no clear information as to who his parents were. [He] pursued a long and activie military career until shortly before his death in 1324."). Prestwich "Royal Patronage under Edward I" (13th Cent. England 1) (1986): 46 ("The accounts of dona suggest that Edward I was rather less generous than his son. John Botetourt was not rewarded for his services as admiral with a gift of £500 by Edward I, as he was by Edward II."). Byerly & Byerly Recs. of the Wardrobe & Household 1286-1289 (1986): 258 (Book of Private Prests: "xvo die Octobris domino Johanni Boteturte de prestito per manus Roberti fratris sui et Terrici scutiferi sui querentium pecuniam ham ad opus suum apud Queninton' percipiente thesaurario, lxvj. li. xiij s. iiij d. sterlingorum."). TAG 63 (1988): 145-153; 65 (1990): 24-32. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 213. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 134 (incorrectly identifies John Botetourt as illegitimate son of King Edward I of England). Prestwich Armies & Walare in the Middle Ages (1996): 43, 55 ("Evidence from tournament rolls in the early fourteenth century shows that the average age of the participants was just over thirty, with the oldest being in their fifties. War was not an occupation solely for the young."), 73, 124, 168, 276, 280, 291. VCH Gloucester 5 (1996): 413 115. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 65 (arms of John Botetourt: Or, a saltire indented sable; he "sealed with a pierced cinquefoil, each leaf charged with a saltire indented in 1297, 1301, 1307, 1310, 1315; his wife Maud impaled these arms, 1310 and 1327"). Prestwich Edward I (1997): 131-132 ("Edward [I] appears to have been remarkably faithful to his queens ... there is the curious inclusion of John Botetourt in a genealogical table in a Hailes Abbey chronicle. His name appears to be written over an erasure, and there is nothing in Botetourt's career to suggest that he was an illegitimate son of the king. He first appeared in royal service as a falconer, but rose to high rank, becoming a banneret in 1298. He was of East Anglian gentry origin, and became lord of Mendlesham through marriage. It is possible that the scribe intended to put the name of Edward's daughter Elizabeth's husband where Botetourt's now features. This evidence places no more than a question mark against Edward's fidelity. Edward's grandfather John and his great-grandfather Henry II had not been faithful husbands, but attitudes and expectations changed in the thirteenth century. Henry III's reputation had been impeccable, as of course had that of Louis IX. It would have been surprising had Edward not followed the precedent set by two kings whom he greatly admired. In general terms, the Hailes chronicle is a reliable source, but in the absence of any corroborative evidence, it is difficult to credit the evidence of this genealogical table. It is worth noting that Edward II's bastard son was duly acknowledged as such in a royal record, there is no such evidence in the case of John Botetourt"). Rodger Safeguard of the Sea (1998): 86, 131-132. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 136-143. Prestwich Three Edwards: War & State in England 1272-1377 (2003): 62, 75, 263. Barrow Robert Bruce & Scotland (2005): 185, 212, 221. National Archives, SC 8/90/4483 (petition dated c.1327 from Maud Bouteteurt to king and council, requesting a writ to the escheator to remove his hand from the manor of Iselhampstead [Cheniesi, Buckinghamshire Which is part of her inheritance, but which Hugh le Despenser the younger attached to him through his power and menaces because of her late husband's role in the first quarrel of Thomas of Lancaster); SC 8/95/4715; SC 8/171/8534 (petition dated c.1327 from Maud, widow of John Butetourt to king and council, requesting the restitution of the manor of [Iselhampstead] Chenies, Buckinghamshire which was her inheritance and she and her husband were forced to grant to Despenser for their involvement in his exile, and that the fine made by her husband while he was in prison because he was of the quarrel of the earl of Lancaster be annulled) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of Maud Fitz Thomas, by John Botetourt, Knt.:
i. THOMAS BOTETOURT, Knt. [see next].
ii. JOHN BOTETOURT, KB., of Belchamp Otton, Essex, married MARGARET ___ [see HELION 9].
iii. OTES BOTETOURT, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, and Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, younger son, adult by 1329. He married SIBYL ___, allegedly the daughter and heiress of Deincourt. They had one son, John, Knt. In 1329 he acknowledged that he owed 43 marks to John de Saint Philibert; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in Leicestershire. In 1330 he obtained a license to alienate a messuage, 30 acres of land and 30s. in rent in Mendlesham, Suffolk to a chaplain to celebrate divine services in the parish church for the souls of his parents, John and Maud Botetourt. SIR OTES BOTETOURT died 11 Nov. 1345. His widow, Sibyl, married (2nd) before 25 Sept. 1349 (date of commission) RICHARD TRULOVE (or TREWELOVE), Knt., King's yeoman, and, in right of his wife, of Mendlesham, Suffolk. On 25 Sept. 1349 a commission of oyer and terrniner was appointed on complaint of Richard Trulove, who alleged that John de Wynchestre, Peter de Hoo, parson of the church of Ode, and Robert de Stokton and others broke his close at Mendlesham, Suffolk, carried away his goods, and assaulted his men and servants. In 1349 he was pardoned of the king's suit against him for the death of John de Wynchestre, and of any consequent outlawry. In 1350 he was pardoned of the king's suit for the death of Robert de Stokton. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90, 209 (Botetourt Peds.). Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 551. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 182. C.C.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 520. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 215. CP.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 207. List of Inqs. ad Quad Damnum 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 238, 252, 298. CC& 1346-1349 (1905): 2. C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 402, 443, 449. Norfolk Antiq. Misc. 2.d Ser. 1 (1906): 81-87 (Knyvet ped. dated 1651) (Sibyl, wife of John [recte Otes] Botetourt, identified as "una filiarum et heredum ... Domini de Dainecourte.") [Note: Sibyl was possibly a daughter of William or Reynold Deincourt, younger sons of Edmund Deincourt, Lord Deincourt, both of whom were killed at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 - see Paget Baronage 171 (1957): 3-5 (sub Deincourt)]. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. Cal IPM 8 (1913): 405. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 80 Ser. 37) (1913): 77. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67.
Child of Otes Botetourt, Knt., by Sibyl [Deincourt?]:
a. JOHN BOTETOURT Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk, and Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, born about 1332 (aged 13 in 1345). He married KATHERINE DE WEYLAND, daughter of Robert de Weyland, Knt., of Charsfield, Suffolk, by Cecily, daughter of Thomas de Baldock. They had one daughter, Joan. In 1355 he granted an annual rent out of the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk to Ralph de Hemenhale, Knt. In 1355-6 he settled the manor of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire on Richard Trulove, Knt., and Sibyl his wife (John's mother); they in turn settled the manor of Mendlesham, Suffolk on him. In 1360 he owed a debt of £80 to Alan Everard, Citizen and mercer of London. SIR JOHN BOTETOURT died shortly before 15 Dec. 1376, when his widow, Katherine, was assigned in dower a third of the profit of the weekly market and annual fair held at Mencllesham, Suffolk. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 209 (Botetourt ped.). Page Supp. to Suffolk Traveller (1844): 88-89. Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 5 (1886): 259-261. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 215. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 3 (1909): 277-281. C.C.R. 1374-1377 (1913): 509. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8o Ser. 37) (1913): 77. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 67. National Archives, C 241/140/130 (Debtor: John Botourt, of Mendlesham, Suffolk. Creditor: Alan Everard, citizen and mercer of London. Amount £80. When taken: 02/03/1360. First term: 24/05/1360. Last term: 24/05/1360. Writ to: Sheriff of Suffolk) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of John Botetourt, Knt., by Katherine de Weyland:
1) JOAN BOTETOURT, married JOHN KNYVET), Knt. of Southwick, Northamptonshire [see GURDON 13].
iv. ROBERT BOTETOURT. He was living 8 Jan. 1326 (date of license). Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 90 (Botetourt ped). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 13) (1892): 109. C.P.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 207.
v. JOAN BOTETOURT, contracted to marry ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt, of Woodham Walter, Essex [see FITZ WALTER 9].
vi. ADA BOTETOURT, married (1st) JOHN DE SAINT PHILIBERT, Knt., of Eaton Hastings, Berkshire [see SAINT PHILIBERT 9]; (2nd) RICHARD FITZ SIMON, KG., of Dunmow, Essex [see SAINT PHILIBERT 9].
vii. ELIZABETH BOTETOURT, married (1st) WILLIAM LE LATIMER, 3rd Lord Latimer [see THWENG 10]; (2nd) ROBERT DE UFFORD, Lord Ufford [see THWENG 10].” 		Botetourt, Joan (I7003)
 
6669 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I le Grand, Count of Dreux and Braine, seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Chilly, Longjumeau, Savigny, and Torcy, and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Beanie, 5th son, born about 1123. He married (1st) in 1144 or 1145 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, widow of Rotrou II, Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme [see ENGLAND 2.i], and daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPÉE 2 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (or Alaidis, Alaydis) (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Bréteuil; Guy II de Châtillon, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I de Thourotte, seigneur of Thourotte, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). In 1149 he was involved in an aborted conspiracy to seize the throne. His wife, Hawise, died before 1152. He married (2nd) in late 1152 AGNES DE BAUDEMENT, lady of Fere-en-Tardenois, Nesle, Pontarcis, Longueville, Quincy, and Baudement, widow of Milon II, Count of Bar-sur-Seine (died 1 October 1151), and daughter and heiress of Guy (or Gui) de Baudement, seigneur of Braine, Seneschal of Champagne, by his wife, Alix. She was born about 1130. They had six sons, Robert [II] [Count of Dreux and Braine-sur-Vesle], Henri [Bishop of Orleans], Philippe [Bishop of Beauvais, Vidame of Gerberoy], Guillaume (seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Torcy, and Chilly), Pierre, and Jean, and four daughters, Alix (wife of Raoul I, seigneur of Coucy), Isabelle (wife of Hugues III, seigneur of Broyes-Commercy and Châteauvillain), Massilie (or Béatrix, Basle) [nun at Channes Priory, afterwards at Wareville Priory], and Marguerite [nun at Charmes Priory]. In 1158 the Bishop of Soissons absolved him from an excommunication pronounced because of exactions against the priory of Councy. About 1177 another Bishop of Soissons lifted an interdict which the bishop had laid on Robert's land because of a dispute with the prelate. In 1170's he was involved in a dispute over property which he had unjustly taken from the abbey of Igny. In 1183 Pope Lucius III authorized the cathedral chapter at Chartres to excommunicate named barons, including Robert, for exactions in that diocese. ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. His widow, Agnes, founded Saint-Yved Abbey in Braine. She died 24 July 1204. Robert and his wife, Agnès, were buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Yved, Braine. In 1204 Hugues de Garlande, Bishop of Orleans, gave 20 sous of rent on the grange of Cravant to Sainte-Croix of Orleans to celebrate the anniversary of his kinswoman, Agnès, Countess of Braine.
Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Moreri Le grand Dictionnaire historique 4 (1759): 247-250 (sub Dreux). L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 670-674. Histoire Litteraire de la France 14 (1817): 236-237 (biog. of Pierre de Celle, Bishop of Chartres: "Mais une chose a laquelle jusqu'a-présent personne n’a fait attention, c'est que cette cousine n'etait autre qu'Agnès de Braine, qui epousa en premieres noces Milon, comte de Bar-sur-Seine, et en secondes noces Robert de France, comte de Dreux, frère du roi Louis-le-Jeune, comme nous l'apprenons d'une lettre de Jean de Sarisbèry, parmi celles de saint Thomas de Cantorbèry, ou il est dit expressément que la comtesse de Dreux était cousine, cognata, de l'abbé de Saint-Rémi [Pierre de Celle]. Ainsi on peut assurer que la famille de notre auteur emit non-seulement noble, mais une des plus illustrés de Champagne. C'était celle d'André de Baudement, de Baldimento, senéchal de Champagne, ayeul de la comtesse Agnès."). Arbois de Jubainville Hirtoire des Ducs et des Comtes de Champagne 2 (1860): xxix-xxx (Agnes, Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] of Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne). Edouard Fontevrault et ses Monuments 1 (1873): 234. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18 (1879): 350 (Ex Chronico Fiscannensis Coenobii (sub 1204): "obiit Agnes Comitissa Branæ"). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, format is Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 482-483 (Count Robert [of Dreux] styled "uncle" [patruo] by King Philippe Auguste of France in 1185). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 41 45. Thillier and Jarry Cartulaire de Sainte-Croix d'Orléans (814-1300) (1906): 224 (Agnes, late Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] by Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans in 1204), 210 (Manasses and Hugues styled nephews or kinsmen [nepotibus] of Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans, in 1201). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 106 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Ob[iit] Agnes, illustris comitissa de Breina."), 123 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Anniv. Agnetis, comitisse de Brena."). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (ancestry of Robert de Dreux); 3 (1984): 63. Traditio 41 (1985): 145-179 ("Fifteen of his charters call him simply 'count'; six, 'count of Dreux'; three, 'count of Braine'; and four, 'count of Dreux and Braine.' ... Comment on Agnes [his 2nd wife] is required, because scholars are often misidentified her. She was the daughter and heiress of Guy, lord of Braine, who died in or before 1145, and granddaughter of Andrew de Baudemont, seneschal of Theobald II of Champagn (Theobald IV of Blois) and his wife Agnes of Braine. The combined evidence of the charter to Prémontré and the obituary notices from Saint-Yved (in Duchesne) and [charter] no. 2 below establishes the genealogy.") ("Renaud" or "Renaud Pauper" served as a witness to charters dated 1152 and 1155 as "cognatus" [kinsman] of Robert, Count of Dreux; author suggests Renaud may be the same person as Reynold de Courtenay, supposed son of Count Robert's uncle, Fleury of France). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France); 3(1) (1984): 63 (sub Dreux). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.147, XIV.241-XIV.252. Bautier & Dufour Recueil des Actes de Louis 14, Roi de France (1108-1137) 2 (1992): 364-365 (Robert, Count of Dreux and Braine, styled "brother" [frater] of Louis VI, King of France). Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l'Abbaye prémontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (Mémoires et Docs. de l'École des Chartes 49) (2000): 376 (24 October - Pie memorie Agnetis, illustris comitisse Drocarum et Brane, que … dedit 10 libras fortium"). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 307-310. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Evergates Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 (2009): 216 (biog. of Agnes Baudement), 229-230 (biog. of Elizabeth/Isabelle Dreux, wife of Hugh III of Broyes). Online source: http:// www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/kapetinger dreux_grafen_von/familie_graf roberts_1/robert_i_der_grosse_graf von_dreux_+_1188.html.” 		Robert I "le Grand" (I6775)
 
6670 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I le Grand, Count of Dreux and Braine, seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Chilly, Longjumeau, Savigny, and Torcy, and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Beanie, 5th son, born about 1123. He married (1st) in 1144 or 1145 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, widow of Rotrou II, Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme [see ENGLAND 2.i], and daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPÉE 2 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (or Alaidis, Alaydis) (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Bréteuil; Guy II de Châtillon, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I de Thourotte, seigneur of Thourotte, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). In 1149 he was involved in an aborted conspiracy to seize the throne. His wife, Hawise, died before 1152. He married (2nd) in late 1152 AGNES DE BAUDEMENT, lady of Fere-en-Tardenois, Nesle, Pontarcis, Longueville, Quincy, and Baudement, widow of Milon II, Count of Bar-sur-Seine (died 1 October 1151), and daughter and heiress of Guy (or Gui) de Baudement, seigneur of Braine, Seneschal of Champagne, by his wife, Alix. She was born about 1130. They had six sons, Robert [II] [Count of Dreux and Braine-sur-Vesle], Henri [Bishop of Orleans], Philippe [Bishop of Beauvais, Vidame of Gerberoy], Guillaume (seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Torcy, and Chilly), Pierre, and Jean, and four daughters, Alix (wife of Raoul I, seigneur of Coucy), Isabelle (wife of Hugues III, seigneur of Broyes-Commercy and Châteauvillain), Massilie (or Béatrix, Basle) [nun at Channes Priory, afterwards at Wareville Priory], and Marguerite [nun at Charmes Priory]. In 1158 the Bishop of Soissons absolved him from an excommunication pronounced because of exactions against the priory of Councy. About 1177 another Bishop of Soissons lifted an interdict which the bishop had laid on Robert's land because of a dispute with the prelate. In 1170's he was involved in a dispute over property which he had unjustly taken from the abbey of Igny. In 1183 Pope Lucius III authorized the cathedral chapter at Chartres to excommunicate named barons, including Robert, for exactions in that diocese. ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. His widow, Agnes, founded Saint-Yved Abbey in Braine. She died 24 July 1204. Robert and his wife, Agnès, were buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Yved, Braine. In 1204 Hugues de Garlande, Bishop of Orleans, gave 20 sous of rent on the grange of Cravant to Sainte-Croix of Orleans to celebrate the anniversary of his kinswoman, Agnès, Countess of Braine.
Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Moreri Le grand Dictionnaire historique 4 (1759): 247-250 (sub Dreux). L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 670-674. Histoire Litteraire de la France 14 (1817): 236-237 (biog. of Pierre de Celle, Bishop of Chartres: "Mais une chose a laquelle jusqu'a-présent personne n’a fait attention, c'est que cette cousine n'etait autre qu'Agnès de Braine, qui epousa en premieres noces Milon, comte de Bar-sur-Seine, et en secondes noces Robert de France, comte de Dreux, frère du roi Louis-le-Jeune, comme nous l'apprenons d'une lettre de Jean de Sarisbèry, parmi celles de saint Thomas de Cantorbèry, ou il est dit expressément que la comtesse de Dreux était cousine, cognata, de l'abbé de Saint-Rémi [Pierre de Celle]. Ainsi on peut assurer que la famille de notre auteur emit non-seulement noble, mais une des plus illustrés de Champagne. C'était celle d'André de Baudement, de Baldimento, senéchal de Champagne, ayeul de la comtesse Agnès."). Arbois de Jubainville Hirtoire des Ducs et des Comtes de Champagne 2 (1860): xxix-xxx (Agnes, Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] of Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne). Edouard Fontevrault et ses Monuments 1 (1873): 234. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18 (1879): 350 (Ex Chronico Fiscannensis Coenobii (sub 1204): "obiit Agnes Comitissa Branæ"). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, format is Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 482-483 (Count Robert [of Dreux] styled "uncle" [patruo] by King Philippe Auguste of France in 1185). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 41 45. Thillier and Jarry Cartulaire de Sainte-Croix d'Orléans (814-1300) (1906): 224 (Agnes, late Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] by Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans in 1204), 210 (Manasses and Hugues styled nephews or kinsmen [nepotibus] of Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans, in 1201). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 106 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Ob[iit] Agnes, illustris comitissa de Breina."), 123 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Anniv. Agnetis, comitisse de Brena."). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (ancestry of Robert de Dreux); 3 (1984): 63. Traditio 41 (1985): 145-179 ("Fifteen of his charters call him simply 'count'; six, 'count of Dreux'; three, 'count of Braine'; and four, 'count of Dreux and Braine.' ... Comment on Agnes [his 2nd wife] is required, because scholars are often misidentified her. She was the daughter and heiress of Guy, lord of Braine, who died in or before 1145, and granddaughter of Andrew de Baudemont, seneschal of Theobald II of Champagn (Theobald IV of Blois) and his wife Agnes of Braine. The combined evidence of the charter to Prémontré and the obituary notices from Saint-Yved (in Duchesne) and [charter] no. 2 below establishes the genealogy.") ("Renaud" or "Renaud Pauper" served as a witness to charters dated 1152 and 1155 as "cognatus" [kinsman] of Robert, Count of Dreux; author suggests Renaud may be the same person as Reynold de Courtenay, supposed son of Count Robert's uncle, Fleury of France). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France); 3(1) (1984): 63 (sub Dreux). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.147, XIV.241-XIV.252. Bautier & Dufour Recueil des Actes de Louis 14, Roi de France (1108-1137) 2 (1992): 364-365 (Robert, Count of Dreux and Braine, styled "brother" [frater] of Louis VI, King of France). Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l'Abbaye prémontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (Mémoires et Docs. de l'École des Chartes 49) (2000): 376 (24 October - Pie memorie Agnetis, illustris comitisse Drocarum et Brane, que … dedit 10 libras fortium"). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 307-310. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Evergates Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 (2009): 216 (biog. of Agnes Baudement), 229-230 (biog. of Elizabeth/Isabelle Dreux, wife of Hugh III of Broyes). Online source: http:// www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/kapetinger dreux_grafen_von/familie_graf roberts_1/robert_i_der_grosse_graf von_dreux_+_1188.html.”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WALTER OF SALISBURY (otherwise known as WALTER FITZ EDWARD, WALTER THE SHERIFF), of Chitterne, Alton Barnes, Amesbury, Chicklade, Etchilhampton, Lake (in Wilsford), Little Langford, Mildenhall, North Tidworth, Rockley (in Preshute), Shrewton, Somerford (in Great Somerford), Tollard (in Tollard Royal), and Wilcot, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, son and heir. He married SIBYL DE CHAOURCES, daughter of Patrick (or Patrice) de Chaources (or de Sourches), seigneur of Sourches (in Saint-Symphorien) in Maine, Toddington, Bedfordshire, Great Wishford, Wiltshire, etc., by Maud, daughter of Ernulph (or Arnulph) de Hesdin (or Hesding) [see CHAWORTH 1 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, William, Patrick [1st Earl of Salisbury], and Walter [Canon of Bradenstoke], and two daughters, Hawise and Sibyl. About 1115 King Henry I gave, or more probably confirmed, to the church of Salisbury two hides of land at Warminster, Wiltshire which Walter, son of Edward of Salisbury, had held. In 1130 he was acquitted of £4 of Danegeld in Dorset and £7 in Wiltshire. He was present at the Council of Northampton in 1131. He was with King Stephen at Westminster at Easter 1136, and at Salisbury at Christmas 1139. He founded Bradenstoke Priory in the parish of Lyneham, Wiltshire in 1139. He endowed the priory with the vill of Bradenstoke and the church to Lyneham, Wiltshire; his charter was confirmed by his wife, Sibyl, and his sons, William and Patrick. In 1142 he granted the manor of Tarlton (in Rodmarton), Gloucestershire to the Cathedral church of Salisbury, in recompense for the harm done to the church by his son, William. His wife, Sibyl, predeceased him. WALTER OF SALISBURY took the habit of a canon at Bradenstoke Priory. He died in 1147. He and his wife, Sibyl, were buried at Bradenstoke Priory in the same grave.
Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped). Gentleman's Mag. 103 (1833): 402. Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Wiltshire & the City of Salisbury (1851): 216 ("Of Walter of Salisbury (the next representative of the family) few facts are on record. As a baron, he witnessed a charter of king Stephen, in the year 1136; and in 1142 he founded the priory of Bradenstoke, in the vale of Malmesbury, placing therein regular canons of the order of St. Augustine. After the death of his wife (as related in the Book of Lacock), he assume the tonsure and habit of the canons; and there the bodies of both his wife and himself were placed in one tomb by the presbytery. The name of his wife was Sibilla de Cadurcis, or (in English) Chaworth, by him he left issue his son and heir Patrick, afterwards the first Earl of Salisbury. Two younger sons, Walter and William, are said to have been canons of Bradenstoke. Hawise, a daughter, was very honourably married in France. She became, in 1126, the second wife of Rotrou first comte de Perche; and was remarried before 1145 to Robert of France, comte de Dreux: she died before 1152."). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 9 (1872): 313-315. Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Genealogist n.s. 5 (1889): 209-212 ("The recent publication of Bracton's Note Book' has brought to light two cases, which supply evidence on this subject ... The first of these cases is to be found in the extracts from the Westminster Plea Roll for Trinity Term, 2 Henry III (1218), in which William, Earl of Salisbury (the famous Longsword), claims, in right of his wife, Ela, from Pagan de Chaworth, certain Manors in Gloucestershire, as those which Patrick de Chaworth, Pagan's predecessor (antecessor), gave in marriage with Sibilla, his daughter, in the time of Henry I, which right descended from Sibilla to his son Patrick, and from Patrick to his son William, the father of Ela. Pagan does not challenge this statement in any respect, but pleads, and successfully, that so far from establishing the claim of the Earl and his wife to hold these Manors in capite from the King, it only shows that the ancestors of the Countess received them in marriage from his ancestors. Acccording to the pedigree thus admitted in court, it is clear that Sibilla was daughter of the original Patrick de Chaworth, who had acquired, through marrying Matilda, one of Arnulph de Hesding's daughters, a share of Arnulph's Domesday manors, some of which were afterwards again given as a marriage portion with Sibilla to Walter of Salisbury ... The difficulties as to the dates of the birth of Sibilla's children, supposed to be involved, have no real existence. All that is known as to her son, Earl Patrick, is that he was of age in 1142, and born, therefore, at least as early as 1121, whilst his sister, Hawise, is said to have become the second wife of Rotrou (III), Count of Perche, in 1126, when she may have been, perhaps, sixteen."). C.P. 11 (1949): 374-375 (sub Salisbury). VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 5 (1957): 44-71; 6 (1962): 53-60, 213-221; 8 (1965): 103-105; 10 (1975): 8-13, 71-77, 190-204; 12 (1983): 125-138, 160-184; 13 (1987): 79-88, 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 112. VCH Gloucester 11 (1976): 236-240. VCH Oxford 11(1983): 6-21. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 10. Keats-Rohm Domesday Descendants (2002): 110, 391-392. Stacy Surveys of the Estates of Glasonbury Abbey, c. 1135-1201 (Recs. of Social & Econ. Hist. 33) (2001): 207 footnote 1,244 footnote 8. Thomas English & the Normans (2003):121. Stacy Charters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): 67 (“Walter was the son of Edward of Salisbury, whom he had succeeded perhaps by 1101, certainly by 1108x10: RRAN, ii. nos. 544, 971. Edward had held 3 carucates in terrra villanorum in Tisbury in 1086; the total value of knights' lands in the manor was £13, which, given the usual equation of £1 to 1 hide, would suggest an assessment of 5 hides for Edward's holding: DB i. 67bi. Walter's son, Earl Patrick of Salisbury, held a knight's fee of the abbess in 1166: RB, i. 213. Bordering Edward's manor of Boyton (DB. i. 69bi) is Chicklade, a detached member of Tisbury, which was called a knight's fee in the Middle English list, and descended through the line of the earls of Salisbury: Williams, 'Knights', pp. 233, 236; VCH Wilts, xiii. 106, 111.").
Children of Walter of Salisbury, by Sibyl de Chaources:
i. PATRICK OF SALISBURY, Earl of Salisbury [see next].
ii. HAWISE OF SALISBURY, married (1st) ROTROU II, Count of Perche [see ENGLAND 2.i]; (2nd) ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braine) [see DREUX 6].
iii. SIBYL OF SALISBURY, married JOHN MARSHAL, Marshal of England [see MARSHAL 2].”

3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRY nicknamed “Beauclerc,” King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin, ...
Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith:
i. MAUD (or MATHILDE, MAHAUT) OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 (as his 1st wife) ROTROU II “the Great,” Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme, son and heir of Geoffroi, Count of Mortagne and Perche, by Beatrix, daughter of Count Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and Roucy. He was born about 1080. Her maritagium likely included the manors of Aldboume and Wanborough, Wiltshire. They had two daughters, Philippe and Felicie. During the 1st Crusade, he fought at the Siege of Nicaea in mid-1097. He commanded a division that broke out of Antioch in June 1098. He crusaded against the Muslims in Spain probably in 1108. In 1114 he aided his father-in-law, King Henry I, at the Siege of Belleme. At the request of his wife, Maud, a hide of land at Wanborough, Wiltshire was given to Lewes Priory. His wife, Maud, was drowned in the shipwreck of the White Ship 25 Dec. 1120. He was Governor of Tudela in Aragon and participated in campaigns in Aragon from 1123 until the mid-1130s. He returned to Perche by 1135. He married (2nd) before 1126 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPEE 2 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffroi, Rotrou (III) [Count of Perche], and Etienne [Archbishop-elect of Palermo]. After King Henry I's death in 1135, he and his nephew, Richer de l'Aigle, extorted the castles of Moulins and Bonmoulins as the price for their support for King Stephen. In 1139 he was taken in the English king's pay and defeated the unruly knights of Breteuil. ROTROU II, Count of Perche, died 6 May 1144 at the Siege of the Towe of Rouen, he then being in the service of Empress Maud and her husband, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braille [see DREUX 6], and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Bellème, younger son of Louis VI, King of France, by Alix, daughter of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and Maurienne [see FRANCE 5 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Breteuil, Guy II, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I, seigneur of Torote, Châtellain de Noyon, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). His wife, Hawise, died in 1152. Robert I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Des Murs Hist. des Comtes du Perche de la Fam. des Rotrou (1856). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 173-176. Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 13 (1881): 255 (Genealogiæ Fusniacensis: "Rotaldus comes, prefati comitis filius, duxit filiam regis Anglie, de qua filiam procreavit. "). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 3940 (charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche, dated c.1119; charter witnessed by his sister [soror], Juliane, and her son, Richer), 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe). Money Hist. of the Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury (1887): 62 (Perche ped.). Boulais Receuil des Antiquitéz du Perche (1890). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 33-35. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 419 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "6 [Obiit] Rotrodos comes."). Lalizel Abbaye Royal d'Arcisses (Archives du Diocèse de Chartres 10) (1900): 3-10 (charters of Rotrou, Count of Perche). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 174-186; 12 (1983): 67-86. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Traditio 41(1985): 145-179. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.649. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France (2002). Hollister Henry I (2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 360-361. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Geoffrey Grossus Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (2009): 71, footnote 1.
Child of Maud (or Mathilde) of England, by Rotrou II of Perche:
a. PHILIPPE OF PERCHE, married HELIE OF ANJOU, Count of Maine, younger son of Foulques V le Jeune, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, by his 1st wife, Eremburge, daughter and heiress of Hélie, Count of Maine. They had one daughter, Beatrix (wife of Jean I, Count of Alençon). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe [assensu generis mei Helie filieque mee Romanet de Beaune Geographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (1905): 30-31 ("... Helias vero ...comes Cenomannonun factus est, et xx annis adepto consulatu strenue potitis est. Heres quoque soceri sin Gervasii de Castro Lidi factus est, eujus filiam habuit, ex qua filiam nomine Eremburgem genuit, quam domino suo Fulconi, Andegavorum comiti, in matromonium copulavit … Uxor ejus ei filiam, Eremburgem nomine, peperit, quae, nubilibus annis, Fulconi, Andegavorum tunc comiti, nunc Ierosolymorum regi, nupsit et generosam sobolem genuit: Joffredum et Heliam, Mathildem et Sibyllam, quae filiis regum solemniter nupserunt"). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121..."
 		of Salisbury, Hawise (I6774)
 
6671 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I le Grand, Count of Dreux and Braine, seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Chilly, Longjumeau, Savigny, and Torcy, and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Beanie, 5th son, born about 1123. He married (1st) in 1144 or 1145 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, widow of Rotrou II, Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme [see ENGLAND 2.i], and daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPÉE 2 for her ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (or Alaidis, Alaydis) (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Bréteuil; Guy II de Châtillon, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I de Thourotte, seigneur of Thourotte, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). In 1149 he was involved in an aborted conspiracy to seize the throne. His wife, Hawise, died before 1152. He married (2nd) in late 1152 AGNES DE BAUDEMENT, lady of Fere-en-Tardenois, Nesle, Pontarcis, Longueville, Quincy, and Baudement, widow of Milon II, Count of Bar-sur-Seine (died 1 October 1151), and daughter and heiress of Guy (or Gui) de Baudement, seigneur of Braine, Seneschal of Champagne, by his wife, Alix. She was born about 1130. They had six sons, Robert [II] [Count of Dreux and Braine-sur-Vesle], Henri [Bishop of Orleans], Philippe [Bishop of Beauvais, Vidame of Gerberoy], Guillaume (seigneur of Brie-Comte-Robert, Torcy, and Chilly), Pierre, and Jean, and four daughters, Alix (wife of Raoul I, seigneur of Coucy), Isabelle (wife of Hugues III, seigneur of Broyes-Commercy and Châteauvillain), Massilie (or Béatrix, Basle) [nun at Channes Priory, afterwards at Wareville Priory], and Marguerite [nun at Charmes Priory]. In 1158 the Bishop of Soissons absolved him from an excommunication pronounced because of exactions against the priory of Councy. About 1177 another Bishop of Soissons lifted an interdict which the bishop had laid on Robert's land because of a dispute with the prelate. In 1170's he was involved in a dispute over property which he had unjustly taken from the abbey of Igny. In 1183 Pope Lucius III authorized the cathedral chapter at Chartres to excommunicate named barons, including Robert, for exactions in that diocese. ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. His widow, Agnes, founded Saint-Yved Abbey in Braine. She died 24 July 1204. Robert and his wife, Agnès, were buried in the church of the Abbey of Saint-Yved, Braine. In 1204 Hugues de Garlande, Bishop of Orleans, gave 20 sous of rent on the grange of Cravant to Sainte-Croix of Orleans to celebrate the anniversary of his kinswoman, Agnès, Countess of Braine.
Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Moreri Le grand Dictionnaire historique 4 (1759): 247-250 (sub Dreux). L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 670-674. Histoire Litteraire de la France 14 (1817): 236-237 (biog. of Pierre de Celle, Bishop of Chartres: "Mais une chose a laquelle jusqu'a-présent personne n’a fait attention, c'est que cette cousine n'etait autre qu'Agnès de Braine, qui epousa en premieres noces Milon, comte de Bar-sur-Seine, et en secondes noces Robert de France, comte de Dreux, frère du roi Louis-le-Jeune, comme nous l'apprenons d'une lettre de Jean de Sarisbèry, parmi celles de saint Thomas de Cantorbèry, ou il est dit expressément que la comtesse de Dreux était cousine, cognata, de l'abbé de Saint-Rémi [Pierre de Celle]. Ainsi on peut assurer que la famille de notre auteur emit non-seulement noble, mais une des plus illustrés de Champagne. C'était celle d'André de Baudement, de Baldimento, senéchal de Champagne, ayeul de la comtesse Agnès."). Arbois de Jubainville Hirtoire des Ducs et des Comtes de Champagne 2 (1860): xxix-xxx (Agnes, Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] of Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne). Edouard Fontevrault et ses Monuments 1 (1873): 234. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18 (1879): 350 (Ex Chronico Fiscannensis Coenobii (sub 1204): "obiit Agnes Comitissa Branæ"). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, format is Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 482-483 (Count Robert [of Dreux] styled "uncle" [patruo] by King Philippe Auguste of France in 1185). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 41 45. Thillier and Jarry Cartulaire de Sainte-Croix d'Orléans (814-1300) (1906): 224 (Agnes, late Countess of Braine styled "kinswoman" [consanguinea] by Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans in 1204), 210 (Manasses and Hugues styled nephews or kinsmen [nepotibus] of Hugues [de Garlande], Bishop of Orleans, in 1201). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 106 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Ob[iit] Agnes, illustris comitissa de Breina."), 123 (Obituaire of Cathedral Church of Chartres: [23 Oct.] X kal. Anniv. Agnetis, comitisse de Brena."). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (ancestry of Robert de Dreux); 3 (1984): 63. Traditio 41 (1985): 145-179 ("Fifteen of his charters call him simply 'count'; six, 'count of Dreux'; three, 'count of Braine'; and four, 'count of Dreux and Braine.' ... Comment on Agnes [his 2nd wife] is required, because scholars are often misidentified her. She was the daughter and heiress of Guy, lord of Braine, who died in or before 1145, and granddaughter of Andrew de Baudemont, seneschal of Theobald II of Champagn (Theobald IV of Blois) and his wife Agnes of Braine. The combined evidence of the charter to Prémontré and the obituary notices from Saint-Yved (in Duchesne) and [charter] no. 2 below establishes the genealogy.") ("Renaud" or "Renaud Pauper" served as a witness to charters dated 1152 and 1155 as "cognatus" [kinsman] of Robert, Count of Dreux; author suggests Renaud may be the same person as Reynold de Courtenay, supposed son of Count Robert's uncle, Fleury of France). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France); 3(1) (1984): 63 (sub Dreux). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.147, XIV.241-XIV.252. Bautier & Dufour Recueil des Actes de Louis 14, Roi de France (1108-1137) 2 (1992): 364-365 (Robert, Count of Dreux and Braine, styled "brother" [frater] of Louis VI, King of France). Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l'Abbaye prémontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (Mémoires et Docs. de l'École des Chartes 49) (2000): 376 (24 October - Pie memorie Agnetis, illustris comitisse Drocarum et Brane, que … dedit 10 libras fortium"). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 307-310. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Evergates Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300 (2009): 216 (biog. of Agnes Baudement), 229-230 (biog. of Elizabeth/Isabelle Dreux, wife of Hugh III of Broyes). Online source: http:// www.mittelalter-genealogie.de/kapetinger dreux_grafen_von/familie_graf roberts_1/robert_i_der_grosse_graf von_dreux_+_1188.html.”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“HENRY nicknamed “Beauclerc,” King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin, 4th son, born in 1068 or 1069. He married (1st) 11 Nov. 1100 MAUD OF SCOTLAND, daughter of Malcolm III (CeannMor), King of Scots, by his 2nd wife, [Saint] Margaret, daughter of Edward Ætheling [see SCOTLAND 1 for her parentage]. She was born in 1079. They had one son, William, and one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, died at Westminster 1 May 1118. He married (2nd) at Windsor, Berkshire 29 Jan. 1121 ALICE (or AELIZ, ALEIDE, ALEYDA, AELIDIS, ADELIDE, ADELIDIS, ADELAIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELIZE, ATHELICE) OF LOUVAIN, daughter of Gottfried (or Godefroy) I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Count of Louvain, by his 1st wife, Ida, daughter of Otto II, Count of Chiny. She was born about 1103. They had no issue. By various mistresses, he had eight illegitimate sons, Robert [Earl of Gloucester], Richard, Fulk, Reynold [Earl of Cornwall], Robert, Gilbert, William de Tracy, and Henry, and nine illegitimate daughters, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Rotrou II, Count of Perche), Alice, Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Conan III, Duke of Brittany), Juliane (wife of Eustache de Pacy, seigneur of Breteuil and Pacy), Mabel (wife of Guillaume Gouet, seigneur of Montmirail), Constance (wife of Roscelin de Beaumont), Aline (wife of Mathieu de Montmorency), Sibyl (wife of Alexander I, King of Scots), and Isabel.* HENRY I, King of England died at Lyons-la-Forêt (near Rouen), Normandy 1 Dec. 1135, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) after Dec. 1136 but later than summer 1139 WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Lincoln, afterwards 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), hereditary Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor to King Henry I [see CLIFTON 3]. They had four sons, William [2nd Earl of Arundel or Sussex], Reiner, Henry, and Godfrey, and two daughters, Alice (wife of Jean I, Count of Eu and Alvred de Saint Martin) and Olive. He was a witness to King Stephen's 2nd Charter of Liberties in 1136. He was created Earl of Lincoln c.1138. He gave shelter to Empress Maud at Arundel Castle in 1139, but afterwards adhered to King Stephen. His earldom was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex before Christmas 1141. In his own later charters he is styled Earl of Chichester. About 1145 he witnessed a charter of Henry Hussey as "Consul Willelmo de Cicesterr." His wife, Alice, presented to the prebend of West Dean in 1150. Alice, dowager Queen of England, died as a nun at Affligem Abbey in Brabant 25 (or 26) March 1151, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. He was influential in arranging the treaty of 1153, whereby the Crown continued with King Stephen for life, though the inheritance thereof was secured to Henry II. He subscribed his name to this instrument as "Comes Cicestrie." By grant dated c.1155, King Henry II confirmed to him as "William, Earl of Arundel" the Castle of Arundel, with the whole honour of Arundel and all its appurtenances. He served as Joint Ambassador to France and to the Pope in 1163/4. He served as Chief Ambassador with Princess Maud to Germany in 1168. He was appointed joint Commander of the royal army in Normandy in 1173. In Sept. 1173 he assisted in the defeat near Bury St. Edmunds of the Earl of Leicester. He founded Buckenham Abbey, Norfolk and Pynharn Priory, Sussex. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), died at Waverley Abbey, Surrey 4 (or 12) October 1176, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
[Footnote *: In 1824 the Scottish historian Chalmers stated that King Henry I of England had an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth, who married Fergus, lord of Galloway (died 1161). [see Chalmers Caledonia 3 (1824): 250, footnote k ("Fergus [lord of Galloway] ... was a prince of some note, even at the court of Henry I. of England, is certain : as he took to wife, according to the heralds, genealogists, and chroniclers, Elizabeth, the natural daughter of Henry I.")]. Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway), however, debunked Chalmers' statement, noting that the authorities quoted by Chalmers "do not bear out his assertion." Even so, other secondary sources have continued to repeat Chalmers' unfounded claim: See, for example, Mackenzie History of Galloway (1841): 167-172 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England"); Anderson Scottish Nation 2 (1862): 195 ("Fergus, lord of Galloway ... married Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. of England ..."); M'Kerlie Galloway in Ancient & Modern Times (1891): 155 ("It is necessary to repeat here that Fergus married Elizabeth, the natural daughter of King Henry I. of England."); Maxwell Hist. of Dumfries & Galloway (1896): 47-48 ("Fergus ... married Elizabeth, natural daughter of Henry I., and sister of Sibilla, who married Alexander I., brother of David."); Ramsay Angevin Empire (1903): 90, footnote 7 ("Gunfrith [i.e., Godred] was son of Olaf, by Afreca, daughter of Fergus of Galloway, by 'Elisabeth,' reputed natural daughter of Henry I."); Oram Lordship of Galloway (2000): 60; Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Barrow Robert Bruce (1965): 36, footnote 2 notes that "Roger Howden calls Uchtred son of Fergus of Galloway a cousin of King Henry II (Gesta Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis, ed. Stubbs, Rolls Ser., i, 80)," a relationship which Professor Barrow states "is best explained on the supposition that Fergus married a bastard daughter of Henry I." However, given that King Henry II of England had a Scottish grandmother, a more likely explanation of the kinship between the Galloway and English royal families is that the wife of Fergus was near related to the Scottish royal family, possibly being a sister of William Fitz Duncan, whose grandfather was Malcolm Canmore, King of Scots [died 1093]. This arrangement would make Uchtred son of Fergus and King Henry II of England related in the 3rd degree of kindred (or second cousins).]
D'Achery Spicilegium 10 (1671): 612-613 (Continuatio Chronici Afflegemiensis: "Filia præfati Ducis Aleidis juncta matrimonio Regi Angliæ, post obitum secundi con jugis Afflegemiensis Claustri solitudinem ad reliquum vitæ ad humandum corpus elegit in domo turti Ecclesiæ contigua, cum una aut akera ancilla in Fratrum Afflegemiensiurn quieta taciturna multitudine solitaria habitavit, & beato fine quievit, de qua epitaphium: Aleidis Regina Anglim, filia Ducis Godefridi cum barba, Regnum suscepit in Anglia an MCXXI. obiit 9 Kal. Maii [23 April], sepulta è regione horologii nostri."). Rawlinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the City, and Cathedral-Church of Hereford (1717): Addenda, 30 (Kalendar of Obits: "IIII Non. December [2 December]. Obitus Henrici Regis."). Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 32-34. Morice Mémoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 130 (Extract of Cronicle of Robert, Abbot of Mont Saint Michel: "Anno 1135. Obiit Henricus I. Rex Anglorum in prima die Decembris, cum regnasset annis 35. & 4 mensibus."). Brequigny & Mouchet Table Chronologique des Diplômes, Chartes, Titres ... concernant l’Histoire de France 3 (1783): 236 (charter dated c.1155 of Alice Queen of the English [Adelaidis reginæ Anglorum]). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: Kal. Maii [25 April]. Ob. Alexander Rex Scottorum et Soror ejus Matildis Regina Anglorum."), 218 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "IV. Non. Dec. [2 December] Ob Henricus Rex Anglorum."). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Norrnands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXI)). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 169-179. Michel Histoire des Ducs de Normandie et des Rois D'Angleterre (1840): 69 ("Li rois Henrie, quant la roine Mehaus fu morte, prist à feme Aalis, la fille Godefroi le duc de Louvaing, la cousine Wistasse [Eustace] de Bouloigne; mais n'en ot nul enfant. Si ot-il de bas .vj. Ills et .vij. fines"). Strickland Lives of the Queens of England 1 (1840): 135-211 (biog. of Matilda of Scotland), 212-256 (biog. of Adelicia of Louvaine). Barrett Memorials of the parochial Church ... in the Parish of Attleborough (1848): 12-41. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 74 (Maud [of Blois], Countess of Chester, styled "niece" to King Henry I of England [neptis regis1). Ordericus Vitalis Ecclesiastical Hist. of England & Normandy 3 (1854): 482 (Roger Fitz Roger and Walter d'Aufay [Aufai] styled "cousins" to King Henry I at Battle of Bremule in 1119 by Ordericus Vitalis). Arch. Journal 20 (1863): 283 ("Adeliza appears to have used the identical matrux of the seal which had belonged to the first queen of Henry I., the name-Aalidis-having been substituted for Matli[Idis), 287-288 (charter of Queen Alice [Aelidis regina] ... There is appended ... a pointed oval seal of white wax .... device, a female figure standing ... The legend is + SIGILLVM • AALIDIS • SECVND[AE • DE]I • GRACIA • REGINAE • ANGLIE.), 288-289 (charter of Queen Alice [A. Dei gracia Regina]); 22 (1865): 152-153 (charter of William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Lincoln; charter names Queen Alice his wife [regina Adelidis]). Sussex Arch. Colls. 15 (1863): 112-113. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 14 (Margam Annals sub 1151: "Obiit Adelidis, regina secunda Henrici regis."); 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 433 (Bermondsey Annals sub A.D. 1121: "Hoc anno rex Henricus primus duxit Adelizam, filiam ducis Lovaniae, in uxorem, tertio nonas Februarii [3 February]."). Burke Gen. Hist, of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33 ("In the Register of the Priory of Bromhale, we find the record of his death under the date of the 4th day of October, 22nd of Henry II (A.D. 1176), in the following words, `obiit Willielmus Comes Arundel' (no mention of Sussex or Chichester), et `sepultus est in prioratus de Wymondham.’"). Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum 20 (1868): 67 (Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, Liber X: Roger Fitz Richard [de Clare) styled "kinsman" [cognatus) of King Henry I of England). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 20, 104-108 (discusses evidence that King Henry I had an illegitimate daughter, Maud (or Mathilde)/Almodis, who was Abbess of Montivilliers). Ellis Antiqs. of Heraldry (1869): 206-207 (Aubigny ped.). Lower Compendious Hist. of Sussex 1 (1870): 70 (Robert de Haia, founder of Boxgrove Priory, styled "king's kinsman" [consanguineus] of King Henry I). Delisle Delisle Chronique de Robert de Tongni 1 (1872): 215 (sub A.D. 1139: "Invitarerat enim eos Willermus de Albinneio, qui duxerat Aeliz quondam reginam, quæ habebat castellum et comitatum Hardundel, quod rex Henricus dederat ei in dote."); 2 (1873): 63-64 ("Cessit etiam in fata Willermus de Albineio, quem vocabant comitem d'Arundel, relinquens filios quatuor, scilicet Guillermum de Albineio pritnogenitum, et alios tres natos ex Aeliza regina, uxore primi Henrici regis Anglorum."). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 298 (sub 1176: "comes etiam Willelmus de Arundel obiit quarto idus Octobris [12 October] apud Waverle, et sepultus eat apud Wimundham, cellam scilicet ecclesiæ Sancti Albani, cujus cellæ patronus fuisse dinoscitur."). Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Obiit autem Matildis regina Anglia anno regni sui xviiio, kalendis Maii [1 May], et apud Radingas sepulta est."). Merlet Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): cvii-cviii (arms of Henry I, King of England, Duke of Normandy dated 1115: D'argent au cavalier d'azur). D.N.B. 1 (1885): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1(1886): 66 (sub Arundel). Raine Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1886): 169 (History of the Four Archbishops by Hugh the Chantor - King Henry I and Pope Calixtus II were kinsmen: "Nam præter spiritualem patris et filii relationem, carnali consanguinitate propinqui erant, quorum avus et avia frater et soror fuerunt." (Note: Pope Calixtus II was a younger son of William I, Count of Burgundy, whose mother Alice was daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy]). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 5-8 (seal of King Henry I - Obverse. King, seated in majesty, in an undercoat with sleeves tight at wrists, and loose skirts reaching below knees; and long flowing cloak fastened at throat and spreading out behind, which has a border, with indications of a fur of symmetrical pattern. On the head a cap-shaped crown, with three fleurs-de-lis, one at top and one at either side, and two chin-straps hanging loosely at sides, the ends having buckles in shape of trefoils. In right hand, extended outwards from elbow, a sword is held almost perpendicularly. In left hand, similarly extended, an orb, ensigned with a long cross pattee pommettee. Throne, apparently square, and closely resembling that of William II.; the centre curves with a bold cusp inwards, with a string-course, and is the narrowest part. In lower of two compartments thus made, is a footboard, not enough remaining to show original size. On throne a flat cushion with square edge, carrying at each end a hemispherical ornament, intended for pillow. Reverse. King, hauberk of chain-mail; conical helmet, having a blunt point at crown of head, and perhaps armed with projecting nose-piece; single pointed spur of goad form; long lance to which is attached a banner, charged with cross moline, and three pairs of waving streamers. No indication of sword. In left hand, held by interior strap, a kite-shaped shield, seen from within. The horse is walking to the right hand, caparisoned with breast-band, which is ornamented by five globular pendants equi-distant. Saddle of small dimensions; with stirrups. The loosely gathered reins are held up in left hand, which also sustains shield. Legend: + HENRIC' D... ... ...). Round "An Unknown Mistress of Henry I." in Eng. Hist. Rev. 5 (1890): 745-746. Luard Flores Historiarum 2 ((Rolls Ser.) 1890): 69 ("Anno gratix MCLIo [1151]. Obiit Adelicia regina, uxor regis Stephani;" the editor notes that the name "Stephani" is erased in Ch. and altered to "Henrici I."). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Docs. sur la Province du Perche 3rd Ser. 2) (1894): 40-43. Recueil des Historiens des Castles et de la France 23 (1894): 471 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 Mart. Obiit Adelicia regina."), 476 (Ex Necrologio Monasterii Crucis Sancti Leufredi: "25 Mart. [Obiit] Adeliza, regina Anglorum."), 578 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Mali. [Obiit] Matildis, regina Anglorum."), 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "12 Oct. [Obiit] Guillelmus, comes de Arundel."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Dec. [Obiit] Henricus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum."). Napier & Stevenson Crawford Coll. of early Charters & Docs. now in the Bodleian library (1895): 31 (William [d'Aubeney], Earl of Chichester dated c.1150; charter names his wife, Queen Alice [regina Adelide]). Bradshaw Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral Pt. 2 (1897): (obits. in the odd volume of the great Latin Bible), ccxxxviii (2 May - "Matildis regina uxor Henrici regis."), ccxlii (2 Dec. - "Henricus, pacificus rex Anglorum."). Trans. East Herts Arch. Soc. 1(1) (1901): 129-135 (charter of Queen Alice widow of King Henry I dated 1136 [Adelidis regina uxor nobillisimi regis Henrici & filia Godefridi ducis lotharingie]. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 530 (confirmation of gift of Alice, formerly Queen of England). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 316 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "kal. Maius [1 May] Ob. Matildis, Anglorum regina [1118]."), 523 (Prieure de Longpont: "kaL maii. [1 May] [obit.] Maltidis, Anglorum regina [1118]."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #14 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Lincoln dated c.1139-40; charter names his wife, Queen Adeleidis), #27 (charter of William [de Albini], Earl of Chichester dated 1151-2; charter names his wife, Queen Athelice). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 1-2 (sub Kings of Scotland). Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 25-34. Eng. Hist. Rev. 21(1906): 505-509. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 241 (Obituaire of Prieure de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Henricus, rex Anglorum, frater noster, III nonas decembris [3 Dec.] [1135]."), 661 (Nécrologe of Abbaye de Saint-Jean-en-Vallée: 12 Dec.] IIII non. Obiit Henricus, Anglorum rex [1135], ecclesiarum amator praecipuus."). Scots Peerage 4 (1907): 135-136 (sub Galloway) ("[Fergus, lord of Galloway] is said to have married Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of King Henry I. of England, but the authorities quoted by Chalmers, who makes the statement, do not bear out his assertion."). D.N.B. 1 (1908): 137-138 (biog. of Adeliza of Louvain). Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 167-168 (charter of King Henry I dated c.1111=20). Gomme Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1909): 217 (sub A.D. 1100: Maud of Scotland, 1st wife of King Henry I, styled "kinswoman to king Edward [the Confessor] and of the true royal race of England."), 239-240 (sub A.D. 1127: Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone], Abbot of Saint-Jean of Angély (in Poitou), afterwards Abbot of Peterborough styled "kinsman" [mæi] of [Henry I] King of England and [Guillaume] Count of Poitou) [see also Earle and Plummer Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel 1 (1892): 257; English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-5601. CP. 1 (1910): 233-235, 237 (chart) (sub Arundel); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Round King's Serjeants & Officers of State (1911): 140-165. English Hist. Rev. 34 (1919): 303-382. Farrer Outline Itinerary of King Henry 1 (1920). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) XI 112. Rübel-Blass (1939) 257 (biographical information). G.H. White "Henry I's Illegitimate Children," in C.P. 11 (1949), Appendix D, 105-121. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 216. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19). C.R.R. 12 (1957): 157-158 (Sibyl de Falaise, wife of Baldwin de Bolers, styled "kinswoman" [nepte] of King Henry I of England). Stenton First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (1961). Davis King Stephen (1967): 137 ("[King] Stephen recognized three successive earls of Lincoln ... The first was William d'Aubigny pincerna who married Queen Adeliza, widow of King Henry I, and in her right became lord of the honour and castle of Arundel. He styles himself William Earl of Lincoln in three charters in which his identity is proved by references to his wife. They are in favour of Lewes Priory and the abbeys of Reading and Affligem-and in the case of Affligem there is also a charter of Adeliza referring to her husband as earl of Lincoln (Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville 3245; Warner and Ellis, Facsimiles, no. 14; E. de Marneffe, Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Affligem in Analectes pour servir à l’histoire ecclesiastique de la Belgique, 2o section, pp. 104,106). In royal charters it is usually impossible to distinguish him from his successor, William de Roumare, since the normal style of both was Willelmus comes de Lincolnia, or (before he was an earl) from his father, William d'Aubignypincerna, who died before June 1139 (Reg. iii. 973). If Robert de Torigny is right (Chronicles iv. 137) William had married Adeliza by September 1139, and it is tempting to assume that it was on his marriage that he was made earl of Lincoln, his connection with that county being that his mother, Maud Bigod, was a grand-daughter, and possible co-heiress, of Robert de Tosny of Belvoir. We do not know precisely when he was transferred from Lincoln to Sussex, but it was certainly by Christmas 1141 when he attested a charter as Comite Willelmo de Sudsexa (Reg. iii. 276)."). Chibnall Ecclesiastical Hist. of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80): 317 (Vol. VI, Book XII - Henry [de Pouilly-sur-Saone] styled "kinsman" [cognato] of King Henry I of England) [see English Hist. Rev. 84 (1969): 548-560]. Albion 10 (1978): 330-340. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 95 (sub Hainault, Brabant); 2 (1984): 81 (sub England); 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Green Government of England under Henry 1(1986). Hollister Monarchy, Magnates, & Institutions in the Anglo-Norman World (1986). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 301, 369, 476. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.1.423, XII.371, X11.644-X11.645, XIII.207. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 136 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "7 Kal. [Apr.] [26 March]. Obiit Atheliza regina."), 130 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit Rex Anglorum Henricus primus."), 146 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. Dec. [1 December]. Obiit rex Anglorum Henricus i."). Haskins Soc. Jour. 7 (1995): 101-116. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35, 57. Scottish Hirt. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Vincent Acta of Henry II and Richard I Pt 2 (List and Index Soc. Special Ser. 27) (1996): 143 (confirmation c. 1172/81 of grant made by Queen Adela) (original published in Jour. of British Architetural Assoc. 17: 312). Scottish Hist. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19. Harper-Bill Anglo-Norman Studies XXI (1999): 145-168. Bartlett England under the Norman & Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (2000). Hollister Henry 1(2001). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.), 313 (Scotland ped.). Weller Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert (2004): 464-4.76 (biog. of Königin Adelheid von England) ("On page 476, Weller states: "Seine Gattin Adelheid von Lowen, die ehemalige Konigin von England, war schon 1151 wahrend des Bürgerkrieges verschieden und wurde in Reading beigesetzt ... Der Begräbnisort Kgn. Adelheids geht aus einem Schreiben Jocelins v. Löwen an Bf. Hilarius v. Chichester eindeutig hervor, vgl. Reading Abbey Cartularies 1, No. 551, 416E; s.a. Bartlett, England 596. Nicht stichhaltig ist demgegeniiber die van Sanderus, Chorographia 1, 45, verbreitete Nachricht, wonach Adelheid vor ihrem Tod in ihre Heimat übergesiedelt und im Kloster Afflighem gestoren and begraben sei; heirnach auch John Horace Round in dem Art.: Adeliza of Louvain, in DNB 1(1885): 137f.; Complete Peerage 1, 235. Allerdings ist Kgn. Adelheid als Wohltäterin von Afflighem aufgetreten unde hat dem Kloster einigen Besitz in England gestiftet; vgl. Cart. Afflighem, No. 79, 121-124 (hier 122)."). Verbeke Medieval Narrative Sources (2005): 21-36. Fleming Henry I & the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister (2006). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006).
Children of King Henry I of England, by Maud of Scotland:
i. WILLIAM OF ENGLAND, son and heir apparent, born in 1103. As his father's destined successor, he received the homage of the Normans barons in 1115, and that of the English witan in 1116. He married at Lisieux in May 1119 MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ANJOU, daughter of Fulk V, Count of Anjou. He was with his father at the Battle of Bremule in 1119. Early in 1120 King Louis of France invested him with the duchy of Normandy. He was drowned in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Wharton Anglia Sacra (1691): 160 (Chronicon Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis sub A.D. 1120: "Willelmus filius Henrici Regis, & Ricardus frater ejus & Ricardus Comes de Cestria cum multis Nobilibus naufragio perierunt.”). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. D.N.B. 21(1909): 337 (biog. of William, son of Henry I, King of England). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.644. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 180-181, 192-193, 213-214. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
ii. MAUD OF ENGLAND, married (1st) HEINRICH V, King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor; (2nd) GEOFFREY V Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy [see next].
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by an unknown mistress, (possibly a member of the Bohun family):
i. ROBERT FITZ ROY, Earl of Gloucester, married MABEL FITZ ROBERT [see GLOUCESTER 3].
Illegitimate sons of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Ansfride, widow of Anskill, a knight who was a tenant of Abingdon Abbey:
i. RICHARD FITZ ROY, born before 1101. He served against the French in 1119, and was captured at Les Andelys. He was set free with his comrades by King Louis, because they had taken sanctuary in the church of Notre Dame du Grand Andely. Later the same year he was with his father at the Siege of Evreux and the Battle of Brémule. In Sept. 1119 he was sent to raise the Siege at Bréteuil. He was betrothed to Amice de Gael, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. He was drowned immediately afterwards in the wreck of the White Ship 25 Nov. 1120. Amice subsequently married Robert of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester [see LEICESTER 6]. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1879): 92 ("Alium quoque habuit filium Ricardum, et cessavit parere... Navis enim infausta qun regis gestabat filios Willelrnum et Ricardum, submersa est, periitque in scopulis Barbefluvii."). C.P. 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester); 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.646. Van Houts Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni 2 (1992): 248-249 (Robert de Torigny: "Ricardus autem, huius comitis uno de patre frater, cum fratre suo Willelmo in sepedicto naufiagio periit."). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
ii. FULK FITZ ROY. Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 37, 122-123. C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(II.647. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Sibyl Corbet:
i. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall, Sheriff of Devon, 1173-5. He married in 1140 MABEL FITZ WILLIAM, daughter of William Fitz Richard, of Cornwall. They had one son, Nicholas, and four daughters, Denise (wife of Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon), Maud, Sarah (wife of Ademar, Vicomte of Limoges), and Emme (wife of Guy V de Laval, seigneur of Laval). By a mistress, Beatrice de Valle (or Vaux) (afterwards wife of William Briwerre, Knt.), he had an illegitimate son, Henry Fitz Count. By an unknown mistress, he also had one illegitimate son, William. He was granted the lands of William, Earl of Mortain, amounting to 215-1/2 fees in Devon and Cornwall. He was created Earl of Cornwall about April 1141. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, were recognized by contemporaries as "the most powerful men in the kingdom." His wife, Mabel, fell into insanity in the 1140s. He witnessed a charter of Henry d'Oilly in the period, 1114-47. In 1153 he witnessed the agreement between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II]. He and Robert, Earl of Leicester, acted as intermediary between the king and Thomas Becket at Northampton in 1164. He played a major part in opposing the rebels of 1173-4 in England. REYNOLD FITZ ROY, Earl of Cornwall died 1 July 1175, allegedly at Chertsey, Surrey, and was buried at Reading, Berkshire. Dugdale Baronage (1675): 702 (sub Briwere) ("[William Briwere] having married Beatrix de Valle, a Concubine, as 'tis said, to Reginald Earl of Cornwall (which is probable, for in a Grant made by Henry Son to the same Reginald [Earl of Cornwall], unto this William [Briwere], of the Mannor of Karswell, and Land of Hakford, he calls him his Brother")) [Note: Dugdale evidently intended to say that Henry Fitz Count's brother was William Briwere the younger, as it was William Briwere the elder was the husband of his mother, Beatrice de Valle]. Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 6, 98 (undated charter of Reynold son of King Henry to William de Botreaux son of Alice Corbet his aunt [matertera]; charter witnessed by his son, Nicholas; his nephews/kinsmen [nepotibus], Ralph and Richard, and his brother, William), 112. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836 11): 239-240 (Bruere or Briwere ped.). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Stubbs Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis (or Chron. of the Reigns of Henry II. & Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192) 1 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 163 ("Deditque ibidem Hereberto filio Hereberti, et Willelmo fratri comitis Reginaldi, et Joelllano de la Pumerai, nepoti eorum, regnum be Limeric pro servitio sexaginta militum"), 172 ("Nam Herbertus, et Willelmus, fratres Reginaldi comitis Cornubiae, et Joellanus de Purnetia nepos eorum, regnum illud havere noluerunt; sed illud reddiderunt domino regi et Johanni filio suo liberum et quietum ab omni calurnnia eorum"). Le Fizelier Mémoire chronologique de Maucourt de Bourjolly sur la Ville de Laval 1 (1886): 136-142. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-253 (William brother of Earl Reynold [Willelmus frater Comitis Reginaldi] held 1/2 knight's fee of Robert Fitz Roy in 1166), 261-262 (William brother of the Earl [Willelmus frater Comitis] held four knight's fees Reynold, Earl of Cornwall in 1166). Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 455-456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 75. C.P. 3 (1913): 429 (sub Cornwall); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 9, 219. English Hist. Rev. 62 (1947): 352-377 (charter of William de Marsh brother of Reynold Earl of Cornwall [Willelmus de Marisco frater Reginaldi comitis Cornubie]). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 6 (Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, styled "uncle" [avunculo] by Henry [II], later King of England, in charter dated 1147 or 1149). Minor & Butler eds. Letters of John of Salisbury 1 (Oxford Medieval Texts) (1955): 162-163. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 9-10 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1154-65), 10-11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1146-55), 11 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 195-196 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1165-75, witnessed by his son, Nicholas), 196-197 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1155-65), 197-198 (two confirmation charters of King Henry II of England naming his "uncle" [avunculus] Reynold, Earl of Cornwall, one dated c.1174-5, the other dated c.1174-6). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): 1(11.651, X111.996-1000. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Hollister Henry 1(2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).Cornwall Rec. Office: Borough of Truro, BTRU/1 (charter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall dated c.1161-66) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, by Mabel Fitz William:
a. MAUD OF CORNWALL, married ROBERT II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 7].
Illegitimate child of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall, allegedly by Beatrice de Valle:
a. HENRY FITZ COUNT, of Liskeard, Cornwall and King's Kerswell, Devon, Constable of Totnes Castle, 1209, Governor of Portchester Castle, 1211, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1215, 1217-20, Constable of Launceston Castle and Warden of the Stanneries, 1215. In 1194 he was granted the manors of Liskeard, Cornwall and Diptford and King's Kerswell, Devon by the king. In 1196 he witnessed the Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by his alleged step-father, Sir William Briwerre. In 1215 he had a grant of the county of Cornwall from King John, to farm until the realm should be at peace. The grant was renewed by King Henry III 7 Feb. 1216/7. He resigned the county to the king in 1220, when he took the cross. HENRY FITZ COUNT died a crusader in 1222. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Hunter Catalogue of the MSS in the library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn (1838): 13. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1846): 924 (Torre Abbey foundation charter issued by William Briwer). Oliver Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis (1846): 174 (charter of Henry son of Reynold Earl of Cornwall; charter granted for the souls of his brothers and his mother), 179, 183. Trans. Exeter Diocesan Architectural & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 1 (1867): 133-134. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31(1870): 5. Rpt. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 456. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 21. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 9 (1902): 295-296 ("But Reginald de Dunstanville [i.e., Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall] had also by Beatrix de Valle (who afterwards became the wife of William Brewer, the judge of Henry II. and one of the regents of Richard I.) an illegitimate son named Henry FitzCount (sometimes FitzHenry), who became in after years also Earl of Cornwall."). Genealogist n.s. 20 (1904): 10-11. C.P. 3 (1913): 430 (sub Cornwall). Painter Reign of King John (1949): 231, 290, 348, 358-359. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 116 (charter of Henry Fitz Count dated 1200-22; charter witnessed by William Brewer). North Devon Rec. Office: Chichester of Arlington, 50/11/29/3 (confirmation of a gift of land dated early 13th Cent. from Henry son of Earl Reginald to William de Tracy of all his land of Wollecombe [in Mortehoe] and Boklande, Devon, which William and his ancestors held of Henry and his ancestors, lords of Bradneys, as the charter of Hugh Ruffus testifies. To have and to hold to the aforesaid William, his heirs and assigns, of Henry and his heirs for ever, rendering all due and customary services. Seal of Henry son of Earl Reginald - Round, natural wax, armorial, surrounded by legend giving name of owner, chipped. The arms on shield resemble those of Courtenay family, but the Courtenays did not become Earls till 14th Cent.) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (Baldekin styled "kinsman" of H[enry] Fitz Count in a fine roll item dated 1220; by whom he was earlier granted lands in Cornwall formerly held by Robert de Tintagel) (available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_015.html).
Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith, daughter of Forne son of Sigulf, lord of Greystoke, Cumberland. Edith subsequently married ROBERT D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, Constable of Oxford Castle. They had two sons, Henry and Gilbert. He and his wife, Edith, founded Oseney Priory near Oxford in 1129. Robert d'Oilly died in Sept. 1142. Sometime in the period, c.1145-56, his widow, Edith, granted a toft in Huggate and 68-1/2 acres in the fields there to the poor of the Hospital of St. Peter, York. Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 50 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith), 92 (charter of Robert d'Oilly dated before June 1139; charter granted with consent of his wife, Edith, and his son, Henry). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 505-508, 510 (charter of Edith wife of Robert d'Oilly dated c.1145-56), 510-511 (charter of Henry d'Oilly dated c.1145-56; charter witnessed by his wife, Maud), 518-519. Hedley Northumberland Fares. (1968): 233.
i. ROBERT FITZ ROY. He held land in Devonshire in 1130. He witnessed a charter of his step-father, Robert d'Oilly, in the period, ?1130-35. He supported his half-sister, Empress Maud, in the Civil War. In the period, 1144-7, he witnessed a charter of his half-brother, Henry d'Oilly. In 1146-7 he witnessed a charter of Empress Maud and her son, Henry. About 1150 he granted 10 pounds of land in his manor of Wantage, Berkshire to the church of Oseney, with the counsel of Henry d'Oilly his half-brother. Sometime in the period, 1153-67, he witnessed a charter of Wigan of Wallingford. He married before 1162 MAUD D'AVRANCHES, widow of William de Courcy (or ?Geoffrey de Crimes?), and daughter of Robert d'Avranches, by ___, daughter of Gelduin de Dol. They had one daughter, Maud. His wife, Maud, was heiress of Richard Fitz Baldwin. In 1162 he granted St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter two ferlings of land in his manor of Calvalegie juxta Cobbalegiam, together with a man named Edwium son of Wranhi; charter was granted with with the consent of his wife, Maud d'Avranches. ROBERT FITZ ROY died 31 May 1172. His widow, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1173. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farms of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 188 ("C. Rob[er]ti filii Henrici Regis per concessionem Mathildis, filiz Roberti de Avrenchis et heredis Ricardi filii Baldewini, dans totam vincam quam Rob'tus fil. Baldewini et Ricardus fester ejus Eccl. S.N. dederunt."), 382 (charter dated 1162 of Robert son of King Henry, granted with consent of Maud d'Avranches his wife [Robertus filius Regis Henrici, assensu Matillidis de Abrinco uxoris meae to St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter). Dugdale Monasticon Anglican = 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Obijt denique vir ejus secundus, dominus Robertus filius regis Henrici anno Domini M.clxxii. pridie calendas Junii [31 May], et post ipsum vicecomitissa Matildis, itaque de Aubrincis ut prius nuncupata, undecimo calendas Octobris [21 Sept.] anno Domini M.clxxiii. et regni regis Henrici secundi 19."); 6(1) (1830): 253 (charter of Robert son of King Henry [Robertus Henrici regis filius]; charter names his [half-]brother [fratris], Henry d'Oilly). Collectanea Archæologica 1(1862): 263-284. Priory of Hexham 1 (Surtees Soc. 64) (1864): 138 (Chronicle of John, Prior of Hexham: "Emissi sunt autem ducenti milites cum Rodberto, filio Edae et Henrici Regis notho, et Johanne Marascaldo ...."). Freeman Reign of the Norman Conquest of England 4 (1871): 723. Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): 374 (charter of Robert son of King Henry dated c.1150). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 137-138 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that he was the son of Hawise, the first born daughter of Maud d'Avranches; Hawise's sister, Maud de Courtenay, who was the plaintiff in the lawsuit, in turn testified that the said Hawise was the daughter of Geoffrey de Crimes (or Crunes, Cruues), the 1st husband of Maud d'Avranches), 404-405; 3 (1887): 450-452 (Robert de Courtenay testified in lawsuit dated 1222 that his mother, Hawise, was the daughter of William de Curcy, husband of Maud d'Avranches). Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 50-56. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1896): 251-254 (list of knights fees held by Robert Fitz Roy in 1166). Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 73, 75, 101-102. C.P. 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2426-2428. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.650, XIII.995. Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 25-26 (charter dated 1146-7 of Empress Maud daughter of King Henry I and her son, Henry; charter witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Robert Fitz Roy). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 62, footnote 26.
Child of Robert Fitz Roy, by Maud d'Avranches:
a. MAUD FITZ ROBERT, married REYNOLD DE COURTENAY, of Sutton, Berkshire [see COURTENAY 1].
ii. ALICE FITZ ROY. In the period, ?1130-35, she witnessed a charter of her step-father, Robert d'Oilly, and her mother, Edith. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 72-73 (Alice daughter of the king [Adeliza Lila Reg.] witness to charter of Robert d'Oilly, his wife, and son dated ?1130-35). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151.
Illegitimate son of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Nest, wife of Gerald of Windsor, Constable of Pembroke, and daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwt, Prince of South Wales:
i. HENRY FITZ ROY, of Pembrokeshire. He was killed during King Henry II's invasion at Anglesea in 1157 or 1158. He married ___. They had two sons, Meiler Fitz Henry [Justiciar of Ireland] and Robert, and presumably one daughter, Amabilis Fitz Henry (wife of Walter de Ridelisford). Williams ab Ithel Annales Cambriaes (Rolls Ser.) (1860): 47 (sub A.D. 1158: "Henricus filius Geraldi occisus est, velut alii volunt, filius Henrici regis ..."). Dimock Geraldus Cambrensis: Itinerarium Kambrice, et Descriptio Kambriæ (Geraldus Cambrensis Opera 6) (Rolls Ser.) (1868): 130 (Date: A.D. 1157: "Fuerant autem duo nobiles viti, et ejus qui scripsit haec avunculi, cum aliis hue a rege transmissi: Henricus scilicet regis Henrici primi filius, et secundi avunculus, ex nobili Nesta, Resi filii Theodori filia, in australi Kambria Demetiae finibus oriundus; et Robertus Stephani filius, Henrici frater non germanus sed uterinus."), 130, footnote 2 ("The death of Henry, her [Nest's] son by [King] H[enryl I., in this attack on Anglesea, is placed by Brut under 1156, in Ann. Camb. under 1158. By the former he is called Henry son of King Henry; by the latter, Henry son of Girald, or, according to others, son of king Henry. He was the father of the famous Meiler, the great hero of the Irish invasion."). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 30-31 (charter of Walter de Ridelisford to St. Mary's Abbey; charter granted with consent of his wife, Amabilis Fitz Henry and witnessed by Meiler Fitz Henry). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1 (1911): 18 (ped. chart). Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.656. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 298-299 (biog. of Meiler Fitzhenry). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I of England, by his mistress, Edith:
i. MAUD (or MATHILDE, MAHAUT) OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 (as his 1st wife) ROTROU II “the Great,” Count of Perche, seigneur of Belleme, son and heir of Geoffroi, Count of Mortagne and Perche, by Beatrix, daughter of Count Hilduin, Count of Montdidier and Roucy. He was born about 1080. Her maritagium likely included the manors of Aldboume and Wanborough, Wiltshire. They had two daughters, Philippe and Felicie. During the 1st Crusade, he fought at the Siege of Nicaea in mid-1097. He commanded a division that broke out of Antioch in June 1098. He crusaded against the Muslims in Spain probably in 1108. In 1114 he aided his father-in-law, King Henry I, at the Siege of Belleme. At the request of his wife, Maud, a hide of land at Wanborough, Wiltshire was given to Lewes Priory. His wife, Maud, was drowned in the shipwreck of the White Ship 25 Dec. 1120. He was Governor of Tudela in Aragon and participated in campaigns in Aragon from 1123 until the mid-1130s. He returned to Perche by 1135. He married (2nd) before 1126 HAWISE OF SALISBURY, daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, Constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPEE 2 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffroi, Rotrou (III) [Count of Perche], and Etienne [Archbishop-elect of Palermo]. After King Henry I's death in 1135, he and his nephew, Richer de l'Aigle, extorted the castles of Moulins and Bonmoulins as the price for their support for King Stephen. In 1139 he was taken in the English king's pay and defeated the unruly knights of Breteuil. ROTROU II, Count of Perche, died 6 May 1144 at the Siege of the Towe of Rouen, he then being in the service of Empress Maud and her husband, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) ROBERT I, Count of Dreux and Braille [see DREUX 6], and, in right of his 1st wife, Count of Perche, seigneur of Bellème, younger son of Louis VI, King of France, by Alix, daughter of Humbert II, Count of Savoy and Maurienne [see FRANCE 5 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Alix (wife successively of Waleran III, seigneur of Breteuil, Guy II, seigneur of Châtillon-sur-Marne, Jean I, seigneur of Torote, Châtellain de Noyon, and Raoul I de Nesle, Count of Soissons). His wife, Hawise, died in 1152. Robert I, Count of Dreux and Braine, died 11 October 1188. Duchesne Histoire Généalogique de la Maison Royale de Dreux (1631): 13-42. Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1726): 74-75 (sub Capetians), 423-425 (sub Comtes de Dreux). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Des Murs Hist. des Comtes du Perche de la Fam. des Rotrou (1856). Herald & Genealogist 3 (1866): 173-176. Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 13 (1881): 255 (Genealogiæ Fusniacensis: "Rotaldus comes, prefati comitis filius, duxit filiam regis Anglie, de qua filiam procreavit. "). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 3940 (charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche, dated c.1119; charter witnessed by his sister [soror], Juliane, and her son, Richer), 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe). Money Hist. of the Ancient Town & Borough of Newbury (1887): 62 (Perche ped.). Boulais Receuil des Antiquitéz du Perche (1890). Romanet de Beaune Géographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (1894): 33-35. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 419 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "6 [Obiit] Rotrodos comes."). Lalizel Abbaye Royal d'Arcisses (Archives du Diocèse de Chartres 10) (1900): 3-10 (charters of Rotrou, Count of Perche). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 174-186; 12 (1983): 67-86. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Traditio 41(1985): 145-179. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.649. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 35. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France (2002). Hollister Henry I (2003). Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 360-361. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart). Geoffrey Grossus Life of Blessed Bernard of Tiron (2009): 71, footnote 1.
Child of Maud (or Mathilde) of England, by Rotrou II of Perche:
a. PHILIPPE OF PERCHE, married HELIE OF ANJOU, Count of Maine, younger son of Foulques V le Jeune, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, by his 1st wife, Eremburge, daughter and heiress of Hélie, Count of Maine. They had one daughter, Beatrix (wife of Jean I, Count of Alençon). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): 53-55 (confirmation charter of Rotrou, Count of Perche dated c.1120; charter granted with consent of his son-in-law, Hélie, and daughter, Philippe [assensu generis mei Helie filieque mee Romanet de Beaune Geographie du Perche, formant le Cartulaire de cette Province (1890-1902): 44 (ped. chart), 48-51. Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Loir (1905): 30-31 ("... Helias vero ...comes Cenomannonun factus est, et xx annis adepto consulatu strenue potitis est. Heres quoque soceri sin Gervasii de Castro Lidi factus est, eujus filiam habuit, ex qua filiam nomine Eremburgem genuit, quam domino suo Fulconi, Andegavorum comiti, in matromonium copulavit … Uxor ejus ei filiam, Eremburgem nomine, peperit, quae, nubilibus annis, Fulconi, Andegavorum tunc comiti, nunc Ierosolymorum regi, nupsit et generosam sobolem genuit: Joffredum et Heliam, Mathildem et Sibyllam, quae filiis regum solemniter nupserunt"). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121.
Illegitimate children of King Henry I of England, by various mistresses:
i. GILBERT FITZ ROY. He was still young and unmarried in 1142. Nothing more is known of him. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 281 286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.660. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
ii. WILLIAM DE TRACY. He died soon after his father. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121 (author states in error that William de Tracy had a daughter and heiress, Grace, wife of John de Sudeley, of Sudeley Castle and Toddington, Gloucestershire). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.659. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
iii. MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF ENGLAND, married CONAN III, Duke of Brittany [see BRITTANY 3].
iv. JULIANE OF ENGLAND, married in 1103 EUSTACHE DE PACY (or DE BRETEUIL), seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, illegitimate son of Guillaume, seigneur of Bréteuil and Pacy, by an unknown mistress. They had two sons, Guillaume and Roger, and two daughters. In 1119 he took part in the rebellion against King Henry I, who besieged his wife, Juliane, at Breteuil. She fled to Pacy, and in the autumn of 1119 Eustache and Juliane were pardoned by the king. A few years later she became a nun at Fontevrault. EUSTACHE DE PACY died at the beginning of Lent 1136, Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Depoin Cartulaire de l’Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise (1895): 470-476 (Famille d'Ivry). C.P. 8 (1932): 209-210 (sub Lovel); 11(1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X11.648. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 304 (Fitz Osbem ped.). Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Norrnandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
v. MABEL OF ENGLAND, married before c.1125 GUILLAUME GOUET (or GORT), seigneur of Montmirail and Alluyes, son and heir of Guillaume Gouet, seigneur of Montmirail, Alluyes, Authon, la Bazoche-Gouet, Brou, and Château-du-Loir, by his wife, Eustachie Crespon. They had one son, Guillaume [seigneur of Montmirail]. He joined his parents and his brothers, Robert and Matthew, in the foundation of the Priory of St. Giles des Chateigniers as a cell of Tiron. In 1114, as William Gouet junior, he was one of the nobles of Thibaut, Count of Chartres, whom the count called to advise him. In 1116, with his father and mother, he gave judgment in a dispute between the abbey of Marmoutier and Gaston de Brou. As "Guillaume Goët le jeune," he witnessed a charter of Guillaume de Mesmerand to the leproserie of Chateaudun c.1120. He succeeded his father before c.1125. He made an agreement c.1125 with the Prior of Saint-Denis de Nogent regarding the churches of Ceton and Saint-Ulphace. He likewise gave c.1125 to the monks of Saint-Denis the church of Unverre that Gaston de Brou gave them and that his mother Eustachie unjustly retained; for which gift he received 10 livres and his wife, Mabel, 100 sous. About 1127 he witnessed a charter of Ives de Courville, by which he quitclaimed his land in Courville to Thibaut IV, Count of Blois. In 1136 he granted various privileges to Tiron Abbey. In 1140 he confirmed the gift of Bois-Ruffin made by Ursion de Meslay. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumièges (1826): 284-286 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXIX). Guérard Cartulaire de Saint Père de Chartres 2 (1840): 471-476, 483-486, 494-495. Lépinois Histoire de Chartres 1 (1854): /41. Etudes sur le Maine, Noblesse du Maine aux Crusades (1859): 49-50. Charles & Elbenne Cartulaire de Saint-Vincent du Mans (1886-1913): Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbve de la Sainte-Trinité di Tiron 1 (1883): cvii-cix (arms of Guillaume Goet dated 1139: Mi-parti au 1er d'argent à deux chevrons de sable; au 2e trois chevrons brisés d'or), 24-27, 78-79, 104-106. Merlet Inventaire-sommaire des Archives départementales anterieures (11790: Eure-et-Loir, Archives Ecclésiastiques, Serie H 8 (1897): 161. Souancé & Métais Saint-Denis de Nogent-le-Rotrou 1031-1789: Histoire et Cartulaire (1899): LVII-LIX, 103-104 (charter of Guillaume Gouet junior son of Guillaume Gouet dated c.1125), 104-106 (charter dated c.1125 naming Guillaume [Gouet] junior, son of Eustachie wife of [Guillaume] Gouet, and his wife, Mabel), 164-166. Bulls. de la Societé Dunoise Archeologie, Histoire, Sciences & Arts 10 (1904): 171-188. C.P. 11 (1949): Appendix D, 105-121. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354 (illegitimate children of King Henry I of England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.663, XIII.1014. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart).
Child of Mabel of England, by Guillaume Gouet:
a. GUILLAUME GOUET, seigneur of Montmirail, married ISABELLE (or ELIZABETH) OF BLOIS, Duchess of Apulia [see DONZY 4].
vi. CONSTANCE OF ENGLAND, married ROSCELIN DE BEAUMONT, Vicomte of Beaumont-en-Maine [see BEAUMONT 3].
vii. ALINE OF ENGLAND, married MATHIEU DE MONTMORENCY, seigneur of Montmorency [see LEICESTER 3 {sic: MONTMORENCY 3}].
v. SIBYL OF ENGLAND, married ALEXANDER I, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 1.v], younger son of Malcolm III (Ceannmor), King of Scots, by his 2nd wife, [Saint] Margaret, daughter of Edward Ætheling [see SCOTLAND 1 for his parentage]. He was born about 1077. They had no issue. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Malcolm. He became King of Scotland in 1107 on the death of his elder brother, Edgar, King of Scots. He and his wife, Sibyl, founded the monastery of Scone in Perthshire in 1113-14. He was also a benefactor to Durham and Dunfermline. He invaded Wales in summer 1114, in cooperation with King Henry I of England. His wife, Sibyl, died suddenly at Loch Tay 12 July 1122. ALEXANDER I, King of Scots, died at Stirling 23 April 1124, and was buried before the great altar at Dunf 		Rotrou II "the Great" (I6406)
 
6672 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").” 		of Falaise, Fulbert (I7494)
 
6673 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").”
 		de Conteville, Jean (I7308)
 
6674 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").”
 		Fitz Herluin, Raoul (I7307)
 
6675 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").” 		Fredesende (I7305)
 
6676 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").” 		Fitz Turstin, Eudes (I7304)
 
6677 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin, steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").” 		de Conteville, Muriel (I7302)
 
6678 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").” 		Eudes (I7301)
 
6679 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").” 		de Conteville, Herluin (I7300)
 
6680 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, illegitimate daughter of Robert, Duke of Normandy, possibly by his mistress, Arlette (or Harleve) [see Appendix, Line A, Gen. 11 for her ancestry], born before 1035. She was the sister of William the Conqueror, King of England [see ENGLAND 1]. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guerinfrid, seigneur of Aurnale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Chateau d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Etienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Etienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the territory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. His wife, Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107.
Du Plessis Histoire de l'Eglise de Meaux 2 (1731): 8 (charter dated 1061 of Count Thibaut; charter names his son, Henri, his nephew, Eudes (son of his brother), his wife, Adelade, and his sister Bertha, Countess of Brittany). Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 ("A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ..."). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l’Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265 (charter of King William Rufus of England dated 1087-1100, witnessed by Eudes, Count of Champagne [“Odonis comitis de Campania”]; also see Chartes & Docs. de l'Abbaye de Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu' à l'avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168 ("Ce lieu, appelé Buc, où existait de très-ancienne date un château qui passe pour avoir été le siège de la domination du premier forestier de Flandre, et qui par la suite a vu s'élever, sous le nom de Lille, une cite si florissante, ce lieu servait de refuge à la personne du marquis et à celle de ses fils. Il avait été fortifié de nouveau, et la plupart des barons flamands s'y étaient enfermés avec leur suzerain. Il ne semble pas que l'empereur se soit rendu maître de cette importante forteresse. Avant qu'il en eût tenté le siège, le gouverneur Lambert, comte de Lens et oncle du fameux Godefroi du Bouillon, sortit à sa rencontre avec des troupes numbreuses. Cette opposition inattendue, en opérant une diversion, aura empêché l'empereur d'attaquer le château de Lille; mais elle coûta la vie au comte Lambert. De là Henri marcha vers Toumai et assiègea le fort de cette ville, où s'étaient refugiés grand nombre de gens: car tout le pays se dépeuplait sur le passage des impériaux."). Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Nomanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi ("In the Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror (Archaeologia, vol. XXVI, p. 349), an inference has been drawn from the terms of a contemporaneous charter in proof that the Comtesse of Aumale, wife of Count Odo of Champagne, was the niece and not the sister of King William the Conqueror. The supposition is, however, erroneous, as is shewn by another subsequent charter to the collegiate church of Auchy, written by commond of Adelidis the most noble Comtesse, sister, to wit, of William King of the English, confirmante viro suo, videlicet, Odone comite una cum filio suo Stephano."). Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsal (Rolls Set.) (1866): 89 (De genealogia nobelium oomitum Albemarliz, fundatorum nostrorum: "Comes quondam Campanix, nepos regis Francorum, habebat quendam filium, militem egregrium, nomine Odonem Porro, coadjuvante dictum Odonem archiepiscopo Rothomagensi erga ipsum regem Willielmum, dedit ei prmfatus rex sororem suam in uxorem."). Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34 (sub A.D. 1026: "Hic tercius Ricardus eodem primo anno ducatus sui mortuus est, et successit ei Robertus frater ejus, qui genuit Willermum de Herleva non sponsata, qui postea Angliam conquisivit, et unarn filiam nomine Aeliz de alia concubina."). Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126 (Ex Chronico Cameracensi et Atrebatensi: Year: 1054. Que facto, accinxit se rursum Iohannes ad deducendi negotium, volens, si fled posset aliquo pacto, per clausulam illam ducere Imperatoris exercitum. Laboranti igitur homini et quxrenti id ipsum perficere, portx clausulx illius apertx aunt de media nocte; sicque clausulam illam introivit Imperator, facta inimicorum suorum resistere volentium non minima Pertransiens autem clausulam illam, et interfectis a dextris et a sinistris occursantibus sibi, ad Islense castellum pervenit, ubi Lantbertus Comes Lensensis cum multis ei occurens, interfectus occubuit. Ab eo quidem castello divertit ad Tornacum civitatem; ubi in quodam municipio inclusit non parvam militum electorum fugientem multitudinem, quos obsidione et ad ultimum fame oppressos compulit ad deditionem. Illis igitus acceptis, et per ergastula militum suorum in custodia reclusis, Imperator cum gloria ad civitates regni sui rediit."), 205-206 (Ex Genealogia de qua ortus est Carolus Magnus dated after 1135: "Carolus Dux frater Lotharii genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum Comitem de Namuren. Albertus genuit Albertum qui none est. Et Gerberga soror Ermengardis genuit Henricom Seniorem de Brusella. Henricus Senior genuit Comitem Lambertum, et Henricum fratrem ejus, et Matildem sororem comm. Hanc Matildem duxit uxorem Comes Eustachius de Bulonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius accepit uxorem filium Godefridi Ducis, Idam nomine, nobilem genere et moribus; et genuit ex ea quatuor filios, Guillermum, Godefridum, qui nunc est Dux Lotharingix, Balduinum, et rani; Eustachium. Godefridus vero et Balduinus fuerent Reges Jerosolvmorum. Eustachius vero genuit filiam, nomine Matildem, quam postea duxit in uxorem Stephanus Rex Anglorum."), 374 (Genealogiæ ex Chronicis Hainoniensibus. "Carolus Dux Lotharingix, frater Lotharii Regis Francorum, duas habuit filias Ermengardem et Gerbergam: de Ermengarde natus est Albertus Comes Namurcensis, qui genuit Albertum ei succedentem, et Henricum Comitem de Durbio. Albertus II genuit Godefridum Comitem Namurcensium, et Henricum Comitem de Rupe. Hic Henricus filiam habuit Macthildem, quæ domino de Walecourt peperit Werricum et Beatricem, etc. & Godefridus Comes Namurcensis, frater Henrici de Rupe, genuit Henricum et Adelidem uxorem Hainonensis Balduini, cui peperit Balduinum Comitem, etc. Gerberga vero alia filia Caroli, fratris Lotharii, peperit Henricum Seniorem de Bruxella; et hic Henricus genuit Henricum, Lambertum, et Macthildem qux Comiti de Bolonia Eustachio peperit Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius vero ex Ida filia Godefridi Ducis Lotharingix genuit Godefridum de Bullonio, postea Regem Hierusalem, et Eustachium, etc."), 582-583 (confirmation charter of King Henry III of Germany dated 1047). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583 (Ex Willelmi Calculi Gemeticensis Monachi: `Waldevi Comitis Huntedonix, Habuit autem idem Waldevus tres filias ex uxore sua [Juditha] filia [Adelaidis] Comitiss de Albamarla, quæ Comitissa fuit soror uterina Willehni Regis Anglorum senioris."). Recueil des Historiens des Gauleses et de la France 13 (1869): 585 (Ex Genealogia Caroli Magni qua Namurcensium Comitum et Boloniens. Origo Declaratur. "Carolus Dux, frater Lotharii Regis, genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum Comitem de Namurco, etc. Albertus genuit Albertum et fratrem ejus Henricum Comitem de Durbuio. Albertus autem de Namurco genuit Godefridum, et Henricum Comitem de Rupe, pattern Mathildis qux genuit Jacobum Avesnensem Godefridus autem frater ejus genuit Henricum Comitem Narnurcensem, qui caruit liberis, et sororem ejus Alithiarn: quæ nupta Hainoensi Comiti Balduino genuit Balduinum, qui duxit Margaretam filiam Theoderici Flandrensis Comitis, et genuit filium æquivocum sibi. Gerberga vero soror Ermengardis genuit Henricum seniorem de Brussella. Henricus senior genuit Lambertum et Henricum fratrem ejus, et Mathildem sororem eorum. Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem Comes Eustachius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius vero accepit uxorem filiam Godefridi [Lotharingiæ] Ducis, Idam nominee, nobilem genere et moribus, et genuit ex ea tres filios, Eustachium, Godefridum et Balduinum. Eustachius frater Balduini Regis Jerusalem duxit Mariam filiam Regis Scotiæ, et genuit Mathildem. Mathildis nupta Stephano, fiolio Stephani Blesensis Comitis, genuit Mariam Abbatissam [Ramesiæ]. Cumque defecissent in Bolonia legitimi hæredes, Matthus filius Theoderici Comitis Flandrensis, licit illicite, duxit Abbatissam, et suscitavit semem hæreditarium duas filias generando, et remisit earn ad locum suum."). Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbege de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20 (confirmation of gifts to Tréport Abbey includes the following: "Henricus Visa dedit, pro sua et antecessorum suorem anima, ecdesie Sancti Michaelis de Ulterisportu medietatem vile que vocatur Frastineta [Le Fresnoy], et medietatum bosci ejusdem, et ecclesiam Sancti Nicholai quam in eadem construxerat villa, et hoc fecit concessu Berthe uxoris sue et filii sui Willelmi, et concessu comitisse Albemarle Aelidis, ac filii ejus Stephani."). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "12 Sept. [Obiit] Lanbertus comes."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99 (agreement dated 1047-55 witnessed by "young Eudes, nephew of Count Thibaut" [Odo puer, nepos comitis Tethberti”). C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33 (charter of Stephen, Count of Aumale, dated 1115 confirms the gift made by Alice his mother ["mater mea Adeliza] to the monks of St. Lucian of Beauvais of the church of St. Martin D'Acy, which his ancestors had erected outside the castle of Aumale; charter also mentions Stephen's uncle, William I, King of England ['Willelmi regis Anglorum avunculi men). Monumenta Germaniae Histotica SS 7 (1925): 494 (Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensium. Continuatio); SS 9 (1925): 300-301 (Haec est Genealogia Regis Karoli qui vocatus est magnus, de cuius prosapia ortus est rex Godefridus Eisque frater rex Balduinus: "Karolus Magnus genuit Ludovicum Pissimum augustum. Ludovicus genuit Lotharium Pipinum et Ludovicum ex Ermengarde, et Karolum Calvum ex Iudith. Karolus Calvus genuit Ludovicum, de quo dictum est qui nichil fecit, quia post mortem paths duobus tantum annis vixit. Ludovicus filius Karoli genuit Karolum Simplicem et Karlemannum. Karolus vero Simplex ab Heriberto captus est. Qui Karolus ex Ogiva genuit Ludovicum. Ludovicus genuit Lotharium regem et Karolum ducem ex Gerberga. Lotharius rex genuit Ludovicum iuvenem, et Karolus dux, frater Lotharii regis, genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum comitem de Namuco. Albertus genuit Albertum qui nunc est, et fratrem eius Henricum comitem de Durboio. Gerberga vero soror Ermengardis genuit Henricum seniorem de Bursella. Henricus senior genuit Lambertum comitem et Henricum fratrem eius et Mathildem sororem comm. Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem comes Eustachius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios, Eustachium et Lantbertum. Eustachius vero accepit uxorem filiam Godefridi duels, Idam nomine, nobilem genere et mobus, et genuit ex ea tres filios, Eustachium et Godefridum qui nunc est dux Lotharingiae et Balduiniun." Later addition: "Eustachius, frater Balduini regis Iherusalem, duxit Mariam filiam regis Scotiae, et genuit Mathildem. Mathildis nupta Stephatio, filio Stephani Blesensis comitis, genuit Mariam abbatissam. Curnque defecissent in Bolonia legitimi heredes, Matheus filius Theoderici comitis Flandrensis, licet illicite, duxit abbatissam, et suscitavit semen hereditatium duas filias generando, et rernisit earn ad locurn suum. Albertus autem de Namurco genuit Godefridum et Henricurn comitem de Rupe, patrem Mathildis quae genuit Iacobum Avesnensem. Godefridus autem frater emus Henricum cornitem Namurcensem, qui caruit liberis et sororem eius Althiam, quae nupta Hainoensi comiti Balduino, genuit Balduinum, qui duxit Margaretam filia Theoderici Flandrensis comitis, et genuit filium equivocum sibi."). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227, XII.19. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Ware's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped.).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert, Count of Lens:
i. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
i. STEPHEN (or ETIENNE), Count of Aumale [see next].”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-87, King of England, 1066-87, illegitimate son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, by his mistress, Axlette (or Herleve) [see Appendix, Line A for his ancestry]. He was probably born at Falaise 1027-28. In 1046-7 William's right to be duke was attacked by his cousin, Guy, count of Brionne. Guy and his associates were defeated by an army led by William and the French king Henri I to the south-west of Caen at Val-es-Dunes. In 1049 William joined the French king's campaign against Geoffrey Martel, Count of Anjou, taking part in the successful siege of the castle of Mouliheme near Angers. He married about 1050 (marriage prohibited 1049, dispensation dated 1059, they being related by near kinship within the 7th degree) MAUD OF FLANDERS, daughter of Baudouin V, Count-Marquis of Flanders, by Adele, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Appendix, Line B for her ancestry]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose puke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry [I] [King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Leger in Preaux), Maud, Constance, Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], and Adele (wife of Etienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received a promise of the English succession from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor. According to Norman writers, King Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when King Edward died (5 Jan 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 September 1066 William landed at Pevensey with his army and defeated Harold's forces in the Battle of Hastings 14 October 1066. William was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey 25 December 1066 by Aldred, Archbishop of York. He invaded Scotland in 1072 and Wales in 1081. He spent most of his time in Normandy, but returned to England each time when it was absolutely necessary. In 1082 William imprisoned his half-brother, Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent, on a charge of disloyalty. He was a major patron of monasteries, founding two great abbeys at St Etienne of Caen and Battle, and making donations to a host of other churches. His wife, Maud, died 2 November 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinite in Caen. Her tombstone with inscription carved round the edge has survived. In 1085 William brought a large army to meet the threat of an invasion by Canute IV of Denmark, but it never occurred. One of the most important deeds of William in his last years was ordering of economic and tenurial survey of England, the results of which were summarized in the Domesday Book. In the summer of 1086 the Conqueror departed for the continent, where he went on a military expedition to retaliate against an invading French garrison at the border town of Mantes. He was injured while riding a horse and the ailing king was carried back to Rouen and then moved for peace and quiet to the priory of Saint Gervais outside the city. Surrounded by clergy and magnates, he apparently remained lucid until the end, which came on 9 September 1087. His corpse was transported by river and sea to Caen, where he was buried in the Abbey church of Saint-Etienne. [For William the Conqueror's sister, Alice of Normandy, Countess of Aumale, see AUMALE 1; for his half-brother, Robert, Count of Mortain, see MORTAIN 1.]
Morice Memoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 129 (Extract of Chronicle of Robert, Abbot of Mont Saint Michel: "Anno 1083. Obiit Mathildis Regina filia Balduini II. Comitis Flandrensis, uxor Willelmi Regis Anglorum;" "Anno 1087. Obiit Willelmus Rex Anglorum Rotomagi apud S. Gervasium V. idus Septembris [9 September], qui sua magna industria & probitate omnem Angliam sux subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorurn."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]); 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 297-300. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 295-298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXXIV). De Smet Recueil des Chroniques de Flandre 1 (1837): 544 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1027: "Balduinus Pulchra Barba, comes Flandriae, filio suo Balduino, qui postea dictus est Pius, Athelam, filiam Roberti regis Francorum, accipit uxorem. Ex qua nati sunt Balduinus Montensis et Robertus Friso et filia Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans eam debellavit."), 552 (Chronicomm Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Duncan Dukes of Normandy (1839). Strickland Lives of the Queens of England 1 (1840): 1-134 (biog. of Matilda of Flanders). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxx (Alice [Duchess of Burgundy] styled "aunt" [amita] by King William in charter dated 1080). Giles Chronicon Anglia Petriburgense (1845): 45 (sub A.D. 1035: "Robertus dux Norrnanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septum puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour servir à la Topographic et à l’Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Artgustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Lépinois & Merlet Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Chartres 3 (1865): 172 (Necrologium B.M. Carnutensis: V Idus Septembris [9 September] - "Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum."). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 182-183, 284-285. Edwards Liber Monasterii de Hyda (Rolls Ser. 45) (1866): 294-295 (Judith [of Lens], wife of Earl Waltheof, styled "king's kinswoman" [consanguineam regis] [i.e., kinswoman of King William the Conqueror]). Wauters Table Chronologique des Chartes et Diplômes Imprimés 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1870-1879). Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1881): 228 (Orderic Vitalis, Libro Tertio: Adelaide, wife of Robert son of Giroie, styled "kinswoman [consobrina] of King William the Conqueror), 234 (Orderic Vitalis, Libro Tertio: William Fitz Osbern styled "kinsman and steward" [cognatus et Dapifer] of King William the Conqueror), 246-247 (Orderic Vitalis, Libro Sexto: Gulbert [d'Auffay or de Heugleville] styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] of King William the Conqueror, Beatrix, daughter of Christian de Valenciennes, and wife of Gulbert [d'Auffay or de Huegleville], styled "kinswoman" of Queen Maud of Flanders [Mathildis Reginæ consobrina]). Arch. Jour. 41 (1884): 300-312 (author provides conclusive evidence that Gundred, wife of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, was not the daughter of William the Conqueror or his wife, Maud of Flanders). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 3-5 (seal of King William the Conqueror - Obverse. The king on horseback to the right, in coat of mail and conical helmet and spurred; in his right hand a long lance with three streamers; in his left hand a kite-shaped shield, held by a strap, showing the interior. Horse trappings: a small, plain saddle, and stirrup, breast-band, girth, and head-gear. Legend: + HOC • NORMANNORVM • WILLEMVM • NOSCE • PATRONVM • S[I] between two dotted circles. Reverse. The king, enthroned, with a crown fleury of three tre-foiled points, and loose robe falling in folds between the knees, with arms and feet apparently bare; both arms extended and raised from the elbow; in his right hand a sword erect, in his left hand an orb, surmounted by a tall cross pattée fitchée. Throne without back; cushions on the seat; the base having three small arches, which rest on a plinth also having arches in nearly vertically corresponding positions. Legend: + HOC • ANGLIS • REGE[M • S]IGNO • [FATEARIS • EVNDEM] between two dotted circles. The legends, taken together, form a distich.). Stubbs Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi de gestis regum Anglorum (Rolls Series) (1887-9). Merlet & Clerval Un Manuscrit Chartrain tin Xle Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Marim Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesix Beatx Maria Camotensis - kal. nov. [31 October] Obiit Matildis, Anglorum regina ..."), 184 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "viii id. dec. [6 December] Obiit Adeliza, filia regis Anglorum…"). Bradshaw Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral Pt. 2 (1897): ccxli (obits. in the odd volume of the great Latin Bible: 9 Sept. - "Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "9 Sept. [Obiit] Guillelmus rex Anglorum major."), 422 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "1 Nov. [Obiit] Malthildis, regina Anglorum."), 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "9 Sept. [Obiit] Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannnorum."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Nov. [Obiit] Mathildis, regina Anglorum."). Compte-rendu des Séances de la Commission Royale d’Histoire 5th Ser. 9 (1898): 142-180 (sub Comtes de Flandre). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Docs. sur la Province du Perche 3rd Ser. 2) (1894): 9-11. Eng. Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 498-499; 86 (1971): 225-250. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 240 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et princeps Normanie, v idus sept [9 Sept.] [1087]."), 660 (Nécrologe of Abbaye de Saint-Jean-en-Vallée: "[3 Nov.] III non. Obiit Matildis, Anglorum regina [1083]."). D.N.B. 21(1909): 293-301 (biog. of William the Conqueror, King of England). Gomme Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1909): 189-191 (sub A.D. 1075 and 1076: Earl Roger [i.e., Roger, Earl of Hereford] styled "kinsman" of King William the Conqueror), 212 (sub A.D. 1096: William [Count] of Eu styled "king's kinsman."). Bishop & Chaplais Facsimiles of English Royal Writs to AD. 1100 (1957). Stenton Bayeux Tapestry (1957). Fauroux Recueil des Actes des Ducs de Normandie de 911 à 1066 (1961). Galbraith Making of Domesday Book (1961). Stenton First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (1961). Musset Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et de la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbeyes Caennaises (1967). Barlow Edward the Confessor (1979). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). Bates Normandy before 1066 (1982). L. Musset "La reine Mathilde et la fondation de la Trinité de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Academie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5 (sub Flanders), 79 (sub Normandy), 81 (sub England). Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-XI.423, XII.18. Bates William the Conqueror (1989). Fleming Kings & Lords in Conquest England (1991). Van Houts Costa Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni (1992-5). Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 140 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "5 Idus Sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Willelmus rex Anglorum."), 144 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "4 Non. Nov. [2 November]. Obiit Matilda regina…"). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Davis & Chibnall Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers (1997). Bickley Regesta Regum Anglo-Normanorum: The Acta of William I 1066-1087 (1998): 49, 342, 381, 466, 885, 893, 920 (instances of Edward the Confessor, King of England, styled "my kinsman" [yneges mines mæg/ cognatus meus/ consanguineus meus" by William the Conqueror, King of England). Harper-Bill Anglo-Norman Studies XXI (1999): 145-168. Bartlett England under the Norman & Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (2000). Roffe Domesday: The Inquest & the Book (2000). Anglo-Norman Studies XXV (2003): 1-18. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of William the Conqueror, by Maud of Flanders:
i. ROBERT (nicknamed “Curthose”), Duke of Normandy, son and heir, born about 1054. He married in Italy in Sept. 1100 SIBYL OF CONVERSANO, daughter of Goffredo (or Geoffroi), Count of Conversano and Brindisi. They had one son, William “Clito” [Count of Flanders]. By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he had two illegitimate sons, Richard and William (or Guillaume) [lord of Tortosa], and one illegitimate daughter, ___ (wife of Hélie [or Elias] de Saint-Saëns). His wife, Sibyl, died 18 (or 21) March 1103. ROBERT, Duke of Normandy, died in prison at Cardiff 10 (or 11) Feb. 1134, and was buried before the altar in the abbey church of St. Peter, Gloucester. Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie 4 (1839): lxxv. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 576 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Feb. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normannorum."), 577 ("18 Mart. [18 March] [Obiit] Sebille, comitissa Normannorum."). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 239 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "[Obiit] Sibilla, comitissa Normannie XII kal. apr. [21 March]"). D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1235-1242 (biog. of Robert, Duke of Normandy). Barlow William Rufus (1983): 441-445, Appendix A, Children of William I and Matilda. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.415, XII.643, XII.643a-XII.643c. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Aird Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy (2011).
ii. RICHARD, 2nd son, born about 1055, died 1069-74. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964): Appendix C, 393. Barlow William Rufus (1983): 441-445, Appendix A, Children of William I and Matilda. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.418. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
iii. WILLIAM “Rufus,” 3rd son, born about 1060. He succeeded his father in 1087 as king of England; Normandy and Maine passed to his elder brother, Robert. He was crowned at Westminster 26 Sept. 1087. From 1096 to 1100 he held the duchy of Normandy in pledge but was never duke. WILLIAM II, King of England, was killed in the New Forest 2 August 1100, being shot by an arrow from his own men in hunting. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire. Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & all Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Kal. Aug. [1 August]. Ob. Guillelmus Rex Anglorum"). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 182-183, 285-286. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1870-1879). Lawrie Early Scottish Charters prior to A.D. 1153 (1905): 14 (confirmation charter of King William II dated 1095-1100). D.N.B. 21 (1909): 301-306 (biog. of William II, King of England). Barlow William Rufus (1983). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): Xl.419. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
iv. HENRY, King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin [see below].
v. ALICE (or ADILIDEM, ADILIDE, ADELIZA) OF ENGLAND, nun at St Léger in Preaux. She died in 1073. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 14-16 (biog. of Adeliza, or Adelaide of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Steele (1866): 177-182, 285-286. Merlet & Clerval Un Manuscrit Chartrain du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 184 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "viii id. dec. [6 December] Obiit Adeliza, filia regis Anglorum ..."). Barlow William Rufus (1983): 441-445, Appendix A, Children of William I and Matilda. Lasteyrie Etudes sur la Sculpture française au Moyen Age (1902): 7. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): Xl.416. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35.
vi. MAUD OF ENGLAND. In 1086 Geoffrey held Hatch Warren, Hampshire of the king for the service which he performed for Maud the king's daughter. She died 26 April, year unknown, Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 16-33 (biog. of Matilda of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 285-286. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 239 (Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Ob. Mathildis, filia Willelmi regis Anglorum, vi kal. maii [26 April"). Barlow William Rufus (1983): 441-445, Appendix A, Children of William I and Matilda (author states Maud was not first Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen as Delisle believed). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35.
vii. CONSTANCE OF ENGLAND. She married in 1086 (as his 1st wife) ALAN IV, Count (or Duke) of Brittany, son and heir of Hoe!, Count (or Duke) of Nantes, by Hawise, daughter of Alan III, Count (or Duke) of Brittany. They had no issue. He succeeded his father as Duke in 1084. In 1088 his wife, Countess Constance, confirmed to Quirnperlé Abbey certain domains that her husband previously had given them. His wife, Constance, died 13 August 1090, and was buried in the church of St. Melans near Rhedon in Brittany. He married (2nd) ERMENGARDE OF ANJOU, divorced wife of Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou, and daughter of Fulk (or Foulques) IV "le Rechin," Count of Anjou, by his 1st wife, Hildegarde, daughter of Lancelin [II] de Baugency. They had two sons, Conan [III] “le Gros” [Duke of Brittany] [see BRITTANY 3] and Geoffroi, and one daughter, Hawise (wife of Baudouin VII, Count of Flanders). He accompanied Robert, Duke of Normandy, to the Holy Land in 1096. He abdicated in c.1114-16 in favor of his son, Conan, and subsequently became a monk at Redon Abbey. ALAN IV, Count (or Duke) of Brittany, died 13 October 1119. Morice Mémoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 101-103, 453 (charter of Alan, Duke of Brittany to St. Georges Abbey), 463 (Duke Alan and his wife, Constance, listed as witnesses to a charter dated 8 Dec. 1086 of Giron son of Ansketil to Saint-Florent), 464 (charter of Constance, Countess of Brittany, daughter of William King of England to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names her husband, Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoel), 464 (epitaph of Constance, Countess of Brittany found in 1672 which reads: "Concurrente uno Idus Aug. [13 August] Obiit Constantia Britanniae Comitissa Alani Fergens conjux nobilissima, Willielmi Regis Anglorum filia."), 464-465 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Count of Brittany, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 465-467 (judgment dated 1089 regarding a difference of the monks of Redon with the chaplains of Count Alan and his wife, Countess Constance), 507 (charter dated 1101 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, his 2nd wife, Ermengarde, and their son, Conan), 525 (charter of Alan, Count of Brittany, and his 2nd wife, Countess Ermengarde, to the nuns of Fontevrault), 527. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 23-33 (bio 		of Falaise, Arlette or Herlève (I6107)
 
6681 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT I the Magnificent, Count of Hiémois, 1026, Duke of Normandy, 1027-1035, 2nd son. He was heir in 1027 to his older brother, Richard (III), Duke of Normandy. By his mistress, ARLETTE (or HERLEVE), daughter of Fulbert of Falaise, he had one illegitimate son, William the Conqueror [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and also by Arlette or an unknown mistress, one illegitimate daughter, Alice [Countess of Aumale]. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy; set off on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035, and subsequently died at Nicaea 1-3 July 1035. Herleve married c.1030 HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE, Vicomte, seigneur of Conteville. They had two sons, Eudes [Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] and Robert [Count of Mortain], and one daughter, Muriel. He founded Grestain Abbey in Normandy about 1050. He and his wife renounced their claim to the tithe of Toutainville and to the vill called Mesnil-Dastin to Preaux Abbey. His wife, Herleve, is thought to have been living in 1050-51, but died soon afterwards. He married (2nd) FREDESENDE ___. They had two sons, Jean (who appears to have died young) and Raoul Fitz Herluin (or de Conteville) [seigneur of Corneville-sur-Risle and Martainville-en-Lieuvin, presumably Domesday tenant of Chapel Allerton, Huish (in Burnham), Adber (in Trent), and Brent, Somerset]. HERLUIN DE CONTEVILLE died about 1066. He and his first wife, Arlette, were buried in Grestain Abbey. His widow, Fredesende, granted part of dower lands at Le Neubourg, Cantelou, and Honnaville (dep. Calvados) to Grestain Abbey.
Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 169 ("Roger de Ternois … ayant appris que le jeune Guillaume avait succédé à son père dans le duché, il en fut vivement indigné ... car Guillaume, né d'une concubine du duc Robert, nommée Herlève, fille de Fulbert, valet de chambre du due.") (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VII, Chap. III). Thomas Stapleton, "Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror," in Archaeologia 26 (1836): 349-357. Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 421-423 (charter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy mentions his "uncle" [avunculo] Robert, Archbishop of Rouen). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 289-290. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 834-835 (sub Conteville). William of Malmesbury De Gestis Regum Anglorum 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1889): 333-334 ("Matrem quantum vixit insigni indulgentia dignatus est; quæ, ante patris obitum, cuidam Herlewino de Comitisvilla, mediocrium opum vim, nupserat. Ex eo Willelmus fratres habuit Robertum, quem comitem Moritonii fecit, crassi et hebetis ingenii hominem; Odonem, quem ad episcopatum Bajocensem provexit comes, comitem Cantiae rex instituit"). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "3 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus comes."), 487 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Jul. [Obiit] Robertus, dux Normannorum quartus."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Freeman William the Conqueror (1902). Bréard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Procs. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 52 (1907): 82. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogliæ Comitum Andegavensium). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 257-268; 65 (1950): 289-303. Winkhaus (1950) 1/133. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 31 (sub Conteville). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Van Houts "The origins of Herleva, mother of William the Conqueror," in English Hist. Rev. 101 (1986): 399-404. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.13, XII.18-XII.19. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England 1066-1135 (1998): 197-198. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 258-259 ("Hugh of Avranches, earl of Chester from 1071, d. 1101 ... Son of Richard Goz vicomte of Avranches and a relative, probably half-sister, of William I. This woman was named as Emma daughter of Herleve and Herluin by Dugdale in his Baronage i, 32, but there is no independent evidence as to her name. The likelihood that she was nonetheless a half-sister of William I and sister of Robert of Mortain, is increased by the terms of a letter of Bishop Helinand of Le Mans, referring to a consanguineus marriage projected for the daughter of William of Mortain, discussed in Keats-Rohan, Medieval Prosopography 14.1 (1992), 38-40; for Hugh [Earl of Chester], ibid., 23-30."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Gazeau Normannia monastica: Prices normands et Abbés bénédictins, Xe-XIIe siècle (2007): 174-175.
Child of Robert of Normandy, by Herleve of Falaise:
i. WILLIAM, Duke of Normandy, King of England [see next].
Child of Robert of Normandy, by a mistress, possibly Herleve of Falaise:
i. ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, born before 1035. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guérinfrid, seigneur of Aumale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Château d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Étienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Étienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the terrritory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107. Du Plessis Histoire de l'Église de Meaux 2 (1731): 8. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 (“A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: 'I William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ...'"). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265; also see Chartes & Docs. de l’Abbaye de Saint Pierre an Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu’a l’avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi. Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsa 1 (Rolls Ser.) (1866): 89. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34. Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126, 205-206, 374, 582-583. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583; 13 (1869): 585; Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580. Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99. C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33. Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 7 (1925): 494. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charkmagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens:
a. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
a. STEPHEN (or ÉTIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, married HAWISE DE MORTIMER [see AUMALE 2].
Children of Herleve of Falaise, by Herluin de Conteville:
i. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. In 1049, while still a youth, he was granted the see of Bayeux. His active career was that of a warrior and statesman. He found ships for the invasion of England and fought in person at Senlac. He became Earl of Kent in 1066-67, and for some years he was a trusted royal minister. He acquired lands in more than twenty English counties. He worked energetically to build up the resources, both material and spiritual, of his see. At times he acted as viceroy in King William's absence and led royal forces to chastise rebellions. He took part in the northern campaign with his nephew, Robert Curthose, in 1080. In 1083 he was suddenly disgraced and imprisoned on the king's orders. In 1087 King William, when on his death-bed, reluctantly permitted his release. In 1088 he supported the rebellion of Robert Curthose against King William Rufus. In 1096 he went on the 1st Crusade. EUDES, Bishop of Bayeux, died in Jan. 1097 while visiting Sicily, and was buried in Palermo Cathedral. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, John. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): lxxviii-lxxix (Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte, styled "nephew (or kinsman)" of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux" [nepos domini Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]): 274-275), 2 (1844): clxxxii-clxxxiii. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 5-7. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Delisle & Pussy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost 3 (1869): 301. Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Revue Catholique d’Histoire, d'Archéologie et Litterature de Normandie 1re Année (1891) 273-283 (charter dated 1093 of Guillaume, seigneur of La Ferte "nepos" [i.e., nephew/grandson/kinsman] of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [nepos domni Odonis Baiocensis episcopi]) (author also includes an ancient list of obits for members of La Ferte family, among which is the following: "x kalendas junii [23 May], obiit Willelmus filius, nepos episcopi Baiocensis."; for another publication of the same list of obits, see Lettere originali del Medioevo latino (VII-XI sec.): 1. Francia (Arles, Blois, Marseille, Montauban, Tours) (2004): 126, 133). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "2 Jan. [Obiit] Odo episcopus."), 700. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. D.N.B. 14 (1908): 869-871 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Arch. Cantiana 39 (1927): 55-75. Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Bull Société des Antiquaires de Normandie 53 (1957): 484 (includes Pancarte of Saint-Fromond which records the donation of Robert "nepos" of Bishop Eudes: "De dono Roberti nepotis Odonis episcopi totam decimam de Riveria."). Analecta Bollandiana 79 (1961): 314, footnote 4 ("Bernard écrit après la mort du successeur d'Hugues II, Eudes ou Odon Ier de Conteville, décédé en 1097. Notre auteur di qu'il a été informé de tout ce qui touche à la translation des reliques à Bayeux par le neveu d'Eudes, Odon de Saint-Samson: Haec omnia cum adhuc adolescentulus essem, vir piissimus et devotissimus iam monachus, Odo de Sancto Samsone … prædicti nobilissimi præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos"). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38, esp. 22,33 ("Enfin, seront passés en revue le éléments d'information relatifs à deux hommes, l’un et l’autre qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi … D'autres membres de la famille d'Herluin furent protégés et patronnés par Eude: il s'agit de deux hommes, qualifiés de nepos Odonis Baiocensis episcopi, qui apparaissent à Bayeux. Le plus obscur s'appelait Eude de Saint-Samson, præsulis Odonis amantissimus nepos, et fut l’informateur de Bernard, chanoine de la cathédrale de Bayeux et auteur du récit de la translation des reliques des saints Raven et Rasiphe. ll est connu uniquement par cette source. ... Robert nepos episcopi qui apparait comme officier royal dans le Sussex et le Northamptonshire en 1131. L'identification est solide. Les dons de Robert à Saint-Fromond le rattachent à la famille des principaux bienfaiteurs du prieure, celle du Hommet … Il n'y a pas de preuve décisive que Robert nepos episcopi ait été plutôt le petit-fils que le neveu d'Eude."). Speculum 50 (1975): 1-20. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 467. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Fam. d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Gameson Study of the Bayeux Tapestry (1997): 68 ("Bishop Odo of Bayeux ... an ambitious, acquisitive and arrogant baron-prelate"). Bennett Campaigns of the Norman Conquest (2001): 76-77. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Harper-Bill & Vincent Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 109-110 ("Amongst the king's most substantial gifts were his grants to Richard du Hommet, his constable in Normandy, from the honour of Gifford. Richard is a classic case of a 'new' man with 'old' blood. He was apparently descended in the male line from the great Bishop Odo of Bayeux, and through his mother from an earlier line of lords of Le Hommet-d'Arthenay near Saint-Lo."), 110 footnote 1 ["Thomas Stapleton (MRSN, ii, pp. clxxx-clxxxvii) argued that Richard [du Hommet] was descended from Bishop Odo, as the son of a Robert nepos episcopi and the heiress of an earlier Hommet family; cf. Rotuli de Oblatis et Finibus in Turn Londinensi Asservati, ed. T. D. Hardy (Record Commission 1835), 199-200... D. Bates, 'Notes sur l’aristocratie normande, Annales de Normande, 23 (1973), 7-38, at 33-7, accepts Stapleton's theories on the basis of an act ... for the Hommet foundation of Saint-Fromond: it expressly refers to Robert as nepos 0donis episcopi and shows him making grants near Le Hommet to the priory, and it identifies Richard the constable as a nepos of William du Hommet (fl. 1066 x 1083). See L. Musset, 'Les Origines du prieuré de St-Fromond: Un Acte negligô de Richard II,' BSAN, 53 (1955-56), 475-488, at 484; cf. Bates, Regesta, no. 92, for the earlier family of Le Hommet.].
Illegitimate son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent:
a. JOHN, a royal chaplain. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): clxxidi-clxxxiii (author assumes Robert styled "nepos Episcopi," of La Rivière in Normandy [and Bonby, Great Limber, and Stallingborough, Lincolnshire] was the son of John, son of Bishop Eudes, thus making Robert a grandson of Bishop Eudes) [N.B.: The Latin word "nepos" in this time period can mean grandson, nephew, or kinsman]. Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Planche The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 88-107 (biog. of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent). Freeman Reign of William Rufus & the Acccession of Henry the First 2 (1882): 488. English Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 721-730 (John of Bayeux [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent] styled "royal chaplain and kinsman" [clericus nobilis et Regis consanguineus] of King Henry I of England in narrative in Cartulary of St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex dated c.1119). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Johnson et al. Regesta Regum Anglo-Nonnannorum, 1066-1154 2 (1956): 148 (John [son of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent], a royal chaplain, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of King Henry I of England in charter dated 1117-19).
ii. ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Fetters, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkeme, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alençon and Bellême. Her maritagium included the seigneurie of Sainte-Scolasse. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Preaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St-Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090. L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 Septernber] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa deMoretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Benin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc, dated c.1066-87). Le Prevost Notes pour servir a la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et genealogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XV Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1(1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Anglia subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti qui in expeditione Ierosolirnitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Memoire chronologique de Maucourt de Borrolly sur la Ville de Lava/1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesiæ"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Chiniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Breard L'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427-428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famine d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
a. AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ [I] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 2].
b. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
iii. MURIEL OF CONTEVILLE, married EUDES FITZ TURSTIN (also known as EUDES AU CHAPEL), Vicomte of the Cotentin), steward to William, Duke of Normandy (afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England), son of Turstin, or Richard, Haldup, of La Haye-du-Puits, founder de Lessay Abbey. They had no issue. He is mentioned about 1060 in a charter by which Duke William gave land at Bernières to the Cathedral of Bayeux. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159. Taylor Master Wace: His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest (1837): 102, footnote 6 ("Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel ...Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow - ad Muriel sanctimonialem - sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux - ... that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux ... addressed his verses de capra Bajocensium civitate. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be Eudo de Capello - du manteau, or capuchon - son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. Mem. Ant. Norm. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of Domesday, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in Dugdale and Gallia Christiana, and our subsequent note on Haie."), 235-236. Delisle Hist. du Chateau et des Sires de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (1867): 22-24, 27. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England 2 (1873): 415 ("[Herleva] had also a daughter by Herlwin, named Muriel, who has naturally been confounded with William's other sister Adelaide. Wace says (Roman de Rou, 11145), 'Ki à fame avait Muriel, Seror li Dus de par sa mere E Herluin aveit a pere."). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 111-115. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies X (1988): 82, 161, footnote 15 ("Wace is correct in identifying Duke William's half-sister as Eudo's wife, see Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 228a (pancarte of Lessay Abbey, founded by Eudo au Chapel and his father Turstin, or Richard, Haldup"). For the latter, see Fauroux, nos. 99, 167, 231 and Gallia Christiana, xi, instr., 225a. He was a benefactor of Cérisy, an abbey well-known to Wace, who gives reliable amd unique information about it, see C.H. Haskins, Norman Institutions, New York 1918, 269-272. For Eudo, vicomte of the Cotentin and steward, see Fauroux, no. 219; L. Musset, Les Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbayes Caennaises, Caen, 1967, nos. 7, 8, 11, 18, 19 and 22; Regesta, i. xxiii, nos. 75, 119, 121, 132, 142, 150, 168, 199, 342; Orderic, ii, 124."). Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 118 ("Lessay is one of the few relevant buildings with apparently clear documentary evidence ... In 1089 Eudo Capellanus, son of the founder, was buried in the choir."). Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Ron (2004): xxxv, 158 ("He [William the Conqueror] summoned Odo au Chapel, whose wife was Muriel, the duke's sister by his mother; her father was Herluin. I do not know whether a child was born from them, but I never heard of one.").”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JUDITH OF BRITTANY, married before 1008 (as his 1st wife) RICHARD II, Duke of Normandy, 996-1026, son and heir of Richard I, Count (or Prince) of the Normans, by his 2nd wife, Gunnor. They had three sons, Richard (III) [Duke of Normandy], Robert (I) Duke of Normandy], and Guillaume (monk at Fécamp), and three daughters, Adélaïde (wife of Renaud, Count of Burgundy), ___ (wife of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders), and Mathilde. His wife, Judith, died 28 June 1017, and was buried in Bernal Abbey. He married (2nd) probably soon after 1017 PAPIA ___. They had two sons, Mauger [Archbishop of Rouen] and Guillaume [Count of Argues]. RICHARD II, Duke of Normandy, died at Fécamp 23 August 1026.
Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de ha France 10 (1874): 175 (Ex Chronico S. Michaelis: "MVIII [A.D. 1008]. Obiit Gaufredus Dux Britanniæ filius Conani filii Juhelli Berengarii, dum pergeret Romam causa ocationis. Hujus sororem Judith duxit secundus Ricardus Dux Normannorum: et ipse Gaufredus duxit Havidem sororem prædicti Richardi, ex qua genuit duos filios Alanum et Eudonem, qui ei succcessit, partito Ducatu Britanniæ."), 322 (Ex Diversis Chronicis et Gestis: "Anno Dom. MXVII [1017]. Obiit Juditha Comitissa."), 323 (Ex Diversis Chronicis et Gestis: "Anno Dom. MXXVI. Obiit Richardus II, Dux Normannorum."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23, (1894): 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "28 Jun. [Obiit] Judith comitissa."), 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "23 Aug. [Obiit] Ricardus comes IL"), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "28 Jun. [Obiit] Judita, comitissa Normanniæ."), 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "23 Aug. [Obiit] Richardus II, comes Normannorum."). Rene Poupardin, "Généalogies angevines du XIe Siècle," in Mélanges d'Archéologie et d'Histoire 20 (1900): 199-208. Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913): 247-250 (Genealogiæ Comitum Andegavensium). David Douglas, "Some Problems of Early Norman Chronology," in English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75 (sub Brittany), 79 (sub Normandy). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.7, X1.12-X1.15. Thierry Stasser, "`Mathilde, File du Comte Richard': Essai d'identification," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990), 49-64. Van Houts Normans in Europe (2000). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped).
Children of Judith of Brittany, by Duke Richard II:
i. RICHARD III, Duke of Normandy, 1026-1027, son and heir. By an unknown mistress, he had one illegitimate son, Nicholas [Abbot of Saint-Ouen], and one illegitimate daughter, ___ (wife of Ranulph, Vicomte of Bessin). RICHARD III, Duke of Normandy, died 5 (or 6) August 1027. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 379 (E Directorio Monasterii Sancti Audoeni Rotomagensis, Ex Calendario: "26 Febr. Obiit Nicholas abbas."), 385 ("Selon cheu qui est contenu es croniques des Normans, Richart li tiers, duc de Normendie, fix du secont Richart duc, out un fix appelé Nichole, qui fu moine à Fescampe, et après fu abbe de l'abaie de Saint-Ouen de Rouen"), 387 (Extrait des Chroniques de Saint-Ouen de Rouen: Nicholas, Abbot of Saint-Ouen, Rouen styled "son of Duke Richard III" [Nichole, fix au tiers due Richart de Normendie]), 420 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "5 Aug. [Obiit] Ricardus comes tertius."), 579 (Nom Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "6 Aug. Richardus comes tertius Normannorum."). English Hist. Rev. 65 (1950): 289-303. Douglas William the Conqueror (1977): 93 ("At the beginning of Duke William's reign the vicomte of the Bessin was Rannulf, who was the son of a vicomte named Anschitil. He married a daughter of Duke Richard III and was among the defeated rebels at Val-es-Dunes. None the less, the office continued in the family, for he was succeeded by another Rannulf (II) who was established at Avranches before the Norman conquest, and who survived until after April 1089. Moreover, this second Rannulf married Maud, daughter of Richard, vicomte of the Avranchin, thus linking together two powerful vice-comital dynasties which were later in turn to determine the succession of the earldom of Chester."). Schwennicke Europäische Stanmtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.12, XII.17. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
ii. ROBERT I, Duke of Normandy [see next].”

3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ALICE (AELIDIS, ADELIZA, ADELISA, ADELIDIS) OF NORMANDY, illegitimate daughter of Robert, Duke of Normandy, possibly by his mistress, Arlette (or Harleve) [see Appendix, Line A, Gen. 11 for her ancestry], born before 1035. She was the sister of William the Conqueror, King of England [see ENGLAND 1]. She married (1st) ENGUERRAND II, Count of Ponthieu, son and heir of Hugues II, Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, seigneur of Abbeville, by Berthe, daughter of Guerinfrid, seigneur of Aurnale. They had one daughter, Alice. He was slain before the Chateau d'Arques 25 October 1053. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) 1053/4 LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, Governor of Lille Castle, younger son of Eustache I, Count of Boulogne, by Mathilde (or Mahaut), daughter of Lambert I, Count of Louvain [see BOULOGNE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Judith. In 1047 he and his brother, Count Eustache, and Count Baldwin V of Flanders were in attendance at the court of King Henry III of Germany, where they witnessed Henry's confirmation of a gift to St. Medard. LAMBERT OF BOULOGNE, Count of Lens, was slain in battle at Phalempin in 1054. His widow, Alice, married (3rd) in 1060 EUDES III, Count of Champagne, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir of Etienne, Count of Troyes and Meaux, by his wife, Adelaide. They had one son, Stephen (or Etienne) [Count of Aumale]. In the period, 1047-55, he witnessed an agreement between Rahier, husband of Arembourg, and the canons of Saint-Maurice of Angers, by which the canons temporarily relinquished certain rights in the church of Joué. At the death of his father about 1047 or 1048, he was deprived of the county of Champagne by his uncle, Thibaut III, and took refuge with William, Duke of Normandy [afterwards William the Conqueror, King of England]. William gave him his sister, Alice, in marriage. After the conquest of England in 1066, in which Eudes rendered good service, King William granted him the lordship of Holderness in England. William also erected the territory of Aumale into a county, which lands had been given to Eudes by Jean de Bayeux, Archbishop of Rouen. In 1082 William I, King of England, gave the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen the bourg of Le Homme with its revenues, with a reservation in favor of his sister, Alice, Countess of Aumale, of the tenancy during her life. His wife, Alice, Countess of Aumale, was living in 1086, and died before 1096 (date of charter). Sometime in the period, 1087-1095, Eudes witnessed a charter of King William Rufus, confirming to the Abbey of Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin in Gand certain possessions in his kingdom. Following the death of King William the Conqueror in 1087, he supported William Rufus as king in opposition to Robert, Duke of Normandy. In 1095 he joined the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray against King William Rufus, for which he was imprisoned by William and continued in confinement the remainder of his life. Eudes, Count of Champagne, died in prison sometime between Jan. 1096 and 2 August 1107.
Du Plessis Histoire de l'Eglise de Meaux 2 (1731): 8 (charter dated 1061 of Count Thibaut; charter names his son, Henri, his nephew, Eudes (son of his brother), his wife, Adelade, and his sister Bertha, Countess of Brittany). Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 1 (1837): 153-159 ("A charter of grant to the Abbey of St. Trinity at Caen runs as follows: William, King, and Matilda my wife, Queen, give to the aforesaid Church the Bourg of Hulme ... and the Countess Adelisa de Albemarle conceding ..."). Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Bull de l’Académie Royale des Sciences 9(1) (1842): 264-265 (charter of King William Rufus of England dated 1087-1100, witnessed by Eudes, Count of Champagne [“Odonis comitis de Campania”]; also see Chartes & Docs. de l'Abbaye de Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin à Gand (1868): 106-107. Le Glay Histoire des Comtes de Flandres jusqu' à l'avènement de la maison de Bourgogne 1 (1843): 168 ("Ce lieu, appelé Buc, où existait de très-ancienne date un château qui passe pour avoir été le siège de la domination du premier forestier de Flandre, et qui par la suite a vu s'élever, sous le nom de Lille, une cite si florissante, ce lieu servait de refuge à la personne du marquis et à celle de ses fils. Il avait été fortifié de nouveau, et la plupart des barons flamands s'y étaient enfermés avec leur suzerain. Il ne semble pas que l'empereur se soit rendu maître de cette importante forteresse. Avant qu'il en eût tenté le siège, le gouverneur Lambert, comte de Lens et oncle du fameux Godefroi du Bouillon, sortit à sa rencontre avec des troupes numbreuses. Cette opposition inattendue, en opérant une diversion, aura empêché l'empereur d'attaquer le château de Lille; mais elle coûta la vie au comte Lambert. De là Henri marcha vers Toumai et assiègea le fort de cette ville, où s'étaient refugiés grand nombre de gens: car tout le pays se dépeuplait sur le passage des impériaux."). Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Eudes of Odo, Count of Aumale). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Nomanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxxi ("In the Observations on the History of Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror (Archaeologia, vol. XXVI, p. 349), an inference has been drawn from the terms of a contemporaneous charter in proof that the Comtesse of Aumale, wife of Count Odo of Champagne, was the niece and not the sister of King William the Conqueror. The supposition is, however, erroneous, as is shewn by another subsequent charter to the collegiate church of Auchy, written by commond of Adelidis the most noble Comtesse, sister, to wit, of William King of the English, confirmante viro suo, videlicet, Odone comite una cum filio suo Stephano."). Semichon Histoire de la Ville d'Aumale 1 (1862). Bond Chronica Monasterii de Melsal (Rolls Set.) (1866): 89 (De genealogia nobelium oomitum Albemarliz, fundatorum nostrorum: "Comes quondam Campanix, nepos regis Francorum, habebat quendam filium, militem egregrium, nomine Odonem Porro, coadjuvante dictum Odonem archiepiscopo Rothomagensi erga ipsum regem Willielmum, dedit ei prmfatus rex sororem suam in uxorem."). Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34 (sub A.D. 1026: "Hic tercius Ricardus eodem primo anno ducatus sui mortuus est, et successit ei Robertus frater ejus, qui genuit Willermum de Herleva non sponsata, qui postea Angliam conquisivit, et unarn filiam nomine Aeliz de alia concubina."). Planche Conqueror & His Companions 1 (1874): 118-126. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1876): 126 (Ex Chronico Cameracensi et Atrebatensi: Year: 1054. Que facto, accinxit se rursum Iohannes ad deducendi negotium, volens, si fled posset aliquo pacto, per clausulam illam ducere Imperatoris exercitum. Laboranti igitur homini et quxrenti id ipsum perficere, portx clausulx illius apertx aunt de media nocte; sicque clausulam illam introivit Imperator, facta inimicorum suorum resistere volentium non minima Pertransiens autem clausulam illam, et interfectis a dextris et a sinistris occursantibus sibi, ad Islense castellum pervenit, ubi Lantbertus Comes Lensensis cum multis ei occurens, interfectus occubuit. Ab eo quidem castello divertit ad Tornacum civitatem; ubi in quodam municipio inclusit non parvam militum electorum fugientem multitudinem, quos obsidione et ad ultimum fame oppressos compulit ad deditionem. Illis igitus acceptis, et per ergastula militum suorum in custodia reclusis, Imperator cum gloria ad civitates regni sui rediit."), 205-206 (Ex Genealogia de qua ortus est Carolus Magnus dated after 1135: "Carolus Dux frater Lotharii genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum Comitem de Namuren. Albertus genuit Albertum qui none est. Et Gerberga soror Ermengardis genuit Henricom Seniorem de Brusella. Henricus Senior genuit Comitem Lambertum, et Henricum fratrem ejus, et Matildem sororem comm. Hanc Matildem duxit uxorem Comes Eustachius de Bulonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius accepit uxorem filium Godefridi Ducis, Idam nomine, nobilem genere et moribus; et genuit ex ea quatuor filios, Guillermum, Godefridum, qui nunc est Dux Lotharingix, Balduinum, et rani; Eustachium. Godefridus vero et Balduinus fuerent Reges Jerosolvmorum. Eustachius vero genuit filiam, nomine Matildem, quam postea duxit in uxorem Stephanus Rex Anglorum."), 374 (Genealogiæ ex Chronicis Hainoniensibus. "Carolus Dux Lotharingix, frater Lotharii Regis Francorum, duas habuit filias Ermengardem et Gerbergam: de Ermengarde natus est Albertus Comes Namurcensis, qui genuit Albertum ei succedentem, et Henricum Comitem de Durbio. Albertus II genuit Godefridum Comitem Namurcensium, et Henricum Comitem de Rupe. Hic Henricus filiam habuit Macthildem, quæ domino de Walecourt peperit Werricum et Beatricem, etc. & Godefridus Comes Namurcensis, frater Henrici de Rupe, genuit Henricum et Adelidem uxorem Hainonensis Balduini, cui peperit Balduinum Comitem, etc. Gerberga vero alia filia Caroli, fratris Lotharii, peperit Henricum Seniorem de Bruxella; et hic Henricus genuit Henricum, Lambertum, et Macthildem qux Comiti de Bolonia Eustachio peperit Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius vero ex Ida filia Godefridi Ducis Lotharingix genuit Godefridum de Bullonio, postea Regem Hierusalem, et Eustachium, etc."), 582-583 (confirmation charter of King Henry III of Germany dated 1047). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 583 (Ex Willelmi Calculi Gemeticensis Monachi: `Waldevi Comitis Huntedonix, Habuit autem idem Waldevus tres filias ex uxore sua [Juditha] filia [Adelaidis] Comitiss de Albamarla, quæ Comitissa fuit soror uterina Willehni Regis Anglorum senioris."). Recueil des Historiens des Gauleses et de la France 13 (1869): 585 (Ex Genealogia Caroli Magni qua Namurcensium Comitum et Boloniens. Origo Declaratur. "Carolus Dux, frater Lotharii Regis, genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum Comitem de Namurco, etc. Albertus genuit Albertum et fratrem ejus Henricum Comitem de Durbuio. Albertus autem de Namurco genuit Godefridum, et Henricum Comitem de Rupe, pattern Mathildis qux genuit Jacobum Avesnensem Godefridus autem frater ejus genuit Henricum Comitem Narnurcensem, qui caruit liberis, et sororem ejus Alithiarn: quæ nupta Hainoensi Comiti Balduino genuit Balduinum, qui duxit Margaretam filiam Theoderici Flandrensis Comitis, et genuit filium æquivocum sibi. Gerberga vero soror Ermengardis genuit Henricum seniorem de Brussella. Henricus senior genuit Lambertum et Henricum fratrem ejus, et Mathildem sororem eorum. Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem Comes Eustachius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios Eustachium et Lambertum. Eustachius vero accepit uxorem filiam Godefridi [Lotharingiæ] Ducis, Idam nominee, nobilem genere et moribus, et genuit ex ea tres filios, Eustachium, Godefridum et Balduinum. Eustachius frater Balduini Regis Jerusalem duxit Mariam filiam Regis Scotiæ, et genuit Mathildem. Mathildis nupta Stephano, fiolio Stephani Blesensis Comitis, genuit Mariam Abbatissam [Ramesiæ]. Cumque defecissent in Bolonia legitimi hæredes, Matthus filius Theoderici Comitis Flandrensis, licit illicite, duxit Abbatissam, et suscitavit semem hæreditarium duas filias generando, et remisit earn ad locum suum."). Laffleur de Kermaingant Cartulaire de l'Abbege de Saint-Michel du Tréport (1880): 8-20 (confirmation of gifts to Tréport Abbey includes the following: "Henricus Visa dedit, pro sua et antecessorum suorem anima, ecdesie Sancti Michaelis de Ulterisportu medietatem vile que vocatur Frastineta [Le Fresnoy], et medietatum bosci ejusdem, et ecclesiam Sancti Nicholai quam in eadem construxerat villa, et hoc fecit concessu Berthe uxoris sue et filii sui Willelmi, et concessu comitisse Albemarle Aelidis, ac filii ejus Stephani."). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holderness). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "12 Sept. [Obiit] Lanbertus comes."). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Urseau Cartulaire Moir de la Cathédrale d'Angers (1908): 98-99 (agreement dated 1047-55 witnessed by "young Eudes, nephew of Count Thibaut" [Odo puer, nepos comitis Tethberti”). C.P. 1 (1910): 351-352 (sub Aumale). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33 (charter of Stephen, Count of Aumale, dated 1115 confirms the gift made by Alice his mother ["mater mea Adeliza] to the monks of St. Lucian of Beauvais of the church of St. Martin D'Acy, which his ancestors had erected outside the castle of Aumale; charter also mentions Stephen's uncle, William I, King of England ['Willelmi regis Anglorum avunculi men). Monumenta Germaniae Histotica SS 7 (1925): 494 (Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensium. Continuatio); SS 9 (1925): 300-301 (Haec est Genealogia Regis Karoli qui vocatus est magnus, de cuius prosapia ortus est rex Godefridus Eisque frater rex Balduinus: "Karolus Magnus genuit Ludovicum Pissimum augustum. Ludovicus genuit Lotharium Pipinum et Ludovicum ex Ermengarde, et Karolum Calvum ex Iudith. Karolus Calvus genuit Ludovicum, de quo dictum est qui nichil fecit, quia post mortem paths duobus tantum annis vixit. Ludovicus filius Karoli genuit Karolum Simplicem et Karlemannum. Karolus vero Simplex ab Heriberto captus est. Qui Karolus ex Ogiva genuit Ludovicum. Ludovicus genuit Lotharium regem et Karolum ducem ex Gerberga. Lotharius rex genuit Ludovicum iuvenem, et Karolus dux, frater Lotharii regis, genuit Ermengardem et Gerbergam. Ermengardis genuit Albertum comitem de Namuco. Albertus genuit Albertum qui nunc est, et fratrem eius Henricum comitem de Durboio. Gerberga vero soror Ermengardis genuit Henricum seniorem de Bursella. Henricus senior genuit Lambertum comitem et Henricum fratrem eius et Mathildem sororem comm. Hanc Mathildem duxit uxorem comes Eustachius de Bolonia, et genuit ex ea duos filios, Eustachium et Lantbertum. Eustachius vero accepit uxorem filiam Godefridi duels, Idam nomine, nobilem genere et mobus, et genuit ex ea tres filios, Eustachium et Godefridum qui nunc est dux Lotharingiae et Balduiniun." Later addition: "Eustachius, frater Balduini regis Iherusalem, duxit Mariam filiam regis Scotiae, et genuit Mathildem. Mathildis nupta Stephatio, filio Stephani Blesensis comitis, genuit Mariam abbatissam. Curnque defecissent in Bolonia legitimi heredes, Matheus filius Theoderici comitis Flandrensis, licet illicite, duxit abbatissam, et suscitavit semen hereditatium duas filias generando, et rernisit earn ad locurn suum. Albertus autem de Namurco genuit Godefridum et Henricurn comitem de Rupe, patrem Mathildis quae genuit Iacobum Avesnensem. Godefridus autem frater emus Henricum cornitem Namurcensem, qui caruit liberis et sororem eius Althiam, quae nupta Hainoensi comiti Balduino, genuit Balduinum, qui duxit Margaretam filia Theoderici Flandrensis comitis, et genuit filium equivocum sibi."). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227, XII.19. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 79 (sub Normandy); 3(4) (1989): 621 (sub Boulogne). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.126, XI.227. English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Keats-Rohan Domesday People: Prosopography of Persons occurring in English Docs., 1066-1166 1 (1999): 124. Burgess Hist. of the Norman People: Ware's Roman de Rou (2004): 1. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart), 306 (Normandy ped.).
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Lambert, Count of Lens:
i. JUDITH OF LENS, married WALTHEOF, Earl of Northumberland [see BEAUCHAMP 2].
Child of Alice of Normandy, by Eudes, Count of Champagne:
i. STEPHEN (or ETIENNE), Count of Aumale [see next].”

4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-87, King of England, 1066-87, illegitimate son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, by his mistress, Axlette (or Herleve) [see Appendix, Line A for his ancestry]. He was probably born at Falaise 1027-28. In 1046-7 William's right to be duke was attacked by his cousin, Guy, count of Brionne. Guy and his associates were defeated by an army led by William and the French king Henri I to the south-west of Caen at Val-es-Dunes. In 1049 William joined the French king's campaign against Geoffrey Martel, Count of Anjou, taking part in the successful siege of the castle of Mouliheme near Angers. He married about 1050 (marriage prohibited 1049, dispensation dated 1059, they being related by near kinship within the 7th degree) MAUD OF FLANDERS, daughter of Baudouin V, Count-Marquis of Flanders, by Adele, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Appendix, Line B for her ancestry]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose puke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry [I] [King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Cotentin], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Leger in Preaux), Maud, Constance, Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], and Adele (wife of Etienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received a promise of the English succession from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor. According to Norman writers, King Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when King Edward died (5 Jan 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 September 1066 William landed at Pevensey with his army and defeated Harold's forces in the Battle of Hastings 14 October 1066. William was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey 25 December 1066 by Aldred, Archbishop of York. He invaded Scotland in 1072 and Wales in 1081. He spent most of his time in Normandy, but returned to England each time when it was absolutely necessary. In 1082 William imprisoned his half-brother, Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent, on a charge of disloyalty. He was a major patron of monasteries, founding two great abbeys at St Etienne of Caen and Battle, and making donations to a host of other churches. His wife, Maud, died 2 November 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinite in Caen. Her tombstone with inscription carved round the edge has survived. In 1085 William brought a large army to meet the threat of an invasion by Canute IV of Denmark, but it never occurred. One of the most important deeds of William in his last years was ordering of economic and tenurial survey of England, the results of which were summarized in the Domesday Book. In the summer of 1086 the Conqueror departed for the continent, where he went on a military expedition to retaliate against an invading French garrison at the border town of Mantes. He was injured while riding a horse and the ailing king was carried back to Rouen and then moved for peace and quiet to the priory of Saint Gervais outside the city. Surrounded by clergy and magnates, he apparently remained lucid until the end, which came on 9 September 1087. His corpse was transported by river and sea to Caen, where he was buried in the Abbey church of Saint-Etienne. [For William the Conqueror's sister, Alice of Normandy, Countess of Aumale, see AUMALE 1; for his half-brother, Robert, Count of Mortain, see MORTAIN 1.]
Morice Memoires pour servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 129 (Extract of Chronicle of Robert, Abbot of Mont Saint Michel: "Anno 1083. Obiit Mathildis Regina filia Balduini II. Comitis Flandrensis, uxor Willelmi Regis Anglorum;" "Anno 1087. Obiit Willelmus Rex Anglorum Rotomagi apud S. Gervasium V. idus Septembris [9 September], qui sua magna industria & probitate omnem Angliam sux subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorurn."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 26 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux, styled "fratris regis" [brother of the king]); 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 297-300. Guizot Hist. des Ducs de Normandie par Guillaume de Jumiège (1826): 295-298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. XXXIV). De Smet Recueil des Chroniques de Flandre 1 (1837): 544 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1027: "Balduinus Pulchra Barba, comes Flandriae, filio suo Balduino, qui postea dictus est Pius, Athelam, filiam Roberti regis Francorum, accipit uxorem. Ex qua nati sunt Balduinus Montensis et Robertus Friso et filia Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans eam debellavit."), 552 (Chronicomm Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkeley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247 (Odonis [Eudes], Bishop of Bayeux styled "brother" [fratris] by King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1074). Duncan Dukes of Normandy (1839). Strickland Lives of the Queens of England 1 (1840): 1-134 (biog. of Matilda of Flanders). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xxix-xxx (Alice [Duchess of Burgundy] styled "aunt" [amita] by King William in charter dated 1080). Giles Chronicon Anglia Petriburgense (1845): 45 (sub A.D. 1035: "Robertus dux Norrnanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septum puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour servir à la Topographic et à l’Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Hardwick Historia Monasterii S. Artgustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Ser.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "fratris" by King William the Conqueror in undated charter). Lépinois & Merlet Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Chartres 3 (1865): 172 (Necrologium B.M. Carnutensis: V Idus Septembris [9 September] - "Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum."). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 182-183, 284-285. Edwards Liber Monasterii de Hyda (Rolls Ser. 45) (1866): 294-295 (Judith [of Lens], wife of Earl Waltheof, styled "king's kinswoman" [consanguineam regis] [i.e., kinswoman of King William the Conqueror]). Wauters Table Chronologique des Chartes et Diplômes Imprimés 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1870-1879). Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 11 (1881): 228 (Orderic Vitalis, Libro Tertio: Adelaide, wife of Robert son of Giroie, styled "kinswoman [consobrina] of King William the Conqueror), 234 (Orderic Vitalis, Libro Tertio: William Fitz Osbern styled "kinsman and steward" [cognatus et Dapifer] of King William the Conqueror), 246-247 (Orderic Vitalis, Libro Sexto: Gulbert [d'Auffay or de Heugleville] styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] of King William the Conqueror, Beatrix, daughter of Christian de Valenciennes, and wife of Gulbert [d'Auffay or de Huegleville], styled "kinswoman" of Queen Maud of Flanders [Mathildis Reginæ consobrina]). Arch. Jour. 41 (1884): 300-312 (author provides conclusive evidence that Gundred, wife of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, was not the daughter of William the Conqueror or his wife, Maud of Flanders). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 3-5 (seal of King William the Conqueror - Obverse. The king on horseback to the right, in coat of mail and conical helmet and spurred; in his right hand a long lance with three streamers; in his left hand a kite-shaped shield, held by a strap, showing the interior. Horse trappings: a small, plain saddle, and stirrup, breast-band, girth, and head-gear. Legend: + HOC • NORMANNORVM • WILLEMVM • NOSCE • PATRONVM • S[I] between two dotted circles. Reverse. The king, enthroned, with a crown fleury of three tre-foiled points, and loose robe falling in folds between the knees, with arms and feet apparently bare; both arms extended and raised from the elbow; in his right hand a sword erect, in his left hand an orb, surmounted by a tall cross pattée fitchée. Throne without back; cushions on the seat; the base having three small arches, which rest on a plinth also having arches in nearly vertically corresponding positions. Legend: + HOC • ANGLIS • REGE[M • S]IGNO • [FATEARIS • EVNDEM] between two dotted circles. The legends, taken together, form a distich.). Stubbs Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi de gestis regum Anglorum (Rolls Series) (1887-9). Merlet & Clerval Un Manuscrit Chartrain tin Xle Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Marim Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesix Beatx Maria Camotensis - kal. nov. [31 October] Obiit Matildis, Anglorum regina ..."), 184 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "viii id. dec. [6 December] Obiit Adeliza, filia regis Anglorum…"). Bradshaw Statutes of Lincoln Cathedral Pt. 2 (1897): ccxli (obits. in the odd volume of the great Latin Bible: 9 Sept. - "Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 421 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "9 Sept. [Obiit] Guillelmus rex Anglorum major."), 422 (Ex Obituario Gemmeticensi: "1 Nov. [Obiit] Malthildis, regina Anglorum."), 580 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "9 Sept. [Obiit] Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannnorum."), 581 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "2 Nov. [Obiit] Mathildis, regina Anglorum."). Compte-rendu des Séances de la Commission Royale d’Histoire 5th Ser. 9 (1898): 142-180 (sub Comtes de Flandre). Barret Cartulaire de Marmoutier pour le Perche (Docs. sur la Province du Perche 3rd Ser. 2) (1894): 9-11. Eng. Hist. Rev. 16 (1901): 498-499; 86 (1971): 225-250. Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 240 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et princeps Normanie, v idus sept [9 Sept.] [1087]."), 660 (Nécrologe of Abbaye de Saint-Jean-en-Vallée: "[3 Nov.] III non. Obiit Matildis, Anglorum regina [1083]."). D.N.B. 21(1909): 293-301 (biog. of William the Conqueror, King of England). Gomme Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1909): 189-191 (sub A.D. 1075 and 1076: Earl Roger [i.e., Roger, Earl of Hereford] styled "kinsman" of King William the Conqueror), 212 (sub A.D. 1096: William [Count] of Eu styled "king's kinsman."). Bishop & Chaplais Facsimiles of English Royal Writs to AD. 1100 (1957). Stenton Bayeux Tapestry (1957). Fauroux Recueil des Actes des Ducs de Normandie de 911 à 1066 (1961). Galbraith Making of Domesday Book (1961). Stenton First Century of English Feudalism, 1066-1166 (1961). Musset Actes de Guillaume le Conquérant et de la Reine Mathilde pour les Abbeyes Caennaises (1967). Barlow Edward the Confessor (1979). Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). Bates Normandy before 1066 (1982). L. Musset "La reine Mathilde et la fondation de la Trinité de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Academie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5 (sub Flanders), 79 (sub Normandy), 81 (sub England). Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-XI.423, XII.18. Bates William the Conqueror (1989). Fleming Kings & Lords in Conquest England (1991). Van Houts Costa Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni (1992-5). Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 140 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "5 Idus Sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Willelmus rex Anglorum."), 144 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "4 Non. Nov. [2 November]. Obiit Matilda regina…"). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Davis & Chibnall Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers (1997). Bickley Regesta Regum Anglo-Normanorum: The Acta of William I 1066-1087 (1998): 49, 342, 381, 466, 885, 893, 920 (instances of Edward the Confessor, King of England, styled "my kinsman" [yneges mines mæg/ cognatus meus/ consanguineus meus" by William the Conqueror, King of England). Harper-Bill Anglo-Norman Studies XXI (1999): 145-168. Bartlett England under the Norman & Angevin Kings 1075-1225 (2000). Roffe Domesday: The Inquest & the Book (2000). Anglo-Norman Studies XXV (2003): 1-18. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
Children of William the Conqueror, by Maud of Flanders:
i. ROBERT (nicknamed “Curthose”), Duke of Normandy, son and heir, born about 1054. He married in Italy in Sept. 1100 SIBYL OF CONVERSANO, daughter of Goffredo (or Geoffroi), Count of Conversano and Brindisi. They had one son, William “Clito” [Count of Flanders]. By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he had two illegitimate sons, Richard and William (or Guillaume) [lord of Tortosa], and one illegitimate daughter, ___ (wife of Hélie [or Elias] de Saint-Saëns). His wife, Sibyl, died 18 (or 21) March 1103. ROBERT, Duke of Normandy, died in prison at Cardiff 10 (or 11) Feb. 1134, and was buried before the altar in the abbey church of St. Peter, Gloucester. Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie 4 (1839): lxxv. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 576 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "1 Feb. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Normannorum."), 577 ("18 Mart. [18 March] [Obiit] Sebille, comitissa Normannorum."). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 2 (1906): 239 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "[Obiit] Sibilla, comitissa Normannie XII kal. apr. [21 March]"). D.N.B. 16 (1909): 1235-1242 (biog. of Robert, Duke of Normandy). Barlow William Rufus (1983): 441-445, Appendix A, Children of William I and Matilda. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.415, XII.643, XII.643a-XII.643c. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). Aird Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy (2011).
ii. RICHARD, 2nd son, born about 1055, died 1069-74. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964): Appendix C, 393. Barlow William Rufus (1983): 441-445, Appendix A, Children of William I and Matilda. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 81 (sub England). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.418. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.).
iii. WILLIAM “Rufus,” 3rd son, born about 1060. He succeeded his father in 1087 as king of England; Normandy and Maine passed to his elder brother, Robert. He was crowned at Westminster 26 Sept. 1087. From 1096 to 1100 he held the duchy of Normandy in pledge but was never duke. WILLIAM II, King of England, was killed in the New Forest 2 August 1100, being shot by an arrow from his own men in hunting. He was buried in Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire. Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & all Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Kal. Aug. [1 August]. Ob. Guillelmus Rex Anglorum"). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 182-183, 285-286. Freeman His 		of Normandy, Robert I "the Magnificent" (I6106)
 
6682 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT II DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, son and heir. He married EMMA DE LA GUERCHE. They had two sons, André and Robert [III] (seigneur of Vitré), and one daughter, Adelaide [Abbess of St.-Georges de Rennes]. He succeeded his father about 1140. ROBERT II DE VITRÉ died 22 May, about 1155. His widow, Emma, was living 1 April 1161 (date of charter).
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 51-54. Bowles & Nichols Annals Antiqs. of Lacock Abby (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Mailron de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archeologique de la Algenne 2nd Ser. 11(1895): 168-209. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 771.” 		de Vitré, Adelaide (I7310)
 
6683 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT II DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, son and heir. He married EMMA DE LA GUERCHE. They had two sons, André and Robert [III] (seigneur of Vitré), and one daughter, Adelaide [Abbess of St.-Georges de Rennes]. He succeeded his father about 1140. ROBERT II DE VITRÉ died 22 May, about 1155. His widow, Emma, was living 1 April 1161 (date of charter).
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 51-54. Bowles & Nichols Annals Antiqs. of Lacock Abby (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Mailron de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archeologique de la Algenne 2nd Ser. 11(1895): 168-209. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 771.” 		de Vitré, André (I7079)
 
6684 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT II DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, son and heir. He married EMMA DE LA GUERCHE. They had two sons, André and Robert [III] (seigneur of Vitré), and one daughter, Adelaide [Abbess of St.-Georges de Rennes]. He succeeded his father about 1140. ROBERT II DE VITRÉ died 22 May, about 1155. His widow, Emma, was living 1 April 1161 (date of charter).
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 51-54. Bowles & Nichols Annals Antiqs. of Lacock Abby (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Mailron de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archeologique de la Algenne 2nd Ser. 11(1895): 168-209. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 771.” 		de la Guerche, Emma (I7078)
 
6685 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT II DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, son and heir. He married EMMA DE LA GUERCHE. They had two sons, André and Robert [III] (seigneur of Vitré), and one daughter, Adelaide [Abbess of St.-Georges de Rennes]. He succeeded his father about 1140. ROBERT II DE VITRÉ died 22 May, about 1155. His widow, Emma, was living 1 April 1161 (date of charter).
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 51-54. Bowles & Nichols Annals Antiqs. of Lacock Abby (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Mailron de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archeologique de la Algenne 2nd Ser. 11(1895): 168-209. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 771.”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“AGNES OF MORTAIN, married ANDRÉ I DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany, son and heir of Robert I de Vitré, seigneur of Vitré, by his 2nd wife, Bertha. They had three sons, Robert [II] (seigneur of Vitré), Gervais, and Elie, and one daughter, Marquise (wife of Thibaut de Mathefelon). Her maritagium included the manor of Tybesta, Cornwall. He succeeded his father about 1090. Sometime in the perod, 1093-1106, he and his mother, Bertha, requested the Abbot of Saint-Aubin d'Angers to celebrate a mass each year on "XV Kal Sep" for the anniversary of his younger brother, Robert de Vitré. ANDRÉ I DE VITRÉ died about 1139.
Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Angliæ sub jugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus ..."). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normannia 2 (1844): xlvi. Broussillon La Maison de Lavall (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la commission historique et archéologique de la Mayerme 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. Keats-Rohan Domesday People (1999): 151, 371-372. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 771.” 		de Vitré, Robert II (I7077)
 
6686 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].” 		de Pomeroy, Henry (I7106)
 
6687 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”
 		de Vitré, Maud (I7105)
 
6688 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”
 		de Vitré, Martin (I7104)
 
6689 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].” 		de Vitré, Joscelin (I7103)
 
6690 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].” 		de Vitré, Robert (I7102)
 
6691 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].” 		de Dinan, Alain (I7101)
 
6692 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].” 		de Vitré, André (I7100)
 
6693 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”
 		d'Alluye, Hugues V (I7074)
 
6694 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“AGNORIE OF BRITTANY, married ALAN DE DINAN, Chev., son of Geoffroi, Vicomte of Dinan (died 1123), Domesday tenant in Devonshire. They had one son, Roland, Knt. [seigneur of Dinan], and one daughter, Emma. About 1120 his father divided the barony of Dinan and his English lands between him and his brother, Oliver. Alan's share of the Breton territory comprised one-third of the territory of the barony. It included the southern half of the town of Dinan and lands extending south from there to the south-eastern limits of the barony (where Alan made the castle of Becherel his caput). The additional grant to Alan of important manors in England may, however, have been intended to make his share equal to Oliver's. As a young man, Alan won the favor of King Henry I of England by his military exploits. He was granted the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire by the king. He also was granted the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire sometime before 1130. In 1130 he was pardoned 16s. of danegeld in Cambridgeshire. He was an adherent of King Stephen. Alan founded a priory of Marmoutier at his new caput at Becherel. SIR ALAN DE DINAN died about 1157.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [II] de Vitré, as the daughter of [Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitra et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [II] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthièvre). Morice Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1 (1750): xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthievre ped) (author misidentifies husband of Agnorie of Brittany as "Olivier, Seigneur de Dinan"). La Comtesse de la Moire-Rouge Les Dinans et leur Juveigneurs (1892). Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75 (author identifies Agnorie of Brittany as wife of Olivier II de Dinan). Jones Fam. of Dinan in England in the Middle Ages (1987). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XIII.31 (author assigns Agnorie of Brittany as wife of Olivier II, seigneur of Dinan). Meazey Dinan an Temps des Seigneurs (1997). Everard & Jones Charters of Duchess Constance of Brittany & her Family, 1171-1221 (1999): 196. Everard Brittany & the Angevins: Province & Empire 1158-1203 (2004): 56, 189-192. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 433.
Children of Agnorie of Brittany, by Alan de Dinan:
i. ROLAND DE DINAN, Knt., seigneur of Dinan in Brittany, also lord of East Ginge (in West Hendred), Berkshire, Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, Nutwell, Devon, Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, Meon and Ringwood, Hampshire, Wymondley, Hertfordshire, Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, Corton Denham and Buckland Denham, Somerset, and Wepham, Sussex, son and heir. Sometime before 1161, he was granted the manor of Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, which manor he briefly forfeited for rebellion in Brittany c. 1167-8. He likewise held the manor of Gussage St. Michael, Dorset in 1167-8. He gave the manor of Chieveley, Cambridgeshire to his sister, Emma, when she married Robert de Vitré, retaining an overlordship which was forfeited in 1168. He served as Governor of Brittany c.1175-78. At some unknown date, he gave half a hide of land at Ickleford, Hertfordshire to the nuns of Sopwell Priory, Hertfordshire. SIR ROLAND DE DINAN died in 1184. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire ecclesiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 663 (charter of Roland de Dinan, seigneur of Dinan), 664 (charter of Roland de Dinan to Marmoutiers Abbey names his father, Alan de Dinan, and his nephew [nepote], Alan de Vitré). Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Bull. & Mémoires de la Société Archéologique du Départment d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 370- 371. Desc. Cat Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 441-451 (D. 381). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 607. Book of Fees 1(1920): 92. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 302-307. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. VCH Hertford 4 (1971): 422-426. VCH Cambridge 9 (1989): 292-295; 10 (2002): 46. Jankulak Medieval Cult of St. Petroc (2000): 174-175 ("Roland de Dinan is perhaps best known in his Breton context as one of the barons who rebelled against Henry II in 1167-8 and who later became Henry's Breton royal agent. Roland's role in Eudon II's struggle against Henry II is only noted by Robert of Torigny in 1168, although Tonnerre and le Patourel, for example, have dated Roland's opposition to Henry from 1160. It is clear that Roland was involved in the 1167-8 rebellion: Robert of Torigny tells us that Roland's castle at Becherel was besieged and captured by Henry's forces ... The Breton lords were pardoned, and on Christmas Day 1169 Geoffrey II Plantagenet, in the presence of his father, received the homage of the Breton lords at Nantes."), 217-222 (Appendix III).
ii. EMMA DE DINAN, married ROBERT [III] DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré in Brittany [see MORTAIN 4].”

3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, of Chitteme, Amesbury, Chicklade, Little Langford, North Tidworth, Somerford (in Great Somerford), and Shrewton, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Edgware, Middlesex, etc., son and heir, born about 1150. He married about 1191 ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, widow successively of William Paynel, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. (died 1184), and Gilbert de Tillieres (died 1190), seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, West Compton, Berkshire, etc., and daughter of Robert III de Vitré, seigneur of Vitré, by Emma, daughter of Alain de Dinan [see MORTAIN 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included a moierty of the manors of Ryes, Trungy, and Ducy, all in Normandy, and £20 sterling annually out of manor of Cowling, Suffolk. They had one daughter, Ela [Countess of Salisbury]. He gave the advowson of the church of Canford, Dorset with its dependent chapel of St. James at Poole, Dorset to Bradenstoke Priory, together with the chapel of St. Andrew at Chitterne, Wiltshire. His wife, Eleanor, gave the same priory the advowson of the church of Cowling, Suffolk with a rent of 40s. WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, died 17 April 1196, and was buried in Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire. His widow, Eleanor, married (4th) before 1198 GILBERT MALESMAINS, in right of his wife, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Cowling, Suffolk, etc. They had no issue. In 1203 Gilbert and his wife, Eleanor, and William Fitz Martin and Finapopula his wife had an assize regarding land in Cowling, Suffolk. He was living in 1205. A royal writ of 1216 ordered that Eleanor, Countess of Salisbury, should be permitted to hold her manors of Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Edgware, Middlesex, and Wootton, Oxfordshire in peace. In 1217 she gave a setier of oats to Mondaye Abbey in Normandy to be received annually at Trungy, and in 1218 a rent from her oven of Ryes to buy waxlights to burn every day at the mass of Holy Mary. In 1223 Eleanor, sometime Countess of Salisbury, granted Roger de London, clerk, the assart called Le Frith in the manor of Cowling, Suffolk. In 1227 she gave 10s. money of Tours annually to Mondaye Abbey for the observation of anniversary of her daughter, Juliane de Tillieres, widow of Baldwin Rastell, to be received annually at Trungy. In 1232 she granted Roger, son of Richard de Coiling', the land called Hamstall, and other lands which his father Richard held in the vill of Cowling, Suffolk to hold for term of his life. The same year she made fine with the king by 10 marks for having seisin of her wood of Wootton, Oxfordshire. Eleanor, Countess of Salisbury, died testate shortly before 18 August 1233. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of Hereford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 263-267. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xliv-I. Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Wiltshire & the City of Salisbury (1851): 217-217 ("William Earl of Salisbury took part in the ceremonial of the first coronation of the lion-hearted king, which was solemnised with great state at Westminster on 3d of Sept. 1189; he carried the verge or red, cosigned with a dove on its summit. At Richard's second coronation, which took place after his return from captivity in Germany, and which was solemnised in the cathedral of Winchester on the 18th April, 1194, this earl was one of four who supported the canopy ... In the latter year the earl of Salisbury was also constitued keeper of the king's charter or grant for licensing tournaments throughout the country ... According to the Book of Lacock, his [William's] body was buried at the priory of Bradenstoke. His wife, who survived him for thirty-five years, was Alianor, daughter of Robert de Vitré, of Brittany,... She was married first to William Paynell, lord of Hambie in Normandy, and of Drax in Yorkshire, whose widow she became in 1184; and she was married thirdly to Gilbert de Malesmains, who in her right held the manor of Gatesden in Hertfordshire, in the year 1205. Alianor countess of Salisbury died in Normandy, and was buried by the side of her daughter Juliana, in the abbey of St. Martin de Monte Dei, commonly called Mondaye."). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 31 (two charters of Eleanor de Vitrei, Countess of Salisbury, one dated 1223, the other dated 1232 witnessed by Andrew de Vitrei). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Baildon Select Civil Pleas 1 (SeIden Soc.3 ) (1890): 60. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 402 (seal of Eleanor de Vitré, Countess of Salisbury dated 1222 - Pointed oval. In long dress, head-dress and cloak. Standing, turned slightly to the left, on a platform. In the right hand a fleur-de-lis. The left hand lifted before the breast. In the field on the right a quatrefoll. Legend: [SIGIL]LVM : ALIENOR [CO]MTISSE DE SALESBIR..). Broussillon LaMaison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Set. 11 (1895): 168-209. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 537-538. C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 97, 99, 150, 247, 249, 286, 370. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-207. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 21-24. VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 13 (1987): 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Paget English Baronies (1957): 432:1. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 91 (In 1212 William, Earl of Salisbury, claimed lands from Henry de Bohun and in 1215 control of the barony of Trowbridge was granted to William. A compromise was reached later in the same year when the honour was divided between the Earl of Hereford and the Earl of Salisbury. Half the barony of Trowbridge remained with the lords of Chitterne (p. 92), 112. Powicke Loss of Normandy, 1198-1204 (1961): 353-354 (sub Tillieres: "In 1172 Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) was held by Gilbert of Tillières for the service of 3 knights [R.B., ii, 631. A. reads 4 knights]. He died during the third Crusade and his heir was still under age in 1198 [Rot. Scacc., ii, 321]. This heir, Gilbert the younger, died between 1220 and 1227 since he was succeeded by his sister Juliana, who was dead in the latter year [Stapleton, II, xlvi, note]. By this time, if not before, the rights of a second sister, Joanna, the wife of Thomas Malesmains, had been recognised also, although she and her husband lived in England. The co-heirs in 1228 were Hilaria, the daughter of Juliana, and Nicholas Malesmains, the son of Joanna [Stapleton, II, xlviii]. Hilaria's husband, James of Bavelingham, did homage to the king of France for the whole honour, and tanquam antenatus, secured by judgement of the exchequer in 1234 the right of the whole auxilium exercitus, from the lands of Nicholas as well as from his own."). VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 155-157. Ellis Cat. of Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 93 (seal of Eleanor, sometime countess of Salisbury dated 1222-The countess standing, wearing a flowing gown and a short mantle, her left hand held to her breast and her right hand extended. To the right, a quatrefoll. Legend: "[SIGIL]LUM ALIENOR' C/MITISSE DE SALESBIR."). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 398. Janet Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre, 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 44 (lawsuit dated 1241 between heirs of Gilbert de Tillières): Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 228. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 518 (Subligney ped.). Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 428, 429, 499, 536.”
 		de Dinan, Emma (I7065)
 
6695 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT II DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, son and heir. He married EMMA DE LA GUERCHE. They had two sons, André and Robert [III] (seigneur of Vitré), and one daughter, Adelaide [Abbess of St.-Georges de Rennes]. He succeeded his father about 1140. ROBERT II DE VITRÉ died 22 May, about 1155. His widow, Emma, was living 1 April 1161 (date of charter).
Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 51-54. Bowles & Nichols Annals Antiqs. of Lacock Abby (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Mailron de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archeologique de la Algenne 2nd Ser. 11(1895): 168-209. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 771.”

3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, of Chitteme, Amesbury, Chicklade, Little Langford, North Tidworth, Somerford (in Great Somerford), and Shrewton, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Edgware, Middlesex, etc., son and heir, born about 1150. He married about 1191 ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, widow successively of William Paynel, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. (died 1184), and Gilbert de Tillieres (died 1190), seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, West Compton, Berkshire, etc., and daughter of Robert III de Vitré, seigneur of Vitré, by Emma, daughter of Alain de Dinan [see MORTAIN 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included a moierty of the manors of Ryes, Trungy, and Ducy, all in Normandy, and £20 sterling annually out of manor of Cowling, Suffolk. They had one daughter, Ela [Countess of Salisbury]. He gave the advowson of the church of Canford, Dorset with its dependent chapel of St. James at Poole, Dorset to Bradenstoke Priory, together with the chapel of St. Andrew at Chitterne, Wiltshire. His wife, Eleanor, gave the same priory the advowson of the church of Cowling, Suffolk with a rent of 40s. WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, died 17 April 1196, and was buried in Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire. His widow, Eleanor, married (4th) before 1198 GILBERT MALESMAINS, in right of his wife, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Cowling, Suffolk, etc. They had no issue. In 1203 Gilbert and his wife, Eleanor, and William Fitz Martin and Finapopula his wife had an assize regarding land in Cowling, Suffolk. He was living in 1205. A royal writ of 1216 ordered that Eleanor, Countess of Salisbury, should be permitted to hold her manors of Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Edgware, Middlesex, and Wootton, Oxfordshire in peace. In 1217 she gave a setier of oats to Mondaye Abbey in Normandy to be received annually at Trungy, and in 1218 a rent from her oven of Ryes to buy waxlights to burn every day at the mass of Holy Mary. In 1223 Eleanor, sometime Countess of Salisbury, granted Roger de London, clerk, the assart called Le Frith in the manor of Cowling, Suffolk. In 1227 she gave 10s. money of Tours annually to Mondaye Abbey for the observation of anniversary of her daughter, Juliane de Tillieres, widow of Baldwin Rastell, to be received annually at Trungy. In 1232 she granted Roger, son of Richard de Coiling', the land called Hamstall, and other lands which his father Richard held in the vill of Cowling, Suffolk to hold for term of his life. The same year she made fine with the king by 10 marks for having seisin of her wood of Wootton, Oxfordshire. Eleanor, Countess of Salisbury, died testate shortly before 18 August 1233. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of Hereford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 263-267. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xliv-I. Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Wiltshire & the City of Salisbury (1851): 217-217 ("William Earl of Salisbury took part in the ceremonial of the first coronation of the lion-hearted king, which was solemnised with great state at Westminster on 3d of Sept. 1189; he carried the verge or red, cosigned with a dove on its summit. At Richard's second coronation, which took place after his return from captivity in Germany, and which was solemnised in the cathedral of Winchester on the 18th April, 1194, this earl was one of four who supported the canopy ... In the latter year the earl of Salisbury was also constitued keeper of the king's charter or grant for licensing tournaments throughout the country ... According to the Book of Lacock, his [William's] body was buried at the priory of Bradenstoke. His wife, who survived him for thirty-five years, was Alianor, daughter of Robert de Vitré, of Brittany,... She was married first to William Paynell, lord of Hambie in Normandy, and of Drax in Yorkshire, whose widow she became in 1184; and she was married thirdly to Gilbert de Malesmains, who in her right held the manor of Gatesden in Hertfordshire, in the year 1205. Alianor countess of Salisbury died in Normandy, and was buried by the side of her daughter Juliana, in the abbey of St. Martin de Monte Dei, commonly called Mondaye."). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 31 (two charters of Eleanor de Vitrei, Countess of Salisbury, one dated 1223, the other dated 1232 witnessed by Andrew de Vitrei). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Baildon Select Civil Pleas 1 (SeIden Soc.3 ) (1890): 60. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 402 (seal of Eleanor de Vitré, Countess of Salisbury dated 1222 - Pointed oval. In long dress, head-dress and cloak. Standing, turned slightly to the left, on a platform. In the right hand a fleur-de-lis. The left hand lifted before the breast. In the field on the right a quatrefoll. Legend: [SIGIL]LVM : ALIENOR [CO]MTISSE DE SALESBIR..). Broussillon LaMaison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Set. 11 (1895): 168-209. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 537-538. C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 97, 99, 150, 247, 249, 286, 370. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-207. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 21-24. VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 13 (1987): 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Paget English Baronies (1957): 432:1. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 91 (In 1212 William, Earl of Salisbury, claimed lands from Henry de Bohun and in 1215 control of the barony of Trowbridge was granted to William. A compromise was reached later in the same year when the honour was divided between the Earl of Hereford and the Earl of Salisbury. Half the barony of Trowbridge remained with the lords of Chitterne (p. 92), 112. Powicke Loss of Normandy, 1198-1204 (1961): 353-354 (sub Tillieres: "In 1172 Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) was held by Gilbert of Tillières for the service of 3 knights [R.B., ii, 631. A. reads 4 knights]. He died during the third Crusade and his heir was still under age in 1198 [Rot. Scacc., ii, 321]. This heir, Gilbert the younger, died between 1220 and 1227 since he was succeeded by his sister Juliana, who was dead in the latter year [Stapleton, II, xlvi, note]. By this time, if not before, the rights of a second sister, Joanna, the wife of Thomas Malesmains, had been recognised also, although she and her husband lived in England. The co-heirs in 1228 were Hilaria, the daughter of Juliana, and Nicholas Malesmains, the son of Joanna [Stapleton, II, xlviii]. Hilaria's husband, James of Bavelingham, did homage to the king of France for the whole honour, and tanquam antenatus, secured by judgement of the exchequer in 1234 the right of the whole auxilium exercitus, from the lands of Nicholas as well as from his own."). VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 155-157. Ellis Cat. of Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 93 (seal of Eleanor, sometime countess of Salisbury dated 1222-The countess standing, wearing a flowing gown and a short mantle, her left hand held to her breast and her right hand extended. To the right, a quatrefoll. Legend: "[SIGIL]LUM ALIENOR' C/MITISSE DE SALESBIR."). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 398. Janet Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre, 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 44 (lawsuit dated 1241 between heirs of Gilbert de Tillières): Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 228. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 518 (Subligney ped.). Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 428, 429, 499, 536.” 		de Vitré, Robert III (I7064)
 
6696 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT MAUDUIT, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Barrowden, Morcott, and South Luffenham, Rutland, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir. He married ISABEL BASSET, daughter and co-heiress of Thurstan Basset, of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire, Hawridge and Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, etc. They had two sons, William, Knt., and possibly Thomas. In 1195-1200 the abbot and convent of Westminster granted him certain houses in Longditch, Westminster. In 1195-8 William Postard, abbot of Westminster, licensed him to have a chapel in his house near Longditch, Westminster. In 1208 he reached agreement with Hugh Fitz Hugh and others regarding three bovates of land in Luffenham, Rutland. He and his son, William, both took arms against King John and forfeited their lands. In 1217 both returned to fealty to Henry III, and their lands were restored. His wife, Isabel, acquired two messuages from John Testard, and 7s. 8d. in quitrents from John son of Edward the reeve, in order to grant them to maintain the lights on the altar of St Mary in Westminster Abbey. In 1220 he sued Waleran, on of Waleran Earl of Warwick, for a debt of 200 marks; Waleran pledged the manor of Weston, Gloucestershire to him. ROBERT MAUDUIT died shortly before 22 June 1222. His widow, Isabel, presented to the church of South Luffenham, Rutland sometime before 1225. On 24 October 1225 Thomas de Venuz made fine with the king by 10 marks for having Isabel, widow of Robert Mauduit, as his wife if she consents to it. She died shortly before 11 Dec. 1225.
Hunter Fines, sine Pedes Finium 1 (1835): 249, 252-253. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 1 (1835): 135. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Phillimore Retail Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12351 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 24. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 104-109. Pearce Monks of Westminster (1916): 45. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 217-222. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Coils. (1930): 30-31, 34-37. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 170-175. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 367-369, 391-397. CRR. 3 (1926): 179, 183, 225, 233, 276; 4 (1929): 7-8; 5 (1931): 198-199; 9 (1952): 140-141. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 120-121. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (1988): 19, 162-164, 177-178, 258-260, 264, 285-288. Mason Westminster Abbey & its People, c.1050-c.1216 (1996): 71, 76, 109-114, 171-172, 174, 233, 256, 267-268, 276, 307-308, 312, 325. Heidecker Charters & the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Soc. (2000): 34. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry 111 2 (2008): 56, 62-63.”
 		Mauduit, Thomas (I6256)
 
6697 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT MAUDUIT, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Barrowden, Morcott, and South Luffenham, Rutland, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir. He married ISABEL BASSET, daughter and co-heiress of Thurstan Basset, of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire, Hawridge and Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, etc. They had two sons, William, Knt., and possibly Thomas. In 1195-1200 the abbot and convent of Westminster granted him certain houses in Longditch, Westminster. In 1195-8 William Postard, abbot of Westminster, licensed him to have a chapel in his house near Longditch, Westminster. In 1208 he reached agreement with Hugh Fitz Hugh and others regarding three bovates of land in Luffenham, Rutland. He and his son, William, both took arms against King John and forfeited their lands. In 1217 both returned to fealty to Henry III, and their lands were restored. His wife, Isabel, acquired two messuages from John Testard, and 7s. 8d. in quitrents from John son of Edward the reeve, in order to grant them to maintain the lights on the altar of St Mary in Westminster Abbey. In 1220 he sued Waleran, on of Waleran Earl of Warwick, for a debt of 200 marks; Waleran pledged the manor of Weston, Gloucestershire to him. ROBERT MAUDUIT died shortly before 22 June 1222. His widow, Isabel, presented to the church of South Luffenham, Rutland sometime before 1225. On 24 October 1225 Thomas de Venuz made fine with the king by 10 marks for having Isabel, widow of Robert Mauduit, as his wife if she consents to it. She died shortly before 11 Dec. 1225.
Hunter Fines, sine Pedes Finium 1 (1835): 249, 252-253. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 1 (1835): 135. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Phillimore Retail Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12351 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 24. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 104-109. Pearce Monks of Westminster (1916): 45. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 217-222. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Coils. (1930): 30-31, 34-37. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 170-175. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 367-369, 391-397. CRR. 3 (1926): 179, 183, 225, 233, 276; 4 (1929): 7-8; 5 (1931): 198-199; 9 (1952): 140-141. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 120-121. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (1988): 19, 162-164, 177-178, 258-260, 264, 285-288. Mason Westminster Abbey & its People, c.1050-c.1216 (1996): 71, 76, 109-114, 171-172, 174, 233, 256, 267-268, 276, 307-308, 312, 325. Heidecker Charters & the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Soc. (2000): 34. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry 111 2 (2008): 56, 62-63.”
 		Basset, Isabel (I6255)
 
6698 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT MAUDUIT, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Barrowden, Morcott, and South Luffenham, Rutland, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir. He married ISABEL BASSET, daughter and co-heiress of Thurstan Basset, of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire, Hawridge and Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, etc. They had two sons, William, Knt., and possibly Thomas. In 1195-1200 the abbot and convent of Westminster granted him certain houses in Longditch, Westminster. In 1195-8 William Postard, abbot of Westminster, licensed him to have a chapel in his house near Longditch, Westminster. In 1208 he reached agreement with Hugh Fitz Hugh and others regarding three bovates of land in Luffenham, Rutland. He and his son, William, both took arms against King John and forfeited their lands. In 1217 both returned to fealty to Henry III, and their lands were restored. His wife, Isabel, acquired two messuages from John Testard, and 7s. 8d. in quitrents from John son of Edward the reeve, in order to grant them to maintain the lights on the altar of St Mary in Westminster Abbey. In 1220 he sued Waleran, on of Waleran Earl of Warwick, for a debt of 200 marks; Waleran pledged the manor of Weston, Gloucestershire to him. ROBERT MAUDUIT died shortly before 22 June 1222. His widow, Isabel, presented to the church of South Luffenham, Rutland sometime before 1225. On 24 October 1225 Thomas de Venuz made fine with the king by 10 marks for having Isabel, widow of Robert Mauduit, as his wife if she consents to it. She died shortly before 11 Dec. 1225.
Hunter Fines, sine Pedes Finium 1 (1835): 249, 252-253. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 1 (1835): 135. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Phillimore Retail Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12351 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 24. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 104-109. Pearce Monks of Westminster (1916): 45. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 217-222. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Coils. (1930): 30-31, 34-37. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 170-175. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 367-369, 391-397. CRR. 3 (1926): 179, 183, 225, 233, 276; 4 (1929): 7-8; 5 (1931): 198-199; 9 (1952): 140-141. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 120-121. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (1988): 19, 162-164, 177-178, 258-260, 264, 285-288. Mason Westminster Abbey & its People, c.1050-c.1216 (1996): 71, 76, 109-114, 171-172, 174, 233, 256, 267-268, 276, 307-308, 312, 325. Heidecker Charters & the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Soc. (2000): 34. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry 111 2 (2008): 56, 62-63.” 		Basset, Thurstan (I6254)
 
6699 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT MAUDUIT, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Barrowden, Morcott, and South Luffenham, Rutland, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir. He married ISABEL BASSET, daughter and co-heiress of Thurstan Basset, of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire, Hawridge and Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, etc. They had two sons, William, Knt., and possibly Thomas. In 1195-1200 the abbot and convent of Westminster granted him certain houses in Longditch, Westminster. In 1195-8 William Postard, abbot of Westminster, licensed him to have a chapel in his house near Longditch, Westminster. In 1208 he reached agreement with Hugh Fitz Hugh and others regarding three bovates of land in Luffenham, Rutland. He and his son, William, both took arms against King John and forfeited their lands. In 1217 both returned to fealty to Henry III, and their lands were restored. His wife, Isabel, acquired two messuages from John Testard, and 7s. 8d. in quitrents from John son of Edward the reeve, in order to grant them to maintain the lights on the altar of St Mary in Westminster Abbey. In 1220 he sued Waleran, on of Waleran Earl of Warwick, for a debt of 200 marks; Waleran pledged the manor of Weston, Gloucestershire to him. ROBERT MAUDUIT died shortly before 22 June 1222. His widow, Isabel, presented to the church of South Luffenham, Rutland sometime before 1225. On 24 October 1225 Thomas de Venuz made fine with the king by 10 marks for having Isabel, widow of Robert Mauduit, as his wife if she consents to it. She died shortly before 11 Dec. 1225.
Hunter Fines, sine Pedes Finium 1 (1835): 249, 252-253. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 1 (1835): 135. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Phillimore Retail Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12351 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 24. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 104-109. Pearce Monks of Westminster (1916): 45. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 217-222. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Coils. (1930): 30-31, 34-37. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 170-175. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 367-369, 391-397. CRR. 3 (1926): 179, 183, 225, 233, 276; 4 (1929): 7-8; 5 (1931): 198-199; 9 (1952): 140-141. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 120-121. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (1988): 19, 162-164, 177-178, 258-260, 264, 285-288. Mason Westminster Abbey & its People, c.1050-c.1216 (1996): 71, 76, 109-114, 171-172, 174, 233, 256, 267-268, 276, 307-308, 312, 325. Heidecker Charters & the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Soc. (2000): 34. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry 111 2 (2008): 56, 62-63.”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ISABEL DE SENLIS, married WILLIAM MAUDUIT, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Hartley Mauduit and Shaldem, Hampshire, Great Bowden and Harborough, Leicestershire, Barrowden, Morcott, and South Luffenham, Rutland, etc., hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir of William Mauduit, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Hartley Mauduit and Shaldern, Hampshire, hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, by his wife, Alice. Her maritagium included a demesne in Grendon, Northamptonshire, together with lands in Braybrooke, Great Oakley, and Great Newton, Northamptonshire and Othorpe, Leicestershire. They had one son, Robert. In the period, 1174-84, he witnessed a charter for his brother-in-law, Earl Simon [de Senlis]. In 1180 he was put in charge of treasure sent for the king's use from Newark to Doncaster, and from Doncaster to York. In the period, 1180-9, he granted the manor of Shalden, Hampshire to his brother, Robert Mauduit. He acquired property in Westminster, Middlesex from the 1180s, including a messuage in Longditch from Adam of Westminster and his wife Maud; land in Longditch adjoining that messuage from Alexander son of William the priest and his wife Alice; and half an acre of meadow in Lousmede from Peter son of Thomas the mariner. WILLIAM MAUDUIT died 2 October 1194, and was buried at Waverley Abbey, Surrey. In 1198 his widow, Isabel, was charged 30 marks to have her own marriage. In 1204 she was sued by Emald Fitz Richard regarding the advowson of the church of Morcott, Rutland; Isabel called to warranty her son, Robert. In 1210 she sued John Fitz Geoffrey for her dower in lands in Morcott, Rutland. The same year she was sued by the daughters or representatives of Alice de Bidun (sister of Isabel's husband, William Mauduit) for the vill of Morcott, Rutland, in which Isabel claimed dower; Isabel called to warranty her son, Robert. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 249-250 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1194 -"Obiit Willelmus Maldut vi. non. Octobris, et sepultus est ante ostium capituli apud Waverleiam."). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Trans. Leicestershire Architectural & Arch. Soc. 3 (1874): 155. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Ancestor 5 (1903): 207-210. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 101-103. G.H. Fowler 'Shire of Bedford and the Earldom of Huntingdon' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 23-34. C.R.R. 3 (1926): 179, 183, 225, 233, 276; 4 (1929): 7-8; 5 (1931): 198-199; 6 (1932): 8, 47, 224-225. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 348-362. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Coils. (1930): 90-92 (charter of William Mauduit dated 1180-9). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1198 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 9) (1932): 125. VCH Northampton 4 (1937): 11-17 (Mauduit arms: Gules three piles wavy or). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 170-175 (Mauduit arms: Argent two bars gules). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 238-239 (charter of Earl Simon [de Sculls] dated 1174-84). Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 103-104 (charter of Earl Simon [de Senlis] dated c.1158-74). Stringer Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219 (1985). Columbia Law Rev. 88 (1988): 433-536.” 		Mauduit, Robert (I6130)
 
6700 RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT MORLEY, Knt., son and heir apparent by his father's 1st marriage, born say 1375. He married before August 1394 ISABEL MOLEYNS, daughter of William de Moleyns, Knt., of Stoke Poges and Datchet, Buckinghamshire, Gresham, Norfolk, Aston Bampton, Oxfordshire, Lea, Little Somerford, and Whitley (in Caine), Wiltshire, etc., King's yeoman, Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire, by Margery, daughter and co-heiress of Edmund Bacon, Knt. [see MOLEYNS 14 for her ancestry]. She was a legatee in the 1380 will of her father, who bequeathed her £100 for her marriage. They had one son, Thomas, Knt. [5th Lord Morley]. They had a life annuity of £40 by gift of the king in 1394. In 1398 he owed £318 John Pertryfier, merchant of Amiens. SIR ROBERT MORLEY was living 8 Jan. 1398/9, but died before 27 October 1401, and was buried in the Austin Friars, Norwich. In 1401-2 his widow, Isabel, was being paid an annuity of £10 by her nephew, William Moleyns, Knt. She married (2nd) before 15 Nov. 1405 (as his 1st wife) RICHARD BERNERS, Esq., of West Horsley, Surrey, Barnsbury (in Islington), Middlesex, and Icklingharn, Suffolk, son and heir of James Berners, Knt., of West Horsley, Sussex, Knight of the Shire for Surrey, by Anne, daughter of John Barew. He was born about 1381 (aged 10 in 1391). They had no issue. Richard married (2nd) before 1 June 1409 PHILIPPE DALLINGRIDGE (or DALYNGRYGGE), daughter and heiress of Walter Dallingridge, by Margaret, daughter of John Chamond. They had one daughter, Margery (wife of John Ferreby, Esq. and John Bourchier, K.G., 1st Lord Berners [see BOURCHIER 12]). RICHARD BERNERS, Esq., died 6 August 1412. His widow, Philippe, married (2nd) before 24 October 1417 (as his 1st wife) THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt. [see LEWKNOR 14], of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1426, 1431-2, son and heir of Roger Lewknor, Esq., of Horstead Keynes, Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, by Elizabeth, evident daughter of Nicholas Carew [see LEWKNOR 13 for his ancestry]. They had one son, Roger, Knt. His wife, Philippe, died 2 October 1421. He married (2nd) ELIZABETH ECHINGHAM, widow of Thomas Hoo, Knt. (died 23 August 1420) [see HOO 13], of Luton Hoo (in Luton), Bedfordshire, Brundale and Mulbarton, Norfolk, Ockley, Surrey, Wartling, Sussex, etc., an daughter of William Echingham, Knt. [see ECHINGHAM 10], of Etchingham and Udimore, Sussex, by his 1st wife, Alice, daughter and co-heiress of William Batisford. They had five sons, John, Knt., Thomas, Richard, Esq., Walter, and Nicholas [see CUDWORTH 11], and three daughters, Alice (wife of John Pelham, Knt.), Jane (wife of Thomas Goode), and Joan (wife of Henry Frowick). In 1432 he was a supervisor of the will of his grandfather, Nicholas Carew. In 1435 he presented to the church of Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire. He served as a witness to a charter of Thomas Hoo, Knt. in 1445, SIR THOMAS LEWKNOR died in 1452. In 1454 his widow, Elizabeth, and Joan Rykhill, daughters of Alice Batisford, disputed with their cousin, Sir Richard Fiennes, grandson of Alice's sister, Elizabeth, for possession of the manor of Buckholt (in Bexhill), Sussex. Elizabeth was named in the 1455 will of her step-son, Thomas Hoo, Knt., Lord Hoo. Sometime before 1464, she sued John Cheyne, son and heir of Sir William Cheyne, Knt., feoffee to uses regarding a tenement called 'the Christopher,' in St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, demised for the maintenance of the chantry of Goring, Sussex. In the same period, she sued her step-son, Roger Lewknor, in Chancery regarding the manors of Goring and Preston, Sussex. Elizabeth left a will dated 21 March 1450, proved 23 Feb. 1464 (P.C.C. 8 and 59 Godyn).
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist of Nodblk 1 (1739): 672-679; 2 (1805): 432 111; 5 (1806): 75-83; 7 (1807): 219-221. Morant Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex 2 (1768): 511-512 (Isabel, wife of Robert Morley, identified as "daughter of the Lord Molines"). Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Lysons Environs of London 3 (1795): 123-169. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 356-358. Clutterbuck Hist & Antiqs. of Hertford 2 (1821): 461-467 (Lanvallei ped.: Isabel, wife of Robert Morley, identified as "daughter of the Lord Molines."). Chauncy Hist Antiqs. of Hertfordshire 2 (1826): 85-88. Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 370 (Isabel, wife of Robert Morley, identified as "daughter of John: Lord Molines"). Banks Baronies in Fee 1(1844: 333-334 (sub Morley). Sussex Arch. Colls. 4 (1851): 151-152; 8 (1856): 104-131; 9 (1857): 275-302; 30 (1880): 142-143. Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 1 (1856): 229-233. Tomlins Yseldon (1858): 99-100. Lower Bodiam, & its Lords (1871): 1-22. Elwes Hist. of the Castles, Mansions & Manors of Western Sussex (1876): 102 (Tregoz-Lewknor ped.). Hawley et al Vis. of Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 & 1634 1 (H.S.P. 13) (1878): 2-4 (1552 Vis.) (Barnes ped.: Sr Rychr lord Barnes. = Phelype dotr of Sr Edward Delyngridge."). Gibbons Early Lincoln Wills (1888): 59-60 (will of William de Molynes Knt.). Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Volume 1) (1894): 225. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. Prigg Icklingham Papers (1901): 118-123. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thomas Lewknor knight 31 H. 6. = Phillip d. & heire of Sir Richard Dalingrig renup. Ric. Barnes.") (Dalinrige arms: Argent, a cross engrailed gules). VCH Bedford 2 (1908): 348-375. C.CR. 1399-1402 (1927): 477. C.C.R. 1419-1422 (1932): 2-3, 240. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor), 203-213 (sub Pelham). C.P. 9 (1936): 218 (sub Morley) (cites Dugdale Baronage of England 2 (1676): 27 which identifies Isabel, wife of Robert Morley, as "daughter of the Lord Molines"). VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 52-57, 257-258. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 383: 1. Cal. Inqs. Misc. 5 (1962): 178-179. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.8871, B.8873; 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.11752, B.11754, B.11755. VCH Middlesex 8 (1985): 51-57. Richmond Paston Fain. in the 15th Cent.: First Phase (1990): 47-48. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 205-208 (biog. of Sir James Bemers). Cal. IPM 20 (1995): 217. National Archives, C 131/214/18; C 131/214/32; C 131/214/35; E101/512/17 (account dated 1401-2 of William Wyot, steward of the household of Sir William Moleyns) (re. payment of annuity to Isabel Morley); E 326/8873 (settlement dated 1408-9 between Thomas Knolles, Citizen and alderman of London, at al., of the first part, and Richard Bemers and Philippa his wife, of the second part, re. manor and advowson of West Horsley, Sussex and lands etc.) (available at www.catalogue. nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Court of Common Pleas, CP 40/659, rot. 425 (available at www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=1272).”

2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN BOURGCHIER, K.G., Constable of Windsor Castle, itinerant justice for Brecon, 4th son by his mother's 3rd marriage. He married before 1441-2 (date of fine) MARGERY BERNERS, widow of John Ferreby (or Feriby), Esq. (died testate 10 October 1441), of Sheepbridge (in Swallowfield), Berkshire, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1436-7, Knight of the Shire for Surrey, Controller of the King's Household, and daughter and heiress of Richard Berners, Esq., of West Horsley, Surrey, Berwick Bemers (in Abbess Roding), Essex, etc. [see MORLEY 12], by his 2nd wife, Philippe, daughter of Walter Dallingridge. She was born 30 Nov. 1408. They had three sons, Humphrey, Knt., Thomas, Knt., and John (clerk), and two daughters, Joan (or Jane) and Elizabeth. He was summoned to Parliament from 26 May 1455 to 19 August 1472, by writs directed Johanni Boughchier de Berners chivaler. His wife, Margery, was named one of the executors of the 1470 will of her daughter, Elizabeth, Lady Welles. SIR JOHN BOURGCHIER, 1st Lord Berners, died 16 (or 21) May 1474, and was buried at Chertsey Abbey, Surrey. He left a will proved 21 June 1474 (P.C.C. 15 Wattys). His widow, Margery, Lady Berners, died 18 Dec. 1475.
Lysons Environs of London 3 (1795): 123-169. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 309-310 (will of Jane Nevil). Beltz Mems. of the Order of the Garter (1841): clxii. Sussex Arch. Colls. 9 (1857): 275-302. Tomlins Yseldon (1858): 99-100. Monro Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou & Bishop Beckington (Camden Soc. 86) (1863): 132-133. Vis. of Devon 1620 (H.S.P. 6) (1872): 34-35 (Bourchier ped.: "Joh'es Bourchier D'ns Bemiers = Marg. d. & h. Rici. D'ns Bemiers"). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872): 151-152. Glover & St. George Vis. of Yorkshire 1589-5, 1612 (1875): 62-63 (Bourchier ped.: "Sir John Bourchier, Knt., Lord Berners in right of his wife. = Margery, daughter and sole heir to Henry, Lord Berners") (Berners arms: Quarterly, or and vert). Leonard & Vincent Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 278-280 (Devereux ped.: "Joh'es [Bourchier] 4 fil. duxit Margaretam fil. et hær. Rici. D'ni Berniers."). Hawley et al. Vis. of Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 & 1634 1 (H.S.P. 13) (1878): 2-4 (1552 Vis.) (Barnes ped.: "St John Bowsey lord Barnes. = Marget, dot' & heyre of [Sr Rychr lord Barnes.]"). Burke Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1883): 65-66 (sub Bourchier). Waters Mems. of the Counts of Eu (1888): 53. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 73. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 190, 236-237. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Story (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Vol. 1) (1894): 227. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 106-107. C.P.R. 1461-1467 (1897): 532-533 (John Bourgchier, lord of Bemeres, knight styled "king's kinsman"). List of S herffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.P.R. 1467-1477 (1900): 24, 51, 331 (instances ofJohn Bourgchier, Knt., styled "king's kinsman"). List of Early Chancery Procs. 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 12) (1901): 154. Prigg Icklingham Papers (1901): 118-123. North Country Wills 1 (Surtees Soc. 116) (1908): 54-55 (will of Elizabeth, Lady Welles). C.P.R. 1452-1461 (1910): 153 (John, lord of Berners, styled "king's kinsman"). VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 354 Bourchier arms: Argent, a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable). C.P. 2 (1912): 153 (sub Bemers); 4 (1916): Appendix H, 730; 5 (1926): 178, footnote e (sub Eu), 754; 12(2) (1959): 446-447 (sub Welles), 667 (Willoughby). Papal Regs.: Letters 11 (1921): 565-566. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 271. Misc. Gen. et Heraldica 5th Ser. 8 (1932-34): 109-118 (1679 Saunders ped.: Berners arms: Quarterly, or and vert). Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 95-96 (biog. of Sir Thomas Bourchier). Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele 2 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 577-578, 652 (biog. of John Feriby). VCH Essex 4 (1956): 191. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 87: 1. Feet of Fines for Essex 4 (1964): 31-32, 45, 130-131. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.11914, B.11916. Rawcliffe Staffords (1978): 223. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.0. 1 (1978): 24 (seal of John Ferriby, Esq. dated 1430 - A shield of arms, couche: quarterly, 1 and 4, a fesse between three stag's heads couped, 2 and 3, quarterly; helm above in profile with mantling of oak leaves and crest; a leopard standing with tail extended. Legend: SIGI....[IOHANNIS]), 24 (seal of Margery wife of John Ferriby dated 1430 - Monogram P with an I encircled in the loop, and a crown above. No legend.). Sutton Coronation of Richard III (1983): 315-316 (biog. of Sir Thomas Bourchier). Myers Crown, Household & Parl. (1985): 287. VCH Middlesex 8 (1985): 53. Kirby Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 41) (1986): 124. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 170-181. Cal. IPM 22 (2003): 335. National Archives, E 40/623 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of John Bourgchier, K.G., by Margery Berners:
i. HUMPHREY BOURGCHIER, Knt. [see next].
ii. JOAN (or JANE) BOURGCHIER, married HENRY (or HARRY) NEVILLE, Knt., of Isenhampstead (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire [see LATIMER 15].
iii. ELIZABETH BOURGCHIER, married ROBERT WELLES, Knt. [see WELLES 13.i.a].” 		Bourgchier, John (I6228)
 

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