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| 7051 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM MARSHAL, of Greens Norton and Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, King's Charlton, Gloucestershire, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Colton, Staffordshire, Hazlebury (in Box), Wiltshire, etc., deputy Marshal of Ireland, etc., 2nd son. He was heir in 1242 to his older brother, John Marshal. He married (1st) PERNEL DEL ORTIAY, daughter of Henry del Ortiay (or Lorty), Knt. They had two sons, John, Knt., and William. In 1247, as William Marshal, of Norton, he reached agreement with William de Brackley, Prior of Luffield, whereby he quitclaimed the service of a pair of gilt spurs and suit of court every three week in respect of an estate at Monksbarn (in Whittlebury), Northamptonshire, so that the prior should thereafter hold of him in free alms, quit of all secular service. The same year he also reached agreement with the Templars regarding rent owed for land in Cowley, Oxfordshire. He married (2nd) ELIZABETH DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, by his 2nd wife, Margaret (or Margery), daughter of Roger de Quincy, Knt., 2nd Earl of Winchester [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. He was granted weekly markets to be held at the manors of Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset and Messingham, Lincolnshire in 1265. WILLIAM MARSHAL died Sept. 1265. In Feb. 1266 the king, having granted his nephew, Henry of Alrnain, all the lands and tenements in Norton, Northamptonshire formerly of William the Marshal his messenger, ordered that the goods and chattels formerly of the same William be delivered to the said Henry. William's widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 1274-5 (date of lawsuit) DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Knt., Prince of North Wales, younger son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, by Senena fetch Cadadog. They had two sons, Llywelyn and Owain, and seven daughters, including Gwladus. By his mistress, Tangwystl, daughter of Owain Fflam, of Deheubarth, he also had an illegitimate son, Dafydd Goch. In 1242 his mother, Senena, agreed to give him and his brother, Roderick, as hostages to King Henry III of England. In 1252, as lord of Cwmwd Maen, he entered into a composition with the Abbot and convent of Bardsey. He presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire 24 Dec. 1273. In 1274-5 Hubert de Rully and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David Fitz-Griffin touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1275-6 Hubert de Rully and Isabel his wife, and Nicholas de Pulham and Aveline his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David ab Gruffud and Elizabeth his wife touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1278-9 William son of Alexander de Blacolnesr [Blakesley] arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In the same year Albric de Wytlebiry arraigned a similar assize against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In 1279 he and his wife, Elizabeth, sued her step-son, John Marshal, for a third of the manor of Colton, Staffordshire as the dower of Elizabeth; John stated he only held a rent of 12s. of which he offered a third. In 1280 the king seised the third part of the manor of Haselbury, Somerset, which David and his wife, Elizabeth, held as the dower of the said Elizabeth of the lands which were of William Marshal her late husband; later the same year the king wishing to grant indulgence to the said David and Elizabeth ordered that the third part of the manor be restored to them. In 1282 David suddenly surprised the Castle of Hawarden, killed many of the knights and squires who formed the garrison, and carried off Roger de Clifford, the Justiciary, as a prisoner into the hills. DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Prince of North Wales, was executed for treason 3 October 1283. His widow, Elizabeth, presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire in 1285. She presented to the church of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire 20 Dec. 1296, which presentation was disputed by King Edward I, as guardian of William, heir of John Marshal. In 1297 she had a prolonged lawsuit in the royal courts with Sir Hugh de Cave regarding the right of patronage to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 672-679; 2 (1805): 432-441. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 241. Ellis Original Letters Ill. of English Hist. 3rd Ser. 1 (1846): 27-29 (letter of King Edward I to the Prior and Prioress of Alvingham, Lincolnshire dated 1283 that they admit one or more of the children of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, late Prince of Wales, or of David his brother into their House.). Arch. Cambrensis 4 (1849): 134-138. Riley Willelmi Rishanger: quondam Monachi S. Albani; Chronica et Annales (Rolls Ser. 28) (1865): 91 ("David, fuga dilapsus, multis annis cum Rege Angliæ stetit; a quo, contra morem geniis suæ, miles factus, in ista guerra, ob probitatem et fidelitatem suam, plurimum erat Regi acceptus: unde et eidem castrum de Dimby [Denbigh] contulit in Wallia, cum terris ad valorem mille librarum annui redditus; insuper et uxorem dedit, filiam Comitis Derbeyæ, guæ Nuper alio viro fuerat viduata.") [also see Hog F. Nicholai Triveti, de ordine frat. praedicatorum, Annales (English Hist. Soc.) (1865): 2981. Luard Annales Monastici 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 298 (Annals of Dunstable sub AD. 1283: "Eodem anno David, germanus Leulini, principis Walliæ, captus est per gentem domini regis ...et filius suus legitimus captus est cum eo Uxor etiam ipsius David, guæ fuit filia comitis de Ferares, alias capta est et inprisonata."). Annual RN. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 109; 45 (1885): 176, 291; 46 (1886): 174-175; 48 (1887): 22. Rye Short Cal. of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 84. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Coils. Hist. Staffs. 6(1)) (1885): 100. Colls. Hist. Stec. 8 (1887): 10. Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion Session 1899-1900 (1901): 6-105; Session 1968,1: 43-62. C.Ch.R 1 (1903): 262-263; 2 (1906): 53. Ramsay Dawn of the Constitution (1908): 338 ("[King] Edward [I] knighted him pafydd ap Gruffudd], given him charge of Hope and Denbigh Castles, with lands valued at £1,000 a year, and married him to a kinswoman of his own, Elizabeth Ferrers, daughter of the ex-Earl of Derby, a Lusigan on the mother's side, and widow of John [sic] Marshal of Norton."). C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 602. Lloyd Hist. of Wales 2 (1911): 259. Cal. Ings. Misc. 1 (1916): 180-181, 334. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 225-226, 351-352. C.P. 8 (1932): 527-528 (sub Marshal); 10 (1945): 182 footnote h (sub Orty); 14 (1998): 468 (sub Marshal). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 37-38 (final concord between Master Robert de Saunford and William Marshal dated 1247), 38-40 (final concord between Geoffrey Fitz John and William Marshal dated 1247). Sutton Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 43) (1950): 48, 141-142. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 76-96. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 53. Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 163, 178-179 (charter dated 1274-5 of Christian de Wayford to Luffield Priory, granted for the souls of Lady Elizabeth wife of Sir David Griffin, Sir William Marshal, and others); 2 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 26) (1968): 367. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 300-1400 (1980): 447 [Gruffudd ap Cynan 5: "Dafydd d. 1283 Ld. of Denbigh & Hope = Elizabeth d. Robt. Ferrers, E. of Derby"]. T.G. 1 (1980): 80-95. Cannon Dict. of British Hist. (2001) (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). Fritze & Robison Hist. Dict. of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485 (2002): 144-145 (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). National Archives, SC 1/16/103 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” | Marshal, William (I7231)
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| 7052 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM MARSHAL, of Greens Norton and Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, King's Charlton, Gloucestershire, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Colton, Staffordshire, Hazlebury (in Box), Wiltshire, etc., deputy Marshal of Ireland, etc., 2nd son. He was heir in 1242 to his older brother, John Marshal. He married (1st) PERNEL DEL ORTIAY, daughter of Henry del Ortiay (or Lorty), Knt. They had two sons, John, Knt., and William. In 1247, as William Marshal, of Norton, he reached agreement with William de Brackley, Prior of Luffield, whereby he quitclaimed the service of a pair of gilt spurs and suit of court every three week in respect of an estate at Monksbarn (in Whittlebury), Northamptonshire, so that the prior should thereafter hold of him in free alms, quit of all secular service. The same year he also reached agreement with the Templars regarding rent owed for land in Cowley, Oxfordshire. He married (2nd) ELIZABETH DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, by his 2nd wife, Margaret (or Margery), daughter of Roger de Quincy, Knt., 2nd Earl of Winchester [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. He was granted weekly markets to be held at the manors of Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset and Messingham, Lincolnshire in 1265. WILLIAM MARSHAL died Sept. 1265. In Feb. 1266 the king, having granted his nephew, Henry of Alrnain, all the lands and tenements in Norton, Northamptonshire formerly of William the Marshal his messenger, ordered that the goods and chattels formerly of the same William be delivered to the said Henry. William's widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 1274-5 (date of lawsuit) DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Knt., Prince of North Wales, younger son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, by Senena fetch Cadadog. They had two sons, Llywelyn and Owain, and seven daughters, including Gwladus. By his mistress, Tangwystl, daughter of Owain Fflam, of Deheubarth, he also had an illegitimate son, Dafydd Goch. In 1242 his mother, Senena, agreed to give him and his brother, Roderick, as hostages to King Henry III of England. In 1252, as lord of Cwmwd Maen, he entered into a composition with the Abbot and convent of Bardsey. He presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire 24 Dec. 1273. In 1274-5 Hubert de Rully and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David Fitz-Griffin touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1275-6 Hubert de Rully and Isabel his wife, and Nicholas de Pulham and Aveline his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David ab Gruffud and Elizabeth his wife touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1278-9 William son of Alexander de Blacolnesr [Blakesley] arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In the same year Albric de Wytlebiry arraigned a similar assize against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In 1279 he and his wife, Elizabeth, sued her step-son, John Marshal, for a third of the manor of Colton, Staffordshire as the dower of Elizabeth; John stated he only held a rent of 12s. of which he offered a third. In 1280 the king seised the third part of the manor of Haselbury, Somerset, which David and his wife, Elizabeth, held as the dower of the said Elizabeth of the lands which were of William Marshal her late husband; later the same year the king wishing to grant indulgence to the said David and Elizabeth ordered that the third part of the manor be restored to them. In 1282 David suddenly surprised the Castle of Hawarden, killed many of the knights and squires who formed the garrison, and carried off Roger de Clifford, the Justiciary, as a prisoner into the hills. DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Prince of North Wales, was executed for treason 3 October 1283. His widow, Elizabeth, presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire in 1285. She presented to the church of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire 20 Dec. 1296, which presentation was disputed by King Edward I, as guardian of William, heir of John Marshal. In 1297 she had a prolonged lawsuit in the royal courts with Sir Hugh de Cave regarding the right of patronage to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 672-679; 2 (1805): 432-441. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 241. Ellis Original Letters Ill. of English Hist. 3rd Ser. 1 (1846): 27-29 (letter of King Edward I to the Prior and Prioress of Alvingham, Lincolnshire dated 1283 that they admit one or more of the children of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, late Prince of Wales, or of David his brother into their House.). Arch. Cambrensis 4 (1849): 134-138. Riley Willelmi Rishanger: quondam Monachi S. Albani; Chronica et Annales (Rolls Ser. 28) (1865): 91 ("David, fuga dilapsus, multis annis cum Rege Angliæ stetit; a quo, contra morem geniis suæ, miles factus, in ista guerra, ob probitatem et fidelitatem suam, plurimum erat Regi acceptus: unde et eidem castrum de Dimby [Denbigh] contulit in Wallia, cum terris ad valorem mille librarum annui redditus; insuper et uxorem dedit, filiam Comitis Derbeyæ, guæ Nuper alio viro fuerat viduata.") [also see Hog F. Nicholai Triveti, de ordine frat. praedicatorum, Annales (English Hist. Soc.) (1865): 2981. Luard Annales Monastici 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 298 (Annals of Dunstable sub AD. 1283: "Eodem anno David, germanus Leulini, principis Walliæ, captus est per gentem domini regis ...et filius suus legitimus captus est cum eo Uxor etiam ipsius David, guæ fuit filia comitis de Ferares, alias capta est et inprisonata."). Annual RN. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 109; 45 (1885): 176, 291; 46 (1886): 174-175; 48 (1887): 22. Rye Short Cal. of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 84. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Coils. Hist. Staffs. 6(1)) (1885): 100. Colls. Hist. Stec. 8 (1887): 10. Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion Session 1899-1900 (1901): 6-105; Session 1968,1: 43-62. C.Ch.R 1 (1903): 262-263; 2 (1906): 53. Ramsay Dawn of the Constitution (1908): 338 ("[King] Edward [I] knighted him pafydd ap Gruffudd], given him charge of Hope and Denbigh Castles, with lands valued at £1,000 a year, and married him to a kinswoman of his own, Elizabeth Ferrers, daughter of the ex-Earl of Derby, a Lusigan on the mother's side, and widow of John [sic] Marshal of Norton."). C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 602. Lloyd Hist. of Wales 2 (1911): 259. Cal. Ings. Misc. 1 (1916): 180-181, 334. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 225-226, 351-352. C.P. 8 (1932): 527-528 (sub Marshal); 10 (1945): 182 footnote h (sub Orty); 14 (1998): 468 (sub Marshal). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 37-38 (final concord between Master Robert de Saunford and William Marshal dated 1247), 38-40 (final concord between Geoffrey Fitz John and William Marshal dated 1247). Sutton Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 43) (1950): 48, 141-142. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 76-96. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 53. Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 163, 178-179 (charter dated 1274-5 of Christian de Wayford to Luffield Priory, granted for the souls of Lady Elizabeth wife of Sir David Griffin, Sir William Marshal, and others); 2 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 26) (1968): 367. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 300-1400 (1980): 447 [Gruffudd ap Cynan 5: "Dafydd d. 1283 Ld. of Denbigh & Hope = Elizabeth d. Robt. Ferrers, E. of Derby"]. T.G. 1 (1980): 80-95. Cannon Dict. of British Hist. (2001) (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). Fritze & Robison Hist. Dict. of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485 (2002): 144-145 (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). National Archives, SC 1/16/103 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, Constable of Bolsover Castle, 1235-6, son and heir, born about 1193. He married (1st) before 14 May 1219 SIBYL MARSHAL, died before 1238, 3rd daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed "Strongbow”), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry]. They had seven daughters, Agnes, Isabel, Maud, Sibyl, Joan, Agatha (wife of Hugh de Mortimer), and Eleanor. He was afflicted from youth with gout, and habitually travelled in a chariot or litter. He accompanied the king to France in 1230. He married (2nd) in or before 1238 MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, by his 1st wife, Ellen, daughter and co-heiress of Alan Fitz Roland, lord of Galloway, hereditary Constable of Scotland [see QUINCY 7 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Robert, Knt. [6th Earl of Derby], and William, Knt., and three daughters, Elizabeth, Joan, and Agnes. He had livery of Chardey Castle and the rest of his mother's lands 10 Nov. 1247. He was invested with the Earldom of Derby 2 Feb. 1247/8. In 1245 he was granted respite of forest offences because he "laboured under infirmity." He presented to the church of Brington, Northamptonshire in 1250. While passing over a bridge at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, he was accidentally thrown from his chariot sustaining broken limb bones from which he never recovered. SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS, 5th Earl of Derby, died at Evington, Leicestershire 24 (or 28) March 1254, and was buried at Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire. His widow, Margaret, presented to the churches of Keyston, Huntingdonshire, 1255, Irchester, Northamptonshire, 1267, and Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1268, 1275. She was co-heiress in 1264 to her father, Roger de Quincy, Knt., Earl of Winchester, by which she inherited the hereditary office of Constable of Scotland, together with the manors of Groby (in Ratby) and Thurnby, Leicestershire, Ware, Hertfordshire, Keyston and Southoe, Huntingdonshire, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, etc. In 1268-9 the Prior and convent of Lenton released the church of Irchester, Northamptonshire to Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, who in turn levied a fine of it to the use of herself and her heirs. In 1270 she resigned the office of Constable of Scotland to her brother-in-law, Alexander Comyn, Knt., Earl of Buchan. In 1270 Margaret and her sisters, Ellen and Elizabeth, gave license for the election of William de Shaldeston as Prior of the Hospital of St. James and St. John at Brackley, Northamptonshire. In 1272-3 Margaret arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against John le Fauconer, of Thurcaston, and others, touching a tenement in Groby, Leicestershire. In 1273 Philip de Fifife sued her for the next presentation to the church of Fyfield, Berkshire. In 1274-5 Ellen de Quincy and Alexander Comyn and his wife, Elizabeth, sued their sister, Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, regarding possessions in Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire. On the assignment of Quincy dower lands in 1275, Margaret was assigned a third part of the manor of Southoe Ferrers, Huntingdonshire, together with a third part of the chief messuage. In 1275-6 William de Karuill' arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against her touching a messuage and land in Brampton, Northamptonshire. Sometime in the period, 1275-9, she acquired the one-third share of the same manor assigned to her sister, Elizabeth Comyn, thus increasing Margaret's share to two-thirds. In 1276 Margaret had letters of protection, she then going to Scotland. In 1277-8 Alice widow of John de Kent arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Chardey, Staffordshire. About 1281 Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, Ellen la Zouche, and Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and his wife, Elizabeth, sued Ranulph son of Robert de Neville and his wife, Euphame, regarding 11-1/2 virgates in Syston, Leicestershire. Margaret, Countess of Derby, died shortly before 12 March 1280/1, on which date custody of all lands late of the said Countess Margaret were granted by the king to Richard Fukeram to hold during pleasure, so that he cultivate and sow them and answer for the issues at the Exchequer. In 1282 custody of the manor of Southoe, Huntingdonshire late of Margaret, Countess of Derby, deceased was granted by the king to John de Aese, Vicomte of Tartas to hold during the minority of the heirs. The same month custody of the manor of Keyston, Huntingdonshire late of Margaret, Countess of Derby, deceased was likewise granted by the king to John de Byu.elard to hold during the minority of the heirs. In 1281 the king ratified the demise of John de Aysse, Vicomte of Tartas, to Baldwin Wake and Hawise his wife of custody of the manor of Southoe, Huntingdonshire which he had of the gift of the king by the extent of £40 2s. 8d. yearly to hold during the minority of the heirs of Margery, Countess of Derby. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 174, 180. Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Steffordshire 1 (1798): 39 (Ferrers ped). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 123-124 (Ferrers ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages ... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 442-443 (sub Quincy). Hunter Eccl. Docs. (Camden Soc. 8) (1840): 68. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Baines Hist. of the Commerce & Town of Liverpool 1 (1852): 97-133. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 251 (sub 1247: "In this year certain nobles died in England, amongst whom was William Fad Ferrers, a peaceable and good man, who died at a great age, about St. Catherine's day [25 Novemberl, after having suffered for a long time from gout ... The said earl therefore was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son and heir William, a good and discrete man, but who was miserably afflicted with the same disease as his father."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 317 (Annals of Burton sub 1254: "Willelmus de Ferrariis comes Derbeiæ obiit v. kal. Aptilis, apud Eventonam juxta Leycestriam, et sepultus est in capitulo de Mirevalle ii kal. Aprilis."). Skene Liber Pluscardensis 1 (Historians of Scotland 7) (1877): 136-137; 2 (Historians of Scotland 10) (1880): 102-103. Year Books of Edward Years XXXIII-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 568; 44 (1883): 100; 45 (1885): 107, 152; 47 (1886): 186; 50(1889): 45, 92, 442, 460. Wrottesley Feet of Fines: Henry III (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 238-259. Godfrey Hist. of the Parish & Priory of Lenton (1884): 82. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 548 (sub Derby). Miktag Service Performed Staffordshire Tenants (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 8(1)) (1887): 1-122. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 281 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1254 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, shield, sword. Horse galloping. Fine style of workmanship. Reverse. Small round counterseal. A shield of arms: wire, on a bordure eight horse-shoes [FERRERS]. Legend: * S WILL’I : COMITIS : DERB'.). Norris Baddesley Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 63-64 ("The windows at Baddesley are a treasure in themselves ... Therein may be read, as in open volumes, the descent and the alliances of the house of Ferrers ... Most of the shields were set up in the early part of the seventeenth century, though a few bear date in the sixteenth ... In two large windows of the hall opening on the courtyard are twelve shields of arms surmounted by earls' and barons' coronets, and having inscriptions beneath indicating the alliances commemorated [including] 6. Ferrers impaling Quinci. Gules, seven mascles, conjoined, or, 3, 3 and 1; [inscription:] “William Ferrers, earle of Derby, married Margaret, Lady of Groby, daughter of Roger Quincy, earle of Winchester."), 101-110. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 225-226. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 93, 140, 427, 442, 459-460. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 104, 276, 501, 531-532, 548. Scots Peerage 3 (1906): 142. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 237, 323. C.P. 4 (1916): 196-198 (arms of William de Ferrers: Sable (or Azure), an escutcheon vairy or and gules, and an orle of 8 horse-shoes argent), 199 (chart) (sub Derby); 5 (1926): foll. 320 (chart), 340; 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 380-397. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8o Ser. 37) (1913): 35. Grosseteste Rank Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi I incolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 246, 248, 511. Year Books of Edward 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 59-67; 14(2) (Selden Soc. 43) (1927): 75-77. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 142 (fine dated 1256 between Ralph, Abbot of Croyland, and Margery countess of Ferrars). Davis Rotuli Ricardi Gravesend Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 20) (1925): 99, 109, 118, 129, 168. Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Razvdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 323-342 (partition of estates of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester). Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 276. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 346-354. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 205: 4-6; 464: 1-8 (sub Quincy) (Margaret de Quincy and her step-mother, Eleanor, were each the step-mother and step-daughter of the other, the Earls of Derby, their husbands, having each married the other's daughter). Reid Wigtownshire Charters (Scottish Hist. Soc. 51) (1960): xxxix-xlv. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61, 63, 149. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 230-239. Beardwood Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield 1307-1312 (Trans. American Philosophical Soc. n.s. 54 (3)) (1964): 14-17. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 321-330. Saltman Cartulary of Dale Abbey (Derbyshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 2) (1967): 341 (charter of William de Ferrers). VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 200-201. DeWindt Royal Justice & Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 590. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 41 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1249 - On horseback, galloping to right. He wears mail, long surcoat and flat-topped helmet, and holds a drawn sword and a shield of arms: vair, and a bordure [FERRERS1. Legend: +SIGILLVM:W/ILLELMEDE/FERRARIIS). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 125-138. Simpson & Galbraith Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 5 (1986): 142. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 708 (sub Quency). Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000): 69-81. Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003): 11-28. Derbyshire Rec. Office: Gell Fam. of Hopton, D258/7/1/1 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby); D258/7/1/8i (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Derbyshire Rec. Office: Okeover of Okeover, D231M/T375 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Shakespeare Centre Library & Archive: Gregory of Stivichall, DR10/723 (quitclaim of Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, to her son, Sir William de Ferrers). Children of William de Ferrers, Knt., by Sibyl Marshal: i. AGNES DEFERRERS, married WILLIAM DE VESCY, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland [See LONGESPEE 5.vii]. ii. ISABEL DEFERRERS, married (1st) GILBERT BASSET, of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [see MOHUN 8]; (2nd) REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 8]. iii. MAUD DE FERRERS, married (1st) SIMON DE KYME, of Sotby and Croft, Lincolnshire [see MALET 3]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE FORZ (or DE VIVONNE), Knt., of Chewton, Somerset [see MALET 3]; (3rd) AMAURY DE ROCHECHOUART, Knt., Vicomte of Rochechouart [see MALET 3]. iv. SIBYL DE FERRERS, married FRANK DE BOHUN, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 4]. v. JOAN DE FERRERS, married (1st) JOHN DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 9], (2nd) ROBERT D'AGUILLON, Knt., of Addington, Surrey [see MOHUN 9]. vi. ELEANOR DE FERRERS, married (1st) WILLIAM DE VAUX, of Tharston and Houghton, Norfolk [see QUINCY 7]; (2nd) ROGER DE QUINCY, Knt., 2nd Earl of Winchester, Constable of Scotland [see QUINCY 7]; (3rd) ROGER DE LEYBOURNE, of Elham, Kent [see QUINCY 7]. Children of William de Ferrers, Knt., by Margaret de Quincy: i. ROBERT DE FERRERS, Knt., 6th Earl of Derby [see next]. ii. WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., of Groby (in Ratby), Leicestershire, married (1st) ANNE DURWARD [see GROBY 8]; (2nd) ELEANOR DE LOVAINE [see GROBY 8]. iii. ELIZABETH DE FERRERS, married (1st) (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM LE MARSHAL [see HINGHAM 5], of Greens Norton and Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, King's Charlton, Gloucestershire, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Colton, Staffordshire, Hazlebury (in Box), Wiltshire, etc., deputy Marshal of Ireland, of Hingham and Foulsham, Norfolk, Chirton, Wiltshire, etc., younger son of John Marshal, Marshal of Ireland, by Aline, daughter and co-heiress of Hubert de Rye [see HINGHAM 4 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. He was heir in 1242 to his elder brother, John Marshal. In 1247, as William Marshal, of Norton, he reached agreement with William de Brackley, Prior of Luffield, whereby he quitclaimed the service of a pair of gilt spurs and suit of court every three week in respect of an estate at Monksbarn (in Whittlebury), Northamptonshire, so that the prior should thereafter hold of him in free alms, quit of all secular service. The same year he also reached agreement with the Templars regarding rent owed for land in Cowley, Oxfordshire. He was granted weekly markets to be held at the manors of Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset and Messingham, Lincolnshire in 1265. WILLIAM LE MARSHAL died Sept. 1265. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 1274-5 (date of lawsuit) DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Knt., Prince of North Wales, and, in right of his wife, of Foulsham, Norfolk, Colton, Staffordshire, etc., younger son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, by Senena ferch Cadadog. They had two sons, Llywelyn and Owain, and seven daughters, including Gwladus. By his mistress, Tangwystl, daughter of Owain Fflam, of Deheubarth, he also had an illegitimate son, Dafydd Goch. In 1242 his mother, Senena, agreed to give him and his brother, Roderick, as hostages to King Henry III of England. In 1252, as lord of Cwmwd Maen, he entered into a composition with the Abbot and convent of Bardsey. He presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire 24 Dec. 1273. In 1274-5 Hubert de Rully and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David Fitz-Griffin touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1275-6 Hubert de Ruyly and Isabel his wife, and Nicholas de Pulham and Aveline his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David ab Gruffud and Elizabeth his wife touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1278-9 William son of Alexander de Blacoined [Blakesley] arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In the same year Albric de Wytlebiry arraigned a similar assize against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In 1279 David and his wife, Elizabeth, sued her step-son, John le Marshal, for a third of the manor of Colton, Staffordshire as the dower of Elizabeth; John stated he only held a rent of 12s. of which he offered a third. In 1280 the king seised the third part of the manor of Haselbury, Somerset, which David and his wife, Elizabeth, held as the dower of the said Elizabeth of the lands which were of William Marshal her late husband; later the same year the king wishing to grant indulgence to the said David and Elizabeth ordered that the third part of the manor be restored to them. In 1282 David suddenly surprised the Castle of Hawarden, killed many of the knights and squires who formed the garrison, and carried off Roger de Clifford, the Justiciary, as a prisoner into the hills. DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Prince of North Wales, was executed for treason 3 October 1283. His widow, as "Lady Elizabeth de Ferrers," presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire in 1285. She presented to the church of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire 20 Dec. 1296, which presentation was disputed by King Edward I, as guardian of William, heir of John Marshal. In 1297 she had a prolonged lawsuit in the royal courts with Sir Hugh de Cave regarding the right of patronage to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 672-679. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northawptonthire 1(1791): 241,255. Ellis Original Letters Ill. of English Hist. 3rd Ser. 1 (1846): 27-29 (letter of King Edward I to the Prior and Prioress of Alvingham, Lincolnshire dated 1283 that they admit one or more of the children of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, late Prince of Wales, or of David his brother into their House.). Arch. Cambrensis 4 (1849): 134-138. Riley Willelmi Rishanger: quondam Monachi S. Abani; Chronica et Annales (Rolls Ser. 28) (1865): 91 ("David, fuga dilapsus, multis annis cum Rege Anglin stetiri a quo, contra morem gentis suæ, miles factus, in ista guerra, ob probitatem et fidelitatem suam, plurimum erat Regi acceptus: unde et eidem castrum de Dimby penbigh] contulit in Wallia, cum terris ad valorem mille librarum annul redditus; insuper et uxorem dedit, filiam Comitis Derbeyæ, (lux nuper alio viro fuerat viduata.") [also see Hog F. Nicholai Triveti, de ordine frat. praediratorum, Annales (English Hist. Soc.) (1865): 298]. Luard Annales Monastici 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 298 (Annals of Dunstable sub A.D. 1283: "Eodem armo David, germanus Leulini, principis Wallin, captus est per gentem domini regis ...et ftlius suns legitirnus captus est cum eo Uxor edam ipsius David, (lux fuit filia comitis de Ferares, alias capta est et inprisonata."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 109; 45 (1885): 176, 291; 46 (1886): 174-175; 48 (1887): 22. Rye Short Cal. of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 84. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6(1)) (1885): 100. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 8 (1887): 10. Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion Session 1899-1900 (1901): 6-105; Session 1968,1: 43-62. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 262-263; 2 (1906): 53. Ramsay Dawn of the Constitution (1908): 338 ("King] Edward [I] knighted him [Dafydd ap Gruffudd], given him charge of Hope and Denbigh Castles, with lands valued at £1,000 a year, and married him to a kinswoman of his own, Elizabeth Ferrers, daughter of the ex-Earl of Derby, a Lusigan on the mother's side, and widow of John [sic] Marshal of Norton."). C.P.R 1258-1266 (1910): 602. Lloyd Hist. of Wales 2 (1911): 259. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 225-226, 351-352. C.P. 8 (1932): 527-528 (sub Marshal); 10 (1945): 182 footnote h (sub Orty); 14 (1998): 468 (sub Marshal). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 37-38 (final concord between Master Robert de Saunford and William Marshal dated 1247), 38-40 (final concord between Geoffrey Fitz John and William Marshal dated 1247). Sutton Rails & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 43) (1950): 48, 141-142. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 76-96. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 53. Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 163,178-179 (charter dated 1274-5 of Christian de Wayford to Luffield Priory, granted for the souls of Lady Elizabeth wife of Sir David Griffin, Sir William Marshal, and others); 2 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 26) (1968): 367. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 500-1400 (1980): 447 [Gruffudd ap Cynan 5: "Dafydd d. 1283 [A. of Denbigh & Hope = Elizabeth d. Robt Ferrers, E. of Derby"]. T.G. 1 (1980): 80-95. Cannon Dirt. of British Hist. (2001) (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). Fritze & Robison Hist. Dict. of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485(2002): 144-145 (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). National Archives, SC 1/16/103 (available at www.catalogue.nadonalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). iv. JOAN DE FERRERS, married THOMAS DE BERKELEY, Knt., 1st Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 5]. v. AGNES DE FERRERS, married ROBERT DE MUSCEGROS, Knt., of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset [see MUSCEGROS 4].” | de Ferrers, Elizabeth (I6904)
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| 7053 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM MAUDUIT, Knt., of Hanslope and Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire, Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Westminster, Middlesex, Barrowden, Cottesmore, and South Luffenham, Rutland, Weston Mauduit, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir. He married before 3 March 1215/6 ALICE OF WARWICK, daughter of Waleran, 4th Earl of Warwick, by his 2nd wife, Alice, daughter and heiress of Robert de Harcourt [see WARWICK 7 for her ancestry]. They had one son, William, Knt. [8th Earl of Warwick], and one daughter, Isabel. In 1208 King John confirmed the manor of Walton, Warwickshire to Alice and her heirs, it being previously granted her by her father for her marriage. In 1220 Robert de la Mare sued him and his wife, Alice, for two carucates of land in Walton, Warwickshire. He presented to the churches of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1227, Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, 1227, 1228, and 1232, Barrowden, Rutland, 1232, and South Luffenham, Rutland, 1233 and 1234. In 1228 John de Neketone, rector, presented to the church of Cottesmore, Rutland with the consent of William Mauduit, the patron. In 1234 he acknowledged that he owed the abbot of Westminster service of 21s. 10d. from 14 tenants on his Westminster estate, in return for which arrears of the service were acquitted. In 1243-6 William and his wife, Alice, heir apparent of the Warwick estates, granted that if Margery, sister and heir of Thomas, late Earl of Warwick, died without issue that her husband John de Plessy would be earl of Warwick for life, and hold certain manors including Brailes, Claverdon, Myton, Sutton, Tamworth, and Wedgnock, Warwickshire. In 1247 he sued Robert de Wancy in a plea of wardship in Northamptonshire. In 1248 John de Plessy and Margaret his wife claimed the manor of Greetham and half the manor of Cottesmore, Rutland against William Mauduit and Alice his wife. The same year William and his wife, Alice, conveyed three acres of land in Weston Mauduit, Warwickshire to Geoffrey de Langley. In 1253 Roger de Hertewell and his wife, Isabel, quitclaimed 16 acres of land in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire to William and his wife, Alice. SIR WILLIAM MAUDUIT died shortly before 14 Feb. 1257. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.); 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Hertrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 1 (1835): 87, 135, 405. Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi arservati 1(1) (1837): 183. Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 310-311 (sub Mauduit). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): vii-ix (Warwick ped.). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Wrottesley Peds.from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72. Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 69-71, 74, 89, 92, 144, 170, 175, 232, 267. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 367-369. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1 (Dugdale Soc. 11) (1932): 113, 139-140. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138, 170-175. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 21(1939): 133. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26, 198-202. C.R.R. 9 (1952): 331. Coss Langley Cartulary (1980): xiii, 125-126 (charter of William Mauduit and Alice his wife dated c.20 Jan. 1248). Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 121, 134-135, 140-143. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 62-63.” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Elmley, Acton Beauchamp, Comberton, Naunton Beauchamp, Salwarpe, Stoulton, and Wadborough (in Pershore), Worcestershire, Hanslope and Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, etc., Keeper of the Forest of Dean, 1270, Captain of cos. Chester and Lancaster, 1276, Constable of St. Briavels and Rockingham Castles, Steward of the Forest between Oxford and Stamford, son and heir, born about 1238 /12 (aged 26 and 30 in 1268). He married before 1270 MAUD FITZ JOHN, widow of Gerard de Furnival, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, etc. (died shortly before 18 October 1261), and daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, by Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk [see VERDUN 8 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, John and Guy, Knt. [10th Earl of Warwick] and three daughters, Isabel, Anne (nun at Shouldham), and Amy (nun at Shouldham). He was heir in 1268 to his uncle, William Mauduit, 8th Earl of Warwick, by which he inherited the Earldom of Warwick, the office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer, and the baronies of Warwick, Warwickshire and Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. He served as a pledge to Robert de Ferrets, late Earl of Derby, in 1269. In 1270 and 1274 he was appointed a commissioner to treat with Llywelyn about certain incidents on the Welsh border. In 1274-5 Simon de Beauchamp and Pemel his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against him and others touching rent in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. In the same period, Anastasia de Hamslap arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. In 1276-7 he arraigned an assize of darrein presentment against William Murdak' touching the advowson of the church of Compton Murdak, Warwickshire. He presented to the chapel of St. Peter's in the Castle of Worcester, Worcestershire in 1276, and to the churches of Barrowden, Rutland, 1280, 1297, South Luffenham, Rutland, 1291, Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1293 or 1296, and Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, 1296. In 1278 he leased the manor of Brailes, Warwickshire to Richard de Mundeville and his wife, Maud, for their lives. He was summoned for service against the Welsh, 1277-94, against the Scots, 1296-8, and beyond seas, 1297. In the period, 1279-80, the Abbot of Evesham arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and others touching a tenement in Chedworth, Gloucestershire. In the same period, John de Braham and another arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and others touching a tenement in Cottesmore, Rutland. In 1280-1 he and his wife, Maud, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Roger FizWyot and others touching common of pasture in Sheffield, Yorkshire. In 1280-1 he and his wife, Maud, arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Thomas de Furnival and others touching a tenement in Sheffield, Yorkshire. In 1280-1 Emeric le Despenser arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick and others regarding a fosse destroyed in Oldberrow, Warwickshire. He took part in the Siege and capture of Dryslwyn, Carmarthenshire in 1282. He was summoned to the assembly at Shrewsbury in 1283. In 1284 he obtained a grant of free warren in Barrowden, lMorcott, nd South Luffenham, Rutland. He had license to fortify his manor house at Hanslope, Buckinghamshire 10 June 1292. In 1293 he obtained a grant of a weekly market and an annual fair at Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. He defeated the Welsh at Maes Moydog, Montgomeryshire 5 March 1294/5. The following year, he was one of the leaders of the force which defeated the Scots at Dunbar 27 April 1296. During the king's absence in Flanders in 1297-8, he was a member of Prince Edward's council. His wife, Maud, was co-heiress in 1297 to her brother, Richard Fitz John, Knt., Lord Fitz John, by which she inherited the manors of Cherhill, Wiltshire, Potterspury, Northamptonshire, and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, and townships in the cantred of the Isles in Thomond in Ireland. He was with the English army which was defeated at Battle of Stirling in Scotland in 1297. In 1298 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the nuns of Cokehill, Worcestershire the church of Nettleton, which gift was previously made to the nuns by his mother, Isabel; her brother, Earl William, and her grandfather, Earl Waleran. SIR WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, 9th Earl of Warwick, died at Elmley, Worcestershire 5 (or 9) June 1298, and was buried at Friars Minor, Worcester 22 June 1298. He left a will dated 3 May or 14 Sept. 1297. In 1299 his widow, Maud, presented her nephew, Nicholas Boteler, clerk, to the church of Wickwar, Gloucestershire. Maud, Countess of Warwick, died 16 (or 18) April 1301, and was buried at Friars Minor, Worcester 7 May 1301. Rawlinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the City, and Cathedral-Church of Hereford (1717): Addenda, 15 (Kalendar of Obits: "V Id. Junius [9 June]. Obitus Domini Willielmi de Bello Campo, Comitis Warwick, qui dedit jus sui patronatus quod habebat in Ecclesia de Leydeneya, Decano 8c Capitulo hujus Ecclesie."). Edmondson Hist. & Genealogical Acount of the Noble Fam. of Greville (1766): 26-56. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the County Palatine of Durham 3 (1794): chart foll. 228 (Beauchamp ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 293 (chart), 353-360 (chart). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Hunter Hallamshire (1819): 30 41. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 736 ("Tanner, however, observes .... there is the abstract of a deed of William Beauchamp earl of Warwick, confirming to the Nuns of Cokehill the gift which Isabel the countess his mother, William the earl her brother, and Waleran the earl her grandfather, who died 6 Joan. as Dugd. Baron, tom. i. p 71, made unto them, viz. the Church of Netelton."). Holland Hist., Antiqs., & Desc. of the Town & Parish of Worksop (1826): 17-56. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 52 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Archaeologia 21 (1827): 199-200. White Hist., Gazeteer, & Directory of Nottinghamshire (1832): 458. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 2 (1836-41): 218-219 (Beauchamp ped.). Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 310-311 (sub Mauduit). Eastwood Hist. of the Parish of Ecclesfield (1862): 59-77. Sheahan Hist. & Topog. of Buckinghamshire (1862): 539-540. Roberts Calendarium Genealogicum 1 (1865): 130-131. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 225 (sub Fumival). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 537 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1298 - "Willelmus de Bello Campo comes Warewike graviter infirmatus, in absentia omnium amicorum per consilium fratris Johannis de Olneye condidit testamentum; qui avertit voluntatem ejus, ne cum prxdecessoribus sins in cathedrali ecclesia Wygornix, sed inter fratres Minores sibi eligerat sepulturam; qui quinto idus Junii [9 June] obiit."), 549 (Annals of Worcester sub A.D. 1300- "Nonis Maii [7 May] annuente archiepiscopo, Wydo comes Warewyk sepelivit matrem suam in ecclesia fratrum Minorum Wygorniæ juxta comitem patrem suum."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 237-277. Tegg Wills of their Own (1876): 5-6 (will of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 124; 45 (1885): 89, 104, 142, 254; 46 (1886): 142; 47 (1886): 379; 49 (1888): 39, 49; 50 (1889): 173, 202. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 577-578 (sub Warwick). Genealogist n.s. 10 (1893): 213; n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37. Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): (Warwick ped.), 59-65; 2 (1909): xxii. C.Ch. R. 2 (1898): 428. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 157. Giffard Episc. Reg. Diocese of Worcester, Reg. of Bishop Godfrey Giffard 1 (Worcester Hist. Soc. 15) (1902): cclxi; 2(3) (1900): 266 ([William de Beauchamp], Earl of Warwick, styled "kinsman and friend" by Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester), 498, 529. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 212-214. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72, 137-138. Bloom English Seals (1906): 165-166. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 83-84 (biog. of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick). VCH Nottingham 2 (1910): 125-129. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 339, 341-342 (Beauchamp arms: Gules, a fesse between six crosslets or). C.P. 4 (1916): 265; 5 (1926): 437 (chart), 439-441 (sub FitzJohn); 12(2) (1959): 368-370 (sub Warwick). Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 4. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7, 367-369; 4 (1927): 348-362. Corbridge Reg. of Thomas of Corbridge 1 (Surtees Soc. 138) (1925): 55-56. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138, 170-171. English Hist. Rev. 58 (1943): 51-78 (St. Edmundsbury Chronicle, 1296-1301: "Interea obiit dominus Willelmus de Bello Campo comes Warwyci."). VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 230-245; 5 (1949): 17-26. Year Books of Edward II 10 (Selden Soc. 63) (1947): 196-208. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 39: 1-13 (sub Beauchamp of Elmley), 220: 1. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 51, 76, 94. Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.6295, B.6697, B.8616. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): xxiii-xxiv, lviij (Beauchamp ped.). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 7 (seal of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick dated 1296 - A shield of arms: a fesse between six crosses crosslet. Above and on either side, an elongated leopard. Legend: S'.WILL[I :DE :BEL]LO CAMPO.COMITIS D'WARWIK:). Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 8 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 76) (1986): 146, 164, 193-194. VCH Gloucester 5 (1996): 413-415. Children of William de Beauchamp, Knt., by Maud Fitz John: i. GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 10th Earl of Warwick [see next]. ii. ISABEL DE BEAUCHAMP, married (1st) PATRICK DE CHAWORTH, Knt., of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales [see CHAWORTH 7); (2nd) HUGH LE DESPENSER, Knt., Earl of Winchester [see DESPENSER 10].” | Mauduit, William (I6259)
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| 7054 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM MAUDUIT, Knt., of Hanslope and Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire, Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Westminster, Middlesex, Barrowden, Cottesmore, and South Luffenham, Rutland, Weston Mauduit, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir. He married before 3 March 1215/6 ALICE OF WARWICK, daughter of Waleran, 4th Earl of Warwick, by his 2nd wife, Alice, daughter and heiress of Robert de Harcourt [see WARWICK 7 for her ancestry]. They had one son, William, Knt. [8th Earl of Warwick], and one daughter, Isabel. In 1208 King John confirmed the manor of Walton, Warwickshire to Alice and her heirs, it being previously granted her by her father for her marriage. In 1220 Robert de la Mare sued him and his wife, Alice, for two carucates of land in Walton, Warwickshire. He presented to the churches of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1227, Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, 1227, 1228, and 1232, Barrowden, Rutland, 1232, and South Luffenham, Rutland, 1233 and 1234. In 1228 John de Neketone, rector, presented to the church of Cottesmore, Rutland with the consent of William Mauduit, the patron. In 1234 he acknowledged that he owed the abbot of Westminster service of 21s. 10d. from 14 tenants on his Westminster estate, in return for which arrears of the service were acquitted. In 1243-6 William and his wife, Alice, heir apparent of the Warwick estates, granted that if Margery, sister and heir of Thomas, late Earl of Warwick, died without issue that her husband John de Plessy would be earl of Warwick for life, and hold certain manors including Brailes, Claverdon, Myton, Sutton, Tamworth, and Wedgnock, Warwickshire. In 1247 he sued Robert de Wancy in a plea of wardship in Northamptonshire. In 1248 John de Plessy and Margaret his wife claimed the manor of Greetham and half the manor of Cottesmore, Rutland against William Mauduit and Alice his wife. The same year William and his wife, Alice, conveyed three acres of land in Weston Mauduit, Warwickshire to Geoffrey de Langley. In 1253 Roger de Hertewell and his wife, Isabel, quitclaimed 16 acres of land in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire to William and his wife, Alice. SIR WILLIAM MAUDUIT died shortly before 14 Feb. 1257. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.); 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Hertrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 1 (1835): 87, 135, 405. Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi arservati 1(1) (1837): 183. Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 310-311 (sub Mauduit). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): vii-ix (Warwick ped.). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Wrottesley Peds.from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72. Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 69-71, 74, 89, 92, 144, 170, 175, 232, 267. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 367-369. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1 (Dugdale Soc. 11) (1932): 113, 139-140. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138, 170-175. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 21(1939): 133. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26, 198-202. C.R.R. 9 (1952): 331. Coss Langley Cartulary (1980): xiii, 125-126 (charter of William Mauduit and Alice his wife dated c.20 Jan. 1248). Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 121, 134-135, 140-143. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 62-63.” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WALERAN, 4th Earl of Warwick, of Warwick, Warwickshire, 2nd son, born before 1153. He married (1st) MARGERY D'OILLY, daughter of Henry d'Oilly, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, by Maud, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Steward to Kings Henry I, Stephen, and Henry II of England. They had two sons, Henry [5th Earl of Warwick] and Waleran, and one daughter, Gundred (nun at Pinley). He was heir in 1184 to his brother, William, 3rd Earl of Warwick. He was with King Henry II at Geddington, Northamptonshire in 1188. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I at Westminster 3 Sept. 1189. In 1195 he paid 20 marks for livery of the 3rd penny of the pleas of Warwickshire. In 1196 he paid £100 to be allowed to return to England. He married (2nd) about 1196 (when he offered 100 marks for her marriage) ALICE DE HARCOURT, widow of John de Limesy, of Collyweston, Northamptonshire (died before Michaelmas 1193), and daughter and heiress of Robert de Harcourt, of Bosworth, Leicestershire, Stanton-Harcourt, Oxfordshire, etc., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of Richard de Camville. They had one daughter, Alice. In 1199 he swore fealty to King John and is said to have carried the right hand sword at his Coronation. In 1200 he sold the reversion of the manor of Knoyle (in East Knoyle), Wiltshire to Godfrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester. In 1202 he was called into court by the Bishop to warrant the advowson of the church of Knoyle, Wiltshire against Maud, Countess of Warwick; Waleran was discharged from appearing in court as long as his knights were in the service of the king beyond seas. He was a benefactor of the Hospital of St. Michael, Warwick, of the nuns of Pinley, Warwickshire, and those of Wroxall, Warwickshire. WALERAN, 4th Earl of Warwick, died before 13 October 1204, it is said on 24 Dec. 1203. His widow, Alice, offered 1000 marks to remain a widow and be guardian of her children by the earl in 1205-6. She was living September 1212. Placitorum in Domo Capituleni Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 29. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 736 ("Tanner, however, observes ... there is the abstract of a deed of William Beauchamp earl of Warwick, confirming to the Nuns of Cokehill the gift which Isabel the countess his mother, William the earl her brother, and Waleran the earl her grandfather, who died 6 Joan. as Dugd. Baron. tom. i. p 71, made unto them, viz. the Church of Netelton."). Archaeologia 21 (1827): 199-200. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Palgrave Rotuli Curia Regis 1 (1835): 376. Baildon Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc.3 ) (1890): 50. Maitland Three Rolls of the King's Court in the Reign of King Richard the First. A. D. 1194-1195 (1891): 10, 14. Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): vii-ix (Warwick ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 119 (charter of Waleran, Earl of Warwick dated 1184-1204). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72. C.P. 12(2) (1959): 363-364 (sub Warwick). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 93. Ellis Earldoms in Fee (1963): 216 ("Waleran, fourth Earl of Warwick, was the bearer of the right-handed sword at the coronation of King John on 27th May 1199. He had the third penny of the county. He married before 1190 Margaret, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, and by her had a son and heir, Henry, who succeeded him on his death on 12th December 1204. Earl Waleran married as his second wife, Alice, only child of Robert de Harcourt, and by her left an only daughter, Alice II, who married William de Mauduit."). Lincolnshire Hist. & Arch. 1 (1966): 8 ("Hugh Bardolf married Amabel daughter of Gerard de Limesy and one of the three sisters and coheirs of her brother John de Limesy. John de Limesy died before Michaelmas 1193, having married Alice daughter of Robert de Harcourt, who married, secondly, Waleran earl of Warwick as his second wife."). VCH Wiltshire 11(1980): 82-103. Midland Hist. 20 (1996): 1-23. Coss Lady in Medieval England, 1000-1500 (2000): 146 ("Thomas Basset of Headington secured the wardship and marriage of the fourteen-year-old Earl Henry II de Newburgh, and married him to one of his daughters, Philippa. Alice de Harcourt, widow of Earl Waleran, had to fight for her dower in the courts, not against her step-son, but against Thomas Basset, 'who expected to get the maximum return for his outlay on the wani.ship."'). Fonge Cartulary of St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick (2004). 95-96 (charter of Waleran, Earl of Warwick; charter-witnessed by his brother, Henry), 100-101 (charter of Waleran, Earl of Warwick dated 1184-1204). Child of Waleran, Earl of Warwick, by Alice de Harcourt: i. ALICE OF WARWICK, married WILLIAM MAUDUIT, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer [see BEAUCHAMP 7].” | of Warwick, Alice (I6253)
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| 7055 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM MAUDUIT, Knt., of Hanslope and Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire, Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Westminster, Middlesex, Barrowden, Cottesmore, and South Luffenham, Rutland, Weston Mauduit, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer, son and heir. He married before 3 March 1215/6 ALICE OF WARWICK, daughter of Waleran, 4th Earl of Warwick, by his 2nd wife, Alice, daughter and heiress of Robert de Harcourt [see WARWICK 7 for her ancestry]. They had one son, William, Knt. [8th Earl of Warwick], and one daughter, Isabel. In 1208 King John confirmed the manor of Walton, Warwickshire to Alice and her heirs, it being previously granted her by her father for her marriage. In 1220 Robert de la Mare sued him and his wife, Alice, for two carucates of land in Walton, Warwickshire. He presented to the churches of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, 1227, Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, 1227, 1228, and 1232, Barrowden, Rutland, 1232, and South Luffenham, Rutland, 1233 and 1234. In 1228 John de Neketone, rector, presented to the church of Cottesmore, Rutland with the consent of William Mauduit, the patron. In 1234 he acknowledged that he owed the abbot of Westminster service of 21s. 10d. from 14 tenants on his Westminster estate, in return for which arrears of the service were acquitted. In 1243-6 William and his wife, Alice, heir apparent of the Warwick estates, granted that if Margery, sister and heir of Thomas, late Earl of Warwick, died without issue that her husband John de Plessy would be earl of Warwick for life, and hold certain manors including Brailes, Claverdon, Myton, Sutton, Tamworth, and Wedgnock, Warwickshire. In 1247 he sued Robert de Wancy in a plea of wardship in Northamptonshire. In 1248 John de Plessy and Margaret his wife claimed the manor of Greetham and half the manor of Cottesmore, Rutland against William Mauduit and Alice his wife. The same year William and his wife, Alice, conveyed three acres of land in Weston Mauduit, Warwickshire to Geoffrey de Langley. In 1253 Roger de Hertewell and his wife, Isabel, quitclaimed 16 acres of land in Hanslope, Buckinghamshire to William and his wife, Alice. SIR WILLIAM MAUDUIT died shortly before 14 Feb. 1257. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.); 2 (1836-41): 129 (Mauduit ped.). Archaeologia 21(1827): 199-200. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Hertrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-1272 1 (1835): 87, 135, 405. Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi arservati 1(1) (1837): 183. Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 310-311 (sub Mauduit). Herald & Genealogist 7 (1873): 385-394. Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): vii-ix (Warwick ped.). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 108-112. Wrottesley Peds.from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72. Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 69-71, 74, 89, 92, 144, 170, 175, 232, 267. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 367-369. Stokes et al. Warwickshire Feet of Fines 1 (Dugdale Soc. 11) (1932): 113, 139-140. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 134-138, 170-175. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 21(1939): 133. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 17-26, 198-202. C.R.R. 9 (1952): 331. Coss Langley Cartulary (1980): xiii, 125-126 (charter of William Mauduit and Alice his wife dated c.20 Jan. 1248). Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lix (Mauduit ped.), 121, 134-135, 140-143. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 62-63.” 2. “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.” 3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WALERAN, 4th Earl of Warwick, of Warwick, Warwickshire, 2nd son, born before 1153. He married (1st) MARGERY D'OILLY, daughter of Henry d'Oilly, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, by Maud, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Steward to Kings Henry I, Stephen, and Henry II of England. They had two sons, Henry [5th Earl of Warwick] and Waleran, and one daughter, Gundred (nun at Pinley). He was heir in 1184 to his brother, William, 3rd Earl of Warwick. He was with King Henry II at Geddington, Northamptonshire in 1188. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I at Westminster 3 Sept. 1189. In 1195 he paid 20 marks for livery of the 3rd penny of the pleas of Warwickshire. In 1196 he paid £100 to be allowed to return to England. He married (2nd) about 1196 (when he offered 100 marks for her marriage) ALICE DE HARCOURT, widow of John de Limesy, of Collyweston, Northamptonshire (died before Michaelmas 1193), and daughter and heiress of Robert de Harcourt, of Bosworth, Leicestershire, Stanton-Harcourt, Oxfordshire, etc., by Isabel, daughter and heiress of Richard de Camville. They had one daughter, Alice. In 1199 he swore fealty to King John and is said to have carried the right hand sword at his Coronation. In 1200 he sold the reversion of the manor of Knoyle (in East Knoyle), Wiltshire to Godfrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester. In 1202 he was called into court by the Bishop to warrant the advowson of the church of Knoyle, Wiltshire against Maud, Countess of Warwick; Waleran was discharged from appearing in court as long as his knights were in the service of the king beyond seas. He was a benefactor of the Hospital of St. Michael, Warwick, of the nuns of Pinley, Warwickshire, and those of Wroxall, Warwickshire. WALERAN, 4th Earl of Warwick, died before 13 October 1204, it is said on 24 Dec. 1203. His widow, Alice, offered 1000 marks to remain a widow and be guardian of her children by the earl in 1205-6. She was living September 1212. Placitorum in Domo Capituleni Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 29. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 736 ("Tanner, however, observes ... there is the abstract of a deed of William Beauchamp earl of Warwick, confirming to the Nuns of Cokehill the gift which Isabel the countess his mother, William the earl her brother, and Waleran the earl her grandfather, who died 6 Joan. as Dugd. Baron. tom. i. p 71, made unto them, viz. the Church of Netelton."). Archaeologia 21 (1827): 199-200. Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 256. Palgrave Rotuli Curia Regis 1 (1835): 376. Baildon Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc.3 ) (1890): 50. Maitland Three Rolls of the King's Court in the Reign of King Richard the First. A. D. 1194-1195 (1891): 10, 14. Bund Inqs. Post Mortem for the County of Worcester 1 (1894): vii-ix (Warwick ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 119 (charter of Waleran, Earl of Warwick dated 1184-1204). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 72. C.P. 12(2) (1959): 363-364 (sub Warwick). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 93. Ellis Earldoms in Fee (1963): 216 ("Waleran, fourth Earl of Warwick, was the bearer of the right-handed sword at the coronation of King John on 27th May 1199. He had the third penny of the county. He married before 1190 Margaret, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, and by her had a son and heir, Henry, who succeeded him on his death on 12th December 1204. Earl Waleran married as his second wife, Alice, only child of Robert de Harcourt, and by her left an only daughter, Alice II, who married William de Mauduit."). Lincolnshire Hist. & Arch. 1 (1966): 8 ("Hugh Bardolf married Amabel daughter of Gerard de Limesy and one of the three sisters and coheirs of her brother John de Limesy. John de Limesy died before Michaelmas 1193, having married Alice daughter of Robert de Harcourt, who married, secondly, Waleran earl of Warwick as his second wife."). VCH Wiltshire 11(1980): 82-103. Midland Hist. 20 (1996): 1-23. Coss Lady in Medieval England, 1000-1500 (2000): 146 ("Thomas Basset of Headington secured the wardship and marriage of the fourteen-year-old Earl Henry II de Newburgh, and married him to one of his daughters, Philippa. Alice de Harcourt, widow of Earl Waleran, had to fight for her dower in the courts, not against her step-son, but against Thomas Basset, 'who expected to get the maximum return for his outlay on the wani.ship."'). Fonge Cartulary of St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick (2004). 95-96 (charter of Waleran, Earl of Warwick; charter-witnessed by his brother, Henry), 100-101 (charter of Waleran, Earl of Warwick dated 1184-1204). Child of Waleran, Earl of Warwick, by Alice de Harcourt: i. ALICE OF WARWICK, married WILLIAM MAUDUIT, of Hanslope, Buckinghamshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer [see BEAUCHAMP 7].” | Mauduit, William (I6252)
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| 7056 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | Etienne Henri (I6369)
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| 7057 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | Alan IV (I6371)
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| 7058 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” | of Conversano, Sibyl (I6370)
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| 7059 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | of England, Cecily (I6368)
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| 7060 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | of England, Adele (I6367)
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| 7061 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | of England, Constance (I6366)
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| 7062 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | of England, Maud (I6365)
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| 7063 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | of England, Alice or Adelise (I6364)
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| 7064 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 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 | Henry I "Beauclerc" (I6363)
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| 7065 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | William II "Rufus" (I6362)
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| 7066 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | Richard (I6361)
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| 7067 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” | Robert "Curthose" (I6360)
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| 7068 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “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 (biog. of Constance of England). Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 9-12. Jausions Histoire abrégée de la Ville et de l’Abbaye de Redon (1864): 56-60. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 177-182, 221, 285-286. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 559 (Ex Chronico Brittanico Altero: sub MLXXXVIII [A.D. 1088]. "Alanus [Fergent] duxit Constantiam filiam Regis Guillelmi Anglorum in uxorem."; sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "Obiit Constantia Alani conjux nobilissirna sine liberis."; sub MCXIX [A.D. 1119]. "Obiit Alanus Fergent pater Conani."), 562 (Ex Chronico Kemperlegiensi: sub MLXXXVII [A.D. 1087]. "Alanus [Fergent] Hoeli Consulis filius duxit uxorem Constantiam Guillehni Regis Anglorum filiam.", sub MXC [A.D. 1090]. "[Idibus Aug.] [13 Aug.] "Constantia Cornitissa obiit, Regis Anglorum filia."; sub MCXX [A.D. 1120]. "Obiit Alanus Fergant junior filius Hoelis Comitis, III. Idus Octobris [13 Oct.]."). Paris Guillaume de Tyr et ses Continuateurs, Texte français (1880): 2 ("Ermenjart [of Anjou], qui premierement fu femme Guillaume le conte de Poitiers; mès il la leissa contre le comandement de sainte Eglise et de la loi de mariage, et li cuens de Bretaigne la prist et espousa. Si en engendra Conain qui pins fe cuens de Bretaigne, et le clamoit-l'en Conain le Gros."). Bull. & Memoires de la Société Archéologique du Departement d'Ille-et-Vilaine 17 (1885): 44-45 (charter dated 1084 of Count Alan, son of Count Hoel to Quimperlé Abbey), 51-52 (charter dated 1086 of Alan Fergent, Count of Brittany to Saint-Florence Priory), 52-56 (sale of lands by Count Alan to Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé dated before 1088; charter names his parents, Count Hoel and Hadeuguis), 56-67 (charter dated 1089 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, and Constance his wife to Saint-Florent), 59-60 (charter dated 1096 of Alan, Duke of Brittany, son of Duke Hoe!, to Quimperlé Abbey; charter names his uncle [avunculi] Benoit, Bishop of Nantes), 61-69. 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.420, XII.40. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). viii. CECILY (or CECILE) OF ENGLAND, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. She died 30 July 1126. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 1-14 (biog. of Cecilia of England). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 224 ("Abbatissa gregis Cecilia filia regis"). 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.417. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 34-35. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 306 (Normandy ped.). ix. ADELE (or ALA) OF ENGLAND, married ETIENNE HENRI, Count of Blois, Chartres, Chateaudun, Meaux, Provins, Sancerre, and Troyes [see BLOIS 2].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM the Conqueror, Duke (or Count) of Normandy, 1035-1087, King of England, 1066-1087, illegitimate son, probably born at Falaise 1027-1028. 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-ès-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 Mouliherne 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 Adèle, daughter of Robert II, King of France [see Line B, Gen. 10 below for her parentage]. They had four sons, Robert Curthose [Duke of Normandy], Richard, William II Rufus [King of England], and Henry R] [King of England, Duke of Normandy], and five daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (nun at St Léger in Préaux), Cecily [Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen], Maud, Constance (wife of Alan IV, Count of Brittany), and Adèle (wife of Étienne Henri, Count of Blois). In 1051 William visited England and probably received from his childless cousin, King Edward the Confessor, a promise of the English succession. According to Norman writers, Edward's brother-in-law, Harold Godwinesson (later King Harold), who accidentally visited the Norman court in 1064 or 1065, swore an oath to support William's claim to the throne of England. However, when Edward died (5 Jan. 1066), Harold was hastily anointed king (6 Jan 1066) and was accepted by the English nobility. On 28 Sept. 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 25 Dec. 1066. 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. His wife, Maud, died 2 Nov. 1083, and was buried at Sainte-Trinité 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-Étienne. Morice Mémoires 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 suæ subdiderat ditioni ..."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecdesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "V. Id. Sept. [9 Sept.] Ob. Willelmus Rex Anglorum."). 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): 2957298 (Guillaume de Jumièges, Histoire des Normands, Liv. VIII, Chap. )(XXIV). 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 Lila Mathildis, quae postea nupsit Wilhelmo, filio Roberti ducis Normanniae, qui postea in Angliam transfretans cans debellavit"), 552 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 1047: "Wilhelmus, dux Normanniae, uxorem duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini comitis Flandriae, quae postea peperit ei Wilhelmum, postmodum regem Angliae."). Bulkleley La Hougue Bie de Hambie 2 (1837): 245-247. 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 Normanniæ obiit in peregrinatione Jerusolymitana, a camerario suo potionatus: successit filius ejus Willelmus Bastard, annorum septem puer, tutelæ Henrici regis Franciæ commendatus.")."). Le Prévost Notes pour server à la Topographie et à l'Histoire des Communes du Déartement 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. Augustini Cantuariensis (Rolls Set.) (1858): 351 (Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent styled "frattis" 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 Diplômés Imprimis 1 (1866): 575. Freeman Hist. of the Norman Conquest of England (1876). 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 Duke William [afterwards 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 du XIe Siècle (Soc. Arch. d'Eure-et-Loir) (1893): 175 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - "v id. sept. [9 Sept.] Obiit Guillelmus, rex Anglorum et dux Normannorum ..."), 180 (Necrologium Ecclesiæ Beatæ Mariæ Carnotensis - “ii 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 Normannnotum."), 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 Prieure 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-Vallee: "[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 A.D. 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 Abbayes 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 Trinite de Caen (Abbaye aux Dames)" in Mémoire de l’Académie Nationale des Sciences, Arts et Belles Lettres de Caen 21 (1984): 191-210. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5,81. Wilson Bayeux Tapestry (1985). Chibnall Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1166 (1986). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X.228, XI.415-X1423, 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 Costa 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 .?0(1. (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.).” 3. “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.").” | William the Conqueror (I6355)
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| 7069 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “___ DE CANTELOWE, married THURSTAN DE MONTFORT, of Beaudesert, Charlecote, Wellesbourne, and Whitchurch, Warwickshire, Remenham, Berkshire, Ridlington and Uppingham, Rutland, etc., son and heir of Henry de Montfort, of Beaudesert, Charlecote, and Edstone (in Wootton Wawen), Warwickshire, Uppingham, Rutland, etc. They had two sons, Peter, Knt. and William. He was a minor when he succeeded his father in or before 1199. In 1205 the king took his homage and gave him his land on condition that he demise it for two years to William de Cantelowe. Sometime after 1205 he gave the nunnery of Pinley the tenth part of all the victuals spent in his house, including bread, beer, flesh, fish, and whatsoever was dressed in his kitchen. In 1206 he was abroad in the king's service. In 1206 the Prior of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire sued him for the manor and advowson of the church of Wing, Rutland, which had been previously granted to his church by Thurston the grandfather and Robert his uncle. In 1209 he demanded a moiety of the town of Langton, Yorkshire against Eustace de Vescy as his right and inheritance. In 1210 he was serving the king in Ireland. He was excused the scutage of Poitou in 1214, because he fought himself. He appears to have joined the rebellion of King John, and in March 1215/16 he had letters of safe conduct on coming to the king. THURSTAN DE MONTFORT died shortly before 9 July 1216, when his lands and heir were committed to the custody of William de Cantelowe. In 1220 William de Cantelowe presented to the church of Ridlington, Rutland by reason of the custody of the said land and heir. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 376-379 (sub Montfort). Placitorum in Domo Capitalani Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 46. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 114. Burke Gen'l Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 355-356 (sub Montfort, Barons Montfort). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 103. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 358-359. Coulton Five Centuries of Religion (1923): 294. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 160-163. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 95-103,103-106. C.P. 9 (1936): 122-123 (sub Montfort). VCH Warwick 3 (1945): 45-49, 196-205; 5(1949): 193-198 (Montfort arms: Bendy of ten pieces or and azure), 209-213. Paget (1957) 378:2.” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Leigh, Dorset, Ellesborough and Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, Meole Brace, Shropshire, Barcheston and Studley, Warwickshire, Caine, Wiltshire, etc., Steward of the Household of John, Count of Mortain, 1198, Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1200-15, Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1201-4, 1209-23, itinerant Justice in Staffordshire, 1203, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1204-5, Steward of the King's Household, 1204-22, a Norman by birth. He married MASCELINE (or MAZRA) DE BRACY (or BRASCY, BRACI), daughter of Audulf de Bracy, of Meole Brace, Shropshire, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, etc. They had four sons, William, Knt., Robert, Walter [Bishop of Worcester], and Matthew [Rector of Ribston, Yorkshire and Alvechurch, Worcestershire], and one daughter, (wife of Thurstan de Montfort). He witnessed two acts of King John while John was still an earl in 1198. The first was dated 12 July 1198 when William was styled 'tune senescallus;' the second was dated 4 Dec. 1198, just a few months before King Richard's death. William became one of the king's stewards of the household with Peter de Stokes and Robert de Thornham. In 1203 the king granted him lands in Great Bowden and Market Harborough, Leicestershire to hold during pleasure; William in turn entrusted the manors to his brother, Roger Orget. He took part in the ineffectual expedition to Poitou in 1205. The same year he was granted the manor of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, in exchange for 300 marks and the manor of Cockeswall; Eaton Bray subsequently became the head of the Cantelowe barony. In 1208 he was granted custody of the see of Worcester, and was a justice in Nottinghamshire. In 1209 he settled a dispute which he had with the Prior of Dunstaple regarding 50 acres in Shortgrave, Bedfordshire; he quitclaimed the said 50 acres to the Prior, as well as 20 acres in Eaton, Bedfordshire, which was part of the land which the Prior claimed by virtue of a grant made by Audulf de Bracy, father of Masceline, wife of William. He and William Briwerre supervised elections to the vacant sees of York and Carlisle in 1214. Wendover's description of him as one of John's "evil counselors" probably owes much to his role as a gaoler of baronial hostages. Wendover also suggests that Cantelowe may have wavered in his loyalty after the rebel seizure of London in 1215, but this is belied by the stream of royal writs sent to him in 1215-16. In 1215 he also witnessed the royal declaration of free election to sees and abbeys. He took the side of the king in his war with the barons. In 1215-16 he was granted a number of manors belonging to rebels, and was commissioned to treat with those who might return into the king's peace. In 1216 he was granted letters of presentation to the advowson of the church of Preston, Warwickshire, the gift belonging to the king because the land of Thurstan de Montfort was in his hand. In 1217 he was at the Siege of Mountsorrel and at the Battle of Lincoln. He presented to the churches of Ridlington, Rutland, 1217, 1218, 1221, and Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, 1218. In 1218 he witnessed the treaty of Worcester with Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, and was an itinerant justice in Bedfordshire. The same year the Sheriff was ordered to inform the king why he had disseised William of seven hides of land in Eaton. In 1219 he was a commissioner investigating encroachments on the royal forests in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Herefordshire. His wife, Masceline, seems to have been living in 1220. Sometime before 1223, he appears to have acquired some of William Mattel's lands at Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. In 1223 he joined the armed demonstration of Ranulph, Earl of Chester at the Tower against the government of Hubert de Burgh; he submitted at Northampton on 30 December. He joined the royal Siege of Bedford in the summer of 1224. In 1225 he was allowed £1084 at the exchequer for war expenses under King John; this cancelled a list of debts that included increments due on county farms, scutages, and the fine for the custody of the lands and heir of Robert Chandos. As "William de Cantelowe, senior," he presented his son, [Master] Walter de Cantelowe, to the church of Bulwick, Northamptonshire in 1227. He obtained a confirmation of the manor of Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire in 1227 and 1231. In 1227 Richard Fitz William was called to warranty by William de Cantelowe for a third part of the manor of Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, which Geva Basset, widow of the said Richard's uncle, also named Richard Fitz William, claimed in dower. He served in Wales in 1228, Brittany in 1230, and Wales again in 1231. In 1229, following the death of his brother, Roger Orget, the king re-granted him the manors of Great Bowden and Market Harborough, Leicestershire. In 1230 he received confirmation from the crown of the vill, market, and manor of Bingley, Yorkshire which he had of the gift and feoffment of Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1232 he impleaded William son of William Corbicun to acquit him of service which Thomas, Earl of Warwick, demanded for lands in Barcheston and Studley, Warwickshire. He was heir c.1234 to his uncle, Fulk de Cantelowe, by which he inherited lands in Calstone Wellington, Wiltshire. He signed the confirmation of Magna Carta in 1236. On 23 October 1236 the king granted to him that he may render the 32 marks which were exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, namely 30 marks for the prest of Hereford and 2 marks for the debts of Robert Barat his brother. At an unknown date, he granted the chapel in his court of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire one messuage and 12 acres of land in Eaton Bray, six measures of wheat yearly, and 22 solidates of annual rent; with a further grant of 50s. yearly, to support a second chaplain, and of a croft to keep a lamp burning in the chapel. SIR WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE died at Reading, Berkshire 7 April 1239, and was buried at Studley Priory, Warwickshire. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 528. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 291-292 (biog. of William de Cantilupe). Sackville-West Hist. Notices of the Parish of Withyham (1857): 40-46 (re. Cantelowe fam.). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 6 (1858): 350-357; 11 (1860): 144-147. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 112 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1239: "Obiit Willelmus de Cantilupo senior apud Radinges, in Martio, et delatus est apud Stodlegam."); 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 430 (Annals of Worcestet sub A.D. 1239: "Dominus W[illelmus] de Cantilupo, pater domini episcopi, obiit."). Batten Hist. & Topog. Colls. Rel. to the early Hist. of Parts of South Somerset (1894): 1-7. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 59, 144, 157. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 121, 426 (Roger Orget styled "brother" [fratri] of William de Cantelowe in 1230). C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 220,405 (Fulk de Cantelowe styled "uncle" of William de Cantelowe in 1234). Rutland Mag. & County Hist. Rec. 2 (1906): 100. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 331-338; 3 (1925): 397-401. G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 210-215. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 369-375 (Cantlowe arms: Gules a fesse vair between three fleurs de lis coming out of leopards' heads or). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 134-135. Fowler Cal. of Feet of Fines for Buckinghamshire (Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 6 (1919): 39 (fine dated 1209 mentions Audulf de Brascy father of Mascelin, wife of William de Cantelowe), 57-58. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 12 (1928): 79-81. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 8, 16-17, 23-24, 29, 31. VCH ranvick 3 (1945): 31-42 (Cantelupe arms: Gules three fleurs delis coming out of leopards' heads or), 167-172, 193-196; 5 (1949): 5-10. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 39-40. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 133-153. Carpenter Minority of Henry III (1990). Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): xxvii-xxxiii (biog. of Walter de Cantelowe). Church Household Knights of King John (1999): 21. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 169 (charter of Walter de Cantelowe). Dryburgh Cal. of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III (2008): 130 (Date: 1226-7. William de Cantilupe gives the king 15 marks for having his confirmation of the manor of Aston, which King John gave him and confirmed to him by charter, and for having a market each week on Mondays at the manor of Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert, and for having a fair there each year to last for three days). Children of William de Cantelowe, by Masreline (or Mazra) de Bracy: i. WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt. [see next]. ii. ROBERT DE CANTELOWE, of Meole Brace, Shropshire and Bingley, Yorkshire. In 1254 the king granted him permission to use the liberties and quittances in his manor of Bingley, Yorkshire as his father, William de Cantelowe, used by the king's charter. The same year he was granted free warren in all his demesne lands in Bingley, Yorkshire and Meules, Shropshire. Francisque-Michel Rdles Garcons 1 (1885): 470, 497. C.P.R 1247-1258 (1908): 305, 323. iii. [MASTER] WALTER DE CANTELOWE, King's clerk, Archdeacon of Stafford, Bishop of Worcester. He was presented to a series of parish livings, i.e, Eyton in 1208, Burton and Worfield in 1215, Long Itchington, Rampisham, Preston, Priors Hardwick, and a moiety of Stokes in 1216, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire in 1219, Penrith, Cumberland in 1222, and Bulwick, Northamptonshire in 1227, and finally, on 22 July 1231, to a canonry and prebend in Lichfield Cathedral. He was evidently a pluralist, and as such was not wholly disinterested when, at the legatine council of 1237, he pleaded the cause of many noble pluralists, "who have until now lived honourably, giving what hospitality they could and dispensing alms with open doors," who were threatened with impoverishment by being reduced to a single benefice each. He served as king's proctor at the Roman court in 1227 and 1229. He acted as justice in eyre for several counties in 1232, and received a number of papal commissions to serve as a judge-delegate or to execute papal mandates. In January 1235 he was one of three envoys sent to France to bear truce proposals to King Louis IX and to swear on King Henry III's behalf to observe the conditions of the truce. He was elected as Bishop of Worcester 30 August 1236; his election received royal assent 9 September. In April 1237 he was ordained priest at Viterbo by Pope Gregory IX, who consecrated him 3 May. In October 1237 he was enthroned at Worcester in the presence of the papal legate, Cardinal Otto, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the King and Queen of Scots. In 1237, as bishop-elect of Worcester, he again attended the papal court on the king's behalf. He proved himself a zealous diocesan bishop, sharing with Bishop Grosseteste of Lincoln a concern for the reform of abuses and the improvement of pastoral standards. The synodal statutes he promulgated for the Worcester diocese in 1240, frequently revised and updated, provided a model for the legislation of several of his episcopal colleagues. In 1240 he obtained papal sanction for a drive to remove married clergy from parishes and to deprive those who had succeeded their fathers in their benefices. He displayed the same energy in protecting and extending the temporal and spiritual rights of his see. He attended the Council of Lyons with other English prelates in 1245. In 1246 he stood with Robert Grosseteste in supporting the pope's right to receive financial aid from the clergy. In 1252 he supported Simon de Montfort against charges lodged by the king of extortion and mistreatment in Montfort's rule of Gascony. From 1255 onwards he was chief spokesman for the clerical opposition to King Henry's acceptance of the Sicilian crown for his second son, Edmund. In 1257 he was one of those sent to France to negotiate terms of a permanent peace. He played a leading role in the revolutionary events of the years 1258-65. At the Oxford parliament of June 1258 he was the only cleric chosen by the baronial side to serve on the committee of twenty-four which drafted the provisions of Oxford, and he was subsequently elected a member of the standing council imposed upon the king by the new constitution. In 1259 he was appointed one of the councillors to act as regents while the king was absent in France. Following King Henry's recovery of power in 1261, he remained a stalwart supporter of Montfort and an unyielding upholder of the provisions. He put his name to the baronial letters submitting the cause of the reformers to the arbitration of Louis IX, and his nephew, Thomas de Cantelowe, was entrusted with expounding the baronial case to Louis at Amiens. In March 1264, together with the bishops of Winchester, London, and Chichester, he held talks with the king's representatives at Brackley and Oxford, offering baronial acceptance of Louis' verdict on condition that King Henry expelled unacceptable aliens from court and allowed the council to nominate his ministers. In May, he and Henry de Sandwich, Bishop of London, accompanied Montfort's army on the march to Lewes, and on the eve of the battle made a last effort to mediate between Montfort and the king. But after this overture failed, Cantilupe exhorted Montfort's troops to confess their sins, gave them absolution, and blessed them. He was subsequently present at the Battles of Evesham, 1264, and Lewes, 1265. WALTER DE CANTELOWE, Bishop of Worcester, died at his manor of Blockley, Gloucestershire 12 Feb. 1266, and was buried by the monks beside the high altar in Worcester Cathedral. A zealous pastor, a scholar, and an idealist, as the spiritual mentor of one of the most radical political movements of the middle ages, he ranks among the greatest ecclesiastical leaders of his generation. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Sackville-West Hist. Notices of the Parish of Withyham (1857): 40-46 (re. Cantelowe fam.). C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 350, 377, 382 (Walter de Cantelowe styled "son of our beloved and faithful William de Cantelowe" by King Henry III in 1223), 413. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 98 (letter of Peter de Montfort dated ?July 1261 requesting assistance for [Walter de Cantelowe], bishop of Worcester, his kinsman, and himself). D.N.B. 3 (1908): 904-906 (biog. of Walter de Cantelupe). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 155; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 134-135. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 501-510. G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 210-215 ("He was, except for Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, the most distinguished cleric of his time."). C.P. 9 (1936): 123, footnote a (sub Montfort) ("Peter de Montfort wrote to Walter de Merton, Chancellor 1261-3, about the business of (Walter de Cauntelo) Lord (Bishop) of Worcester, our uncle [avunculi nostril (Anc. Corresp., PRO, vol. vii, no. 20)]. Powicke & Cheney Councils & Synods with other Docs. rel to the English Church, 1205-1313 1(1964). Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300 2 (1971): 101. Treharne & Sanders Docs. of the Baronial Movement of Reform & Rebellion, 1258-1267 (1973). Maddicott, Simon de Monffort (1994). Carpenter Reign of Henry III (1996): 293-307. Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): xxvii-xxxiii (biog. of Walter de Cantelowe). iv. MATTHEW DE CANTELOWE, clerk, Rector of Ribston, Yorkshire, 1231, Rector of Alvechurch, Worcestershire. Sometime in the period, 1216-17, William de Comhill, Bishop of Coventry, granted license for the appropriation of the church of West Bromwich subject to the rights of Matthew de Cantelowe. In 1239 Pope Gregory IX granted a dispensation to "Matthew de Cantelupe, clerk of the diocese of York, brother to the Bishop of Worcester, allowing him to hold more benefices than one." At an unknown date, he reached agreement with Philip, Abbot of Bordesley, relative to the fishery in the water called `Arewe' and common of pasture in the woods and fields in `Osmerleg' and in the wood called ‘Sortwode.' MATTHEW DE CANTELOWE was living in July 1253. Gray Reg, or Rolls, of Walter Gray, Lord Archbishop of York (Surtees Soc. 56) (1872): 99n., 158, 163-164, 239-240, 282-282, 287-288. Yorkshire Arch. & Top. Jour. 7 (1882): 442; 8 (1884): 295; 9 (1886): 77-78. Speight Nidderdale & the Garden of the Nidd (1894): 189. C.C.R. 1254-1256 (1931): 436 (Robert [no surname] styled "kinsman" [consanguineurn] of Matthew de Cantelowe in 1256). Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 105. Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 118-119. National Archives, E 326/2687 (available at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). v. ___ DE CANTELOWE, married THURSTAN DE MONTFORT, of Beaudesert, Warwickshire [see MONTFORT 4].” | de Montfort, Thurstan (I6568)
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| 7070 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “___ DE CANTELOWE, married THURSTAN DE MONTFORT, of Beaudesert, Charlecote, Wellesbourne, and Whitchurch, Warwickshire, Remenham, Berkshire, Ridlington and Uppingham, Rutland, etc., son and heir of Henry de Montfort, of Beaudesert, Charlecote, and Edstone (in Wootton Wawen), Warwickshire, Uppingham, Rutland, etc. They had two sons, Peter, Knt. and William. He was a minor when he succeeded his father in or before 1199. In 1205 the king took his homage and gave him his land on condition that he demise it for two years to William de Cantelowe. Sometime after 1205 he gave the nunnery of Pinley the tenth part of all the victuals spent in his house, including bread, beer, flesh, fish, and whatsoever was dressed in his kitchen. In 1206 he was abroad in the king's service. In 1206 the Prior of St. Neots, Huntingdonshire sued him for the manor and advowson of the church of Wing, Rutland, which had been previously granted to his church by Thurston the grandfather and Robert his uncle. In 1209 he demanded a moiety of the town of Langton, Yorkshire against Eustace de Vescy as his right and inheritance. In 1210 he was serving the king in Ireland. He was excused the scutage of Poitou in 1214, because he fought himself. He appears to have joined the rebellion of King John, and in March 1215/16 he had letters of safe conduct on coming to the king. THURSTAN DE MONTFORT died shortly before 9 July 1216, when his lands and heir were committed to the custody of William de Cantelowe. In 1220 William de Cantelowe presented to the church of Ridlington, Rutland by reason of the custody of the said land and heir. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 376-379 (sub Montfort). Placitorum in Domo Capitalani Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 46. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 114. Burke Gen'l Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 355-356 (sub Montfort, Barons Montfort). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 103. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 358-359. Coulton Five Centuries of Religion (1923): 294. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 160-163. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 95-103,103-106. C.P. 9 (1936): 122-123 (sub Montfort). VCH Warwick 3 (1945): 45-49, 196-205; 5(1949): 193-198 (Montfort arms: Bendy of ten pieces or and azure), 209-213. Paget (1957) 378:2.” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Leigh, Dorset, Ellesborough and Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, Meole Brace, Shropshire, Barcheston and Studley, Warwickshire, Caine, Wiltshire, etc., Steward of the Household of John, Count of Mortain, 1198, Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1200-15, Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1201-4, 1209-23, itinerant Justice in Staffordshire, 1203, Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1204-5, Steward of the King's Household, 1204-22, a Norman by birth. He married MASCELINE (or MAZRA) DE BRACY (or BRASCY, BRACI), daughter of Audulf de Bracy, of Meole Brace, Shropshire, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, etc. They had four sons, William, Knt., Robert, Walter [Bishop of Worcester], and Matthew [Rector of Ribston, Yorkshire and Alvechurch, Worcestershire], and one daughter, (wife of Thurstan de Montfort). He witnessed two acts of King John while John was still an earl in 1198. The first was dated 12 July 1198 when William was styled 'tune senescallus;' the second was dated 4 Dec. 1198, just a few months before King Richard's death. William became one of the king's stewards of the household with Peter de Stokes and Robert de Thornham. In 1203 the king granted him lands in Great Bowden and Market Harborough, Leicestershire to hold during pleasure; William in turn entrusted the manors to his brother, Roger Orget. He took part in the ineffectual expedition to Poitou in 1205. The same year he was granted the manor of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, in exchange for 300 marks and the manor of Cockeswall; Eaton Bray subsequently became the head of the Cantelowe barony. In 1208 he was granted custody of the see of Worcester, and was a justice in Nottinghamshire. In 1209 he settled a dispute which he had with the Prior of Dunstaple regarding 50 acres in Shortgrave, Bedfordshire; he quitclaimed the said 50 acres to the Prior, as well as 20 acres in Eaton, Bedfordshire, which was part of the land which the Prior claimed by virtue of a grant made by Audulf de Bracy, father of Masceline, wife of William. He and William Briwerre supervised elections to the vacant sees of York and Carlisle in 1214. Wendover's description of him as one of John's "evil counselors" probably owes much to his role as a gaoler of baronial hostages. Wendover also suggests that Cantelowe may have wavered in his loyalty after the rebel seizure of London in 1215, but this is belied by the stream of royal writs sent to him in 1215-16. In 1215 he also witnessed the royal declaration of free election to sees and abbeys. He took the side of the king in his war with the barons. In 1215-16 he was granted a number of manors belonging to rebels, and was commissioned to treat with those who might return into the king's peace. In 1216 he was granted letters of presentation to the advowson of the church of Preston, Warwickshire, the gift belonging to the king because the land of Thurstan de Montfort was in his hand. In 1217 he was at the Siege of Mountsorrel and at the Battle of Lincoln. He presented to the churches of Ridlington, Rutland, 1217, 1218, 1221, and Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, 1218. In 1218 he witnessed the treaty of Worcester with Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, and was an itinerant justice in Bedfordshire. The same year the Sheriff was ordered to inform the king why he had disseised William of seven hides of land in Eaton. In 1219 he was a commissioner investigating encroachments on the royal forests in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Herefordshire. His wife, Masceline, seems to have been living in 1220. Sometime before 1223, he appears to have acquired some of William Mattel's lands at Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. In 1223 he joined the armed demonstration of Ranulph, Earl of Chester at the Tower against the government of Hubert de Burgh; he submitted at Northampton on 30 December. He joined the royal Siege of Bedford in the summer of 1224. In 1225 he was allowed £1084 at the exchequer for war expenses under King John; this cancelled a list of debts that included increments due on county farms, scutages, and the fine for the custody of the lands and heir of Robert Chandos. As "William de Cantelowe, senior," he presented his son, [Master] Walter de Cantelowe, to the church of Bulwick, Northamptonshire in 1227. He obtained a confirmation of the manor of Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire in 1227 and 1231. In 1227 Richard Fitz William was called to warranty by William de Cantelowe for a third part of the manor of Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, which Geva Basset, widow of the said Richard's uncle, also named Richard Fitz William, claimed in dower. He served in Wales in 1228, Brittany in 1230, and Wales again in 1231. In 1229, following the death of his brother, Roger Orget, the king re-granted him the manors of Great Bowden and Market Harborough, Leicestershire. In 1230 he received confirmation from the crown of the vill, market, and manor of Bingley, Yorkshire which he had of the gift and feoffment of Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1232 he impleaded William son of William Corbicun to acquit him of service which Thomas, Earl of Warwick, demanded for lands in Barcheston and Studley, Warwickshire. He was heir c.1234 to his uncle, Fulk de Cantelowe, by which he inherited lands in Calstone Wellington, Wiltshire. He signed the confirmation of Magna Carta in 1236. On 23 October 1236 the king granted to him that he may render the 32 marks which were exacted from him by summons of the Exchequer, namely 30 marks for the prest of Hereford and 2 marks for the debts of Robert Barat his brother. At an unknown date, he granted the chapel in his court of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire one messuage and 12 acres of land in Eaton Bray, six measures of wheat yearly, and 22 solidates of annual rent; with a further grant of 50s. yearly, to support a second chaplain, and of a croft to keep a lamp burning in the chapel. SIR WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE died at Reading, Berkshire 7 April 1239, and was buried at Studley Priory, Warwickshire. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 528. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 291-292 (biog. of William de Cantilupe). Sackville-West Hist. Notices of the Parish of Withyham (1857): 40-46 (re. Cantelowe fam.). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 6 (1858): 350-357; 11 (1860): 144-147. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 112 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1239: "Obiit Willelmus de Cantilupo senior apud Radinges, in Martio, et delatus est apud Stodlegam."); 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 430 (Annals of Worcestet sub A.D. 1239: "Dominus W[illelmus] de Cantilupo, pater domini episcopi, obiit."). Batten Hist. & Topog. Colls. Rel. to the early Hist. of Parts of South Somerset (1894): 1-7. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 59, 144, 157. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. C.C.R. 1227-1231 (1902): 121, 426 (Roger Orget styled "brother" [fratri] of William de Cantelowe in 1230). C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 220,405 (Fulk de Cantelowe styled "uncle" of William de Cantelowe in 1234). Rutland Mag. & County Hist. Rec. 2 (1906): 100. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 331-338; 3 (1925): 397-401. G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 210-215. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 369-375 (Cantlowe arms: Gules a fesse vair between three fleurs de lis coming out of leopards' heads or). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 134-135. Fowler Cal. of Feet of Fines for Buckinghamshire (Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 6 (1919): 39 (fine dated 1209 mentions Audulf de Brascy father of Mascelin, wife of William de Cantelowe), 57-58. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 12 (1928): 79-81. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 8, 16-17, 23-24, 29, 31. VCH ranvick 3 (1945): 31-42 (Cantelupe arms: Gules three fleurs delis coming out of leopards' heads or), 167-172, 193-196; 5 (1949): 5-10. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 39-40. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 133-153. Carpenter Minority of Henry III (1990). Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): xxvii-xxxiii (biog. of Walter de Cantelowe). Church Household Knights of King John (1999): 21. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 169 (charter of Walter de Cantelowe). Dryburgh Cal. of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III (2008): 130 (Date: 1226-7. William de Cantilupe gives the king 15 marks for having his confirmation of the manor of Aston, which King John gave him and confirmed to him by charter, and for having a market each week on Mondays at the manor of Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert, and for having a fair there each year to last for three days). Children of William de Cantelowe, by Masreline (or Mazra) de Bracy: i. WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt. [see next]. ii. ROBERT DE CANTELOWE, of Meole Brace, Shropshire and Bingley, Yorkshire. In 1254 the king granted him permission to use the liberties and quittances in his manor of Bingley, Yorkshire as his father, William de Cantelowe, used by the king's charter. The same year he was granted free warren in all his demesne lands in Bingley, Yorkshire and Meules, Shropshire. Francisque-Michel Rdles Garcons 1 (1885): 470, 497. C.P.R 1247-1258 (1908): 305, 323. iii. [MASTER] WALTER DE CANTELOWE, King's clerk, Archdeacon of Stafford, Bishop of Worcester. He was presented to a series of parish livings, i.e, Eyton in 1208, Burton and Worfield in 1215, Long Itchington, Rampisham, Preston, Priors Hardwick, and a moiety of Stokes in 1216, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire in 1219, Penrith, Cumberland in 1222, and Bulwick, Northamptonshire in 1227, and finally, on 22 July 1231, to a canonry and prebend in Lichfield Cathedral. He was evidently a pluralist, and as such was not wholly disinterested when, at the legatine council of 1237, he pleaded the cause of many noble pluralists, "who have until now lived honourably, giving what hospitality they could and dispensing alms with open doors," who were threatened with impoverishment by being reduced to a single benefice each. He served as king's proctor at the Roman court in 1227 and 1229. He acted as justice in eyre for several counties in 1232, and received a number of papal commissions to serve as a judge-delegate or to execute papal mandates. In January 1235 he was one of three envoys sent to France to bear truce proposals to King Louis IX and to swear on King Henry III's behalf to observe the conditions of the truce. He was elected as Bishop of Worcester 30 August 1236; his election received royal assent 9 September. In April 1237 he was ordained priest at Viterbo by Pope Gregory IX, who consecrated him 3 May. In October 1237 he was enthroned at Worcester in the presence of the papal legate, Cardinal Otto, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the King and Queen of Scots. In 1237, as bishop-elect of Worcester, he again attended the papal court on the king's behalf. He proved himself a zealous diocesan bishop, sharing with Bishop Grosseteste of Lincoln a concern for the reform of abuses and the improvement of pastoral standards. The synodal statutes he promulgated for the Worcester diocese in 1240, frequently revised and updated, provided a model for the legislation of several of his episcopal colleagues. In 1240 he obtained papal sanction for a drive to remove married clergy from parishes and to deprive those who had succeeded their fathers in their benefices. He displayed the same energy in protecting and extending the temporal and spiritual rights of his see. He attended the Council of Lyons with other English prelates in 1245. In 1246 he stood with Robert Grosseteste in supporting the pope's right to receive financial aid from the clergy. In 1252 he supported Simon de Montfort against charges lodged by the king of extortion and mistreatment in Montfort's rule of Gascony. From 1255 onwards he was chief spokesman for the clerical opposition to King Henry's acceptance of the Sicilian crown for his second son, Edmund. In 1257 he was one of those sent to France to negotiate terms of a permanent peace. He played a leading role in the revolutionary events of the years 1258-65. At the Oxford parliament of June 1258 he was the only cleric chosen by the baronial side to serve on the committee of twenty-four which drafted the provisions of Oxford, and he was subsequently elected a member of the standing council imposed upon the king by the new constitution. In 1259 he was appointed one of the councillors to act as regents while the king was absent in France. Following King Henry's recovery of power in 1261, he remained a stalwart supporter of Montfort and an unyielding upholder of the provisions. He put his name to the baronial letters submitting the cause of the reformers to the arbitration of Louis IX, and his nephew, Thomas de Cantelowe, was entrusted with expounding the baronial case to Louis at Amiens. In March 1264, together with the bishops of Winchester, London, and Chichester, he held talks with the king's representatives at Brackley and Oxford, offering baronial acceptance of Louis' verdict on condition that King Henry expelled unacceptable aliens from court and allowed the council to nominate his ministers. In May, he and Henry de Sandwich, Bishop of London, accompanied Montfort's army on the march to Lewes, and on the eve of the battle made a last effort to mediate between Montfort and the king. But after this overture failed, Cantilupe exhorted Montfort's troops to confess their sins, gave them absolution, and blessed them. He was subsequently present at the Battles of Evesham, 1264, and Lewes, 1265. WALTER DE CANTELOWE, Bishop of Worcester, died at his manor of Blockley, Gloucestershire 12 Feb. 1266, and was buried by the monks beside the high altar in Worcester Cathedral. A zealous pastor, a scholar, and an idealist, as the spiritual mentor of one of the most radical political movements of the middle ages, he ranks among the greatest ecclesiastical leaders of his generation. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Sackville-West Hist. Notices of the Parish of Withyham (1857): 40-46 (re. Cantelowe fam.). C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 350, 377, 382 (Walter de Cantelowe styled "son of our beloved and faithful William de Cantelowe" by King Henry III in 1223), 413. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 98 (letter of Peter de Montfort dated ?July 1261 requesting assistance for [Walter de Cantelowe], bishop of Worcester, his kinsman, and himself). D.N.B. 3 (1908): 904-906 (biog. of Walter de Cantelupe). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 155; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 134-135. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 501-510. G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 210-215 ("He was, except for Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, the most distinguished cleric of his time."). C.P. 9 (1936): 123, footnote a (sub Montfort) ("Peter de Montfort wrote to Walter de Merton, Chancellor 1261-3, about the business of (Walter de Cauntelo) Lord (Bishop) of Worcester, our uncle [avunculi nostril (Anc. Corresp., PRO, vol. vii, no. 20)]. Powicke & Cheney Councils & Synods with other Docs. rel to the English Church, 1205-1313 1(1964). Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300 2 (1971): 101. Treharne & Sanders Docs. of the Baronial Movement of Reform & Rebellion, 1258-1267 (1973). Maddicott, Simon de Monffort (1994). Carpenter Reign of Henry III (1996): 293-307. Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): xxvii-xxxiii (biog. of Walter de Cantelowe). iv. MATTHEW DE CANTELOWE, clerk, Rector of Ribston, Yorkshire, 1231, Rector of Alvechurch, Worcestershire. Sometime in the period, 1216-17, William de Comhill, Bishop of Coventry, granted license for the appropriation of the church of West Bromwich subject to the rights of Matthew de Cantelowe. In 1239 Pope Gregory IX granted a dispensation to "Matthew de Cantelupe, clerk of the diocese of York, brother to the Bishop of Worcester, allowing him to hold more benefices than one." At an unknown date, he reached agreement with Philip, Abbot of Bordesley, relative to the fishery in the water called `Arewe' and common of pasture in the woods and fields in `Osmerleg' and in the wood called ‘Sortwode.' MATTHEW DE CANTELOWE was living in July 1253. Gray Reg, or Rolls, of Walter Gray, Lord Archbishop of York (Surtees Soc. 56) (1872): 99n., 158, 163-164, 239-240, 282-282, 287-288. Yorkshire Arch. & Top. Jour. 7 (1882): 442; 8 (1884): 295; 9 (1886): 77-78. Speight Nidderdale & the Garden of the Nidd (1894): 189. C.C.R. 1254-1256 (1931): 436 (Robert [no surname] styled "kinsman" [consanguineurn] of Matthew de Cantelowe in 1256). Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 105. Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 118-119. National Archives, E 326/2687 (available at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). v. ___ DE CANTELOWE, married THURSTAN DE MONTFORT, of Beaudesert, Warwickshire [see MONTFORT 4].” | de Cantelowe (I6567)
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| 7071 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “___ DE CLARE, married in 1171 ROBERT DE QUINCY, Constable of Leinster. They had one daughter, Maud. ROBERT DE QUINCY was killed by O'Dempsey and the Irish of Offaly. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 285 ("Robert de Quency is not mentioned by Giraldus, though an important personage. From this poem we learn that Strongbow gave him his daughter in marriage [2743], the district of `le Duftir' i.e. the Duffry in Co. Wexford [2748], and the constableship of Leinster [2749]. He was afterwards killed by O'Dempsey and the Irish of Offaly [2408]. He left one daughter, Maud, afterwards married to Philip de Prendergast [2819, see note]. His name appears as a witness to the Foundation Charter from Earl Richard to St. Mary's Abbey, Dunbrody. See Chart. St. Mary’s, Dub., R.S. ii. 154. This would seem to fix the date of this charter, and consequently of Hervey's Charter, to which it refers, in 1172, and not in 1175, as suggested by Mr. Gilbert in the preface; id. p. lxxiii."). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke).” | de Quincy, Robert (I6966)
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| 7072 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “___ DE CLARE, married in 1171 ROBERT DE QUINCY, Constable of Leinster. They had one daughter, Maud. ROBERT DE QUINCY was killed by O'Dempsey and the Irish of Offaly. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 285 ("Robert de Quency is not mentioned by Giraldus, though an important personage. From this poem we learn that Strongbow gave him his daughter in marriage [2743], the district of `le Duftir' i.e. the Duffry in Co. Wexford [2748], and the constableship of Leinster [2749]. He was afterwards killed by O'Dempsey and the Irish of Offaly [2408]. He left one daughter, Maud, afterwards married to Philip de Prendergast [2819, see note]. His name appears as a witness to the Foundation Charter from Earl Richard to St. Mary's Abbey, Dunbrody. See Chart. St. Mary’s, Dub., R.S. ii. 154. This would seem to fix the date of this charter, and consequently of Hervey's Charter, to which it refers, in 1172, and not in 1175, as suggested by Mr. Gilbert in the preface; id. p. lxxiii."). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke).” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “RICHARD FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, etc., seigneur of Bienfaite and Orbec (both in Normandy), Justiciar of Ireland, son and heir, born about 1130. On the accession of King Henry II in 1154, he refused to acknowledged Richard as earl and took the lordship of Pembroke into his own hands. In Autumn 1167 he came to an agreement with Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster; for the earl's assistance with an army, he could have Eve, Dermot's eldest daughter in marriage and the succession to Leinster. An army was assembled led by Raymond Fitz Gerald (also known as Raymond le Gros) that included Welsh archers; it captured the towns of Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin in 1169-70. Richard married at Waterford, Ireland about 26 August 1170 EVE OF LEINSTER daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (also called Diarmait MacMurchada), King of Leinster, by Mor, daughter of Muirchertach Ua Tuathail From 1172 onwards, he was styled Earl of Striguil. They had one son, Gilbert [Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Isabel. In 1173 he played a critical role in Normandy in defending the castle of Gisors and recapturing Verneuil for the king. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke died about 20 April 1176, and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity [Christ Church], Dublin. His widow, Eve, was living in 1187. Sometime in the period, 1185-94, his widow, Eve, as "heres Regis Deremicii,"confirmed to John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin, and his successors all of her earlier gifts. At her death, she was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Eyton Court, Household, & Itinerary of King Henry 11 (1878): 16, 109, 118, 165-166, 172, 176, 196, 202. Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72 (charter of Richard Fitz Gislebert dated c.1172). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 78-79 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to St. Mary's Abbey; charter witnessed by Hervé de Montmorency and Walter Bluet), 79-81, 83-84 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to St. Mary's Abbey; charter witnessed by Walter Bluet and Richard Bluet); 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 12, 274 (Annals sub A.D. 1177: "Comes Ricardus circa kal. julii apud Dubliniam obiit, et in ecclesia Sancte Trinitatis."), 304 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1177: "Comes Ricardus, circa kalendas Maii, apud Dubliniam obiit; in ecclesia Sancte Trinitatis Dublinie sepelitur."). Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintern Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. TG 1 (1980): 4-27. Coat of Arms n.s. 10(1994): 322-328. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161, 477. Tyerman Who's Who in Early Medieval England 1066-1272 (2001): 206-208 (biog. of Richard of Clare). Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 733-737 (biog. of Richard Fitz Gilbert). Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by unknown wife or mistress, i. ___ DE CLARE, married ROBERT DE QUINCY, Constable of Leinster [see PRENDERGAST 5], ii. ALINE DE CLARE, married in 1174 WILLIAM FITZ MAURICE, Baron of Naas, co. Kildare. They had one son, William Fitz Maurice [Baron of Naas]. WILLIAM FITZ MAURICE died before c.September 1199. Jour. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 2 (1892): 194 ("William, the son of Maurice, is stated in the table to have married `Ala, daughter of Strongbow'; but the 'Conquest of Ireland' (Cal. Car. MSS., 296) has it - 'Also the Erie yawe Ellyn his sustir to Wyllam Moryces yldist sone."), chart facing pg. 358. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.), 259 (sub Conquest of Ireland: "Raymond also, to consolidate the union among the English, induced the earl to give his daughter Alina in marriage to William, the eldest son of Maurice Fitzgerald."). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 489 ("William, son of Maurice, who according to Giraldus, married in 1174 Alina, daughter of Strongbow, seems to have died before 1199, when 'William de Naas' fined for an inquisition of mort d'ancestor against the abbot of Baltinglass. This was his son and successor, the third baron, who married Mahaut de Pont de l'Arche and died in 1227, when he was succeeded by his son David, the fourth baron."). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 4 (1920): 307-308 ("Addenda et Corrigenda to Volume I and II - Vol. p. 18; vol. ii, pp. 165, 246. William, son of William, Baron of Naas': - It was William, third Baron of Naas, son of William, the second baron, who married Matilda of Pont de l'Arche. She was widow of Philip de Braose. Close Roll, 11 Hen. III, pg. 199. This William Fitz William has been hitherto omitted in the received pedigrees, but in a review of the Gormanston Register (English Hist. Review, vol. xxxi (1916), pp. 488-9) I have established his position. His father, William, son of Maurice, who married Alma, daughter of Strongbow, was dead before c. September 1199 (Rot. de Obtalis, 1 John, m. 15, p. 26). The third baron is often called simply 'William, Baron of Nass', hence the confusion, but his patronymic appears in several documents, e.g. Cal. Germanston Register, pp. 154, 200, 204; and Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. i, p. 448. David Fitz William, fourth Baron of Naas, was his son and heir by `Mahaut de Pontearch' (Matilda de Pont de l'Arche): Cal. Gormanston Register, p. 163."). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 733-735 (biog. of Richard Fitz Gilbert). Child of Aline de Clare, by William Fitz Maurice: a. WILLIAM FITZ WILLIAM, Baron of Naas, married MAUD PONTE DE L'ARCHE [see MARSHAL 2.v.c]. Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Eve of Leinster: i. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD, son and heir, born about 1173, died 1185-9 s.p., probably a minor. C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). ii. ISABEL DE CLARE, married WILLIAM MARSHAL, Knt., 3rd Earl of Pembroke [see MARSHAL 3]” | de Clare (I6965)
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| 7073 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “___ FITZ GEOFFREY. She married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE (or DE LA ROKELE), of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc., son and heir of William de la Rochelle, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. They had one son, Richard, Knt. In 1221 he sued Peter de la Mare regarding the manor of Lavington, Essex, together with the advowson of the church. The dispute was settled in 1225 when a partition was made between them. WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE died shortly before 7 April 1227. C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 116-117. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 84. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 108. VCH Wiltshire 10 (1975): 82-106. VCH Essex 7 (1978): 118-119.” | de la Rochelle, William (I7253)
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| 7074 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “___ FITZ GEOFFREY. She married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE (or DE LA ROKELE), of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc., son and heir of William de la Rochelle, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. They had one son, Richard, Knt. In 1221 he sued Peter de la Mare regarding the manor of Lavington, Essex, together with the advowson of the church. The dispute was settled in 1225 when a partition was made between them. WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE died shortly before 7 April 1227. C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 116-117. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 84. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 108. VCH Wiltshire 10 (1975): 82-106. VCH Essex 7 (1978): 118-119.” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersharn and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son, born before 1145. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married (1st) before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY, daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. His wife, Beatrice, died in childbed before 19 April 1197. Her body was initially buried in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, but later transferred to Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1198 Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199, where he was girded with the sword of earl. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. He was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Amersham, Buckinghamshire and Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire in 1200. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a fee farm of £100 per annum. Geoffrey married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) AVELINE DE CLARE, widow of William de Munchensy, of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc. (died shortly before 7 May 1204) [see CLARE 4.ii], and daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare or Hertford, by Maud, daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary [see CLARE 4 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt, and four daughters, Hawise, Cecily, ___, and Maud. He campaigned against the Welsh in 1206 and 1210. He was granted a significant part of the lands forfeited by Normans, including the manors of Depden and Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and other lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, all worth over £100 per annum. In 1207 the king confirmed his possession of the manor of Notgrove, Gloucestershire, which Geoffrey had by the gift of John Eskelling. The same year he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Moretonhampstead, Devon. Sometime before 1212, he was granted the manor of Gussage Dynaunt (or Gussage St. Michael), Dorset, which manor was forfeited by Roland de Dinan. At some unspecified date, when already earl, he granted all his right in St. Peter's chapel in Drayton to the canons of St. Peter's Cathedral, York. He was the founder of the first church of Whitney Priory, Hampshire. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Earl of Essex, died 14 October 1213, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1213-4 the king commanded Geoffrey de Buckland to let the king have, at the price any others would give for them, the corn, pigs, and other chattels at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire which belonged his brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, lately deceased. About 1214 his widow, Aveline, granted the canons of Holy Trinity, London, in frank almoin, a half mark quit rent out of her manor of Towcester, Northamptonshire, part of whose body is buried there. In 1221 the Prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England sued her regarding two virgates and five acres of land in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Aveline, Countess of Essex, died before 4 June 1225. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 414-427. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (Fitz Peter ped.). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 721-722; 6(1) (1830): 339-340; 6(3) (1830): 1191 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 190-194 (Mandeville-Say ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 273 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1213: "Obiit Gaufridus filius Petri comes de Essexe, et justitiarius totrus Angliæ, tunc temporis cunctis in Anglia præstantior."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 76-114. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 193-194; 3 (1887): 452-453. Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private Prior to AD. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 97-99 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1191 to Geoffrey Fitz Peter and Beatrice his wife, as rightful and next heirs, of all the land of Earl William de Mandeville, which was hers by hereditary right), 108-110 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1198 of the division of their inheritance made by Beatrice and Maud, daughters and co-heirs of William de Say, in the time of his father, King Henry II). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91, 93. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 349-350, 354, 371-372. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 36-37, 58-59, 85, 130-131. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 1, 43, 54, 92, 117, 127, 150, 161. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1198 to A.D. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 15. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 412-414. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115; 4(1956): 158-162. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 81-85, 501-511. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (two charters of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and two charters of his widow, Aveline, Countess of Essex). Book of Fees 1 (1920): 91-92. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 215, 218-219. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 141-155; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 122-125 (sub Essex), 437 (chart) (sub Fitz John); 9 (1936):420 (sub Munchensy). VCH Kent 2 (1926): 175-176. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 34-37, 41, 92-93, 255-256. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 24, 103, 228. Hassall Cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenwell (Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 100-101. Paget (1957) 130:5 (see Genealogist n.s. 14:181). West Justiciarship in England, 1066-1232 (1966). Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 174-176. Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. VCH Hampshire 2 (1973) 149-151; 3 (1908): 107; 4 (1911): 79-81. Burton Cartulary of the Treasurer of York Minster (Borthwick Texts & Cals.: Recs. of the Northern Province 5) (1978): 52-53 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex dated 1199-1212). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85,165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 186-187, 189-190, 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville), 194-197. Holt Acta of Henry II and Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193,202-203. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 308-309 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Bocland. Seal on tag - obverse: earl of horseback, brandishing a sword. Legend: SI[GILLUM GAUFRIDI COMITI]S EXIE +; Counterseal: six-petalled flower (worn); Legend: ...IL...ETRI...), 309, 314-315 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex). Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Soc., vol. 111) (1996): 16-17, 84-91. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 35-70 (biog. of Geoffrey Fitz Peter), App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 147-172. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 78-79. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 100-101. Thorley Docs. in Medieval Latin (1998): 55-55. Breay Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (1999): 151. Greenway Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery (1999): xxviii-xxx. Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Family, Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 2706 198 x 4 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Children of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., by Beatrice de Say: i. GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., 5th Earl of Essex, Constable of the Tower of London, 1213, Lord of the Honour of Glamorgan, 1214, Joint Marshal of the Army of the Barons, 1215, Governor of Essex for the Barons, 1215, and, in right of his 2nd wife, Earl of Gloucester, son and heir by his father's 1st marriage. He married (1st) MAUD FITZ ROBERT, 1st daughter of Robert Fitz Walter, of Little Dunmow, Burnham, and Woodharn Walter, Essex, Constable of Hertford Castle, Magna Carta Baron, by his 1st wife, Gunnor, daughter and heiress of Robert de Valoines [see FITZ WALTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. His wife, Maud, was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex. He married (2nd) 16/26 Jan. 1213/4 ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, lady of Glamorgan, divorced wife of King John of England [see ENGLAND 5], and youngest daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. SIR GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, 5th Earl of Essex, was killed in a tournament in London 23 Feb. 1215/6. In 1217 his widow, Isabel, granted to the canons of Holy, Trinity, London for the souls of herself and Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, her late husband, a mark quit rent in the land and dwelling house that Godard de Antiochia held in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. Isabel married (3rd) c.17 Sept. 1217 (as his 2nd wife) HUBERT DE BURGH, Knt., Chamberlain to John, Count of Mortain [future King John], 1198-9, King's Chamberlain, 1199-1205, Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.1] son of Walter de Burgh, of Burgh near Aylsham, Norfolk, by his wife, Alice. Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, died 14 October 1217, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral Church. HUBERT DE BURGH, Earl of Kent died testate shortly before 5 May 1243. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1(1822-30): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 325 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent; charter witnessed by Walter de Burgh); 6(1) (1830): 74 (gifts by Sir Hubert de Burgh of the churches of Oulton, Norfolk and Badingham, Suffolk to Walsingharn Priory); 6(2) (1830): 942 (two charters of Hubert de Burgh). Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege 1(1835): 405-406, 465. Gilbert Parochial Hist. of Cornwall 3 (1838): 350 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, King's Chamberlain). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 179 (sub 1243: "Hubertus de Burgo, comes Cantiæ, obiit III. id. Maii [13 Maii]"). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 282 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1215: "Obiit Gaufridus de Mandevilla comes de Essexia."), 289 (Annales de Waverleia sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Isabel comitissa Gloucestriæ"); 3 (1866): 45 (Dunstable Annals sub A.D. 1214: "... ex quibus miles unus Galfridum de Mandevilla ludendo percussit, et mortuus est. Qui paulo ante guerram Johannam, comitissam Gloucestriæ, repucliatam a Johanne, rage Angliæ (archiepiscopo Burdegalensi divortium celebrante,) duxit in uxorem, licet invitus Cui sine filiis mortuo, successit Willelmus frater ejus, et relictam ipsius duxit Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Angliæ; guæ post paucos dies decessit, et apud Cantuariam sepelitur."), 128 (Dunstable Annals sub AD. 1232: "Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglia, conventus super peregrinatione sanctæ Crucis per literas Pap, per absolutionem Pandulfi legati tunc Angliæ, se rationabiliter expedivit. Super divortio vero tertiæ uxoris suæ, scilicet filiæ regis Scotiæ, conventus, super eo quod erat consanguinea secundæ uxoris suæ, scilicet cornitissæ Gloverniæ ..."). Matthew of Paris Matthæi Patisiensis 2 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1866): 477 (sub A.D. 1243: "Et eodem anno, idus Maii [12 May], post multas, quas in mundo toleraverat patienter, persecutiones, comes Canciæ Hubertus de Burgo, de quo multa praescribuntur, laudabiliter diem clausit extremum apud Banstude, manerium suum. Et delatum est corpus suum tumulandum Londoniis, in domo frattum Prædicatorum, quibus vivens multa bona contulerat, et corpus veneranter intumulandum delegaverat."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex); 2 (1886): 12-13 (sub Gloucester). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 72, 93. Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 24-30, 235 (Obit Kalendar: "9 May - Obijt Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglie [A.D. 12421"). English Hist. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711; 50 (1935): 418-432. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Rec. Soc. of Lancashire & Cheshire 47) (1904): 124-125. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 102-110. VCH Lancaster 8 (1914): 77, 85, 189, 192, 207, 231. C.P. 5 (1926): 126-130 (sub Essex), 689-692 (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 133-142 (sub Kent). Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1,26-35. Ellis Hubert de Burgh: A Study in Constang (1952). Viator 5 (1974): 235-252. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Holt Magna Carta (1992): 206-210. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 142 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "14 October [2 Id. Oct] Obierunt Ysabel comitissa Gouernie, soror at benefactrix nostra"). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810076, 00810114, 00810140, 00810141, 00810142, 00810143, 00810144, 00810145, 00810146, 00810147, 00810150, 01400342 (charters of Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, dated variously 1214-1217) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). ii. WILLIAM DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., 6th Earl of Essex, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Moreton Hampstead, Devon, Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, Wellsworth, Hampshire, Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, Cherhill, Wiltshire, etc., 2nd son by his father's 1st marriage. He married before 18 Nov. 1220 CHRISTIAN (or CHRISTINE) FITZ ROBERT, 2nd daughter of Robert Fitz Walter, of Little Dunmow, Burnham, and Woodham Walter, Essex, Constable of Hertford Castle, Magna Carta Baron, by his lst wife, Gunnor, daughter and heiress of Robert de Valoines [see FITZ WALTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, his father granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire. His wife, Christian, held four fees of the honour of Valoines of the gift of her father, including Lockleys (in Welwyn) and Radwell, Hertfordshire. She granted all her men in the vill of Ashwell, Hertfordshire to Walden Priory in Essex. At an unknown date, she gave part of the lordship of Wolferton, Norfolk to Shouldham Priory. He was heir in 1216 to his older brother, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Knt., 5th Earl of Essex. In 1218 his aunt, Maud de Say, sued him for a moiety share of various manors of the Mandeville inheritance, including Pleshey, Essex, Streatley, Berkshire, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Enfield, Middlesex, Compton, Warwickshire, etc. In 1220 he and his wife, Christian, granted the advowson of the church of Westlee, Norfolk to Binham Priory. In 1222 he rebuilt his house at Streatley, Berkshire. In 1223 he was in Wales with the Earl of Salisbury and the Earl Marshal in their campaign against Llywelyn. He was appointed Joint Ambassador to France in 1225. SIR WILLIAM DE MANDEVILLE, 6th Earl of Essex, died testate 8 Jan. 1226/7, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk, his heart being buried in Walden Abbey, Essex. In 1227 his widow, Christian, granted all her lands in the vill of Westley (in Westley Waterless), Cambridgeshire, together with the advowson of the church, to Geoffrey de Lanvallay and his mother, Hawise de Buckland [half-sister of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex]. Christian married (2nd) before 15 May 1227 RAYMOND DE BURGH, Knt., of Dartford, Kent, Constable of Hertford Castle, kinsman of Hubert de Burgh, Knt., Earl of Kent. They had no issue. He accompanied the king on the expedition to Brittany in April 1230. SIR RAYMOND DE BURGH was drowned in the Loire at Nantes on or shortly before 1 July 1230, and was buried at the Hospital of St. Mary at Dover. Christian, Countess of Essex, died shortly before 17 June 1232, and was buried with her 1st husband in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. Blomefield Esscy towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 419 (charter of Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex); 9 (1808): 195-196. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiq. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 303 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1227: "Obiit Willelmus de Mandewilla comes Essexim."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Genealogist 6 (1882): 1-7. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of … Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 72,93. Moore Cartularium Afonarterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria (1897): 201-202, 205-206 (charter dated 1227 of Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex, widow, to Geoffrey de Lanvaley son of William and Hawise sister [sororis] of Geoffrey Fitz Peter formerly Justiciar of England), 206-207 (charter dated 1227-30 of Raymond de Burgh confirming grant of his wife, Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex to Geoffrey de Lanvalei son of William and his wife Hawise). Ancestor 11(1904): 129-135. English Hirt. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115, 150-154. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 107. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 33-37, 73-77, 102-110, 165-171, 199-209, 244-247, 501-511. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. C.P. 5 (1926): 130-133 (sub Essex). Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46, 55. VCH Hertford 4 (1971): 426-428. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 4-16; 6 (1978): 177-182. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville). 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.). Online resource: www.finerollshenrylorg.uk/content/calendar/roll_025.html. iii. HENRY FITZ GEOFFREY, King's clerk, 3rd son. He was appointed Dean of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire by the king in 1205. The king granted him a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln in 1207. Sometime in the period, 1213-18, he resigned all his right in the church of Preston to Abbot and convent of Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He died sometime before 1224, when Giles de Erdington occurs as his successor as Dean of Wolverhampton. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1846): 1443. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Lee Hist., Description & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Ross Cartulary of Circencester Abbey, Gloucestershire 2 (1964): 340 (notification by Henry clerk, son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter formerly Earl of Essex dated 1213-18). VCH Stafford 3 (1970): 321-331. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300 3 (1977): 118-150. iv. MAUD DE MANDEVILLE, Countess of Essex, married (1st) HENRY DE BOHUN, Earl of Hereford [see BOHUN 5]; (2nd) ROGER DE DAUNTSEY, Knt., of Dauntsey and Wilsford, Wiltshire [see BOHUN 5]. v. ALICE FITZ GEOFFREY, died without issue sometime before 1227. Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Society 111) (1996): 84-91. Children of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt, by Aveline de Clare: i. JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt, of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., married ISABELLE BIGOD [see VERDUN 8]. ii. HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, married REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt, of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 8]. iii. CECILY FITZ GEOFFREY, married SAVARY DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 3]. iv. FITZ GEOFFREY, married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. [see HARLESTON 3]. v. MAUD FITZ GEOFFREY, married (1st) HENRY D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, King's Constable [see CANTELOWE 4]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Steward of the Royal Household [see CANTELOWE 4].” 3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROGER DE CLARE (otherwise ROGER FITZ RICHARD), 2nd Earl of Hertford (also styled Earl of Clare), younger son. He married MAUD DE SAINT HILARY... Children of Roger de Clare, by Maud de St. Hilary... ii. AVELINE DE CLARE, married (1st) before 1186 WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc., younger son of Warin de Munchensy, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Pain Fitz John. They had two sons, William and Warin, Knt. He was heir before Michaelmas 1190 to his older brother, Ralph de Munchensy, Knt. In 1198 he was serving in Normandy. He was one of the guarantors of the treaty between King John and the Count of Flanders at Roche d'Andelys in 1199. He was fined for not serving overseas in 1201. He was a benefactor of the religious houses of West Dereham and Missenden. SIR WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY died before 7 May 1204. His widow, Aveline, married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) (as his 2nd wife) GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2], of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son of Peter de Ludgershall, of Cherhill and Linley (in Tisbury), Wiltshire, and Gussage Saint Andrew (in Sixpenny Handley), Dorset, by his wife, Maud. He was born before 1145. They had one son, John, Knt., and four daughters, Hawise, Cecily, ___, and Maud. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY (died before 19 April 1197), daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his 1st wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his two half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. In 1198, Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey further gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a fee farm of £100 per annum. He campaigned against the Welsh in 1206 and 1210. He was granted a significant part of the lands forfeited by Normans, including the manors of Depden and Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and other lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, all worth over £100 per annum. In 1207 the king confirmed his possession of the manor of Notgrove, Gloucestershire, which Geoffrey had by the gift of John Eskelling. Sometime before 1212, he was granted the manor of Gussage Dynaunt (or Gussage St. Michael), Dorset, which manor was forfeited by Roland de Dinan. At some unspecified date, when already earl, he granted all his right in St. Peter's chapel in Drayton to the canons of St. Peter's Cathedral, York. He was the founder of the first church of Wintney Priory, Hampshire. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Earl of Essex, died 14 October 1213, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1213-4 the king commanded Geoffrey de Buckland to let the king have, at the price any others would give for them, the corn, pigs, and other chattels at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire which belonged his brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, lately deceased. About 1214 his widow, Aveline, granted the canons of Holy Trinity, London, in frank almoin, a half mark quit rent out of her Manor of Towcester, Northamptonshire, part of whose body is buried there. In 1221 the Prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England sued her regarding two virgates and five acres of land in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Aveline, Countess of Essex, died before 4 June 1225. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 414-427. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (Fitz Peter ped.). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 721-722; 6(1) (1830): 339-340; 6(3) (1830): 1191 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 190-194 (Mandeville-Say ped). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 273 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1213: "Obiit Gaufridus filius Petri comes de Essexe, et justitiatius totius Angliæ, tunc temporis cunctis in Anglia præstantion"). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 76-114. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of … Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 193-194; 3 (1887): 452-453. Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private Prior to A.D. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 97-99 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1191 to Geoffrey Fitz Peter and Beatrice his wife, as rightful and next heirs, of all the land of Earl William de Mandeville, which was hers by hereditary right), 108-110 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1198 of the division of their inheritance made by Beatrice and Maud, daughters and co-heirs of William de Say, in the time of his father, King Henry II). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91,93. Moore Cartularium Monasteri Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 349-350, 354, 371-372. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 36-37, 58-59, 85, 130-131. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 1, 43, 54, 92, 117, 127, 150, 161. Feet of Fines of King Richard I AD. 1198 to AD. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 15. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 412-414. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115; 4 (1956): 158-162. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 81-85, 501-511. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (two charters of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and two charters of his widow, Aveline, Countess of Essex). Book of Fees 1 (1920): 91-92. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 215, 218-219. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 141-155; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 122-125 (sub Essex), 437 (chart) (sub Fitz John); 9 (1936): 420 (sub Munchensy). VCH Kent 2 (1926): 175-176. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 34-37, 41, 92-93, 255-256. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 24, 103, 228. Hassall Cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenvell (Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 100-101. Paget (1957) 130:5 (see Genealogist n.s. 14:181). West Justiciarship in England, 1066-1232 (1966). Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 174-176. Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. VCH Hampshire 2 (1973) 149-151; 3 (1908): 107; 4 (1911): 79-81. Burton Cartulary of the Treasurer of York Minster (Borthwick Texts & Cals.: Recs. of the Northern Province 5) (1978): 52-53 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex dated 1199-1212). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85, 165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 186-187, 189-190, 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville), 194-197. Holt Acta of Heny II and Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193, 202-203. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 308-309 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Bocland. Seal on tag - obverse: earl of horseback, brandishing a sword. Legend: SI[GILLUM GAUFRIDI COMITI]S EXIE +; Counterseal: six-petalled flower (worn); Legend: ...IL...ETRI...), 309, 314-315 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex). Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Soc., vol. 111) (1996): 16-17, 84-91. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 35-70 (biog. of Geoffrey Fitz Peter), App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 147-172. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 78-79. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 100-101. Thorley Docs. in Medieval Latin (1998): 53-55. Breay Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (1999): 151. Greenway Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery (1999): xxviii-xxx. Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Family, Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 2706 198 x 4 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Child of Aveline de Clare, by William de Munchensy: a. WARIN DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, married (1st) JOAN MARSHAL [see MARSHAL 4]; (2nd) DENISE DE ANESTY [see MARSHAL 4]. Children of Aveline de Clare, by Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt: a. JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., married ISABEL LE BIGOD [see VERDUN 8]. b. HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, married REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN ??]. c. CECILY FITZ GEOFFREY, married SAVARY DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 3]. d. FITZ GEOFFREY. She married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. [see HARLESTON 3]. e. MAUD FITZ GEOFFREY, married (1st) HENRY D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, King's Constable [see CANTELOWE 4]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Steward of the Royal Household [see CANTELOWE 4].” | Fitz Geoffrey (I7250)
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| 7075 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “Children of Walter de Gant, by Maud of Brittany: ... iv. AGNES DE GANT, married (1st) WILLIAM DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset, son and heir of William de Mohun, of Dunster, Somerset, by his wife, Alice. He was an adult before 1131. They had six sons, Ralph, William, Henry, Iwan, Peter, and Richard. Her maritagium included the manor of Whichford, Warwickshire. He and his wife, Agnes, gave the advowson of the church of Whichford, Warwickshire to Bridlington Priory, which was founded by Agnes' father, Walter de Gant. William was created Earl of Somerset in 1141. This honour did not continue in the family. WILLIAM DE MOHUN was living in 1142. His widow, Agnes, married (2nd) before 1145 RICHARD LE SCROPE, of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. They had one son, Robert (of Flotmanby and Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire). Dugdale Monastkon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 286. Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 5-9. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 430, 489-490. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 205-209 (Agnes, wife of Richard le Scrope, styled "aunt" [inatertera] by Alice de Gant, Countess of Northampton in charter dated 1184-5). CP. 9 (1936): 18, footnote h; 11(1949): 531-532 (sub Scrope). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 114. TG 8 (1988): 3-38. Child of Agnes de Gant, by William de Mohun: a. WILLIAM DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset, married GODEHILDE DE TONY [see MOHUN 5].” | le Scrope, Robert (I7753)
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| 7076 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “Children of Walter de Gant, by Maud of Brittany: ... iv. AGNES DE GANT, married (1st) WILLIAM DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset, son and heir of William de Mohun, of Dunster, Somerset, by his wife, Alice. He was an adult before 1131. They had six sons, Ralph, William, Henry, Iwan, Peter, and Richard. Her maritagium included the manor of Whichford, Warwickshire. He and his wife, Agnes, gave the advowson of the church of Whichford, Warwickshire to Bridlington Priory, which was founded by Agnes' father, Walter de Gant. William was created Earl of Somerset in 1141. This honour did not continue in the family. WILLIAM DE MOHUN was living in 1142. His widow, Agnes, married (2nd) before 1145 RICHARD LE SCROPE, of Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire. They had one son, Robert (of Flotmanby and Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire). Dugdale Monastkon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 286. Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 5-9. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 430, 489-490. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 205-209 (Agnes, wife of Richard le Scrope, styled "aunt" [inatertera] by Alice de Gant, Countess of Northampton in charter dated 1184-5). CP. 9 (1936): 18, footnote h; 11(1949): 531-532 (sub Scrope). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 114. TG 8 (1988): 3-38. Child of Agnes de Gant, by William de Mohun: a. WILLIAM DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset, married GODEHILDE DE TONY [see MOHUN 5].” | le Scrope, Richard (I6154)
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| 7077 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “JUDITH OF FRANCE, born about 844. She married (1st) at Verberie near Senlis 1 October 856 ÆTHELWULF, King of the West Saxons, son of Egbert, King of Wessex, by his wife, Redburge. They had no issue. He died 13 Jan. 858. She married (2nd) in 858 ÆTHELBALD, King of the West Saxons, son of Aethelwulf, King of Wessex, by his wife, Osburga. They had no issue. He died 22 Dec. 860. She married (3rd) at Auxerre in 862 (before 23 Nov.) BAUDOUIN I Bras de Fer, Count/Marquis of Flanders, before 862-879, Lay-abbot of Saint-Pierre, Ghent, 870, son of Audacer (or Odoacre), King of Morins. They had three sons, Charles, Baldwin (II) [Count/Marquis of Flanders], and Raoul [Count of Vermandois], and one daughter, (nun at Laon). His wife, Queen Judith, died after 870. BAUDOUIN I, Count/Marquis of Flanders, died at Arras in 879, and was buried in the abbey of Saint-Bertin, Saint-Omer. Histoire des Combos de Flandre (1698): 8-12. Panckoucke Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de Flandre (1762): 1-7. Galopin Historiae Flandricae (1781): 5. Wauters Table Chronologique des Chartes et Diplômes Imprimés 17 (1866): xxxvii, xxxviii, xlv, 210, 246-248, 251, 254, 261, 320, 368, 655. Dümmler Briefe und Verse des neunten Jahrhunderts, Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 13 (1888): 344-363. Compte-rendu des Séances de la Commission Royale d'Histoire 5th Ser. 9 (1898): 142-180 (sub Comtes de Flandre). Monumenta Germaniæ Historica: Epistolae VI (1925): 56-57, 186 (Baldwin, Count of Flanders, styled "son-in-law of the king" [generi Regis] in letter dated A.D. 862-875), 272-277, 360-362, 369-372, 412-414. Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) IV 33. Ganshof Flandre sous les Premiers Comtes (1949): 16. Schwennicke Europäische Stanmtafeln 2 (1984): 1 (sub Kings of the West Franks), 5 (sub Flanders). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): IV.39, V.47-V.48.” | Osburh (I7328)
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| 7078 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.). Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael: i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next]. ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4]. iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4]. iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].” | Paynell, Gervase (I6421)
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| 7079 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.). Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael: i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next]. ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4]. iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4]. iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].” | of Leicester, John (I6334)
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| 7080 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.). Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael: i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next]. ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4]. iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4]. iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].” | of Leicester, Geoffrey (I6333)
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| 7081 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.). Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael: i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next]. ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4]. iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4]. iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].” | of Leicester, Henry (I6332)
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| 7082 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.). Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael: i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next]. ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4]. iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4]. iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “SIMON DE SENLIS, Knt., advocate of the Priory of St. Andrew's, Northampton, Sheriff of Huntingdonshire, son and heir, born c.1103. He was a ward of his step-father, King David I, until 1124. He married before 1138 ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Breteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon [Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton], and three daughters, Amice, Hawise, and Isabel. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Simon. He witnessed the Oxford charter of King Stephen in 1136. He was recognized as Earl of Northampton previous to 1140. About 1140, as "Earl Simon," he granted three bovates and two tofts in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire to William his chamberlain. He fought for King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, and was one of the three earls who remained faithful to Queen Maud during her husband's captivity. About 1145 he exchanged various rents from the mills of Earl's Barton and Great Doddington, Northamptonshire with the Prior and convent of St. Andrew's, Northampton, in return for lands in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire. After the death of his half-brother, Henry of Scotland, in 1152, he obtained the earldom of Huntingdon. He appears five times in the charters of his brother-in- law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, including treaties with the Bishop of Lincoln and Earl of Chester. In 1152-3 he granted Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templers. He founded the nunnery of De la Pré, near Northampton, and Sawtry Abbey, Huntingdonshire. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died August 1153. Sometime before 1158, his widow, Isabel, and her son, Simon, granted to the nuns of Eaton two carucates of land with pasture for 300 sheep in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire, Churchill, Worcestershire, son and heir of Ralph Paynell, of Dudley, Staffordshire. They had one son, Robert. In the period, c.1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, presented to the church of Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. In the period, 1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, gave a mansura in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, Warwickshire. In 1173 he was among the supporters of Prince Henry in his rebellion. In 1182 he confirmed to the monks of Tickford the chapel of Astwood, Buckinghamshire. In 1187 Gervase confirmed to Tickford Priory, with the consent of his wife, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, the gifts of his father and grandfather. He issued two other charters to Tickford, one giving a house and messuage in Newport, and the other giving his land in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire. GERVASE PAYNELL was living as late as May 1188 (date of letter), and died before Michaelmas 1194, and was buried in Tickford Priory. At some unknown date, Isabel was granted a bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire by her brother, Robert, Earl of Leicestershire, which sometime in or after 1190 she gave to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, she also granted four bovates in Waltham [on the Wolds], Leicestershire to Belvoir Priory. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1830): 213 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis] to the Abbey of De la Pré), 521, 522-523 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton, names his parents, Earl Simon and Countess Maud, and his grandparents, Earl Waltheof and Countess Judith, niece [neptem] of King William the Conqueror); 5 (1825): 203 (charter of Gervase Paynell to Tickford Priory); 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Burke Hist. of the Commoners 1 (1834): 651-652 (sub St. Liz/Sheffield). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 612 (sub Northampton) (biog. of Simon de Senlis II). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Round Feudal England (1895): 575 (ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59 confirms gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 175, 177, 241-244, 257-259. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #26 (charter of Simon [de Senlis], Earl of Northampton dated c.1145-50). MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 165 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton to Belvoir Priory). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 43-45. English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245, 246 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton), 251-259, 347 (charter of Earl Simon dated c.1140). G.H. Fowler 'Shire of Bedford and the Earldom of Huntingdon' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 23-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 643 (sub Huntingdon); 9 (1936): 663-664 (sub Northampton). Pub. of Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 49 (charter of "Symon comes Norhant" dated 1138/47). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (1930): 144-145. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 213-221. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 203-212. Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 48-50. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 279-280 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1152-3). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 307 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis], dated 1174-84). Cronne Reign of Stephen, 1135-54 (1970): 141. Stringer Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219 (1985). King Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign (1994): 56-57. Franklin Medieval Ecclesiastical. Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen (1999): 138. Kerr Religious Life for Women, c.1100-c.1350 (1999): 78. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.). Crouch Beaumont Twins (2008): 84. Children of Simon de Senlis, by Isabel of Leicester: i. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Northampton, son and heir, born about 1138. He was a minor at his father's death and remained in ward to the king for about five years. He married ALICE DE GANT [see GANT 2.i.a], daughter and heiress of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln, by Rohese, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert [de Clare] [see GANT 2.i for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon, who died young. Sometime before 1163 he confirmed his father's grant in Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templars. He and his wife, Alice, issued two confirmation charters to Stixwould Priory c.1155-60. In 1174 he was recognized as Earl of Huntingdon. As Simon, Earl of Huntingdon, he granted to the monks of Wardon, Bedfordshire a certain road as they had it on the day he came to the Siege of Huntingdon. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died in June 1184. He was buried in St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, to which he was a benefactor. His widow, Alice, died in 1185. She gave the mills of Folkingham, Lincolnshire to Sempinghan Priory, Lincolnshire in order that she might be buried there, but it appears she was instead buried at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yveg 2 (1742): 50-58. Pleuitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonarteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 50. Baker Hist & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 212, 491 (Gant ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbg (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 301-320. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathia de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): 48 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter granted with consent of his wife, Alice), 114-115 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife), 115 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant; charter names her father, Gilbert de Gant; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 116 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulag of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480-482, 520 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter names his "antecessor," Gilbert de Gant), 525 (charter of Countess Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Gant). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 432-436, 436-138 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] daughter of Gilbert Earl of Lincoln dated c.1180-5), 461-465 (confirmation charter by Countess Alice daughter of Earl Gilbert dated 1160-76), 472-473 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1156-74; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 473-474 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1160-c.1175), 474 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] de Gant dated 1160-c.1175), 474-475 (grant by Earl Simon dated 1156-84), 492-493 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant daughter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1184-5; charter names Robert Scrope of Barton, son of Richard Scrope and Agnes her aunt [matertera]), 498-499 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1166-80), 499 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated c.1170-80), 502-503 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife dated c.1170-84; charter witnessed by his brother, Simon son of the Earl). C.P. 6 (1926): 645-646 (sub Huntingdon); 7 (1929): 673 (sub Lincoln); 9 (1936): 664 (sub Northampton). Leys Samford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 280 (charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton dated 1153-7). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 60-61. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 291. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 313 (Scotland ped.). Nottinghamshire Archives: Savile of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/102/59; DD/SR/102/142; DD/SR/102/143; DD/SR/102/X/11 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). ii. ISABEL DE SENLIS [see next].” 3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “RALPH DE TONY (or DE CONCHES), Knt., of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, South Tawton, Devon, Walthamstow, Essex, Necton, Norfolk, Painscasde, Radnorshire, etc., seigneur of Toéni (now Tosny) in Normandy, born about 1140. He married after 1155 MARGARET OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Atnice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1125 (aged 60 in 1185). They had one son, Roger, Knt., and one daughter, Ida. At an unknown date, he gave 30 acres in Brinkley, Cambridgeshire to Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire. He witnessed a charter for King Henry II at Bonneville-sur-Touques in 1156-60. SIR RALPH DE TONY died in 1162, when Robert de Port rendered account for his lands. His widow, Margaret, was living in 1185. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford (1815): 353-360. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 791-800. Maclean Parochial & Fam. Hist. of Blisland (1868): 64-66 (Tony-Beauchamp ped.). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1161-1162 (Pipe Roll Soc. 5) (1885): 25 (Waltheof[Waldeuo] styled "nephew" or "kinsman" [nepoti] of Ralph de Tony). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1162-1163 (Pipe Roll Soc. 6) (1886): 9. Madan Greslgs of Drakelove (Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 1) (1898): 1-15. Metals Châteaux en .Eure-et-I -oir 2 (Archives du Diocese de Chartres 13) (1908): Nogent-le-Roi, son Château et ses Seigneurs, 4-5. Round Rotud de D omina us et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc., vol. 35) (1913): 77 ("Margareta de Tony est de donatione omini Regis, et est .1x. annorum; tef-ra sua in Welcumestowe [Walthamstow] valet per annum .xxiiij. l."). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II 1 (1916): 240-241. English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 50 (chart). CP. 12(1) (1953): 764-765 (sub Tony). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 117. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 3-263. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-141. Procs. Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies 2 (1979): 118-140. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters 1100-1268 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lx (Tosny ped.). Tanner Fams., Friends, Allies (2004): 303 (chart). Bienvenu Grand Cartulaire de Fontevraud 2 (2005): 602-603 (list of children of Roger de Toeni). Gilbert of Mons Chronicle of Hainaut (2005): 34-35. Children of Ralph de Tony, Knt., by Margaret of Leicester i. ROGER DE TONY, Knt. [see next]. ii. IDA DE TONY, mistress to HENRY II, King of England; afterwards married ROGER LE BIGOD, Earl of Norfolk [see BIGOD 6].” | de Gaël, Amice (I6119)
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| 7083 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.). Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael: i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next]. ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4]. iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4]. iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “SIMON DE SENLIS, Knt., advocate of the Priory of St. Andrew's, Northampton, Sheriff of Huntingdonshire, son and heir, born c.1103. He was a ward of his step-father, King David I, until 1124. He married before 1138 ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Breteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon [Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton], and three daughters, Amice, Hawise, and Isabel. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Simon. He witnessed the Oxford charter of King Stephen in 1136. He was recognized as Earl of Northampton previous to 1140. About 1140, as "Earl Simon," he granted three bovates and two tofts in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire to William his chamberlain. He fought for King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, and was one of the three earls who remained faithful to Queen Maud during her husband's captivity. About 1145 he exchanged various rents from the mills of Earl's Barton and Great Doddington, Northamptonshire with the Prior and convent of St. Andrew's, Northampton, in return for lands in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire. After the death of his half-brother, Henry of Scotland, in 1152, he obtained the earldom of Huntingdon. He appears five times in the charters of his brother-in- law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, including treaties with the Bishop of Lincoln and Earl of Chester. In 1152-3 he granted Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templers. He founded the nunnery of De la Pré, near Northampton, and Sawtry Abbey, Huntingdonshire. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died August 1153. Sometime before 1158, his widow, Isabel, and her son, Simon, granted to the nuns of Eaton two carucates of land with pasture for 300 sheep in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire, Churchill, Worcestershire, son and heir of Ralph Paynell, of Dudley, Staffordshire. They had one son, Robert. In the period, c.1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, presented to the church of Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. In the period, 1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, gave a mansura in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, Warwickshire. In 1173 he was among the supporters of Prince Henry in his rebellion. In 1182 he confirmed to the monks of Tickford the chapel of Astwood, Buckinghamshire. In 1187 Gervase confirmed to Tickford Priory, with the consent of his wife, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, the gifts of his father and grandfather. He issued two other charters to Tickford, one giving a house and messuage in Newport, and the other giving his land in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire. GERVASE PAYNELL was living as late as May 1188 (date of letter), and died before Michaelmas 1194, and was buried in Tickford Priory. At some unknown date, Isabel was granted a bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire by her brother, Robert, Earl of Leicestershire, which sometime in or after 1190 she gave to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, she also granted four bovates in Waltham [on the Wolds], Leicestershire to Belvoir Priory. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1830): 213 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis] to the Abbey of De la Pré), 521, 522-523 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton, names his parents, Earl Simon and Countess Maud, and his grandparents, Earl Waltheof and Countess Judith, niece [neptem] of King William the Conqueror); 5 (1825): 203 (charter of Gervase Paynell to Tickford Priory); 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Burke Hist. of the Commoners 1 (1834): 651-652 (sub St. Liz/Sheffield). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 612 (sub Northampton) (biog. of Simon de Senlis II). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Round Feudal England (1895): 575 (ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59 confirms gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 175, 177, 241-244, 257-259. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #26 (charter of Simon [de Senlis], Earl of Northampton dated c.1145-50). MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 165 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton to Belvoir Priory). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 43-45. English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245, 246 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton), 251-259, 347 (charter of Earl Simon dated c.1140). G.H. Fowler 'Shire of Bedford and the Earldom of Huntingdon' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 23-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 643 (sub Huntingdon); 9 (1936): 663-664 (sub Northampton). Pub. of Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 49 (charter of "Symon comes Norhant" dated 1138/47). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (1930): 144-145. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 213-221. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 203-212. Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 48-50. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 279-280 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1152-3). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 307 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis], dated 1174-84). Cronne Reign of Stephen, 1135-54 (1970): 141. Stringer Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219 (1985). King Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign (1994): 56-57. Franklin Medieval Ecclesiastical. Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen (1999): 138. Kerr Religious Life for Women, c.1100-c.1350 (1999): 78. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.). Crouch Beaumont Twins (2008): 84. Children of Simon de Senlis, by Isabel of Leicester: i. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Northampton, son and heir, born about 1138. He was a minor at his father's death and remained in ward to the king for about five years. He married ALICE DE GANT [see GANT 2.i.a], daughter and heiress of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln, by Rohese, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert [de Clare] [see GANT 2.i for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon, who died young. Sometime before 1163 he confirmed his father's grant in Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templars. He and his wife, Alice, issued two confirmation charters to Stixwould Priory c.1155-60. In 1174 he was recognized as Earl of Huntingdon. As Simon, Earl of Huntingdon, he granted to the monks of Wardon, Bedfordshire a certain road as they had it on the day he came to the Siege of Huntingdon. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died in June 1184. He was buried in St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, to which he was a benefactor. His widow, Alice, died in 1185. She gave the mills of Folkingham, Lincolnshire to Sempinghan Priory, Lincolnshire in order that she might be buried there, but it appears she was instead buried at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yveg 2 (1742): 50-58. Pleuitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonarteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 50. Baker Hist & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 212, 491 (Gant ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbg (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 301-320. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathia de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): 48 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter granted with consent of his wife, Alice), 114-115 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife), 115 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant; charter names her father, Gilbert de Gant; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 116 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulag of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480-482, 520 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter names his "antecessor," Gilbert de Gant), 525 (charter of Countess Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Gant). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 432-436, 436-138 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] daughter of Gilbert Earl of Lincoln dated c.1180-5), 461-465 (confirmation charter by Countess Alice daughter of Earl Gilbert dated 1160-76), 472-473 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1156-74; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 473-474 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1160-c.1175), 474 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] de Gant dated 1160-c.1175), 474-475 (grant by Earl Simon dated 1156-84), 492-493 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant daughter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1184-5; charter names Robert Scrope of Barton, son of Richard Scrope and Agnes her aunt [matertera]), 498-499 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1166-80), 499 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated c.1170-80), 502-503 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife dated c.1170-84; charter witnessed by his brother, Simon son of the Earl). C.P. 6 (1926): 645-646 (sub Huntingdon); 7 (1929): 673 (sub Lincoln); 9 (1936): 664 (sub Northampton). Leys Samford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 280 (charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton dated 1153-7). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 60-61. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 291. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 313 (Scotland ped.). Nottinghamshire Archives: Savile of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/102/59; DD/SR/102/142; DD/SR/102/143; DD/SR/102/X/11 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). ii. ISABEL DE SENLIS [see next].” 3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) DE VERMANDOIS, married (1st) in early 1096 ROBERT OF MEULAN (or DE BEAUMONT), Knt.,* Count of Meulan, seigneur of Beaumont, Pont-Audemer, Brionne, and Vatteville (all in Normandy), son and heir of Roger de Beaumont, seigneur of Pont Audemer, Brionne, la Haye-Aubrée, Sahuz, Tourville, Vieilles, etc., chatelain of Beaumont-le-Roger, by Adeline (or Aline), daughter of Waleran (or Galeran) [I], Count of Meulan. He was born about 1046. They had three sons, Waleran (or Galeran) [II] [Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester], Robert, Knt. [1st Earl of Leicester], and Hugh [said to be Earl of Bedford], and five daughters, including Adeline (wife of Hugues IV, seigneur of Montfort-sur-Risle), Aubrey (wife of Hugues II, seigneur of Châteauneuf), Maud, and Isabel (or Elizabeth). When he was very young, he accompanied William, Duke of Normandy [future King William], to England and distinguished himself at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He subsequently received large grants of land in Warwickshire, with smaller holdings in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, and Wiltshire. Sometime in the period, 1066-77, Robert and his father, Roger, attested a royal confirmation for St.-Etienne, Caen. As "Robert de Beaumont," he witnessed a charter of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux [half-brother of King William the Conqueror] dated probably in 1079. In 1080 he and his father were present at the king's court in Normandy. Robert became Count of Meulan about autumn 1080, following the death of his maternal uncle, Hugues II, Count of Meulan. As "Robert, Count of Meulan," he attested a charter of King Philippe I of France dated 6 Jan. 1082 following the Christmas court of King Philippe I in 1081. He was back at the Norman ducal court on 5 Sept. 1082, where he joined his father and brother as witnesses to a suit adjudicated in the presence of King William the Conqueror. About 1088 he quarreled with Duke Robert of Normandy about the castellanship of Brionne, in consequence of the exchange of Brionne for Ivry made by his father. He was present at the ducal court in 1087, 1088, 1089, 1091, and on three further occasions during the early 1090s. In 1097, when King William Rufus invaded France, he admitted him to his castle of Meulan. He was present at the king's death in 1100. On the accession of King Henry I, he supported Henry in the general rising which followed and became his trusted counsellor. On the death of Ives de Grandmesnil on Crusade, he retained his estates, which Ives had mortgaged to him about 1102. Thereby he acquired one-quarter of the town of Leicester, the whole of which was later granted to him by the king. After obtaining the whole town of Leicester, he is said to have become Earl of Leicester, but being already Count of Meulan, he was never so styled. In 1103 he was dispatched by King Henry on a mission to Normandy. The same year he betrothed his infant daughter to Amaury, youngest son of Simon de Montfort, as part of a treaty to end conflicts amongst the "warlike marchers." In 1104 he was one of the Norman barons who adhered to King Henry on his arrival in Normandy. He was present in the king's army at the Battle of Tenchebrai in 1106. In 1110 he was besieged at Meulan by King Louis VI, who took the castle by storm. In the following year he retaliated by a raid on Paris, which he plundered. In 1112 he gave the manor of Chisenbury, Wiltshire for the kitchen of the monks of Bec Abbey. ROBERT OF MEULAN, Count of Meulan, died 5 June 1118, and was buried in the chapter-house of the Abbey of St.-Pierre, Preaux. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 2nd Earl of Surrey (usually styled Earl of Warenne), son and heir of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, by his 1st wife, Gundred, sister of Gerbod the Fleming, Earl of Chester. They had three sons, William [3rd Earl of Surrey], Ralph, and Reynold, and two daughters, Ada and Gundred. In 1090 he was among those fighting in Normandy against Robert de Belleme who was supported by Duke Robert. He witnessed three charters of the king at Windsor in Sept. 1101. In autumn 1101 he accompanied Duke Robert to Normandy, supporting him against the king, and was deprived of his inheritance in England. In 1103, however, as a result of the duke's intercession, he was restored to the earldom of Surrey by the king. In 1106 he accompanied the king to Normandy, and commanded a division of his army at the Battle of Tinchebrai. In 1109 he was present at a council held at Nottingham. In 1110 he was with the king at Dover, becoming a surety for the performance of the treaty with Robert, Count of Flanders. In 1111 he was one of the optimates who acted in a judicial capacity in a plea in Normandy; about that time he was given the castle of Saint-Saens by the king, which had been forfeited by Elias de Saint-Saens. In 1119 he commanded a division at the Battle of Brémule. In 1131 he was present a the council at Northampton. He was one of the earls present at the death of King Henry I 1 Dec. 1135. The same month he was given the administration of the region of Rouen and the pays de Caux. He was present at the court of King Stephen at Easter 1136. William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, died 11 May 1138, and was buried at his father's feet in the chapter-house at Lewes, Sussex. His widow, Isabel, was living c.1138. She died 13 (or 17) February, sometime before June 1147, when her son, William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, left on crusade. (* The latest datable document that Robert attests as "Robert de Beaumont" is a charter of King William the Conqueror for Lessay dated 14 July 1080. Robert acquired the county of Meulan shortly thereafter and thenceforth always attested with his comital title [see Vaughn Anselm of Bec & Robert of Meulan (1987): 88]. There is no evidence that either Robert or his male descendants used the name "de Beaumont" after the year 1082, when Robert first occurs as Robert, Count of Meulan.) Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 414 (Mellent-Newburgh ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 49-51 (two undated charters of William, 2nd Earl of Warenne to Castleacre Priory), 51 (undated charter of W[illiam] Earl of Warenne and Countess Isabel his wife, and their sons, William and Ralph, to Castleacre Priory), 51 (undated charter of Isabel, Countess of Warenne, to Osmund le Despenser); 6(2) (1846): 1113 (charter of William de Warenne and his wife, Isabel, and their sons, William and Ralph, to Bellencombe Priory dated 1135; charter names Isabel's son, Waleran, Count of Meulan). Taylor Annals of St. Mary Overy (1833): 91 (undated charter of William de Warenne and Countess Isabel his wife to the Monastery of St. Mary de Overy). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 ([Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois] sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d’Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Arch. Jour. 3 (1847): 1-26 (re. parentage of Gundred, wife of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey). Stevenson Chronicon Monasterii de Abington 2 (Roll Series 2) (1858): 102-103 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan). Sussex Arch. Colls. 11 (1859): 84 (Warenne ped.). Delisle & Passy Mémoires et Notes de M. Auguste le Prevost 2 (1864): 491 (charter of Morin du Pin granted with consent of the Count of Meulan and Countess Elisabeth). Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 288-289. Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 38 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868):34-35. Coll Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Academy 15 (1879): 457-458 (Letter of Bishop Ivo dated at beginning of A.D. 1096: "Ivo, Dei gratia Camotensis episcopus, clericis Mellentis Perlatum est ad aures nostras quod Mellentinus comes ducere velit in uxorem filiam Hugonis Crispeiensis comitis; quod fieri non sinit concors descretorum et canonum sanctio, dicens: (Conjunctiones consanguineorum fleri prohibernus). Horum autem consanguinitas nec ignota est, nec remota, sicut testantur et probare parati sunt praedari viri de eadem sari prosapia. Dicunt enim quia Gualterius Albus genuit matrem Gualeranni comitis, qui genuit matrem Roberti comitis. Item supradictus Gualterius genuit Radulphum patrem alterius Radulfi, qui genuit Vemiandensem comitissam, ex qua nata eat uxor comitis Hugonis, cujus filiam nunc ducere vult Mellentinus comes."). Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS XIII (1881): 251-256: (Genealogiæ scriptoris Fusniacensis: "Nunc ad Hugonem Magnum revertamur. Hugo cognomento Magnus, frater Philippi regis Francorum, de Adelaide comitissa Veromandensium genuit Radulfum comitem Veromandie et Henricum de Chauni et Simonem episcopum Noviomensem et filias. De quarum una Bonefacius marchio genuit Bonefacium archidiaconum Noviomensem et filios et filias; quarem una nupsit Guilelmo de Monte-pessulano. Secunda filia Hugonis Magni ex Radulfo de Baugenci peperit Simonem eiusdem loci principem. Tercia filia ex Ioifrido de Firmitate-Galceri genuit uxorem Simonis de Oisiaco. Quarta filia nupsit comiti de Meslent, cui peperit filios, quorum unus successit path in comitatu, alter vero comitatem tenuit de Cirecestre [recte Leicester]."). Arch. Jour. 41(1884): 300-312. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 64-66 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan: "[He] is distinctly stated by Orderic to have been created earl of Leicester (‘inde consul in Anglia factus’). But of this the Lords' committee found no evidence (3rd Report on the Dignity of a Peer, p. 133). Nor does he appear to have been so styled ..."). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 463 (Ex Obituario Ecclesiæ Ebroicensis: "6 Jun. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Mellenti."), 472 (Ex Obituadis Lirensis Monasterii: "5 Jun. Obiit Robertus, comes Mellenti."), 487 (Ex Titicensis Monasterii Necrologio: "5 Jun. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Mellensium."). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): xiii-xiv ("That he [Robert] was never styled Earl [of Leicester] in his lifetime seems certain"), 1 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1103-18). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 112-113, 123-124. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327. Porée Hist. de l'Abbaye du Bec 1 (1901): 368 (two charters of Robert I, Count of Meulan, one dated c.1117). Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 483-484, 522 (charter of William, Earl of Warenne, and his wife, Isabel). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 521 (Prieuré de Longpont: "idus Februarius [13 February] [obit.] Isabel, comitissa de Garenna"), 524 (Prieuré de Longpont "v. idus. Maius. [11 May] [obit.] Guillermus, comes de Garenna."); 2 (1906): 190 (Abbaye de Saint-Pere-en-Vallee: 6 Jun. - VIII idus. [Ob.] Robertus, comes Mellentensis, qui dedit S. Petro terram unius aratri in Garenna."); 238 (Obituaire of Prieuré de Saint-Nicaise de Meulan: "[Obiit] Isabel, comitissa Mellenti, XIII. kal. Mardi [17 Feb.]."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 11(1904): 198-200 (two undated charters of King William the Conqueror, one witnessed by Roger de Beaumont, and his sons, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Henry de Beaumont; the other witnessed by Robert, Count of Meulan), 200 (charter of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux dated c.1079, witnessed by Robert de Beaumont), 207-209. Bodes Hist. du Canton de Meulan 1(1906): 25-38. Prou Recueil des Actes de Philippe Roi de France (1908): 270-272 (charter of King Philippe I of France dated 1082). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Triniti de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 3-10, 10-17 (confirmation charter of Waleran II, Count of Meulan names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan; his mother, Elizabeth, Countess of Meulan; and his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont), 43-45,237-238. Genealogist n.s. 36 (1919): 173-178. Salzman Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes 1 (Sussex Record Society 38) (1932): 29 (charter of William de Warenne, 3d Earl of Surrey, and his mother, Isabel; dated c.1138). Reg Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 28) (1933): 10-11 (writ of Robert, Count of Meulan dated before 1118). Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 17 (1934): 19-48. Walker Wakefield: Its Hist. & People (1934): 44-60 (pg. 52: author states "countess Isabel died February 13th, 1131, and the Earl followed her seven years later, on May 11th, 1138. Both were buried in the chapter house of Lewes priory."). Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1, 7-12. Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 9 (charter of Robert Count of Meulan dated 1112). C.P. 12(1) (1953): 495-496. Paget (1957) 569:1-3 (identification of children, but Reginald shown as second son). Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2456-2458, 2475. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61,128-129. Val Leicestershire 5 (1964): 2. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain et la Farnille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30, 56-264. Albion 10 (1978): 352-373. Indiana Social Studies Quarterly 31(1978): 10-13. Scottish Hist. Rev. 60 (1981): 119-139. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1989): 55 (sub Vermandois). Vaughn Anselm of Bec & Robert of Meulan (1987). Winter Descs.of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): X11.22, X.111.44-XIII.48. Bates and Gazeau "L'Abbaye de Grestain at la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville," in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth & Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 228. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 308 (Vermandois ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.), 315 (Warenne ped.). Online resource: hap://genealogy.euweb.cz/capet/capet8.html#R1. Children of Isabel (or Elizabeth) de Vermandois, by Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont): i. WALERAN (or GALERAN) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester (see next). ii. ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, married AMICE DE GAEL [see LEICESTER 6]. iii. MAUD OF MEULAN, married GUILLAUME (or WILLIAM) LOVEL, seigneur of Ivri [see LOVEL 6]. iv. ISABEL OF MEULAN, mistress to HENRY I, King of England [see ENGLAND 2]; afterwards married (1st) GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, Earl of Pembroke [see PEMBROKE 3]; (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire [see PEMBROKE 3]. Children of Isabel (or Elizabeth) de Vermandois, by William de Warenne: i. WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 3rd Earl of Surrey, married ELA OF PONTHIEU [see WARENNE 6]. ii. REYNOLD DE WARENNE, of Wormegay, Norfolk, married ALICE DE WORMEGAY [see BARDOLF 6]. iii. ADA DE WARENNE, married HENRY OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Northumberland [see SCOTLAND 3]. iv. GUNDRED DE WARENNE, married (1st) ROGER, 2nd Earl of Warwick [see WARWICK 6]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE LANCASTER, of Kendal, Westmorland [see WARWICK 6].” 4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “RALPH DE TONY (or DE CONCHES), Knt., of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, South Tawton, Devon, Walthamstow, Essex, Necton, Norfolk, Painscasde, Radnorshire, etc., seigneur of Toéni (now Tosny) in Normandy, born about 1140. He married after 1155 MARGARET OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Atnice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1125 (aged 60 in 1185). They had one son, Roger, Knt., and one daughter, Ida. At an unknown date, he gave 30 acres in Brinkley, Cambridgeshire to Warden Abbey, Bedfordshire. He witnessed a charter for King Henry II at Bonneville-sur-Touques in 1156-60. SIR RALPH DE TONY died in 1162, when Robert de Port rendered account for his lands. His widow, Margaret, was living in 1185. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford (1815): 353-360. Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 791-800. Maclean Parochial & Fam. Hist. of Blisland (1868): 64-66 (Tony-Beauchamp ped.). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1161-1162 (Pipe Roll Soc. 5) (1885): 25 (Waltheof[Waldeuo] styled "nephew" or "kinsman" [nepoti] of Ralph de Tony). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1162-1163 (Pipe Roll Soc. 6) (1886): 9. Madan Greslgs of Drakelove (Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 1) (1898): 1-15. Metals Châteaux en .Eure-et-I -oir 2 (Archives du Diocese de Chartres 13) (1908): Nogent-le-Roi, son Château et ses Seigneurs, 4-5. Round Rotud de D omina us et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc., vol. 35) (1913): 77 ("Margareta de Tony est de donatione omini Regis, et est .1x. annorum; tef-ra sua in Welcumestowe [Walthamstow] valet per annum .xxiiij. l."). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II 1 (1916): 240-241. English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 50 (chart). CP. 12(1) (1953): 764-765 (sub Tony). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 117. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 3-263. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-141. Procs. Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies 2 (1979): 118-140. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters 1100-1268 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lx (Tosny ped.). Tanner Fams., Friends, Allies (2004): 303 (chart). Bienvenu Grand Cartulaire de Fontevraud 2 (2005): 602-603 (list of children of Roger de Toeni). Gilbert of Mons Chronicle of Hainaut (2005): 34-35. Children of Ralph de Tony, Knt., by Margaret of Leicester i. ROGER DE TONY, Knt. [see next]. ii. IDA DE TONY, mistress to HENRY II, King of England; afterwards married ROGER LE BIGOD, Earl of Norfolk [see BIGOD 6].” | of Meulan, Robert "le Bossu" (I6118)
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| 7084 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HENRY II OF ENGLAND (otherwise HENRY FITZ GEOFFREY, or HENRY FITZ EMPRESS), Knt., King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, and, in right of his wife, Duke of Aquitaine, born at Le Mans in Maine 5 March 1133. He was knighted at Carlisle by his great uncle, David, King of Scotland, at Whitsuntide 1149. He married at Bordeaux, France 18 May 1152 ELEANOR (or ALIENOR) OF AQUITAINE, former wife of Louis VII le Jeune (or le Pieux), King of France, Duke of Aquitaine [see FRANCE 6] (divorced 21 March 1152), and daughter and co-heiress of Guillaume X, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou, by his 1st wife, Aénor, daughter of Amaury (or Aimery) I, Vicomte of Châtellerault [see AQUITAINE 4 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1124 (aged 13 in 1137). They had eight children (see below). By various mistresses, he also had a number of illegitimate children, including three sons, Geoffrey [Archbishop of York], William Longespée, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], and Morgan [Provost of Beverley], and two daughters, including Maud [Abbess of Barking]. By the Treaty of Winchester in 1153, Henry was recognized as King Stephen's heir. He reached England 8 Dec. 1154, and was crowned King of England at Westminster 19 Dec. 1154, with direct rule over England and southern Wales, and a claim to the overlordship of northern Wales. His domain of England, Wales, and the French lands acquired from inheritance and marriage (ruled as separate components) was termed the "Angevin empire" (as his father was Count of Anjou). He had little difficulty in curbing the disorder of Stephen's reign and restoring the royal authority. He encouraged the development of juries of local men in the investigation of crimes, and trial of those accused by royal justices. His writs to sheriffs improved the disposition of claims over possession of property and benefices, thereby discouraging local self-help of violent ejection and usurpation. He was the first king to attempt to break down the feudal system of government by bringing its countless independent jurisdictions into subjection to one uniform judicial administration. In 1158 he confirmed a treaty with King Louis VII of France involving the marriage of Henry's son to the French king's daughter. In the summer of 1159 he launched an unsuccessful expedition against Toulouse, which he claimed as Duke of Aquitaine. His reassertion of the king's rights over the church, in particular that clerics were subject to his courts and not solely to ecclesiastical courts, led to the quarrel with his former chancellor, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was murdered in his cathedral in Dec. 1170. In 1171 Henry invaded Ireland intent on conquest. By Christmas 1171 Waterford, Wexford, Limerick, and Cork were in his hands and all the Irish princes, except the King of Connacht, gave him hostages and promised tribute. In 1178 he reorganized the English curia regis by restricting its highest functions to a small inner tribunal of selected counsellors, which later grew into the court of the king's bench. His final years were marked by quarrels with and between his sons, stirred into rebellion by their mother, from whom he was separated. HENRY II OF ENGLAND, King of England, died testate at Château Chinon, Normandy 6 July 1189 in the midst of a rebellion by his sons. His widow, Eleanor, died at Poitiers (Vienne), France 31 March 1204. They were both buried in the church of the Abbey of Fontevrault (Maine-et-Loire). Note: Eleanor of Aquitaine had two daughters by her 1st marriage to Louis VII le Jeune (or le Pieux), King of France [see FRANCE 6], namely Marie of France (died 1198) (wife of Henry [I], Count Palatine of Troyes) [see BLOIS 4] and Alix of France (died c.1197) (wife of Thibaut [V], Count of Blois, Dunois, and Chartres, Seneschal of France [see WYDEVILLE 4]. References: Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 20 (1840): 735 (Chronicon Guillelmi de Nangiaco). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules at de la France 12 (1877): 228 (Extrait d'une Chron. de France, etc.); 13 (1869): 308 i (Ex Roberti Abbatis Appendice ad Sigebertum), 565 (Præpositi Hannoniæ Chronico), 703,708-709 (Chron. of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines); 19 (1880): 336-337. Schwennicke Europæische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 47 (sub Champagne & Brie). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 91-105. Wheeler Eleanor of Aquataine: Lord & Lady (2003). Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 59-72. Gallia Christiana 2 (1720): 1128 (Agnes de Barbezillo styled "aunt" famital of Queen Eleanor [of Aquitaine), wife of King Louis WI of France). Rawlinson Hist. & Antiqs. of the City, and Cathedral-Church of Hereford (1717): Addenda, 17 (Kalendar of Obits: "II Non. Julius [6 July]. Obitus Henrici Regis Anglie, filie Matildis."). Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1725): 76-77. Nichols Coll. of All the Wills (1780): 7-10, 10*-12* (will of King Henry II). L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 348-365 (sub Comtes de Poitiers, Ducs de Aquitaine). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1786): 190 (Ex Radulfi de Diceto: Ralph de Fay styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine). Rymer Fædera 1 (1) (1816): 81-82 (Aimery VII, Vicomte of Thouars, styled "kinsman" by Queen Eleanor). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 573 (William [Fitz Roy], 4th Earl of Surrey (or Warenne), styled "kinsman" [cognati] by King Henry II). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 1-4 (will of King Henry II of England). Gray Scalacronica (1836): 278 (Ermengarde de Beaumont, wife of William the Lion, King of Scots styled "cousin" [cosyn] of King Henry II of England). Historiæ Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (Surtees Soc. 9) (1839): Appendix, pg. 1, charter no. xixii (Hugh [du Puiset], Bishop of Durham, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II). Strickland Lives of the Queens of England 1 (1840): 304-378 (biog. of Eleanora of Aquitaine). Pertz Chronica et Annales ævi Salui (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 6) (1844): (Roberti de Monte Cronica [Robert de Torigni]): 505 (sub 1156) & 506 (sub 1157: Thierry, Count of Flanders, and his wife, [Sibyl of Anjou], she styled "aunt" [amita] of King Henry II), 508 (sub 1158: Thibaut, Count of Blois, styled "kinsman" [cognatus]), 512 (sub 1162: William I, King of Sicily, styled "kinsman" [cognatum]), 514 (sub 1165: Philip, Count of Flanders, styled "kinsman" [consobrinum], 515 (sub 1166: [Godred], King of Man, styled "kinsman" on the part of King Henry II's mother, Empress Maud), 519 (sub 1170: Hugh, Earl of Chester, styled "kinsman" [cognate]; Earl Hugh's wife, [Bertrade], daughter of [Simon], Count of Evreux "kinswoman" [cognatam] on the part of King Henry II's father), 527 (sub 1179: Ralph brother of [Richard], Vicomte of Beaumont, styled "kinsman" [cognatus germanus]), 534 (sub 1184: Philip, Count of Flanders, styled "kinsman" [cognate]); 27(1925): 108 (Ex Gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I.: Ermengarde, daughter of Richard, Vicomte of Beaumont, styled "kinswoman" by King Henry II). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851) 18-19. Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 245 (Annals of Waverley sub AD. 1188 - Baldwin [de Revers], Earl of Cornwall, styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] of King Henry II). Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaries de l'Ouest 29 (1865): 372 (Aimery VII, Vicomte of Thouars styled "your cousin and our's" [votre cousin et au notre] by queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in letter to her son, King John dated 1200-1201; also see Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chattes 32 (1871): 412-413). Marchegay & Mabille Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou (1869): 33 (Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis: birth of King Henry II), 46 (Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis: death of King Henry II). Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 2 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1869): 105 (Uchtred Fitz Fergus of Galloway styled "kinsman" of King Henry II; see Wyckoff Feudal Relations Between the Kings of England & Scotland Under the Early Plantagenets (1897): 83, footnote 1). Grasilier Cartulaires Inédits de la Saintonge 2: Cartulaire de l'Abbaye Royale de Notre-Dame de Saintes (1871): 13-16, 19-21, 35-36, 36 (charter of Eleanor [of Aquitaine], Queen of France dated 1151 names her "sister” [sororis], Aelith), 37, 51 (charter of Eleanor [of Aquitaine], Queen of France, dated 1140 names her "aunt" [amite], Agnes [de Barbezieux], Abbess of Saintes; charter witnessed by Aelith, "sister" [sorore] of Queen Eleanor), 52, 78. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 192 (birth of King Henry II); 2 (1873): 7 (sub A.D. 1168: Mathieu, Count of Boulogne, styled "kinsman" [cognatum] of King Henry II of England). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Set.) (1874): 285 (Ralph de Pale styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine). Montzey Hist. de is Fliche 1 (1877): 137-146. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 426, 439 (Chron. of Geoffrey Vosiensis: Sarah daughter of Reynold, Earl of Cornwall and wife of Ademar, Vicomte of Limoges styled "kinswoman" [consanguineam] of King Henry II of England). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 15 (1878): 767-768 (P[etrus Raimundi], Abbot of Saint Maxent, styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England in letters dated 1161). Eyton Court, Household & Intinerary of King Henry II (1878): 8 (Henry [de Sully], Abbot of Fécamp, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II). Stubbs Hist. Works of Gervase of Canterbury 1 (Rolls Ser. 73) (1879): 93 (birth of King Henry II), 140-141 (David I, King of Scots, styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] of King Henry II of England). Delisle Cartulaire Normand (1882). Bain Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 2 (1884): 15-17 (Robert de Courtenay, Knt., styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of Queen Eleanor). Hart Cartularium Monasterii de Rameseia 1 (1884): 106 (Silvio de Cresto styled "queen's kinsman" [nepoti Regina]). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1 (1887): 10-13 (seal of King Henry II - Obverse. King enthroned, holding sword and orb; generally ressembling the obverse of seals of Henry I. and Stephen, but with differences in arches on front of throne, and in the various proportions. Legend: + HENRICVS DEI • G[RATIA] • REX ANGLORUM. Four small points in cross placed as a stop between the words. Reverse. King on a horse to the right; hauberk, continuous coif, and chausses of chain-mail, here represented by rings. Conical helmet with nasal. Shield secured by strap passing round king's neck, and fastened by a ring into inner surface of leather. In right hand a long sword; in left hand the short strap of shield and reins. Horse's head-gear composed of chain-work. Legend: + HENR : DEI : GRA : DVX : NORM: [ ] ET : AQVIT : ET: COM : ANDEG.). Christie Annales Cestrienses (1887): 29-35 (Bertrade of Evreux, wife of Hugh, Earl of Chester, styled "cousin" of King Henry II in chronicle of the Abbey of S. Werburg at Chester). Great Roll of the Pipe 1164-1165 (Pipe Roll Soc. 8) (1887): 40 (Marchise styled "kinswoman" [cognate] of Queen Eleanor [perhaps her cousin, Marchise, daughter of Aldebert IV, Count de La Marche]). Gross Gild Merchant 2 (1890): 28-29 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem 1(1894): 108, 125-128, 180-181, 312, 470-471, 480-482, 519, 527, 567-568; 2 (1897): 18-19. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 579 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "7 Jul. [Obiit] Henricus secundus, rex Anglorum."). Archives Hist. de Département de la Gironde 30 (1895): 6-7 (charter of Eleanor). Beauchet-Filleau Dictionnaire historique et généalogique des Families du Poitou 2 (1895): 320 ("L'obituaire de Fontevrault place son décès le jour des ides de janvier. Dnus Radulfus princeps de Faia, avunculus Dnæ Alienordis Reginae. (bat. 54802 89.)) (author identifies Ralph de Fay as son of Aimery I, Vicomte of Châtellerault). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford 2 (1896): 116 (Empress Maud styled "sister" [soror] and her son, Henry [afterwards King Henry II of England] styled "nephew" [nepos] by Robert Fitz Roy, Earl of Gloucester in charter dated c.1142). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Andre de Chauvigny styled "kinsman" by Eleanor [of Aquitaine], Queen of England, and her son, King John, in letter dated 1199). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 69 (grant by King Henry II dated 1186-9). Broussillon Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Aubin d'Angers 2 (1903): 84 (Raoul [de Beaumont], Bishop of Angers, styled "dearest kinsman" [charissimus cognatus] in letter by King Henry II of England). English Hist. Rev. 21 (1906): 78-93; 42 (1927): 569-572; 74 (1959): 193-213; 110 (1995): 652-655. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 104-105 (Mary, Abbess of Romsey, styled "kinswoman" [cognata/cognatam] by King Henry II). Jeayes Desc. Cat. Derbyshire Charters (1906): 244 (Maud [of Gloucester], Countess of Chester, styled "kinswoman" [cognata] by King Henry II in charter dated ?1175). D.N.B. 6 (1908): 593-596 (biog. of Eleanor of Aquitaine); 9 (1908): 452-463 (biog. of Henry II: "... his nature was full of passion... [he] was a great builder... Caen, Rouen, Angers, Tours were all adorned with royal palaces in his reign... probably the most highly educated sovereign of his day... genius for government"). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie (1909): 352-354 (biog. of Eleanor [of Aquitaine], Queen of England: "Un des recueils de Gaignières (ms. latin 5419, p. 80) nous a conservé l'image de sceau dont elle continua a se servir pendant son veuvage. C'est un long sceau allongé et pointu sot lequel elle est représentée debout, tenant on oiseau sur la main gauche; il ne subsistait que la dernière partie de la légende: NORMANORVM DUCISSA ET ANDEGAVIE COMITISSA. Il y a aux Auxives nationales, attaché a one charte de l'année 1199, on exemplaire mutile de ce même sceau."). Great Roll of the Pipe 1184-1185 (Pipe Roll Soc. 34) (1913): 216 ([Maud de Bohun], wife of Juhel de Mayenne, styled "neptis Regis" [kinswoman of King Henry II]). Halphen & Poupardin Chroniques des Comtes d'Anjou et des Seigneurs d'Amboise (1913). C.P. 4 (1916): 314, footnote b (Baldwin de Reviers, 3rd Earl of Devon, styled "king's kinsman" in 1188), 314, footnote d (André de Chauvigny styled "kinsman" by Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son, King John [see also Brial Monumens des Règnes de Philippe Auguste et de Louis VIII 2 (Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18) (1879): 89; Round Cal Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473]); 5 (1926): 117, footnote f (sub Essex) [Eustache, wife of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Anselme Candavène, Count of Saint-Pol, styled "kinswoman" of King Henry II; see also Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1846): 142; Méms. de la Soc. des Antiqs. de Picardie 47 (1936): 182-184 (Eustache's mother named in charter as Isabel); Fossier Chartes de Coutume en Picardie (XIe-XIIIe Siècle) (Coll. de Docs. Inédits sur l'Hist. de France 10) (1974): 191-192 (Eustache named in charter as mother of Hugh (IV) Candavene, Count of Saint-Pol)]. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre, Duc de Normandie 3 (1927): 136 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus]), ([Raoul de Beaumont], Bishop of Angers, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II). Chartrou-Charbonnel L'Anjou de 1109 à 1151: Foulque de Jérusalem et Geoffroi Plantegenêt (1928). Rübel-Blass Ahnentafel Rübel-Blass 1 (1939): 253 (ancestry of Eleanor of Aquitaine). Speculum 30 (1955): 374-384. Boussard Le Gouvernement d'Henri II Plantagenet (1956). Powicke Handbook of British. Chron. (1961): 32-33. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 18-24; n.s. 5 (1983): 153-156. Genealogists' Mag. 14 (1964): 361-368. Davis Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 3 (1968). Charles Evans "Margaret of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany," in Mélanges Offerts à Szaboles de Vajay à l'Occasion de Son Cinquitième Anniversaire (1971): 187-191 (Margery [de Bohun], wife of Pedro Manrique, Count of Lara, styled "kinswoman" of King Henry II). Warren Henry II (1973): 216 (Roger [of Gloucester], Bishop of Worcester, styled "kinsman" by King Henry II, cites William FitzStephen, III, 103-106). Kibler Eleanor of Aquitaine, Patron & Politcian (1976). Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14-15. Saillot Les Seize Quartiers des Reines et Impératrices Françaises (420-1920) (1977): 188-189 (ancestry of Eleanor of Aquitaine). Meade Eleanor of Aquitaine (1977). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France), 47 (sub Champagne and Brie), 76 (sub Aquitaine), 83 (sub England); 3(4) (1989): 813 (sub Châtellerault). Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 36. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (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). Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Recs. 9) (1988): 89-90 (charter of Queen Eleanor). Jour. Medieval Hist. 14 (1988): 321-336. Tyerman England & the Crusades 1095-1588 (1988): 48 ([Baldwin IV], King of Jerusalem, styled "kinsman" by King Henry II). Williamson Kings & Oueens of Britain (1991): 52-55 (biog. of Henry II:"... a man of action, athletic, energetic and self-disciplined.., well-grounded in law and history... undoubtedly a great king"), 55 (biog. of Eleanor of Aquitaine). Amt Accession of Henry II in England (1993). Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 137 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "3 Kal. [Apr.] [30 March]. [Obiit] Alienor regina Anglie."). Mortimer Angevin England 1154-1258 (1994). Church Medieval Knighthood V. Papers from the 66 Strawberry Hill Conf. 1994 (1995): 68. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 189-200. Viator 27 (1996): 53 et seq. Vincent et al. Acta of Henry II & Richard 12 (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 27) (1996): 67-69 (instances of Henry [de Sully], abbot of Fécamp, styled "king's kinsman'). Barlow Feudal Kingdom of England (1999). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 91-105. Anglo-Norman Studies 23 (2001): 143-154. Wheeler Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord & Lady (2003). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 311 (France ped.). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 124 (Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, styled "kinsman" by King Henry II in charter dated 1154-71). Harper-Bill Henry II: New Interpretations (2007). Hosier Henry II (2007): 54. Cornwall Rec. Office: Arundell of Lanherne & Trerice, AR/20/1 (Robert [Fitz Count], son of [Robert Fitz Roy], Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II). Online resource: The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England (http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/henry.htm). Children of Henry II of England, by Eleanor of Aquitaine: i. WILLIAM OF ENGLAND, born in Normandy, France 17 August 1153. He died at Wallingford Castle, Berkshire about 25 Dec. 1156, and was buried at Reading Abbey, Berkshire. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 65-66. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 434-435 (undated charter of King Henry II dated at Reading to Hurley Priory, Berkshire made for the health of the souls of his late son, William, and his grandfather, King Henry I). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 18-19. Matthew of Paris Matthæi Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albani, Historia Anglorum 1 (Rolls Set. 44) (1866): 307 (sub A.D. 1157: "In Adventu autem infirmatus Willelmus, primogenitus regis Henrici, obiit, diebus hujus anni scilicet Nataliciis; under dissentio est, utrum hoc vel anno praeterito obierit. Sepultus est autem apud Radingum."). Marchegay & Mabille Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou (1869): 38 (Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis: birth of William). Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 34 (sub A.D. 1156: "Obiit Guillermus, primogenitus filius Henrici regis Anglorum, et sepultus est Radingis ad pedes Henrici regis, proavi sui."). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hirst. (1872). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 83 (sub England). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. ii. HENRY OF ENGLAND (styled "the Young King"), born at Bermondsey, Surrey 28 Feb. 1155, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou and Maine, crowned joint King of England 14 June 1170. He married at Neubourg in Normandy 2 Nov. 1160 MARGARET (or MARGUERITE) OF FRANCE, 1st daughter of Louis VII le Jeune (or is Pieux), King of France, by his 2nd wife, Constance, daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Leon [see FRANCE 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, William. He was recrowned together with his queen in 1172. He rebelled in 1173-74 and again in 1183. HENRY OF ENGLAND, joint King of England (with his father), died at Château Martel in Touraine 11 June 1183, and was buried in Rouen Cathedral. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) shortly after 24 August 1186 (as his 4th wife) BELA III, King of Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, and Rama [see HUNGARY 8], son of Geza II, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama, by his wife, Euphrosine, daughter of Mstislav II the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev. He was born about 1148. They had no issue. Bela III, King of Hungary, died 23 April 1196, and was buried at Székesfehervar. Following the death of her husband, Bela III, Margaret made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. She died at Acre shortly after 10 Sept. 1197. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 66-67. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Hawley Royal Fam of England (1851): 18-19. Douet-D'Arcq Historiques et Critiques sur les Anciens Comtes de Beaumont-sur-Oise (Mémoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Picardie: Docs. Inédits 4) (1855): 50-51 (Henry the Young King of England styled "kinsman" [consanguinei] by Eleanor de Vermandois, Countess of Beaumont in charter dated 1184). Marchegay & Mabille Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou (1869): 38 (Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis: birth of Henry), 41-45 (Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis: death of Henry). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Brial Monumens des Règnes de Philippe Auguste et de Louis VIII 1 (Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17) (1878): 67, 630; 2 (Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 18) (1879): 293 (sub 1197: "Tunc Regina Hungariæ, soror Philippi Regis Franciæ, mortuo matito, Ptolemaïdam transiit, ibique non multo post obiit."). Turner Cal. Charters & Rolls: Bodleian Lib. (1878): iv (rare charter of Young Henry dated c.1170, in which he uses the style "rex Angliæ et Dux Normanniæ et Comes Andegaviæ, Regis Henrici filius"). Deville Tornbeaux de la Cathédral de Rotten (1881): 161-162,164-165,210-211. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1(1887): 13 (seal of Henry son of King Henry II dated 1170-1182 - King, enthroned, with sceptre and orb; sides of throne terminate in animals' heads, as on the thrones on the French royal seals. Legend: HENRICVS REX ANGLOR DVX NORMANNOR ET COMES ANDEGAVOR.). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 578 (Notæ Monasterii Montis Sancti Michaelis: "11 Jun. [Obiit] Henricus tertius, rex Anglorum."). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l'Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem 2 (1897): 591-594, 602. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 382-384. English Hist. Rev. 39 (1924): 240-241. Landon Itinerary of King Richard I (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 13) (1935): 224-226. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 11 (sub France), 83 (sub England), 154 (Arpaden). Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 36 (he "used style rex Anglorum... hence called by contemporaries and certain chroniclers King Henry III"). Smith English Episc. Acta 2 Canterbury 1162-1190 (1986): 110-111. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 189-200. Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 96-97, 104. English Hist. Rev. 116 (2001): 297-326 ("the sole associate king in English post-conquest history"). Child of Henry of England, by Margaret of France: a. WILLIAM OF ENGLAND, born about 19 June 1177, died 22 June 1177. Benedict of Peterborough 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): 177 ("Eodem anno [1177] circa clausum Pentecosten, Margareta, guæ, at supradictum est, prægnans abiit ad regem Franciæ patrem suum, peperit filium, et vocatum eat nomen ejus Willelmus, sed infra triduum obiit Parisius ubi natus fuit; et quidam dicebant quod abortivus fuit."). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 189-200. iii. MAUD OF ENGLAND, born at London 1156. She married at Minden 1 Feb. 1168 (as his 2nd wife) HEINRICH XII der Löwe (or HENRY the Lion), Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, son and heir of Heinrich X, Duke of Bavaria, by Gertrude, daughter of Lothar III, Holy Roman Emperor. They had four sons, Heinrich [Count Palatine of the Rhine], Lothar, Otto (IV) [Count of Poitou, King of the Romans, Holy Roman Emperor], and Wilhelm [Count of Luneburg], and two daughters, Maud and Richza (wife of Waldemar II, King of Denmark). He was deprived of both Bavaria and Saxony in 1180, and spent his remaining years in exile at the court of his father-in-law, King Henry II, or at Danwarderode Castle in Braunschweig (or Brunswick). In 1194 he was guaranteed possession of his Saxon allodial lands. His wife, Maud, died at Braunschweig 28 June 1189. HEINRICH OF BRAUNSCHWEIG, former Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, died 6 August 1195. He and his wife, Maud, were buried in the collegiate church of St. Blaise, now Braunschweig Cathedral in Braunschweig, Germany. They are direct ancestors of House of Hanover, the royal house of England from 1714 to 1901. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 69-70. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 18-19. Green Lives of the Princesses of England 1 (1857): 214-262 (biog. of Matilda of England). Pertz Historici Germania sac. XII. (Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 21) (1869): 115-116 (Arnoldi Chronica Salvorum: list of children). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Procs. Soc. of Antiqs. of London 2nd Ser. 6 (1876): 283-287. Pauli & Libermann Ex rerum Anglicarum scriptoribus sæc. XII. et XIII. (Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 27) (1885): 110 (Ex Gestis Henrici II. et Ricardi I.: Heinrich, Duke of Saxony, styled "kinsman" [nepos] of Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa). Ströhl Deutsch Wappenrolle (1897): 72. Hohnstein Geschichte des Heroztums Braunschweig (1908): 91-140 (biog. of Heinrich der Löwe). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie Introduction (1909): 384. Waltz Ottonis et Rahewini Gesta Friderici I. Imperatoris (Monumenta Germaniæ Histories, Scriptures rerum Germanicarum 46) (1912): 350 (Rahewini Gesta Friderici I. Imperatoris Appendix sub A.D. 1168: "... nam inter imperatorem et regem Angliæ fedus et amicicia fuit, data filia sua in uxorem Heinrico duci Bawariæ et Saxoniæ."). Rübel-Blass Ahnentafel Rübel-Blass 1 (1939): 284 (ancestry of Maud of England). Jordan Die Urkunden Heinrichs des Löwen Herzogs von Sachsen and Bayern (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Laienfürsten- und Dynastenurkunden der Kaiserzeit) (1941): 51-53 (Gebhard I, Count of Burghausen styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by Duke Heinrich), 107-108 (Otto VI, Count Palatine of Wittelsbach, afterwards Duke of Bavaria, styled "kinsman" [nepos] by Duke Heinrich), 181-182 (Friedrich II, Count Palatine of Saxony, Count of Sommerschenburg styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by Duke Heinrich). Foreville L'Eglise et le Royaute en Angleterre sous Henri II Plantagenet (1154-1189) (1943): 410, footnote 4. Appelt Die Urkunden Friedrichs I. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica: Die Urkunden der deutschen Könige und Kaiser 10(1)) (1975): 18-19, 231-233, 347-349 (instances of Heinrich, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, styled "kinsman" [cognate/cognate] by Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa), 259-260, 332-335 (instances of Heinrich, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, styled "kinsman" [nepotem/nepos] by Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa), 364-365 (Heinrich, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria, styled "kinsman" [consanguine] by Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 1 (1980): 58 (sub Welfen); 2 (1984): 83 (sub England). Gens Nostra 46 (1991): 540-541. Kegel Die Jüngere Hildesheimer Briefsammlung (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Die Briefe Der Deutschen Kaiserzeit 7) (1995): 101-102 (letter of Heinrich of Braunschweig to Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa dated 1185-1188), 102-103 (Heinrich of Braunschweig styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] in letter from Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa dated 1185-1188). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. Jour. Medieval Hist. 22 (1996): 379-393. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 41-45. Wheeler Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord & Lady (2003). Online resource: www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/bayern/heinrich_12_derloewe_herzog_von_bayern_1195_welfen/heinrich_12_der loewe_herzog_von_bayern_und_sachsen_+_1195.html. Children of Maud of England, by Duke Heinrich XII der Löwe: a. OTTO OF BRUNSWICK, 3rd son. He was educated at the court of his uncle, King Richard I of England, under whose experience he gained valuable experience in war. He was appointed Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou, and Earl of Yorkshire. When Emperor Henry VI died in Sept. 1197, some of the German princes under the leadership of Adolph, Archbishop of Cologne, were anxious to find a rival to Philip, Duke of Swabia, who had been elected German king. Otto married (1st) 22 July 1212 BEATRIX OF HOHENSTAUFEN, daughter of Philip, Duke of Swabia. They had no issue. His wife, Beatrix, died 11 August 1212. He married (2nd) at Aachen 19 May 1214 MARIA OF BRABANT, daughter of Henri I, Duke of Lorraine and Brabant, Margrave of Antwerp, by his 1st wife, Machtild (or Mahaud), daughter and co-heiress of Mathieu of Flanders, Count of Boulogne [see BRABANT 5 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. OTTO IV, late Emperor, died at the Harzburg 19 May 1218, and was buried in the collegiate church of St. Blaise, now Braunschweig Cathedral in Braunschweig, Germany. His widow, Maria, married (2nd) in July 1220 WILHELM (or WILLEM) I, Count of Holland [see HOLLAND 5]. She died between 9 March and 14 June 1260. Gallia Christiana 2 (1720): 477-478 (Richard I, King of England, styled "uncle" [avunculus] in charter of Otto, Duke of Aquitaine). Rymer Fædera 1(1) (1816): 28-29, 87-88, 93, 104, 108, 114 (instances of Otto, King of the Romans, styled "nephew" [nepos] by King John of England). Huillard-Bréholles Hist. Diplomatica Friderica Secundi 3 (1852): 37-48 (Otto of Saxony [former Emperor Otto IV] styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1227), 57-60 (Otto [IV], late Emperor, styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] by Emperor Friedrich II in 1228). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 290 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1218: "Otho imperator Alemanniæ, nepos Ricardi et Johannis regum obiit."). Piot Cartulaire de l'Abbeye de Saint-Trond 1 (1870): 199-200 (charter of Henri [II], Duke of Lorraine and Brabant dated 1240, names his "dear sister" [charissima soror], Maria, former Empress of the Romans). Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 3 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1870): 298-299 ("Eodem anno [1195] Willelmus rex Scottorum ægrotavit, in villa sua quæ dicitur Clacmanan et statuit Othonem filium Henrici ducis Saxoniæ, nepotem Ricardi regis sibi successurum in regnum Scottorum, ita quod ipse Otho filiam suam primogenitam in uxorem cum regno duceret. Et quamvis rex plures haberet qui voluntati suæ in hoc consentirent, tamen comes Patricius et alii multi contradixerunt ..."). Pauli & Libermann Ex rerum Anglicarum scriptoribus sac. XII et XIII. (Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores 27) (1885): 385 (F Gervasii Tilleberiensis Otiis Imperialibus: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, styled "uncle" [avunculum] of Emperor Otto IV). Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 740 (sub York). Thatcher & McNeal Source Book for Mediæval Hist. (1905): 228 (Otto, King of the Romans, styled "nephew" by King John of England in 1202). Hohnstein Geschichte des Herzogtams Braunschweig (1908): 141-149 (biog. of Kaiser Otto IV). Encyclopædia Britannica 20 (1911): 375 (biog. of Otto IV, Roman emperor). Nicholson Love, War & the Grail (2001). Online resource: www.genealogie-mittelalter.de/deutschland_koenige_2/otto_4_deutscher_koenig_1218_welfen/otto_4_von_ braunschweig_deutscher_koeni8-+_1218.html. b. MAUD (or MATHILDE) OF BRUNSWICK, born in 1172. She married (1st) in July 1189 GEOFFREY III, Count of Perche, lord of Toddington, Bedfordshire and Aldbourne and Wanborough, Wiltshire, son of Rotrou III, Count of Perche, by Mathilde, daughter of Thibaut IV, Count of Blois. They had two sons, Geoffrey and Thomas [Count of the Perche]. GEOFFREY III, Count of the Perche, died 5 April 1202. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) before 1203 (as his 1st wife) ENGUERRAND DE COUCY, seigneur of Coucy, and, in right of his wife, Count of the Perche, son and heir of Raoul de Coucy, seigneur of Coucy, by Alix, daughter of Robert I, Count of Dreux. She died in 13 Jan. 1209/10. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 55. Rotuli litterarum patentium in turri Londinensi asservati 1201- 1216 (1834): 18 (Maud, Countess of the Perche, styled "niece" [nepti] by King John of England in 1202). Lepinois & Merlet Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Chartres 2 (1863): 21 (charter of Maud, Countess of Perche, dated June 1202, names her late husband, Geoffrey, and her son, Thomas), 22. Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241- 253 ([Maud], Countess of Perche styled "niece" [neptis] by King John, cites Rot. Normann. p. 87.). Procs. Soc. of Antiqs. of London 2nd Ser. 6 (1876): 283-287. Brial Monumens des Règnes de Philippe Auguste et de Louis VIII 3 (Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 19) (1880): 436-438 (J. de Pertico [Enguerrand de Coucy, Count of the Perche] styled "your kinsman" [consobrinum tuum] in letter from Pope Innocent III to King Philippe Auguste of France in 1203). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 62 (Perche ped.). Procs. Suffolk Inst. of Arch. & Nat. Hist. 11(1903): 304-305. Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie Introduction (1909): 374 (biog. of Geoffrey de Perche). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 41-45. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France: County of the Perche 1000-1226 (2002). Kathleen Thompson "Matilda, countess of the Perche (1171-1210): The expression of authority in name, style and seal" available at www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/crahm/revue/tabularia/thompson.html. iv. RICHARD OF ENGLAND (nicknamed Cæur-de-Lion or the Iionheart), Knt., King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou, 3rd but eldest surviving son, born at Oxford 8 Sept. 1157. In 1169 he was affianced to marry Alice (or Alix) of France, daughter of Louis VII le Jeune (or le Pieux), King of France, by his 2nd wife, Constance, daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Castile and Leon [see FRANCE 6 for her ancestry]. She was born in 1160. In 1169 he did homage to King Louis for his mother's inheritance, the duchy of Aquitaine, and, in the following year, he was acknowledged as Duke. In 1173-4 he joined his brothers in their rebellion against their father. In the period, 1175-77, he established his authority in Aquitaine, forcing the Count of Toulouse to do him homage. In 1177 King Louis demanded the immediate marriage of Richard and his daughter, Alice, but the matter was submitted to arbitration. On his older brother, Henry's death in 1183, Richard became heir to the English crown. His father called on him to give up the duchy of Aquitaine to his younger brother, John, which led to a fresh war. In 1185, on his father's orders, he resigned the duchy to his mother, Queen Eleanor, who was released from her ten years of captivity. In 1187 the French king, Philippe Auguste, led an army into Barry and besieged Richard and John at Châteauroux. A great battle was averted only by the intervention of the nobles. In 1188 Richard did homage to the French king for all his French possessions, including Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine. In 1189 war broke out again. King Henry, his father, refused to assent to Richard's marriage to Alice, or to acknowledge Richard as his heir. In July 1189 Henry was forced to sign a treaty yielding every point. On Henry's death 6 July 1189, Richard succeeded as King of England, and was crowned at Westminster Abbey 3 Sept. 1189. He immediately set about organizing an army to join the French and Germans on the Third Crusade, whose aim was to recover Jerusalem, captured from the westerners by the Muslims in 1187. Richard left England 11 Dec. 1189; secured Acre and Jaffa and defeated the Muslims in the Battle of Arsuf, but his forces were not sufficiently strong to gain Jerusalem. He had to be content with making a truce with the Islamic leader, Saladin, who much admired him. In March 1190/1 he voided his marriage contract with Alice of France. He married at Limassol, Cyprus 12 May 1191 BERENGERE (or BERENGUELA) OF NAVARRE, daughter of Sancho Vi el Sabio, King of Navarre, by Sancha, daughter of Alfonso VII, King of Castile. She was born about 1163. They had no issue. On Richard's journey home, he was imprisoned in Germany by the Duke of Austria, whom he had rashly insulted in the Holy Land. He was released in 1194 on payment of a huge ransom; returned to England 13 March 1194. His second Coronation was solemnised in Winchester Cathedral 17 April 1194. In October 1196 he made peace with Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, renouncing all claims to the county of Toulouse and the subject county of Rouergue; he also returned Quercy and gave the Agenais as part of the dowry for his sister Joan's marriage to Raymond. In 1199, during a minor siege at Chalus in Limousin, RICHARD I, KING OF ENGLAND was fatally injured by a crossbow bolt; and died there testate 6 April 1199. He was buried at Fontevrault Abbey (Maine-et-Loire), France. Following Richard's death, the borough of Wilton, Wiltshire formed part of his widow, Berengere's dower, but she did not enjoy her full tights as indicated by a papal letter to King John in 1209. In 1204 Bérengère ceded all her rights to the castles of Falaise, Domfront, and Bonneville-sur-Touque to King Philippe Auguste of France, and Chateau-du-Loir to Guillaume des Roches, in exchange of the vill of le Mans and its dependencies and 1,000 marks sterling. In 1216 she founded a chapel of religious hospitaliers of Jerusalem at Thoré in Maine. She was co-heiress in 1226 to her cousin, Guillaume, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, Count of Perche. In 1230 she founded a Cistercian abbey at l'Epau, near Le Mans. She died 23 Dec. 1230, and was buried at at l'Epau Abbey. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 73-80. Martene & Durand Veterum Scriptorum et Monumentorum 1 (1724): 1045-1046 (charters of Queen Bérengère of England). Nichols Coll. of All the Wills (1780): 12. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266 (Obit. of Tintem Abbey: "Ricardus Rex Angliæ primus obiit xxvii. die Mardi"; "Berengerus et comitissa soror ejus obiit xxiij. die Decembris."). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 313-314. Brequigny Table Chronologique des Diplomes, Charles, Titres et Actes Imprimés concernant l'Histoire de France 4 (1836): 357. Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1(1837): xxviii-xxix (William the lion, King of Scots styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by King Richard I of England). Archæologia 27 (1838): 109-112. Green Letters of Royal & Ill Ladies (1846): 30-34 (two letters of Bérengère, Queen of England). Hawley Royal Fam. of England (1851): 18-19. Riley Annals of Roger de Hoveden 2 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1853): 120 (Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham, styled "our dearly beloved cousin" by King Richard I). Guigniaut Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 21(1855): 604 (Chron. of Alberic of Trois Fontaines (sub anno 1230): "... Obiit decimo calendas Januarii [23 Dec.] regina Berengaria, domina Cenomanensis, relicta quondam regis Angliæ Richardi"). Migne Innocentii III Romani pontificis opera omnia (Patrologia Ser. Latina 215) (1855): 1538-1539. Arbois de Jubainville Hist. des Ducs et des Comtes de Champagne 5 (1863): 195, 229-230, 238. Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Charles 2 (1866): 181-182 (Bérengère, Queen of England, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Thibaut, Count of Champagne). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 132 (Ex Gervasii Dorobernensis Monachii/Chronico de Regisbus Angliæ Sui Temporis: [sub A.D. 1169] "Richardus quoque filius Regis Angliæ accepit in uxorem filiam Regis Franciæ [Adelam], quam habuit de Ella Regis Hispanorum, et suscepit Ducatum Aquitaniæ, fecitque hominium Regi Franciæ super honore Ducatus."). Lalore Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Boulancoutt (1869): 95 (Obituaire: "23 Dec. - solemnel pour dame Bérangère de Castille, reine d'Angleterre, et dame Blanche, sa soeur, comtesse de Champagne"). Marchegay & Mabille Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou (1869): 39 (Chronicæ Sancti Albini Andegavensis: birth of King Richard I), 151 (Chronicon Sancti Sergii Andegavensis: death of King Richard I). Wright Feudal Manuals of English Hist. (1872). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1877): 228 (Extrait d'une Chron. de France), 383 (Ex Roderico Toletani Archiepiscopi); 2 (Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13) (1869): 708-709 (Chron. of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines). Montzey Hist. de la Flèche 1 (1877): 147-159. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 19 (1880): 447 ([Blanche of Navarre], Countess of Troyes, styled "sister" [sororem] of Queen Bérengère in letter by Pope Innocent III to King John dated 1204). Delisle Cartulaire Normand (1882): 19. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 1(1887): 13-14 (seal of King Richard I - Obverse. King enthroned: closely fitting tunic, loose surcoat with embroidered edges at neck and arms, and cloak. Open crown of three points fleury. In right hand a sword held erect; in left hand an orb topped by a cross fleur-de-lisée. Throne of elaborate pannelled work, of four stages of arcading with intervening head-mouldings, the back splayed away, and footboard enriched with carvings of quatrefoils, and a corbel on seven arches. In the field, on either side of king's head, a crescent enclosing an estoile of seven points wavy. On either side of throne a sprig of the planta genista, or broom. Legend: + RICARDVS DEI GRACIA REX ANGLORVM. Reverse. King on horseback to right. Hauberk and surcoat of mail armour, conical helmet, large broad sword, bowed shield on which a lion rampant contoume. Horse-trappings: head-gear, ornamental saddle and breast-band. Legend: + RICARDVS DVX NORMANNORVM ET AQVITANORVM ET COMES ANDEGAVORVM.). Meyer L'Hist. de Guillaume le Marechal 1 (1891): 338-340, esp. lines 9392-9432 (André de Chauvigny styled "king's kinsman"). Delisle Manuscrits Latins et Français ajoutés aux Fonds des Nouvelles Acquisitions Pendant les Années 1875-1894 2 (1894): 509-510 (Calendrier of Maubuisson Abbey) ("X kal. januarii [23 Dec.]. Obiit Berengaria regina et soror ejus."). Delaville le Roulx Cartulaire Général de l’Ordre des Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jérusalem 1 (1894): 556-557 (charter of King Richard I dated 1189-1190); 2 (1897): 179-180. Wyckoff Feudal Relations Between the Kings of England & Scotland Under the Early Plantagenets (1897): 89-90 (William the lion, King of Scotland styled "dearest cousin" by King Richard I of England in 1189), 92-93 (William the Lion, King of Scotland styled "friend and cousin and liegeman" by King Richard I of England in 1194). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(2) (Recueil des Historiens de la France - Obituaires) (1902): 645 (Abbaye de Port Royal: "x. cal. [23 Dec.]. Ce jour est fait l’anniversaire de Berangarie, royne [1229], et de Blanche, contesse, et non en convent."), 655 (Abbaye de Maubuisson: "[23 Dec.]. x kal. jan. Obiit. Berengaria regina et soror ejus."). Vallée Cartulaire de Château-du-Lair (Société des Archives Hist. du Maine 6) (1905): 80-81. D.N.B. 16(1909): 1022-1031 (biog. of Richard I: "... He was a stern ruler.., where his rights were not questioned, he was generous to a fault... In warfare he seems to have combined dash and prudence to a remarkable degree... He was sincere in his desire to free the holy sepulcher... a man of many accomplishments"). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 170. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 14. Powicke Handbook of British Chron. (1961): 33. VCH Wiltshire 6 (1962): 8-9. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 18-24 (arms of Richard as Duke: a sharply-convex shield with a single lion rampant on the visible portion; arms of Richard as King: "A later great seal, brought into use certainly by 1198 and possibly as early as 1195, bears three lions passant guardant in pale"). Chaplais Diplomatic Docs. 1 (1964): 18-20 (Baldwin, Count of Flanders and Hainault styled "kinsman" [consanguineum] by King Richard I in 1197). Stones Anglo-Scottish Relations 1174-1328 (1965): 12-14 (William the lion, King of Scotland, styled "kinsman" by King Richard in 1189), 18-19 (William the Lion, King of Scotland styled "friend and kinsman" [amico et consanguineo] by King Richard in 1194). Paget lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 15. Jour. Medieval Hist. 6 (1980): 185-198; 23 (1997): 351-365. Bull. Inst. Hist. Research 53 (1980): 157-173. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 56 (sub Navarre), 83 (sub England). Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 36-37. Mitchell Berengaria, Enigmatic Queen of England (1986). King & Ridyard Law in Mediæval Life & Thought (Sewanee Mediæal Studies 5) (1990): 21-42. Williamson Kings & Queens of Britain (1991): 55-56,65 (biog. of Richard Coeur de Lion). Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 127 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "8 Idus April [6 April]. Obiit Ricardus Rex Anglie, qui dedit Boscum de Blen cum pertinentiis suis Ecclesie Christi."), 137 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "8 Idus Apr. 16 April]. Obiit Richardus rex Angliae."). Nottingham Medieval Studies 39 (1995): 37-53; 43 (1999): 79-89. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36-37. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 57-58,189-200. French Hist. Studies 21 (1998): 517-542. Trindade Berengaria: In Search of Richard the Lionheart's Queen (1999): 23 (Queen Bérengère's "long years of widowhood" reveal "a strong, courageous woman, independent, solitary, battling against difficult political and economic circumstances, with little interest in the trappings of a courtly existence, sustained by her faith in Christ and her royalty to the See of St Peter, not afraid to assert her rights against powerful enemies, both lay and clerical."), 183 (Queen Bérengère styled "kinswoman" by King Louis IX of France). Van Kerrebrouck Les Capétians 987-1328 (2000): 97,105. Online resources: www.ctv.es/USERS/sagastibelza/berenguela/berenguela_tumba.htm. Illegitimate child of Richard I, by an unknown mistress, ___: a. PHILIP FITZ ROY (otherwise PHILIP DE COGNAC), in right of his wife, of Cognac, Merpins, and Jarnac. He married AMELIE DE COGNAC, daughter of Itier V, seigneur of Cognac, Villebois, and Jarnac. They had no issue. Adémar, Count of Angouleme, did homage to him in 1194, and also after his father's death. Amélie died before 1199. Philip reportedly killed Adémar V, vicomte of Limoges, in 1199, in revenge for his father's death. In 1201 he sold the castle and honour of Cognac (Charente), France to his uncle, King John. The same year he received a gift of 50 marks from King John. PHILIP FITZ ROY was living in 1211. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 80. Bull. de la Soc. des Antiqs. de l'Ouest et des Musées de Poitiers 12 (1845): 415. Roger of Hoveden Annals of Roger de Hoveden 2 (1853): 464-465 ("In the same year [A.D. 11991, Philip, bastard son of Richard, king of England, to whom the said king, his father, had given the castle and the manor of Cuinac, slew the before-named viscount of Limoges, in revenge for his father."). Comptes d'Alphonse de Poitiers (Archives Hist. du Poitou 4) (1875): 21-22 ("... Tempore domini comids Pictavensis Henrici, qui fuit rex Anglie, quittavit pater comitis Audomaris Engolismensis, in aula Pictavensi, Bardon, dominum Coignyaci, de homagio quod petebat ab ipso de Coygnyaco, et eo presente et concedente, fecit homagium dominus Coygnyaci domini comiti Pictavensi, de Cognyaco et pertinentiis; et credo quod adhuc vivunt multi qui hoc viderunt. Filius dicti domini Cognyaci fecit similiter homagium Richardo Pictavensi, de Coygnyaco et pertinentiis; quo domino Cognyaci mortuo, dedit rex Richardus comes Pictavensis dominam Amellyam unicam heredem Coygnyaci, quam habebat in ballo, ratione comitatus Pictavensis, in uxorem cuidam filio suo notho, scilicet Philippo de Coygnyaco; qua defuncta sine liberis, tenuit dictus comes Richardus dictum castrum et eum tradidit Roberto de Torniant, senescallo suo Pictavensis."). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes 1 (1883): 271. Boissonade Quomodo Comites Engolismenses ega Reges Anglia, et Francia se Gesserint 1152- 1328 (1893). Richard Hist. des Comtes de Poitou 2 (1903): 330. Furness I. & Death of King John (1919): 6-9. Boissonade L'Ascension, le Déclin et la Chute d'un Grand Etat Féodal du Centre-Ouest: Les Taillefer et les Lusignans (Bull. et Méms. de la Soc. Arch. et Hist. de la Charente) (1935). Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1201 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 14) (1936): xix, 283 ("Philipp° f[ilio] R. Richardi"). Martin-Civat Les Seigneuties de Cognac, Jarnac et Metpins dons l’Empire Anglo-Angevin aux XIIe et XIIIe Siècle (Congrès des Socs. Savantes de Cognac) (28 April 1956). Henderson Richard Coeur de Lion (1959): 242. Shakespeare Quarterly 11 (1960): 137-146. Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 32-33. Notes & Queries 207 (1962): 274-275. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Le Château Royal of Cognac (Mems./Institut d'Hist. et d'Arch. de Cognac et du Cognaçais) 2 (1972): 5. Shakespeare Studies (1976): 59-70. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 126-127, 179. Debord La Soc. Laïque dans les Pays de la Charente Xe-XlIe Siècle (1984): 486-488. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 769 (sub Limoges). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): 58-59. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36-37. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 57-58. Bernard et al. Hist. du Poitou et des Pays Charentais (2001): 151. Erickson Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs (2006): 46. v. GEOFFREY OF ENGLAND, 4th son, born 23 Sept. 1158, in right of his wife, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond. He married about July 1181 (by dispensation, they being related in the 3rd and 4th degrees of kindred) CONSTANCE OF BRITTANY [see BRITTANY 6], daughter and heiress of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, by Margaret, daughter of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumberland [see BRITTANY 5 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1162. They had three children (see below). In 1178 he was knighted at Woodstock by his father. In 1184 they founded a chaplaincy in Rouen Cathedral for the soul of his late brother, Henry. In 1185 they issued an | of Wales, Nest (I7171)
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| 7085 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” | Fitz Robert, Geoffrey (I6703)
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| 7086 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” | Fitz William, Raymond "Le Gros" (I6702)
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| 7087 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” | Bluet, William (I6701)
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| 7088 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” | Bluet, Walter (I6700)
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| 7089 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HENRY II OF ENGLAND (otherwise HENRY FITZ GEOFFREY, or HENRY FITZ EMPRESS), Knt., King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou... Illegitimate son of Henry II, by his mistress, NEST OF WALES, daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. Nest subsequently married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire,* son and heir of Ralph Bluet (living c.1167), of Silchester, Hampshire, Lackham, Wiltshire, etc., by Isabel, daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan [see PEMBROKE 3 for his ancestry] He was born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5). They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Arnaury le Despenser) and Emma (nun) [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tiliel Priory. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesbome, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41 (1918-1919): 151. Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1(1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. C.R.R. 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan ap Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half-brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard); National Archives, E 327/298]. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's 1st cousin, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-665]. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintern Abbey: "Radulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiijo die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266].) i. MORGAN FITZ ROY, clerk. He was presumably born in 1176, the year following a great council held at Gloucester 29 June 1175, for the settling of the peace of South Wales and the borders, which council was attended by both King Henry II of England and Morgan's mother's father. Morgan occurs once as Archdeacon of Richmond, but without date. He was appointed Provost of Beverley by his half-brother, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York in 1201, which appointment was appealed by Simon, Dean of York, who alleged that the archbishop had promised the reversion of the provostship to him before the death of the previous provost, Robert. In the period, 1201-c. 1212, he witnessed a charter of Andrew, Prior of Kirkham, to the hospital of St. Peter, York. In 1207 there was a suit between Morgan, Provost of Beverley, and Robert the Constable the younger. In 1211 the king granted Morgan and his younger brother, Roland Bluet, temporary grace for a debt of 500 marks, which debt was still mentioned in 1212 and again in 1214. In 1212 Robert the Constable made acknowledgement to Morgan that the church of Halsham, Yorkshire was the right of St. John of Beverley by the gift of Robert the Constable his uncle. Morgan was elected Bishop of Durham between 7 March and 7 May 1215 on King John's suggestion. In 1216 King John granted a prebend to the Archdeacon of Poitou "if Morgan, Provost of Beverley, be promoted to a bishopric." Morgan travelled to Rome, but his election as bishop was quashed by the Pope due to his illegitimacy. He subsequently returned to England and took vows as a crusader. The Pope granted his benefices, as belonging to a crusader, to the Master of the Temple in England for the prosecution of the crusade. However, Morgan died intestate as oblate at Fountains Abbey in 1217, before he could set out. When it was learned that Morgan had resigned all of his benefices before his death, Pope Honorius III wrote a letter to Archbishop Walter Gray dated 6 Nov. 1217, in which he rescinded the earlier grant to the Master of the Temple; the same day he likewise sent a mandate to the Master of the Temple ordering him to pay the proceeds of the benefices in question to the persons collated to them. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 72. Lyttleton Hist. of the Life of King Henry the Second 5 (1787): 232-234. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 313. Historiæ Dunelmensis (Surtees Soc. 9) (1839): 31 ("dominum Morganum præpositum Beverlacensem, fratrem ejusdem Regis"), 35 ("Anno Domini millesimo CCXIII Morganus, frater Regis Johannis et Galfridi Archiepiscopi Eboracensis, Præpositusque Beverlacensis, electus in episcopum Dunelmensem per monachos ejusdem ecclesim, curiam Romanam adiit, ut munus consecrationis ibi reciperet. Sed, Rege Angliæ hoc procurante, cassatus rediit, quia spurius fuit; de uxore veto cujusdam militis, dicti Radulphi Bloeth, Henricus pater ejus genuerat eum."). Flaherty Annals of England 1 (1855): 242 ("another natural son, Morgan, became Provost of Beverley, and in 1215 was elected to the see of Durham, but rejected by the pope on the ground of his illegitimate birth, which he proudly refused to conceal, by taking, as the pontiff is said to have been advised, the name of Bloet, that of his mother."). Walbran Mems. of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains 1 (Surtees Soc. 42) (1863): 165-166. Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 174 (sub 1201: "Eodem anno obiit Robertus prxpositus Beverlacensis ecclesiæ; præposituram Gaufridus Eboracensis archiepiscopus dedit Morgant fratri suo, Henrici regis ..."). Gray Reg., or Rolls, of Walter Grey, Lord Archbishop of York (Surtees Soc. 56) (1872): 1, 130, 224. Johns Hist. Traditions & Facts Rel. Ancient Gwent or Siburia (1897): 67-73. Pedes Finium Ebor, Regnante Johanne, A.D. MCXCIX-A.D. MCCXIV (Surtees Soc. 94) (1897): 171. Stubbs Hist. Introductions to the Rolls Ser. (1902): 289. Leach Mems. of Beverly Minster 2 (1903): xvii-xxi, cx. Early Yorkshire Charters 1 (1914): 206; 3 (1916): 79-80 (cites Abbrev. Plac., 57). VCH York 3 (1913): 22, 356. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1211 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 128. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1212 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 30) (1955): 84. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1214 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 35) (1962): 164. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Greenaway Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 2 (1971): 29-32; 6 (1999): 47-52, 110-118. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 9-10, 99, 130, 179. Bicchiere Letters & Charters of Cardinal Guala Bicchiere Papal Legate in England 1216-1218 (Canterbury & York Soc. 83) (1996): 55. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 57.” | Bluet, Ralph (I6545)
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| 7090 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” | de Clare, Basilia (I6544)
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| 7091 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” 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... Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I, by Isabel of Meulan, daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues le Grand Count of Crepy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. Isabel de Meulan married (1st) Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 6 Jan. 1147/8) [see PEMBROKE 3] and (2nd) Ralph Bluet, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire (living 1167) [see PEMBROKE 3]. She was allegedly living in 1172. i. ISABEL OF ENGLAND. She and her mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed two undated charters of her half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Her subsequent history is unknown. 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). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-102 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke) ("Actually there is no reasonable doubt that Isabel [de Meulan]s daughter bore her mother's name, lived with her after the elder Isabel's marriage, and continued to do so after her step-father's death. For the first two witnesses to the 2nd Earl of Pembroke's charter for Usk are the Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter; and in the charter for Goldcliff Priory the first two witnesses are Isabel the Earl's mother and Isabel the Earl's sister. There is no evidence that she ever married."); 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.657. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart)..." 3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HENRY II OF ENGLAND (otherwise HENRY FITZ GEOFFREY, or HENRY FITZ EMPRESS), Knt., King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou... Illegitimate son of Henry II, by his mistress, NEST OF WALES, daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. Nest subsequently married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire,* son and heir of Ralph Bluet (living c.1167), of Silchester, Hampshire, Lackham, Wiltshire, etc., by Isabel, daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan [see PEMBROKE 3 for his ancestry] He was born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5). They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Arnaury le Despenser) and Emma (nun) [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tiliel Priory. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesbome, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41 (1918-1919): 151. Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1(1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. C.R.R. 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan ap Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half-brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard); National Archives, E 327/298]. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's 1st cousin, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-665]. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintern Abbey: "Radulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiijo die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266].) i. MORGAN FITZ ROY, clerk. He was presumably born in 1176, the year following a great council held at Gloucester 29 June 1175, for the settling of the peace of South Wales and the borders, which council was attended by both King Henry II of England and Morgan's mother's father. Morgan occurs once as Archdeacon of Richmond, but without date. He was appointed Provost of Beverley by his half-brother, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York in 1201, which appointment was appealed by Simon, Dean of York, who alleged that the archbishop had promised the reversion of the provostship to him before the death of the previous provost, Robert. In the period, 1201-c. 1212, he witnessed a charter of Andrew, Prior of Kirkham, to the hospital of St. Peter, York. In 1207 there was a suit between Morgan, Provost of Beverley, and Robert the Constable the younger. In 1211 the king granted Morgan and his younger brother, Roland Bluet, temporary grace for a debt of 500 marks, which debt was still mentioned in 1212 and again in 1214. In 1212 Robert the Constable made acknowledgement to Morgan that the church of Halsham, Yorkshire was the right of St. John of Beverley by the gift of Robert the Constable his uncle. Morgan was elected Bishop of Durham between 7 March and 7 May 1215 on King John's suggestion. In 1216 King John granted a prebend to the Archdeacon of Poitou "if Morgan, Provost of Beverley, be promoted to a bishopric." Morgan travelled to Rome, but his election as bishop was quashed by the Pope due to his illegitimacy. He subsequently returned to England and took vows as a crusader. The Pope granted his benefices, as belonging to a crusader, to the Master of the Temple in England for the prosecution of the crusade. However, Morgan died intestate as oblate at Fountains Abbey in 1217, before he could set out. When it was learned that Morgan had resigned all of his benefices before his death, Pope Honorius III wrote a letter to Archbishop Walter Gray dated 6 Nov. 1217, in which he rescinded the earlier grant to the Master of the Temple; the same day he likewise sent a mandate to the Master of the Temple ordering him to pay the proceeds of the benefices in question to the persons collated to them. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 72. Lyttleton Hist. of the Life of King Henry the Second 5 (1787): 232-234. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 313. Historiæ Dunelmensis (Surtees Soc. 9) (1839): 31 ("dominum Morganum præpositum Beverlacensem, fratrem ejusdem Regis"), 35 ("Anno Domini millesimo CCXIII Morganus, frater Regis Johannis et Galfridi Archiepiscopi Eboracensis, Præpositusque Beverlacensis, electus in episcopum Dunelmensem per monachos ejusdem ecclesim, curiam Romanam adiit, ut munus consecrationis ibi reciperet. Sed, Rege Angliæ hoc procurante, cassatus rediit, quia spurius fuit; de uxore veto cujusdam militis, dicti Radulphi Bloeth, Henricus pater ejus genuerat eum."). Flaherty Annals of England 1 (1855): 242 ("another natural son, Morgan, became Provost of Beverley, and in 1215 was elected to the see of Durham, but rejected by the pope on the ground of his illegitimate birth, which he proudly refused to conceal, by taking, as the pontiff is said to have been advised, the name of Bloet, that of his mother."). Walbran Mems. of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains 1 (Surtees Soc. 42) (1863): 165-166. Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 174 (sub 1201: "Eodem anno obiit Robertus prxpositus Beverlacensis ecclesiæ; præposituram Gaufridus Eboracensis archiepiscopus dedit Morgant fratri suo, Henrici regis ..."). Gray Reg., or Rolls, of Walter Grey, Lord Archbishop of York (Surtees Soc. 56) (1872): 1, 130, 224. Johns Hist. Traditions & Facts Rel. Ancient Gwent or Siburia (1897): 67-73. Pedes Finium Ebor, Regnante Johanne, A.D. MCXCIX-A.D. MCCXIV (Surtees Soc. 94) (1897): 171. Stubbs Hist. Introductions to the Rolls Ser. (1902): 289. Leach Mems. of Beverly Minster 2 (1903): xvii-xxi, cx. Early Yorkshire Charters 1 (1914): 206; 3 (1916): 79-80 (cites Abbrev. Plac., 57). VCH York 3 (1913): 22, 356. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1211 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 128. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1212 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 30) (1955): 84. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1214 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 35) (1962): 164. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Greenaway Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 2 (1971): 29-32; 6 (1999): 47-52, 110-118. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 9-10, 99, 130, 179. Bicchiere Letters & Charters of Cardinal Guala Bicchiere Papal Legate in England 1216-1218 (Canterbury & York Soc. 83) (1996): 55. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 57.” | Bluet, Ralph (I6387)
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| 7092 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “GILBERT FITZ RICHARD (also styled DE CLARE and DE TONBRIDGE), of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, etc., born before 1066. He succeeded to the English possessions of his father. He married ALICE (or ADELICIA, ADELIZ, ADALICIA, ADELID, HADALAIDIS) DE CLERMONT, daughter of Hugues, seigneur of Clermont, Breuil-le-Vert, Creil, Luzarches, and Mouchy-Saint-Elou, by Marguerite, daughter of Hildouin de Rameru, Count of Montdidier and Roucy [see CLERMONT 1 for her ancestry]. They had four sons, Richard, Gilbert, Walter, and Baldwin, and four daughters, Rohese (or Rose), Avice, Margaret, and Alice. In 1088 he joined the revolt of Eudes, Bishop of Bayeux, and others against King William Rufus in favor of Robert Curthose. He was besieged at Tonbridge, Kent by the king, but wounded and forced to surrender. He was evidently pardoned, as he afterwards witnessed a number of royal charters. He founded the Priory of Clare in 1090. He served in the king's army in 1091. He was involved in a conspiracy with Robert de Mowbray and others to dethrone King William Rufus in 1095 but, joining the king's army, he informed on his fellow conspirators as the army moved to suppress Mowbray. He was once again pardoned, but does not reappear in the king's company. He was granted the lordship of Cardigan, 1107-11, by King Henry I. He raised an army and subdued the region, building castles at Castles of Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn. He was a patron of Bec, granting the collegiate church at Clare to be colonized by Benedictines from the Norman house, confirmed his mother's endowment of St. Neots. He also made grants to Lewes Priory from his Surrey lands and granted the church of Llanbadarn to Gloucester Abbey. At an unknown date, wife, Alice, founded an anniversary at the Priory of Saint-Leu d'Esserent for herself and for her parents, Hugues de Clermont and his wife, Marguerite. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD last appears * Westminster 16 September 1115. The Welsh annals note his death in 1117. His widow, Alice, married (2nd) before 1123 BOUCHARD DE MONTMORENCY. They had one son, Hervé de Montmorency [Constable of Ireland]. In the period, 1136-38, she confirmed in alms to Thorney Abbey, Cambridgshire the gift of a half a yardland and ten acres in Lowick and four yardlands in Rounds made by a certain Tovi. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey), 602 (charter of Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, confirming previous gift of Alice de Montmorency [Adelidæ de Montemoraci] to Thorney Abbey), 603 (charter of Alice, mother of Earl Gilbert [Adeliz, mater comitis Gilberti] to Thorney Abbey; charter names Earl Gilbert and Walter his brother); 6(2) (1830): 834-835. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Williams ab Ithel Annales Cambriæ (Rolls Ser.) (1860): 36 (sub A.D. 1117: "Gilebertus filius Ricardi obiit."). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae 2 (Rolls Ser. 33) (1865): 73-74. Jour. of the British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160 ("The first of the Clares who wrote himself Earl of Hertford is said to have been Richard, eldest son of Gilbert de Tonbridge, by his wife Adeliza, who is stated by Guillaume de Jumièges to have been the daughter of a Comte de Clermont ... It would be desirable to affiliate this wife of Gilbert more distinctly, by showing which of the Counts of Clermont was her father. According to Père Anselme (Hist. Généalogique) she was the daughter of Hugh, first Comte de Clermont en Beauvaisis, by his wife Marguerite de Rouey, daughter of Hildouin, fourth Comte de Rouey, and Alex. de Chastillon; but though he states this in the genealogy of Clare, he gives no such daughter to Count Hugh in that of Clermont, naming only three daughters, - 1, Ermentrude, wife of Hugh, Earl of Chester; 2, Richilde, wife of Dreux, second Seigneur de Mello; and 3, Emma, wife of Matthieu, first Comte de Beaumont sur l'Oise. The fact of her parentage depends, therefore, at present on the statement of Guillaume de Jumièges, and the authenticity of a note appended to her charter in the Register of Thorney Abbey, and thus printed by Dugdale: `Adelicia de Claramonte dicta (folio 11, cap. 9, parte 4).' The charter itself commences thus: `Adeliz mater Comitis Gilberti omnibus amicis et hominibus suis Francie et Anglie salutem,' etc.; and ends with `Sciendum est anterior hæc esse facta coram Comite Gilberti et Waltero frater ejus."). Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 14 (1877): 7 (Genealogia Regum Francorum Tertiae Stirpis: "Secundam filiam præfati Comitis Helduini de Rameruth, dictam Margaretam, duxit Hugo Comes de Claromonte, de qua nati sunt Guido dictus Qui-non-dormit, et Hugo Paper, et Comes Rainaldus, et sorores eorum. Rainaldus duxit Adelidem Comitissam Viromandensium, defuncto priore viro suo, scilicet Hugone Magno, quæ peperit ei filiam Margaretam, quam duxit Comes Karolus Flandriæ; quo mortuo, tradita est Comiti Sancti-Pauli Hugoni, qui dictus est Campus-avenæ. Prædictus Rainaldus, defuncta Adelide, duxit Comitissam de Dammartin, filiam Comitis de Rainaldi de Monzuns, de qua genuit Guidonem, et Rainaldum, et Hugonem archidiaconum Metensem, et Galterum, cum aliis utriusque sexus. Unda sororum Comitis Rainaldi nupsit in Anglia Comiti Hugoni de Cestre; alteram duxit Gislebertus filius Richardi Anglici; tertiam copulavit sibi Matthæus Comes de Bellomonte, de qua genuit alterum Matthæum Comitem, et fratrem ejus, et filias."). Round Feudal England (1895): 468-479, 519-527. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Muller Prieuré de Saint-Lea d'Esserent: Cartulaire 1 (Pubs. Soc. Hist. du Vexin) (1900): 44 (charter of Adelaide de Clermont, wife of Gilbert de Anglia [Hadalaidis, filia Hugonis de Claromonte, scilicet uxor Gisleberti de Anglia]). Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1904): 302-305. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Delisle Rouleau Mortuaire du B. Vital abbé de Savigni (1909), titre no. 182 (Gilbert Fitz Richard styled "uncle" [avunculi] of Fransualo [de Fougères]). C.P. 3 (1913): 242-243 (sub Clare), 10 (1945):441 (Round in Feudal England, ped. at p. 472 suggests that Alice, wife of William de Percy, was the daughter of Gilbert Fitz Richard [died 1117], but see next generation). Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 325-326 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Gislebertus autem, qui illam terrain, quam pater eorurn habuerat in Anglia, post ipsum adeptus est; Rogerius enim, frater ejus, terram de Normannia optinuit. Hic, inquam, Gislebertus ex filia comitis de Claro Monte habuit tres filios, Ricardum, qui ei successit, et Gislebertum, et Walterium, et unam filiam, nomine Rohais."). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54 (charter dated c.1136-38 of Alice wife of Gilbert Fitz Richard, and Gilbert, Walter, Baldwin, and Rohese, Gilbert's children). Douglas Feudal Docs. from Bury St. Edmunds (1932): 152-153. Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 21-22. Paget (1957) 130: 3-4. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 34-35, 62-63. Sussex Arch. Colls. 72 (1980): 97-126. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 653 (sub Clermont). Brown Anglo-Norman Studies 11(1989): 261-278. Jackson Words, Names, & Hist.: Selected Papers Cecily Clark (1995): 335 (Margareta de ierborai [Gerberoy] entered in LV as sister of Alice de Clermont), 336 (Burchardus de muntmorenci entered in LV as 2nd husband of Alice de Clermont) Note: LV = Liber Vitae of Thomey Abbey (BL., Add. MS. 40,000, entry record before c.1135-1140; for Alice de Clermont's sister, Marguerite de Clermont, wife of Gerard de Gerberoy, see Prieuré de Saint-Leu d'Esserent: Cartulaire 1 (Pubs. Soc. Hist. du Vexin) (1900): 34-36). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 126-127 (confirmation charter of Alice mother of Earl Gilbert dated c.1138-48), 127 (letter of Earl Roger de Clare to Alice de Claremont dated c.1152). Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 123. Keats-Rohan Domesdey People 1 (1999): 52, 332-333. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Richard, by Alice de Clermont: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT [see next]. ii. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, married ISABEL OF MEULAN [see PEMBROKE 3]. iii. BALDWIN FITZ GILBERT, of Bourne, Lincolnshire, married ALINE (or ADELINE) DE ROLLOS [see WAKE 3]. iv. ROHESE (or ROSE) FITZ GILBERT. She consented to a gift of her mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. She married BADERON DE MONMOUTH, of Monmouth, Monmouthshire. They had two sons, Gilbert and James, and one probable daughter, Rohese (or Rose) (wife of Hugh de Lacy). He and his wife, Rohese, witnessed a charter of Roger, Earl of Hereford to St. Mary, Monmouth dated 1148-55. In the period, c.1150-60, he granted the monks of Monmouth three forges in his borough of Monmouth on the bank of the Wye in exchange for Hadnock, Monmouthshire. He and his wife, Rohese, granted property to St. Florent Abbey. His wife, Rohese, evidently died before 1166, when Baderon gave a knight's fee to the Hospitallers of Quenington for the soul of his wife, Rohese. BADERON DE MONMOUTH was living in 1169-70. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanism 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Lee Hist. of the Town & Parish of Tetbury (1857): 209. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #41 (charter of Baderon de Monmouth dated c.1150-60; charter granted with consent of his sons, Gilbert and James). Cat. of the MSS rel. to Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 710. Copinger Manors of Suffolk I (1905): 45-46. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Meale Women & Literature in Britain, 1150-1500 (1996): 17-18. Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th-Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 90. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 316 (Clare ped). v. MARGARET FITZ GILBERT, married WILLIAM DE MONTFICHET, of Stansted Montfichet, Essex [see PLAIZ 3]. vi. ALICE DE TONBRIDGE, married WILLIAM DE PERCY, of Topcliffe, Yorkshire [see PERCY 3].” 3. “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... Illegitimate daughter of King Henry I, by Isabel of Meulan, daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues le Grand Count of Crepy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. Isabel de Meulan married (1st) Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 6 Jan. 1147/8) [see PEMBROKE 3] and (2nd) Ralph Bluet, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire (living 1167) [see PEMBROKE 3]. She was allegedly living in 1172. i. ISABEL OF ENGLAND. She and her mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed two undated charters of her half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke. Her subsequent history is unknown. 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). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-102 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke) ("Actually there is no reasonable doubt that Isabel [de Meulan]s daughter bore her mother's name, lived with her after the elder Isabel's marriage, and continued to do so after her step-father's death. For the first two witnesses to the 2nd Earl of Pembroke's charter for Usk are the Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter; and in the charter for Goldcliff Priory the first two witnesses are Isabel the Earl's mother and Isabel the Earl's sister. There is no evidence that she ever married."); 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.657. Jour. of Medieval Hist. 29 (2003): 129-151. Green Henry I, King of England & Duke of Normandy (2006): Appendix I, Chart 2 (chart)..." | Fitz Gilbert, Gilbert "Strongbow" (I6386)
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| 7093 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,” Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172. Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.). Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan: i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next]. ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond). Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet: 1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266]. ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “HENRY II OF ENGLAND (otherwise HENRY FITZ GEOFFREY, or HENRY FITZ EMPRESS), Knt., King of England, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou... Illegitimate son of Henry II, by his mistress, NEST OF WALES, daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. Nest subsequently married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire,* son and heir of Ralph Bluet (living c.1167), of Silchester, Hampshire, Lackham, Wiltshire, etc., by Isabel, daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan [see PEMBROKE 3 for his ancestry] He was born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5). They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Arnaury le Despenser) and Emma (nun) [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tiliel Priory. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesbome, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41 (1918-1919): 151. Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1(1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. C.R.R. 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan ap Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage). (* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half-brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard); National Archives, E 327/298]. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's 1st cousin, Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-665]. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintern Abbey: "Radulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiijo die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266].) i. MORGAN FITZ ROY, clerk. He was presumably born in 1176, the year following a great council held at Gloucester 29 June 1175, for the settling of the peace of South Wales and the borders, which council was attended by both King Henry II of England and Morgan's mother's father. Morgan occurs once as Archdeacon of Richmond, but without date. He was appointed Provost of Beverley by his half-brother, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York in 1201, which appointment was appealed by Simon, Dean of York, who alleged that the archbishop had promised the reversion of the provostship to him before the death of the previous provost, Robert. In the period, 1201-c. 1212, he witnessed a charter of Andrew, Prior of Kirkham, to the hospital of St. Peter, York. In 1207 there was a suit between Morgan, Provost of Beverley, and Robert the Constable the younger. In 1211 the king granted Morgan and his younger brother, Roland Bluet, temporary grace for a debt of 500 marks, which debt was still mentioned in 1212 and again in 1214. In 1212 Robert the Constable made acknowledgement to Morgan that the church of Halsham, Yorkshire was the right of St. John of Beverley by the gift of Robert the Constable his uncle. Morgan was elected Bishop of Durham between 7 March and 7 May 1215 on King John's suggestion. In 1216 King John granted a prebend to the Archdeacon of Poitou "if Morgan, Provost of Beverley, be promoted to a bishopric." Morgan travelled to Rome, but his election as bishop was quashed by the Pope due to his illegitimacy. He subsequently returned to England and took vows as a crusader. The Pope granted his benefices, as belonging to a crusader, to the Master of the Temple in England for the prosecution of the crusade. However, Morgan died intestate as oblate at Fountains Abbey in 1217, before he could set out. When it was learned that Morgan had resigned all of his benefices before his death, Pope Honorius III wrote a letter to Archbishop Walter Gray dated 6 Nov. 1217, in which he rescinded the earlier grant to the Master of the Temple; the same day he likewise sent a mandate to the Master of the Temple ordering him to pay the proceeds of the benefices in question to the persons collated to them. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 72. Lyttleton Hist. of the Life of King Henry the Second 5 (1787): 232-234. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams. of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 313. Historiæ Dunelmensis (Surtees Soc. 9) (1839): 31 ("dominum Morganum præpositum Beverlacensem, fratrem ejusdem Regis"), 35 ("Anno Domini millesimo CCXIII Morganus, frater Regis Johannis et Galfridi Archiepiscopi Eboracensis, Præpositusque Beverlacensis, electus in episcopum Dunelmensem per monachos ejusdem ecclesim, curiam Romanam adiit, ut munus consecrationis ibi reciperet. Sed, Rege Angliæ hoc procurante, cassatus rediit, quia spurius fuit; de uxore veto cujusdam militis, dicti Radulphi Bloeth, Henricus pater ejus genuerat eum."). Flaherty Annals of England 1 (1855): 242 ("another natural son, Morgan, became Provost of Beverley, and in 1215 was elected to the see of Durham, but rejected by the pope on the ground of his illegitimate birth, which he proudly refused to conceal, by taking, as the pontiff is said to have been advised, the name of Bloet, that of his mother."). Walbran Mems. of the Abbey of St. Mary of Fountains 1 (Surtees Soc. 42) (1863): 165-166. Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 174 (sub 1201: "Eodem anno obiit Robertus prxpositus Beverlacensis ecclesiæ; præposituram Gaufridus Eboracensis archiepiscopus dedit Morgant fratri suo, Henrici regis ..."). Gray Reg., or Rolls, of Walter Grey, Lord Archbishop of York (Surtees Soc. 56) (1872): 1, 130, 224. Johns Hist. Traditions & Facts Rel. Ancient Gwent or Siburia (1897): 67-73. Pedes Finium Ebor, Regnante Johanne, A.D. MCXCIX-A.D. MCCXIV (Surtees Soc. 94) (1897): 171. Stubbs Hist. Introductions to the Rolls Ser. (1902): 289. Leach Mems. of Beverly Minster 2 (1903): xvii-xxi, cx. Early Yorkshire Charters 1 (1914): 206; 3 (1916): 79-80 (cites Abbrev. Plac., 57). VCH York 3 (1913): 22, 356. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1211 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 128. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1212 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 30) (1955): 84. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1214 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 35) (1962): 164. NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102. Greenaway Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 2 (1971): 29-32; 6 (1999): 47-52, 110-118. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 9-10, 99, 130, 179. Bicchiere Letters & Charters of Cardinal Guala Bicchiere Papal Legate in England 1216-1218 (Canterbury & York Soc. 83) (1996): 55. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 57.” 3. “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 | of Meulan, Isabel (I6384)
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| 7094 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "WALTER FITZ ROBERT, Knt., of Woodharn Walter, Burnham, Roydon, Dunmow, Henham, Tey, Ulting, and Wimbish, Essex, son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born about 1219 (minor in 1235 and came of age in 1240). He married IDA LONGESPEE, daughter of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury (illegitimate son of King Henry II of England), by Ela, daughter and heiress of William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPEE 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Robert, Knt. [1st Lord Fitz Walter], and three daughters, Ela, Katherine (nun), and Lora (nun). In 1253 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Burnham, Essex. About 1255 he gave 3 acres of meadow in Westniead (in Roydon), Essex to the Hospitallers. SIR WALTER FITZ ROBERT died shortly before 10 April 1258. In 1259 his widow, "Ida Lungesp[ee]," paid £40 to have the farm of the manor of Henliam, Essex. In the period, 261-3, as "Ida Longespee," widow of Walter Fitz Robert, she petitioned Walter de Merton, the king's chancellor, to bail two of her men appealed of homicide. Ida was living 11 May 1262. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 117 (identifies wife Ida as daughter of William Longespee [I], Earl of Salisbury). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 2-8. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6 (1) (1830): 148, 501 (Longespee ped. in Lacock Priory records: "Idam de Camyle, quam dmdt in uxorem Walterus fil. Roberti, de qua genuit Catherinam et Loricam, qux velatu erant apud Lacok; Elam, quam duxit primo Guillelmus de Dodingeseles, de qua genuit Robertum"). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 162-164 (biog. of Ida Longespee), App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Roberts Excerpta e rotulis finium in Turni Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-12722 (1836): 359. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespee ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 290 (seal of Walter Fitz Robert dated 1250? - To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, sword, shield. Horse caparisoned; the caparisons are charged with chevrons, or chevronelly in allusion to the arms of FITZ WALTER, two chevrons. Legend wanting). Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 153, 184, 214, 221-222, 227. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancey & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 107-108. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 474. VCH Lancaster 1 (1906): 312. Copinger Manors of Steak 2 (1908): 45-53. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 246. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 209. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 199-209, 244-247. C.P. 5 (1926): 472 (sub FitzWalter) [identifies wife Ida as "da. of William (Longespee), Earl of Salisbury)"]; 11(1949): 381-382 footnote k (sub Salisbury) (confuses wife Ida with her sister of the same name who married William de Beauchamp; also misidentifies Walter Fitz Robert's parentage). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 230: 3 (sub Fitz Walter) (identifies wife Ida as daughter of William Longespee the younger). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 129-130. Cal. Liberate Rolls 5 (1961): 93 (Date: 11 May 1162 - "Liberate to Geoffrey de Lezinan, the king's brother, 40/. in recompense of a like sum received there of the issues of the manor of Henharn [Essex] by the hands of Ida Lungespee"). Curia Regis Rolls 15 (1972): 369-370. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 8-9. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespee). Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of. Jerusalem in England 2 (Recs. of Soc. & Econ. Hist. n.s. 23) (1996): 30-31,54-55. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Online resource: http.//www.briantimms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB2.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Walter Fitz Robert: Or a fess between two chevrons gules). Cassidy 1259 Pipe Roa 273 (available at http:/ / www.cmjk.com/1259/1259_pipe_roll.html). Children of Walter Fitz Robert, Knt., by Ida Longespee: i. ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz Walter [see next]. ii. ELA FITZ WALTER, married (1st) WILLIAM DE ODDINGSELES, Knt, of Solihull, Warwickshire [see ODDINGSELES 8]." 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80. They had four sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], Stephen, Knt., Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury], and six daughters, Ida, Mary, Isabel, Ela, Ida (2nd of name), and Pernel. In 1191 he was granted the manor of Kirton, Lincolnshire by his brother, King Richard I. He was present at the Coronation of his brother, King John, in 1199. In 1200 he witnessed the homage of William the Lion, King of Scots to King John at Lincoln. In 1202 he went on a diplomatic mission to France. In 1204 he escorted Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, to the king. In 1206 he was in the escort of William the Lion, King of Scotland, to meet King John at York. In 1209 he headed an embassy to the prelates and princes of Germany, on behalf of the King's nephew, Otto, King of the Romans. In 1212 he and his wife, Ela, instituted suit in the king's court against Ela's kinsman, Henry de Bohun, for the entire barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Henry's chief fief. The king assumed control of the honour, but allowed Earl William's agents to levy scutage from its tenants. In 1213 Earl William was joint commander of an expedition to help the Count of Flanders against France. In 1214, as Marshal of the King of England, he commanded forces which recovered nearly all of Flanders for the Count; after which he and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne were captured at the Battle of Bouvines and thrown into prison in chains. He was released before May 1215, and returned to England. In 1215 he was present at Runnymeade on the king's side at the signing of the Magna Carta [Great Charter]. He was granted the manor of Andover, Hampshire in 1215 by his brother, King John. He remained a zealous royalist until June 1216, when he surrendered Salisbury Castle to Prince Louis. He returned his allegiance to the king before 7 March 1216/7, when his lands were restored to him. In August 1217 he was with Hubert de Burgh in the victory over the French fleet off Thanet. In 1217 he was granted the manor of Aldbourne, Wiltshire by the king. In 1220 he and his wife laid the 4th and 5th stones at the founding of the new Cathedral at Salisbury, Wiltshire. In 1222 he gave the manor of Heythrop, Gloucestershire to certain monks and brethren of the Carthusian order, and assigned part of his revenues towards the building of a monastery for them there. In 1223 he took part in the successful expedition against Llywelyn. In 1225 he went with Richard, Earl of Cornwall as a supervisory commander on a successful expedition to Gascony. He gave Bradenstoke Priory the advowson of the church of Rogerville (Seine-Inférieure), together with land and rents there and in Sandouville (Seine-Inférieure), and a virgate of land in Chitterne and one in Amesbury, Wiltshire. At an unspecified date William, with consent of Ela his wife, granted the land called "Chandewyk" to William de Nevill, which property he had by grant of Jordan de Saint Martin. SIR WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury, died at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire 7 March 1225/6, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. He left a will dated Midlent 1225. Among other bequests he left 200 marks to the new building of the Salisbury Cathedral Church, plus £200 to the building of St. Mary Bentleywood, Wiltshire, together with his traveling chapel-furniture, breviary, and numerous head of cattle. In 1226 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, brought an action against Earl William's widow, Ela, over the castle and honour of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, including lands in Bishtopstrow, East Coulston, Manningford Bruce (in Wilsford), Newton Tony, Staverton (in Trowbridge), Trowbridge, and Wilsford, Wiltshire; the suit was settled by compromise in 1230, whereby the two parties divided the honour between them. In Jan. 1227 the king transferred Salisbury castle, together with the shrievalty of Wiltshire, to Ela during his pleasure, which she held until 1228. Further evidence of Ela's high standing in royal favour is indicated by the king's regular gifts of venison to her throughout the late 1220s, including one in Sept. 1227 to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials of her daughter, Mary. In 1227 the monks of Heythrop not liking their habitation, prevailed on Ela to remove them to Hinton, Somerset, where, in her park, she began a monastery for them, which was completed in 1232. In 1227 she granted all her land west of Bendeywood, Wiltshire to the Hospital of St. Nicholas' Hospital for the sustenance of the poor and infirm. In 1229 Countess Ela founded Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. In April 1231 Ela secured custody of the county of Wiltshire and Salisbury Castle for the term of her life for a fine of 200 marks, the king stipulating that neither the countess or her heirs possessed any legal claim to the castle and county by hereditary right. She was co-heiress c.1232-3 to her mother, Eleanor de Vitré, by which she inherited an interest in the manor of Cowlinge, Suffolk. In Feb. 1236 her son and heir, William Longespée, guaranteed her gifts to Lacock Abbey, while she agreed to surrender all her lands, rents and rights to him on 1 Nov. following. On 25 October 1236 Ela, Countes of Salisbury, reached agreement with William Longespée, her first born son, that she may grant a moiety of the manor of Heddington, Wiltshire to Lacock Priory, which property fell to her on the death of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford. In the winter 1236-7 she resigned her custody of the county of Wiltshire. She subsequently entered her religious foundation at Lacock, where she took the veil before spring 1238. She served as abbess there from 1240 to 1257. In 1249 she gave formal license to her son, William, to depart on a crusade. In 1250, on the eve of the battle in which he was killed in Egypt, she saw a vision of him standing fully armed entering heaven, being joyfully received by attendant angels. She died 24 August 1261, and was buried in the convent choir beneath the altar at Lacock Abbey. Note: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury has long been known to have been an illegitimate child of Henry II, King of England, allegedly by his mistress, Rosamond Clifford. As early as 1902, however, it was suspected that William Longespée's mother was connected to the Akeny family, a cadet branch of the Tony family [see Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv, footnote 1]. New evidence has surfaced in recent years which proves conclusively that William Longespée was the son of King Henry II by another mistress, a certain Ida de Tony, afterwards wife of Roger le Bigod (died 1221), Earl of Norfolk [see C.P. 9 (1936): 586-589 (sub Norfolk); Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 3711. For evidence that William Longespée was the son of Countess Ida le Bigod, see London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 143, 188, which includes two charters in which Earl William Longespée specifically names his mother, Countess Ida. It is known from contemporary records that Countess Ida le Bigod had a younger son named Ralph le Bigod [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b]. Among the English prisoners captured at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, there was a certain Ralph [le] Bigod, who a contemporary French record refers to as "brother" [that is, half-brother] of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury [see Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878): 101 (Guillelmus Armoricus: "Isti sunt Prisiones (capti in bello Bovinensi) ... Radulphus Bigot, frater Comitis Saresburiensis"); see also Malo Un Grand Feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la Coalition de Bouvines (1898):199, 209, which author identified Ralph le Bigod as brother of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury]. For evidence that Countess Ida was a member of the Tony family, see Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk (2005): 2, who cites a royal inquest dated 1275, in which jurors affirmed that Earl Roger le Bigod was given Ida de Tony in marriage by King Henry II, together with the manors of Acle, Halvergate, and South Walsharn, Norfolk [which properties were formerly held by Earl Roger's father] [see Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537]. Morris shows that Earl Roger le Bigod received these manors by writ of the king, he having held them for three quarters of a year at Michaelmas 1182 [see PR 28 Henry II, 1181-1182 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (1910): 64]. This appears to pinpoint to marriage of Ida de Tony and Earl Roger le Bigod as having occurred about Christmas 1181. As for Countess Ida's parentage, it seems certain that she was a daughter of Ralph de Tony (died 1162), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, by his wife, Margaret (b. c.1125, living 1185), daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see C.P. 7 (1929): 530, footnote e (incorrectly dates Ralph and Margaret's marriage as "after 1155" based on the misdating of a charter - correction provided by Ray Phair); C.P. 12(1) (1953): 764-765 (sub Tony); Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 525 (Tosny ped.)]. For evidence which supports Ida's placement as a child of Ralph de Tony, several facts may be noted. First, Countess Ida and her husband, Roger le Bigod, are known to have named children, Ralph and Margaret, presumably in honor of Ida's parents, Ralph and Margaret de Tony [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b1. Countess Ida was herself evidently named in honor of Ralph de Tony's mother, Ida of Hainault. Second, Morris notes that Ida de Tony was a royal ward at the time of her marriage to Roger le Bigod, meaning she was in the king's gift and that her father was previously a tenant in chief of the king who presumably would have died sometime between 1161 and 1182 [Morris, ibid.]. The only plausible male candidate in the Tony family who could fit to be Ida's father who was also a tenant in chief of the king is Ralph de Tony. Next, William Longespée and his descendants had a long standing association with the family of Roger de Akeny, of Garsington, Oxfordshire, which Roger was a younger brother of Ralph de Tony (died 1162) [see C.P. 8 (1932): chart foll. 464; 14 (1998): 614; Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 2; VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138; Harper-Bill Dodnash Priory Charters (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 16) (1998): 34-37, 39-40, 72-73; Fam. Hist. 18 (1995-97): 47-64; 19 (1998): 125-129]. Lastly, Roger le Bigod and his step-son, William Longespée, both had associations with William the lion, King of Scots, which connection can be readily explained by virtue of King William's wife, Ermengarde, being sister to Constance de Beaumont, wife of Countess Ida's presumed brother, Roger de Tony [see C.P. 12(1) (1953): 760-769 (sub Tony)]. King William the Lion was likewise near related to both of Countess Ida's presumed parents, her father by a shared descent from Countess Judith, the niece of King William the Conqueror, and her mother by a shared descent from Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Surrey. Roger le Bigod and William Longespée were both present with other English relations of William the lion at an important gathering at Lincoln in 1200, when William the lion paid homage to King John of England [see Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 141-142]. Thus, naming patterns, familial and political associations give strong evidence that Ida, wife of Earl Roger le Bigod, was a daughter of Ralph de Tony. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 114-117. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Rymer Fædera 1(1) (1816): 113, 121 (Instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratrem, fratri] by King John of England). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 49-50 (will of William Earl of Salisbury). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 3-6, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory: "Gulielmus veto duxit in uxorem Alianoram de Viteri; de qua genuit filiam unicam, nomine Elam, AD. 1188, quæ data est domino Guilielmo Longespée filio regis Henrici secundi; cui dominus rex Ricardus reddidit comitatum de Rosmar, sicut hæreditatem et jus hæreditarium suum et ipsius Elæ..."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 174-176. Bentley Excerpta Historica (1833): 341-343 (will of William Longespée). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 180-181 (Chronicle in Cottonian coll. of MSS.: "A[ntio] MCCLXI [1261], decimo-quarto kal. Maii [17 April], obiit domina Ela comitissa Sarum, fundatrix cænobiorum de Lacock et Hentona."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 2 (1844): 200. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normannia 2 (1844): vi, xliv-xlix. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2, (1849): 161 (sub 1196: "Willelmus comes Saresberiensis, filius comitis Patricii, obiit, cujus filiam Ricardus rex dedit Willelmo, fratri suo notho, cum comitatu."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 15 (1859): 26-46. Holt Mems. of Royal Ladies 1 (1861): 3-44 (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry 1111 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1862): 19-20, 129, 135-136, 220-221, 262-263 (letters of William Longespée). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 302 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1226: "Obiit Willelmus cognomento Longa Spata, comes Saresbiriensis."). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Fraser Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, A.D. 1147-1535 (1872): 93-94. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 246-247, 396, 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 233-235 (sub Salisbury). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 316-317 (seal of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury dated 1219 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, flat helmet with vizor closed, sword, scabbard, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]; on the caparisons, a lion rampant. Legend: SIGILL' WLL' ...BERI. Reverse. Small round counterseal. A sword erect, hilt upwards, garnished with a belt. Legend: SI … LI LONGESPEIE), 391 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury dated post-1226 - Obverse. Pointed oval. In long dress, girded at the waist, cloak, the right hand on the breast, in the left hand an object now wanting. Standing on an elegantly carved corbel. In the field on each side a lioncel rampant reguardant, in allusion to the arms of LONGESPÉE. Reverse. A small shield-shaped counterseal. A shield of arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]. Legend: SECRETV ELE COMITISSE SARESBERIE). Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 2 (Rolls Ser. 99) (1896): 804. Hist. of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 12, 34, 78, 117, 122, 152. Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 58. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 37-73. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 550 (William, Earl of Salisbury styled "uncle" [avunculo] by King Henry III). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit Kalendan "19 May - Obitus Willelmi Langespe, comitis Sarum [1226], de predictis."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv-xxix (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury), 154-156 (charter of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 34, 255. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 515. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 25 (Ela styled "king's kinswoman" [affinis]). VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 345-358. C.P. 2 (1912): 126, footnote b (sub Berkeley) (Lucy [widow of Robert] de Berkeley styled "niece" [neptis] of William Longespée in 1222); 11 (1949): 379-382 (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy), 365 (sub Warwick), 729 (sub Wiltshire). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 106; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 51. Fowler Roll of the Justices in Eyre at Bedford 1227 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 3) (1916): 16. Farrer Honors & Knight's Fees 2 (1924): 289. Pauli & Libermann Ex rerum Anglicarum scriptoribus sæc. XII. et XIII. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 27) (1885): 385 (E Gervasii Tilleberiensis Otiis Imperialibus: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, styled "uncle" [avunculum] of Emperor Otto IV). Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 102. Reg. of Edward the Black Prince 4 (1933): 231. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Carta Antigua 1 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 17) (1939): 105, 109-112 (instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratre] by King John); 2 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 33) (1960): 113 (William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "my brother" [fratre meo] by King John). Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 21-24. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 40 ("... vigorous, proud, and ambitious"), 262. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 53 (1950): 112-114. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury, bears a shield displaying the arms of six lions rampant), 203 (William [Longespée], Earl of Salisbury styled "brother" [frater] to King Richard I in charter dated 1199). VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 12 (1983): 67-86; 13 (1987): 79-88, 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 143-153, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Curia Regis Rolls 12 (1957): 528-529. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 137 (confuses history of Ada de Chaumont, wife of Roger de Akeny, with her grandmother-in-law, Ida of Hainault, wife of Roger de Tony); 11(1983): 9. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 112. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 157-161; n.s. 10 (1994): 322-328. Genealogists' Mag. 14 (1964): 361-368. TAG 40 (1964): 47-49 incorrectly identifies William Longespée's mother as Annabel de Baliol); 77 (2002): 137-149, 279-280 (article by Ray Phair, cites Philippe II of France Les Registres de Philippe Auguste 1 (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Docs. Financiers et Administratifs 7) (1992): miscellanea no. 13). NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102; 140 (196): 219-229. Wagner Hist. Heraldry of Britain (1972): 40 (his arms: Azure six lions rampant or). Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14, 16 (Ha styled "king's kinswoman"). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 114-115 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1226), 142 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1209 and 1197-1216), 143 & 188 (charters naming William Longespée's mother, Countess Ida). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée); 14 (1991): 136 (sub Vitré) (incorrect order of Ela's mother's marriages). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 6-21. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 98-102, 179. Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 338 (charter of William Longespée dated before 1227). Vincent et al. Acta of Henry II & Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193. Fam. Hist. 14 (1987): 69-79. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 100-101 (charter of William Longespée dated c.1238-50; circular seal, nearly perfect; obverse a shield charged with six lioncels, legend: +SIGILLVM. WILL.... GESPEIE; on reverse complete counterseal, circular, long sword and baldrick, legend: +SECRETVM. WILLELM. LVNGGESPE), 101-102. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 2 (Hampshire Recs. 10) (1989): 32. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Roberts Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants (1993): 347 (1st identification of William Longespée's mother as Countess Ida Bigod, identification based on original research by Douglas Richardson). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 152-153, 201- 202. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 378. Plantagenet Connection 10 (2002): 27-30. Johnson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 119- 124 ("According to William le Breton [a French chronicler], King John attempted to seduce [the Earl of Salisbury's wife] Ela, while Salisbury was in captivity overseas in the wake of the disastrous battle of Bouvines in 1214."). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 301 (charters of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury). Harper-Bill Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 331-332. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 179, 228, 281, 369, 376, 560. Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury: i. WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt. [see next]. ii. STEPHEN LONGESPÉE, Knt., of King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Stokes, Oxfordshire, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, Seneschal of Gascony, Justiciar of Ireland, Constable of Bourg-sur-Mer (in Gironde), Corfe, and Sherbome Castles, and, in right of his wife, of Corrofin, co. Mayo and Kilkea and Tirsteldermot, co. Connacht, Ireland, 2nd son. He witnessed a charter for Baldwin III, Count of Guisnes, in 1241. The same year he acknowledged he owed Richard Basset a debt of 20 marks. He married between 8 Feb. 1242/3 and 16 Dec. 1244 EMELINE DE RIDELISFORD, widow of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster (died 1242), and daughter and co-heiress of Walter de Ridelisford, of Bray, Admekin (or Headford), Corofin, and Tristledermot (or Casdedermot), Ireland, by his wife, Armor. They had two daughters, Ela and Emeline. In 1243/6 he witnessed a charter of his cousin, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Shaftesbury Abbey. In 1247 he was pardoned a debt of £33 and a half mark by Licoria wife of David of Oxford the Jew. He presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire in 1247. He took the cross in 1250. In 1251 he had a dispute with the Prior of St. Swithun's concerning lands in Hyneton. In 1255 he went to Gascony with Edward the king's son. In 1258 he was granted wardship of the land and heirs of his late brother-in-law, Walter Fitz Robert, by Edward the king's son for 3,000 marks. At some undetermined date, he was a benefactor of St. Giles Priory at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. SIR STEPHEN LONGESPÉE died testate shortly before 25 June 1260, and was buried at Lacock Priory, Wiltshire. In 1262 his widow, Emeline, conveyed one messuage, various lands, and pasture for eight cattle in Purscaule, Dorset to Juliane, Abbess of Shaftesbury. Emeline subsequently erected a chapel at Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1270, and endowed it for the maintenance of two chaplains. In 1274-5 Hugh le Mouner arraigned an assize against her touching a pond levied in Denford, Berkshire. In the same period, Agnes daughter of Walter le Clere arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her touching a tenement in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire. Emeline, Countess of Ulster, died between 18 May 1275 and 19 July 1276. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 443, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory records). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., v (Book of Lacock: "Stephanus Lungespee sub rege H. iii. Justiciarius in Hybernia et Dominus capitalis erat ordinatus. Duxit in uxorem Emelinam Comitissam de Ulton, per quam erat Comes de Ulton; genuit ex ea (1) Elam de la Souch, quam duxit Rogerus de la Souch, de qua Alarms de la Souch, qui duxit in uxorem Alianoram filiam Nicholai de Segrave, de qua genuit Elam, Matildam, Elizabetham; Rogerum de la Souche, (2) Emelinam, quæ nupsit Mautitio filio Mauritii."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Waylen Hist. Military & Municipal of the Town (otherwise called the City) of Marlborough (1854): 98. Byron Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463 ([The Magdalen College Coll. at Oxford University includes] five [deeds] by Stephen Longespée, twelve [by his wife] the Countess, and five by her daughter Emelina. The seals are in many instances remarkable for their beauty; those of Stephen Longespée have in some instances the 'Long Sword'; those of his wife are of two types; one, the ‘secretum,’ a lion rampant, with a tree as a crest; the other ‘sigillum,’ a full length female figure, wiuth the 'Long Sword' and three leopards' faces on either side; her daughter Emeline uses a seal of more elaborate and varied design, retaining the female figure and adding the motto: - ‘Folest ki me brisera, Force li a ki la lettre va'."). Cal. Docs. Rel. Ireland 1 (1875): 387, 401, 403, 407, 413, 429-431, 439, 449, 460 (Stephen Longespée styled "king's cousin and a crusader" in 1250); 2 (1877): 5-6, 16-17, 23, 36 (styled "king's cousin"), 51-52, 64, 69, 75, 97-98, 100, 103, 105-106, 108, 137-138. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 82, 256. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 315 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1243: "Obiit Hugo de Lacy, Comes Ultonie, et sepelitur apud Cragfergous in conventu Fratrum Minorum, relinquens filiam heredem, quam desponsavit Walterus de Burgo, qui fait Comes Ultonie."), 316 (Annals of Ireland sub 1260: "obiit Stephanus de Longa Spata."). Francisque-Michel Roles Gaseous 1 (1885): 178, 467 (Stephen Longespée styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by King Henry III in 1254). Notes & Oueries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 60, 234. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 285. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 329. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 126. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Jour. Galway Arch. & Hist. Soc. 1(1900): 168-183. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 31 (1901): 367; 82 (1952): 45-61. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 310-311. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 211 (Stephen Lungespe styled "king's kinsman"), 303, 416, 454. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 13, 49, 209. English Hist. Rev. 26 (1911): 317-326. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 293, 510. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire 1195-1291 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 236. C.C.R. 1259-1261 (1934): 61, 79. Cal. Liberate Rolls 3 (1937): 124. C.P. 11(1949): 381-382 footnote k (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 168-171 (sub Ulster). Lamborn Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese (1949): 97-101 (arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lioncels gold a label gules), (Riddlesford arms: Silver six scallop shells sable). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 59, 136-138. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Holt Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester 1210-1211 (1964): XXXVii. Cuttino Gascon Reg. A 2 (1975): 489-494. Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14-15. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 84, 114, 169. Rogers Lacock Abby Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 78. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée). Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 86. Butterill "Cartulary of Flamstead Priory (St.Giles-in-the-Wood), Hertfordshire" (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Manitoba) (1988): 17 (citation kindly provided by Linda Jack). Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 69. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 264 (his arms: Azure, six lions rampant or, a canton ermine). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB2.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lions rampant or a label gules). Child of Stephen Longespée, Knt., by Emeline de Ridelisford: a. EMELINE LONGESPÉE, 2nd daughter, born about 1252 (aged 24 in 1276). She married (as his 2nd wife) before 24 July 1276 MAURICE FITZ MAURICE, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1272-3, son and heir of Maurice Fitz Gerald, 2nd Baron of Offaly in Ireland, Justiciar of Ireland, by his wife, Juliane. He was born about 1238. They had no issue. He married (1st) shortly before 28 October 1259 (date of dispensation to remove impediment to marriage) MAUD DE PRENDERGAST [see PRENDERGAST 8], born about 1242, widow successively of David Fitz Maurice (died 1249) and Maurice de Rochford (died 1258), and daughter and coheiress of Gerald de Prendergast (died 1251), of Beauvoir (or Carrigaline) and Ballacha in Orrery, co. Cork, Ireland, by his 2nd wife, ___, daughter of Richard de Burgh, lord of Connacht, Justiciar of Ireland [see PRENDERGAST 7 for her ancestry]. By his 1st wife, Maud de Prendergast, he had two daughters, Juliane (wife of Thomas de Clare, Knt., lord of Thomond in Connacht [see BADLESMERE 8]) and Amabil. He obtained lands in Connaught by feoffment of his father. In 1259 he was granted Athlone Castle and the shrievalty of Connaught. In 1260 he succeeded in plundering the O'Donnells, but was defeated in an expedition against Conor O'Brian at Coill-Berrain in Munster. He was summoned to England in 1262. In 1264 he was ordered to secure the Irish lands of the young Earl of Gloucester. In 1264 he took the justiciar, Thebaud le Boteler (or Butler), and John Cogan prisoners. He was twice granted letters of protection to England in 1266. In 1272 or 1273 he led another expedition against Brian Ruadh O'Brien. In 1276-7 Maurice and his wife, Emeline, brought an assize of novel disseisin against Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and others regarding a tenement in Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire. In 1277 he accompanied his son-in-law, Thomas de Clare, against Brian Ruadh O'Brien, King of 'Thomond; Brian was taken prisoner and beheaded. SIR MAURICE FITZ MAURICE died testate shortly before 2 Sept. 1277. In 1292 his widow, Emeline, sued Thomas Fitz Maurice for the manor of Killorglin, co. Kerry, Ireland, which she claimed as her right by the gift of Christina de Marsh who previously had enfeoffed her and Maurice her late husband; the defendant vouched to warranty Gilbert de Clare, minor son and heir of Thomas de Clare. His widow, Emeline, was a legatee in the 1294 will of her uncle, Nicholas Longespée, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1298-9 she had a suit with John de Inteberge about lands at Kilcaly, near Limerick. In 1305-6 she settled the manor of Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire on herself, with reversion to her great niece, Maud la Zouche, then betrothed to Robert de Holand, Knt., afterwards 1st Lord Holand. In 1314 she was granted the manor of Avington, Berkshire for life by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. She presented to the chapel of Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1316. In 1322, staying in England, she had letters appointing attorneys to represent her in Ireland for two years. She died shortly before 23 May 1331. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., i-v (Book of Lacock). Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 12 (1861): 168-169, 239-240; 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Brady Clerical & Parochial Recs. of Cork, Cloyne, & Ross 1 (1863): 59. Jour. Kilkenny & South-East of Ireland Arch. Soc. n.s. 5 (1867): 139-153. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 144, 160. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 391-392 (seal of Emeline Longespée - Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat head-dress, wimple, long tightly-fitting dress, fur cloak, in each hand a shield of arms. Full-face, standing on a finely carved corbel, under a carved gothic canopy with three pinnacled turrets. Arms: right a saltire, in chief over all a label of five points; left six lioncels, three, two, and one, a label of four points [LONGESPÉE]. In the field on each side a sword erect, point upwards, for LONGESPÉE, or for the office of Justiciary of Ireland. Above the sword a lion from the arms of ENGLAND. Legend: S'. EMELINE : LVNGESPEIE. Reverse. A small round counterseal. A shield of arms: as in obverse, between two swords at the sides, and a lion over the shield, as before. Legend: FOL : EST : K1 : ME : BRISERA : FOR: CELI : A KI : LA: LETTRE : VA.) [Note: Birch identifies this seal as being that of Emeline Longespée's mother, Emeline de Lacy, but Macray who reviewed various seals of Longespée family held in the Magdalen College, Oxford archives assigned this seal to the daughter which seems more likely - see Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463]. Ninth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 8) (1883): 267. Wiltshire Notes & Oueries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Irish Ecclesiastical Rec. 4th Ser. 4 (1898): 173. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528. C.P.R 1272-1281 (1901): 300. Jour. Cork Hist. & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 9 (1903): 270. C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 210. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 17; 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 709-710. Procs. of the Royal Irish Academy 25 (1904-5): 370. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 267, 311-313. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1910): 176. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1(1911): 390-391; 3 (1920): 118,198, 209-210; 4 (1920): 128-129 (chart incorrectly shows Juliane Fitz Maurice as daughter of Emeline Longespée). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 158-159, 205-217. Cam Hundred & the Hundred Rolls- (1930): 276. Gandavo Reg Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 (Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 763. Sayles Select Cases in the Court of the King's Bench under Edward 12 (Selden Soc. 57) (1938): 72-79. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 1) (1939): 118, 126. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 45-61. Holmes Estates of the Higher Nobility in 14th Cent. England (1957): 134-14-0. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 57; 3 (Canterbury & York Soc. 59) (1965): 32. Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 293-294, 297. Paget Lineage & Anu of Prince Charles 1(1977): 14-15. Moody et al. New Hist. of Ireland 9 (1984): 167 (chart). Stevenson Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 42) (1987): 94 (charter of Emeline Longespée dated 1315), 96, 173. Coss Lela), in Medieval England 1000-1500 (2000): 56-57. b. ELA LONGESPÉE, married ROGER LA ZOUCHE, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire [see ZOUCHE 9]. iii. RICHARD LONGESPÉE, clerk, parson of Warminster, Wiltshire, Canon of Salisbury. He witnessed a charter for his brother, William Longespée, dated c.1236. In the period, 1250-60, he quitclaimed his common rights in the woods of his manors of Avington and Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire to the Prior and Convent of St. Frideswide at Oxford. He died testate. He was buried at Lacock Abbey. His sister, Countess Ela, and her husband, Philip Basset, presented to the Dominicans all the lands and houses near Fleet Bridge which had formerly belonged to Richard Lungespeye. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Jones Charters & Docs. Ill. the Hist. of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 319-320. Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 340, 342. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 101. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 225. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 205-217. Hinnebusch Early English Friairs Preachers (1951): 24. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14. Greenway Fasti Ecclesia Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 118-138. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medieval London (2004): 32-34, 389. iv. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, clerk, Canon of Salisbury, Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, Bishop of Salisbury. By an unknown wife or mistress, he had one son, Nicholas, and two daughters, Alice and Isabel. In the period, 1226-36, he was granted the manor of Edgware, Middlesex and the village of Cooling, Suffolk by his widowed mother, Ela. He also acquired lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex from Thomas Esperun. In 1236 he presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire with the assent of his brother, Stephen Longespée, the patron of the church. In 1248 he was Rector of Iwerne Minster, Dorset. In 1256 he was granted letters of protection, he being "beyond seas." In 1262 he was presented as rector of the church of South Tawton, Devon by his cousin, Roger de Tony. As rector of South Tawton, Nicholas presented various individuals as vicar there in 1262, 1263, 1264, and 1278. In 1263 Nicholas was presented to the church of Wyke Regis, Dorset by the king. License for his election as Bishop of Salisbury was sought 3 Nov. 1291, which was granted 8 Nov. 1291. He was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury at Canterbury 16 March 1292, and enthroned 21 Sept. 1292. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, Bishop of Salisbury, died 18 May 1297. His body was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, his heart at Lacock Abbey, and his viscera at Ramsbuty, Wiltshire. He left a will 14 Feb. 1294/5, proved 29 May 1297. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.) (assigns William Longespée, portioner of Brocklesby Rectory, co. Lincoln, living 1324, as son of Nicholas Longespée). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Arch. Jour. 45 (1888): 31. Hingeston-Randolph Regs. of Walter Bronescombe & Peter Quivil (1889): 181. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 204; 2 (1894): 61, 76, 97, 100. Rich-Jones Charters & Diocese of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 362. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1(1892): 41, 49, 217. C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 450, 464. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (Nicholas' will mentions his "kinsman," Thomas Fitz Gilbert). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit List of Salisbury Cathedral: 18 May - Obitus Nicholai Langespe Episcopi [1297]."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): 62-64. C.C.R 1288-1296 (1904): 229-230. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 461. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 301. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 510. C.C.R 1268-1272 (1938): 208. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 283, 410-411. Chew Herningslys Reg. (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist Soc. Recs. Branch 18) (1963): 165-166. Sheehan Will in Medieval England (1963): 284, footnote 244 (Nicholas Longespée bequeathed body-armour and horse-armour to his men-at-arms). Smith Itinerary of John Leland 1 (1964): 264. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 155; 5 (1976): 114, 117. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 370. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 1 (1978): 40 (seal of Nicholas Longespée dated 13th Cent. - The Virgin, crowned, enthroned with the Child under an arcaded and pinnacled canopy; below, under a trefoil arch, the upper part of a praying figure facing to the right. Legend: SIGILL' NICOLAI LOGESPEYE). Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S. 241), 47 (Deed A.D. 267), 69 (Deed A.D. 376). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 300. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 1-7, 21-39. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 201-202. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Woolgar Great Household (1999): 157. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 194. National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Children of Nicholas Longespée, by an unknown wife or mistress, ___: a. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). b. ALICE LONGESPÉE, married (1st) 1260-1 GEOFFREY DE JARPENVILLE Alice's maritagium included a messuage and lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, formerly belonging to Henry Bucointe, Knt., and land formerly held of her father, Nicholas Longespée, by Ralph de la Forde and others in a field called "Colemannesdene." They presumably had one son, Nicholas (living 1294). Before 1277 Alice's lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex were fraudulently acquired by the moneylender, Adam de Stratton. She presumably married (2nd) WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE, of Harrow, Middlesex. They had one son, John, of Little Stanmore and Oakington (in Harrow), Middlesex (occurs 1294-1337), and one daughter, Margaret, both of whom were legatees in the 1294 will of their grandfather, Bishop Nicholas Longespée. William (husband of Alice) was also appointed one of the executors of the 1294 will of Bishop Longespée. On Adam de Stratton's disgrace in 1290, Alice presumably recovered her lands, as her son, John de Barneville, later had lands in this parish [see C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558)]. WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE was living in 1297/8. Alice and her 2nd husband, William de Barneville, are direct ancestors of William Barnville, of Harrow, Middlesex (died c.1397), Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, whose son (or grandson), John Barnville (died before 1482), left a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth Barnville [wife of Thomas Frowick, Knt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (died 1506) and Thomas Jakes, Esq. (died 1514)]. Foss Judges of England 5 (1857): 51-53 (biog. of Thomas Frowyk). Cass South Mimms (1877): 30, 99-100 (Barnville arms: Argent on a cross gales five lozenges wire argent and azure, in dexter quarter an eagle displayed sable). Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 41, 71, 95, 217-218, 221; 2 (1893): 14-16, 27. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 61, 76, 100. C.C.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 543. C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 735. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (will of Bishop Nicholas Longespée dated 1294 left a bequest as follows: "Item Johanni filio Willelmi de barneuile et Margarete sorori sue procreatis de Alicia vxore dicti W. viginti marcas"). C.P.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 229,286. List of Early Chancery Procs. 4 (PRO Lists and Indexes 29) (1908): 217, 277, 400. Mundy Middlesex Peds. (H.S.P. 65) (1914): 88-90 (Frowick ped.: "Sr Thom's Frowik of Finchley in com. Midd. = Joane, d. of ... Bardvill."). Davis Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 196 (chart), 255-259 [the will of Lady Elizabeth (Barnhill) (Frowick) Jakes dated 1515, proved 1516, mentions her "chapel of Okyngton [Oakington] in Harrow, Middlesex; the advowson of this place was acquired by her ancestor, John de Bameville, and his wife, Isabel, in 1317 (see Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 95; VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208)]. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208; 5 (1976): 70, 83, 114 (sub Little Stanmore: "... The rest of Henry [Bucointe]’s property passed in turn to his sons, Henry and Ranulph, the second of whom retained part for his mother Joan and his two daughters but sold the rest to Thomas Espumn, who sold it to Nicholas Longespée. Nicholas gave his lands in Little Stanmore to his daughter Alice on her marriage to Geoffrey de Jarpenville, by 1277 Jarpenville's lands and those of Ranulph Bucointe's mother and daughters were fraudulently acquired by the money lender Adam de Stratton. In the meantime, ... Lucy, wife of John Pypard, and Clarice, wife of Richard de la Grave, all surrendered their rights to Adam de Stratton but regained them on his disgrace in 1290. ... John de Barnville ... presumably ... acquired part of Henry Bucointe's former estate ... [he] alienated land to the priory in 1316), 117; 6 (1980): 59,66. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & IFS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S.241). Harris Edward Stafford (1986): 220. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 132 (biog. of William Barnville). Hicks Revolution & Consumption in Late Medieval England (The 15th Cent. 2) (2001): 97 (chart). National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). c. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). v. IDA LONGESPÉE, married (1st) RALPH DE SOMERY, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BOTETOURT 6]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Bedford, Bedfordshire [see BOTETOURT 6]. vi. MARY LONGESPÉE, married in or or about Sept. 1227, ___, an unknown husband.* Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 121, footnote 86, cites Hardy Rotuli Literarum Clausarum 2 (1835): 200. (*Footnote: The identity of Mary Longespée's husband is unknown. He may possibly have been Robert de Roos (or Ros), Knt. (died 1267/9), of Wark, Carham, Downham (in Carham), Mindrum (in Carham), Northumberland, Cargo (in Stanwix), Cumberland, and Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, younger son of Robert de Roos, of Helmsley, Yorkshire, by Isabel, illegitimate daughter of William the lion, King of Scots [see Richardson Magna Carta Ancestry (2010)]. Sir Robert de Roos had children named William, Isabel, and Ida, which given names occur among descendants of the Longespée family. Further research is needed, however, to establish the identity of Mary Longespée's husband.) vii. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. She married shortly after 16 May 1226 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM DE VESCY, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, son and heir of Eustace de Vescy, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, by Margaret, illegitimate daughter of William the Lion, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 4.vi for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205 (minor in 1216). They had no issue. He had livery of his inheritance 16 May 1226. He accompanied King Henry III's expedition to Brittany in 1230. In 1232 and 1234 he was forbidden to attend tournaments at Blyth, Northampton, and Cambridge. He was appointed to escort King Alexander and Queen Joan of Scotland to the English court in 1235, and again in August 1237. In 1242 he went with the king to Gascony. At his wife, Isabel's death, she was buried at Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland. He married (2nd) before 1244 AGNES DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, by his 1st wife, Sibyl, daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Stapleford, Leicestershire. They had two sons, John, Knt. [see BEAUMONT 6.vii], and William [1st Lord Vescy, Justiciar of Ireland]. His wife, Agnes, was co-heiress in 1245 to her uncle, Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. In 1245 he served in the Welsh campaign. In 1253 he had a protection, he then going with the king to Gascony. He founded the Carmelite priory at Hulne, Northumberland. SIR WILLIAM DE VESCY died in Gascony shortly before 7 October 1253, and was buried at Watton Priory, Yorkshire. In 1274-5 Ingusa de Setrington and others arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Agnes, and others touching a tenement in Old Malton, Yorkshire. Agnes died 11 May 1290, and was buried in the Greyfriars at Scarborough, Yorkshire. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 162-163, App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Hartshorne Feudal & Military Antiqs. of Northumberland & the Scottish Borders (Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Northumberland 2) (1858): 155 (Vescy ped.). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 358-365. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 177, 187, 242, 253; 45 (1885): 233; 46 (1886): 114; 47 (1886): 150. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 380-381. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 4-9. C.P. 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy). Hedley Northumberland Fams. 1(1968): 198-203 (Vesci ped.). Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003): 11-28. McAndrew Scotland’s Hist. Heraldry (2006): 72 (vesci ped.), 74. viii. ELA LONGSPEE, married THOMAS OF WARWICK, Knt., 6th Earl of Warwick, son and heir of Henry, Earl of Warwick, by his 1st wife, Margery, daughter of Herity d'Oilly. He was presumably of age in 1229. They had no issue. He carried the third sword at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236. He died 26 (or 27) June 1242, and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick. In 1247 his widow, Ela, Countess of Warwick, and Simon Fitz Simon sued John de Plescy, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Margery, in a plea of warranty. Ela married (2nd) after Nov. 1254 and before 23 March 1254/5 (as his 2nd wife) PHILIP BASSET, Knt., of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Kirdington, Oxfordshire, Woking, Surrey, Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, etc., Constable of Colchester, Corfe, Devizes, Hadleigh, Oxford, and Sherbome Castles, 1259, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London, younger son of Alan Basset, of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, etc., by Aline, daughter and co-heiress Philip de Gay, of Wootton Bassett and Broadtown, Wiltshire and Northbrook, Oxfordshire. They had no issue. In the period, 1230-41, his brother, Gilbert Basset, conveyed to him land in Middleton, late of Thomas Basset their older brother. In 1233 he helped free Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, from captivity in Devizes Castle in Wiltshire; in return in 1234 Hubert de Burgh gave him 176 acres of his demesne land in Soham, Cambridgeshite, with lordship over numerous tenants. In 1238-9 he was granted lands in Soham and Fordham, Cambridgeshire by Peter de Bendenges and his wife Burga. In 1242 he was appointed one of the Constables of the Host, then about to set out for Poitou. In consideration of his services there, he was granted the manor of Kersey, Suffolk -- 1243. In 1245 he was appointed ambassador to the Council of Lyons. About 1245 he obtained a license to build a chapel in Soham, Cambridgeshire and to hear service therein. In 1252 William de Wydindon demised to him land and wood of `Okregge' in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire for a term of seven years; Philip promised to keep William in his service, providing him food and clothing as one of his own esquires and supplying him with another horse if his own died; the grant was made perpetual in 1254. He fought in Wales in 1258. Philip was heir in 1259 to his older brother, Fulk Basset, Bishop of London. In 1260 Simon, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, demised the manor of Stapleford Abbots, Essex to him. The same year, at the instance of his cousin, Ela, Countess of Warwick, the king granted the abbess and nuns of Lacock Abbey quittance from cheminage in all the king's forests in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. In 1261 he had a grant of 1000 marks per annum to maintain him in the office of Justiciar. About 1261 Laurence de Sanford granted him the manor of Lecquid, Glamorgan, Wales. In 1261-2 Thomas de Awelton and Agnes his wife conveyed lands in Doddington and Northwode, Cambridgeshire to Philip and his wife, Ela. In 1262 John de Burgh and Hawise his wife leased lands in Soham, Fordharn, Landwade, Wykes, Hanney, etc., Cambridgeshire to Sir Philip Basset for a term of 16 years for the sum of 400/. in hand. In 1262 Philip leased land in Rotherwick, Hampshire from Richard de la Rugge. The same year Richard, King of the Romans, quitclaimed to him all suit of court at Wallingford, Berkshire for life. He fought on the king's side at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, where the king was taken prisoner by the barons. In 1266 Thomas de Gay, rector of the church of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, granted Philip his free chapel at Fasterne, Wiltshire, with renunciation of all right to sell the offerings made therein; the said Philip to pay 20s. yearly to the parish church of Wootton. In 1267 the king granted him for life a deer leap at his new park below his town of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, and another at his old park below his manor of "la Fasteme." In 1267-8 his wife, Ela, gave property in Stinkinglane, in the parish of St. Nicholas de Macellis, London to the City of London for the use of the Franciscans. At an unknown date, Richard son of Richard de la Wyz released to him all his right in a meadow with pasture for six cattle in Compton, Wiltshire. Sometime before 1271 John de Burgh granted that he pay him 20s. yearly to the custody of Dover Castle, due from the manor of Beeston, which Philip holds from him. SIR PHILIP BASSET died testate 29 October 1271, and was buried at Stanley, Wiltshire. In 1278 his widow, Ela, complained that when she sent John the reeve of Claverdon to Brandon Castle, Warwickshire with a letter for 10 marks which Thebaud de Verdun owed her as relief for the manor, Eleanor, widow of John de Verdun (step-mother of Thebaud de Verdun) and her men took away the letter and imprisoned him for one night. In 1280 Ela was summoned to show by what warrant she took the fines of the breaches of the assize of bread and ale in Maplederwell, Hampshire, and to show cause why she should not permit her villeins of Maplederwell to make suit at the king's hundred court of Basingstoke. The same year she sued Hugh de Courtenay and his wife Eleanor (Ela's step-granddaughter) for one messuage and lands in Wootton Courtney, Somerset, which she claimed to be her right by the gift of Hugh de Neville; the jury found in favor of Hugh and Eleanor. In 1289 Ela, Countess of Warwick, was summoned to answer Hugh le Despenser on a plea as to why she had committed waste in the woods which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance in Compton Bassett and Wolfhale, Wiltshire to Hugh's disinheritance. In 1290 she granted a messuage and 1/2 virgate of land in Nateley Eastrop, a croft of eight acres in Up Nately, and a messuage and garden in Maplederwell, all in Hampshire, to John, Bishop of Winchester, for use of a chantry and maintenance of a chaplain in the chapel of Maplederwell. In 1293 Hugh le Despenser confirmed the grant of Lady Ela Longespée, late the wife of Philip Basset, to Adam de Stock and Roger de Stock his brother of lands in Wolfhale, Wiltshire which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance. Ela, Countess of Warwick, died 9 Feb. 1297/8, and was buried in Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch pad.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1517. Maidment Analecta Scotica: Colls. Ill. of the Civil, Eccl. & Lit. Hist. of Scotland (1834): 229-230 (charter of Margaret, Countess of Kent, sister of the King of Scotland, to Philip Basset). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 160-162 (biog. of Ela Longespée: "She was married twice; first to Thomas Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, who died June 26, 1242; secondly to Philip Basset, of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, son of William Basset, Chief Justice of England. She became the second time a widow in 1271, and survived for many years after, a very wealthy lady, having no children by either husband. In 1285 she was returned as holding the manor of Hoke-Norton in Oxfordshire, in capite, by the sergeantry of carvng before our lord the King on Christmas Day, when she had for her fee the King's knife with which she cut. We find several records of her piety, particularly in Oxford and its vicinity; for she seems to have lived during her widowhood at Headington, only two miles from that city. In the year 1287 we find the Countess of Warwick visiting Lacock, on which occasion she quit-claimed to the abbey her title in the manor of Hatherop. She died on Sunday Feb. 6, 1297, and was buried at Ousney Abbey, near Oxford, where Leland saw her tomb, 'a very fair flat marble, in the habit of a vowess, graven in a copper plate.' Two Seals of this lady are extant. The first closely resembles that of her Mother, having on one side her own figure holding a hawk, and on the other side the arms of Longespé in a shield, with a lion above and below; it is inscribed on both side S. ELE LVNGESPEYE COMITISSE WARWIC. In her second Seal, the coat of Basset (wavy Or and Gules) is substituted for that of Longespe; the latter is placed in her hand, on the obverse, instead of the hawk, and is balanced by the coat of Newburgh, (checky Or and Azure, a chevron Ermine) placed over her right shoulder. The inscription on both sides is SIGILLVM ELE BASSET COMITISSE WAREWYKIE. These seals are engraved in the accompanying Plate."), App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 216-218 (biog. of Alan Basset), 219-221 (biog. of Philip Basset). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 499-500. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 659; 44 (1883): 185, 256, 261; 45 (1885): 314, 331; 46 (1886): 131, 236, 285, 295; 48 (1887): 85. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 574 (sub Warwick). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 21-33; 3 (1900): 85-96, 107-118. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 21, 25, 29, 32, 40. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 328 (seal of Thomas, 6th Earl of Warwick - To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield with strengthening rib. Horse galloping. Legend: * SIGIL … OME COMIT ... WARWIC.), 376 (seal of Ela Basset, Countess of Warwick dated post A.D. 1242-Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat cap, tightly-fitted dress, mantle. In the left hand a shield of arms. Standing on a carved corbel or platform, beneath an elaborately carved canopy like a cathedral church, with central tower and transept. Arms: six lioncels, three, two, and one, for her father WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury. On the left, in the field, a similar shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine, WARWICK. Legend: S' ELE BASSET • COMITISSE • WAREWYKIE. Reverse. Pointed oval counterseal, same size. Within a circular panel, with quatrefoil opening and trefoils in the spandrils, a shield of arms: three bars wavy, BASSET. In the field two lioncels rampant, derived from her paternal arms (see obv.), one above, one below the panel. Legend: SIGILLVM : ELE : BASSET : COMITISSE : WAREVYKIE. Beaded borders.). Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 107, 183, 377. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Vol. 1) (1894): 214-215. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 130. Tait Medieval Manchester & the Beginnings of Lancashire (1904): 136 (Basset ped.). Wordsworth Ancient Kalendar of the Univ. of Oxford 45 (1904): 60, 63, 82, 83. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 29 (Ela, Countess of Warwick, styled "king's cousin" by King Henry III in 1260). CP.R 1247-1258 (1908): 42, 133 (in | Longespée, Ida (I7058)
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| 7095 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "WILLIAM LONGESPEE, Knt., of Amesbury, Aldbourne, Chitterne, Shewton, and Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Canford, Dorset, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Avington, Berkshire, Holrner (in Little Missenden), Buckinghamshire, Brattleby, Lutton, Sutton St. James, and Swaton, Lincolnshire, Bicester, Middleton (in Middleton Stoney), and Stratton (in Stratton Audley), Oxfordshire, Charlton Horethorne, Somerset, etc., son and heir, born say 1208 (minor at his father's death in 1226, confirmed his mother's charter in 1229). He married by arrangements dated April 1216 IDOINE DE CAMVILLE, daughter and heiress of Richard de Camville, of Avington, Berkshire, Godington, Middleton (in Middleton Stoney), and Stratton (in Stratton Audley), Oxfordshire, by Eustache, daughter and heiress of Gilbert Basset, of Bicester and Wretchwick, Oxfordshire [see COURTENAY 1.ii.a for her ancestry]. She was of age in 1226. They had three sons, William, Knt., Richard, Knt., and Edmund, and two daughters, Ela and presumably Agnes [Abbess of Shaftesbury]. About 1220 he had a dispute with the Abbot of Barlings regarding the advowson of the church of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire. In the period, 1229-36, Henry, Abbot of Crowland, and others, and their men of the hundreds of Fleet, Holbeach and Whaplode, William Longespee and Idoine his wife, Simon, Prior of Spalding, and others, and their men of the hundreds of Gedney, Sutton, Lutton and Tydd, reached agreement concerning the marsh without Fendike, Lincolnshire. William took part in the king's expedition to Brittany in 1230. He was knighted by the king at Gloucester in 1233. The same year he was at Grosmont with the king in his expedition against the recalcitrant barons in the West. In 1237-8 he unsuccessfully claimed custody of Salisbury Castle and the county of Wiltshire by hereditary right. Thereafter the title of Earl of Salisbury was withheld from him. In 1239 he was granted a weekly market at Swaton, Lincolnshire, which market was allegedly detrimental to the nearby markets at Folkingham and Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Sometime before 1240 he gave his lands in Diddenham (in Shinfield), Farley [Hill] (in Swallowfield), Hinton (in Hurst), and Sheepbridge (in Swallowfield), Berkshire to Henry de la Mare, Knt. He went on a crusade to Palestine with Richard, Earl of Cornwall, from June 1240 to early 1242. He took part in an expedition to France in 1242-3, fighting at Saintes. He was in Wales on service in 1245. In 1248 the prior of Steventon brought a writ of assize of novel disseisin against William Longespee and others bringing down a certain dike in Steventon, Berkshire to the nuisance of his free tenement in the same vill. The same year John de Turberville brought a writ of novel disseisin against William Longespee for his common of pasture in East Hendred, Berkshire which pertains to his free tenement in the same vill. In 1247 William again took the cross, starting in July 1249 as leader of the English crusaders. SIR WILLIAM LONGESPEE was slain fighting against the Saracens at the Battle of Mansourah on the Nile, Egypt 7 Feb. 1249/50. Administration of his estate was granted to his brother, Stephen Longespee and Henry de la Mare, as executors of his will, 27 Sept. 1250. His widow, Idoine, died between 1 Jan. 1250/1 and 21 Sept. 1252. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 117-118. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 150 (De La Hay/Deincourt ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespee-Zouch ped.). Burke Did, of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abgance (1831): 174-176. Bentley Excerpta Htirtorica (1833)i 64-84. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abby (1835): App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hunter Cat. MSS in the Lib. of the Hon. Soc. of Lincoln's Inn (1838): 103 (William Longespee styled "cousin" by King Henry III of England in 1238-1239). Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 122 (sub 1247: "About Rogation-week in this year, the bishop of Worcester, with William Longuespee, and Geoffrey de Lucy, of the bishopric of Worcester, and many other nobles of the kingdom of England, took the cross, being encouraged to do this by the example of the French king and nobles. William Longuespee, in order to collect money from those who had assumed the cross, like Earl Richard, wisely went to the Roman court, and, addressing the Pope on the matter of the crusade, said to him: 'My lord, you see that I have taken the sign of the cross, and am in readiness for the journey, to join the king of France in his pilgrimage, and to fight for God. I bear a great name, and one well known, namely, William Longuespee; but my property is small. The king of England, a kinsman of mine and my liege lord, has taken from me my title of earl, together with all my substance; this, however, he did judicially, not in his anger, or by any violence of self-will; therefore I do not blame him. I am obliged to fly to the paternal bosom of your compassion, to 'ask aid from you in this state of necessity ... The pope, therefore, on considering the eloquence of the speaker, the efficacy of his reasoning, and the handsomeness of his person, showed himself favourable to the petitioner, and in part granted what he demanded, that is to say, a thong out of another man's skin."). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury,Longespee ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 8; 35 (1874): 17. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 236 (sub Salisbury). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 286-287. Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 100-102,397. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 22,28. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 232,242,255. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 70, 82,87. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 325. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 7 (1904): 134. C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 210 (William Longespee styled "king's kinsman" [consanguine° regis] in 1233). Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 311 (charter of William Longespee dated 1243-6). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 515. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 354-360. Phillimore Ratuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 107. Cal. Inqs. Misc. 2 (1916): 431 ("William Longespee the younger... succeeded, in whose time on account of divers disputes with King Hentry III, especially because the said William left the realm without the king's license, the king caused the castle [and] town [of Old Sarum] and Ethel office [of sheriff of Wiltshire] to be seised into his hands and retained them"). Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1241 1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 37-38, 47. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 253-254, 263, 271; 4 (1924): 158 (Longespee arms: Azure six lions or). Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire 1195-1291 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 129, 236. Cal. Liberate Rolls 3 (1937): 239 (William styled "king's kinsman"). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 6-7. C.P. 11 (1949): 382-383 (sub Salisbury), Appendix F: 126-127; 12 (2) (1959): 729 (sub Wiltshire). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 37-38,136-138 (his seal bearing a shield displaying the arms of six lions and a label of four points). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 27: 1-4 (sub Basset of Bicester); 230: 3. VCH Oxford 6 (1959): 21-22, 244-245, 325-326. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 109, 112. Hallam Settlement & Socieo (1965): 227-228 (agreement between Sir William Longespee and Sir Geoffrey d'Oyri dated 1230-5). Wagner Hist. Heraldry of Britain (1972): 40 (his arms: Azure six lions rampant or). Curia Regis Rolls 15 (1972): 80-81. Clanchy Roll & Init of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 128-129,148. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 40 (seal of William Longespee dated 1256 — A naked long-sword in pale, point downwards, the hilt and pommel projecting into the legend, between two leopards' faces). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priog (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 99-100 (three charters of William Longespee dated variously 1226-40, 1233,1231-4 [the latter charter names' his kinsman, Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke]), 114 (charter of William Longespee dated 1239-42), 169 (charter of William Longespee dated 1226-50), 193-194 (quitclaim of William Longespee dated 1226-42). Schwennicke Europaische Stammtefeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespee). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983):67-86; 13 (1987): 105-114; 15 (1995): 13-55, 242-252. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 100-101 (charter of William Longespee dated 1238-50), 101-102. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Catto "Chron. of John Somer," in Camden Misc. 34 (Camden Soc. 5th Ser. 10) (1997): 232 (death date of William Longespee). VCH Somerset 7 (1999): 84-93. Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 110-124. Schumer Oxfordshire Forests (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 64) (2004): 48. National Archives, DL 25/2440 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Children of William Longespee, Knt., by Idoine de Camville: i. WILLIAM LONGESPEE, Knt. [see next]. ii. RICHARD LONGESPEE, Knt., younger son. He married ALICE LE RUS, daughter and heiress of William le Rus, of Akenham, Clopton, Hasketon, Stradbroke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, and, in right of his wife, of Stinton (in Salle), Norfolk, Ludborough, Lincolnshire, Bromley, Surrey, etc., by Agatha, daughter and heiress of Roger de Clere [see HUNTINGFIELD 6.ii.b for her ancestry]. She was born 25 Dec. 1245, or 1247, or 1 Jan. 1245/6. They had no issue. SIR RICHARD LONGESPEE died shortly before 27 Dec. 1261. His widow, Alice, married (2.d) before 9 Sept. 1265 RICHARD DE BREWES (or BREUSE), Knt. [see CALTHORPE 8], in right of his wife, of Stinton (in Salle), Norfolk, Ludborough, Lincolnshire, Akenham, Hasketon, Stradbrooke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, Bromley, Surrey, etc., younger son of John de Brewes, lord of Gower, also of Bramber, Sussex, Buckingham and Bourton, Buckinghamshire, by Margaret, daughter of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales. He was born before 1232. They had two sons, Giles, Knt., and Richard, and two daughters, Margaret and Sibyl (wife of Constantine de Mortimer). In 1269 he and his wife, Alice, released to the dean and chapter of Lincoln their claims to services from lands in Fotherby, Lincolnshire, in return for a rent of 12 pence from a toft in Ludborough, Lincolnshire and 60 marks of silver. In 1270 Maud Longespee, tenant of part of the lands late of Maud de Faye, sued Richard and his wife, Alice, regarding an acquittance of debt. He was summoned cum equus et armir 12 Dec. 1276 to 14 June 1287, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June 1283, by writs directed Ricardo de Brehuse or Brease. In 1280 a commission was issued to enquire as to the persons who broke by night the doors and fences of the park of Richard de Brewes, of Stradbroke, Suffolk, and carried away deer. SIR RICHARD DE BREWES died shortly before 18 June 1292. His widow, Alice, died shortly before 28 Jan. 1300/1. They were buried in Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App. I, i—v (Book of Lacock). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 557-558. Notes & Queries 3.1 Ser. 1 (1862): 489-490; 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespee ped.). Waters Chester of Chicheley 1 (1878): 197. Genealogist 5 (1881): 318-323; 6 (1882): 236-247. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 73-74, 128. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 311. Rigg et al. Cal. Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews 1 (1905): 238. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 74. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 2 (1908): 228,318; 3 (1909): 50; 4 (1909): 44,84-85. C.F.R. 1 (1911): 436. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 80-86. C.P. 2 (1912): 304 (sub Brewes); '9 (1936): 248-249 (sub Mortimer). Salzman Chartulary of the PHog of St. Peter at Sele (1923): 5-6, 67, 73-74, 84-85. Foster Reg. Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 4 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 32) (1937): 250-254 (charters of Richard de Breuse, Knt., and his wife, Alice dated 1268 and 1269) (his seal attached to the 1269 charter bears a shield with a lion rampant [BREWES]). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 93: 1-2 (sub Braose, of Stinton). TG 1 (1980): 80-95; 6 (1985): 85-99. Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 1 (Suffolk Charters 12) (1992): 234; 2 (Suffolk Charters 13) (1994): 77-81. iii. ELA LONGESPEE, married JAMES DE AUDLEY, Knt., of Heleigh (in Audley), Staffordshire [see AUDLEY 8]. iv. AGNES LONGESPEE, presumed daughter. She was a nun at Wherwell, Hampshire, when she was elected Abbess of Shaftesbury, Dorset in 1243. The king gave his assent to her election as abbess 9 October 1243, and the same day, he ordered that Robert Passelewe, keeper of the abbey, give her seisin of the abbey and its lands. She died shortly before 14 May 1246. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478 (identifies Agnes Longespee, Abbess of Shaftesbury, as daughter of Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury [see above], who allegedly "married before taking holy orders."). Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 311. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 397, 480. English Hist. Rev. 26 (1911): 317-326 (charters involving Agnes Longespee, Abbess of Shaftesbury, and her Longespee relations). London & Smith Heads of Religious Houses: England & Wales 2 (2001): 605." | de Camville, Idoine (I7296)
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| 7096 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "WILLIAM LONGESPEE, Knt., of Amesbury, Aldbourne, Chitterne, Shewton, and Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Canford, Dorset, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Avington, Berkshire, Holrner (in Little Missenden), Buckinghamshire, Brattleby, Lutton, Sutton St. James, and Swaton, Lincolnshire, Bicester, Middleton (in Middleton Stoney), and Stratton (in Stratton Audley), Oxfordshire, Charlton Horethorne, Somerset, etc., son and heir, born say 1208 (minor at his father's death in 1226, confirmed his mother's charter in 1229). He married by arrangements dated April 1216 IDOINE DE CAMVILLE, daughter and heiress of Richard de Camville, of Avington, Berkshire, Godington, Middleton (in Middleton Stoney), and Stratton (in Stratton Audley), Oxfordshire, by Eustache, daughter and heiress of Gilbert Basset, of Bicester and Wretchwick, Oxfordshire [see COURTENAY 1.ii.a for her ancestry]. She was of age in 1226. They had three sons, William, Knt., Richard, Knt., and Edmund, and two daughters, Ela and presumably Agnes [Abbess of Shaftesbury]. About 1220 he had a dispute with the Abbot of Barlings regarding the advowson of the church of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire. In the period, 1229-36, Henry, Abbot of Crowland, and others, and their men of the hundreds of Fleet, Holbeach and Whaplode, William Longespee and Idoine his wife, Simon, Prior of Spalding, and others, and their men of the hundreds of Gedney, Sutton, Lutton and Tydd, reached agreement concerning the marsh without Fendike, Lincolnshire. William took part in the king's expedition to Brittany in 1230. He was knighted by the king at Gloucester in 1233. The same year he was at Grosmont with the king in his expedition against the recalcitrant barons in the West. In 1237-8 he unsuccessfully claimed custody of Salisbury Castle and the county of Wiltshire by hereditary right. Thereafter the title of Earl of Salisbury was withheld from him. In 1239 he was granted a weekly market at Swaton, Lincolnshire, which market was allegedly detrimental to the nearby markets at Folkingham and Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Sometime before 1240 he gave his lands in Diddenham (in Shinfield), Farley [Hill] (in Swallowfield), Hinton (in Hurst), and Sheepbridge (in Swallowfield), Berkshire to Henry de la Mare, Knt. He went on a crusade to Palestine with Richard, Earl of Cornwall, from June 1240 to early 1242. He took part in an expedition to France in 1242-3, fighting at Saintes. He was in Wales on service in 1245. In 1248 the prior of Steventon brought a writ of assize of novel disseisin against William Longespee and others bringing down a certain dike in Steventon, Berkshire to the nuisance of his free tenement in the same vill. The same year John de Turberville brought a writ of novel disseisin against William Longespee for his common of pasture in East Hendred, Berkshire which pertains to his free tenement in the same vill. In 1247 William again took the cross, starting in July 1249 as leader of the English crusaders. SIR WILLIAM LONGESPEE was slain fighting against the Saracens at the Battle of Mansourah on the Nile, Egypt 7 Feb. 1249/50. Administration of his estate was granted to his brother, Stephen Longespee and Henry de la Mare, as executors of his will, 27 Sept. 1250. His widow, Idoine, died between 1 Jan. 1250/1 and 21 Sept. 1252. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 117-118. Blore Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland 1(2) (1811): 150 (De La Hay/Deincourt ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespee-Zouch ped.). Burke Did, of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abgance (1831): 174-176. Bentley Excerpta Htirtorica (1833)i 64-84. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abby (1835): App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hunter Cat. MSS in the Lib. of the Hon. Soc. of Lincoln's Inn (1838): 103 (William Longespee styled "cousin" by King Henry III of England in 1238-1239). Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 122 (sub 1247: "About Rogation-week in this year, the bishop of Worcester, with William Longuespee, and Geoffrey de Lucy, of the bishopric of Worcester, and many other nobles of the kingdom of England, took the cross, being encouraged to do this by the example of the French king and nobles. William Longuespee, in order to collect money from those who had assumed the cross, like Earl Richard, wisely went to the Roman court, and, addressing the Pope on the matter of the crusade, said to him: 'My lord, you see that I have taken the sign of the cross, and am in readiness for the journey, to join the king of France in his pilgrimage, and to fight for God. I bear a great name, and one well known, namely, William Longuespee; but my property is small. The king of England, a kinsman of mine and my liege lord, has taken from me my title of earl, together with all my substance; this, however, he did judicially, not in his anger, or by any violence of self-will; therefore I do not blame him. I am obliged to fly to the paternal bosom of your compassion, to 'ask aid from you in this state of necessity ... The pope, therefore, on considering the eloquence of the speaker, the efficacy of his reasoning, and the handsomeness of his person, showed himself favourable to the petitioner, and in part granted what he demanded, that is to say, a thong out of another man's skin."). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury,Longespee ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 8; 35 (1874): 17. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 236 (sub Salisbury). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 286-287. Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 100-102,397. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 22,28. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 232,242,255. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 70, 82,87. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 325. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 7 (1904): 134. C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 210 (William Longespee styled "king's kinsman" [consanguine° regis] in 1233). Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 311 (charter of William Longespee dated 1243-6). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 515. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 354-360. Phillimore Ratuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 107. Cal. Inqs. Misc. 2 (1916): 431 ("William Longespee the younger... succeeded, in whose time on account of divers disputes with King Hentry III, especially because the said William left the realm without the king's license, the king caused the castle [and] town [of Old Sarum] and Ethel office [of sheriff of Wiltshire] to be seised into his hands and retained them"). Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1241 1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 37-38, 47. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 253-254, 263, 271; 4 (1924): 158 (Longespee arms: Azure six lions or). Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire 1195-1291 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 129, 236. Cal. Liberate Rolls 3 (1937): 239 (William styled "king's kinsman"). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 6-7. C.P. 11 (1949): 382-383 (sub Salisbury), Appendix F: 126-127; 12 (2) (1959): 729 (sub Wiltshire). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 37-38,136-138 (his seal bearing a shield displaying the arms of six lions and a label of four points). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 27: 1-4 (sub Basset of Bicester); 230: 3. VCH Oxford 6 (1959): 21-22, 244-245, 325-326. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 109, 112. Hallam Settlement & Socieo (1965): 227-228 (agreement between Sir William Longespee and Sir Geoffrey d'Oyri dated 1230-5). Wagner Hist. Heraldry of Britain (1972): 40 (his arms: Azure six lions rampant or). Curia Regis Rolls 15 (1972): 80-81. Clanchy Roll & Init of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 128-129,148. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 40 (seal of William Longespee dated 1256 - A naked long-sword in pale, point downwards, the hilt and pommel projecting into the legend, between two leopards' faces). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priog (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 99-100 (three charters of William Longespee dated variously 1226-40, 1233,1231-4 [the latter charter names' his kinsman, Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke]), 114 (charter of William Longespee dated 1239-42), 169 (charter of William Longespee dated 1226-50), 193-194 (quitclaim of William Longespee dated 1226-42). Schwennicke Europaische Stammtefeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespee). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983):67-86; 13 (1987): 105-114; 15 (1995): 13-55, 242-252. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 100-101 (charter of William Longespee dated 1238-50), 101-102. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Catto "Chron. of John Somer," in Camden Misc. 34 (Camden Soc. 5th Ser. 10) (1997): 232 (death date of William Longespee). VCH Somerset 7 (1999): 84-93. Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 110-124. Schumer Oxfordshire Forests (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 64) (2004): 48. National Archives, DL 25/2440 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Children of William Longespee, Knt., by Idoine de Camville: i. WILLIAM LONGESPEE, Knt. [see next]. ii. RICHARD LONGESPEE, Knt., younger son. He married ALICE LE RUS, daughter and heiress of William le Rus, of Akenham, Clopton, Hasketon, Stradbroke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, and, in right of his wife, of Stinton (in Salle), Norfolk, Ludborough, Lincolnshire, Bromley, Surrey, etc., by Agatha, daughter and heiress of Roger de Clere [see HUNTINGFIELD 6.ii.b for her ancestry]. She was born 25 Dec. 1245, or 1247, or 1 Jan. 1245/6. They had no issue. SIR RICHARD LONGESPEE died shortly before 27 Dec. 1261. His widow, Alice, married (2.d) before 9 Sept. 1265 RICHARD DE BREWES (or BREUSE), Knt. [see CALTHORPE 8], in right of his wife, of Stinton (in Salle), Norfolk, Ludborough, Lincolnshire, Akenham, Hasketon, Stradbrooke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, Bromley, Surrey, etc., younger son of John de Brewes, lord of Gower, also of Bramber, Sussex, Buckingham and Bourton, Buckinghamshire, by Margaret, daughter of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales. He was born before 1232. They had two sons, Giles, Knt., and Richard, and two daughters, Margaret and Sibyl (wife of Constantine de Mortimer). In 1269 he and his wife, Alice, released to the dean and chapter of Lincoln their claims to services from lands in Fotherby, Lincolnshire, in return for a rent of 12 pence from a toft in Ludborough, Lincolnshire and 60 marks of silver. In 1270 Maud Longespee, tenant of part of the lands late of Maud de Faye, sued Richard and his wife, Alice, regarding an acquittance of debt. He was summoned cum equus et armir 12 Dec. 1276 to 14 June 1287, and to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 June 1283, by writs directed Ricardo de Brehuse or Brease. In 1280 a commission was issued to enquire as to the persons who broke by night the doors and fences of the park of Richard de Brewes, of Stradbroke, Suffolk, and carried away deer. SIR RICHARD DE BREWES died shortly before 18 June 1292. His widow, Alice, died shortly before 28 Jan. 1300/1. They were buried in Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 557-558. Notes & Queries 3.1 Ser. 1 (1862): 489-490; 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespee ped.). Waters Chester of Chicheley 1 (1878): 197. Genealogist 5 (1881): 318-323; 6 (1882): 236-247. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 73-74, 128. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 311. Rigg et al. Cal. Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews 1 (1905): 238. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 74. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 2 (1908): 228,318; 3 (1909): 50; 4 (1909): 44,84-85. C.F.R. 1 (1911): 436. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 80-86. C.P. 2 (1912): 304 (sub Brewes); '9 (1936): 248-249 (sub Mortimer). Salzman Chartulary of the PHog of St. Peter at Sele (1923): 5-6, 67, 73-74, 84-85. Foster Reg. Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 4 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 32) (1937): 250-254 (charters of Richard de Breuse, Knt., and his wife, Alice dated 1268 and 1269) (his seal attached to the 1269 charter bears a shield with a lion rampant [BREWES]). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 93: 1-2 (sub Braose, of Stinton). TG 1 (1980): 80-95; 6 (1985): 85-99. Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 1 (Suffolk Charters 12) (1992): 234; 2 (Suffolk Charters 13) (1994): 77-81. iii. ELA LONGESPEE, married JAMES DE AUDLEY, Knt., of Heleigh (in Audley), Staffordshire [see AUDLEY 8]. iv. AGNES LONGESPEE, presumed daughter. She was a nun at Wherwell, Hampshire, when she was elected Abbess of Shaftesbury, Dorset in 1243. The king gave his assent to her election as abbess 9 October 1243, and the same day, he ordered that Robert Passelewe, keeper of the abbey, give her seisin of the abbey and its lands. She died shortly before 14 May 1246. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478 (identifies Agnes Longespee, Abbess of Shaftesbury, as daughter of Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury [see above], who allegedly "married before taking holy orders."). Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 311. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 397, 480. English Hist. Rev. 26 (1911): 317-326 (charters involving Agnes Longespee, Abbess of Shaftesbury, and her Longespee relations). London & Smith Heads of Religious Houses: England & Wales 2 (2001): 605." 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80. They had four sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], Stephen, Knt., Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury], and six daughters, Ida, Mary, Isabel, Ela, Ida (2nd of name), and Pernel. In 1191 he was granted the manor of Kirton, Lincolnshire by his brother, King Richard I. He was present at the Coronation of his brother, King John, in 1199. In 1200 he witnessed the homage of William the Lion, King of Scots to King John at Lincoln. In 1202 he went on a diplomatic mission to France. In 1204 he escorted Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, to the king. In 1206 he was in the escort of William the Lion, King of Scotland, to meet King John at York. In 1209 he headed an embassy to the prelates and princes of Germany, on behalf of the King's nephew, Otto, King of the Romans. In 1212 he and his wife, Ela, instituted suit in the king's court against Ela's kinsman, Henry de Bohun, for the entire barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Henry's chief fief. The king assumed control of the honour, but allowed Earl William's agents to levy scutage from its tenants. In 1213 Earl William was joint commander of an expedition to help the Count of Flanders against France. In 1214, as Marshal of the King of England, he commanded forces which recovered nearly all of Flanders for the Count; after which he and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne were captured at the Battle of Bouvines and thrown into prison in chains. He was released before May 1215, and returned to England. In 1215 he was present at Runnymeade on the king's side at the signing of the Magna Carta [Great Charter]. He was granted the manor of Andover, Hampshire in 1215 by his brother, King John. He remained a zealous royalist until June 1216, when he surrendered Salisbury Castle to Prince Louis. He returned his allegiance to the king before 7 March 1216/7, when his lands were restored to him. In August 1217 he was with Hubert de Burgh in the victory over the French fleet off Thanet. In 1217 he was granted the manor of Aldbourne, Wiltshire by the king. In 1220 he and his wife laid the 4th and 5th stones at the founding of the new Cathedral at Salisbury, Wiltshire. In 1222 he gave the manor of Heythrop, Gloucestershire to certain monks and brethren of the Carthusian order, and assigned part of his revenues towards the building of a monastery for them there. In 1223 he took part in the successful expedition against Llywelyn. In 1225 he went with Richard, Earl of Cornwall as a supervisory commander on a successful expedition to Gascony. He gave Bradenstoke Priory the advowson of the church of Rogerville (Seine-Inférieure), together with land and rents there and in Sandouville (Seine-Inférieure), and a virgate of land in Chitterne and one in Amesbury, Wiltshire. At an unspecified date William, with consent of Ela his wife, granted the land called "Chandewyk" to William de Nevill, which property he had by grant of Jordan de Saint Martin. SIR WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury, died at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire 7 March 1225/6, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. He left a will dated Midlent 1225. Among other bequests he left 200 marks to the new building of the Salisbury Cathedral Church, plus £200 to the building of St. Mary Bentleywood, Wiltshire, together with his traveling chapel-furniture, breviary, and numerous head of cattle. In 1226 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, brought an action against Earl William's widow, Ela, over the castle and honour of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, including lands in Bishtopstrow, East Coulston, Manningford Bruce (in Wilsford), Newton Tony, Staverton (in Trowbridge), Trowbridge, and Wilsford, Wiltshire; the suit was settled by compromise in 1230, whereby the two parties divided the honour between them. In Jan. 1227 the king transferred Salisbury castle, together with the shrievalty of Wiltshire, to Ela during his pleasure, which she held until 1228. Further evidence of Ela's high standing in royal favour is indicated by the king's regular gifts of venison to her throughout the late 1220s, including one in Sept. 1227 to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials of her daughter, Mary. In 1227 the monks of Heythrop not liking their habitation, prevailed on Ela to remove them to Hinton, Somerset, where, in her park, she began a monastery for them, which was completed in 1232. In 1227 she granted all her land west of Bendeywood, Wiltshire to the Hospital of St. Nicholas' Hospital for the sustenance of the poor and infirm. In 1229 Countess Ela founded Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. In April 1231 Ela secured custody of the county of Wiltshire and Salisbury Castle for the term of her life for a fine of 200 marks, the king stipulating that neither the countess or her heirs possessed any legal claim to the castle and county by hereditary right. She was co-heiress c.1232-3 to her mother, Eleanor de Vitré, by which she inherited an interest in the manor of Cowlinge, Suffolk. In Feb. 1236 her son and heir, William Longespée, guaranteed her gifts to Lacock Abbey, while she agreed to surrender all her lands, rents and rights to him on 1 Nov. following. On 25 October 1236 Ela, Countes of Salisbury, reached agreement with William Longespée, her first born son, that she may grant a moiety of the manor of Heddington, Wiltshire to Lacock Priory, which property fell to her on the death of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford. In the winter 1236-7 she resigned her custody of the county of Wiltshire. She subsequently entered her religious foundation at Lacock, where she took the veil before spring 1238. She served as abbess there from 1240 to 1257. In 1249 she gave formal license to her son, William, to depart on a crusade. In 1250, on the eve of the battle in which he was killed in Egypt, she saw a vision of him standing fully armed entering heaven, being joyfully received by attendant angels. She died 24 August 1261, and was buried in the convent choir beneath the altar at Lacock Abbey. Note: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury has long been known to have been an illegitimate child of Henry II, King of England, allegedly by his mistress, Rosamond Clifford. As early as 1902, however, it was suspected that William Longespée's mother was connected to the Akeny family, a cadet branch of the Tony family [see Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv, footnote 1]. New evidence has surfaced in recent years which proves conclusively that William Longespée was the son of King Henry II by another mistress, a certain Ida de Tony, afterwards wife of Roger le Bigod (died 1221), Earl of Norfolk [see C.P. 9 (1936): 586-589 (sub Norfolk); Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 3711. For evidence that William Longespée was the son of Countess Ida le Bigod, see London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 143, 188, which includes two charters in which Earl William Longespée specifically names his mother, Countess Ida. It is known from contemporary records that Countess Ida le Bigod had a younger son named Ralph le Bigod [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b]. Among the English prisoners captured at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, there was a certain Ralph [le] Bigod, who a contemporary French record refers to as "brother" [that is, half-brother] of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury [see Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878): 101 (Guillelmus Armoricus: "Isti sunt Prisiones (capti in bello Bovinensi) ... Radulphus Bigot, frater Comitis Saresburiensis"); see also Malo Un Grand Feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la Coalition de Bouvines (1898):199, 209, which author identified Ralph le Bigod as brother of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury]. For evidence that Countess Ida was a member of the Tony family, see Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk (2005): 2, who cites a royal inquest dated 1275, in which jurors affirmed that Earl Roger le Bigod was given Ida de Tony in marriage by King Henry II, together with the manors of Acle, Halvergate, and South Walsharn, Norfolk [which properties were formerly held by Earl Roger's father] [see Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537]. Morris shows that Earl Roger le Bigod received these manors by writ of the king, he having held them for three quarters of a year at Michaelmas 1182 [see PR 28 Henry II, 1181-1182 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (1910): 64]. This appears to pinpoint to marriage of Ida de Tony and Earl Roger le Bigod as having occurred about Christmas 1181. As for Countess Ida's parentage, it seems certain that she was a daughter of Ralph de Tony (died 1162), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, by his wife, Margaret (b. c.1125, living 1185), daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see C.P. 7 (1929): 530, footnote e (incorrectly dates Ralph and Margaret's marriage as "after 1155" based on the misdating of a charter - correction provided by Ray Phair); C.P. 12(1) (1953): 764-765 (sub Tony); Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 525 (Tosny ped.)]. For evidence which supports Ida's placement as a child of Ralph de Tony, several facts may be noted. First, Countess Ida and her husband, Roger le Bigod, are known to have named children, Ralph and Margaret, presumably in honor of Ida's parents, Ralph and Margaret de Tony [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b1. Countess Ida was herself evidently named in honor of Ralph de Tony's mother, Ida of Hainault. Second, Morris notes that Ida de Tony was a royal ward at the time of her marriage to Roger le Bigod, meaning she was in the king's gift and that her father was previously a tenant in chief of the king who presumably would have died sometime between 1161 and 1182 [Morris, ibid.]. The only plausible male candidate in the Tony family who could fit to be Ida's father who was also a tenant in chief of the king is Ralph de Tony. Next, William Longespée and his descendants had a long standing association with the family of Roger de Akeny, of Garsington, Oxfordshire, which Roger was a younger brother of Ralph de Tony (died 1162) [see C.P. 8 (1932): chart foll. 464; 14 (1998): 614; Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 2; VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138; Harper-Bill Dodnash Priory Charters (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 16) (1998): 34-37, 39-40, 72-73; Fam. Hist. 18 (1995-97): 47-64; 19 (1998): 125-129]. Lastly, Roger le Bigod and his step-son, William Longespée, both had associations with William the lion, King of Scots, which connection can be readily explained by virtue of King William's wife, Ermengarde, being sister to Constance de Beaumont, wife of Countess Ida's presumed brother, Roger de Tony [see C.P. 12(1) (1953): 760-769 (sub Tony)]. King William the Lion was likewise near related to both of Countess Ida's presumed parents, her father by a shared descent from Countess Judith, the niece of King William the Conqueror, and her mother by a shared descent from Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Surrey. Roger le Bigod and William Longespée were both present with other English relations of William the lion at an important gathering at Lincoln in 1200, when William the lion paid homage to King John of England [see Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 141-142]. Thus, naming patterns, familial and political associations give strong evidence that Ida, wife of Earl Roger le Bigod, was a daughter of Ralph de Tony. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 114-117. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Rymer Fædera 1(1) (1816): 113, 121 (Instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratrem, fratri] by King John of England). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 49-50 (will of William Earl of Salisbury). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 3-6, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory: "Gulielmus veto duxit in uxorem Alianoram de Viteri; de qua genuit filiam unicam, nomine Elam, AD. 1188, quæ data est domino Guilielmo Longespée filio regis Henrici secundi; cui dominus rex Ricardus reddidit comitatum de Rosmar, sicut hæreditatem et jus hæreditarium suum et ipsius Elæ..."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 174-176. Bentley Excerpta Historica (1833): 341-343 (will of William Longespée). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 180-181 (Chronicle in Cottonian coll. of MSS.: "A[ntio] MCCLXI [1261], decimo-quarto kal. Maii [17 April], obiit domina Ela comitissa Sarum, fundatrix cænobiorum de Lacock et Hentona."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 2 (1844): 200. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normannia 2 (1844): vi, xliv-xlix. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2, (1849): 161 (sub 1196: "Willelmus comes Saresberiensis, filius comitis Patricii, obiit, cujus filiam Ricardus rex dedit Willelmo, fratri suo notho, cum comitatu."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 15 (1859): 26-46. Holt Mems. of Royal Ladies 1 (1861): 3-44 (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry 1111 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1862): 19-20, 129, 135-136, 220-221, 262-263 (letters of William Longespée). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 302 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1226: "Obiit Willelmus cognomento Longa Spata, comes Saresbiriensis."). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Fraser Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, A.D. 1147-1535 (1872): 93-94. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 246-247, 396, 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 233-235 (sub Salisbury). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 316-317 (seal of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury dated 1219 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, flat helmet with vizor closed, sword, scabbard, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]; on the caparisons, a lion rampant. Legend: SIGILL' WLL' ...BERI. Reverse. Small round counterseal. A sword erect, hilt upwards, garnished with a belt. Legend: SI … LI LONGESPEIE), 391 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury dated post-1226 - Obverse. Pointed oval. In long dress, girded at the waist, cloak, the right hand on the breast, in the left hand an object now wanting. Standing on an elegantly carved corbel. In the field on each side a lioncel rampant reguardant, in allusion to the arms of LONGESPÉE. Reverse. A small shield-shaped counterseal. A shield of arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]. Legend: SECRETV ELE COMITISSE SARESBERIE). Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 2 (Rolls Ser. 99) (1896): 804. Hist. of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 12, 34, 78, 117, 122, 152. Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 58. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 37-73. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 550 (William, Earl of Salisbury styled "uncle" [avunculo] by King Henry III). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit Kalendan "19 May - Obitus Willelmi Langespe, comitis Sarum [1226], de predictis."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv-xxix (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury), 154-156 (charter of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 34, 255. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 515. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 25 (Ela styled "king's kinswoman" [affinis]). VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 345-358. C.P. 2 (1912): 126, footnote b (sub Berkeley) (Lucy [widow of Robert] de Berkeley styled "niece" [neptis] of William Longespée in 1222); 11 (1949): 379-382 (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy), 365 (sub Warwick), 729 (sub Wiltshire). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 106; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 51. Fowler Roll of the Justices in Eyre at Bedford 1227 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 3) (1916): 16. Farrer Honors & Knight's Fees 2 (1924): 289. Pauli & Libermann Ex rerum Anglicarum scriptoribus sæc. XII. et XIII. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 27) (1885): 385 (E Gervasii Tilleberiensis Otiis Imperialibus: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, styled "uncle" [avunculum] of Emperor Otto IV). Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 102. Reg. of Edward the Black Prince 4 (1933): 231. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Carta Antigua 1 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 17) (1939): 105, 109-112 (instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratre] by King John); 2 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 33) (1960): 113 (William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "my brother" [fratre meo] by King John). Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 21-24. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 40 ("... vigorous, proud, and ambitious"), 262. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 53 (1950): 112-114. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury, bears a shield displaying the arms of six lions rampant), 203 (William [Longespée], Earl of Salisbury styled "brother" [frater] to King Richard I in charter dated 1199). VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 12 (1983): 67-86; 13 (1987): 79-88, 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 143-153, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Curia Regis Rolls 12 (1957): 528-529. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 137 (confuses history of Ada de Chaumont, wife of Roger de Akeny, with her grandmother-in-law, Ida of Hainault, wife of Roger de Tony); 11(1983): 9. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 112. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 157-161; n.s. 10 (1994): 322-328. Genealogists' Mag. 14 (1964): 361-368. TAG 40 (1964): 47-49 incorrectly identifies William Longespée's mother as Annabel de Baliol); 77 (2002): 137-149, 279-280 (article by Ray Phair, cites Philippe II of France Les Registres de Philippe Auguste 1 (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Docs. Financiers et Administratifs 7) (1992): miscellanea no. 13). NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102; 140 (196): 219-229. Wagner Hist. Heraldry of Britain (1972): 40 (his arms: Azure six lions rampant or). Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14, 16 (Ha styled "king's kinswoman"). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 114-115 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1226), 142 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1209 and 1197-1216), 143 & 188 (charters naming William Longespée's mother, Countess Ida). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée); 14 (1991): 136 (sub Vitré) (incorrect order of Ela's mother's marriages). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 6-21. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 98-102, 179. Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 338 (charter of William Longespée dated before 1227). Vincent et al. Acta of Henry II & Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193. Fam. Hist. 14 (1987): 69-79. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 100-101 (charter of William Longespée dated c.1238-50; circular seal, nearly perfect; obverse a shield charged with six lioncels, legend: +SIGILLVM. WILL.... GESPEIE; on reverse complete counterseal, circular, long sword and baldrick, legend: +SECRETVM. WILLELM. LVNGGESPE), 101-102. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 2 (Hampshire Recs. 10) (1989): 32. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Roberts Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants (1993): 347 (1st identification of William Longespée's mother as Countess Ida Bigod, identification based on original research by Douglas Richardson). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 152-153, 201- 202. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 378. Plantagenet Connection 10 (2002): 27-30. Johnson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 119- 124 ("According to William le Breton [a French chronicler], King John attempted to seduce [the Earl of Salisbury's wife] Ela, while Salisbury was in captivity overseas in the wake of the disastrous battle of Bouvines in 1214."). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 301 (charters of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury). Harper-Bill Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 331-332. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 179, 228, 281, 369, 376, 560. Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury: i. WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt. [see next]. ii. STEPHEN LONGESPÉE, Knt., of King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Stokes, Oxfordshire, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, Seneschal of Gascony, Justiciar of Ireland, Constable of Bourg-sur-Mer (in Gironde), Corfe, and Sherbome Castles, and, in right of his wife, of Corrofin, co. Mayo and Kilkea and Tirsteldermot, co. Connacht, Ireland, 2nd son. He witnessed a charter for Baldwin III, Count of Guisnes, in 1241. The same year he acknowledged he owed Richard Basset a debt of 20 marks. He married between 8 Feb. 1242/3 and 16 Dec. 1244 EMELINE DE RIDELISFORD, widow of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster (died 1242), and daughter and co-heiress of Walter de Ridelisford, of Bray, Admekin (or Headford), Corofin, and Tristledermot (or Casdedermot), Ireland, by his wife, Armor. They had two daughters, Ela and Emeline. In 1243/6 he witnessed a charter of his cousin, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Shaftesbury Abbey. In 1247 he was pardoned a debt of £33 and a half mark by Licoria wife of David of Oxford the Jew. He presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire in 1247. He took the cross in 1250. In 1251 he had a dispute with the Prior of St. Swithun's concerning lands in Hyneton. In 1255 he went to Gascony with Edward the king's son. In 1258 he was granted wardship of the land and heirs of his late brother-in-law, Walter Fitz Robert, by Edward the king's son for 3,000 marks. At some undetermined date, he was a benefactor of St. Giles Priory at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. SIR STEPHEN LONGESPÉE died testate shortly before 25 June 1260, and was buried at Lacock Priory, Wiltshire. In 1262 his widow, Emeline, conveyed one messuage, various lands, and pasture for eight cattle in Purscaule, Dorset to Juliane, Abbess of Shaftesbury. Emeline subsequently erected a chapel at Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1270, and endowed it for the maintenance of two chaplains. In 1274-5 Hugh le Mouner arraigned an assize against her touching a pond levied in Denford, Berkshire. In the same period, Agnes daughter of Walter le Clere arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her touching a tenement in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire. Emeline, Countess of Ulster, died between 18 May 1275 and 19 July 1276. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 443, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory records). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., v (Book of Lacock: "Stephanus Lungespee sub rege H. iii. Justiciarius in Hybernia et Dominus capitalis erat ordinatus. Duxit in uxorem Emelinam Comitissam de Ulton, per quam erat Comes de Ulton; genuit ex ea (1) Elam de la Souch, quam duxit Rogerus de la Souch, de qua Alarms de la Souch, qui duxit in uxorem Alianoram filiam Nicholai de Segrave, de qua genuit Elam, Matildam, Elizabetham; Rogerum de la Souche, (2) Emelinam, quæ nupsit Mautitio filio Mauritii."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Waylen Hist. Military & Municipal of the Town (otherwise called the City) of Marlborough (1854): 98. Byron Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463 ([The Magdalen College Coll. at Oxford University includes] five [deeds] by Stephen Longespée, twelve [by his wife] the Countess, and five by her daughter Emelina. The seals are in many instances remarkable for their beauty; those of Stephen Longespée have in some instances the 'Long Sword'; those of his wife are of two types; one, the ‘secretum,’ a lion rampant, with a tree as a crest; the other ‘sigillum,’ a full length female figure, wiuth the 'Long Sword' and three leopards' faces on either side; her daughter Emeline uses a seal of more elaborate and varied design, retaining the female figure and adding the motto: - ‘Folest ki me brisera, Force li a ki la lettre va'."). Cal. Docs. Rel. Ireland 1 (1875): 387, 401, 403, 407, 413, 429-431, 439, 449, 460 (Stephen Longespée styled "king's cousin and a crusader" in 1250); 2 (1877): 5-6, 16-17, 23, 36 (styled "king's cousin"), 51-52, 64, 69, 75, 97-98, 100, 103, 105-106, 108, 137-138. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 82, 256. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 315 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1243: "Obiit Hugo de Lacy, Comes Ultonie, et sepelitur apud Cragfergous in conventu Fratrum Minorum, relinquens filiam heredem, quam desponsavit Walterus de Burgo, qui fait Comes Ultonie."), 316 (Annals of Ireland sub 1260: "obiit Stephanus de Longa Spata."). Francisque-Michel Roles Gaseous 1 (1885): 178, 467 (Stephen Longespée styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by King Henry III in 1254). Notes & Oueries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 60, 234. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 285. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 329. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 126. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Jour. Galway Arch. & Hist. Soc. 1(1900): 168-183. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 31 (1901): 367; 82 (1952): 45-61. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 310-311. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 211 (Stephen Lungespe styled "king's kinsman"), 303, 416, 454. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 13, 49, 209. English Hist. Rev. 26 (1911): 317-326. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 293, 510. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire 1195-1291 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 236. C.C.R. 1259-1261 (1934): 61, 79. Cal. Liberate Rolls 3 (1937): 124. C.P. 11(1949): 381-382 footnote k (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 168-171 (sub Ulster). Lamborn Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese (1949): 97-101 (arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lioncels gold a label gules), (Riddlesford arms: Silver six scallop shells sable). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 59, 136-138. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Holt Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester 1210-1211 (1964): XXXVii. Cuttino Gascon Reg. A 2 (1975): 489-494. Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14-15. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 84, 114, 169. Rogers Lacock Abby Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 78. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée). Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 86. Butterill "Cartulary of Flamstead Priory (St.Giles-in-the-Wood), Hertfordshire" (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Manitoba) (1988): 17 (citation kindly provided by Linda Jack). Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 69. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 264 (his arms: Azure, six lions rampant or, a canton ermine). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB2.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lions rampant or a label gules). Child of Stephen Longespée, Knt., by Emeline de Ridelisford: a. EMELINE LONGESPÉE, 2nd daughter, born about 1252 (aged 24 in 1276). She married (as his 2nd wife) before 24 July 1276 MAURICE FITZ MAURICE, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1272-3, son and heir of Maurice Fitz Gerald, 2nd Baron of Offaly in Ireland, Justiciar of Ireland, by his wife, Juliane. He was born about 1238. They had no issue. He married (1st) shortly before 28 October 1259 (date of dispensation to remove impediment to marriage) MAUD DE PRENDERGAST [see PRENDERGAST 8], born about 1242, widow successively of David Fitz Maurice (died 1249) and Maurice de Rochford (died 1258), and daughter and coheiress of Gerald de Prendergast (died 1251), of Beauvoir (or Carrigaline) and Ballacha in Orrery, co. Cork, Ireland, by his 2nd wife, ___, daughter of Richard de Burgh, lord of Connacht, Justiciar of Ireland [see PRENDERGAST 7 for her ancestry]. By his 1st wife, Maud de Prendergast, he had two daughters, Juliane (wife of Thomas de Clare, Knt., lord of Thomond in Connacht [see BADLESMERE 8]) and Amabil. He obtained lands in Connaught by feoffment of his father. In 1259 he was granted Athlone Castle and the shrievalty of Connaught. In 1260 he succeeded in plundering the O'Donnells, but was defeated in an expedition against Conor O'Brian at Coill-Berrain in Munster. He was summoned to England in 1262. In 1264 he was ordered to secure the Irish lands of the young Earl of Gloucester. In 1264 he took the justiciar, Thebaud le Boteler (or Butler), and John Cogan prisoners. He was twice granted letters of protection to England in 1266. In 1272 or 1273 he led another expedition against Brian Ruadh O'Brien. In 1276-7 Maurice and his wife, Emeline, brought an assize of novel disseisin against Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and others regarding a tenement in Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire. In 1277 he accompanied his son-in-law, Thomas de Clare, against Brian Ruadh O'Brien, King of 'Thomond; Brian was taken prisoner and beheaded. SIR MAURICE FITZ MAURICE died testate shortly before 2 Sept. 1277. In 1292 his widow, Emeline, sued Thomas Fitz Maurice for the manor of Killorglin, co. Kerry, Ireland, which she claimed as her right by the gift of Christina de Marsh who previously had enfeoffed her and Maurice her late husband; the defendant vouched to warranty Gilbert de Clare, minor son and heir of Thomas de Clare. His widow, Emeline, was a legatee in the 1294 will of her uncle, Nicholas Longespée, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1298-9 she had a suit with John de Inteberge about lands at Kilcaly, near Limerick. In 1305-6 she settled the manor of Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire on herself, with reversion to her great niece, Maud la Zouche, then betrothed to Robert de Holand, Knt., afterwards 1st Lord Holand. In 1314 she was granted the manor of Avington, Berkshire for life by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. She presented to the chapel of Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1316. In 1322, staying in England, she had letters appointing attorneys to represent her in Ireland for two years. She died shortly before 23 May 1331. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., i-v (Book of Lacock). Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 12 (1861): 168-169, 239-240; 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Brady Clerical & Parochial Recs. of Cork, Cloyne, & Ross 1 (1863): 59. Jour. Kilkenny & South-East of Ireland Arch. Soc. n.s. 5 (1867): 139-153. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 144, 160. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 391-392 (seal of Emeline Longespée - Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat head-dress, wimple, long tightly-fitting dress, fur cloak, in each hand a shield of arms. Full-face, standing on a finely carved corbel, under a carved gothic canopy with three pinnacled turrets. Arms: right a saltire, in chief over all a label of five points; left six lioncels, three, two, and one, a label of four points [LONGESPÉE]. In the field on each side a sword erect, point upwards, for LONGESPÉE, or for the office of Justiciary of Ireland. Above the sword a lion from the arms of ENGLAND. Legend: S'. EMELINE : LVNGESPEIE. Reverse. A small round counterseal. A shield of arms: as in obverse, between two swords at the sides, and a lion over the shield, as before. Legend: FOL : EST : K1 : ME : BRISERA : FOR: CELI : A KI : LA: LETTRE : VA.) [Note: Birch identifies this seal as being that of Emeline Longespée's mother, Emeline de Lacy, but Macray who reviewed various seals of Longespée family held in the Magdalen College, Oxford archives assigned this seal to the daughter which seems more likely - see Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463]. Ninth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 8) (1883): 267. Wiltshire Notes & Oueries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Irish Ecclesiastical Rec. 4th Ser. 4 (1898): 173. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528. C.P.R 1272-1281 (1901): 300. Jour. Cork Hist. & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 9 (1903): 270. C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 210. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 17; 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 709-710. Procs. of the Royal Irish Academy 25 (1904-5): 370. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 267, 311-313. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1910): 176. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1(1911): 390-391; 3 (1920): 118,198, 209-210; 4 (1920): 128-129 (chart incorrectly shows Juliane Fitz Maurice as daughter of Emeline Longespée). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 158-159, 205-217. Cam Hundred & the Hundred Rolls- (1930): 276. Gandavo Reg Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 (Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 763. Sayles Select Cases in the Court of the King's Bench under Edward 12 (Selden Soc. 57) (1938): 72-79. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 1) (1939): 118, 126. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 45-61. Holmes Estates of the Higher Nobility in 14th Cent. England (1957): 134-14-0. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 57; 3 (Canterbury & York Soc. 59) (1965): 32. Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 293-294, 297. Paget Lineage & Anu of Prince Charles 1(1977): 14-15. Moody et al. New Hist. of Ireland 9 (1984): 167 (chart). Stevenson Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 42) (1987): 94 (charter of Emeline Longespée dated 1315), 96, 173. Coss Lela), in Medieval England 1000-1500 (2000): 56-57. b. ELA LONGESPÉE, married ROGER LA ZOUCHE, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire [see ZOUCHE 9]. iii. RICHARD LONGESPÉE, clerk, parson of Warminster, Wiltshire, Canon of Salisbury. He witnessed a charter for his brother, William Longespée, dated c.1236. In the period, 1250-60, he quitclaimed his common rights in the woods of his manors of Avington and Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire to the Prior and Convent of St. Frideswide at Oxford. He died testate. He was buried at Lacock Abbey. His sister, Countess Ela, and her husband, Philip Basset, presented to the Dominicans all the lands and houses near Fleet Bridge which had formerly belonged to Richard Lungespeye. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Jones Charters & Docs. Ill. the Hist. of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 319-320. Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 340, 342. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 101. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 225. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 205-217. Hinnebusch Early English Friairs Preachers (1951): 24. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14. Greenway Fasti Ecclesia Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 118-138. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medieval London (2004): 32-34, 389. iv. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, clerk, Canon of Salisbury, Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, Bishop of Salisbury. By an unknown wife or mistress, he had one son, Nicholas, and two daughters, Alice and Isabel. In the period, 1226-36, he was granted the manor of Edgware, Middlesex and the village of Cooling, Suffolk by his widowed mother, Ela. He also acquired lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex from Thomas Esperun. In 1236 he presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire with the assent of his brother, Stephen Longespée, the patron of the church. In 1248 he was Rector of Iwerne Minster, Dorset. In 1256 he was granted letters of protection, he being "beyond seas." In 1262 he was presented as rector of the church of South Tawton, Devon by his cousin, Roger de Tony. As rector of South Tawton, Nicholas presented various individuals as vicar there in 1262, 1263, 1264, and 1278. In 1263 Nicholas was presented to the church of Wyke Regis, Dorset by the king. License for his election as Bishop of Salisbury was sought 3 Nov. 1291, which was granted 8 Nov. 1291. He was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury at Canterbury 16 March 1292, and enthroned 21 Sept. 1292. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, Bishop of Salisbury, died 18 May 1297. His body was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, his heart at Lacock Abbey, and his viscera at Ramsbuty, Wiltshire. He left a will 14 Feb. 1294/5, proved 29 May 1297. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.) (assigns William Longespée, portioner of Brocklesby Rectory, co. Lincoln, living 1324, as son of Nicholas Longespée). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Arch. Jour. 45 (1888): 31. Hingeston-Randolph Regs. of Walter Bronescombe & Peter Quivil (1889): 181. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 204; 2 (1894): 61, 76, 97, 100. Rich-Jones Charters & Diocese of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 362. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1(1892): 41, 49, 217. C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 450, 464. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (Nicholas' will mentions his "kinsman," Thomas Fitz Gilbert). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit List of Salisbury Cathedral: 18 May - Obitus Nicholai Langespe Episcopi [1297]."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): 62-64. C.C.R 1288-1296 (1904): 229-230. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 461. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 301. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 510. C.C.R 1268-1272 (1938): 208. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 283, 410-411. Chew Herningslys Reg. (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist Soc. Recs. Branch 18) (1963): 165-166. Sheehan Will in Medieval England (1963): 284, footnote 244 (Nicholas Longespée bequeathed body-armour and horse-armour to his men-at-arms). Smith Itinerary of John Leland 1 (1964): 264. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 155; 5 (1976): 114, 117. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 370. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 1 (1978): 40 (seal of Nicholas Longespée dated 13th Cent. - The Virgin, crowned, enthroned with the Child under an arcaded and pinnacled canopy; below, under a trefoil arch, the upper part of a praying figure facing to the right. Legend: SIGILL' NICOLAI LOGESPEYE). Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S. 241), 47 (Deed A.D. 267), 69 (Deed A.D. 376). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 300. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 1-7, 21-39. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 201-202. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Woolgar Great Household (1999): 157. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 194. National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Children of Nicholas Longespée, by an unknown wife or mistress, ___: a. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). b. ALICE LONGESPÉE, married (1st) 1260-1 GEOFFREY DE JARPENVILLE Alice's maritagium included a messuage and lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, formerly belonging to Henry Bucointe, Knt., and land formerly held of her father, Nicholas Longespée, by Ralph de la Forde and others in a field called "Colemannesdene." They presumably had one son, Nicholas (living 1294). Before 1277 Alice's lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex were fraudulently acquired by the moneylender, Adam de Stratton. She presumably married (2nd) WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE, of Harrow, Middlesex. They had one son, John, of Little Stanmore and Oakington (in Harrow), Middlesex (occurs 1294-1337), and one daughter, Margaret, both of whom were legatees in the 1294 will of their grandfather, Bishop Nicholas Longespée. William (husband of Alice) was also appointed one of the executors of the 1294 will of Bishop Longespée. On Adam de Stratton's disgrace in 1290, Alice presumably recovered her lands, as her son, John de Barneville, later had lands in this parish [see C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558)]. WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE was living in 1297/8. Alice and her 2nd husband, William de Barneville, are direct ancestors of William Barnville, of Harrow, Middlesex (died c.1397), Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, whose son (or grandson), John Barnville (died before 1482), left a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth Barnville [wife of Thomas Frowick, Knt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (died 1506) and Thomas Jakes, Esq. (died 1514)]. Foss Judges of England 5 (1857): 51-53 (biog. of Thomas Frowyk). Cass South Mimms (1877): 30, 99-100 (Barnville arms: Argent on a cross gales five lozenges wire argent and azure, in dexter quarter an eagle displayed sable). Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 41, 71, 95, 217-218, 221; 2 (1893): 14-16, 27. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 61, 76, 100. C.C.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 543. C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 735. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (will of Bishop Nicholas Longespée dated 1294 left a bequest as follows: "Item Johanni filio Willelmi de barneuile et Margarete sorori sue procreatis de Alicia vxore dicti W. viginti marcas"). C.P.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 229,286. List of Early Chancery Procs. 4 (PRO Lists and Indexes 29) (1908): 217, 277, 400. Mundy Middlesex Peds. (H.S.P. 65) (1914): 88-90 (Frowick ped.: "Sr Thom's Frowik of Finchley in com. Midd. = Joane, d. of ... Bardvill."). Davis Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 196 (chart), 255-259 [the will of Lady Elizabeth (Barnhill) (Frowick) Jakes dated 1515, proved 1516, mentions her "chapel of Okyngton [Oakington] in Harrow, Middlesex; the advowson of this place was acquired by her ancestor, John de Bameville, and his wife, Isabel, in 1317 (see Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 95; VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208)]. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208; 5 (1976): 70, 83, 114 (sub Little Stanmore: "... The rest of Henry [Bucointe]’s property passed in turn to his sons, Henry and Ranulph, the second of whom retained part for his mother Joan and his two daughters but sold the rest to Thomas Espumn, who sold it to Nicholas Longespée. Nicholas gave his lands in Little Stanmore to his daughter Alice on her marriage to Geoffrey de Jarpenville, by 1277 Jarpenville's lands and those of Ranulph Bucointe's mother and daughters were fraudulently acquired by the money lender Adam de Stratton. In the meantime, ... Lucy, wife of John Pypard, and Clarice, wife of Richard de la Grave, all surrendered their rights to Adam de Stratton but regained them on his disgrace in 1290. ... John de Barnville ... presumably ... acquired part of Henry Bucointe's former estate ... [he] alienated land to the priory in 1316), 117; 6 (1980): 59,66. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & IFS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S.241). Harris Edward Stafford (1986): 220. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 132 (biog. of William Barnville). Hicks Revolution & Consumption in Late Medieval England (The 15th Cent. 2) (2001): 97 (chart). National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). c. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). v. IDA LONGESPÉE, married (1st) RALPH DE SOMERY, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BOTETOURT 6]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Bedford, Bedfordshire [see BOTETOURT 6]. vi. MARY LONGESPÉE, married in or or about Sept. 1227, ___, an unknown husband.* Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 121, footnote 86, cites Hardy Rotuli Literarum Clausarum 2 (1835): 200. (*Footnote: The identity of Mary Longespée's husband is unknown. He may possibly have been Robert de Roos (or Ros), Knt. (died 1267/9), of Wark, Carham, Downham (in Carham), Mindrum (in Carham), Northumberland, Cargo (in Stanwix), Cumberland, and Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, younger son of Robert de Roos, of Helmsley, Yorkshire, by Isabel, illegitimate daughter of William the lion, King of Scots [see Richardson Magna Carta Ancestry (2010)]. Sir Robert de Roos had children named William, Isabel, and Ida, which given names occur among descendants of the Longespée family. Further research is needed, however, to establish the identity of Mary Longespée's husband.) vii. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. She married shortly after 16 May 1226 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM DE VESCY, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, son and heir of Eustace de Vescy, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, by Margaret, illegitimate daughter of William the Lion, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 4.vi for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205 (minor in 1216). They had no issue. He had livery of his inheritance 16 May 1226. He accompanied King Henry III's expedition to Brittany in 1230. In 1232 and 1234 he was forbidden to attend tournaments at Blyth, Northampton, and Cambridge. He was appointed to escort King Alexander and Queen Joan of Scotland to the English court in 1235, and again in August 1237. In 1242 he went with the king to Gascony. At his wife, Isabel's death, she was buried at Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland. He married (2nd) before 1244 AGNES DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, by his 1st wife, Sibyl, daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Stapleford, Leicestershire. They had two sons, John, Knt. [see BEAUMONT 6.vii], and William [1st Lord Vescy, Justiciar of Ireland]. His wife, Agnes, was co-heiress in 1245 to her uncle, Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. In 1245 he served in the Welsh campaign. In 1253 he had a protection, he then going with the king to Gascony. He founded the Carmelite priory at Hulne, Northumberland. SIR WILLIAM DE VESCY died in Gascony shortly before 7 October 1253, and was buried at Watton Priory, Yorkshire. In 1274-5 Ingusa de Setrington and others arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Agnes, and others touching a tenement in Old Malton, Yorkshire. Agnes died 11 May 1290, and was buried in the Greyfriars at Scarborough, Yorkshire. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 162-163, App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Hartshorne Feudal & Military Antiqs. of Northumberland & the Scottish Borders (Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Northumberland 2) (1858): 155 (Vescy ped.). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 358-365. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 177, 187, 242, 253; 45 (1885): 233; 46 (1886): 114; 47 (1886): 150. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 380-381. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 4-9. C.P. 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy). Hedley Northumberland Fams. 1(1968): 198-203 (Vesci ped.). Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003): 11-28. McAndrew Scotland’s Hist. Heraldry (2006): 72 (vesci ped.), 74. viii. ELA LONGSPEE, married THOMAS OF WARWICK, Knt., 6th Earl of Warwick, son and heir of Henry, Earl of Warwick, by his 1st wife, Margery, daughter of Herity d'Oilly. He was presumably of age in 1229. They had no issue. He carried the third sword at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236. He died 26 (or 27) June 1242, and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick. In 1247 his widow, Ela, Countess of Warwick, and Simon Fitz Simon sued John de Plescy, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Margery, in a plea of warranty. Ela married (2nd) after Nov. 1254 and before 23 March 1254/5 (as his 2nd wife) PHILIP BASSET, Knt., of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Kirdington, Oxfordshire, Woking, Surrey, Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, etc., Constable of Colchester, Corfe, Devizes, Hadleigh, Oxford, and Sherbome Castles, 1259, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London, younger son of Alan Basset, of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, etc., by Aline, daughter and co-heiress Philip de Gay, of Wootton Bassett and Broadtown, Wiltshire and Northbrook, Oxfordshire. They had no issue. In the period, 1230-41, his brother, Gilbert Basset, conveyed to him land in Middleton, late of Thomas Basset their | Longespée, William (I7048)
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| 7097 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “Children of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., by Joan de Mowbray… ii. ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall and Snetesham, Norfolk, Tackley, Oxfordshire, Framsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son, born 25 March 1274. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut. He married by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 EMMA ___, widow of Richard Fitz John, Knt., Lord Fitz John (died shortly before 5 August 1297) [see VERDUN 8.ii], of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, etc. In 1305 the Priory of Coventry brought a writ of trespass against him, claiming that the said Robert came with force and entered his close at such a place and took the prior's beasts of the value of £20. He presented to the churches of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, 1306, and Kessingland, Suffolk, 1307 and 1324. 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]). 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, 258. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXII-XXXIII 4 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1864): 486-491. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349. Cox Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire 3 (1877): 507. Glover et al. Vis. of Cheshire 1580, 1566, 1533 & 1591 (H.S.P. 18) (1882): 181-182 (Monhalt ped.: "Rob'tus de Montealto fecit Isabellam R. Angliæ hæred' suam obijt 3 Edw. 3. = Emma quæ super vixit."). Trans. Shropsbire 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. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 3 (1894): 269 (seal of Robert de Mohaut dated 1301 - A shield of arms: a lion rampant [MOHAUT]. Suspended by a strap from a tree of three branches. Between two wyverns. Within a quadrilobe. Legend: S' • ROBERTI • DE • MOVNALT. Beaded borders.); 4 (1895): 502 (seal of Robert de Monte Alto, al. Mouat, probably Robert de Montalt, 2nd Baron of Montalt, dated late 13th century - A shield of arms: a lion rampant, MONTE ALTO, MONTALT, and MOWAT. Laing gives the date of 1342 to this seal, which is apparently an error, as the art of the work belongs to the 13th cent.). 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 Peels. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 150, 243, 531-532. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436-441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (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 Rotuli Ped. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Beardwood Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield 1307-1312 (Trans. American Philosophical Soc. n.s. 54(3)) (1964): 31. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 1 (1978): 43 (seal of Robert de Mohaut dated 1327-In a quatrefoil, hung from a bush, between two wyverns, a shield of arms: a lion rampant. Legend: S'ROBERTI DE MOUNALT.). 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. 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 8/62/3063; SC 8/260/12974; SC 8/329/E945 (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].” | Emma (I7214)
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| 7098 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80. They had four sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], Stephen, Knt., Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury], and six daughters, Ida, Mary, Isabel, Ela, Ida (2nd of name), and Pernel. In 1191 he was granted the manor of Kirton, Lincolnshire by his brother, King Richard I. He was present at the Coronation of his brother, King John, in 1199. In 1200 he witnessed the homage of William the Lion, King of Scots to King John at Lincoln. In 1202 he went on a diplomatic mission to France. In 1204 he escorted Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, to the king. In 1206 he was in the escort of William the Lion, King of Scotland, to meet King John at York. In 1209 he headed an embassy to the prelates and princes of Germany, on behalf of the King's nephew, Otto, King of the Romans. In 1212 he and his wife, Ela, instituted suit in the king's court against Ela's kinsman, Henry de Bohun, for the entire barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Henry's chief fief. The king assumed control of the honour, but allowed Earl William's agents to levy scutage from its tenants. In 1213 Earl William was joint commander of an expedition to help the Count of Flanders against France. In 1214, as Marshal of the King of England, he commanded forces which recovered nearly all of Flanders for the Count; after which he and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne were captured at the Battle of Bouvines and thrown into prison in chains. He was released before May 1215, and returned to England. In 1215 he was present at Runnymeade on the king's side at the signing of the Magna Carta [Great Charter]. He was granted the manor of Andover, Hampshire in 1215 by his brother, King John. He remained a zealous royalist until June 1216, when he surrendered Salisbury Castle to Prince Louis. He returned his allegiance to the king before 7 March 1216/7, when his lands were restored to him. In August 1217 he was with Hubert de Burgh in the victory over the French fleet off Thanet. In 1217 he was granted the manor of Aldbourne, Wiltshire by the king. In 1220 he and his wife laid the 4th and 5th stones at the founding of the new Cathedral at Salisbury, Wiltshire. In 1222 he gave the manor of Heythrop, Gloucestershire to certain monks and brethren of the Carthusian order, and assigned part of his revenues towards the building of a monastery for them there. In 1223 he took part in the successful expedition against Llywelyn. In 1225 he went with Richard, Earl of Cornwall as a supervisory commander on a successful expedition to Gascony. He gave Bradenstoke Priory the advowson of the church of Rogerville (Seine-Inférieure), together with land and rents there and in Sandouville (Seine-Inférieure), and a virgate of land in Chitterne and one in Amesbury, Wiltshire. At an unspecified date William, with consent of Ela his wife, granted the land called "Chandewyk" to William de Nevill, which property he had by grant of Jordan de Saint Martin. SIR WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury, died at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire 7 March 1225/6, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. He left a will dated Midlent 1225. Among other bequests he left 200 marks to the new building of the Salisbury Cathedral Church, plus £200 to the building of St. Mary Bentleywood, Wiltshire, together with his traveling chapel-furniture, breviary, and numerous head of cattle. In 1226 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, brought an action against Earl William's widow, Ela, over the castle and honour of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, including lands in Bishtopstrow, East Coulston, Manningford Bruce (in Wilsford), Newton Tony, Staverton (in Trowbridge), Trowbridge, and Wilsford, Wiltshire; the suit was settled by compromise in 1230, whereby the two parties divided the honour between them. In Jan. 1227 the king transferred Salisbury castle, together with the shrievalty of Wiltshire, to Ela during his pleasure, which she held until 1228. Further evidence of Ela's high standing in royal favour is indicated by the king's regular gifts of venison to her throughout the late 1220s, including one in Sept. 1227 to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials of her daughter, Mary. In 1227 the monks of Heythrop not liking their habitation, prevailed on Ela to remove them to Hinton, Somerset, where, in her park, she began a monastery for them, which was completed in 1232. In 1227 she granted all her land west of Bendeywood, Wiltshire to the Hospital of St. Nicholas' Hospital for the sustenance of the poor and infirm. In 1229 Countess Ela founded Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. In April 1231 Ela secured custody of the county of Wiltshire and Salisbury Castle for the term of her life for a fine of 200 marks, the king stipulating that neither the countess or her heirs possessed any legal claim to the castle and county by hereditary right. She was co-heiress c.1232-3 to her mother, Eleanor de Vitré, by which she inherited an interest in the manor of Cowlinge, Suffolk. In Feb. 1236 her son and heir, William Longespée, guaranteed her gifts to Lacock Abbey, while she agreed to surrender all her lands, rents and rights to him on 1 Nov. following. On 25 October 1236 Ela, Countes of Salisbury, reached agreement with William Longespée, her first born son, that she may grant a moiety of the manor of Heddington, Wiltshire to Lacock Priory, which property fell to her on the death of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford. In the winter 1236-7 she resigned her custody of the county of Wiltshire. She subsequently entered her religious foundation at Lacock, where she took the veil before spring 1238. She served as abbess there from 1240 to 1257. In 1249 she gave formal license to her son, William, to depart on a crusade. In 1250, on the eve of the battle in which he was killed in Egypt, she saw a vision of him standing fully armed entering heaven, being joyfully received by attendant angels. She died 24 August 1261, and was buried in the convent choir beneath the altar at Lacock Abbey. Note: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury has long been known to have been an illegitimate child of Henry II, King of England, allegedly by his mistress, Rosamond Clifford. As early as 1902, however, it was suspected that William Longespée's mother was connected to the Akeny family, a cadet branch of the Tony family [see Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv, footnote 1]. New evidence has surfaced in recent years which proves conclusively that William Longespée was the son of King Henry II by another mistress, a certain Ida de Tony, afterwards wife of Roger le Bigod (died 1221), Earl of Norfolk [see C.P. 9 (1936): 586-589 (sub Norfolk); Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 3711. For evidence that William Longespée was the son of Countess Ida le Bigod, see London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 143, 188, which includes two charters in which Earl William Longespée specifically names his mother, Countess Ida. It is known from contemporary records that Countess Ida le Bigod had a younger son named Ralph le Bigod [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b]. Among the English prisoners captured at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, there was a certain Ralph [le] Bigod, who a contemporary French record refers to as "brother" [that is, half-brother] of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury [see Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878): 101 (Guillelmus Armoricus: "Isti sunt Prisiones (capti in bello Bovinensi) ... Radulphus Bigot, frater Comitis Saresburiensis"); see also Malo Un Grand Feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la Coalition de Bouvines (1898):199, 209, which author identified Ralph le Bigod as brother of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury]. For evidence that Countess Ida was a member of the Tony family, see Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk (2005): 2, who cites a royal inquest dated 1275, in which jurors affirmed that Earl Roger le Bigod was given Ida de Tony in marriage by King Henry II, together with the manors of Acle, Halvergate, and South Walsharn, Norfolk [which properties were formerly held by Earl Roger's father] [see Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537]. Morris shows that Earl Roger le Bigod received these manors by writ of the king, he having held them for three quarters of a year at Michaelmas 1182 [see PR 28 Henry II, 1181-1182 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (1910): 64]. This appears to pinpoint to marriage of Ida de Tony and Earl Roger le Bigod as having occurred about Christmas 1181. As for Countess Ida's parentage, it seems certain that she was a daughter of Ralph de Tony (died 1162), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, by his wife, Margaret (b. c.1125, living 1185), daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see C.P. 7 (1929): 530, footnote e (incorrectly dates Ralph and Margaret's marriage as "after 1155" based on the misdating of a charter - correction provided by Ray Phair); C.P. 12(1) (1953): 764-765 (sub Tony); Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 525 (Tosny ped.)]. For evidence which supports Ida's placement as a child of Ralph de Tony, several facts may be noted. First, Countess Ida and her husband, Roger le Bigod, are known to have named children, Ralph and Margaret, presumably in honor of Ida's parents, Ralph and Margaret de Tony [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b1. Countess Ida was herself evidently named in honor of Ralph de Tony's mother, Ida of Hainault. Second, Morris notes that Ida de Tony was a royal ward at the time of her marriage to Roger le Bigod, meaning she was in the king's gift and that her father was previously a tenant in chief of the king who presumably would have died sometime between 1161 and 1182 [Morris, ibid.]. The only plausible male candidate in the Tony family who could fit to be Ida's father who was also a tenant in chief of the king is Ralph de Tony. Next, William Longespée and his descendants had a long standing association with the family of Roger de Akeny, of Garsington, Oxfordshire, which Roger was a younger brother of Ralph de Tony (died 1162) [see C.P. 8 (1932): chart foll. 464; 14 (1998): 614; Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 2; VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138; Harper-Bill Dodnash Priory Charters (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 16) (1998): 34-37, 39-40, 72-73; Fam. Hist. 18 (1995-97): 47-64; 19 (1998): 125-129]. Lastly, Roger le Bigod and his step-son, William Longespée, both had associations with William the lion, King of Scots, which connection can be readily explained by virtue of King William's wife, Ermengarde, being sister to Constance de Beaumont, wife of Countess Ida's presumed brother, Roger de Tony [see C.P. 12(1) (1953): 760-769 (sub Tony)]. King William the Lion was likewise near related to both of Countess Ida's presumed parents, her father by a shared descent from Countess Judith, the niece of King William the Conqueror, and her mother by a shared descent from Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Surrey. Roger le Bigod and William Longespée were both present with other English relations of William the lion at an important gathering at Lincoln in 1200, when William the lion paid homage to King John of England [see Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 141-142]. Thus, naming patterns, familial and political associations give strong evidence that Ida, wife of Earl Roger le Bigod, was a daughter of Ralph de Tony. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 114-117. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Rymer Fædera 1(1) (1816): 113, 121 (Instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratrem, fratri] by King John of England). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 49-50 (will of William Earl of Salisbury). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 3-6, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory: "Gulielmus veto duxit in uxorem Alianoram de Viteri; de qua genuit filiam unicam, nomine Elam, AD. 1188, quæ data est domino Guilielmo Longespée filio regis Henrici secundi; cui dominus rex Ricardus reddidit comitatum de Rosmar, sicut hæreditatem et jus hæreditarium suum et ipsius Elæ..."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 174-176. Bentley Excerpta Historica (1833): 341-343 (will of William Longespée). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 180-181 (Chronicle in Cottonian coll. of MSS.: "A[ntio] MCCLXI [1261], decimo-quarto kal. Maii [17 April], obiit domina Ela comitissa Sarum, fundatrix cænobiorum de Lacock et Hentona."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 2 (1844): 200. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normannia 2 (1844): vi, xliv-xlix. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2, (1849): 161 (sub 1196: "Willelmus comes Saresberiensis, filius comitis Patricii, obiit, cujus filiam Ricardus rex dedit Willelmo, fratri suo notho, cum comitatu."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 15 (1859): 26-46. Holt Mems. of Royal Ladies 1 (1861): 3-44 (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry 1111 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1862): 19-20, 129, 135-136, 220-221, 262-263 (letters of William Longespée). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 302 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1226: "Obiit Willelmus cognomento Longa Spata, comes Saresbiriensis."). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Fraser Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, A.D. 1147-1535 (1872): 93-94. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 246-247, 396, 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 233-235 (sub Salisbury). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 316-317 (seal of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury dated 1219 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, flat helmet with vizor closed, sword, scabbard, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]; on the caparisons, a lion rampant. Legend: SIGILL' WLL' ...BERI. Reverse. Small round counterseal. A sword erect, hilt upwards, garnished with a belt. Legend: SI … LI LONGESPEIE), 391 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury dated post-1226 - Obverse. Pointed oval. In long dress, girded at the waist, cloak, the right hand on the breast, in the left hand an object now wanting. Standing on an elegantly carved corbel. In the field on each side a lioncel rampant reguardant, in allusion to the arms of LONGESPÉE. Reverse. A small shield-shaped counterseal. A shield of arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]. Legend: SECRETV ELE COMITISSE SARESBERIE). Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 2 (Rolls Ser. 99) (1896): 804. Hist. of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 12, 34, 78, 117, 122, 152. Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 58. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 37-73. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 550 (William, Earl of Salisbury styled "uncle" [avunculo] by King Henry III). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit Kalendan "19 May - Obitus Willelmi Langespe, comitis Sarum [1226], de predictis."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv-xxix (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury), 154-156 (charter of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 34, 255. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 515. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 25 (Ela styled "king's kinswoman" [affinis]). VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 345-358. C.P. 2 (1912): 126, footnote b (sub Berkeley) (Lucy [widow of Robert] de Berkeley styled "niece" [neptis] of William Longespée in 1222); 11 (1949): 379-382 (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy), 365 (sub Warwick), 729 (sub Wiltshire). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 106; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 51. Fowler Roll of the Justices in Eyre at Bedford 1227 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 3) (1916): 16. Farrer Honors & Knight's Fees 2 (1924): 289. Pauli & Libermann Ex rerum Anglicarum scriptoribus sæc. XII. et XIII. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 27) (1885): 385 (E Gervasii Tilleberiensis Otiis Imperialibus: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, styled "uncle" [avunculum] of Emperor Otto IV). Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 102. Reg. of Edward the Black Prince 4 (1933): 231. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Carta Antigua 1 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 17) (1939): 105, 109-112 (instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratre] by King John); 2 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 33) (1960): 113 (William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "my brother" [fratre meo] by King John). Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 21-24. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 40 ("... vigorous, proud, and ambitious"), 262. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 53 (1950): 112-114. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury, bears a shield displaying the arms of six lions rampant), 203 (William [Longespée], Earl of Salisbury styled "brother" [frater] to King Richard I in charter dated 1199). VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 12 (1983): 67-86; 13 (1987): 79-88, 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 143-153, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Curia Regis Rolls 12 (1957): 528-529. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 137 (confuses history of Ada de Chaumont, wife of Roger de Akeny, with her grandmother-in-law, Ida of Hainault, wife of Roger de Tony); 11(1983): 9. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 112. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 157-161; n.s. 10 (1994): 322-328. Genealogists' Mag. 14 (1964): 361-368. TAG 40 (1964): 47-49 incorrectly identifies William Longespée's mother as Annabel de Baliol); 77 (2002): 137-149, 279-280 (article by Ray Phair, cites Philippe II of France Les Registres de Philippe Auguste 1 (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Docs. Financiers et Administratifs 7) (1992): miscellanea no. 13). NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102; 140 (196): 219-229. Wagner Hist. Heraldry of Britain (1972): 40 (his arms: Azure six lions rampant or). Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14, 16 (Ha styled "king's kinswoman"). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 114-115 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1226), 142 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1209 and 1197-1216), 143 & 188 (charters naming William Longespée's mother, Countess Ida). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée); 14 (1991): 136 (sub Vitré) (incorrect order of Ela's mother's marriages). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 6-21. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 98-102, 179. Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 338 (charter of William Longespée dated before 1227). Vincent et al. Acta of Henry II & Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193. Fam. Hist. 14 (1987): 69-79. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 100-101 (charter of William Longespée dated c.1238-50; circular seal, nearly perfect; obverse a shield charged with six lioncels, legend: +SIGILLVM. WILL.... GESPEIE; on reverse complete counterseal, circular, long sword and baldrick, legend: +SECRETVM. WILLELM. LVNGGESPE), 101-102. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 2 (Hampshire Recs. 10) (1989): 32. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Roberts Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants (1993): 347 (1st identification of William Longespée's mother as Countess Ida Bigod, identification based on original research by Douglas Richardson). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 152-153, 201- 202. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 378. Plantagenet Connection 10 (2002): 27-30. Johnson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 119- 124 ("According to William le Breton [a French chronicler], King John attempted to seduce [the Earl of Salisbury's wife] Ela, while Salisbury was in captivity overseas in the wake of the disastrous battle of Bouvines in 1214."). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 301 (charters of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury). Harper-Bill Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 331-332. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 179, 228, 281, 369, 376, 560. Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury: i. WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt. [see next]. ii. STEPHEN LONGESPÉE, Knt., of King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Stokes, Oxfordshire, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, Seneschal of Gascony, Justiciar of Ireland, Constable of Bourg-sur-Mer (in Gironde), Corfe, and Sherbome Castles, and, in right of his wife, of Corrofin, co. Mayo and Kilkea and Tirsteldermot, co. Connacht, Ireland, 2nd son. He witnessed a charter for Baldwin III, Count of Guisnes, in 1241. The same year he acknowledged he owed Richard Basset a debt of 20 marks. He married between 8 Feb. 1242/3 and 16 Dec. 1244 EMELINE DE RIDELISFORD, widow of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster (died 1242), and daughter and co-heiress of Walter de Ridelisford, of Bray, Admekin (or Headford), Corofin, and Tristledermot (or Casdedermot), Ireland, by his wife, Armor. They had two daughters, Ela and Emeline. In 1243/6 he witnessed a charter of his cousin, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Shaftesbury Abbey. In 1247 he was pardoned a debt of £33 and a half mark by Licoria wife of David of Oxford the Jew. He presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire in 1247. He took the cross in 1250. In 1251 he had a dispute with the Prior of St. Swithun's concerning lands in Hyneton. In 1255 he went to Gascony with Edward the king's son. In 1258 he was granted wardship of the land and heirs of his late brother-in-law, Walter Fitz Robert, by Edward the king's son for 3,000 marks. At some undetermined date, he was a benefactor of St. Giles Priory at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. SIR STEPHEN LONGESPÉE died testate shortly before 25 June 1260, and was buried at Lacock Priory, Wiltshire. In 1262 his widow, Emeline, conveyed one messuage, various lands, and pasture for eight cattle in Purscaule, Dorset to Juliane, Abbess of Shaftesbury. Emeline subsequently erected a chapel at Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1270, and endowed it for the maintenance of two chaplains. In 1274-5 Hugh le Mouner arraigned an assize against her touching a pond levied in Denford, Berkshire. In the same period, Agnes daughter of Walter le Clere arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her touching a tenement in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire. Emeline, Countess of Ulster, died between 18 May 1275 and 19 July 1276. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 443, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory records). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., v (Book of Lacock: "Stephanus Lungespee sub rege H. iii. Justiciarius in Hybernia et Dominus capitalis erat ordinatus. Duxit in uxorem Emelinam Comitissam de Ulton, per quam erat Comes de Ulton; genuit ex ea (1) Elam de la Souch, quam duxit Rogerus de la Souch, de qua Alarms de la Souch, qui duxit in uxorem Alianoram filiam Nicholai de Segrave, de qua genuit Elam, Matildam, Elizabetham; Rogerum de la Souche, (2) Emelinam, quæ nupsit Mautitio filio Mauritii."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Waylen Hist. Military & Municipal of the Town (otherwise called the City) of Marlborough (1854): 98. Byron Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463 ([The Magdalen College Coll. at Oxford University includes] five [deeds] by Stephen Longespée, twelve [by his wife] the Countess, and five by her daughter Emelina. The seals are in many instances remarkable for their beauty; those of Stephen Longespée have in some instances the 'Long Sword'; those of his wife are of two types; one, the ‘secretum,’ a lion rampant, with a tree as a crest; the other ‘sigillum,’ a full length female figure, wiuth the 'Long Sword' and three leopards' faces on either side; her daughter Emeline uses a seal of more elaborate and varied design, retaining the female figure and adding the motto: - ‘Folest ki me brisera, Force li a ki la lettre va'."). Cal. Docs. Rel. Ireland 1 (1875): 387, 401, 403, 407, 413, 429-431, 439, 449, 460 (Stephen Longespée styled "king's cousin and a crusader" in 1250); 2 (1877): 5-6, 16-17, 23, 36 (styled "king's cousin"), 51-52, 64, 69, 75, 97-98, 100, 103, 105-106, 108, 137-138. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 82, 256. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 315 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1243: "Obiit Hugo de Lacy, Comes Ultonie, et sepelitur apud Cragfergous in conventu Fratrum Minorum, relinquens filiam heredem, quam desponsavit Walterus de Burgo, qui fait Comes Ultonie."), 316 (Annals of Ireland sub 1260: "obiit Stephanus de Longa Spata."). Francisque-Michel Roles Gaseous 1 (1885): 178, 467 (Stephen Longespée styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by King Henry III in 1254). Notes & Oueries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 60, 234. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 285. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 329. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 126. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Jour. Galway Arch. & Hist. Soc. 1(1900): 168-183. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 31 (1901): 367; 82 (1952): 45-61. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 310-311. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 211 (Stephen Lungespe styled "king's kinsman"), 303, 416, 454. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 13, 49, 209. English Hist. Rev. 26 (1911): 317-326. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 293, 510. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire 1195-1291 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 236. C.C.R. 1259-1261 (1934): 61, 79. Cal. Liberate Rolls 3 (1937): 124. C.P. 11(1949): 381-382 footnote k (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 168-171 (sub Ulster). Lamborn Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese (1949): 97-101 (arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lioncels gold a label gules), (Riddlesford arms: Silver six scallop shells sable). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 59, 136-138. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Holt Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester 1210-1211 (1964): XXXVii. Cuttino Gascon Reg. A 2 (1975): 489-494. Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14-15. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 84, 114, 169. Rogers Lacock Abby Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 78. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée). Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 86. Butterill "Cartulary of Flamstead Priory (St.Giles-in-the-Wood), Hertfordshire" (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Manitoba) (1988): 17 (citation kindly provided by Linda Jack). Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 69. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 264 (his arms: Azure, six lions rampant or, a canton ermine). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB2.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lions rampant or a label gules). Child of Stephen Longespée, Knt., by Emeline de Ridelisford: a. EMELINE LONGESPÉE, 2nd daughter, born about 1252 (aged 24 in 1276). She married (as his 2nd wife) before 24 July 1276 MAURICE FITZ MAURICE, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1272-3, son and heir of Maurice Fitz Gerald, 2nd Baron of Offaly in Ireland, Justiciar of Ireland, by his wife, Juliane. He was born about 1238. They had no issue. He married (1st) shortly before 28 October 1259 (date of dispensation to remove impediment to marriage) MAUD DE PRENDERGAST [see PRENDERGAST 8], born about 1242, widow successively of David Fitz Maurice (died 1249) and Maurice de Rochford (died 1258), and daughter and coheiress of Gerald de Prendergast (died 1251), of Beauvoir (or Carrigaline) and Ballacha in Orrery, co. Cork, Ireland, by his 2nd wife, ___, daughter of Richard de Burgh, lord of Connacht, Justiciar of Ireland [see PRENDERGAST 7 for her ancestry]. By his 1st wife, Maud de Prendergast, he had two daughters, Juliane (wife of Thomas de Clare, Knt., lord of Thomond in Connacht [see BADLESMERE 8]) and Amabil. He obtained lands in Connaught by feoffment of his father. In 1259 he was granted Athlone Castle and the shrievalty of Connaught. In 1260 he succeeded in plundering the O'Donnells, but was defeated in an expedition against Conor O'Brian at Coill-Berrain in Munster. He was summoned to England in 1262. In 1264 he was ordered to secure the Irish lands of the young Earl of Gloucester. In 1264 he took the justiciar, Thebaud le Boteler (or Butler), and John Cogan prisoners. He was twice granted letters of protection to England in 1266. In 1272 or 1273 he led another expedition against Brian Ruadh O'Brien. In 1276-7 Maurice and his wife, Emeline, brought an assize of novel disseisin against Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and others regarding a tenement in Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire. In 1277 he accompanied his son-in-law, Thomas de Clare, against Brian Ruadh O'Brien, King of 'Thomond; Brian was taken prisoner and beheaded. SIR MAURICE FITZ MAURICE died testate shortly before 2 Sept. 1277. In 1292 his widow, Emeline, sued Thomas Fitz Maurice for the manor of Killorglin, co. Kerry, Ireland, which she claimed as her right by the gift of Christina de Marsh who previously had enfeoffed her and Maurice her late husband; the defendant vouched to warranty Gilbert de Clare, minor son and heir of Thomas de Clare. His widow, Emeline, was a legatee in the 1294 will of her uncle, Nicholas Longespée, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1298-9 she had a suit with John de Inteberge about lands at Kilcaly, near Limerick. In 1305-6 she settled the manor of Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire on herself, with reversion to her great niece, Maud la Zouche, then betrothed to Robert de Holand, Knt., afterwards 1st Lord Holand. In 1314 she was granted the manor of Avington, Berkshire for life by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. She presented to the chapel of Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1316. In 1322, staying in England, she had letters appointing attorneys to represent her in Ireland for two years. She died shortly before 23 May 1331. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., i-v (Book of Lacock). Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 12 (1861): 168-169, 239-240; 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Brady Clerical & Parochial Recs. of Cork, Cloyne, & Ross 1 (1863): 59. Jour. Kilkenny & South-East of Ireland Arch. Soc. n.s. 5 (1867): 139-153. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 144, 160. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 391-392 (seal of Emeline Longespée - Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat head-dress, wimple, long tightly-fitting dress, fur cloak, in each hand a shield of arms. Full-face, standing on a finely carved corbel, under a carved gothic canopy with three pinnacled turrets. Arms: right a saltire, in chief over all a label of five points; left six lioncels, three, two, and one, a label of four points [LONGESPÉE]. In the field on each side a sword erect, point upwards, for LONGESPÉE, or for the office of Justiciary of Ireland. Above the sword a lion from the arms of ENGLAND. Legend: S'. EMELINE : LVNGESPEIE. Reverse. A small round counterseal. A shield of arms: as in obverse, between two swords at the sides, and a lion over the shield, as before. Legend: FOL : EST : K1 : ME : BRISERA : FOR: CELI : A KI : LA: LETTRE : VA.) [Note: Birch identifies this seal as being that of Emeline Longespée's mother, Emeline de Lacy, but Macray who reviewed various seals of Longespée family held in the Magdalen College, Oxford archives assigned this seal to the daughter which seems more likely - see Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463]. Ninth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 8) (1883): 267. Wiltshire Notes & Oueries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Irish Ecclesiastical Rec. 4th Ser. 4 (1898): 173. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528. C.P.R 1272-1281 (1901): 300. Jour. Cork Hist. & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 9 (1903): 270. C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 210. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 17; 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 709-710. Procs. of the Royal Irish Academy 25 (1904-5): 370. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 267, 311-313. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1910): 176. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1(1911): 390-391; 3 (1920): 118,198, 209-210; 4 (1920): 128-129 (chart incorrectly shows Juliane Fitz Maurice as daughter of Emeline Longespée). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 158-159, 205-217. Cam Hundred & the Hundred Rolls- (1930): 276. Gandavo Reg Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 (Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 763. Sayles Select Cases in the Court of the King's Bench under Edward 12 (Selden Soc. 57) (1938): 72-79. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 1) (1939): 118, 126. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 45-61. Holmes Estates of the Higher Nobility in 14th Cent. England (1957): 134-14-0. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 57; 3 (Canterbury & York Soc. 59) (1965): 32. Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 293-294, 297. Paget Lineage & Anu of Prince Charles 1(1977): 14-15. Moody et al. New Hist. of Ireland 9 (1984): 167 (chart). Stevenson Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 42) (1987): 94 (charter of Emeline Longespée dated 1315), 96, 173. Coss Lela), in Medieval England 1000-1500 (2000): 56-57. b. ELA LONGESPÉE, married ROGER LA ZOUCHE, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire [see ZOUCHE 9]. iii. RICHARD LONGESPÉE, clerk, parson of Warminster, Wiltshire, Canon of Salisbury. He witnessed a charter for his brother, William Longespée, dated c.1236. In the period, 1250-60, he quitclaimed his common rights in the woods of his manors of Avington and Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire to the Prior and Convent of St. Frideswide at Oxford. He died testate. He was buried at Lacock Abbey. His sister, Countess Ela, and her husband, Philip Basset, presented to the Dominicans all the lands and houses near Fleet Bridge which had formerly belonged to Richard Lungespeye. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Jones Charters & Docs. Ill. the Hist. of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 319-320. Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 340, 342. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 101. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 225. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 205-217. Hinnebusch Early English Friairs Preachers (1951): 24. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14. Greenway Fasti Ecclesia Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 118-138. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medieval London (2004): 32-34, 389. iv. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, clerk, Canon of Salisbury, Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, Bishop of Salisbury. By an unknown wife or mistress, he had one son, Nicholas, and two daughters, Alice and Isabel. In the period, 1226-36, he was granted the manor of Edgware, Middlesex and the village of Cooling, Suffolk by his widowed mother, Ela. He also acquired lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex from Thomas Esperun. In 1236 he presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire with the assent of his brother, Stephen Longespée, the patron of the church. In 1248 he was Rector of Iwerne Minster, Dorset. In 1256 he was granted letters of protection, he being "beyond seas." In 1262 he was presented as rector of the church of South Tawton, Devon by his cousin, Roger de Tony. As rector of South Tawton, Nicholas presented various individuals as vicar there in 1262, 1263, 1264, and 1278. In 1263 Nicholas was presented to the church of Wyke Regis, Dorset by the king. License for his election as Bishop of Salisbury was sought 3 Nov. 1291, which was granted 8 Nov. 1291. He was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury at Canterbury 16 March 1292, and enthroned 21 Sept. 1292. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, Bishop of Salisbury, died 18 May 1297. His body was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, his heart at Lacock Abbey, and his viscera at Ramsbuty, Wiltshire. He left a will 14 Feb. 1294/5, proved 29 May 1297. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.) (assigns William Longespée, portioner of Brocklesby Rectory, co. Lincoln, living 1324, as son of Nicholas Longespée). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Arch. Jour. 45 (1888): 31. Hingeston-Randolph Regs. of Walter Bronescombe & Peter Quivil (1889): 181. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 204; 2 (1894): 61, 76, 97, 100. Rich-Jones Charters & Diocese of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 362. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1(1892): 41, 49, 217. C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 450, 464. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (Nicholas' will mentions his "kinsman," Thomas Fitz Gilbert). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit List of Salisbury Cathedral: 18 May - Obitus Nicholai Langespe Episcopi [1297]."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): 62-64. C.C.R 1288-1296 (1904): 229-230. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 461. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 301. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 510. C.C.R 1268-1272 (1938): 208. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 283, 410-411. Chew Herningslys Reg. (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist Soc. Recs. Branch 18) (1963): 165-166. Sheehan Will in Medieval England (1963): 284, footnote 244 (Nicholas Longespée bequeathed body-armour and horse-armour to his men-at-arms). Smith Itinerary of John Leland 1 (1964): 264. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 155; 5 (1976): 114, 117. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 370. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 1 (1978): 40 (seal of Nicholas Longespée dated 13th Cent. - The Virgin, crowned, enthroned with the Child under an arcaded and pinnacled canopy; below, under a trefoil arch, the upper part of a praying figure facing to the right. Legend: SIGILL' NICOLAI LOGESPEYE). Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S. 241), 47 (Deed A.D. 267), 69 (Deed A.D. 376). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 300. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 1-7, 21-39. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 201-202. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Woolgar Great Household (1999): 157. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 194. National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Children of Nicholas Longespée, by an unknown wife or mistress, ___: a. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). b. ALICE LONGESPÉE, married (1st) 1260-1 GEOFFREY DE JARPENVILLE Alice's maritagium included a messuage and lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, formerly belonging to Henry Bucointe, Knt., and land formerly held of her father, Nicholas Longespée, by Ralph de la Forde and others in a field called "Colemannesdene." They presumably had one son, Nicholas (living 1294). Before 1277 Alice's lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex were fraudulently acquired by the moneylender, Adam de Stratton. She presumably married (2nd) WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE, of Harrow, Middlesex. They had one son, John, of Little Stanmore and Oakington (in Harrow), Middlesex (occurs 1294-1337), and one daughter, Margaret, both of whom were legatees in the 1294 will of their grandfather, Bishop Nicholas Longespée. William (husband of Alice) was also appointed one of the executors of the 1294 will of Bishop Longespée. On Adam de Stratton's disgrace in 1290, Alice presumably recovered her lands, as her son, John de Barneville, later had lands in this parish [see C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558)]. WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE was living in 1297/8. Alice and her 2nd husband, William de Barneville, are direct ancestors of William Barnville, of Harrow, Middlesex (died c.1397), Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, whose son (or grandson), John Barnville (died before 1482), left a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth Barnville [wife of Thomas Frowick, Knt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (died 1506) and Thomas Jakes, Esq. (died 1514)]. Foss Judges of England 5 (1857): 51-53 (biog. of Thomas Frowyk). Cass South Mimms (1877): 30, 99-100 (Barnville arms: Argent on a cross gales five lozenges wire argent and azure, in dexter quarter an eagle displayed sable). Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 41, 71, 95, 217-218, 221; 2 (1893): 14-16, 27. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 61, 76, 100. C.C.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 543. C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 735. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (will of Bishop Nicholas Longespée dated 1294 left a bequest as follows: "Item Johanni filio Willelmi de barneuile et Margarete sorori sue procreatis de Alicia vxore dicti W. viginti marcas"). C.P.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 229,286. List of Early Chancery Procs. 4 (PRO Lists and Indexes 29) (1908): 217, 277, 400. Mundy Middlesex Peds. (H.S.P. 65) (1914): 88-90 (Frowick ped.: "Sr Thom's Frowik of Finchley in com. Midd. = Joane, d. of ... Bardvill."). Davis Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 196 (chart), 255-259 [the will of Lady Elizabeth (Barnhill) (Frowick) Jakes dated 1515, proved 1516, mentions her "chapel of Okyngton [Oakington] in Harrow, Middlesex; the advowson of this place was acquired by her ancestor, John de Bameville, and his wife, Isabel, in 1317 (see Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 95; VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208)]. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208; 5 (1976): 70, 83, 114 (sub Little Stanmore: "... The rest of Henry [Bucointe]’s property passed in turn to his sons, Henry and Ranulph, the second of whom retained part for his mother Joan and his two daughters but sold the rest to Thomas Espumn, who sold it to Nicholas Longespée. Nicholas gave his lands in Little Stanmore to his daughter Alice on her marriage to Geoffrey de Jarpenville, by 1277 Jarpenville's lands and those of Ranulph Bucointe's mother and daughters were fraudulently acquired by the money lender Adam de Stratton. In the meantime, ... Lucy, wife of John Pypard, and Clarice, wife of Richard de la Grave, all surrendered their rights to Adam de Stratton but regained them on his disgrace in 1290. ... John de Barnville ... presumably ... acquired part of Henry Bucointe's former estate ... [he] alienated land to the priory in 1316), 117; 6 (1980): 59,66. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & IFS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S.241). Harris Edward Stafford (1986): 220. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 132 (biog. of William Barnville). Hicks Revolution & Consumption in Late Medieval England (The 15th Cent. 2) (2001): 97 (chart). National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). c. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). v. IDA LONGESPÉE, married (1st) RALPH DE SOMERY, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BOTETOURT 6]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Bedford, Bedfordshire [see BOTETOURT 6]. vi. MARY LONGESPÉE, married in or or about Sept. 1227, ___, an unknown husband.* Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 121, footnote 86, cites Hardy Rotuli Literarum Clausarum 2 (1835): 200. (*Footnote: The identity of Mary Longespée's husband is unknown. He may possibly have been Robert de Roos (or Ros), Knt. (died 1267/9), of Wark, Carham, Downham (in Carham), Mindrum (in Carham), Northumberland, Cargo (in Stanwix), Cumberland, and Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, younger son of Robert de Roos, of Helmsley, Yorkshire, by Isabel, illegitimate daughter of William the lion, King of Scots [see Richardson Magna Carta Ancestry (2010)]. Sir Robert de Roos had children named William, Isabel, and Ida, which given names occur among descendants of the Longespée family. Further research is needed, however, to establish the identity of Mary Longespée's husband.) vii. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. She married shortly after 16 May 1226 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM DE VESCY, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, son and heir of Eustace de Vescy, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, by Margaret, illegitimate daughter of William the Lion, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 4.vi for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205 (minor in 1216). They had no issue. He had livery of his inheritance 16 May 1226. He accompanied King Henry III's expedition to Brittany in 1230. In 1232 and 1234 he was forbidden to attend tournaments at Blyth, Northampton, and Cambridge. He was appointed to escort King Alexander and Queen Joan of Scotland to the English court in 1235, and again in August 1237. In 1242 he went with the king to Gascony. At his wife, Isabel's death, she was buried at Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland. He married (2nd) before 1244 AGNES DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, by his 1st wife, Sibyl, daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Stapleford, Leicestershire. They had two sons, John, Knt. [see BEAUMONT 6.vii], and William [1st Lord Vescy, Justiciar of Ireland]. His wife, Agnes, was co-heiress in 1245 to her uncle, Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. In 1245 he served in the Welsh campaign. In 1253 he had a protection, he then going with the king to Gascony. He founded the Carmelite priory at Hulne, Northumberland. SIR WILLIAM DE VESCY died in Gascony shortly before 7 October 1253, and was buried at Watton Priory, Yorkshire. In 1274-5 Ingusa de Setrington and others arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Agnes, and others touching a tenement in Old Malton, Yorkshire. Agnes died 11 May 1290, and was buried in the Greyfriars at Scarborough, Yorkshire. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 162-163, App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Hartshorne Feudal & Military Antiqs. of Northumberland & the Scottish Borders (Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Northumberland 2) (1858): 155 (Vescy ped.). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 358-365. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 177, 187, 242, 253; 45 (1885): 233; 46 (1886): 114; 47 (1886): 150. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 380-381. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 4-9. C.P. 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy). Hedley Northumberland Fams. 1(1968): 198-203 (Vesci ped.). Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003): 11-28. McAndrew Scotland’s Hist. Heraldry (2006): 72 (vesci ped.), 74. viii. ELA LONGSPEE, married THOMAS OF WARWICK, Knt., 6th Earl of Warwick, son and heir of Henry, Earl of Warwick, by his 1st wife, Margery, daughter of Herity d'Oilly. He was presumably of age in 1229. They had no issue. He carried the third sword at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236. He died 26 (or 27) June 1242, and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick. In 1247 his widow, Ela, Countess of Warwick, and Simon Fitz Simon sued John de Plescy, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Margery, in a plea of warranty. Ela married (2nd) after Nov. 1254 and before 23 March 1254/5 (as his 2nd wife) PHILIP BASSET, Knt., of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Kirdington, Oxfordshire, Woking, Surrey, Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, etc., Constable of Colchester, Corfe, Devizes, Hadleigh, Oxford, and Sherbome Castles, 1259, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London, younger son of Alan Basset, of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, etc., by Aline, daughter and co-heiress Philip de Gay, of Wootton Bassett and Broadtown, Wiltshire and Northbrook, Oxfordshire. They had no issue. In the period, 1230-41, his brother, Gilbert Basset, conveyed to him land in Middleton, late of Thomas Basset their older brother. In 1233 he helped free Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, from captivity in Devizes Castle in Wiltshire; in return in 1234 Hubert de Burgh gave him 176 acres of his demesne land in Soham, Cambridgeshite, with lordship over numerous tenants. In 1238-9 he was granted lands in Soham and Fordham, Cambridgeshire by Peter de Bendenges and his wife Burga. In 1242 he was appointed one of the Constables of the Host, then about to set out for Poitou. In consideration of his services there, he was granted the manor of Kersey, Suffolk -- 1243. In 1245 he was appointed ambassador to the Council of Lyons. About 1245 he obtained a license to build a chapel in Soham, Cambridgeshire and to hear service therein. In 1252 William de Wydindon demised to him land and wood of `Okregge' in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire for a term of seven years; Philip promised to keep William in his service, providing him food and clothing as one of his own esquires and supplying him with another horse if his own died; the grant was made perpetual in 1254. He fought in Wales in 1258. Philip was heir in 1259 to his older brother, Fulk Basset, Bishop of London. In 1260 Simon, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, demised the manor of Stapleford Abbots, Essex to him. The same year, at the instance of his cousin, Ela, Countess of Warwick, the king granted the abbess and nuns of Lacock Abbey quittance from cheminage in all the king's forests in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. In 1261 he had a grant of 1000 marks per annum to maintain him in the office of Justiciar. About 1261 Laurence de Sanford granted him the manor of Lecquid, Glamorgan, Wales. In 1261-2 Thomas de Awelton and Agnes his wife conveyed lands in Doddington and Northwode, Cambridgeshire to Philip and his wife, Ela. In 1262 John de Burgh and Hawise his wife leased lands in Soham, Fordharn, Landwade, Wykes, Hanney, etc., Cambridgeshire to Sir Philip Basset for a term of 16 years for the sum of 400/. in hand. In 1262 Philip leased land in Rotherwick, Hampshire from Richard de la Rugge. The same year Richard, King of the Romans, quitclaimed to him all suit of court at Wallingford, Berkshire for life. He fought on the king's side at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, where the king was taken prisoner by the barons. In 1266 Thomas de Gay, rector of the church of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, granted Philip his free chapel at Fasterne, Wiltshire, with renunciation of all right to sell the offerings made therein; the said Philip to pay 20s. yearly to the parish church of Wootton. In 1267 the king granted him for life a deer leap at his new park below his town of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, and another at his old park below his manor of "la Fasteme." In 1267-8 his wife, Ela, gave property in Stinkinglane, in the parish of St. Nicholas de Macellis, London to the City of London for the use of the Franciscans. At an unknown date, Richard son of Richard de la Wyz released to him all his right in a meadow with pasture for six cattle in Compton, Wiltshire. Sometime before 1271 John de Burgh granted that he pay him 20s. yearly to the custody of Dover Castle, due from the manor of Beeston, which Philip holds from him. SIR PHILIP BASSET died testate 29 October 1271, and was buried at Stanley, Wiltshire. In 1278 his widow, Ela, complained that when she sent John the reeve of Claverdon to Brandon Castle, Warwickshire with a letter for 10 marks which Thebaud de Verdun owed her as relief for the manor, Eleanor, widow of John de Verdun (step-mother of Thebaud de Verdun) and her men took away the letter and imprisoned him for one night. In 1280 Ela was summoned to show by what warrant she took the fines of the breaches of the assize of bread and ale in Maplederwell, Hampshire, and to show cause why she should not permit her villeins of Maplederwell to make suit at the king's hundred court of Basingstoke. The same year she sued Hugh de Courtenay and his wife Eleanor (Ela's step-granddaughter) for one messuage and lands in Wootton Courtney, Somerset, which she claimed to be her right by the gift of Hugh de Neville; the jury found in favor of Hugh and Eleanor. In 1289 Ela, Countess of Warwick, was summoned to answer Hugh le Despenser on a plea as to why she had committed waste in the woods which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance in Compton Bassett and Wolfhale, Wiltshire to Hugh's disinheritance. In 1290 she granted a messuage and 1/2 virgate of land in Nateley Eastrop, a croft of eight acres in Up Nately, and a messuage and garden in Maplederwell, all in Hampshire, to John, Bishop of Winchester, for use of a chantry and maintenance of a chaplain in the chapel of Maplederwell. In 1293 Hugh le Despenser confirmed the grant of Lady Ela Longespée, late the wife of Philip Basset, to Adam de Stock and Roger de Stock his brother of lands in Wolfhale, Wiltshire which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance. Ela, Countess of Warwick, died 9 Feb. 1297/8, and was buried in Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch pad.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1517. Maidment Analecta Scotica: Colls. Ill. of the Civil, Eccl. & Lit. Hist. of Scotland (1834): 229-230 (charter of Margaret, Countess of Kent, sister of the King of Scotland, to Philip Basset). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 160-162 (biog. of Ela Longespée: "She was married twice; first to Thomas Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, who died June 26, 1242; secondly to Philip Basset, of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, son of William Basset, Chief Justice of England. She became the second time a widow in 1271, and survived for many years after, a very wealthy lady, having no children by either husband. In 1285 she was returned as holding the manor of Hoke-Norton in Oxfordshire, in capite, by the sergeantry of carvng before our lord the King on Christmas Day, when she had for her fee the King's knife with which she cut. We find several records of her piety, particularly in Oxford and its vicinity; for she seems to have lived during her widowhood at Headington, only two miles from that city. In the year 1287 we find the Countess of Warwick visiting Lacock, on which occasion she quit-claimed to the abbey her title in the manor of Hatherop. She died on Sunday Feb. 6, 1297, and was buried at Ousney Abbey, near Oxford, where Leland saw her tomb, 'a very fair flat marble, in the habit of a vowess, graven in a copper plate.' Two Seals of this lady are extant. The first closely resembles that of her Mother, having on one side her own figure holding a hawk, and on the other side the arms of Longespé in a shield, with a lion above and below; it is inscribed on both side S. ELE LVNGESPEYE COMITISSE WARWIC. In her second Seal, the coat of Basset (wavy Or and Gules) is substituted for that of Longespe; the latter is placed in her hand, on the obverse, instead of the hawk, and is balanced by the coat of Newburgh, (checky Or and Azure, a chevron Ermine) placed over her right shoulder. The inscription on both sides is SIGILLVM ELE BASSET COMITISSE WAREWYKIE. These seals are engraved in the accompanying Plate."), App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 216-218 (biog. of Alan Basset), 219-221 (biog. of Philip Basset). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 499-500. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 659; 44 (1883): 185, 256, 261; 45 (1885): 314, 331; 46 (1886): 131, 236, 285, 295; 48 (1887): 85. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 574 (sub Warwick). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 21-33; 3 (1900): 85-96, 107-118. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 21, 25, 29, 32, 40. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 328 (seal of Thomas, 6th Earl of Warwick - To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield with strengthening rib. Horse galloping. Legend: * SIGIL … OME COMIT ... WARWIC.), 376 (seal of Ela Basset, Countess of Warwick dated post A.D. 1242-Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat cap, tightly-fitted dress, mantle. In the left hand a shield of arms. Standing on a carved corbel or platform, beneath an elaborately carved canopy like a cathedral church, with central tower and transept. Arms: six lioncels, three, two, and one, for her father WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury. On the left, in the field, a similar shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine, WARWICK. Legend: S' ELE BASSET • COMITISSE • WAREWYKIE. Reverse. Pointed oval counterseal, same size. Within a circular panel, with quatrefoil opening and trefoils in the spandrils, a shield of arms: three bars wavy, BASSET. In the field two lioncels rampant, derived from her paternal arms (see obv.), one above, one below the panel. Legend: SIGILLVM : ELE : BASSET : COMITISSE : WAREVYKIE. Beaded borders.). Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 107, 183, 377. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Vol. 1) (1894): 214-215. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 130. Tait Medieval Manchester & the Beginnings of Lancashire (1904): 136 (Basset ped.). Wordsworth Ancient Kalendar of the Univ. of Oxford 45 (1904): 60, 63, 82, 83. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 29 (Ela, Countess of Warwick, styled "king's cousin" by King Henry III in 1260). CP.R 1247-1258 (1908): 42, 133 (instances of Ela [Longespée], Countess of Warwick, styled "king's kinswoman"). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 378; 4 (1911): 99-101, 149-152, 176-179, 567-577. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 224-225. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. Kingsford Grey Friars of London (1915): 150-152. Salter Cartulary of Oseney Abbey 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 89) (1919): xx (Kal. Mardi [1 March]: obit of Countess Ela), 191-192. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 492-498; 4 (1924): 168-174. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 135-140; 4 (1927): 260-263. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 80-82. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 197, 244-245. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 21(1939): 132. Budgen & Salzman “Wiltshire, Devonshire & Dorsetshire Portion of the Lewes Chartulary" in Chartulary of Lewes Priory: The Portions Rel. to other Counties than Sussex (Sussex Rec. Soc. Addl. Vol.) (1943): 26 (charter of Philip Basset). VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 230-245; 6 (1951): 273-280. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 760-761. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 306-307 (charter of Richard, King of the Romans dated 1262). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 28: 1-5 (sub Basset) ("Philip [Basset] ... established a reputation for integrity, unequaled in the era in which he lived."). C.P. 12(2) (1959): 365 (sub Warwick). Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.9805. Ancient Deeds - Ser. Al (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 177. Ancient Deeds-Ser. A 2 (List & Index Soc. 152) (1978): 17. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 4 (seal of Philip Basset dated 1266-A shield of arms: three bars wavy [BASSET]. A crescent above the shield and a star on either side). Ancient Deeds-Set. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 5 (Deed A.S.24), 7 (Deed A.D.36), 45 (Deed A.S.254). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 110-111. Humphries Kirtlington: An Oxfordshire Village (1986): 13. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 212 (Basset ped.). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. VCH Oxford 13 (1996): 118-127. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 500. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 413-428. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medeval London (2004): 32-34, 46-47, 339. Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 4 (Selden Soc. 123) (2007): 407-409. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 441 (Henry d'Oilly styled "kinsman" by Thomas of Warwick in 1232-3). ix. IDA LONGESPÉE, married WALTER FITZ ROBERT, Knt., of Woodham Walter, Essex [see FITZ WALTER 7].” | Longespée, Pernel (I7295)
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| 7099 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80. They had four sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], Stephen, Knt., Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury], and six daughters, Ida, Mary, Isabel, Ela, Ida (2nd of name), and Pernel... Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury... ix. IDA LONGESPÉE, married WALTER FITZ ROBERT, Knt., of Woodham Walter, Essex [see FITZ WALTER 7].” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): "WALTER FITZ ROBERT, Knt., of Woodharn Walter, Burnham, Roydon, Dunmow, Henham, Tey, Ulting, and Wimbish, Essex, son and heir by his father's 2nd marriage, born about 1219 (minor in 1235 and came of age in 1240). He married IDA LONGESPEE, daughter of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury (illegitimate son of King Henry II of England), by Ela, daughter and heiress of William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPEE 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Robert, Knt. [1st Lord Fitz Walter], and three daughters, Ela, Katherine (nun), and Lora (nun). In 1253 he was granted a weekly market and a yearly fair at his manor of Burnham, Essex. About 1255 he gave 3 acres of meadow in Westniead (in Roydon), Essex to the Hospitallers. SIR WALTER FITZ ROBERT died shortly before 10 April 1258. In 1259 his widow, "Ida Lungesp[ee]," paid £40 to have the farm of the manor of Henliam, Essex. In the period, 261-3, as "Ida Longespee," widow of Walter Fitz Robert, she petitioned Walter de Merton, the king's chancellor, to bail two of her men appealed of homicide. Ida was living 11 May 1262. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 117 (identifies wife Ida as daughter of William Longespee [I], Earl of Salisbury). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 2-8. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6 (1) (1830): 148, 501 (Longespee ped. in Lacock Priory records: "Idam de Camyle, quam dmdt in uxorem Walterus fil. Roberti, de qua genuit Catherinam et Loricam, qux velatu erant apud Lacok; Elam, quam duxit primo Guillelmus de Dodingeseles, de qua genuit Robertum"). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 162-164 (biog. of Ida Longespee), App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Roberts Excerpta e rotulis finium in Turni Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216-12722 (1836): 359. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespee ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 290 (seal of Walter Fitz Robert dated 1250? — To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, sword, shield. Horse caparisoned; the caparisons are charged with chevrons, or chevronelly in allusion to the arms of FITZ WALTER, two chevrons. Legend wanting). Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 153, 184, 214, 221-222, 227. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancey & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 107-108. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 474. VCH Lancaster 1 (1906): 312. Copinger Manors of Steak 2 (1908): 45-53. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 246. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 209. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 199-209, 244-247. C.P. 5 (1926): 472 (sub FitzWalter) [identifies wife Ida as "da. of William (Longespee), Earl of Salisbury)"]; 11(1949): 381-382 footnote k (sub Salisbury) (confuses wife Ida with her sister of the same name who married William de Beauchamp; also misidentifies Walter Fitz Robert's parentage). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 230: 3 (sub Fitz Walter) (identifies wife Ida as daughter of William Longespee the younger). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 129-130. Cal. Liberate Rolls 5 (1961): 93 (Date: 11 May 1162 — "Liberate to Geoffrey de Lezinan, the king's brother, 40/. in recompense of a like sum received there of the issues of the manor of Henharn [Essex] by the hands of Ida Lungespee"). Curia Regis Rolls 15 (1972): 369-370. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 8-9. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespee). Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of. Jerusalem in England 2 (Recs. of Soc. & Econ. Hist. n.s. 23) (1996): 30-31,54-55. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Online resource: http.//www.briantimms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB2.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 — arms of Walter Fitz Robert: Or a fess between two chevrons gules). Cassidy 1259 Pipe Roa 273 (available at http:/ / www.cmjk.com/1259/1259_pipe_roll.html). Children of Walter Fitz Robert, Knt., by Ida Longespee: i. ROBERT FITZ WALTER, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz Walter [see next]. ii. ELA FITZ WALTER, married (1st) WILLIAM DE ODDINGSELES, Knt, of Solihull, Warwickshire [see ODDINGSELES 8]." | Fitz Robert, Walter (I7059)
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| 7100 | RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80. They had four sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], Stephen, Knt., Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury], and six daughters, Ida, Mary, Isabel, Ela, Ida (2nd of name), and Pernel... Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury... viii. ELA LONGSPEE, married THOMAS OF WARWICK, Knt., 6th Earl of Warwick, son and heir of Henry, Earl of Warwick, by his 1st wife, Margery, daughter of Herity d'Oilly. He was presumably of age in 1229. They had no issue. He carried the third sword at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236. He died 26 (or 27) June 1242, and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick. In 1247 his widow, Ela, Countess of Warwick, and Simon Fitz Simon sued John de Plescy, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Margery, in a plea of warranty. Ela married (2nd) after Nov. 1254 and before 23 March 1254/5 (as his 2nd wife) PHILIP BASSET, Knt., of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Kirdington, Oxfordshire, Woking, Surrey, Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, etc., Constable of Colchester, Corfe, Devizes, Hadleigh, Oxford, and Sherbome Castles, 1259, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London, younger son of Alan Basset, of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, etc., by Aline, daughter and co-heiress Philip de Gay, of Wootton Bassett and Broadtown, Wiltshire and Northbrook, Oxfordshire. They had no issue. In the period, 1230-41, his brother, Gilbert Basset, conveyed to him land in Middleton, late of Thomas Basset their older brother. In 1233 he helped free Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, from captivity in Devizes Castle in Wiltshire; in return in 1234 Hubert de Burgh gave him 176 acres of his demesne land in Soham, Cambridgeshite, with lordship over numerous tenants. In 1238-9 he was granted lands in Soham and Fordham, Cambridgeshire by Peter de Bendenges and his wife Burga. In 1242 he was appointed one of the Constables of the Host, then about to set out for Poitou. In consideration of his services there, he was granted the manor of Kersey, Suffolk -- 1243. In 1245 he was appointed ambassador to the Council of Lyons. About 1245 he obtained a license to build a chapel in Soham, Cambridgeshire and to hear service therein. In 1252 William de Wydindon demised to him land and wood of `Okregge' in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire for a term of seven years; Philip promised to keep William in his service, providing him food and clothing as one of his own esquires and supplying him with another horse if his own died; the grant was made perpetual in 1254. He fought in Wales in 1258. Philip was heir in 1259 to his older brother, Fulk Basset, Bishop of London. In 1260 Simon, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, demised the manor of Stapleford Abbots, Essex to him. The same year, at the instance of his cousin, Ela, Countess of Warwick, the king granted the abbess and nuns of Lacock Abbey quittance from cheminage in all the king's forests in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. In 1261 he had a grant of 1000 marks per annum to maintain him in the office of Justiciar. About 1261 Laurence de Sanford granted him the manor of Lecquid, Glamorgan, Wales. In 1261-2 Thomas de Awelton and Agnes his wife conveyed lands in Doddington and Northwode, Cambridgeshire to Philip and his wife, Ela. In 1262 John de Burgh and Hawise his wife leased lands in Soham, Fordharn, Landwade, Wykes, Hanney, etc., Cambridgeshire to Sir Philip Basset for a term of 16 years for the sum of 400/. in hand. In 1262 Philip leased land in Rotherwick, Hampshire from Richard de la Rugge. The same year Richard, King of the Romans, quitclaimed to him all suit of court at Wallingford, Berkshire for life. He fought on the king's side at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, where the king was taken prisoner by the barons. In 1266 Thomas de Gay, rector of the church of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, granted Philip his free chapel at Fasterne, Wiltshire, with renunciation of all right to sell the offerings made therein; the said Philip to pay 20s. yearly to the parish church of Wootton. In 1267 the king granted him for life a deer leap at his new park below his town of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, and another at his old park below his manor of "la Fasteme." In 1267-8 his wife, Ela, gave property in Stinkinglane, in the parish of St. Nicholas de Macellis, London to the City of London for the use of the Franciscans. At an unknown date, Richard son of Richard de la Wyz released to him all his right in a meadow with pasture for six cattle in Compton, Wiltshire. Sometime before 1271 John de Burgh granted that he pay him 20s. yearly to the custody of Dover Castle, due from the manor of Beeston, which Philip holds from him. SIR PHILIP BASSET died testate 29 October 1271, and was buried at Stanley, Wiltshire. In 1278 his widow, Ela, complained that when she sent John the reeve of Claverdon to Brandon Castle, Warwickshire with a letter for 10 marks which Thebaud de Verdun owed her as relief for the manor, Eleanor, widow of John de Verdun (step-mother of Thebaud de Verdun) and her men took away the letter and imprisoned him for one night. In 1280 Ela was summoned to show by what warrant she took the fines of the breaches of the assize of bread and ale in Maplederwell, Hampshire, and to show cause why she should not permit her villeins of Maplederwell to make suit at the king's hundred court of Basingstoke. The same year she sued Hugh de Courtenay and his wife Eleanor (Ela's step-granddaughter) for one messuage and lands in Wootton Courtney, Somerset, which she claimed to be her right by the gift of Hugh de Neville; the jury found in favor of Hugh and Eleanor. In 1289 Ela, Countess of Warwick, was summoned to answer Hugh le Despenser on a plea as to why she had committed waste in the woods which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance in Compton Bassett and Wolfhale, Wiltshire to Hugh's disinheritance. In 1290 she granted a messuage and 1/2 virgate of land in Nateley Eastrop, a croft of eight acres in Up Nately, and a messuage and garden in Maplederwell, all in Hampshire, to John, Bishop of Winchester, for use of a chantry and maintenance of a chaplain in the chapel of Maplederwell. In 1293 Hugh le Despenser confirmed the grant of Lady Ela Longespée, late the wife of Philip Basset, to Adam de Stock and Roger de Stock his brother of lands in Wolfhale, Wiltshire which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance. Ela, Countess of Warwick, died 9 Feb. 1297/8, and was buried in Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch pad.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1517. Maidment Analecta Scotica: Colls. Ill. of the Civil, Eccl. & Lit. Hist. of Scotland (1834): 229-230 (charter of Margaret, Countess of Kent, sister of the King of Scotland, to Philip Basset). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 160-162 (biog. of Ela Longespée: "She was married twice; first to Thomas Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, who died June 26, 1242; secondly to Philip Basset, of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, son of William Basset, Chief Justice of England. She became the second time a widow in 1271, and survived for many years after, a very wealthy lady, having no children by either husband. In 1285 she was returned as holding the manor of Hoke-Norton in Oxfordshire, in capite, by the sergeantry of carvng before our lord the King on Christmas Day, when she had for her fee the King's knife with which she cut. We find several records of her piety, particularly in Oxford and its vicinity; for she seems to have lived during her widowhood at Headington, only two miles from that city. In the year 1287 we find the Countess of Warwick visiting Lacock, on which occasion she quit-claimed to the abbey her title in the manor of Hatherop. She died on Sunday Feb. 6, 1297, and was buried at Ousney Abbey, near Oxford, where Leland saw her tomb, 'a very fair flat marble, in the habit of a vowess, graven in a copper plate.' Two Seals of this lady are extant. The first closely resembles that of her Mother, having on one side her own figure holding a hawk, and on the other side the arms of Longespé in a shield, with a lion above and below; it is inscribed on both side S. ELE LVNGESPEYE COMITISSE WARWIC. In her second Seal, the coat of Basset (wavy Or and Gules) is substituted for that of Longespe; the latter is placed in her hand, on the obverse, instead of the hawk, and is balanced by the coat of Newburgh, (checky Or and Azure, a chevron Ermine) placed over her right shoulder. The inscription on both sides is SIGILLVM ELE BASSET COMITISSE WAREWYKIE. These seals are engraved in the accompanying Plate."), App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 216-218 (biog. of Alan Basset), 219-221 (biog. of Philip Basset). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 499-500. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 659; 44 (1883): 185, 256, 261; 45 (1885): 314, 331; 46 (1886): 131, 236, 285, 295; 48 (1887): 85. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 574 (sub Warwick). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 21-33; 3 (1900): 85-96, 107-118. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 21, 25, 29, 32, 40. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 328 (seal of Thomas, 6th Earl of Warwick - To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield with strengthening rib. Horse galloping. Legend: * SIGIL … OME COMIT ... WARWIC.), 376 (seal of Ela Basset, Countess of Warwick dated post A.D. 1242-Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat cap, tightly-fitted dress, mantle. In the left hand a shield of arms. Standing on a carved corbel or platform, beneath an elaborately carved canopy like a cathedral church, with central tower and transept. Arms: six lioncels, three, two, and one, for her father WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury. On the left, in the field, a similar shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine, WARWICK. Legend: S' ELE BASSET • COMITISSE • WAREWYKIE. Reverse. Pointed oval counterseal, same size. Within a circular panel, with quatrefoil opening and trefoils in the spandrils, a shield of arms: three bars wavy, BASSET. In the field two lioncels rampant, derived from her paternal arms (see obv.), one above, one below the panel. Legend: SIGILLVM : ELE : BASSET : COMITISSE : WAREVYKIE. Beaded borders.). Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 107, 183, 377. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Vol. 1) (1894): 214-215. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 130. Tait Medieval Manchester & the Beginnings of Lancashire (1904): 136 (Basset ped.). Wordsworth Ancient Kalendar of the Univ. of Oxford 45 (1904): 60, 63, 82, 83. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 29 (Ela, Countess of Warwick, styled "king's cousin" by King Henry III in 1260). CP.R 1247-1258 (1908): 42, 133 (instances of Ela [Longespée], Countess of Warwick, styled "king's kinswoman"). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 378; 4 (1911): 99-101, 149-152, 176-179, 567-577. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 224-225. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. Kingsford Grey Friars of London (1915): 150-152. Salter Cartulary of Oseney Abbey 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 89) (1919): xx (Kal. Mardi [1 March]: obit of Countess Ela), 191-192. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 492-498; 4 (1924): 168-174. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 135-140; 4 (1927): 260-263. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 80-82. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 197, 244-245. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 21(1939): 132. Budgen & Salzman “Wiltshire, Devonshire & Dorsetshire Portion of the Lewes Chartulary" in Chartulary of Lewes Priory: The Portions Rel. to other Counties than Sussex (Sussex Rec. Soc. Addl. Vol.) (1943): 26 (charter of Philip Basset). VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 230-245; 6 (1951): 273-280. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 760-761. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 306-307 (charter of Richard, King of the Romans dated 1262). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 28: 1-5 (sub Basset) ("Philip [Basset] ... established a reputation for integrity, unequaled in the era in which he lived."). C.P. 12(2) (1959): 365 (sub Warwick). Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.9805. Ancient Deeds - Ser. Al (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 177. Ancient Deeds-Ser. A 2 (List & Index Soc. 152) (1978): 17. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 4 (seal of Philip Basset dated 1266-A shield of arms: three bars wavy [BASSET]. A crescent above the shield and a star on either side). Ancient Deeds-Set. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 5 (Deed A.S.24), 7 (Deed A.D.36), 45 (Deed A.S.254). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 110-111. Humphries Kirtlington: An Oxfordshire Village (1986): 13. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 212 (Basset ped.). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. VCH Oxford 13 (1996): 118-127. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 500. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 413-428. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medeval London (2004): 32-34, 46-47, 339. Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 4 (Selden Soc. 123) (2007): 407-409. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 441 (Henry d'Oilly styled "kinsman" by Thomas of Warwick in 1232-3)." | Basset, Philip (I7057)
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