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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“STEPHEN (or ETIENNE), Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, Warden of the Marches of
Normandy, Banner-bearer to the Archbishops of Rouen, son and heir by his mother's 3rd marriage, born before 1070. He married HAWISE DE MORTIMER, daughter of Ralph de Mortimer, of Wigmore, Herefordshire, seigneur of Saint-Victor-en-Caux, by his 1st wife, Melisende. They had four sons, William [Count of Aumale, Earl of York], Stephen, Enguerrand, and Richard, and four daughters, Alice (or Adelise) (wife of Robert Bertram and Engelger de Bohun), Maud (or Mathilde) (wife of Gerard, Vidame of Picquigny), Melisende (wife of Pierre de Gerberoy, Vidame of Beauvais), and Agnes (wife of William de Roumare and Adam de Brus). In 1089 he was the first of the Normans to embrace the side of King William II Rufus against his brother, Robert, Duke of Normandy; at the king's expense he strongly fortified his castle on the Bresle river, and admitted into it a numerous garrison of the king's troops to hold the same against Duke Robert. He also appears to have withheld the castle of Le Homme from the nuns of the Abbey of Caen, and garrisoned it in like manner with the king's troops. In 1095 a conspiracy was formed by several Anglo-Norman nobles headed by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, attempted to overthrow King William II and place Stephen of Aumale on the throne of England. The conspiracy being detected, Stephen took sanctuary in the monastery of St. Oswin at Tynemouth. He was subsequently captured and condemned to the loss of his eyes. On the intercession of his wife and kindred, he was pardoned. In 1096 he gave the church of Saint-Martin d'Auchy to the Abbey of Saint-Lucien de Beauvais. The same year he went on the First Crusade with Robert, Duke of Normandy. By charter dated c.1100, with the consent of his wife, Hawise, and her father, Ralph de Mortimer, he gave to the Priory of St.-Martin-des-Champs the church of Airaines (Somme), for the redemption of his soul and that of his wife, Hawise, and of her father, Ralph de Mortimer, and Melisende his wife deceased. He took the part of King Henry I against Duke Robert in 1104. He fought on the side of King Henry I at the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106. In 1115 he confirmed the gifts made by his mother and by himself to Saint-Lucien de Beauvais, which confirmation was made for the remission of his sins and for the repose of the souls of his mother, Alice, and his uncle, William I, King of England; he added the tithes and churches which he held in England under King Henry I. In 1118 he supported Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and the French king in their invasion of Normandy on behalf of William Clito, son of Duke Robert; he persisted in the rebellion but was reduced to submission in 1119. In 1124 he was granted the wardship of his great-nephew, Simon de Senlis. In 1127 he again rebelled against King Henry I, and joined a new league to support the claims of William Clito; King Henry took and burnt his castle of Aumale. He subsequently departed a second time for the Holy Land in 1127. STEPHEN, Count of Aumale, died before 1130.
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 393 (Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia of Melsa Priory:"Willielmus autem fuit filius Stephani filii Odonis qui fuit filius comitis Campaniæ junior, et propinquus regis Francorum.... Willielmus vero habuit sorores quatuor, filias Stephani, quorum una data est vicedomino de Pynkeney, altera autem vicedomino de Verberay, tertia nobili viro Bertanno de Brikebet, quarta Willielrno de Romare, et postea Petro de Bins."]; 6(2) (1830): 1020 (charter of Stephen, Count of Aumale, to Birstall Priory names his mother, Alice [mater mea Adeliza] and his uncle, William, King of England [Willielmi regis Angliae avunculi mei]). Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Etienne or Stephen, Count of Aumale). Darsy Bénéfices de l'Eglise d'Amiens 2 (Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires de Picardie 8) (1871): 52. Yorkshire Arch. & Topog. Jour. 4 (1877): 216-219 (biog. of Ralph de Mortemer). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 201 (sub Holdemess). Remarks & ColIs. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Notes & Queries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. C.P.1 (1910): 352-353 (sub Aumale). Recuiel de Chartes et Docs. de Saint-Martin-des-Champs 1 (1912): 230. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 3 (1916): 30-33 (charter of Stephen, Count of Aumale, dated 1115 confirms the gift made by Alice his mother ["mater mea Adeliza] to the monks of St. Lucian of Beauvais of the church of St. Martin D'Acy, which his ancestors had erected outside the castle of Aumale; charter also mentions Stephen's uncle, William I, King of England [Willelmi regis Anglorum avunculi mei"]), 87 (ped. chart). Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (H.S.P. 103) (1951): 9 (sub Aumale: "The lands of the counts in France do not seem to have been of great extent. An examination of those mentioned in the three charters relating to the abbey of St. Martin of Aumale shows nearly all of them to be within a radius of 10 kil. of Aumale, mostly in Normandy but some of the eastern side of the river Bresle and therefore outside the limits of the duchy. This suggests that Aumale may not have been, strictly speaking, a Norman comté. This seems to support the suggestion made by the writer of the article in The Complete Peerage that the countship of Stephen the first count may have been due to the fact that he was the son of Odo the dispossessed count of Champagne and therefore of comital rank."). English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 13 (1990): 143 (sub Picquigny Vidames d'Amiens) (chart shows Guermond, vidame d'Amiens, sire de Picquigny, married (2nd) Beatrice daughter of Etienne Comté d'Aumale Lord of Holdemess]). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 290 (chart). Legg Lost Cartalary of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Rec. Set. 160) (2009): 82-85.
Children of Count Stephen, by Hawise de Mortimer:
i. WILLIAM, Count of Aumale, lord of Holdemess, son and heir. He married CECILY FITZ WILLIAM, daughter of William Fitz Duncan, of Egremont and Aspatria, Cumberland, by Alice, daughter of William Meschin [see HARINGTON 3 for her ancestry]. They had one known daughter, Hawise [Countess of Aumale] (wife successively of William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex, William de Forz, Count of Aumale, and Baldwin de Bethune), and two alleged daughters, Alice (d.s.p. c. 1215) and Amice (or Avice) (mother of Constance, wife of William de Eshton). He witnessed two charters of King Stephen in 1136 as Willelmus de Albamarla, not being placed among the counts. He distinguished himself at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. He was made Earl of Yorkshire as his reward. He founded Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire in 1139. He was with King Stephen at his defeat at the Battle of Lincoln 2 Feb. 1140/1. He founded the Abbey of Meaux in 1150. In the period, 1150-60, he made a grant to Orsmby Priory, Lincolnshire. In 1173 he supported the rebellion of young King Henry, son of King Henry II, but submitted and surrendered all his castles to the king's troops. WILLIAM, Count of Aumale, died 20 August 1179, and was buried in the Abbey of Thornton, Lincolnshire. Frost Notices rel. to the Early Hist. of the Town & Port of Hull (1827): 8-10. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 326 (Chron. of Thornton Abbey: "Ao. 1180, obiit præclarus comes et eximus monasteriorum fundator Willielmus Grose, xiij Kal. Septembris [20 Augusti."]. Arch. Aeliana 2 (1832): 384-385 (chart), 387-388. Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Biog. Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 4 (1844): 179 (biog. of Guillaume or William, Count of Aumale). Arch. Jour. 42 (1885): 453 (Chron. of Thornton Abbey: "Amno Domini 1139 ... Willielmus Grose, comes Albemarliae fundavit abbathiam sive monasterium de Thornton super Humbram .... Sabato die Hilarii. Et anno revoluto eodem die, scilicet S. Hilarii, qui erat dies dominicus, per consilium venerabilis cognati sin Wallevi, prioris de Kyrkham in comitatu Eboraci, et fratris Simonis comitis Northamptoniae et Henrici comitis et haeredis regis Scotiae, praedictus Wallevus venit Thornton ducens secum conventum duodecim canonicorum de Kyrkharne supradicta"). Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 13 (1895): 251 (Euphame, wife of Robert de Bras, styled "niece" [nepti] by William, Count of Aumale in charter dated 1150-60). Holmes Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 536 (charter of William, Count of Aumale). C.P. 1(1910): 353 (sub Aumale); 5 (1926): 118-120 (sub Essex). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 1 (sub Earls of Albemarle). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 206 (notification of William, Count of Aumale dated c.1170-79). Stenton Transcripts of Charters rel. to the Gilbertine Houses of Sixie, Orms, Catley, Bullington & Alvingham (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 18) (1922): 41 (Guillaume de Gerberoy styled "nephew of the earl" ("W. nepos comitis de Gerberai”] in charter of Earl William dated 1150-60). English Lords of Holderness, 1086-1260 (1979).
ii. STEPHEN OF AUMALE. Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265.
iii. ENGUERRAND OF AUMALE, younger son. In the period, 1135-52, he witnessed an act of Enguerrand, Viscount of Aumale, for the Abbey of Aumale. By 1150 his brother, Count William, left him in charge of his Norman lands. In 1150 an act of Enguerrand, viscount of Aumale, for Beaupre, concerning Brombos (dioc. Beauvais), was made 'in the presence of lord Enguerrand d'Aumale.' In 1153 Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II of England] promised to give the English lands of Enguerrand of Aumale to the Earl of Chester if Enguerrand refused to join him. Arch. Aeliana 2 (1832): 384-385 (chart), 387-388. Colt Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 261-265. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 395-396.
iv. ALICE (or ADELISE) OF AUMALE. She married (1st) ROBERT BERTRAM, seigneur of Bricquebec in the Côtentin and Auge (in Roncheville-le-Bertrand). They had one son, Robert [Viscount of Auge]. ROBERT BERTRAM is possibly the man of that name killed in 1138. She married (2nd) before 1157 (as his 2nd wife) ENGELGER DE BOHUN, son and heir of Richard de Meri, by his wife, Lucy. They had no issue. In 1136 he and his brother, Alexander, with the keeping of Domfront and Argentan. He and his brother, Alexander, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, ratifying the finding of the jury in the time of Algar, Bishop of Coutances. In the period, 1151-79, his wife, Alice, gave the church of St. Mary of Le Homme to the Abbey of St. Sauveur, which gift she made for the health of his soul and that of Engelger her husband and Robert Bertram her son. In 1154 he witnessed a charter of Richard de la Hale and his wife, Maud de Vernon, founding the abbey of Blanchelande in the vicinity of their Castle of La Haie-du-puits. In 1154 he and Richard de Hulmeto gave freedom to the men of the priory of Saints Mary and Fromund in the diocese of Bayeux from toll at Le Hommet and all dues throughout their land. In 1154 he assisted in the consecration of the church of Saint-Fromonde. He was in close attendance on King Henry II before his accession. In the period, 1155-65, he gave the monastery of St. George of Bohun the right of presentation to the church of St. Andrew, this gift being made for the health of the souls of his wife, Adelise, and his father, Richard de Meri. He appears often in the Pipe Rolls in the period, 1158 to 1172. He was a benefactor of the same abbey, giving the land of Bohonet, and, in 1164, conceding his share in the advowson of the church of Ravenoville in the Côtentin. His wife, Alice, was living in 1166-7, when she accounted for land in Aldworth, Berkshire, presumably held in right of dower. He is mentioned as one of King Henry II's evil councillors in 1170 who incited the king against Becket. In 1172 he settled a dispute with Enguerrand de Campo Rotondo regarding the church of Capella, which Engelger had previously given to his priory of monks at Bohun. In 1172-81 he witnessed a charter of his cousin, Humphrey de Bohun, hereditary Constable of England, confirming to the Priory of Bohun all the gifts of his predecessors and those of his men. In 1180 his land at St. Marcouf in the Côtentin was in the hands of the king's officers, presumably due to his recent death. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 1 (1840): xcii-xciii; 2 (1844): xxxi-xxxii. Stubbs Chronicles & Memorials of the Reign of Richard I (1865): lxxxvii-lxxxviii. Robertson Materials for the Hist. of Thomas Becket 3 (1877): 129 (Engelger de Bohun styled "uncle" [patruus] of [Jocelin de Bohun], Bishop of Salisbury, in Life of Archbishop Becket by William Fitzstephen: "Engelgerus de Bohun, quidam inveteratus dierum malorum, et patruus Saresberiensis episcopi ..."). Archaeologia 51 (1888): 98 (Bohun ped.). Great Roll of the Pipe for the 13th year of King Henry II (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 9) (1888): 9. Church Chapters in the Early Hist. of the Church of Wells (1894): 379 (Bohun ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): xlv-xlvii, 345, 346-347 (charter of Adeliza daughter of [Stephen] Count of Aumale dated 1151-79), 439 (charter of Engelger de Bohon dated 1155-65), 439-440, 440 (charter of Humphrey de Bohun dated 1172-81). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie (1909): 364-365 (biog. of Engelger de Bohun). Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 333-334 (re. Bertram fam.). Crouch Beaumont Twins (1986): 36.
v. MATHILDE OF AUMALE. She married GERARD DE PICQUIGNY, Vidame of Amiens. They had three sons, Guermond, Pierre, and Jean. In the period, 1160-65, he made a grant to Southwick Priory. Darsy Picquigny et ses Seigneurs: Vidames d'Amiens (1860). Daire Histoire civile, écclesiastique et litteraire du doienné de Picquigny (1860): 50 ("L'an 1178 Gérard de Picquigny donna à l'Abbaye la possession de in Somme, depuis le mur du côté de Picquigny jusqu' a l'écluse audessous du moulin du monastère."). Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 9) (1988): 70. Slack Crusade Charters, 1138-1270 (2001): 39 (Enguerran, brother of Gerard de Picquigny, witness to a charter in 1150).
vi. MELISENDE OF AUMALE, married (as his 2nd wife) PIERRE DE GERBEROY, Vidame of Beauvais, son of Adam de Gerberoy. They had four sons, Pierre, Chev. [Vidame of Beauvais], Gerard, Guillaume [canon of Beauvais], and Etienne, Chev., and two daughters, Hawise and Ermentrude. Pillet Histoire du Chateau et de la Ville de Gerberoy (1679): 87. Guyotjeannin Episcopus et Comes Affirmation et Declin de la Seigneurie Episcopale an Nord du Royaume de France (Memoires et Docs. de Soc. de l'Ecole de Chartes 30) (1987): 141.
vii. AGNES OF AUMALE [see next].”
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