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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
"ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., nicknamed “ès Blanchemains,†2nd Earl of Leicester, Steward of England and Normandy, seigneur of Bréteuil and Paci in Normandy, son and heir, born before 1135 (adult by 1153). He married before 1155/59 PERNEL DE GRANDMESNIL, daughter of Hugh de Grandmesnil, of Hinckley, Leicestershire. They had three sons, William, Robert [3rd Earl of Leicester], and Roger [Chancellor of Scotland, Bishop of Saint Andrew], and four daughters, Arnice, Margaret (or Margery), Hawise (nun), and Pernel. He witnessed charter of his father in the period, c.1150-60. In 1172 his Norman fees consisted of 81 knights' fees of the honour of Bréteuil and 40 knights' fees of the honour of Grandmesnil. In 1173 he joined the revolt of Young King Henry, son of King Henry II of England. His English estates were confiscated and the town of Leicester was taken and burnt. King Henry II himself marched on Bréteuil, and captured and burned the place in Sept. 1173. Robert landed in England from Flanders the same month, at the head of a force of Flemings, and being joined by Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, they plundered Norwich and besieged and took the castle of Hagenet in October 1173. He and his wife were intercepted and taken prisoner at Fornham, near Bury St. Edmunds. In the king's treaty with Louis in Sept. 1174, provision was made for the earl's liberation. His castle of Leicester was demolished. His lands and honours were subsequently restored at the Council of Northampton in Jan. 1177, except for Mountsorrel Castle. He witnessed a charter of his cousin, Robert II, Count of Meulan, in 1180. In 1183 he was arrested and imprisoned with his brother-in-law, William, Earl of Gloucester. He was in attendence on the king at Christmas 1186. In 1189-90 he confirmed earlier grants to Nuneaton Priory made by Gervase Paynel, John de Cranford, and Roger Walensis. He attested a charter to the monks of Canterbury in 1189. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I in 1189, where he carried one of the swords of state. A little after this ceremony, he departed for the Holy Land. Sometime before 1190 he confirmed the gifts of his parents to the leproserie of Bréteuil. He was a benefactor to the Abbey of Saint-Etienne of Caen, to that of Vaux-de-Cemai, to the Priories of Plessis-Grimoud and Sainte-Barbe in Auge, and also to the leproserie of Grand-Beaulieu in Chartres. At an unknown date, he granted the tithe of the fish in his fishponds at Groby, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, he granted one bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire to his sister, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, which sometime in or after 1190, she gave to Nuneaton Priory with the provision that the service due be rendered to the earl of Leicester and his heirs. At an unknown date, he granted Saint-Etienne Abbey for the health of the soul of his wife, Countess Pernel, the right to have a turner in his forest of Bréteuil. SIR ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 2nd Earl of Leicester, died at sea near Brindisi or in Rumania on the way to Jerusalem 31 August 1190, and was buried in Durazzo, Greece. In 1203 the king remitted to his widow, Pernel, the sum of 55 marks argent owed to Aaron, a Jew in Lincoln. In 1204 Pernel proffered 3,000 marks to have possession of Leicester, with its appurtenances, and for those fees which belonged to the honour of Grandmesnil. Saher de Quincy made counter-proffers and defeated Pernel's aims. Pernel, Countess of Leicester, died 1 April 1212.
Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [de Clare]; charter mentions Robert, Earl of Leicester). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686 (ped. of founders of Hospital of St. Leonard, Leicester: "Robertus oves les Blanc Meins, Comes Leicestrensis tertius, post conquestum, desponsavit Petronillam filiam Hugonis Grantmenyl, cum qua accepit totum honorem de Hincley unà cum senescatu Angliæ, ex dono ejusdem Hugonis, &c. Hic genuit de dictâ Petronillâ, Robertum dictum filium Petronillæ, hæredem; Rogerum, S. Andreæ in Scotiâ episcopum, et Willielmum leprosum, fundatorem hospitalis S. Leonardi Leicestriæ; Amiciam desponsatam Simoni de Monteforti, et Margaretam desponsatarn Saiero de Quinci, &c."), 1030 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester; charter names his mother, Amice), 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester; charter names his father, Robert, Earl of Leicester, and is witnessed by his wife, Countess Pernel, and his sons, William and Robert), 1093 (charter of Pernel, Countess of Leicester), 1095 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, witnessed by Countess Pernel). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et attires Actes Normands ou Anglo-Normancls 1(1834): 275-276 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Servois Notice & Extraits du Recueil des Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour (1856): 10. Merlet & Moutié Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay 1(1857): 100-101 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 101 footnote 2 (Nous citerons … une donation faite par Robert à le léproserie de Grand-Beaulieu, où l'on voit: His testibus: Petronilla comitissa, Roberto de Britoil, filio meo"). Delisle & Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l’Histoire du Département de l’Eure 1 (1862): 414-420, 433. Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 44 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 317 (Chronicle of Robert de Torigny sub A.D. 1173: Hugh de Chateauneuf styled "cousin" [consobrinus] of Robert Earl of Leicester. 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituatiis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August. Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriae."), 486 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "1 April. Obiit Petronilla, comitissa Leycestriæ, guæ monachos Sancti Ebrulfi diligebat ut filios."), 488 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio: "31 August. [Obiit] Robertus, comes Legrecestriæ, peregrinus Jerosolimis."). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 45 (sub A.D. 1173 - Hugues de Châteauneuf styled "kinsman" [consobrinus] of Robert, Earl of Leicester). D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 336-337 (sub Leicester). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Frideswide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 330 (charter of Robert son of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1170). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 10-11 (charter of Pernel, Countess of Leicester dated c.1200). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 136 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 136 (undated charter of Robert son of Robert Earl of Leicester). Deville Cartulaire de l’Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 203-204 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1180). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248. C.P. 7 (1929): 530-533 (sub Leicester); 10 (1945): Appendix I, pg. 106, footnote b. Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 246, 259-260 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Paget (1957) 464:3. AR 53-26 citing C.P. IV 670 chart III, VII 520, 530-533; Old C.P. 8: 168). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-68). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Hanna Christchurch 137iog Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) P07): 173 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1185-90; witnessed by his wife, Countess P., and his sons, William and Robert de Brot).
Children of Robert de Bréteuil, Knt., by Pernel de Grandmesnil:
i. WILLIAM DE BRÉTEUIL, eldest son. He founded St. Leonard's at Leicester. He was a leper. He died in the lifetime of his father. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686. Delisle & Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir l’Histoire du Département de l'Eure 1 (1862): 414-420. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester).
ii. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 3rd Earl of Leicester, 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir. He married LORETTE DE BREWES (or BRAOSE), daughter of William de Brewes. They had no issue. Sometime after 1190 he granted six virgates of land in Wyken near Hinkley, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, in exchange for the land of Bernard of Waltham in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. He was invested with the earldom of Leicester by King Richard I at Messina in 1191. He was captured by Philippe Auguste, King of France in 1193, while defending Rouen. Following King Philippe's conquest of Paci in Normandy in 1194 (which was confirmed by treaty by King Richard I in 1195-6), Earl Robert, who was then a captive, was forced to cede Paci as a ransom. He made two futile attempts in 1198 to recover Paci in Normandy. In 1203-4 he granted the church of Lincoln and William, Bishop of Lincoln, 16 virgates of land in Thurmaston, with his capital messuage in the same village, in augmentation of the exchange assigned for the manor of Leicester. In 1204 he and William Marshal were sent as ambassadors to negotiate a truce with King Philippe Auguste of France. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, 3rd Earl of Leicester, died 20 October 1204. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Herford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686. Merlet & Moutié Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame des Tiaux de Cernay 1 (1857): 101, footnote 2. Delisle & Passy Mémoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir à l'Histoire the Département de l'Eure 1 (1862): 414-420. Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 46 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, son of Countess Pernel). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31(1870): 5. Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 337 (sub Leicester). Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private prior to AD. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 113 (confirmation charter by King John dated 1199 to Robert, Earl of Leicester, of all his hereditary possessions). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 471 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "4 Mart. [Obiit] Laureta comitissa."), 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "20 October. Obiit Robertus III comes Legrecestriæ."), 489 (Ex Uticensis Monasterii Annalibus et Necrologio:. "21 October. "[Obiit] Robertus tercius comes Legrecestriæ."). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 4-6 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1191-1204), 6 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated ?1191-1204), 8 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, son of Pernel, Countess of Leicester dated 1191-1204), 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester son of Countess Pernel dated c.1200). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 136 (charter of Robert son of Pernel, Earl of Leicester dated 1190-1204; charter mentions his wife, Loreta). Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 258-259 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Foster Registrant Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1203-4), 218-220. Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 186, 343-344, 430. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 143 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "13 Kal. [Novi [20 October]. Obiit Robertus comes Leicestre benefactor."). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 173 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, son of Countess Panel dated 1191-1204; mentions his wife, Countess L.).
iii. ROGER OF LEICESTER, 3rd son. He was Chancellor of Scotland c. 1188. He was elected Bishop of St. Andrew's in 1189, and consecrated in 1198. He was a witness to the foundation charter of Inchaffray Abbey in 1200. He ratified an agreement between himself and the monks of Durham as to their churches in Lothian in a synod held at Musselburgh in 1200. ROGER, Bishop of Saint Andrew's, died at Cambuskenneth 7 July 1202, and was buried in the old Church of St. Rule. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 686. Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 97 (sub A.D. 1189: Roger [of Leicester], Bishop of St. Andrew's styled "kinsman" [cognatus] of William the lion, King of Scots), 104 ("Anno M.CC.IJ. [A.D. 1202] obiit pie memorie Rogerus episcopus sancti Andree."). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocia (1842): 80 (Roger, Chancellor of Scotland, son of Robert, Earl of Leicester, styled "kinsman" [cognates] of William the Lion, King of Scotland]. Delisle & Passy Memoires et Notes de M Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Département de l’Euro 1 (1862): 414-420. Gordon Ecclesiastical Chronicle for Scotland 1 (1875): 143-146 (biog. of Roger, Bishop of St. Andrew's). D.N.B. 4 (1885): 67-68 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Scatnmell Hugh du Puiset (1956): 36, 81, 114, 137. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1996): 180. Watt Medieval Church Councils in Scotland (2000): 26, 34.
iv. AMICE OF LEICESTER [see below].
v. MARGARET (or MARGERY) OF LEICESTER, married SAHER DE QUINCY, Knt., 1st Earl of Winchester [see QUINCY 6].â€
2. “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].â€
3. “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 Pre, 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].â€
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Bef 1135 - 1190 (> 55 years)