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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MABEL OF MEULAN, married WILLIAM DE VERNON (or DE RIVIERS, DE RIVERS), 5th Earl of Devon, of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, Exminster and Plympton, Devon, Christchurch, Hampshire, Crewkerne, Somerset, etc., younger son of Baldwin de Reviers, 1st Earl of Devon, by his wife, Adelise. They had one son, Baldwin, and two daughters, Mary and Joan. Sometime before 1188 he granted land and a house in Yarmouth, Hampshire to William Maskerel to make a hospital. He was heir in 1193 to his nephew, Richard de Reviers, 4th Earl of Devon. In the period, c.1193-1208, he confirmed earlier gifts of the advowsons of the churches of llsington, Stokeinteignhead, and Ugborough, Devon to Plympton Priory. He also either gave or confirmed to Plympton Priory the chapel of St. Mary in his castle at Plympton, Devon. In 1194 King Richard I granted him the tertius denarius of Devon as his father Baldwin and predecessor Richard had held it. He attended the second coronation of King Richard I in 1194, where he was one of four nobles who supported the silken canopy over the king. His wife, Mabel, was living 1 May 1204. In 1206 he sued Robert, Prior of Plympton regarding the advowson of the church of Exminster, Devon. WILLIAM DE VERNON, 5th Earl of Devon, died 10 Sept. 1217.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76, 112. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 1. Risdon Chorographical Desc. or Survry of the County of Devon (1811): 356-357. Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Ferrey Antiqs. of the Priory of Christ-Church, Hants (1834): 6-7. Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 390. Guilrneth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467. Westcote View of Devonshire in MDC.,00C (1845): 421. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Anno itaque sequenti, quarto idus Septembris [10 Septembert obiit idem comes Willielmus."); 6(2) (1830): 843 (charter of William de Vernon dated pre-May 1188), 843-844 (charter of William de Vernon), 843-844 (confirmation charter of William de Vernon dated pre-1194). Stapleton De Antiquis Legibus Liber Cronica Maiorum et Vicecomitum Londoniarum (Camden Soc. 34) (1846): lvii. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 464-466. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 11(1855): 213-227. Adams Hist., Topog., & Antiqs. of the Isle of Wight (1856): 132-133. Collectanea Archaologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Western Antiq. 1 (1882): 37. Clark Mediæval Military Arch. in England 1 (1884): 390-391. Worthy Hist. of the Suburbs of Exeter (1885): 61-62, 81-82. Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 65-68. Worthy Practical Docs. Heraldry (1889): 193-195 (seal of William de Vernon, 6th Earl of Devon - "The device on his seal to an undated deed ... consists of three Roundles, and over them a label of three points."). MSS of the Duke of Somerset, the Marquis of Ailesbury & the Rev. Sir T.H.G. Puleston, Bart. (Hist. MSS Comm. 43) (1898): 133. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 321 (charter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon dated c.1196; charter names his wife, Mabel, and his grandmother, Adeliz de Rivers), 322. Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327. Bones Hist. du Canton de Meulan 1 (1906): 25-38. Guilloreau Cartulaire de Loders (1908): 19-20 (charter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon dated c.1196; charter names his wife, Mabel, and his grandmother, Adeliz de Rivers), 20 (letter of William, Earl of Devon to Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury; letter names his grandmother, Adelicia de Rivers). C.P. 4 (1916): 771; 7 (1929): Appendix I, 740, footnote i (sub Counts of Meulan). D.N.B. 16 (1909): 828-829 (sub Redvers, Fam. of). Lays Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 200-201 (charter of William de Vernon dated pre-May 1188), 203-204 (confirmation charter of William de Vernon dated pre-1194). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 466: 3-4. Seversmith Col. Fams. of Long Island 5 (1958): 2440-2442. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 137-138. Hockey Quarr Abbey & its Lands, 1132-1631 (1970): 39, 61, 67, 85, 126. Bearman Charters of the Redvers Fam. & the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994). Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 245-246, 509 (Malian. ped.). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 217 (charter of William de Vemun, Earl of Devon dated c.1193-1208; charter witnessed by Countess Mabel and Peter Meulent), 226 (charter of William de Redveriis, Earl of Devon dated 1194). Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 61, 82, 92-93 ("William de Vernon ... continued the pattern of patronage ... the majority of his charters, both confirmations and original gifts, were made to Christchurch Priory and Quarr Abbey, although he did issue a couple of confirmation charters to Plympton Priory ... [His charters] also record gifts and confirmations to the houses of Montebourg, Carisbrooke, Breamore, and Lyre as well as to the Knights Templar."), 113-114.
Children of Mabel of Meulan, by William de Vernon:
i. MARY DE VERNON, married (1st) PETER DE PREAUX, Knt., of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc. [see COURTENAY 3]; (2nd) ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Knt., of Okehampton, Devon [see COURTENAY 3].
ii. JOAN DE VERNON, married WILLIAM BRIWERRE, Knt., of Horsley, Derbyshire, Odcombe, Somerset, etc. [see BRIWERRE 3.ii].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Knt., of Okehampton, Kenn, Musbury, and Sampford Courtenay, Devon, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, lwerne, Dorset, etc., Sheriff of Devonshire, 1215, 1218, Justice for Berkshire and Wiltshire, 1235, son and heir. He was heir in 1209 to his uncle, Robert de Courtenay. He married in 1210-11 (grant of her marriage) MARY DE VERNON, widow of Peter de Preaux, Knt.,* of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc., lord of the Channel Islands, Constable of Rouen (living 1209), and daughter of William de Vernon, Knt., 5th Earl of Devon, by Mabel, daughter of Robert II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 8 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included lands in Crewkerne, Somerset, with the foreign hundred and the chace there. They had three sons, John, Knt., William, Knt., and Robert [Dean of Auckland], and two daughters, Egeline and Hawise. In 1209 he paid a fine to the king of 400 marks and two great horses to have seisin of the manor of Sutton, Berkshire. In 1211 he owed 1,200 marks to have the honour of Oakhampton, Devon, which had been in the king's hands. In 1217 he was ordered by the king to release Exeter Castle and the stannaries and coinage of Devon to the queen mother. In 1214 he sued Roger Chike and two others regarding lands in Sutton, Berkshire. In April 1218 he offered 5 marks to have a jury concerning the hundred of Redlane which he said was his and pertains to his manor of Iweme, which hundred, and the hundred of Gillingham, were withdrawn from him and his ancestors. In July 1218 the king committed custody of the manor of Sutton, Berkshire to John of Wiggonholt for as long as it pleases the king, so that he answer for the issues of the same manor to Stephen de Croy, merchant of Amiens, for the debt which Robert de Courtenay owed him. In 1219 the king ordered the Sheriff of Devon that he cause Robert de Courtenay to have full seisin of all lands and appurtenances in Devonshire formerly of Hawise de Courtenay, his mother, which fell to the said Robert by inheritance. In 1220 he was granted a two day fair at his manor of Okehampton, Devon. In 1220 John de Saint Helen sued him regarding half a hide of land in Sutton, Berkshire. The same year Maud de Courtenay (his aunt and step-grandmother) sued him regarding the manors of Oakhampton, Chulmleigh, Kenn, and Musbury, and Sampford, Devon and Hemington, Somerset, which she claimed as her right. In 1224 he made fine with the king to render £30 to him annually at the Exchequer of the £190 8s. 7d. due from him to the king; he was allowed such costs he incurred, by order of the king and the same justiciar, to fill a breach in the wall of Exeter castle. In 1227 the king committed the manor of Sedborough (in Parkham), Devon with its appurtenances to his wife, Mary. In 1230 he was overseas in the service of the king. In the period, 1230-2, he settled a long standing dispute with Abingdon Abbey regarding digging turves from the manor of Culham for the repair of Sutton mill, Berkshire. SIR ROBERT DE COURTENAY died at Iweme, Dorset about 27 July 1242, and was buried at Ford Abbey, Dorset. His widow, Mary, was living 15 July 1250.
[*Mary de Vernon married (1st) in 1201 (date of charter) (betrothal dated early 1200) Peter de Preaux, Knt., of Alton, Hampshire, Sudbury (in West Ham), Essex, etc., lord of the Channel Islands, Constable of Rouen, younger son of Osbert de Preaux, of Normandy. They had no issue. He accompanied King Richard I on crusade in 1190. He distinguished himself at the Siege of Acre in 1192. In the period, 1194-9, he served King Richard I throughout his wars against Philip II of France. In 1203 he was in charge of the escheats of Normandy and the Jews, except for the Jews of Rouen and Caen. The same year he was granted all the land which Peter de Meulan (his Wife's uncle) held at Sens, Normandy. In 1204, in agreement with the leading men of the city, he surrendered Rouen to King Philippe Auguste of France. He was living in 1209.]
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76. Risdon Chorographical Desc. or Survey of the County of Devon (1811): 356-357. Burke Gen’l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Coll Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 62; 2 (1835): 390. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1 (1840): clxix-clxx, clxxii-clxxiii; 2 (1844): cidiv-cxlvi, cc, ccxxix-ccxxxii (Peter de Préaux styled "brother" [fratris] by Alice, Countess of Eu). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1846): 377-382 (Ford Abbey, Fundationis et Fundatorum Historia: "Qui Robertus [de Courtenay] cum tandem vitæ suæ laudabilem cursum fæliciter consummasset in stadio, septimo calend. Augusti [26 July] apud Ywren, manerium suum, diem clausit extremum anno Domini M.CCXLII. [1242] et regni regis Henrici III. 26..."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 464-472. (Courtenay ped.) Adams Hist., Topog., & Antiqs. of the Isle of Wight (1856): 132-133. Le Quesne Constitutional Hist. of Jersey (1856): 109-110. Collectanea Archæologica 1 (1862): 263-284. Shirley Royal & Other Historical Letters illus. of the Reign of King Henry III 1 (1862) (Rolls ser. 27): 40-41, 160, 232-233 (letters of Robert de Courtenay). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 1 (1863): 250-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6 (1870): 388; 6th Ser. 3 (1881): 1-3; 8th Ser. 7 (1895): 441-443. Bibuotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes 32 (1871): 403-404. Reliquary 17 (1876-7): 97-104. MSS of the Marquess of Abergavenny (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1887): 72-73. Ouless Ecréhous, Illustrated (1884): 8-10. Worthy Hist. of the Suburbs of Exeter (1885): 61-62, 81-82, 149. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 133-134, 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): 320, 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). Archer Crusade of Richard I, 1189-92 (1889): 326. Notes & Gleanings 2 (1889): 65-68; 5 (1892): 21 (charter of Robert de Courtenay). Curtis Short Hist. & Desc. of the Town of Alton (1896): 21-22. Note-book of Tristram Risdon (1897): 53-56. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 53 (Robert de Courtenay styled "king's kinsman" by King Henry III of England). Desc. Gat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 69. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 535. G.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 60. Devon Notes & Queries 4 (1907): 148-149, 229-232 (re. Preaux fam.). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 3) (1907): 79. C.P. 4 (1916): 317 (sub Devon) (ped.), 323 (sub Devon), 465. C.R.R. 7 (1935): 51, 97, 134, 146, 192-193, 244, 259, 333; 9 (1952): 26, 36-37, 104, 237, 294, 305-306, 322, 330, 362; 10 (1949): 22, 115-116, 119-120; 17 (1991): 166. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 136. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1211 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 61. Seversmith Col. Fams. of Long Island 5 (1958): 2413-2419, 2439-2440. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 70. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 68-74. VCH Somerset 4 (1978): 4-38. Schwennicke Europaische Stanmtfeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay). Bearman Charters of the Redvers family and the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994): 172. Reedy Rafret Charters c. 1120 to 1250 (Pub. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 128-129 (charter of Egeline de Courtenay, widow of Gilbert Basset dated 1205-6; charter names her late father, Reynold de Courtenay; charter witnessed by Robert de Courtenay). Barlow English Episcopal Acta XII (1996): 215. Golb Jews in Medieval Normandy (1998): 372. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 90 (charter of Robert de Courtenay dated 1225-42; charter witnessed by his sons, John and William, and Reynold de Courtenay [presumably his brother]); 109 (charter of Robert de Courtenay dated 1225-42; charter witnessed by his brother, Reynold de Courtenay), 152-153 (charter of John son of Ellis, parson of Crewkeme dated 1228-36; charter witnessed by Sir Robert de Courtenay and Reynold his brother). Church King John: New Interpretations (1999): 135 footnote 114, 202 ("The Courtenays to whom Henry II awarded landed in England, although related to the original Courtenay line, appear to have been only distant cousins. Nonetheless, cousins they were, so that in 1217, when Robert de Courtenay was asked to surrender Exeter to Isabella, he is described in King Henry III's letter as 'our kinsman.' Perhaps because of his kinship to one of the leading families of France, Robert de Courtenay of Okehampton appears to have been singled out for particularly harsh treatment by Louis and the French during the civil war of 1216-17, being deprived of his lands in one of Louis' few surviving English charters. The fact that the original of this charter survived amongst the Courtenay family archives in France provides further proof, if such were needed, of the kinship between the English and French Courtenays. Robert appears as witness to Isabella's charter in favour of the monks of St. Nicholas Exeter, issued at Exeter in May 1217.). Knight Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1222 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 51) (1999): 51. Sayer Original Docs. in Eng. & Wales (1198-1304) (1999): 165-166 ("Lyons, 1250 Jul. 15. 369. Innocentius IV <> Protection for the noble lady, Mary de Cortenay of the diocese of Bath, Hawise de Neville and her other sons and daughters, with all their goods."). Barratt Receipt Rolls, Easter 1223, Michaelmas 1224 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 55) (2007): 85.
Children of Robert de Courtenay, Knt., by Mary de Vernon:
i. JOHN DE COURTENAY, Knt. [see next].
ii. ROBERT DE COURTENAY, Dean of Auckland, dead 1 Jan. 1258. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 190 (Robert le Clerc, son of Robert de Curtenay, styled "king's kinsman").
iii. EGELINE DE COURTENAY, married PHILIP DE COLUMBERS, of Nether Stowey, Honibere (in Lilstock), Huntworth, Puriton, Woolavington, and Woolstone (in Stogursey), Somerset and Battisford, Suffolk, son and heir of Philip de Columbers, of Nether Stowey and Honibere (in Lilstock), Somerset. They had two sons, Philip and John. At an unknown date, he confirmed William de Rokelle in his land in Akot and Beningham, which property the said Philip's grandfather, Philip de Columbers, gave in free marriage to Richard de Rokelle and Maud de Columbers his daughter, parents of the said William and Philip de Rokelle. PHILIP DE COLUMBERS died in 1262. In 1272 his widow, Egeline, settled 100 librates of land in South Kelsey, Lincolnshire and Blacktoft, Yorkshire, together with the advowson of the church of Torrington, Lincolnshire, on Gilbert Hansard and Joan his wife. Egeline was living in 1297. Roberts Excerpta è Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis 2 (1836): 256, 378, 384. Gairdner Letters & Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 7 (1883): 326-357. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 389-390 (confirmation charters of Philip de Columbers tertius). Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 145-146; 2 (1906): 126-133. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 292. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees (1923): 137-140. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxv (Columbers ped.). VCH Somerset 5 (1985): 103-107; 6 (1992): 137-145; 8 (2004): 210-223. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay).
iv. HAWISE DE COURTENAY, married (1st) JOHN DE NEVILLE, Knt., of Essex [see DE LA MARE 10]; (2nd) JOHN DE GATESDEN, Knt., of Broadwater, Sussex [see DE LA MARE 10].”
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN DE NEVILLE, Knt., of Little Hallingbury, Essex, Stogursey, Somerset, South Stoke, Sussex, West Harnham, Wiltshire, etc., Chief Forester and Justice of the King's Forest throughout England, son and heir. He married in 1230 HAWISE DE COURTENAY, daughter of Robert de Courtenay, Knt., Okehampton, Kenn, Musbury, and Sampford Courtenay, Devon, Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, Iwerne, Dorset, etc., by Mary, daughter of William de Vernon, Knt., 5th Earl of Devon [see COURTENAY 3 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included eleven librates of land in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire and 24 librates of land and the advowson of the church in Alphington, Devon. They had two sons, Hugh, Knt., and John, and one daughter, Joan. In 1231 he sued William, Prior of Cowick, regarding the advowson of the church of Alphington, Devon. In 1234, before his father's death, he fined to have the bailiwick of the King's Forest in Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, and Huntingdonshire for life; after his father's death, he did homage 21 July 1234. He was appointed Chief Forester and Justice of the whole of the King's Forest through England 21 October 1235. Sometime in the period, 1234-46, he confirmed the grants of his father and ancestors to the monks of Stogursey. In 1240 he sailed with Richard, Earl of Cornwall, for Palestine. After his return to England, he was so rapacious and oppressive in the execution of his office as Forester that he escaped prison only by payment of a very heavy fine. He retired in disgrace to Wethersfield, Essex. SIR JOHN DE NEVILLE died at Wethersfield, Essex shortly before 8 June 1246, and was buried at Waltham Abbey, Essex. His widow, Hawise, married (2nd) before Easter 1254 (date of fine) JOHN DE GATESDEN, Knt., of Broadwater, Barcombe, Didling, Dumpford, Elsted, and Trotton, Sussex, Stockholt (in Akeley), Buckinghamshire, Eling and Lasham, Hampshire, Compton, Surrey, etc. They had one daughter, Margaret (or Margery). Sometime before 1262 he granted the Dean and Chapter of Chichester one acre of land in Didling, Sussex. SIR JOHN DE GATESDEN died shortly before 17 October 1262. In 1264 his widow, Hawise, was given two deer as a gift of the king. Sometime in the period, 1265-9, she and her daughter, Joan, witnessed an alleged miracle in Sussex, which was accredited to the late Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. Hawise was a benefactress of Beeleigh (Maldon) Abbey, and founded a chantry at the Priory of Mottenden in Headcorn, Kent. She died shortly before 8 April 1269.
Burke Gen’l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 142-146 (sub Courtenay). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Division of the County of Sussex 1 (1815): 202. Halliwell-Phillipps Chron. of William de Rishanger (Camden Soc. 15) (1840): 90, 101-102 (Hawise de Courtenay and Joan de la Mare both styled "noblewomen"). Wood Letters of Royal & Ill. Ladies (1846): 42-46 (letter dated c.1258 from Lady Hawise de Neville (née Courtenay) to her son, Hugh de Neville, dated c.1258, in which she says: "Sir Walter de la Hide, Joan your sister, and all our household salute you."; see also Blauuw Barons' War (1871): 184, footnote 1). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 471-472 (Courtenay ped). Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 4 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1877): 563-564 (death of John de Neville). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 404-405. Archaeologia 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 351-370. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 378. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 19-30 (A. 4008 - Demise of John de Gatesden, 2nd husband of Hawise de Courtenay, witnessed by Walter de la Hide, Knt.), 19-30 (A. 4010 - Release by Hawise de Neville, widow of Sir John de Gatesden, witnessed by Walter de la Hyde, Knt.). Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 2 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 7) (1908): 8, 25, 62-63, 73-74, 116-117. Sussex Arch. Colls. 51 (1908): 190. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 16-24. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 103-110. Sussex Notes & Queries 1 (1927): 215-216. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 107-118, 144-147. CP. 9 (1936): 481-482 (sub Neville). C.C.R. 1264-1268 (1937): 8. Peckham Chartulary of the High Church of Chichester (Sussex Rec. Soc. 46) (1942/3): 102. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxiv (Curci ped.), 43 (charter of John de Neville son of Hugh de Neville dated 1234-46). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 8-10; 7 (1940): 80-83. Weinbaum London Eye of 1276 (London Rec. Soc.) (1976): 107, 109-110 (charter of John de Gatesdene; mentions his wife, Hawise). Meekings 1235 Surrey Eyre (Surrey Rec. Soc. 31) (1979): 196-199. Schwennicke Europaische Stammtafeln 3(4) (1989): 629 (sub Courtenay). VCH Somerset 6 (1992): 136-137. Barlow English Episcopal Acta XII (1996): 215. Young Making of the Neville Family in England: 1166-1400 (1996): 46-49. Meel & Simms Fragility of her Sex? (20106): 130. Stewart 1263, Surrey Eyre (Surrey Rec. Soc. 40) (2006): lxxxvi, cii, cxviii, cxxi. Ward Women in England in the Middle Ages (2006): 75. National Archives, E 40/4008, E 40/4010; DL 25/168; DL 25/193; DL 25/1293; DL 25/3469; DL 27/70; DL 34/1/2; SC 7/64/2 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Child of Hawise de Courtenay, by John de Neville, Knt.:
i. JOAN DE NEVILLE[see next].
Child of Hawise de Courtenay, by John de Gatesden, Knt.:
i. MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE GATESDEN, married (1st) JOHN DE CAMOYS, Knt., of Flockthorpe (in Hardingham), Norfolk [see CAMOYS 5]; (2nd) WILLIAM PAYNEL, Knt., Lord Paynel [see CAMOYS 5].”
4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM BRIWERRE (or BRIWERE, BRIEWERE, BRIEWERR, BRIGUERE, BRUERE, BRUERRE, BRIWARR), Knt., of King's Somborne, Ashley, and Longstock, Hampshire, Clist St. Laurence, Denson, East Putford, Greendale (in Woodbury), Northleigh, Sutton Satchvill, and Ufculme, Devon, Foston, Leicestershire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, Bridgwater, Pawlett, and Wembdon, Somerset, etc., minister of Kings Richard I and John, Sheriff of Devon, 1179-89, 1200, Sheriff of Berkshire, 1190-94, Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1190-4, 1201-2, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1194-1200, 1203-4, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1199-1201, 1207-1209, 1212, 1214-15, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1202-4, Sheriff of Somersetand Dorset, 1207-9, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1207-9, Sheriff of Sussex, 1208-9, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1220, hereditary Forester of Bere Ashley Forest, son and heir. He married BEATRICE DE VALLE, former mistress of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall. They had two sons, Richard and William, Knt., and five daughters, Grace, Isabel, Joan, Alice, and Margery. He was made custodian of the barony of Bampton, Devon in 1185, following the flight from England of Fulk Paynell. In 1190 he was granted the manor of King's Somborne, Hampshire. In 1190-91 a dispute between him and Hugh Buvet, Canon of Salisbury, was settled regarding the church of King's Somborne, Hampshire; it being resolved that William should possess the right of presentation to the church and that Hugh and his successors should receive an annual pension of 100s. Sometime in the period, 1189-99, he was granted a weekly market in 'The Street' parcel of King's Somborne, Hampshire. In the same period, he was granted the manor of Pentewan, Cornwall, together with the advowson of Lamwenep, Cornwall by Godfrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester. In 1191-2 he granted a rent of 20 shillings to the Priory of St. Denys, near Southampton. He remained loyal to King Richard I throughout the king's absence, both on crusade and in captivity. He sat as a justice on the king's bench in the reigns of Kings Richard and John. He was present at Worms in 1193, when the terms of King Richard's ransom were agreed. In 1198 he purchase the manor of Bradworthy, Devon from Henry de Pomeroy son of Maud de Vitré. In 1198 he successfully claimed lands in Goodleigh, Devon against Jordan d'Abernon, Baldwin Giffard, and Margaret de Bellalanda. In 1199 he was granted the manor of Bridgwater, Somerset by Fulk Paynell as part of an exchange, which property became his chief seat. In 1199 Baldwin Giffard and Jordan d'Abernon sued out a writ of mort d'ancestor against him for the half vill of Lynton and the vill of Forston, Devon. Sometime in the period, 1199-1226, Walter Croc, son of Walter Croc, granted him in fee and inheritance, his moiety of the lands which he had inherited from his uncle, Walter Bruton. In the same period, Jervase Juas, son of Bretell Juas, granted him all his land of Colentona, together with the advowson of the church. In the period, 1199-1226, Fulk Paynell, of Bampton, addressed the Prior and Chapter of the Hospital of England, declaring that by his charter he had confirmed to William Briwerre his manor of Renham, and commanding the Chapter to answer thenceforth to the said William the yearly rent of 101., which used to be paid to the said Fulk. In the period, 1199-1226, Richard de Pyro issued letters patent in favor of William Briwerre, by which the said Richard made oath that he would confirm the charter of the land of Chedesie [Chedzoy], Somerset made by William de Pyro, his father, to the said William Briwerre. He founded Torre Abbey, Devon, 1196, Dunkeswell Abbey, Devon, 1201, and Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire, 1201. In 1200 he had license to fortify a castle in Hampshire either at Ashley or Stockbridge. The same year he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Bridgwater, SomerSer. In 1203 the king granted him 1/2 fee in Bakewell, Derbyshire, and the following year increased the grant by the gift of the other 1/2 fee there. In 1204 the king made several other grants to him, including the barony of Horsley, Derbyshire (except for the castle of Horsley), the honour of Lavendon, Buckinghamshire, and the manors of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Axminster, Devon, and Sneinton, Nottinghamshire. In 1209 he was appointed to negotiate with the pope's legates at Dover. In 1211 he was numbered by Roger of Wendover among King John's "evil counselors." He signed the treaty made by King John with the Count of Boulogne in May 1212. He was granted the manor of Chedzoy, Somerset in 1215, following the rebellion of William de Montagu; between 1219 and 1226 he and Alan Basset, guardian of the heir of William de Montagu, disputed possession of Chedzoy. During the minority of King Henry III, he played an important role in the revitalization of royal finances following the chaos created by the civil war. He presented to the churches of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, 1217 and 1221, and Blisworth, Northamptonshire, 1226. In 1217 he gave a gold chalice to Worcester Cathedral for its rededication. He also sent two silver chalices to Premontre in France, and founded the Hospital of St. John at Bridgwater, Somerset for thirteen poor people besides religious and strangers. He is also said to have founded the Benedictine nunnery of Polsloe, Devon. In 1218 he was involved in a dispute with Peter, Bishop of Winchester and Walter, Prior and the convent of St. Swithun's regarding customs and demands claimed by William Briwerre from the men of the bishop and prior of Winchester in the forest of William's bailiwick and in the hundred of Somborne. In 1218 he accounted for 40s. for land of Kingeswere for the previous and current years. In 1223 he opposed the confirmation of the Magna Carta and the charter of the forest, declaring that they were "extorted by violence." SIR WILLIAM BRIWERRE died 24 Nov. 1226, and was buried in the habit of a Cistercian monk before the high altar in Dunkeswell Abbey, Devon. At her death, his wife, Beatrice, was buried at Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire.
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]. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 325,337. Collinson Hist. & antiqs. of the County of Somerset 3 (1791): 14, 76, 80. Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati 1(1) (1837): 39b. Dugdale Monasticon Angficanum 6(2) (1846): 924 (foundation charter of Torre Abbey issued by William Briwer; charter witnessed by his son, William Briegwere; [his step-son] Henry Fitz Count; Reynold de Albemarle; Geoffrey de Albemarle; and Fulbert de Dover), 925 (charter of Beatrix de Valle which names her husband William Briwere), 925-926 (charter of William Briwer "junior" names his wife, Joan, his father, Sir W. Briwere; and his mother, Beatrice); 926 (charter of Reynold de Mohun names his grandfather [avus] William Briwere and his uncle [avunculus] William Briwere). Oliver Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis (1846): 172-173 (foundation charter of Torre Abbey issued by William Briwer), 173 (charter of Beatrix de Valle, which names her husband, William Briwere), 180, 187, 393. Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters illus. of the Reign of King Henry III 1 (1862) (Rolls Ser. 27): 79-80 (letter of William Brewer to Hubert de Burgh, Justiciar of England). Surrey Arch. Colls. 5 (1871): 67-68. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 5-6; 35 (1874): 26-29, esp. 26 (William Briwerr' styled "kinsman" by Walter Croc, son of Walter Croc in charter dated 1199-1226), 28 (letters of institution dated 1224-6 from William [Briwerre], Bishop of Exeter, of Henry de Bertona to the church of Lew, on the patronage of Sir William Briwere, the patronage belonging to him by reason of the land granted him by his nephew Sir William de Torinton, a crusader."). Rowe Contributions to a Hist. of the Cistercian Houses of Devon (1878): 159-162, 168-169 (Dunkeswell Abbey "adopted the arms of its founder, William de Briwere, - two bends wavy."). D.N.B. 6 (1886): 297-299 (biog. of William Brewer, Briwere, or Bruer). Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 18 (1886): 351-356; 2nd Ser. 7 (1905): 437; 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 347-349; 50 (1918): 74-76 (We learn from the cartulary of Torre abbey that Reginald de Albamara, lord of the manor of Woodbury, was an uncle of William Briwer ... The original grant of 2 virgates in Greendale was not inherited by William Briwere from his mother, but was a free grant by Reginald de Albamara ... It is necessary to refer to Mr. Yeatman's theories, because he is responsible for the statement repeated in the Victoria County History and elsewhere that William Briwer's wife, Beatrix de Valle, was the mother of Reginald, Earl of Cornwall's illegitimate son known as Henry Fitz Count or fitz Henry. Mr. Yeatman gives no authority whatever for this statement, and it is to be regretted that it has been quoted as history. I can find nothing to even suggest the thought, on the other hand there is much to disprove the idea."). Round Ancient Charters Royal and Private Puerto AD. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 99-100 (charter of William Briwerre). Hingeston-Randolph Regs. of Walter Bronesconsbe & Peter Quivil (1889): 491 (Richard Briwerre, clerk, styled "nephew" / "kinsman" [nepoti] of William Briwerre in 1208). Auvray Registres de Grégoire IX 1 (1890): 14 (W[illiam] Bruer [Briwerre] styled "uncle" [avunculus] of [William Briwerre], Bishop of Exeter in 1227). Wright Longstone Recs., Derbyshire (1906): 245-248. Jeayes Desc. Cat. of the Charters & Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fitzhardinge (1892): 40 (charter of Maurice de Gant to Thomas de Berkeley dated c.1230; charter witnessed by Sir William Briwere), 59 (indenture dated dated 1220-30 by Thomas de Berkeley to Osbert Gyffard his nephew; charter witnessed by Sir William Briquere [Briwere] and Hubert de Vaus). Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to AD. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 122-123. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 6, 21, 34, 49, 54, 102, 107, 122, 141, 152. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 16-17, 322, 336, 516-517. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1198 to A.D. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 186-187. Colls. Hist. Staffs. as. 5 (1902): 21. VCH Devon 1 (1906): 567. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 66. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 440-442, 449-451, 469-480, 483-486. Power Medieval English Nunneries (1922): 690. Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 1 (1923): 4, 231-232, 244. C.P. 10 (1945): 452-454. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 328-329 (Sir William Briwerre styled "uncle" [avunculus] in a charter dated 1224-26 of Ralph Gernun [son of Osbert de Gladefen]). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 123, 128. Painter Reign of King John (1964): 74-78. Seymour Torre Abbey (1977): 49 ("Of Lord William's domestic life we know nothing. He married Beatrice de Valle and by her had seven children, two sons and five daughters. She was of Norman descent and the possibility that she had previously been married to Reginald, Earl of Cornwall, need not concern us here. She was also a cousin of Henry de Pomerio, apparently, through her mother. It is through the evidence of Charter 9 that we can be certain that she brought Lord Wiliam the manor of Coletone - as a part of her dowry, probably. This manor her family held from the de Nonants … Reichel identifies Coletone as the Pomeroy manor of Domesday, and suggests that a daughter of the house of Pomeroy may have married a de Valle, these being the parents of Beatrix who in turn had Coletone as her dowry.") - but see Thorn Domesday Book: Devon (Domesday Book 9) (1985): 20 (author states that William Briwere purchased Shiphay Collaton, Devon from the Pomeroy family and gave it to Torre Abbey). Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 71-90 ("The career of William Briwerre covers half a century, c. 1175-1226, and charts an extraordinary rise from obscurity to the highest councils of government. Briwerre began his service to the Angevin monarchy as a forester for Henry II ..."), App. Chart B (Briwerre ped.). Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 71-90. Carpenter Minority of Henry III (1990). VCH Somerset 6 (1992): 208-223, 230-235, 246-247, 268-273, 325-330. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 149, 172-173, 182-183. Vincent English Episcopal Acta 9 (1994): 71-73 ["William Briewerr': The forest bailiwick mentioned in both charters is almost certainly the Hampshire forest of Bere Ashley, held by Brewer's family from the crown by hereditary right (Rot. Chart. 39b; PRO E32/161 m. id; Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 71-72). According to a list of foresters compiled c.1217x1220, [William] Brewer held Dartmoor in Devon and the forest iuxta Wincestr' hereditarie (PRO E32/253). Bere Ashley passed to Brewer's son and namesake (Cl.R. 1227-31, pg. 463). Brewer's hundred of Sombome lay within the forest bounds."1, 78-80, 90, 101-102. Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 116 (charter of Henry Fitz Count dated 1200-22; charter witnessed by William Brewer). Barlow English Episcopal Acta 12 (1996): 191-192. Henry III Fine Rolls Project (available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/home.html).
Children of William Briwerre, Knt., by Beatrice de Valle (or de Vaux)...
ii. WILLIAM BRIWERRE, Knt., of Bridgwater and Odcombe, Somerset, Chesterfield and Horsley, Derbyshire, Axminster, Devon, Ashley and King's Somborne, Hampshire, Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, etc., Forest justice, 1219; a collector of tallages in Northumberland and Cumberland in 1223; Sheriff of Northumberland, 1223-4; Sheriff of Devon, 1224-5, Forester of Bere Ashley Forest, 2nd but only surviving son and heir. He married before Michaelmas 1211 JOAN DE VERNON, daughter of William de Vernon, Knt., 5th Earl of Devon, by Mabel, daughter of Robert II, Count of Meulan [see VERMANDOIS 8 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included 50 librates of land in Crewkerne, Somerset, together with the advowson of the church there. They had no issue. In 1220 he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Josce de Plugenay regarding a tenement in Upper Lambourn, Berkshire. At an unknown date, he granted Torre Abbey for the health of his soul and Joan his wife all the land in Dumgeston which William de Bruera and Angalisia released to him as the next heir. At an unknown date, he gave Henry de Ferendune the manor of Duningstun, Devon, which William de Bruwerra and Angalasia his wife released to him or the next heir. He was granted custody of Newcastle in 1223-4. SIR WILLIAM BRIWERRE died testate shortly before 22 Feb. 1233. His widow, Joan, presented to the church of Cadleigh, Devon in 1258 and 1262. She died shortly before 8 Feb. 1264/5. Topographer 2 (1790): 288-291. Collinson Hist. antiqs. of the County of Somerset 3 (1791): 14,80. Ferrey Antiqs. of the Priory of Christ-Church, Hants (1834): 6-7. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1846): 925-926 (charter of William Briwer "junior" names his wife, Joan, his father, Sir W. Briwere; and his mother, Beatrice); 926 (charter of Reynold de Mohun names his grandfather [avus] William Briwere and his uncle [avunculus] William Briwere). Oliver Monasticon Dioecesis Exoniensis (1846): 174 (charter of William Briwere junior). Adams Hist., Topog., & Antiqs. of the Isle of Wight (1856): 132-133. Hingeston-Randolph Regs. of Walter Bronescombe & Peter Quivil (1889): 122. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 34,97. C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 480. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 2nd Ser. 7 (1905): 446-452. Rpt. on MSS in Various Collections 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 76 (Muniments & Library of the Dean & Chapter of Exeter: Item 3498.2.-Descent of the heirs of William Briwere, assigned in the catalogue to 1327-1355). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 1 (1923): 6. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 71-90. VCH Somerset 6 (1992): 208-213. Bearman Charters of the Redvers Earn. & the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Soc. n.s. 37) (1994): 172-173. Devon Rec. Office: Courtenay of Powderham, D1508M/Moger/186 (charter of William Briwerre); D1508M/Moger/416 (charter of William Briwere) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (available at www.firierollshenry3.org.uk/home.html)..."
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