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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan, son and heir of Waleran (or Galeran) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux. He married about 1165 MAUD OF CORNWALL, daughter of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall (illegitimate son of King Henry I), by Mabel, daughter of William Fitz Richard [see ENGLAND 2.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Waleran (or Galeran), Peter [Dean of Wimborne], and Henry, and two daughters, Mabel and Jeanne (wife of Guy IV, seigneur of La Roche Guyon). In 1173 he adhered to the young King Henry in his revolt against Henry II, but was reconciled to the king. Holding lands in both France and Normandy, the conflict between Philip Augustus and the English kings placed him in a difficult position, and eventually brought about his ruin. In 1188 when Philip took Vedôme, he captured 62 knights sent by the Count of Meulan to assist the defence. In 1191 he was excommunicated for taking action against William de Longchamp, Bishop of Ely. In 1202 he confirmed the charter of his sister, Isabel de Mayenne, to the monks of Savigny. In 1202 he revolted against King Philippe Auguste of France, and suffered the confiscation of his county of Meulan in consequence. Conversely, he had incurred King John's malevolentia before 2 April 1203, when the abbot of Saint-Taurin d'Evreux acted as an intermediary to reconcile him with the king of England. In a vain attempt to save his position, he handed over all of his estates 1 May 1204 to his daughter, Mabel, and her husband, William de Vernon, Earl of Devon. John, however, seized his English estates, and Philippe those in France and Normandy. ROBERT, deposed Count of Meulan, was living 14 November 1207; he died 16 August, about 1212. His widow, Maud, was living 25 October 1212; she reportedly died 1220-1.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 75-76. Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Farns of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301441, Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 390. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1 (1840): clv-clvi; 2 (1844): ccix ("Robert d’Harcourt is assumed to have married Joanna de Meulan, daughter of Robert Comte de Meulan, but none of the Preuves adduced justify such a conclusion."). Guilmeth Histoire de la Ville et des Environs d'Elbeuf (1842): 393-467 (pg. 465 author states Robert, Count of Meulan, married (1st) Agnes de Vendome, who died without issue, citing the chronicle of Saint-Nicaise de Meulan; pg. 466 author states Robert, Count of Meulan died at Poitiers 20 Sept. 1204). Delisle Etudes sur la Condition de la Chasse Agricole et l'Etat de l’Agriculture en Normandie (1851): 234-235. Servois Notice & Extraits du Recueil des Miracles de Notre-Dame de Roc-Amadour (1856): 8. Delisle & Passy Mémoires & Notes de M. Auguste le Prevost 1 (1862): 208-214; 3 (1869): 146. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 377 (seal of Robert, son of Galeran II, Count of Meulan dated 1165 - Sceau équestre. Boucher à ombilic. Il ne reste de la légende que les trois lettres TIS à la fin; Contre-sceau. Une tête de profil, tournée à droite. Légende: * ROBERTVS PEREGRINVS). Teulet Layettes du Trésor des Chartes 1 (1863): 220, 250-252. Réaux Histoire de Meulan (1868): 221-245 (pp. 243-244 "Robert [Count of Meulan] sa mort est inscrite au nécrologe de Saint-Nicaise, à la date du 19 août de la meme année [12041"). Somménil Chronicon Valassense (1868): 49-51 (charter of Agnes, Countess of Meulan dated 1143-65, names her father, Amaury [de Montfort], Count of Evreux; her husband, Earl Waleran; and her son, Robert, and her other children). Collectanea Archæologica 2 (1871): 39. Charencey Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de la Trappe (1889): 443 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1166-1203), 444-445 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203; charter witnessed by his brothers, Amaury and Roger), 447 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan, dated 1166-1203). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "21 Sept. [Obiii] Robertus, comes Melle[n]ti."). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 45 16 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Fécamp dated 1170-81), 84,85-86 (several charters of Robert, Count of Meulan dated post-1165), 104 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1181-1200 naming his uncle, Simon, Count of Evreux), 115-116,117-118 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan), 119, 300 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan to Abbey of Savigny dated 1166-81). Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 306-327, esp. 323-324 (various charters of Robert, Count of Meulan). Porée Hist. de l'Abbaye du Bec 1(1901): 367-370. Revue Catholique de Normandie 15a. Annee (1905): 12-13 (charter of Robert, Count of Meulan dated 1176; charter witnessed by Roger brother of the count), 13 (undated charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan issued while her husband, Robert, Count of Meulan, was at Jerusalem). Bories Histoire de Canton de Meulan (1906): 25-38 (author states Robert, Count of Meulan, died at Poitiers where he had taken refuge 16 August 1204, and that his body was transported to Préaux where he was buried 20 September). Deville Cartulaire de l'Eglise de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaumont-le-Roger (1912): 17-18 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 19-20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 20 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1168), 20-21 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1168), 22 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1199), 24 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan, dated 1196), 24-25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1195), 25 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1166), 26 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1179), 28-30, 37-38 (charters of Robert, son of Count of Meulan, dated 1162), 203-204 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated 1180), 208-209 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190), 209-210, 210 (charter of Robert II, Count of Meulan dated c.1190). Depoin Recueil de Chartes & Docs. de Saint-Martin-des Champs 2 (1913): 282-283. C.P. 7 (1929): Appendix I, 739-740 (sub Counts of Meulan); 14 (1998): 207 (sub Cornwall). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 136. Chibnall Select Documents of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated c.1146-66), 16-17 (charter of Robert son of the Count of Meulan dated 1147-66). Seversmith Colonial Fams. of Long Island, New York & Connecticut 5 (1958): 2449-2450. Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 344-345. Lacy Reg. of Edmund Lacy 4 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 16) (1971): xi. 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): 192-193 (charter of Maud, Countess of Meulan). Power Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries (2004): 251-252, 430, 509 (Meulan ped.). Taylor Saint Michael's Mount (2010): 39.”
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].”
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