William de Montfichet

- Aft 1137

• Name	William de Montfichet
  Birth	of Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1137
  Person ID	I6698	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2026

  
  

  Family	Margaret Fitz Gilbert,   b. Abt 1125   d. Abt 1189 (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F3004	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “MARGARET FITZ GILBERT, born about 1125 (aged 60 in 1185). She married WILLIAM DE MONTFITCHET (or MUNFITCHET), of Stanstead Mountfitchet, Coptford (in Margaretting), Little Birch (in Birch), Wivenhoe, and Wormingford Hall (in Wormingfield), Essex, Barrington, Fowlmere, and Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, etc., son and heir of William de Montfitchet (or de Letchworth), of Letchworth, Hertfordshire, etc., by his wife, Rohese. They had four children, including two sons, Gilbert and Richard. He and his parents, William and Rohese, gave land at Letchworth and Wallington, Hertfordshire to St. Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire in the time of King Henry I. About 1120 he was granted the lands of Robert Gernon in Essex and elsewhere by King Henry I. In 1134-35 he founded Stratford Langthorne Abbey, Essex. WILLIAM DE MONTFITCHET died after 1137. In the period, c.1175-90, his widow, Margaret, gave a rent of 5s. [at Barrington?, Cambridgeshire] to the monks of St. Mary de Sartis. Margaret was living in 1185. She died c.1189. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 587 (charter of William de Montefichet; charter names his wife, Margaret). Chauncy Hist. Antiqs. of Hertfordshire 2 (1826): 153-155. Waters Gen. Gleanings in England 1 (1885): 187-188. Round Feudal England (1895): 357-359, 432, 468-479. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter mentions his deceased brother-in-law, William de Montfitcher). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 233-235. Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. Soc. 13 (1930): 236-237 (charter of Margarert de Montfitcher). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 83-85. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 147-160; 6 (1978): 49-59; 8 (1982): 155-164. Chiball Anglo-Norman Studies XVI (1994): 173-175. Keats-Rohan Domesday People 1 (1999): 388, 475. VCH Essex 10 (2001): 41 46, 281-282, 299-301. Walmsley Widows, Heirs, & Heiresses in the Late 12th Cent. (2006): 127.”