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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN FITZ GILBERT (also known as JOHN THE MARSHAL), of Cherhill, Great Bedwyn, Marlborough, Rockley, Tidworth, and Wexcombe (in Great Bedwyn), Wiltshire, Newbury, Berkshire, Nettlecombe, Somerset, etc., hereditary Master Marshal of England, son and heir, was of age in 1130. He married (1st) before 1130 ALINE PIPARD, daughter and heiress of Walter Pipard. They had two sons, Gilbert and Walter. In 1130 he accounted for his father's lands, and for the land and daughter of Walter Pipard. He was a loyal and trusted royal official and attested to at least twelve acts of King Henry I between 1129-35. He was with King Henry I in Normandy in 1130, and probably soon afterwards in England. About 1130 the king granted him Borough of Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, which consisted of the tenements of 25 burgesses, and the lordship in demesne of Stock, Wexcombe, and Wilton and of what became West Bedwyn and Little Bedwyn manors. In 1137 he accompanied King Stephen on his expedition to Normandy. He took possession and fortified the Castles of Ludgershall and Marlborough, Wiltshire in 1138. In 1140 he held Marlborough, Wiltshire for King Stephen, and captured Robert Fitz Hubert who had taken the royal castle of Devizes. About 1141 he repudiated his wife, Aline; she subsequently married Stephen de Gay.* He married (2nd) SIBYL OF SALISBURY, daughter of Walter of Salisbury (also known as Walter Fitz Edward), of Chitterne, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, North Aston, Oxfordshire, etc., hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire, by Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (or Sourches) [see LONGESPÉE 2 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Mildenhall, Wiltshire. They had four sons, John [Marshal of England], William, Knt. [3rd Earl of Pembroke and Strigull, Lord of Leinster, Marshal of England], Anselm, and Henry [Archdeacon of Stafford, Dean of York, Bishop of Exeter], and two daughters, Maud and ___. He deserted to the Empress in 1141 and supported the Angevin cause thenceforth until 1154. He witnessed at least four charters of the Empress, and there are two writs addressed to him in Wiltshire by her. He also witnessed five charters of Duke Henry in Normandy. In 1141 he was cut off and surrounded in Wherwell Abbey, Hampshire, but escaped with the loss of an eye and other wounds. In 1142 he was with the Empress at Oxford, and two years later at Devizes. In 1144 he was raiding the surrounding country from Marlborough Castle and oppressing the clergy. He was with Maud's son, Henry, at Devizes in 1149 and 1153. In 1152 Newbury Castle was defended by his constable against King Stephen. On the accession of King Henry II in 1154, he was granted Marlbrough Castle and manors of Cherhill and Wexcombe, Wiltshire by the king. In 1155-6 he granted to the Templars all his land at Temple Rockley, Wiltshire which he held of his brother-in-law, Patrick, Earl of Salisbury free and clear of secular service. He had to surrender Marlborough Castle to the king in 1158. He is probably the "John Fitz Gilbert" who witnessed a charter of William de Chesney dated c.1159-63. He was present at the Council of Clarendon in 1164; soon afterwards he sued Thomas Becket for part of his manor of Pagham, Sussex. He was a benefactor of Troarn Abbey, to which he gave land and a house in Winchester, Hampshire. JOHN FITZ GILBERT died shortly before Michaelmas 1165. His wife, Sibyl, died 3 June, year unknown. In 1175-6 part of a fine due to the crown from his heirs was remitted in reimbursements for repairs done to Marlborough Castle.
(* Note: Aline Pipard and her 2nd husband, Stephen de Gay, were the parents of Philip de Gay, of Northbrook (in Kirklinton), Oxfordshire, and Wootton Basset, Broadtown (in Cliffe Pipard), and Compton Basset, Wiltshire. He married Cecily ___. They had two daughters, Cecily and Aline (wife of Alan Basset, Knt.). Philip de Gay died shortly before 3 July 1190, when the king made a division of his lands between his two daughters. His widow, Cecily, was in the king's gift in 1194-5. Three Rolls of the King's Court in the Reign of King Richard the First A.D. 1194-1195 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 14) (1891): 89 (sub Blakingaue Hundred: "Sedzilia q' fu[it] vxor Philipp de Gay in donocoe d[omi]ni RexWotton [terra sua] ...."). Vincent et al. Acta of Henry II & Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 204. BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. National Archives, E 42/314 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).)
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266 (Obit. of Tintern Abbey: "Sibilla comitissa mater Willielmi comitis de Penbroke [obiit] die iijtio. Junii."). Coll Top. et Gen.. 2 (1835): 163-166. Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati 1(1) (1837): 46-47. East Anglian 3 (1869): 30-32. Eyton Court, Household & Itinerary of Henry II (1878). Round Geoffrey de Mandeville (1892): 82, 125, 129-132, 171, 180-183 (William the Chancellor styled "brother" [fratre] of John Fitz Gilbert), 234, 314, 409, 416. Round Commune of London (1899): 305-306. Norgate Minority of Henry the Third (1912): 150-151. CRR 1 (1922): 424. Painter William Marshal Knight-Errant, Baron & Regent of England (1933). Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 239-240 (charter of William de Chesney dated c.1159-63). Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 179 (charter of John Marshal dated 1155-6). C.P. 10 (1945): 526 footnote c (sub Pipard), Appendix G, 91-99 (sub Rise of the Marshal). Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 190 ("An estate worth 22l. blanch was held in Cherhill Wiltshire], in tetris datis by John Marshall between 1556 and Michaelmas 1164 (Red Book of the Exchequer (Rolls ser., 3 vols., 1896), II, 664; P.R.S. VII, 14), Robert Fitz Peter held it between Michaelmas 1165 and Michaelmas 1185 (P.R.S. VIII, 56; P.R.S. XXXV, 189). At Michaelmas 1187 it was held in terris datis by Geoffrey Fitz Peter (P.R.S. XXX VII, 173)"). Duby William Marshal The Flower of Chivalry (1985). Green Government of England Under Henry I (1989): 248-249 (biog. of John Marshal). Crouch "Robert of Gloucester: Mother & Sexual Politics in Norman Oxfordshire," BIHR 72 (1999): 323-333. VCH Wiltshire 16 (1999): 3-7, 8-49. Stacy Surveys of the Estates of Glasonbury Abbey, c. 1135-1201 (Recs. of Social & Econ. Hist. 33) (2001): 244, footnote 8. Holden & Gregory Hist. of William Marshal (2002). White Restoration & Reform, 1153-1165 (2004): 115-116 ("Although he had been deprived of Marlborough in 1157, John Marshal continued to hold two other former royal manors in Wiltshire until he died in the mid-1160s; Henry II then 'restored and confirmed' one of John's sons in the office of marshal, and in the holdings on both sides of the Channel 'which he ought to hold' but the allowances for terrae datae came to an end. One of the manors, Wexcombe, was entered in the 1165 pipe roll as land 'quern Johannes marescallus habuit'; the other was recorded in the same roll as having passed to Robert fitz Peter (PR/1H, 56). John Marshal was recorded against terra data in Marlborough in 1156 and 1157; we lack details of the allowances in 1155 (PR2H, 47; PR3H, 77). Alan de Neville was named as holder of Marlborough in subsequent years (PR4H, 116, etc.). For John's activities as castellan of Marlborough, see Gesta Steph., 106, 168, 218; Hist. Nov., 44; JW, 62-3."). Online reference: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:90C6iSJHG38J:ads.ands.ac.uk/catalogue.
Children of John Fitz Gilbert (otherwise John Marshal), by Aline Pipard:
i. GILBERT MARSHAL (also known as GILBERT FITZ JOHN), son and heir by his father's 1st marriage. In the period, 1152-54, he reached agreement with his step-father and mother, Stephen and Aline de Gay, regarding Aline's inheritance. He witnessed his father's charter to Templars in 1155-6. In 1165 he succeeded to part of his father's lands, but died at Salisbury without issue before Michaelmas 1166. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 179. C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix G, 91-99 (sub Rise of the Marshal). Keats-Rohan Domesday People (1999): 214.
Children of John Fitz Gilbert (otherwise John Marshal), by Sibyl de Salisbury:
i. JOHN MARSHAL, of Great Bedwyn and Wexcombe (in Great Bedwyn), Wiltshire, Speen, Berkshire, Bosham, Sussex, Inkberrow and Upleden, Worcestershire, etc., King's Marshal, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1189-90, Sheriff of Sussex, 1191-3, 3rd but 1st surviving son, and 1st son by his father's 2nd marriage, probably born in 1144 or 1145. He married JOAN DE PORT, daughter of Adam de Port, by his 1st wife, Mabel [?de Orval]. They had no issue. By his mistress, Alice de Coleville),* he had one illegitimate son, John, Knt., and three daughters, Alice (or Amice), Juliane, and Sibyl. He succeeded to part of his father's lands in 1165, and in 1166 he succeeded to the lands of his half-brother, Gilbert Fitz John, with the office of Master Marshal. In 1170 he was with Henry the Young King at Winchester. In 1171-2 he was sent to Ireland in charge of the treasure amounting to £333.6.8. Sometime in the period, 1185-94, he gave the church of Cheddar, Somerset to Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire for his soul and the souls of his father, brethren, and relatives at rest there. He acted as Marshal at the Coronation of King Richard I in 1189, where he carried the Gold Spurs. The same year the king confirmed him in the manor of Wexcombe (in Great Bedwyn), Wiltshire. He was appointed custodian and receiver of all escheats in England. He was acting as a judge in cos. Oxford and Berks in 1192. JOHN MARSHAL was killed in March 1194, while defending Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John]. His corpse was brought to Cirencester, Gloucestershire, where there was a funeral service in the church. The body was subsequently buried in Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) presumably in 1200 (as his 2nd wife) RICHARD DE RIVERS, an official of King John. She was living in 1204. He married (3rd) in 1214 MAUD DE BEAUCHAMP, widow of Geoffrey de Lascelles, daughter of William de Beauchamp, by Maud, daughter of Geoffrey de Lucy. In 1215 he was a supporter of the committee of barons charged to see to the observance of the Magna Carta. In 1221 he was appointed keeper of the dower lands of Queen Isabel of Angoulême, widow of King John. They had two sons, Richard, Knt., and Baldwin, Knt. RICHARD DE RIVERS died shortly before 15 March 1221/2. Brooke Discorvie of Certaine Errours (1724): 48-50 ("I ... shewed, for Marshals coate, one faire deed with a seale of Armes thereto, of Iohn Marshall father of William Marshall Earle of Penbroke, and Anselme, that was father to Iohn Marshall Baron of Rhia: on which scale was written, Iohn Marshall, and in his shield or escucheon, a bend fuzulie. Also I shewed a transcript of an other deed ... in which was written: Iohn, sonne of Iohn the Kinges Marshall, with the same Armes, of a bend fuzulie, testified under the hand of an Officer of armes"). Rpt. on the MSS of the Wells Cathedral (Hist. MSS Comm. 12A) (1885): 68. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 141. Meyer Histoire de Guillaume le Marathal 3 (1901): 8, 132-133. Cal. MSS. Dean & Chapter of Wells 1 (Hist. MSS. Comm., vol. 12B(1) (1907): 6, 13-14, 144, 309. Norgate Minority of Henry the Third (1912): 150-151. Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12352 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 69. Genealogist n.s. 33 (1917): 151-154. Book of Fees 1 (1920): 297. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 246-251. Painter William Marshal, Knight-Errant, Baron, & Regent of England (1933): 104-105, 116. C.P. 8 (1932): 525, footnote b (sub Marshal); 10 (1945): 358 footnoted (sub Pembroke), Appendix G, 91-99 (sub Rise of the Marshal); 11(1949): 12 (sub Rivers). Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 250. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Byre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 12, 38 (Alice de Colevill is styled "grandmother" [avia] of Robert de Beauchamp and mother of Sibyl de Birmingham in lawsuit dated 1248). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 190. Duby William Marshal (1987). VCH Wiltshire 16 (1999): 8-49.
(* Note: Haskins Soc. Jour. 10 (2002): 265 identifies Alice de Coleville as the mistress of John Marshal [died 1194] above, elder brother of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Alice de Coleville held the manors of Maidencourt (in East Garston), Berkshire and Dorton, Buckinghamshire in her own right, apparently by gift of the Marshal family. At an unknown date, she made a grant of six quarters of wheat at Maidencourt, Berkshire to the Priory of Sandleford for the souls of John le Marshal and his brother William Earl of Pembroke [see VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 246-251]. Alice died sometime before 1220, by which date her lands at Dorton and Maidencourt had passed in equal shares to her daughters, Juliane (wife of Robert de Beauchamp) and Sibyl (wife of William de Birmingham) [see Book of Fees 1 (1920): 2971. Alice also held property at Wolfhall (in Great Bedwyn), Wiltshire which passed to her daughter, Juliane [see Maxwell-Lyre Two Regs. formerly belonging to the Fam. of Beauchamp of Hatch (Somerset Rec. Soc. 35) (1920): 59-60].)
Illegitimate children of John Marshal, by his mistress, Alice de Colevllle:
a. JOHN MARSHAL, Knt., Marshal of Ireland, of Hingham, Norfolk, married ALINE DE RYE [see HINGHAM 4].
b. ALICE (or AMICE) MARSHAL, married before 1225-6 WILLIAM DE BRIEN (or BRIAN, BRION), Knt., of Hoggeston, Buckinghamshire. In 1225-6 John Marshal, Knt., presented to the church of Hoggeston, Buckinghamshire, in virtue of his charge of the vill of Hoggeston, which he had by reason an exchange made with William de Brien, Knt. who had married his sister. Presumably she is the Lady Alice (or Amice) de Brian who held the manor of Hoggeston, Buckinghamshire in 1235 and 1242-3. Sometime before 1249 the manor of Hoggeston, Buckinghamshire passed to her nephew, William de Birmingham. Midland Antiguary 2 (1883): 126-131. C.Ch.R. 1(1903): 350. C.P.R. 1232-1247(1906): 130. Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles, Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 69. Book of Fees 2 (1923): 884. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 369-372.
c. JULIANE MARSHAL, married before 1220 ROBERT DE BEAUCHAMP, of Hatch Beauchamp, Marston, Shepton Beauchamp, and Stoke-under-Hamdon, Somerset, Bolbury Beauchamp (in Malborough), Devon, Shepperton, Middlesex, etc., Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1222-3, and, in right of his wife, of Maidencourt (in East Garston), Berkshire and Dorton, Buckinghamshire, Wolfhall (in Great Bedwyn), Wiltshire, etc., son and heir of Simon de Vautort (or Valletort), by ___, daughter of Robert de Beauchamp. He was a minor at the death of his father c.1196. They had one son, Robert, Knt. He obtained his inheritance c.1211, after a long minority. In 1224 he had a dispute with Frithelstoke Priory regarding the churches of Shepperton, Middlesex and Stoke-under-Hamdon, Somerset. In 1227 he conveyed to Frithelstoke Priory a moiety of the advowson of the church of Frithelstoke, Devon. Sometime before 1229 he gave Bruton Priory license to buy and sell goods in his vill of Marston, Somerset free from all taxation and toll. In 1241 Richard Berenger quitclaimed to Robert and his wife, Juliane, all right in a moiety of the court which Alice de Coleville sometime held in Wolfhall (in Great Bedwyn), Wiltshire. His wife, Juliane, died before 1248. He was granted a yearly fair at his manor of Marston, Somerset in 1248. ROBERT DE BEAUCHAMP died shortly before 1 Feb. 1251/2. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 239-241 (Beauchamp ped.). Midland Antiguary 2 (1883): 126-131. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. 36 (1891): 20-59. Notes & Queries 10th Ser. 8 (1907): 307-309, 471-473. Genealogist n.s. 33 (1917): 151-154. Maxwell-Lyre Two Regs. formerly belonging to the Fam. of Beauchamp of Hatch (Somerset Rec. Soc. 35) (1920): 58-60, 101-102. Book of Fees 2 (1923): 711, 745. VCH Middlesex 3 (1962): 1-12. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 12, 38 (Alice de Colevill is styled "grandmother" ravial of Robert de Beauchamp and mother of Sibyl de Birmingham in lawsuit dated 1248).
Child of Juliane Marshal, by Robert de Beauchamp:
1) ROBERT DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, married ALICE DE MOHUN [see SEYMOUR 9].
d. SIBYL MARSHAL, married before 1220 WILLIAM DE BIRMINGHAM, in right of his wife, of Maidencourt (in East Garston), Berkshire and Dorton, Buckinghamshire. They had one son, William (died c.1263). In 1255 his widow, Sibyl, and her nephew, Robert de Beauchamp, were in default in respect of the manor of Dorton, Buckinghamshire; they absented themselves from suit of court for three years., Midland Antiguao, 2 (1883): 126-131. Somersetshire Arch. & Natural Hist. 36 (1891): 20-59. Genealogist n.s. 33 (1917): 151-154. Book of Fees 1 (1920): 297. C.C.R. 1247-1251 (1922): 102-103. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 247-251 (Birmingham arms: Azure a bend indented or). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 369-372. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 12, 38 (Alice de Colevill is styled "grandmother" [avia] of Robert de Beauchamp and mother of Sibyl de Birmingham in lawsuit dated 1248).
ii. WILLIAM MARSHAL, Knt., 3rd Earl of Pembroke [see next].
iii. ANSELM MARSHAL. He was present at Lagny-sur-Marne in 1179 in the household of his brother, William Marshal. Sometime before 1189, he served as a witness to an undated act of his cousin, Rotrou, Count of Perche. Meyer Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal 3 (1901): 8, 132, and notes. Duby William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry (1985): 96. Thompson Power & Border Lordship in Medieval France (2002): 104. Haskins Soc. Jour. 13 (2004): 49-50.
iv. HENRY MARSHAL. He was appointed Dean of York by the king 15 Sept. 1189, and ordained subdeacon and deacon the same day. His appointment was opposed by Archbishop-elect Geoffrey; he was installed as canon but not as dean by Hamo precentor. His appointment was confirmed by Archbishop-elect in Dec. 1189, but he was subsequently excommunicated by the Archbishop-elect 5 Jan. 1190. Henry occurs as Dean on several occasions and as royal justice. He was elected Bishop of Exeter before 10 Feb. 1194, and was consecrated as Bishop before 30 March 1194. In the period, 1194-8, he purchased land in Longditch Street, Westminster from Geoffrey Picot and built a chapel on it for the use of visiting staff of the Exeter diocese. In 1204 he made a grant to the church of St. Peter, Exeter of two marks of silver yearly from the church of Lanuthinoch. He died in October 1206, and was buried on the north side of the presbytery of Exeter Cathedral. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 515. Meyer Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal 3 (1901): 8, 132. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 18, 57-61, 65. Pipe Roll 5 Richard I (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 3 (1927): 70, 77. Landon Itinerary of King Richard I (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 13 (1935): 7. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 58, 164, 184. Mason Westminster Abbey & its People, c.1050-c.1216 (1996): 71, 142. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300 6 (1999): 7-13.
v. MAUD MARSHAL, married ROBERT PONTE DE L'ARCHE (or PONT DEL ARCHE, PONTEARCHE), Knt., son and heir of William Pont de l'Arche, Chamberlain of Kings Henry I and Stephen, by ___, daughter of William Mauduit. They had one son, William, Knt., and five daughters, including Juliane and presumably Maud. In 1166 he held five knights' fees in Hampshire of John de Port. In 1179 he conceded the gift of his late sister, Emma, to Plympton Priory of land at Newton St. Cyres, in exchange for five marks from the priory. SIR ROBERT PONTE DE L'ARCHE was living in 1202. At his death, he was buried in the church at Southwick, Hampshire. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (1896): 207. Fizzard Plympton Priory (2008): 82-83. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford, Carlon, & Kilkenny (1950): 72 ("Histoire de Guillaume le Marshal, 1. 398. says the Earl [i.e., William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke] had two sisters richly married, one of them to Robert del Pont l'Arche; the husband of the other, William Crassus, is not named). Meyer L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marichal 1 (1891): 15 (Lines 395-398: "Si ourent deus serors mult beles E mult corteises damiseles, De grant appareil acesmées; Richement furent mariees."), 262 (Lines 7264-7275 ("E quant ii vint a la meison Seingnor Robert del Pont de l'Arche, De la outre, qu'il est en marche, Sa soer li comença a dire: ‘Por Deu! que feront ore, sire .V. filles k'ai a marier? Qui lor porra consel doner? N'est mais kui faire lor peüst.’ Il dist: `Soer, se por els ne fust E por mes autres boens aims, Jamais ne venisse al païs.), 3 (1901): 8. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Recs. 9) (1988): 6, 11. White Restoration & Reform, 1153-1165 (2000): 82 ("Robert de Pont de l'Arche appears never to have been accorded the title chamberlain, held by his father William under Henry I."). Holden Hist. of William Marshal 6 (2002): 105. Prestwich Thirteenth Cent. England X (2005): 223-226 ("William le Walsh was the stepson of Andrew de Beauchamp who had married William's mother: Rot. Parl., i. 311. He was a commissioner of array in 1322 and 1324 ... Woolstrop in Quedgeley is now on the outskirts of the city of Gloucester. As heir of Robert Pont de l'Arche (d. 1246) and of his son William, William le Walsh held Woolstrop from Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke, whose own manors of Whaddon, Moreton Valence, and Painswick were close at hand.").
Children of Maud Marshal, by Robert Ponte de l'Arche:
a. WILLIAM PONTE DE L'ARCHE, Knt. In 1236 Gilbert Basset quitclaimed two carucates in Newton Valence, Hampshire to him. Jeayes Desc. Cat. of the Charters & Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fitzhardinge (1892): 29 (charter dated 1200 of Robert de Berkelaia to Kingswood Abbey, granted for his soul's health and that of his wife, Juliana; charter witnessed by Ralph [de] [Su]mery and William de Punthdelarch), 40 (charter of Maurice de Gant to Thomas de Berkeley dated c.1230; charter witnessed by Sir William Briwere and Sir William Pontearche), 59 (indenture dated dated 1220-30 by Thomas de Berkeley to Osbert Gyffard his nephew; charter witnessed by Sir William Briquere [Briwere], Sir Maurice Gaunt, and Sir William de Pontdelarch), 59-60 (charter dated before 1220 by Peter de Iweleia to Robert de Berkelai of his land in Westcote, Gloucestershire, and of Helyas his man; charter witnessed by William Pontearche). Reedy Basset Charters c.1120 to 1250 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 50) (1995): 88. Vincent Peter des Roches (2002): 142 ("For Pont-de-l'Arche's rebellion, see Gervase of Canterbury, ii. pp. 111-12; RLC, i, pp. 283, 318; Pat. R. 1216-25, p. 47. For his holding from St. John, see BF, p. 94, and for his relation to the Marshal family, CP, ii. p. 126; Hist. de Marechal, line 7265.â€)
b. JULIANE PONTE DE L'ARCHE. She married before 11 June 1200 (as his 1st wife) ROBERT DE BERKELEY, Knt., of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Justice intinerant, 1208, son and heir of Maurice Fitz Robert Fitz Harding (otherwise de Berkeley), of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Bray, Devon, Acton, Gloucestershire, Portbury and Bedminster, Somerset, etc., itinerant justice, by Alice, daughter of Roger de Berkeley, of Dursley, Gloucestershire. They had no issue. In 1191 he paid £1000 to have livery of his inheritance. Sometime in the period, c.1191-1215, he granted Southwick Priory 2s. rent a year from a messuage and land in Berkeley, Gloucestershire for the improvement of the lighting of the Southwick church. He sided with the rebellious Barons against King John and was pardoned in 1214. He again rebelled and was excommunicated. His lands were restored in 1216-17 on payment of a fine of £966, excepting Berkeley. Sometime before 1215 his wife, Juliane, granted to Southwick Priory the tenement, held by free burgage tenure, which William Crassus [le Gras] sold to her in his great need, together with all his houses and a small messuage near the norwthwest corner of the cemetery of the church of St. Mary at Berkeley, Gloucestershire. His wife, Juliane, died 15 Nov. 1217, and was buried at St. Augustine's, Bristol. He married (2nd) in 1218 LUCY ___, kinswoman [neptis] of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury. They had no issue. SIR ROBERT DE BERKELEY died 13 May 1220, and was buried at St. Augustine's, Bristol. His widow, Lucy, married (2nd) before 1222 (as his la wife) HUGH DE GOURNAY, of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, Caister and Cantley, Norfolk, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, etc. [see GOURNAY 5]. They had no issue. He joined the barons against King John. In 1216 his manor of Wendover was granted to William de Fiennes, and in 1218 his lands in Lincolnshire to William de Cantelowe. His lands were restored 2 May 1222 (excepting Wendover). In 1223 the king ordered his lands in cos. Gloucester, Warwick, and Leicester be taken for attending a tournament without leave at Blyth, Nottinghamshire. The same year he lost all his land in the jurisdiction of the Constable of Bristol for hunting in the royal forest without leave. He fought against the Welsh in 1228 and in Brittany in 1234. His wife, Lucy, died 18 January 1234, and was buried at St. Augustine's. HUGH DE GOURNAY died shortly before 23 July 1238, and was buried at Langley Abbey, Norfolk. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 3 (1812): 591-627 (sub Earl of Berkeley). Jeayes Desc. Cat. of the Charters & Muniments in the Possession of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fitzhardinge (1892): xi (ped.), 29 (charter dated 1200 of Robert de Berkelaia to Kingswood Abbey, granted for his soul's health and that of his wife, Juliana; charter witnessed by Ralph [de] [Sulmery and William de Punthdelarch), 31 (grant dated c.1200 from John de Wodeford to Lady Juliane de Ponte Arche, wife of Robert de Berkeleia), 37, 57-58. Neale Charters & Recs. of Nader of Berkeley, Yale and Corsham (1907): 2-3. C.P. 2 (1912): 126 (sub Berkeley). Hanna Car-Warier of Southwick Priory 2 (Hampshire Recs. 10) (1989): 62 (charter dated c.1190-1215 of Juliane, wife of Robert de Berkeley, granted for the soul of her father, Sir Robert de Pontearcharum, who is buried in the Southwick church), 62 (charter of Robert de Berkeley, granted at the request and with the consent of his wife, Juliane), 63 (confirmation charter of Robert de Berkeley dated c.1190-1215).
c. MAUD PONTE DE L'ARCHE (presumed daughter), married (1st) PHILIP DE BREWES, younger son of William de Brewes (or Breuse), of Bramber, Sussex, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, etc., seigneur of Briouze in Normandy, by Maud, daughter of Bernard de Saint Valery, Knt., of Isleworth, Middlesex, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, and Beckley, Oxfordshire. She married (2nd) WILLIAM FITZ WILLIAM, Baron of Naas, co. Kildare, son and heir of William Fitz Maurice, Baron of Naas, co. Kildare, by Aline, daughter of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke [see PEMBROKE 4.ii for his ancestry]. They had three sons, David [Baron of Naas], William, and Maurice. He was granted Karakytell Castle, with five knights' fees, by King John in 1199, and five knights' fees in Karakytell and Kyldruman by William de Brewes about 1209. On 12 Sept. 1220 William baron of Naas and Eve [sic] his wife made fine with the king by 100 marks for having dower in the manor of Grene, co. Limerick which pertains to Eve of the free tenement formerly of Phillip de Brewes, her former husband, in Ireland. WILLIAM FITZ WILLIAM, Baron of Naas, died shortly before 23 March 1227. His widow, Maud, died shortly before 16 July 1233, when Maurice Fitz Gerold, Justiciar of Ireland, was granted the land of Grene, co. Limerick which she previously held. Sweetman Cal. Docs. Rel. Ireland 1(1875): 364. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 2(1892): chart facing pg. 358. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 21. Notes & Queries Ser. 11 10 (1914): 55 ("The covenant for dower by David Fitz William, Baron of Naas, with his mother, Matilda de Pont de l'Arche, is dated 23 March 1227 (Gormanston Register, f. 191d.). This gives the approximate date of his succession (cf. 'Cal. Docs., Irel.' i. 1551)."). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 487-489 ("William, son of Maurice, who, according to Giraldus, married in 1174, Alma, daughter of Strongbow, seems to have died before 1199, when ‘William de Naas’ fined for an inquisition of mort d'ancestor against the abbot of Baltinglass. This was his son and successor, the third baron, who married Mahaut de Pont de l'Arche and died in 1227, when he was succeeded by his son David, the fourth baron. The third baron is often called simply William baron of Naas', and hence the confusion with his father; but in several documents his patronymic appears, for example, as the grantee in two charters calendared in this volume (p. 154) and ascribed to c.1205. One of these is transcribed (p. 200), and the Latin is free from any possible ambiguity: Willelmo filio Villelmi baroni del Nas. It is found also in the interesting document by which G[eoffrey de Henelawe] bishop of St. Davids (1203-14), after reciting grants of the dapiferate of St. Davids by previous bishops (1) to Maurice, son of Gerald and his heirs, (2) to William, son of Maurice, son of Gerald and his heirs, granted and confirmed the same to William, son of William, son of Maurice and his heirs; and again in the declaration of loyalty by the magnates of Ireland c.1212, and as a witness in 1221 to the grant already mentioned by Walter de Lacy to Philip de Angulo enrolled in the Irish Chancery. The existence of this William FitzWilliam, baron of Naas, and his position in the pedigree, though hitherto ignored, is thus clearly established."). Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): xiii (ped.), 3 ("Memorandum that earl Richard Stanbow gave the barony of Naas and Wykenlowe, to Maurice Geroldd, who had a son and heir, William son of Maurice. He married Mahaut de Pontearch, and they had three sons, David son of W., William son of W., and Maurice son of W., which David married Matilda, daughter of Hugh de Lacy, earl of Ulster, and Lecelina, sister of Thomas de Verdon."), 163-164 (charter of William baron of Naas, by assent of Mahaut de Pontearch his wife, and David his son and heir, has given to Maurice his son ... five knights' fees in Karakytell and Kyldroman."), 146-147 & 194-195 (covenant of dower dated 1227 between David baron of Naas and Lady Malht de Pontearche mother of the said baron). Orpen 4 Ireland under the Normans (1920): 308 ("Matilda of Pont de l'Arche. She was widow of Philip de Braose: Close Roll, 11 Hen. III, p. 199. This William Fitz William has been hitherto omitted in the received pedigrees, but in a review of Gormanston Register (English Hist. Review, vol. xxxi (1916), pp. 488-9) I have established his position."). Bull of Celtic Studies 9(2) (1938): 149-154. Moody et al. New Hist. of Ireland 9 (1984): 166 (chart).
vi. ___, married WILLIAM LE GRAS (or LE CRAS, CRASSUS), of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, Little Dalby, Leicestershire, Waleswood, Yorkshire, seigneur of Soulangy in Normandy, Seneschal of Mortain, 1193-4, Seneschal of Normandy, 1203-4, son and heir of William le Gras. They had six sons, William [1st of name] (lord of Tullaroan, Governor of Kilkenny, Constable and Seneschal of Leinster, died before 1242), Robert (died before 1219), William [2nd of name] (died before 1242), Hamon (of Dormston, Worcestershire), Anselm [Bishop of St. David's], and possibly Richard [monk at Westminster], and one daughter, Margaret (or Margery). In 1194 he faced the seizure of his rents and chattels at Sodbury, Gloucestershire presumably as a result of his support for the rebellion led in that year by the king's brother John [future King John]. The king's officials collected £11 as a year's rent from Sodbury, with William's confiscated stock, corn and perquisites there being valued at more than £20. About 1200 he issued a charter for Saint-Evroul concerning Soulangy and promised to respect `antiquas consuetudines' at `Alnetum.' In 1203-4 the Abbess of Caen fined to have the peace of William le Gras, Seneschal of Normandy, and Louvrecaire and for restitution of her lands and men whom mercenaries had seized. Late in 1203 King John fled Normandy for England. He was joined there shortly afterwards by William le Gras, his steward, and by a large number of William's sons and relations. Following his departure from Normandy, there were some 22 separate complaints against William in which he was accused of extorting lands or rights while he was seneschal. In 1204 the king ordered the sheriff of Somerset that, if the manor of Newton St Loe, late of Robert de Saint-Lo, was in the king's hands, then to deliver it to William Crassus; if the manor was not in the king's hands, then it was to be seized and seisin delivered to William. Sometime before 1215 Juliane Ponte de l'Arche, wife of Robert de Berkeley, granted to Southwick Priory the tenement, held by free burgage tenure, which William Crassus [le Gras] sold to her in his great need, together with all his houses and a small messuage near the norwthwest corner of the cemetery of the church of St. Mary at Berkeley, Gloucestershire. WILLIAM LE GRAS was living in 1210, and died before 1219. Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 1 (1896): 109-110, 126, 149, 280. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 314-315. Meyer Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal 3 (1901): 8. Burke General & Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage & Baronetage (76th ed., 1914): 877-879 (sub Grace). Pearce Monks of Westminster (1916): 48 (biog. of Richard le Gras died 1231, son of William le Gras: "Richard [de Berking], Abbot, and the Convent granted him an anniversary on 28 Feb. for the souls of his father William and other relations. Out of lands acquired for the purpose at Stevenage, Herts., &c., he made provision for a refection of wine and a pittance to be provided on the day, which after his decease was to be changed to that of his death (Mun. 53991*)â€). Ballard British Borough Charters 1216-1307 (1923): xl. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford, Carlow & Kilkeney (1950): 72 ("He married a sister of William Marshal I. His sons are called in various records cousins of the Earl Marshal. The charter, just mentioned, was executed between 1205, when Anselm Crassus became Treasurer of Exeter and 1219 ..."). Thirsk Fenland Farming in the Sixteenth Cent. (1953): 20, 50, 94. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 2 (Hampshire Recs. 10) (1989): 62 (charter dated c.1190-1215 of Juliane, wife of Robert de Berkeley), 62 (charter of Robert de Berkeley, granted at the request and with the consent of his wife, Juliane). Church King John: New Interpretations (1999): 131-134. Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Arch. Soc. 116 (1999): 141-147. Harper-Bill Companion to the Anglo-Norman World (2002): 72-73 ("Perhaps by choosing a powerful Norman magnate King John was hoping to appease the Norman nobility; if so, his final candidate for seneschal, in May 1203, appears intended to incense them. William le Gras (Crassus) was from an Anglo-Norman baronial family long established in central Normandy and was a kinsman of William Marshal and Ralph Taisson; nevertheless, he tended to favour John's detested mercenaries and was afterwards credited with turning the Norman barons against John in 1203. A generation later he was remembered with loathing in the region around Falaise for using his power as seneschal to extort lands from his neighbours; hence the king of France confiscated the lands of William le Gras as he marched through this district in 1204, and loudly excluded him from his amnesty to the Normans."). Online resource: 'Lands of the Normans' in England (1204-1244) (available at www.hrionline.ac.uk/normans/index.shtml).
Child of le Marshal, by William le Gras:
a. MARGARET (or MARGERY) LE GRAS, married (1st) RALPH DE SOMERY, Knt., of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see SOMERY 2]; (2nd) MAURICE DE GANT, Knt., of East Quantoxhead, Somerset, Beverstone, Gloucestershire, etc. [see GANT 3.i.a].â€
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
