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Eleanor de Vitré

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  • Name Eleanor de Vitré 
    Gender Female 
    Died Abt 18 Aug 1233  , Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Saint Martin de Monte (Mondaye) Abbey, Juaye-Mondaye, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7049  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Robert III de Vitré,   b. Abt 1120, of Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1173  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Mother Emma de Dinan,   d. Bef 18 Dec 1209 
    Married Bef 1 Apr 1161 
    Family ID F3144  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 William Paynel,   d. 1184, of Drax, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1184 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3141  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Gilbert Crispin de Tillières,   b. of, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1190, , Palestine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Abt 1184 
    Children 
     1. Gilbert de Tillières,   d. From 1220 to 1227
     2. Juliana de Tillières,   d. 1227
     3. Joanna de Tillières
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3142  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 William Fitz Patrick,   b. Abt 1150, of Chitterne, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Apr 1196  (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Married Abt 1191 
    Children 
     1. Ela of Salisbury,   b. Abt 1191,   d. 24 Aug 1261, Lacock, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3003  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 4 Gilbert Malesmains,   b. of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1205 
    Married Bef 1198 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3143  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, of Chitteme, Amesbury, Chicklade, Little Langford, North Tidworth, Somerford (in Great Somerford), and Shrewton, Wiltshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Edgware, Middlesex, etc., son and heir, born about 1150. He married about 1191 ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, widow successively of William Paynel, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. (died 1184), and Gilbert de Tillieres (died 1190), seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, West Compton, Berkshire, etc., and daughter of Robert III de Vitré, seigneur of Vitré, by Emma, daughter of Alain de Dinan [see MORTAIN 4 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included a moierty of the manors of Ryes, Trungy, and Ducy, all in Normandy, and £20 sterling annually out of manor of Cowling, Suffolk. They had one daughter, Ela [Countess of Salisbury]. He gave the advowson of the church of Canford, Dorset with its dependent chapel of St. James at Poole, Dorset to Bradenstoke Priory, together with the chapel of St. Andrew at Chitterne, Wiltshire. His wife, Eleanor, gave the same priory the advowson of the church of Cowling, Suffolk with a rent of 40s. WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, died 17 April 1196, and was buried in Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire. His widow, Eleanor, married (4th) before 1198 GILBERT MALESMAINS, in right of his wife, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Cowling, Suffolk, etc. They had no issue. In 1203 Gilbert and his wife, Eleanor, and William Fitz Martin and Finapopula his wife had an assize regarding land in Cowling, Suffolk. He was living in 1205. A royal writ of 1216 ordered that Eleanor, Countess of Salisbury, should be permitted to hold her manors of Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Edgware, Middlesex, and Wootton, Oxfordshire in peace. In 1217 she gave a setier of oats to Mondaye Abbey in Normandy to be received annually at Trungy, and in 1218 a rent from her oven of Ryes to buy waxlights to burn every day at the mass of Holy Mary. In 1223 Eleanor, sometime Countess of Salisbury, granted Roger de London, clerk, the assart called Le Frith in the manor of Cowling, Suffolk. In 1227 she gave 10s. money of Tours annually to Mondaye Abbey for the observation of anniversary of her daughter, Juliane de Tillieres, widow of Baldwin Rastell, to be received annually at Trungy. In 1232 she granted Roger, son of Richard de Coiling', the land called Hamstall, and other lands which his father Richard held in the vill of Cowling, Suffolk to hold for term of his life. The same year she made fine with the king by 10 marks for having seisin of her wood of Wootton, Oxfordshire. Eleanor, Countess of Salisbury, died testate shortly before 18 August 1233. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of Hereford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 263-267. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae 2 (1844): xliv-I. Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Wiltshire & the City of Salisbury (1851): 217-217 ("William Earl of Salisbury took part in the ceremonial of the first coronation of the lion-hearted king, which was solemnised with great state at Westminster on 3d of Sept. 1189; he carried the verge or red, cosigned with a dove on its summit. At Richard's second coronation, which took place after his return from captivity in Germany, and which was solemnised in the cathedral of Winchester on the 18th April, 1194, this earl was one of four who supported the canopy ... In the latter year the earl of Salisbury was also constitued keeper of the king's charter or grant for licensing tournaments throughout the country ... According to the Book of Lacock, his [William's] body was buried at the priory of Bradenstoke. His wife, who survived him for thirty-five years, was Alianor, daughter of Robert de Vitré, of Brittany,... She was married first to William Paynell, lord of Hambie in Normandy, and of Drax in Yorkshire, whose widow she became in 1184; and she was married thirdly to Gilbert de Malesmains, who in her right held the manor of Gatesden in Hertfordshire, in the year 1205. Alianor countess of Salisbury died in Normandy, and was buried by the side of her daughter Juliana, in the abbey of St. Martin de Monte Dei, commonly called Mondaye."). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 35 (1874): 31 (two charters of Eleanor de Vitrei, Countess of Salisbury, one dated 1223, the other dated 1232 witnessed by Andrew de Vitrei). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Baildon Select Civil Pleas 1 (SeIden Soc.3 ) (1890): 60. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 402 (seal of Eleanor de Vitré, Countess of Salisbury dated 1222 - Pointed oval. In long dress, head-dress and cloak. Standing, turned slightly to the left, on a platform. In the right hand a fleur-de-lis. The left hand lifted before the breast. In the field on the right a quatrefoll. Legend: [SIGIL]LVM : ALIENOR [CO]MTISSE DE SALESBIR..). Broussillon LaMaison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Set. 11 (1895): 168-209. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 537-538. C.C.R. 1231-1234 (1905): 97, 99, 150, 247, 249, 286, 370. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-207. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 21-24. VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 13 (1987): 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Paget English Baronies (1957): 432:1. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 91 (In 1212 William, Earl of Salisbury, claimed lands from Henry de Bohun and in 1215 control of the barony of Trowbridge was granted to William. A compromise was reached later in the same year when the honour was divided between the Earl of Hereford and the Earl of Salisbury. Half the barony of Trowbridge remained with the lords of Chitterne (p. 92), 112. Powicke Loss of Normandy, 1198-1204 (1961): 353-354 (sub Tillieres: "In 1172 Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) was held by Gilbert of Tillières for the service of 3 knights [R.B., ii, 631. A. reads 4 knights]. He died during the third Crusade and his heir was still under age in 1198 [Rot. Scacc., ii, 321]. This heir, Gilbert the younger, died between 1220 and 1227 since he was succeeded by his sister Juliana, who was dead in the latter year [Stapleton, II, xlvi, note]. By this time, if not before, the rights of a second sister, Joanna, the wife of Thomas Malesmains, had been recognised also, although she and her husband lived in England. The co-heirs in 1228 were Hilaria, the daughter of Juliana, and Nicholas Malesmains, the son of Joanna [Stapleton, II, xlviii]. Hilaria's husband, James of Bavelingham, did homage to the king of France for the whole honour, and tanquam antenatus, secured by judgement of the exchequer in 1234 the right of the whole auxilium exercitus, from the lands of Nicholas as well as from his own."). VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 155-157. Ellis Cat. of Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 93 (seal of Eleanor, sometime countess of Salisbury dated 1222-The countess standing, wearing a flowing gown and a short mantle, her left hand held to her breast and her right hand extended. To the right, a quatrefoll. Legend: "[SIGIL]LUM ALIENOR' C/MITISSE DE SALESBIR."). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 398. Janet Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre, 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 44 (lawsuit dated 1241 between heirs of Gilbert de Tillières): Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 228. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 518 (Subligney ped.). Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 428, 429, 499, 536.”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROBERT III DE VITRÉ, seigneur of Vitré, and, in right of his wife, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, born about 1120. He married before 1 April 1161 (date of charter) EMMA DE DINAN, widow of Hugues V d'Alluye, and daughter of Alain de Dinan, Chev., seigneur of Bécherel and Lehon, by Agnorie, daughter of Stephen (or Étienne), Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond [see RICHMOND 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, André [II] [seigneur of Vitré], Alain [seigneur of Dinan], Robert [Precentor of Paris], Joscelin, and Martin, and two daughters, Maud and Eleanor. He succeeded his father about 1155. ROBERT III DE VITRÉ died in 1173, and was buried in Savigny Abbey. Sometime before 1196, his widow, Emma, and her son, Robert de Vitré, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) [in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by her brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. His widow, Emma, was living in 1205, and died 18 December, before 1209.
      Du Paz Histoire généalogique de plusieurs Maisons illustrés de Bretagne (1619): 16-18 & 25 (author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André [III de Vitré, as the daughter of (Count] Étienne and his wife, Havoise), 51-54. Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne, avec les Chroniques des Maisons de Vitré et de Laval (1638): 27-30 (Les Chroniques de Vitré: author identifies Agnorie, grandmother of André III] de Vitré, as the daughter of Étienne, Count of Penthievre). Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves d l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et Mile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 771. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 2 (1844): xlvi. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 46-47 ("Robertus de Vitreio obiit, et successit ei filius suus Andreas, natus ex sorore Rollandi de Dinam."). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped). Revue des Questions historiques 11 (1872): 212-213. Broussillon La Maison de Craon 1050-1480 1 (1893): 111-112 (charter dated 1184-90 of André [II] de Vitré to Savigny Abbey made with consent of his wife, Mathilde, and his brothers, Alan and Robert; charter names his father, Robert de Vitré). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Bull. de la Commission historique et archéologique de la Mayenne 2nd Ser. 11 (1895): 168-209. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 41-42. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Paget (1957), p. 432:1 (William Paynel, of Broughton, co. Lincoln, etc., married Nov. 1177 Alianore, sister of Andrew de Vitrie, citing Cal. Doc. France I,. no 1458). Schwennicke 14 (1991): 136 (ancestry of Robert III de Vitré). Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 443- 444, 771. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
      Children of Robert [III] de Vitré, by Emma de Dinan:
      i. ROBERT DE VITRÉ, canon of Saint-Julien of Le Mans, Precentor of the chapter of Notre-Dame of Paris, 1197-1208. About Michaelmas 1194 he served as pledge for his nephew, Henry de Pomeroy, to obtain his inheritance in England and abroad. Sometime before 1196, Robert de Vitré and his mother, Emma, were in possession of the manor of Burton by Thigden (or Burton Plessy) in Burton Latimer], Northamptonshire, formerly held by Emme's brother, Roland de Dinan; this manor escheated to the crown in 1196. He was given the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire by his brother, André de Vitré. In 1199 he was granted the castle of Langeais, Indre-et-Loire in Touraine by his kinsman, Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Morice Memoirs pour Servir de Preuves à l'Histoire Ecclésiastique et civile de Bretagne 1 (1742): 682, 771, 794-795. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 264 (Dinan-Vitré ped.). Broussillon La Maison de Laval 1 (1895): 271-314. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 473 (Robert de Vitré styled "kinsman" by Arthur, Duke of Brittany). Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 181-182. Charles Travis Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 4 (1935): 74. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 46.
      ii. MAUD DE VITRÉ, married before 1173 (as his 1st wife) HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir of Henry de Pomeroy, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, by Rohese, daughter of Herbert Fitz Herbert. They had two sons, Henry and Gillmo (or Galleno). His wife, Maud, died before 1181. He married (2nd) before 1181 ROHESE (or ROSE) BARDOLF, daughter of Thomas Bardolf. Sometime before 1181 he granted the church of St. Madern, Cornwall to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same time period, he also gave the church of Brendon, Devon, together with the land of the hermits of Bagworthy to the Hospital of Jerusalem. In 1193 he fortified St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall for John, Count of Mortain [afterwards King John] against King Richard I. HENRY DE POMEROY died in 1194. His widow, Rohese, married (2nd) JOHN RUSSELL. In 1200 an assize came to recognize if Henry de Pomeroy unjustly and without judgment disseised John and Rohese his wife of their free tenement in Upottery, Ashcombe, and Stocklinch. Rohese was living 20 May 1227. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 4. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Devon & Cornwall Notes & Ozarks 8 (1915): 78-79.
      Child of Maud de Vitré, by Henry de Pomeroy:
      a. HENRY DE POMEROY, of Berry Pomeroy, Ash (in Bradworthy), Bradworthy, Buckerel ands Awliscombe, Dexborough (in Pancrasweek), Dunsdon (in Pancrasweek), East Horwood, Hamsworthy (in Pancrasweek), Hatworthy (in Bradworth), Putford (in West Putford), Limescote (in Bradworthy), Pancrasweek, South Week (in Germansweek), Stone (in Sutcombe), Teign Canon (in Christow), and West Chevithorn (in Tiverton), Devon, Poughill, Cornwall, and Nether Stowey, Somerset, seigneur of La Pomerai in Normandy, son and heir, adult by 1194. He married ALICE DE VERE (or VEH'R). They had two sons, Henry and Geoffrey. Sometime before 1181 he witnessed his father's grant to Bartholomew, Bishop of Exeter. In the same period, he also witnessed his father's gift of land to the Hospital of Jerusalem, which gift he later confirmed. In the period, 1194-98, he issued a charter confirming the gift of his uncle, Joscelin de Pomeroy, of the vill of Tale to Forde Abbey, reserving to Henry and his heirs the free service of a pair of gilt spurs each year at Easter. Sometime in the period, 1194-1207, he gave rents in Boscawen (in St. Buryan) and Treliver (?Trelew), Cornwall to St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. In 1205 his kinsman, Henry Fitz Count (illegitimate son of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall) conveyed to him the manors of Brendon, Cherriton (in Brendon), and Clyst St. George, Devon. Pole Colls. towards a Desc. of Devon (1791): 17-20. Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. 15 (1883): 437-440. Vivian Vis. of Devon (1895): 605-606 (Pomeroy ped.). Martin Percy Charte (Surtees Soc. 117) (1911): 410-411. Reichel Devon Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1912): 8-10, 19-20, 35. Rowe Cornwall Feet of Fines 1 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc.) (1914): 449-453. Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 8 (1915): 78-79. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the Sixth Year of the Reign of King Richard the First Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll 40) (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 169. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Record Society, n.s. 5) (1962): 18-19 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy, son of Maud de Vitré). Hobbs Cartulary of Forde Abbey (1998): 96-97 (charter of Henry de Pomeroy dated 1194-1198), 116. Devon Rec. Office: Seymour of Berry Pomeroy, 3799M-0/ET/2/4 (undated charter of Henry de Pomeroy) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      iii. ELEANOR DE VITRÉ, married (1st) WILLIAM PAYNEL, of Drax, Yorkshire, Broughton, Lincolnshire, Wootton, Oxfordshire, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (2nd) GILBERT CRISPIN, seigneur of Tillières-sur-Avre (Eure) in Normandy, Headley and Westcote, Surrey, etc. [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (3rd) WILLIAM FITZ PATRICK, 2nd Earl of Salisbury [see LONGESPÉE 4]; (4th) GILBERT MALESMAINS, of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire [see LONGESPÉE 4].”