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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROGER DE CLARE (otherwise ROGER FITZ RICHARD), 2nd Earl of Hertford (also styled Earl of Clare), younger son. He married MAUD DE SAINT HILARY, daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary, of Field Dalling, Norfolk, by his wife, Aveline. They had four sons, Richard [3rd Earl of Hertford (or Clare)], John, Richard [2nd of name], and James, and one daughter, Aveline. He was heir in 1153 to his older brother, Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford. In the period, 1153-73, he confirmed the grant which Walter Fountains and subsequently Tebaud Sorrel made of four acres in Norton in Finchingfield, Essex to the Hospitailers. He accompanied King Henry II to France on at least two occasions, once probably in 1156, when he is found at the Siege of Chinon, and once in the winter of 1160-61. In 1157, and in the following years, he was engaged against Rhys ap Gryffydd in Wales. In 1163 he disputed with Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury regarding the latter's claim for fealty in respect of Tonbridge Castle. In 1164 he took part in the Constitutions of Clarendon. Sometime before 1164 he and his brother, Richard, witnessed a charter of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, to Newington Longueville Priory. In 1166 he certified his barony as consisting of 149 knights fees. In 1170 he was a commissioner to enquire into the proceedings of the sheriffs in Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Bedfordshire. Sometime before his death, he gave the church of Barton Bendish, Norfolk to the monks of Bec dwelling at St. Neot's. His wife, Maud, gave a mark of silver to the nuns of Godstow for the health of the soul of the Earl her husband. ROGER DE CLARE, 2nd Earl of Hertford (or Clare), died in 1173, and was buried at Stoke by Clare Priory, Suffolk. In the period, 1173-76, his widow, Maud, granted the monks of St. Andrew, Northampton her mill of Shipton under Wychwood, Oxfordshire. She married (2nd) before Michaelmas 1176 WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 2nd Earl of Arundel (or Sussex) [see CLIFTON 4], Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1191-3, son and heir of William d'Aubeney, 1st Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), Chief Butler of England, by Alice, Queen Dowager of England, daughter of Gottfried (or Godefroy) I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Count of Louvain [see CLIFTON 3 for his ancestry]. They had three sons, William [3rd Earl of Arundel], Alan, and Godfrey (or Geoffrey). In 1176/7 he was confirmed as Earl of Sussex, but the Castle and Honour of Arundel were, in accordance with the policy of King Henry II, retained by the Crown. He served as assessor in the royal court in 1177 to arbitrate between the Kings of Castile and Navarre. He was granted restoration of the Castle and Honour of Arundel by King Richard I 27 June 1190, when he became Earl of Arundel. In 1194 he was one of the Receivers of the money raised for the king's ransom. At an unknown date, he granted various lands in Quiddenham, Norfolk to Reading Abbey, Berkshire. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 24 Dec. 1196, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 24 (charter of Maud de Clare), 474 (charters of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford to Priory of St. Neot); 6(2) (1830): 834 (reference to a charter to Templars by Maud, Countess of Clare, wife of William [sic] Earl of Clare, and mother of Richard, Earl of Clare). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 179-180. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Barrett Memorials of the parochial Church ... in the Parish of Attleborough (1848): 12-41. Arch. Journal 22 (1865): 154 (undated charter of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Sussex to Reading Abbey; charter names Queen Alice his mother [Regine Adelize mains mee], Jocelin the castellan his uncle [avunculi]; charter is witnessed by Reiner his brother [fratre]), 155 (undated charter of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Sussex to Reading Abbey; charter names Jocelin his uncle [avunculi]; charter is witnessed by Reiner his brother [fratre]). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33; 26 (1870): 149-160. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 41 (sub A.D. 1173 - "Obiit etiam Rogerius, comes de Clara, cui successit Ricardus, filius ejus, qui duxit filiam Guillermi comitis Gloecestriæ."), 63-64 (sub A.D. 1176 - "Qui Guillermus [de Albineio] duxit relictam Rogerii comitis de Clara, filiam Jacobi de Sancto Hilario, cum omni terra quam idem Jacobus habuerat in Anglia."). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 66-67 (sub Arundel). C.P. 1 (1910): 235-236, 237 (chart) (sub Arundel); 3 (1913): 244 (1913); 5 (1926): 124; 6 (1926): 499-501 (sub Clare). Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny ped.: "Willelmus (nomen cepit in parliamento consulates [sic MS.] Sussex et Arundell construxit capellam beate Thome in Wimondham et sepelitur in abbathia predicta) Daubeney comes Arundel ob. 22 H. 2. = [empty roundel] Matilda filia et heres Iacobi de Sancto Hillario relicta Rogeri comitis Clara."). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 130-131 (charter of Maud, Countess of Clare, daughter of James de Saint Hilaire dated 1173-76; charter witnessed by her son, James). Paget (1957) 130:5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 34-35, 44. Ross Cartulary of Cirencester Abbey 2 (1964): 526-568. Holdsworth Rufforel Charters (Thoroton Soc. Rec. Ser. 30) (1974): 392. Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 20 (confirmation charter of Roger, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-73; charter witnessed by his son, Richard, and his brother, Richard), 20 (writ of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford, dated 1152-73), 21 (confirmation charter of Roger, Earl of Hertford dated shortly after 1152 granted for the soul of Gilbert his brother deceased; charter names his grandfather, Gilbert Fitz Richard), 21-22 (charter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1166-73; charter witnessed by his brother, Richard de Clare), 22 (writ of Roger, Earl of Hertford possibly dated 1157), 22-23 (writ of Roger, Earl of Clare dated shortly after 1152 to his grandmother, Aelicie de Clermunt, Peter his seneschal, and her men of Norfolk; charter names his father, Richard, and his grandfather, Gilbert) 23 (confirmation charter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-73), 23-24 (confirmation charter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-66; charter names Earl Gilbert his brother; charter witnessed by his brother, Richard de Clare), 24 (notification by Roger, Earl of Clare dated 1152-73), 24-25 (confirmation chatter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford dated 1152-73; charter names his brother, Earl Gilbert, his father, Richard, and his grandfather, Gilbert), 25-30 (general confirmation charter of Roger, Earl of Clare dated 1152-73). Cheney English Episcopal Acta III: Canterbury 1193-1205 (1986): 254-255. Barraclough Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237 (Roger Fitz Richard styled "nephew" [nepos] of Ranulph II, Earl of Chester). Gervers Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England Secunda Camera/ Essex 1 (Recs. of Social & Econ. Hist. n.s. 6) (1982): 216 (charter of Earl Roger de Clare dated c.1152-c.1173). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 42; 93-94 (charter of Maud, wife of Roger earl of Clare dated 1152-73; charter witnessed by Richard brother of the earl and Conan nephew of the earl).
Children of Roger de Clare, by Maud de St. Hilary:
i. RICHARD DE CLARE, 3rd Earl of Hertford [see next].
ii. AVELINE DE CLARE, married (1st) before 1186 WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc., younger son of Warin de Munchensy, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Pain Fitz John. They had two sons, William and Warin, Knt. He was heir before Michaelmas 1190 to his older brother, Ralph de Munchensy, Knt. In 1198 he was serving in Normandy. He was one of the guarantors of the treaty between King John and the Count of Flanders at Roche d'Andelys in 1199. He was fined for not serving overseas in 1201. He was a benefactor of the religious houses of West Dereham and Missenden. SIR WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY died before 7 May 1204. His widow, Aveline, married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) (as his 2nd wife) GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2], of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son of Peter de Ludgershall, of Cherhill and Linley (in Tisbury), Wiltshire, and Gussage Saint Andrew (in Sixpenny Handley), Dorset, by his wife, Maud. He was born before 1145. They had one son, John, Knt., and four daughters, Hawise, Cecily, ___, and Maud. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY (died before 19 April 1197), daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his 1st wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his two half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. In 1198, Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey further gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a fee farm of £100 per annum. He campaigned against the Welsh in 1206 and 1210. He was granted a significant part of the lands forfeited by Normans, including the manors of Depden and Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and other lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, all worth over £100 per annum. In 1207 the king confirmed his possession of the manor of Notgrove, Gloucestershire, which Geoffrey had by the gift of John Eskelling. Sometime before 1212, he was granted the manor of Gussage Dynaunt (or Gussage St. Michael), Dorset, which manor was forfeited by Roland de Dinan. At some unspecified date, when already earl, he granted all his right in St. Peter's chapel in Drayton to the canons of St. Peter's Cathedral, York. He was the founder of the first church of Wintney Priory, Hampshire. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Earl of Essex, died 14 October 1213, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1213-4 the king commanded Geoffrey de Buckland to let the king have, at the price any others would give for them, the corn, pigs, and other chattels at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire which belonged his brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, lately deceased. About 1214 his widow, Aveline, granted the canons of Holy Trinity, London, in frank almoin, a half mark quit rent out of her Manor of Towcester, Northamptonshire, part of whose body is buried there. In 1221 the Prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England sued her regarding two virgates and five acres of land in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Aveline, Countess of Essex, died before 4 June 1225. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 414-427. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (Fitz Peter ped.). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 721-722; 6(1) (1830): 339-340; 6(3) (1830): 1191 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 190-194 (Mandeville-Say ped). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 273 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1213: "Obiit Gaufridus filius Petri comes de Essexe, et justitiatius totius Angliæ, tunc temporis cunctis in Anglia præstantion"). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 76-114. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of … Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 193-194; 3 (1887): 452-453. Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private Prior to A.D. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 97-99 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1191 to Geoffrey Fitz Peter and Beatrice his wife, as rightful and next heirs, of all the land of Earl William de Mandeville, which was hers by hereditary right), 108-110 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1198 of the division of their inheritance made by Beatrice and Maud, daughters and co-heirs of William de Say, in the time of his father, King Henry II). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91,93. Moore Cartularium Monasteri Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 349-350, 354, 371-372. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 36-37, 58-59, 85, 130-131. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 1, 43, 54, 92, 117, 127, 150, 161. Feet of Fines of King Richard I AD. 1198 to AD. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 15. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 412-414. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115; 4 (1956): 158-162. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 81-85, 501-511. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (two charters of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and two charters of his widow, Aveline, Countess of Essex). Book of Fees 1 (1920): 91-92. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 215, 218-219. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 141-155; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 122-125 (sub Essex), 437 (chart) (sub Fitz John); 9 (1936): 420 (sub Munchensy). VCH Kent 2 (1926): 175-176. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 34-37, 41, 92-93, 255-256. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 24, 103, 228. Hassall Cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenvell (Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 100-101. Paget (1957) 130:5 (see Genealogist n.s. 14:181). West Justiciarship in England, 1066-1232 (1966). Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 174-176. Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. VCH Hampshire 2 (1973) 149-151; 3 (1908): 107; 4 (1911): 79-81. Burton Cartulary of the Treasurer of York Minster (Borthwick Texts & Cals.: Recs. of the Northern Province 5) (1978): 52-53 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex dated 1199-1212). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85, 165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 186-187, 189-190, 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville), 194-197. Holt Acta of Heny II and Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193, 202-203. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 308-309 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Bocland. Seal on tag - obverse: earl of horseback, brandishing a sword. Legend: SI[GILLUM GAUFRIDI COMITI]S EXIE +; Counterseal: six-petalled flower (worn); Legend: ...IL...ETRI...), 309, 314-315 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex). Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Soc., vol. 111) (1996): 16-17, 84-91. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 35-70 (biog. of Geoffrey Fitz Peter), App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 147-172. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 78-79. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 100-101. Thorley Docs. in Medieval Latin (1998): 53-55. Breay Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (1999): 151. Greenway Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery (1999): xxviii-xxx. Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Family, Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 2706 198 x 4 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Aveline de Clare, by William de Munchensy:
a. WARIN DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, married (1st) JOAN MARSHAL [see MARSHAL 4]; (2nd) DENISE DE ANESTY [see MARSHAL 4].
Children of Aveline de Clare, by Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt:
a. JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., married ISABEL LE BIGOD [see VERDUN 8].
b. HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, married REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN ??].
c. CECILY FITZ GEOFFREY, married SAVARY DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 3].
d. FITZ GEOFFREY. She married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. [see HARLESTON 3].
e. MAUD FITZ GEOFFREY, married (1st) HENRY D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, King's Constable [see CANTELOWE 4]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Steward of the Royal Household [see CANTELOWE 4].â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“RICHARD FITZ GILBERT (also known as RICHARD DE CLARE), of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, and Cardigan, son and heir. He married ALICE (or ALICIA) OF CHESTER, daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester, by his wife, Lucy. They had three sons, Gilbert [Earl of Hertford], Roger [Earl of Hertford (or Clare)], and Richard, and two daughters, Alice and Rohese. In 1124 he removed the Priory of Clare, Suffolk from its original site to Stoke by Clare, a few miles away, and rebuilt the church and monastic buildings for the monks. In 1130 he had pardons from exactions in four counties; the king also assisted him in the matter of a large debt to the Jewish moneylenders of London. He rebuilt the clas church of Llanbadarn Fawr, which his father had given to Gloucester Abbey, as a priory of the house. He founded a priory at Tonbridge, Kent. He was also active as a patron of Cardigan Priory. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, lord of Clare, was surprised and slain by the Welsh, near Abergavenny 15 April 1136, and was buried at the Chapter House at Gloucester. Sometime before 1143 his widow, Alice, was rescued from the Welsh by Miles of Gloucester. About 1148 she gave the mill of Taddewell to the monks of St. Peter, Gloucester for the soul of her late husband, Richard Fitz Gilbert; this gift was confirmed by King Henry II in 1153-4.
Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped.). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 388. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestria 1 (1863): 104 (undated record that Alice, sister of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, gave the mill of Taddewell for the soul of Richard Fitz Gilbert her husband in the time of Abbot Hamelin [i.e., c. 1148]). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46 ("Gilbert Lord of Tonbridge died about 1091 and the manor passed with most of the estates to Richard who was taken prisoner by Robert de Beleswe at the siege of Couci in 1091 and is erroneously stated to have died from the effects of his incarceration which was the result. He was the first of the family who bore the title of Earl of Hertford. He acquired vast possessions in Wales as the result of a long continued warfare which he waged somewhat on his own account there. He was in 1136 killed in a combat with the Welsh chieftains Joworth and his brother Morgan-ap-Owen in a woody tract called 'the ill-way of Coed Grano,' near the Abbey of Llanthony."). C.P. 3 (1913):243 (sub Clare), 6:498-499, 10 (1945): 441 (author identifies Alice de Tonbridge, wife of William de Percy, on chronological grounds as more likely to be the daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert; instead of the suggestion made by Round [see preceding generation] that her father was Richard's father Gilbert, who, moreover, had a da. Alice who m. Aubrey de Vere). Marx ed. Gesta Normannorum Ducum (1914): 325-326 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Ricardus autem duxit sororem comitis Rannulfi junioris, comitis Cestriae, et habuit ex ea tres filios: Gislebertum, qui ei successit et fratres ejus."), 331 (Guillaume de Jumièges: "Hujus autem Rannulfi sororem duxit Ricardus, filius Gisleberti; ex qua suscepit tres filios."). Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri Ill (1916): 67-68 (confirmation charter of King Henry II dated 1153 4). Paget (1957) 130:4-5 (Founder of Stoke-Clare Priory; slain near Brecknock, being ambushed and surprised by Jorwerth, brother of Morgan of Caerleon). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 30-31 (confirmation charter of Richard Fitz Gilbert, lord of Clare dated 1124-36). Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 399. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 316 (Clare ped).
Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Alice of Chester:
i. GILBERT DE CLARE, Lord of Clare, etc., son and heir, born before 1115; hostage for his uncle Ranulph, Earl of Chester; succeeded his father in the great family estates (which, besides the honour of Clare, included Tonbridge Castle), 15 April 1136. He married LUCY ___. They had no issue. He was created Earl of Hertford probably by King Stephen in (?1138). He and his uncle, Baldwin Fitz Gilbert, witnessed a charter for King Stephen in 1142. He witnessed a charter of his uncle, Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke, c.1147-8. GILBERT DE CLARE, 1st Earl of Hertford, died between 1151 and 1153, and was buried at Clare Priory. His widow, Lucy, married (2nd) between 1151/1155 (as his 2nd wife) BALDWIN DE REDVERS, in Earl of Devon (died 4 June 1155). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. of the British Arch. Assoc. 26 (1870): 149-160. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1(1905): 45-46. C.P. 3 (1913): 244 (sub Clare); 4 (1916): 311-312 (sub Devon); 6 (1926): 498-499 (sub Hertford) ("The Earl of Hertford's wife is unknown: he is generally supposed not to have married"). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 35; 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by [his nephew] Earl Gilbert de Clare). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 25 (seal of Gilbert, Earl of Clare dated 1139-49 - On horseback, riding to the right. He wears chain mail and conical helmet with nasal, and holds a drawn sword and a shield charged with chevrons of which half only are visible.). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters. 4) (1982): 49-50. Beaman Charters of the Redvers Family & the Earldom of Devon, 1090-1217 (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 37) (1994): 5-11, 44, 80-82, 84-85.
ii. ROGER DE CLARE (otherwise ROGER FITZ RICHARD), 2nd Earl of Hertford [see next].
iii. ALICE DE CLARE, married before 1151 CADWALADR AP GRUFFUDD AP CYNAN, Prince of North Wales, of Cynfael, Meirion, younger son of Gruffudd ap Cynan, by Angharad, daughter of Owain ab Edwin. They had four sons, Cunedda (or Conan), Randwlff, Gruffudd, and Richard. During his father's lifetime he accompanied his elder brother, Owain, on many predatory excursions against rival princes. In 1121 they ravaged Meirionydd, and apparently conquered it. In 1135 and 1136 they led three successful expeditions to Ceredigion, and managed to get possession of at least the northern portion of that district. In 1137 Owain succeeded, on Gruffudd ap Cynan's death, to the sovereignty of Gwynedd or North Wales. Cadwaladr appears to have found his portion in his former conquests of Meirionydd and northern Ceredigion. The intruder from Gwynedd soon became involved in feuds both with his south Welsh neighbours and with his family. In 1143 his men slew Anarawd, son of Gruffudd of South Wales, to whom Owain Gwynedd had promised his daughter in marriage. Repudiated by his brother, who sent his son Howel to ravage his share of Ceredigion and to attack his castle of Aberystwith, Cadwaladr fled to Ireland, whence he returned next year with a fleet of Irish Danes, to wreak vengeance on Owain. The fleet had already landed at the mouth of the Menai Straits when the intervention of the `goodmen' of Gwynedd reconciled the brothers. Disgusted at what they probably regarded as treachery, the Irish pirates seized and blinded Cadwaladr, and only released him on the payment of a heavy ransom of 2,000 bondmen (some of the chroniclers say cattle). Their attempt to plunder the country was successfully resisted by Owain. In 1146, however, fresh hostilities broke out between Cadwaladr and his brother's sons Howel and Cynan. They invaded Meirionydd and captured his castle of Cynvael, despite the valiant resistance of his steward, Morvran, abbot of Whitland. This disaster lost Cadwaladr Meirionydd, and so hard was he pressed that, despite his building a castle at Llanrhystyd in Ceredigion (1148), he was compelled to surrender his possessions in that district to his son, apparently in hope of a compromise; but Howel next year captured his cousin and conquered his territory, while the brothers of the murdered Anarawd profited by the dissensions of the princes of Gwynedd to conquer Ceredigion as far north as the Aeron, and soon extended their conquests into Howel's recent acquisitions. Meanwhile Cadwaladr was expelled by Owain from his last refuge in Mona. Cadwaladr now seems to have taken refuge with the English, with whom, if we may believe a late authority, his marriage with a lady of the house of Clare had already connected him (Powel, History of Cambria, p. 232, ed. 1584). The death of Stephen put an end to the long period of Welsh freedom under which Cadwaladr had grown up. In 1156 he was temporarily granted an estate at Ness, Shropshire worth £7 a year. In 1157 Henry II's first expedition to Wales, though by no means a brilliant success, was able to effect Cadwaladr's restoration to his old dominions. Despite his blindness, Cadwaladr had not lost his energy. In 1158 he joined the marcher lords and his nephews in an expedition against Rhys ap Gruffudd of South Wales. In 1165 Cadwaladr took part in the general resistance to Henry II's third expedition to Wales. In 1169 the death of Owain Gwynedd probably weakened his position. In March 1172 Cadwaladr himself died, and was buried in the same tomb as Owain, before the high altar of Bangor Cathedral (Gir. Cambr. It. Camb. in Op. (Rolls ed.), iii. 133). In 1156 he was temporarily granted an estate at Ness, Shropshire worth £7 a year. He died in 1172, and was buried before the high altar of Bangor Cathedral. Wynn Hist. of the Gnydir Fam. (1827): 20. Price Hanes Cymru (1942): 549 (charter of Cadwalader brother of Owain to Haughmond Abbey). Dwnn Heraldic Vis. of Wales 2 (1846): 17 ("Kynneda a Rickart a Randiolff, meibion oeddynt hwy y Gydwaladr ab Grh ab Kynan o Adles vh larll Kaer y mam hwyntey."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped). Burke Gen. & heraldic Dictionary of the landed Gentry of Great Britain 1 (1852): 743. Arch. Cambrensis 3rd Ser. 6 (1860): 332 (charter of Cadwaladr brother of Owain; charter witnessed by Aliz de Clare his wife); 4th Ser. 6 (1875): 117. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 10 (1860): 256-257 ("In 1151, says the Welsh Chronicle, `Cadwalader, the brother of Prince Owen, escaped out of his Nephew Howes prison and subdued part of the Ile of Mein, or Anglesey, to himselfe; but his brother Owen sent an armie against him, and chased him thence, who fled to England for succour to his wife's friends, for she was the daughter of Gilbert Earl of Clare.' Between 1151 and 1152 Ranulf, Earl of Chester ... confirmed the Monks of Shrewsbury in the possession of all their lands between the Ribble and the Mersey. 'The Earl's Charter is dated at Chester, and attested as follows. - Testibus, Comite de Clara, et Cadwaladro ... The Earl of Clare here alluded to, was Gilbert. He was Nephew of Earl Ranulph himself, and, in the year 1146, had been given up to Stephen as a hostage for his Uncle's good faith and allegiance. His flight from Stephen's Court is recorded by the Chroniclers. It is evident that he took refuge with his Uncle. He died, in 1151 without issue, and was succeeded by his brother Roger. This fact, as well as a comparison of dates and ages, will show that Cadwalader's wife, Alice, was a Sister of Earl Gilbert and a daughter of Earl Richard de Clare, and, finally, a niece of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. For a time he [Cadwallader] remained in alliance with the English, as when, in 1159, he assisted the Earls of Clare and of Bristol to relieve Carmarthen, then besieged by Prince Rese of South Wales. He was also a munificent Benefactor to Haughmond Abbey. In 1165 he is found leagued with Owen Gwyneth against the English, and probably retained that adverse position till his death in 1172."). Nicholas Annals & Antiqs. of the Counties & County Fams. of Wales 1 (1872): 43; foll. 442. Lloyd Hist. of the Princes, the Lords Marcher & the Ancient Nobility of of Powys Fadog 1(1881): 96, 107, 151; 4 (1884): 323, 341; 5 (1885): 367. D.N .B. 3 (1908): 642-643 (biog. of Cadwaladr). Lloyd Hist. of Wales 2 (1911): 76, 93-101, 315, 317. Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1996): 50. Maund Gruffierld ap Cynan (1996). Jour. Medieval Military Hist. 2 (2004): 58. Pryce Acts of Welsh rulers, 1120-1283 (2005): 330-331. Hosier Henry II (2007): 54.
Child of Alice de Clare, by Cadwaladr:
a. CONAN AP CADWALADR. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 42; 93-94 (charter of Maud, wife of Roger earl of Clare dated 1152-73; charter witnessed by Richard brother of the earl and Conan nephew of the earl).
iv. ROHESE DE CLARE, married (1st) GILBERT DE GANT, Earl of Lincoln [see GANT 2.i], (2nd) ROBERT FITZ ROBERT, of Ilkley, Yorkshire [see GANT 2.i]. “
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ISABEL LE BIGOD, married (1st) GILBERT DE LACY (or LASCY), of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, son and heir apparent of Walter de Lacy, Knt., of Weobley, Holme Lacy, Mansell Gamage, and Yarkhill, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Rock [Farm] (in Ludlow), and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, lord of Meath, Ireland, by Margaret (or Margery), daughter of William de Brewes. Isabel's maritagium included lands in Great Connell, co. Kildare, Ireland. They had one son, Walter, and two daughters, Margery and Maud. Gilbert was hostage for his father in August 1215. GILBERT DE LACY died shortly before 25 Dec. 1230, and was buried in Llanthony Priory, Wales. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) before 12 April 1234 JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, Whaddon, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Redmarley Adam (in Great Witley), Worcestershire, etc., Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1234-6, Justiciar of Ireland, Justice of the Forest south of Trent, younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, Justiciar of England, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare [see ESSEX 2 for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205. They had two sons, John, Knt. [Lord Fitz John] and Richard, Knt. [Lord Fitz John], and four daughters, Maud, Isabel, Aveline, and Joan. In 1227 he sued the Abbot of Missenden for 22 acres of meadow in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in which the abbot had ingress only through Ralph de Chenduit to whom William [de Mandeville], Earl of Essex (brother of the said John), demised the meadow for a term. He was granted the manor of Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire about 1230 by Henry d'Oilly' his possession of the manor was confirmed by the king in 1232 following the death of Henry d'Oilly. In 1233 he was summoned to respond to Henry de Kemeseck regarding the right of presentation to the church of East Tilbury, Essex. John replied that that the church belonged to the hospital which his father, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, had built upon land purchased from Clement de Monasterio, who held it of the church. Clement was present and said that Geoffrey had taken the land from him by force. It was admitted that the land on which the hospital was built pertained to the church, which in its turn pertained to the ancestral fief of the earls at Pleshey. Consequently John lost his case. Sometime in the period, 1233-6, his half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, quitclaimed to him 100s. which he owed her annually for Cherhill, Wiltshire. In 1234 she granted him the manor of Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, he rendering to her the service due to the chief lord of the fee, as well as the service of a twentieth of a knight. In 1237 he was sent to the Council of Lyons to protest against the papal tribute. In 1240 the king granted him the manor of Ringwood, Hampshire, it being described as "of the lands of the Bretons." The king granted him the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire in 1242, which Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, had surrendered to the king of the lands of the Normans. The same year the marriage of the sons and heirs of John de Vipont was granted to him for a fine of 200 marks. In 1243 Roger de Clere conveyed the manor of Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex to him. In 1253 the king granted him the cantred of the Isles of Thomon in Ireland. In 1254, at his instance, the king gave a charter to his nephew, Richard de la Rokele, for free warren in Richard's demesne lands in the counties of Kent, Wiltshire, and Essex, together with weekly markets and annual fairs at his manors of Wokenden, Essex and Marke Lavington, Wiltshire. SIR JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY died 23 Nov. 1258.
Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi 1 (1835): 158. Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 26 (Marshal ped.: "Matilda [Marshal] nupsit Hugoni Bigot, comiti Norfolciæ, qui jure uxoris fait mariscalcius Angliæ, hic ex ea generavit Radulphum Bigot, pattem Johannis Bigot, qui fuit filius dominæ Bertæ de Furnivall, et Isabelle de Lacy uxoris domini Johannis fitz Geffrey; mortuo autem Hugone Bigot cornite Norfolciæ, Johannes Garrune comes Surricæ ex filia filium nomine Ricardum et sororem Isabellam de Albeney, comitissam de Arundell." Eyton Ataiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 53 (sub Bigod). Luard Annales Monastici 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 122 (Annals of Oseney sub A.D. 1258: "Eodem anno ad festum Sancti Clementis [23 November] obiit nobilis vir Johannes filius Galfridi, justiciarius regis in Hibernia."). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ...Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 797 (seal of John Fitz Geoffrey dated 13th century - A shield of arms: quarterly, a label of (five?) points [FITZ PETER]); 3 (1894): 170 (seal of Gilbert de Lacy son of Walter de Lacy, of co. Salop [ob. A.D. 1234] dated early 13th Cent. - A shield of arms: A fess. Legend: "SIGILLVM GILBERTI DE LACI." Beaded border.). Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Calls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. List of Sherffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 161. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 113. English Hist. Rev. 18 (1903): 112-116. Genealogist n.s. 21 (1905): 1-5. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 319, 346. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 341. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 86-92. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1216-13333 (1920): 232 ("In a quit-claim to the advowson of the church of Kenles in Fothered, Richard de la Rochelle calls John Fitz Geoffrey his avunculus: MS. Kilkenny Castle, dated 1264."), 286-287 (Lacy ped.); 4 (1920): 61. VCH Worcester 4 (1924): 372-375. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 6-7 (arms of Fitz. John: Quarterly or and gules a border vair), 12-19, 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76, 100-102, 226-229. C.P. 5 (1926): 434, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn), 629 (sub Geneville); 9 (1936): 590, footnote c; 12(2) (1959): 248. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 250-254. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1 227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod); 220: 1-2, 310: 4-5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 243, footnote 7 (identifies Richard de la Rokele as nephew of John Fitz Geoffrey). Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 110-111. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 188 (charter dated 1234 of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey), 189, 191 (charter dated 1233-6 of Maud, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother' [fratri] John Fitz Geoffrey), 192-193. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 1 (Selden Soc. 111) (1996): 16-17,84-91. Prestwich Edward I (1997): 13, 22 ("One of the most important of Edward's English councillors was John FitzGeoffrey, a man of impeccable curial background"), 24-25. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): chart opp. 1. University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00110962,00320330 (charter of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford, to her "brother" [fratri], John Fitz Geoffrey dated 1234) (available at http:// res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rollsofarrns/rolls/gloversBl.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of John Fitz Geoffrey: Quarterly or and gales overall a bordure vair).
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by Gilbert de Lacy:
i. WALTER DE LACY, son and heir. He married ROHESE (or ROSE) LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), daughter of Thebaud (or Tebaud) le Boteler. They had no issue. WALTER DE LACY died between 15 May 1238 and 1241. Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 21(1905): 1-5. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 310:5.
ii. MARGERY DE LACY [see next].
iii. MAUD DE LACY (or LASCY), younger daughter. She was co-heiress to her brother, Walter de Lacy, sometime in the period, 1238-41. She was co-heiress in 1241 to her paternal grandfather, Walter de Lacy, Knt., by which she inherited half of the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire. She married (1st) before 15 March 1244 PETER (or PIERRE) OF GENEVA (or GENEVE), Governor of Windsor Castle, 1248-9, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, eldest son of Humbert, Count of Genevois. He was a near kinsman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one son and one daughter, both of whom died in infancy. He first appears in connection with English affairs in 1242, when King Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave him custody of the land and heir of William d'Aubeney. In 1245 he was granted the manor of Dilwyn, Herefordshire and the custody of the land formerly belonging to Richard de Kaynes till the dower lands of his wife's inheritance should be delivered to him. In 1248 he was granted custody of Windsor Castle, Berkshire, and two other royal castles. PETER OF GENEVA died shortly before 29 June 1249. She married (2nd) before 8 August 1252 GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE (or GEYNVILL, JOINVILLE), Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs (Meuse, ax. Commercy) in Champagne, France, Justiciar of Ireland, 1273, King's Marshal, and, in right of his wife, of Ludlow, Shropshire, and Drogheda and Blathagh' Castles in Ireland, younger son of Simon de Joinville, seigneur of Joinville (Haute-Marne, ar. Saint-Dizier) in Champagne, Seneschal of Champagne, 1204-33, by his 2nd wife, Beatrix, daughter of Etienne III, Count of Burgundy and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226. They had eight sons, Geoffrey, Peter, Knt., Walter, John (or Jean), Simon, Nicholas, Peter (2nd of name), and William, and two daughters, Joan and Katherine [Prioress of Aconbury]. He arrived in England soon after 9 March 1250/1. In 1252 he and his wife, Maud, had livery of all the liberties and customs of Meath, which her grandfather, Walter de Lacy, had held. In 1254 they had livery of the Castle of Trim in Ireland, and a moiety of 40 marcates of land. The same year he was granted 50 livres toumois by the king to sustain him in the king's service. He was in Gascony with Edward the king's son in August 1255. In 1259 he and his wife, Maud, gave 40s. of annual rent from lands by Kenlis to Beaubec Abbey. In 1260 he partitioned the barony of Weobley, Herefordshire with his wife's brother-in-law, John de Verdun. He was summoned by the king to serve against the Welsh in 1260, 1276, and 1282. Following the capture of the Irish justidar in Dec. 1264, Geoffrey, who was already a member of the council in Ireland, assumed control of the government and secured reconciliation between the warring parties. In 1266 he and his wife, Maud, obtained permission from Gilles, Bishop of Toul, to found the collegiale of Vaucouleurs. The same year, with consent of his wife, he gave the affouage in the woods of Vaucouleurs for the house of Utigney, which Rieval Abbey possessed at Broussey-en-Blois. In 1267 he was appointed with Robert Walerand to treat of peace with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd of Wales. In 1267 he granted the manor of Stanton to his wife's aunt, Katherine de Lacy, for a term. The same year he and his wife, Maud, gave to the Prioress and Convent of Acombury a moiety of four mills in Ludlow, with the suits thereof, together with half a merk rent. In 1270 he accompanied Edward the king's son on crusade to the Holy Land. In 1270-1 he gave the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit of Rome the "maison-dieu" of Vaucouleurs, together with 20 joumaux of arable land and four journaux of vignes. In 1272 he was summoned by the king of France against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix. He accompanied Prince Edward to the Holy Land but returned before him. He was made Justiciar of Ireland in October 1273, which office he held until 17 June 1276. In 1277-8 Katherine de Lacy arraigned an assize of novel dissseisin against him and Gilbert de Lacy regarding a tenement in Downton, Shropshire. In 1280 he and his wife, Maud, had attorneys nominated for them for three years, they then going to Lorraine. In 1280 he and Maurice de Craon rendered an account of their mission to the king of France on the subject of the peace concluded between the kings of England and Castile. In 1283 he and his wife, Maud, granted all their lands in England and Wales to their son, Peter. In 1287 he received letters of protection, he then being in Flanders in service to the king. In 1290 he and two masters of civil law were sent by the king to Rome to discuss the king's expedition to the Holy Land. In 1293 he made an exchange with the cure of Mauvages. In 1294 the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the king's hands, was restored to him. This liberty was soon afterwards taken again into the king's hands for Geoffrey's contempt in not executing the king's mandate concerning Nicholas Bacun, a prisoner in the gaol of the liberty. In 1295 the liberty of Trim was again restored to him, in consideration of his services in Welsh wars. In 1297 he was a commissioner on the king's part to settle the difficulties between the Constable and Marshal, which resulted in the king appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable. In 1298 and 1299 he was sent to treat with the envoys of the King of France concerning peace. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 Feb. 1298/9 to 3 Nov. 1306, by writs directed Galfrido de Genevill', GEYnvill', and Gienvill', or the like, whereby he is held to have become Lord Geneville. In 1299 he was one of the magnates representing the English king at the treaty of Montreuil 19 June 1299. In 1300 he was one of envoys sent to Rome to negotiate the peace between England and France. In 1302 the liberties of Trim and Meath, which had been taken into the king's hand for contempt, were restored to him and his wife, Maud, for a term. His wife, Maud, died 11 April 1304. In 1307 he obtained license to surrender to Roger de Mortimer and Joan his wife (granddaughter of Geoffrey) the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the courtesy after the death of Maud his wife. He subsequently retired to the House of the Friars Preachers in Trim. SIR GEOFFREY DE GENEVILLE, Lord Geneville, died 21 October 1314, and was buried at Friars Preachers in Trim. Smith Annales de Monte Fernandi (1842): sub A.D. 1273 (“Item dominus Galfridus de Genevile venit usque Hiberniam, de terra sancta, parum ante festum beati Francisci, et factus est justiciarius Hibernie, post octavas beati Francisci."). Grace Annales Hibernia (1842): 46 ("[A.D. 1302. Obiit Matilda de Lad, uxor Galfridi de Genevile."). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 8-11, 240 (Lacy ped.), 256-279. Wurstemberger Peter der Zweite, Graf von Savoyen, Markgraf in Italien 4 (1858): 92-93,104-105. Douet d'Arcq Coll. de Sceaaux des Archives de l'Empire 1(1) (1863): 626 (seal of Geoffroi de Joinville dated 1299 - Equestre, aux armes (comme dessus). Legend destroyed; Contre-sceau. Pierre gravée. Un masque a trois visages. Legende: + DE IONIVILLA DNI VALICOLORIS). Régeste Genevoir (1866): 194, 197, 198, 203. Brewer & Bullen Cal. Carew MSS (1871): 447 (charter of Geoffrey de Geynville and Maud de Lascy his wife dated 1259). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 186; 47 (1886): 207, 230. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 298 (seal of Geoffrey de Joinville dated 1259 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat helmet and vizor down, sword, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned, galloping at full speed. For arms, see the description of reverse. Reverse. Within a pointed gothic quatrefoil, and suspended by the loop from a hook between two sprigs of foliage, a shield of arms: three horses' bits, on a chief a demi lion issuant [JOINVILLE]). Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 54 (1893): 334-343. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 14) (1893): 81-82. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 318-322, 329, 331, 339, 342, 344, 349 (Geoffrey de Joinville, Knt., seigneur of Vaucouleurs styled "dear uncle" [chier oncle] by Beatrix de Viennois et d'Albon, lady of Faucigny, in 1270), 350-351, 358, 364-367, 369-372, 374-376, 377-383, 385, 387-397, 399, 401-403, 417-418. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (1889): 420. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 241; n.s. 21(1905): 1-5 ("The arms of Peter of Geneva, according to M. Paris, were Sable a lion rampant Argent), 73-78. Wrottesley Pedf. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 59, 160-161, 333. Mills Cal. Gormanston Reg. (1916): 7. C.P. 5 (1926): 628-631 (sub Geneville) (arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Azure, three brays in pale or, on a chief ermine a demi lion rampant gules, issuant). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 245: 1-3; 310: 5. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 95-96. Hand English Land in Ireland (1967): 13, 18, 27, 83, 102, 124-131, 133, 138, 151, 157, 202-203. Tremlett Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P 113-4) (1967): 32 (arms of Peter of Geneva: Sable, a lion rampant argent). Evergates Feudal Soc. in Medieval France (1993): xxix (chart), 112-113. Curia Regis Rolls 18 (1999): 84, 313. Irish Hist. Studies 33 (2001): 457-477. Duffy Medieval Ireland (2005): 195-196 (biog. of Geoffrey de Geneville). National Archives, SC 8/114/5665; SC 8/174/8660 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/era/lord_marshals/Lord_Marshal02/Lord%20Marshal2.htm (Lord Marshal's Roll - arms of Geoffrey de Geneville: Vert on a chief ermine a lion rampant issuant gules).
Child of Maud de Lacy, by Geoffrey de Geneville, Knt.:
a. PETER DE GENEVILLE (or VAUCOULEURS), Knt., of Ludlow and Stanton-Lacy, Shropshire, married JOAN (or JEANNE) DE LA MARCHE (or DE LUSIGNAN) [see LUSIGNAN 8].
Children of Isabel le Bigod, by John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt.:
i. JOHN FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Steeple Claydon, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Ringwood, Hampshire, Moulton, Northamptonshire, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, Cherhill and Winterslow, Wiltshire, etc., Sheriff of Westmorland, 1264, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1264, son and heir. He married before 18 Feb. 1258/9 MARGERY BASSET, daughter of Philip Basset, Knt., of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Compton Bassett and Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, etc., Justiciar of England [see LONGESPEE 5.viii], by his 1st wife, Hawise, daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, Knt. They had no issue. He had livery of his father's lands 18 Feb. 1258/9, while yet a minor. He was one of the most conspicuous members of the baronial party. As a supporter of Simon de Montfort, he agreed to submit to the arbitration of the King of France 13 Dec. 1263. He, Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, and William de Munchensy commanded the second division of the army of the barons at the Battle of Lewes 14 May 1264. He was summoned for military service against the Welsh, 1258-63. He was summoned to Parliament 24 Dec. 1264, by writ directed Johanni filio Johannis. He was prohibited from taking part in the tournament at Dunstaple in 1265. He was wounded at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, and taken prisoner. He was pardoned and admitted to the king's peace 10 July 1266, and recovered his lands under the Dictum of Kenilworth. His lands were again taken in the king's hands in 1268 for contempt. In 1270 he was one of those appointed to treat with Llywelyn at Gresford. His wife, Margery, died sometime before 29 October 1271. SIR JOHN FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died testate at Lambeth, Surrey shortly before 6 Nov. 1275. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 16, 104. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 606-614. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 74-76. C.P. 5 (1926): 433-435, 437 chart (sub Fitzjohn) (arms of John Fitz John: Quarterly Or and Gules, a bordure Vair). Moor Knights of Edward I 2 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 42-43. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191, 258.
ii. RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Knt., of Shere and Shalford, Surrey, Aylesbury, Bierton, Quarrendon, and Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, Fambridge, Essex, Twineham Benfield (in Twineham), Sussex, etc., Constable of Rockingham Castle, 1295, Captain of Bourg-sur-mer, 1296, 2nd son, born about 1245-51 (aged 24-30 in 1275). He married EMMA ___. They had no issue. He was heir in 1275 to his older brother, John Fitz John, Knt., 1st Lord Fitz John. He had livery of his brother's lands in England 8 Dec. 1275, and in Ireland 5 May 1278. In 1276-7 he was granted letters of protection, he then going in the king's suite to the parts of Wales. He served in the army in Wales in 1277, 1282, 1287, and 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295, by writ directed Ricardo filio Johannis, whereby he is held to have become Lord Fitz John. In 1295 he was about to proceed to Gascony with Edmund the king's brother. SIR RICHARD FITZ JOHN, Lord Fitz John, died in Gascony shortly before 5 August 1297. His widow, Emma, married (2nd) by royal license dated 25 Jan. 1300/1 ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Knt. [see MORLEY 7ii], of Hawarden, Flintshire, Mold and Neston, Cheshire, Castle Rising and Kenninghall, Norfolk, Frarnsden and Kessingland, etc., Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., hereditary Steward of Chester, 2nd son of Robert de Mohaut, Knt., of Hawarden, Flintshire, Framsden, Suffolk, Middleton, Sussex, Cheylesmore and Kingsbury, Warwickshire, etc., by Joan, daughter of Roger de Mowbray, Knt. [see MORLEY 7 for his ancestry]. He was born 25 March 1274. They had no issue. He was heir in 1296 to his older brother, Roger de Mohaut, Lord Mohaut He presented to the church of Walton-on-Trent, Derbyshire in 1306. In 1310 he was summoned to answer William de Bernake of a plea that he permit him to present a fit parson to two parts of the church of Atdeborough, Norfolk. In 1312 he had license to settle the manor of Kenninghall, Norfolk on himself and his wife, Emma, and their issue, with remainder to his right heirs. In 1313 he owed a debt of 140 marks to John de Haudlo. In 1327 he settled all of his estates including Mold, Hawarden, Castle Rising, etc., together with the Stewardship of Chester, on himself and his wife, Emma, for life, and his own issue male, with remainder in default to Queen Isabel, her son John of Eltham and his heirs, and the king successively, for which the king paid him 10,000 marks. SIR ROBERT DE MOHAUT, Lord Mohaut, died 26 Dec. 1329, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. On 3 Dec. 1331 his widow, Emma, surrendered to Queen Isabel her life interest in the lordships of Mold, Hawarden, etc. for an annuity of £400. Emma died 26 Jan 1331/2, and was buried in Stradsett church, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1805): 216-218; 9 (1808): 42-46 (seal of Emma de Mohaut dated 1331 - two shields of arms, one being quarterly, with a bordure [FITZ JOHN], the other a lion rampant [MOHAUT]). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Nicolas Siege of Carlaverock (1828): 107-109 (biog. of Robert de Montalt) (Montalt arms: Azure, a lion rampant Argent). Palgrave Docs. & Recs. Ill. the Hist. of Scotland 1 (1837): 231. Suckling Hist. & Antiqs. of Suffolk 1 (1846): 252-253. Arch. Jour. 15 (1858): 236-252. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 36 (1875): 349; 44 (1883): 104; 46 (1886): 260. Cox Notes on the Churches of Detishire 3 (1877): 507. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 6 (1883): 326. Rye Short Cal. Feet of Fines for Norfolk 2 (1886): 233, 237, 275. C.P.R. 1327-1330 (1891): 96-97. C.P.R. 1307-1313 (1894): 457, 463. C.P.R. 1334-1338 (1895): 129-130. Genealogist n.s. 13 (1896): 36-37, 102. Howard de Walden Some Feudal Lords & Their Seals (1903): 153-154 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 137-138, 531-532. Maitland Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 191. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 320-327; 3 (1925): 435-442; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 436 441 (sub Fitzjohn); 9 (1936): 15-17 (sub Mohaut). Moor Knights of Edward 12 (H.S.P. 81) (1929): 43-44 (biog. of Richard Fitz John); 3 (H.S.P. 82) (1930): 172-174 (biog. of Robert de Montalt). Richardson & Sayles Rottuli Parl. Anglie Hactenus Inediti 1274-1373 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 51) (1935): 75, 240-266. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 186-191. VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 103. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 43 (Deed A.S.247), 44 (Deed A.S.251). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. VCH Sussex 5(1) (1997): 190-204; 7 (1940): 258. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 90 ("One lady, whose claim to be a patron was the unique and surely very personal inscription on her tomb at Stradsett, Norfolk, 'Ici gist Dame Emme de Mouhaut Femme de Deux Barons.' As well as receiving dower from her first husband, Richard FitzJohn, of several manors, townships, knights' fees and advowsons, there are references to lands being held jointly with her second husband, Robert Mohaut (Montalt), who settled all his estates on himself and his wife for life, his own male issue, and the remainder, should there be no heirs, was to go to Queen Isabelle, John of Eltham, his heirs, or the king, who had, in return, paid Robert Mohaut (Montalt) 10,000 marks."). National Archives, C 131/174/49; SC 8/329/E945 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iii. MAUD FITZ JOHN, married (1st) GERARD DE FURNIVAL, Knt., of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see BEAUCHAMP 9]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., 9th Earl of Warwick [see BEAUCHAMP 9].
iv. ISABEL FITZ JOHN, married ROBERT DE VIPONT, of Appleby, Westmorland [see CLIFFORD 8].
v. AVELINE FITZ JOHN, married WALTER DE BURGH, Knt., 2nd Earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht [see BURGH 4].
vi. JOAN FITZ JOHN, married THEBAUD LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), of Arklow, co. Wicklow [see BUTLER 5].â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersharn and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son, born before 1145. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married (1st) before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY, daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. His wife, Beatrice, died in childbed before 19 April 1197. Her body was initially buried in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, but later transferred to Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1198 Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199, where he was girded with the sword of earl. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. He was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Amersham, Buckinghamshire and Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire in 1200. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a
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