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1. “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 fee farm of £100 per annum. Geoffrey married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) AVELINE DE CLARE, widow of William de Munchensy, of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc. (died shortly before 7 May 1204) [see CLARE 4.ii], and daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare or Hertford, by Maud, daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary [see CLARE 4 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt, and four daughters, Hawise, Cecily, ___, and Maud. 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. The same year he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Moretonhampstead, Devon. 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 Whitney 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 justitiarius totrus Angliæ, tunc temporis cunctis in Anglia præstantior."). 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 AD. 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 Monasterii 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 A.D. 1198 to A.D. 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 Clerkenwell (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 Henry 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): 55-55. 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).
Children of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., by Beatrice de Say:
i. GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., 5th Earl of Essex, Constable of the Tower of London, 1213, Lord of the Honour of Glamorgan, 1214, Joint Marshal of the Army of the Barons, 1215, Governor of Essex for the Barons, 1215, and, in right of his 2nd wife, Earl of Gloucester, son and heir by his father's 1st marriage. He married (1st) MAUD FITZ ROBERT, 1st daughter of Robert Fitz Walter, of Little Dunmow, Burnham, and Woodharn Walter, Essex, Constable of Hertford Castle, Magna Carta Baron, by his 1st wife, Gunnor, daughter and heiress of Robert de Valoines [see FITZ WALTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. His wife, Maud, was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex. He married (2nd) 16/26 Jan. 1213/4 ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, lady of Glamorgan, divorced wife of King John of England [see ENGLAND 5], and youngest daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. SIR GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, 5th Earl of Essex, was killed in a tournament in London 23 Feb. 1215/6. In 1217 his widow, Isabel, granted to the canons of Holy, Trinity, London for the souls of herself and Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, her late husband, a mark quit rent in the land and dwelling house that Godard de Antiochia held in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. Isabel married (3rd) c.17 Sept. 1217 (as his 2nd wife) HUBERT DE BURGH, Knt., Chamberlain to John, Count of Mortain [future King John], 1198-9, King's Chamberlain, 1199-1205, Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.1] son of Walter de Burgh, of Burgh near Aylsham, Norfolk, by his wife, Alice. Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, died 14 October 1217, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral Church. HUBERT DE BURGH, Earl of Kent died testate shortly before 5 May 1243. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1(1822-30): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 325 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent; charter witnessed by Walter de Burgh); 6(1) (1830): 74 (gifts by Sir Hubert de Burgh of the churches of Oulton, Norfolk and Badingham, Suffolk to Walsingharn Priory); 6(2) (1830): 942 (two charters of Hubert de Burgh). Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege 1(1835): 405-406, 465. Gilbert Parochial Hist. of Cornwall 3 (1838): 350 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, King's Chamberlain). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 179 (sub 1243: "Hubertus de Burgo, comes Cantiæ, obiit III. id. Maii [13 Maii]"). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 282 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1215: "Obiit Gaufridus de Mandevilla comes de Essexia."), 289 (Annales de Waverleia sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Isabel comitissa Gloucestriæ"); 3 (1866): 45 (Dunstable Annals sub A.D. 1214: "... ex quibus miles unus Galfridum de Mandevilla ludendo percussit, et mortuus est. Qui paulo ante guerram Johannam, comitissam Gloucestriæ, repucliatam a Johanne, rage Angliæ (archiepiscopo Burdegalensi divortium celebrante,) duxit in uxorem, licet invitus Cui sine filiis mortuo, successit Willelmus frater ejus, et relictam ipsius duxit Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Angliæ; guæ post paucos dies decessit, et apud Cantuariam sepelitur."), 128 (Dunstable Annals sub AD. 1232: "Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglia, conventus super peregrinatione sanctæ Crucis per literas Pap, per absolutionem Pandulfi legati tunc Angliæ, se rationabiliter expedivit. Super divortio vero tertiæ uxoris suæ, scilicet filiæ regis Scotiæ, conventus, super eo quod erat consanguinea secundæ uxoris suæ, scilicet cornitissæ Gloverniæ ..."). Matthew of Paris Matthæi Patisiensis 2 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1866): 477 (sub A.D. 1243: "Et eodem anno, idus Maii [12 May], post multas, quas in mundo toleraverat patienter, persecutiones, comes Canciæ Hubertus de Burgo, de quo multa praescribuntur, laudabiliter diem clausit extremum apud Banstude, manerium suum. Et delatum est corpus suum tumulandum Londoniis, in domo frattum Prædicatorum, quibus vivens multa bona contulerat, et corpus veneranter intumulandum delegaverat."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex); 2 (1886): 12-13 (sub Gloucester). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 72, 93. Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 24-30, 235 (Obit Kalendar: "9 May - Obijt Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglie [A.D. 12421"). English Hist. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711; 50 (1935): 418-432. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Rec. Soc. of Lancashire & Cheshire 47) (1904): 124-125. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 102-110. VCH Lancaster 8 (1914): 77, 85, 189, 192, 207, 231. C.P. 5 (1926): 126-130 (sub Essex), 689-692 (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 133-142 (sub Kent). Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1,26-35. Ellis Hubert de Burgh: A Study in Constang (1952). Viator 5 (1974): 235-252. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Holt Magna Carta (1992): 206-210. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 142 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "14 October [2 Id. Oct] Obierunt Ysabel comitissa Gouernie, soror at benefactrix nostra"). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810076, 00810114, 00810140, 00810141, 00810142, 00810143, 00810144, 00810145, 00810146, 00810147, 00810150, 01400342 (charters of Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, dated variously 1214-1217) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
ii. WILLIAM DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., 6th Earl of Essex, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Moreton Hampstead, Devon, Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, Wellsworth, Hampshire, Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, Cherhill, Wiltshire, etc., 2nd son by his father's 1st marriage. He married before 18 Nov. 1220 CHRISTIAN (or CHRISTINE) FITZ ROBERT, 2nd daughter of Robert Fitz Walter, of Little Dunmow, Burnham, and Woodham Walter, Essex, Constable of Hertford Castle, Magna Carta Baron, by his lst wife, Gunnor, daughter and heiress of Robert de Valoines [see FITZ WALTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, his father granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire. His wife, Christian, held four fees of the honour of Valoines of the gift of her father, including Lockleys (in Welwyn) and Radwell, Hertfordshire. She granted all her men in the vill of Ashwell, Hertfordshire to Walden Priory in Essex. At an unknown date, she gave part of the lordship of Wolferton, Norfolk to Shouldham Priory. He was heir in 1216 to his older brother, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Knt., 5th Earl of Essex. In 1218 his aunt, Maud de Say, sued him for a moiety share of various manors of the Mandeville inheritance, including Pleshey, Essex, Streatley, Berkshire, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Enfield, Middlesex, Compton, Warwickshire, etc. In 1220 he and his wife, Christian, granted the advowson of the church of Westlee, Norfolk to Binham Priory. In 1222 he rebuilt his house at Streatley, Berkshire. In 1223 he was in Wales with the Earl of Salisbury and the Earl Marshal in their campaign against Llywelyn. He was appointed Joint Ambassador to France in 1225. SIR WILLIAM DE MANDEVILLE, 6th Earl of Essex, died testate 8 Jan. 1226/7, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk, his heart being buried in Walden Abbey, Essex. In 1227 his widow, Christian, granted all her lands in the vill of Westley (in Westley Waterless), Cambridgeshire, together with the advowson of the church, to Geoffrey de Lanvallay and his mother, Hawise de Buckland [half-sister of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex]. Christian married (2nd) before 15 May 1227 RAYMOND DE BURGH, Knt., of Dartford, Kent, Constable of Hertford Castle, kinsman of Hubert de Burgh, Knt., Earl of Kent. They had no issue. He accompanied the king on the expedition to Brittany in April 1230. SIR RAYMOND DE BURGH was drowned in the Loire at Nantes on or shortly before 1 July 1230, and was buried at the Hospital of St. Mary at Dover. Christian, Countess of Essex, died shortly before 17 June 1232, and was buried with her 1st husband in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. Blomefield Esscy towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 419 (charter of Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex); 9 (1808): 195-196. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiq. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 303 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1227: "Obiit Willelmus de Mandewilla comes Essexim."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Genealogist 6 (1882): 1-7. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of … Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 72,93. Moore Cartularium Afonarterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria (1897): 201-202, 205-206 (charter dated 1227 of Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex, widow, to Geoffrey de Lanvaley son of William and Hawise sister [sororis] of Geoffrey Fitz Peter formerly Justiciar of England), 206-207 (charter dated 1227-30 of Raymond de Burgh confirming grant of his wife, Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex to Geoffrey de Lanvalei son of William and his wife Hawise). Ancestor 11(1904): 129-135. English Hirt. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115, 150-154. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 107. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 33-37, 73-77, 102-110, 165-171, 199-209, 244-247, 501-511. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. C.P. 5 (1926): 130-133 (sub Essex). Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46, 55. VCH Hertford 4 (1971): 426-428. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 4-16; 6 (1978): 177-182. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville). 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.). Online resource: www.finerollshenrylorg.uk/content/calendar/roll_025.html.
iii. HENRY FITZ GEOFFREY, King's clerk, 3rd son. He was appointed Dean of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire by the king in 1205. The king granted him a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln in 1207. Sometime in the period, 1213-18, he resigned all his right in the church of Preston to Abbot and convent of Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He died sometime before 1224, when Giles de Erdington occurs as his successor as Dean of Wolverhampton. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1846): 1443. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Lee Hist., Description & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Ross Cartulary of Circencester Abbey, Gloucestershire 2 (1964): 340 (notification by Henry clerk, son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter formerly Earl of Essex dated 1213-18). VCH Stafford 3 (1970): 321-331. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300 3 (1977): 118-150.
iv. MAUD DE MANDEVILLE, Countess of Essex, married (1st) HENRY DE BOHUN, Earl of Hereford [see BOHUN 5]; (2nd) ROGER DE DAUNTSEY, Knt., of Dauntsey and Wilsford, Wiltshire [see BOHUN 5].
v. ALICE FITZ GEOFFREY, died without issue sometime before 1227. Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Society 111) (1996): 84-91.
Children of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt, by Aveline de Clare:
i. JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt, of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., married ISABELLE BIGOD [see VERDUN 8].
ii. HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, married REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt, of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 8].
iii. CECILY FITZ GEOFFREY, married SAVARY DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 3].
iv. FITZ GEOFFREY, married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. [see HARLESTON 3].
v. 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].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, lord of Glamorgan and Caerleon, seigneur of Torigny in Manche, Normandy, etc., Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144, son and heir. In 1128 he witnessed an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fecamp. He married about 1150 HAWISE OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Robert (living c.1170), and three daughters, Mabel, Amice, and Isabel. In 1128 he was a witness to an agreement between his father and the Abbot of Fécamp. In 1141 he served as surety for his father, then a prisoner at Rochester. In 1147 he overthrew Henry de Tracy at Castle Cary. Sometime in the period, 1147-50, probably before March 1148/9, he signed a treaty with Roger, Earl of Hereford, by which William agreed to hold faith and give aid to Roger as his man, against all men except their lord, Henry; William promised aid especially for the purpose of disinheriting Gilbert de Lacy. Sometime in the period, 1147-83, he granted Margam Abbey land in Margam, in exchange for the land of Baldwin the Harper of Newborough. Sometime in the period, 1147-83, he gave to the church and monks of St. Giles, Little Malvern, Worcestershire ten acres in the forest of Malvern with appurtenances in the said forest for inclosure and cultivation. In 1148 he gave a confirmation to Gloucester jointly with his mother. In 1153 he was one of the witnesses to the agreement between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy [afterwards King Henry II]; he also witnessed a charter of Duke Henry dated at Bristol. In 1158 he and his wife and son Robert were captured at Cardiff Castle by Ivor the Little and carried into the woods, where they were held as prisoners until the earl redressed Ivor's grievances. He witnessed a charter of his father-in-law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, dated c.1150-60. He founded Keynsham Priory in Somerset in 1169, and was a benefactor to many other religious foundations. About 1170 he granted his son, Robert, land in Margam, which Robert thereupon gave to Abbot Conan and the convent. In 1173 he took the king's part against his sons, and later that year went to the help of the king's forces at the Battle of Fornham. In 1174 he submitted to the king, and in 1175 he surrendered Bristol Castle to him. In 1178 he witnessed King Henry's charter to Waltham Abbey. In 1183 the king imprisoned a number of magnates of whose loyalty he was doubtful, including Earl William. About 1183 Earl William granted Walter Lageles land which his father held, for an annual rent of eight shillings. About 1183 he granted Kenaithur son of Herbert son of Godwinet and his brothers the lands of Keleculum and Treikik WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, Earl of Gloucester, died 23 Nov. 1183, and was buried at Keynsham Abbey, Somerset. In the period, 1183-97, his widow, Hawise, granted W. de Arundel her servant a burgage situated beside the bridge of her borough of Fairford. In the same period, she granted to the burgesses of Peters field all the liberties and free customs which William her husband formerly granted to them by his charter. In 1189-90 she witnessed a charter of his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester. Hawise, Countess of Gloucester, died 24 April 1197.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 301-305. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1095 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester). Arch. Cambrensis 3,th Ser. 8 (1862): 276 (13th Cent. Chronicle sub 1183: "Obiit Willielmus Comes Gloucestri."), 276 (sub 1197: "Obiit Hawysia Comitissa Gloucestriæ."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 53 (Tewkesbury Annals sub A.D. 1183: "Nicholaus episcopus Landavensis et Willelmus comes Glocestriae obierunt."), 55 (sub A.D. 1197: "Obiit Hawisa comitissa Glocestriæ, viii. kal. Mail [24 April]."). Hart Historia et Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae 2 (Rolls Ser.) (1865): 49-50 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester), 50 (charter of M[abel] Countess of Gloucester and her son, Earl William). Arch. Cambrensis 4th Ser. 3 (1872): lxxiii-lxxiv (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester dated 1172-83; charter witnessed by his wife, Countess Hawise, and Hamon le Gras); 4th Ser. 14 (1883): 7-63. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 124 (sub A.D. 1182: "Obiit Guillermus, comes Gloecestriae, sine heredibus, absque tribus filiabus, quarum una est comitissa Ebroicensis; altera, uxor Guillermi, comitis de Clara; tercia est in manu Dei et domini regis, et cui voluerit dabit eam."). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1158-1159 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 1) (1884): 42 (sub Devonshire: Thomas "kinsman" of Earl of Gloucester [Thomas nepos Comitis Gloec.] "deb L. m. p t[er]ra sua de Chilcheton [Kilkhampton]" in 1158-59). Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1159-1160 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 2) (1884): 51 (sub Devonshire: Thomas styled "kinsman of [William] Earl of Gloucester" [Thomas nepos Com[itis] Gloec.] in 1159-60). Gross Gild Merchant 2 (1890): 28-29 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II of England). Clark Carta et alia Munimenta qua ad Dominium de Glamorgan 3 (1891): 80, 83, 85, & 101 (charters of William, Earl of Gloucester), 102 (confirmation charter of William, Earl of Gloucester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 472 (Ex Obituatiis Lirensis Monasterii: "25 Maii Obiit Hawis, comitissa Gloecestræ."), 474 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "23 Nov. Obiit Willelmus, comes Glocestriæ."). Revue Catholique de Normandie 5 (1895): 550-554. Report & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 29 (1897): 465,469 (Extracts from the Pipe Rolls 5 Henry II, 1158-1159, Devonshire: Thomas, grandson of the Earl of Gloucester - In 1158-1159 he owed 50 marks for his land of Chittlehampton, Devon and 50 marks from a plea of William Fitz John). C.P.R. 1348-1350 (1905): 546 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman"[cognatus] by King Henry II of England in undated charter). Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1175-1176 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 25) (1904): 160 ("Tomas nepos comitis Gloec' [Thomas kinsman of the Earl of Gloucester] et Ricardus filius ejus reddt. comp. de .xl. m. pro eodem. In thesauro .xx. m. Et debent .xx. m."). Great Roll of the Pipe A.D. 1176-1177 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 26) (1905): 22 ("Tomas nepos Comitis Gloecestr' [Thomas kinsman of the Earl of Gloucester] et Ricardus filius ejus reddunt comp. de .xx. m. pro eodem. In thesauro .x. 1. Et in perdona per breve Regis Ricardo de Graenuill' patri ipsius Tome .v. m. Et quieti suer."). Ballard British Borough Charters 1042-1216 (1913): 27-28 (charter of Hawise, Countess of Gloucester dated 1183-97). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, dated c.1150-60). Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 259-260. C.P. 5 (1926): 687-688 (sub Gloucester), 6 (1926): 502. Delisle & Berger Reared des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre, Duc de Normandie 3 (1927): 136 (William, Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" [cognatus] by King Henry II of England). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 6. David Walker "Charters of the Earldom of Hereford, 1095-1201," in Camden Miscellany Vol. XXII (Camden Soc. 4th Ser. 1) (1964): 19-20. Darlington Cartulary of Worcester Cathedral Priory (Register I) (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 38) (1968): 29-30. VCH Worcester 2 (1971): 156-158 (Priory of Cookhilll had "the mill of Carnpden [Chipping Campden, Gloucester] by the gift of Thomas, nephew of the earl of Gloucester."); also see Trans. Bristol & Gloucestershire Arch. Soc. 9 (1884-85): 175. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 190-191. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 148-149 (gift and confirmation of Thomas "nephew [recte kinsman] of the earl of Gloucester and Mabilla his wife; charter names Mabel's uncle, Richard de Greinvilla, "whose patrimony was all the land of Kilkhampton (Chilcumtonia)," Devon) [Note: Richard de Greinville was presumably the uncle of Thomas, not of his wife Mabel; see the Pipe Roll entry for 1176-7 above]. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William Ito Richard 12 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 600-601 (Jocelin [de Bohun], Bishop of Salisbury, styled "kinsman" by William, Earl of Gloucester). University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #01400102 (charter of William, Earl of Gloucester dated 1147-48) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research). Worcestershire Rec. Office, Berrington Coll. 705:24/77 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Children of William Fitz Robert, by Hawise of Leicester:
i. ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER, son and heir apparent, son and heir, born at Cardiff. He died unmarried at Cardiff in 1166. C.P. 5 (1926): 689 (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Cornwall Rec. Office: Arundell of Lanherne and Trerice, AR/20/1 (Robert, son of Earl of Gloucester, styled "kinsman" by King Henry II of England).
ii. MABEL OF GLOUCESTER, married in 1170 AMAURY III DE MONTFORT, Count of Evreux in Normandy. They had one son, Amaury [IV] [Count of Evreux, Earl of Gloucester]. Amaury III, Count of Evreux, died in 1187-93. She fined for custody of her heir and some or all of his lands by 1195. His widow, Mabel, died in 1198. C.P. 5 (1926): 689, 692-693 (sub Gloucester). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 32, 63, 64, 212, 230, 235, 294.
iii. AMICE OF GLOUCESTER, married RICHARD DE CLARE, Knt., 3rd Earl of Hertford [see CLARE 5].
iv. ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, married (1st) JOHN, King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou [see ENGLAND 5]; (2nd) GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2.i]; (3rd) HUBERT DE BURGH, Knt., Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.1].
Illegitimate child of William Fitz Robert, by an unknown mistress, ___:
i. ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER. He married AGNES ___. His wife, Agnes, is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls in 1191, 1192, and 1194: Stenton Great Rolls of the Pipe: Mich. 1191 and Mich. 1192 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 2) (1926): 18 (Date: Mich. 1191 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis Gloec' debet lv m. per cartam."), 225 (Date: Mich. 1192 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis de Gloecr.' debet l m. per cartam."); Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe: Michaelmas 1194 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 96 (Date: Mich. 1194 - "Agnes uxor Roberti f. comitis de Gloecr' debet 1 m. per cartam.").”
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
"JOHN OF ENGLAND (nicknamed Lackland), King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou, youngest son, born at Oxford about 27 Dec. 1166. In 1173 he was contracted to marry Alice of Maurienne, eldest daughter of Humbert III, Count of Maurienne and Savoy, Marquis of Italy. This marriage scheme failed when his older brother, Henry, as count of Anjou, refused their father's proposal to give John the castles of Chinon, Loudun, and Mirebeau. In 1174 it was agreed that John should have Nottingham and Marlborough Castles in England and certain castles and rents in France. In 1177 his father declared him King of Ireland, and arranged his succession to the earldom of Gloucester. In March 1185 his father knighted him at Windsor, and sent him to govern Ireland. John treated the Irishmen with such insolence, they deserted the English cause and kept the Kings of Limerick, Cork, and Connacht from coming to do fealty to him. He was recalled from Ireland by his father in Sept. 1185. His father's continued favor to him contributed to the rebellion of John's older brother, Richard, though at the end of Henry's reign, John deserted his father to support Richard. On Richard's accession as king in 1189, he made John Count of Mortain in Normandy, and granted him the castles and honours of Marlborough, Ludgershall, Lancaster, Bolsover, and the Peak, the town of Nottingham, the honours of Tickhill and Wallingford, and the county of Derby, with the honour of Peverel. John married (1st) at Marlborough, Wiltshire 29 August 1189 ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, lady of Glamorgan, youngest daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, protested against the marriage, John and Isabel being related in the 3rd degree of kindred. They had no issue. He was present at the Coronation of his brother, King Richard I, in Sept. 1189. By the end of 1189, John was further granted the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, with all rights of jurisdiction. In 1191, while Richard was on crusade, John broke his promise not to enter England during Richard's absence, and, on learning of Richard's imprisonment in Germany, attempted unsuccessfully to seize control of England. On Richard's return in 1193, John was deprived of his English lands and excommunicated. In May 1193 Richard and John were reconciled by the mediation of the queen- mother. In 1195 Richard granted him the county of Mortain, the honour of Eye, and earldom of Gloucester. In the beginning of April 1199, as Richard was dying, he named John his successor in England and all his dominions. On the death of Richard, 6 April 1199, John ascended the throne and was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey 27 May 1199. In 1199 he obtained a divorce from his wife, Isabel, on grounds of consanguinity. She was subsequently kept a state prisoner until 1214.* John married (2nd) at Bordeaux 24 August 1200 ISABEL OF ANGOULÊME, daughter and heiress of Adémar (or Aitnar) Ill Taillefer, Count of Angoulême, by Alice (or Alaïs, Alaidis), daughter of Pierre of France, seigneur of Courtenay, Montargis, and Châteaurenard (younger son of Louis VI, King of France). She was born in 1188, and was previously contracted to marry Hugues IX le Brun (died Nov. 1219), Count of La Marche, seigneur of Lusignan and Couhé. She was crowned queen 8 October 1200. They had five children (see below). By various mistresses, King John had a large number of illegitimate children, including nine sons, Richard, Knt., Oliver, John, Geoffrey, Henry, Knt., Osbert Giffard, Eudes (or Ives), Bartholomew (clerk), and possibly Philip, and four daughters, Joan, ___, Maud [Abbess of Barking], and allegedly Isabel. War with France followed John's refusal to appear in 1202 before King Philippe Auguste of France concerning the grievance of the Lusignans. At first John was successful in defending his French lands, capturing his nephew, Arthur of Brittany, in August 1202, but, in 1204, he lost Normandy, Anjou, Maine, and Touraine to the French king. For the next ten years, John resided almost permanently in England (the first such Angevin king) and attempted to restore his finances for further warfare in France by determined taxation and exploitation of his feudal prerogatives (later the basis for the charge of tyranny). In 1205 he began a quarrel with the Church when he refused to accept Pope Innocent III's nomination of Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. His intransigence in the matter led the Pope to impose an interdict on England in 1208, suspending all religious services, and excommunicating King John. In 1210 he went to Ireland, where he took Carrickfergus, seized the lands of the Lacys and banished the Earl of Ulster, built several fortresses, appointed sheriffs and other officers to carry out the English system of law, and coined new money. He arrested all the Jews in England, and made them pay 66,000 marks. In 1211 he made an expedition into North Wales, compelled the submission of Llywelyn, and raised fortresses. In 1213, after five years of amassing the revenues of vacant or appropriated sees and abbeys, John agreed to become a vassal to the Pope for an annual tribute of one thousand marks, with absolution from excommunication and the lifting of the interdict. In 1214 John conducted another campaign in France, and suffered a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Bouvines on the river Margne. An alliance of barons took advantage of this defeat to launch a rebellion which was successful in forcing John to agree to a comprehensive and humiliating agreement at Runnymede near Windsor 19 June 1215 called the Magna Carta [Great Charter]. This defined the rights of the Church, barons, and the people. John soon repudiated the charter, claiming he acted under duress, and civil war ensued. JOHN, King of England, died testate suddenly at the Bishop of Lincoln's castle at Newark 19 October 1216, and was buried at Worcester Cathedral. His widow, Isabel, returned to France in 1217, to take up residence in her native city of Angoulême. She reasserted her control over Cognac, and entered into prolonged and violent disputes with Reginald de Pons over the castle of Merpins, and with Bartholomew le Puy. She married (2nd) 10 May 1220 HUGUES [X] LE BRUN (otherwise known as HUGUES DE LUSIGNAN), Count of La Marche, seigneur of Lusignan, Château-Larcher, Montreuil-Bonnin, and la Mothe-Saint-Heray, and, in right of his wife, Count of Angoulême, son and heir of Hugues [IX] le Brun, Count of La Marche, seigneur of Lusignan and Couhe, by his 1st wife, Agatha, daughter of Pierre de Montrabel, seigneur of Preuilly. They had five sons, Hugh le Brun (XI) [Count of La Marche and Angoulême], Guy (or Gui), Chev. [seigneur of Couhe, Cognac, Merpins, etc.], Geoffrey, Chev. [seigneur of Jarnac, Châteauneuf, Château-Larcher, etc.], William de Valence, Knt. [Lord (or Earl) of Pembroke], and Aymer [Bishop elect of Winchester], and four daughters, Agnes (wife of Goillaume de Chauvigiy, seigneur of Châteauroux), Alice (or Alix) (wife of John de Warenne, Knt., 7th Earl of Surrey [see WARENNE 9]), Isabelle (wife of Maurice IV de Craon), and Marguerite (wife successively of Raymond VII, Count of Toulouse [see ENGLAND 4.vii.a above], Amaury IX, Vicomte of Thouars, and Geoffroi V, seigneur of Châteaubriant). In 1224 Hugues de Lusignan defected to King Louis VIII of France during the Capetian invasion of Poitou, with Louis promising Isabel 2000 lives Parisis annually in return for her dower lands forfeit in England, and the annual revenues of Langeais near Tours in exchange for rights that she claimed as dower at Saumur in Anjou. In 1230 they entered into alliance with King Louis IX of France, who granted Isabel an annual pension of 5000 livres Tours in return for resignation of her dower rights she daimed in England, Normandy, and Anjou. In 1242 she and her husband, Hugues, rebelled against the French. In return for a pardon from King Louis IX, they were forced to relinquish the pensions paid to them since 1224 and to abandon their claim to Saintes. Isabel was subsequently implicated in a plot to poison King Louis IX and his brother, Alphonse, Count of Poitiers. Isabel, dowager Queen of England, Countess of La Marche and Angoulême, subsequently took refuge in Fontevrault Abbey, where she died testate 4 June 1246. She was initially buried in the common graveyard of the Abbey, but at her son, King Henry III's request, her remains were moved in 1254 to the choir of the Abbey Church. Hugues [X] de Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Angoulême, went on crusade to Holy Land in 1248. He was mortally wounded at the capture of Damietta 6 June 1249. He left a will dated 8 August 1248.
(* Note: In 1207 Isabel of Gloucester, former wife of King John, was lodged in Sherborne Castle [see Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 1 (1833): 92; Hardy Rotali Iitterarum Patentium (1835): 77; C.P. 5 (1926): 689-692 (sub Gloucester)]. Early in 1214, she was in Bristol Castle, apparently closely guarded (ibid., p. 108b), and was brought thence to be given in marriage to Geoffrey de Mandeville [see Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 1 (1833): 162b, 163b, 209b; Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Patentium' (1835): 109b; English Hist. Rev. 61(1946): 294, footnote 11. She married (2nd) 16/26 Jan. 1213/4 (as his 2nd wife) Geoffrey de Mandeville, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2.i], Constable of the Tower of London, 1213, joint Marshal of the Army of the Barons, 1215, and, in right of his wife, Earl of Gloucester [see Palgrave Antient Kalendars & Invs. of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 90 (Isabel, wife of Geoffrey de Mandeville, styled "kinswoman" [cognatam] of King John; Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 282 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1215: "Obiit Gaufridus de Mandevilla comes de Essexia."); Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex); Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 12-13 (sub Gloucester); C.P. 5 (1926): 126-130 (sub Essex); Holt Magna Calla (1992): 206-2101. They had no issue. He died 23 Feb. 1215/6, and was buried in Trinity Priory within Aldgate Nee Luard Annales Monartici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 282 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1215: "Obiit Gaufiidus de Mandevilla comes de Essexia.").]. Isabel married (3rd) c.17 Sept. 1217 (as his 2nd wife) Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.iii]. They had no issue. Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, died 14 October 1217, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral Church [see Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 289 (Annales de Waverleia sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Isabel comitissa Gloucestriæ"); Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 142 ( Canterbury Obituary Lists: "14 October [2 Id. Oct] Obierunt Ysabel comitissa Gouernie, soror et benefactrix nostra")]. Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, died 12 May 1243, and was buried in church of the Black Friars in Holborn [see Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicle 2 (1849): 179 (sub 1243: "Hubertus de Burgo, comes Cantiæ, obiit III. id. Maii [13 Maii]"); English Hist. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711; C.P. 7 (1929): 133-142 (sub Kent); English Hist. Rev. 50 (1935): 418-432]. See also Clark Land of Morgan (1883): 64-92; University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810076, 00810114, 00810140, 00810141, 00810142, 00810143, 00810144, 00810145, 00810146, 00810147, 00810150, 01400342 (charters of Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, dated variously 1214-1217) (available at http:// res.deeds_utoronto.ca:49838/research).) ..."
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