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  • Name William d'Aubenay 
    Gender Male 
    Died 24 Dec 1193 
    Buried Wymondham Priory, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7264  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Maud de Saint Hilary,   b. of Field Dalling, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 29 Sep 1176 
    Children 
     1. William d'Aubeney,   d. 1/01 Feb 1220/1, Cainell near Rome, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Alan d'Aubeney
     3. Godfrey or Geoffrey d'Aubeney
     4. Maud d'Aubeney,   d. 6/06 Feb 1215/6
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3105  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 2nd Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1191-3, son and heir. He married before Michaelmas 1176 MAUD DE SAINT HILARY, widow of Roger de Clare (otherwise Roger Fitz Richard), 2nd Earl of Hertford (died 1173) [see CLARE 4], and daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary, of Field Dalling, Norfolk, by his wife, Aveline. They had three sons, William [3rd Earl of Arundel], Alan, and Godfrey (or Geoffrey), and one daughter, Maud. 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. At an unknown date, he granted various lands in Quiddenham, Norfolk to Reading Abbey, Berkshire. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 24 Dec. 1193, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
      Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 179-180. 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 maths 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])). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 249 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1193: "Obiit Willelmus comes junior de Arundel in vigilia Natalis Domini ") Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 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). Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny ped.: "Willelmus (nomen cepit in parliamento consulatus [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 Jacobi de Sancta Hillario relicta Rogeri comitis Clara."). 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 William d'Aubeney, by Maud de Saint Hilary:
      i. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel [see next].
      ii. MAUD D'AUBENEY, married WILLIAM DE WARENNE, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey [see WARENNE 8].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM DE WARENNE, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey, of Lewes, Sussex, Reigate, Surrey, Conisbrough and Sandal cm Wakefield), Yorkshire, etc., Warden of the Cinque Ports, a justiciar of England, custodian of Bamburgh and Knapp Castles, King's councillor, Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1216, Sheriff of Surrey, 1217-26, son and heir. He witnessed a charter for King Richard I at Rouen in 1197. In 1202 he had seisin of his father's lands. In 1204 he was granted a yearly fair at Wakefield, Yorkshire. In 1205 the king granted him Grantham and Stamford, Lincolnshire to compensate him for the loss of his lands in Normandy. In 1206 he owed 100 marks for an advance made to him in Poitou, and 100 marks for robes provided for him there. In 1206 he was directed to escort William the Lion, King of Scots to York. He married (1st) before 1207 MAUD D'AUBENEY, daughter of William d'Aubeney, 2nd Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), by Maud, daughter and heiress of James de St. Hilary, of Field Dalling, Norfolk [see CLIFTON 4 for her ancestry]. They had no known issue. In 1213 he witnessed King John's submission to the Pope and resignation of the crown. He was security for the king in his promise of concessions to the Barons 10 May 1215. He took part with the Barons in the seizure of London 24 May 1215, and on 15 June at Runnymede was one of those who advised the king to grant the Great Charter [Magna Carta]. His wife, Maud, died 6 Feb. 1215/6, and was buried in the chapter-house of Lewes Priory. In 1217 he took part in the naval Battle of Sandwich in which Eustace the Monk was defeated and slain. In 1220 he was appointed to meet the King of Scotland at Berwick. In 1223 he went on pilgrimages to St. James (Santiago) in Spain and to St. John. He married (2nd) before 13 October 1225 MAUD MARSHAL, widow of Hugh le Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, hereditary Steward of the Household (died shortly before 18 Feb. 1224/5) [see BIGOD 7], and eldest daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt. [7th Earl of Surrey], and one daughter, Isabel. In May 1225 Maud granted land in Stockton, Norfolk to her son, Ralph le Bigod. In 1226-7 Mary daughter of William de Newmarch, of Cateby, Yorkshire, granted to Maud Bigot, countess of Warenne and Norfolk, the hermitage of St. Margaret's, Cateby on the Don, with land in Eadmunde croft, and common of pasture for the cattle of the hermitage, rendering yearly to the grantor at Easter white gloves. In 1227 he joined the Earl of Cornwall at Stamford in his revolt against the king, but at Christmas was with the king at York. In 1229 he was about the make a voyage on the king's service. He was heir in 1234 to his sister, Isabel de Warenne, widow of Gilbert de l'Aigle. In 1236 he acted as Butler at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor of Provence, in place of his son-in-law, Hugh, Earl of Arundel. In 1238 he was cited to appear before Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, because mass has been celebrated in the earl's hall at Grantham, Lincolnshire. SIR WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 6th Earl of Surrey, died testate in London 27 May 1240, and was buried in the priory church of Lewes, Sussex. In the period, 1240-6 his widow, Maud, granted a tenement in Thorne, Yorkshire to Richard de Otley her chaplain. In 1241 she granted Sir Adam de Newmarch and his heirs a water-course and ditch in Balne, Yorkshire from Flaxcleyker to the Dike to be 8 feet wide and 4 feet deep. In the period, 1241-5, she granted land in Stockton, Norfolk to her son, Ralph le Bigod. Maud was co-heiress in 1245 to her brother, Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, by which she inherited the marshalcy of England and honour of Chepstow, Monmouthshire. In 1246-8 she confirmed the union of Kilkenny Abbey with Duiske Abbey. In 1246-8 she granted three silver marks of annual rent to St. George's Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk. Maud, Marshal of England, Countess of Norfolk and Warenne, died 27 (or 29) March 1248.
      Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 6 (1730): 26-28 (sub Bastards of Anjou). Watson Mems. of the Earls. of Warren & Surrey & Their Descs. (1782). Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1805): 95-102. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 4 (1823): 475, 478 (charter of Maud, Marshal of England, Countess of Norfolk and Warenne); 5 (1825): 266 (Obit. of Tintern Abbey: "Matilda Comitissa Warennæ obiit xxix. die Martii."), 743-744. Hunter South Yorkshire 1 (1828): 105 (Warenne ped.). Wainright Hist. & Top. Intro. of the Wapentake of Stafford & Tickhill (1829): 165-170, 195-196 (Warenne ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 555-558. Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 2(1) (1832): 128 (Warenne ped.). Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 24 (1845): 584. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Scrope Hist. of Castle Combe (1852): 19, 36-37 [alleges Maud Marshal married (3rd) Walter de Dunstanville, Baron of Castle Combe, Wiltshire]. Sussex Arch. Colls. 6 (1853): 107-128 ([Alice], Countess of Eu, styled "niece" [neptis] by William de Warenne in letter dated pre-1227). Luard Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Quondam Lincolniensis (Rolls Ser. 25) (1861): 171-173. Matthew of Paris Matthæi Parisiensis, Monachi Sancti Albam; Historici Anglorum 3 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1869): 280 (sub A.D. 1240: "Obiit eodem die, viio. kalendas Junii [26 May], inditus comes Waranniae Willelmus. Qui de stirpe regia extitit procreatus; filius namque fuit Hamelini, filii regis Henrici."). Procs. Soc. of Antiqs. of London 2nd Ser. 6 (1876): 133-135 (charter of William, Earl Warenne). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 336-338 (Warren ped.: William Erl Waren son of Hamelyn. = Mawde doughter to William Bygot, Earl of Norfolk & Marshall of England."). Genealogist 7 (1883): 74. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 576 (sub Norfolk); 3 (1886): 470-471 (sub Surrey). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 35, 38; 3 (1900): 137; 5 (1906): 97. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2(1892): 378 (seal of Maud Marshal, wife of William de Warenne, dated 1241-1245 - Obverse. Pointed oval. Standing, wearing a long dress and cloak, between two elegantly designed scrolls of foliage. Legend wanting. Reverse. A shield of arms: chequy [WARENNE]. Remainder of the design and legend wanting). Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 1(1897): 172-173 (charter of William, Earl Warenne dated c.1215). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 88. Salzman Hist. of the Parish of Hailsham (1901): 214. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 79, 90-91, 93-94, 95-96. Warren Hist. & Gen. of the Warren Fam. (1902). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 519-520, 526. C.P.R. 1232-1247 (1906): 267. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 354-356. D.N.B. 20 (1909): 832-835 (biog. of William de Warenne). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 51-56. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 61-69, 141-150. C.P. 4 (1916) Appendix H, 670 (chart); 9 (1935): 589-590 (sub Norfolk); 10 (1945): 364, footnote a (sub Pembroke); 12(1) (1953): 500-503 (sub Surrey). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 236-238 (sub Warenne) Rye Some New Facts as to the Life of St. Thomas à Becket (1924): 63. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 178-183. Rpt. on the MSS of Lord de Lysle & DudIey 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 77) (1925): 70-71. Curia Regis Rolls 5 (1931): 33-34 (suit dated 1207: "... Et sciendum quad comes [Roger Bigod] quod quidam recognitores sunt homines comitis War[enne]’, qui duxit filiam comitis Arund[el]’."). Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 1 (1931) (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 27) (1931): 131-133; 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Salzman Chartulary of the Priory of St. Pancras of Lewes 2 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 40) (1934): 19-21. Edwards Cal. Ancient Corr. Concerning Wales (Board of Celtic Studies, Hist. & Law 2) (1935): 29. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 36-39. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart facing 1, 1-26, 47-51, 233-234. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 160-165, 183; 7 (1940): 69-73. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 64: 1-2 (sub Bigod). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 28, 110-111, 129. Tremlett et al. Rolls of Arms Henry III (H.S.P. 113-4) (1967): 65 (arms of William, Earl of Warenne: Checky azure and or). Ancient Deeds - Ser. A 2 (List & Index Soc. 152) (1978): 50. VCH Somerset 4 (1978): 38-52. Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 41 (charter of William de Warenne). Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 112 (seal of William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey dated 13th Cent. - Obverse. On horseback, galloping to right. He wears chain mail, long surcoat and flat-topped helmet, and holds a drawn sword and a shield with arms: cheeky. Reverse. A shield of arms: cheeky.). Brown Sibton Abbey Cartularies 1 (Suffolk Charters 7) (1985): 25, 58, 96; 2 (Suffolk Charters 8) (1986): 284-285 (charter of Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk dated 1221-1225; charter named his wife, Countess Maud). Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 71. Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): opp. 1 (chart), 213 (list of charters of Maud Marshal). National Archives, E 40/339 (grant by [Ada]m de Reinevil to Maud Bigote, Countess of Warenne, of the homage and service of Agnes, daughter of Jordan de la Felede (i.e., 5 solidates of rent per annum), Richard son of Elyas, Humfrey, son of Robert Palmer, William, son of Robert Palmer (i.e., 2 solidates of rent and two sticks of eels per annum), William de Marisco [Marsh] and Constance de Reinevill, for tenements they held of him in Bramwich and Braint hund(des), the services (which are all expressed in solidates and denariates) being due at Whitsunday and the feast of St. Martin, and the eels at Mid-Lent; also all his water called ‘Brainthunddesmere' and the tight of fishing therein, and all right he has in the water of Don; paying yearly a pair of gloves or 1d. at Easter, and saving to him and his heirs the scutage of the said tenements when it falls due. For this grant the Countess has paid 100s.) (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of William de Warenne, Knt., by Maud Marshal:
      i. JOHN DE WARENNE, Knt., 7th Earl of Surrey [see next].
      ii. ISABEL DE WARENNE, married HUGH D'AUBENEY, Knt., 5th Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England [see CLIFTON 5.i].”

      3. “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. 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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].”