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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...
Children of Roger de Clare, by Maud de St. Hilary...
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):
“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].â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOAN MARSHAL, married after 1219 (as his 1st wife) WARIN DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, 2nd son of William de Munchensy, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc., by Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford [see CLARE 4.ii for his ancestry]. He was born about 1192 (came of age in 1213). He was heir about 1208 to his older brother, William de Munchensy. They had one son, John, and one daughter, Joan. He was involved on the side of the Barons against King John, and his lands were forfeited. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217. He returned to allegiance by Nov. 1217. In 1221 he accompanied the king to the Siege of Byham. He was serving in Wales in 1223, with his brother-in-law, William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. He was with the king overseas in 1229-30, and in Wales at the end of 1233. He married (2nd) between November 1234 and June 1235 DENISE DE ANESTY, widow of Walter Langton (died 1234), of Langton, Lincolnshire, and Ridgwell, Essex (brother of Archbishop Stephen Langton), and daughter and heiress of Nicholas de Anesty, of Ansty and Little Hormead, Hertfordshire, Bourn, Cambridgeshire, etc., by ___, sister of Hamon Pecche. They had one son, William. In 1237-8 he and his wife, Denise, acquired 1-1/2 virgate in Bourn, Cambridgeshire from William Haretail. He was serving in Gascony in 1242-44, where he took part in the Battle of Saintes. He was summoned against the Scots in 1244, and, in June 1245, for service in Wales. He was in Gascony again in 1252. He was at Dover 26 Dec. 1254, the day King Henry III appears to have crossed from Boulogne. SIR WARIN DE MUNCHENSY died testate about 20 July 1255. His widow, Denise, married (3rd) before 4 June 1260 ROBERT LE BOTELER (or LE BOTILLER). In 1260 he and his wife, Denise, were granted protection, they then going beyond seas. In 1266 he was granted a safe conduct, he then coming to the king's court. His wife, Denise, again went beyond seas in 1271. ROBERT LE BOTELER died before autumn 1272. In 1294 his widow, Denise, founded the nunnery of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. She died shortly before 23 May 1304, and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars, London.
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 271 (Abbey of Tintern, Titulus illorum de Verdon et de Genevill …: "Secunda filia antedicto Willihelmi Marescalli vocabatur Johanna, nupta Warino de Montecaniso, de qua habuit exitum Johannem de Montecaniso qui obiit sine hærede de se, et Johannam sororem ejus nuptam domino Willihelmo de Valentia."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 5 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1880):504 (sub AD. 1255: "Obiit eodem tempore nobilis baro, inter omnes Angliae nobiles vel nobilissimus et sapientissimus vel unus de nobilioribus et sapientibus, Warinus de Muntcheinsil ... Dominus autem rex ilico custodiam haeredis ejus nomine Willeimi contulit Willelmo de Valentia fratri suo uterino, qui filiam ejusdem Warini, ut gener ejus esset, desponsaverat."). Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 2 (Rolls Ser. 73) (1880): 110-111. Francisque-Michel Riles Gascons 1 (1885): 6, 10-11, 30-32, 190. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 566 (Denise de Munchensy, foundress of Waterbeach Abbey, styled "king's kinswoman"). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91. C.C.R. 1302-1307 (1908): 513. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 75, 621, 667. C.F.R. 1 (1911): 493. Inv. of the Hist. Monuments in Herefordshire (1911): 12. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 51-56. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Warin de Munchensy in 1213, he being half-brother of Warin's mother, Aveline de Clare). Bourdillon Order of Minoresses in England (1926): 13-16. Powicke Stephen Langton (1928). Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. oc. 13 (1930): Ped. 11 (Lenveyse, Birkin, Anstey ped.). C.P. 9 (1936): 421-422 (sub Munchensy). VCH Cambridge 2 (1948): 292-293; 5 (1973): 4-16. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 63, 144. Clanchy From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 (1993): 197-200, 245. McCash Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women (1996): 245-246, 262-263. Higgitt Murthly Hours (2000): 175. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 75-76, 142. Lawrence Letters of Adam Marsh 1 (2006): 56-63.â€
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