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Robert de Mohun

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  • Name Robert de Mohun 
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I7671  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William de Mohun,   b. of Dunster, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1176 
    Mother Godehilde de Tony,   d. Bef 1186 
    Married Bef 1160 
    Family ID F3007  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “GODEHILDE (or GODEHEUT, GODEHOLD) DE TONY, married before 1160 WILLIAM DE MOHUN (or MOYON), of Dunster, Somerset, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir of William de Mohun, Earl of Somerset, by Agnes, daughter of Walter de Gant, of Folkingham, Lincolnshire [see GANT 2.iv for his ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Brinkley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, William, Geoffrey, John, Thomas (clerk), and Robert, and two daughters, Yolande and Agnes (wife of William de Windsor). He witnessed his father's charter to Bruton c.1142. About 1160 he granted to Bruton the tithe of his cuttlefish and waters at Lyon. He was a benefactor to his father's foundation at Bruton, and confirmed the gifts of his father and grandfather to Bath. WILLIAM DE MOHUN died in 1176. His widow, Godeheut, was apparently dead in 1186 (date of her son, William's charter).
      Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 60. Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (H.S.P. 9) (1874): 143-146 (Mohun ped.: "Willms de Mohun vocatus Comes Som's. = [left blank]"). Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 174 (charter dated c.1160 of William de Moyon; charter witnessed by God[eholda] his wife and William his son), 282-283 (charter dated 1186 of William de Moion names his mother Godeheut; charter witnessed by Geoffrey, John, and Robert de Moion). Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 9-11. C.R.R 5 (1931): 207, 229. C.P. 9 (1936): 18 (sub Mohun). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 114. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-141. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 206, 207, 217, 218. TG 8 (1988): 3-38. Bienvenu Grand Cartulaire de Fontevraud 2 (2005): 602-603 (list of children of Roger de Toeni).
      Children of Godehilde de Tony, by William de Mohun:
      i. WILLIAM DE MOHUN [see next].
      ii. YOLANDE DE MOHUN, married RALPH FITZ WILLIAM, Knt., of Brompton Ralph and Withycombe, Somerset. In the period, 1192-1205, he witnessed a charter of Savary, Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury. In 1210 he was fined 20 marks because his wife, Yolande, and his reeve, Walter, caused some Flemish merchants to be arrested at Watchet, Somerset. He witnessed an undated charter of Sibyl de Aura, widow of William de Saint Stephen. RALPH FITZ WILLIAM died in or before 1212, when his estate at Timsbury was in the hands of the Crown. MSS of the Marquess of Abergavenny (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1887): 72-73. Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Notes on some Somerset Manors (1931). C.P. 8 (1932): 534. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxvii (Fitzurse ped.), 11-12. Wedlake Hist. of Watchet (1973): 35. TG 8 (1988): 3-38.”