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Godehilde de Tony

Female - Bef 1186


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  • Name Godehilde de Tony 
    Gender Female 
    Died Bef 1186 
    Person ID I6787  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Roger de Tony,   b. Abt 1104,   d. From 1157 to 1162, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Mother Ida or Idénie of Hainault 
    Married Bef 1135 
    Family ID F2772  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William de Mohun,   b. of Dunster, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1176 
    Married Bef 1160 
    Children 
     1. William de Mohun,   b. Abt 1156, of Dunster, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Oct 1193  (Age ~ 37 years)
     2. Geoffrey de Mohun
     3. John de Mohun
     4. Thomas de Mohun
     5. Robert de Mohun
     6. Yolande de Mohun
     7. Agnes de Mohun
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    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.”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROGER DE TONY (or DE CONCHES), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, South Tawton, Devon, Walthamstow, Essex, Holkham and Necton, Norfolk, Painscastle, Radnorshire, etc., seigneur of Conches and Nogent-le-Roi, born about 1104, and succeeded in 1126. He married before 1135 IDA (or IDENIE) DE HAINAULT, daughter of Baudouin III, Count of Hainault, by Yolande, daughter of Gerald I de Wassenberg, Count of Guelders. They had five sons, Ralph, Knt., Hugh, Roger, Knt., Baldwin, Knt., and Geoffrey (clerk), and two daughters, Elizabeth and Godeheut. He was granted 20 librates of land out of the royal demesne at East Bergholt, Suffolk by King Henry I. He made a grant to the Coulombs Abbey about 1130. In 1133 Hugh de Châteauneuf assaulted his castle at Nogent-le-Roi near Chartres. In 1138 he was engaged in a private war in France with the Earl of Leicester. At an unknown date, he confirmed the manor of East Wretham, Norfolk to Bec Abbey, including the half which the abbey has received from Coulombs in exchange for tithes near Anct. ROGER DE TONY died 1157-62.
      Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 2 (1801): 319-330. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford l (1815): 353-360. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1846): 995 (charter of Roger son of Ralph de Tony the younger to Wootten Wawen Priory, Warwickshire; charter names Ida his wife). Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 32-34. Merlet Hist. a l’Abbaye de N.-D. de Coulombs (1864): 85-86 (charter of Roger de Thony dated c.1130; which charter names his wife, Idenia, and mentions manors in England named Bercoth [East Bergholt?] and Wensendona.). Charpillon Dictionnaire historique de toutes les Communes du Département de l'Eure (1868): 791-800. Maclean Parochial & Fam. Hist. of Blirland (1868): 64-66 (Tony-Beauchamp ped.). Chronica Hanoniæ (1040-1195) (Mémoires de la Société Historique et Litteraire de Tournai 14) (1874): 78 ("Balduinus autem Comes Hanoniensis de Yolende uxore sua filios habuit Balduirium primum et Gerardum secundum, et filias duas, quarum una Domino de Thoenio maritata fuit, alias vero Castellano Tomacensi."). Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1158-1159 (Pipe Roll Soc. 1) (1884): 8. Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1162-1163 (Pipe Roll Soc. 6) (1886); 28. Great Roll of the Pipe AD. 1164-1165 (Pipe Roll Soc. 8) (1887): 3, 71. Madan Gresleys of Drakelowe (Colls. Hist. Staffs. n.s. 1) (1898): 1-15. Revue historique et archiologique du Maine 47 (1900): 29-52. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 184-192. Metais Chikeaux en Eure-et-Loir2 (Archives du Diocese de Chartres 13) (1908): Nogent-le-Roi, son Château et ses Seigneurs, 4-5 (author states Roger de Tony died c.1150). Metais Eglises & Chapelles du Diocese de Chartres 4th Ser. (Archives du Diocese de Chartres 15) (1908): Eglise abbatiale de Coulombs, 5-6. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 50 (chart). C.P. 12(1) (1953) 762-764 (sub Tony). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 117. VCH Essex 6 (1973): 253-263. Ancient Deeds - Ser. A1 (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 27-28. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-141; 8 (1978): 263-276.. Procs. Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies 2 (1979): 118-140. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters 1100-1268 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): lx (Tosny ped.), 203. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 6 (ancestry of Gertrude de Hainaut). Harper-Bill Dodnash Priory Charters (Suffolk Charters 16) (1998): 6-7. Power Norman Frontier in the 126 & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 228, 296-297, 382 (chart). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 303 (chart). Bienvenu Grand Cartulaire de Fontevraud 2 (2005): 602-603 ("Postmodum Rogerius de Toenio, ejusdem Radulphi filius, particeps esse volens patris eleemosynae…Dedit etiam hanc libertatem...Concessit hoc id [sic, for Ida] uxor ejusdem Rogerii et filii eorum, Radulphus, Hugo, Rogerius, Balduini, Gaufridus, et filiae eorum, Elizabeth et Godehildis."), 615 (charter of Roger de Toeni and Ida his wife). Gilbert of Mons Chronicle of Hainaut (2005): 34-35 ("The oftmentioned Baldwin III count of Hainaut ... had as wife ... Yolende, daughter of Count Gérard of Gueldre, from whom Baldwin had sons: the eldest, Baldwin, ... and the second, Gérard, and two daughters, one of whom was married to the lord of Tosny, and the other to the castellan of Tournai ... the daughter who was married to the lord of Tosny had three sons who were distinguished knights of great name: the first was Ralph, the second was Roger and the third was Baldwin, and the fourth son Geoffrey was a pious clerk, honest and sufficiently learned ... The firstborn Ralph ... had a son Roger who succeeded him in his properties.") ,
      Children of Roger de Toni, by Ida of Hainaut:
      i. RALPH DE TONY, Knt [see next].
      ii. GODEHILDE DE TONY, married WILLIAM DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 5].”