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Osmond de Stuteville

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  • Name Osmond de Stuteville 
    Born of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died From 1191 to 1192  Joppa, Palestine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6053  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Isabel Fitz William de Gressenhall,   d. 1207 
    Children 
     1. William de Stuteville
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2590  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM DE HUNTINGFIELD, Knt., of Huntingfield and Mendham, Suffolk, Harlton, Cambridgeshire, Frampton, Fishtoft, and Southorpe, Lincolnshire, etc., Constable of Dover Castle, 1203-4, Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1209-11, justice itinerant in Lincolnshire, and, in right of his wife, patron of Castleacre Priory, son and heir of Roger [Fitz William] de Huntingfield, of Huntingfield, Linstead, and Mendham, Suffolk, Frampton, Huttoft, Southorpe, and Tytton (in Wyberton), Lincolnshire, East Bradenham, Norfolk, etc., by Alice de Senlis, daughter of Saher de Quincy, of Long Buckby and Daventry, Northamptonshire. He was born about 1160. He married before 1194 ISABEL FITZ WILLIAM (otherwise DE GRESSENHALL), widow successively of Berenger de Cressy, and Osmond de Stuteville, of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire (died in Palestine, probably during the Siege of Joppa about 1187), and daughter and heiress of William Fitz Roger, of Gressenhall and Castleacre, Norfolk, by his wife, Aeliva. They had two sons, Roger, Knt., and presumably Saher, and four daughters, Alice, Isabel, Sarah, and Margaret (or Margery). In 1194 he disputed with his wife's son, William de Stuteville, concerning his wife's dower. In 1195 the Abbot of St. Edmunds granted the whole vill of Wendling, Norfolk to William de Huntingfield and his wife, Isabel, and her heirs for 50s. a year. Sometime c.1204-12, he witnessed a charter of Alexander, Abbot of Sibton to Thomas son of Roger de Huntingfield, presumably his brother. In 1205 he was granted the manor of Clafford, Hampshire. In the period, 1204-17, he witnessed a charter of Ralph the chaplain of Heveningham to John Fitz Robert, lord of Ubbeston. His wife, Isabel, died in 1207. In 1208 he had custody of the lands of his brother, Roger, which had been seized in consequence of the interdict. From 1208 to 1210 he was one of the justices before whom fines were levied. In the period, 1210-18, he witnessed a charter of his kinsman, Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. In 1211 he gave the king six fair Norway goshawks for license to marry his daughter, Alice, then widow of Richard de Solers, and to have assignation of her dowry out of the lands of her late husband. In 1213 he held the office of accountant with Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford, for the customs of Norfolk and Suffolk. In 1215 he joined the confederate barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to secure the observance of Magna Carta, which King John signed 15 June 1215. He served as a witness to the charter granting freedom of elections to the abbeys. He was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III in late 1215, and his lands were taken into the king's hands. He reduced Essex and Suffolk for Prince Louis of France, and in retaliation John plundered his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk. In Nov. 1216 he was granted the vill of Grimsby, Lincolnshire with all liberties and free customs by Prince Louis of France. He fought at the Battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217, where he was taken prisoner by the king's forces. On 23 June 1217 all his lands in Lincolnshire were granted to John Marshal. On conclusion of peace, he made peace with King Henry III 6 Oct. 1217, and had restitution of his estates. In 1218 he sued Nichole de la Haye for the recovery of chattels worth £273, which she seized from him in Lincolnshire when he was at arms against the king; a compromise was reached whereby Nichole gave William 30 silver marks in return for which he quitclaimed to her "all the right and claim that he had against her." In 1219 he had leave to go to the Holy Land on crusade; he appointed Thomas his brother to act on his behalf during his absence. SIR WILLIAM DE HUNTINGFIELD died on crusade, possibly in the Holy Land, before 25 Jan. 1220/1.
      Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-138; 9 (1808): 510-515. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 3, 38. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicarium 5 (1825): 52 (charter of Isabel de Gressenhall, wife of William de Huntingfield), 58. Benedict of Peterborough Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedict Abbatis (or Chron. of the Reigns of Heny II. & Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192) 2 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 149-150 (death of Osmund de Stuteville at Joppa). Foss Judges of England (1870): 358-359 (biog. of William de Huntingfield). Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-645. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 2 (1891): 65-67. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 86. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 2 (1908): 100-103; 4 (1909): 66-68. Copinger Manors of Suffolk, 4(1909): 66-67. D.N.B. 10 (1908): 306 (biog. of William de Huntingfield). Lindsay et al. Charters, Bulls & Other Docs. Rel. the Abbey of Inchaffray (Scottish Hist. Soc. 56) (1908): 157-158. Rye Norfolk Fams. (1911): 386-387. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 333. Book of Fees 1 (1920): 195. Salter Newington Longeville Charters (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 3) (1921): 76. Farrer Honours & Knights Fees 3 (1925): 395-397. C.P. 6 (1926): 671, footnote a (sub Huntingfield) (also known as Isabel de Freville, and is stated to have died in 1209). Stenton Rolls of the Justices in Eyre (Selden Soc. 53) (1934): 233. TAG 14 (1937-38): 10-12. Stenton Pleas Before the King 1198-1202 1 (Selden Soc. 67) (1953): 199. Foster Reg. Antignissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 7 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 46) (1953): 14. Davis Kalendar of Abbot Samson of Bury St. Edmunds & Related Docs. (Camden 3rd Ser. 84) (1954): 159 (charter of William and wife, Isabel; available at www.utoronto.ca/deeds/research/research.html). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 299: 1-5 (sub Huntingfield). Stenton Pleas Before the King1198-1202 3 (Selden Soc. 83) (1967): xxxi, cclxiv-vi, cdxix. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 217. Brown Sibton Abbey Cartularies & Charters 1 (Suffolk Charters 7) (1985): 21-22 (re. Cressy him.), 64, 91-92; 2 (Suffolk Charters 8) (1986): 53-56; 3 (Suffolk Charters 9) (1987): 152; 4 (Suffolk Charters 10) (1988): 4-5. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 598-599. White Restoration & Reform; 1153-1165 (2000): 168. Kauffmann Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550 (2003): 160. Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 117. Wilkinson Women in 13th-Cent. Lincolnshire (2007): 21. Suffolk Rec. Office, Ipswich Branch: Iveagh (Plaillipps) Suffolk MSS, HD 1538/301/1 (feoffment dated before 1221 in free alms from William de Huntingfeld to the Monks of St. Mary of Mendham, Suffolk for salvation of souls of himself, his wife Isabel, and his parents and all ancestors, he grants to the monks in free alms all his wood in Metfield, Suffolk called Haute) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Children of William de Huntingfield, Knt., by Isabel Fitz William:
      i. ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD, Knt. [see next].
      ii. ALICE DE HUNTINGFIELD, married (1st) in or after 1200 RICHARD DE SOLERS, of Faccombe and Tangley, Hampshire, and Bonby, Lincolnshire, younger son of Guillaume (or William) de Solers (or Soliers), of Ellingham, Hampshire, Constable of Moulins-la-Marche, 1180, by Mabel, daughter of Robert Fitz Robert (or Fitz Count), of Conerton, Cornwell, Castellan of Gloucester [grandson of King Henry I of England]. In 1200, as "Ric[ardus] de "Soliis," he gave £600 Anjou to have his lands in Normandy and England, and to marry as he pleased. RICHARD DE SOLERS died shortly before Michaelmas 1207. In 1208 his widow, Alice, sued Thomas Peverel for one-half of vill of Faccornbe, Hampshire as her dower. In 1211 her father gave the king six fair Norway goshawks for the marriage of his daughter, Alice, widow of Richard de Solers, and to have assignation of her dowry out of the lands of her late husband. She married (2nd) before 1215 HUGH LE RUS (or RUFUS, RUFFUS), of Akenharn, Bircholt, Clopton, Hasketon, Stradbroke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1225-7, son and heir of Ernald Rufus, of Bircholt, Hasketon, Stradbroke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, by his wife, Isabel. They had two sons, Hugh and William. He was granted the manor of Fawsley, Northamptonshire in 1214 by King John. In 1215 the Sheriff of Hampshire was ordered to deliver up to Hugh and Alice his wife the dower of Alice in Faccombe and Tangle)', Hampshire, of which they had been disseised in the Barons' War. He was granted a weekly market at Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1225. In 1227 he was granted a weekly market at Woodbridge, Suffolk, which he later granted to Woodbridge Priory. HUGH LE RUS died in 1230. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-138. Hardy Rotuli Normanniae in Turri Londinensi Asservati 1 (1835): 38. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 86. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 4 (1909): 84-85. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 314, 326-328. Book of Fees 2 (1923): 1268. Kirkus Great Roll of the Pipe for the 9th Year of the Reign of King John Michaelmas 1207 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 22) (1946): 60, 148. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the 13th Year of the Reign of King John Michaelmas 1211 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 6, 179, 185. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 299: 1-5 (sub Huntingfield). Hockey Beaulieu Cartulag (Southampton Recs. 17) (1974): 104. Brown Eye Priory Cartulay & Charters 1 (Suffolk Charters 12) (1992): 235-236; 2 (Suffolk Charters 13) (1994): 77-81.
      Children of Alice de Huntingfield, by Hugh le Rus:
      a. HUGH LE RUS, of Stradbroke, Suffolk, son and heir. He died without issue shortly before 24 Sept. 1232. Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 2 (Suffolk Charters 13) (1994): 77-81.
      b. WILLIAM LE RUS, of Akenham, Clopton, Hasketon, Stradbroke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, and, in right of his wife; of Stinton (in Salle), Norfolk, Ludborough, Lincolnshire, Bromley, Surrey, etc., 2nd son. He was heir in 1232 to his older brother, Hugh le Rus. He married AGATHA DE CLERE, daughter of Roger de Clere, Knt., by Maud, daughter of Ralph de Fay. They had one daughter, Alice. WILLIAM LE RUS died in 1253. Cal. IPM 1 (1904): 73-74, 128. Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 1 (Suffolk Charters 12) (1992): 222-224; 2 (Suffolk Charters 13) (1994): 77-81. Child of William le Rus, by Agatha de Clere:
      1) ALICE LE RUS, married (1st) RICHARD LONGSPEE, Knt. [see LONGESPEE 6:ii]; (2nd) RICHARD DE BREWES, Knt., of Stinton (in Salle), Norfolk [see CALTHORPE 8].
      iii. ISABEL DE HUNTINGFIELD, married RICHARD DE DAGWORTH, of Dagworth, Suffolk [see DAGWORTH 7].
      iv. SARAH DE HUNTINGFIELD, married (1st) WILLIAM BISET, of Kidderminster, Worcestershire [see
      LEWKNOR 7]; (2nd) RICHARD DE KEYNES, of Horsted Keynes, Sussex [see LEWKNOR 7].
      v. MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE HUNTINGFIELD, married THOMAS DE PINCHBECK, Knt., of Frieston and Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, son of Nigel de Pinchbeck. They had two sons, William and Nigel, and one daughter, Aline. At an unknown date, he granted the church of St. James of Frieston and the monks there two selions of land in Frieston on Heyrburgdale, Lincolnshire. SIR THOMAS DE PINCHBECK was living 6 May 1245. His widow, Margery, was living 29 Sept. 1247. She exchanged land in Fishtoft, Lincolnshire with her brother, Roger de Huntingfield, Knt., for land in Southorpe, Lincolnshire. In her widowhood, she conveyed a plot of land in Fenland in Toft to her brother, Roger de Huntingfield. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 94-95, 221. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 377. Lincolnshire Archives: Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Huntingfield Cartulary, 3ANC2/1 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Northumberland Rec. Office, Papers of the Middleton Fam. of Belsay, II, A 3. f.31 (1) (available at ww-w.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Children of Margaret (or Margery) de Huntingfield, by Thomas de Pinchbeck:
      a. WILLIAM DE PINCHBECK, son and heir, a minor 14 Jan. 1248; evidently died without issue before 1262. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1901): 94-95; 7 (1904): 135. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines AD. 1 244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 47.
      b. NIGEL DE PINCHBECK, of Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, younger son. He married ISABEL ___. They had two daughters, Joan and Isabel. He was heir to his older brother, William de Pinchbeck, sometime before 1262. In 1268 Bertrand de Bexvill valet of lord Roger [de Huntingfield] conveyed all of Nigel's lands to him, with the dower of Margaret his mother, with which he had been enfeoffed by the lord Roger on account of certain transgressions of Nigel. NIGEL DE PINCHBECK was living 13 Oct. 1271, but died before Easter 1272. His widow, *Isabel, was living in 1281. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 6 (1900-1): 155; 8 (1905): 247-248. Feudal Aids 3 (1904): 370. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 47, 183-184, 234. Lincolnshire Archives: Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Huntingfield Cartulary, Ref.: 3ANC2/1 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      c. ALINE DE PINCHBECK, married before 1271 GILBERT KEGGE (or GEGGE), of Toft, Lincolnshire. They were both living 13 Oct. 1271. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 234.”

      2. 2018 posting of Douglas Richardson at https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/smwrU2hf/c-p-addition-isabel-de-gressenhall-wife-of-william-de-huntingfield-magna-carta-baron accessed 3 Sep 2019:
      "Sources vary as to when Isabel de Gressenhall's first husband, Osmund de Stuteville, died. One source which I have read states that he died at Joppa in Palestine about 1187. I presume the date 1187 is taken from the date that Saladin took Joppa.
      However, Farrer, Early Yorkshire Charters 9 (1952): 34 shows that Osmund de Stuteville issued a notification in 1189/92 that his controversy with the Bishop of Durham about the chapel of Cowesby, Yorkshire had been settled. So Osmund definitely did not die in 1187.
      Farrer may be viewed at the following weblink:
      https://books.google.com/books?id=TbHFxV8bXuMC&pg=PA34
      There seems to be little doubt that Osmund is the Osmund de Stuteville who died on Crusade at Joppa in Palestine. For his death at Joppa, see Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti Abbatis (or Chron. of the Reigns of Henry II. & Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192) 2 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 149-150, which may be viewed at the following weblink:
      https://books.google.com/books?id=B_s9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA150
      Unfortunately the specific date of Osmund de Stuteville's death is not given in this record. I note, however, that Bertram de Verdun whose death at Joppa is given in the same source is elsewhere recorded by Dugdale to have died in 1191. Dugdale cites the chronicle of Croxden Abbey as his source for the death date of 1191 for Bertram de Verdun.
      Landon, Itinerary of King Richard I (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 13) (1935): 55 records that King Richard I of England came to Joppa on 10 Sept. 1191. As such, it would appear that Osmund de Stuteville died sometime either in 1191, or in 1192 when the Siege of Joppa was ended.
      As to the date of Alice de Huntingfield's two marriages, I find that she married (1st) before 1207 Richard de Solers and (2nd) before 1215 Hugh le Rus.
      In 1200, as “Ric[ardus] de Soliis,” he gave £600 Anjou to have his lands in Normandy and England, and to marry as he pleased. Richard de Solers died shortly before Michaelmas 1207. In 1208 his widow, Alice, sued Thomas Peverel for one-half of vill of Faccombe, Hampshire as her dower. In 1211 her father gave the king six fair Norway goshawks for the marriage of his daughter, Alice, widow of Richard de Solers, and to have assignation of her dowry out of the lands of her late husband.
      These records suggests that Richard and Alice married anytime between 1200 and 1207. Given the young ages women in this time period married, Alice could have been as young as 12 or 13 at the time of Richard de Solers' death. This means Alice was born no later than 1195. Richard and Alice appear to have had no issue.
      Assuming that Isabel de Gressenhall's 1st husband, Osmund de Stuteville, died in 1191 or 1192, then Alice de Huntingfield could easily have been born by 1193. This would make Alice 14 years old at her husband's death. This makes for a tight chronology but not impossible for this class of family.
      As for other indications of when William de Huntingfield's other daughters were born, I note that Richard de Dagworth who married his daughter Isabel was a minor in 1205, and William Biset who married his daughter Sarah was a minor in 1212. This suggests that Richard de Dagworth and William Biset were both a bit younger than Alice de Huntingfield's 1st husband, Richard de Solers, who apparently came of age in 1200. These records suggest that Alice was the eldest daughter of William de Huntingfield."