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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“RICHARD FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, etc., seigneur of Bienfaite and Orbec (both in Normandy), Justiciar of Ireland, son and heir, born about 1130. On the accession of King Henry II in 1154, he refused to acknowledged Richard as earl and took the lordship of Pembroke into his own hands. In Autumn 1167 he came to an agreement with Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster; for the earl's assistance with an army, he could have Eve, Dermot's eldest daughter in marriage and the succession to Leinster. An army was assembled led by Raymond Fitz Gerald (also known as Raymond le Gros) that included Welsh archers; it captured the towns of Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin in 1169-70. Richard married at Waterford, Ireland about 26 August 1170 EVE OF LEINSTER daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (also called Diarmait MacMurchada), King of Leinster, by Mor, daughter of Muirchertach Ua Tuathail From 1172 onwards, he was styled Earl of Striguil. They had one son, Gilbert [Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Isabel. In 1173 he played a critical role in Normandy in defending the castle of Gisors and recapturing Verneuil for the king. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke died about 20 April 1176, and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity [Christ Church], Dublin. His widow, Eve, was living in 1187. Sometime in the period, 1185-94, his widow, Eve, as "heres Regis Deremicii,"confirmed to John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin, and his successors all of her earlier gifts. At her death, she was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire.
Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Eyton Court, Household, & Itinerary of King Henry 11 (1878): 16, 109, 118, 165-166, 172, 176, 196, 202. Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72 (charter of Richard Fitz Gislebert dated c.1172). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 78-79 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to St. Mary's Abbey; charter witnessed by Hervé de Montmorency and Walter Bluet), 79-81, 83-84 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to St. Mary's Abbey; charter witnessed by Walter Bluet and Richard Bluet); 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 12, 274 (Annals sub A.D. 1177: "Comes Ricardus circa kal. julii apud Dubliniam obiit, et in ecclesia Sancte Trinitatis."), 304 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1177: "Comes Ricardus, circa kalendas Maii, apud Dubliniam obiit; in ecclesia Sancte Trinitatis Dublinie sepelitur."). Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintern Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. TG 1 (1980): 4-27. Coat of Arms n.s. 10(1994): 322-328. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161, 477. Tyerman Who's Who in Early Medieval England 1066-1272 (2001): 206-208 (biog. of Richard of Clare). Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 733-737 (biog. of Richard Fitz Gilbert).
Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by unknown wife or mistress,
i. ___ DE CLARE, married ROBERT DE QUINCY, Constable of Leinster [see PRENDERGAST 5],
ii. ALINE DE CLARE, married in 1174 WILLIAM FITZ MAURICE, Baron of Naas, co. Kildare. They had one son, William Fitz Maurice [Baron of Naas]. WILLIAM FITZ MAURICE died before c.September 1199. Jour. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 2 (1892): 194 ("William, the son of Maurice, is stated in the table to have married `Ala, daughter of Strongbow'; but the 'Conquest of Ireland' (Cal. Car. MSS., 296) has it - 'Also the Erie yawe Ellyn his sustir to Wyllam Moryces yldist sone."), chart facing pg. 358. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.), 259 (sub Conquest of Ireland: "Raymond also, to consolidate the union among the English, induced the earl to give his daughter Alina in marriage to William, the eldest son of Maurice Fitzgerald."). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 489 ("William, son of Maurice, who according to Giraldus, married in 1174 Alina, daughter of Strongbow, seems to have died before 1199, when 'William de Naas' fined for an inquisition of mort d'ancestor against the abbot of Baltinglass. This was his son and successor, the third baron, who married Mahaut de Pont de l'Arche and died in 1227, when he was succeeded by his son David, the fourth baron."). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 4 (1920): 307-308 ("Addenda et Corrigenda to Volume I and II - Vol. p. 18; vol. ii, pp. 165, 246. William, son of William, Baron of Naas': - It was William, third Baron of Naas, son of William, the second baron, who married Matilda of Pont de l'Arche. She was widow of Philip de Braose. Close Roll, 11 Hen. III, pg. 199. This William Fitz William has been hitherto omitted in the received pedigrees, but in a review of the Gormanston Register (English Hist. Review, vol. xxxi (1916), pp. 488-9) I have established his position. His father, William, son of Maurice, who married Alma, daughter of Strongbow, was dead before c. September 1199 (Rot. de Obtalis, 1 John, m. 15, p. 26). The third baron is often called simply 'William, Baron of Nass', hence the confusion, but his patronymic appears in several documents, e.g. Cal. Germanston Register, pp. 154, 200, 204; and Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. i, p. 448. David Fitz William, fourth Baron of Naas, was his son and heir by `Mahaut de Pontearch' (Matilda de Pont de l'Arche): Cal. Gormanston Register, p. 163."). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 733-735 (biog. of Richard Fitz Gilbert).
Child of Aline de Clare, by William Fitz Maurice:
a. WILLIAM FITZ WILLIAM, Baron of Naas, married MAUD PONTE DE L'ARCHE [see MARSHAL 2.v.c].
Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Eve of Leinster:
i. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD, son and heir, born about 1173, died 1185-9 s.p., probably a minor. C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke).
ii. ISABEL DE CLARE, married WILLIAM MARSHAL, Knt., 3rd Earl of Pembroke [see MARSHAL 3]â€
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
"GILBERT FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd son, born probably about 1100. He married ISABEL OF MEULAN, former mistress of King Henry I [see ENGLAND 2], and daughter of Robert of Meulan (or de Beaumont), Count of Meulan, by Isabel (or Elizabeth), daughter of Hugues “le Grand,†Count of Crépy [see VERMANDOIS 5 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Richard [2nd Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Basilia. He consented to a gift of his mother, Alice, to Thorney Abbey dated c.1136-38. He was heir c.1137-38 to his uncle, Walter Fitz Richard, by which he inherited the barony of Chepstow, Monmouthshire and the manor of Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. He was created Earl of Pembroke by King Stephen in 1138. Sometime in the period, 1138-48, he granted the church of St. Mary, Southwark land in Great Parndon, Essex, together with the chapel and tithe of Torp [?Southorpe in Southchurch, Essex] and the tithe of Coptfold (in Margaretting), Essex, for the canons to build a hospice. About 1147-8 he issued a charter by which he confirmed the earlier grant by Roger Fitz Humphrey to the Templars of land in Inglewood (in Kintbury), Berkshire. GILBERT FITZ GILBERT, 1st Earl of Pembroke, died 6 Jan. 1147/8. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) RALPH BLUET, of Silchester, Hampshire and Lacock, Wiltshire. They had three sons, Ralph, Knt., Walter, and William. RALPH BLUET was living in 1167. Isabel was a benefactor of the nuns of Saint-Saens, to whom she gave half her mill of Eskekeville. This gift was subsequently confirmed c.1177 by King Henry II of England. She confirmed the gift of her son, Earl Richard, to Foucarmont Abbey, which act was confirmed by King Henry II of England in the period, 1185-89. Isabel was allegedly living in 1172.
Madox Formalare Anglicanum (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard [Willelmus Bluet frater Comitis Ricardi]). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 2 (1819): 601 (charter dated 1136-38 of Adeliz, uxor Gilberti filii Ricardi to Thorney Abbey). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 833 (reference of charter to Templars by Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226, (Clare ped.). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 82 (sub A.D. 1170: Isabel, wife of Gilbert [de Clare], Earl of Pembroke, styled "aunt" [matertera] of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion of Scotland and Earl David). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #17 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated 1138-48; charter granted with consent of his wife, Isabel, and son, Richard, witnessed by his brother, Hervey). Copinger Manors of Suffolk 1 (1905): 45-46. CCh.R 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert), 97 (undated charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke to Tintem Abbey; charter granted with the consent of [his wife] countess Isabel and names his uncle, Walter). Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 53 ([Isabel] Countess of Pembroke named "sister" [soror] by G[aleran], Count of Meulan in charter dated c.1142-50.). VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Delisle & Berger Recueil des Actes de Henri II 2 (1920): 161-162, 398-399. Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 4) (1930): 52-54. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 229 (charter of Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke dated c.1147-8; charter witnessed by Ralph Blavet [Bluet]). CP. 10 (1945): 348-354, Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 1 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250 (Gilbert de Cimmay, cleric and chaplain of the king, styled "kinsman" [cognato] of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke in chronicle dated c.1138-9) [see also St. Alban's, Gesta i 113-115]. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 314 (Beaumont ped.), 316 (Clare ped.).
Children of Gilbert Fitz Gilbert, by Isabel of Meulan:
i. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil [see next].
ii. BASILIA DE CLARE, married (1st) in 1174 RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM (also known as RAYMOND LE GROS), of Forth and Idrone, co. Carlow, and Glascarrig, co. Wexford, Constable of Leinster, Justiciar of Ireland, 1176-7, son of William Fitz Gerald. They had no issue. RAYMOND FITZ WILLIAM died early in 1186. His widow, Basilia, married (2nd) (as his 1st wife) GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT, Lord of Kells, Steward of Leinster. He witnessed the charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, to Kilkenny and to Dunbrody Abbey. Geoffrey married (2nd) EVE DE BERMINGHAM, widow of Gerald Fitz Maurice. GEOFFREY FITZ ROBERT died about 1211. His widow, Eve, married (3rd) GEOFFREY DE MARSH, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1215-21, 1226-8. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by "Reimund fil' Willi fil' Geraldi"). Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72, 92. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 67-68. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin (Rolls Ser.) (1889) 110-114, 117, 367. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 275, 301-303, 317. Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 6 (1896): 227-239; 5th Ser. 14(1905): 380-383. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 42-43, 211, 225-226. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Echols & Williams Annotated Index of Medieval Women (1992): 68 (biog. of Basilia de Clare). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161. Deane et al. Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing 5 (2002): 473 (charter of Basilia daughter of Earl Gilbert; names her father, Earl Gilbert; her brother, Earl Richard; and her husband, Raymond).
Children of Isabel of Meulan, by Ralph Bluet:
1. RALPH BLUET (or BLOET), Knt., of Silchester, Hampshire, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, and Lackham, Wiltshire, son and heir, born say 1150 (of age in 1174-5).* He married say 1177 (possibly as his 2nd wife) NEST OF WALES, former mistress of King Henry II [see ENGLAND 4], and daughter of Iorwerth ab Owain, lord of Caerleon, Monmouthshire, by Angharad, daughter of Uchdrud, Bishop of Llandaff. They had at least three sons, Ralph, William, Knt., and Roland (killed in Ireland in 1217), and at least two daughters, Alda (wife of Amaury le Despenser) and Emma [Abbess of Godstow]. About 1170 Ralph and his younger brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a Welsh charter of his older half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke. In the period, 1174-9, he reached agreement with his neighbor, William Fitz Patrick, Earl of Salisbury regarding the church of Lacock, Wiltshire, which was in their common fee. About 1177 he gave the church of Daglingworth, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, Oxfordshire, which gift was afterwards confirmed by his brother, Walter, and later by their nephew, William. He and his younger brother, William, were joint keepers of the Castle and honour of Striguil from 1185-8. In the period, 1189-94, he witnessed a charter of William Marshal, afterwards Earl of Pembroke [husband of his niece, Isabel de Clare] to Cat tale] Priory. He also witnessed an undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert (husband of his half-sister, Basilia de Clare) to Duiske Abbey. SIR RALPH BLUET died about c.1196-9. About 1196-9 his widow, Nest, their son, Ralph, and his brothers granted the monastery rmonasteriuml of Duntesborne, Gloucestershire to Godstow Abbey, together with her daughter, presumably the Emma Bluet, who was later elected Abbess of Godstow in 1248. In 1200 Nest sued Robert Bluet in a plea regarding a half of hide of land in Daglingworth, Gloucestershire. In 1201 she sued her brother, Hywel de Caerleon, regarding the town of Caerleon, Monmouthshire. The same year she sued William de Brewes in a plea of land in Herefordshire. Arch. Cambrensis 3 (1848): 333-334. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Trans. Bristol & Clones. Arch. Soc. 12 (1887-8): 54-60; 41(1918-1919): 151. Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Ralph Bloet and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Taylor An Analysis of the Domesday Survey of Gloucestershire (1889): 167-169. Great Roll of the Pipe 1174-1175 (Pipe Roll Soc. 22) (1897): 194. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 4 (1902): 527. Farrer Lancashire Pipe Rolls ... also Early Lancashire Charters (1902): 341-343. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 56; see also Index to Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer 1 (Lists and Indexes, Supp. Ser. 15) (1969). VCH Oxford 2 (1907): 71-75. Owen Cat. MSS Rel. Wales in the British Museum 3 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1908): 660-665. Clark English Reg. of Godstow Nunnery 1 (1911): 132-133. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 53. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 14-16 (undated charter of Geoffrey Fitz Robert to Duiske Abbey). Curia Regis Rolls 1 (1922): 154, 215, 362, 382, 393-394, 397, 423. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 235. Brooks Knights' Fees in Counties Wexford Carlow & Kilkenny (1950): 26-27. Dict. Welsh Biog. (1959): 638 (biog. of Morgan up Hywel). Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 18. Bartrum Welsh Gem. 300-1400 (1980) [Rhydderch ap Iestyn 1]. Crouch William Marshal 1147-1219 (1990): 139-140, 198-199 (identification of Nest's parentage).
(* Note: Ralph Bluet's identification as the son of Isabel of Meulan, Countess of Pembroke is dependant of several pieces of evidence, chief among them being a previously overlooked charter issued by Ralph Bluet's younger brother, William Bluet, dated c.1168-89, in which William styled himself "brother of Earl Richard" (i.e., half- brother of Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), Earl of Pembroke) [see Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 182; National Archives, E 327/2981. The charter was issued at the court of William Bluet's cousin, Robert de Bréteuil, 2nd Earl of Leicester. About 1170 Ralph Bluet and another brother, Walter Bluet, together with their mother, Countess Isabel, witnessed a charter of Ralph and Walter's half-brother, Richard Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke [see Owen Cat. MSS ReZ Vales in the British Museum 4 (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 4) (1922): 660-6651. Moreover, Ralph Bluet's own death is commemorated among the obits of other near kinsfolk of the Earls of Pembroke at Tintem Abbey: "Raclulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij" die Julii." [see Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266].
ii. WILLIAM BLUET, younger son. Either he or a near relation of the same name witnessed a charter dated 1205-19 to Bradenstoke Priory granted by William le Gras, nephew of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Madox Fomulare Anglicanism (1702): 182 (charter of William Bluet brother of Earl Richard). London Centulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 153-154 (charter of William le Gras). Crouch William Marshal Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angeoin Empire 1147-1219 (1990): 139 (author states in error that "Ralph Bloet's brother William had married a sister of the late Earl Richard Strongbow."). National Archives, E 327/298 (grant dated 1168-86 by William Bloet, brother of Earl Richard, to Warin de Baseville, re. land in Heacham and La Wike, Norfolk) (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).â€
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, Constable of Bolsover Castle, 1235-6, son and heir, born about 1193. He married (1st) before 14 May 1219 SIBYL MARSHAL, died before 1238, 3rd daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed "Strongbowâ€), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry]. They had seven daughters, Agnes, Isabel, Maud, Sibyl, Joan, Agatha (wife of Hugh de Mortimer), and Eleanor. He was afflicted from youth with gout, and habitually travelled in a chariot or litter. He accompanied the king to France in 1230. He married (2nd) in or before 1238 MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, by his 1st wife, Ellen, daughter and co-heiress of Alan Fitz Roland, lord of Galloway, hereditary Constable of Scotland [see QUINCY 7 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Robert, Knt. [6th Earl of Derby], and William, Knt., and three daughters, Elizabeth, Joan, and Agnes. He had livery of Chardey Castle and the rest of his mother's lands 10 Nov. 1247. He was invested with the Earldom of Derby 2 Feb. 1247/8. In 1245 he was granted respite of forest offences because he "laboured under infirmity." He presented to the church of Brington, Northamptonshire in 1250. While passing over a bridge at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, he was accidentally thrown from his chariot sustaining broken limb bones from which he never recovered. SIR WILLIAM DE FERRERS, 5th Earl of Derby, died at Evington, Leicestershire 24 (or 28) March 1254, and was buried at Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire. His widow, Margaret, presented to the churches of Keyston, Huntingdonshire, 1255, Irchester, Northamptonshire, 1267, and Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, 1268, 1275. She was co-heiress in 1264 to her father, Roger de Quincy, Knt., Earl of Winchester, by which she inherited the hereditary office of Constable of Scotland, together with the manors of Groby (in Ratby) and Thurnby, Leicestershire, Ware, Hertfordshire, Keyston and Southoe, Huntingdonshire, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, etc. In 1268-9 the Prior and convent of Lenton released the church of Irchester, Northamptonshire to Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, who in turn levied a fine of it to the use of herself and her heirs. In 1270 she resigned the office of Constable of Scotland to her brother-in-law, Alexander Comyn, Knt., Earl of Buchan. In 1270 Margaret and her sisters, Ellen and Elizabeth, gave license for the election of William de Shaldeston as Prior of the Hospital of St. James and St. John at Brackley, Northamptonshire. In 1272-3 Margaret arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against John le Fauconer, of Thurcaston, and others, touching a tenement in Groby, Leicestershire. In 1273 Philip de Fifife sued her for the next presentation to the church of Fyfield, Berkshire. In 1274-5 Ellen de Quincy and Alexander Comyn and his wife, Elizabeth, sued their sister, Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, regarding possessions in Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire. On the assignment of Quincy dower lands in 1275, Margaret was assigned a third part of the manor of Southoe Ferrers, Huntingdonshire, together with a third part of the chief messuage. In 1275-6 William de Karuill' arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against her touching a messuage and land in Brampton, Northamptonshire. Sometime in the period, 1275-9, she acquired the one-third share of the same manor assigned to her sister, Elizabeth Comyn, thus increasing Margaret's share to two-thirds. In 1276 Margaret had letters of protection, she then going to Scotland. In 1277-8 Alice widow of John de Kent arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Chardey, Staffordshire. About 1281 Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, Ellen la Zouche, and Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, and his wife, Elizabeth, sued Ranulph son of Robert de Neville and his wife, Euphame, regarding 11-1/2 virgates in Syston, Leicestershire. Margaret, Countess of Derby, died shortly before 12 March 1280/1, on which date custody of all lands late of the said Countess Margaret were granted by the king to Richard Fukeram to hold during pleasure, so that he cultivate and sow them and answer for the issues at the Exchequer. In 1282 custody of the manor of Southoe, Huntingdonshire late of Margaret, Countess of Derby, deceased was granted by the king to John de Aese, Vicomte of Tartas to hold during the minority of the heirs. The same month custody of the manor of Keyston, Huntingdonshire late of Margaret, Countess of Derby, deceased was likewise granted by the king to John de Byu.elard to hold during the minority of the heirs. In 1281 the king ratified the demise of John de Aysse, Vicomte of Tartas, to Baldwin Wake and Hawise his wife of custody of the manor of Southoe, Huntingdonshire which he had of the gift of the king by the extent of £40 2s. 8d. yearly to hold during the minority of the heirs of Margery, Countess of Derby.
Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 174, 180. Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Steffordshire 1 (1798): 39 (Ferrers ped). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 123-124 (Ferrers ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 287-288 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Burke Dict. of the Peerages ... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 442-443 (sub Quincy). Hunter Eccl. Docs. (Camden Soc. 8) (1840): 68. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Baines Hist. of the Commerce & Town of Liverpool 1 (1852): 97-133. Giles Matthew Paris's English Hist. 2 (1853): 251 (sub 1247: "In this year certain nobles died in England, amongst whom was William Fad Ferrers, a peaceable and good man, who died at a great age, about St. Catherine's day [25 Novemberl, after having suffered for a long time from gout ... The said earl therefore was succeeded in the earldom by his eldest son and heir William, a good and discrete man, but who was miserably afflicted with the same disease as his father."). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 317 (Annals of Burton sub 1254: "Willelmus de Ferrariis comes Derbeiæ obiit v. kal. Aptilis, apud Eventonam juxta Leycestriam, et sepultus est in capitulo de Mirevalle ii kal. Aprilis."). Skene Liber Pluscardensis 1 (Historians of Scotland 7) (1877): 136-137; 2 (Historians of Scotland 10) (1880): 102-103. Year Books of Edward Years XXXIII-XXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 100-107. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 568; 44 (1883): 100; 45 (1885): 107, 152; 47 (1886): 186; 50(1889): 45, 92, 442, 460. Wrottesley Feet of Fines: Henry III (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 238-259. Godfrey Hist. of the Parish & Priory of Lenton (1884): 82. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 548 (sub Derby). Miktag Service Performed Staffordshire Tenants (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 8(1)) (1887): 1-122. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 281 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1254 - Obverse. To the right. In armour: hauberk, surcoat, shield, sword. Horse galloping. Fine style of workmanship. Reverse. Small round counterseal. A shield of arms: wire, on a bordure eight horse-shoes [FERRERS]. Legend: * S WILL’I : COMITIS : DERB'.). Norris Baddesley Clinton, its Manor, Church & Hall (1897): 63-64 ("The windows at Baddesley are a treasure in themselves ... Therein may be read, as in open volumes, the descent and the alliances of the house of Ferrers ... Most of the shields were set up in the early part of the seventeenth century, though a few bear date in the sixteenth ... In two large windows of the hall opening on the courtyard are twelve shields of arms surmounted by earls' and barons' coronets, and having inscriptions beneath indicating the alliances commemorated [including] 6. Ferrers impaling Quinci. Gules, seven mascles, conjoined, or, 3, 3 and 1; [inscription:] “William Ferrers, earle of Derby, married Margaret, Lady of Groby, daughter of Roger Quincy, earle of Winchester."), 101-110. C.C.R. 1272-1279 (1900): 225-226. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 93, 140, 427, 442, 459-460. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 104, 276, 501, 531-532, 548. Scots Peerage 3 (1906): 142. Cal. IPM 2 (1906): 237, 323. C.P. 4 (1916): 196-198 (arms of William de Ferrers: Sable (or Azure), an escutcheon vairy or and gules, and an orle of 8 horse-shoes argent), 199 (chart) (sub Derby); 5 (1926): foll. 320 (chart), 340; 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 380-397. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8o Ser. 37) (1913): 35. Grosseteste Rank Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi I incolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 246, 248, 511. Year Books of Edward 13 (Selden Soc. 34) (1918): 59-67; 14(2) (Selden Soc. 43) (1927): 75-77. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 142 (fine dated 1256 between Ralph, Abbot of Croyland, and Margery countess of Ferrars). Davis Rotuli Ricardi Gravesend Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 20) (1925): 99, 109, 118, 129, 168. Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Razvdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 323-342 (partition of estates of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester). Cam Hundred & Hundred Rolls (1930): 276. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 346-354. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 205: 4-6; 464: 1-8 (sub Quincy) (Margaret de Quincy and her step-mother, Eleanor, were each the step-mother and step-daughter of the other, the Earls of Derby, their husbands, having each married the other's daughter). Reid Wigtownshire Charters (Scottish Hist. Soc. 51) (1960): xxxix-xlv. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61, 63, 149. Painter Feudalism & Liberty (1961): 230-239. Beardwood Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield 1307-1312 (Trans. American Philosophical Soc. n.s. 54 (3)) (1964): 14-17. VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 321-330. Saltman Cartulary of Dale Abbey (Derbyshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 2) (1967): 341 (charter of William de Ferrers). VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 200-201. DeWindt Royal Justice & Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 590. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 2 (1981): 41 (seal of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby dated 1249 - On horseback, galloping to right. He wears mail, long surcoat and flat-topped helmet, and holds a drawn sword and a shield of arms: vair, and a bordure [FERRERS1. Legend: +SIGILLVM:W/ILLELMEDE/FERRARIIS). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 125-138. Simpson & Galbraith Cal. Docs. Rel. Scotland 5 (1986): 142. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln n.s. 3(4) (1989): 708 (sub Quency). Nottingham Medieval Studies 44 (2000): 69-81. Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003): 11-28. Derbyshire Rec. Office: Gell Fam. of Hopton, D258/7/1/1 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby); D258/7/1/8i (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Derbyshire Rec. Office: Okeover of Okeover, D231M/T375 (charter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby) (available at (available at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Shakespeare Centre Library & Archive: Gregory of Stivichall, DR10/723 (quitclaim of Margaret de Ferrers, Countess of Derby, to her son, Sir William de Ferrers).
Children of William de Ferrers, Knt., by Sibyl Marshal:
i. AGNES DEFERRERS, married WILLIAM DE VESCY, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland [See LONGESPEE 5.vii].
ii. ISABEL DEFERRERS, married (1st) GILBERT BASSET, of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire [see MOHUN 8]; (2nd) REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 8].
iii. MAUD DE FERRERS, married (1st) SIMON DE KYME, of Sotby and Croft, Lincolnshire [see MALET 3]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE FORZ (or DE VIVONNE), Knt., of Chewton, Somerset [see MALET 3]; (3rd) AMAURY DE ROCHECHOUART, Knt., Vicomte of Rochechouart [see MALET 3].
iv. SIBYL DE FERRERS, married FRANK DE BOHUN, Knt., of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 4].
v. JOAN DE FERRERS, married (1st) JOHN DE MOHUN, of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 9], (2nd) ROBERT D'AGUILLON, Knt., of Addington, Surrey [see MOHUN 9].
vi. ELEANOR DE FERRERS, married (1st) WILLIAM DE VAUX, of Tharston and Houghton, Norfolk [see QUINCY 7]; (2nd) ROGER DE QUINCY, Knt., 2nd Earl of Winchester, Constable of Scotland [see QUINCY 7]; (3rd) ROGER DE LEYBOURNE, of Elham, Kent [see QUINCY 7].
Children of William de Ferrers, Knt., by Margaret de Quincy:
i. ROBERT DE FERRERS, Knt., 6th Earl of Derby [see next].
ii. WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., of Groby (in Ratby), Leicestershire, married (1st) ANNE DURWARD [see GROBY 8]; (2nd) ELEANOR DE LOVAINE [see GROBY 8].
iii. ELIZABETH DE FERRERS, married (1st) (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM LE MARSHAL [see HINGHAM 5], of Greens Norton and Whittlebury, Northamptonshire, King's Charlton, Gloucestershire, Cowley, Oxfordshire, Colton, Staffordshire, Hazlebury (in Box), Wiltshire, etc., deputy Marshal of Ireland, of Hingham and Foulsham, Norfolk, Chirton, Wiltshire, etc., younger son of John Marshal, Marshal of Ireland, by Aline, daughter and co-heiress of Hubert de Rye [see HINGHAM 4 for his ancestry]. They had no issue. He was heir in 1242 to his elder brother, John Marshal. In 1247, as William Marshal, of Norton, he reached agreement with William de Brackley, Prior of Luffield, whereby he quitclaimed the service of a pair of gilt spurs and suit of court every three week in respect of an estate at Monksbarn (in Whittlebury), Northamptonshire, so that the prior should thereafter hold of him in free alms, quit of all secular service. The same year he also reached agreement with the Templars regarding rent owed for land in Cowley, Oxfordshire. He was granted weekly markets to be held at the manors of Haselbury Plucknett, Somerset and Messingham, Lincolnshire in 1265. WILLIAM LE MARSHAL died Sept. 1265. His widow, Elizabeth, married (2nd) before 1274-5 (date of lawsuit) DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Knt., Prince of North Wales, and, in right of his wife, of Foulsham, Norfolk, Colton, Staffordshire, etc., younger son of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, by Senena ferch Cadadog. They had two sons, Llywelyn and Owain, and seven daughters, including Gwladus. By his mistress, Tangwystl, daughter of Owain Fflam, of Deheubarth, he also had an illegitimate son, Dafydd Goch. In 1242 his mother, Senena, agreed to give him and his brother, Roderick, as hostages to King Henry III of England. In 1252, as lord of Cwmwd Maen, he entered into a composition with the Abbot and convent of Bardsey. He presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire 24 Dec. 1273. In 1274-5 Hubert de Rully and Isabel his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David Fitz-Griffin touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1275-6 Hubert de Ruyly and Isabel his wife, and Nicholas de Pulham and Aveline his wife arraigned an assize of mort d'ancestor against David ab Gruffud and Elizabeth his wife touching a mill in Foulsham, Norfolk. In 1278-9 William son of Alexander de Blacoined [Blakesley] arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In the same year Albric de Wytlebiry arraigned a similar assize against David ab Gruffud and others touching a tenement in Great Blakesley, Northamptonshire. In 1279 David and his wife, Elizabeth, sued her step-son, John le Marshal, for a third of the manor of Colton, Staffordshire as the dower of Elizabeth; John stated he only held a rent of 12s. of which he offered a third. In 1280 the king seised the third part of the manor of Haselbury, Somerset, which David and his wife, Elizabeth, held as the dower of the said Elizabeth of the lands which were of William Marshal her late husband; later the same year the king wishing to grant indulgence to the said David and Elizabeth ordered that the third part of the manor be restored to them. In 1282 David suddenly surprised the Castle of Hawarden, killed many of the knights and squires who formed the garrison, and carried off Roger de Clifford, the Justiciary, as a prisoner into the hills. DAVID AP GRUFFUDD, Prince of North Wales, was executed for treason 3 October 1283. His widow, as "Lady Elizabeth de Ferrers," presented to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire in 1285. She presented to the church of Greens Norton, Northamptonshire 20 Dec. 1296, which presentation was disputed by King Edward I, as guardian of William, heir of John Marshal. In 1297 she had a prolonged lawsuit in the royal courts with Sir Hugh de Cave regarding the right of patronage to the church of Plumpton, Northamptonshire. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1 (1739): 672-679. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northawptonthire 1(1791): 241,255. Ellis Original Letters Ill. of English Hist. 3rd Ser. 1 (1846): 27-29 (letter of King Edward I to the Prior and Prioress of Alvingham, Lincolnshire dated 1283 that they admit one or more of the children of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd, late Prince of Wales, or of David his brother into their House.). Arch. Cambrensis 4 (1849): 134-138. Riley Willelmi Rishanger: quondam Monachi S. Abani; Chronica et Annales (Rolls Ser. 28) (1865): 91 ("David, fuga dilapsus, multis annis cum Rege Anglin stetiri a quo, contra morem gentis suæ, miles factus, in ista guerra, ob probitatem et fidelitatem suam, plurimum erat Regi acceptus: unde et eidem castrum de Dimby penbigh] contulit in Wallia, cum terris ad valorem mille librarum annul redditus; insuper et uxorem dedit, filiam Comitis Derbeyæ, (lux nuper alio viro fuerat viduata.") [also see Hog F. Nicholai Triveti, de ordine frat. praediratorum, Annales (English Hist. Soc.) (1865): 298]. Luard Annales Monastici 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 298 (Annals of Dunstable sub A.D. 1283: "Eodem armo David, germanus Leulini, principis Wallin, captus est per gentem domini regis ...et ftlius suns legitirnus captus est cum eo Uxor edam ipsius David, (lux fuit filia comitis de Ferares, alias capta est et inprisonata."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 109; 45 (1885): 176, 291; 46 (1886): 174-175; 48 (1887): 22. Rye Short Cal. of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk 1 (1885): 84. Wrottesley Staffordshire Suits: Plea Rolls (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6(1)) (1885): 100. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 8 (1887): 10. Trans. Honourable Soc. of Cymmrodorion Session 1899-1900 (1901): 6-105; Session 1968,1: 43-62. C.Ch.R. 1 (1903): 262-263; 2 (1906): 53. Ramsay Dawn of the Constitution (1908): 338 ("King] Edward [I] knighted him [Dafydd ap Gruffudd], given him charge of Hope and Denbigh Castles, with lands valued at £1,000 a year, and married him to a kinswoman of his own, Elizabeth Ferrers, daughter of the ex-Earl of Derby, a Lusigan on the mother's side, and widow of John [sic] Marshal of Norton."). C.P.R 1258-1266 (1910): 602. Lloyd Hist. of Wales 2 (1911): 259. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 225-226, 351-352. C.P. 8 (1932): 527-528 (sub Marshal); 10 (1945): 182 footnote h (sub Orty); 14 (1998): 468 (sub Marshal). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 37-38 (final concord between Master Robert de Saunford and William Marshal dated 1247), 38-40 (final concord between Geoffrey Fitz John and William Marshal dated 1247). Sutton Rails & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton, 1280-1299 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 43) (1950): 48, 141-142. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 76-96. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 53. Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 163,178-179 (charter dated 1274-5 of Christian de Wayford to Luffield Priory, granted for the souls of Lady Elizabeth wife of Sir David Griffin, Sir William Marshal, and others); 2 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 26) (1968): 367. Bartrum Welsh Gens. 500-1400 (1980): 447 [Gruffudd ap Cynan 5: "Dafydd d. 1283 [A. of Denbigh & Hope = Elizabeth d. Robt Ferrers, E. of Derby"]. T.G. 1 (1980): 80-95. Cannon Dirt. of British Hist. (2001) (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). Fritze & Robison Hist. Dict. of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485(2002): 144-145 (biog. of Dafydd ap Gruffydd). National Archives, SC 1/16/103 (available at www.catalogue.nadonalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
iv. JOAN DE FERRERS, married THOMAS DE BERKELEY, Knt., 1st Lord Berkeley [see BERKELEY 5].
v. AGNES DE FERRERS, married ROBERT DE MUSCEGROS, Knt., of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset [see MUSCEGROS 4].â€
4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,†Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM MARSHAL, Knt., hereditary Marshal of England, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1189-94, 1198-1207, Sheriff of Sussex, 1193-1208, Warden of the Forest of Dean and Constable of St. Briavels Castle, 1194-1206, Constable of Lillebonne, 1202, Protector, Regent of the Kingdom, 1216-19, and, in right of his wife, Earl of Pembroke and Striguil, Lord of Leinster, probably born in 1146. In 1152 his father gave him as a hostage to King Stephen at the Siege of Newbury. At a later date, his father sent him to his cousin, William de Tancarville, Chamberlain of Normandy, with whom he remained for eight years as a squire. In 1167, while riding near the castle of Lusigan in Poitou with his uncle, Patrick, Earl of Salisbury, and Queen Eleanor, two of the Lusignan brothers attacked and killed Earl Patrick who was unarmed; William was wounded and taken prisoner while defending the Queen's retreat into the castle. Eventually he was ransomed by Queen Eleanor and returned to England. During the period, 1170-83, he was a member of the household of Henry "the Young King." In 1173 he supported Henry the Young King in his rebellion against King Henry II. Young Henry chose to knight him, and on his death bed in 1183, Henry charged him to carry his cross to the Holy Sepulchre. When William returned to England c.1187, King Henry II made him a member of his household. He was granted the manor of Cartmel, Lancashire by the king in 1187, where the following year he founded a priory for Regular canons of the order of St. Augustine. He was with King Henry II in France in 1188 and 1189. He was present at King Henry II's deathbed at Chinon in July 1189, and escorted the body to Fontevrault. He married in London in August 1189 ISABEL DE CLARE, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert [de Clare], 2nd Earl of Pembroke, by Eve, daughter of Dairmait Macmurchada, King of Leinster [see PEMBROKE 4 for her ancestry]. They had five sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Pembroke], Richard, Knt. [Earl of Pembroke], Gilbert, Knt. [Earl of Pembroke], Walter, Knt. [Earl of Pembroke and Lincoln], and Anselm [Earl of Pembroke], and five daughters, Maud, Isabel, Sibyl, Eve, and Joan. She was heiress in 1185-89 of her brother, Gilbert Fitz Richard (otherwise known as Gilbert de Strigoil). He was present at the Coronation of King Richard I in 1189, where he bore the gold scepter with the cross. Shortly afterwards he was appointed one of the subordinate Justiciars of England, first under Hugh, Bishop of Durham, and then under William de Longchamp. In 1190 he fined for 2,000 marks for a moiety of the lands of Walter Giffard, sometime Earl of Buckingham, including the manors of Chilton, Dorton, Long Crendon, and Loughton, Buckinghamshire, Caversham and Long Wittenham, Berkshire, and Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire, together with the fief of Longueville in Normandy. In 1191, when the Archbishop of Rouen superceded Longchamp, William became his chief assistant. When John, Count of Mortain (later King John) revolted in 1193, William besieged and took Windsor Castle. He was heir in 1194 to his elder brother, John Marshal, whereby he succeeded his brother as hereditary Master Marshal. He took part in the Siege of Nottingham Castle in 1194. From 1194 to 1199, he was almost continually in Normandy with King Richard I. One of Richard's last acts was to appoint him custodian of Rouen and the royal treasure there. He was present at the Coronation of King John in 1199. In 1200 the king confirmed the marshalship to him. He served John actively in Gascony, England, and Normandy. William may have paid a brief visit to Ireland in the winter of 1200-1. In 1201 he was granted a yearly fair to be held at the borough of Pembroke in Wales. In 1202 he loaned money to his kinsman, Geoffrey II, Count of Perche, who was preparing to go on crusade. In 1204 he was sent with Robert, Earl of Leicester as ambassadors to negotiate a truce with King Philippe Auguste of France. In 1204 he was granted a weekly market to be held in the vill of Castle Goodrich, Herefordshire. The same year he invaded Wales and captured Kilgerran. In 1206 he gave the Templars the advowson of the church of Speen, Berkshire. He spent most of his time in Ireland from 1207 to 1213. In 1213 he witnessed King John's charter of resignation to the Pope. He was given charge of the Castles of Haverfordwest, Carmarthen, Cardigan, and Gower, and Dunamase in Ireland. He was one of the few English earls to remain loyal to the king through the First Barons' War. He was one of the king's representatives at Runnymede in 1215. Following the death of King John in 1216, he was named by the king's council to serve as Regent of the Kingdom. In 1217 he routed the French and the rebel Barons at Lincoln. In Sept. 1217 he concluded the treaty of Lambeth with Prince Louis. In 1218 he was granted weekly markets to be held at his manors of Toddington, Bedfordshire, Speen, Berkshire, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, and Bosham, Sussex, and yearly fairs at Toddington, Bedfordshire and Sturminster Marshall, Dorset. During his lifetime, he founded and endowed monasteries at Voto (or Tintern Minor), Duiske (or Graig-na-Managh), and Kilkenny, in Ireland. He was also a benefactor to the chapter of Lisieux, the abbeys of Foucarmont, Gloucester, Tintern, Nutley, and St. Thomas, Dublin, the priories of Longueville, Bradenstoke, Pembroke, Pill, and Stanley, Holy Trinity and St. Kevin, Dublin, the Templars, and other religious bodies. SIR WILLIAM MARSHAL, Earl of Pembroke, died at Caversham, Berkshire 14 May 1219, and was buried in the Temple Church, London. His widow, Isabel, Countess of Pembroke, died 7 March 1220, and was buried at Tintern Abbey.
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 266 (Obit. of Tintern Abbey: "Isabella Comitissa Pembroc obiit die nono Martin; 6(2) (1830): 843 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated 1206; charter names his wife, Isabel). Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati 1(1) (1837): 46-47. Addison Temple Church (1843): 103-119. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1(1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). East Anglian 3 (1869): 30-32. Demay Inventaire des Sceaux de la Flandre 1 (1873): 44 (seal of William Marshal). Stevenson Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum (Rolls Ser.) (1875): 187 (sub A.D. 1219: "Obiit Willelmus Marescallus senior, comes de Penbrock, qui maximum habuit dominium tam in Anglia quam in Hibernia; et in crastino Ascencionis [17 May] sepultus est apud Novum Templum de Londoniis."). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 307-308 Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1200: "Eodem anno, fundatur monasterium de Voto, id est, Tynteme, per Willelmum Mareschallum, Comitem Mareschallum et Pembrochie, qui fuit Dominus Lagenie, scilicet, quatuor comitatuum, Weysford, Ossorie, Cartelrlachie, et Kyldare, ratione et jure uxoris sue, quia desponsavit filiam Comitis Ricardi Strogulensis et Eve, filie Dermicii Murcardi."), 315 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1219: "Anno eodem, obiit Willelmus Mareshallus senior, Comes Mareshallus et Pembrochie. Generavit ex filia Ricardi Strangbowe, Comitis Strogulensis, quinque filios et quinque filias."). Gilbert Reg. of the Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin ((Rolls Ser.) (1889): 337-338 (agreement of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and Abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin dated 1205, witnessed by John Marshal), 137 & 356-357 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated pre-1219, witnessed by Anselm nephew of the earl [Ancelmo, nepote comitis], Ralph Bloet, and Ralph son of Walter Bloet). Meyer Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal (1891-1901), 3 vols. Birch Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 392 (seal of Isabel [de Clare], Countess of Pembroke, wife of William Marshal dated before 1219 - Pointed oval. Full-face. In tightly-fitting dress, pointed head-dress, long mantle, the right hand laid on the breast, in the left hand a falcon held on the wrist by the jesses. Standing. Legend: ... SIGILL' • ISABEL • COMITISSE • PEMBROC • VXORIS • WILLI MARESCA[L]..). Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 49, 141. Round Commune of London (1899): 305-306. Cal. MSS. Dean & Chapter of Wells 1 (Hist. MSS. Comm., vol. 12B(1) (1907): 6, 13-14, 16, 51, 309-311. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 2 (1911): 199-234. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 51-56. Norgate Minority of Henry the Third (1912): 150-151. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. C.P. 4 (1916): 197; 5 (1926): 695, 10 (1945): 358-364 (sub Pembroke); 12(1) (1953): 502-503. Procs. Royal Irish Academy 35 (1918-20): 17-22 (undated charters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke to Duiske Abbey). Jarman William Marshal, First Earl of Pembroke & Regent of England (1920). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 178-183, 384-390. VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 22-27, 45-48, 395-401. Painter William Marshal Knight-Errant, Baron & Regent of England (1933). Leys Sandford Cartulary 1 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 19) (1938): 99-100 (charter of John Fitz Hugh to John Marshal dated c.1217; charter witnessed by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Sir William the earl's son, and Sir Alan Basset); 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 188-189 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated 1206; charter names his wife, Isabel), 192 (charter of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke dated 1206), 229 (charter of William Marshal dated c.1180). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 63 (there is no evidence of the exact fractions into which the Giffard estates were divided between the Marshal co-heirs), 110-111 (Chepstow) (the barony of Chepstow, co. Monmouth, formed part of the inheritance of Maud, eldest daughter). Powicke Loss of Normandy (1961): 96, 102, 119, 130-131, 152, 199, 214, 246, 260, 262, 266, 285, 294-296, 302-303, 319-320, 344 (Longueville [Seine-Inferieure, arr. Dieppe] was the caput in Normandy of the honour of Earl Giffard. The division of the lands of Earl Walter in 1191 has already been mentioned. William the Marshal retained possession of Longueville after 1204, and the place was in the hands of his widow and sons in 1219. The honour of Earl Giffard had comprised nearly 100 knights in 1172.), 350. Jenkins Cartulary of Missenden 3 (Bucks Rec. Soc. 12) (1962): 105-106. Sheehy Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 173, footnote 1. Warren King John (1978): 106-107. Painter William Marsha/Knight-Errant, Baron and Regent of England. (1982). VCH Wiltshire 12 (1983): 125-138; 16 (1999): 8-49, 229-236. Duby William Marshal The Flower of Chivalry (1985). Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 225-226 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Pembroke dated 1219), 227 (charter of William Marshal dated ?1189-99). Crouch William Marshal (1990). Carpenter Minority of Henry III (1990). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 477. VCH Gloucester 5 (1996): 413-415. Holden & Gregory Hist. of William Marshal (2002).
Children of William Marshal, Knt., by Isabel de Clare..."
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
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