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| 251 | EARLDOM OF CHESTER (V, 2) RANULPH, styled "DE GERNON," EARL OF CHESTER, also VICOMTE D'AVRANCHES, &C., in Normandy, son and heir. He was born before 1100, in the Castle of Gernon in Normandy. To the detriment of his elder brother of the half blood, William (de Roumare), Earl of Lincoln, he appears to have Iong held a large portion of the profits of the EARLDOM OF LINCOLN. He distinguished himself as a soldier both on the side of the Empress Maud and of that of King Stephen, with the greatest impartiality. He was one of the 5 Earls (h) who witnessed the Charter to Salisbury granted at the Northampton Council of Henry I, 8 September 1131. To Stephen's second "Charter of Liberties" he was, in 1136, a witness, and by him he was made Constable of Lincoln. Against that King, however, he took part at the battle of Lincoln, 2 February 1141, in which Stephen was made prisoner, who retaliated on the Earl 29 August 1146, by seizing him at Court, at Northampton. The King granted him the Castle and city of Lincoln, probably after the pacification of 1151. He married, about 1141, Maud, daughter of Robert, EARL OF GLOUCESTER, by Mabel, daughter and heir of Robert FITZ-HAMOND, lord of Tewkesbury. Having again taken part with King Stephen, and being consequently distrusted by both sides, he died 16 [?17] December 1153, being supposed to have been poisoned by his wife and William Peverell, of Nottingham. He was buried at St. Werburg's, Chester. His widow, who in 1172 founded Repton Priory, co. Derby, died 29 July 1189. [Complete Peerage III:166-7, XIV:170, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (h) The four others were, Robert of Gloucester, William de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, Robert of Leicester and Roger of Warwick. ---------------------------------------------------- Ranulph de Meschines (surnamed de Gernons, from being born in Gernon Castle, in Normandy), Earl of Chester. This nobleman, who was a leading military character, took an active part with the Empress Maud, and the young Prince Henry, against King Stephen, in the early part of the contest, and having defeated the king and made him prisoner at the battle of Lincoln, committed him to the castle of Bristol. He subsequently, however, sided with the king, and finally, distrusted by all, died under excommunication in 1155, supposed to have been poisoned by William Peverell, Lord of Nottingham, who being suspected of the crime, is said to have turned monk to avoid its punishment. The earl m. Maud, dau. of Robert, surnamed the Consul, Earl of Gloucester, natural son of King Henry I, and had issue, Hugh, his successor, named Keveliok, from the place of his birth, in Merionethshire; Richard; Beatrix, m. to Ralph de Malpas. His lordship was s. by his elder son, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Meschines, Earls of Chester] ---------- Ranulf II de Gernons, 4th Earl of Chester, VICOMTE (Viscount) DE BAYEUX, VICOMTE D'AVRANCHES, Ranulf also spelled RANDULF, or RALPH (b. c. 1100--d. Dec. 16, 1153), a key participant in the English civil war (from 1139) between King Stephen and the Holy Roman empress Matilda (also a claimant to the throne of England). Ranulf, nicknamed 'aux Gernons' (i.e. moustaches), played a prominent and vacillating part in the civil war of Stephen's reign, his actions, in common with most of his peers, springing from personal grievances rather than dynastic loyalty or principle. Ranulf's father, Ranulf I, had been granted the earldom of Chester in 1121 after his maternal uncle had drowned in the White Ship disaster (1120) but, in return, had been compelled to surrender Cumberland and his patrimony of Carlisle. The restoration of these lost estates was the mainspring of much of Ranulf II's political life. Inheriting the Chester earldom in 1129, he initially supported Stephen as king after 1135. However, successive treaties between Stephen and King David of Scotland in 1136 and 1139 gave the Scots large tracts of land in Cumberland coveted by Ranulf who reacted by seizing the town and besieging the castle. Ranulf now allied with the Empress Matilda in defeating the king at Lincoln in February 1141, capturing and briefly imprisoning Stephen. Ranulf's association with the Angevin party was cemented by his marriage in 1141 to the daughter of Robert of Gloucester. Later (1149) he transferred his allegiance to the king in return for a grant of the city and castle of Lincoln. Coventry received its original charter from him. However, his territorial ambitions were no closer realisation as the king of Scots was also a close ally of Matilda. In 1145, Ranulf was reconciled to Stephen. However, there was no love lost between Ranulf and the king's entourage, many of whom had suffered at his hands. In August, 1146, at Northampton, Ranulf was suddenly arrested and put in chains when he refused the king's demand to restore all lands he had taken. He was only released when he surrendered all former royal property, including Lincoln. Stephen's arrest of Ranulf was a public relations disaster. He had broken his oath of reconciliation of 1145 and his own promise of protection, thus deterring any more defections from the Angevin faction. Stephen had breached a central tenet of effective medieval rule, that of being a good -- i.e. fair -- lord. Ranulf joined Henry FitzEmpress and was reconciled with David of Scotland who, in return for the lavish grant to Ranulf of most of Lancashire, retained Carlisle. But Ranulf was never a party man. His priorities remained centred on his own territorial and dynastic advantage, as shown by his 'conventio' with a leading royalist baron Robert of Leicester (1149/53). Under this treaty, the two magnates, independently of their rival liege-lords Stephen and Henry FitzEmpress, agreed to limit any hostilities forced between them by their masters and to protect their respective tenurial positions. Ranulf's career, notorious for his arrest in 1146, is more significant as evidence that the drama of high politics was played against a dense background of baronial competition for rights, lands, and inheritances which took precedence over any claims of royalty. [Encyclop | Of Chester, 4th Earl Ranulph (I54864)
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| 252 | EARLDOM of CORNWALL William de Mortain, Earl of Cornwall, also Count of Mortain, son and heir. He appears to have been b. before 1084, and to have coveted the Earldom of Kent, held by his uncle, Eudes (1067-97), and, being disappointed thereof, to have rebelled, with Robert de Belleme, against the King in Normandy, in an endeavor to recover that Duchy for Robert, the King's elder brother. They were defeated and taken prisoners, 24 Apr 1106, at Tinchebray, when, being attainted, his honours became forfeited. He m. Adilidis. After many years' imprisonment, he became a Cluniac monk, in 1140, at Bermondsey, where he d., probably sp. [Complete Peerage, III:418-9] | De Mortaigne, William (I70596)
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| 253 | EARLDOM OF DUNBAR (II) GOSPATRIC DE DUNBAR, EARL [SCT], son and heir, who, as "Gospatricus Comes," witnesses a charter of 1140. He was founder of the Cistercian nunneries at Coldstream and Eccles, co. Berwick. He married Derdere. He died I166. [Complete Peerage IV:505, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] | Dunbar, Sir Gospatric III (I70484)
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| 254 | EARLDOM OF FIFE (SCT) (IV) Duncan [MacDuff?], Earl of Fife, son and heir [of Gillemichel], is said to have been Regent of Scotland in 1153. He d. 1154. [Complete Peerage V:373] | Of Fife, Earl Duncan Macduff (I70462)
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| 255 | EARLDOM OF LINCOLN (II, 1) WILLIAM DE ROUMARE, Seigneur of Roumare (near Rouen), son of Roger FITZGEROLD, by Lucy, "the Countess," was born circa 1096. In 1118 he held Neufmarch | De Roumare, Earl William (I70323)
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| 256 | EARLDOM OF PEMBROKE (IV) 1185 and 1189 or 1199? ISABEL, suo jure COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE, sister and heir. She married William MARSHAL, 4th son of John FITZGILBERT, styled also JOHN THE MARSHAL, being 2nd son by his 2nd wife, Sibyl, sister of Patrick DE SALISBURY, 1st EARL OF WILTSHIRE, and daughter of Walter DE SALISBURY, hereditary sheriff of Wilts and constable of Salisbury Castle, by Sibyl, da. of Patrick DE CHAOURCES [CHAWORTH]. He was born probably in 1146. In 1152 his father gave him as hostage to Stephen at the siege of Newbury, but in spite of the Marshal's bad faith, the King spared the child. At a later date, his father sent him to William de Tancarville, hereditary Master Chamberlain of Normandy, with whom he remained for 8 years as a squire. In 1167 he returned to England and attached himself to his uncle, the Earl of Salisbury, with whom he proceeded early in 1168 to Poitou, where Patrick was ambushed and slain and William was wounded and captured. Eventually he was ransomed by Queen Eleanor and returned to England, where he was chosen by Henry as a member of the Young King's household. In 1173 he was knighted at Drincourt by Tancarville, and supported the Young King in his rebellion against Henry II. Young Henry chose William to knight him, and on his deathbed (11 June 1183) he charged William to carry his cross to the Holy Sepulchre. When William returned to England circa 1187, the King made him a member of his household. In 1188 and 1189 William was with Henry in France, and in the retreat to Fresnay-sur-Sarthe he checked the pursuit by the King's rebel son and heir by killing Richard's horse with his spear. He was at Henry's deathbed in Chinon, and escorted the body to Fontevrault. Richard at once took him into favour and gave him in marriage Isabel, suo jure COUNTESS OF STRIGOIL or PEMBROKE, whereupon, according to contemporary chroniclers, William was styled EARL OF STRIGOIL. At the Coronation (3 September 1189) he bore the gold sceptre with the cross; and shortly afterwards he was appointed one of the subordinate justiciars under Longchamp. Before September 1190 he had fined for 2,000 marks for a moiety of the lands of Walter Giffard, sometime Earl of Buckingham, whereby he became Lord of Longueville and obtained a great addition to his wife's vast estates. When the Archbishop of Rouen superseded Longchamp in October 1191, William became his chief assistant; and when John revolted in 1193, William besieged and took Windsor Castle. In March 1193/4 he succeeded his brother as hereditary Master Marshal, and in the modest family estates; and hurrying from the funeral rites to join the King, he took part in the siege of Nottingham Castle. From 1194 to 1199 he was mostly with Richard in Normandy. One of Richard's last acts was to appoint him custodian of Rouen and the royal treasure there; and after the King's death William persuaded Archbishop Walter to support John, who sent him to England, where he obtained the support of the magnates at a meeting in Northampton. He was present at the Coronation of John on 27 May 1199, on which day the King girt him with the sword of the Earldom of Pembroke, whereby he became (if he was not already) EARL OF PEMBROKE. On 20 April 1200 he was confirmed in his office of Marshal; and in May he was a surety for the peace with France. He served John actively in Gascony, England, and Normandy; and on 22 April 1202 he was appointed constable of the castle of Lillebonne. In 1204 he invaded Wales and captured Kilgerran. Returning to Normandy, he did homage to the King of France for his lands in the Duchy. In June 1205 the Marshal joined the Archbishop of Canterbury in forcing the King to abandon his projected expedition to Poitou. From 1207 to 1213 he spent most of his time in Ireland. In April 1213 John's desperate position drove him to recall William, and on 15 May 1213, he witnessed 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. In 1215 he supported John and was one of his representatives at Runnymede. He was one of the executors of John's will, was present when Henry III was crowned at Gloucester, and was unanimously chosen Regent at a Council held in Bristol on 11 November 1216. On 20 May 1217 he routed the French and the rebel Barons at Lincoln. Some months later he besieged London, and on 11 September he concluded the treaty of Lambeth with Louis. In May 1219, on his death-bed, he committed the young King to the care of the Papal Legate. He founded an Austin priory at Cartmel (Lancs), a Cistercian abbey on the shore of Bannow Bay in Ireland, and priories at Wexford, Duisk and Kilkenny. He was a benefactor to the chapter of Lisieux, the abbeys of Foucarmont, Gloucester, Tintern, Nutley and St. Thomas, Dublln, the priories of Longueville, Bradenstoke, Pembroke, Pill, and Stanley, Holy Trinity and St. Kevin, Dublin, the Templars and other religious bodies. He married, in August 1189, in London, Isabel, only legitimate daughter and heir (after her brother's death in childhood) of Richard (FITZGILBERT), 2nd EARL OF PEMBROKE, by Eve, daughter of Dermot MACMURROUGH, King of Leinster. He died 14 May 1219, at Caversham, and was buried in the Temple Church, London. His widow died 1220, and was buried at Tintern Abbey. [Complete Peerage X:358-64, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] | De Clare, Countess Isabel (I4421)
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| 257 | Earldom of Pembroke: His [Gilbert's] son the 2nd Earl of Pembroke ("Strongbow") was instigator of the Anglo-Norman/Cambro-Norman incursion into Ireland in 1169 or 1170. Pembroke himself managed to subdue Leinster. His daughter and ultimately heiress married William (the) Marshal, who was created Earl of Pembroke in 1199 by King John, though he may already have had some kind of status as Earl of Pembroke in right of his wife. [Burke's Peerage] | De Clare, Earl Richard Justiciar Of Ire. (I21769)
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| 258 | EARLDOM OF ROSS [SCT] (IV, 2) WILLIAM (DE ROSS), 4th EARL OF ROSS [SCT], son and heir, was one of the Scottish magnates who, in 1258, made an alliance with Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, against England. In 1262 he led an invasion of the Isles. He is said to have had a grant of Lewis and Skye from Alexander III. He married Jean, daughter of William COMYN, afterwards justiciary of Scotland (in right of his 2nd wife, EARL OF BUCHAN), by his 1st wife Sarah, younger daughter and coheir of Robert FITZHUGH. He died in May 1274, at Earl's Allan. [Complete Peerage XI:143, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] Note: I have not been able to find "Earl's Allan"; however Bill Bradley, World Connect db=hwbradley, a respected contributor to soc.genealogy.mediveal, states that it is in Aberdeenshire. | Of Ross, Sir William (I70141)
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| 259 | EARLDOM OF ROSS [SCT] (V, 3) WILLIAM (DE ROSS), 5th EARL OF ROSS [SCT], son and heir, was "made erll" on Whitsunday (10 May) 1274. He was one of the magnates [SCT] who, at Scone in February 1283/4, swore to maintain the claim of the Maid of Norway to the Scottish crown; and in March 1289/90 was a member of the assembly of prelates and magnates at Brigham, who urged upon Edward I [ENG] the marriage of the Maid to his son. He swore fealty to Edward, 3 August 1291, at Berwick; in 1292 was one of the auditors named by Balliol as Competitor, and witnessed his fealty to Edward at Norham in November. In 1294 he was among the Scots summoned by Edward (as overlord) for service in Gascony. He took part in the Scottish raid into England, which, in 1296, laid siege to Carlisle and burnt Hexham priory; in April he was among the prisoners taken in Dunbar Castle, and sent to the Tower of London. In 1305 he was P.C. [SCT] to the Lieutenant of the English King, and Warden beyond Spey; in 1306, keeper of the see of Caithness (a). He was amongst the Scottish magnates whom, in May 1308, Edward II thanked for their good service, in a letter which must have crossed, on the road, a plea for help, saying that he and his son Hugh had been obliged to make a truce till Whitsuntide with Brus, who had threatened a descent upon Ross, Sutherland and Caithness. Help from England did not arrive, and in October the Earl did fealty to Brus at Auldearn in Moray. Thereafter he appears to have been loyal to that oath, witnessing an agreement between Scotland and Norway in 1312, and joining in the letter of the Scottish magnates to the Pope, which asserted the independence of Scotland, in 1320. He married Eupheme. He died 28 January 1322/3 at Delny (e). [Complete Peerage XI:143-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (a) In 1306 he violated the sanctuary of St. Duthac at Tain, to seize the Scottish Queen and her daughter Marjory, whom he sent as prisoners to Edward I. (e) His 2nd son John m. the younger niece and coheir of John Comyn, Earl of Buchan. On John's death, s.p., a moiety of the Earldom of Buchan came to his nephew, William, Earl of Ross. The Earl's youngest son Walter was a scholar at Cambridge in 1307. | Of Ross, Sir William (I70140)
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| 260 | EARLDOM OF ROSS [SCT] (VI, 4) HUGH (DE ROSS), 6th EARL OF ROSS [SCT], son and heir, was godson to Alexander III [SCT]. After having brought relief to the English garrison of Urquhart Castle, he received a safe-conduct to visit his father in prison, August 1297. Under the indenture of 1303, he entered the service or Edward I. In December 1307 he was among the Scottish magnates whom Edward II [ENG] directed to keep the peace, and in 1308 he received that King's thanks for his good service. Failing help from England, for which his father and he had appealed, he made his peace with Brus. He was knighted before 5 December 1315. As Hugh de Ros he was one of the guarantors, required by England, of the truce made 1 June 1323, having been "made Erll" on 17 March preceding; and, by special command of King Robert, he swore to maintain the marriage contract between Prince David [SCT] and the Princess Joan of England, 1328. He married, [? 1stly], Maud, daughter of Robert DE BRUS, jure uxoris EARL OF CARRICK (by his 1st wife Margaret, suo jure COUNTESS OF CARRICK) and sister of ROBERT I [SCT] (e). She, who was living in September 1323, was buried at Fearn. He married, [? 2ndly], some time before 1329 (g), Margaret GRAHAM, said to be daughter of Sir David GRAHAM (h). He was killed, in command of the reserve at the battle of Halidon Hill, 19 July 1333; and was buried at Fearn. His widow married, 2ndly (dispensation, 13 April 1340], John DE BARCLAY. [Complete Peerage XI:144-5, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (e) At the unknown date of this charter, he was already a knight. 'Breve Cron'., p. 319, says that their son William was b. before their marriage. (g) When dispensation and legitimation of past and future offspring were granted, 29 Nov. (h) Sir David was of Old Montrose, which he acquired by exchange with Robert de Brus.] | Of Ross, Sir Hugh (I70139)
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| 261 | EARLDOM OF STRATHEARN (IX, 1) MAURICE MORAY of Drumsargard, co. Lanark, said to be son of Sir John MORAY of the same, possibly by Mary, daughter of Malise, 7th EARL OF STRATHEARN [SCT], but more probably by an earlier wife,(i) was one of the Scottish leaders who in August 1335 rejected the terms of peace then offered and continued in resistance to Edward III. His lands in Ballencrieff were in the King's hands through his forfeiture, 1335-37; and his forfeited barony of Drumsargard, &c., was granted by Balliol to Sir Anthony de Lucy, 2 December 1336, Maurice being then an enemy and a rebel. He was Sheriff of Clydesdale and took part in the siege and capture of Perth in 1339; was present in Parliament [SCT], 17 and 22 September 1341; Keeper of Stirling Castle, on its surrender by the English, April 1342. He was created, 9 February 1343/4, EARL OF STRATHEARN [SCT], and appears as Earl on the Roll of that Parliament [SCT], June 1344, in which the resignation of Earl Malise (in 1332) was confirmed. He married (dispensation 11 July 1339) Joan, widow of John (CAMPBELL), EARL OF ATHOLL [SCT] (killed at Halidon Hill, 19 July 1333), and before that of Malise, 7th EARL OF STRATHEARN [SCT] (died before 1329), daughter of Sir John MENTEITH of Rusky. He died s.p.m., being slain at the battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346, when the Earldom became extinct. His widow married, as his 2nd wife (post nuptial dispensation 9 November 1347), William (SUTHERLAND), 5th EARL OF SUTHERLAND [SCT], who died about 1370. She was living, 20 March 1366/7, but the date of her death is not known. [Complete Peeragte XII/1:387-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] [i] His parentage is not known with certainty. If Mary of Strathearn married his presumed father, Sir John Moray, about 1319-22, as is thought, when she and her husband had charter of the lands of Abercairney from her father, the 7th Earl, confirmed by her brother, the 8th Earl, about 1330, she can hardly have been the mother of grown men in 1335. When Maurice Moray had dispensation for his marriage with Joan, Countess of Strathearn and widow of the 7th Earl, 11 July 1339, no mention is made of this Earl, who, if Mary was Maurice's mother, would have been his grandfather. | Moray Of Strathearn, Sir Maurice (I69999)
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| 262 | EARLDOM OF STRATHEARN [SCT] (I) (a) MALISE, probably Mormaer of Strathearn, witnessed, circa 1120, King Alexander's foundation-charter of Scone as Mallus comes; and as Malise Comes he also witnessed, circa 1128, King David's charter to Dunfermline Abbey. He may therefore be regarded as EARL OF STRATHEARN [SCT]. He was present at the dedication of the church of Glasgow, 11 July 1136; and fought under King David at the battle of the Standard, 22 August 1138. He was living on 14 June 1141. The name of his wife is not recorded. [Complete Peerage XII/1:380, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (a) In the preparation of this article extensive use has been made of The Scots Peerage. Strathearn, with Menteith, in the southern part of Perthshire, formed the ancient Pictish kingdom of Fortrenn, which later became a Province and, as Strathearn and Menteith, a Mormaership. Before 1163 the two districts became divided and each formed one of the seven original Earldoms of Scotland. | Of Strathearn, Sir Malise (I71280)
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| 263 | EARLDOM OF STRATHEARN [SCT] (II) FERTETH, or FERQUHARD, EARL OF STRATHEARN [SCT], probably son and heir, is thought to have had a principal share in the erection of the diocese of Strathearn, afterwards Dunblane, in or before 1155. In 1160, with five other of the old Celtic Earls, he headed an unsuccessful rebellion against King Malcolm IV, besieging him in the castle at Perth. He married, before 1150, Ethen, whose parentage is not known. He died before December 1170, probably in 1170. [Complete Peerage XII/1:380, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] | Of Strathearn, Sir Ferquhard (I71278)
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| 264 | EARLDOM OF STRATHEARN [SCT] (III) GILBERT, EARL OF STRATHEARN [SCT], son and heir, was born in or before 1150. As Gilbert, son of Earl Ferteth, he witnessed a charter by King Malcolm to the monks of Scone at Stirling in 1164; and he was probably the Earl Gilbert named as justiciary about 1190. He founded the Abbey of Inchaffray in 1200; was one of the Seven Earls who took measures for the Coronation of King Alexander II at Scone, 6 December 1214; and attended the funeral of his father, William the Lion, at Arbroath, 4 days later. He married, 1stly, Maud, daughter of William D'AUBIGNY, which Maud was living in 1210. He married, 2ndly, Ysende, sister of Sir Richard and Geoffrey of Gask. He died in 1223. aged about 73. [Complete Peerage XII/1:381, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] | Of Strathearn, Sir Gilbert (I71276)
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| 265 | EARLDOM OF STRATHEARN [SCT] (IV) ROBERT, EARL OF STRATHEARN [SCT], 4th but 1st surviving son and heir by 1st wife, was a witness to his father's charters to Inchaffray, 1199-1220, being described as son and heir in that of 1210. He witnessed the pact made between Alexander II of Scotland and Henry III of England, in the presence of the Papal Legate at York, September 1237. He died before August 1244. His widow, whose name is not recorded, was living in 1247. [Complete Peerage XII/1:381-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] Note: According to CP, Robert was 3rd son, Gilchrist (the eldest) d. 5 Oct 1198; Willian (the 2nd) d. in or bef. 1210. | Of Strathearn, Sir Robert (I71275)
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| 266 | Edward (Sir); inherited from great nephew as Marshal; married by July 1305 Isabel, daughter of Alexander de Synton, and was probably killed at the Battle of Neville's Cross 17 Oct 1346, leaving [Sir William], with a son (Edward, married Christian, daughter of Margaret, Countess of Mar). [Burke's Peerage] Click here for Photo of Dunnottar Castle (use browser back arrow to return) | Keith, Sir Edward (I70090)
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| 267 | EDWARD OF SALISBURY, styled also Edward the Sheriff, whose parentage is unknown (b), was born ante 1060, it is said in England. He was sheriff of Wiltshire so early as February 1080/1. In 1086 he held in chief 33 manors in Wilts, as well as smaller estates in Surrey, Hants, Dorset, Somerset, Middlesex, Bucks, Oxfordshire and Herts, being styled in D.B. "Edwardus Sarisburiensis." He survived the Conqueror. He m. Unknown of whom nothing is known (e). [Complete Peerage XI:373-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] [b] According to the Book of Lacock, he was the son of Walter le Ewrus, Earl of Rosmar, a fictitious person, and brother of Gerold, Earl of Rosmar, born in Normandy before the Conquest (Dugdale, Mon., Vol. vi, p. 501). The nickname "le Ewrus" [=I'heureux, or the fortunate) was converted into "de Evreux" by later writers, with the result that the family has been given the name of Devereux and has been tacked on to the Norman Counts of Evreux (see the tabular pedigree given by Planch | De Salisbury, Edward (I70921)
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| 268 | Egidia (or Jill) de Burgh; m. James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland, b. c 1243, d. 1309. [Magna Charta Sureties] -------------------- Jill du Bourg (Egidia de Burgo), daughter of Walter, 1st Earl of Ulster. [Burke's Peerage] | De Burgh, Egidia (Jill) (I69987)
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| 269 | Eleanor, only sister of 1st Earl of Douglas and widow of Alexander Bruce, 1st and last Earl of Carrick of the c1330 creation. [Burke's Peerage, p. 2831] Note: There is some confusion in Burke's Peerage as to Eleanor's ancestry. Pages 2831 & 418 name her "only sister of 1st Earl of Douglas". Yet page 2325 states that she is an illegitimate daughter of the 1st Earl by Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus in her own right. I think her birth date precludes her being daughter of Margaret Stewart. ------------------------- He [Alexander de Bruce] m. Eleanor, only sister of William, 1st Earl of Douglas, daughter of Archibald Douglas, Regent of Scotland, by Beatrice, daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay, of Crawford. He d. as aforesaid, spm., 19 July 1333. His widow m. before 1349, James Sandilands, of Calder, who d. before 1358; 3rdly, before 1364 (and probably before 1361), William Towers, of Dalry; 4thly, before 1368, Sir Duncan Wallace, of Sundrum; and 5thly and lastly (as his 2nd wife, dispensation granted 18 Mar 1376), Sir Patrick Hepburn, of Hales, who was living in 1402, being then above 80 years old. [Complete Peerage III:57] | Douglas, Eleanor (I69945)
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| 270 | Elizabeth de Burgh, d. 26 Oct 1327, daughter of Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, son of Walter de Burgh and Avalina Fitz John, and his wife Margaret, d. 1304. [Magna Charta Sureties] | De Burgh, Elizabeth (I69974)
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| 271 | Elizabeth St. Michael, in her free widowhood, resigns her lands of Whitchester, in the parish of Hawick and County of Roxburgh, into the hands of her superior, Archibald, Earl of Douglas,in 1399, and he immediately afterwards grants a charter of the same lands to her and her husband, Sir John De Maxwell of Pollok. The family she represented was one of considerable note and antiquity. Robert St. Michael is witness to a charter to Helias, son of Uchtred de Dundas ante 1153. In 1183, Henry Lovel,lord of Hawick, grants to the Chapter of St. Andrew's two oxengangs of land in Branxholm, formerly held by Walter de St. Michael. William de St. Michael witnesses charters 1185 and 1200. Robert de St Michael left a son, Elmeras, who, about the year 1240, resigns Ylistoun (at this period the Kers already hold a part of Ylistoun) to the abbot of Dryburgh; 1249, John de St. Michael is one of the witnesses of a charter of Agnes de Ilifistun to the abbey of Melrose; and Sir John de St.Michael and John de St.Michael, both of the county of Roxburgh, swore fealty to Edward I, at Berwick-upon-Tweed. [from Notes on the Family of Kerr in Scotland- Herald and Genealogist] | St. Michael, Elizabeth (I70038)
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| 272 | Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Mure, of Rowallan, co. Ayr, and Joan Cunningham. [Magna Charta Sureties] | Mure, Elizabeth (I69933)
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| 273 | Elizabeth/Isabel, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Seigneur of Montfort l'Amaury. [Burke's Peerage] -------------------------- He [Ralph de Toeni] m. Isabel or Elizabeth, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Seigneur of MONTFORT L'AMAURY (France) (a), by his 1st wife, said to be Isabel, daughter of Hugh BARDOUL, SEIGNEUR OF BROZES. He died 24 March, probably in 1101/2, and was buried at Conches. Isabel, after a long widowhood, repenting of the fatal wantonness to which she had been too much addicted in her youth, took the veil at the priory of Haute-Bruy | De Montfort, Elizabeth (Isabel) (I70909)
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| 274 | Elizabeth; married Sir William Douglas of that Ilk, called "The Bold" (died a prisoner of the English in the Tower of London 1298). [Burke's Peerage] | Stewart, Elizabeth (I69888)
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| 275 | Emma, daughter of Herluin de Conteville and Herleve (or Harlotte) his wife, who (by Robert, Duke of Normandy) was mother of William "the Conqueror". [Complete Peerage] | De Conteville, Emma (I53448)
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| 276 | Emma, daughter of William Fitz Osbern, a Companion of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, 1066, Earl of Hereford. [Ancestral Roots] | Fitzosbern, Emma (I70902)
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| 277 | Eoghin/Hugh; hereditary Abbot of Aberneth, on the River Tay. [Burke's Peerage] | Of Abernethy, Eoghin Hugh (I70499)
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| 278 | Eoin, Lord of Lorn, Chief of Clan Dougall (heir of the local dynasts of Argyll). [Burke's Peerage] | Macdougal, John (Eoin) (I69970)
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| 279 | Eschyne de Molle (widow of Robert de Croc), probably daughter of Thomas of the Lundins and sister of Malcolm, 1st hereditary Doorward of Scotland. [Burke's Peerage] | De Molle, Eschyne (I70434)
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| 280 | Eupheme (died 1387), daughter of Hugh, 4th Earl of Ross, and widow of John, 3rd Earl of Moray (killed at Neville's Cross 1346). [Burke's Peerage] | Ross, Euphemia Of (I70010)
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| 281 | EUSTACE FITZJOHN, brother and heir male, was born before 1100. He became possessed of his father's manor of Saxlingham and made a further gift of 20s. therefrom to Gloucester Abbey. Like his brothers he became a trusted officer of Henry I. He first appears as a witness to a royal charter before 1120 (1116-19), after which he constantly attests Henry I's charters, &c. In 1130 he and William de Luvetot were keepers of Tickhill Castle and the Honor of Blyth, and Eustace farmed Aldborough and Knaresborough. He was acting then as a Justice itinerant in the north, usually with Walter Espec. He is said to have become an intimate friend of Henry I, who granted him large estates and made him Constable of Bamburgh Castle. In consequence of his 1st marriage, he held Alnwick Castle in Northumberland and Malton Castle in Yorkshire. He was at Stephen's Easter court at Westminster in 1136 and later was with him at Clarendon. When Stephen advanced against the King of Scots early in 1138 and pursued him across the border, Eustace was in his army; but the King, hearing that some of his barons were traitors, arrested Eustace, and deprived him of the command of the castles which Henry had entrusted to him. Angered by this treatment Eustace, when the King of Scots invaded England later in the year, joined him and marched with him into Yorkshire, where he put David in possession of Malton Castle. At the Battle of the Standard, 22 August 1138, he fought in David's army, in Prince Henry's division beside the men of Cumberland and Teviotdale, but he was wounded and escaped with difficulty to his castle. In or before 1139 he became Constable of Chester in right of his 2nd wife. In 1139, when peace had been concluded between England and Scotland and Stephen had given Northumberland to Prince Henry, the Prince confirmed to Eustace all the grants which he had received from Henry I and made him further grants of lands. Eustace was evidently reconciled to Stephen, as he was with the King at Stamford before Easter 1142. During the remainder of the reign he seems to have remained quiescent, living as a great baron of the north, where he even coined his own silver pennies. On 30 November 1143 he was one of those who arranged a truce between the rival bishops of Durham. He is also found attesting, as Constable of Chester, charters of the Earls of Chester. In February 1154/5 he was probably with Henry II at York; about June 1157 he was with him at Waltham; and in the following month he took part in the King's expedition into North Wales. He founded Alnwick Abbey for Premonstratensian canons, and between 1147 and 1154 he founded Gilbertian Convents at Watton and Malton. He was a benefactor to the Abbeys of Gloucester, Fountains, and Bridlington. He married, 1stly, Beatrice, only daughter and heir of Yves DE VESCY, lord of Alnwick and Malton, by [it is said] "Alda" only daughter and heir of William Tyson, also lord of Alnwick and Malton. She died in childbirth. He married, 2ndly, Agnes, elder sister and coheir of William and daughter of William FITZNEEL, both Barons of Halton in the palatinate of Chester and Constables of Chester. Eustace died in July 1157, being slain when part of Henry II's army was ambushed in the pass of Consyllt, near Basingwerk, in North Wales. His widow married Robert FITZCOUNT, apparently an illegitimate son of an Earl of Chester. He became Constable of Chester jure uxoris and died in or before 1166. [Complete Peerage XII/2:272-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] -------------------------------- James Tait ("Knight-Service in Cheshire" [English Historical Review 57], 450) says that after William, son of William FitzNigel died without issue, Earl Ranulph granted the constableship to Eustace FitzJohn, husband of Agnes, eldest sister and coheiress of William II. The actual charter by which Earl Ranulph granted the honor is printed in _A Medieval Miscellany for Doris Mary Stenton_[Pipe Roll Society, 1962] uder the authorship of Geoffrey Barraclough ("Some charters of the Earls of Chester"), 28-9. Barraclough states that Eustace fitz John's first wife, the heiress of Ivo de Vesci, died in childbirth, and that he then married Agnes, sister of William, constable of Chester, who succeeded his father [the Domesday baron] in the barony of Halton about 1130. After William [II] died childess, his inheritance was divided between his two sisters, Agnes, and Matilda, wife of Albert Grelley, lord of Manchester. At one point, when Earl Ranulf was 'at loggerheads' with King David of Scotland, Eustace had sided with Scotland (remember, this was during the reign and struggle of King Stephan). After the battle of Lincoln (2 Feb. 1141), Ranulf was forced into league with the Empress Matilda against Stephan, and the Earl and Eustace were again on the same side. The date of the charter by which Eustace fitz John succeeded to the constableship is estimated to be about 1144-5. He would not have granted it to an enemy,and the grant specifically states it was hereditary ("Eustachius et heredes sui"). Eustace was also a Justice itinerant, commanded Scottish troops against Stephen at the battle of Standard in 1138, and founded the Abbeys of Alnwick, Old Malton and Watton. He was slain in Wales in 1157. -------------------------------- Eustace Fitz-John (nephew and heir of Serlo de Burgh, founder of Knaresborough Castle), one of the most powerful of the northern barons and a great favourite with King Henry I. With his two brothers, he was a witness to the foundation of the abbey of Cirencester, co. Gloucester, 1133. He m. 1st, Agnes, eldest dau. of William Fitz Nigel, Baron of Halton, constable of Chester. By this lady he acquired the Barony of Halton, and had an only son, Richard Fitz-Eustace. Eustace Fitz-John m. 2ndly, Beatrice, only dau. and heiress of Yvo de Vesci, Lord of Alnwick, in Northumberland, and of Malton, in Yorkshire, by whom he had issue, William, progenitor of the great baronial house of de Vesci. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 121, Clavering, Barons Clavering] --------------------------------- Eustace Fitz-John, nephew and heir of Serlo de Burgh (of the great family of Burgh), the founder of Knaresborough Castle, in Yorkshire, and son of John, called Monoculus, from having but one eye, is said by an historian of the period in which he lived, to have been "one of the chiefest peers of England," and of intimate familiarity with King Henry I, as also a person of great wisdom and singular judgment in councils. He had immense grants from the crown and was constituted governor of the castle of Bamburg, in Northumberland, temp. Henry I, of which governorship, however, he was deprived by King Stephen, but he subsequently enjoyed the favour of that monarch. He fell the ensuing reign, anno, 1157, in an engagement with the Welsh, "a great and aged man, and of the chiefest English peers, most eminent for his wealth and wisdom." By his first wife, the heiress of Vesci, he had two sons, and by Agnes, his 2nd wife, dau. of William FitzNigel, Baron of Halton, and constable of Chester, he left another son, called Richard Fitz-Eustace. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 555, Vesci, Barons Vesci] | Fitzjohn, Eustace (I71250)
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| 282 | Flaald or Fleald; living 1080; active on the Welsh border c1101. [Burke's Peerage] ----------------------------------------------- FLAALD Dapifer, the second son of ALAN "Dapifer", occurs as "Float filius Alani dapiferi" at the dedication of Monmouth Priory 1101. He is also mentioned as brother of Alan, the other "Dapifer." He left a son ALAN , Sheriff of Shropshire. Notes for Fledaldus or Flaald: Flaad, Dapifer, obtained the Castle of Oswaldster from William the Conqueror. Flaad moved to Scotland when King David I of Scotland claimed the throne. Flaad created the Steward of Scotland and granted extensive estates in Renfrewshire and East Lothian. His name occurs as "Float filius Alani dapiferi." Hereditary Steward of Dol in Brittany. In the early 1100s he was Baron of St. Florent, Saumur (in the diocese of Angers), and his eaerly forebears were the Counts of Brittany, who were kin to the Merovingian Kings of the Franks. | Senescal Of Dol, Fledaldus (I58139)
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| 283 | Following from Leo van de Pas in a posting to soc.genealogy.medieval newsgroup, 23 Feb 1999: I found the following about Joan bastard of England, after her death she was buried at Llanfaes but, at the dissolution of the monastery, her coffin was removed. In the 19th century it was discovered that it was being used as a horse trough. Rescued from this use, it was placed in Baron Hill Park, near Beaumaris in Anglesey. The most recent location is given as the Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas in Beaumaris. | Plantagenet, Joan Princess Of England (I21541)
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| 284 | For some reason The Complete Peerage, identifies William as the 4th Earl of Pembroke instead of 3rd as many people do, because they have Isabel's brother, Gilbert de Strigoil (another name for Pembroke), as the 3rd Earl, even though he was never invested with the Earldom, having died 6 July 1189 at the age of 16. See large entry from CP mostly about William in my notes for wife Isabel, Countess of Pembroke. ------------------------ Marshal of England Protector of the Realm Regent of the Kingdom The office of Marshal to the king was a hereditary perquisite of a middling Wiltshire family. The duties were various, but mainly they consisted of acting as second-in-command to the constable of the royal household, maintaining order in the palace and guarding it, looking after the stables, keeping the rolls of those who performed their military service, and checking the accounts of various household and state departments. From this family came William Marshal, whose biography was written by his squire John of Earley so providing us with one of the deepest and most fascinating insights into the life of a great baron of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. His father, John Marshal, whom the Gesta Stephani rather unkindly describes as 'a limb of hell and the root of all evil' was a man who loved warfare, and played the game of politics with great success. At first he supported Stephen but, when he began to realise the failings of the King and the potentialities of Matilda's party, he changed sides. Almost immediately he proved by a consummate act of bravery and hardihood, that he was worth having: escorting Matilda to safety in his castle at Ledgershall, John found that the party was going dangerously slowly because Matilda was riding side-saddle, so he persuaded her to ride astride, and stopped behind to delay the pursuers at Wherwell. His force was soon overpowered by the numbers of the enemy, and John took refuge with one of his knights in the Abbey. The opposing party promptly set fire to the church, and John and his knight had to take cover in the tower, John threatening to kill his knight if he made any move to surrender. As the lead of the roof began to melt and drop on the two soldiers, putting out one of John's eyes, the enemy moved off, convinced that they were dead. They escaped, in a terrible state, but triumphant, to John's castle. He plainly expected his children to be as tough as himself, as an incident of the year 1152, when William was about six, will show. King Stephen went to besiege Newbury Castle, which Matilda had given John to defend; the castellan, realising that provisions and the garrison were both too low to stand a long siege, asked for a truce to inform his master. This was normal practice, for if the castellan were not at once relieved, he could then surrender without being held to have let his master down. Now John had not sufficient troops to relieve the castle, so he asked Stephen to extend the truce whilst he, in turn, informed his mistress, and agreed to give William as a hostage, promising not to provision and garrison the castle during the truce. This he promptly did, and when he received word from Stephen that the child would be hung if he did not at once surrender the castle, he cheerfully replied that he had hammer and anvils to forge a better child than William. The child was taken out for execution, but at the last moment Stephen relented with that soft heart that was his undoing, and though his officers presented such enticing plans as catapulting William over the castle walls with a siege engine, he would not give in. Later on he grew attached to the child, and one day when William was playing an elementary form of conkers with the King, using plantains, the child saw a servant of his mother, the lady Sibile (sister of the Earl of Salisbury), peeping in to check up on his safety. William cried out a greeting and the servant had to run for his life. The child did not know what dangers he was running, but it was good and early training for his future career. When he was thirteen William was sent to serve in the retinue of his father's cousin, the chamberlain of Normandy. This was his apprenticeship in knighthood, and was to last eight years. As a squire he would learn by experience all the skills of a knight, and the elaborate code of honour that went with it. After he had been knighted in 1167, he began to go round the tournaments to make his name, and earn a living by the spoils. He was eager for the fray, so eager in fact that in his earliest tournaments he concentrated too much on the fighting, and forgot to take the plunder. He had to be warned by elder and wiser knights of the dangerous folly of such quixotic behaviour---a good war-horse captured from an unseated opponent could fetch | Marshal, Earl William Marshal Of England (I4419)
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| 285 | Fought at Battle of Hastings on Norman side. | De Vesci, Yvo (I71272)
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| 286 | Fought at Battle of Hastings. | D'estuteville, Robert (I70247)
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| 287 | Fought at Battle of Hastings. [Ancestral Roots] ------------------------------ EARLDOM of CORNWALL Robert, Count of Mortain in Normandy, one of the two sons of Herluin de Conteville, by Herleve, mother of William the Conqueror, was b. about 1031. About 1050 he received, from his uterine brother, William, then Duke of Normandy, the comte of Mortain, and was thenceforth known as Count of Mortain. He accompanied William in the invasion of England, where he was in command of the chivalry of the Cotentin at the battle of Hastings, 1066. His share of the spoil was one of the greatest, as, with the exception of the lands of the King and the Church, he received nearly the whole of the county of Cornwall, and is, consequently, usually considered Earl of Cornwall, though only known as Comes Moritoniensis. At the time of Domesday, he was possessed of 797 manors in various counties, besides the borough of Pevensey in Sussex, etc. In 1069 he, with Robert, Count of Eu, defeated the Danes in the parts of Lindsey, with great slaughter. He joined his brother, the Earl of Kent in 1088 in a rebellion against William II in favour of his brother Robert Courthose, but was subsequently pardoned. He m. 1stly, before 1066, Maud, daughter of Robert de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heir of William Talvas (5th son of William de Belleme, Seigneur of Alencon and Belleme). She was buried in the Abbey of Grestain. He m. 2ndly, Almodis. He d. 8 Dec 1090, and was buried with his 1st wife. [Complete Peerage III:427-8 as corrected by XIV:207] | De Mortaigne, Count Robert (I54667)
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| 288 | Fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. ---------------------------- Hamo Dapifer Torigny-sur-Vire: Manche, arr. St-Lo, cant. Torigny. An account of Hamo, who was son of Hamo Dentatus (slain at Val-es-Dunes in 1047), and who was dapifer both to the Conqueror and William Rufus and sheriff of Kent in 1086, is given, together with an account of his sons Hamo and Robert, by D. C. Douglas in "The Domesday Monachorum of Christ Church Canterbury", pp. 55-6, where the relevant authorities are cited. That Hamo dapifer and Hamo the Sheriff were undoubtedly one and the same person is proved by the Kentish returns of 1242-3 in 'The Book of Fees', pp. 654 et seq., when the lands held by the sheriff in 1086 were held by the earl of Gloucester, who was the heir of Hamo dapifer through the marriage of Robert earl of Gloucester with the daughter and heir of Robert, son of Hamo dapifer. [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families] | De Torigny, Sire Hamo Dapifer Crevecouer (I71043)
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| 289 | Founder (1110) Augustinian Abbey of St. Croix at Guincamp, Brittany, France. Founder Cistercian Abbey of Begard, Brittany, France. Held Honour of Richmond in England. --------------------------------------- STEPHEN, a count of Brittany, youngest son of Eudon,[a] succeeded his eldest brother, Geoffrey Boterel I, or Geoffrey's son Conan in the Breton lands, and his brother Alan the Black in the honor of Richmond in England, thus uniting all the possessions of the family, but he appears to have been out of possession of the honor of Richmond for a time during the reign of William II. In March 1101, he was a surety for Henry I for the observance of an alliance with Robert, Count of Flanders, and on 3 September 1101 at Windsor he witnessed charters of the King for Herbert, Bishop of Norwich, and for St. Peter's, Bath. On 30 October 1107 he executed at Lamballe a charter for the abbey of SS. Sergius and Bacchus at Angers, and in 1123 at Guingamp one for the abbey of St. Melaine at Rennes. He was a benefactor of the abbey of St. Mary, York, and in the period 1125-35 confirmed to that house gifts of churches, tithes and lands in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, which formed part of the honor of Richmond. About the year 1110 he and his, wife founded the Augustinian abbey of Ste. Croix at Guingamp, and In 1130 he founded the Cistercian abbey of B | Of Brittany, Count Stephen (I70272)
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| 290 | Freskin, allegedly of Flemish origins, granted large estates by David I, including Strabrock, W Lothian and Duffus, Moray; confirmed in these by royal charter 1166-71; died by 1172. [Burke's Peerage] Notes for Freskin de Moray: All chroniclers agree that Freskin was a Fleming who was in Scotland in the reign of David I, and was initially allotted estates at Strathbrock in West Lothian. He took part in quelling the insurrection of 1130 in Moray, and was thereafter given the task of defending that county and awarded the extensive lands necessary to do so, his headquarters being at Duffus where he built a mighty fortress. Freskin | Of Duffus, Freskin The Fleming (I71244)
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| 291 | From "The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families": William of Arques has been the subject of an exhaustive study by Professor D. C. Douglas in the introduction to his edition "The Domesday Monacharum of Christ Church Canterbury", where full references are given to the authorities; and it is unnecessary to go over the ground again. Briefly he held Folkestone, Kent, and was the son of Godfrey Vicomte of Arques. The identity of the tenant of Folkstone is established by the fact that it passed to Nigel de Monville who had married his daughter and coheiress Emma. He must not be confused with William of Arques, a monk of Moleme who was a counsellor of Robert Curthose, and still less with William, count of Arques, the uncle of William the Conqueror. The ruined castle of Arques-la-Bataille is well known. | D'arques, Vivomte William (I70292)
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| 292 | From c1173 to 1230 successive fathers, sons, and younger brothers called de Briouze were feudal lords of Abergavenny. William de Briouze, the first of them, who derived his name from his lordship of Briouze in Normandy, married the sister and coheir of the 2nd Earl of Hereford (also daughter of 1st Earl) mentioned above, which seems to account for his coming into possession of a lordship in that part of the Welsh marches. [Burke's Peerage] ------------------------------- OWNERS of the LORDSHIP of ABERGAVENNY (X) 1173? William de Briouze (e), Lord of Briouze in Normandy, and of Bramber, Sussex, son and heir of Philip de Briouze, be Aenor, daughter and heir of Juhel son of Alvred, Lord of Barnstaple and Totnes. He married, in or before 1150, Bertha, 2nd sister and coheir of William of Hereford being daughter of Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Gloucester (sic. Earl of Hereford). Sheriff of Hereford, Easter 1173-75, at which earlier date probably he already possessed the Lordship of Over Gwent. He was living in 1179. [Complete Peerage I:21-2, XIV:6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] (e) Briouze-Saint-Gervais (formerly Braiose), arrond. of Argentan, dept. of Orne. His descendants spelt the name Brewes. In some 25 early references to this name, not in charter latin, it appears as Breouse, Breuse, or Brewys (the last of which still exists as a surname), but never as Braose, the form adopted in peerages, for which it seems doubtful if there be any good authority. Note: The above text "1st Earl of Gloucester", which was part of a correction in CP XIV:6, is a mistake; Miles was Earl of Hereford. ------------------------------- William was very fortunate in his marriage to Berta. All of her brothers died young without heirs, so she brought a number of important lordships to the de Braoses in 1166. These included Brecon and Abergavenny. William became Sheriff of Hereford in 1174. His interest in Sussex was maintained as he confirmed the grants of his father and grandfather for the maintenance of Sele Priory and extended St Mary's, Shoreham. See St Mary's, Shoreham, Sussex. William m. Berta, dau. of Milo de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, and co-heir of her brother, William, Earl of Hereford, by whom he acquired Brecknock, with other extensive territorial possessions. He had two sons, William and Reginald, and was s. by the elder. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 72, Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower] | De Braose, William II (I52787)
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| 293 | from Ruthven Clan website: Burke's Peerage reminds us that the Ruthvens were a pretty violent lot, as you might expect from our beginning with a (Swedish?) Viking pirate, Sven, long about the 1100s, who pirated off the E. coast of Scotland. Tired of all that commuting, he settled down in what was to be the St Andrews/Perth area and dispatched the natives for trespassing on their own land. Sven wasn't clearly a born-again Christian, because he named his son, Thor, after a Norse god, from whom we have the day, Thurs-day. (Certainly the later "Christian" Ruthvens didn't behave much better than these guys.) Thor, in turn, had three sons, one of whom took the name, "Ruthven," according to one theory, from the land he lived on. The name, "Ros/rot-fen," means, according to some, "red fen" or, "red swamp." Another theory is that it means "Ros/rot-sven" ("red Swede") from the similar Norse (North)men believed to have been the "Rus" (the Reds!--seriously), founders of Russia in the 8th/9th century. | Of Northumbria, Sweyn (I70220)
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| 294 | From: "Sinclair" Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:04:42 +0200 E.A. Freeman was definitively William's principal panegyrist. He makes no memtion of any St Clair rebels. Hamon was killed Val-es-dunes he was Lord of Creully, Torigny, Evrecy and Thaon. He was not the Comte (Earl) of Corbeil or Mortain. The first three Counts were: 996 to 1032 Mauger de Normandie, comte de Mortain et de Corbeil 1032 to 1048 Guillaume 1er de Normandie, surnomm | De Torigny, Sire Hamo Dentatus Crevecouer (I71029)
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| 295 | From: Thierry Stasser (thierry.stasser@wanadoo.be) Subject: Re: Phillipa de Toulouse, granddaughter of Maud de Montgomery & Robert de Mortain Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval Date: 2003-03-06 12:42:53 PST William IV of Toulouse married Emma, dau of Robert of Mortain, before June 16, 1080 (Histoire G | Of Toulouse, Count Guillaume IV (I53769)
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| 296 | Fulk Paynel, of Dudley, co. Worcester, founder of Tickford Priory near Newport Pagnell, co. Buckingham, living 1130; m. possibly a daughter of William fitz Ansculf, a Domesday tenant with lands in several counties, whose lands Fulk Paynel eventually acquired. [Ancestral Roots] -------------------- The Paynels of Dudley were descended from Fulk Paynel, who was successor of William son of Ansculf, the Domesday tenant of lands in several counties, which included Dudley, co. Worcester, and Newport (Pagnell), co. Buckingham. It is probable that Fulk acquired these lands by marriage with William's daughter, and not unlikely that he was a younger brother of Ralph Paynel metioned above, the two families being closely connected. [Complete Peerage X:320] | Of Dudley, Lord Fulk Paynel (I70311)
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| 297 | Geoffrey the Marshal, son and heir [of Miles], succeeded his father in or before 1070, and with his (unnamed) brother or brothers sold to St. Stephen's, Caen, a strip of cultivated land situated between the 2 branches of the Odon at Venoix and a tenant there. He gave abbot William (1070-79) the land in which the monks had made a channel of the Odon and the claim derived from it. In 1086 he held land in chief at East Worldham, Hants, as Geoffrey the Marshal, and as Geoffrey he held lands at Draycot, Wilts. His wife's name is unknown, but he is presumably father or grandfather of Robert de Venoix, who unsuccessfully claimed the office of Master Marshal against Gilbert the Marshal under Henry I. [Complete Peerage XI:Appendix E:123] | De Venoix, Geoffrey "Le Marshal" (I70966)
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| 298 | GEOFFREY, DUKE OF BRITTANY, married Hawise, daughter of Richard I, DUKE OFNORMANDY, and died in 1008, leaving two sons, Alan and Eudon. During their mother's lifetime the two brothers seem to have been joint rulers of Brittany, but on her death, on 21 February 1034, dissensions broke out between them; peace was restored by a settlement under which Eudon received a territory corresponding roughly to the dioceses of Dol, St. Mialo, St. Brieuc and Tr | Of Brittany, Duke Eudes (I70282)
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| 299 | GEOFFREY, DUKE OF BRITTANY, married Hawise, daughter of Richard I, DUKE OFNORMANDY, and died in 1008, leaving two sons, Alan and Eudon. During their mother's lifetime the two brothers seem to have been joint rulers of Brittany, but on her death, on 21 February 1034, dissensions broke out between them; peace was restored by a settlement under which Eudon received a territory corresponding roughly to the dioceses of Dol, St. Mialo, St. Brieuc and Tr | Of Brittany, Duke Geoffrey I (I70419)
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| 300 | George de Dunbar, 9th Earl of Dunbar/March; referred to in contemporary sources by 1370-90 as Lord of Annandale and the Isle of Man; Warden of the Marches 1372, took command of the Scots at Otterburn 1388, after the death of "Black Douglas"; renounced his allegiance to Robert III 1400 on that King's eldest son and heir the Duke of Rothesay breaking off his engagement to the 9th Earl's daughter Elizabeth, sided with the English and fought for Henry IV at Battles of Homildon Hill (defeat of Scots by "Harry Hotspur" Percy) 1402 and Shrewsbury (against Harry Hotspur, now in rebellion) 1403; after Robert III's death 1406 the 9th Earl negotiated with the Regent a renewal of allegiance to the Scottish Crown; though at the price of the Lordship of Annandale among others possessions. [Burke's Peerage] ---------------- EARLDOM OF MARCH [SCT] (III) EARLDOM OF DUNBAR [SCT] (IX) GEORGE (DUNBAR), EARL OF MARCH, or DUNBAR [SCT], great-nephew and heir male, being son and heir of Sir Patrick DUNBAR, by Isabel, youngest daughter of Thomas (RANDOLPH), EARL OF MORAY [SCT] abovenamed, which Patrick (who was at the battle of Poitiers 19 September 1356, but who died that year in Crete) was son and heir of Sir Alexander Dunbar, brother of the late Earl of March, or Dunbar. He was born about 1336; in the reign of Robert II (1370-90) he is styled Lord of Annandale and Man. A Warden of the Marches, 1372; was at the Parliament, at Scone, 1373, when the succession to the throne [SCT] was settled; accompanied Douglas in his raid into England, after whose death at Otterburn, in 1388, the command of the Scots devolved on him. His daughter, Elizabeth, having been betrothed to the Duke of Rothesay [SCT], the heir apparent to the Crown [SCT], and that prince, disregarding such contract (having married Marjorie Douglas in February 1399/1400), the Earl renounced his allegiance, 25 July 1400, and joined the English, whose King (Henry IV) granted him the forfeited estates of the Lord Bardolf, he having assisted at the battles of Homildon Hill, 14 September 1402, and of Shrewsbury, 23 July 1403. After the death of Robert III in 1406, he treated with the Regent Albany [SCT] for restoration to Scotland. This, however, was not effected without his resigning, to the all powerful Earl of Douglas, the Lordship of Annandale, the Castle of Lochmaben, &c., by charter 2 October 1409. In 1411 he was one of the Commissioners for a truce with England. He married Christian, daughter. of Alan DE SETON (formerly WINTOUN), by Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Alexander SETON, of Seton. She was living 7 March 1401/2. He died about 1416 or 1420, and certainly before 31 Mar. 1423, aged about 80. [Complete Peerage IV:508-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] | Dunbar, Sir George (I70125)
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