Hawisa of Brittany (?)1

F, #4021, d. 1072

Father*Alan III of Brittany1,2 b. c 997, d. 1 Oct 1040
Mother*Bertha of Chartres1 d. 11 Apr 1085
Hawisa of Brittany (?)|d. 1072|p135.htm#i4021|Alan III of Brittany|b. c 997\nd. 1 Oct 1040|p151.htm#i4514|Bertha of Chartres|d. 11 Apr 1085|p151.htm#i4515|Duke Geoffrey of Brittany|b. c 980\nd. 20 Nov 1008|p151.htm#i4516|Hawise o. N. (?)|d. 21 Feb 1034|p151.htm#i4517|Eudes I. of Blois|b. 990\nd. 15 Nov 1037|p122.htm#i3645|Ermengarde of Auvergne|d. a 10 Mar 1042|p122.htm#i3646|

Marriage*1066 Principal=Duke Hoël V of Brittany1 
Death*1072 1,3 

Family

Duke Hoël V of Brittany d. 13 Apr 1084
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 39-23.
  3. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 39-24.

Hildegarde de Beaugency1

F, #4022, d. before 1070

Father*Lanzelin II (?)1 d. 1098, AFT 24 SEP
Mother*Alberga (?)1
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Death*before 1070 1 
Marriage* Principal=Count Fulk IV of Anjou "Rechin"1,2 

Family

Count Fulk IV of Anjou "Rechin" b. 1043, d. 14 Apr 1109
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 119-23.

Phillip de Belmeis1

M, #4023, b. circa 1110, d. before 1154

Father*Walter de Belmeis1,2 b. c 1080
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Birth*circa 1110 1 
Marriage*before 1139 1st=Maud la Meschine1,3,2 
Death*before 1154 2 
Title* Lord of Tong and Donington, Shropshire, and Ashby2 

Family

Maud la Meschine b. c 1120
Children

Last Edited8 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 23.
  3. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 39-27.

Walter de Belmeis1

M, #4024, b. circa 1080

Father*Richard de Beaumeis1,2 b. c 1048
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Birth*circa 1080 of Harrington, Northamptonshire, England1 

Family
Children

Last Edited8 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 23.

Richard de Beaumeis1

M, #4025, b. circa 1048

Father*Robert de Beaumeis1 d. 1070
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Birth*circa 1048 of Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England1 
Note* The family originated in Beaumais-sur-Dive, Normandy. They held fiefdoms of Roger de Montgomery2 
Occupation* Sheriff of Shropshire2 
Name Variation Belmeis2 

Family
Children

Last Edited8 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S341] Lewis C. Loyd, Anglo-Norman Families, p. 13.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 23.

Robert de Beaumeis1

M, #4026, d. 1070

Marriage* 1 
Death*1070 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Pierre de Dreux1

M, #4027, b. 1190, d. 22 June 1250

Father*Robert II (?)1 b. 1154, d. 28 Dec 1218
Mother*Joland de Coucy1 b. c 1168, d. 18 Mar 1222
Pierre de Dreux|b. 1190\nd. 22 Jun 1250|p135.htm#i4027|Robert II (?)|b. 1154\nd. 28 Dec 1218|p112.htm#i3342|Joland de Coucy|b. c 1168\nd. 18 Mar 1222|p112.htm#i3343|Robert I. (?)|b. c 1123\nd. 11 Oct 1188|p112.htm#i3344|Agnes d. Longueville|b. c 1130\nd. 11 Jul 1218|p112.htm#i3345|Rudolph de Coucy|b. c 1139\nd. 1 Nov 1191|p112.htm#i3346|Agnes o. H. (?)|b. c 1142\nd. bt 1168 - 1173|p112.htm#i3347|

Birth*1190 France1 
Marriage*March 1213 Principal=Alix de Thouars1 
Death*22 June 1250 1 

Family

Alix de Thouars b. 1201, d. 21 Oct 1221
Children

Last Edited14 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Sir William Longespée1

M, #4028, b. 1176, d. 7 March 1225/26

 
 

Father*Henry II Curtmantel1,2 b. 5 Mar 1132/33, d. 6 Jul 1189
Mother*Ida de Tony3
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Birth*1176 Woodstock Manor1,4 
Marriage*before September 1197 Principal=Ela d' Evereux5 
Marriage1198 Bride=Ela d' Evereux1,6,7 
Death*7 March 1225/26 Salisbury Castle, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England1,4,7,5 
Burial* Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England1,5 
DNB* Longespée [Lungespée], William (I), third earl of Salisbury (b. in or before 1167, d. 1226), magnate, was the natural son of Henry II and an unknown mother. His contemporary epithet Longespée, or Lungespée, may be a conscious invocation of his namesake, William Longsword, the second duke of Normandy (c.928–942), or the second King William, called Longespée as well as Rufus. He used it himself in several charter attestations, and a sword appears as a rebus on his seal and on those of his sons. More certainly, Longespée's adoption of the coat of arms of his paternal grandfather, Geoffrey Plantagenet, namely azure, six lioncels rampant or, emphasized his descent from the counts of Anjou. Nothing is known of the date or circumstances of his birth, and the sixteenth-century legend that he was the son of Rosamund Clifford (Fair Rosamund; d. 1175/6) is without foundation. Although Longespée later laid claim to the lands of one Roger d'Acquigny, it is equally unlikely that he was son of Ykenai or Hikenai, who according to Walter Map was the mother of another of Henry's bastards, the considerably older Geoffrey Plantagenet (b. 1151?).
Early career
Little is known of Longespée's upbringing or early career, although in a letter of 1220 to Hubert de Burgh he reminded the justiciar that they had been brought up together. He received Appleby, Lincolnshire, from Henry II in 1188, which suggests that by then he had attained his majority. In 1196 his half-brother Richard I gave him in marriage Ela (or Isabel), countess of Salisbury (b. in or after 1190, d. 1261), the infant daughter and heir of William Fitzpatrick, earl of Salisbury. William and Ela had four sons: William (II) Longespée, Richard, a canon of Salisbury, Stephen (d. 1260), a soldier and administrator made seneschal of Gascony in 1253 and lord justice of Ireland in 1259, and Nicholas (d. 1297), bishop of Salisbury from 1291 to 1297. Of four daughters, Isabel married William de Vescy, Petronilla died unmarried, Ela married first Thomas, earl of Warwick (d. 1242), then Philip Basset, and Ida married first Walter Fitzrobert and second William de Beauchamp [see under Beauchamp, de, family].

Salisbury was in close attendance on Richard in Normandy from 1196 to 1198, when he attested charters at Château Gaillard and doubtless gained military experience in the campaigns against Philip Augustus. He was with the king shortly before Richard routed Philip outside Gisors on 28 September 1198, although his presence in the engagement is not recorded. He took part in John's coronation on 27 May 1199, and thereafter was frequently with the king, with whom he seems to have enjoyed most cordial relations. The rolls reveal the two gaming together, and Salisbury received a steady stream of royal favours, from gifts of wine to an annual pension, against which he was frequently lent money by the king. His earldom, however, conferred more status than wealth, for although the barony commanded fifty-six fees and he was custodian of Salisbury Castle, an important royal fortress on which the Angevins expended large sums, he held no castle of his own. Although the king resisted his claim as earl to hold the shrievalty of Wiltshire by hereditary right, he was appointed to this office three times: 1199–1202, 1203–1207, and 1213–1226. In his capacity as sheriff, it was Salisbury's men who besieged the outlaw knight Fulk Fitzwarine in Stanley Abbey in 1202, but Salisbury himself was among those who procured John's pardon for Fitzwarine and his men the following year. Salisbury held a variety of other offices, being custodian of the castle and honour of Eye in February 1205, keeper of Dover Castle, most notably in 1212–13, when French invasion threatened, and sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire from May 1212 to 1216. In 1208, when John moved to anticipate the interdict, Salisbury took custody of the lands of clergy in the diocese of Ely who refused to celebrate mass, and in August 1212 became supervisor of the keeper of the archbishopric of Canterbury. The same year, possibly in order to secure Salisbury's support in a time of increasing political disaffection, John supported his claim to the barony of Trowbridge, which he received in 1213 when the king disseized Henry de Bohun.
Diplomacy and soldiering
Salisbury's diplomatic abilities are reflected in a series of important missions entrusted to him. Early in 1202 he negotiated a treaty between John and Sancho VII, king of Navarre. In 1204, together with the earl marshal, he escorted Llywelyn to the king at Worcester, was among those sent to treat with the king of Scots in November 1205, and accompanied William the Lion to meet John at York in November 1206. In March 1209 he headed an embassy to the princes of Germany on behalf of John's nephew Otto, who was subsequently crowned emperor, and in May 1212 he went on a mission to Ferrand, count of Flanders.

Salisbury's most prominent role, however, was as a military commander of considerable ability on both land and sea. In August 1202, together with William (I) Marshal and the earl of Surrey, he shadowed Philip Augustus's army as it withdrew in close order from the siege of Arques on learning of John's victory at Mirebeau. The lightly armed earls, however, only narrowly escaped capture by a counter-attack led by William des Barres. In 1203, he received back the important castle of Pontorson on the Breton border, which he had earlier exchanged for lands in England, and this, together with his being keeper of the castle of Avranches, suggests a marcher command against Breton attack. With the fall of Normandy he was given command of Gascony in May 1204, and in September made constable of Dover and warden of the Cinque Ports, which offices he retained until May 1206. In June 1205 he sailed to reinforce the garrison of La Rochelle, with the only part of the great force collected by John to see active service. In 1208 he was appointed keeper of the March of Wales, and he accompanied John on the Irish expedition of 1210. In May 1213, together with the counts of Holland and Boulogne, Salisbury led a powerful expeditionary force to aid Count Ferrand against Philip Augustus, the earl himself having been given a magnificent ship by King John. On 30 May the allied force attacked a large French fleet moored off Damme, a little north-east of Bruges, burning many ships but sending a great number back to England laden with arms and provisions. Although Salisbury and the forces which disembarked to raid inland were driven off on 1 June by the arrival of Philip's larger army, the naval victory was significant, and forced the French king to abandon his planned invasion of England. According to the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal Salisbury, with William Marshal and the count of Boulogne, had been instrumental in advising this pre-emptive strike. Earlier that May he was one of the earls who swore that John would observe the papal terms concerning satisfaction to the bishops, and witnessed his declaration of homage to the papal see.

Later in 1213 Salisbury returned to Flanders with troops and a credit of over 20,000 marks. In 1214, as marshal of the king of England, he led the allied forces that recovered almost all of Flanders for Ferrand. At the fateful battle of Bouvines on 27 July 1214 he commanded the right wing of the allied army with Renaud de Dammartin, count of Boulogne. He fought bravely, but was clubbed from his horse by Philippe, the militant bishop of Beauvais, and taken captive. The Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal explicitly absolves him from blame for the failure at Bouvines, stating indeed that the battle was fought against his advice, and that the emperor Otto would have been taken or slain without Salisbury's aid. His release was still being negotiated in February 1215, but he was eventually exchanged for Robert, son of the count of Dreux. Back in England by May he was among those appointed to examine the state of royal castles, but his attempt to prevent London falling to the barons was unsuccessful. Dispatched with a force of Flemish mercenaries against insurgents in Devon, Salisbury succeeded in forcing the rebels to abandon Exeter.
Magna Carta and its aftermath
It is uncertain whether Salisbury was present at Runnymede for the initial negotiations on 15 June, but he was named among those on whose advice Magna Carta had been granted, which suggests he was with John by 19 June. Salisbury received extensive grants from the royal demesne in August in compensation for the honour of Trowbridge, restored to Henry de Bohun by the baronial committee of twenty-five as one of the king's unjust disseisins.

In October 1215 John ordered Salisbury to relieve Oxford and Northampton with a small field force drawn from the garrisons of ten royal castles, but it seems that Falkes de Bréauté led the expedition. Following the fall of Rochester Castle in December Salisbury was one of the commanders left to contain the rebels in London while John led his forces north. With Falkes de Bréauté and Savaric de Mauléon he conducted a punitive chevauchée through the predominantly rebel counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire, and Huntingdonshire. During the ravaging of the Isle of Ely in the early weeks of 1216, however, it was Salisbury who protected the womenfolk from the worst excesses of Walter Buc's Brabançon mercenaries. He rejoined the king and aided him in the siege of Colchester, pledging on John's behalf to observe the surrender terms agreed with the French and baronial garrison, terms which the king subsequently violated.

After Louis's landing on 21 May 1216 Salisbury adhered to John until rapid French gains in the southern counties led the earl to submit to Louis at Winchester in late June. Little credence, however, need be given to the rumour recorded by William the Breton that Salisbury's defection was caused by John's seduction of Countess Ela while Salisbury had been a prisoner in France. Rather, he was prompted by the widely held belief that John's cause was now lost; nevertheless the king was still able to order his lands to be seized by 30 August. Following the death of John (19 October), Salisbury remained in Louis's camp and, according to Wendover, he attempted to persuade Hubert de Burgh to surrender Dover to the French. On 5 March 1217, however, during Louis's absence in France, Salisbury re-entered the king's faith and was absolved from excommunication. He brought with him William Marshal the younger, who was a close friend and ally, and around one hundred lesser men from Wiltshire and the south-west. A considerable blow to Louis, his return had been influenced by the worsening military position of the French, the fact that Henry de Bohun, his rival for the castle and honour of Trowbridge, was one of Louis's leading English supporters, and the regent's promise to him of Sherborne Castle and the counties of Somerset and Devon, simply in return for his ‘homage and service’.

Having witnessed the surrender of Knepp Castle near Shoreham, Salisbury and the younger Marshal laid siege to Winchester, taking the fortified episcopal palace of Wolvesey. On the arrival of the regent they were sent to Southampton, which they took, installing a constable before returning to share in the rich booty which had accrued from the surrender of Winchester (before 14 March). At the battle of Lincoln (20 May 1217) Salisbury commanded the third squadron of the royalist forces, and with the younger William Marshal led the charge through the west gate of the city against the French and English besieging the castle from the south and east. According to the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal the Marshal saved Salisbury from the lance of Robert of Ropsley by felling this assailant, and together they proceeded to engage the count of Perche in front of the cathedral. After the royalist victory Salisbury was rewarded with custody of the city and county of Lincoln ‘by common council’ of the king's supporters, although Ranulf (III) of Chester received the earldom. Later, in 1218, he and the regent partitioned the English manors of the count of Perche who had been killed in the battle; Salisbury gained those of Aldbourne and Wanborough in Wiltshire and adopted the latter as his chief seat in the shire. Salisbury took part with Hubert de Burgh in the naval victory off Sandwich on 24 August, in which the English intercepted a French fleet bringing vital reinforcements to Louis. He was closely involved in the resulting peace negotiations which culminated in the treaty of Lambeth, 12 September, and Louis's departure from the kingdom.
A man of power
From 1217 until his death in 1226 Salisbury enjoyed a position of considerable power, his career epitomizing both the centrifugal and the centripetal forces which so characterized the minority of Henry III. Within his areas of influence he sought to exercise effective local autonomy without the interferences of central government. Between March 1217 and 1219 he tried to make effective the grants of the lordship of Somerset and Dorset and, later, of Alnwick, extorted from the regency, but failed against the power of John's sheriffs. He made repeated efforts to secure Lincoln Castle from the redoubtable Nicola de la Haie, the hereditary castellan, claiming both custody of the castle and wardship of the rich Haie barony in Lincolnshire, since his eldest son, still a minor, was betrothed to Idonea, daughter and heir of Richard de Camville (d. 1217). In May 1220, on the death of Robert of Berkeley, Salisbury seized Berkeley Castle and Robert's lands and chattels in a pre-emptive bid for wardship of his heir, ‘against justice, the custom of the kingdom and the law of the land’, as the earl of Pembroke complained to the justiciar, Hubert de Burgh (Shirley, no. clv, p. 179).

Salisbury nevertheless professed himself strongly committed to government by the king's council, stating forcefully in 1220 that the only legitimate orders were those sanctioned by ‘the magnates of England who are held to be and are of the chief council of the king, with other chief men’ (Carpenter, 204). He supported the king and the justiciar Hubert de Burgh at crucial moments in the restoration of royal authority. In 1221 he opposed both the count of Aumale and Peter de Mauley. At Christmas 1221, and again at Northampton in December 1223, when the country came to the verge of civil war, he stood with the justiciar against the powerful dissident faction of the earl of Chester, Falkes de Bréauté, Engelard de Cigogné, Brian de Lisle, and other castellans reluctant to yield up their shrievalties and castles. In this Salisbury represented, in his own words, ‘we native-born men of England’ against those ‘aliens’ who were felt to be fomenting war within the kingdom (Shirley, no. cxcvi, p. 221). In June 1222, on Henry's second act of resumption of royal demesnes, he yielded a number of royal manors, and in February 1223 he surrendered Salisbury Castle, only to receive it back directly, with the custody of the castles of Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth, and the shrievalties of Shropshire and Staffordshire.
Last years, death and reputation
Salisbury retained his role as a leading military commander until his death. In mid-1223 Salisbury was joint leader with William Marshal of a force of 140 knights, sent by Hubert de Burgh against Llywelyn, which established control over Kidwelly and Ceredigion. In 1225 he accompanied Richard of Cornwall, then only sixteen, as the effective leader of the successful expedition to Gascony, which reasserted English control in the province and secured it from the invasion of Louis VIII. Before La Réole fell on 13 November, however, Salisbury had fallen sick and embarked on a difficult three-months voyage home. Driven ashore on the Île de Ré, held for Louis by Savaric de Mauléon, he took shelter in the abbey of Notre Dame de Ré. He was warned to escape, according to Matthew Paris, by two of Savaric's men, to whom he gave £20, and set sail again. He landed in Cornwall at Christmas, and in January was received with great rejoicing in Salisbury Cathedral. Paris relates an implausible tale of an attempted poisoning of the earl by Hubert de Burgh. The story is undoubtedly false, for the two men were close and the earl's death at Salisbury Castle on 7 March 1226 was almost certainly the result of the illness contracted in Gascony. He was buried in the lady chapel of Salisbury Cathedral, whose foundation stones he and his countess had laid on 28 April 1220, with the assistance of the legate Pandulf. Later moved to the easternmost bay of the south arcade of the nave, his tomb, carved c.1240 by craftsmen of the Wells school, was one of the finest military effigies of its period. On an arcaded oak tomb chest enriched with mosaic inlay on gesso, the originally richly coloured effigy of local Doulting stone depicted Salisbury in gilded mail armour with armorial surcoat and shield.

Despite his prominence Salisbury's character remains enigmatic. His support for John during his excommunication led Wendover to number him among the king's evil counsellors, while the annals of Dunstable believed it was Salisbury who, on John's orders, arrested Geoffrey of Norwich who later died in captivity as a result of his harsh treatment. The opprobrium of monastic chroniclers, however, was short-lived. Wendover approvingly noted his especial veneration of the Virgin, before whose altar he had kept a light burning since the day of his knighthood, and who it was claimed had appeared to Salisbury during his shipwreck in 1225. The same chronicler accords him a pious end, when, stripped and with a halter round his neck, he knelt before Richard Poor, bishop of Salisbury, declaring himself a traitor to God and refusing to rise until he had confessed and received the sacrament. His salvation was betokened by the fact that the candles in his funeral procession from the castle to the cathedral remained alight despite a raging storm. ‘When William, the flower of earls resigned his princely breath’, ran the epitaph added by Matthew Paris, ‘his long sword was content to find a shorter sheath’ (Paris, 3.105).

Certainly Salisbury and his wife seem to have been more than conventionally devout. His will largely comprises benefactions to religious houses. He endowed the Augustinian house of Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, founded by Ela's great-grandfather, Walter of Salisbury, and was commemorated at the hospital of St Nicholas, Salisbury. In 1222 he gave the manor of Hatherop, Gloucestershire, for a Carthusian foundation, adding further endowments in his will, although at the monks' request his widow afterwards moved them to her manor of Henton (or Hinton), Somerset, where the monastery of Locus Dei was dedicated in 1232. The same year Ela began an Augustinian nunnery at Lacock, where she herself took the veil in 1238 and became abbess in 1239.

Longespée was a political figure of the first rank, symbolizing not only the important role played by royal bastards, but the multifaceted competence in administration, diplomacy, and war which characterized leading figures in the Angevin regime. He has been labelled among the ‘conspicuous trimmers’ (Carpenter, xviii) during the period of crisis in 1216–17, but the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, written in the 1220s, and possibly after Salisbury's death, passes over his temporary defection to Louis in silence. Rather he is portrayed with no little justification as a loyal, courageous, and skilful commander, ‘whose mother was largesse and whose banner was prowess’ (Meyer, ll. 12125–8), the former compliment perhaps being a tactful inversion of his illegitimacy.

Matthew Strickland
Sources

Paris, Chron., vols. 2–3 · P. Meyer, ed., L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, 3 vols. (Paris, 1891–1901) · F. Michel, ed., Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d’Angleterre (Paris, 1840) · T. D. Hardy, ed., Rotuli litterarum clausarum, 2 vols., RC (1833–4), vol. 1; vol. 2, p. 71 · T. D. Hardy, ed., Rotuli litterarum patentium, RC (1835) · Radulphi de Coggeshall chronicon Anglicanum, ed. J. Stevenson, Rolls Series, 66 (1875) · GEC, Peerage · D. A. Carpenter, The minority of Henry III (1990) · S. Painter, The reign of King John (1949) · J. C. Holt, ‘The making of Magna Carta’, EngHR, 72 (1957), 401–22 · G. Drury, William Longespée, earl of Salisbury (1954) [incl. repro. of family seals and of effigy] · W. W. Shirley, ed., Royal and other historical letters illustrative of the reign of Henry III, 1, Rolls Series, 27 (1862) · W. H. Rich Jones, ed., Vetus registrum sarisberiense alias dictum registrum S. Osmundi episcopi: the register of St Osmund, 2 vols., Rolls Series, 78 (1883–4)
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Matthew Strickland, ‘Longespée , William (I), third earl of Salisbury (b. in or before 1167, d. 1226)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16983, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

William (I) Longespée (b. in or before 1167, d. 1226): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/169838 
Event-Misc*1191 William Longespée was granted the Manor of Kirton, Lincolnshire by his brother King Richard I, Principal=Richard I the Lionhearted5 
Event-Misc1196 He was with Richard Lionheart in Normandy9 
Occupation*between 1199 and 1226 Sheriff of Wiltshire9 
(Witness) Crowned27 May 1199 Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England, King of England, Principal=John Lackland10,11,12,13,14,15 
Event-Misc1202 He went on a diplomatic mission to France5 
Event-Misc1203 He was keeper of the Castle of Avranches9 
Event-Misc*1204 William Longespée escorted Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, to the King, Principal=Llewelyn ap Iorwerth "the Great"5 
Event-Misc1205 "He led a small band of knights to Rochelle, these being the only men to go overseas of the great force assembled by King John in an attempt to recover his lands on the Continent."9 
Event-Misc*1206 York, William Longespée escorted King William the Lion to meet King John, Principal=William King of Scots "the Lion"5 
Event-Misc1208 "He was given direction of the monks and clergy of the diocese of Ely when King John anticipated the Papal Inderdict"9 
Event-Misc1209 He headed an embassy to the prelates and princes of Germany, on behalf of the King's nephew, Otto, King of the Romans5 
Event-MiscDecember 1209 He was appointed Keeper of the March of Wales9 
Event-Misc1210 He accompanied King John on his expedition to Ireland9 
Event-Misc*1212 They sued Henry de Bohun for the entire barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Principal=Ela d' Evereux5 
Event-Miscfrom May 1212 to March 1216 He was Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire9 
Event-MiscAugust 1212 He was supervisor of the keeper of the Archbishopric of Canterbury9 
Event-Misc1213 He was joint commander of an expedition to help the Count of Flanders against France5 
Event-MiscMay 1213 He was one of the four Earls at Dover who swore that King John would observe the terms laid down by the Pope to satisfy the bishops and witnessed John's declaration of homage to the Pope.9 
Event-Misc1214 He commanded forces which recovered nearly all of Flanders for the Count; after which he and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne were captured at the Battle of Bouvines and thrown into prison.5 
Event-Misc27 July 1214 He and the Count of Flanders and Count of Boulogne were captured at the battle of Bouvines9 
Event-Misc1215 He was released from prison and returned to England5 
Event-MiscMay 1215 He returned to England after being exchanged for Robert, son of Count Robert de Dreux, and was one of three earls commisioned to examine the royal castles9 
(King) Magna Carta12 June 1215 Runningmede, Surrey, England, King=John Lackland5,16,17,18,19,20
Event-Misc*June 1216 He surrendered Salisbury Castle to Prince Louis, betraying King John5 
Event-MiscMarch 1216/17 After the death of King John, his lands were restored.5 
Event-Misc*August 1217 William Longespée and Hubert de Burgh participated in the victory over the French fleet off Thanet., Principal=Hubert de Burgh5 
Event-Misc1220 They laid the 4th and 5th stones at the founding of the New Sarum cathedral, Principal=Ela d' Evereux9 
Event-MiscMarch 1219/20 He was one of the guarantors of the truce with france9 
Event-MiscOctober 1223 He took part in the successful expedition against Llywelyn5,9 
Event-Misc1225 William went with the Earl of Cornwall on a successful expedition to Gascony, Principal=Richard of England5 
Title* Earl of Salisbury, baron of Chitterne, Wiltshire; Sheriff of Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Somerset, Devonshire, Salop, and Staffordshire; Keeper of Avranches, Bridgnorth, Dover, and Shrewsbury Castles; Keeper of the March of Wales.4,5 

Family 1
Child

Family 2

Ela d' Evereux b. 1187, d. 24 Aug 1261
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Plantagenet 2.
  3. [S285] Leo van de Pas, 30 Jun 2004.
  4. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 30-26.
  5. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Longespée 3.
  6. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 122-28.
  7. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 142-1.
  8. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  9. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 130.
  10. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 1-26.
  11. [S234] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry, Plantagenet 16.
  12. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Warenne 2.
  13. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Plantagenet 3.
  14. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 29.
  15. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 84.
  16. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Warenne 3.
  17. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 56-27.
  18. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 60-28.
  19. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 8.
  20. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 34.
  21. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 30-27.
  22. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Longespee 3.
  23. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 131.
  24. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 31-27.
  25. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 144-2.

Ela d' Evereux1

F, #4029, b. 1187, d. 24 August 1261

Father*William d' Evereux1,2,3 b. c 1150, d. 17 Apr 1196
Mother*Eleanor de Vitré b. c 1145, d. bt 31 May 1232 - 12 Aug 1233; daughter and co-heir1,3,4
Ela d' Evereux|b. 1187\nd. 24 Aug 1261|p135.htm#i4029|William d' Evereux|b. c 1150\nd. 17 Apr 1196|p135.htm#i4031|Eleanor de Vitré|b. c 1145\nd. bt 31 May 1232 - 12 Aug 1233|p135.htm#i4032|Patrick d' Evereux|b. b 1120\nd. 27 Mar 1168|p135.htm#i4043|Ela Talvas|b. c 1120\nd. 4 Oct 1174|p101.htm#i3005|Robert de Vitré|d. 11 Nov 1173|p135.htm#i4049|Emma de Dinan|b. c 1130\nd. 18 Dec 1208|p135.htm#i4050|

Birth*1187 Amesbury, Wiltshire, England1,5 
Birthcirca 1191 Amesbury, Wiltshire, England6 
Marriagebefore September 1197 Principal=Sir William Longespée3 
Marriage*1198 Conflict=Sir William Longespée1,7,5 
Death*24 August 1261 Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England1,8,3 
Burial* Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England3 
DNB* Ela, suo jure countess of Salisbury (b. in or after 1190, d. 1261), magnate and abbess, was the daughter of William, earl of Salisbury, and his wife, Eleanor de Vitré. Her father died in 1196, leaving her as his heir, and Richard I married her off in the same year to William (I) Longespée (d. 1226), his illegitimate brother, who became by right of his wife earl of Salisbury. He and Ela had four sons and four daughters; two of the younger sons had notable careers: Stephen became seneschal of Gascony and justiciar of Ireland, and Nicholas bishop of Salisbury. Little is known of Ela's married life. In 1220 she and her husband laid the fifth and fourth foundation stones respectively for the new cathedral at Salisbury, and she was described in the Register of St Osmund as ‘a woman indeed worthy of praise because she was filled with the fear of the Lord’. On the rumour in 1225 that her husband had been drowned, Hubert de Burgh's nephew sought to marry her, but she refused to consider him.

William in fact died in Salisbury Castle on 7 March 1226, and was buried in the cathedral; Ela performed homage to the king for her inheritance twelve days later, but had to surrender Salisbury Castle. However, she acted as sheriff of Wiltshire in 1227–8 and between 1231 and 1237, and accounted in person at Michaelmas 1236; this was an office which had been held at various times by her husband, father, and grandfather, although a subsequent case in the king's court made it clear that she had no hereditary right to the shrievalty.

Ela's widowhood is noted for her benefactions to the church and her religious life. Her husband founded a charterhouse at Hatherop, Gloucestershire, in 1222, but the monks found the endowments inadequate and the site unsuitable. They appealed to Ela who settled them in her park at Hinton, Somerset, and augmented the endowments. Her own foundation was a house of Augustinian canonesses at Lacock, Wiltshire, established in 1230; Ela entered this house in 1237, and became its first abbess in 1239 when the nunnery was upgraded from a priory to an abbey.

Ela resigned her position as abbess twenty years later. She died on 24 August 1261, and was buried in the abbey. She outlived her eldest son and grandson; her eldest son, Sir William (II) Longespée, led the English crusaders on Louis IX's first crusade and died in 1250 at Mansourah in Egypt. According to Matthew Paris, Ela had a vision of her son before she received the news of his death. Her heir at her death was her great-granddaughter, Margaret Longespée, who married Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln.

Jennifer C. Ward
Sources

Chronica magistri Rogeri de Hovedene, ed. W. Stubbs, 4 vols., Rolls Series, 51 (1868–71) · W. H. Rich Jones, ed., Vetus registrum sarisberiense alias dictum registrum S. Osmundi episcopi: the register of St Osmund, 2 vols., Rolls Series, 78 (1883–4) · H. R. Luard, ed., Flores historiarum, 3 vols., Rolls Series, 95 (1890) · Paris, Chron. · Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn · Bracton's note book, ed. F. W. Maitland, 3 vols. (1887) · Chancery records · Pipe rolls
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Jennifer C. Ward, ‘Ela, suo jure countess of Salisbury (b. in or after 1190, d. 1261)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47205, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

Ela (b. in or after 1190, d. 1261): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/472059 
Name Variation Ela FitzPatrick10 
Name Variation Ela of Salisbury3 
Event-Misc*1212 They sued Henry de Bohun for the entire barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Principal=Sir William Longespée3 
Event-Misc1220 They laid the 4th and 5th stones at the founding of the New Sarum cathedral, Principal=Sir William Longespée11 
Event-Misc*between 1226 and 1236 He was granted the manor of Edgware, Middlesex, and the village of Cooling, Suffolk, by his widowed mother, Ela, Principal=Nicholas Longespée3 
Event-Misc23 March 1225/26 She had to surrender Salisbury Castle to the crown but was granted the county of Wiltshire at the King's pleasure11 
Event-Misc*1229 She founded Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire3 
Event-Misc1238 Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England, She became a nun3 
Occupation*between 1240 and 1257 Lacock Abbey, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, the Abbess3 
Event-Misc*1249 Ela Longespée gave son William license to depart on crusade, Principal=Sir William de Longespée3 
Event-MiscFebruary 1250 On the eve of the battle in which he was killed in Egypt, Ela saw a vision of William standing fully armed, entering heaven, being joyfully received by attendant angels., Principal=Sir William de Longespée3 
Title* Countess of Salisbury7 

Family

Sir William Longespée b. 1176, d. 7 Mar 1225/26
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-27.
  3. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Longespée 3.
  4. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-27.
  5. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 142-1.
  6. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-28.
  7. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 122-28.
  8. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 30-26.
  9. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  10. [S285] Leo van de Pas, 30 Jun 2004.
  11. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 130.
  12. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 122A-29.
  13. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 131.
  14. [S233] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 144-2.

Rosamond Clifford1

F, #4030, d. 1177

Father*Walter de Clifford1 b. c 1110, d. 1190
Mother*Margaret de Toeni1 b. c 1109, d. b 1185
Rosamond Clifford|d. 1177|p135.htm#i4030|Walter de Clifford|b. c 1110\nd. 1190|p135.htm#i4033|Margaret de Toeni|b. c 1109\nd. b 1185|p135.htm#i4034|Richard FitzPons|b. s 1080\nd. bt 1127 - 1138|p135.htm#i4035|Maud FitzWalter|b. c 1085|p135.htm#i4036|Ralph I. de Toeni|d. 1126|p135.htm#i4037|Alice of Northumberland|b. c 1075\nd. a 1127|p135.htm#i4038|

Marriage* his mistress, Principal=Henry II Curtmantel1 
Death*1177 2 
DNB* Clifford, Rosamund [called Fair Rosamund] (b. before 1140?, d. 1175/6), royal mistress, was the daughter of Walter Clifford and Margaret, daughter of Ralph de Tosny, and was born probably before 1140. She is linked to Henry II by a grant, recorded in the hundred rolls of 1274, made by the king of the manor of Corfham to Walter Clifford, ‘for the love of Rosamund his daughter’ (Rotuli hundredorum, 2.93–4); but her time living openly as the king's mistress was short indeed. Gerald of Wales, writing just before 1200, said that soon after Henry II had been reconciled with his sons (1174), he imprisoned his wife, Eleanor, and ‘having long been a secret adulterer, now openly flaunted his mistress, not that rose of the world [rosa-mundi] of false and frivolous renown, but that rose of unchastity [rosa-immundi]’ (Gir. Camb. opera, 4.21–2). Elsewhere Gerald says that Rosamund was still young when she died, and his contemporary Roger Howden states that, for the love of her, Henry II bestowed many benefits on the convent of Godstow (on the Thames just north of Oxford), where she was buried, and adds that the king gave the convent, which was previously impoverished, many valuable endowments including ‘noble buildings’. These grants are well documented in the pipe rolls and Godstow's cartulary: they include two churches at Wycombe and Bloxham and substantial sums of money for building materials from 1175/6 to 1177/8, suggesting that Rosamund died in the first of those accounting years. At about the same time Walter Clifford granted valuable assets to the abbey including several mills and a meadow for the souls of his wife and his daughter Rosamund. And about 1180, according to the English register of Godstow, Bernard de St Valéry granted the king the patronage of the abbey ‘by a silken thread [cloth] whereof was made a chasuble’ (Clark, 1.129–30), so that Rosamund's resting-place was henceforth a royal foundation. The results of this patronage became apparent to Hugh, bishop of Lincoln, when he visited Godstow Abbey in 1191. Here he found Rosamund buried in a magnificent tomb adorned with hangings, lamps, and wax candles, and set in the middle of the church choir in front of the high altar. Disgusted at such profanation he gave orders for her body to be disinterred and reburied outside the church. Higden and others say that she was placed in the chapter house, where her tomb had the inscription:

This tomb doth here enclose the world's most beauteous Rose,
Rose passing sweet erewhile, now nought but odour vile.
(Speed, 471)

As the rhyme suggests, by the fourteenth century Rosamund Clifford had become a figure of romance and legend, much of it associated with her death. In the earliest account of this, in the mid-fourteenth-century Croniques de London, Queen Eleanor (who is here confused with Eleanor of Provence, the wife of Henry III) causes Rosamund to be bled to death in a hot bath at Woodstock, after which the king has her body interred at Godstow. Higden, in his colourful Polychronicon, describes how at Woodstock ‘King Henry had made for her a house of wonderful workmanship, a labyrinth of Daedelian design’ (Polychronicon, 8.52). But in spite of Henry's efforts to hide her from the jealousy of the queen, Eleanor tracked Rosamund down by following her silken embroidery through the maze. What happened next Higden did not know, only that Rosamund's death followed. Still later sources, of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, filled this gap in the story, representing the queen as confronting her beautiful rival and offering her the choice of death by poison or the dagger. Rosamund chose the poisoned bowl, and the grieving king buried her at Godstow. Here the bones of the real Rosamund may have remained until the Reformation, when John Leland (d. 1552), as cited by Dugdale, recorded that ‘Rosamund's tomb at Godstow nunnery was taken up a-late. It is a stone with this inscription: Tumba Rosamundae’ (Dugdale, 4.365). Leland's near contemporary Thomas Allen, who died in 1632 at the age of ninety, said that before its destruction her tomb had contained ‘enterchangable weavings drawn out and decked with roses red and green, and the picture of the cup out of which she drank the poison, given her by the queen, carved in stone’. Thomas Hearne, who preserved Allen's account, also recorded local tradition as still pointing out Rosamund's stone coffin in his own time (c.1711), although Hearne himself regarded it as ‘no more than a fiction of the vulgar’ (Hearne, 3.739).

A sketch of Everswell, adjoining Woodstock Palace, made by John Aubrey in the seventeenth century shows a complex of buildings with pools, a cloister, and a garden. Woodstock was a favourite residence of Henry II and the pipe rolls record that substantial sums were expended on the palace, grounds, and spring during his reign. The spring was known later as ‘Rosamund's well’, and nearby was a building first called ‘Rosamund's chamber’ in a pipe roll of 1231. It is likely that much of the villa complex in this area, including its cloister and pools, was laid out by Henry II, perhaps inspired by the rural pavilions of the Norman kings of Sicily. Another influence may have been the romance of Tristan and Isolde, a version of which was probably written for the king. Tristan and Isolde meet in secret in an orchard, and communicate by dropping twigs into the stream that runs through her chamber. Everswell's buildings included a similar orchard, spring, and bower for the secret meetings of Rosamund and Henry II.

T. A. Archer, rev. Elizabeth Hallam
Sources

Gir. Camb. opera · Chronica magistri Rogeri de Hovedene, ed. W. Stubbs, 4 vols., Rolls Series, 51 (1868–71) · William of Newburgh, Chronica, ed. T. Hearne (1719) · Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden monachi Cestrensis, ed. C. Babington and J. R. Lumby, 9 vols., Rolls Series, 41 (1865–86) · A. Clark, ed., The English register of Godstow nunnery, EETS, 129, 130, 142 (1905–11) · VCH Oxfordshire, vol. 2 · R. Brown, H. M. Colvin, and A. J. Taylor, eds., The history of the king's works, 1 (1963) · Pipe rolls, 21–25 Henry II · [W. Illingworth], ed., Rotuli hundredorum temp. Hen. III et Edw. I, 2 vols., RC (1812–18) · Dugdale, Monasticon, new edn, vol. 4 · W. L. Warren, Henry II (1973) · G. J. Aungier, ed., Chroniques de London, CS, 28 (1844) · J. Speed, The history of Great Britaine (1611) · R. W. Eyton, Court, household, and itinerary of King Henry II (1878)
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T. A. Archer, ‘Clifford, Rosamund (b. before 1140?, d. 1175/6)’, rev. Elizabeth Hallam, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5661, accessed 25 Sept 2005]

Rosamund Clifford (b. before 1140?, d. 1175/6): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56613 
Name Variation The Fair Rosamond 

Family

Henry II Curtmantel b. 5 Mar 1132/33, d. 6 Jul 1189
Child

Last Edited25 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 56.
  3. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.

William d' Evereux1

M, #4031, b. circa 1150, d. 17 April 1196

Father*Patrick d' Evereux1,2 b. b 1120, d. 27 Mar 1168
Mother*Ela Talvas1 b. c 1120, d. 4 Oct 1174
William d' Evereux|b. c 1150\nd. 17 Apr 1196|p135.htm#i4031|Patrick d' Evereux|b. b 1120\nd. 27 Mar 1168|p135.htm#i4043|Ela Talvas|b. c 1120\nd. 4 Oct 1174|p101.htm#i3005|Walter of Salisbury|b. c 1087\nd. 1147|p89.htm#i2643|Sibilla de Chaworth|b. c 1082\nd. b 1147|p135.htm#i4044|William I. Talvas|b. c 1090\nd. 30 Jun 1171|p122.htm#i3657|Hélie of Burgundy|b. Nov 1080\nd. 28 Feb 1141/42|p122.htm#i3658|

Birth*circa 1150 1,3 
Marriage*between 1190 and 1191 3rd=Eleanor de Vitré1,3,4 
Death*17 April 1196 Normandy, France3,5 
Title* 2nd Earl of Salisbury, Baron of Chitterne, Wiltshire4 
Name Variation William FitzPatrick3,4 
Event-Misc*1173 He remained loyal to King Henry II during the rebellion of Henry's sons5 
Titlebetween 1189 and 1196 Sheriff of Wiltshire5 
(Witness) King-England3 September 1189 Westminster, Middlesex, England, Principal=Richard I the Lionhearted6,7,8,5 

Family

Eleanor de Vitré b. c 1145, d. bt 31 May 1232 - 12 Aug 1233
Child

Last Edited27 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-26.
  3. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-27.
  4. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Longespée 3.
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 79.
  6. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Warenne 2.
  7. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Plantagenet 2.
  8. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Plantagenet 3.

Eleanor de Vitré1,2

F, #4032, b. circa 1145, d. between 31 May 1232 and 12 August 1233

Father*Robert de Vitré3,1,2 d. 11 Nov 1173
Mother*Emma de Dinan3,4 b. c 1130, d. 18 Dec 1208
Eleanor de Vitré|b. c 1145\nd. bt 31 May 1232 - 12 Aug 1233|p135.htm#i4032|Robert de Vitré|d. 11 Nov 1173|p135.htm#i4049|Emma de Dinan|b. c 1130\nd. 18 Dec 1208|p135.htm#i4050|Robert d. Vitrie|d. b 22 May 1161|p136.htm#i4051|Emma de la Guerche|d. a 10 Apr 1161|p254.htm#i7615|Oliver I. de Dinan|d. bt 1155 - 1156|p136.htm#i4053|Eleanor de Penthièvre||p136.htm#i4054|

Marriage* Groom=William Paynel5 
Birth*circa 1145 3 
Marriage* Groom=Gilbert Crespin5 
Marriage*between 1190 and 1191 Groom=William d' Evereux3,1,2 
Death*between 31 May 1232 and 12 August 1233 3,2 
Burial* Abbey de Mondaye3 
Name Variation Alianore de Vitrie3 

Family

William d' Evereux b. c 1150, d. 17 Apr 1196
Child

Last Edited27 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-27.
  2. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Longespée 3.
  3. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  4. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-27.
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 79.

Walter de Clifford1

M, #4033, b. circa 1110, d. 1190

Father*Richard FitzPons1 b. s 1080, d. bt 1127 - 1138
Mother*Maud FitzWalter1 b. c 1085
Walter de Clifford|b. c 1110\nd. 1190|p135.htm#i4033|Richard FitzPons|b. s 1080\nd. bt 1127 - 1138|p135.htm#i4035|Maud FitzWalter|b. c 1085|p135.htm#i4036|Walter FitzPons|b. b 1066\nd. a 1086|p135.htm#i4039||||Walter FitzRoger|b. c 1065\nd. 1127|p90.htm#i2699|Emma d. Batedon||p142.htm#i4237|

Birth*circa 1110 1 
Marriage* Principal=Margaret de Toeni1,2 
Death*1190 Hereford, England1 
DNB* Clifford, Walter de (d. 1190), landowner and soldier, was the son of Richard fitz Pons and Maud, the daughter of Walter of Gloucester. Richard was still alive in 1128 but had died by 1138, when Walter de Clifford exchanged his manor of Glasbury for that of ‘Esleche’ held by Gloucester Abbey. By that same year Walter held Clifford Castle and the Herefordshire Domesday reports that he held it in the 1160s, along with the manors of Hampton, Hamnish, Rochford, Dorstone, ‘Burchstanestone’, ‘Roenoura’, Hanley, and ‘Madme’—all lands which his uncle Drew fitz Pons had held in 1086. By 1116 Richard fitz Pons had established a castle at Llandovery from which he dominated Cantref Selyf in central south Wales. Walter de Clifford inherited this castle but lost it in a resurgence of Welsh power about 1140. From c.1143 to 1155 he was a prominent member of the retinue of Roger, earl of Hereford, and worked to assist Roger's ambitions in the southern march. In 1158 his position in south Wales was restored. The Brut y tywysogyon reports that in that year Clifford raided the lands of Rhys ap Gruffudd, the Lord Rhys (d. 1197), who, after his complaint about this to Henry II went unheeded, retaliated by besieging and capturing the castle. Clifford clearly continued to be active in southern Wales, for the pipe roll for 1160 reports that £44 7s. 6d. was paid to troops in Cantref Bychan through him. In 1163 he killed Cadwgan ap Maredudd. The rapprochement reached between Henry II and Rhys in 1171 gave the latter possession of Cantref Bychan and deprived the Cliffords of their foothold there.

The children of Walter de Clifford and his wife, Margaret de Tosny, who was probably the daughter of Ralph de Tosny, included another Walter, who may have been the eldest son, Richard, and Rosamund Clifford (b. before 1140?, d. 1175/6). Rosamund lived openly with Henry II as his mistress in the mid-1170s. It was probably because of this relationship that the king granted the Shropshire manor of Corfham to Clifford in 1177. He held this from the king in chief for the service of one knight's fee. After Walter de Clifford's death in 1190, Richard inherited Clifford. He may have died in 1199, for the younger Walter succeeded to Corfham and other lands in that year.

Frederick Suppe
Sources

R. W. Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, 12 vols. (1854–60) · I. J. Sanders, English baronies: a study of their origin and descent, 1086–1327 (1960) · J. E. Lloyd, A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest, 3rd edn, 2 vols. (1939); repr. (1988) · V. H. Galbraith and J. Tait, eds., Herefordshire domesday, circa 1160–1170, PRSoc., 63, new ser., 25 (1950) · T. Jones, ed. and trans., Brut y tywysogyon, or, The chronicle of the princes: Red Book of Hergest (1955) · J. Williams ab Ithel, ed., Annales Cambriae, Rolls Series, 20 (1860) · Pipe rolls, 7 Henry II · J. H. Round, ed., Ancient charters, royal and private, prior to AD 1200, PRSoc., 10 (1888) · I. J. Sanders, Feudal military service in England (1956) · D. Walker, ed., ‘Charters of the earldom of Hereford, 1095–1201’, Camden miscellany, XXII, CS, 4th ser., 1 (1964), 1–75
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Frederick Suppe, ‘Clifford, Walter de (d. 1190)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5665, accessed 25 Sept 2005]

Walter de Clifford (d. 1190): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/56653 
Name Variation Walter ap Richard FitzPons de Clifford4 
Event-Misc Maud de Clifford inherited Corfham Castle, which was given to her ancestor, Walter de Clifford by King Henry II for love of his daughter, the Fair Rosamond, Principal=Maud de Clifford5 

Family

Margaret de Toeni b. c 1109, d. b 1185
Children

Last Edited25 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 61.
  3. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 56.
  5. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 122.

Margaret de Toeni1

F, #4034, b. circa 1109, d. before 1185

Father*Ralph IV de Toeni1 d. 1126
Mother*Alice of Northumberland1 b. c 1075, d. a 1127
Margaret de Toeni|b. c 1109\nd. b 1185|p135.htm#i4034|Ralph IV de Toeni|d. 1126|p135.htm#i4037|Alice of Northumberland|b. c 1075\nd. a 1127|p135.htm#i4038|Ralph I. de Tony|b. bt 1025 - 1030\nd. 24 Mar 1101/2|p135.htm#i4041|Elizabeth de Montfort|d. a 1110|p135.htm#i4042|Waltheof I. of Northumberland|b. 1045\nd. 31 May 1076|p85.htm#i2546|Judith of Lens|b. 1054\nd. a 1086|p85.htm#i2545|

Birth*circa 1109 Northumberland, England1 
Marriage* Principal=Walter de Clifford1,2 
Death*before 1185 of Clifford Castle, Hay, Herefordshire, England1 
Name Variation Margaret de Todeni2 

Family

Walter de Clifford b. c 1110, d. 1190
Children

Last Edited31 Aug 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 61.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 56.

Richard FitzPons1

M, #4035, b. say 1080, d. between 1127 and 1138

Father*Walter FitzPons2 b. b 1066, d. a 1086
FatherPons (?)3
Richard FitzPons|b. s 1080\nd. bt 1127 - 1138|p135.htm#i4035|Walter FitzPons|b. b 1066\nd. a 1086|p135.htm#i4039||||Drogo FitzPons||p196.htm#i5874||||||||||

Birth*say 1080 4 
Marriage* Principal=Maud FitzWalter2,4 
Death*between 1127 and 1138 2 
Name Variation Richard FitzPonce2 

Family

Maud FitzWalter b. c 1085
Children

Last Edited4 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 56.
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 121.
  4. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 61.
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 104.

Maud FitzWalter1

F, #4036, b. circa 1085

Father*Walter FitzRoger1,2 b. c 1065, d. 1127
Mother*Emma de Batedon1
Maud FitzWalter|b. c 1085|p135.htm#i4036|Walter FitzRoger|b. c 1065\nd. 1127|p90.htm#i2699|Emma de Batedon||p142.htm#i4237|Roger de Pistres|b. c 1030|p142.htm#i4242|Eunice de Baalun|b. c 1036|p142.htm#i4243|Drue (?)||p142.htm#i4244||||

Birth*circa 1085 1 
Marriage* Principal=Richard FitzPons1,3 

Family

Richard FitzPons b. s 1080, d. bt 1127 - 1138
Children

Last Edited5 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 111.
  3. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 61.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 56.

Ralph IV de Toeni1

M, #4037, d. 1126

Father*Ralph III de Tony1,2 b. bt 1025 - 1030, d. 24 Mar 1101/2
Mother*Elizabeth de Montfort1,2 d. a 1110
Ralph IV de Toeni|d. 1126|p135.htm#i4037|Ralph III de Tony|b. bt 1025 - 1030\nd. 24 Mar 1101/2|p135.htm#i4041|Elizabeth de Montfort|d. a 1110|p135.htm#i4042|Roger I. de Tony|b. c 990\nd. c 1038|p150.htm#i4478|Godehaut (?)|d. a 1042|p150.htm#i4479|Simon I. de Montfort|b. c 1026\nd. 25 Sep 1087|p97.htm#i2904|Elizabeth de Broyes|d. a 1066|p283.htm#i8474|

Of* Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England1 
Birthcirca 1078 1 
Marriage*1103 Principal=Alice of Northumberland1,2 
Marriage* Principal=Christina (?)1 
Death*1126 1,3 
Burial* Conches, France1 
Event-Misc*1103 He supported Robert, count of Meulan, in forcing Goel d'Ivri to release his brother John of Meulan.3 
Event-Misc1104 He was a supporter of Henry I3 
(Henry) Battle-Tinchebray28 September 1106 Tinchebray, Normandy, France, Principal=Henry I Beauclerc, Principal=Robert III Curthose4,5 

Family 1

Christina (?) d. b 1103
Child

Family 2

Alice of Northumberland b. c 1075, d. a 1127
Children

Last Edited31 Aug 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 98A-24.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 241.
  4. [S348] Wikipedia, online http://en.wikipedia.org/
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 164.

Alice of Northumberland1

F, #4038, b. circa 1075, d. after 1127

Father*Waltheof II of Northumberland2,3 b. 1045, d. 31 May 1076
Mother*Judith of Lens2 b. 1054, d. a 1086
Alice of Northumberland|b. c 1075\nd. a 1127|p135.htm#i4038|Waltheof II of Northumberland|b. 1045\nd. 31 May 1076|p85.htm#i2546|Judith of Lens|b. 1054\nd. a 1086|p85.htm#i2545|Siward of Northumberland|b. c 1020\nd. 1055|p85.htm#i2547|Ælflæd (?)|b. c 1027|p85.htm#i2548|Lambert of Boulogne|b. c 1022\nd. 1054|p148.htm#i4415|Adeliza of Normandy|b. b 1030\nd. bt 1081 - 1084|p122.htm#i3642|

Birth*circa 1075 2 
Marriage*1103 Principal=Ralph IV de Toeni2,1 
Death*after 1127 2 
Name Variation Judith3 
Name Variation Margaret of Huntingdon2 

Family

Ralph IV de Toeni d. 1126
Children

Last Edited5 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 98A-24.
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 113.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 241.

Walter FitzPons1

M, #4039, b. before 1066, d. after 1086

Father*Drogo FitzPons1
Walter FitzPons|b. b 1066\nd. a 1086|p135.htm#i4039|Drogo FitzPons||p196.htm#i5874||||Pons (?)||p196.htm#i5875||||||||||

Birth*before 1066 Normandy, France1 
Marriage* 1 
Death*after 1086 England1 

Family
Children

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 56.

Walter Giffard1

M, #4040, b. say 1051, d. 15 July 1102

Father*Walter Giffard "the Elder"1 b. s 1010, d. b 1084
Mother*Ermentrude Flaitel1,2
Walter Giffard|b. s 1051\nd. 15 Jul 1102|p135.htm#i4040|Walter Giffard "the Elder"|b. s 1010\nd. b 1084|p116.htm#i3475|Ermentrude Flaitel||p116.htm#i3476|Walter Giffard|b. c 978|p170.htm#i5090|Avelina d. Crepon|b. s 956|p160.htm#i4797|Gerard d. Fleitel||p140.htm#i4179|Anonyma d' Evereux||p140.htm#i4180|

Birth*say 1051 2 
Birthbefore 1066 Normandy, France1 
Death*15 July 1102 England1,2 
Burial* Longueville, Normandy, France1 

Last Edited4 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 104.

Ralph III de Tony1

M, #4041, b. between 1025 and 1030, d. 24 March 1101/2

Father*Roger I de Tony1,2 b. c 990, d. c 1038
Mother*Godehaut (?)1 d. a 1042
Ralph III de Tony|b. bt 1025 - 1030\nd. 24 Mar 1101/2|p135.htm#i4041|Roger I de Tony|b. c 990\nd. c 1038|p150.htm#i4478|Godehaut (?)|d. a 1042|p150.htm#i4479|Ralph I. de Tony|b. b 970|p150.htm#i4480||||||||||

Marriage* Principal=Elizabeth de Montfort1,3 
Birth*between 1025 and 1030 2 
Death*24 March 1101/2 2 
Burial* Conches1,2 
Name Variation Toeni2 
Event-Misc*1054 He participated in Duke William's victory over the French at Mortemer4 
Event-Misc*1060 Ralph de Tony and Hugh de Grandmesnil were banished. In revenge, Ralph burned St. Evroul, Principal=Hugh Grantmesnil4 
Event-Misc1063 He was recalled and was one of nine nobles summoned to counsel William on the news of the death of Edward the Confessor4 
(William) Battle-Hastings14 October 1066 Hastings, Sussex, England, Principal=William I of Normandy "the Conqueror", Principal=Harold II Godwinson5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 
Event-Misc1078 He supported Robert Curthose against his father4 
Event-Misc1080 He went on pilgrimage to Spain, after which he made gifts to the abbey in St. Evroul4 
Event-Misc1088 He served Duke Robert against Maine4 

Family

Elizabeth de Montfort d. a 1110
Children

Last Edited31 Aug 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 250.
  3. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 98A-24.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 241.
  5. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 50-23.
  6. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 270-24.
  7. [S342] Sir Bernard Burke, Extinct Peerages, p. 42.
  8. [S285] Leo van de Pas, 30 Jun 2004.
  9. [S342] Sir Bernard Burke, Extinct Peerages, p. 89.
  10. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 38.
  11. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 94.
  12. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 142.

Elizabeth de Montfort1

F, #4042, d. after 1110

Father*Simon I de Montfort1,2 b. c 1026, d. 25 Sep 1087
Mother*Elizabeth de Broyes1 d. a 1066
Elizabeth de Montfort|d. a 1110|p135.htm#i4042|Simon I de Montfort|b. c 1026\nd. 25 Sep 1087|p97.htm#i2904|Elizabeth de Broyes|d. a 1066|p283.htm#i8474|Amauri de Montfort|d. 1053|p113.htm#i3367|Bertrarde du Gommets|d. a 1051/52|p113.htm#i3368|Hugh Bardoul|d. a 1058|p293.htm#i8762|Alvidis (?)||p340.htm#i10188|

Marriage* Principal=Ralph III de Tony1,3 
Death*after 1110 as a nun of the priory of Haute-Bruyere1,4 
Name Variation Isabel3 

Family

Ralph III de Tony b. bt 1025 - 1030, d. 24 Mar 1101/2
Children

Last Edited31 Aug 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 158.
  3. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 98A-24.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 241.

Patrick d' Evereux1

M, #4043, b. before 1120, d. 27 March 1168

Father*Walter of Salisbury1,2 b. c 1087, d. 1147
Mother*Sibilla de Chaworth1,3 b. c 1082, d. b 1147
Patrick d' Evereux|b. b 1120\nd. 27 Mar 1168|p135.htm#i4043|Walter of Salisbury|b. c 1087\nd. 1147|p89.htm#i2643|Sibilla de Chaworth|b. c 1082\nd. b 1147|p135.htm#i4044|Edward of Salisbury|b. b 1060\nd. 1119|p135.htm#i4045|Matilda d' Evereux||p135.htm#i4046|Patrick de Chaworth|b. c 1052|p135.htm#i4047|Maud de Hesding||p135.htm#i4048|

Birth*before 1120 1 
Marriage*1149 2nd=Ela Talvas1,2 
Death*27 March 1168 Poitou, France, (slain by Geoffrey de Lusignan), Witness=Geoffroy I de Lusignan2,3,4 
Burial* Abbey of St. Hilaire, Poitiers4 
Name Variation Patrick de Salisbury3 
Titleafter July 1143 Earl of Wiltshire, created by Empress Maud, but known as Earl of Salisbury4 
Event-Misc*13 April 1149 He was with Henry, Duke of Normandy, at Devizes4 
Event-Misc6 November 1153 Westminster, He witnessed the treaty between King Stephen and Prince Henry4 
Feudal*1166 40 Kt. Fees inherited from his father and 15 by right of his mother4 
Event-Misc1167 Poitou, He was in charge of the Royal forces4 
Event-Misc*27 March 1168 Poitou, William was wounded and captured in an ambush while serving for his uncle Patrick (who was killed at that time)., Principal=Sir William Marshal5 

Family

Ela Talvas b. c 1120, d. 4 Oct 1174
Child

Last Edited5 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-26.
  3. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-26.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 79.
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 147.

Sibilla de Chaworth1

F, #4044, b. circa 1082, d. before 1147

Father*Patrick de Chaworth1,2 b. c 1052
Mother*Maud de Hesding1
Sibilla de Chaworth|b. c 1082\nd. b 1147|p135.htm#i4044|Patrick de Chaworth|b. c 1052|p135.htm#i4047|Maud de Hesding||p135.htm#i4048|Patrick de Chaworth||p148.htm#i4436||||Arnulf de Hesdine||p524.htm#i15703|Emelina de Lacy||p524.htm#i15702|

Birth*circa 1082 of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England1 
Marriage* Principal=Walter of Salisbury1,2 
Death*before 1147 1,3 
Burial* Bradenstock Priory3 
Name Variation Sibyl2 

Family

Walter of Salisbury b. c 1087, d. 1147
Children

Last Edited27 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-26.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 78.
  4. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 79.
  5. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-26.

Edward of Salisbury1

M, #4045, b. before 1060, d. 1119

Father*Walter d' Evereux2 b. s 1034
Mother*Philippa d' Evereux2
Edward of Salisbury|b. b 1060\nd. 1119|p135.htm#i4045|Walter d' Evereux|b. s 1034|p148.htm#i4435|Philippa d' Evereux||p140.htm#i4185|Robert d' Evereux|b. c 1008\nd. a 1066|p147.htm#i4406|Halewyse de Lacy|b. c 1012|p209.htm#i6257|||||||

Birth*before 1060 England2,3 
Marriage* Principal=Matilda d' Evereux2 
Death*1119 2 
Death1130 1 
Name Variation Edward d' Evereux2 
Name Variation de Saresbury1 
Event-Misc1080/81 He attested a charter of Queen Maud as Edward the Sheriff3 
Feudal*1086 in chief 33 manors in Wiltshire as well as lands in Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Herfordshire as "Edwardus Sarisburiensis"3 
Event-Misc1087 He attested three notifications of King William II3 
Event-Misc*20 August 1119 Battle of Bremule, France, He wore the banner of King Henry I against Louis VI of France1 
Title Chittern, Wiltshire, England, Lord of Chittern1 

Family

Matilda d' Evereux
Children

Last Edited27 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S324] Les Seigneurs de Bohon, online http://www.rand.org/about/contacts/personal/Genea/…
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 78.

Matilda d' Evereux1

F, #4046

Marriage* Principal=Edward of Salisbury1 

Family

Edward of Salisbury b. b 1060, d. 1119
Children

Last Edited13 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Patrick de Chaworth1

M, #4047, b. circa 1052

Father*Patrick de Chaworth1
Patrick de Chaworth|b. c 1052|p135.htm#i4047|Patrick de Chaworth||p148.htm#i4436||||||||||||||||

Birth*circa 1052 1 
Marriage* Principal=Maud de Hesding1,2 
Living*1133 3 

Family

Maud de Hesding
Children

Last Edited28 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-26.
  3. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 54.
  4. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-26.

Maud de Hesding1

F, #4048

Father*Arnulf de Hesdine2,3
Mother*Emelina de Lacy2
Maud de Hesding||p135.htm#i4048|Arnulf de Hesdine||p524.htm#i15703|Emelina de Lacy||p524.htm#i15702|||||||Walter de Lacy|b. c 1036\nd. 27 Mar 1085|p211.htm#i6306|Ermeline (?)|b. c 1046|p211.htm#i6307|

Marriage* Principal=Patrick de Chaworth2,3 
Name Variation Sibyl de Hesdin2 
Living*1133 1 

Family

Patrick de Chaworth b. c 1052
Children

Last Edited5 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S301] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 54.
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-26.

Robert de Vitré1

M, #4049, d. 11 November 1173

 

Father*Robert de Vitrie2 d. b 22 May 1161
Mother*Emma de la Guerche2 d. a 10 Apr 1161
Robert de Vitré|d. 11 Nov 1173|p135.htm#i4049|Robert de Vitrie|d. b 22 May 1161|p136.htm#i4051|Emma de la Guerche|d. a 10 Apr 1161|p254.htm#i7615|André of Vitré||p86.htm#i2561|Agnes de Burgh|d. a 1120|p136.htm#i4055|Gaultier (?)|d. a 1094|p254.htm#i7616|Basilie (?)||p241.htm#i7208|

Marriage* Principal=Emma de Dinan2,1 
Death*11 November 1173 2 
Burial* Abbey de Savigny2 
Title* Seigneur de Vitré3 
Name Variation Robert III de Vitrie2 

Family

Emma de Dinan b. c 1130, d. 18 Dec 1208
Children

Last Edited25 Sep 2004

Citations

  1. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-27.
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S284] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, Longespée 3.

Emma de Dinan1

F, #4050, b. circa 1130, d. 18 December 1208

Father*Oliver II de Dinan1,2 d. bt 1155 - 1156
Mother*Eleanor de Penthièvre1
Emma de Dinan|b. c 1130\nd. 18 Dec 1208|p135.htm#i4050|Oliver II de Dinan|d. bt 1155 - 1156|p136.htm#i4053|Eleanor de Penthièvre||p136.htm#i4054|Geoffroy I. d. Dinan|d. a 1122|p136.htm#i4057|Radegonde Dinan||p136.htm#i4058|Count Stephen I. of Brittany|d. 21 Apr 1135|p136.htm#i4059|Hawise d. Guincamp|d. a 1135|p136.htm#i4060|

Birth*circa 1130 1 
Marriage* Principal=Robert de Vitré1,3 
Death*18 December 1208 1,2 

Family

Robert de Vitré d. 11 Nov 1173
Children

Last Edited4 Dec 2004

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S338] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 108-27.
  3. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 108-27.
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