Count of Rheims and Roucy Renaud of Roucy, Count of Roucy

Renaud married Alberade de Roucy about 945 in Reims, Marne, France. Alberade (daughter of Duke of Lorraine Gilbert (Giselbert) of Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine & Count of Hainault and Gerberga of Saxony) was born in 930 in Lorraine, France; died on 15 Mar 973 in Burgandy, France; was buried in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Giselbert married de Poitiers about 986 in Reims, Marne, France. was born about 961 in of Reims, Marne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermentrude married Otto, King of Lombardy I about 978 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. Otto (son of King of Italy, Marquis of Ivrea Adalbert and Countess of Burgundy Gerberge) was born in 966 in Ivrea, Torino, Piemonte, Italy; died on 21 Sep 1026 in Dijon, Cantal, Auvergne, France; was buried in Dijon, Cantal, Auvergne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermentrude married Count of Macon II Alberic about 972 in Rheims, Macon, France. II (son of Letald de Macon and Ermengarde de Chalons) was born about 930 in of Macon, Seine-et-Loire, France; died in 975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Rheims and Roucy, Archbishop of Rheims

Family/Spouse: of Hainaut Beatrix. Beatrix (daughter of IV Regina and of France Hedwig) was born about 990. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Count of Aquitaine William VII "The Great" in 1018 in France. William (son of Count of Aquitaine William IV "Ironarm" and of Blois Emma) was born in 969 in of Poiter, France; died on 31 Jan 1030 in Abbey Saint Cyprien of Poitiers. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Geoffroy II "Martel" d'Anjou. Geoffroy (son of Fulk III "The Black", Count of Anjou and Hildegarde de Lorraine) was born on 13 Oct 1006 in Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France; died on 14 Nov 1061. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Renaud married Countess of Burgundy Alice (Adelaide) de Normandie before 1 Sep 1016 in Burgundy, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France.. Alice (daughter of Richard, Duke of Normandy II and Judith de Rennes) was born on 22 Apr 1003 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died on 27 Jul 1037 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ade married Count d'Amiens Enguerrand I de Courcy about 1081 in Roucy, Aisne, France. Enguerrand (son of Sire de Courcy Dreux (Drogo) de Courcy and Adele de Boves) was born about 1052 in Boves, Somme, France; died about 1118. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Montdidier and Ronci Hildouin III de Montdidier. Hildouin (son of Hildouin II de Montdidier) was born in 1021 in Montdidier, Somme, France; died in 1062. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founded the Priory of St. Gemma in Xaintonge. Some sources say died 1021, but no Duke of Aquitaine died then according to Stammtafeln.

William married of Burgundy Hildegard about 1069. Hildegard (daughter of Robert I "The Old" Capet, Duke of Burgundy and Ermengarde Blanche d'Anjou) was born in 1050; died after 1104. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mathide de la Marche about 1058. Mathide (daughter of Hugh V "The Fair" de Lusignan and Almodis de la Marche, Countess of Limoges Toulouse and Barcelona) was born in 1035. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ermesin about 1050 in Namur, France. Ermesin was born about 1030 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich (Henry) III "The Black" on 21 Nov 1043 in France. Heinrich (son of Holy Roman Emperor Konrad (Conrad) II "The Salic" and Duchess of Swabia Gisele) was born on 28 Oct 1017 in Germany; died on 5 Oct 1056. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Count of Savoy Peter I de Savoie about 1058 in France. Peter (son of Count of Maurienne and Chablais Oddon and of Torino Adelaide) was born about 1048 in Savoie, France; died on 9 Jul 1078. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Stephanie de Longwy before 1060 in Bourgogne, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Stephanie (daughter of Adalbert de Longwy and Clemence de Foix) was born in 1035 in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 19 Oct 1092 in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comte, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married de Montaigu about 1120 in Boves, Somme, France. was born about 1084 in Montaigu, Aisne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Ida de Hainault about 1098 in Boves, Somme, France. Ida (daughter of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut II and Alix (Ida) de Louvain) was born about 1084 in France; died after 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Melisende de Crecy about 1107 in Crecyenponthieu, Somme, France. Melisende (daughter of Guy Crecy) was born about 1089. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Clermont Hugh de Clermont. Hugh (son of Renaud de Clermont) was born about 1030 in Northampton, Northampton, England; died in 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Perche and Mortaigne Geoffrey II de Perche. Geoffrey (son of Viscount of Chateudum Routrou de Perche and Adeline de Domfront) was born about 1042 in Normandy, France; died in Oct 1100 in Castle of Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loire, France; was buried in Church of the monastery of St. Dionysius the Areopagite. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Assisted Philip I of France against William the Conqueror. He erected the Palace of Poictou, and, after conferring large donations on the Church, died.

The dates and name are unclear. Some label him as William VII.

William married Philippa de Toulouse in 1094 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France. Philippa (daughter of William, Count of Toulouse Margrave of Provence and Duke of Narbonne IV and Emma de Mortain) was born on 22 Oct 1073 in Toulouse, Jura, Franche-Comte, France; died on 28 Nov 1118 in Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Ermengard d'Anjou in 1088. Ermengard (daughter of Fulk IV "The Rude" d'Anjou, Count of Anjou and Hildegard de Beaugency) was born on 18 Mar 1066 in Anjou, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France; died on 1 Jun 1147 in Acquitaine, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married King of Leon and Castile Alfonso VI Fernandez in 1069. Alfonso died on 29 Jun 1109 in Toledo, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clemence married Count of Luxembourg I Konrad about 1080 in France. I (son of Count of Luxembourg Giselbert) was born about 1019 in of Trier, Rheinland, Germany; died on 8 Aug 1086. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clemence married Count of Guelders Gerald (Gerhard) (Gueldres) de Wasseberg, I about 1087 in France. Gerald (son of Count of Teiste Dirk Flamens and de Montaigu) was born about 1063 in Gueldres, Wassenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; died in 1134 in Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

IV married Bertha de Savoy about 1072 in Schwaben, Germany. Bertha (daughter of Count of Maurienne and Chablais Oddon and of Torino Adelaide) was born on 21 Sep 1051 in Maurienne, France; died on 27 Dec 1087. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The sources conflict on who was Gisele's father. Some show Otto William of Burgundy, grandson of Gerbega; another shows William I of Burgundy. I have picked the Stammtafeln version.

Gisela married Count of Maurienne and Savoy, Marquis of Turin Humbert II de Maurienne in 1090 in Savoy, France. Humbert (son of Count of Savoy Amadeus (Amadeo) de Maurienne, II and Joan de Geneva) was born about 1062 in of Savoie, France; died on 17 Oct 1103; was buried on 19 Oct 1103. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gisela married Marquess of Montferrat Renier in 1105 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. Renier was born about 1084 in of Bourgogne, France; died in May 1135. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilda married Duke of Burgundy Eudes I "The Red" Borel de Bourgogne in 1077/1098 in Burgundy, France. Eudes (son of Duke of Burgundy Henry Capet and Countess of Barcelona Sibylle) was born in 1058 in Burgandy, France; died on 23 Mar 1103 in Tarsus, Cilicia, Asia Minor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Murdered

Stephen married of Lorraine Beatrix about 1087. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sibylla married Duke of Burgundy Eudes I "The Red" Borel de Bourgogne in 1080. Eudes (son of Duke of Burgundy Henry Capet and Countess of Barcelona Sibylle) was born in 1058 in Burgandy, France; died on 23 Mar 1103 in Tarsus, Cilicia, Asia Minor. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raymond married Countess of Castile Urraca in 1087 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Urraca (daughter of King of Castile and Leon Alfonso VI "The Brave" and of Burgundy Constance Capet) was born in Apr 1079 in Castile, Leon, Castilla-Leon, Spain; died on 8 Mar 1126 in Saldaña, Palencia, Castilla-Leon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermentrude married Duke of Alsace-Lorraine II Thierry about 1089. II (son of Count of Alsace-Lorraine Gerard, Count of Metz and Chatenois Duke of Lorraine I and of Namur Hedwig) was born about 1044 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Lorraine, France; died on 23 Jan 1115. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Ida Clementia
• Death: 1133, Nottinghamshire, England

Ida married Robert, Count of Flanders II in 1096 in Flanders, Belgium, Netherlands. Robert (son of Robert, Count of Flanders and Artois I and Gertrud Wettin) was born in 1065 in Ghent, Flanders, Belgium; died on 5 Oct 1111 in Brie, Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Enguerrand married Agnes de Beaugency in 1132 in Beaugency, Loiret, France. Agnes (daughter of Raoul de Beaugency and Matilda de Vermandois) was born about 1112 in Beaugency, Loiret, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There seems to be a serious error in line 246b-24 of Ancestral Roots, which has this Adeliza marrying Robert de Condet d. 1141, after her marriage to Gilbert FitzRichard. This does not agree with any other lines, which have Robert de Condet's wife as Adeliza dau. of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester. The error in generation 24 is shown in the next generation of this line (246b-25) which has Adeliza dau. of Ranulph marrying first Richard FitzGilbert and then Robert de Condet. I believe this (generation 25) is correct.

Family/Spouse: Seigneur de Chateau-Bassett Bouchard II de Montmorency. Bouchard was born in 1087; died on 2 Jan 1132. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adeliza married Earl Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare about 1086. Gilbert (son of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and Rohese Giffard) was born before 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England; died before 1117; was buried in 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare. Gilbert died in 1114. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermentrude married Earl of Chester Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches about 1088 in of France. Hugh (son of Viscount of Avranches Richard le Goz and Emma de Conteville) was born about 1050 in Normandy, France; died on 27 Jul 1101 in St Werburg's Abbey, Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Warwick Henry de Beaumont. Henry (son of Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont-Audemer, Viscount of Hiesmes Roger de Beaumont and Adeline de Meulan) was born about 1048; died on 20 Jun 1123. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julienne married Gilbert de l'Aigle in 1091. Gilbert was born in 1061/1070 in l'Aigle, Orne, France; died in 1118. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rotrou married Matilda in 1103. Matilda (daughter of King of England Henry I "Beauclerc" and Edith FitzForne) was born about 1090; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in wreck of the White Ship near Barfleur, Manche, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rotrou married Hawise de Salisbury before 1127. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burke says he died in 1156. Some call him William VIII.

William married Eleanor Chatellerault de Rochefoucald in 1112/1134. Eleanor was born in 1103; died after 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 8 Mar 1159; Abbey of Fontevraud, Aquitaine, France

Notes:

Died:
Abbey of Fontevraud, Aquitaine, France

Agnes married King of Aragon Ramiro "The Monk", II in 1134 in Spain. Ramiro (son of King of Aragon and Navarre Sancho Ramirez Aragon and Felicia de Roucy) was born on 24 Apr 1075 in Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; died on 16 Aug 1157 in San Pedro Monastery, Jaca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; was buried in Huesca, Provincia de Huesca, Aragon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Teresa married Count of Portugal Henry de Bourgogne before 24 Aug 1092. Henry (son of Duke of Burgundy Henry Capet and Countess of Barcelona Sibylle) was born about 1066 in Dijon, France; died on 1 Nov 1112 in Astorga, Galicia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermisende married Count of Namur I Godfrey about 1110 in Belgium. I (son of Count of Namur III Albert and Ida Billung) was born in 1073 in Namur, Namur, Belgium; died on 19 Aug 1139 in Florette, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ermisende married Albrecht I (Sultzbach) Dagsburg about 1097 in of Luxembourg. Albrecht was born about 1054 in of Eguisheim, Haut-Rhin, France; died on 24 Aug 1098. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Yolande married Baldwin, Count of Hainaut III in 1107. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut II and Alix (Ida) de Louvain) was born in 1088 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; died on 17 Jun 1120 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; was buried in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Yolande married Godefroi de Ribemont after 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Margrave of Austria III Leopold about 1106 in Germany, Klosterneuburg, Niederoesterreic, Austria. III was born in 1073 in of Klosterneuburg, Niederosterreich, Austria; died on 15 Nov 1136; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Duke of Swabia Frederick I von Büren about 1089 in Hohenstauffen, Germany. Frederick (son of Frederick von Büren and Hildegarde von Swabia) was born about 1050 in Hohenstauffen, Germany; died on 21 Apr 1105. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

V married Princess of England Matilda Normandy on 7 Jan 1113 in Mainz, Germany. Matilda (daughter of King of England Henry I "Beauclerc" and Princess of Scotland Matilda (Edith) mac Maíl Coluim) was born on 5 Aug 1102 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 10 Sep 1167; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adélaïde married Constable of France Matthieu de Montmorenci in 1141 in Savoie, France. Matthieu was born about 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adélaïde married King of France Louis VI "The Fat" Capet on 3 Aug 1115 in Paris, Seine, France. Louis (son of King of France Philip I "The Fair" Capet and Countess of Holland Bertha) was born in 1081 in Herbst, France; died on 1 Aug 1137 in Bethizy Castle, Paris, Seine, France; was buried in St Denis, Seine-Saint-Deni, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amadeus married Mahaut (Mafalda Matilda) d'Albon in 1123. Mahaut died after 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Maud de Turenne in 1103/1135 in Bourgogne, Marne, France. Maud (daughter of Viscount of Turenne I Boso and Gerberge de Terrasson) was born about 1090 in of Mayenne, France; died after 1162 in Beaune, Cote-d'Or, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Poncette de Treves in 1088/1140. Poncette was born about 1090 in Treves, France; died about 1156. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married of Lorraine Agathe about 1130. Agathe (daughter of Duke of Lorraine I Simon and Adelaide de Leuven) was born about 1120; died after 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Count of Blois Hugo (Hugh), I about 1110. Hugo (son of Count of Blois and Champagne III Theobald and of Maine Garsende) was born about 1048 in Blois, France; died in 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Abbey des Ayes, France

Clemence-Marguerite married Guigues IV d'Albon in 1132. Guigues was born about 1095; died on 28 Jun 1142 in La Buissaire, France; was buried in Notre Dame de Grenoble, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Abbey de Perseigne, Le Mans, France

Family/Spouse: Count of Alencon and Ponthieu William Talvas, Count of Ponthieu III. William (son of 3rd Earl Shrewsbury Count of Ponthieu, Alecon, and Montreuil Robert de Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury II and Agnes de Ponthieu) was born about 1093 in Alençon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 30 Jun 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helie married Count of Ponthieu III William in 1115. III was born about 1095; died on 20 Jun 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Helie married Bertrand de Toulouse, Count of Toulouse in Jun 1095. Bertrand died in 1112. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Returning from an expedition against Almohad possession, he died.

Alfonso married Berenguela Raimundo on 17 Nov 1128 in Saldaña, Palencia, Castilla-Leon, Spain. Berenguela (daughter of Ramon Berenguer, Count of Barcelona III and Countess of Provence Douce, heiress of Provence) was born on 3 Feb 1113 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; died on 15 Jan 1149 in Palencia, Leon, Castilla-Leon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married of Poland Richeza Piast in Jul 1152 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland. Richeza was born in 1140 in Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland; died on 16 Jun 1185 in Palencia, Leon, Castilla-Leon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raoul married Alix de Dreux after 1181 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, France. Alix (daughter of Count of Dreux Robert Capet and Agnes de Baudement) was born about 1145/46 in of Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, France; died after 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Raoul married Agnes de Hainault about 1163 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. Agnes (daughter of Baldwin IV "Le Bâtisseur" Count of Hainaut and Alix de Namur) was born about 1141 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; died in 1173 in Laon, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Constable of Ireland. See also The Complete Peerage, V. ix, Appendix I, p66.

Hervey married Isabel (Elizabeth) de Beaumont in 1135. Isabel (daughter of 1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, Count Meulan I and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born in 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died on 6 Jan 1147 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hervey married Nesta FitzGerald about 1161. Nesta (daughter of Keeper of Dublin Lord of Llanstephan, Wales Maurice FitzGerald and Alice de Montgomery) was born about 1145; died on 15 Jan 1203/04. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Lord Great Chamberlain of England Aubrey II de Vere about 1108 in Suffolk, England. Aubrey (son of Lord of Cheniston Alberic (Aubrey) de Vere and Countess of Ghisnes Beatrice (Beatrix)) was born about 1080 in Hedingham, Essex, England; died on 15 May 1141 in London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Earls Colne, Braintree District, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Geoffrey St. Leger in 1112 in Fairlight, Sussex, England. Geoffrey (son of William St. Leger and Cecilla De Romney) was born in 1087 in Fairlight, Sussex, England; died in 1144 in Fairlight, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Cardigan in Wales

Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

Died:
Age: 46

Richard married Alice de Meschines about 1115. Alice (daughter of Ranulf le Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester and Lucy de Taillebois) was born about 1094 in Gernons Castle, Normandy, France; died in 1154. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Deeping and Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire.

Baldwin married Heiress of Bourne, Deeping and Skellingthorpe Adeline de Rollos about 1113. Adeline was born in 1092 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married William de Montfitchet about 1111 in of Suffolk, England. William was born about 1091 in Essex, Cambridge, England; died in 1156 in London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rohese married Baderon FitzWilliam, Lord of Monmouth II after 1130 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. Baderon (son of William FitzBaderon, Lord of Monmouth and Hawise) was born about 1100 in Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales; died in 1176 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gilbert married Isabel (Elizabeth) de Beaumont before 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. Isabel (daughter of 1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, Count Meulan I and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born in 1098 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died on 6 Jan 1147 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Geoffrey de Say. Geoffrey (son of William de Say and Agnes de Grandmesnil) was born about 1088 in Sawbridgeworth, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Matilda (Maud) de Blois. Matilda (daughter of Count of Blois Stephen Henry II (Etienne Henri) "The Sage" and Adela (Adelle)) was born in 1086; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in wreck of the White Ship near Barfleur, Manche, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Geva married Baron Blaye Geoffrey de Ridel about 1096 in of Witering, Northamptonshire, England. Geoffrey was born about 1075 in of Witering, Northamptonshire, England; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From the Complete Peerage, Vol. XII, Pt. 2, p. 361-62: "After the battle of Lincoln, 2 Feb. 1140/41, he joined the Empress Maud of his own free will. He served with her at the siege of Winchester in 1141; but early in 1142 he was with Stephen at Stamford. He does not seem to have taken any active part in the Civil War; but at an unknown date he allowed Warwick Castle to be garrisoned by Stephen's troops, and in 1153 he was with the King when he heard that the garrison had been tracked by Henry's knights and the Castle surrendered. Although he was not to blame, it is said that he was so overcome with shame and grief that he died suddenly. He founded the Templars' House and St. Michael's Hospital, both in Warwick, completed the foundation of Warwick Priory and was a benefactor to a large number of religious foundations."

Roger married Gundred de Warenne before 1130. Gundred (daughter of 2nd Earl of Surrey William II de Warenne and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born about 1109 in Surrey, Surrey, England; died about 1166 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England; was buried in Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: King of Navarre Garcia IV "The Restorer". Garcia was born in 1100 in Navarre, Spain; died on 21 Nov 1150 in Lorca de Navarra, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Maine Elias II d'Anjou. Elias (son of Fulk V "The Younger" d'Anjou, Count of Anjou King of Jerusalem and of Maine Ermengarde de la Fletche) was born about 1111; died on 15 Jan 1151. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet on 22 Jul 1137 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France, and was divorced in 1152. Louis (son of King of France Louis VI "The Fat" Capet and Countess of Savoy Adélaïde de Maurienne) was born in 1120 in Fontainebleau, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Notre Dame de Barbeau, Fontainebleau, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet on 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France. Henry (son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou V and Princess of England Matilda Normandy) was born on 25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Normandy, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Castle Chinon, Saumer, Indre Et Loire, France; was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1134, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
• Birth: 29 Jun 1135, Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
• Death: 17 Oct 1174, Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain
• Death: 17 Oct 1174, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Petronilla married Ramon Berenguer, Count of Barcelona IV on 11 Aug 1137 in Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. Ramon (son of Ramon Berenguer, Count of Barcelona III and Countess of Provence Douce, heiress of Provence) was born on 4 Apr 1113 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; died on 6 Aug 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Cuneo, Piemonte, Italy; was buried in Ripoll, Provincia de Girona, Cataluna, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Baldwin IV "Le Bâtisseur" Count of Hainaut about 1140 in Namur, Belgium. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut III and Yolande von Guelders) was born in 1108 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; died on 8 Nov 1171 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was buried in St. Waldthud Abbey, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married Alix de Namur about 1140 in Namur, Belgium. Alix (daughter of Count of Namur I Godfrey and Countess of Luxembourg Ermisende Luxembourg) was born in 1117 in Namur, Namur, Belgium; died on 31 Jul 1195 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; was buried in Mons, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jutta married Marquess of Montferrat Guillaume V de Montferrat about 1133. Guillaume was born about 1115; died in 1191. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married of Bavaria Judith about 1120 in Germany. Judith (daughter of Duke of Bavaria I Heinrich and Wulfhilda von Saxony) was born about 1100 in Bavaria; died on 22 Feb 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor on 22 Jul 1137 in Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France, and was divorced in 1152. Eleanor (daughter of Duke of Aquitaine William X "The Toulousan" and Eleanor Chatellerault de Rochefoucald) was born about 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Guinne, France; died on 31 Mar 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Poitiers, France; was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Adele de Blois on 18 Oct 1160. Adele (daughter of Count of Blois and Champagne Theobald IV de Blois and Princess of Carinthia Mathilde von Sponheim) was born about 1140 in Blois, Loire-et-Cher, France; died on 4 Jun 1206 in Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Constance Burgundy before 18 Nov 1153. Constance (daughter of Emperor of All the Spains Alfonso VII Burgundy and Berenguela Raimundo) was born in 1141 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died on 4 Oct 1160 in Ile De La Cite, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pierre married Elizabeth about 1150. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Hawise d'Evereaux in 1144 in Reims, Marne, France. Hawise (daughter of Sheriff of Wiltshire Walter FitzEdward d'Evereaux and Sibyl de Chaworth) was born in 1123 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died in 1152 in Braine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Agnes de Baudement in 1152 in Ende, France. Agnes (daughter of Guy de Vaudemont and Alice (Adelaide)) was born about 1130 in France; died on 11 Jul 1218 in France; was buried in St Ived Abbey, Braine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Countess of Rochefort Agnes after 1141 in Reims, Marne, France. Agnes was born about 1125. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Humbert married Beatrix de Macon in 1175. Beatrix (daughter of Count of Macon and Vienne I Gerard and of Salins Maurette) was born about 1160; died on 8 Apr 1230. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

II married Marie de Champagne about 1145 in Burgundy, France. Marie (daughter of Count of Blois and Champagne Theobald IV de Blois and Princess of Carinthia Mathilde von Sponheim) was born about 1129 in Champagne, France; died on 17 Aug 1190 in Fonterault, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

I married of Salins Maurette in 1119/1167. Maurette (daughter of III Walter) died on 15 Sep 1184. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Judith d'Alsace. Judith (daughter of Count of Boulogne Matthew d'Alsace and Marie de Blois) was born about 1155 in Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

I married Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I "Barbarossa" von Hohenstaufen on 9 Jun 1156 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. Frederick (son of Duke of Swabia Frederick II von Hohenstaufen and of Bavaria Judith) was born in 1122 in Waiblingen, Germany; died on 10 Jun 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adela married 3rd Earl of Surrey William III de Warenne in 1132/1147. William (son of 2nd Earl of Surrey William II de Warenne and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born in 1118 in Vermandois, Neustria, France; died on 19 Jan 1147 in Laodicea, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adela married 1st Earl of Salisbury Patrick d'Evereaux before 1152. Patrick (son of Sheriff of Wiltshire Walter FitzEdward d'Evereaux and Sibyl de Chaworth) was born about 1129 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 27 Mar 1168 in Slain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guy married Ida de St. Pol about 1145 in Ponthieu, France. Ida (daughter of Hugues IV St. Pol and Beatrix) was born about 1126 in St. Pol, Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Constance de Bourgogne
• Birth: 1133, Castilla y Leon, Spain
• Death: 4 Oct 1160

Notes:

Died:
Died during childbirth.

Constance married King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet before 18 Nov 1153. Louis (son of King of France Louis VI "The Fat" Capet and Countess of Savoy Adélaïde de Maurienne) was born in 1120 in Fontainebleau, France; died on 18 Sep 1180 in Notre Dame de Barbeau, Fontainebleau, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married of Navarre Blanche on 30 Jan 1151 in Calahorra, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ferdinand married of Portugal Urraca in 1165. Urraca (daughter of King of Portugal Alfonso I Henriques) was born about 1151; died on 16 Oct 1188. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Monasterio De Jaen

Sancha married King of Aragon Alfonso II "The Chaste" Burgandy on 18 Jan 1174 in Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. Alfonso (son of Ramon Berenguer, Count of Barcelona IV and Queen of Aragon Petronilla) was born on 4 Apr 1152 in Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain; died on 25 Apr 1196 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; was buried in Poblet, Provincia de Tarragona, Cataluna, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary Oliphant in 1159 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. Mary (daughter of David Oliphant, Justiciar of Scotland) was born in 1139 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland; died after 1204 in Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Yolande married Count of Dreux II Robert in 1184 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, France. II (son of Count of Dreux Robert Capet and Agnes de Baudement) was born about 1154 in France; was christened in 1218; died on 28 Dec 1218; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1089, Hedingham, Essex, England
• Birth: 1103, Hedingham, Essex, England
• Death: Aft Sep 1166

Rohese married Earl of Essex Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex in 1129 in England. Geoffrey (son of William de Mandeville and Margaret de Rie) was born in 1092 in Great Waltham, Essex, England; died on 14 Sep 1144 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England; was buried in London, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Payne (Pagan) Beauchamp. Payne (son of Robert Beauchamp) was born about 1085 in of Essex and Bedfordshire, England; died on 7 May 1157 in Bedford Castle, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Juliana married 1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod about 1133 in Marriage was annulled. Hugh (son of Earl of East Anglia Roger Bigod and Adeliza de Toeni) was born about 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England; died about 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England; was buried in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Glandville. Roger (son of Hervey de Glanville and Matilda de Salt-les-Dames) was born about 1111. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walkelin Maminot. Walkelin was born about 1111 in West Greenwich, Kent, England; died in 1182. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

AUBREY DE VERE
First Earl of Oxford; Count of Guines; d 1194

... eldest surviving son of the above Aubrey, whom he succeeded in 1141. Having married Beatrice, daughter of Henry, castel Ian of Bourbourg, and heiress of her maternal grandfather, Manasses, count of Guines, Aubrey, on the latter's death (? 1139), became Count of Guines in her right (ib. pp. 189, 397; Stapleton, Archaeologia, xxxi. 216 sq.), and is so styled in a charter of the abbot of St. Edmund's (Cott. Chart. xxi. 6). It was also as count before his father's death that he executed the charter to Hatfield Priory quoted by Morant (Essex, ii. 506). In his 'Historiab Comitum Ardensium' (Pertz, vol. xxiv.), Lambert of Ardres, as the writer has shown (Academy, 28 May 1892), speaks of Aubrey as 'Albericus Aper' in his account of the comte of Guines. He was divorced by the Countess Beatrice, who then married Baldwin of Ardres, the claimant to the comte , about 1145 (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 189).
Meanwhile he had joined his brother-in-law, Earl Geoffrey, in intriguing with the Empress Maud (ib. p. 178), and, through his influence, obtained from her at Oxford in 1142 a remarkable charter, granting him lands and dignities, including an earldom, either of Cambridge, or, if that was impossible, of Oxford, Berkshire, Wiltshire, or Dorset, which charter her son Henry confirmed (ib. pp. 179-88). The title he adopted was that of Oxford, and in January 1156 Henry II by a fresh charter granted him its 'third penny' as earl (ib. p. 239). In 1166 he made a return of his knights' fees (Lib. Rub. p. 352). He is said to have founded the priories at Hedingham and at Ickleton, Cambridgeshire.

By his second wife, Euphemia Cantelupe, he seems to have had no issue, but by the third, Lucy, daughter of Henry of Essex, he left at his death in 1194 (Rot. Pip. 7 Ric. I) Aubrey, second earl, and Robert, third earl of Oxford [q. v.]

[Pipe Roll of 1130 (Record Comm.); Sarum Charters and Documents, Giraldus Cambrensis, William of Malmesbury, Matt. Paris, Liber Rubeus Scaccarii (all in Rolls Series); Madox's Baronia Anglica; Archaeologia; Morant's History of Essex; Pertz's Monuments; Foss's Judges of England; Dugdale's Monasticon; Round's Geoffrey de Mandeville and Feudal England; Academy, 28 May 1892; Cotton Charters; Pipe Rolls.] J.H.R.

Family/Spouse: Agnes de Essex. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married 1st Baron of Warkworth Roger FitzRichard before 1176. Roger (son of Lord Baron Halton Richard FitzEustace Clavering and Jane Bigod) was born about 1141 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England; died in 1178 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, is likewise said to have born the title of Earl of Clare. In the 3rd Henry II, this nobleman obtaining from the king all the lands in Wales which he could win, marched into Cardigan with a great army and fortified divers castles thereabouts. In the 9th of the same reign, we find him summoned by the celebrated Thomas-E homage to the prelate for his castle of Tonebruge; which at the command of the king he refused, alleging that holding it by military service it belonged rather to the crown than to the church. His lordship m. Maude (who m. after his decease William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel), dau. of James de St. Hillary, by whom he had a son, Richard, his successor. This earl who, from his munificence to the church and his numerous acts of piety, was called the Good, d. in 1173, and was s. by his son, Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

Roger married Maud de St. Hilaire about 1152 in Field Dalling, Norfolk, England. Maud (daughter of James de St. Hilaire and Aveline Canmore) was born about 1132 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England; died on 24 Dec 1193 in Field Dalling, Walsingham, Norfolk, England; was buried in Priory of Great, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Age: 27

Adeliza married 4th Baron Percy William de Percy in 1134. William (son of 3rd Baron Percy William de Percy and Alice de Ros) was born in 1112 in Topcliffe, North Riding, Yorkshire, England; died in Apr 1175 in Salley Abbey, Craven, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rohese married Earl of Lincoln Gilbert de Gand about 1145 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Gilbert (son of Earl Lincoln Walter de Gaunt and Matilda (Maud) de Brittany) was born about 1120 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1156. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William II de Busli. William (son of William I de Busli and Hawise Espec) was born in 1090 in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England; died in 1164. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gilbert married Aveline de Lucy in 1153 in of Normandy, France. Aveline (daughter of Richard de Lucy and Rohaise de Foliot) was born about 1114 in Luce, Near Maine, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rohese married Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath 4th Baron Lacy about 1163. Hugh (son of Gilbert de Lacy and Agnes de Gaunt) was born in Apr 1135 in Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England; died on 25 Jul 1186 in Durrow, County Laois, Ireland; was buried in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lord of Leinster 1171.

See also: http://www.castlewales.com/strngbow.html
and http://www.castlewales.com/is_clare.html

Richard married Eve (Aoife) MacMurrough on 26 Aug 1171 in Waterford. Eve (daughter of King of Leinster Diarmait MacMurchada and More O'Toole) was born about 1141 in Ireland; died after 1186 in Waterford, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Beatrice de Mandeville about 1125. Beatrice (daughter of William de Mandeville and Margaret de Rie) was born in 1105 in Mandeville, Normandy, France; died on 19 Apr 1197 in Rickling, Essex, England; was buried in Walden Abbey, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilda married Richard Basset about 1126 in Newbold, Nottinghamshire, England. Richard (son of Lord Colston Ralph Basset and Alice de Buci) was born about 1088 in of Drayton Basset Stafordshire, Engand; died in 1144. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Waleran married Margaret de Bohun before 1190. Margaret (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford Lord of Trowbridge Constable of England III and Margaret de Huntingdon) died in 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod. Hugh (son of Earl of East Anglia Roger Bigod and Adeliza de Toeni) was born about 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England; died about 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England; was buried in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married King of Castile III Sancho on 30 Jan 1151 in Calahorra, Spain. III (son of Emperor of All the Spains Alfonso VII Burgundy and Berenguela Raimundo) was born in 1134; died on 31 Aug 1158 in Toledo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Count of Blois Theobald V "The Good" de Blois in 1164. Theobald (son of Count of Blois and Champagne Theobald IV de Blois and Princess of Carinthia Mathilde von Sponheim) was born in 1127 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France; died in 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Count of Champagne and Brie Henry I "The Liberal" de Blois. Henry (son of Count of Blois and Champagne Theobald IV de Blois and Princess of Carinthia Mathilde von Sponheim) was born in 1126 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France; died on 17 Mar 1181 in Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Crowned in 1170.

Stammtafeln says married 21 Aug 1172.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Capet. Margaret (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Constance Burgundy) was born in Nov 1157; died about Sep 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed at a tournament by his horse.

Geoffrey married Duchess of Brittany Constance in Jul 1181. Constance (daughter of Conan of Penthièvre, Duke of Brittany IV and Margaret de Huntingdon) was born about 1161; died on 5 Sep 1201 in Nantes, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married King of Castile VIII Alfonso on 21 Sep 1177 in Burgos Cathedral, Castile, Spain. VIII (son of King of Castile III Sancho and of Navarre Blanche) was born on 11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain; died on 5 Oct 1214 in Avevalo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilda married Duke of Saxony And Bavaria V Henry on 1 Feb 1167 in Minden Cathedral, Saxony, Germany. V was born in 1129 in Ravensburg, Donau, Wuerttemberg, Germany; died on 6 Aug 1195 in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Reigned 1199-1216. Signed Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede.

His reign saw renewal of war with Phillip II Augustus of France to whom he has lost several continental possessions including Normandy by 1205. He came into conflict with his Barons and was forced to Sign the Magna Carta. His later repudiation of the charter led to the first barons war 1215-17 during which John died. Burke says he was born in 1160.

King of Ireland 1177, Count of Mortain 1189, Earl of Gloucester.

Matthew Paris wrote, 'Foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by the presence of King John', and this pretty well sums up John's reputation--until 1944, that is. For in that year Professor Galbraith demonstrated in a lecture to an astonished world that the chief chronicle source for the reign of John was utterly unreliable. Since then bad King John has been getting better and better, until now he is nearly well again, and a leading scholar in the field has seriously warned us that the twentieth century could well create it own John myth.

A man who can create so many myths, or rather have them created about him, is clearly outstanding in some way, but the myths hide the truth. Plainly the chroniclers who invented stories about him after his death can tell us little, and we should not take too much notice of people who condemned John for carrying out his father's (and his brother's officials') policies and administrative routines, nor indeed those who condemned him because of the bitter troubles that happened in the succeeding reign, troubles which were in no means entirely of John's making. Recent historians have turned to the administrative records of his reign, and found there a very different picture; but still the lingering doubts remain--were these records the result of John's skill and application or of those of his able staff?

John was a paunchy little man, five feet five inches tall, with erect head, staring eyes, flaring nostrils and thick lips set in a cruel pout, as his splendid monument at Worcester shows. He had the tempestuous nature of all his family, and a driving demoniac energy: Professor Barlow says that 'he prowled around his kingdom, ' which is an evocative phrase, but it would be truer to say that he raced around it. He was fastidious about his person--taking more baths than several other medieval kings put together, and owning the ultimate in luxury, for that time, a dressing-gown. He loved good food and drink, and gambled a great deal, though he usually lost--the results of his typical impatience and carelessness are recorded on his expense rolls; above all things he loved women. Some say his 'elopement' was the cause of his loss of Normandy. He was generous to the poor (for instance, he remitted to them the penalties of the forest law), and to his servants; at the least he went through the motions of being a Christian king. He was extortionate, though if one considers the terrific increase in his outgoings (a mercenary soldier cost him 200 per cent more in wages than he would have in Henry II's day) one can understand some of his actions in the field. He was deeply concerned about justice, took care to attend to court business, and listened to supplicants with sympathy; he had also an urgent desire for peace in the land, saying that his peace was to be observed 'even if we have granted it to a dog.' But for all that, he had two totally unredeeming vices; he was suspicious, and enjoyed a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere--simply he did not inspire trust in his subjects. Dr. Warren says of him with some justice that if he had lived in the twentieth century he would have adored to run a secret police.

He was born at Oxford on Christmas Eve 1167. He was oblated for a monk at the abbey of Fontevrault at the age of one year, but was back at court by the time he was six--plainly he had no vocation, but he probably picked up at this early stage his fastidiousness and his passion for books: his library followed him wherever he went. He was his father's favorite, but he turned against the old man when his chance came, as he did against Richard (who had been very generous to his brother) when the latter was in captivity in 1193. The episode was a miserable failure, but it possibly sowed the seeds of distrust for John in England, where they began to sprout luxuriantly in 1199 when Richard died and John came to the throne.

Immediately the challenge came: Philip Augustus, the wily King of France, was backing John's nephew, Prince Arthur of Brittany (son of John's elder brother Geoffrey) as a contender for the throne, and England's French possessions fell prey to civil war. John found grave difficultly in dealing with the situation for a number of reasons, but in 1202 he made the remarkable coup of capturing Arthur by force-marching his troops eighty miles in forty-eight hours; but then his prosecution of the war became listless, and he lost much sympathy by his brutal murder of Arthur whilst in a drunken rage. By 1204 Normandy was lost.

The loss of Normandy seemed to wake John up, and he now deployed his every energy in building up the coastal defenses of Britain, now faced with an enemy the other side of the Channel, instead of just more of her own territory. The navy was built up, and the army, and John poured a quarter of his annual revenue into defense. But he could not persuade the baronage to support him in a counterstroke to regain Normandy: the barons of the north country had never owned land in Normandy and did not see why they should pay to regain southerner's castles for them. These 'Northerners' as they called themselves, were a hive of discontent, and more was to be heard from them. Meanwhile, John sailed angrily about in the Channel, cursing ineffectually.

Other troubles were to come first, however. In 1205 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Hubert Walker, died, and John assumed that he would have the choice of the new archbishop. However, Pope Innocent III was no man to support secular control over church appointments, and supported the right of the monks of Canterbury to select their own archbishop. For two years the storms blew between England and Rome, then Stephen Langton was appointed. Meanwhile John had driven the monks into exile and appropriated the revenues of the archdiocese. He had fallen out also with his half-brother, Geoffrey Archbishop or York, over tax-collection, and he too fled abroad while John collected his revenues. Four bishops joined in his fight--tension was growing to the snapping point. In 1208 the Pope put an Interdict on England, which in effect meant the clergy went on strike, or, in certain cases and areas, worked to rule. John began negotiations with Innocent, but, finding that he demanded unconditional surrender, stopped them and took over all ecclesiastical properties and incomes. He did leave the clergy sufficient to live, though barely; but he still gained a large increment to his usual finances. In November 1209 the Pope took the final step of excommunicating the King, which, in that it made him an outlaw in Christendom, did far more damage than the Interdict.

John used his enlarged treasury to restore order in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and to rebuild the old alliance with Otto IV of Germany and the Count of Flanders against Philip Augustus. He planned a two-pronged attack on France, to take place in 1212. But that year turned out an unlucky one for John, for the barons again refused to serve abroad, and the army he had was needed to put down a revolt in Wales; the Pope was threatening to demote him, and Philip Augustus was planning a massive invasion of England. John had to give in in one direction, for the pressure was much too great: he chose the Pope, and wisely so. He agreed to return to the status quo in the matter of church property and establishment, and to pay compensation; he further resigned his kingdom into the hands of the Pope, to receive it back in return for his homage and an annual tribute of 1,000 marks (a mark being two-thirds of a pound].

He had won a notable ally in Innocent III, who supported him faithfully throughout his troubles. Then his fleet, his own creation, had the good luck to find the French fleet at anchor and unprotected, destroyed it, and so made a French invasion impossible. On the crest of a wave, John determined to put his two-pronged invasion plan into action, but once more the northern barons refused to play, and he set off to punish them. Stephen Langton had arrived on the scene by now and managed to persuade John not to provoke the barons further.

In 1214 he finally managed to put his long cherished plan into action, but the two attacks were not properly coordinated; Otto was defeated at Bovines, and John was deserted by his Protein knights.

In 1215 John faced a baronage in turmoil: they could point to the failure of his expensive schemes, he ascribed his failure to their total lack of support. The situation could not be more tense. John's nervousness can be seen in his taking of the cross, a blatant attempt to reinforce his alliance with the papacy. In April the Northerners met at Stamford; they were by now a mixture of northerners and southerners--the name was now merely a nickname--but by and large they were the younger element in the kingdom, roughnecks out for a spree. They moved south and were let into London by a faction, and received the expected encouragement from Philip Augustus in the form of siege engines brought over by one Eustace, a renegade monk turned pirate.

John offered arbitration, but the barons turned it down, and while he put his faith in an appeal to Rome, Stephen Langton, in cooperation with William Marshal and other more stable and sensible barons, were working on the Northerners' demands to incorporate them into a general charter, which would not only govern feudal relationships, but would also lay down a more general pattern of legality in government. On 15 June John fixed his seal to the draft of Magna Carat, and on 19 June attested copies were sent to all parts of the kingdom.

The King did his part thoroughly, though for how long he would have continued is another matter, but the barons continued to distrust him. They remained in arms, organizing tournaments as their excuse, saying that the prize would be 'a bear a certain lady would send.' This was civil war, and John took to it with a fiendish glee. He reduced the north and the east, and was about to mop up the remainder of the opposition in London when Philip Augustus' son Louis landed in force to help the barons (May 1216). John had been riding hard for months, and was sick with dysentery after a bout of over-eating; whilst crossing the Wash, the whole of his baggage-train was lost. At Newark Castle on 18 October, he died, desiring to be buried near his patron saint Wolfsan in Worcester Cathedral.

He was by no means a good man, and his energies could well have been put to a better use, but in a different situation he might well have made a great king. His constant failure was discipline, over himself first, and others second. John reminds me of nothing so much as the type of person who is brilliant in many ways, and has many gifts, but leaves after two terms 'not suited to teaching in this type of school.' [Who's Who in the Middle Ages, John Fines, Barnes and Noble Books, New York, 1995]

John married Countess of Angoulême Isabella Taillefer on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Isabella (daughter of Count of Angoulême Aymer Taillefer and Alix Courtenay) was born in 1188 in Angoumé, Landes, Aquitaine, France; died on 31 May 1246 in Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, France; was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Countess of Gloucester Isabel FitzRobert on 19 Aug 1189 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England. Isabel (daughter of 2nd Earl of Gloucester William FitzRobert and Hawise de Beaumont) was born about 1165 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 14 Oct 1217; was buried in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Gather de Ferrers in 1188. Gather (daughter of 3rd Earl of Derby William de Ferrers and Sybil de Braose) was born in 1168 in Chartley, Staffordshire, England; died on 4 Sep 1201 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adela de Warenne. Adela (daughter of 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne and Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne) was born about 1164 in Surrey, England; died about 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Suzanne de Warenne about 1186. Suzanne (daughter of 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne and Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne) was born about 1166 in Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Burke says born 1155 died 1156.

Notes:

Reigned 1189-1199. Prisoner in Germany 1192-1194.

A hero of Medieval legends spent all but 6 months of his reign abroad. He became Duke of Aquitaine in 1168 and of Poitiers in 1172. He joined the 3rd crusade in 1189 and conquered Messina and Cyprus before arriving in the Holy Land. His victory at Arsuf gained Joppa (1191). On his way home he was captured in Austria and was only released by Emperor Henry VI after payment of an enormous ransom (1194). He returned briefly to England but died in France.

Richard married of Navarre Berengaria on 12 May 1191 in Chapel of St George, Limasol, Cyprus. Berengaria (daughter of King of Navarre Sancho VI "The Wise") was born in 1163 in Pamplona, Spain; died after 1230 in l'Epau Abbey, Le Mans, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Countess of the Vexin Alys Capet. Alys (daughter of King of France Louis VII "The Younger" Capet and Constance Burgundy) was born on 4 Oct 1160; died about 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died in childbirth, having been veiled a nun on her deathbed.

Birth:
Angers Castle, Anjou, France

Joan married King of Toulouse VI Raymond in 1179/1196. VI was born in 1149/1168; died in 1222. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married King of Sicily William in 1179/1188. William was born in 1148/1168; died in 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 4 Apr 1152, Huesca, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
• Death: 26 Apr 1196, Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Alfonso married Queen of Aragon Sancha on 18 Jan 1174 in Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. Sancha (daughter of Emperor of All the Spains Alfonso VII Burgundy and of Poland Richeza Piast) was born on 21 Sep 1154 in Castile, Burgos, Castilla-Leon, Spain; died on 9 Nov 1208 in Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Mafalda Affonsez Portugal on 30 Jan 1160 in Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Mafalda was born in 1149 in Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; died in 1173. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1159, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Urraca married King of Leon Ferdinand Burgundy, II in 1165. Ferdinand (son of Emperor of All the Spains Alfonso VII Burgundy and Berenguela Raimundo) was born in 1137 in Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; died on 22 Jan 1188 in Benavente, Zamora, Castilla-Leon, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Baldwin married of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre in 1169. Marguerite (daughter of Duke of Alsace, Count of Flanders III Thierry and Sibylla d'Anjou) was born in 1135 in Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France; died on 15 Nov 1194 in France, Lot-et-Garonne, Aquitaine, France; was buried in Bruges, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Seigneur de Mar Raoul I de Courcy about 1163 in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium. Raoul (son of Enguerrand II de Courcy and Agnes de Beaugency) was born about 1139 in Boves, Somme, France; died on 1 Nov 1191 in Siege of Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guilhem married Queen of Jerusalem Sibylla d'Anjou in 1176. Sibylla (daughter of Amalric (Amaury) d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem I and Agnes Courtenay) was born about 1160; died in 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Azalaïs married 2nd Margrave of Saluzzo Manfredo II di Saluzzo before Jun 1182. Manfredo was born in 1140; died on 22 Jun 1215. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederick married Countess of Burgundy I Beatrice on 9 Jun 1156 in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. I (daughter of Count of Burgundy and Macon III Rainald and of Lorraine Agathe) was born in 1143; died on 15 Nov 1184. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Duke of Lorraine I Matthias about 1110 in France. I (son of Duke of Lorraine I Simon and Adelaide de Leuven) was born in 1119 in Lorraine, France; died on 13 May 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Isabella d'Hainaut on 28 Apr 1180 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Isabella (daughter of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born on 5 Apr 1170 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 15 Mar 1190 in Paris, Paris, Ile-De-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: King of England Richard I Plantagenet. Richard (son of King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born on 8 Sep 1157 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England; died on 6 Apr 1199 in Chalus, Limousin, France; was buried in Fontevraud Abbey, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alys married Count of Ponthieu William IV Talvas on 20 Aug 1195. William (son of Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil John I Talvas and Beatrice de St. Pol) was born in 1179; died on 4 Oct 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Family/Spouse: Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou. Henry Plantagenet. Henry (son of King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born on 28 Feb 1154/55 in Bermondsey Palace, Surrey, England; died on 11 Jun 1183 in Martel Castle, Turenne, France; was buried in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Count of Angoulême Aymer Taillefer about 1180. Aymer (son of Count of Angoulême William V Taillefer and Marguerite de Turenne) died in 1202. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Peter married Yolande d'Hainaut on 1 Jul 1193 in Soissons, Aisne, Ille-de-France, France. Yolande (daughter of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born in 1175 in Hainaut, France; died on 26 Aug 1219 in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

II married Yolande de Courcy in 1184 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, France. Yolande (daughter of Seigneur de Mar Raoul I de Courcy and Agnes de Hainault) was born about 1164 in Boves, Somme, France; died on 18 Mar 1222; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Seigneur de Mar Raoul I de Courcy after 1181 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, France. Raoul (son of Enguerrand II de Courcy and Agnes de Beaugency) was born about 1139 in Boves, Somme, France; died on 1 Nov 1191 in Siege of Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married of Geneva Marguerite in May 1195. Marguerite was born about 1175; died on 13 Apr 1236 in Pierre Chatel, Hautecombe, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married Duchess of Bourgogne Beatrix de Viennois about 1183 in Savoy, France. Beatrix was born in 1161 in France; died on 15 Dec 1228 in Chateau de Vizil, France; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

III married of Lorraine Alix about 1165 in Lorraine, France. Alix (daughter of Duke of Lorraine I Matthias and Bertha von Hohenstaufen) was born about 1144 in Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Beatrix married Humbert III de Savoy in 1175. Humbert (son of Count of Savoy and Maurienne Amadeus III de Savoy and Mahaut (Mafalda Matilda) d'Albon) was born on 4 Aug 1136 in Aveillave, Savoy, France; died on 4 Mar 1189 in Cyprus. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Beatrx de Chalons. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philip married Princess of Byzantine Empire Irene Angelina on 25 May 1197. Irene (daughter of Emperor of Byzantine Empire Isaac II Angelos and Irena Comnenus) was born in 1184 in Constantinople, Turkey; died on 27 Aug 1208. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Earl of Surrey William de Blois about 1149. William (son of King of England Stephen de Blois and Countess of Boulogne Matilda de Talvas) was born about 1132 in Blois, France; died on 11 Oct 1159 in Toulouse, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne in Apr 1164 in Surrey, England. Hamelin (son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou V and of Angers Adelaide) was born in 1129 in Normandy, France; died on 7 May 1202 in Lewes, Sussex, England; was buried in Chapter House of Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Eleanor de Vitre about 1190. Eleanor (daughter of Robert III de Vitre and Emma de Dinan) was born in 1158 in Brittany, Normandy, and England; died in 1232. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

John married Beatrice de St. Pol in 1174 in France. Beatrice was born about 1158 in of Saint Pol, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mathilda about 1161 in Normandy, France. Mathilda was born about 1142 in Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

VIII married Princess of England Eleanor Plantagenet on 21 Sep 1177 in Burgos Cathedral, Castile, Spain. Eleanor (daughter of King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born on 13 Oct 1161 in Domfront, Normandy, France; died on 25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Brugos, Spain; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

IX married Queen of Castile Berengaria in 1197 in Valladolid, Castilla-Leon, Spain. Berengaria (daughter of King of Castile VIII Alfonso and Princess of England Eleanor Plantagenet) was born in Aug 1181 in Segovia, Castile, Spain; died on 8 Nov 1244 in Los Huelgas, Near Burgos, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Pedro married of Montpellier Maria in 1204. Maria (daughter of of Montpellier VIII Guillem) was born in 1175/1192; died in 1211/1281. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfonso married Garsenda II de Sabran in Jul 1193 in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Garsenda was born in 1180 in Sabran, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France; died in 1242 in Sabran, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Margaret Bruce in 1188 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. Margaret was born in 1169 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland; died in 1188 in Duffus, Moray, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]