Angilbert "The Saint" St. Riquier

Angilbert married Bertha in 795. Bertha (daughter of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West Holy Roman Emperor and Hildegarde de Vintzau) was born in 779; died in 826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Berthe married Count of Ponthieu II Helgaud in 826. II (son of Oswin) was born in 805; died in 863. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Countess of Arcis-sur-Aube Hélissende de Ramerupt. Hélissende was born in 835; died after 870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hersinde de Rameru. Hersinde was born about 935. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Notes:

Assassinated on orders of Harold, King of the Danes.

Family/Spouse: de Dammartin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Family/Spouse: Alix (Adelaide) de Roucy. Alix (daughter of I Ebles and of Hainaut Beatrix) was born about 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, France; died in 1031. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hersende. [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]

Family/Spouse: Emeline de Chateuaudun. [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]

Family/Spouse: Raoul II de Vexin. Raoul (son of Count of Vexin Walter (Gautier) II "The White" de Valois and Adele de Senlis) was born in 980 in Vexin, Normandy, France; died in 1030. [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]

Family/Spouse: Adele de Bar-Sur-Aube. Adele was born about 1012 in Vitry, France; died in 1043. [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]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Mortimer. Roger was born about 1035; died before 1086. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1138, Rycott, Oxfordshire, England
• Birth: 1138, Rycott,,Oxfordshire,England
• Birth: 1142, Pleshey, Essex, England
• Death: Oct 1166, Pleshey,,Essex,England

Maud married Piers de Lutgareshale about 1160 in Costow,,Wiltshire,England. Piers was born about 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England; died after 8 May 1198 in Pleshey, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Hugh de Boclande about 1154 in Pleshey, Essex, England. Hugh was born about 1130 in Buckland, Hertfordshire, England; died after 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Constable of Chester John de Lacy. John (son of Lord Baron Halton Richard FitzEustace Clavering and Albreda (Aubrye) de Lisoures) was born in 1150 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 1st Earl of Norfolk Hugh Roger de Moreville. Hugh (son of Simon de Moreville and Ada d'Engaine) was born about 1123 in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, England; died in 1162 in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Notes:

Roger Bigod, 2nd earl of Norfolk, who, in the 1st year of Richard I, had charter dated at Westminster, 27 November, reconstituting him Earl of Norfolk and steward of the household, his lordship obtaining at the same time restitution of some manors, with grants of others, and confirmation of all his wide-spreading demesnes. In the same year he was made one of the ambassadors from the English monarch to Philip of France, for obtaining aid towards the recovery of the Holy Land. Upon return of King Richard from his captivity, the Earl of Norfolk assisted at the great council held by the king at Nottingham; and at his second coronation, his lordship was one of the four earls that carried the silken canopy over the monarch's head. In the reign of King John he was one of the barons that extorted the great Charters of Freedom from that prince, and was amongst the twenty-five lords appointed to enforce their fulfillment. His lordship m. Isabel, dau. of Hamelyn, Earl of Warrenne and Surrey, and had issue,

Hugh, his successor.
William, m. Margaret, dau of Robert de Sutton, with whom he acquired considerable property.
Thomas.
Margery, m. to William de Hastings.
Adeliza, m. to Alberic de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
Mary, m. to Ralph Fitz-Robert, Lord of Middlesham.

The earl d. in 1220 and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh Bigod, 3rd earl.

[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 53, Bigod, Earls of Norfolk]

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The Bigods held the hereditary office of steward (dapifer) of the royal household, and their chief castle was at Framlingham in Suffolk.[Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961 ed, Vol. 3, pages 556/557, article Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk.)

Roger married Ida (Isabel) de Warenne about 1185. Ida (daughter of 5th Earl of Surrey Hamelin de Warenne and Countess of Surrey Isabel de Warenne) was born in 1154 in Norfolk, England; died in 1189/1259. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Bolebec. Isabel was born in 1175; died about 1206. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Isabel de Bolebec in 1208. Isabel (daughter of Hugh de Bolebec) was born about 1176; died on 3 Feb 1245. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, who in the 7th Richard I gave 1000 pounds to the king for livery of the lands of his mother's inheritance with his proportion of those sometime belonging to Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. His lordship m. Amicia, 2nd dau. and co-heiress (with her sisters Mabell, wife of the Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and Isabel, the divorced wife of King John) of William, Earl of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, and Joan, m. to Rhys-Grig, Prince of South Wales. This earl, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta, d. in 1218, and was s. by his son, Gilbert de Clare, 5th 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 married Countess of Gloucester Amicia about 1180. Amicia (daughter of 2nd Earl of Gloucester William FitzRobert and Hawise de Beaumont) was born in 1160 in Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England; died on 1 Jan 1224/25 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Munchensi. William was born about 1167 in Swanscombe, Kent, England; died before 7 May 1204 in Winfarthing, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aveline married 1st Earl of Essex Geoffrey FitzPiers before 29 May 1205 in England. Geoffrey (son of Piers de Lutgareshale and Maud de Mandeville) was born before 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England; died on 14 Oct 1213 in Walden, Essex, , England; was buried in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married 5th Baron Percy Joscelin de Louvain in 1154 in Egmanton, Nottinghamshire, England. Joscelin (son of Count of Leuven and Brussels, Landgraves of Brabant Godfrey de Leuven, Duke of Lorraine I and of Burgundy Clementia) was born in 1121 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium; died on 29 Sep 1180 in Petworth, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Simon III de St. Liz. Simon (son of Earl of Huntingdon Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon II and Isabel (Elizabeth) de Beaumont) was born about 1138; died in Jun 1184; was buried in St Andrew's Priory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cicely married John de Busli about 1164 in England. John (son of Richard de Busli and Emma) was born in 1145 in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England; died in 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Millecent. Millecent was born about 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Emmeline de Ridelisford before 1234. Emmeline (daughter of Walter de Ridelisford and Annora) was born in 1216 in Kildare, Ireland; died in 1276. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 1st Earl of Pembroke William Marshal in Aug 1189 in London, Middlesex, England. William (son of John "The Marshal" FitzGilbert and Sibyl d'Evereaux) was born in 1146 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England; was buried in Temple Church, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Aufrica Huntingdon. Aufrica (daughter of 3rd Earl of Huntingdon Henry Dunkeld and Ada (Adelaide) de Warenne) was born in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Geoffrey married Sibel Maudit about 1153 in of Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron of Hanslape William de Mauduit. William (son of Robert de Mauduit) was born about 1196 in Hanslape, Buckinghamshire, England; died in Apr 1257. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Count of Champaigne Thibault IV (Theobald) on 1 Jul 1199. Thibault (son of Count of Champagne and Brie Henry I "The Liberal" de Blois and of France Marie Capet) was born in 1177 in Champagne, France; died on 24 Mar 1201 in The Holy Land. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Berengaria married King of England Richard I Plantagenet on 12 May 1191 in Chapel of St George, Limasol, Cyprus. 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]

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]

Notes:

HUGH, ROGER and RAOUL DE MORTEMER

The Conqueror and His Companions
by J. R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874..

Wace, in his description of the great battle, speaks of a "Hue de Mortemer, who, with three other knights, the sires of Auvilier, Onebec, and St. Cier, charged a body of English who had fallen back on a rising ground, and overthrew many." Monsieur Auguste le Prévost, in his note onn this passage says authoritatively, but without citing his evidence, that "it was not Hugh de Mortemer who assisted at the battle of Hastings, but his father Raoul, son of Roger Lord of Mortemer sur Eaulne," in which opinion he is followed by Mr. Taylor, in his translation of Wace's account, without further information. In the recently compiled lists of MM. de Magny and Leopold de Lisle be is also called Raoul; but upon what evidence?

The English translator of Orderic, in a note on the death-bed discourse of William the Conqueror, says, equally without proof, that it was Roger de Mortemer, son of the elder Roger, who fought at Hastings.

It is quite true that we cannot implicitly rely upon Wace, who has been misled by his informants or betrayed by his memory in many instances, and where his statements are improbable or contradicted by direct or circumstantial evidence we may justly consider him mistaken; but it is a bold thing to deny without very strong reasons that there was no Hugh de Mortemer in the fight at Senlac.

That Monsieur le Prévost may be justified in stating that it was not Hughh de Mortemer, son of Raoul and grandson of Roger, who was present at the battle I will not dispute, but Wace does not say it was, and there is such wild confusion and glaring contradictions in all the pedigrees I have examined of the Norman Mortemers that I consider it premature to discredit Wace's assertion, while I by no means deny that not only Ralph, but his father, or some other of the name of Roger of that family, may also have been present in the battle, as assumed by the erudite antiquaries whose opinions I have quoted. I propose, therefore, to give the worthy Prebend of Bayeux the benefit of the doubt till better advised, and at the same time state as briefly as possible the result of my own researches into the early history of the Mortemers or Mortimers.

"The first of the name that I have observed," says Dugdale, "is Roger de Mortimer, by some thought to be the son of William de Warren, by others of Walter de St. Martin, brother of that William." And farther on he adds that "this Roger de Mortimer was by consanguinity allied to William the Conqueror, his mother being niece to Gunnora, wife to Richard, Duke of Normandy, and great-grandmother to the Conqueror."

For these statements he relies on Guillaume de Jumièges, the Normann genealogist, to whom we are indebted for so much interesting information of this description, but who is occasionally as incorrect as his contemporaries. As I have already, in my notice of William de Warren, shown the fallacy of this descent of Mortimer, I shall not inflict it a second time on my readers.

There can be no doubt tbat Mortemer (latinized, Mortuo-mari), the locality from which the surname of the family was assumed, is situated in that portion of Normandy known as the Pays de Caux, and at the source of the river Eaulne; that the Castle of Saint Victor-en-Caux was the caput baroniaeof the family, and that it was in the poseession of a Roger de Mortemer anterior to the invasion of England, as in 1054, twelve years previous to that event, Count Eudes, or Odo, brother of Henry I, King of France, invaded the territory of Evreux, and William, then Duke of Normandy, sent this Roger de Mortemer, at that time his general, with Robert, Comte d'Eu, Hugh de Montfort, Hugh de Gournay, William Crispin, and Walter Giffard to oppose him. (See the long and elaborate controversy in M. de la Mairie's "Recherches Historiques," 1852, respecting the scene of this battle.)

The French had taken possession of the town of Mortemer, and had passed the night in revelry. The Normans surprised them at daybreak, while the majority were asleep, and set fire to the town. Awakened by the flames in their lodgings, they armed themselves in the greatest confusion. Wace is as usual most graphic in his account. One man, he says, could not mount his horse, not being able to find his bridle; another could not get out of the house he was in, being unable to find the door. Every issue from the burning town was guarded by the Normans, and the fight was kept up in the midst of the conflagration from morning till three hours past noon. The French were nearly all killed or taken prisoners. One of the few who escaped was Eudes, the King's brother; but Guy, Count of Ponthieu, was taken prisoner, and his brother Waleran slain. There was no varlet, let him be ever so mean or of ever so low degree, but took some Frenchman prisoner aud seized two or three horses with all their harness; nor was there a prison in all Normandy which was not full of Frenchmen. They were to be seen fleeing around, skulking in the woods and bushes, the dead and wounded lying amidst the smouldering ruins, on the dunghills, about the fields, and in the by-paths.

Ralph III, surnamed "the Great," Comte de Valois aud Amiens, by Orderic called De Montdidier, who was on the side of the French, succeeded in making his way out of the town, and took refuge in the Castle of Mortemer, where he was sheltered by its victorious lord, who had formerly sworn fealty to him, and who, after entertaining him for three days, safely conducted him to his own territories.

For this breach of duty to Duke William, Roger de Mortemer was banished from Normandy and his possessions confiscated, but being afterwards reconciled to the Duke, had them all restored to him, with the exception of the Castle of Mortemer, in which he had harboured William's enemy Count Ralph, and that the Duke gave to Roger's cousin, young William de Warren; a sufficient answer to those who assert that Roger was his son.

Orderic, in making the Conqueror allude to the oath of fealty Roger had taken to Count Ralph, does not assign the reason for it, or hint that Roger de Mortemer was the Count's son-in-law. Here at any rate is some very important light thrown upon the pedigree of Mortemer, as none of the ancient or later genealogists have mentioned the wife of this Roger. Notwithstanding her noble descent, no trace of her is to be found even in the "Art de Verifierles Dates," but her name appears to have been Hadewisa, who possessed of her own inheritance the vill of Mees, at the mouth of the river Bresle, in the diocese of Amiens, and the district called Le Vimieu, and her gifts to the Abbey of St. Victor at this place were confirmed in 1102 by Theobald, Bishop of Amiens. Montdidier is in the same diocese, and had been forcibly seized by Count Ralph, who eventually died there September 8, 1074. Roger de Mortemer, therefore, it has been reasonably presumed, did homage to the Count for the lands he held of his fief, and which were given to him in franc marriage with his daughter.

Still, upon the principal question, who were the parents of this Roger de Mortemer, we have no conclusive evidence; no fact to start from of an earlier date than 1054, when we find him a leader at the battle fought in his own town, beneath the walls of his own castle. His age at that period can be no more determined at present than his parentage; but we see he was married, in possession of the family estates, and had attained sufficient military rank and reputation to be intrusted by Duke William with the chief command of a division of his forces. He was living, as well as his wife, in 1074, when, upon their joint petition, a priory which had been established at St. Victor as a cell to the abbey of St. Ouen was itself erected into an abbey. This was only twenty years after the battle of Mortemer, and unless incapacitated by illness, there is no reason why he should not have been eight years previously in that of Senlac. At all events he is said to have contributed sixty vessels to the Duke's fleet, and if not himself in the expedition, was doubtlessly represented, either by his son Ralph, or it may be by some other relative named Hugh.

My reason for the latter suggestion is that Ralph de Mortemer, by his wife Millicent, had two sons, the eldest of whom was named Hugh, and may not have been the first so named in the family, as he certainly was not the laSt. It is a question, indeed, with some, whether Ralph, if the son of Hadewisa, as there is no reason to doubt, cauld have been old enough in 1066 to bear arms at Hastings. His mother must have been very young in 1054, and her eldest born, in his infancy. I say eldest born, for it is not proved that Ralph was an only child any more than that his father Roger was an only child.

A Wydo or Guy de Mortimer, and a Bartholomew de Mortimer were living in the latter half of the twelfth century, whose parents must have been contemporary with the first Roger de Mortemer we know of, and the branch of Mortimer of Ricard's Castle has yet to be traced to its offshoot.

Roger de Mortemer, living in 1074, was dead before the compilation of Domesday, when Ralph de Mortemer was found possessed of one hundred and twenty-three manors, besides several hamlets, and the Castle of Wigmore, built by William Fitz Osbern, Earl of Hereford, and which became the principal seat of his family. His tenure of these estates in 1086 by no means proves that they were bestowed upon him for his services at Senlac. He might have succeeded to many by inheritance from his father Roger, or some other kinsman, on whom they had been bestowed by the Conqueror, and obtained some with his wife Millicent, whose family has yet to be discovered. It is most provoking to be left thus continually in the dark respecting the families of the wives of these Norman nobles. A knowledge of them would frequently be of the greatest importance to English history, by accounting in many instances for the acts of their husbands. Witness, for example, the fact recently discovered respecting Hadewisa, wife of Roger de Mortemer. Herbeing the daughter of Ralph de Montdidier, Count of Amiens, at once discloses the difficult position in which Roger was placed between his sovereign and his father-in-law, to both of whom he owed fealty, and explains the excuse King William admitted he had for sheltering his Prince's enemy. A similar discovery regarding Millicent might as satisfactorily account for the conduct of her husband Ralph, who is one day in arms against his sovereign and the next for him, without any motive assigned for his tergiversation. Matrimonial alliances and family dissensions have naturally influenced, and will continue to influence, the actions of public men, and history is constantly corrected and illustrated by a disclosure of the secret springs of action which have their rise in private interests and feelings. I therefore say with the French Lieutenant de Police, "Cherchez la femme,"and depend upon it, nine times out of ten you will arrive at the truth of the story.

I have as yet searched in vain to affi1iate Millicent de Mortemer. Her family name is not alluded to by Stephen, Comte d'Aumale, who married her daughter Havise, in his confirmation charter to the Church of St. Martin-des-Champs, a Cluniac Priory in one of the suburbs of Paris. He simply informs us that she was then deceased. Vincent and Dugdale make no guess at it, and I shall prudently follow their example.

Roger de Mortemer, the eldest, was, I have stated, dead before the compilation of Domesday, as we hear no more of him after 1074, and in 1088 we find Ralph in arms against William Rufus, having joined the movement of Bishop Odo in favour of Robert Court-heuse, and with the assistance of the Welsh doing much mischief in Worcestershire and on the Welsh borders. Two years afterwards, having been restored to the King's favour, he, with Robert, Comte d'Eu, and Walter Giffard, fortified his castle in Normandy against Court-heuse, and. continued apparently true to his English overlord from that period.

In 1100 (the 1st of Henry I) he founded the priory of Wigmore, and in the history of the foundation of that establishment, printed by Dugdale in his "Monasticon," Ralph de Mortemer is stated to have died in Normandy on the nones of August that same year. Clearly an error, clerical or other, as in 1104, on King Henry's arrival in Normandy, Ralph de Mortemer is mentioned by Orderic as amongst the many nobles of that duchy who possessed large estates in England, and received him with great honour, making him many costly presents befitting a king. The history itself also not only records his services in the war that followed, but states that King Henry gave him the command of the forces sent against Robert Court-heuse, whom he vanquished and brought captive to the King, which, if it means anything, would amount to the assertion that he was the general-in-chief of the royal army at the battle of Tenchebrai in 1106; but of this there is no coroborative evidence, and as his name even does not appear amongst the known leaders in that memorable action, I conclude that he was at that time deceased.

By his wife, the unidentified Millicent, Sir Ralph de Mortemer had two sons: Hugh, who succeeded him, and William, to whom his brother gave Chelmarsh, and who, though represented to have died without issue, has been proved by Mr. Stapleton to have been the progenitor of the line of Mortimer of Attleborough. He had also a daughter named after her grandmother, Hadewisa, Havise, or Avice, wife, as I have previously stated, of Stephen, Comte d'Aumale. From this Hugh de Mortemer descended the many illustrious men of that name, whose blood, eventually mingling with that of the Plantagenets and the Tudors, still flows in the veins of the royal family of England.

Family/Spouse: Millicent de Ferrers. Millicent (daughter of 3rd Earl of Derby William de Ferrers and Sybil de Braose) was born about 1060 in Wigmore, Herfordshire, England; died before 10 Mar 1087/88. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]