Pepin, Count of Vermandois III

Family/Spouse: Kunigunde Perma. Kunigunde was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; died in 15 Jun in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Gerberge married Count of Holland I Dietrich about 900 in Netherlands. I (son of Count of Holland Sigbert and of Swabia Mathilda) was born about 860 in of Noordwijk-bin, Zuid Holland, Netherlands; died on 6 Oct 939 in Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Pepin II de Senlis

Family/Spouse: Liegarde (Adela) Capet. Liegarde was born in 897 in Vermandois, Normandy, France; died on 31 Mar 931 in Vermandois, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

II married Hildegar about 958 in Gand, Flandre, Belgium. Hildegar was born about 930 in Holland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bernard married Adele (Hildegarde) about 955 in Isle, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France. Adele was born about 925 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died before 1015 in Senlis, Oise, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Arnulf married of Luxembourg Liutgard in May 980 in Netherlands. Liutgard (daughter of Count of Luxembourg Siegfried, Count of the Ardennes I and of Nordgau Hedwig) was born about 963 in of Bruxelles, Brabant, Belgium; died after 14 May 995. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Adele married Count of Vexin Walter (Gautier) II "The White" de Valois in 974. Walter (son of Count of Vexin Gautier I de Valois and Adele d'Anjou) was born about 944 in Vexin, Normandy, France; died in 1027. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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

Dirk married Princess of Germany Othelindis about 1014 in of Vlaardingen, Zuid, Holland, Netherlands. Othelindis (daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Otto II (Rufus) and Theophanu Skleros) was born about 983 in of Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria; died on 31 Mar 1044 in Saxony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Princess of England Goda (Godgifu) about 1023. Goda (daughter of King of England Æthelred II "The Unready" and of Normandy Emma) was born about 1009 in Wessex, England; died before 1056 in Lewes, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adela de Breteuil. Adela (daughter of Viscount of Chartres Gilduin (Hilduin) de Breteuil and Emeline de Chateuaudun) died on 11 Sep 1051. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert II de Meulan. Robert (son of Robert I de Meulan) was born about 960 in Mellent, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Family/Spouse: Poppa. Poppa was born in 1000 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1026 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Floris married Gertrud Wettin about 1050 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Gertrud (daughter of Duke of Saxony II Bernard and Elika von Schweinfurt) was born in 1028 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Bayern, Germany; died on 4 Aug 1113 in Kassel, Kassel, Hesse, Germany; was buried in Veurne, Arrondissement Veurne, West Flanders, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Getha Clopa about 1055. Getha was born about 1040 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Gytha FitzOsgood about 1038. Gytha (daughter of Osgood Clapa) was born in 1025 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England. [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]

Notes:

The Complete Peerage v. XII p II, p 358, note a.

Family/Spouse: Ode de Conteville. Ode (daughter of Jean de Conteville) was born in 994 in Mellent, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Poppa married Ancitel de Bayeux, Viscount of Bessin in 1016 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. Ancitel (son of Balso de Bayeux, Count of Bayeaux and Poppa de Valois) was born about 992 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died after 1031 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Laudry married Ermengarde about 1045 in Ermenonville, Oise, Picardie, France. Ermengarde was born about 1025 in Crépy-en-Valois, Oise, Picardie, France; died about 1079 in Chantilly, Oise, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Step daughter of Robert the Frisian.

Bertha married King of France Philip I "The Fair" Capet in 1072. Philip (son of Henry Capet, King of France I and Anna Agnesa Yaroslavna Princess of Kyiv) was born on 23 May 1052 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died on 29 Jul 1108 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France; was buried in St-Benoit-sur-Lo, Loiret, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Harold married Margaret d'Avranches about 1084. Margaret (daughter of Viscount of Avranches Richard le Goz and Emma de Conteville) was born about 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France; died in 1136 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Emma FitzOsbern. Emma (daughter of Earl of Hereford William FitzOsbern and Adeliza (Adelina) de Toeni) was born about 1059 in Breteuil, France; died after 1095. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Adeline married Lord of Beaumont-le-Roger and Pont-Audemer, Viscount of Hiesmes Roger de Beaumont in 1040. Roger (son of Humphrey de Vielles and Aubreye de la Haye Auberie) was born in 1022 in Pont-Audemer, Eure, France; died on 29 Nov 1094. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ranulf married Alix De Normandy on 1 May 1045 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. Alix (daughter of Richard III "le Bon", Duke of Normandy and Adèle Capet, Princess of France) was born on 14 Oct 1021 in Vire, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 3 Aug 1098 in Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard de Beauffoe. Richard was born in 1016 in Normandy, France; died in 1081. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Maud Huntingdon in 1090 in Huntington Castle,, Huntingdonshire, England. Maud (daughter of Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland Waltheof Siwardsson and of Lens Judith) was born about 1072 in Huntingdon, Northumberland, England; died on 23 Apr 1130 in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married of Rochefort Lucienne in 1104. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married Countess of Savoy Adélaïde de Maurienne on 3 Aug 1115 in Paris, Seine, France. Adélaïde (daughter of Count of Maurienne and Savoy, Marquis of Turin Humbert II de Maurienne and Countess of Burgundy-Ivrea Gisela Burgundy) was born about 1092 in Savoy, France; died on 18 Nov 1154 in Montmartre Abbey, Paris, France; was buried in Montmartre Abbey, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Constance married Count of Blois Hugo (Hugh), I in 1104. 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]

Family/Spouse: Pétronille d Alsace. Pétronille was born about 1082 in Lorraine, France; died on 23 May 1144 in RijnsburgKatwijk, Zuid Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Sybil about 1145. Sybil was born about 1101 in of Sudley, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John, the elder son, assumed his surname from Sudeley, the chief seat which he inherited, becoming John de Sudeley. He m. Grace, dau. and heir of Henry de Traci, feudal Lord of Barnstaple, and had issue, Ralph and William. He was s. by his elder son. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 520, Sudeley, Barons Sudeley]

Notes:

Ralph rebelled against William I, and was stripped of lands

Family/Spouse: Emma Avice de Vermandois. Emma (daughter of Hugh "The Great" Capet, Duke of France and Burgundy and Adelaide de Vermandois) was born in 1075 in Vermandois, Normandy, France. [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]

Notes:

Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick (? – 20 June 1123) was an English nobleman. He is also known as Henry de Neubourg or Henry de Newburgh, from the castle of Newburg near Looviers, in Normandy where he was born.

Henry was the younger son of Roger de Beaumont and Adeline of Meulan, daughter of Waleran III, Count de Meulan. He inherited the modest lordship of La Neubourg, in central Normandy, but acquired a much greater holding in England, when, in reward for help in suppressing the Rebellion of 1088, William II of England made him Earl of Warwick.

His name is included in the roll of the knights who came over with the William the Conqueror, but he does not appear to have been present at the Battle of Hastings. He spent the greater part of his life in Normandy, his name is not found in the Domesday Book. He took it leading part in reconciling the Conqueror with his eldest son Robert Curthose in 1081 and he stood high in the Conqueror's favour. He was the companion and friend of Henry I, and when in 1100 a division took place amongst the barons who had gathered together to choose a successor to William II, it was mainly owing to his advice that Henry was selected and when in the following year most of the barons were openly or secretly disloyal and favoured the attempt of Duke Robert to gain the Crown, he and his brother were amongst the few that remained faithful to the King.

He had many honours conferred upon him, in 1068 he was made Constable of Warwick Castle and shortly afterwards King William gave it to him together with the borough and manor. The Castle was enlarged and strengthened during the long succession of powerful lords, and it eventually became one of the most renowned of English fortresses and it remains even to-day the glory of the midland shires. The Bear and Ragged Staff was the badge of Guy the great opponent of the Danes, and Henry on his elevation to the Earldom in 1076 by William I, assumed it, and it has ever since been used by successive Earls. Odericus tells us that "he earned this honour by his valour and loyalty" and Wace speaks of him as "a brave man". He was made a Councillor by the King in 1079 and a Baron of the Exchequer in Normandy 12 April 1080.

In 1099 he fought against the Welsh and built a castle at Abertawy, near Swansea, which was unsuccessfully attacked by the Welsh in 1113; he also captured the Gower peninsula in the south of Glamorganshire. He built other castles at Penrhys, Llandhidian and Swansea in ll20, together with the others at Oystermouth and Aberllychor, the only remains of the latter are a mound and a keep.

Some time between 1106 and 1116 he was granted the lordship of Gower in Wales.

Henry was by disposition quiet and retiring, and was overshadowed by his elder brother Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, reputedly one of the most brilliant men in England.

He died 20 June 1123 and was buried in the Abbey at Preaux.

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Family/Spouse: Margaret de Perche. Margaret (daughter of Count of Perche and Mortaigne Geoffrey II de Perche and Beatrice de Montdidier) was born about 1067 in Morlaign, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

ROBERT DE BEAUMONT

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

"Rogier li Veil, cil de Belmont, Assalt Engleis el primier front." Roman de Rou, 1. 13,462.

Thus sings the Prebend of Bayeux in direct contradiction, as I have already observed, of the Archdeacon of Lisieux, who as distinctly asserts that Roger de Beaumont was left in Normandy, president of the council appointed by the Duke to assist his Duchess in its government. There is more reason, however, to discredit Wace in this instance than even in the former one, as Orderic corroborates the statement of the Archdeacon that it was Robert, the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont, who was the companion of the Conqueror in 1066, and whom he describes as "a novice in arms." Mr. Taylor, in his translation of the poem, has mentioned also that in the MS. of Wace, in the British Museum, the name is Robert, though the epithet "le Viel" is not appropriate to his then age. Might not "le Viel" be a clerical error for "de Vielles," the name of Roger's father, which is latinized into "de Vitulis"? Roger de Beaumont would of course have been de Vielles as well as his father. The latinizing of proper names cannot be too much deplored and deprecated.

Of Roger, Count de Beaumont, it is unanimously recorded that he was the noblest, the wealthiest, and the most valiant seigneur of Normandy, and the greatest and most trusted friend of the Danish family. Son of Humphrey de Vielles, and grandson of Thorold de Pontaudemer, a descendant of the Kings of Denmark, through Bernard the Dane, a companion of the first Norman Conqueror, Duke Rollo, illustrious as was such as origin in the eyes of his countrymen, he considered his alliance with Adelina, Countess of Meulent, sufficiently honorable and important to induce him to adopt the title of her family in preference to that of his own.

We have already heard of his first great exploit, when, as a young man, in the early years of Duke William, he defeated the turbulent Roger de Toeni, who with his two sons were slain in that sanguinary conflict (vide p. 19, ante). Towards the invading fleet he contributed, according to Taylor's List, sixty vessels, and being at that time advanced in years, and selected to superintend the affairs of the duchy, sent his young son Robert to win his spurs at Senlac.

In that memorable battle he is said to have given proof of courage and intelligence beyond his years, and promise of the high reputation he would eventually obtain, and which won for him the surname of Prudhomme. "A certain Norman young soldier," writes William of Poitou, "son of Roger de Bellomont, and nephew and heir of Hugh, Count of Meulent, by Adelina, his sister, making his first onset in that fight, did what deserves lasting fame, boldly charging and breaking in upon the enemy with the troops he commanded in the right wing of the army."

His services were rewarded by ninety manors in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Wiltshire, and Northamptonshire. In 1080 he, with his brother Henry, afterwards Earl of Warwick, were amongst the barons who exerted themselves to reconcile King William to his son Robert Court-heuse, and in 1081 he subscribed a charter of confirmation in favour of the Abbey of Fécamp. This was the last document he signed inn the name of Beaumont, for his mother dying in year, he thenceforth wrote himself Comte de Meulent, and did homage to Philip I, King of France, for the lands to which he succeeded in that kingdom, and in 1082 sat as a Peer of France in a parliament held by the said King at Poissy.

On the death of the Conqueror, the Comte de Meulent and his brother sided with William Rufus; their father, Roger de Beaumont, leaving also the ducal court and retiring to his estates. The late King had given the Castle of Ivri jointly to Roger de Beaumont and Robert his son; but during the absence of the latter in England, Robert Court-heuse, having become Duke of Normandy, exchanged, in 1090, that castle for the Castle of Brionne with Roger de Beaumont, without obtaining the consent of Robert de Meulent. The latter, having a quarrel with the monks of Bec, whose monastery was in the territory of Brionne, was greatly angered by this transaction, and repairing to the Duke at Rouen, boldly demanded of him the restoration of Ivri. The Duke answered that he had given his father the Castle of Brionne for it, which was a fair exchange. The Count replied, "I was no party to that bargain, and repudiate it; but what your father gave to my father that will I have, or by Saint Nicaise I will make you repent your conduct to me." The Duke, highly incensed, had him immediately arrested and imprisoned, and seizing the Castle of Brionne, gave it into the keeping of Robert, son of Baldwin de Meules. Roger de Beaumont, on receipt of these tidings, sought the Duke, and with the skill of an old courtier contrived to pacify his resentment, and obtain the release of his son and the restoration of Brionne; but Robert de Meules, who was in charge of it, refused to surrender it, and the Count de Meulent was obliged to resort to force. Siege was laid to the castle in regular form, and the garrison stoutly holding out, Gilbert du Pin, commanding the beleaguering forces, caused arrows, with their steel heads made red-hot in a furnace, to be shot over the battlements, and which, falling on the roofs of the buildings within the walls, set them on fire. The conflagration spreading, the place became no longer tenable, and Brionne remained from that period in the hands of the Counts of Meulent.

The monks of Bec now found it necessary to patch up their quarrels with the Count, who behaved generously on the occasion, confirming their privileges and those also of the Abbey of Préaux, of Jumiéges, and St.t. Vaudrille, remitting certain imports due to him from the wine-growers of Mantes. I mention these circumstances, which have no interest for the general reader, only to notice a singular condition the Count attached to the franchise, namely, that the masters of all boats passing the Castles of Meulent and Mantes should play on the flageolet as they shot the bridges!

On the departure of Robert Court-heuse for the Crusades, William Rufus, to whom he had confided the government of Normaudy, as a pledge for the repayment of the money the King had lent to him for the expenses of his expedition, considered it a good opportunity to recover from France the province of the Vexin. The Count of Meulent found himself awkwardly situated between the two contending parties. He owed fealty to both sovereigns: to the King of France for the Comté of Meulent, and to thee King of England for his large estates, both in that country and Normandy. He decided in fayour of the latter, received into his castle the forces of the Red King, and so opened for him an entrance into France. The war ended without advantage to either side, and was followed by another between Rufus and Hélie de la FlÈche, Comte du Maine. After vainlyly attempting to reduce the Castle of Dangueul, the King withdrew from the siege, leaving the Count of Menlent to carry on the operations. On the 28th April, 1098, Hélie was drawn into an ambush by Count Robert, and,, after a desperate defence, made prisoner, and conducted by him to the King, who was at Rouen, and who consigned his captive immediately to a dungeon in the great tower of that city.

The incidents and results of this campaign are not sufficiently connected with the personal history of Robert de Meulent to require notice here. He was one of the royal hunting party in the New Forest on the 2nd of August, 1100, when William Rufus received his mysterious death-wound, and hastened on the instant with Prince Henry to Winchester, in order to secure the royal treasure, as well as the succession to the throne of England.

Under the reign of the new King he retained the favour and influence he had enjoyed during those of the two Williams, and commanded the English army, which achieved the conquest of Normandy by Henry I in 1106, who acknowledged himself indebted for it to the advice and valour of the Earl of Leicester, to which dignity Robert de Meulent had been advanced by him at some period not distinctly ascertained, but most probably in the first year of his reign.

Orderic Vital gives the following account of the mode by which he obtained the earldom: -- "The town of Leicester had four masters -- the King, the Bishop of Lincoln, Earl Simon" (Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon), "and Ivo, the son of Hugh" (de Grentmesnil). The latter had been heavily fined for turbulent conduct, and was in disgrace at Court. He was also galled by being nicknamed "the Rope-dancer," having been one of those who had been let down by ropes from the walls of Antioch. He therefore had resolved to rejoin the Crusade, and made an agreement with the Count of Meulent to the following effect: -- The Count was to procure his reconciliation with the King, and to advance him five hundred silver marks for the expenses of his expedition, having the whole of Ivo's domains pledged to him as a security for fifteen years. In consideration of this, the Count was to give the daughter of his brother Henry, Earl of Warwick, in marriage to Ivo's son, who was yet in his infancy, and to restore him his father's inheritance. This contract was confirmed by oath, and ratified by the King, but Ivo died on his road to the Holy Land, and Robert de Meulent, by royal favour and his own address, contrived to get the whole of Leicester into his own hands, and being in consequence created an English earl, his wealth and power surpassed those of any other peer of the realm, and he was exalted above nearly all his family." (Book xi, c. 2)

This great warrior and able man is said to have died of sorrow and mortification, caused by the infidelity of his second wife Elizabeth, otherwise Isabella, daughter of Hugh the Great, Comte de Vermandois and of Chaumont in the Vexin. He had married -- the date at present unknown -- Godechilde de Conches, daughter of Roger de Toeni, Seigneur de Conches, but had separated from her before 1096, as in that year she, who could not then have been seventeen, became the wife of Baldwin, son of Eustace de Boulogne, who was King of Jerusalem after the decease of his brother Godfrey. Robert de Meulent, then being between fifty and sixty, and without issue, sought the hand of Elizabeth de Vermandois, who was in the bloom of youth, and was accepted by the lady; but Ivo, Bishop of Châtres, forbade the magiage on the ground of consanguinity; the Count off Vemandois and the Count of Meulent being both great-grandsons of Gautier II, surnamed "Le Blanc," Count of the Vexin. A dispensation was obtained, however, from the Pope, on condition that Count Hugh should take the Cross, and the marriage was celebrated on the eve of his departure for the Holy Land, the same year in which Robert's first wife married Baldwin de Boulogne.

The issue of Robert de Meulent by his second wife was a daughter named Emma, born, according to Orderic, in 1102; two sons (twins), baptised Waleran and Robert, born in 1104; a third son, known as Hugh the Poor, afterwards Earl of Bedford, and three other daughters, Adeline, Amicia, and Albreda, all of whom must have been born after 1104, when their father, then Earl of Leicester, was well stricken in years. Orderic, indeed, says he had five daughters, the fifth being named Isabel, after her mother.

All these children being born in wedlock, were of course in the eyes of the law legitimate, but William de Warren, Earl of Warren and Surrey, second of that name, son of the mysterious Gundred, had supplanted the Earl of Leicester for some years in the affections of his wife, and her ultimate desertion of him for his young rival affected his mind, and hurried hhn to the grave, June 5, 1118.

Henry of Huntingdon, in his "Letter to Walter," gives the following account of his last moments: -- "I will mention the Earl of Meulent, the most sagacious in political affairs of all who lived between this and Jerusalem. His mind was enlightened, his eloquence persuasive, his shrewdness acute; he was provident and wily; his prudence never failed; his counsels were profound; his wisdom great. He had extensive and noble possessions, which are commonly called honours, together witIx towns and castles, villages and farms, woods and waters, which he acquired by the exercise of the talents I have mentioned. His domains lay not only in England but in Normandy and France, so that he was able at his will to promote concord between the sovereigns of those countries, or to set them at variance and provoke them to war. If he took umbrage against any man, his enemy was humbled and crushed, while those he favoured were exalted to honour. Hence his coffers were filled with a prodigious influx of wealth in gold and silver, besides precious gems and costly furniture and apparel. But when he was in the zenith of his power it happened that a certain earl carried off the lady he had espoused, either by some intrigue or by force and stratagem. Thenceforth his mind was disturbed and clouded with grief, nor did he to the time of his death regain composure and happiness. "After days abandoned to sorrow, when he was labouring under an infirmity which was the precursor of death, and the Archbishop (of Rouen) and priests were performing their office for the confessional purification, they required of him that as a penitent he should restore the lands which by force or fraud he had wrung from others, and wash out his sins with tears of repentance, to which he replied, 'Wretched man that I am! If I dismember the domains I have acquired, what shall I have to leave to my sons?'

"Upon this the ministers of the Lord answered, 'Your hereditary estates and the lands which you have justly obtained are enough for your sons; restore the rest, or else you devote your soul to perdition.'

"The Earl replied, 'My sons shall have all. I leave it to them to act mercifully, that I may obtain mercy.'"

"Assuming the monastic habit, he then breathed his last, and was buried near his father at Préaux, his heart being sent to the monastery off Brackley in Northamptonshire, which he had founded, and there preserved in salt.

William of Malmesbury says of him, that his advice was regarded as though the oracle of God had been consulted; that he was the persuader of peace, the dissuader of strife, and capable of speedily bringing about whatever he desired by the power of his eloquence; that he possessed such mighty influence in England as to change by his single example the long established modes of dress and diet. Limiting himself on the score of his health to one meal a day, in imitation of Alexius, Emperor of Constantinople, the custom was adopted generally by the nobility. In law, he was the supporter of justice; in war, the insurer of victory; urging his lord the King to enforce the statutes vigorously, he himself not only respecting those existing, but proposing new. Ever loyal to his sovereign, he was the stern avenger of treason in others.

It is a relief to read such a character of a man in these darkest days of feudalism, imperfect civilization, and demoralizing superstition.

A word or two respecting his children.

The twins, Waleran and Robert, were carefully brought up by King Henry I from the time of their father's death, "for the King loved him much, because in the beginning of his reign he had greatly aided and encouraged him." On their arriving at the proper age they received knighthood at his hands, and Waleran was put in possession of all his father's domains in France and Normandy, his brother Robert receiving the earldom of Leicester and the lands and honours in England. Three of their sisters were given in marriage by Waleran: -- Adeline to Hugh, 4th Sire de Montfort-sur-Risle, Amicia to Hugh de Château-neuf in Thimerais; andd Albreda (or Aubrey) to William Louvel or Lupel, son of Ascelin Goel, Lord of Ivri. ( Vide vol. ii, p. 223)

Isabel became, according to the chronique scandaleuse of that day, one of the many mistresses of Henry I, and subsequently married Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke. What became of Emma, the eldest born, we know not. According to Orderic she was betrothed, when only a year old, to Aumari, nephew of William, Count of Evreux, but from some impediment which occurred the marriage never took place. She probably died in infancy, or entered a convent. The author of "L'Art de Vérifier less Dates," besides Hugh, Earl of Bedford, already mentioned, gives Robert, a fourth son, whom he calls Dreux, Sire de Boisemont.

Robert married Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois in 1096. Isabel (daughter of Hugh "The Great" Capet, Duke of France and Burgundy and Adelaide de Vermandois) was born on 13 Feb 1081 in Vermandois, Normandy, Bretagne, France; died on 13 Feb 1131 in Sens, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; was buried in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France-Sens, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ranulf married Margaret d'Avranches about 1069 in Normandy, France. Margaret (daughter of Viscount of Avranches Richard le Goz and Emma de Conteville) was born about 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France; died in 1136 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Agnes married Robert de Grandmesnil in 1075 in Grandmesnil, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. Robert (son of Sheriff of Leicester Hugh I de Grandmesnil and Adeliza (Aelis) (Alice) de Beaumont) was born about 1062 in Grandmesnil, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 1 Jun 1136 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hugh de Montfort. Hugh was born about 1026. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Simon married Isabel (Elizabeth) de Beaumont in 1141/1186 in of Leicestershire, 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]

Notes:

Maud m. 1st, Robert, son of Richard de Tonbridge, and 2ndly, to William de Albini, according to Dugdale, but Hornby, in his remarks upon Dugdale's errors, proves that such alliances, if not impossible, were very improbable. A Maud de St. Liz is mentioned as wife of Saier de Quincy, being father and mother of Saier, 1st Earl of Winchester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 468, St. Liz, Earls of Huntingdon]

Maud married Saer de Quincy, Lord of Bushby I in 1136. Saer (son of Richard de Quincy and Judith Orabilis) was born in 1100 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England; died in 1158 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Lord of Dunmow Robert FitzRichard in 1119 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England. Robert was born about 1075 in Tunbridge, Kent, England; died in 1134 in Little Dunmow, Essex, England; was buried in Priory of St Neot, England. [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]

Family/Spouse: Sophia von der Rheineck. Sophia (daughter of Otto I von der Rheineck and Gertrude of Nordheim von Nordheim) was born about 1115 in Rheineck, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; died on 26 Sep 1176 in Jerusalem, Israel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Robert married Petronilla Scudamore about 1175. Petronilla (daughter of Godfrey de Scudamore and Matilda Giffard) was born about 1145 in Kentchurch, Hereford, Herefordshire, England; died after 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amice married 2nd Earl of Leicester Robert II de Beaumont in 1120/1151 in Brittany, France. Robert (son of 1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, Count Meulan I and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born in 1104 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, Normandy, France; died on 5 Apr 1168 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; was buried in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of Lincoln Richard. Richard (son of King of England Henry I "Beauclerc" and Ansfride) was born before 1101; died on 25 Nov 1120 in Drowned in wreck of the White Ship near Barfleur, Manche, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud de Meschines. Maud (daughter of Earl of Cambridge William de Meschines and Cecily de Romilly) was born about 1120 in Gernons Castle, Normandy, France; died after 1190 in Skipton in Craven, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Stephen de Aumale. Stephen (son of Count of Troyes Odo (Eudes), III and of Normandy Adeliza) was born before 1070; died in 1127. [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]

Robert married Amice de Gael in 1120/1151 in Brittany, France. Amice (daughter of Lord of Montfort Ralph de Gael and Emma Avice de Vermandois) was born in 1108 in Montford de Gael, Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Count of Meulan.

Waleran married Agnes de Montfort about 1141. Agnes (daughter of Count Evereux Amaury, Seigneur de Montfort III and Countess de Rochefort Agnes de Garlende) was born about 1122 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France; died on 15 Dec 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Waleran married Matilda in 1136. Matilda (daughter of King of England Stephen de Blois and Countess of Boulogne Matilda de Talvas) was born about 1133; died in Tower of London, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Constable of England Hervey de Montmorency in 1135. Hervey (son of Seigneur de Chateau-Bassett Bouchard II de Montmorency and Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont) was born about 1138; died in 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married King of England Henry I "Beauclerc" about 1119. Henry (son of William I "The Conqueror", King of England and of Flanders Matilda) was born about Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Dec 1135 in Lyons-la-Foret, Normandy, France; was buried in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 1st Earl of Pembroke Gilbert "Strongbow" FitzGilbert de Clare before 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. Gilbert (son of Earl Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont) was born on 21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England; died on 6 Jan 1147 in England; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Earl of Huntingdon Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon II in 1141/1186 in of Leicestershire, England. Simon (son of Simon de Senlis, 1st Earl of Northampton and 2nd Earl of Huntingdon I and Maud Huntingdon) was born about 1098 in Northamptonshire, England; died in Aug 1153 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, , England; was buried in St Andrew's Priory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron Hinckley Hugh de Grandmesnil. Hugh (son of Robert de Grandmesnil and of Bayeux Agnes de Briquessart) was born in 1092 in Grandmesnil, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 10 Feb 1136 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ranulf or Randle de Meschines, surnamed de Bricasard, Viscount Bayeux, in Normandy, (son of Ralph de Meschines, by Maud, his wife, co-heir of her brother, Hugh Lupus, the celebrated Earl of Chester), was given by King Henry I the Earldom of Chester, at the decease of his 1st cousin, Richard de Abrincis, 2nd Earl of Chester, of that family, without issue. By some historians, this nobleman is styled Earl of Carlisle, from residing in that city; and they further state that he came over in the train of the Conqueror, assisted in the subjugation of England, and shared, of course, in the spoil of conquest. He was lord of Cumberland and Carlisle, by descent from his father, but having enfeoffed his two brothers, William, of Coupland, and Geffrey, of Gillesland, in a large portion thereof, he exchanged the Earldom of Cumberland for that of Chester, on condition that those whom he had settled there should hold their lands of the king, in capite. His lordship m. Lucia, widow of Roger de Romara, Earl of Lincoln, and dau. of Algar, the Saxon, Earl of Mercia, and had issue, Ranulph, his successor; William, styled Earl of Cambridge, but of his issue nothing in known; Adeliza, m. to Richard FitzGilbert, ancestor of the old Earls of Clare; and Agnes, m. to Robert de Grentemaisnil. The earl d. in 1128 and was s. by his elder son, Ranulph de Meschines. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Meschines, Earls of Chester]

Ranulf married Lucy de Taillebois in 1098 in Normandy, France. Lucy (daughter of Earl of Anjou, 1st Baron of Kendal, Earl of Holland in Lincolnshire Ivo (Ives) de Taillebois and of Mercia Lucia) was born on 23 May 1074 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England; died on 28 Jun 1144 in Chester, Cheshire, England; was buried in Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Beaumont. Alice (daughter of 1st Earl of Leicester Robert de Beaumont, Count Meulan I and Isabel (Elizabeth ) de Vermandois) was born in 1105 in Beaumont, Sur-Oise, Normandy, France; died on 11 Jul 1191 in Rheims, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Lord Folkingham Gilbert de Gant, Lord of Folkingham about 1070 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Gilbert (son of Lord Alost Ralph de Gant and Gisele de Luxembourg) was born about 1048 in Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; died in 1094 in Bardney,Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Bardney, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Camerarius of Hanslope William de Mauduit in 1105/1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Gand. Alice (daughter of Earl of Lincoln Gilbert de Gand and Rohese de Clare) was born about 1146 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1185; was buried in Bridlington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married Lord of East Bradenham Roger de Huntingfield about 1166 in Suffolk, England. Roger (son of William de Huntingfield and Sybil) was born about 1141 in Huntingfield, Suffolk, England; died in 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Countess of Leuchars Orabilis de Leuchars about 1153 in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. Orabilis (daughter of Ness de Leuchars) was born about 1135 in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland; died before 30 Jun 1203 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Walter FitzRobert, in the 12th of Henry II, upon the assessment in aid of marrying the king's dau., certified his knights' fees to be in number sixty-three and a half, de Veteri feoffamento; and three and a fourth part, de Novo, for all of which he paid 44p. 10s. In the great controversy between John, Earl of Moreton, (brother of King Richard, ) and William de Longchamp, bishop of Ely, whom the king left governor of the realm during his absence in the Holy Land, this Walter adhered to the bishop and had, at that time, custody of the castle of Eye, in Suffolk. He m. 1st, Margaret de Bohun, who d. in 1146; and 2ndly in 1148, Maud de Lucy, with whom he had the lordship of Dis, in Norfolk, and by whom he left at his decease, 1198, a son, Robert FitzWalter. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 212, FitzWalter, Barons FitzWalter]

Walter married Matilda de Lucy about 1154 in of Norfolk, England. Matilda (daughter of Richard de Lucy and Rohaise de Foliot) was born about 1136 in of Diss, Norfolk, England; died about 1243. [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]

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]

Family/Spouse: Ada Dunkeld. Ada was born about 1146 in Scotland; died after 1206. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sibyl married Robert I de Tregoz about 1198 in Ewyas, Herefordshire, England. Robert was born about 1145 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 29 Apr 1215 in Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sibyl married Roger I de Clifford after 1214. Roger (son of Sheriff of Hereford Walter II de Clifford and Lady of Cavenby Agnes de Condet) was born in 1190 in Clifford's Castle, Herefordshire, England; died in 1231 in Tenbury, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hawise married 2nd Earl of Gloucester William FitzRobert about 1150. William (son of 1st Earl of Gloucester Robert de Caen and Maud FitzHamon) was born on 23 Nov 1116 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 23 Nov 1183 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Petronella de Grandmesnil in 1152/1180. Petronella (daughter of Baron Hinckley Hugh de Grandmesnil and Alice de Beaumont) was born about 1130 in Leicestershire, England; died on 1 Apr 1212 in Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Ferrers. Isabel (daughter of Walkelin de Ferrers and Alice Leche) was born about 1036. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adam II de Brus. Adam (son of Jueta Ivetta d'Arches) was born in 1125 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died in 1196 in Skelton, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Priory, Guisborough, Yorkshire North Riding, England. [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]

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]

Isabel married Camerarius of Hanslope William de Mauduit in 1105/1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Alice de Gand. Alice (daughter of Earl of Lincoln Gilbert de Gand and Rohese de Clare) was born about 1146 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England; died in 1185; was buried in Bridlington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

married Lord of East Bradenham Roger de Huntingfield about 1166 in Suffolk, England. Roger (son of William de Huntingfield and Sybil) was born about 1141 in Huntingfield, Suffolk, England; died in 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Petronella married 3rd Earl of Leicester Robert III de Beaumont in 1152/1180. Robert (son of 2nd Earl of Leicester Robert II de Beaumont and Amice de Gael) was born before 1135 in Leicestershire, England; died on 31 Aug 1190 in Durazzo, Greece. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Lord of Tonbridge Lord of Cardigan Richard FitzGilbert de Clare about 1115. Richard (son of Earl Hertford Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare and Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont) was born in 1090 in Clare, Suffolk, England; died on 15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in Tonbridge, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Lord of Appleby Robert de Condet after 1136. Robert (son of Lord Wickhambreux Osbert de Condet and Adelaide de Chesney) was born about 1108 in Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; died about 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ranulph de Meschines (surnamed de Gernons, from being born in Gernon Castle, in Normandy), Earl of Chester. This nobleman, who was a leading military character, took an active part with the Empress Maud, and the young Prince Henry, against King Stephen, in the early part of the contest, and having defeated the king and made him prisoner at the battle of Lincoln, committed him to the castle of Bristol. He subsequently, however, sided with the king, and finally, distrusted by all, died under excommunication in 1155, supposed to have been poisoned by William Peverell, Lord of Nottingham, who being suspected of the crime, is said to have turned monk to avoid its punishment. The earl m. Maud, dau. of Robert, surnamed the Consul, Earl of Gloucester, natural son of King Henry I, and had issue, Hugh, his successor, named Keveliok, from the place of his birth, in Merionethshire; Richard; Beatrix, m. to Ralph de Malpas. His lordship was s. by his elder son, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 365, Meschines, Earls of Chester]

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Ranulf II de Gernons, 4th Earl of Chester, VICOMTE (Viscount) DEBAYEUX, VICOMTE D'AVRANCHES, Ranulf also spelled RANDULF, or RALPH (b. c. 1100--d. Dec. 16, 1153), a key participant in the English civil war (from 1139) between King Stephen and the Holy Roman empress Matilda (also a claimant to the throne of England). Ranulf, nicknamed 'aux Gernons' (i.e. moustaches), played a prominent and vacillating part in the civil war of Stephen's reign, his actions, in common with most of his peers, springing from personal grievances rather than dynastic loyalty or principle. Ranulf's father, Ranulf I, had been granted the earldom of Chester in 1121 after his maternal uncle had drowned in the White Ship disaster (1120) but, in return, had been compelled to surrender Cumberland and his patrimony of Carlisle. The restoration of these lost estates was the mainspring of much of Ranulf II's political life. Inheriting the Chester earldom in 1129, he initially supported Stephen as king after 1135. However, successive treaties between Stephen and King David of Scotland in 1136 and 1139 gave the Scots large tracts of land in Cumberland coveted by Ranulf who reacted by seizing the town and besieging the castle. Ranulf now allied with the Empress Matilda in defeating the king at Lincoln in February 1141, capturing and briefly imprisoning Stephen. Ranulf's association with the Angevin party was cemented by his marriage in 1141 to the daughter of Robert of Gloucester. Later (1149) he transferred his allegiance to the king in return for a grant of the city and castle of Lincoln. Coventry received its original charter from him. However, his territorial ambitions were no closer realization as the king of Scots was also a close ally of Matilda. In 1145, Ranulf was reconciled to Stephen. However, there was no love lost between Ranulf and the king's entourage, many of whom had suffered at his hands. In August, 1146, at Northampton, Ranulf was suddenly arrested and put in chains when he refused the king's demand to restore all lands he had taken. He was only released when he surrendered all former royal property, including Lincoln. Stephen's arrest of Ranulf was a public relations disaster. He had broken his oath of reconciliation of 1145 and his own promise of protection, thus deterring any more defections from the Angevin faction. Stephen had breached a central tenet of effective medieval rule, that of being a good -- i.e. fair -- lord. Ranulf joined Henry FitzEmpress and was reconciled with David of Scotland who, in return for the lavish grant to Ranulf of most of Lancashire, retained Carlisle. But Ranulf was never a party man. His priorities remained centered on his own territorial and dynastic advantage, as shown by his 'conventio' with a leading royalist baron Robert of Leicester (1149/53). Under this treaty, the two magnates , independently of their rival liege-lords Stephen and Henry FitzEmpress, agreed to limit any hostilities forced between them by their masters and to protect their respective tenurial positions. Ranulf's career, notorious for his arrest in 1146, is more significant as evidence that the drama of high politics was played against a dense background of baronial competition for rights, lands, and inheritances which took precedence over any claims of royalty. [Encyclopedia Britannica CD'97, RANULF DE GERNONS, 4TH EARL OF CHESTER]

Ranulph married Maud FitzRobert de Caen about 1141 in Gloucestershire, England. Maud (daughter of 1st Earl of Gloucester Robert de Caen and Maud FitzHamon) was born in 1117 in Gloucestershire, England; died on 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cecily de Romilly. Cecily (daughter of Robert de Romilly and Murel) was born about 1100 in of Normandy; died in 1151. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Walter married Matilda (Maud) de Brittany about 1116 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Matilda (daughter of I Stephen de Brittany and Hawise) was born about 1086 in Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

AFN 9HQJ-F2:

Family/Spouse: Ivo Grentemaisnel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 2nd Baron Percy Alan de Percy. Alan (son of 1st Baron Percy William de Percy and Emma de Porte) was born in 1069 in Perci-en-Auge, Low Normandy, France; died in 1135; was buried in Whitby, North Riding, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adeline de Meulent. Adeline was born about 1080. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert de Latham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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244-1-p440:
505-v5-p484:
550-v2-p303:
758-v5-p123:
809-v1-p229:
1976-p106:
3123-p31(e2-f1)

Robert married Alice Pagnel about 1108 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Alice was born about 1087 in Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Gunnora de Gourey about 1112 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Gunnora was born about 1094 in Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

William married Isabel FitzRoger de Gressinghall in 1193 in Suffolk, England. Isabel (daughter of William FitzRoger de Gressinghall and Alvia) was born about 1160 in Gressenhall, Norfolk, England; died in 1209. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Burial: Shepshed, Leicestershire, England; Just his heart is here.

Notes:

Saier de Quincy was created Earl of Winchester by King John about the year 1210. This nobleman was one of the lords present at Lincoln when William, King of Scotland, did homage to the English monarch, and he subsequently obtained large grants and immunities from King John; when, however, the baronial war broke out, his lordship's pennant waved on the side of freedom and he became so eminent amongst those sturdy chiefs that he was chosen one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. Adhering to the same party after the accession of Henry III, the Earl of Winchester had a principal command at the battle of Lincoln and, there being defeated, was taken prisoner by the royalists. But submitting in the following October, he had restitution of all his lands and proceeded soon after, in company with the Earls of Chester and Arundel and others of the nobility, to the Holy Land where he assisted at the siege of Damietta, anno 1219, and d. the same year in his progress towards Jerusalem. His lordship m. Margaret, younger sister and co-heir of Robert Fitz-Parnell, Earl of Leicester, by which alliance he acquired a very considerable inheritance, and had issue, Robert, Roger, and Robert. At the decease of the earl, his 2nd son, Roger de Quincy, had livery of his father's estates.

[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 447, Quincy, Earls of Winchester]

Buried:
Church Of Saint Cross

Saer married Margaret de Beaumont in 1173 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Margaret (daughter of 3rd Earl of Leicester Robert III de Beaumont and Petronella de Grandmesnil) was born in 1156 in Beaumont, Leicestershire, England; died on 12 Jan 1235 in Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord of Enniscorthy Philip de Prendergast. Philip (son of Maurice de Prendergast) was born about 1170 in Ireland; died in 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Gilbert de Peche in 1186 in England. Gilbert (son of Hamon de Peche and Alice Perverel) was born about 1145 in Clopton, Suffolk, England; died before 9 Jul 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thibault married Queen of Navarre Blanche on 1 Jul 1199. Blanche (daughter of King of Navarre Sancho VI "The Wise") was born in 1180 in Navarre, Spain; died in 1229. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Marie married Baldwin, Count of Hainaut VI on 6 Jun 1186. Baldwin (son of Baldwin, Count of Hainaut V and of Flanders Marguerite I de Flandre) was born on 11 Jul 1171 in Valenciennes, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died on 11 Jun 1205 in Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Acre, Palestine

Family/Spouse: Isabella d'Anjou. Isabella (daughter of Amalric (Amaury) d'Anjou, King of Jerusalem I and Maria Comnena) was born in 1172; died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louis married of Castile Blanche on 23 May 1200 in Bapaume, Normandy, France. Blanche (daughter of King of Castile VIII Alfonso and Princess of England Eleanor Plantagenet) was born on 4 Mar 1187/88 in Palencia, Castile, Spain; died on 30 Nov 1253 in Palais du Louver, Paris, Seine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Marie married Count of Dammartin II Simon in 1184/1234. II was born about 1180 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France; died on 21 Sep 1239. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married King of England John I "Lackland" Plantagenet on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. John (son of King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabella married Count of La Marche Hugh de Lusignan, X in 1220 in France. Hugh (son of Hugh de Lusignan, IX and Mathilde d'Angouleme) was born before 1169 in Lusignan, Vienne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Leonore de St. Valery about 1211 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, France. Leonore (daughter of Thomas de St. Valery and Adela de Ponthieu) was born about 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adelaide Van Guelders. Adelaide was born about 1182; died on 12 Feb 1218 in Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; was buried in Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lord Knockyn John III le Strange. John (son of John II le Strange and Amicia le Strange) was born about 1194; died about 1269. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Countess of Lorraine Hawise de Botterell. Hawise (daughter of John Botterell) was born in 1225 in Tenbury, Worcestershire, England; died in 1301 in Tenbury, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John divorced her on the ground of consanguinity; her grandfather Robert being an illegitimate son of Henry I. Burke also names her as Avisa.

Also known as Hawise, Joan, Eleanor.

The Complete Peerage vol. V, pp 689-692.

[From Burke's Peerage-see source for details]

An undoubted Earl of Gloucester, perhaps the first authentic one, at any rate after the Conquest, is Robert FitzHamon's son-in-law, another Robert, who was an illegitimate son of Henry I and was so created 1122. The Earldom passed to his eldest son, William FitzRobert, and from him to John, later King John and husband from 1189 to 1199 (when he divorced her) of Isabel, the youngest of William FitzRobert's three daughters. On John's coming to the throne the title did not merge in the Crown for it was not his in his own right but in right of his wife.

Isabel's situation now became that of a great heiress, for whoever she married next would gain the Earldom. John prevented her taking a second husband at all for the time being, however, and exchanged the Earldom of Gloucester with Aumarie de Montfort, son of William FitzRobert's eldest daughter Mabel, for the Comte of Evereux, which he then used as a dowry to secure the marriage of his niece Blanche with the King of France's son. Aumarie died childless and Isabel, who towards the end of John's reign married as her second husband Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex and in right of his new wife now Earl of Gloucester too, died childless after marrying in the autumn of 1217 yet a third husband, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.

The latter seems not to have been recognized as Earl of Gloucester as well as of Kent, despite his wife's undoubted possession of the former Earldom by the time of their marriage. But then she died only a few days later and her sister Amice, by now the only one of William FitzRobert's daughters still living, seems to have been recognized as Countess of Gloucester till her own death some seven and a half years later. On the other hand Amice's son Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford or of Clare (usually called the latter), was apparently acknowledged as Earl of Gloucester in addition this other dignity from as soon as the month after his aunt Isabel's death back in 1217.

Isabel married 5th Earl of Essex Geoffrey de Mandeville before 1216. Geoffrey (son of 1st Earl of Essex Geoffrey FitzPiers and Beatrix de Say) was born about 1184 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England; died on 23 Feb 1215/16 in London, Middlesex, England; was buried in Trinity Priory within Aldgate, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married King of England John I "Lackland" Plantagenet on 19 Aug 1189 in Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England. John (son of King of England Henry II "Curtmantlel" Plantagenet and Duchess of Aquitaine Eleanor) was born on 24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married 1st Earl of Kent Hubert de Burgh about Oct 1217. Hubert was born about 1165; died on 12 May 1243; was buried in Blackfriars, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amicia married 4th Earl of Hertford Richard de Clare about 1180. Richard (son of Earl of Hertford Roger de Clare and Maud de St. Hilaire) was born about 1153 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England; died in 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[From Burke' Peerage - see source for details]

John (King of ENG) prevented her (Isabel, youngest daughter of William FitzRobert) taking a second husband at all for the time being, however, and exchanged the Earldom of Gloucester with Aumarie de Montfort, son of William FitzRobert's eldest daughter Mabel, for the Comte of Evereux, which he then used as a dowry to secure the marriage of his niece Blanche with the King of France's son. Aumarie died childless.

Mabel married Comte d'Evereux Amaury V de Montfort about 1170. Amaury (son of Count d'Evereux Simon III de Montfort and Amicia (Maud) de Beaumont) was born about 1151 in Evereux, Eure, Normandy, France; died in 1191 in Evereux, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester IV in 1173 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. Saer (son of Robert de Quincy, Lord of Buckley and Countess of Leuchars Orabilis de Leuchars) was born in 1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; died on 13 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt; was buried in Acre, Northern District, Israel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Laurette de Braose. Laurette (daughter of 4th Lord of Bramber William III de Braose and Maud de St. Valery) was born in 1176 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died on 4 Mar 1266 in Hackington, Canterbury, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Princess of Wales Gwladys "The Dark" verch Llewelyn about 1230. Gwladys (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales and Tangwystl verch Lywarch) was born in 1205 in Caerarvonshire, Wales; died in 1251 in Winsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joan Grammaire. Joan (daughter of Richard le Grammaire) was born about 1155 in Skelton, Yorkshire, 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]

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: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Isabel FitzRoger de Gressinghall in 1193 in Suffolk, England. Isabel (daughter of William FitzRoger de Gressinghall and Alvia) was born about 1160 in Gressenhall, Norfolk, England; died in 1209. [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: Basilia de Dammartin. Basilia (daughter of High Chamberlain Aubrey I de Dammartin and Joan Basset) was born about 1140 in Dammartine, Seine-et-Marne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isobel married Hugh Bardolf in 1168 in Thurrock, Essex, England. Hugh (son of Hugh Bardolf and Amabilia Lindsay) was born in 1139 in Thurrock, Essex, England; died in 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

This nobleman, Hugh (Keveliok), 3rd Earl of Chester, joined in the rebellion of the Earl of Lancaster and the King of Scots against King Henry II, and in support of that monarch's son, Prince Henry's pretensions to the crown. In which proceeding he was taken prisoner with the Earl of Leicester at Alnwick, but obtained his freedom soon afterwards upon the king's reconciliation with the young prince. Again, however, hoisting the standard of revolt both in England and Normandy, with as little success, he was again seized and then detained a prisoner for some years. He eventually, however, obtained his liberty and restoration of his lands when public tranquility became completely reestablished some time about the 23rd year of the king's reign. His lordship m. Bertred, dau. of Simon, Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and had issue, I. Ranulph, his successor; I. Maud, m. to David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother of William, King of Scotland, and had one son and four daus., viz., 1. John, surnamed le Scot, who s. to the Earldom of Chester, d. s. p. 7 June, 1237; 1. Margaret, m. to Alan de Galloway, and had a dau., Devorguilla, m. to John de Baliol, and was mother of John de Baliol, declared King of Scotland in the reign of Edward I; 2. Isabel, m. to Robert de Brus, and was mother of Robert de Brus, who contended for the crown of Scotland, temp. Edward I; 3. Maud, d. unm.; Ada, m. to Henry de Hastings, one of the competitors for the Scottish crown, temp. Edward I; II. Mabill, m. to William de Albini, Earl of Arundel; III. Agnes, m. to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; IV. Hawise, m. to Robert, son of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester.

The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia, * m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, "a person," says Dugdale, "of very ancient family," from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to be a dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. "I cannot but mislike," says he, "the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must the be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom."

The earl d. at Leeke, in Staffordshire, in 1181, and was s. by his only son, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place of his birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as 4th Earl of Chester.

* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, "a tan assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 365-6, Meschines, Earls of Chester]

Hugh married Bertrade de Montfort in 1169 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France. Bertrade (daughter of Count d'Evereux Simon III de Montfort and Amicia (Maud) de Beaumont) was born in 1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France; died on 12 Jul 1189 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Baron of Wigmore Hugh de Mortimer. Hugh (son of Ralph de Mortimer and Millicent de Ferrers) was born in 1108 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 26 Feb 1184 in Cleobury, Salopshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert de Courcy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tanghurst married David le Clerc de Malpas in 1143. David (son of William le Belward de Malpas and Mabel d'Avranches) was born in 1129 in Malpas, Cheshire, England; died in 1144 in Malpas, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gilbert married Rohese de Clare about 1145 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Rohese (daughter of Lord of Tonbridge Lord of Cardigan Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and Alice de Meschines) was born about 1124 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England; died after 1175. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Gunnora d'Aubigny about 1158 in Folkingham, Lincolnshire, England. Gunnora was born about 1134 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]