The Golden Falcon

The Golden Falcon

Chapter II/2 - Bow

There was personal and family friction between the French king and the Angevins - Philip I of France had put away his first wife Bertha, daughter of the Count of Holland and married Bertrade de Montfort, Countess of Anjou who had run away from her husband - Louis VI "le Gros" of France was Bertha's son.

William Clito, who was Louis VI's protégé, married Constance, the French queen's sister in January 1127, claiming Flanders whereupon Henry I of England married his daughter, the Empress Matilda, to Geoffrey Plantagenet "le Bel", son and heir of Fulk V of Anjou) in 1129.

William Clito was made Count of Flanders by Louis VI which caused disturbances in Flanders. William was deposed by Dierick or Thierry of Alsace and died in 1128 besieging Alost.

Fulk V's son, Geoffrey Plantagenet, was more interested in uniting Maine and Anjou than in ruling England so attacked Stephen in Normandy but Louis VI "le Gros" of France (d. 1137) was against this policy (which Geoffrey followed until 1139). Louis had wanted Normandy to remain a separate duchy under William Clito, heir of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. During the war between Stephen and the Empress Matilda, Geoffrey refused his wife's appeal to go to England but sent his son Henry of Anjou (born in 1133) instead. Rouen fell to Geoffrey in January 1144 but he died in 1151 when his son Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine, divorced wife of Louis VII of France.

Another family which had connections with France, England, Jerusalem and Cyprus was that of Lusignan, Counts of La Marche and Angoulême. Isabella, daughter of the Count of Angoulême married as her first husband, King John of England who had his marriage with Isabella of Gloucester annulled. After his death she married Hugh le Brun of Lusignan, Count of La Marche to whom she had been betrothed before her marriage to the English king.

Fig. 20 - Lusignan, Counts of La Marche & Angoulême, earls of Pembroke

Hugh de la Marche (d. 1249) = Isabella, of Angoulême, widow of King John (d. 1245) >:

(a) Geoffrey

(b) Guy.

(d) Hugh XI > Alice de Lusignan = Gilbert de Clare.

(e) William de Valence (d. 1296), lord of Rançon, Bellac, Champagne & Montignac =

Joan de Mountchesney (d. 1307) >:

1. John (obsp 1277).

2. William (obsp 1282).

3. Isabel (d.1305) = John de Hastings (d. 1313) > John de Hastings (d.

1325) = Juliana de Leybourne > Laurence Hastings, earl of Pembroke.

4. Agnes obsp = Maurice fitzGerald (d. 1265) = (2) Hugh de Balliol (d

. 1271) = (3) John de Avesnes, son of the Count of Hainault

5. Joan = John Comyn (d. 1306) >:

A. John Comyn (d. 1314).

B. Aymer Comyn (d. 1316)

C. Elizabeth Comyn (d. 1372) = Richard Talbot (d. 1356)

D. Joan (d. 1326) = David de Strathbogie, earl of Atholl (d. 1326).

(f) Aymer (d.1200-5-1324 obsp) = about 18.10.1295 (1) Beatrice de Clermont-Nesle (d.

1320 bur. Stratford, London, d. of Ralph de Clermont, lord of Nesle, Picardy, constable

of France) = (2) Marie de St. Pol (d. 1377), d. of Guy de Chatillon or Chastillon-sur

Marne, Count of St. Pol, butler of France (+) > Alesia de Lusignan = (1) John de

Warrenne, earl of Surrey = (2) Gilbert de Clare (marriage annulled) >:

A. Isabella de Clare = (1) Guy de Beauchamp (1297), separated in 1302 = (2) in

1316/7 Maurice de Berkeley.

B. Joan de Clare.

(h) Margaret de Lusignan.

(+) In 1392 Sir Philip Tilney and others including William Winter, one of the executors of Marie de St. Pol, Countess of Pembroke conveyed to Denney, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, the manor of Histon Colvilles and the advowson of the church of St. Andrew. The manor came to Sir Philip Tilney from his wife, the heiress of Bainard. William Winter's daughter Isabel was a nun at Denney and died before 1415 (Add. Chartulary 1425). The abbess of Denney at the time was Joan Keteryche, kinswoman of John Paston, executor of Sir John Fastolf. This was William Winter of Barningham Winter, Sheriff of Norfolk.

Hugh, brother of the French, Count of Vermandois (by right of his wife) was a Crusader.

The Winters were twice descended from the Merovingian and Carolingian kings through Adeliza of Louvain and also the Beaumonts.

Fig. 21 - Merovingian & Carolingian kings, Dukes of Lorraine, Brabant & Louvain, Vermandois & Senlis, Beaumont, earls of Leicester earls of Leicester, Warwick, Worcester, Warenne & Surrey & Chester, de Clare & Counts of Eu.

Clovis of Cologne > Childebert, king of Cologne > Siegbert > Cloderic > Munderic, kinsman of Clovis, the Merovingian king > Boso Bodegisal, nephew or great nephew of St. Gundulf (d. 607 AD), Bishop of Tongres = Palatina, d. of Gallus Magnus, Roman-Celtic Bishop of Troyes > St. Arnulf, Bishop of Metz (b. 582 AD, d. 643 AD) > Duke Angise (d. 685 AD) Mayor of the Palace of the Merovingian kings > Pepin of Heristal (d. 714 AD) > Charles Martel (d. 741 AD) > Pepin (d. 786 AD) deposed last Merovingian king = Bertha, descendant of Clovis the Merovingian > Charlemagne (768-814 AD) > Louis I the Pious (814-40 AD). = (1) Hermegild = (2) Judith > Lothair > Irmgard kidpnapped by Gisilbert, Count on the Meuse (846 AD) > Reginar I, Margrave of the kingdom between the Meuse & Scheldt, count of Hainault, Abbot of Echternach, ruler of Lorraine (d. 915 AD) > Reginar II, Count of Hainault, capital at Mons, Castle of Hornu (d.c. 932 AD) > Reginar III "Longneck", Duke of Upper Lorraine (d. in exile 973 AD captured with Emperor Otto the Great) > Lambert I "the bearded", duke of Upper Lorraine (d. in battle 1015) > Lambert II "the Belted", Count of Louvain, founded Brussels (d.c.1053) > Henry II, Count of Louvain (d. 1078) > Henry = d. of Duke of Thuringia >:

(i) Ida of Lorraine & Brabant = Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (see below)

(ii) Godfrey I "the bearded", Duke of Lower Lorraine & Marquis of Antwerp = Ida. d. of Albert

III. Marquis of Namur (d.c.1040) >:

(a) Godfrey II "the Babe", duke of Lower Lorraine

(b) Joscelin of Louvain

By (2) > Winters of Wych (see above).

(d) d. = WIlliam of Ypres & Loo, Count of Flanders.

Clovis of Cologne > Childebert, king of Cologne > Siegbert > Cloderic > Munderic, kinsman of Clovis, the Merovingian king > Boso Bodegisal (nephew or great nephew of St. Gundulf. d. 607, Bishop of Tongres) = Palatina, d. of Gallus Magnus, Bishop of Troyes (descended from Roman rulers) > St. Arnulf, Bishop of Metz (b. 582 d. 640) > Duke Angise (d. 685), Mayor of the Palace of the Merovingian kings > Pepin I of Heristal (d. 714) > Grimoald > Pepin II, desc. of Arnulf (d. 714) = Plectrude (regent) 2 sons who predeceased him. > Charles Martel, illegitimate son (d. 22.10.741) > Pepin the Short (d. 24.9.768) deposed last Merovingian king = Bertha, descendant of Clovis the Merovingian. He was anointed 28.7.754, given parts of Italy, conquered Aquitaine (766) killing Duke Waifre and drove out the Saracens from France > Charlemagne (768- 28.1.814), conquered Lombardy = d. of Desiderius of Lombardy whom he repudiated>:

(a) Charles (d. 811)

(b) Pepin of Italy (d. 8109) > Vermandois family > Isabella de Vermandois, widow of Simon

St. Lis, earl of Nortampton = Robert “le Bossu” > Isabel Beaumont = Gervase Paynel >

Hawise Paynel = John de Somery > Roger de Somery = (2) Amabilia de Chaucomb >

Joan de Somery = Hugh Burnell > Margery Burnell = Edward Hungerford > Elizabeth

Hungerford = Roger Winter of Wych. (“Arms Allowed to Winter - 1588” Clarenceux

King of Arms, Robert Cooke - this may be defective. According to other sources Joan de

Somery d. without issue and Hugh maried a second time)

(c).Louis I “the Pious” or “le Debonnaire” (814.40) = (1) Hermegild or Hermingarde = (2)

Judith of Bavaria > kings of France & House of Lorraine

Pepin of Italy, 2nd son of Charlemagne > Berenguer de St. Lis of Bayeux > Popa abducted in 893 AD by Hrolf or Rollo (Ralph the Ganger or pirate) son of Ragnvald the Wise, Earl of More and Romsdale, Orkney and Shetland Isles. (Rollo = Judith, daughter of Charles the Fat of France) By Popa > William Longsword, Duke of Normandy (Rollo's son by Popa of Bayeaux) > Richard of Normandy (his great uncle Bernard of Senlis saved him from Louis of France) > Dukes of Normandy up to William I.

Pepin of Italy, 2nd son of Charlemagne (d. 810 AD) >:

(a) (a) Genselin de Senlis, great grandfather of > Landry de Senlis >:

(b) (1) Herbert, 2^nd son

(d) (3) Simon de Senlis, 3^rd son = Maud, d. of Waltheof, earl of Northumbria by his wife Judith, niece of William I “the Conqueror”

(b) Herbert, Count of Vermandois, hereditary butler of Fance to Hugh Capet (987) > Hugh, Count of Vermandois > Elizabeth of Vermandois = Hugh “the Great” Capet, the Crusader, younger brother of Philip I of Frnce (husband of Bertrade de Montfort). Hugh became Count of Vermandois ”jure uxoris”

Roger of Beaumont, lord of Pontaudemer & Beaumont = Adelina, d. of Waleran, Count of Meulan >:

(a) Henry of Neuborg (Newburgh), earl of Warwick (d. 1123) = Margaret, d. of Geoffrey,

Count of Perche & Mortain > Roger, earl of Warwick (d. 1115) = Gundreda, d. of William

III of Warenne, earl of Surrey.

(b) Robert of Beaumont, Count of Meulan, earl of Leicester (d. 1118) = (1) Isabel of

Vermandois = (2) William of Warenne, earl of Surrey >: By (1)

(i) Elizabeth = Gilbert de Clare, earl of Pembroke.

(ii) Waleran, count of Meulan, earl of Worcester = Agnes, d. of Amaury de Montfort,

Count of Evreux > Isabel = William Maudit >:

(A) William Maudit = Alice, d. of Gilbert Segrave

(B) Isabel Maudit = William Beauchamp of Elmley.

(iii) Robert"le Bossu", earl of Leicester (1104-1168) = Amicia .d of Ralph Bigod, earl of

Norfolk > Robert "Blanchemains" (d. 1190) = Petronilla Grantsmesnil >:

(A) Robert "fitzPernel" (d. 1204) = Laurette, d. of William de Braiose

(B) Margaret or Hawisia = Saer de Quincy

(iv) Hugh le Poer = d. of Simon of Beauchamp > Juliana le Poer = Hugh Cokesey (1216

1272) > Winters of Wych.

Warenne: William, lord of Warenne, created earl of Surrey by William II "Rufus" = Gundrada in 1070, d. of Matilda of Flanders by Gerbod the Fleming. William de Warenne held Reigate & Dorking and was made joint justiciar of England in 1074 with Richard de Tonbridge, lord of Clare, Suffolk. William put down the rebellion of earls Ralph of Norfolk and Roger of Hereford in 1075 known as the "Bridal of Norwich" > William de Warenne (born before 1071, d.1138), 2nd earl of Surrey, lord of Lewes (Sussex), Reigate (Surrey) & Coningsborough (Yorkshire) = Isabelle, d. of Hugh, Count of Vermandois, widow of Robert Beaumont, earl of Leicester. Warenne supported Robert Curthose, duke of Normandy and joined Robert Montgomery de Belleme against Henry I in favour of the duke. Warenne fled to Normandy and was deprived of the earldom in 1101 but it was restored in 1102. He was at the battles of Tinchebrai in 1106, Brenville in 1198 and governed Rouen and Caux > William de Warenne, 3rd earl of Surrey, (b. after 1118, d. 1148) = Ela, d. of WIlliam Talvas, Count of Ponthieu (grand daughter of Robert of Bellême). He joined king Stephen and was witness to his charter in 1136. In 1137 he was accused of intriguing with the Empress Matilda but in 1141 he was Stephen's commander at the battle of Lincoln when the king was captured. Warenne's troops were scattered by Robert of Gloucester. He joined the Empress but was imprisoned with the Earl of Gloucester when Matilda retreated. He made peace with Stephen and was on Crusade in 1146, joining Louis VII of France in 1147. He was killed in 1148 when they left Laodicea after the French Crusaders' disaster or was taken prisoner by the Turks > Isabella de Warenne = in 1153 William de Blois (b.1153, d.1159), count of Boulogne, 2nd surviving son of King Stephen. William held the castle of Norwich, the Honour of Pevensey and Godalming, Surrey, all of which he resigned in 1157 to the king. He was knighted in 1158 and accompanied Henry II to Toulouse. His widow Isabella de Warenne married (2) Hamelin Plantagenet, the king's half-brother, natural son of Geoffrey, count of Anjou (the Empress Matilda's second husband). Hamelin went on Crusade with Richard I and died in 1202 > by Hamelin > William of Warenne (b. before 1191 died 1240) = (1) = (2) Maud, daughter of William of Valence, earl of Pembroke, widow of the earl of Norfolk. He bore the Vermandois arms "checky azure and or" as well as the escarbuncle (8 pointed star) of Anjou as his crest (inherited from Hamelin)s. He sided with King John and lost his Norman estate to France. He was witness to King John's oath to the Papel Legate at Dover, then left him with the Earl of Salisbury (John's half-brother) to join the barons. He was given lands in Sussex, Stamford and Grantham. He was on Henry III's side against the French (who had defeated King John's royalists). He was made Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1216 and Sheriff of Surrey from 1217-1226 > John de Warenne (d. 1305) was orphaned when aged 5 and brought up with the king's sons at Guildford. When aged 12 he married the king's half-sister Alice de Lusignan, daughter of Hugh de la Marche and the Queen Dowager, Isabella of Angoulême. He was in Gascony in 1254 and with Edward in 1260/1 and was made Guardian of the Peace in Surrey and Sussex. During the battle of Lewes against Simon de Montfort, Warenne fled abroad as he was hated by the barons. At the "Quo Warranto" (by what right) inquest he was supposed to have held up the rusty sword which he said his ancestors had used when helping William I the "Bastard" called the Conqueror. Warenne claimed Reigate, Betchworth, Dorking, Southwark and Guildford and the right to a Thursday market at Dorking and a fair at Reigate on Holy Cross Day (September 14th) which are still held today. He also held Wakefield and Coningburgh, Yorkshire. He was involved in Edward's wars in Scotland, defeated John Balliol, king of Scots (his grand daughter's husband) at Dunbar in 1296 and was made Guardian and Lieutenant of Scotland > William de Warenne killed during a tournament at Croydon in 1285 = Joan de Vere >:

(a) Alice = earl of Arundel > Howards, dukes of Norfolk > William Howard "the Belted", earl

of Carlisle > Anne or Mary = Sir John Winter of Lydney > Sir Charles Winter = Frances

Napier or Napper.

(b) Eleanor = Sir Henry Percy.

(d) John de Warenne (d.1347), Earl of Warenne, Surrey & Sussex = (1) Joan of Bar whom

he divorced because of a pre-contract with Maud of Nerford = (2) heiress of Malise, earl

of Strathearn, created earl of Strathearn by his kinsman, Edward Balliol. He was knighted

with Edward II and served against the Scots at Halidon Hill and the French. He helped

Thomas Plantagenet, earl of Lancaster to capture Piers Gaveston, Edward I's favourite

but was one of Lancaster's judges. He was Commissioner of Parliament in 1327 when

he renounced homage to Edward II and was in the government of Edward III.

When Sir William Winter was knighted in 1588 Robert Cooke, Clarenceaux King of Arms, drew up "Arms Allowed to Winter 1589" as follows:

William, lord d'Aubigny of Buckenham, Norfolk, steward of Nomandy (arms:"gules, a lion rampant or") = Mary, d. of Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk > William, lord d'Aubigny of Buckenham in England by gift of William, the Conqueror > William, lord d'Aubigny, steward of England > William, earl of Arundel = Adeliza of Louvain > William, earl of Arundel = Maud, d. & heiress of James St. Hillary (St. Lis), widow of Roger, earl of Clare (or Maud de Senlis daughter of Simon de Senlis, earl of Northampton) > William, earl of Arundel & Surrey = Mabel, d. of Hugh Kevelick, earl of Chester, sister and co-heiress of Ranulf Blundeville, 6th earl of Chester.

There is some confusion as to who Maud St. Lis was. According to Rye's "Norfolk Families" the Commandry or Preceptory of the Knight Templars in Great Carbrook, Norfolk founded by Roger, earl of Clare (d. 1172) was given in 1182 by his widow Maud, countess of Clare, daughter of James de St. Hillary to the Knights Hospitallars of St. John of Jerusalem with the church of Great & Little Carbrook and the moiety of the town on condition they paid 13s. 4d yearly to the nuns of Buckland, all which was confirmed by Richard de Clare, earl of Hertford, her son and King John in 1199 from which time she was declared foundress of this house but the Templars were still connected with it as their possessions there were seized in 1314 and given to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem at the dissolution of the Order of the Temple.

The St. Hillary, St. Hilaire du Harcouet or St. Lis family descended from Harsculf St. James, earl of St. Malo of Beauvron, Brittany. James St. Lis or St. Hillary was Harsculf's son.

However according to a history of Waltheof, earl of Northumbria ("Vita et Passio"), written by a nun at Delapre Abbey, Northampton (which was founded or patronised by the St. Lis or Senlis family), William d'Aubigny married Maud St. Lis (Senlis), daughter of Simon St. Lis, 1st earl of of Northampton and not the daughter of James St. Hillary, baron of Norfolk.

The nun of Delapre recorded that Simon de Senlis wanted to marry Waltheof's widow Judith, the king's niece but William I objected. Simon eventually married her daughter Maud whose sister Alice became wife of Ralph de Toeny junior.

Maud or Matilda, daughter of earl Waltheof, was betrothed to Simon de Senlis in 1086. Alice was given the manor of Uphall, Seaton, Rutland by her husband's uncle (also named Ralph de Toeny) and Maud received Down Hall, Seaton Thorpe, Rutland

Simon and Matilda had 3 children (1) Simon, 2nd earl of Northampton, who married Isabella, daughter of Robert, earl of Leicester (2) Waltheof, abbot of Melrose and (3) Matilda who married Robert fitzRichard de Clare by whom she had a son Walter fitzRichard of Woodham Walter and Dunmow in Essex and Baynard's Castle, London. According to J. H. Round, it was Maud St. Lis's daughter Maud de Clare who took her mother's surname of St. Lis and married William d'Aubigny.

Isabella, daughter of Robert earl of Leicester, married secondly Gervase Paynell or Paganell, lord of the honour of Dudley - they were ancestors of the Winters of Wych.

Simon de St. Lis, 3rd earl of Northampton, was a contemporaryof Henry III.

The nun of Delapre Abbey's account reads:

Incipunt Gesta antecessorum comitis Waldevi. Postmodum predictus Waldevus regi concordatus Judithe neptis ejus connubio et magna regos amicitia donatus est. Pro nobilitate generis, et possessionum et proprietatum amplitudine concessit ei rex Wilelmus totam terram suam pacificum, liberam et solutam eique dedit ducendam in uxorem neptem suam Juettam, filiam comitis Lamberti de Lens sororem nobilis viris Stephani comitis de Albemarle cum qua rex ei contulit et concessit omnes libertates que sunt de honore de Huntondonia.

Que processu temporis de viro suo duas filias suscepit, Matildam videlicet et Aliceam.

De Comitissa quadem Juetta Waldevi comitis relicta post decessum domini sui, cum duabus filiabus suis dominacionem habuit honoris de Huntedonia, qui ei nomine dotias fuerat collatus et ibidem moram faciebant, quosque rex eam voluit tradere nuptui cuidam milita francigene nomine Simoni Silvanectensi de Seint-Liz. Venerant enim duo milites fratres francigene in subsidium regis eidem servituri cum quadraginta militiubus quos secum adduxerant, quibus nomen Guarnerus le Riche et Simon de Seint-Liz. Nomen autem patris eorum Ranulphus le Riche (Landry Senlis) post cujus obitum Gwarnerus primogenitus ejus natale solum repetit ut patri in bonis succederet. Simon autem junior remansit cum rege Cui rex contulit villam dei Norhamtonia et hundredum de Fackeleie quod tunc valebat quadraginta libras annuas ut inde in equorum sourum ferratura sibi providerat.

Cujus peticionibus rex favens voluit ei neptum suam relictam Waldevi matrimonilater associare. Rex autem ob hoc in indignationem prorrupit et fervore ire succensus contulit dicte Simoni totam honorem de Huntedonia sicut ad manus regias de volutum et ex tunc fuit dictus idem Simon comes de Norhamtonia et de Huntedonia scilicet et omnes terras et possesiones illis pertinentes diu possedit. Commitissa vero Juetta latitando fugit per mariscum Ely et alias cum filiabus suis latebras querendo pro timore regis et comitis Simon exterrita.

Consilio quidem sic proloquuto comes Simon Matildam primogenitam Waldevi sibi matrimonialiter associavit. Dicut autem Simon Aliciam sororem uxoris sue, tradidit in uxorem nobili viro Ranulfo de Tony cum centum libratis terre de honore de Huntedonia cum Welshametowia, Kercelinges et allis terris et possessionibus.

Comes autem Simon processu temporis ex Mathilda comitissa prolem procreavit, Simonem, Waldevum et Matildam. Waldevus postea fuit abbas de Malros [Melrose Abbey, Scotland]. Matilda quidem tradite fuit nuptuii Robert filio Ricardii [Robert fitzRichard de Clare], ex quo suscepit prolem Walterum filiam Roberti nomine [Walter fitzRobert de Clare of Dunmow & Woodham Walter, Essex, and Baynard's Castle, bannerbearer of London].

Simon autem comes Norhamtonie et de Huntedonia post multos proficiscens Jerosolimam adiit et successu prospero ad propria remeavit. Iterim autem urbem peregrinalem zelo Die accensus adire anelans iter arripuit propositoque frustratus in itinere ad patres suo appositus est apud prioratum de Caritate mortuus et ibidem sepultus.

Ejus autem relicta cum prole suscepta et terris et possessionibus fuit in manu regis Henrici primi qui antea reginam sibi associaterat Matildam sororem Alexandri regis Scottorum et David fratris ejus. David autem rogavit regem Henricum ut comitissam Simonis relictam ei concederat ducendam in uxorem. Rex autem annuit monitis eit peticionibus regine perductus et sic habuit possessionem comitisse et comitatus et parvulorum custodiam. Non longe vero post Alexander rex Scottorum defunctus est. Cui successit in regnum comes David qui postea et Matilda regina sua genuit sibi filium nomine Henricum.

Parvuli autem ex Simone et Matilde procreati qui fuerant in custodia David adducti fuerunt in Normanniam eit commissi custodie Stephanie comitis Albermarle avunculi matris eorum et in tantum sub ejus tutela educati quod Simon primogenitus insignia militaria suscept una cum Willelmo comito filio comitis Stephanis, und Henricus ex Anglorum indignationem conceptarat.

Henricus autem filius regis David frater uterinus dicti Simonis secundi cum ad plenam pubertatum devenissete geadio militari accinctus duxit in uxorum comitissam Ade, sororum Willelmi comitis Warenne qui genuit ex ea Malcolm et Willelmi postea regen Scottorum et fraterem eorum comitem David et filias aliquot.

Morte autem preventus patre adhuc superstite succubit. Simon autem de Senliz secundus multiciens sollicitavit regem peticionibus et interpellacionibus ut ei hereditatem suam restituerat.. Et duxit in uxerorum Ysabellam comitissam filiam Roberti comiti Leicestrie qui postesa fuit justiciarium Anglie effestuc ex qua genuit Simonem de Senliz tercium de duas filias quibus nomen Amicia et Hawisia.

Post decessum autem Simonis secundi, filius autem Simon tercius cum terra sua fuit sub tutela Henrici regis secundi per quinque annos vel amplius ita quod rex Henricus proposuit adire Tolosam ut eam expungnaret. Quo secum adduxit Malcolum regem Scottorum et reddidit ei honorem de Huntedonia retentis tamen sibi castro et burgo Norhamtonie dum tamen comes Simon tercius more pupilli adhuc esset tutela commissus". ("Chroniques Anglo-Normands" - Francois Michel).

Simon de Senlis I's father was Landry de Senlis, great grandson of Genselin de Senlis, hereditary butler of France under Hugh Capet and son of Count Pepin de Senlis, (younger brother of Herbert de Vermandois). The family of Senlis were descended from Popa de Senlis and Rollo, Rolf or Hrolf the Ganger by whom she had William Longsword, duke of Normandy.

Simon's elder brothers were Herbert and Guy, the eldest, hereditary butler of France, seigneur of Chantilly, d'Ermenonville, de Derency, de Villepointe and other Senlis lands.

Count Herbert V of Vermandois had an only daughter Elizabeth who married Hugh Capet (younger brother of Philip I of France) who became the Count of Vermandois the crusader.

Clarenceux Robert Cooke’s “Arms Allowed to Winter 1588” is defective

Fig 22 - "Arms Allowed to Winter, 1588" - Robert Cooke, Clarenceaux King of Arms

Henry, Count of Brussels, son of Lambert (arms: "or, a lion rampant, azure") > Henry, Count of Brussels = the daughter of the Duke of Thuringia > Godfrey "cum barba", Count of Brussels & Duke of Lorraine >:

(1) Godfrey. Duke of Lorraine & Brabant = Margaret of Limburg >Henry, duke of Lorraine &

Brabant = Matilda, d. of the Count of Boulogne

(2) Josceln of Louvain = Agnes, d. & co. h. of William, lord Percy > Henry, Lord Percy of

Topcliffe > earls of Northumberland

(3) Alicia or Adeliza = (1) Henry I = (2) William d’Aubigny, 2^nd son, lord of Buckenham,

Norfolk, Steward of England > William d'Aubigny, 1st earl of Arundel = Matilda, d. of

James St. Lis, widow or d. of Richard de Clare.

Simon, Count of Monfort = Anne, d. & co-heiress of the Count of Evreux (arms: "gules, a lion rampant, quevée fourchée argent") > Simon, Count of Montfort & Evreux

Ranulf, Viscount Bayeaux (arms: "azure, 3 garbs or") > Ranulf, Viscount Bayeaux & Carlisle = Margaret, sister of Hugh, 1^st earl of Chester and heir of Richard, 2^nd earl of Chester >:

(a) William of Roumare, earl of Lincoln & lord of Bolinbgbroke (d. 1161)

(b) Ranulf “le Meschin”, 3^rd earl of Chester (d. 1129) = Eleanor, d. of Simon, Count of

Montfort > Ranulf "Gernons", 4^th earl of Chester (d. 1153) = Matilda d. of Robert, earl of

Gloucester > Hugh Kevellick (Cyfeiliog), 5^th earl of Chester = Bertrada, d. of Geoffrey,

lord Lucy of Cockermouth >:

(1) Ranulf Blundeville, 6^th earl of Chester

(2) Matilda = David, earl of Angus & Galloway, son of Henry of Huntingdon, brother of

David, king of Scots > John the Scot, earl of Huntingdon (obsp) = Gwladus Dhu, d. of

Llewlyn ap Iorwerth Fawr

(3) Agnes = William, earl Ferrars & Derby of Tutbury

(4) Hawisia = Robert, lord Quincy

(5) Mabilia = William d’Aubigny, earl of Arundel, lord of Buckenham, Steward of England

(A) Isabel d’Aubigny, 2^nd sister & coheiress = John, lord fitzAlan of Clun, Shropshire >

Stuarts of Scotland, fitzalans earls of Arundel & Howards, dukes of Norfolk

(B) Mabilia d’Aubigny = Robert, lord Tateshall of Tateshall & Buckenham > Cromwells

Winter.

(D) Nichola d’Aubigny = Roger de Somery [Cooke incorrectly claims descent from her]

(a) Roger, lord Somery of Barrow

(b) Joan de Somery = John, lord Strange of Knockin

(d) Maud de Somery = Henry de Erdington

(e) Margaret de Somery = (1) Ralph, Lord Bassett of Drayton = (2) Ralph Cromwell

[not Richard Cromleyn as Cooke mainains].

[Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms in “Arms Allowed to Winter - 1588” erroneously names Margaret’s 2^nd husband as Richard Cromleyn. She became a nun after Ralph Cromwell died.]

Cooke continues:

Richard Cromleyn, knight, of Huddington > Lucy Cromleyn = Richard Hoddington, knight > Baldwin Hoddington = Joan, d. & heiress of John Knovill, knight by his wife Joan, d. of Roger Larons, knight > John Hoddington = Margaret Golafre > Walter Hoddington de Somery = Agnes, d. and heiress of Thomas Cassy of Adesbury, Worcs by his 2nd wife Elizabeth (Cecily), d. of Walker Cokesay, knight > Thomas Hoddington de Somery (arms: "gules, a saltire argent within a bordure sable charged with mullets or, impaling argent, on a bend gules, 3 round buckles or") = Joan, d. and heiress of Henry Throgryme ((Richard Thurgrin, senschal of Castlecombe) > Joan Hoddington = Roger Winter > Roger Winter = Anne, d. of Richard Washbourne >:

(a) Anne Winter = Thomas Underhill

(b) Margaret Winter= Chandor of Herts.

(d) Roger Winter = Elizabeth Hungerford >:

(1) Gilbert Winter (obsp)

(2) Jane Winter = John Somerfield (Somerville?

(3) Margaret Winter = Weyton

(4) Robert Winter = Katherine Throgmorton > Edward, Valentine, George, John, Elizabeth

= Thomas Bushell of Brodmerston, Glos. & Katherine

(5) Roger Winter = Elizabeth Wyrall > John Winter of Lydney = Alice Tirry > Sir WiIliam

Winter = Maria, d. of Thomas Langton

John Cassy of Adesbury, Worcs > Thomas Cassy - Elizabeth (Cecily) d. of Walter Cokesay of Worcs.

Thomas Langton, knight = Mary, d. of Aske of Richmond > John Langton, = Eleanor, d. of William Gascoigne, knight > John Langton, knight = Isabella d. of Richard Conyers > Thomas Langton, 3rd son = Catherine Matthew, widow of Sir Andrew Judd > Mary Langton = Sir William Winter

William Tirry = d. of John (fitzGerald), brother of the earl of Desmond > William Tirry of Ireland = Jane, d. of Gamage > Alice Tirry.

Cooke gives the following descent (perhaps also flawed):

Robert, lord Strange of Knockin (Inq. pm No. 6, 25 Henry VI & No.1 28 Henry VI for land in Leiceistershire?) = Matilda, d. of Baldwin, lord Wake >:

(a) Richard, lord Strange of Knockin (Inq. pm No. 12, 33 Henry VI, held lands in

Southampton, Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire,

Shropshire, Devon & Middlesex ) = Isabel, d. of Marcus St. Philbert, knight > John,

lord Strange of Knockin.

(b) Margaret (Alice or Alianor) Strange = Edward Burnell, knight of Billingford,

Thurning & East Ruston, Norfolk (d.v.p. 25.10.1415 at Agincourt) > Margaret Burnell

= Edmund Hungerford, knight, 2nd son > Thomas Hungerford = Christina, d. of John

(Hall) of Salisbury > John Hungerford = Margaret, d. of Blount of Gloucester >

Elizabeth Hungerford = Roger Winter.

The Winters were descended from Adeliza of Louvain through the families of Somery, Montalt, Burnell and Strange.

The first Burnell to rise to power was Edward I's Chancellor, Edmund, bishop of Bath & Wells. The senior branch of his family came from Acton Burnell, Shropshire which Edmund (who decended from a cadet branch) purchased. His heir was his nephew Sir Philip Burnell whose son Edmund succeeded him. They held a moiety of the manor of Gunton, Norfolk and the advowson of the church there till 6 Edw II. Edmund Burnell, son of Lord Burnell was buried at Grey Friars Church, Farringdon Ward Within.

Inquisitions postmortem show that Edmund or Edward Hungerford inherited Eastham and Westham Burnell.

According to Norfolk records:

In 20 Edw. I Simon de Lincoln and Catherine his wife conveyed a moiety of the manor of Gunton & its advowson to Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath & Wells > Philip Burnell, nephew & heir > Sir Edward Burnell in 6 Edw II released it to Sir Walter de Norwich with lands and tenements inThorpe Market.Fig. 23 -Somery, Burnell, Strange & Winter

Robert Burnell (1275-92) was born in Acton Burnell, Shropshire, a manor held of the Corbet barony by the senior branch of his family (acquired in 1266) which passed to his nephew Philip Burnell, as well as lands in 15 English shires, in London and in Ireland and the barony of Castle Holgate (extinct in 1420) near Wenlock Edge. He also purchased Condover, Wolverhampton and Boreham (Essex) by 1278. He became Bishop of Bath & Wells, King’s Clerk, Chancellor and King’s lieutenant (with Otto de Granson on missions to Paris and Gascony) to Edward I, was elected Archbishop of Canterbury in 1278 but rejected by the Popes Gregory X & Nicholas III and was on a commission to investigate corruption (1298).

Edward Burnell > 2^nd d. Katherine (b.c. 1407), inherited Billingford, Thurning & E. Ruston = (1) bef. 1426 as 2^nd wife John Radcliffe, Knight KG, of Attleborough, Norfolk, ygr son of James Radcliffe of Radcliffe, Lancaster. John Radcliffe entered entourage of Thomas Plantagent, Duke of Lancaster & was a soldier & MP for Norfolk = (1) Cecily Mortimer, widow of John Herling, Knight (d. b. 17.1403) and d. & co.h. of Thomas Mortimer, knight of Newnham, Cambs & Attleborough, Norfolk and Mary, d. of Nicholas Park. Cecily was half-sister of John Fastolf, knight, whose father married the widow of Sir Richard (Thomas?) Mortimer of Attleborough.

Ralph de Somery = Margaret, d. of John fitzGilbert the Marshall by Sibyl, sister of Patrick de Salisbury, 1st earl of Wiltshire. Margaret = (2) Maurice de Gand. By (1) > Ralph de Somery = Idonea, d. of William Longespee, earl of Salisbury. She = (2) William de Beauchamp of Bedford > By (1) Roger de Somery = (1) Nichola, d of William d'Aubigny, earl of Arundell by Mabel, sister and co-heiress of Ranulph, earl of Chester. Roger = (2) Amabil,d. & co. heiress of Robert de Chaucomb of Chalcombe, Hants. and widow of Gilbert Segrave > Roger de Somery = Agnes > John de Somery = Lucy > his heiresses were his sisters (a) Margaret de Somery = John de Sutton, Lord Dudley (b) Joan de Somery = Thomas, son of John de Botetourt.

Henry II by Countess Ida (2 cartularies of Bradenstoke) > William Longespee (d. 1226, bur. Salisbury Cathedral which he founded), 2nd earl of Salisbury, Sheriff of Wiltshire = Ela, d. & heiress of William fitzPatrick, earl of Salisbury (by Alianor de Vitre, d. of Robert, Count of Vitre & widow of Gilbert Crespin, Lord of Tilliers) > Idonea Longespee = (1) Ralph de Somery = (2) William, son of Simon de Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford. By (2) > Beatrice de Beauchamp = Thomas fitzOtho > Maud fitzThomas = John de Botetourt.

Arms: d'Evreux "paly of 6, gules and vaire, on a chief or, a lion passant sable". Longespee "azure, 6 lions (or lioncels or, 3,2,1.

St. Mary's Priory, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, Augustinian house founded 1139 or 1142 by Walter "le Euvus" (d'Evereux), father of Patrick, 1st earl of Salisbury, was daughter church of Cirencester made independent by Richard I or made a daughter house of St. Wandrille, Rouen (dissolved 17.1.1539). There are 2 cartularies which mention William de Longespee, 2nd earl of Salisbury's mother:

Gift in alms by William Longespee, earl of Salisbury for the soul of Countess Ida, his mother of half a virgate in Chitterne, Wiltshire. (S.646)

Gift of alms by William Longespee, earl of Salisbury for the souls of Ela, his wife and the Countess Ida his mother, of all the land in Hatherop, Gloucester. (S.481)

Botetourt: John de Botetourt (d. Nov. 1324), illegitimate son of Edward I, governor of St. Briavel's Castle, Glos (1291) & Framlington Castle (1314), 1^st Baron Botetourt (1305) = soon after 1.7.1285 when she was a minor, Maud, sister and heiress of Otes fitzThomas & d. of Thomas fitzOtes of Mendelsham, Suffolk by Beatrice, 3^rd d. & co-heiress of William de Beauchamp, lord of Bedford > Thomas de Boutetourt (dvp? 1322) = Joan (living 1326/7), d. of Roger de Somery & sister and co/h. of her brother John, Lord Somery > John de Botetourt (b.c. 1318.1385, bur. Halesowen), 2^nd baron had livery of his mother's lands in 1338 = (1) Maud, d. of John, 1^st Lord Grey of Rotherfield = (2) before 31.5.1347 Joyce, d. of William Zouche (formerly Mortimer), Lord Zouche of Mortimer. By 2 >:

(a) John de Botetourt (dvp 1369) = Maud, d. of John, 2nd Lord Grey of Rotherfield >

Joyce de Botetourt (d. 1.1.1406/7 sp, inq. pm. 12.4. 6 Henry IV) suro jure Baroness

Botetourt & Baroness Zouche of Richard’s Castle = in 1386 as 2^nd wife, Hugh Burnell (d.

27.11.1420 spms), 2^nd Lord Burnell

(b) Alice de Botetourt = John Kyriel of Eynesford, Kent

(i) Joan Peshall = Sir William Birmingham

(ii) Margaret Peshall = Sir Richard Mytton

(d) Katherine Botetourt (d. 1361) = Maurice Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, Glos >: issue

(e) Maud Botetourt, a nun

(f) Agnes Botetourt, a nun.

The Barony of Botetourt fell into abeyance 1406-1764 between the 3 daughters of Sir Hugh Burnell and his wife Joyce, daughter and heiress of John, 2nd Baron Botetourt. It was granted to Norborne Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, governor of Virginia, descendant of Katherine Burnell, wife of Maurice de Berkeley. Norborne was summoned to Parliament as Baron Botetourt in 1764 and died childless in 1776 when the Dowager Duchess of Beaufort inherited Stoke Gifford. The barony went into abeyance until 1803 when the 5th duke of Beaufort obtained it by a patent in his favour. (Norbonne’s sister Elizabeth Berkeley was wife of Charles Noel (1709-56), 4th Duke of Beaufort)

Burnell: Philip Burnell, nephew & heir of Robert Burnell of Acton Burnell, Shropshire, Bishop of Bath & Wells > Hugh Burnell, 1^st Lord Burnell = Maud (d. 1294), daughter of Richard Arundel > Maud Burnell = (1) John Lovel of Tichmarsh (d. 8 Edw. II) = (2) John, lord Handlow (d. 5.8. 20 Edw. III) > Nicholas Handlow (d. 19.1.1383), 2^nd Lord Burnell, desc. Charlemagne) = Mary >:Hugh Burnell (b.c. 1347, aged 36 in 1383, d. 27.11.1420 spsm, Will requesred bur. Halesowen Abbey), 3^rd Lord Burnell of Holdgate, Shropshire, Woeley, Worcs etc., Governor of Bridgenorth & Montgomery Castle, called to Parliament 20.8.1383 = (1) Philipe, d. of Michael de la Pole, 2nd earl of Suffolk (son & heir of Michael de la Pole, 1^st earl of Suffolk by Katherine, d. of John Wingfield of Wingfield Castle Suffolk) > Edward Burnell (dvp. Agincourt 25.10.1415 in his father’s lifetime) of Billingford, Thurning & East Ruston, Norfolk = (1) Alice/Alianor, d. of (John), Lord Strange. Edward Burnell (2) Elizabeth >:

(1) Joyce Burnell = Thomas Erdington jnr (dsp)

(2) Katherine Burnell = (1) Sir John Radcliffe (desc. were earls of Sussex) = (2) before

June 1421 John Talbot, earl of Shrewbury

(3) Margaret Burnell = shortly before 8.11.1416 Edmund Hungerford, knight (called

“Dominus Burnell” in a Feudal Aid, 1428), 2nd son & yngr son of Walter 1^st Baron

Hungerford > [Thomas Hungerford = Christina, d. of John (Hall) of Salisbury > John Hungerford of Down

Ampney = Margaret, d. of Blount of Gloucester) > Elizabeth Hungerford = Roger Winter].

Hugh Burnell, 2^nd Lord Burnell before 22.5.1386 = (2) Joyce Botetourt (dsp. 1.1. 1406/7, Inq. pm 12.4. 8 Henry IV), d. of John Botetourt, suo jure Baroness Botetourt & Baroness Zouche of Richard’s Castle.

Hugh Burnell, 2^nd Lord Burnell = (3) in 1408/9, Joan Devereaux (b.c. 1380, aged 17+ in 1397, d. 10/11.5.1409, bur. Dunmow Priory), widow of Walter fitzWalter, Lord fitzWalter & d. of John Devereaux, 1^st Lord Devereaux & Maud, d. of John de Vere, 7^th earl of Oxford (des. Charlemagne).

Edward I = Eleanor of Castile > Joan of Acre = Gilbert de Clare > Margaret de Clare = Hugh de Audley > Margaret de Audley = Ralph de Stafford > Hugh de Stafford = Phillipe de Beauchamp > Katherine Stafford = Michael de la Pole, 2^nd earl of Suffolk (son & heir of Michael de la Pole, 1^st earl of Suffolk by Katherine, d. of John Wingfield of Wingfield Castle Suffolk) > Phillipe de la Pole = Hugh Burnell, 2^nd Lord Burnell (b.c. 1347, d. 27.11.1420 spsm = without male heirs) of Holdgate, Shropshire, Woeley, Worcs etc., Governor of Bridgenorth & Montgomery Castle (son & heir of Nicholas de Handlo (later Burnell), Lord Burnell (desc. Charlemagne) by his wife Mary. Hugh Burnell in 1386 = (2) Joyce Botetourt, Baroness Botetourt (dsp 1.1.1406/7 - Manning & Bray give her death as 1429). Hugh Burnell in 1408/9 = (3) Joan Devereaux (b.c. 1380, d. 11.5.1409), widow of Walter fitzWalter, Lord fitzWalter & d. of John Devereaux & his wife Maud (d. of John de Vere, 7th earl of Oxford - desc. Charlemagne). - (“Plantagenet Ancestry of 17^th century Colonists” – David Faris).

Sir Thomas Hungerford MP for Berkshire (1295) > Sir Thomas Hungerford (d. 1397), knight, first Speaker of the House of Commons > Walter, 1st lord Hungerford of Heytesbury & Homel, Normandy held manors of Camberwell & Hacchesham, Surrey = (1) Jane, d. of Lord Zouche = (2) Eleanor Berkeley, d. of Sir John Berkeley of Beverstone, widow of John fitzAlan (d. 1421), earl of Arundel & Maltravers. She brought Heytesbury into the family (Inq. pms Nos. 29 & 35, 33 Henry VI). By 2 > Edward (Edmund) Hungerford, knight 2nd & yngr son (Inq. pm. No. 25, 2 Rich III) who held Down Ampney, Eastham & Westham Burnell. According to John Stow in his “Survey of London” Edmund Hungerford was buried at St. Mary the Virgin, Gay Spur Lane, Cripplegate Ward.

Inquisition postmortem No. 17, 4 Henry VI - Edward Burnell held Billingford, Thorning, Estristan, Norfolk.

Inquisition postmortem No. 116, 8-9 Henry V - Hugh Burnell, Lord Holgote & Weolegh held lands in Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Kent, Worcestershire, Essex, Shropshire, Wales, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Northamptonshire and Newport Paganell.

Inquisition postmortem No. 65, 1 Henry VI - Hugh Burnell held lands in Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

Roald Lestrange, tenant of Alan FitzFlaald in Mileham, Norfolk, witness to a charter (1122) held land in Hunstanton = Maud, d. of Ralph (son of Herlewin of Hunstanton by Helewise, d. of Hugh de Plaiz of Berham, Suffolk) > John Lestrange I, had grant of his brother Hamon's lands in Chewardine (1163-4), held 1 knight's fee in Norfolk (1166) and 1 ½ a fee in chief at Ness, Salop (1166) = Hawise > John Lestrange II (20.1.1233-4) acquired rights in Knockin (1196-7) from his cousins (daughters of his uncle Guy) given Carreghova Castle and manor of Kidderminster (1213) = Amice (Montalt?) > John Lestrange III (d. .2..6.3.1269) served in Poitou (1214), granted Wrockwardine manor (1231) = Lucy, d. of Robert Tregoz >:

(a) Hamon, s/h granted Ellesmere, Coolmer & Chewton which went to Roger

(b) Robert of Blackmere = Eleanor, d & c/h of William de Blancminster

coh. of her br. Simon and widow of Roger de Mowbray. Roger Lestrange = (2) Maud (?)

(d) Herbert

(e) John Lestrange IV (d. .27.2.1275-6) = Joan, d. of Roger de Somery > John Lestrange V

(d. 9.8.1309) = Alienor, d. of Joan de Somery (or d. of Eble de Montz, constable of

Windsor Castle by Joan, d. of de Beche, widow of Godfrey de Craucombe & Stephen de

Somery). John Lestrange = (2) Maud, d. of John de Walton of Little Wellesbourne &

Deyville, Warks. by his wife Isabel. Maud was widow of John de Stradling/Struttelingas

and = (2) Thomas de Hastings of Chebsey, Staffs >:

1. Ebles, Ebulo or Ewald le Strange.

2. Robert, Lord Strange & Basset = d. of Ralph, Lord Bassett (Hesketh tree?)

3. half-brother John Lestrange VI (d. Feb. 1310-11) = Iseult > John Lestrange VII (d.

29.5.1323) = Maud (?) > Roger Lestrange (d. 29.7.1349 at Sedgebrook manor, Lincs) =

(1) Maud (?) = (2) Joan, d. & ch. of Oliver, Lord Ingham > Roger Lestrange (d.

23.8.1382 at Kenewyleswode, Welsh Marches) = Aline/Alaine, d. of Edmund FitzAlan,

earl of Arundel by Alice, d. of William de Warenne, son of John de Warenne, 7th earl of

Surrey > John Lestrange VIII (d. 28.7.1387) = Maud, 3^rd d. and c/h of John de Mohun,

2^nd Baron Mohun by Joan d. of Bartholomew, Lord Burghersh. She = (2) Nicholas

Hauberk > Richard Lestrange (d. 9.8.1449) = Joan or Constance, d. of Lord de Grey =

(2) Elizabeth possibly d. of Reginald, Lord Cobham of Sterborough Castle, Hants. She

= (2) Sir Roger Kynaston of Hordley, Salop. Richard & Elizabeth > John Lestrange IX

(d. 16.10.1479 sp) = Jacquetta, sister of Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV, d. of Richard

Woodville, 1st earl Rivers = (2) Anne > Joan (d. 20.3.1513-4) = George, son of Thomas

Stanley, 1st earl of Derby by his first wife Eleanor, sister of Richard Neville, earl of

Warwick & Salisbury and 4d. of Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury.

Brass at Hillingdon, Middlesex: John le Strange, lord Strange of Knockin. Mohun, Bassett, Warnell, Lacy & Colham (d. 1479) and wife Jacquetta, sister of Elizabeth Woodville, Queen of England and only child Joan (d. 1509) - ("A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles" - Mill Stephenson).

There was an illegitimate line from Hugh Lupus, earl of Chester via the family of Montalt.:

Fig. 24 - earls of Chester, Montalt, barons of Mold, Strange & Winter.

Ranulf, Viscount Bayeux & Carlisle = Margaret, sister of Hugh Lupus, earl of Chester > Ranulf "le Meschin", earl of Chester = Eleanor de Montfort > Ranulf "Gernons", earl of Chester = Matilda, d. of Robert, earl of Gloucester > Hugh “Kevillick” or “Cyfeiliog,” earl of Chester = Bertrada, d. of Geoffrey, Lord Lucy of Cockermouth > Mabilia = William d'Aubigny, earl of Arundel & Sussex, lord of Buckenham, Norfolk, Seneschal of England > Cecilia d'Aubigny = Roger Montalt of Hawarden & Mold, Flintshire.

Montalt, de Monte Alto, barons of Mold (arms: "azure, a lion rampant argent") - Hugh fitzNorman held lands in Chester, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire & Suffolk from Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches, earl of Chester > son William Muhald or Montalt > Robert, baron of Montalt or Mohaut, the Black Steward, dapifer to earl Hugh of Chester and his successors > Peter, lord Montalt & Hawarden > Robert Montalt, seneschal to the earl of Chester = (Cecily, sister & coheiress of Hugh d'Aubigny > Robert, lord Montalt > only d. & sole heiress = lord Strange of Knockin

Hugh Lupus, earl of Chester > illegitimate son Robert fitzHugh held the barony and castle of Malpas >:

(a) Letitia or

(b) Mabella > descendant David de Malpas "le Clerc" > William de Malpas (temp Henry III –

1216-1272) by Beatrix de Montalt, d. of Robert de Monthault, seneschal of the earl of

Chester) >:

(i) Roger.

(ii) 7 daughters.

(iii) Margaret = Sir Thomas de Crewe and took her mothers arms of “azure, a lion

rampant, argent”

(iv) Margery = William de Birmingham and was given lands, houses and rents in

Christleton, Cheshire in frank marriage.

(v) David the Bastard retained moiety of Malpas > Idonea = Urian St. Pierre senior (inq.

p.m. 1257 & 1259) > John St. Pierre = Isabel, d. of William Trussell > Urian St. Pierre =

Agnes de Braiose > Isabel St. Pierre = Hugh Cokesay > Walter Cokesay = Maud

Harcourt (St. Hilaire du Harcouet) > sister & co-heiress Cecily Cooksey = Thomas

Cassy > Agnes Cassy = Walter de Huddington > Joan de Huddington = Roger Winter

of Wych.

Monte Alto derived from Mold, Flintshire called Mons Altus in Latin being a translation of the Welsh "gwyddrug" meaning "conspicuous hill". Mold was probably part of Bistre (Cheshire) held by Hugh fitzNorman at Doomsday.

Robert de Montalt was patron of Cranley church in right of his wife Emma, widow of Richard fitzJohn, lord of the manor of Cranley, Surrey who held the advowson in dowry. Emma died in 1332 (6 Edward III).

Millicent Montalt's tomb (1235) has two shields "a lion rampant" & "3 fleurs de lys". These were also at Stradsett, Norfolk. The church of St. Mary Mounthaunt or Monte Alto in Queenhithe ward, London was a chapel of the family of Montalt.

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