Ancestors of Russell Owen HJELM
Twenty-Ninth Generation
(Continued)
415891968. Galfridus LE SPENCER married Emma DE HARCOURT. [Parents]
415892480. Richard DE HARCOURT died 1258. He married Orabella DE QUINCY. [Parents]
415892481. Orabella DE QUINCY.
415892482. Henry De HASTINGS [Lord Hastings] is printed as #263067848.
415892483. Ada De HUNTINGDON Princess Of Scotland is printed as #125323277.
415892494. William DE BRAOSE died 5 Feb 1230. He married Eve MARSHALL. [Parents]
415892495. Eve MARSHALL. [Parents]
415895616. Richard BASSET (Justicar Of Eng) was born about 1102 in Drayton Basset, Staffordshire, England. He died about 1144. Richard married Maud Matilda De RIDEL about 1126 in Newbold, Nottinghamshire, England. [Parents]
Richard Basset, called the eldest son by Dugdale and the 2nd by others, succeeded his father as Justice of England, which high office he filled in the latter part of King Henry I's reign and through the whole of King Stephen's. In the 5th year of the latter monarch [1140], he was sheriff of Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Aleric de Vere, and he served the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northampton, and Leicestershires. He m. Maud, only dau. and heir of Geoffrey Ridel, Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, dau. of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and had issue, Geoffrey, Ralph, and William. He was s. by his eldest son, Geoffrey de Ridel, who, from his mother, assumed the surname "de Ridel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, Barons Basset, of Welden]
Richard Basset, called the eldest son by Dugdale and the 2nd by others, succeeded his father as Justice of England, which high office he filled in the latter part of King Henry I's reign and through the whole of King Stephen's. In the 5th year of the latter monarch [1140], he was sheriff of Surrey, Cambridge, and Huntingdonshire, with Aleric de Vere, and he served the same office for Essex, Hertford, Buckingham, Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk, Northampton, and Leicestershires. He m. Maud, only dau. and heir of Geoffrey Ridel, Lord of Witheringe, by Geva, dau. of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and had issue, Geoffrey, Ralph, and William. He was s. by his eldest son, Geoffrey de Ridel, who, from his mother, assumed the surname "de Ridel." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 26, Basset, Barons Basset, of Welden]
415895617. Maud Matilda De RIDEL was born about 1097 in Wittering, Stamford, Northamptonshire, England. She died 1139. [Parents]
415895634. Ralph PAYNEL Lord Of Dudley was born about 1100 in Dudley, Warwickshire, England. He died before 1153. Ralph married Agnes De FERRERS. [Parents]
415895635. Agnes De FERRERS was born 1105 in Tutbury, Derbyshire, England. She died. [Parents]
415895636. Gilbert Le MARSHAL Of Winterbourne was born about 1067 in Cheddar, Axbridge, Somerset, England. He died before 1130 in Winterbourne Monkton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England and was buried before 1130 in Lord Of Tunbridge, Founded Priory Of Clare, Lord Of Cardigan. Gilbert married Miss De VENUZ about 1115 in England. [Parents]
Gilbert the Marshal, was the first known holder of the office. He with his son John successfully maintained their right under Henry I to the office of Master Marshal in the King's Household, for which they had been impleaded in the King's Court by Robert de Venoiz and William de Hastings (g). The name and parentage of Gilbert's wife are unknown. He d. in or shortly before 1130 (h). [Complete Peerage X:Appendix G:92]
(g) This appears from King John's confirmation, 20 Apr 1200, to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. Gilbert may have been son or grandson of an otherwise unknown Robert, who in 1086 held Cheddar, Somerset, under Roger de Courseulles. Robert the Marshal, who in 1086 held Lavington, Wilts, in chief, has been suggested as the possible progenitor of the family, but this is unlikely, as in 1166 Lavington was held by Piers de la Mare.
(h) He left at least 2 sons, John abovenamed and William Giffard, who was presented to the church of Cheddar Hole, Somerset, and was admitted by Godfrey, Bishop of Bath (1122-35), which church was given to Bradenstoke Priory by his brother John. Unless there was another brother named William, he was Chancellor to the Empress Maud in 1141 and 1142. Presumably William was called "Giffard" as a nickname -- the chubby cheeked.
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The following is a post to SGM, 8 Jan 2003, by John Ravillious, which introduces the name "Giffard" into the Marshal family (CP thought it was merely a nickname for Gilbert's brother). Perhaps this family is connected to the Giffards of Loungeville, Normandy:
From: Therav3@aol.com (Therav3@aol.com)
Subject: Gilbert Giffard of Winterbourne Monkton: ancestor of William Marshal ?
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2003-01-08 21:16:34 PSTWednesday, 8 January, 2003
Hello All,
A wise man once said, ' Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.' Well, he probably said it more than once.
Anyway, in looking about for more Despenser detritus, I came across an article from the English Historical Review from 1999 in which the author (N. E. Stacy) put forth, in part, the position that the family of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke derived from one Gilbert Giffard (or Gibard), Domesday tenant of Winterbourne Monkton. I have incorporated the relevant portion of the article below [1].
Is anyone of the list aware of this derivation being accepted, or disproven? If this is correct, the information below impacts the ancestry of the widest range of list members (apologies to JSG: William Marshal is another good candidate for 'Kilroy of medieval English ancestry').
Good luck, and good hunting to all.
John *
NOTES
[1] From English Historical Review, Feb.1999: Henry of Blois and the Lordship of Glastonbury ( N. E. Stacy)
online: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0293/455_114/54050231/print.jhtml
' A major player in the politics of the civil war was the subject of another remarkable omission from the abbey's carta. On the border of John Marshal's manor of Rockley and only six miles from his base at Marlborough lay the Glastonbury manor of Winterbourne Monkton, including a 3 1/2-hide subtenancy over which the abbot's lordship had been recognized in 1086 and was to be again in 1173 and thereafter, but which was absent from the carta of 1166.(2) At the time of Domesday it had been held by Gilbert
Gibard'.(3) He withheld geld from his demesne, which, as a mesne tenant, he was not entitled to do, but as one of the chief officers of the royal household he was anyway exempt. For Gilbert
Gibard' or Giffard was in fact the marshal, father of John I and grandfather of John II, who answered for one fee of Glastonbury Abbey in 1173.(4) No Marshal obligation, however, was recorded in 1166. Bishop Henry's relations with the family can never have been good, since its opposition to Stephen had been patent: John I's brother, William, had become Matilda's chancellor,(5) while John himself had pursued his own interests, which took him often into the Angevin camp but rarely, if ever, into Stephen's.(6) However, the Marshal exclusion from Glastonbury's carta was not based purely on personal antagonism, for the fee they held of Henry as bishop of Winchester was duly recorded in 1166.(7) The Glastonbury problem was probably connected with a dispute between the abbey and another tenant, the earl of Salisbury, over his fee at Mildenhall (Wilts.). This large subtenancy had been granted as a marriage-portion to Earl Patrick's sister, Sybil, on her marriage to John Marshal in the 1140s and thereafter the service owed to the abbot had lapsed.(1) Whether the Marshal instigated the refusal of service from his wife's manor because of a dispute over Winterbourne or withheld service from Winterbourne because of his in-laws' dispute over Mildenhall cannot be known, but the two problems were surely connected. Bishop Henry as usual proved intractable and no settlement could be made in either case while he was alive. It was his successor, Abbot Robert of Winchester (1173-80), who secured Earl William of Salisbury's confirmation of knight service owed from Mildenhall and John Marshal II's acknowledgment of that due from Winterbourne Monkton.(2) By an irony Richard Cotel, the successor and namesake of Bishop Henry's enemy, was to marry the heiress of the rear tenant of the latter fee and so extend the presence within the Glastonbury lordship of a family which the Bishop had been at pains to expel.(3) '-------------------------------
The earliest notice of this family occurs in the time of Henry I, when Gilbert Mareschall, and John, his son, were impleaded by Robert de Venoix and William de Hastings for the office of Mareschal to the king, but without success. The son, (bearing the same surname, derived from his office), was called John Mareschall. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 357, Marshal, Barons Marshal
415895637. Miss De VENUZ was born about 1086 in Venoix Near Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France. She died. [Parents]
Ancestral File Number:
FLHC-WD
415895638. Walter De EVREUX Of Salisbury was born about 1087 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died 1147 in England and was buried in Near The Choir, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England. Walter married Sybil De CHAWORTH about 1108 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. [Parents]
Name Suffix:
[SHERIFF OF WILT
Ancestral File Number:B1QB-VJ Name Suffix:
[SHERIFF OF WILT
Ancestral File Number:B1QB-VJ
415895639. Sybil De CHAWORTH was born about 1082 in Of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England. She died before 1147 in In Near The Choir, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England and was buried in Priory, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England. [Parents]
Ancestral File Number:
B1QB-JS
415895640. William "Strong Hand" D' AUBIGNY Earl Of Arundel was born about 1103 in St Sauveur, Manche, Normandie, France. He died 12 Oct 1176 in Abbey, Waverley, Surrey, England and was buried 19 Oct 1176 in Priory, Wymondham, Norfolk, England. William married Adeliza Adela Of LOUVAIN [Queen Of Englan on 1138 in England.
William Earl Of Sussex & Earl Of Lincoln. [Parents]
Name Suffix:
[Earl of Arundel
Ancestral File Number:V9VP-TD
On the Earldom of Lincoln, previous creations: [Burke's Peerage, p. 1711]:Henry I's widow Adeliz married in 1138 William d'Aubigny, who the next year, probably as a result, was created Earl of Lincoln. William's father was a Norman immigrant to England in Henry I's reign. His son, who by this advantageous marriage came into the former Queen's dowry of Arundel Castle, together with its Honour (feudal administrative unit embodying several knight's fees), has been held thereby to have become Earl of Arundel. By 1142 he had been deprived of his Earldom of Lincoln, indeed even before, was spoken sometimes as Earl of Arundel and sometimes as Earl of Chichester or Earl of Sussex.
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William de Albini, surnamed "William with the strong hand," from the following circumstance, as related by Dugdale:---
"It happened that the Queen of France, being then a widow, and a very beautify woman, became much in love with a knight of that country, who was a comely person, and in the flower of his youth: and because she thought that no man excelled him in valour, she caused a tournament to be proclaimed throughout her dominions, promising to reward those who should exercise themselves therein, according to their respective demerits; and concluding that if the person whom she so well affected could act his part better than the others in those military exercises, she might marry him without any dishonour to herself. Hereupon divers gallant men, from forrain parts hastening to Paris, amongst others came this our William de Albini, bravely accoutered, and in the tournament excelled all others, overcoming many, and wounding one mortally with his lance, which being observed by the queen, she became exceedingly enamoured of him, and forthwith invited him to a costly banquet, and afterwards bestowing certain jewels upon him, offered him marriage; but, having plighted his troth to the Queen of England, then a widow, he refused her, whereat she grew so much discontented that she consulted with her maids how she might take away his life; and in pursuance of that design, inticed him into a garden, where there was a secret cave, and in it a fierce lion, unto which she descended by divers steps, under colour of shewing him the beast; and when she told him of its fierceness, he answered, that it was a womanish and not a manly quality to be afraid thereof. But having him there, by the advantage of a folding door, thrust him in to the lion; being therefore in this danger, he rolled his mantle about his arm and, putting his hand into the mouth of the beast, pulled out his tongue by the root; which done, he followed the queen to her palace and gave it to one of her maids to present her. Returning thereupon to England, with the fame of this glorious exploit, he was forthwith advanced to the Earldom of Arundel, and for his arms the lion given him."
He subsequently obtained the hand of the Queen Adeliza, relict of King Henry I, and daughter of Godfrey, Duke of Lorraine, which Adeliza had the castle of Arundel in dowry from the deceased monarch, and thus her new lord became its feudal earl. The earl was one of those who solicited the Empress Maud to come to England, and received her and her brother, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, at the port of Arundel, in August, 1139, and in three years afterwards (1142), in the report made of King Stephen's taking William de Mandevil at St. Albans, it is stated -- "that before he could be laid hold on, he underwent a sharp skirmish with the king's party, wherein the Earl of Arundel, though a stout and expert soldier, was unhorsed in the midst of the water by Walkeline de Oxeai, and almost drowned." In 1150, his lordship wrote himself Earl of Chichester, but we find him styled again Earl of Arundel, upon a very memorable occasion -- namely, the reconciliation of Henry Duke of Normandy (afterwards Henry II) and King Stephen at the siege of Wallingford Castle in 1152. "It was scarce possible," says Rapin, "for the armies to part without fighting. Accordingly the two leaders were preparing for battle with equal ardour, when, by the prudent advice of the Earl of Arundel, who was on the king's side, they were prevented from coming to blows." A truce and peace followed this interference of the earl's, which led to the subsequent accession of Henry after Stephen's decease, in whose favour the Earl stood so high that he not only obtained for himself and his heirs the castle and honour of Arundel, but a confirmation of the Earldom of Sussex, of which county he was really earl, by a grant of the Tertium Denarium of the pleas of that shire. In 1164, we find the Earl of Arundel deputed with Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London, to remonstrate with Lewis, King of France, upon affording an asylum to Thomas ą Becket within his dominion, and on the failure of that mission, despatched with the archbishop of York, the bishops of Winchester, London, Chichester, and Exeter, -- Wido Rufus, Richard de Invecestre, John de Oxford (priests) -- Hugh de Gundevile, Bernard de St. Valery, and Henry Fitzgerald, to lay the whole affair of Becket at the foot of the pontifical throne. Upon levying the aid for the marriage of the king's daughter, 12th of Henry II [1165-66], the knights' fees of the honour of Arundel were certified to be ninety-seven, and those in Norfolk belonging to the earl, forty-two. In 1173, we find the Earl of Arundel commanding, in conjunction with William, Earl of Essex, the king's army in Normandy, and compelling the French monarch to abandon Verneuil after a long siege, and in the next year, with Richard de Lucy, justice of England, defeating Robert Earl of Leicester, then in rebellion at St. Edmundsbury. This potent nobleman, after founding and endowing several religious houses, departed this life at Waverley, in Surrey, on the 3 October, 1176, and was buried in the abbey of Wymondham. His lordship left by Adeliza, his wife, widow of King Henry I, four sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom, Alice, m. John, Earl of Ewe. The eldest son, William de Albini, 2nd earl, had a grant from the crow, 23rd Henry II [1177-8] of the Earldom of Sussex, and in the 1st of Richard I [1189-90], had a confirmation from that prince of the castle and honour of Arundel, as also of the Tertium Denarium of the county of Sussex. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, pp. 2-3, Albini, Earls of Arundel]
415895641. Adeliza Adela Of LOUVAIN [Queen Of Englan was born 1103 in Brabant, Netherlands. She died 23 Apr 1151 in Affligham, Flanders, France and was buried 23 Apr 1151 in Reading Abbey, Reading, Berkshire, England. [Parents]
Name Suffix:
[QUEEN OF ENGLAN
Ancestral File Number:9FTJ-61
415895642. James De ST. HILARY was born about 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France. He died before 1154 in Field Dalling, , Eng. James married Mrs. Aveline (Evelyn) (Nmn-James) ST. HILARY on 1130 in France. [Parents]
Ancestral File Number:
V9VQ-3Q
415895643. Mrs. Aveline (Evelyn) (Nmn-James) ST. HILARY was born about 1109 in France. She died Unknown in England.
Ancestral File Number:
V9VQ-4W
415895644. Ranulph "De Gernon" MESCHINES 4th Earl Of Chester was born 1099 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France. He died 16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England and was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England. Ranulph married Maud Fitzrobert De CAEN [Countess Of Chester about 1141 in Gloucestershire, England. [Parents]
Name Suffix:
[Viscount d'AvraAncestral File Number: V9TX-S3Ranulph 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] ----------Ranulf II de Gernons, 4th Earl of Chester, VICOMTE (Viscount) DE BAYEUX, 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 realisation 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 centred 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. [Encyclopędia Britannica CD '97, RANULF DE GERNONS, 4TH EARL OF CHESTER]
415895645. Maud Fitzrobert De CAEN [Countess Of Chester was born about 1117 in Gloucestershire, England. She died 29 Jul 1189 in Chester, Cheshire, England.
Maud before 1134 Little Dunmow, Essex, England. She before 1134 Little Dunmow, Essex, England. [Parents]
Name Suffix:
[Countess of Che
Ancestral File Number:V9V7-JW Name Suffix:
[Countess of Che
Ancestral File Number:V9V7-JW
415895646. Simon III Chauve De MONTFORT Count Of Evreux was born 1117 in Montfort-L'amaury Castle, Ile-DE-France, France. He died 13 Mar 1181 in Evreux, , Normandy and was buried in Cathedral, Evreux, Normandy, France. Simon married Maud De BEAUMONT about 1145 in Normandy, France. [Parents]
Name Suffix:
[Count of Evreux
Ancestral File Number:8XQ8-SP
On Leicester, Earldom of [Burke's Peerage, p. 1671]:Her [Amice] first husband was Simon de Montfort (roughly halfway between Paris and Chartres) and Rochefort.
415895647. Maud De BEAUMONT was born about 1116 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-DE-France, France. She died after 1189 in England. [Parents]
Ancestral File Number:
GQP8-DB Ancestral File Number:
GQP8-DB
415895648. Richard De GREY Of Rotherfield was born 1110 in Rotherfield Greys, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. He died Dec. Richard married Mrs. Mabilla (Nmn-Richard 1110) GREY. [Parents]
415895649. Mrs. Mabilla (Nmn-Richard 1110) GREY was born 1114 in Oxfordshire, England. She died Dec.
415895650. Baldwin De REVIERS 1st Earl Of Devon was born about 1102 in Isle Of Wight, Hampshire, England. He died 4 Jun 1155 and was buried in Quarr, Quarr. Baldwin married Adelise Lucia De BAALUN about 1117 in England. [Parents]
Baldwin de Reviers, son of Richard de Reviers, Lord of Reviers, Vernon, and Nehou (all in Normandy), supported the Empress Maud against King Stephen in the period known as the Anarchy following the death of Henry I and was by her created Earl of Devon c1141. The name of Reviers was subsequently corrupted to Redvers. As well as holding the Earldom of Devon the de Revierses were Lords of the Isle of Wight. [Burke's Peerage]
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EARLDOM OF DEVON (I)
BALDWIN DE REVIERS, son and heir of Richard DE REVIERs. On the rumour of the King's
death, in April 1136, he was one of the first to break into revolt. Seizing the royal castle of Exeter, he sustained a long siege by the King, and was ultimately allowed to withdraw his forces on giving up the castle. The King then proceeded to the Isle of Wight, took possession of the island, and drove him, with his wife and children, into exile. He took refuge at the Court of the Count of Anjou, and soon afterwards conducted a successful raid into Normandy. About Lent 1138 he was taken prisoner in Normandy by Enguerrand de Say, a partisan of King Stephen. He returned to England in -the autumn of 1139,
shortly before the arrival of the Empress Maud, and, landing at Wareham, seized the castle of Corfe. This he defended successfully against the King, forcing him eventually to raise the siege. By the Empress he was created EARL OF DEVON, probably in 1141, and certainly before Midsummer in that year. He married Adelise. He died 4 June 1155, and was buried (as was his said wife) in Quarr Abbey, which he had founded in 1132. [Complete Peerage IV:311-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]-------------------------------------------------------
Baldwin de Redvers, 2nd Earl of Devon. This nobleman, upon the demise of King Henry I, espousing the cause of the Empress Maud, took up arms and immediately fortified his castle of Exeter and the Isle of Wight; but, being besieged by King Stephen, he was obliged to surrender the castle and all his other possessions and to withdraw with his family from the kingdom. We find him, however, soon again returning and in the enjoyment of the Earldom of Devon; but, like his father, generally styled Earl of Exeter, from residing in the city, His lordship m. Lucia, dau. of Dru de Balun, and had issue, Richard, his successor; William, surnamed de Verdon; and Maud. He d. in June, 1155, and was s. by his son, Richard de Redvers, 3rd Earl of Devon. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 140, Courtenay, Barons Courtenay, Earls of Devon]
415895651. Adelise Lucia De BAALUN was born about 1115 in England. She died Dec. [Parents]
415895652. Richard Fitzgilbert De CLARE Earl Of Hertford was born 1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England. He died 15 Apr 1136 in Slain By Welsh Near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales and was buried in Gloucestershire, England. Richard married Adeliza Alice De MESCHINES Gernon about 1115 in 1st Husband.
Richard 1090 Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. He 15 Apr 1136 Near, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, England. [Parents]
Richard Fitz Gilbert (de Clare), son & heir, Lord of Clare, Suffolk, slain by Welsh near Abergavenny 15 Apr 1136, buried Gloucester; m. Adeliz (or Alice), daughter of Ranulph le Meschin, Earl of Chester, by Lucy, widow (1) of Ivo Taillebois and (2) Roger Fitz Gerold. She m. (2) Robert de Condet (or Cundy), d. c 1141, lord of Thorngate Castle, Lincoln, etc., son of Osbert de Condet. [Ancestral Roots, Line 246b-25]
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Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
415895653. Adeliza Alice De MESCHINES Gernon is printed as #207947831.
415895654. James De ST. HILARY was born about 1105 in Harcourt, Eure, Normandy, France. He died before 1154 in Field Dalling, , Eng. James married Mrs. Aveline (Evelyn) (Nmn-James) ST. HILARY on 1130 in France. [Parents]
Ancestral File Number:
V9VQ-3Q
415895655. Mrs. Aveline (Evelyn) (Nmn-James) ST. HILARY was born about 1109 in France. She died Unknown in England.
Ancestral File Number:
V9VQ-4W
415895656. Akaris FITZBARDOLF Of Ravensworth was born about 1080 in Ravensworth, Richmond, North Riding Yorkshire, England. He died 1161. Akaris married Mrs. Akaris 1080 Fitzbardolf Of RAVENSWORTH. [Parents]
Akaris Fitz-Bardolph, in the 5th of Stephen [1140], founded the Abbey of Fors, co. York, then called the Abbey of Charity and dying in 1161, was s. by his elder son, Hervey Fitz-Akaris. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 207, FitzHugh, Barons FitzHugh]
415895657. Mrs. Akaris 1080 Fitzbardolf Of RAVENSWORTH was born about 1082. She died Dec.
