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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohese_Giffard
Sometimes called Rose or Rohais, she was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century.
Giffard was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard Fleitel. Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in upper Normandy.
Giffard was the wife of Richard fitzGilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Domesday Book records him as the eighth richest landowner in England, with lands centered on two locations ? lands in Kent and Surrey grouped around Tonbridge and lands in Essex and Suffolk grouped around Clare.
Their children were Roger, Gilbert, Walter, Robert, Richard,Godfrey, Rohese (or Rohais), and Adelisa. Roger received the Norman lands after Richard FitzGilbert's death, Gilbert received his father's English lands, Walter was given a Welsh lordship by King Henry I of England, and Robert was given lands around London by King Henry I. Richard became a monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey. The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial at Clare. Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa married Walter Tire.
Giffard occurs in Domesday Book as a landowner in her own right. Richard died between 1085 and 1087, as his son Gilbert witnesses a charter of King William II of England in that year. Rohese survived him and was still alive in 1113, when she gave a gift to St Neot's Priory which had been founded as a dependent priory of Bec on Rohese's own manor of Eynesbury. Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs to the lands held by her father, receiving half the estates of Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189-1199). | de Giffard, Rohese (I36250)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saer_de_Quincy,_1st_Earl_of_Winchester
He was one of the leaders of the baronial rebellion against King John of England, and a major figure in both the kingdoms of Scotland and England in the decades around the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The family of de Quincy had arrived in England after the Norman Conquest, and took their name from Cuinchy in the Arrondissement of Béthune; the personal name "Saer" was used by them over several generations. Both names are variously spelled in primary sources and older modern works, the first name being sometimes rendered Saher or Seer, and the surname as Quency or Quenci.
The first recorded Saer de Quincy (known to historians as "Saer I") was lord of the manor of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire in the earlier twelfth century, and second husband of Matilda of St Liz, stepdaughter of King David I of Scotland by Maud of Northumbria. This marriage produced two sons, Saer II and Robert de Quincy. It was Robert, the younger son, who was the father of the Saer de Quincy who eventually became Earl of Winchester. By her first husband Robert Fitz Richard, Matilda was also the paternal grandmother of Earl Saer's close ally, Robert Fitzwalter.
Robert de Quincy seems to have inherited no English lands from his father, and pursued a knightly career in Scotland, where he is recorded from around 1160 as a close companion of his cousin, King William the Lion. By 1170 he had married Orabilis, heiress of the Scottish lordship of Leuchars and, through her, he became lord of an extensive complex of estates north of the border which included lands in Fife, Strathearn and Lothian.
Saer de Quincy, the son of Robert de Quincy and Orabilis of Leuchars, was raised largely in Scotland. His absence from English records for the first decades of his life has led some modern historians and genealogists to confuse him with his uncle, Saer II, who took part in the rebellion of Henry the Young King in 1173, when the future Earl of Winchester can have been no more than a toddler. Saer II's line ended without direct heirs, and his nephew and namesake would eventually inherit his estate, uniting his primary Scottish holdings with the family's Northamptonshire patrimony, and possibly some lands in France.
Saer de Quincy's immediate background was in the Scottish kingdom: his father, Robert de Quincy, was a knight in the service of king William the Lion, and his mother Orabilis de Mar was the heiress of the lordship of Leuchars in Fife. His rise to prominence in England came through his marriage to Margaret, the younger sister of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester. But it is probably no coincidence that her other brother was the de Quincy's powerful Fife neighbour, Roger de Beaumont, Bishop of St Andrews. Earl Robert died in 1204, and left Margaret as co-heiress to the vast earldom along with her elder sister. The estate was split in half, and after the final division was ratified in 1207, de Quincy was made Earl of Winchester.
By his wife Margaret de Beaumont, Earl Saire had three sons and three daughters:
1. Lora who married Sir William de Valognes, Chamberlain of Scotland.
2. Arabella who married Sir Richard Harcourt.
3. Robert (d. 1217), before 1206 he married Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln, sister and co-heiress of Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester.
4. Roger, who succeeded his father as earl of Winchester (though he did not take formal possession of the earldom until after his mother's death).
5. Robert de Quincy (second son of that name; d. 1257) who married Helen, daughter of the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.
6. Hawise, who married Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
Following his marriage, Winchester became a prominent military and diplomatic figure in England. There is no evidence of any close alliance with King John, however, and his rise to importance was probably due to his newly acquired magnate status and the family connections.
In 1215, when the baronial rebellion broke out, his cousin,Robert Fitzwalter, became the military commander, and he joined him, acting as one of the chief authors of Magna Carta and negotiators with John; both cousins were among the 25 guarantors of the Magna Carta. De Quincy fought against John in the troubles that followed the sealing of the Charter, and, again with Fitzwalter, travelled to France to invite Prince Louis of France to take the English throne. He and Fitzwalter were subsequently among the most committed and prominent supporters of Louis's candidature for the kingship, against both John and the infant Henry III.
When military defeat cleared the way for Henry III to take the throne, de Quincy went on crusade, perhaps in fulfillment of an earlier vow. In 1219 he left to join the Fifth Crusade, then besieging Damietta. While in the east, he fell sick and died. He was buried in Acre, the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, rather than in Egypt, and his heart was brought back and interred at Garendon Abbey near Loughborough, a house endowed by his wife's family. | de Quincy, Saer 1st Earl of Winchester (I36124)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saer_de_Quincy,_1st_Earl_of_Winchester
Her husband's rise to prominence in England came through his marriage to Margaret. She was the younger sister of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, but it is probably no coincidence that her other brother was the de Quincy's powerful Fife neighbour, Roger de Beaumont, Bishop of St Andrews. Earl Robert died in 1204, and left Margaret as co-heiress to the vast earldom along with her elder sister. The estate was split in half, and after the final division was ratified in 1207, de Quincy was made Earl of Winchester.
She had three sons and three daughters:
1. Lora who married Sir William de Valognes, Chamberlain of Scotland.
2. Arabella who married Sir Richard Harcourt.
3. Robert (d. 1217), before 1206 he married Hawise of Chester, Countess of Lincoln, sister and co-heiress of Ranulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester.
4. Roger, who succeeded his father as earl of Winchester (though he did not take formal possession of the earldom until after his mother's death).
5. Robert de Quincy (second son of that name; d. 1257) who married Helen, daughter of the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great.
6. Hawise, who married Hugh de Vere, Earl of Oxford.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland
She was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming Scottish queen.
She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to Dunfermline Abbey, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland (or four, if one includes Edmund of Scotland, who ruled Scotland with his uncle, Donald III) and of a queen consort of England.
According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle. In 1250 she was canonized by Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.
Margaret was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile, and granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, king of England. After the Danish conquest of England in 1016, Canute had the infant Edward exiled to the continent. He was taken first to the court of the Swedish king, Olof Skötkonung, and then to Kiev. As an adult, he travelled to Hungary. The provenance of Margaret's mother, Agatha, is legally disputed, but Margaret was born in Hungary around 1045. Her brother Edgar the Ætheling and her sister Cristina were also born in Hungary around this time. Margaret grew up in a very religious environment in the Hungarian court.
Still a child, she came to England with the rest of her family when her father, Edward, was recalled in 1057 as a possible successor to her great-uncle, the childless Edward the Confessor. Whether from natural or sinister causes, Edward died immediately on landing, but Margaret continued to reside at the English court where her brother, Edgar Ætheling, was considered a possible successor to the English throne.
When the Confessor died in January 1066, Harold Godwinson was selected as king, Edgar perhaps being considered still too young. After Harold's defeat at the battle of Hastings later that year, Edgar was proclaimed King of England, but when the Normans advanced on London, the Witenagemot presented Edgar to William the Conqueror who took him to Normandy before returning him to England in 1068, when Edgar, Margaret, Cristina and their mother Agatha fled north to Northumbria.
According to tradition, the widowed Agatha decided to leave Northumbria with her children and return to the continent. However, a storm drove their ship north to Scotland, where they sought the protection of King Malcolm III. The spot where they are said to have landed is known today as St Margaret's Hope, near the village of North Queensferry.
Malcolm was a widower with two sons, Donald and Duncan. He would have been attracted by the prospect of marrying one of the few remaining members of the Anglo-Saxon royal family. The marriage of Malcolm and Margaret took place some time before the end of 1070. Malcolm followed it with several invasions of Northumberland, in support of the claims of his brother-in-law Edgar, as well as to increase his own power. These, however, had little result beyond the devastation of the county.
Margaret's biographer Turgot, Bishop of St. Andrews, credits her with having a civilizing influence on her husband Malcolm by reading him stories from the Bible. She instigated religious reform, striving to make the worship and practices of the Church in Scotland conform to those of Rome. Due to these achievements, she was considered an exemplar of the "just ruler", and influenced her husband and children, especially her youngest son, later David I, also to be just and holy rulers.
She attended to charitable works, serving orphans and the poor every day before she ate, and washing the feet of the poor in imitation of Christ. She rose at midnight every night to attend church services. She invited the Benedictine order to establish a monastery at Dunfermline in Fife in 1072. Among her other deeds, Margaret also instigated the restoration of the monastery at Iona. She is also known to have been an intercessor for the release of fellow English exiles, forced into serfdom by the conquest.
In her private life, Margaret was as devout as she was in her public duties. She spent much of her time in prayer, devotional reading, and ecclesiastical embroidery. This appears to have had a considerable effect on the more uncouth Malcolm who could not read; he so admired her devotion that he had her books decorated in gold and silver. One of these, a pocket gospel book with Evangelist portraits, is in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Malcolm seems to have been largely ignorant of the long-term effects of Margaret's endeavours, not being especially religious himself. He was content for her to pursue her reforms as she wished, a testament to the strength and affection inherent in their marriage.
Her husband, Malcolm III, and their eldest son, Edward, were killed in a fight against the English at the Battle of Alnwick on 13 November 1093. Her son Edgar was left with the task of telling his mother of their deaths. Margaret was not yet fifty, but a life of constant austerity and fasting had taken their toll. Already ill, Margaret died on 16 November 1093, three days after the deaths of her husband and eldest son.
She was buried in Dunfermline Abbey. In 1250 her body and that of her husband were exhumed and placed in a new shrine in the Abbey. In 1560 Mary Queen of Scots had Margaret's head removed to Edinburgh Castle as a relic to assist her in childbirth. In 1597 the head ended up with the Jesuits at the Scots' College, Douai, France, but was lost during the French Revolution. Philip II of Spain had the other remains of Margaret and Malcolm Canmore transferred to the Escorial in Madrid, but they cannot now be found.
Saint Margaret was canonised in 1250 by Pope Innocent IV in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity. She is also venerated as a saint in the Anglican Church.
Margaret and Malcolm had eight children, six sons and two daughters:
1. Edward, killed 1093
2. Edmund of Scotland
3. Ethelred, abbot of Dunkeld
4. King Edgar of Scotland
5. King Alexander I of Scotland
6. King David I of Scotland
7. Edith of Scotland, also called Matilda, married King Henry I of England
8. Mary of Scotland, married Eustace III of Boulogne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylla_of_Burgundy,_Duchess_of_Burgundy
She was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of William I, Count of Burgundy and Stephanie. She was married to Odo I, Duke of Burgundy in 1080. A notable descendant of hers is Marie Antoinette.
They had the following children:
1. Helie of Burgundy 1080-1141, wife of Bertrand of Toulouse and William III of Ponthieu
2. Florine of Burgundy 1083-1097, wife of Sweyn the Crusader, prince of Denmark
3. Hugh II of Burgundy 1084-1143
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon,_Count_of_Ponthieu
He was a son of Alberic II of Dammartin (Aubry de Dammartin) and his wife Mathildis of Clermont.
Simon was the brother of Renaud I, Count of Dammartin, who had abducted the heiress of Boulogne, and forced her to marry him. It is thought that in order to strengthen the alliance with the Dammartins, King Philip Augustus of France allowed Simon to marry Marie, Countess of Ponthieu, who was a niece of the king, in 1208. Renaud and Simon of Dammartin would eventually ally themselves with John, King of England. In 1214 the brothers stood against Philip Augustus in the Battle of Bouvines. The French won the battle, and Renaud was imprisoned, while Simon was exiled.
Marie's father William IV, Count of Ponthieu had remained loyal to Philip Augustus. When William died in 1221, Philip Augustus denied Marie her inheritance and gave Ponthieu in custody to his cousin Robert III, Count of Dreux. After the death of Philip Augustus, Marie was able to negotiate an agreement with his successor Louis VIII in 1225. Ponthieu was held by the king, and Simon would only be allowed to enter this or any other fief if he obtained royal permission. In 1231 Simon agreed to the terms and added that he would not enter into marriage negotiations for his daughters without consent of the king.
Simon married Marie, Countess of Ponthieu,the daughter of William IV, Count of Ponthieu and Alys, Countess of the Vexin. Marie became Countess of Ponthieu in 1221.
Simon and his wife Marie had four daughters:
1. Joan, Countess of Ponthieu (1220-1278), married a) Ferdinand III of Castile. Mother of Eleanor of Castile, the wife of Edward I of England. Married b) Jean de Nesle, Seigneur de Falvy et de La Hérelle.
2. Mathilda of Dammartin (-1279), married John of Châtellerault
3. Philippa of Dammartin (-1280), married a) Raoul II of Lusignan, b) Raoul II, Lord of Coucy, c) Otto II, Count of Guelders.
4. Maria of Dammartin, married John II, Count of Roucy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montagu,_1st_Baron_Montagu
Simon de Montagu married twice:
Firstly to Hawise de St Amand (died 1287), daughter of Amaury de St Amand.
Secondly to Isabel, whose parentage is unknown.
He had progeny, by which wife is unknown, as follows:
William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu (c. 1285-18 October 1319), eldest son and heir.
John Montagu.
Simon Montagu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_de_Montagu,_1st_Baron_Montagu
Simon was the ancestor of the great Montagu family, Earls of Salisbury. His family originated in Normandy, at the manor of Montaigu-les-Bois, in the arrondissement of Coutances.
According to the Duchess of Cleveland (1889): "He had come to England in the train of the Earl of Mortain, and received from him large grants of lands, with the custody of the castle, built either by the Earl or his son William, in the manor of Bishopston....
He married twice:
Firstly to Hawise de St Amand (died 1287), daughter of Amaury de St Amand. Secondly to Isabel, whose parentage is unknown.
He had progeny, by which wife is unknown, as follows:
William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu (c. 1285-18 October 1319), eldest son and heir, John Montagu, and Simon Montagu.
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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aufrica_de_Connoght
Simon has some sort of connection with Aufrica de Connoght, a fourteenth-century woman who claimed to be an heiress of Magnús Óláfsson, King of Mann and the Isles.
Aufrica appealed to King John and King Edward, concerning rights she claimed to Mann as an alleged heiress of Magnús.Later in 1304, Aufrica quitclaimed these claimed rights to Simon de Montagu (died 1316). Although it is possible that she and Simon were married at about this point, there is no specific evidence of such a union. Whatever the case, Simon later sought to seize control of the island, and in so doing incurred the wrath of Edward II, King of England, but he pardoned Simon for his actions against the island in 1313. Later in the century, Simon's grandson, William de Montagu, Earl of Salisbury, inherited Simon's rights to Mann.
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Simon was in several expeditions into Wales, particularly in 1282, when Llewellen lost his territory and life. He made several campaigns with reputation both in France and Scotland, in the reign of Edward I. He was also Governor of Corffe Castle in Devonshire. In the Reign of Edward II. he again served in Scotland and was governor of the Castle of Beaumaris in the isle of Anglesey, and Admiral of the King's fleet.
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"A Chronicle of the Kings of England by Sir Richard Baker, Knight." London, 1660.
He also obtained a grant for a weekly market on Tuesday at his Manor of Yardlington, County of Somerset, and a fair on the eve day and morrow after the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The 7th of Edwd II. (1314) he obtained a license of the King to fortify his Manor house at Yardlington This Manor was very beautifully situated in a picturesque locality upon a very fine lawn, and remained in, this family through many descents until, through the last Countess of Salisbury (who was beheaded at the age of 70 years by Henry VIII), it passed to the Poles and thence to Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. Sir Simon Montacute also owned the Manor of Goat-hill, granted to him by Edwd I., and it descended to Gen. Thomas Montacute 4th Earl of Salisbury, thence to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and to John Neville, Marquis of Montacute. He also owned the Manor of Laymore in Somerset.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobald_II,_Count_of_Champagne
He was Count of Blois and of Chartres as Theobald IV from 1102 and was Count of Champagne and of Brie as Theobald II from 1125. He was the son of Stephen II, Count of Blois, and Adela of Normandy, and the elder brother of King Stephen of England. Theobald accompanied his mother throughout their realm on hundreds of occasions and, after her retirement to the convent at Marcigney in 1125, he administered the family properties with great skill. Adela died in her beloved convent in 1136, the year after her son Stephen was crowned king of England.
King Louis VII of France became involved in a war with Theobald by permitting Count Raoul I of Vermandois to repudiate his wife Eleanor, Theobald's sister, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, sister of the queen of France. The war, which lasted two years (1142-1144), was marked by the occupation of Champagne by the royal army.
In 1123 he married Matilda of Carinthia, daughter of Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia.
Their children were:
1. Henry I of Champagne
2. Theobald V of Blois, seneschal of France
3. Adèle of Champagne, married King Louis VII of France
4. Isabelle of Champagne, married 1. Roger of Apulia d. 1148 & 2. William Gouet IV d. 1170
5. Marie of Champagne, married Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy,
6. William White Hands, 1135-1202, Archbishop of Reims 1176-1202, Cardinal 1179
7. Stephen I of Sancerre 1133-1191, Count of Sancerre and Crusader, died at the Siege of Acre
8. Agnes of Champagne (d. 1207), Dame de Ligny married Renaut II of Bar (d. 1170)
9. Margaret of Champagne, nun at Fontevrault
10. Matilda, wife of Rotrou IV, Count of Perche
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas,_Count_of_Savoy
He was Count of Savoy from 1189 to 1233. He is sometimes numbered "Thomas I" to distinguish him from his son of the same name, who governed Savoy but was not count.
Thomas was born in Aiguebelle, the son of Humbert III of Savoy and Beatrice of Viennois. His birth was seen as miraculous; his monkish father had despaired of having a male heir after three wives. He was named in honour of Saint Thomas Becket.
Thomas was still a minor when his father died on 4 March 1189, and a council of regency was established, composed of his mother Beatrice, his father's cousin Boniface I of Montferrat, and the Bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.
Thomas possessed the martial abilities, energy, and brilliance that his father lacked, and Savoy enjoyed a golden age under his leadership. Despite his youth he began the push northwest into new territories.
Thomas worked throughout his career to expand the control and influence of the County of Savoy. One of the key tools that he used was his large number of children, who he worked to get into positions of influence in neighboring regions. In part, this was done by getting many of his sons into high church offices in surrounding territories, in a time when bishops had temporal as well as spiritual authority. In 1219 he worked to get his daughter Beatrice married to the fourteen-year-old Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence. This established a close relationship between the two adjoining counties which would help cement Savoy control over trade between Italy and France. Thomas also worked through diplomatic and economic means to expand his control. The county of Savoy long enjoyed control over critical passes through the Alps.
Thomas died at Moncalieri, Savoy.
In 1195 he ambushed the party of Count William I of Geneva, which was escorting the count's daughter, Margaret of Geneva, to France for her intended wedding to King Philip II of France. Thomas carried off Marguerite and married her himself, producing some eight sons and six daughters.
1. Amedeo, his immediate successor
2. Umberto, d. between March and November 1223
3. Tommaso, lord and then count in Piedmont and founder of a line that became the Savoy-Achaea
4. Aimone, d. 30 August 1237, Lord of Chablais
5. Guglielmo (William of Savoy), Bishop of Valence and Dean of Vienne
6. Amadeo of Savoy, Bishop of Maurienne
7. Pietro, who resided much in England, became Earl of Richmond, and ultimately in 1263 became the disputed count of Savoy
8. Filippo, archbishop of Lyon, who resigned, through marriage became Count Palatine of Burgundy and ultimately in 1268 became the disputed count of Savoy
9. Bonifacio who became archbishop of Canterbury
10. Beatrice of Savoy, d. 1265 or 1266, married in December 1219 to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1209-1245) and was mother of four Queens-consort
11. Alasia of Savoy, abbess of the monastery of St Pierre in Lyon (d.1250)
12. Ágatha of Savoy, abbess of the monastery of St Pierre in Lyon (d.1245)
13. Margherita of Savoy, d. 1273, married in 1218 to Hartmann IV of Kyburg
14. Avita of Savoy (1215-92) who married Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon and Robert Aguillon (d.1286).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_I,_Marquess_of_Saluzzo
He was the fourth Marquess of Saluzzo from 1244 to his death. He succeeded his father Manfred III. Under the reign of Thomas, Saluzzo blossomed, achieving a greatness which had eluded his ancestors. He crafted a state the borders of which remained unchanged for over two centuries.
Saluzzo included the territory lying between the Alps, the Po and the Stura, and was extended on several occasions. In the Middle Ages it had a checkered existence, often being in conflict with powerful neighbors, chiefly the Counts (later Dukes) of Savoy.
He was a prime enemy of Charles of Anjou and his Italian pretentions. During his tenure, he made Saluzzo a free city, giving it a podestà to govern in his name. He defended his castles and roccaforti (strongholds) vigorously and built many new ones in the cities.
He married Luisa of Ceva.
He was succeeded by his son Manfred IV. Thomas also had a daughter, Alice of Saluzzo, who married Richard Fitzalan, 8th Earl of Arundel. | di Saluzzo, Tommaso (Thomas) I Marquess of Saluzzo (I36266)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urraca_of_Le%C3%B3n
Born in Burgos, Urraca was the eldest and only surviving child of Alfonso VI of León with his second wife Constance of Burgundy; for this, she was heiress presumptive of the Kingdoms of Castile and León until 1107, when her father recognized his illegitimate son Sancho as his heir.
Urraca?s place in the line of succession made her the focus of dynastic politics, and she became a child bride at age eight (1087) to Raymond of Burgundy, a mercenary adventurer. Author Bernard F. Reilly suggests that, rather than a betrothal, the eight-year-old Urraca was fully wedded to Raymond of Burgundy, as he almost immediately appears in protocol documents as Alfonso VI's son-in-law, a distinction that would not have been made without the marriage. Reilly doubts that the marriage was consummated until Urraca was 13, as she was placed under the protective guardianship of a trusted magnate. Her pregnancy and stillbirth at age 14 suggest that the marriage was indeed consummated when she was 13 or 14 years old.
Urraca's marriage to Raymond was part of Alfonso VI's diplomatic strategy to attract cross-Pyrenees alliances, and she gave birth two children: a daughter, Sancha Raimúndez and a son, Alfonso Raimúndez, who would become Alfonso VII. However, Raymond died in 1107, leaving Urraca a widow with two small children.
Urraca became again an heiress presumptive after the death of her brother Sancho at the Battle of Uclés in 1108. Alfonso VI reunited the nobles of the Kingdom in Toledo and announced that his widowed daughter was the chosen one to succeeded him.
The nobles agreed with the royal designation but demanded that Urraca should marry again. Several candidates for the hand of the heiress to the thrones of León and Castile appeared immediately. Alfonso VI feared that the rivalries between Castilian and Leonese nobles would be increased if she married any of these suitors and decided that his daughter should wed Alfonso I of Aragon, known as the Battler, opening the opportunity for uniting León-Castile with Aragon.
Marriage negotiations were still underway when Alfonso VI died on 29 June/1 July 1109 and Urraca became queen. Many of Alfonso VI?s advisers and leading magnates in the kingdom formed a ?quiet opposition? to the marriage of the queen to the King of Aragon. According to Bernard F. Reilly, these magnates feared the influence the King of Aragon might attempt to wield over Urraca and over Leonese politics.
Urraca protested against the marriage but honored her late father's wishes (and the Royal Council's advice) and continued with the marriage negotiations, though she and her father's closest advisers were growing weary of Alfonso I's demands. Despite the advisers' opposition, the prospect of Count Henry of Portugal filling any power vacuum led them to go ahead with the marriage which took place in early October 1109 at the Castle of Monzón de Campos. As events unfolded, these advisers underestimated Urraca's political prowess, and later advised her to end the marriage.
The marriage of Urraca and Alfonso I almost immediately sparked rebellions in Galicia and scheming by her illegitimate half-sister Theresa and brother-in-law Henry, the Countess and Count of Portugal. Also, they believed that the new marriage of Urraca could put in jeopardy the rights of the son of her first marriage, Alfonso Raimúndez.
The Galician rebellion against the royal power was only the beginning of a series of political and military conflicts which, with the complete opposite personalities of Urraca and Alfonso I and their mutual dislike, gave rise to a continuous civil war in the Hispanic kingdoms over the following years.
As their relationship soured, Urraca accused Alfonso of physical abuse, and by May 1110 she separated from Alfonso. Additionally, as Urraca was married to someone many in the kingdom objected to, the queen's son and heir became a rallying point for opponents to the marriage.
Estrangement between husband and wife escalated from discrete and simmering hostilities into open armed warfare between the Leonese-Castilians and the Aragonese. By the fall of 1112 a truce was brokered between Urraca and Alfonso with their marriage annulled. Though Urraca recovered Asturias, Leon, and Galicia, Alfonso occupied a significant portion of Castile (where Urraca enjoyed large support), while her half-sister Theresa and her husband Count Henry of Portugal occupied Zamora and Extremadura. Recovering these regions and expanding into Muslim lands would occupy much of Urraca's foreign policy.
She is characterized in her contemporary history Historia Compostelana as prudent, modest, and with good sense. But this source also attributes her "failings" to her gender, "the weakness and changeability of women, feminine perversity, and calls her a Jezebel" for her liaisons with her leading magnates, with at least one relationship producing an illegitimate son. The measure of success for Urraca?s rule was her ability to restore and protect the integrity of her inheritance, that is, the kingdom of her father, and transmit that inheritance in full to her own heir. | of León, Urraca Queen of León, Castile, and Galicia (I36113)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urraca_of_Portugal
She was was an Infanta of Portugal, daughter of Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, and his wife, Queen Maud of Savoy. She was queen consort of León as the wife of King Ferdinand II and the mother of Alfonso IX.
In May or June of 1165, she married Ferdinand II, becoming the first infanta of Portugal to have married a Leonese monarch. The only son of this marriage, Alfonso IX, was born in Zamora on 15 August 1171. This marriage failed to prevent her father Afonso I from declaring war on Ferdinand after he became his son-in-law. This short war culminated in disaster when Afonso was captured in Badajoz.
The marriage of Ferdinand II and Urraca was annulled in 1171 or 1172 by Pope Alexander III the two being second cousins, great-grandchildren of Alfonso VI of León and Castile. Urraca then became a nun joining the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem and retired to live in the estates that her former husband had given her in the Carta de Arras (wedding tokens) in Zamora. Later, she retired in the Monastery of Santa María de Wamba which belonged to the aforementioned order.
On 25 May 1176, Queen Urraca donated land and villas to the Order of Saint John, probably coinciding with her joining the order. These properties included Castroverde de Campos and Mansilla in León and Salas and San Andrés in Asturias.
She was present in 1188 at the coronation of her son Alfonso IX who inherited the throne after his father's death on 22 January 1188 and, in that same year, on 4 May, both confirmed the privileges granted by the former king to the Order of Santiago. Her presence is registered for the last time in medieval charters in 1211 when she donated the village of Castrotorafe that she had received from her husband the king in 1165 as a wedding gift to the Cathedral of Zamora.
Queen Urraca was buried at the Monastery of Santa María de Wamba in what is now the province of Valladolid, that belonged to the Order of Saint John. In the interior of the Church of Santa María, the only part remaining of the ancient monastery, is the Chapel of the Queen where a plaque that was placed there subsequently mentions that Queen Urraca of Portugal had been interred in this church. | of Portugal, Urraca Queen of León (I36101)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Giffard,_Lord_of_Longueville
Also known as Giffard of Barbastre, he was a Norman baron, a Tenant-in-chief in England, a Christian knight who fought against the Saracens in Spain during the Reconquista and was one of the 15 or so known Companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Walter was the son of Osborne de Bolbec, Lord of Longueville and Avelina, sister of Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy. As such he was a cousin of William the Conqueror.
From the mid 1040s Walter's name appears among the loyal supporters of William the Conqueror. Walter was at the Battle of Mortemer and was among the Norman barons who surprised and defeated Counts Odo and Renaud leading the French contingent attacking Normandy from the east. He and another great vassal, Robert of Eu, encountered Odo's army encamped in the village of Mortemer with no sentries and the soldiers were drunk. The Normans attacked the French while they slept, most being either killed or taken prisoner. While Odo himself escaped, when King Henry I learned of the fate of his brother Odo's army he promptly withdrew his remaining forces and left Normandy. In 1054 Walter was in charge of maintaining the siege of Arques castle, against William of Talou, who had rebelled against the Conqueror.
Like many other Norman and French knights during the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, Walter served as a Christian knight in Spain (c.?1064-65) against the Moors. His nickname "le Barbastre" was earned when he took part in the Siege of Barbastro, against the Moors in 1064. Walter was also one of the first, if not the first in England to go on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, which he did after the siege of Barbastro and before returning to Normandy.
By the time of the Norman Conquest of England, Walter had returned to Normandy bearing a gift of a magnificent war-horse from the King of Spain for Duke William of Normandy [the Conqueror]. This was the same Spanish war-horse Duke William called for on the morning of the Battle of Hastings.
In early January of 1066, after Duke William received news of the crowning of Harold Godwinson as king of England, he called together a meeting that included six of his key magnates, Walter Giffard being one of them. After telling them of his plan to invade England and take the crown they all advised him they supported him fully but suggested he call a meeting of all his vassals, which William did.
In the preparation stage for the Battle of Hastings, Walter was one of the Norman magnates who provided ships for William's invasion fleet. In his case, he provided thirty. Walter was one of two who, having been offered the privilege of carrying William's standard in the battle, respectfully refused. Although by this time an older warrior with white hair, he wanted both hands free to fight. As a reward for his participation, Walter was granted the feudal barony of Long Crendon, comprising 107 manors, 48 of which were in Buckinghamshire. The date of his death is not recorded, but his son Walter succeeded him before 1085.
Walter was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel. Walter and Ermengarde were the parents of:
1. Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.
2. William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester.
3. Rohese Giffard (d. aft. 1113), married Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare.
4. Lora Giffard, married Sir Robert de Hampden.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Giffard,_Lord_of_Longueville
Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, was the son of Osborne de Bolbec, Lord of Longueville and Avelina, sister of Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy. As such he was a cousin of William the Conqueror. | Aveline (I36256)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Giffard,_Lord_of_Longueville
Walter was married to Ermengarde, daughter of Gerard Flaitel. Walter and Ermengarde were the parents of:
1. Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham.
2. William Giffard, Bishop of Winchester.
3. Rohese Giffard (d. aft. 1113), married Richard fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare.
4. Lora Giffard, married Sir Robert de Hampden. | Flaitel, Ermentrude (I36252)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Beauchamp,_9th_Earl_of_Warwick
Described as a vigorous and innovative military commander, he was active in the field against the Welsh for many years, and at the end of his life campaigned against the Scots.
His father was William de Beauchamp (d.1268) of Elmley Castle and his mother Isabel Mauduit, sister and heiress of William Mauduit, 8th Earl of Warwick, from whom he inherited his title in 1268.
He became hereditary High Sheriff of Worcestershire for life on the death of his father in 1268.
He was a close friend of Edward I of England, and was an important leader in Edward's invasion of Wales in 1277. In 1294 he raised the siege of Conwy Castle, where the King had been penned in, crossing the estuary. He was victorious on 5 March 1295 at the battle of Maes Moydog, against the rebel prince of Wales, Madog ap Llywelyn.
He married Maud FitzJohn. Their children included:
1. Isabella de Beauchamp, married firstly, Sir Patrick de Chaworth and, secondly, Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester
2. Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, who married Alice de Toeni, widow of Thomas de Leyburne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Beauchamp_(d.1268)
He was an English baron and hereditary sheriff.
He was born and lived in Elmley Castle, Worcestershire the eldest son of Walter de Beauchamp (judge) and his wife Joan de Mortimer, daughter of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore.
On the death of his father in 1236 he became hereditary Sheriff of Worcestershire which title he held until his own death.
He died in 1268. He had married Isabel, daughter of William Mauduit and sister of William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick. They had 8 children, of which his heir was William, who inherited the title of Earl of Warwick from his uncle. | de Beauchamp, William (I36258)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Beauchamp_(d.1268)
William de Beauchamp married Isabel, daughter of William Mauduit and sister of William Maudit, 8th Earl of Warwick. They had 8 children, of which his heir was William, who inherited the title of Earl of Warwick from his uncle. | Mauduit, Isabel (I36259)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_2nd_Earl_of_Surrey
He was the son of William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey and his first wife Gundred. He was more often referred to as Earl Warenne or Earl of Warenne than as Earl of Surrey.
His father, the 1st Earl, was one of the Conqueror's most trusted and most rewarded barons who, at his death in 1088, was the 3rd or 4th richest magnate in England. In 1088 William II inherited his father's lands in England and his Norman estates including the castles of Mortemer and Bellencombre in Normandy. But William II was not as disposed to serve the king as his father was.
When Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy invaded England 1101 William joined him. But when Curthose promptly surrendered to Henry I, William lost his English lands and titles and was exiled to Normandy. There he complained to Curthose that he had expended great effort on the duke's behalf and in return lost all of his English possessions. Curthose's return to England in 1103 was apparently made to convince his brother, the king, to restore William's earldom.
In 1118 William finally acquired the royal-blooded bride he desired when he married Elizabeth de Vermandois. She was a daughter of count Hugh of Vermandois, a granddaughter of Henry I, King of France, and was the widow of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester.
By Elizabeth his wife he had three sons and two daughters:
1. William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey
2, Reginald de Warenne, who inherited his father's property in Normandy, including the castles of Bellencombre and Mortemer.
3. Ralph de Warenne
4. Gundred de Warenne, who married first Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick and second William, lord of Kendal, and is most remembered for expelling king Stephen's garrison from Warwick Castle.
5. Ada de Warenne, who married Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, the mother of two Scottish kings, she made many grants to the priory of Lewes.
William's death is recorded as 11-May-1138 in the register of Lewes Priory and he was buried at his father's feet at the Chapter house there. His wife, the countess Elizabeth, survived him, dying before July 1147. | de Warenne, William II 2nd Earl of Surrey (I36218)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_3rd_Earl_of_Surrey
He was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who fought in England during the Anarchy and generally remained loyal to King Stephen. He participated in the Second Crusade.
He was the eldest son of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d.1138) by his wife Elizabeth de Vermandois. He was a great-grandson of King Henry I of France, and half-brother to Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Waleran IV de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, and Hugh de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Bedford.
Still in his minority in 1137 he was serving with Stephen, King of England in Normandy being one of those young nobles who initially fled the battle. Stephen pursued them, held them and did his best to pacify them but did not make them fight. At his father's death in 1138, William became the third Earl of Surrey. At Easter 1138 he accompanied his half-brother Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester on an embassy to Paris for the purpose of ratifying a treaty between the English and French kings. On February 2nd 1141 he and his half-brother Waleran were again with King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln but fled at the initial charge of the enemy forces. They both joined Queen Matilda but on King Stephen's release they were once again among his followers, and William witnessed a royal charter at Canterbury in late 1141.
William married Adela (alias Ela), daughter of Count William III of Ponthieu, by his wife Helie daughter of Odo I, Duke of Burgundy. They had one child and sole-heiress, a daughter, Isabel de Warenne, in her own right 4th Countess of Surrey. She married firstly William of Blois (d.1159), the second son of king Stephen, who became Earl Warenne or Earl of Surrey. After he died without progeny in October 1159, she married to Hamelin, half-brother of King Henry II, who became Earl Warenne or Earl of Surrey. He adopted the surname "de Warenne", and the earldom continued in his descendants.
He was one of the nobles who, along with his second cousin, King Louis VII of France, took crusading vows at Vezelay in 1146, and he accompanied the initial army of the Second Crusade the next year. He was killed at the Battle of Mount Cadmus while the crusader army was marching across Anatolia on their way to the Holy Land.
In December 1147 the French-Norman force reached Ephesus. They were joined by remnants of the army of the Holy Roman Empire, which had previously suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Dorylaeum in 1147. They marched across southwest Turkey and fought an unsuccessful battle at Laodicea (3?4 January 1148) on the border between the Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Rum . On 6 January 1148 they battled again in the area of Mount Cadmus, where Turks ambushed the infantry and non-combatants only, because they had become separated from the rest of the army. King Louis VII and his bodyguard of Knights Templars and noblemen recklessly charged the Turks. Most of the knights were killed, including William, and Louis barely escaped with his life. His army arrived later at the coastal city of Adalia. The battle is recorded by Odo of Deuil, personal chaplain to Louis, in his narrative "De Profectione." | de Warenne, William 3rd Earl of Surrey (I36215)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_3rd_Earl_of_Surrey
She was daughter of Count William III of Ponthieu, by his wife Helie daughter of Odo I, Duke of Burgundy. They had one child and sole-heiress, a daughter, Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey in her own right. | of Ponthieu, Adela (Ela) (I36216)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_5th_Earl_of_Surrey
He was the son of Hamelin de Warenne and Isabel, daughter of William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey. His father Hamelin granted him the manor of Appleby, North Lincolnshire.
De Warenne was present at the coronation of John, King of England on 27 May 1199. When Normandy was lost to the French in 1204 he lost his Norman holdings, (in 1202 he was lieutenant of Gascony), but John recompensed him with Grantham and Stamford.
His first tenure of office as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports began in 1204, and lasted until 1206. He was also a Warden of the Welsh Marches between 1208 and 1213.
William was one of the few barons who remained loyal to King John (who was his cousin) during the king?s difficulties with the barons, when they sought for the French prince to assume the English throne, and is listed as one of those who advised John to accede to the Magna Carta. His allegiance only faltered a few times when the king?s cause looked hopeless.
In March 1217 he again demonstrated his loyalty to England by supporting the young King Henry III, and he was also responsible for the establishment of Salisbury Cathedral.
Between the years 1200 and 1208, and during 1217-1226 he was to serve as the High Sheriff of Surrey. In 1214 he was again appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
William married Maud Marshal, on 13 October 1225. They had a son and a daughter, John (1231-1304) succeeded his father as earl, while the daughter, Isabel de Warenne (c. 1228-1282), married Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel. | de Warenne, William 5th Earl of Surrey (I36212)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_FitzOsbern,_1st_Earl_of_Hereford
Lord of Breteuil, in Normandy, William was a relative and close counselor of William the Conqueror and one of the great magnates of early Norman England. He was created Earl of Hereford before 22 February 1067, one of the first peerage titles in the English peerage. He is one of the very few proven Companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. His chief residence was Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, one of many English castles he built.
William FitzOsbern was the son of Osbern the Steward, a nephew of Duchess Gunnor, the wife of Duke Richard I of Normandy. Osbern was the steward of his cousin Duke Robert I of Normandy. When Robert left the Duchy to his young son William, Osbern became one of Duke William's guardians. Osbern married Emma, a daughter of Count Rodolf of Ivry, who was a half-brother of Duke Richard I of Normandy. Through her he inherited a large property in central Normandy, including the honours of Pacy and Breteuil.
William FitzOsbern was probably raised at the court of his cousin William Duke of Normandy, and like his father, became one of the ducal stewards. He was one of the earliest and most vigorous advocates of the invasion of England, and tradition holds that he convinced the doubters amongst the Norman barons of the feasibility of the invasion.
As Duke William took control of England as William the Conqueror, FitzOsbern was given charge of the Isle of Wight, and then before 22 February 1067 he was created Earl of Hereford as well as Earl of Gloucester, Earl of Worcester and Earl of Oxfordshire. That western part of England was not yet fully under Norman control; the understanding must have been that FitzOsbern was to take charge of the conquest of these regions when he was able.
The King was back in England in 1068 and FitzOsbern accompanied him in the subjugation of southwest England. Anglo-Saxon resistance in the West Midlands was crushed later in 1069, and it is likely FitzOsbern played a major part in this, although the details are not certain. During this time FitzOsbern and his followers pushed on westwards into Wales.
As part of the assertion of Norman control over England and Wales, FitzOsbern was one of the major Norman castle builders. Early castles attributed to him include Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, Chepstow Castle (Striguil) in South Wales, Wigmore Castle and Clifford Castle in Herefordshire, Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire and Monmouth Castle in Wales. FitzOsbern also created or improved fortifications in the towns of Hereford and Shrewsbury.
In 1070 trouble arose in Flanders, where King William's brother-in-law Count Baldwin VI of Flanders had died, leaving his county and his young sons in the hands of his widow Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut. Her control of Flanders was challenged by the brother of her late husband, Robert the Frisian. Looking for help, she offered herself in marriage to FitzOsbern. He could not resist the chance to become also Count of this rich Principality, close to Normandy and hurried there with his army, where he was defeated by the Count of Flanders, and killed in the Battle of Cassel on 22 February 1071.
FitzOsbern married twice:
First to Adeliza de Tosny, daughter of Roger I of Tosny, by whom he had three children:
1. William of Breteuil, who succeeded his father in Normandy. He was held captive and tortured by Ascelin Gouel de Perceval 'Lupus', Sire d'Yvry, until he finally granted his daughter Isabella de Breteuil in marriage to him.
2. Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford, who succeeded his father in England and Wales;
3. Emma de Breteuil, wife of Ralph de Gael, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Secondly it must be assumed that he also married Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut shortly before the Battle of Cassel in 1071.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III,_Count_of_Ponthieu
He was seigneur de Montgomery in Normandy and Count of Ponthieu. William was son of Robert II of Bellême and Agnes of Ponthieu. He succeeded his father as count of Ponthieu some time between 1105 and 1111.
His father Robert de Bellême had turned against Henry I on several occasions, had escaped capture at the battle of Tinchebrai in 1106. While serving as envoy for King Louis of France, he was arrested by Henry I and imprisoned for life.
William was naturally driven by this to oppose King Henry. In June of 1119, however, Henry I restored all his father's lands in Normandy. Sometime prior to 1126, William resigned the county of Ponthieu to his son Guy but retained the title of count. In 1135 Henry I again confiscated all his Norman lands to which William responded by joining count Geoffrey of Anjou in his invasion of Normandy after Henry I's death.
He married, abt. 1115, Helie of Burgundy, daughter of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum says that they had five children, three sons and two daughters.
1. Guy II. He assumed the county of Ponthieu during his father Talvas' lifetime, but died in 1147 predeceasing his father.
2. William, Count of Alençon.
3. John I, Count of Alençon, married Beatrix d'Anjou, daughter of Elias II, Count of Maine and Philippa, daughter of Rotrou III, Count of Perche.
4. Clemence married (abt. 1189) Juhel, son of Walter of Mayenne.
5. Adela (aka Ela) married William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey. She married, secondly, Patrick of Salisbury.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marshal,_1st_Earl_of_Pembroke
William Marshal was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman. He served five English kings: The "Young King" Henry, Henry II, Richard I, John, and Henry III.
Knighted in 1166, he spent his younger years as a knight errant and a successful tournament fighter. Before him, his father's family held a hereditary title of Marshal to the king, which by his father's time had become recognized as a chief or master Marshalcy, involving management over other Marshals and functionaries. William became known as "the Marshal," although by his time much of the function was actually delegated to more specialized representatives (as happened with other functions in the King's household).
In 1189, he received the title of Earl of Pembroke through marriage during the second creation of the Pembroke Earldom. Because he was an Earl, and also known as the Marshal, the term "Earl Marshal" was commonly used and this later became an established hereditary title in the English Peerage.
William's father, John Marshal, supported King Stephen when he took the throne in 1135, but in about 1139 he changed sides to back the Empress Matilda in the civil war of succession between her and Stephen which led to the collapse of England into "the Anarchy."
When King Stephen besieged Newbury Castle in 1152, according to William's biographer, he used the young William as a hostage to ensure that John kept his promise to surrender the castle. John, however, used the time allotted to reinforce the castle and alert Matilda's forces. When Stephen ordered John to surrender immediately or William would be hanged, John replied that he should go ahead saying, "I still have the hammer and the anvil with which to forge still more and better sons!" Subsequently, there was a bluff made to launch William from a type of trebuchet towards the castle. Fortunately for the child, Stephen could not bring himself to harm young William. William remained a crown hostage for many months, only being released following the peace that resulted from the terms agreed at Winchester on 6 November 1153 that ended the civil war.
As a younger son of a minor nobleman, William had no lands or fortune to inherit, and had to make his own way in life. Around the age of twelve, when his father's career was faltering, he was sent to Normandy to be brought up in the household of William de Tancarville, a great magnate and cousin of young William's mother. Here he began his training as a knight.
He was knighted in 1166 on campaign in Upper Normandy, then being invaded from Flanders. War in the twelfth century was not fought wholly for honor but profit was also a motive. On this front, Marshal was not so successful, as he was unable to parlay his combat victories into profit from either ransom or seized booty.
He then served in the household of his mother's brother, Patrick, Earl of Salisbury. In 1168 his uncle was killed in an ambush by Guy de Lusignan. William was injured and captured in the same skirmish. It is known that William received a wound to his thigh and that someone in his captor's household took pity on the young knight. He received a loaf of bread in which were concealed several lengths of clean linen bandages with which he could dress his wounds. This act of kindness by an unknown person perhaps saved Marshal's life as infection setting into the wound could have killed him. After a period of time, he was ransomed by Eleanor of Aquitaine, who was apparently impressed by tales of his bravery.
In 1167 he was taken by William de Tancarville to his first tournament where he found his true métier. He found he could make a good living out of winning tournaments, dangerous, often deadly, staged battles in which money and valuable prizes could be won by capturing and ransoming opponents, their horses and armour. His record is legendary: on his deathbed he recalled besting 500 knights during his tourneying career.
William rejoined the court of King Henry II, and now served the father as a loyal captain through the many difficulties of his final years. The returns of royal favour were almost immediate. Henry II had promised the Marshal the hand and estates of Isabel de Clare (c.1172-1220), but had not completed the arrangements. King Richard however, confirmed the offer and so in August 1189, at the age of 43, the Marshal married the 17-year-old daughter of Richard de Clare (Strongbow). Her father had been Earl of Pembroke, and Marshal acquired large estates and claims in England, Wales, Normandy and Ireland. The marriage transformed the landless knight from a minor family into one of the richest men in the kingdom, a sign of his power and prestige at court.
William was included in the council of regency which King Richard I [the Lionheart] appointed on his departure for the Third Crusade in 1190. He took the side of John, the king's brother, when the latter expelled the justiciar, William Longchamp, from the kingdom, but he soon discovered that the interests of John were different from those of Richard. Before King Richard's return, William Marshal's elder brother John Marshal was killed while defending Marlborough for the king's brother John. Richard allowed Marshal to succeed his brother in the hereditary marshalship, and his paternal honor of Hamstead Marshall. The Marshal served the king in his wars in Normandy against Philip II. On Richard's death-bed the king designated Marshal as custodian of Rouen and of the royal treasure during the interregnum.
William supported King John when he became king in 1199, but they had a falling out in the aftermath of the loss of the duchy of Brittany. Despite their differences, William remained loyal throughout the hostilities between John and his barons which culminated on 15 June 1215 at Runnymede with the sealing of Magna Carta. William was one of the few English earls to remain loyal to the king through the First Barons' War. It was William whom King John trusted on his deathbed to make sure John's nine-year-old son Henry would get the throne. It was William who took responsibility for the king's funeral and burial at Worcester Cathedral.
William Marshal was named by the king's council (the chief barons who had remained loyal to King John in the First Barons' War) to serve as protector of the nine-year-old King Henry III, and regent of the kingdom in spite of his advanced age (around 70).
Marshal's health finally failed him early in 1219. In March 1219 he realized that he was dying, so he summoned his eldest son, also William, and his household knights, and left the Tower of London for his estate at Caversham in Berkshire, near Reading. Fulfilling the vow he had made while on crusade, he was invested into the order of the Knights Templar on his deathbed. He died on 14 May 1219 at Caversham, and was buried in the Temple Church in London, where his tomb can still be seen.
His marriage was happy, despite the vast difference in age between them. William Marshal and Isabel produced a total of five sons and five daughters.
1. William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1190-6 April 1231). Chief Justiciar of Ireland. He married firstly, Alice de Bethune, and secondly, Eleanor Plantagenet, daughter of King John. He died childless.
2. Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1191-1 April 1234 Kilkenny Castle, Ireland), married Gervase le Dinant. He died childless.
3. Maud Marshal (1192-27 March 1248). She married firstly, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, by whom she had issue; she married secondly, William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, by whom she had children, including John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey who married Alice le Brun de Lusignan; she married thirdly, Walter de Dunstanville. Five queen consorts of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr were her descendants.
4. Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1194-27 June 1241). He married firstly, Marjorie of Scotland, daughter of King William I of Scotland; and secondly, Maud de Lanvaley. He died childless.
5. Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1196-24 November 1245). He married Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln, widow of John de Lacy, 1st Earl of Lincoln, as her second husband. The marriage was childless.
6. Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke (1198-22 December 1245). He married Maud de Bohun. He died childless.
7. Isabel Marshal (9 October 1200-17 January 1240). She married firstly, Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford; and secondly, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall. She had issue by both marriages. King Robert I of Scotland and Queen consorts Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr were descendants.
8. Sibyl Marshal (1201-before 1238), married William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, by whom she had issue. Queen consort Catherine Parr was a descendant.
9. Joan Marshal (1202-1234), married Warin de Munchensi, Lord of Swanscombe, by whom she had issue. Both queen consorts Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr were descendants.
10. Eva Marshal (1203-1246), married William de Braose (died 1230). Queen consorts Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr were her descendants.
Isabel died in Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1220 at the age of forty-eight. Her husband had died the year before. She was buried at Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire.
Although her daughters had many children, Isabel's five sons, curiously, died childless. The title of marshal subsequently passed to Hugh de Bigod, husband of Isabel's eldest daughter Maud, while the title of Earl of Pembroke went to William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke, the husband of Joan de Munchensi, daughter of Joan Marshal. He was the first of the de Valence line of the earls of Pembroke.
Within a few generations their descendants included much of the nobility of Europe, including all the monarchs of Scotland since Robert I (1274-1329) and all those of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom since Henry IV (1367-1413); and, apart from Anne of Cleves, all the queen consorts of Henry VIII. | Marshal, William 1st Earl of Pembroke (I36229)
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Grandison,_Countess_of_Salisbury
Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury was an English noblewoman, remembered for her relationship with King Edward III of England and possibly the woman in whose honour the Order of the Garter was originated. She was the daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison, and Sibylla de Tregoz. Her mother was one of two daughters of John de Tregoz, Baron Tregoz.
From Find A Grave
Sir John Tregoze, Lord Baron Tregoze, only son and heir of Robert Tregoze and his wife Juliana Cantilupe, "did homage and obtained livery of his father's lands 52 Henry III (1268), and stood in such favour with royalty that, notwithstanding his father's treason, he was acquitted of 50 marks of 100l then due for his relief; after which he attended Edward I. into Wales, in the expedition made thither in the early part of his reign.
"By the Plac, de quo warranto, we find John Treooze, in 8 Edward I. summoned to show by what title be claimed wrecks, waifs, and estrays, in his manor of Burneham, in Somersetshire; when he showed that it was the right of his ancestors and no usurpation of the royal prerogative. In the following year he was summoned to show why he claimed free warren in Lydyard Tregoze, in Wilts, without the King's licence; and in 20th Edward I. he received a like summons regarding the manor of Retby in Irchingfield, in Herefordshire, when he answered he held it with Mabelia his wife, and would not show his title without her. In the 20th Edw. I. he was also summoned to prove his title to divers other prerogatives, viz. the correcting the infringement of the assize of bread and ale, and the holding Crown Pleas within his manor of Mathuenleye and Eton; when he showed they had been his ancestors' rights immemorially.
"In 13 Edward I. (1284/5) he obtained license to hold either a fair, or had free warren granted, at the following places, Eton in Herefordshire, Burneham and Cheleworth in Somersetshire, Lydiard and Alinton in Wilts; and in 22nd Edward I. being in the campaign of Gascony, he had permission for his wife and family to reside in Devizes castle, and to have fires there.
"This Baron, during the latter part of his life was summoned to Parliament by writ as one of the Majores Barones; viz. on 26 Jan. 1296, 25th Edw. I. and on 6 Feb. 1299, 27th Edw. I.; and in the year 1300 was summoned to perform military service against the Scotch; but his death prevented it; for he died 21 Aug. 28th Edw. I. (1300), and was buried 12 kal. Sept. 28 Edward I. in the Priory of St. Augustin at Bristol.
"By the two Inq. post mort. made after that event, one in 28th, and the other 29th Edward I., we find that he died seised of an immense inheritance, viz. the castle and honour of Ewyas Harold with its members in the Marches of Wales, which he held by barony, the manor of Eton Tregoze in Herefordshire, and numerous estates in Wilts, Northamptonshire, and Salop, &c.; a mandate to seize for the King the lands of John Tregoze defunct, being issued to Walter de Gloucester in 28th Edward I.
"Long before this John Tregoze had married Mabel, daughter of Foulk Lord Fitzwarren; and this lady owned the manor of Weston in Bedfordshire, and the hamlet of Sturden, in Gloucestersbire, as appears by her Inq. post mortem, made 25th Edward I. (1296-7) she being described in the record as his wife. By her John Lord Tregoze had only two daughters." Eldest daughter, Clarissa Tregoze married Roger la Warre, and predeceased her father, leaving a son and heir, John la Warre, who on the death of John Tregoze, his grandfather, succeeded to Harold Ewyas castle and lordship. The second daughter, Sibilla Tregoze, who was still alive when her father died, married William de Grandison." | de Tregoz, John Baron Tregoz (I36011)
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Grandison,_Countess_of_Salisbury
Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury was an English noblewoman, remembered for her relationship with King Edward III of England and possibly the woman in whose honour the Order of the Garter was originated. She was the daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison, and Sibylla de Tregoz. Her mother was one of two daughters of John de Tregoz, Baron Tregoz.
From Find A Grave:
William was the son and heir of Pierre de Granson, Seigneur de Granson on the Lake of Neufchâtel, by Agnes, daughter of Ulric, comté de Neufchâtel, and grandson of Ebal IV, Seigneur de Granson. He was the younger brother of Otes de Grandison.
William was in the service of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, who, on his behalf sent a letter to the King (when William's lands were seized, he being an alien), pointing out the unfairness of such seizures. On November 4, 1288, he had letters of protection when remaining in Wales in order to fortify the castle of Carnarvon.
He was excepted from military service in Gascony in 1204, in which year he appears as governor of Jersey and Guernsey for his brother Otes. He was summoned to Parliament from February 6, 1298/99 to Oct 1325, where he is held to have become Lord Grandison. He was again in Gascony with the Earl of Lancaster before January 1, 1295/96, when his lands were restored to him.
He was present at the siege of Carlaverock in Jul 1300, and was summoned to the coronation of Edward II on January 18, 1307/08. On November 26, 1300, it was ordered that the lands of Sir John Tregoz should be divided between William and his wife and the other coheirs.
In 1318, the Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem made complaint that William and his sons, Piers and Otes, with others, had broken into his houses and robbed and assaulted, to which William responded that there had been theft of his goods there. When he did not attend a muster for military service in 1322, his lands were seized, but as his reason for not attending had been severe illness, he was excused and given license to remain at home, provided that he send at least 6 men-at-arms for the expedition.
In June of 1327, he had letters of protection for going to Ireland, and on September 20, 1329 had respite of homage until the following Easter, as the King had learned that he was so infirm and aged that he was unable to come. However, he was summoned in July 1332, to be with the King at Michaelmas and take passage for the expedition to Ireland.
He survived his wife, Sibyl, younger daughter and coheir of Sir John Tregoz, she dying Oct 1334, he following her in June 1335.
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Grandison,_Countess_of_Salisbury
Catherine Grandison, Countess of Salisbury was an English noblewoman, remembered for her relationship with King Edward III of England and possibly the woman in whose honour the Order of the Garter was originated. She was the daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison, and Sibylla de Tregoz. Her mother was one of two daughters of John de Tregoz, Baron Tregoz. | de Tregoz, Sybil (I36010)
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Grandison,_Countess_of_Salisbury
She was an English noblewoman, remembered for her relationship with King Edward III of England and possibly the woman in whose honour the Order of the Garter was originated. She was the daughter of William de Grandison, 1st Baron Grandison, and Sibylla de Tregoz. Her mother was one of two daughters of John de Tregoz, Baron Tregoz (whose arms were blazoned Gules two bars gemels in chief a lion passant guardant or),[2] maternal granddaughter of Fulk IV, Baron FitzWarin).[3] Catherine married William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury in about 1320.
Their children were:
Elizabeth Montacute (b. before 1325); married Hugh le Despencer, 2nd Baron le Despencer before 27 April 1341.
William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1329?1397)
John de Montacute, 1st Baron Montacute, (1330?1390); father of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
Anne Montacute, (b. 1331); married John De Grey on 12 June 1335.
Philippa Montacute (1332-1381); married Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March.
Sibyl Montacute (b. before 1339); married Edmund FitzAlan about 1356.
According to rumour, King Edward III was so enamoured of the countess that he forced his attentions on her in around 1341, after having relieved a Scottish siege on Wark Castle, where she lived, while her husband was out of the country. [Note: This may have been French propaganda.]
In around 1348, the Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III and it is recorded that he did so after an incident at a ball when the "Countess of Salisbury" dropped a garter and the king picked it up. It is assumed that Froissart is referring either to Catherine or to her daughter-in-law, Joan of Kent. | de Grandison, Catherine (I36008)
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Savoy,_Queen_of_Portugal
She was the first Queen of Portugal. Her husband was King Afonso I, the first sovereign of Portugal, whom she married in 1146.
She was the second or third daughter of Amadeus III of Savoy, Count of Savoy and Maurienne, and Mahaut of Albon (the sister of Guigues IV of Albon, "le Dauphin").
Three of her children lived to adulthood:
1. Infanta Urraca (1151-1188), married to King Ferdinand II of León.
2. Sancho I, King of Portugal (1154-1212), married to Dulce, Infanta of Aragon (daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, and Queen Petronila of Aragon)
3. Infanta Theresa (1157-1218), married to Philip I, Count of Flanders, and next to Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_FitzAlan,_10th_Earl_of_Arundel#Marriages_and_children
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and 8th Earl of Surrey married twice:
Firstly, on 9 February 1321 at Havering-atte-Bower, to Isabel le Despenser (born 1312, living 1356, and may have died circa 1376-7). At that time, the future earl was either eight or fifteen, and his bride nine years old. Later he repudiated this bride, and was granted an annulment by Pope Clement VI in December 1344 on the grounds that he had been underage and unwilling. By this marriage, Richard and Isabel had one son (when Richard was either fourteen or twenty-one, and Isabel fifteen), who was bastardized by the annulment:
Sir Edmund de Arundel, knt (b ca 1327; d 1376-1382), bastardized by the annulment. Edmund was nevertheless knighted, married at the age of twenty, in the summer of 1347 Sybil de Montacute, a younger daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison, whose elder sister Elizabeth was married to his maternal uncle, of whom it was said he arranged.
Edmund protested his bastardization bitterly in 1347, but was apparently ignored. After his father's death in 1376, Edmund disputed his half-brother Richard's inheritance of the earldom and associated lands and titles in 1376 and apparently tried to claim the six manors allotted to his deceased mother. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1377, and finally freed through the intervention of two of his brothers-in-law (his wife's brother John de Montacute and the second husband of Elizabeth de Montacute, Lady Le Despencer). They had three daughters who were his co-heiresses and who brought a failed suit in 1382 against their half-uncle the Earl:
1.Elizabeth (or Alice) de Arundel, who married Sir Leonard Carew (1343-1369)of Mohuns Ottery in Devon, feudal lord of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire and lord of the manor of Moulsford in Berkshire. From Alice are descended all the members of the prominent and widespread Carew family, except Carew of Beddington in Surrey, descended from one of Sir Leonard's great-uncles.
2. Philippa de Arundel (died 18 May 1452), who married (as his 2nd wife) Sir Richard Sergeaux, Knt, of Colquite, Cornwall. A Victorian historical novel ascribes the following five children to her:
Richard, born 21 December 1376, and died childless, 24 June 1396;
Elizabeth, born 1379, wife of Sir William Marny;
Philippa, born 1381, wife of Robert Passele;
Alice, born at Kilquyt, 1 September 1384, wife of Guy de Saint Albino;
Joan, born 1393, died 21 February 1400.
"Philippa became a widow, 30 September 1393, and died 13 September 1399."
3. Alice Sergeaux, later Countess of Oxford (c. 1386-18 May 1452), who married 1stly Guy de St Aubyn of St. Erme, Cornwall, and 2ndly about 1406-7 (as his 2nd wife) the 11th Earl of Oxford and widower of Alice de Holand (dsp. 1406, niece of Henry IV), and was the mother of two sons by him:
John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
Robert de Vere, whose grandson, John, became the 15th Earl of Oxford.
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_FitzAlan,_10th_Earl_of_Arundel#Marriages_and_children
Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and 8th Earl of Surrey married twice:
Firstly, on 9 February 1321 at Havering-atte-Bower, to Isabel le Despenser (born 1312, living 1356, and may have died circa 1376-7). At that time, the future earl was either eight or fifteen, and his bride nine years old. Later he repudiated this bride, and was granted an annulment by Pope Clement VI in December 1344 on the grounds that he had been underage and unwilling. By this marriage, Richard and Isabel had one son (when Richard was either fourteen or twenty-one, and Isabel fifteen), who was bastardized by the annulment:
Sir Edmund de Arundel, knt (b ca 1327; d 1376-1382), bastardized by the annulment. Edmund was nevertheless knighted, married at the age of twenty, in the summer of 1347 Sybil de Montacute, a younger daughter of William Montacute, 1st Earl of Salisbury and Catherine Grandison, whose elder sister Elizabeth was married to his maternal uncle, of whom it was said he arranged.
Edmund protested his bastardization bitterly in 1347, but was apparently ignored. After his father's death in 1376, Edmund disputed his half-brother Richard's inheritance of the earldom and associated lands and titles in 1376 and apparently tried to claim the six manors allotted to his deceased mother. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1377, and finally freed through the intervention of two of his brothers-in-law (his wife's brother John de Montacute and the second husband of Elizabeth de Montacute, Lady Le Despencer). They had three daughters who were his co-heiresses and who brought a failed suit in 1382 against their half-uncle the Earl:
1.Elizabeth (or Alice) de Arundel, who married Sir Leonard Carew (1343-1369)of Mohuns Ottery in Devon, feudal lord of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire and lord of the manor of Moulsford in Berkshire. From Alice are descended all the members of the prominent and widespread Carew family, except Carew of Beddington in Surrey, descended from one of Sir Leonard's great-uncles.
2. Philippa de Arundel (died 18 May 1452), who married (as his 2nd wife) Sir Richard Sergeaux, Knt, of Colquite, Cornwall. A Victorian historical novel ascribes the following five children to her:
Richard, born 21 December 1376, and died childless, 24 June 1396;
Elizabeth, born 1379, wife of Sir William Marny;
Philippa, born 1381, wife of Robert Passele;
Alice, born at Kilquyt, 1 September 1384, wife of Guy de Saint Albino;
Joan, born 1393, died 21 February 1400.
"Philippa became a widow, 30 September 1393, and died 13 September 1399."
3. Alice Sergeaux, later Countess of Oxford (c. 1386-18 May 1452), who married 1stly Guy de St Aubyn of St. Erme, Cornwall, and 2ndly about 1406-7 (as his 2nd wife) the 11th Earl of Oxford and widower of Alice de Holand (dsp. 1406, niece of Henry IV), and was the mother of two sons by him:
John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford
Robert de Vere, whose grandson, John, became the 15th Earl of Oxford. | de Montagu, Sybill (I36006)
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Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Montagu,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury
He was an English nobleman and loyal servant of King Edward III.
The son of William Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu, he entered the royal household at an early age and became a close companion of the young Prince Edward. The relationship continued after Edward was crowned king following the deposition of Edward II in 1327. In 1330, Montagu was one of Edward's main accomplices in the coup against Roger Mortimer, who until then had been acting as the king's protector.
In the following years Montagu served the king in various capacities, primarily in the Scottish Wars. He was richly rewarded, and among other things received the lordship of the Isle of Man. In 1337, he was created Earl of Salisbury, and given an annual income of 1000 marks to go with the title. He served on the Continent in the early years of the Hundred Years' War, but in 1340 he was captured by the French, and in return for his freedom had to promise never to fight in France again. Salisbury died of wounds suffered at a tournament early in 1344.
Legend has it that Montagu's wife Catherine was raped by Edward III, but this story is almost certainly French propaganda. William and Catherine had six children, most of whom married into the nobility. Modern historians have called William Montague Edward's "most intimate personal friend"and "the chief influence behind the throne from Mortimer's downfall in 1330 until his own death in 1344." | de Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury William (I36007)
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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josce_de_Dinan
Josce de Dinan also called Joce de Dinan, Josselin de Dinan,[Joce de Dynan; Jocelin de Dinan, Joyce de Dinan, or Joceas de Dinan, (died 1166) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who lived during and after the civil war between King Stephen of England and his cousin Matilda over the throne of England.
He was a landholder in the Welsh Marches when he was married by Stephen to the widow of Pain FitzJohn, a union that gave Josce control of Ludlow Castle. Control of the castle was contested by other noblemen, and the resulting warfare between the nobles forms the background to a late medieval romance known as Fouke le Fitz Waryn, which is mainly concerned with the actions of Josce's grandson, but also includes some material on Josce's lifetime. Josce eventually lost control of Ludlow and was granted lands in compensation by Matilda and her son, King Henry II of England, who succeeded Stephen in 1154.
Josce was the youngest son of Geoffrey de Dinan and Radegonde Orieldis, and had two older brothers, Oliver of Dinan and Alan of Becherel. Josce's family was from Brittany, and he was described by the historian Marjorie Chibnall as an "obscure Breton adventurer." Josce moved from Devon in southern England to the Welsh Marches, the border between England and Wales, because the lords of Monmouth were also of Breton extraction. While in the Marches he joined King Stephen's household.
Josce was married to Sybil, the widow of Pain fitzJohn, who died in 1137. Sybil had held Ludlow Castle against Stephen in 1139, but surrendered after a siege. Ludlow was an important strategic stronghold for control of the Welsh Borders, and Stephen decided to marry Pain's widow to someone he felt was trustworthy.
Josce died in 1166. He was survived by two daughters: Sibil, who married Hugh de Pulgenet and died in 1212, and Hawise who married Fulk FitzWarin, who died in 1197. In 1199 his two daughters petitioned the king regarding the ownership of the town and castle of Ludlow but were turned down. | de Dinan, Josce (I36018)
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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_Provence
He was called the Liberator and was Count of Provence from 968 to his abdication. He is often considered the founder of the county of Provence. He and his elder brother Rotbold I were sons of Boso II of Arles and Constance of Viennois, daughter of Charles-Constantine.
In 980, he was installed as Count of Arles. His sobriquet comes from his victories against the Saracens [Muslims] by which he liberated Provence from their threat, which had been constant since the establishment of a base at Fraxinet. At the Battle of Tourtour in 973, with the assistance of the counts of the High Alps and the viscounts of Marseille and Fos, he definitively routed the Saracens, chasing them forever from Provence. He reorganised the region east of the Rhône, which he conquered from the Saracens and which had been given him as a gift from King Conrad of Burgundy.
He married first Arsenda, daughter of Arnold of Comminges and their son was William II of Provence.
He married second (against papal advice) in 984, Adelaide-Blanche of Anjou, daughter of Fulk II of Anjou and Gerberga, and their daughter was Constance of Arles (986?1034), married Robert II of France.
He donated land to Cluny and retired to become a monk, dying at Avignon, where he was buried in the church of Saint-Croix at Sarrians. He was succeeded as margrave by his brother. His great principality began to diminish soon after his death. | of Provence, William I (I36081)
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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_of_Albon
She became Countess of Albon and Dauphine of Viennois in 1162 upon the death of her father Guigues V. Her mother is uncertain, other than that she was a kinswoman of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa.
She married Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy in 1183 and had three children:
1. André Guigues VI (1184-1237), Dauphin of Viennois
2. Mahaut (1190-1242), married in 1214 John I, Count of Châlon and Auxonne (1190-1267)
3. Marguerite (1192-1243), married c 1217 Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy (1197-1253), Count of Savoy
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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_II_of_Le%C3%B3n
He was was King of León and Galicia from 1157 to his death. Born in Toledo, Castile, he was the son of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile and of Berenguela, of the House of Barcelona. At his father's death, he received León and Galicia, while his brother Sancho received Castile and Toledo. Ferdinand earned the reputation of a good knight and hard fighter, but did not display political or organising faculty.
He spent most of his first year as king in a dispute with his powerful nobles and an invasion by his brother Sancho III. In 1158 the two brothers met at Sahagun, and peacefully solved the heritage matters. However, Sancho died in the same year, being succeeded by his child son Alfonso VIII, while Ferdinand occupied parts of Castile.The boundary troubles with Castile restarted in 1164: he then met at Soria with the Lara family, who represented Alfonso VIII, and a truce was established, allowing him to move against the Muslims who still held much of southern Spain, and to capture the cities of Alcántara and Alburquerque. In the same year, Ferdinand defeated King Afonso I of Portugal, who, in 1163, had occupied Salamanca in retaliation for the repopulation of the area ordered by the King of León.
In 1165 he married Urraca, daughter of Afonso of Portugal. However, strife with Portugal was not put to an end by this move. In 1168 Afonso of Portugal again felt menaced by Ferdinand II's repopulation of the area of Ciudad Rodrigo: he then attacked Galicia. As his troops were also besieging the Muslim citadel of Badajoz, Ferdinand II was able to push the Portuguese out of Galicia and rush to Badajoz. When Afonso saw the Leonese arrive he tried to flee, but he was disabled by a broken leg caused by a fall from his horse, and made prisoner at one the city's gates. Afonso was obliged to surrender as his ransom almost all the conquests he had made in Galicia in the previous year. When in the same years the Almoravids laid siege to the Portuguese city of Santarém, Ferdinand II came to help his father-in-law, and helped to free the city from the menace.
In 1175 Pope Alexander III annulled Ferdinand II and Urraca of Portugal's marriage due to consanguinuity. The King remarried to Teresa Fernández de Traba, daughter of count Fernando Pérez de Traba, and widow of count Nuño Pérez de Lara. In 1185 Ferdinand married for the third time to Urraca López de Haro (daughter of Lope Díaz, lord of Biscay, Nájera and Haro), who was his mistress since 1180. The second Urraca tried in vain to have Alfonso IX, first son of Ferdinand II, declared illegitimate, to favor her son Sancho.
Ferdinand II died in 1188 at Benavente, while returning from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. He was buried in the cathedral of Compostela.
In 1230 Forty two years after Ferdinand II's death his namesake grandson Ferdinand III of Castile united Castile with Leon permanently.
Ferdinand married Urraca of Portugal around 1165, they had one son, King Alfonso IX.
Following her repudiation, he formed a relationship with Teresa Fernández de Traba, daughter of count Fernando Pérez de Traba, and in August 1179 he married her, having Ferdinand (1178-1187), legitimized through his parents' subsequent marriage, and a child whose birth led to the death of its mother.
He then formed a liaison with Urraca López de Haro, daughter of Lope Díaz I de Haro, whom he married in May 1187, having García (1182-1184), Alfonso, b.1184, legitimized through the subsequent marriage of his parents, died before his father, and Sancho (1186-1220), Lord of Fines.
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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_I,_Count_of_Ponthieu
Ponthieu was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town is Abbeville. It played a small but important role in the politics that led up to the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
Guy was a younger son of Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu and about 1053 succeeded his brother Enguerrand II, as Count of Ponthieu. The alliance with Duke William of Normandy had earlier been secured by the marriage of Enguerrand to Adelaide of Normandy, Duke William's sister. But the marriage was apparently annulled due to consanguinity.
Enguerrand and Guy's sister was married to William of Talou, son of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. William of Talou had built a strong castle at Arques, and in 1053 he defied his nephew the youthful Duke of Normandy. As "family," the house of Ponthieu supported the rebellion.
Duke William put Arques under siege, and then remained mobile with another force in the countryside nearby. Young Count Enguerrand led his army to relieve Arques, and arrived first, but Duke William successfully ambushed them and Enguerrand was killed. William of Talou was compelled to surrender Arques and was banished for life. With the death of his older brother (who was without heirs), Guy assumed the duties as count. This is the first mention of Guy in the historical record.
Count Guy became a vassal of Duke William of Normandy after his army plundered and pillages the countryside around Mortemer. The Normans attacked his army, his younger brother Waleran was mortally wounded, and Guy himself was captured. He spent two years as a prisoner in Normandy, while his uncle, Bishop Guy of Amiens, ruled Ponthieu as regent.
In 1064, Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, was shipwrecked on the shores of Ponthieu and captured by Count Guy who took him to his castle of Beaurain on the River Canche, as the Bayeux Tapestry relates: hic apprehendit wido Haroldum et duxit em ad Belrem et ibi eum tenuit ("Here Guy seized Harold and led him to Beaurain and held him there"). Duke William demanded the release of the earl, and Count Guy delivered Harold Godwinson up after being paid a ransom for him.
In 1066, Harold accepted the crown of England upon the death of Edward the Confessor, thus precipitating the war that resulted in the Norman Conquest. Guy did not participate in the Battle of Hastings, the Song of the Battle of Hastings,an early written source, has Hugh, another of Guy's brothers, having a hand in the slaying of Harold.
Guy's daughter, Agnes, married Robert of Bellême. Their son, William III of Ponthieu, assumed the comital title upon the death of his mother, sometime before 1111. | of Ponthieu, Guy I Count of Ponthieu (I36087)
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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie,_Countess_of_Ponthieu
She was was Countess of Ponthieu and Countess of Montreuil, in her own right, ruling from 1221 to 1250. Marie was the daughter of William IV of Ponthieu and Alys, Countess of the Vexin, and granddaughter of King Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile. As her father's only surviving child, Marie succeeded him, ruling as Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil.
She married Simon of Dammartin before September 1208. He was the son of Alberic II of Dammartin and Maud de Clermont, daughter of Renaud de Clermont, Count de Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and Clemence de Bar. Simon and Marie had four daughters.
1.Joan of Dammartin (1220-16 March 1279), second wife of Ferdinand III of Castile.
2. Mathilda of Dammartin (-1279), married John of Châtellerault.
3. Philippa of Dammartin (died 1277/81) who married firstly Raoul II d' Issoudun, secondly Raoul II de Coucy, and thirdly Otto II, Count Geldern.
4. Maria of Dammartin, married John II, Count of Roucy.
Marie married secondly sometime between September 1240 and 15 December 1241, Mathieu de Montmorency, Seigneur d'Attichy, who was killed in battle at Mansurrah on 8 February 1250 during the Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis IX of France.
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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_IV,_Count_of_Ponthieu
He was Count of Ponthieu, ruler of a small province in northern France. It was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town is Abbeville.
He was son and heir of John (Jean) I, Count of Ponthieu (died 1191) by his third wife Beatrice de St Pol. His father was the son of Guy II, Count of Ponthieu (who died on the Second Crusade 1147) and grandson of William III of Ponthieu, also frequently called William III Talvas, and who represented the senior line of the lords of Montgomery, once trusted vassals and allies of William the Conqueror.
Talvas was married on August 20, 1195 to Alys, Countess of the Vexin, the daughter of King Louis VII of France. She was some eighteen years older than he, and was said by some to have been seduced by King Henry II of England while betrothed to his son, King Richard the Lionheart. Richard sent her back to her brother, King Philip II of France, refusing to marry his father's mistress.
Philip then arranged for Alys to marry William Talvas, with the intent that the couple would be childless, and he would thus gain control of Ponthieu, a small but strategically important county. However, Alys then gave birth to a daughter and heiress, Marie, in 1199. This daughter was the maternal grandmother of Eleanor of Castile, first wife of Edward I, King of England, to whom Ponthieu and the disputed Vexin inheritance would eventually pass as Eleanor's dowry. William Talvas died in 1221, his daughter Marie being his heiress.
William was an important army commander in the Anglo-French War (1202-1214). He also participated in the Albigensian Crusade, particularly in the Siege of Termes in 1210.
He led the left wing of the victorious French army in the Battle of Bouvines in 1214.
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Wikpedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_1st_Earl_of_Surrey
He was a Norman nobleman who was created Earl of Surrey under William II "Rufus." He was one of the few who was documented to have been with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. At the Domesday Survey he held extensive lands in thirteen counties including the Rape of Lewes in Sussex (now East Sussex).
William was a younger son of Ranulf I de Warenne and his 1st wife Beatrice (whose mother was probably a sister of duchess Gunnor, wife of duke Richard I).
At the beginning of Duke William of Normamdy's reign [the Conqueror], his father was not a major landholder and, as a second son, William de Warenne did not stand to inherit the family?s small estates. During the rebellions of 1052-1054, the young William de Warenne proved himself a loyal adherent to the Duke and played a significant part in the Battle of Mortemer for which he was rewarded with lands confiscated from his uncle, Roger of Mortimer, including the Castle of Mortimer and most of the surrounding lands. At about the same time he acquired lands at Bellencombre including the castle which became the center of William de Warenne's holdings in Normandy.
William was among the Norman barons summoned to a council by Duke William when the decision was made to oppose King Harold II's accession to the throne of England. He is one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and was well rewarded with numerous holdings, including several manors in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex.
He fought against rebels at the Isle of Ely in 1071, where he showed a special desire to hunt down Hereward the Wake who had killed his brother-in-law Frederick the year before.
Sometime between 1078 and 1082, William and his wife Gundred traveled to Rome visiting monasteries along the way. They visited Cluny Abbey and were impressed with the monks and their dedication. William and Gundred decided to found a Cluniac priory on their own lands in England. The house they founded was Lewes Priory, the first Cluniac priory in England.
William was loyal to William II, and it was probably in early 1088 that he was created Earl of Surrey. He was mortally wounded at the First Siege of Pevensey Castle and died 24 June 1088 at Lewes, Sussex, and was buried next to his wife Gundred at the Chapterhouse of Lewes Priory.
He married first, before 1070, Gundred, and they had the following children:
1. William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (d. 1138), who married Elisabeth (Isabelle) de Vermandois, widow of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester.
2. Edith de Warenne, who married firstly Gerard de Gournay, lord of Gournay-en-Bray, and secondly Drew de Monchy.
3. Reynold de Warenne, who inherited lands from his mother in Flanders and died c. 1106.
4. An unnamed daughter, who married Ernise de Coulonces.[ | de Warenne, William I 1st Earl of Surrey (I36219)
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WILL
"In the name of God amen, I James H. Whiteaker of the Cty of Pulaski Being not verry well in body but of sound mind and disposeing memory for which I thank God and calling to mind the uncertainty of human nature or life and living desirous to dispose of all such worldly estate as it has pleased God to bless me with I give and bequeath the same as foloweth that is to say I give & be queath after my funeral expenses and just debts is pd to Dicy mine own daughter the some of one dollar then the balance of all my personal property & land to be devided equal amongst the other children after the widows dowry to wit L. M. Whiteaker & John R. Whiteaker & Alexander Whiteaker & Jas H. Whiteaker Jr. all mine own sons & Maryann Whiteaker & Mehaly Whiteaker there 4 sons and 2 daughters to have an hold to their & their heirs equaly and lastly I do here constitute my friend _________ [longblank, not named] exectator of this my last will and testament here by remaking all other [striken word] former wills or testaments by me here to fore made in witness where of I have here unto set my hand & affixed my seal this the 28th April 1849."
James H. Whiteaker
Attest: Alfred, Warren, Tillman Duncan, Giles Whiteaker, Charles Warren
State of Kentucky, Pulaski Co Sct
At a County Court held for the County afsd at the courthouse thereof in the Town of Somerset on Monday the 16th day of July 1849 A writing purporting to be the last will and Testament of James H. Whitaker Sr Decd was this day produced to the Court and Proven by the Oath of Charles Warren and Tilman Duncan Subscribing Witnesses thereto
and ordered to be recorded and the same is done accordingly.
Att: Will M. Fox Clerk | Whitaker, James H. (I24422)
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WILL
9 Jul 1851; probate 22 Sep 1851 , Lawrence Co. KY: Will Book 1
Transcribed by Sandra Salyers from the original document. Copy obtained from the County Court Clerks office in Lawrence County, Kentucky: All spelling kept as close to original as possible.
In the name of God Amen, I James Rice d o make as my last will and testament as follows. That is to ear my desire is to be buried with as little expense as possible and that all my debts and funer al expenses be paid as soon after my decease as conveniently may be and I give all my household goods and chattels also all my perashable property except for my horse and four yoke of cattle and one cow & heifer and sheep to my dear wife Elizabeth Rice for and during her lifetime and from and after my descease.
I give and devise the same to my two sons James K Rice and
David K Rice & their heirs forever by each binding themselves to support their mother during her life & give and devise all she hace of land upon big Blain Creek and upon which I now live to my two sons James K. Rice and David K. Rice and their heirs forever.
I also give my two boys James and David each two yoke of cattle and I give my horse to my son David K Rice and his heirs forever and I give my daughter Elizabeth my cow and
heifer to make her portion equal to her sister Sintha and as
...........(line not able to read).........real Estate and effects not heretofore mentioned and as shall remain after payment of my debts and previous and aforeaid specified legacies.
I give and bequeath same to my sons James K. Rice and David K Rice devided equally and their heirs forever with desire that my son in law Thomas ODaniel and his wife wish
to live on my land tha t they build them a house near the spring on the bank of big Blain Creek and their live there life too if they desire free of rent and in peaceable pospious if they however at any time leave all their improvements shall for my two sons James K. Rice and David K Rice and heirs forever .
In ........whereof the said testators I James Rice have to this my last will written upon a sheet of paper set my hand seal this the ninth day of July in the year one Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty one.
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James Rice
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Attest
Alex Hays
Thomas O Daniel
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Sherrod Rice
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State of Kentucky Lawrence County Court
Sept- Term 1857
I do certify that the written will of James Rice was proven in open court and proven in the oath of Thomas ODaniel and Alex Hays subscribing witness to be the will and deed of the said James Rice now proved to be recorded
Given under my hand this 23 day of Sept. 1851
Attese John McAllison CR | RICE, James (I29121)
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WILL
In the name of God Amen I Kemp Hurst of Wiccomoco [sic] parish in the County of Northumberland and Colony of Virginia being Sick and weak in Body but in perfect sense and Memory thanks be to god and Calling to mind the mortality of my Body do make Constitute and ordain this to be my Last will and Testament in manner and form following
Imprimis I bequeath my Soul to god who Gave it me in hopes of a future reward and my body to the Earth to be Buried According to the Direction of my Exet. hereafter Named and my worldly Estate I dispose of in the Following manner and form.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Betty Kemp Hurst my Negroe Girl Nanny to her and her heirs forever after the Decease of Loving mother or day of marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Sukey Hurst my Negroe Girl Letty to her and her heirs forever after the Decease of her Loving mother or day of Marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Kemp Hurst my Negroe Boy Solomon to him and his heirs forever after the Decease of his Loving mother or day of Marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Hurst my Negroe Boy Emanuel to him and heirs forever after the Decease of his Loving mother or day of marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Willis Hurst my Negroe Boy Jesse to him and heirs forever after the Decease of his Loving Mother or day of Marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Hurst the Plantation I now live on together with all the appurtenances to him and his heirs forever.
Item. My will and Desire is that my Beloved wife Sukey Hurst Shall have and possess my whole Estate of Lands and Tenements Negroes and all my other Estate of what nature or [illegible] Dower it be that my beloved Wife Sukey Should have and Enjoy the whole use of the same During her Widowhood.
Item. I give and bequeath all the rest of my Estate Except the Legacies before mentioned of Negroes and other Personal Estate to be Equally Divided between my Six Children, Thomas, Kemp, Isaac, Willis, Betty Kemp, and Sukey Hurst to them and their heirs at the Loving mothers Death or
marriage.
Item. my will and Desire is that my Estate be not appraised but be Inventor?d by my Extr. hereafter named.
Item. I do nominate and appoint my beloved wife Sukey Hurst and my Brother Thomas Hurst Extr. of this my Last will and Testament. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and afixed my Seal this 24th June 1782.
Signed Sealed Kemp
Hurst (Seal) In Presence of John Sutton Chas. Lattimore Jun.r. Benjamin
Bustle Isaac Hurst
At a Court held for Northumberland County the 16th Day of October 1782.
This Last will and Testament of Kemp Hurst deced was presented in Court by Sukey Hurst and Thomas Hurst the Executrix and Executors therein named who made oath thereto according to Law and the same was proved by the oaths of John Sutton Charles Lattimore Junr. and Benjamin Bustle Those of the Witnesses thereto and Admitted to record and on the motion of the said Executors Giving Security a Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form. Teste Catesby Jones Ct. Cur.
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WILL
Will of Benjamin C. Spiller Of Lancaster County
26 Mar 1801, codicil 11 Apr 1801, proved 20 July 1801
Item. I give unto my son Benedictus Spiller my dwelling plantation whereon I now live, which land I purchased from Thomas Pinckard [ Indian Creek Farm] provided my said son shall pay unto his brother James Spiller when he comes of age 250 pounds and in case his said brother James shall die before he comes of age, that the said sum of two hundred and fifty pounds shall be paid unto my son Patrick Spiller.
Item. I give I give unto my son James Spiller two thousand acres of land lying in Kentucky, it being part of the four thousand acres of land before mentioned and which I give two thousand acres of between my two sons William and Hickman Spiller.
Item. My will and desire is that the balance of my estate not already given shall be equally divided between my following children to wit Benedictus, Benjamin, Susanna, Ann Frazer, Grace, Patrick, Rocksylany and James after death or marriage of my said loving wife Ann Spiller or sooner as aforesaid in the first clause of this my said will.
COURT CASES
1809: Suit, Chancery Dist., Williamsburg, Apr 1809. Kendall Lee vs. Ann Spiller, widow of Benjamin Spiller, decd, Benjamin Spiller, Susan Hurst, George Smither and Nancy his wife, and Grace, Patrick, Roxillana and James Spiller, infants, by the said Benjamin Spiller their guardian, and William Spiller and Hickman Spiller, Defts.... The enquirer, 5 Sep 1809. Kendall Lee was from Northumberland.
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At a Court held for the County of Lancaster on the 18 day of April (looks like) 1814 - James Spiller, orphan of Benjamin C. Spiller, dec'd with the approbation of the Court, chose James Hune/Hume for his guardian, who together with Thomas Ball, Richard H. Gaskins, Griffen Edwards & James Ewell, his securities, entered into & acknowledged their bond in the penalty of $10,000.00 with such condition as the law directs.
LAND RECORDS
An Indenture was made on the 6 Feb 1818 in Northumberland Co., VA between James Spiller and Griffen H. Foushee for the sale of James' 2000 ac. in Greene Co., OH, he inherited from his father, Benj. C. Spiller. It states that the 2000 acres is part of an undivided 4000 ac. military grant to Capt. Benjamin C. Spiller for his service in the war, and that the 2000 ac. was devised to James by Benjamin's Will which is recorded in Lancaster Co., VA. This indenture is witnessed by Thomas Towles, Royston Betts, Jr. and Isaac Haynie.
CENSUS RECORDS
Name: James Speller [James Spiller]
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Lancaster, Virginia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Number of Persons - Engaged in Commerce: 1
Total Free White Persons: 2
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 2
MILITARY RECORDS
National Archives and Records Administration. Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M602, 234 rolls.
Name: James Spiller
Company: 37 REG'T (DOWNING'S) VIRGINIA MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 196
Microfilm Publication: M602
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WILL
Will of Benjamin C. Spiller Of Lancaster County
26 Mar 1801, codicil 11 Apr 1801, proved 20 July 1801
Item. My desire is that should my daughters Susanna, Ann Frazer, Grace, Rockseylany or either of them marry before the death or marriage of my said wife Ann Spiller, that they or either of them shall have and receive her or their share or portion of my estate at such time as they shall choose, which shall be in full of and for their part or parts. And that should either of my children die without lawful issue of their body begotten, that his her or their part or parts of my estate shall then return and go to such child or children of mine, or their heirs, as shall then be living.
Item. My will and desire is that the balance of my estate not already given shall be equally divided between my following children to wit Benedictus, Benjamin, Susanna, Ann Frazer, Grace, Patrick, Rocksylany and James after death or marriage of my said loving wife Ann Spiller or sooner as aforesaid in the first clause of this my said will.
COURT CASE
1809: Suit, Chancery Dist., Williamsburg, Apr 1809. Kendall Lee vs. Ann Spiller, widow of Benjamin Spiller, decd, Benjamin Spiller, Susan Hurst, George Smither and Nancy his wife, and Grace, Patrick, Roxillana and James Spiller, infants, by the said Benjamin Spiller their guardian, and William Spiller and Hickman Spiller, Defts.... The enquirer, 5 Sep 1809. Kendall Lee was from Northumberland. | SPILLER, Grace (I36172)
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WILL
Will of Benjamin C. Spiller Of Lancaster County
26 Mar 1801, codicil 11 Apr 1801, proved 20 July 1801
Item. My desire is that should my daughters Susanna, Ann Frazer, Grace, Rockseylany or either of them marry before the death or marriage of my said wife Ann Spiller, that they or either of them shall have and receive her or their share or portion of my estate at such time as they shall choose, which shall be in full of and for their part or parts. And that should either of my children die without lawful issue of their body begotten, that his her or their part or parts of my estate shall then return and go to such child or children of mine, or their heirs, as shall then be living.
Item. My will and desire is that the balance of my estate not already given shall be equally divided between my following children to wit Benedictus, Benjamin, Susanna, Ann Frazer, Grace, Patrick, Rocksylany and James after death or marriage of my said loving wife Ann Spiller or sooner as aforesaid in the first clause of this my said will.
COURT CASE
1809: Suit, Chancery Dist., Williamsburg, Apr 1809. Kendall Lee vs. Ann Spiller, widow of Benjamin Spiller, decd, Benjamin Spiller, Susan Hurst, George Smither and Nancy his wife, and Grace, Patrick, Roxillana and James Spiller, infants, by the said Benjamin Spiller their guardian, and William Spiller and Hickman Spiller, Defts.... The enquirer, 5 Sep 1809. Kendall Lee was from Northumberland. | SPILLER, Rocksylany or Roxillana (I36173)
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WILL
Will of David Herndon, written/recorded 8 Sep 1794, mentions only wife Mary Herndon, grandson David Herndon Moorman, son Edmund Herndon, and daughter Frances (Herndon) Moorman; executors: ?my son Edmund Herndon, and Andrew Moorman, and my wife;? witnesses: Grif?n Lewis Sr., David Tallay, Benoni C. Tallay. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672 P28c, Campbell Co. Va. Wills Vol. 1, 1782-1800, page 63, original page 281.
David Herndon?s widow was assessed, Summer 1795, as she takes on her late husband?s property (Source: (HFV 1:33).) Will of David Herndon, deceased, was proved, 3 Sep 1795, by oath of witness David Tallay. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672 P28c, (CmWB 1:63, opg 281).) Will of David Herndon, deceased, was further proved, 1 Oct 1795, by oath of witness Griffin Lewis Sr. and Achilles Moormon, one of the executors, was granted a certificate for obtaining probate. (FHL book, 975.5672 P28c. Inventory & Appraisement of the estate of David Herndon, deceased, conducted per court order, 7 Apr 1796, as Total value: 430 L, 7 shillings, 6 pence. Included Negroes George, Ben, Jene, Darkis adn child. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672, P28c. David?s widow Mary Herndon was taxed for property in Campbell County from 1796 until her death there in 1806. (Source: (HFV 1:34).
The David Herndon estate which was divided at the [1806] death of his wife [Mary] with one half to his son, Edmund Herndon, and the other half to his daughter Frances [Herndon] Moorman. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672 P28h, Campbell Co. Va. Will Book 3, 1810-1817, page 39, original page 75 | Herndon, David (I35881)
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WILL
Will of David Herndon, written/recorded 8 Sep 1794, mentions only wife Mary Herndon, grandson David Herndon Moorman, son Edmund Herndon, and daughter Frances (Herndon) Moorman; executors: ?my son Edmund Herndon, and Andrew Moorman, and my wife;? witnesses: Grif?n Lewis Sr., David Tallay, Benoni C. Tallay. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672 P28c, Campbell Co. Va. Wills Vol. 1, 1782-1800, page 63, original page 281.
David Herndon?s widow was assessed, Summer 1795, as she takes on her late husband?s property (Source: (HFV 1:33).) Will of David Herndon, deceased, was proved, 3 Sep 1795, by oath of witness David Tallay. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672 P28c, (CmWB 1:63, opg 281).) Will of David Herndon, deceased, was further proved, 1 Oct 1795, by oath of witness Griffin Lewis Sr. and Achilles Moormon, one of the executors, was granted a certificate for obtaining probate. (FHL book, 975.5672 P28c. Inventory & Appraisement of the estate of David Herndon, deceased, conducted per court order, 7 Apr 1796, as Total value: 430 L, 7 shillings, 6 pence. Included Negroes George, Ben, Jene, Darkis adn child. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672, P28c. David?s widow Mary Herndon was taxed for property in Campbell County from 1796 until her death there in 1806. (Source: (HFV 1:34).
The David Herndon estate which was divided at the [1806] death of his wife [Mary] with one half to his son, Edmund Herndon, and the other half to his daughter Frances [Herndon] Moorman. (Source: FHL book, 975.5672 P28h, Campbell Co. Va. Will Book 3, 1810-1817, page 39, original page 75 | Lewis, Mary (I35885)
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