A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire

[S777] "A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire", Burke, Sir Bernard, 1883
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Linked To: Sir Thomas Stanley, 1st Lord Stanley of Lathom, Sir John Beauchamp, Lord of Ryme, Sir John de Beauchamp, Lord of Ryme, Sir Robert de Beauchamp, IV, Lord of Hatch, Sir Reynold de Mohun, II, Lord of Dunster, Hawise fitz Geoffrey, Sir Reynold de Mohun, I, Earl of Somerset, Alice de Briwere, William de Mohun, IV, Geoffrey fitz Piers, 4th Earl of Essex, Aveline de Clare, Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, Maud de St. Hilary, James de St. Hilary, Lord of Field Dalling, Robert de Newburgh, Henry de Newburgh, 1st Earl of Warwick, Margaret de Perche, Countess of Warwick, Roger de Beaumont, Seigneur of Beaumont, Torf, Sir John fitz Geoffrey, Lord of Hallamshire, Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kidwelly Castle, William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick, Maud fitz John, Isabel Bigod, Sir George Holford, of Holford, Thomas Holford, Maud Bulkelely, Sir William Bulkley, Justice of Cheshire, Margaret Molyneux, Sir Richard Molyneux, Lord of Sefton, Ralph de Tellieres, Earl Gilbert, Count of Brionne and Eu, Richard fitz Gilbert, Earl of Clare, Rohese Giffard, Godfrey, Earl of Brionne and Eu, Richard, I, Duke of Normandy, Walter Giffard, 3rd Lord of Longueville, Agnes Flatel, Gerard Flatel, Osbern de Bolebec, Lord of Longueville, Avelina, Robert de Caen, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Sir Gilbert fitz Richard, I, Lord of Cardigan, Adeliza de Clermont, Richard fitz Gilbert, II, 1st Earl of Hertford, Adeliz le Meschin, Eudo la Zouche, of Haryngworth, Milicent de Cantelou, Sir William de Cantelou, Baron of Abergavenny, Eva de Braiose, William de Braiose, V, 6th Baron of Braoise, Eva Marshal, of Pembroke, Sir William Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Isabel de Clare, Countess of Pembroke, Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Eva MacMurrough, of Leinster, Gilbert fitz Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, Isabel de Beaumont, Eleanor de Braiose, Maud de Braoise, William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, Maud Marshal, Countess of Norfolk, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, Margaret de Clare, Sir Thomas de Clare, Governor of London, Juliana fitz Maurice, Sir Richard de Clare, 8th Earl of Clare, Maud de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln, Sir Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Clare, Isabel Marshal, Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Clare, Amice fitz Robert, Countess of Gloucester, Sir Robert de Beaumont, I, 1st Earl of Leicester, William fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, John de Lacy, 7th Earl of Lincoln, Margaret de Quincy, Roger de Lacy, William de Beauchamp, 5th Baron Beauchamp of Elmley Castle, Isabel Maudit, William de Braiose, 5th Baron de Braiose, Lady Maud de St. Valery, Dame de la Haie, Patrick de Chaworth, of Kempsford, Hawise de London, Sir William de Briwere, Lord of Torre and Horsley, Reginald de Braiose, Lord of Abergavenny, Grace de Briwere, Isabel d'Aubigny, William d'Aubigny, III, 3rd Earl of Arundel, Mabel de Meschines, of Chester, Hugh de Meschines, Earl of Chester, Bertrade de Montfort, Ranulph de Gernon, Earl of Chester, Maud de Caen, of Gloucester, Robert de Quincy, II, Earl of Winchester, Sir Ralph Mainwaring, Amicia de Meschines, Sir William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, Margaret de Quincy, William de Ferrers, II, 4th Earl of Derby, Agnes Kevelioc, of Chester, Lady of Chartley, Stephen Longespee, of Sutton, Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, Ela de Salisbury, Countess of Salisbury, Henry Plantagenet, III, King of England, William de Cantelou, of Calne, John fitz Gilbert, Walter fitz Edward, Earl of Salisbury, Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster, Geoffrey de Chateaudun, II, Count of Perche and Mortagne, William fitz Richard, Earl of Cornwall, Robert de Mortain, Earl of Cornwall, William, I, King of England, Herleve, Sir Guncelin de Badlesmere, Justice of Chester, Joan _____, Sir Maurice fitz Maurice, Lord of Offaly, Saher de Quincy, IV, 1st Earl of Winchester, Margaret de Beaumont, Robert de Beaumont, III, 3rd Earl of Leicester, Petronilla de Grandmesnil, Hugh de Grandmesnil, William le Meschin, Lord of Skipton-in-Craven, Alan de Cornouaille, IV, Duke of Brittany, Ermengarde d'Anjou, Hoel de Cornouaille, Duke of Brittany, Waleran de Beaumont, IV, Earl of Worcester, Robert de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby, Hawise, Malcom, III, King of Scots, Ralph de Mortimer, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby, Sir Thomas de London, Lord of Kidwelly, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, William fitz Patrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, Eleanor de Vitre, Patrick de Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury, Sibyl de Chaworth, Patrick de Chaworth, William, IX, Duke of Aquitaine, William de Toulouse, IV, Count of Toulouse, Roger de Montgomery, II, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, Ranulph le Meschin, III, Earl of Chester, Countess Lucia, of Alkborough, Ranulph, II, Viscount of Bayeux, Margaret le Goz d'Avranches, Roger de Mortimer, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore, Isabel de Ferrers, William de Braiose, 3rd Lord of Bramber, Philip de Braiose, 2nd Lord of Bramber, Bertha, of Hereford, Miles fitz Walter, 1st Earl of Hereford, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel, William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, Saher de Quincy, I, of Buckley and Daventry, Maud de St. Liz, Lady of Bradham, William Maudit, Lord of Hanslope and Hartley Maudit, Alice de Newburgh, Robert Maudit, Lord of Hanslope, Waleran de Newburgh, 4th Earl of Warwick, Alice de Harcourt, Sir Robert de Harcourt, of Stanton-Harcourt, Isabel de Camville, Richard de Camville, of Stanton, Roger de Newburgh, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Gundred de Warenne, Countess of Warwick, Hugh de Creil, Earl of Clermont, Gerald fitz Maurice, 1st Baron of Offlay, Maurice fitz Gerald, Lord of Lanstephen, Alice de Montgomery, Gerald fitz Walter, of Windsor, Nesta, of Wales, Walter fitz Otho, Constable of Windsor, Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales, William de Ferrers, I, 3rd Earl of Derby, Sibyl de Braiose, Judith de Lens, , Countess of Huntingdon, Waltheof, II, 1st Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy, Lady Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon, Simon de St. Liz, I, 4th Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, David, I, King of Scotland, Robert de Beauchamp, III, Lord of Hatch, Sir Robert de Muscegros, Lord of Deerhurst, Agnes de Ferrers, Emma de Mortain, Mathilde de Montgomery, Morejarl Eystein Glumra, Jarl of Upplands, Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk, Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, Margery de Braiose, Hugh de Lacy, 1st Lord of Meath, William de Mohun, III, Earl of Dorset, William de Mohun, II, Earl of Somerset, Agnes de Gaunt, Sir William de Mohun, Lord of Dunster, Walter de Gaunt, Earl of Lincoln, Maud, of Brittany, Gilbert de Gaunt, I, Lord of Fokingham and Hummandby, Alice de Montfort, Hugh de Montfort, II, Seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Morejarl Ragnvald, I, Jarl of North and South More, Richard, 2nd Earl of Cornwall, Amaury de Montfort, I, Seigneur of Montfort, Elizabeth Stanley, Ada Huntington, David, Earl of Huntington, Matilda Kevelioc, Gilbert de Laci, Roger de Laci, Walter de Laci, Millicent de Gournay, Hugues de Gournay, V, Rhodri ap Merfyn, King of Gwynedd, Powys, and Deheubarth, Gilbert Marshal, Isabel de Beauchamp, Edward de Evereux, of Salisbury, Thomas Basset, Sheriff of Oxfordshire, Sir Ralph Basset, Justice of England, Thurstan Basset, Herluin, Viscount of Conteville, John de Burgh, Earl of Comyn, Eustace de Burgh, Baron Tonsburgh, John de Burgh, Eustace fitz John, Baron of Halton, Agnes fitz Nigel, William fitz Nigel, Baron of Halton, Richard fitz Eustace, Baron of Halton, John, Constable of Chester, Albreda de Lisours, Richard de Camville, Governor of Cyprus, Gerald de Camville, Ivo de Harcourt, William de Harcourt, Robert de Harcourt, Anchetil de Harcourt, Seigneur of Harcourt, Turchetil, Seigneur de Turqueville, Bernard, Ralph fitz Bernard, Lord of Kingsdowne, Robert de Beauchamp, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, Hugh le Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, Roger Bigod, Lady Adeliza de Tosny, Julian de Vere, Alberic de Vere, William de Cantilupe, Sheriff of Warwick and Leicester, Robert de Lisours, William fitz Alan, Lord of Oswestry and Clun, William fitz Alan, Lord of Oswestry, Isabel de Say, Lady of Clun, Alan fitz Flaad, Lord of Oswestry, Flaad, Steward of Dol, Helias de Say, Lord of Clun, William d'Aubigny, II, Master Butler, Matilda Bigod, Roger d'Aubigny, Egenulph de Ferrieres, Henry de Ferrers, Seigneur de St. Hilarie de Ferriers, Berta, Walkelin de Ferrieres, Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby, Margaret Peverel, William de Peverel, Lord of Nottingham, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, Rohese de Vere, William de Mandeville, Ilbert de Lacy, Hugh de Montfort, Seigneur de Montfort-sur-Risle, Humphrey de Bohun, II, Lord of Tatterford, Maud de Salisbury, Walter de Evereux, Lord of Salisbury, Arnolph de Montgomery, Lafracoth, Murrough O'Brien, King of Munster, Milicent, Thurstan de Bastenburgh, William Mauduit, Cameraius of Hanslope, William Mauduit, Matilda de Hanslape, Michael de Hanslape, Hawise Kevelioc, of Chester, 6th Countess of Lincoln, John Bulkeley, of Eaton, Robert Bulkeley, High Sheriff of Cheshire, Isabel Egerton, Philip Egerton, of Malpas, Robert Bulkeley, High Sheriff of Cheshire, Agnes _____, William Bulkeley, Maud Davenport, Sir John Davenport, Knt., of Davenport, Robert Bulkeley, of Bulkeley, Jane Butler, Sir William Butler, Knt., William Bulkeley, Lord of the Manor of Bulkeley, ? Butler, Thomas Butler, Lord of Warrington, Robert de Bulkeley, Lord of the Manor of Bulkeley, Sir Reynold de Mohun, I, Earl of Somerset and Alice de Briwere Family, Sir Gilbert fitz Richard, I, Lord of Cardigan and Adeliza de Clermont Family, Sir William Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare, Countess of Pembroke Family, Sir Richard de Clare, 8th Earl of Clare and Maud de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln Family, Alan de Cornouaille, IV, Duke of Brittany and Ermengarde d'Anjou Family
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Page 2: Albini, Earls of Arundel

William de Albini, surnamed Pincerna, son of Roger de Albini and elder brother of Nigel de Albini, whose posterity assumed and attained such eminence under the name of Mowbray, accompanied the Conqueror into England and acquired extensive territorial possessions by royal grants in Norfolk and other counties. Of these grants was the lordship of Bokenham, to be holden by the service of being Butler to the Kings of England on the day of their coronation, and in consequence we find this William styled in divers charters 'Pincerna Henrici Regis Anglorum.' William de Albini founded the abbey of Wymondham in Norfolk and gave to the monks of Rochester the tithes of the manor of Elham, as also one carucate of land in Achestede, with a wood called Acholte. He likewise bestowed upon the abbey of St. Etienne at Caen, in Normandy, all his lands lying in Stavell, which grant he made in the presence of King Henry and his barons. He m. Maude, dau. of Roger Bigot, with whom he obtained ten knights' fees in Norfolk, and had issue, William, Nigel, Oliver, and Oliva, who m. Ralph de Haye. At the obsequies of Maud, William de Albini gave to the monks of Wymondham the manor of Hapesburg, in pure alms, and made livery thereof to the said monks by a cross of silver, in which (says Dugdale) was placed certain venerable reliques, viz., 'part of the wood of the cross whereon our Lord was crucified; part of the manger wherein he was laid at his birth; and part of the sepulchre of the Blessed Virgin; as also a gold ring, and a silver chalice for retaining the Holy Eucharist, admirably wrought in form of a sphere; unto which pious donation his three sons were witnesses, with several other persons.' The exact time of the decease of this great feudal baron is not ascertained, but it is known that he was buried before the high altar in the abbey of Wymondham, and that the monks were in the constant habit of praying for his soul by the name of 'William de Albini, the king's butler.' He was s. by his eldest son, William de Albini.
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Page 18-19: Badlesmere, Barons Badlesmere

The first mention of this family occurs in the 16th year of the reign of Henry II (1169-70), when Bartholomew de Badlesmere had a law suit with William de Cheney concerning a landed property in the county of Kent, and in the 22nd of the same king [1176], we find this Bartholomew amerced 20 marks for trespassing in the royal forests.

Gunceline de Badlesmere, known first as a great rebel to Henry III, for which he was excommunicated by the archbishop of Canterbury, but subsequently, returning to his allegiance, as justice of Chester, in that office he continued until the 9th of Edward I [1280-1]. In the next year he was in the expedition into Wales, and in the 25th of the same monarch [1297-8], in that into Gascony, having previously, by the writ of 26 January in that year, been summoned to the parliament at Salisbury for the following Sunday, the feast of St. Matthew, 21 September, as Gunselm de Badlesmere. He d. four years afterwards, seised of the manor of Badlesmere, which he held in capite of the crown, as of the barony of Crevequer, by the service on one knight's fee. He m. the heiress of Ralph Fitz-Bernard, Lord of Kingsdowne, and was s. by his son, then twenty-six years of age, Bartholomew de Badlesmere.

Bartholomew de Badlesmere, who in the lifetime of his father (22nd Edward I) [1294], received command to attend the king at Portsmouth, upon the 1st day of September, with horse and arms, to embark with him for Gascony, and, in the year that he succeeded to his paternal property, was in the wars of Scotland. He was afterwards in the retinue of Robert de Clifford in the Welsh wars, and in the 1st year of Edward I [1272], was appointed governor of the castle of Bristol. In two years afterwards, he was summoned to parliament as Badlesmere, and had a grant from the king, through the especial influence of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, of the castle and manor of Chilham, in Kent, for his own and his wife's life, which castle had been possessed by Alexander de Baliol in right of his wife Isabel, and ought to have escheated to the crown upon the decease of the said Alexander by reason of the felony that John de Strabolgi, Earl of Atholl (Isabel's son and heir), who was hanged in the 5th of Edward II [1312], Lord Badlesmere was constituted governor of the castle of Leeds and obtained, at the same time, grants of divers extensive manors. In the next year but one, his lordship was deputed with Otto de Grandison and others, ambassador to the court of Rome, and the next year, upon the death of Robert de Clifford, he obtained a grant of the custody of the castle of Skipton in Yorkshire, whereof the said Robert died possessed,to hold during the minority of Roger de Clifford, his son and heir. His lordship was further indebted to the crown for numerous charters for fairs and marts throughout his extensive manors; and he held the high office of steward of the household for a great number of years; but notwithstanding his thus basking in the sunshine of royal favour, his allegiance was not trustworthy, for joining the banner of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and other discontented nobles of that period, he went into Kent without the king's permission; where, being well received, he put himself at the head of some soldiers from his castle at Leeds and then proceeded to Canterbury with 19 knights, having linen jackets under their surcoats, all his esquires being in plate armour, and thus repaired to the shrine of St. Thomas, to the great amazement of the good citizens. While Lord Badlesmere remained at Canterbury, John de Crumwell and his wife sought his lordship's aid, and, pledging himself to afford it, he hastened to Oxford where the barons of his party had been then assembled. In the meantime the king being apprised of the baron's proceedings, despatched the queen to Leeds and, upon admission being denied to her,the castle was regularly invested by Adomere de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, and John de Britannia, Earl of Richmond, to whom it eventually surrendered, when Lord Badlesmere's wife, young son, and daughters, all falling into the hands of the besiegers, were sent prisoners to the Tower of London. The baron and his accomplices afterwards were pursued by Edmund, Earl of Kent, and John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and being defeated and taken prisoners at the battle of Borough-Bridge, his lordship was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Canterbury, and his head set upon a pole at Burgate. At the time of the baron's execution, upwards of ninety lords, knights,and others concerned in the same insurrection suffered a similar fate invarious parts of the kingdom. Margaret, his lordship's widow (one of thedaus. and co-heiresses of Thomas, 3rd son of Thomas, 2nd son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester), continued prisoner in the Tower until,through the influence of William Lord Ros, of Hamlake, and others, she obtained her freedom, whereupon taking herself to the nunnery of Minoresses, without Aldgate, in the suburbs of London, she had 2s. a day for her maintenance to be paid by the sheriff of Essex; she subsequently, however, obtained a large proportion of the deceased lord's manors for her dowry. By this lady, Lord Badlesmere left issue. His lordship had been summoned to parliament from 26 October, 1309, to 5 August, 1320. His unhappy fate occurred in 1322.
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Page 26: Basset, Barons Basset, of Drayton

'Immediately after the Norman conquest,' says Collins, 'arose into power and importance, more especially in the midland counties, the great baronial family of Basset,' descended from Thurstan the Norman.
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Page 26: Basset, Barons Basset, of Welden

Few families in the early annals of England can boast of a more eminent progenitor than the Bassets, and the descendants of few of the Anglo-Norman nobles attained a higher degree of power than those of Ralph Basset (son of Thurstan, the Norman), who was justice of England under King Henry I. We find his son Ralph, in the reign of Stephen, 'a bounding in wealth and erecting a strong castle upon some part of his inheritance in Normandy.' Ralph Basset, the justice of England, required none of the artificial aids of ancestry to attain distinction; he had within himself powers sufficient at any period to reach the goal of honour, but particularly to the rude age in which he lived. To his wisdom we are said to be indebted for many salutary laws, and among others for that off rank pledge. Like all the great men of his day, he was a most liberal benefactor to the church. He d. in 1120, leaving issue, Thurstine, Thomas, Richard, Nicholas, and Gilbert.

Thurstine s. to the manor of Colston.

Thomas, ancestor of the Bassets of Heddington, from whom diverged the Wycombe Bassets.
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Page 29-30: Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick

Amongst the most eminent Normal families in the train of the Conqueror was that of Beauchamp, and amongst those that shared most liberally in the spoils of the conquest was Hugh de Beauchamp, the companion in arms of the victorious Norman, who obtained grants to a very great extent from his triumphant chief, as he appears at the general survey to be possessed of large estates in Hertford, Buckingham, and Bedfordshires, was the founder of this illustrious house in England. This Hugh had issue, Simon, who d. s. p.; Payne, ancestor of the Beauchamps of Bedford, that barony having been conferred upon him by William Rufus; Walter, but some doubts have been thrown upon the question of his having been son of Hugh, Sir H Nicholas stating him to have been 'supposed of the same family'; Milo, of Eaton, co. Bedford; Adeline, m. to Walter le Espec, Lord of Kirkham and Helmesley, co. of York.

Hugh de Beauchamp's third son, Walter de Beauchamp, of Elmley Castle, co. Gloucester, having m. Emeline, dau. and heiress of Urso de Abitot, constable of the castle of Worcester, and hereditary sheriff of Worcestershire (who was brother of Robert le Despenser, steward to the Conqueror), was invested with that sheriffalty by King Henry I, and obtained a grant from the same monarch (to whom he was steward) of all the lands belonging to Roger de Worcester, with a confirmation of certain lands given to him by Adelise, widow of his father-in-law, the said Urso. Walter de Beauchamp was s., as well in his estates as in the royal stewardship, by his son, William de Beauchamp.

William de Beauchamp, who, for all his zeal in the cause of the Empress Maud, was dispossessed of the castle of Worcester by King Stephen, to which, and all his other honours and estates, however, he was restored by King Henry II; and in that monarch's reign, besides the sheriffalty of Worcestershire, which he enjoyed by inheritance, he was sheriff of Warwickshire (2nd Henry II), sheriff of Gloucestershire (from 3rd to the 9th Henry II), sheriff of Herefordshire (from the 8th to the 16th Henry II, 1167-70, inclusive). Upon the levy of the assessment towards the marriage portion of one of King Henry's daus., this powerful feudal lord certified his knight's fees to amount to fifteen. He m. Maud, dau. of William Lord Braose, of Gower, and was s. at his decease by his son, William de Beauchamp.

William de Beauchamp, who m. Joan, dau. of Sir Thomas Walerie, and dying before the 13th (1211-12) of King John's reign, was s. by his son (aminor, whose wardship and marriage Roger de Mortimer and Isabel, his wife, obtained for 3,000 marks).

This nobleman, William de Beauchamp, feudal Lord of Elmley, attended King Henry III, in the 37th year of his reign [1253], into Gascoigne, and in two years afterwards marched under the banner of Robert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, against the Scots. In the 41st of the same reign, he had summons (with other illustrious persons) to meet the king at Chester on the feast day of St Peter de Vincula, well fitted with horse and arms to oppose the incursions of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. Lord Beauchamp m. Isabel, dau. of William Mauduit, of Hanslape, co. Bucks, heritable chamberlain of the exchequer, and sister and heiress of William Mauduit, Earl of Warwick (who inherited that dignity from his cousin, Margery de Newburgh, Countess of Warwick, in the year 1263). His lordship made his will in 1268, the year in which he died. Besides the daus. mentioned above [there are no daughters named in this article], Lord Beauchamp left four sons, viz., William; John, of Holt, co. Worcester; Walter, of Powyke and Alcester; Thomas, d. s. p.

William de Beauchamp inherited not only the feudal barony of Elmley from his father, but had previously derived from his mother the Earldom of Warwick (originally possessed by the Newburghs), and the barony of Hanslape (which had belonged to the Mauduits). This eminent nobleman was a distinguished captain in the Welsh and Scottish wars of King Edward I. 'In the 23rd year of which reign (1294-5), being in Wales with the king,' as Dugdale relates, 'he performed a notable exploit; namely hearing that a great body of the Welsh were got together in a plain betwixt two woods and, to secure themselves, had fastened their pikes to the group, sloping their pikes towards their assailants, he marched thither with a choice company of cross-bowmen and archers, and in the night time encompassing them about, but betwixt every two horsemen on cross-bowman, which cross-bowman killing many of them that held the picks, the horsemen charged in suddenly and made very great slaughter. This was done near Montgomery.' His lordship m. Maud, widow of Girard de Furnival, and one of the four daughters and co-heiresses of Richard FitzJohn, son of John Fitz-Geffrey, chief Justice of Ireland, by whom he had surviving issue, Guy, his successor; Isabel, m. to Peter Chaworth; Maud, m. to -- Rithco; Margaret, m. to John Sudley; Anne and Amy, nuns at Shouldham, co. Norfolk, a monastery founded by his lordship's maternal great grandfather. William de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Warwick of that family, d. in 1298, having previous to his mother's death used the style and title of Earl of Warwick, with what legality appears very doubtful, and was s by his eldest son, Guy de Beauchamp.

Maud FitzJohn, widow of Girard de Furnival, and one of the four daus. and co-heiresses of Richard FitzJohn, son of John FitzGeffrey, chief justice of Ireland.
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Page 33: Beauchamp, Barons Beauchamp, of Hache, in the co. Somerset

The first of this Somersetshire family of whom mention is made by Dugdale is Robert de Beauchamp, who, in the 3rd of Henry II (1156-7), accounted to the king 6 pounds for a mark of gold and, in the 9th of the same monarch [1163], was sheriff of the cos. Somerset and Dorset. In three years afterwards, this Robert, upon the assessment of the aid for marrying the king's dau., then levied, certified his knight's fees, veterifeoffamento, to amount in number to seventeen, for which, in the 14th of Henry II [1168], he paid 7 pounds 1s. 8d., that is 8s. 4p. for each knight's fee. In the 22nd of the same Henry [1176], he again enjoyed the sheriffalty for the same cos., and continued in office for five years, and one half of the sixth year following. This feudal lord d. in 1228, leaving in minority, and in ward to Hubert de Burgh, his son and heir, Robert de Beauchamp, who d. before 1251.

His father d. in 1228, leaving his son and heir, Robert de Beauchamp, in minority and in ward to Hubert de Burgh. This Robert d. before 1251, and was s. by his son, Robert de Beauchamp.

Of the feudal lord, Robert de Beauchamp, nothing is known beyond his being engaged against the Welsh with Henry III, and his founding the priory of Frithelstoke, in the co. Devon. He was yet living in 1257, and was s. by his son, John de Beauchamp.

John de Beauchamp, who in the 5th of Edward I (1276-7), was made governor of the castles of Kaermerdin and Cardigan. He m. Cicely, dau. and heiress of Maude de Kyme, dau. of William Ferrers, Earl of Derby, by her second husband, William de Vivonia, which William was son of Hugh de Vivonia, by Mabel, one of the co-heirs of William Mallet, a great baron, who d. temp. Henry III. This John de Beauchamp, who d. 1283, was s. by his son, John de Beauchamp.

John de Beauchamp, who was summoned to parliament as a baron by the style of 'Io de Bello Campo (de Somerset),' on 29 December, 1299, 28th of Edward I, and in the 34th of the same reign [1306] was one of the distinguished persons who received the honour of knighthood with Price Edward, the king's eldest son, being in the expedition made into Scotland in that year. In the 8th of Edward II [1315], his lordship was again in the Scottish wars; and in the 14th of the same king he succeeded to the very extensive landed possessions of his mother, comprising the manor of Sturminster-Marshal, in the co. Dorset, a moiety of the manor of West Kington, in the co. Wilts, of the whole manor of Wadmersh, in the co. Surrey, of the manor of Bullingham, in the co. Cambridge, also the hamlets of Watweton and Widecombe. In the two years afterwards Lord Beauchamp was made governor of the castle of Bridgewater. In the 7th of Edward III (1333-4), he obtained license to fortify his manor houses at Hacche, Estokes, and South Hainedon, and to embattle their walls. His lordship d. in 1336, up to which period he had regular summonses, and was s. by his son, John de Beauchamp, 2nd Lord Beauchamp, of Hacche.
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Page 42: Bellomont, Earls of Leicester

Robert, surnamed Blanchmaines, from having white hands, as 3rd earl, who, adhering to Prince Henry in the 19th of Henry II in his rebellion, incurred the high displeasure of that Monarch. The king commanding that his town of Leicester should be laid waste, it was besieged and the greater part burnt; the inhabitants having permission for 300 pounds to move whither they pleased. He was received, however, into royal favour in four years afterwards (1177), and had restoration of all his lands and castles save the castle of Montsorel, in the co. of Leicester, and Pacey in Normandy; but surviving King Henry, he stood in such favour with Richard I that those castles were likewise restored to him, and he was appointed to carry one of the swords of state at that monarch's coronation. His lordship m. Patronil, dau. of Hugh de Grentemesnil, with whom he had the whole honour of Hinkley, and stewardship of England, and had issue, Robert FitzParnel, his successor; Roger, bishop of St.Andrews, in Scotland; William, founder of the hospital of St. Leonards, at Leicester; Amicia, m. to Simon de Montfort, who, after the earldom of Leicester expired with the male line of the Bellomonts, was created Earl of Leicester by King John; Margaret, m. to Sayer de Quincy. The earl d. in his return from Jerusalem at Duras in Greece anno 1189, and was s. by his son, Robert, surnamed FitzParnel.

Elizabeth was concubine to Henry I and afterwards wife of Gilbert Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke.

The other of Earl Robert's daus. m. William, Earl of Gloucester.
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Page 53: Bigod, Earls of Norfolk

The first of this great family that settled in England was Roger Bigod who, in the Conqueror's time, possessed six lordships in Essex and a hundred and seventeen in Suffolk, besides divers manors in Norfolk. This Roger, adhering to the party that took up arms against William Rufus in the 1st year of that monarch's reign, fortified the castle at Norwich and wasted the country around. At the accession of Henry I, being a witness of the king's laws and staunch in his interests, he obtained Framlingham in Suffolk as a gift from the crown. We find further of him that he founded in 1103, the abbey of Whetford, in Norfolk, and that he was buried there at his decease in four years after, leaving, by Adeliza his wife, dau. and co-heir of Hugh de Grentesmesnil, high steward of England, a son and heir, William Bigod, steward of the household of King Henry I.

Hugh Bigod, brother of William, steward of the household of King Henry I, was also steward to King Henry I, who being mainly instrumental in raising Stephen, Earl of Bologne, to the throne upon the decease of his royal master, was rewarded by this new king with the Earldom of the East Angles, commonly called Norfolk, and by that designation we find him styled in 1140 (6th Stephen). His lordship remained faithful in his allegiance to King Stephen through the difficulties which afterwards beset that monarch, and gallantly defended the castle of Ipswich against the Empress Maud and her son until obligated at length to surrender for want of timely relief. In the 12th Henry II, this powerful noble certified his knight's fee to be one hundred and twenty-five 'de vetrifeoffamento,' and thirty-five 'de novo,' upon the occasion of the assessment in aid of the marriage of the king's daughter; and he appears to have acquired at this period a considerable degree of royal favour, for we find him not only re-created Earl of Norfolk, by charter, dated at Northampton, but by the same instrument obtaining a grant of the office of steward, to hold in as ample a manner as his father had done in the time of Henry I. Notwithstanding, however, these and other equally substantial marks of the kings liberality, the Earl of Norfolk sided with Robert, Earl of Leicester, in the insurrection incited by that nobleman in favor of the king's son (whom Henry himself had crowned,) in the 19th of the monarch's reign; but his treason upon this occasion cost him the surrender of his strongest castles, and a find of 1,000 marks. After which he went into the Holy Land with the Earl of Flanders, and died in 1177. His lordship had married twice; by his 1st wife, Julian, dau. of Alberic de Vere, he had a son, Rogers; and by his 2nd, Gundred, he had two sons, Hugh and William. He was s. by his eldest son, Roger Bigod, 2nd earl.

Roger Bigod, 2nd earl of Norfolk, who, in the 1st year of Richard I, had a charter dated at Westminster, 27 November, reconstituting him Earl of Norfolk and steward of the household, his lordship obtaining at the same time restitution of some manors, with grants of others, and confirmation of all his wide-spreading demesnes. In the same year he was made one of the ambassadors from the English monarch to Philip of France, for obtaining aid towards the recovery of the Holy Land. Upon return of King Richard from his captivity, the Earl of Norfolk assisted at the great council held by the king at Nottingham; and at his second coronation, his lordship was one of the four earls that carried the silken canopy over the monarch's head. In the reign of King John he was one of the barons that extorted the great Charters of Freedom from that prince, and was amongst the twenty-five lords appointed to enforce their fulfillment. His lordship m. Isabel, dau. of Hamelyn, Earl of Warrenne and Surrey, and had issue, Hugh, his successor. William, m. Margaret, dau of Robert de Sutton, with whom he acquired considerable property. Thomas. Margery, m. to William de Hastings. Adeliza, m. to Alberic de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Mary, m. to Ralph Fitz-Robert, Lord of Middlesham. The earl d. in 1220 and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh Bigod, 3rd earl.

Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, m. Maud, eldest dau. of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, and by her (who m. 2ndly, William Earl of Warrenne and Surrey) had issue,

I. Roger, his successor.

II. Hugh, an eminent lawyer, appointed Chief Justice of England by the barons in 1257. He m. 1st Joane, dau. of Robert Burnet, by whom he had issue,
1. Roger, successor to his uncle in the earldom.
2. John. He m. 2ndly, Joane, dau. of Nicholas Stuteville, and widow of --- Wake, but had no issue. His lordship fell under the baronial banner at the battle of Lewes.

III. Ralph, m. Berta, day. of the Baron Furnival, and had a dau., Isabel who m. 1st, Gilbert, son of Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, in Ireland; and 2ndly, John Fitz Geoffrey.

His lordship, who was also one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta, d. in 1225, and was s. by hiseldest son.
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Page 72: Braose, Baron Braose, of Gower

Philip de Braose, whose son, William m. Berta, dau. of Milo de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, and co-heir of her brother, William, Earl of Hereford, by whom he acquired Brecknock, with other extensive territorial possessions. He had two sons, William and Reginald, and was s. by the elder.

William de Braose inherited the large estates of his grandmother, Berta de Gloucester, and besides possessed the Honour of Braose, in Normandy. This feudal lord was a personage of great power and influence during the reigns of Henry II and Richard I, from the former of whom he obtained a grant of the 'whole kingdom of Limeric, in Ireland,' for the service of sixty knight's fees, to be held of the king and his younger son, John. For several years after this period, he appears to have enjoyed the favour of King John and his power and possessions were augmented by divers grants from the crown. In the 10th of the king's reign [1209], when the kingdom laboured under an interdiction and John deemed it expedient to demand hostages from his barons to ensure their allegiance should the Pope proceed to the length of absolving them from obedience to the crown, his officers who came upon the mission to the Baron de Braose were met by Maud, his wife, and peremptorily informed that she would not entrust any of her children to the king, who had so basely murdered his own nephew, Prince Arthur. De Braose rebuked her for speaking thus, however, and said that if he had in anything offended the king, he was ready to make satisfaction according to the judgment of the court and the barons, his peers, upon an appointed day and at any fixed place without, however, giving hostages. This answer being communicated to the king, an order was immediately transmitted to seize upon the baron's person, but Braose having notice thereof fled with his family into Ireland. This quarrel between De Braose and King John is, however, differently related by other authorities. The monk of Llanthony stated that King John disinherited and banished him for his cruelty to the Welsh in his war with Gwenwynwyn, and that his wife Maud and William, his son and heir, died prisoners in Corfe Castle. Another writer relates, 'that this William de Braose, son of Philip de Braose, Lord of Buelt, held the lands of Brecknock and Went for the whole time of King Henry II, Richard I, and King John without any disturbance until he took to wife the Lady Maud de St. Walerie, who, in revenge of Henry de Hereford, cause divers Welshmen to be murthered in the castle of Bergavenny as they sat at meat; and that for this, and for some other pickt quarrel, King John banished him and all his out of England. Likewise, that in his exile, Maud his wife, with William, galled, Gam, his son, were taken and put into prison where she died the 10th year after her husband fought with Gwenwynwyn and slew three thousand Welch.' From these various relations, says Dugdale, it is no easy matter to discover what his demerits were, but what usage he had at last, take here the credit of these two historians who lived near that time. 'This year, viz. anno 1240,' quoth Matthew of Westminster, 'the noble lady Maud, wife of William de Braose, with William, their son and heir, were miserably famished at Windsor by the command of King John; and William, her husband, escaping from Scorham, put himself into the habit of a beggar and, privately getting beyond sea, died soon after at Paris, where he had burial in the abbey of St. Victor.' And Matthew Paris, putting his death in anno 1212 (which differs a little in time), says, 'That he fled from Ireland to France and, dying at Ebula, his body was carried to Paris and there honourably buried in the abbey of St.Victor.' 'But after these great troubles in his later days,' continues Dugdale, 'I shall now say something of his pious works. Being by inheritance from his mother, Lord of Bergavenny, he made great grants to the monks of that priory, conditionally, that the abbot and convent of St. Vincent, in Maine (to which this priory of Bergavenny was a cell) should daily pray for the soul of him, the said William, and the soul of Maud, his wife.' This great but unfortunate personage had issue by his wife, Maud de St. Walerie,

I. William;
II. Giles:
III. Reginald;
IV. Sir John;
I. Joane;
II. Loretta;
III. Margaret;
IV. Maud.

When the contest between King John and the barons broke out, Giles de Braose, bishop of Hereford, arraying himself under the baronial banner, was put in possession by the people of Bergavenny and the other castles of the deceased lord, and eventually King John, in the last year of his reign, his wrath then being assuaged, granted part of those lands to the bishop's younger brother and heir.

Giles' younger brother, Reginald, s. him in the representation of the family. Eventually King John, in the last year of his reign, his wrath being then assuaged, granted part of those [confiscated] lands to Reginald, which grant was confirmed by King Henry III, and he had livery of the castle and honour of Totness, with the honour of Barnstaple, having had previous possession of other estates. He m. Gracia, dau. of William de Bruere, and dying in 1221, was s. by his son, William de Braose.

William de Braose. This feudal lord fell a victim to the jealousy of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, who, suspecting an intimacy between him and the princess, his wife, King Henry's sister, invited him to an Easter feast and treacherously cast him into prison at the conclusion of the banquet. He was soon afterwards put to death with the unfortunate princess. He had married, Eva, dau. of Walter Mareschal, and sister of Richard, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had four daus., his co-heirs, viz., Isabel, Maud, Even, and Eleanor. The line of the branch thus terminating in heiresses.

Eve m. William de Cantilupe, Lord of Abergavenny, jure uxoris, and left a son and two daus., George, who d. s. p.; Millicent, m. 1st, John de Montalt, and 2ndly, Eudo le Zouche; Joan m. Henry de Hastings.

Margaret m. Walter de Lacy.
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Page 88-89: Burgh, Earl of Kent

John, Earl of Comyn, and Baron of Tonsburgh, in Normandy, being general of the king's forces and governor of his chief towns, there obtained the surname 'De Burgh,' and took his motto, 'Ung roy, ung foy, ung loy,' from that of Caen, a chief town in his jurisdiction. He had issue. The eldest son, Harlowen de Burgh, m. Arlotta, mother of William the Conqueror, and dying before his father, left issue, Odo, bishop of Bayeux, created Earl of Kent, and Robert, Earl of Moreton, in Normandy, who, participating with his brother, the bishop of Bayeux, in the triumph of Hastings, was rewarded by his virtuous kinsman, Duke William, with the Earldom of Cornwall, anno 1068, and grants of not less than seven hundred and ninety-three manors. This nobleman m. Maud, dau. of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, and had issue, William, his successor, and three daus., one of whom m. Andrew de Vetre; another, Guy de La Nal; and the younger, the Earl of Toulouse, brother of Raymond, Count of St. Giles, who behaved so valiantly in the Jerusalem expedition. The period of the deceased of Robert, Earl of Moreton and Cornwall, is not ascertained, but he appears to have been s. by his son, William de Moreton, Earl of Cornwall.
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Page 100: Camville, Barons Camville, of Clifton

In the 5th of King Stephen [1140], Gerald de Camville, of Lilburne Castle, co. Northampton, granted two parts of the tithes of Charleston-Camville in Somersetshire to the monks of Bermondsey, in Surrey. To this Gerald s. his son, Richard de Camville.

In the time of King Stephen, Richard de Camville was founder of Combe Abbey, co. Warwick, and was one of the witnesses in the 12th of the same reign [1147], to the convention between that monarch and Henry, Duke of Normandy, regarding the succession of the latter to the crown of England. This feudal lord appears to be a person of great power during the whole of King Henry's reign, and after the accession of Richard I, we find him one of the admirals in the expedition made by that monarch into the Holy Land. He was subsequently governor of Cyprus, whence he went without the king's permission to the siege of Acre and there died. His lordship left four sons and a dau., viz.,

I. Gerald, his heir,
II. Walter, left issue,
1. Roger, who had an only dau. Matilda, m. to Nigel de Mowbray, and d.s.p.
1. Petronilla, m. to Richard Curzon.
2. Matilda, m. to Thomas de Astley.
3. Alicia, m. to Robert de Esseby.
III. Richard, left issue,
1. Richard, d.s.p.
1. Isabella, heiress of her brother, m. Richard Harcourt, of Bosworth, co. Leicester.
IV. William, the youngest son, m. Albreda, dau. of Geoffrey Marmion, had issue,
1. Geoffrey, his successor.
2. William, of Sekerton, co. Warwick
3. Thomas
V. Matilda, m. to William de Ros.

Gerald de Camville purchased from King Richard the custody of Lincoln Castle and the province adjacent. This Gerald was a very powerful feudal lord in the reign of John, to which monarch he staunchly adhered. He m. Nichola, eldest dau. and co-heiress of Richard de Haye, and left an only son and heir, Richard, who m. Eustachia, dau. and heiress of
Gilbert Bassett, and widow of Thomas de Vernon, and left an only dau. and heiress, Idonea, who m. William, son of William de Longespee, Earl of Salisbury.
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Page 100-101: Cantilupe, Barons Cantilupe

William de Cantilupe, the first of this family upon record, served the office of sheriff for the cos. of Warwick and Leicester in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th years of King John [1202, 1203, and 1204]. In the next year he was made governor of the castles of Hereford and Wilton, and was subsequently sheriff of Herefordshire. In the 11th of the same reign [1210-11], being then the king's steward, he gave 40 marks for the wardship of Egidia, Lady of Kilpeck, widow of William Fitz-Warine, and in three years afterwards, when the king was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III, he remained so faithful as to become one of the monarch's chief counsellors. We find him, however, arrayed afterwards under the baronial banner and joining in the invitation to Louis of France. But within the same year he forfeited estates of Richard de Engaine and Vitalis de Engaine, two leading barons in the insurrection, and was appointed governor of Kenilworth Castle, co. Warwick. In the reign of Henry III, he continued attached to the cause of royalty, and acquired immense possessions in the shape of grants from the crown of forfeited lands. He d. in 1238, leaving five sons, viz., William, his heir; Walter, a priest; John, Lord of Snitterfield; Nicholas, of Ilkeston; and Thomas, Lord Chancellor of England.

William, steward to the king and a person of great power m. Milicent, dau. of Hugh de Gournai, and widow of Almeric, Earl of Evreux, and d.1250, having had issue, William, Thomas, and Julian.

William m. Eve, dau. and co-heiress of William Braose, Lord of Brecknock and Abergavenny, and in her right became possessed of that honour. He d. in the flower of his youth, leaving issue, George, Milicent, and Joan.

Milicent m. 1st, to John de Montalt, and 2ndly, to Eudo le Zouche, from which latter union descended the Lords Zouche, of Haryngworth.
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Page 111: Chaworth, Baron Chaworth

About the latter end of King William the Conqueror's reign, Patrick de Cadurcis, vulgarly called Chaworth, a native of Little Brittany, made a grant of certain mils in Gloucestershire to the monks of St. Peter's Abbey. To this Patrick s. Patrick de Chaworth, who, in the 33rd Henry II [1187], upon the collection of the scutage of Galway, accounted six pounds for the knights' fees belonging to the honor of Striguil. This feudal lord was s. by Payn de Chaworth.

Patrick de Chaworth, being under age in the 23rd Henry III [1239], compounded with the king for his own wardship and marriage, paying L500 for the same. In the 29th of the same reign [1245], he received a precept from the crown, whereby he was commanded to use all his power and diligence to annoy the Welsh then in hostility. He m. Hawyse, dau. and heir of Sir Thomas de Londres, Lord of Kidwelly, in Wales, and had issue, Payn, Hervey, and Patrick, all of whom, in the 54th Henry III [1270], joining the Crusade, attended Prince Edward to the Holy Land; and two daus., Eve, m. to Robert Tibetot, and Anne. This feudal lord d. in 1257,and was s. by his eldest son, Pain.
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Page 113: Cherlton, Barons Cherlton of Powys

Rhodri Mawr who, by inheritance and marriage re-uniting the states of North Wales, South Wales, and Powys, became King of All Wales, A.D. 843, 5th in lineal succession to his memorable progenitor, St. Cadwallader Bendigelig (the Blessed), 'as well saint as monarch,' crowned King of the Britains, A.D. 676, whose standard displayed the 'red dragon' transmitted as the distinctive cognizance of his royal race.
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Page 118-119: Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester

Robert, steward to King Henry I, m. Maud, dau. of Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon, and had Walter Fitz-Robert, whose son, Robert Fitz-Walter, was one of the most distinguished of the barons who rebelled against John, and was styled, Marshal of the Army of God and Holy church.

Gislebert, surnamed Crispin, Earl of Brion, in Normandy, whose eldest son [was] Richard FitzGilbert.

Richard FitzGilbert, having accompanied the Conqueror into England, participated in the spoils of conquest and obtained extensive possessions in the new and old dominions of his royal leader and kinsman. In 1087 we find him joined under the designation of Ricardus de Benefacta, with William de Warren, in the great office of Justiciary of England, with whom, in three years afterwards, he was in arms against the rebellious lords Robert de Britolio, Earl of Hereford, and Ralph Waher, or Guarder, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and behaved with great gallantry. But afterwards, at the time of the General Survey, which was towards the close of William's reign, he is called Ricardus de Tonebruge, from his seat at Tonebruge (now Tunbridge) in Kent, which town and castle he obtained from the archbishop of Canterbury in lieu of the castle of Brion, at which time he enjoyed thirty-eight lordships in Surrey, thirty-five in Essex, three in Cambridgeshire, with some others in Wilts and Devon, and ninety-five in Suffolk, amongst those was Clare, whence he was occasionally styled Richard de Clare, and that place in a few years afterwards becoming the chief seat of the family, his descendants are said to have assumed thereupon the title of Earls of Clare. This great feudal lord m. Rohese, dau. of Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, Roger, Walter, Richard, Robert, a dau. m. to Ralph de Telgers, and a dau. mo. to Eudo Dapifer. Richard de Tonebruge, or de Clare, whose is said to have fallen in a skirmish with the Welsh, was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Tonebruge.

Gilbert de Tonebruge, who resided at Tonebruge and inherited all his father's lands in England, joined in the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, but observing the king (William Rufus) upon the point of falling into an ambuscade, he relented, sought pardon, and saved his royal master. We find him subsequently, however, again in rebellion in the same reign and fortifying and losing his castle at Tunbridge. He m. in 1113, Adeliza, dau. of the Earl of Cleremont, and had issue, Richard, his successor, Gilbert, Walter, Hervey, and Baldwin. Gilbert de Tonebruge, who was a munificent benefactor to the church, was s. by his eldest son, Richard de Clare.

Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, is likewise said to have born the title of Earl of Clare. In the 3rd Henry II, this nobleman obtaining from the king all the lands in Wales which he could win, marched into Cardiganwith a great army and fortified divers castles thereabouts. In the 9th of the same reign, we find him summoned by the celebrated Thomas-įka-Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, to Westminster, in order to do homage to the prelate for his castle of Tonebruge; which at the command of the king he refused, alleging that holding it by military service it belonged rather to the crown than to the church. His lordship m. Maude (who m. after his decease William d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel), dau. of James de St. Hillary, by whom he had a son, Richard, his successor. This earl who, from his munificence to the church and his numerous acts of piety, was called the Good, d. in 1173, and was s. by his son, Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford.

Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, who in the 7th Richard I gave 1,000 pounds to the king for livery of the lands of his mother's inheritance with his proportion of those sometime belonging to Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. His lordship m. Amicia, 2nd dau. and co-heiress (with her sisters Mabell, wife of the Earl of Evereux, in Normandy, and Isabel, the divorced wife of King John) of William, Earl of Gloucester, by whom he had issue, Gilbert, his successor, and Joan, m. to Rhys-Grig, Prince of South Wales. This earl, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce Magna Carta, d. in 1218, and was s. by his son, Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford.

Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, who, after the decease of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, the 2nd wife of Isabel, the divorced wife of King John, and in her right Earl of Gloucester, and her own decease, s. p., as also the decease of Almarick D'Evereux, son of the Earl of Evereux by Mabell, the other co-heiress, who likewise succeeded to the Earldom of Gloucester, became Earl of Gloucester, in right of his mother, Amicia, the other co-heiress. This nobleman was amongst the principal barons who took up arms against King John, and was appointe done of the twenty-five chosen to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. In the ensuing reign, still opposing the arbitrary proceedings of the crown, he fought on the side of the barons at Lincoln, and was taken prisoner there by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke; but he soon afterwards made his peace. His lordship m. Isabel (who m. after his decease, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, brother of King Henry III), one of the daus., and eventually co-heiress of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had issue, Richard, his successor; William; Amicia, m. to Baldwin de Redvers, 4th Earl of Devon; Agnes; Isabel, m. to Robertde Brus. The earl d. in 1229 and was s. by his eldest son, Richard de Clare.

Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford and 2nd Earl of Gloucester, then in minority at the decease of his father in 1229. The wardship of this young nobleman was granted to the famous Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, Justiciary of England, whose dau., Margaret, to the great displeasure of the king (Henry III), he afterwards (1243) clandestinely married but from whom he was probably divorced, for we find the king marrying him the next year to Maude, dau. of John de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, in consideration whereof the said John paid to the crown 5,000 marks and remitted a debt of 2,000 more. His lordship, who appears to have been a very distinguished personage in the reign of Henry III, was one of the chief nobles present in Westminster Hall (40th Henry III) [1256], when Boniface, archbishop of Canterbury, with divers other prelates, pronounced that solemn curse, with candles lighted, against all those who should thenceforth violate Magna Carta. In two years afterwards, an attempt was made by Walter de Scotenay, his chief counsellor, to poison the earl and his brother William, which proved effective as to the latter, while his lordship narrowly escaped with the loss of his hair and nails. In the next year the earl was commissioned, with others of the nobility by the appointment of the king and the whole baronage of England, to the parliament of France to convey King Henry III's resignation of Normandy and to adjust all differences between the two crowns; and upon the return of the mission, his lordship reported proceedings to the king, in parliament. About this period he had license to fortify the isle of Portland and to embattle it as a fortress. It is reported of this nobleman that, being at Tewkesbury in the 45th Henry III [1261], a Jew, who had fallen into a jakes upon the Saturday, refusing to be pulled out in reverence of the Jewish sabbath, his lordship prohibited any help to be afforded him on the next day, the Christian sabbath, and thus suffered the unfortunate Israelite to perish. He d. himself in the July of the next year (1262), having been poisoned at the table of Peter de Savoy, the queen's uncle, along with Baldwin, Earl of Devon, and other persons of note. His lordship left issue, Gilbert, his successor, Thomas, Rose, and Margaret. The earl was s. by his elder son, Gilbert de Clare.

Thomas, governor of the city of London, 1st Edward I [1272-3], and was killed in battle in Ireland fourteen years after, leaving by Amy, his wife, dau. of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice, Gilbert, who d. s. p.; Richard, d. v. p., leaving a son, Thomas, who d. s. p.; Thomas, whose daus. and eventual co-heiresses were Margaret, wife of Bartholomew, 1st Lord Badlesmere, and Maud, wife of Robert, Lord Clifford, of Appleby.
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Page 120-121: Clare, Earls of Pembroke

Gilbert de Clare, 2nd son of Gilbert de Tonebruge, feudal Lord of Clare, and brother of Richard de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford, having obtained from King Henry I a license to enjoy all the lands he should win in Wales, marched a large force into Cardiganshire and brought the whole country under subjection; here he soon afterwards built two strong castles and, his power increasing, he was created by King Stephen in 1138, Earl of Pembroke. His lordship m. Elizabeth, sister of Waleran, Earl of Mellent, and dau. of Robert, Earl of Leicester, and had issue, Richard, his successor, Baldwin, and Basilia. The earl d. in 1149 and was s. by his elder son, Richard de Clare.

Richard de Clare, the celebrated Stongbow, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, was one of the witnesses to the solemn agreement made in 1153 between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy, whereby the latter was to succeed to the English throne upon the decease of the former. But the leading part he subsequently had in the subjugation of Ireland procuring him a conspicuous place in history, we shall relate the particulars of that event in the words of the Monk of Jorevaulx -- 'The realm of Ireland,' saith he, 'being miserably opprest with warr by the many kings there who banded against each other, one of them sent his son into England to procure souldiers thence for his aid. Which souldiers for the hope of gain, giving him assistance, were so well recompenced as that they rather chose to stay there than return into England. But after a short time the stoutest people of Ireland, being much offended with that king forgetting aid from England, the English already fixed in Ireland sent for more from hence to strengthen their party, and because they had no chief they made of this Earl Richard (a stout and valiant man), to be their captain, who, yielding to their request, rigging a good fleet, prepared for the journey. Whereupon there were some who, in the king's behalf, endeavoured to restrain him. Howbeit, getting on shipboard and landing safe, he assaulted Dublin and took it; the tidings whereof so terrified those that lived afar off that they were content to be at peace with him; and, to confirm what he had got, gave him in marriage Eva, daughter of Dermot McMurrough, one of their kings, with whom he had in dower a great part of the realm. Whereat the King of England growing much displeased, as well for that he had not only, without his consent, but forbidden, made so great an attempt, seized upon all his patrimony here, prohibiting that he should have further aid; and threatening him otherwise very sore, compelled him so to such a compliance as that he got Dublin from him and all the principal places he had won, requiring him to be content with the rest, and his patrimony in England; soon after raising a great army, the king sayled thither, himself.' In the end the earl was constituted Justice of Ireland by King Henry II and, having founded the priory of Kilmainham in the province of Leinster for Knights Hospitallers, 'this eminent person,' Dugdale concludes, 'died untimely upon the nones of April, anno 1176, and was buried in the chapter house at Gloucester as may be seen by this inscription on the wall there, 'Hic jacet Ricardus Strongbow, filius Gilberti, Comitis de Pembroke,' leaving issue, as some say, one son, scarce three years old to be his heir, but by others it is reported that, being by treachery abused and wounded, he departed this life the 5th year after his acquisition of the province of Leinster, and that he was buried at Dublin, leaving issue one only dau. and heiress, Isabel. NOTE: Hacket, in his collection of epitaphs, gives the following from the tomb of Strongbow, at Christ's Church, Dublin:--

'Nate ingrate, mihi pugnanti terga dedisti,
Non mihi, sed genti,
regno quoque terga dedisti.'

'This alludes,' says Banks, 'to a story that Strongbow's only son, a youth about seventeen, frightened with the numbers and ululations of the Irish in a great battle, ran away, but being afterwards informed of his father's victory, he joyfully returned to congratulate him. But the severe general having first upbraided him with his cowardice, caused him to be immediately executed by cutting him off in the middle with a sword. Such, in former times, was the detestation of datardliness!'

Isabel became in ward to King Henry II and remained under the royal guardianship for the space of fourteen years, when she was given in marriage to William Marshal, who thereupon became Earl of Pembroke.
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Page 121: Clavering, Barons Clavering

Eustace de Burgh, Baron Tonsburgh, in Normandy, younger brother of Harlowen de Burgh, the ancestor of the Lords Clanricarde, and the numerous families of De Burgh, Burke, and Bourke, had two sons, Serlo, and John, surnamed Monoculus, from having but one eye.

John, surnamed Monoculus from having but one eye, had three sons, Paganus, Eustace, and William. These brothers were witnesses to the foundation of the abbey of Cirencester, co. Gloucester, 1133. The elder son, Paganus, dying s. p., was s. by his brother, Eustace Fitz-John.

Eustace Fitz-John (nephew and heir of Serlo de Burgh, founder of Knaresborough Castle), one of the most powerful of the northern barons and a great favourite with King Henry I. With his two brothers, he was a witness to the foundation of the abbey of Cirencester, co. Gloucester, 1133. He m. 1st, Agnes, eldest dau. of William Fitz Nigel, Baron of Halton, constable of Chester. By this lady he acquired the Barony of Halton, and had an only son, Richard Fitz-Eustace. Eustace Fitz-John m. 2ndly, Beatrice, only dau. and heiress of Yvo de Vesci, Lord of Alnwick, in Northumberland, and of Malton, in Yorkshire, by whom he had issue, William, progenitor of the great baronial house of de Vesci.

Richard Fitz-Eustace, Baron of Halton and constable of Chester, m. Albreda, dau. and heir of Robert de Lisours and half sister of Robert de Lacy, and had issue, John, who becoming heir to his uncle, the said Robert de Lacy, assumed the surname of Lacy, and s. his father as constable of Chester, and was ancestor of the Earls of Lincoln of that family; Robert, the hospitaller, that is of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England; and Roger, surnamed FitzRichard, progenitor of the great families of Clavering.
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Page 139: Courtenay, BaronsCourtenay, Earls of Devon

Godfrey, Earl of Ewe and Brion, natural son of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, was father of Gilbert, Earl of Brion.

Gilbert, Earl of Brion, had two sons, Richard, ancestor of the house of Clare, and Baldwin de Brionis.
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Page 160: Daubeney, Barons Daubeney, Earl of Bridgewater

Amongst the most distinguished companion in arms of the Conqueror was Robert de Todeni, a nobleman of Normandy, upon whom the victorious monarch conferred, with numerous other grants, an estate in the county of Lincoln upon the borders of Leicestershire. Here de Todeni erected a stately castle and, from the fair view it commanded, gave it the designation of Belvoir Castle, and here he established his chief abode. At the time of the General Survey, this powerful personage possessed no less than eighty extensive lordships, viz., two in Yorkshire, one in Essex, four in Suffolk, one in Cambridge, two in Hertfordshire, three in Bucks, four in Gloucestershire, three in Bedfordshire, nine in Northamptonshire, two in Rutland, thirty-two in Lincolnshire, and seventeen in Leicestershire. 'Of this Robert,' saith Dugdale, 'I have not seen any other memorial than that the Coucher-Book of Belvoir recordeth: which is, that bearing a venerable esteem to our sometime much celebrated protomartyr, St. Alban, he founded near to his castle a priory for monks and annexed it as a cell to that great abbey in Hertfordshire, formerly erected by the devout King Offa in honour of that most holy man.' Robert de Todeni, Lord of Belvoir, d. in 1088, leaving issue by his wife Adela, William, who assumed the surname of Albini; Berenger; Geoffrey; Robert; and Agnes. He was s. by his eldest son, William de Albini, Brito, Lord of Belvoir.

William, who assumed, from what reason is unascertained, the surname of Albini, and was known as 'William de Albini, Brito,' in contradistinction to another great Baron, 'William de Albini, Pincerna,' from whom the Earls of Arundel descended. William de Albini, Brito, Lord of Belvoir, in the Chapter House of St. Albans, confirmed all the grants of his father and mother to the Church of Our Lady at Belvoir, desiring that he might be admitted in the fraternity as those his parents had been. This feudal lord acquired great renown at the celebrated battle of Tinchebray, in Normandy, where, commanding the horse, he charged the enemy with so much spirit that he determine at once the fate of the day. Of the exploit, Matthew Paris says, 'In this encounter chiefly deserveth honour the most heroic William de Albini, the Briton, who, with his sword, broke through the enemy, and terminated the battle.' He subsequently adhered to the Empress Maud and had his castle of Belvoir, with all his other lands, seized by King Stephen and transferred to Ranulph, Earl of Chester. He m. Maud, dau. of Simon de St. Liz, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, widow of Robert, son of Richard de Tunbridge, and dying about the year 1155, left two sons, viz., William, surnamed Meschines, and Ralph.
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Page 162: de Dreux, Earls of Richmond

The 1st Earl of Richmond was Alan, surnamed Rufus or Fergant, from his red hair, son of Hoel or Eudo, Earl of Brittany, in France, which Alan, coming over into England with the Conqueror, commanded the rear of his army in the memorable battle of Hastings and, for his services upon that occasion and at the siege of York, obtained the Earldom of Richmond with all the northern part of co. York, vulgarly denominated Richmondshire, previously the honour and co. of Edwyne, the Saxon, Earl of Mercia. This nobleman was esteemed a personage of great courage and ability -- and his benefactions to the church were munificent. He m. Constance, dau. of King William the Conqueror, but by her, who d. 13 August, 1090, had no issue. He m. 2ndly, in 1093, Ermengarde, the divorced wife of William IXth, Duke of Aquitaine and, dying in 1119, was s. by his son, Conan.
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Page 165-166: Despencer, Earl of Winchester

Hugh Despencer paid a fine of 2,000 marks to the king, in the 15th of Edward I, for marrying without license Isabel, dau. of William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and widow of Patrick Chaworth; by this lady he had an only son, the too celebrated Hugh Dispenser, jun.
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Page 167: d'Evereux, Earls of Salisbury

Amongst the principal Normans who accompanied the Conqueror in his expedition against England and participated in the triumph and spoil of Hastings was Walter de Evereux, of Rosmar, in Normandy, who obtained, with other considerable grants, the lordships of Salisbury and Ambresbury, which, having devised his Norman possessions and earldom to Walter, his eldest son, he bequeathed to his younger son, Edward de Evereux, who was thenceforward designated 'of Salisbury.'

Edward de Evereux, designated 'of Salisbury,' was subsequently sheriff of Wiltshire and, at the time of the general survey, possessed lordships in the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Surrey, Hants, Middlesex, Hereford, Buckingham, and Wilts. When sheriff of the latter county, we are told that he received in rent, as belonging to his office, 130 hogs, 32 bacons, 2 bushels and 16 gallons of wheat, the same of barley, 448 hens, 1,060 eggs, 100 cheeses, 52 lambs, 200 fleeces of wool, having likewise 162 acres of arable land and, amongst the reves land, to the value of 40 pounds per annum. This Edward was standard bearer at the battle of Brennevill, in Normandy, fought 20th Henry I [1120], King Henry being present, and distinguished himself by his singular skill and valour. He left at his decease, a dau., Maude, wife of Humphrey de Bohun, and a son and heir, Walter de Evereux.

Walter de Evereux, m. Sibilla de Chaworth. This feudal lord founded the monastery of Bradenstoke, wherein, in his old age, he became a canon. He was s. by his son, Patrick de Evereux.

Patrick de Evereux, being steward of the household to the Empress Maud, was advanced by that princess to the dignity of Earl of Salisbury, and was one of the subscribing witnesses, as such, to the agreement made between King Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy, in the 18th year of that monarch's reign [1153]. In the 10th Henry II [1164], his lordship was a witness to the recognition of the ancient laws and liberties of England, and in two years afterwards, upon the aid then assessed for marrying the king's dau., he certified his knights' fees at seventy-eight and two-fifths. The earl being the king's lieutenant in Aquitaine and captain general of his forces there, was slain in 1167 by Guy de Lusignan upon his return from a pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella, and was s. by his son, William de Evereux.

William de Evereux, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, bore the golden sceptre with the dove on the head of it at the coronation of King Richard I; but the next year, when the king became a prisoner in Almaine, his lordship was one of these who adhered to John, Earl of Moreton. In the 6th Richard I [1195], the earl was with the king in the expedition then made into Normandy and, upon his return to England, was one of his great council assembled at Nottingham. At the second coronation of Richard, in the same year, the Earl of Salisbury was one of the four earls who supported the canopy of state. His lordship m. Alianore de Vitrei, dau. of Tirrel de Mainers, and left, at his decease, an only dau. and heiress, Ela, 'of whom (writes Dugdale) it is thus reported; that being so great an inheritrix, one William Talbot, and Englishman and an eminent soldier, tool upon him the habit of a pilgrim, and went into Normandy where, wandering up and down for the space of two months, at length he found her out. Likewise, that he then changed his habit and, having entered the court where she resided, in the garb of a harper, being practised in mirth and jesting, he became well accepted. Moreover, that growing acquainted with her, after some time he conducted her to England, and presented her to King Richard who, receiving her very courteously, gave her in marriage to William, surnamed Longespee, from the long sword which he usually wore, his brother, that is, a natural son of King Henry II by Fair Rosamond; and that thereupon King Richard rendered unto him the earldom of Rosmar, as her inheritance.' Be this store true of false, it is certain, however, that the great heiress of d'Evereux, Ela, espoused the above-named William Longespee, who thereupon became, in her right, Earl of Salisbury.

William Longespee became Earl of Salisbury in right of his wife. In the beginning of King John's reign this nobleman was sheriff of Wiltshire, he was afterwards warden of the marches of Wales, and then sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon. About this period (14th John ) [1213], the baronial contest commencing, William Longespee at once espoused the royal cause and maintained it so stoutly that he was included by the barons amongst the evil councillors of the crown. The next year he was again constituted sheriff of Wilts and he held the office from that time during the remainder of his life. He had also a grant of the honour of Eye, in Suffolk, and was the same year a witness to the agreement made between King John and the barons as guarantee for the former. He was likewise a witness to the charter whereby John resigned his kingdom to the Pope. After this we find him a principal leader in the royal army until the very close of John's reign, when he swerved in his loyalty and joined, for a short period, the ranks of Lewis of France. Upon the accession, however, of Henry III [1216], he did homage to that monarch, particularly for the county of Somerset, which the king then gave him; and joining with William Marshall. governor of the king and kingdom, raised the siege of Lincoln when he was constituted sheriff of Lincolnshire and governor of Lincoln Castle, being invested at the same time with sheriff of the co. of Somerset, and governorship of the castle of Shirburne. His lordship soon afterwards accompanied the Earl of Chester to the Holy Land, and was at the battle of Damieta, in which the crescent triumphed. He served subsequently in the Gascon wars, whence returning to England, Dugdale relates, 'there arose so great a tempest at sea that, despairing of life, he threw his money and rich apparel overboard. But when all hopes were passed, they discerned a mighty taper of wax burning bright at the prow of the ship and a beautiful woman standing by it who preserved it from wind and rain so that it gave a clear and bright lustre. Upon sight of which heavenly vision both himself and the mariners concluded of their future security, but everyone there being ignorant what this vision might portend except the earl, he, however, attributed it to the benignity of the blessed virgin by reason that, upon the day when he was honoured with the girdle of knighthood, he brought a taper to her altar to be lighted ever day at mass when the canonical hours used to be sung, and to the intent that, for this terrestrial light, he might enjoy that which is eternal.' Arumour, however, reached England of the earls having been lost, and Hubert de Burgh, with the concurrence of the king, provided a suitor for his supposed widow, but the lady, in the interim, having received letters from her husband, rejected the suit with indignation. The earl soon after came to the king at Marlborough and, being received with great joy, he preferred a strong complaint against Hubert de Burgh, adding that, unless the king would do him right therein, he should vindicate himself otherwise to the disturbance of the public peace. Hubert, however, appeased his wrath with rich presents, and invited him to his table, where it is asserted that he was poisoned, for he retired to his castle of Salisbury in extreme illness and died almost immediately after, anno 1226. His lordship left issue, four sons and five daus., viz., William, his successor; Richard, a canon of Salisbury; Stephen, Justiciary of Ireland; Nicholas, bishop of Salisbury; Isabel, m. to William de Vesci; Ela, m. 1st, to Thomas, Earl of Warwick, and 2ndly to Philip Basset, of Hedendon; Idonea, m. to William de Beauchamp, Baron of Bedford; Lora, anun at Lacock; and Ela, jun., m. to William de Odingsells.
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Page 196-197, Ferrers, Earls of Derby

The first of this eminent family that settled in England was Henry de Feriers, son of Walcheline de Feriers, a Norman, who obtained from William the Conqueror a grant of Tutbury Castle, co. Stafford, with extensive possessions in other shires, of which 114 manors were in Derbyshire. This person must have been of considerable rank, not only from these enormous grants, but from the circumstances of his being one of the commissioners appointed by the Conqueror to make the great survey of the kingdom. He was the founder of the Cluniac priory at Tutbury which he liberally endowed. By Berta his wife he had issue, Egenulph, d. v. p.; William, d. v. p.; Robert, his successor; Gundred; and Emmeline.

Robert de Ferrers, having contributed, at the head of the Derbyshire men, to King Stephen's victory over King David of Scotland at Northallerton (commonly called the battle of the Standard), was created by that monarch Earl of Derby. By Hawise his wife, he had William who d. s. p.; Robert his successor; Walcheline, of Okeham; Isolda, m. to Stephen de Beauchamp; and Maud, m. to Bertram de Verdon. The earl d. in 1139 and was s. by his son, Robert de Ferrers, as 2nd Earl of Derby.

Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Derby, in the 12th Henry II, upon levying the aid for marrying the king's daughter, certified the knights' fees then in his possession to be in number seventy-nine for which he paid the sum of 68 marks. This nobleman was also a liberal benefactor to the church. His lordship was buried at the Abbey of Meervale, co. Warwick, one of the religious houses which he had founded, wrapped in an ox's hide according to his desire. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. and heiress of William Peverel, of Nottingham, by whom he had issue. He was s. by his son, William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby.

William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, rebelled against Henry II and marching at the head of the Leicestershire men (19th Henry II) upon Nottingham, then kept for the king by Reginald de Luci, got possession of the town which he sacked, putting the greater part of the inhabitants to the sword and taking the rest prisoners. He was soon afterwards, however, reduced to submission and obliged to surrender to the crown his castles in Tutbury and Duffield, which were demolished by order of the king. His lordship m. Sibilla, dau. of William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny and Brecknock, by whom he had issue.

[William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby] This nobleman, upon the return of King Richard from captivity, took arms in his behalf and, joining the Earl of Chester, besieged Nottingham Castle, which, after a brief resistance, surrendered. For this and other acts of fidelity, he was chosen by the king to sit with the rest of the peers in the great council held at the said castle in Nottingham in the ensuing March. Moreover, at Richard's second coronation he was one of the four that carried the canopy over the king's head. Upon the accession of King John, his lordship, with the Earls of Clare and Chester, and other great men, swore fealty to the new monarch but upon the condition that each person should have his right. His lordship was present at the coronation of King John and 7 June following, being solemnly created Earl of Derby by special charter dated at Northampton, he was girt with a sword by the king's own hands (being the first of whom in any charter that expression was used). He had also a grant of the third penny of all the pleas before the sheriff throughout the whole country whereof he was earl, to hold to him and his heirs as amply as any of his ancestors had enjoyed the same. Moreover, in consideration of 4,000 marks, he obtained another charter from the king of the manor of Higham-Ferrers, co. Northampton, with the hundred and park; as also of the manors of Bliseworth and Newbottle, in the same shire; which were part of the lands of his great grandfather, William Peverel of Nottingham. King John also conferred upon him a mansion-house situated in the parish of St. Margaret within the city of London, which had belonged to Isaac, a Jew, at Norwich, to hold by the service of waiting upon the king (the earl and his heirs), at all festivals yearly without any cap, but with a garland of the breadth of his little finger upon his head. These liberal marks of royal favour were felt so gratefully by the earl that in all the subsequent struggles between the king and the refractory barons, his lordship never once swerved from his allegiance, but remained true to the monarch; and loyalty to the interests of his son, King henry III. His lordship assisted at the coronation of the new monarch and immediately after the ensuing Easter, he took part with the famous William Marshall (governor of the king and kingdom), the Earls of Chester and Albemarle, and many other great men in the siege of Mountsorell Castle in Leicestershire, then held by Henry de Braybroke and ten other stout knights. And the same year was likewise with those noble persons at raising the siege of Lincoln, which place the rebellious barons with Lewis, King of France, had invested. His lordship m. Agnes, sister and one of the co-heirs of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, by whom he had two sons, William and Thomas. He died of the gout in 1246 and his countess d. in the same year after a union, according to some authorities, of seventy-five, and by others, of fifty-five years. His lordship was s. by his elder son, William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby.

William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby, upon doing homage in the 32nd Henry III [c. 1248], had livery of Chartley Castle and the other lands of his mother's inheritance; and the same year he sat in the parliament held in London wherein the king made so stout an answer to the demands of his impetuous barons. His lordship m. 1st, Sibel, one of the daus. and co-heirs of William Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke, by whom he had seven daus., viz., Agnes, m. to William de Vesci; Isabel m. 1st to Gilbert Basset, of Wycombe, and 2ndly, to Reginald de Mohun; Maud, m. 1st to William de Kymes; 2ndly to William de Vyvon, and 3rdly, to Emerick de Rupel Carnardi; Sibil m. 1st to John de Vipont, 2ndly to Franco de Mohun; Joane m. to William Aguillon, and 2ndly to John de Mohun; Agatha m. to Hugh Mortimer of Chelmersh; Eleanor m. 1st to William de Vallibus, 2ndly to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winton, and 3rdly to Roger de Leybourne, but had no issue. The earl m. 2ndly Margaret, one of the daus. and co-heirs of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, and had issue: Robert, his successor; William, upon whom his mother conferred the lordship of Groby, co. Leicester; Joan, m. Thomas, Lord Berkeley; and Agnes, m. to Robert de Muscegros, Lord of Deerhurst. His lordship, who from his youth had been a martyr to the gout, and inconsequence obliged to he drawn from place to place in a chariot, lost his life by being thrown through the heedlessness of his driver over the bridge at St. Neots, co. Huntingdon, in 1254. He was survived by his eldest son, Robert de Ferrers, 6th Earl of Derby.
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Page 200: Fitz-Alan, Earls of Arundel, Barons Maltravers

In the time of William the Conqueror, Alan, the son of Flathald (or Flaald) obtained, by the gift of that King, the castle of
Oswaldestre, with the territory adjoining, which belonged to Meredith, Prince of Powys ap Bleddyn, King of Powys. This Alan, having m. the dau. and heir of Warine, sheriff of Shropshire, had, in her right, the Barony of Warine, and was s. by his son, William FitzAlan.

William FitzAlan, in the contest between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, being then governor of Shrewsbury and sheriff of the county of Salop, held the castle of Shrewsbury for the latter until it was taken by assault. He was also with the empress at the siege of Winchester Castle in the 6th Stephen [1141], when she and her whole army were put to flight; and afterwards, continuing to adhere stoutly to the same cause, he was reconstituted sheriff of Salop so soon as King Henry attained the crown. This William m. Isabel, dau. and heir of Helias de Say, Lady of Clun, niece of Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and dying some time before 1160, was s. by his son, William FitzAlan.
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Page 204: FitzGerald, Earls of Desmond

Walter Fitz Otho, constable of Windsor and keeper of the forests of Berkshire, m. Gladys, da. of Rhiwallon ap Cynvyn, Prince of North Wales, and had issue, Gerald FitzWalter, William de Windsor, and Robert de Windsor.

The eldest son, Gerald FitzWalter, constable of Pembroke, lieutenant to Arnolph de Montgomery, m. Nesta, dau. of Rhys ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales, and had issue, Maurice FitzGerald, David FitzGerald, William FitzGerald, and Angharad who m. Wm. de Barry.

Maurice FitzGerald, who was Baron of Naas and Wicklow by the gift of Strongbow, accompanied his half-brother Robert FitzStephen to Ireland. He had half a cantred in Offaly, and dying at Waterford about the calends of December, was buried in the Grey Friars at Wexford. By his wife Alice, dau. of Arnolph de Montgomery, by his wife Lafracoth, dau. of Murrough O'Brien, King of Munster, he had issue, William FitzMaurice, Baron of Naas; Gerald FitzMaurice, Lord of Offaly; Thomas FitzMaurice, his successor; Alexander FitzMaurice; Walter FitzMaurice; Redmond FitzMaurice; and Nesta, who m. Hervey de Monte Marisco, constable of Ireland.

Gerald FitzMaurice, Lord of Offaly, ancestor of the Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster.
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Page 208: FitzJohn, Barons, FitzJohn

John FitzGeoffrey, son of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, by Aveline, his 2nd wife, being next male heir of that family on the death of William FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, in 1227, paid a fine to the king of 300 marks for those lands which were his father's and did by hereditary right belong to him, where of this last Earl William died seised. In the 19th of Henry III [1235], this John was constituted sheriff of Yorkshire; and in the 21st of the same reign, upon the treaty then made between the king and the barons, whereby, in consideration of the great charter and charters of the forest being confirmed, a thirtieth part of all men's movables was given to the king, this feudal lord was admitted one of the privy council; and the same year, there being a grand council held at London, he was one of these at the time sent to the Pope's legate to prohibit his attempting anything therein prejudicial to the interest of the king and religion. In eight years afterward, John FitzGeoffrey was one of the commissioners sent from King Henry, with Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfok, and others, to the council at Lyons in order to complain of the great exactions made upon the realm by the holy see; and the next year he was constituted justice of Ireland where, for his services, he received a grant from the crown of the Isles of Thomond. He m. Isabel, dau. of Sir Ralph Bigod, 3rd son of Hugh, Earl of Norfolk, sister of John Bigod, and widow of Gilbert de Laci, and dying in 1256, was s. by his son, John FitzJohn.
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Page 212: FitzWalter, Barons FitzWalter

Robert, 5th son of Richard FitzGilbert, Earl of Clare (ancestor of the Earls of Hertford), being steward to King Henry I, obtained from that monarch the Barony of Dunmow in Essex, as also the honour of Baynard Castle, in the city of London, both of which came into the possession ofthe crown by the forfeiture of William Baynard. This Robert m. in 1112, Maud de St. Liz, Lady of Bradham, dau. of Simon de St. Liz, 1st Earl of Huntingdon, and by her, (who d. in 1140, m. 2ndly, Saer de Quincy) had two sons, Walter, his successor, and Simon, to whom he gave Daventre, in Northamptonshire. He d. in 1134, and was s. by his elder son, Walter FitzRobert.
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Page 215: Fitz-William, Baron Fitz-William

Sir William Fitz-William, lord of Elmley and Sprotborough, m. Albreda, dau. and heir of Robert de Lizures, widow of Richard Fitz-Eustace, constable of Chester, and sister of the half blood to Robert de Laci, Baron of Pontefract, and had issue, a dau. Donatia, to whom her other gave lands in Crowle, with a son, Sir William Fitz-William, his successor.
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Page 225: Furnival, Barons Furnival

Gerard de Furnival m. Maud, eldest of the four sisters and co-heirs of Richard FitzJohn; she m. 2ndly, William, 11th Earl of Warwick.
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Page 227: Gant, Earls of Lincoln

Gilbert de Gant, son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, by Maud, sister of William the Conqueror, accompanied his uncle into England and, participating in the triumph of Hastings, obtained a grant of the lands of a Danish proprietor named Tour, with numerous other lordships. This Gilbert happened to be at York, anno 1069, and had a narrow escape when the Danes in great force, on behalf of Edgar Etheling, entered the mouth of the Humber and, marching upon that city, committed lamentable destruction by fire and sword, there being more than 3,000 Normans slain. Like most of the great lords of his time, Gilbert de Gant disgorged to the church a part of the spoil which he had seized, and amongst other acts of piety restored Bardney Abbey, co. Lincoln, which had been utterly destroyed many years before by the Pagan Danes, Inquar and Hubba. He m, Alice, dau. of Hugh de Montfort, and had issue, Hugh, who assumed the name Montfort; Walter, his successor; Robert, Lord Chancellor of England, anno 1153; and Emma, m. to Alan, Lord Percy. This great feudal chief d. in the reign of William Rufus.

Walter de Gant, a person of great valour and piety, at an advanced age commanded a brave regiment of Flemings and Normans in the celebrated conflict with the Scots and Northallerton, in Yorkshire, known in history as the Battle of the Standard,'where,' says Dugdale, 'by his eloquent speech and prudent conduct, the whole army received such encouragement as that the Scots were utterly vanquished.' He m. Maud, of Brittany, and had issue, Gilbert, his heir, Robert, and Geffrey. He d. in 1138 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Gant.
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Page 230: Giffard, Earls of Buckingham

Osborne de Bolebec, a noble Norman, living temp. Richard sans peur Duke of Normandy, m. Avelina, sister of Gunnora, Duchess of Normandy, and had two sons, Walter and Osborn,

Walter Giffard, Earl of Longueville in Normandy, was granted for his gallant services at the battle of Hastings the title of Earl of Buckingham. At the time of the General Survey, this nobleman was sent with Remigius, bishop of London, and others, into Worcestershire and some other counties to value the lands belonging to the crown, as well as to private individuals in those parts. He himself possessed at that time two lordships in Berkshire, one in Wilts, one in Somersetshire, one in Huntingdon, five in Cambridgeshire, nine in Oxfordshire, nine in the county of Bedford, three in Suffolk, twenty-eight in Norfolk, and forty-eight in Buckinghamshire -- in all one hundred and seven. In 1089, his lordship adhering to William Rufus, fortified his mansions in Normandy for that king and became chief general of his army there, yet in some years afterwards (1102), he sided with Robert Curthose against King Henry I. The earl m. Agnes, dau. of Gerard Flaitell, and sister of William, bishop of Evreux, and had, with other issue, Walter, Rohais and Isabel. His lordship d. in 1102 and was s. by his son, Walter Giffard.

Rohais m. Richard FitzGilbert, feudal lord of Clare, so Suffolk, and had, besides other children, Gilbert, who m. Adeliza, dau. of the Earl of Claremont.

Gilbert m. Adeliza, dau, of the Earl of Claremont, and was father of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, and Gilbert de Clare, created Earl of Pembroke.
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Page 261: Harcourt, Barons Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford

This ancient and eminent family traces its pedigree to Bernard, a nobleman of the royal blood in Saxony, who acquired in 876, when Rollo, the Dane, made himself master of Normandy, the lordships of Harcourt, Caileville, and Beaufidel in that principality. Bernard was s. by his son, Torf, called 'the Rich.'

Torf, called 'the Rich,' had three sons. The eldest, Tourade, is said to be the ancestor of Beaumont or Bellomont, Counts of Mellent, in France, and Earls of Leicester. The second son, Turchetil, Seigneur de Turqueville and Turquerange, was governor to William II, Duke of Normandy.

Anchetil, Sire de Harcourt, being lord of that place, was the first to assume the surname. Of his seven sons, the eldest, Anguerrand or Errandde Harcourt, attended William, Duke of Normandy, at the Conquest and returned to Normandy in 1078. Robert de Harcourt was his second son.

Robert de Harcourt built the castle of Harcourt in Normandy, AD. 1100. He had William, Richard, Philip, and three younger sons.

William de Harcourt was Lord of Harcourt, Caileville, Beauficel, and lord of the manor of Stanton-under-Bardon, co. Leicester. He had issue, Robert, Ivo, Simon, and Beatrix.

Ivo de Harcourt had, with a younger son, Sir John, an elder son and heir, Sir Robert de Harcourt.

Sir Robert de Harcourt, Knt., sheriff of the cos. of Warwick and Leicester in 1199-1201 and 1202, in which last year he died. He m.Isabel, only child and heir of Richard de Camville, by Milicent his wife, cousin to Adeliza, King Henry I's 2nd consort.

Alice, dau. of Sir Robert de Harcourt, Knt., m. 1st, John de Limesi, and 2ndly, Waleran de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick.
Citation: 309-311

Page 309-311: Lacy, Earls of Lincoln

Walter de Laci and Ilbert de Laci came into England with the Conqueror,but in what degree allied, if at all, has not been ascertained. Walter de Laci was one of the commanders whom William the Conqueror sent into Wales to subjugate the principality and, being victorious, acquired large possessions there, in addition to those already obtained as his portion of the spoil of Hastings. He was killed in April, 1084. Walter de Laci left three sons, Roger, Hugh, and Walter, a monk in the abbey of St.Peter's, at Gloucester.

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Gilbert, upon succeeding his uncle, assumed the surname of Laci. This feudal lord, in the conflict between Stephen and the Empress, espoused the cause of the latter. He eventually became a knight Templar, and was s. by (whether son or brother not known) Hugh de Laci.

Hugh de Laci was employed in the conquest of Ireland, and for his services there obtained from King Henry II, the whole county of Meath. He was subsequently constituted governor of Dublin and justice of Ireland, but incurring the displeasure of his royal master by marrying without license the king of Connaught's dau., he was divested in 1181 of the custody of the metropolis. In four years afterwards he was murdered by one Malvo Miadaich, a mean person, in revenge for the severity with which he had treated the workmen employed by him in erecting the castle of Lurhedy. He left issue, Walter, his successor; Hugh, constable of Ireland; Elayne, m. to Richard de Beaufo.

Walter de Lacy obtained, 9 King John [1208], a confirmation of his dominion of Meath, to be held by him and his heirs for the service of fifty knights' fees; as also of all his fees in Fingall, in the valley of Dublin, to be held by the service of seven knights' fees. In three years afterwards, King John passing into Ireland with his army, Laci was forced to deliver himself up and all his possessions in that kingdom and to abjure the realm. He was subsequently banished from England, but in the 16th of the same reign [1215], he seems to have made his peace, for he was then allowed to repossess Ludlow, with his castle; and the next year he recovered all his lands in Ireland, except the castle and lands of Drogheda, by paying a fine of 4,000 marks to the crown. After this
we find him sheriff of Herefordshire in the 18th of John [1217], and 2nd of Henry III [1218], and in the 14th of the latter king [1230], joined with Geffrey de Marisco, then justice of Ireland, and Richard de Burgh, in subduing the King of Connaught, who had taken up arms to expel the English from his territories. So much for the secular acts of this powerful feudal baron. In Ireland he founded the abbey of Beaubec, which was first a cell to the great abbey of Bec, in Normandy, and
afterwards to Furneise, in Lancashire. Walter Laci m. Margaret, dau. of William de Braose, of Brecknock, and in the year 1241, being then infirm and blind, departed this life, 'Vir, inter omnes nobiles Hiberniae, eminentissimus, 'leaving his great inheritance to be divided amongst females, viz.., the daus. of Gilbert de Lacy, his son (who d. in his life time), and Isabel, his wife, sister of John Bigod, which daughters were Maud, wife of Peter de Geneva, and Margery, m. to John de Verdon.

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When Robert de Lacy d.s.p. in 1193, his half sister, Albreda Lisours (the dau. of his mother, Albrida, by her 2nd husband, Eudo de Lisours), then the wife of Richard Fitz-Eustace, feudal baron of Halton, and constable of Chester, possessed herself of the Barony of Pontefract, and all the other lands of her deceased brother, under pretence of a grant from Henry de Lacy, her 1st husband. By Fitz-Eustace, she had a son, John, who becoming heir to his half uncle, Robert de Lacy, assumed that surname and inherited, as John de Lacy, the Baronies of Halton and Pontefract.

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Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester, assisted at the siege of Acon in 1192 under the banner of the lion-hearted Richard, and shared in the subsequent triumphs of the chivalrous monarch. At the accession of John in 1199, he was a person of great eminence, for we find him shortly after the coronation of that prince deputed with the sheriff of Northumberland and other great men to conduct William, King of Scotland, to Lincoln, where the English king had fixed to give him an interview, and the next year he was one of the barons present at Lincoln, when David, of Scotland, did homage and fealty to King John. In the time of this Roger, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, having entered Wales at the head of some forces, was compelled by superior numbers to shut himself up in the castle of Rothelan, where, being closely besieged by the Welsh, he sent for aid to the constable of Chester. Hugh Lupus, the 1st Earl of Chester, in his charter of foundation of the abbey of St.Werberg, at Chester, had given a privilege to the frequenters of Chester fair, 'That they should not be apprehended for theft or any other offence during the time of the fair, unless the crime was committed therein.' This privilege made the fair, of course, the resort of thieves and vagabonds from all parts of the kingdom. Accordingly, the constable, Roger de Laci, forthwith marched to his relief at the head of a concourse of people then collected at the fair of Chester, consisting of minstrels and loose characters of all descriptions, forming altogether so numerous a body that the besiegers, at their approach, mistaking them for soldiers, immediately raised the siege. For this timely service, the Earl of Chester conferred upon de Lacy and his heirs the patronage of all the minstrels in those parts, which patronage the constable transferred to his steward, Dutton, and his heirs; and it is enjoyed to this day by the family of Dutton. It is doubtful, however, whether the privilege was transferred to the Duttons by this constable or his successor. The privilege was, 'That, at the midsummer fair held at Chester, all the minstrels of that country, resorting to Chester, do attend the heir of Dutton, from his lodging to St. John's Church (he being then accompanied by many gentlemen of the country, one of them walking before him in a surcoat of his arms depicted on taffeta, the rest of his fellows proceeding two and two, and playing on their several sorts of musical instruments.'] When divine service terminates, the like attendance upon Dutton to his lodging, where a court being kept by his steward, and all the minstrels formally called, certain orders and laws are made for the government of the society of minstrels. Roger de Lacy was s. by his son, John de Lacy, constable of Chester.

John de Lacy, Constable of Chester, in the 15th year of King John,undertook the payment of 7,000 marks to the crown in the space of four years for the livery of the lands of his inheritance and to be discharged of all his father's debts due to the exchequer; further obliging himself by oath that, in case he should ever swerve from his allegiance and adhere to the king's enemies, all his possessions should devolve upon the crown; promising also that he would not marry without the king's license. By this agreement it was arranged that the king should retain the castles of Pontefract and Dunnington, still in his own hands; and that he, the said John, should allow £40 per annum for the custody of those fortresses. But the next year he had Dunnington restored to him upon hostages. About this period he joined the baronial standard and was one of the celebrated twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Carta. But the next year he obtained letters of safe conduct to come to the king to make his peace, and he had similar letters upon the accession of Henry III, in the 2nd year of which monarch's reign he went with divers other noblemen into the Holy Land. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Robert de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Hawyse, 4th sister and co-heir of Ranulph de Meschines, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, which Ranulph, by a formal charter under his seal, granted the Earldom of Lincoln, that is, so much as he could grant thereof, to the said Hawyse, 'to the end that she might be countess and that her heirs might also enjoy the earldom;' which grant was confirmed by the king and, at the especial request of the countess, this John de Lacy, constable of Chester, was created by charter, dated at Northampton, 23 November, 1232, Earl of Lincoln, with remainder to the heirs of his body, by his wife, the above-named Margaret. In the contest which occurred during the same year between the king and Richard Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Earl Marshal, Matthew Paris states that the Earl of Lincoln was brought over to the king's party with John le Scot, Earl of Chester, by Peter de Rupibus, bishop of Winchester, for a bribe of 1,000 marks. In 1237, his lordship was one of those appointed to prohibit Oto, the pope's legate, from establishing anything derogatory to the king's crown and dignity in the council of prelates then assembled; and the same year he had a grant of the sheriffalty of Cheshire, being likewise constituted governor of the castle of Chester. The earl d. in 1240, leaving Margaret, his wife, surviving, who re-m. William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. His lordship left issue, Edmund, his successor, and two daus., which ladies in the 27th Henry III, were removed to Windsor, there to be educated with the king's own daus.; of these, Maud m. Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester.
Citation: 352-353

Page 352-353: Mandeville, Earls of Essex

On the first arrival in England of William, Duke of Normandy, there was amongst his companions a famous soldier called Geoffrey de Magnavil, so designated from the town of Magnavil, in the duchy, which he then possessed, who obtained as his share in the spoil of conquest, divers fair and wide spreading domains in the cos. Berks, Suffolk, Middlesex, Surrey, Oxford, Cambridge, Herts, Northampton, Warwick, and Essex; whereof Malden was one, which afterwards became the chief seat of his descendants. He was subsequently made constable of the Tower of London and continued to execute the duties of that important office for the remainder of his life. This Geoffrey, among other benefaction to the church, founded a Benedictine monastery at Harley, in Berkshire, conferring upon it the whole lordship of that place and the woods adjoining thereto. He was s. at his deceased by his son, William de Magnavil.

Geoffrey de Mandeville, who in the 5th year of King Stephen [1140], had livery of his inheritance upon paying the sum of 866 pounds 13s. 4d. to the crown, was advanced by that monarch from the degree of baron (by special charter, dated at Westminster), to the dignity of Earl of the county of Essex, unto which charter were witnesses: 'William de Ipre, Henry de Essex, John, the son of Robert FitzWalter, Robert de Newburgh, William de St. Clair, William de Dammartin, Richard FitzUrse, and William de Owe; 'but notwithstanding this high honour conferred upon him by King Stephen, the Empress Maud, by a more ample charter made at Oxford, allured him to her party, for she not only conferred whatsoever Geoffrey, his grandfather, or William, his father, ever enjoyed, either in lands, forts, or castles, particularly the Tower of London, with the castle under it, to strengthen and fortify at his pleasure, but bestowed upon him the hereditary sheriffalty of London and Middlesex, as also that of Hertfordshire, with the sole power of trying causes in those counties, for which offices and privileges he paid the sum of 360 pounds. Moreover, she granted him all the lands in Normandy of Eudo Dapifer with his office of steward as his rightful inheritance and numerous other valuable immunities in a covenant witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and several other powerful nobles -- which covenant contained the singular clause, 'that neither the Earl of Anjou, her husband, nor herself, nor her children, would ever make peace with the burgesses of London but with the consent of him, the said Geoffrey, because they were his mortal enemies.' Beside this, he had a second charter dated at Westminster, re-creating him Earl of Essex, to hold to himself and his heirs, and to have the third penny of the pleas of the sheriffalty, as an earl ought to enjoy in his earldom. King Stephen having information of which proceedings, seized upon the earl in the court, then at St. Alban's, some say after a bloody affray in which the Earl of Arundel, being thrown into the water with his horse, very narrowly escaped drowning; certain it is, that to regain his liberty, the Earl of Essex was constrained not only to give up the Tower of London but his own castles of Walden and Blessey. Wherefore, being transported with wrath, he fell to spoil and rapine, invading the king's demesne lands and others, plundering the abbeys of St. Alban's and Ramsay, which last having surprised at an early hour in the morning, he expelled the monks therefrom, made a fort of the church, and sold their religious ornaments to reward his soldiers, in which depredations he was assisted by his brother-in-law, William de Say, ast out and warlike man, and one Daniel, a counterfeit monk. At last, being publicly excommunicated for his many outrages, he besieged the castle of Burwell in Kent and, going unhelmed in consequence of the heat of the day, he was shot in the head with an arrow, of which wound he soon afterwards died 14 September, 1144. This noble outlaw had m. Rohesia, dau. of Alberic de Vere, Earl of Oxford, chief justice of England, and had issue, Ernulph, Geoffrey, William, and Robert; and by a former wife, whose name is not mentioned, a dau. Alice, who m. John de Lacy, constable of Chester. Of his death, Dugdale thus speaks, 'Also that for these outrages, having incurred the penalty of excommunication, he happened to be mortally wounded at a little town called Burwell; whereupon, with great contrition for his sins, and making what satisfaction he could, there came at last some of the Knights Templars to him, and putting on him the habit of their order with a red cross, carried his dead corpse into their orchard at the old Temple in London, and coffining it in lead, hanged it on a crooked tree. Likewise, that after some time, by the industry and expenses of William, whom he had constituted prior of Walden, his absolution was obtained from Pope Alexander III, so that his body was received among Christians and divers offices celebrated for him; but that when the prior endeavoured to take down the coffin and carry it to Walden, the Templars, being aware of the design, buried it privately in the church-yard of the New Temple, viz., in the porch before the west door.' After the decease of this Earl Geoffrey, his son, Ernulph, within the same year was taken prisoner in the castle of Ramsey, which he had fortified, banished, and d. s. p., when Geoffrey, surnamed the younger (the 2nd son), was restored by King Henry II to all the lands of his ancestors, and confirmed in the Earldom of Essex.
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Page 357: Marshal, Barons Marshal

The earliest notice of this family occurs in the time of Henry I, when Gilbert Mareschall, and John, his son, were impleaded by Robert de Venoix and William de Hastings for the office of Mareschal to the king, but without success. The son, (bearing the same surname, derived from his office), was called John Mareschall.

John Mareschall, attaching himself to the fortunes of Maud against King Stephen, was with Robert, the consul, Earl of Gloucester, at the siege of Winchester Castle, when the party of the empress sustained so signal a defeat. Upon the accession of Henry II, however, in 1154, his fidelity was amply rewarded by considerable grants in the co. Wilts; and in the 10th of that monarch's reign, being then marshal, he laid claim, for the crown, to one of the manors of the see of Canterbury from the prelate, Thomas ą Becket, who about that period, had commenced his contest with the king. To this John s. his son and heir, John Mareschall.
Citation: 358

Page 358: Marshal, Earls of Pembroke

William Marshal, of the great baronial family of Marischal, marshal to the king, is first noticed as receiving from Prince Henry, the rebellious son of Henry II, upon the prince's deathbed, as his most confidential friend, his cross to convey to Jerusalem. He m. the great heiress of the Clares in 1189, and with her acquired the Earldom of Pembroke -- in which rank he bore the royal sceptre of gold, surmounted by the cross, at the coronation of King Richard I, and he was soon afterwards, on the king's purposing a journey to the Holy Land, appointed one of the assistants to Hugh, bishop of Durham, and William, Earl of Albemarle, Chief Justice of England, in the government of the realm. Upon the decease of his brother, John Mareschall, marshal of the king's house, in 1199, he became lord marshal, and on the day of the coronation of King John, he was invested with the sword of the Earldom of Pembroke, being then confirmed in the possession of the said inheritance. In the first year of this monarch's reign, his lordship was appointed sheriff of Gloucestershire and likewise of Sussex, where in he was continued for several years. In the 5th he had a grant of Goderich Castle in co. Hereford, to hold by the service of two knights' fees; and in four years afterwards he obtained, by grant from the crown, the whole province of Leinster, in Ireland, to hold by the service of one hundred knights' fees. Upon the breaking out of the baronial insurrection, the Earl of Pembroke was deputed by the king, with the archbishop of Canterbury, to ascertain the grievances and demands of those turbulent lords, and at the demise of King John, he was so powerful as to prevail upon the barons to appoint a day for the coronation of Henry III, to whom he was constituted guardian, by the rest of the nobility, who had remained firm in their allegiance. He subsequently took up arms in the royal cause and, after achieving a victory over the barons at Lincoln, proceeded directly to London, and investing that great city, both by land and water, reduced it to extremity for want of provisions. Peace, however, being soon concluded, it was relieved. His lordship, at this point, executed the office of sheriff for the cos. of Essex and Hertford. This eminent nobleman was no less distinguished by his wisdom in the council and valour in the field, than by his piety and his attachment to the church, of which his numerous munificent endowments bear ample testimony. His lordship had, by the heiress of Clare, five sons, who s. each other in his lands and honours, and five daus., viz., Maud, Joan, Isabel, Sybil, and Eve. The earl d. in 1219, and was s. by his eldest son, William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke.

Isabel de Clare, only child and heiress of Richard de Clare (surnamed Strongbow), Earl of Pembroke, and justice of Ireland, who had been under the guardianship of Henry II, was given in marriage by King Richard I to William Marshal.

Eve m. to William de Braose, of Brecknock.

Maud Marshal m. 1st to Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk; 2ndly, to William de Warren, Earl of Surrey; and 3rdly, to Walde de Dunstanville. This lady, upon the decease of her youngest brother, Anselm, Earl of Pembroke, s.p., in 1245, and the division of the estates, obtained as her share the manor of Hempsted-Marshall, in Berks, with the office of marshal of England, which was inherited by her son Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk, and surrendered to the crown by her grandson, Rogert Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk. Maud, Countess of Norfolk, had likewise the manors of Chepstow and Carlogh.

Sibyl m. to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, to whom she brought Kildare.

Isabel m. 1st to Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester; and 2ndly, to Richard, Earl of Cornwall. This lady had, as her portion, Kilkenny.
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Page 365-366: Meschines, Earls of Chester

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

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

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

II. Mabill, m. to William de Albini, Earl of Arundel;
III. Agnes, m.to William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby;
IV. Hawise, m. to Robert, son of Sayer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester.
The earl had another dau., whose legitimacy is questionable, namely, Amicia, * m. to Ralph de Mesnilwarin, justice of Chester, 'a person,' says Dugdale, 'of very ancient family,' from which union the Mainwarings, of Over Peover, in the co. Chester, derive. Dugdale considers Amicia to bea dau. of the earl by a former wife. But Sir Peter Leicester, in his Antiquities of Chester, totally denies her legitimacy. 'I cannot but mislike,' says he, 'the boldness and ignorance of that herald who gave to Mainwaring (late of Peover), the elder, the quartering of the Earl of Chester's arms; for if he ought of right to quarter that coat, then must he be descended from a co-heir to the Earl of Chester; but he was not; for the co-heirs of Earl Hugh married four of the greatest peers in the kingdom.' The earl d. at Leeke, in Staffordshire, in 1181, and was s. by his only son, Ranulph, surnamed Blundevil (or rather Blandevil) from the place of his birth, the town of Album Monasterium, modern Oswestry, in Powys), as 4th Earl of Chester.
* Upon the question of this lady's legitimacy there was a long paper war between Sir Peter Leicester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring---and eventually the matter was referred to the judges, of whose decision Wood says, 'at an assize held at Chester, 1675, the controversy was decided by the justices itinerant, who, as I have heard, adjudged the right of the matter to Mainwaring.'
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Page 369: Mohun, Barons Mohun

The first of this family upon record is Sir William de Mohun, one of the companions in arms of the Conqueror, who is stated to have had no less than 47 stout knights of name and note in his retinue at the battle of Hastings, and for the good services rendered to his royal master in that celebrated conflict, to have obtained the Castle Dunster, with 55 manors in the co. of Somerset, besides several other lordships in Wilts, Devonshire, and Warwickshire. Sir William was s. by his son, William de Mohun.

William de Mohun, Lord of Dunster, with Agnes, his wife, granted the church of Whichford to the canons of Bridlington, King Henry I confirming the grant. This William was s. by his son, William de Mohun.

William de Mohun, espousing the fortunes of the Empress Maud, fortified his castle of Dunster on her behalf and, breaking out into open rebellion against King Stephen, laid the country waste around him. He subsequently, in conjunction with David, King of Scotland, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and the other partisans of Maud, besieged Henry de Blois (Stephen's brother), bishop of Winchester, in the castle of that place, and in consideration of these eminent services, is said to have been created Earl of Dorset by the Empress. He founded the priory of Bruton, in the co. Somerset, and endowed it largely with lands in England and Normandy. He d. before the year 1165 and was s. by his son, William de Mohun.

William de Mohun. surnamed Meschyn, in the 12th Henry II [1166] upon levying the aid for marrying the king's dau., certified his knights' fees, de veteri feoffamento, to be in number forty, and those de novo, four. He confirmed his father's grants to the priory of Bruton and, like him, was buried there. He d. before the year 1202, and was s. by
his son, Reginald de Mohun.

Reginald de Mohun, in the 6th of John, m. Alice, one of the sisters and co-heirs of William de Briwere, and by her, with whom he acquired considerable estates in the cos. of Cornwall, Devon, and somerset, had two sons, Reginald, his heir, and John, ancestor of the Mohuns of Ham-Mohun, co. Dorset. He d. in 1213 and was s. by his son, Reginald de Mohun.

Reginald de Mohun, in minority at the decease of his father in 1213, was given in wardship to Henry Fitz-Count, son of the Earl of Cornwall. In the 26th Henry III [1242] this Reginald was constituted chief justice of all the forests south of Trent, and, in some years afterwards, governor of Saubeye Castle in Leicestershire. In the 41st of the same
reign [1247], he had a military summons to march against the Welsh. He m. 1st, Hawise, sister of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, and had a son, John, his successor. He m. 2ndly, Isabel, dau. of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby (and co-heir of Sibilla, her mother, sister and co-heir of Anselm Marshal, last Earl of Pembroke, of that family), by whom he had a son, William. Reginald Mohun d. in 1256, and was s. by his elder son, John de Mohun.
Citation: 375

Page 375: Montfort, Earls of Leicester

Almaric (Amaury) de Montfort, an illegitimate son of Robert, King of France, had the town of Montfort by gift of his royal father, and thence assumed that surname.

Simon de Montfort (son of Almaric) was s. by his son, Almaric, Earl of Montfort.
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Page 377: Montfort, Barons Montfort

Hugh de Montfort, had issue by his first wife, two sons, viz., Robert, and Hugh. Hugh de Montfort had, besides these sons, a dau. by his 2nd wife, who m. Gilbert de Gant, and had issue, Hugh, living 1124, who, on account of his mother being so great an heiress, assumed the name of Montfort; and Ada, m. to Simon, Earl of Huntingdon.

Hugh de Montfort, commonly called Hugh with a Beard, son of Thurstan de Bastenburgh, accompanied William the Conqueror into England and aided that prince's triumph at Hastings, for which eminent service he obtained divers fair lordships and, at the time of the General Survey, was possessor of twenty-eight in Kent, with a large portion of Romney Marsh; sixteen in Essex; fifty-one in Suffolk; and nineteen in Norfolk. This gallant soldier eventually lost his life in a duel with Walcheline de Ferrers, and was s. by his son, Hugh de Montford.
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Page 381: Moreton, or (more correctly,) de Burgo, Earls of Cornwall

Harlowen de Burgo, founder of the abbey of Gresteim, in Normandy, m. Arlotta, the mother of the Conqueror, and dying before his father, John, Earl of Comyn, left two sons, Robert, Earl of Moreton, in Normandy, and Odo, bishop of Bayeux, who both accompanied their illustrious brother in his expedition against England, and were aggrandized after his triumph, Odo being created Earl of Kent, and Robert de Moreton, Earl of Cornwall.

Robert de Moreton, Earl of Cornwall with a grant of 793 manors. In the time of William Rufus, this nobleman joining his brother, the Earl of Kent, raised the standard of rebellion in favour of Robert Curthose, and held the castle of Pevensey for that prince. He delivered it up, however, upon its being invested by the king, and made his peace. His lordship m. Maud, dau. of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, and had issue, William, his successor, and three daus., whose christian names are unknown: the eldest m. Andrew de Vitrei; the 2nd m. Guy de Val; and the youngest m. the Earl of Thoulouse. The time of the Earl of Cornwall's death has not been ascertained ... His lordship was s. by his son, William de Moreton, 2nd Earl of Cornwall.
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Page 382-383: Mortimer, Barons Mortimer, of Wigmore,Earls of March

Roger de Mortimer, deemed by some to have been son of William de Warren, and by others, of Walter de St. Martin, brother of that William, was founder of the abbey of St. Victor, in Normandy. 'It is reported,' says Dugdale, 'that in the year 1054 (which was twelve years before the Norman Conquest), when Odo, brother of Henry, King of France, invaded the territory of Evreux, Duke William sent this Roger, then his general (with Robert, Earl of Ewe, and other stout soldiers), to resist his attempts; who meeting with Odo near to the castle of Mortimer, gave him battle, and obtained a glorious victory. It is further observable of this Roger that he was by consanguinity allied to the Norman duke (afterwards king, by the name of William the Conqueror), his mother being niece to Gunnora, wife of Richard, Duke of Normandy, great grandmother to the Conqueror.'The presumed son of this Roger, Ralph de Mortimer, accompanying the Duke of Normandy in his expedition against England, was one of his principal commanders at the decisive battle of Hastings.

Ralph de Mortimer, the presumed son of Roger de Mortimer, accompanying the Duke of Normandy in his expedition against England, was one of his principal commanders at the decisive battle of Hastings; and shortly after, as the most puissant of the victor's captains, was sent into the marches of Wales to encounter Edric, Earl of Shrewsbury, who
still resisted the Norman yoke. This nobleman, after much difficulty and along siege in his castle of Wigmore, Mortimer subdued and delivered into the king's hands, when, as a reward for his good service, he obtained a grant of all Edric's estates and seated himself thence forward at Wigmore. Independently of these great Welsh territorial possessions, Ralph Mortimer enjoyed, by the bounty of his royal master, sundry lordships and manors in other parts of the realm which he held at the time of the general survey. In the beginning of Rufus' reign, Mortimer took part with Curthose, but he subsequently changed sides and, being constituted general of the forces sent by King Henry I to oppose that prince in Normandy, he totally routed the enemy and brought Curthose prisoner to the king. This gallant person m. Millicent, dau. of ---, by whom he had issue, Hugh, his successor; William, Lord of Chelmhersh, and afterwards of Netherby; Robert, ancestor of the Mortimers, of Richard's Castle; and Hawise, m. to Stephen, Earl of
Albemarle. He was s. by his son, Hugh de Mortimer.

Hugh de Mortimer, being a person of a proud and turbulent spirit, opposed strenuously the accession of King Henry II upon the demise of Stephen, and induced Roger, Earl of Hereford, to fortify his castles of Gloucester and Hereford against the new monarch, himself doing the same with his castles of Cleobury, Wigmore, and Brugges (commonly called
Bridgenorth). Whereupon Gilbert Foliot, at that time Bishop of Hereford, addressing himself to the Earl of Hereford, his kinsman, by fair persuasions soon brought him to peaceable submission. But Mortimer continuing obstinate, the king was forced to raise an army and, at the point of the sword, to being him to obedience. Between this rude baron
and Joceas de Dynant, at that time Lord of Ludlow, existed a feud, carried to so fierce a pitch that Dynant could not pass safely out of his castle for fear of being taken by Mortimer's men, but it so happened that Mortimer, setting his spies to take all advantages of Dynant, was surprised himself and carried prisoner to Ludlow where he was detained
until he paid a ransom of 3,000 marks of silver. He was oftentimes engaged against the Welsh and he erected some strong castles in Wales. He likewise finished the foundation of the abbey of Wigmore, begun by his father, and in his old age became a canon of that house. He m. and had issue, Roger, his successor; Hugh, who m. Felicia de Sancto Sydonio, and had, by her, by gift of his father, the manors of Sudbury and Chelmers; Ralph; and William. He d. in 1188 and was s. by his eldest son, Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore.

Roger de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore, a feudal baron who, like his predecessors, was in constant strife with the Welsh. At one time he sustained a great defeat in conjunction with Hugh de Say, but in the end he was victorious and took twelve of their principal leaders in one battle. He also enlarged considerably his territories and drove thieves and robbers from those parts. Being at one time present at the solemn anniversary of his father, he confirmed all his grants to the canons of Wigmore, adding, of his own gift, a spacious and fruitful pasture lying adjacent to the abbey, called the Treasure of Mortimer, upon which occasion, his steward remonstrating with him for parting with so valuable a treasure, he replied, 'I have laid up my treasure in that field, where thieves cannot steal or dig, or moth corrupt.' This Roger m. Millicent, dau. of --- Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and had issue, Hugh, his successor, and two daus., the elder m. to Stephen le Gross, the younger to Walcheline de Beauchamp. He m. 2ndly, Isabel, sister and heir of Hugh de Ferrers, of Oakham, in Rutlandshire, and of Lechelade and Lagebury in Gloucestershire. All which lands he inherited upon the death of the said Hugh de Ferrers, and by that lady he had three sons, Ralph, Robert, and Philip. He d. in 1215, and was s. by his eldest son, Hugh de Mortimer.
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Page 399: Newburgh, Earls of Warwick

The first who bore the title of Earl of Warwick, after the Norman Conquest, was Henry de Newburgh (so called from the castle of that name in Normandy), a younger son of Roger de Bellomont, Earl of Mellent. When this eminent person obtained that earldom is not exactly ascertained, but Sir William Dugdale presumed the period to be toward the close of the Conqueror's reign, 'for then,' saith he, 'King William, having begirt Warwick with a mighty ditch, for the precinct of its walls, and erected the gates at his own charge, did promote this Henry to the earldom, and annexed thereto the royalty of the borough, which at that time belonged to the crown.' But, though Henry de Newburgh was made Earl of Warwick by the first Norman sovereign, he was not invested with all the lands attached to the earldom until the ensuing reign, as we find William Rufus, soon after his accession to the throne, conferring upon him the whole inheritance of Turchil de Warwick, a Saxon, who, at the coming of Duke William, had the reputation of earl; and thenceforth the 'bear and ragged staff,' the device of Turchil's family derived from the chivalrous Guy, Earl of Warwick, was assumed by the first of the Newburgh dynasty, and it has been continued ever since as a badge of the successive Earls of Warwick. The name of this Henry, Earl of Warwick, appears as a witness to the charter of King Henry I, whereby that prince confirmed the laws of Edward the Confessor, and granted many other immunities to the clergy and laity. His lordship m. Margaret, dau. of Geffrey, Count de Moreton, and sister of Rotrode, Earl of Perch, and had issue, two daus., whose names are not mentioned, and five sons, viz., Roger, his successor; Henry; Geffrey; Rotrode, bishop of Evreux; and Robert, seneschal and justice of Normandy, who was a great benefactor to the abbey of Bec in which he was afterwards shorn a monk and d. in 1123. This Earl Henry commenced imparking Wedgenock, near his castle of Warwick, following the example of his sovereign, King Henry, who made the first park that had ever been in England, at Woodstock. His lordship, who was as memorable for pious foundations as distinguished for military achievements, d. in 1123 and was s. by his eldest son, Roger de Newburgh.

Roger de Newburgh, 2nd Earl of Warwick. This nobleman, in the contest between the Empress Maud and King Stephen, espoused the cause of the former, but his lordship is much more known by his munificent grants to the church than his martial deeds. He m. Gundred, dau. of William, Earl of Warren, and had issue, William and Waleran, successive earls, Henry, and Agnes. The earl d. 12 June, 1153, and was s. by his eldest son, William de Newburgh, 3rd Earl of Warwick.

Waleran de Newburgh, 4th Earl of Warwick. This nobleman, Dugdale says,'had much ado a great part of his time touching his inheritance; there starting up one who feigned himself to he his brother, Earl William, deceased in the Holy Land, which occasioned him no little trouble and vexation; so that it is thought by some that the grant which he made to Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, then chancellor of England, of the advowson of all the prebendaries belonging to the collegiate church, in Warwick, to hold during his life, was to purchase his favour in that weight business.' His lordship m. 1st, Margery, dau. of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, by whom he had issue, Henry, his successor, Waleran, and Gundred. He m. 2ndly, Alice, dau. of John de Harcourt, and widow of John de Limesi, by whom he had an only dau., Alice. The earl d. in 1205 and was s. by his elder son, Henry de Newburgh.

Alice m. to William Mauduit, feudal Baron of Hanslape, (great grandson of William Mauduit, chamberlain to King Henry I, by Maud, dau. and heiress of Michael de Hanslape), and had issue, William, Baron of Hanslape, and Isabel, m. to William Beauchamp.
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Page 447: Quincy, Earls ofWinchester

In the reign of King Henry II, Saier de Quincy had a grant from the crown of the manor of Bushby, co. Northampton, formerly the property of Anselmede Conchis. He m. Maud de St. Liz, and had two sons, Robert and Saier de Quincy.

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

Robert d. in the Holy Land, leaving issue by his wife, Hawyse, dau. of Hugh Keveliok, Earl of Chester, an only dau., Margaret, who m. 1st, John de Lacie, Earl of Lincoln, and 2ndly, Walter, Earl of Pembroke.
Citation: 458

Page 458-459: Ros, or Roos, Barons Ros

Robert de Ros m. in the lifetime of his father, Isabel, dau. and heiress of William de Albini, feudal lord of Belvoir, in Leicestershire, by whom he acquired Belvoir Castle, co. Lincoln, and other extensive landed possessions. This great heiress was in ward to the king and a
mandate upon her marriage, bearing date at Windsor, 17 May, 1244, was directed to Bernard de Savoy and Hugh Giffard, to deliver her to her husband, the said Robert: 'but not,' says Dugdale, 'without a round composition, for it appears that both he and his wife, in the 32nd Henry III [1248], were debtors to the king in no less than the sum of 3,285 pounds 13s. 4d., and a palfrey; of which sum the king was then pleased to accept by 200 marks a year until it should all be paid.'
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Page 468: St. Liz, Earls of Huntingdon

After the execution of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, King William offered Judith, his niece, the deceased earl's widow, in marriage to Simon St.Liz, a noble Norman, but the lady peremptorily rejected the alliance, owing, Dugdale says, to St. Liz's halting in one leg, which refusal so displeased the Conqueror that he immediately seized upon the castle and honour of Huntingdon, which the countess held in dower, exposing herself and her dau. to a state of privation and obscurity in the Isle of Ely and other places, while he bestowed upon the said Simon St. Liz the town of Northampton and the whole hundred of Falkeley, then valued at 40 pounds per annum, to provide shoes for his horses. St. Liz thus diappointed in obtaining the hand of the Countess of Huntingdon, made his addresses with greater success to her elder dau., the Lady Maud, who became his wife, when William conferred upon the said Simon de St. Liz, the Earldoms of Huntingdon and Northampton.

Maud, m. 1st, to Simon de St. Liz, and 2ndly, to David, brother of Alexander, King of Scotland.

Upon the death of Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, David, son of Malcolm III, King of Scotland, had m. the deceased earl's widow, the Countess Maud, under the especial sanction of King Henry I. This nobleman succeeded to the Scottish throne on the decease of Alexander, his elder brother, in 1124, and, invading England, was met upon the border by King Stephen, when their differences were amicable adjusted.

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Maude de ST. LIZ; Maud m. 1st, Robert, son of Richard de Tonbridge, and 2ndly, to William de Albini, according to Dugdale, but Hornby, in his remarks upon Dugdale's errors, proves that such alliances, if not impossible, were very improbably. A Maud de St. Liz is mentioned as wife of Saier de Quincy, being father and mother of Saier, 1st Earl of Winchester.
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Page 492: Sinclair, Earl of Orkney

The Scandinavian Earls of Orkney trace their descent from the noblest and most heroic of the ruling dynasties of the north. Ivar, Prince of the Uplands in Norway, who claimed a descent from the deified hero Thor, was father of Eystein.

Eystein had issue Rogenwald and Malahule.
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