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Ancestors of Robert Erwin William Juch

Thirty-First Generation

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1221166326. William (Guillaume) I "The Great" Count of Burgundy and Macon is printed as #610583616.

1221166327. Stephanie (Etienette) de Longwy of Barcelona is printed as #610583617.

They had the following children:

F i
Ermentrude of Burgundy was born 1060 in Burgundy, France. She died 8 Mar 1105.
610583163 F ii Gisela (Gille) Countess of Burgundy-Ivrea was born about 1060 and died after 1133.
F iii
Matilda of Burgundy "Maud" was born about 1063 in Bourgogne, France.
M iv
Stephen (Etienne) I "Tete-Hardi" ("Hard Head") de Macon Count of Burgundy and Macon was born about 1065 in Bourgogne, Marneogne, France. He died 27 May 1102 in Askalon, Burgundy, France from Murdered.
M v
Raymond Conde de Galicia y Coimbr was born about 1065 in Burgandy, France. He died 24 May 1107 in Grajal, Spain.
F vi
Sibylle was born 1065. She died after 1103.

1221166600. Roger I "The Spainard" de Toeni was born 990 in Tosni, Normandy, France. He died 1038 in Normandy, France. Roger married Godehut (Goldehilde) Borrell. [Parents]

1221166601. Godehut (Goldehilde) Borrell was born 995 in Toeni, Normandy, France. She died 1077.

They had the following children:

610583300 M i Ralph (Raoul) III de Toeni was born 1029 and died about 24 Mar 1100.
F ii
Adeliza (Adelina) de Toeni was born about 1035 in Tosni, France. She died in Lire Abbey, France.
M iii
Robert de Toeni was born 1038 in Guerny, Eure, Normandie, France. He died 31 May 1098 in Conches, Eure, France.

1221166602. Simon I de Montfort is printed as #943735416.

1221166603. Isabel Bardoul was born about 1034 in Broyes, Marne, France.

They had the following children:

610583301 F i Isabel de Montfort Dame Nogent-le-Roy was born about 1058.
M ii
Amauri "le Fort" de Montfort was born about 1056 in Montfort, Ile de France, France. He died 1089.

1221166604. Siward Bjornsson was born 997 in Bernicia, Northumberland, England. He died 1055 in York, Yorkshire, England and was buried in St. Olaf's Church, York, England. Siward married AEfleda III. [Parents]

1221166605. AEfleda III was born 997 in Mercia, Northumbria, England. [Parents]

They had the following children:

610583302 M i Waltheof Siwardsson Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland was born about 1025 and died 31 May 1076.

1221166606. Lambert II von Boulogne Count of Lens 1 died 1054. He married Adeliza of Normandy Countess of Aumale.

1221166607. Adeliza of Normandy Countess of Aumale 1 was born 1029. She died before 1090. [Parents]

They had the following children:

610583303 F i Judith of Lens was born 1054 and died after 1086.

1221166610. William de Chesney Sheriff of Norfolk was born 1070 in Norfolk, England. [Parents]

He had the following children:

610583305 F i Adelaide de Chesney was born about 1088.

1221166622. Robert II d'Oyley 3rd Lord of Hooknorton 1 was born about 1075 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England. He died 1142 in Abington Abbey, Berkshire, England and was buried in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, England. Robert married Edith FitzForne before 1100. [Parents]

Title: Baron of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England

1221166623. Edith FitzForne 1, 2 was born about 1072 in Greystoke, Cumberland, England. She died 1152 in Oseney Abby, Oxfordshire, England. [Parents]

Granted Barony of Claydon by Henry I

Endowed Oseney Abbey

They had the following children:

610583311 F i Edith d'Oyley was born about 1100 and died 1165.
M ii
Gilbert d'Oyley was born about 1102 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England.

1221166624. Walter "Dreux" de Vexin Count of Mantes and the Vexin was born 979 in Normandy, France. He died 1 Jul 1035 in Bithynia, Turkey. Walter married Goda (Godgifu) Princess of England about 1023. [Parents]

1221166625. Goda (Godgifu) Princess of England was born about 1009. She died before 1056. [Parents]

They had the following children:

610583312 M i Ralph de Sudeley Earl of Hereford was born about 1030 and died 21 Dec 1057.

1221166734. Alberic de Vere 1, 2 was born about 1030 in Ghesnes, France. He died 1088 in Hedingham, Essex, England. Alberic married Beatrice de Gand. [Parents]

1221166735. Beatrice de Gand 1 was born about 1040 in Bourboucy, France.

They had the following children:

F i
Alice de Vere was born about 1083 in Hedingham, Essex, England.
M ii
Aubrey II de Vere Sheriff of London 1, 2 was born 3, 4, 5 before 1089 in of Great Addington and Drayton, Northamptonshire, England. He died 6 15 May 1141 in Slain in London, Middlesex, England and was buried in Colne Priory, Earls Colne, Essex, England.

Earl of Oxford; High Chamberlain of England; Lord of Hedingham

AUBREY DE VERE
Chamberlain of England, d 1141

Aubrey de Vere, great chamberlain, was son and successor of Aubrey(Albericus) de Vere 'senior, ' by Beatrice his wife. He is found in 1125 acting as joint-sheriff of London (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 309); and in 1180 he appears, in conjunction with Richard Basset, as holding the shrievalty of eleven counties 'ut custodes' for the crown (ib. pp. 297-8). But he was then indebted for an enormous sum to the crown for having allowed a prisoner to escape, and for permission to resign the shrievalty of Essex and Hertfordshire (Rot. Pip. 31 Hen. I, p. 53). In September 1131 he was among the magnates attending the council of Northampton (Sarum Charters, 6); and in 1133, on the king leaving England for the last time, Aubrey was given at Fernham the office of great chamberlain for himself and his heirs (Madox, Baronia Anglica, p. 158).He is found at Stephen's court as chamberlain early in 1136 (Geoffrey de Mandeville, pp. 262-3), and was with him at Clarendon not long afterwards(ib. p. 378). When, in 1139, Stephen was called upon to defend before a council his arrest of the bishops, he selected as his advocate Aubrey, whom William of Malmesbury describes as 'causidicus' and as practiced in(legal) cases (pp. 552-4). He was slain on 9 May 1141 (not, as stated, 1140) in a London riot (Matt. Paris, Chron. Major, ii. 174; Geoffrey Mandeville, p. 81).

The statement that he was 'chief justiciar of England, ' for which Foss could find no authority (Judges of England, pp. 89, 188-9), rests on the assertion to that effect by his son William in a tract 'De miraculis S. Osythae' (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 390).

There has been much confusion as to Aubrey's marriage and children. By his wife Alice, daughter of Gilbert (Fitz Richard) de Clare -- who survived him twenty-two years, retiring as a widow to St. Osyth's Priory-- he left, besides Aubrey, his successor (see below), three sons: (2)Geoffrey, who in 1142 was promised by the empress the fief of Geoffrey Talbot, and who, afterwards marrying the widow of William Fitz Alan, held a Gloucestershire fief in her right, besides a Shropshire one in 1166(Lib. Rub. pp. 274, 298); (3) Robert, who in 1142 was promised by the empress a 'barony' of equal value (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 182), and who held a small Northamptonshire fief in 1166 (Lib. Rub. p. 335; Feudal England, p. 220); (4) William, who in 1142 was promised the reversion to the chancellorship (Geoffrey de Mandeville, p. 182), and who was identical with the writer of the above tract, a canon of St. Osyth's (ib. p. 389). Of Aubrey's daughters, Rohese married, first, Geoffrey, first earl of Essex [q.v.], secondly, Payne de Beauchamp of Bedford; and Alice, first, Robert of Essex, secondly, Roger Fitz Richard of Warkworth (ib. p.392).
610583367 F iii Rohese de Vere was born about 1089 and died after Sep 1166.

1221166748. Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare Earl Hertford is printed as #312480298.

1221166749. Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont is printed as #312480299.

They had the following children:

M i
Hervey de Clare was born 1087/1113. He died 1093/1193.
M ii
Walter de Clare was born 1087/1113. He died 1093/1193.
610583374 M iii Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare Lord of Bourne was born 1088 and died 1154.
F iv
Hawise de Clare was born about 1089 in Clare, Suffolk, England.
M v
Richard FitzGilbert de Clare Earl of Hertford 1 was born 1084 in Hertford, Hertfordshire and Clare, Suffolk, England. He died 1 15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales and was buried in Gloucestershire, England.

Lord of Cardigan in Wales

Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
F vi
Rohesia (Rose) de Clare 1 was born about 1090 in Clare, Suffolk, England. She died 1149 in England.
F vii
Agnes de Clare was born about 1091 in Clare, Suffolk, England.
F viii
Alice de Clare 1 was born about 1093 in Clare, Suffolk, England. She died 2 1155.
F ix
Margaret de Clare 1 was born 1097 in Clare, Suffolk, England. She died 1 after 1185.
M x
Gilbert "Strongbow" FitzGilbert de Clare 1st Earl of Pembroke 1 was born 21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. He died 1 6 Jan 1147 in England and was buried in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England.

1221166792. Geoffrey de Mandeville was born about 1035 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England. He died after 1085 in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England. Geoffrey married Adeliza de Balts about 1057 in England.

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

This progenitor of one of the noblest and most powerful families on either side of the channel is simply alluded to by Wace as "li Sire de Magnevile" (l. 13,562).

The French antiquaries, whilst agreeing as to the individual present at Hastings, differ respecting the locality whence he derived his name; Mons. Le Prévost considering it to be Magneville, near Valonges, whilee Mons. Delisle reports that it was Mandeville le Trévières, the Normanan estates of the Magnavilles, Mandevilles, or Mannevilles, as they were indifferently called, lying partly in the neighbourhood of Creulli, and the rest round Argentan, where, at a later period, they held the honor of Chamboi.

No particular feat of arms is attributed to him by the Norman poet. He is only mentioned as one who rendered great aid in the decisive battle, and we find him in consequence rewarded with ample domains in England at the time of the great survey, amounting to one hundred and eighteen lordships in various counties, of which Walden, in Essex, was the chief seat of his descendants, who became the first Norman earls of that county in the reign of Stephen.

He was also the first Constable of the Tower of London after the Conquest, an office enjoyed by his grandson of the same name, which I mention on account of the interesting fact that, in the charter of the Empress Matilda, which confers this amongst many other honors bestowed upon him, the custody of the Tower of London is granted to him and his heirs, with the little castle there (described, in another charter as under it) which belonged to Ravenger.

This charter in which she creates Geoffrey de Mandeville (grandson of the companion of the Conqueror) Earl of Essex, is stated in a marginal note in Dugdale's Baronage to be "the most ancient creation charter which hath been ever known," and, I may add, for the numberless concessions and privileges recorded in it, the most remarkable.

To return to the first Geoffrey, we learn from his charter of foundation of the Benedictine Monastery of Hurley, in Berkshire, that he was twice married. His first wife Athelaise (Adeliza) being the mother of his heir William de Mandeville, and other children not named; and his second wife, Leceline, by whom he appears to have had no issue.

Mr. Stapleton, in his annotations to the Norman Rolls of the Exchequer, suggests that Adeliza, the first wife of Geoffrey, was sister to Anna, wife of Turstain Haldub, mother of Eudo al Chapel.

1221166793. Adeliza de Balts was born about 1040 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England. She died in Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England.

They had the following children:

610583396 M i William de Mandeville was born about 1058 and died about 1130.
F ii
Beatrice de Mandeville 1 was born about 1061 in Rycott, Oxfordshire, England.

1221166794. Eudo de Rie was born about 1055 in Ryes near Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France. He died after 12 Jul 1080. Eudo married Rohese FitzRichard de Clare about 1088. [Parents]

1221166795. Rohese FitzRichard de Clare was born about 1055 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. She died 1121 in England. [Parents]

They had the following children:

M i
Hubert I de Rie was born about 1074 in Ryes near Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France. He died before 1127 in Hockering, Norfolk, England.
610583397 F ii Margaret de Rie was born about 1076.

1221166796. Alberic de Vere is printed as #1221166734.

1221166797. Beatrice de Gand is printed as #1221166735.

They had the following children:

F i
Alice de Vere was born about 1083 in Hedingham, Essex, England.
610583398 M ii Aubrey II de Vere Sheriff of London was born before 1089 and died 15 May 1141.
F iii
Rohese de Vere 1 was born about 1089 in Hedingham, Essex, England. She died after Sep 1166.

1221166798. Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare Earl Hertford is printed as #312480298.

1221166799. Adeliza (Alice) de Clermont is printed as #312480299.

They had the following children:

M i
Hervey de Clare was born 1087/1113. He died 1093/1193.
M ii
Walter de Clare was born 1087/1113. He died 1093/1193.
M iii
Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare Lord of Bourne 1, 2 was born 1088 in Clare, Suffolk, England. He died 2 1154 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.

Lord of Deeping and Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire.
F iv
Hawise de Clare was born about 1089 in Clare, Suffolk, England.
M v
Richard FitzGilbert de Clare Earl of Hertford 1 was born 1084 in Hertford, Hertfordshire and Clare, Suffolk, England. He died 1 15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales and was buried in Gloucestershire, England.

Lord of Cardigan in Wales

Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]

Richard de Clare first bore the title of Earl of Hertford and, being one of those who, by power of the sword, entered Wales, there planted himself and became lord of vast territories as also of divers castles in those parts, but requiring other matters of moment from the king, in which he was unsuccessful, he reared the standard of revolt and soon after fell in an engagement with the Welsh. His lordship in 1124 removed the monks out of his castle at Clare into the church of St. Augustine at Stoke, and bestowed upon them a little wood, called Stoke-Ho, with a doe every year out of his part at Hunedene. He m. Alice, sister of Ranulph, 2nd Earl of Chester, and had issue, Gilbert, his successor, with two other sons, and a dau. Alice who m. Cadwalader-ap-Griffith, Prince of North Wales. His lordship d. 1139 and was s. by his eldest son, Gilbert de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
F vi
Rohesia (Rose) de Clare 1 was born about 1090 in Clare, Suffolk, England. She died 1149 in England.
F vii
Agnes de Clare was born about 1091 in Clare, Suffolk, England.
610583399 F viii Alice de Clare was born about 1093 and died 1155.
F ix
Margaret de Clare 1 was born 1097 in Clare, Suffolk, England. She died 1 after 1185.
M x
Gilbert "Strongbow" FitzGilbert de Clare 1st Earl of Pembroke 1 was born 21 Sep 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. He died 1 6 Jan 1147 in England and was buried in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England.

1221166816. Robert Bigod was born 1015 in Avranches, Normandy, France. He died 1071. Robert married Billeheude de St. Sauveur. [Parents]

1221166817. Billeheude de St. Sauveur was born 1040 in St. Sauveur, Normandy, France. She died before 1060.

They had the following children:

610583408 M i Roger Bigod Earl of East Anglia was born about 1060 and died 8 Sep 1107.

1221166818. Robert de Toeni Baron of Belvoir was born 1014 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France. He died 4 Aug 1088 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England. Robert married Adeliza. [Parents]

Belvoir: The Heirs of Robert and Berengar de Tosny.

Taken from website http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/ihr/nine.html.

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan.

Succession to the fee of Belvoir has been discussed as a problem several times over the years, but perhaps the issue is actually straightforward once one has identified the key players.1 Domesday's Robert de Tosny of Belvoir was a collateral of his contemporaries Ralph and Roger. By c. 1050+ he had a first-born son Berengar who could expect to succeed his father in Normandy.2 Around the time of Domesday Book, a few years before his death, Robert founded Belvoir priory with his wife Adelais. Early charters of Belvoir mention their sons William and Geoffrey and their daughter Agnes.3 At his death, Robert's lands were divided between Berengar, his eldest son and Norman heir - co-incidentally an English tenant-in-chief in his own right - and his next son and English heir, William. Presumably some provision was made for the third son Geoffrey. As it happened, all three sons were to die without issue, which meant that rights of succession passed to Robert's daughters.

Initially, the sole right of succession passed to Robert's eldest daughter Albreda, who inherited the tenancies-in-chief of both her eldest brother Berengar and her younger brother William before the date of the Lindsey Survey, which shows her husband Robert de Insula in charge of both honours.4 It has always been assumed that Albreda was the widow of Berengar who took his land to a second husband, but the idea is clearly untenable once the full story of the Belvoir succession unfolds. The references in confirmation charters of the Lincolnshire abbey of Newhouse to 'the fee of Albreda de Tosny'' is an indication that the wife of Robert de Insula was a blood relative and heiress of Berengar, rather than his widow.5 This view is confirmed by the necrology of Belvoir priory, where the anniversaries of Berengar and Albreda uxor eius, deo sancta (a phrase always referring to a religious in this document) were kept on 29 June.6 All doubt is removed by a charter of c. 1147/52 in which Hugh Bigod made a grant to Kirkstall abbey for the soul of Albrede de Insula amite mee, a phrase that can only mean that Albreda was his mother's sister.7 The phrase also usefully confirms that Albreda de Tosny and Albreda (wife of Robert) de Insula were the same.

Robert de Tosny had two other daughters, of whom the youngest was Agnes. She confirmed her father's grant of land at Aslackby, Lincolnshire, to Belvoir priory as being part of her marriage portion on her first marriage to Ralph de Beaufour of Hockering (fl. 1086/1100).8 Widowed in the early twelfth century, she married secondly Hubert I de Ryes, castellan of Norwich, to whom the tenancy-in-chief of Hockering was given by Henry I. She occurs in the 1129/30 Pipe Roll (p. 93) charged with a debt of 35 silver marks because her son was with the count of Flanders. At a similar date she attested the charter which William de Albini pincerna gave for Wymondham priory on the day his wife Matilda Bigod, Agnes's niece, died. Agnes follows her sister Adelisa Bigod in the witness list, where she was accompanied by her daughter Almud and a niece or granddaughter (nepta) Muriel.9 Her dower lands at Aslackby and at Seaton, Northamptonshire (then in Rutland), were held in 1166 by her son or grandson Ralph de Beaufour from her grandson Hubert II de Ryes.10

The elder of Robert de Tosny's younger daughters was Adelisa, wife of Roger Bigod at his death in 1107. It is probable that Roger was married only once, although he is usually credited with two wives of the same name on the inconclusive evidence of a pro anama clause in a charter of his son William.11 Roger and his wife Adelisa gave charter for Rochester priory which referred to their sons and daughters and was attested by their children William, Humphrey, Gunnor and Matilda.12 This charter tellingly refers to King Henry, making it highly unlikely that Roger acquired a second wife and second family before his death in 1107. It is likely that Rogers' children were born from the late 1090s onwards, and that the youngest of them were Hugh and Cecilia.13 Roger's daughters Gunnor and Matilda were married soon after 1107. Gunnor's marriage to Robert fitz Swein of Essex had perhaps been arranged by her father. Matilda was married to William de Albini pincerna by Henry I who bestowed 10 Bigod fees on her as a marriage portion. The marriages certainly took place before Adelisa de Tosny became the heiress to Belvoir on the death without issue of her eldest sister Albreda, some time between 1115/18 and 1129, when Adelisa, as widow of Roger Bigod, accounted for her father's land of Belvoir.14

In 1129 the sole surviving issue of Robert de Tosny were his younger daughters Adelisa Bigod and Agnes de Beaufour, who was then already married to Hubert de Ryes. At that date his Bigod granddaughter Matilda de Albini was probably already dead and her sister Gunnor not long removed from her second marriage to Haimo de St Clair. Of their siblings, only Hugh Bigod and Cecilia, then wife of William de Albini Brito, survived. The Carta returned by Hugh Bigod in 1166 shows him holding the fee of his aunt Albreda de Insula.15 At the same date William de Albini Brito II held the fee of Belvoir. The conclusion from this must be that Adelisa succeeded Albreda in the fees of both Berengar and Robert de Tosny as next surviving sister. When she in her turn died she left issue of both sexes. Her sole surviving son Hugh succeeded his aunt Albreda - and by extension, her eldest brother Berengar - as heir both to Berengar's tenancy-in-chief in Lincolnshire and the Norman lands of Robert de Tosny of Belvoir. His tenancy of Robert's Norman lands is shown in a Norman record of 1172 where he is named as holding land of the fee of Conches and Tosny.16 More important in terms of size in England, the lordship of Belvoir was nonetheless the lesser of the two Tosny lordships because it as not associated with their Norman heritage. As the inheritance of a woman married to an important tenant-in-chief it could be expected to pass to one of her younger children and not her husband's principal male heir. Since she had no surviving younger sons after 1120, the devolution of Belvoir to one of her daughters was inevitable. Gunnor and Matilda had long since been provided for from their father's inheritance by the time, after c. 1115/1118, that Adelisa succeeded to Belvoir. Consequently it was the youngest daughter Cecilia - quite probably a mere infant at her father's death in 1107 - who became her mother's heiress. She was, of course , an heiress whose marriage could advantageously be used to reward one of the king's loyal new men. Cecilia's marriage to William de Albini Brito has been said to have occurred as early as 1107 on the basis of a Belvoir charter given by Ralph de Raines and attested by Roger Bigod, but it certainly took place much later. The Belvoir charter just mentioned probably begins to the early 1140s . It was attested by William de Albini senior and his wife Cecilia, their son William junior, Roger Bigot, Robert de Toteneio, Ralph de Albeneio and others.17 Since William, Robert and Ralph were certainly sons of William and Cecilia it is clear that Roger Bigod was also, as is confirmed by the order of their sons William, Robert, Roger, listed in the Thorney Liber vitae (BL Add, 40,000, fol. 2r)

The prosopography of Domesday Book which is part of the COEL research project will be published later this year by Boydell and Brewer as Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Volume I. Domesday Book.

It is hoped that the COEL database will be published in November/December. Final details are still to be decided, but a network copy will probably cost around Ãii600. A few screen shottttts frommm theeeee database are available on the Unit website, http;://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/prosop/home.stm (or, if that proves troublesome, www.linacre.ox.ac.uk, then click on Unit).

Inquiries can be sent be e-mail to katherine.keats-rohan@linacre.ox.ac.uk

Footnotes
1 Cf. J. Green, Government of England Under Henry I, 228-9.
2 Named after his father's brother Berengar Spina, all three occur in a Marmoutier charter of 1063, when Berengar , probably then still an adolescent, authorised an agreement made by his father (Faroux, Recueil...de Normandie, 157).
3 Mon. Ang. ii, 288-9.
4 Lindsey Survey (Lincoln Record Soc. Vol. 19) L3/8, 4/3, 6/5, 7/5, 10/1.
5 Stenton, Danelaw Charters, nos. 238-9.
6 BL Add. 4936, fol. 27.
7 Coucher Book of Kirkstall (Thoresby Soc. Vol. 8, 1904), no. cclxvi, pp. 188-9.
8 Mon. Ang. ii, 290, no. vii.
9 Mon. Ang. iii, 330-1.
10 RBE, 401.
11 Mon. Ang. iii, 330-1.
12 BL Cotton Domitian A x, fol. 201v-2r.
13 The view that all his children were minors at his death in 1107 was expressed in A. Wareham,'Motives and politics of the Bigod family c.1066-1177', Anglo-Norman Studies 17 (1995).
14 Pipe Roll 31 Henry I, 114.
15 RBE 397.
16 At Guerney and Vesley, Eure, cant. Gisors; RBE, 642; cf. Loyd, Anglo-Norman Families, 74.
17 Mon. Ang. ii, 289, no. 111.

1221166819. Adeliza was born about 1050.

They had the following children:

610583409 F i Adeliza de Toeni was born about 1072 and died after 1130.

1221166866. Sir Robert Corbet Burgess of Caen.

He had the following children:

610583433 F i Sibyl Corbet was born about 1077 and died after 1157.

1221166870. Roger de Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury is printed as #610583492.

1221166871. Mabel de Talvas d'Alencon is printed as #610583493.

They had the following children:

F i
Maud de Montgomery 1 was born about 1041 in Montgomery, Normandy, France. She died 1107.
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Hugues de Montgomery 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury 1 was born about 1042 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France. He died 31 Jul 1098 in Montgomery, Montgomershire, Wales.

Killed by Norse Raiders off the coast of Anglessey Island
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Robert II de Montgomery 3rd Earl Shrewsbury Count of Ponthieu, Alecon, and Montreuil was born 1 1052/1056 in Alencon, Orne, France. He died after 8 May 1131 in Wareham Castle.

Seigneur de Belleme and Alecon.

1102 Deprived of English lands and exiled to France by Henry I.
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Roger de Montgomery Count la Marche was born 1058 in St Germain Montgomery, Normandy, France. He died 1102.
610583435 F v Sybil de Montgomery was born 1060.
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Arnulph de Montgomery was born 1074 in Pembroke, Dyfed, Wales. He died about 1126.

PEMBROKE
From Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1833)

PEMBROKE, a borough, market-town, and sea-port, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the hundred of Castlemartin, county of PEMBROKE, SOUTH WALES, 6 miles (S.E. by E.) from Milford, 10 (S. by E.) from Haverford west, and 248 (W.) from London, containing, exclusively of the parish of Monkton, 5383 inhabitants. The name of this place is derived from the words Pen-Bro, literally signifying a headland or promontory, and originally applied to a district nearly corresponding in extent with the present hundred of Castlemartin, stretching out into the sea, and separating Milford Haven, on the north, from the Bristol channel on the south. On the erection of a castle and the consequent growth of the town, the name of the district in which they were situated was transferred to them, and subsequently to the whole of the county of which that town became the capital. The early history of this place is involved in some confusion: it is stated by Giraldus Cambrensis, that Arnulph de Montgomery erected here, in the reign of Henry I, a slender fortress of stakes and turf, which, on his return into England, he placed under the custody of his constable and lieutenant, Giraldus de Windesor. In the Chronicle of Caradoc of Llancarvan, who was contemporary with Giraldus, it is expressly stated that the castle was attacked in 1092, and again in 1094, by the forces of Cadwgan ab Bleddyn, but that it was so strongly fortified as to baffle every effort of that chieftain to reduce it. The latter of these dates, which is some years prior to the accession of Henry I, contradicts the statement of Giraldus Cambrensis, with respect to the time of the original foundation; and the result of the attacks by so formidable an enemy is at variance with his description of the character of the fortress. Arnulph de Montgomery, on the accession of Henry I., having joined in a confederacy against that sovereign, the castle of Pembroke, together with his other estates, became forfeited to the crown, and Henry afterwards conferred the castle, together with the lordship of Carew and several other manors, on Giraldus de Windesor, Arnulph's lieutenant, who had married Nt, daughter of Rhys ab Tewdwr. According to Caradoc of Llancarvan, Giraldus or Gerald de Windesor rebuilt the castle of Pembroke in the year 1105, on a more advantageous site, called "Congarth Vechan," and removed into it his family and his goods. Soon after this, according to some authorities, Owain, son of Cadwgan ab Bleddyn, having heard the beauty of Nt extolled at a banquet given by Cadwgan, either at his castle of Aberteivy, or at that of Eare Weare, in the parish of Amroath, came, under the pretence of relationship, to pay her a visit at this place, and becoming enamored at this interview, resolved upon carrying her away by force. For this purpose, having obtained the aid of some young men as profligate as himself he returned in the evening to the castle, which he entered unobserved, and, placing a guard over the chamber of Nt, set fire to the building, and, in the confusion and alarm which ensued, forcibly conveyed her and her children to his residence in Powys. Other writers, however, are of opinion that the castle of Carew was the scene of this outrage and abduction. The alliance of Gerald with the native princes of the country, by his marriage with Nt, who was some time after restored to him, subsequently excited the jealousy of Henry, who used every possible means to circumscribe his authority, as far as was consistent with the safety of the English interests in this province.

Gilbert de Clare, surnamed Strongbow, was created Earl of Pembroke, by Henry I., in 1109, and thus became possessed of the royal territories in this quarter, and of the castle of Pembroke; and in 1138, the earldom was erected into a county palatine, with the privilege of jura regalia; and, under the authority of its earl, a session and a monthly county court were held within the castle. In the latter all pleas of the crown were determined, fines levied, and recoveries passed: the writs were issued in the name of the earl, who held also at this place his courts of chancery and exchequer. Strongbow enlarged the castle, which he strengthened with additional fortifications, and made it in every respect a residence suitable to the dignity of the elevated rank which he held. He also incorporated the inhabitants of the town, which had arisen under the protection of the castle, and which he surrounded with a lofty embattled wall, defended by numerous bastions, and entered by three principal gates and a postern. Under the protection and influence of its earls Pembroke became a place of great importance; and in the year 1172, Henry II. kept the festival of Easter in the castle. Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, after the defeat of the Lancastrians at the battle of Barnet, retired into the castle, in which were then residing the young Earl of Richmond and his mother; but he was soon besieged by Morgan ab Thomas, brother of the celebrated Rhys ab Thomas, a zealous partisan of the house of York, to whom he must have surrendered the fortress, had not David, another brother, who had embraced the opposite interest, come promptly to his assistance, and conveyed him, together with the Countess of Richmond and her son, to Tenby, where they embarked for France.

The suppression of the palatine jurisdiction, in the reign of Henry VIII., deprived Pembroke of its dignity as the metropolis of a regality; but during the civil war of the seventeenth century, its strength rendered it the scene of many important transactions. The castle, at the commencement of the war, was the only fortress possessed by the parliamentarians in this part of the principality, and was placed under the command of Colonel Rowland Laugharne. In 1643, Admiral Swanley arrived with the parliamentarian fleet in Milford Haven, and reinforced the garrison with two hundred mariners and several small pieces of cannon, with the aid of which the governor succeeded in reducing most of the neighboring fortresses, which were garrisoned for the king. In 1647, Colonel Laugharne, and likewise Colonels Powell and Poyer, abandoning the interest of the parliament, and embracing that of the opposite party, made Pembroke their head-quarters, and the rallying point for the army which they raised on behalf of the king; and after their defeat in the disastrous battle of St. Fagan's, in Glamorganshire, retired hither with the remnant of their forces, closely followed by the parliamentarian army, led by Cromwell in person, who immediately commenced the siege of the town, taking post at Welsdon, a village about two miles and a half from it. The siege was conducted with the greatest vigor, and sustained with obstinate valor by the garrison, who were resolved to hold out to the last extremity; but Cromwell having found means to destroy their mills, and their supply of water being also cut off by the destruction of a staircase leading into a cavern under one of the towers, in which was their chief reservoir, there remained only the alternative of a lingering death or immediate submission. Under these circumstances the garrison capitulated, on condition that their chief leaders should throw themselves on the mercy of the parliament; that several of the inferior officers should leave the kingdom, not to return within two years; that all arms and ammunition should be given up, and that the town should be spared from plunder. Laugharne, Powell, and Poyer were afterwards tried by a court martial, and being found guilty of treason, were condemned to be shot; but the authorities being induced to spare two of them, it was ordered that they should draw lots for this favor; and accordingly three papers were folded up, on two of which was written "Life given by God, "and the third left blank: the latter was drawn by Colonel Poyer, who was shot in Covent Garden, on the 25th of April, 1649. That the surrender of the garrison was justly attributed to the failure of their supply of water, by the accident above noticed, has been confirmed by a recent discovery of the cavern, in which was found a copious spring of water, with the shattered remains of a staircase leading to it from the tower, the bones of a man, and several cannon balls.

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