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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“SIMON DE SENLIS, Knt., advocate of the Priory of St. Andrew's, Northampton, Sheriff of Huntingdonshire, son and heir, born c.1103. He was a ward of his step-father, King David I, until 1124. He married before 1138 ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester, by Amice, daughter of Raoul, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Breteuil in Normandy [see LEICESTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon [Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton], and three daughters, Amice, Hawise, and Isabel. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Simon. He witnessed the Oxford charter of King Stephen in 1136. He was recognized as Earl of Northampton previous to 1140. About 1140, as "Earl Simon," he granted three bovates and two tofts in Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire to William his chamberlain. He fought for King Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln in 1141, and was one of the three earls who remained faithful to Queen Maud during her husband's captivity. About 1145 he exchanged various rents from the mills of Earl's Barton and Great Doddington, Northamptonshire with the Prior and convent of St. Andrew's, Northampton, in return for lands in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire. After the death of his half-brother, Henry of Scotland, in 1152, he obtained the earldom of Huntingdon. He appears five times in the charters of his brother-in- law, Robert, Earl of Leicester, including treaties with the Bishop of Lincoln and Earl of Chester. In 1152-3 he granted Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templers. He founded the nunnery of De la Pré, near Northampton, and Sawtry Abbey, Huntingdonshire. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died August 1153. Sometime before 1158, his widow, Isabel, and her son, Simon, granted to the nuns of Eaton two carucates of land with pasture for 300 sheep in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire, Churchill, Worcestershire, son and heir of Ralph Paynell, of Dudley, Staffordshire. They had one son, Robert. In the period, c.1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, presented to the church of Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire. In the period, 1158-66, he and his wife, Isabel, gave a mansura in Waltham on the Wolds, Leicestershire to Nuneaton Priory, Warwickshire. In 1173 he was among the supporters of Prince Henry in his rebellion. In 1182 he confirmed to the monks of Tickford the chapel of Astwood, Buckinghamshire. In 1187 Gervase confirmed to Tickford Priory, with the consent of his wife, Isabel, Countess of Northampton, the gifts of his father and grandfather. He issued two other charters to Tickford, one giving a house and messuage in Newport, and the other giving his land in Chicheley, Buckinghamshire. GERVASE PAYNELL was living as late as May 1188 (date of letter), and died before Michaelmas 1194, and was buried in Tickford Priory. At some unknown date, Isabel was granted a bovate of land in Groby, Leicestershire by her brother, Robert, Earl of Leicestershire, which sometime in or after 1190 she gave to Nuneaton Priory. At an unknown date, she also granted four bovates in Waltham [on the Wolds], Leicestershire to Belvoir Priory.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1830): 213 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis] to the Abbey of De la Pré), 521, 522-523 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton, names his parents, Earl Simon and Countess Maud, and his grandparents, Earl Waltheof and Countess Judith, niece [neptem] of King William the Conqueror); 5 (1825): 203 (charter of Gervase Paynell to Tickford Priory); 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Burke Hist. of the Commoners 1 (1834): 651-652 (sub St. Liz/Sheffield). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 612 (sub Northampton) (biog. of Simon de Senlis II). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Round Feudal England (1895): 575 (ped.). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59 confirms gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 175, 177, 241-244, 257-259. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #26 (charter of Simon [de Senlis], Earl of Northampton dated c.1145-50). MSS of the Duke of Rutland 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 24) (1905): 165 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton to Belvoir Priory). VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 43-45. English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 Stenton Docs. illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 245, 246 (charter of Isabel, Countess of Northampton), 251-259, 347 (charter of Earl Simon dated c.1140). G.H. Fowler 'Shire of Bedford and the Earldom of Huntingdon' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 23-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 643 (sub Huntingdon); 9 (1936): 663-664 (sub Northampton). Pub. of Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 11(1927): 49 (charter of "Symon comes Norhant" dated 1138/47). Stenton Facsimiles of Early Charters from Northamptonshire Colls. (1930): 144-145. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 213-221. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 203-212. Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 48-50. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 279-280 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1152-3). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 307 (charter of Simon de Senlis, brother of Earl Simon [de Senlis], dated 1174-84). Cronne Reign of Stephen, 1135-54 (1970): 141. Stringer Earl David of Huntingdon, 1152-1219 (1985). King Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign (1994): 56-57. Franklin Medieval Ecclesiastical. Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen (1999): 138. Kerr Religious Life for Women, c.1100-c.1350 (1999): 78. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.). Crouch Beaumont Twins (2008): 84.
Children of Simon de Senlis, by Isabel of Leicester:
i. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Northampton, son and heir, born about 1138. He was a minor at his father's death and remained in ward to the king for about five years. He married ALICE DE GANT [see GANT 2.i.a], daughter and heiress of Gilbert de Gant, Earl of Lincoln, by Rohese, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert [de Clare] [see GANT 2.i for her ancestry]. They had one son, Simon, who died young. Sometime before 1163 he confirmed his father's grant in Merton, Oxfordshire to the Templars. He and his wife, Alice, issued two confirmation charters to Stixwould Priory c.1155-60. In 1174 he was recognized as Earl of Huntingdon. As Simon, Earl of Huntingdon, he granted to the monks of Wardon, Bedfordshire a certain road as they had it on the day he came to the Siege of Huntingdon. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, died in June 1184. He was buried in St. Andrew's Priory, Northampton, to which he was a benefactor. His widow, Alice, died in 1185. She gave the mills of Folkingham, Lincolnshire to Sempinghan Priory, Lincolnshire in order that she might be buried there, but it appears she was instead buried at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire. Anderson Genealogical Hist. of the House of Yveg 2 (1742): 50-58. Pleuitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonarteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 50. Baker Hist & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 440 (Gaunt ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 212, 491 (Gant ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbg (1835): 79-80. Top. & Gen. 1 (1846): 301-320. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathia de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): 48 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter granted with consent of his wife, Alice), 114-115 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife), 115 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant; charter names her father, Gilbert de Gant; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 116 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 122-123. Holmes Chartulag of St. John of Pontefract 2 (Yorkshire Arch. Soc. Recs. 30) (1902): 480-482, 520 (undated charter of Earl Simon; charter names his "antecessor," Gilbert de Gant), 525 (charter of Countess Alice, daughter of Gilbert de Gant). Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 83-85 (sub Gaunt). VCH Yorkshire N.R. 1 (1914): 240. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 432-436, 436-138 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] daughter of Gilbert Earl of Lincoln dated c.1180-5), 461-465 (confirmation charter by Countess Alice daughter of Earl Gilbert dated 1160-76), 472-473 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton dated 1156-74; charter witnessed by Simon brother of the Earl), 473-474 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1160-c.1175), 474 (confirmation charter of Countess A[lice] de Gant dated 1160-c.1175), 474-475 (grant by Earl Simon dated 1156-84), 492-493 (confirmation charter of Countess Alice de Gant daughter of Gilbert de Gant dated 1184-5; charter names Robert Scrope of Barton, son of Richard Scrope and Agnes her aunt [matertera]), 498-499 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated 1166-80), 499 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon dated c.1170-80), 502-503 (confirmation charter of Earl Simon and Countess Alice his wife dated c.1170-84; charter witnessed by his brother, Simon son of the Earl). C.P. 6 (1926): 645-646 (sub Huntingdon); 7 (1929): 673 (sub Lincoln); 9 (1936): 664 (sub Northampton). Leys Samford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 280 (charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton dated 1153-7). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 60-61. Dalton Conquest, Anarchy & Lordship: Yorkshire, 1066-1154 (2002): 291. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 313 (Scotland ped.). Nottinghamshire Archives: Savile of Rufford: Deeds & Estate Papers, DD/SR/102/59; DD/SR/102/142; DD/SR/102/143; DD/SR/102/X/11 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
ii. ISABEL DE SENLIS [see next].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MAUD OF NORTHUMBERLAND, daughter and co-heiress, born about 1072 (aged 18 in 1090). She married (1st) in or before 1090 SIMON DE SENLIS, in right of his wife, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and, lord of Conington, Huntingdonshire, Tottenham, Middlesex, Fotheringay, Northamptonshire, etc. They had two sons, Simon [Earl of Northampton] and [Saint] Waltheof [Prior of Kirkham, Abbot of Melrose], and one daughter, Maud. By an unknown mistress, he had an illegitimate son, Simon. He went on crusade in 1095. In 1098 he was captured during the Vexin campaign of King William Rufus in 1098, and was subsequently ransomed. He witnessed King Henry I's charter of liberties issued at his coronation in 1100. He attested royal charters in England from 1100-3, 1106-7, and 1109-11. Sometime in the period, 1093-1100, he and his wife, Maud, founded the Priory of St. Andrew's, Northampton. He reportedly built the first castle at Northampton. He witnessed a grant of King Henry I to Bath Abbey 8 August 1111 at Bishop's Waltham, as the king was crossing to Normandy. Simon and his wife, Maud, gave the tithe of Tottenham, Middlesex to the monks of St. Andrew's, Northampton. SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, subsequently went abroad and died at La Charité-sur-Loire, and was buried there in the new priory church. The date of his death is uncertain. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) before Midsummer 1113 DAVID I, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 2], 6th and youngest son of Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scots, by his 2nd wife, Margaret [see SCOTLAND I for his ancestry]. He was probably born about 1085. They had two sons, Malcolm and Henry [Earl of Northumberland], and two daughters, Clarisse and Hodierne. David was recognized as Earl of Huntingdon to the exclusion of his step-son, Simon; the earldom of Northampton reverted to the crown. As Earl of Huntingdon, he made various grants to St. Andrew's, Northampton. In 1113 he founded an abbey at Selkirk, afterwards removed to Kelso, and gave it land at Hardingstone and Northampton. He founded another abbey at Jedworth in 1118. He succeeded, his brother, Alexander I, as King of Scotland 25 April 1124. In 1127 he joined in the Barons' recognition of Empress Maud to succeed her father on the throne of England. When Stephen seized the crown, David took arms against him. His wife, Queen Maud, died 1130 or 1131, and was buried at Scone. About 1132 he gave the church of Tottenham, Middlesex to the canons of the church of Holy Trinity, London. In 1136 King David I resigned the earldom of Huntingdon to his son, Henry, who did homage to Stephen. David was defeated at the Battle of Standard 22 August 1138. DAVID I, King of Scots, died at Carlisle 24 May 1153, and was buried at Dunfermline, Fife.
Wharton Anglia Sacra (1691): 161 (Chronicon Sanctæ Crucis Edinburgensis sub A.D. 1153: "Obiit pin memoriæ David Rex Scottorum IX. Kalendarum Junii [24 May] Dominica ante Ascensionem Domini."). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "II. Id. Mali [14 May]. Ob. David Rex Scottorum."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1826): 180 (charter of Simon, Earl of Northampton, and Countess Maud his wife), 181 (charter of Maud de Smits to Daventry Priory, naming her deceased husband, [Robert] Fitz Richard, and her mother, Queen Maud [of Scotland]), 190 (charter of Earl Simon and his wife, Countess Maud; witnesses to charter include Earl Simon's kinsmen, John, Simon, Warner, and Peter, all styled "nepotis comins"), 191 (charter of David, King of Scots). Burke Hist. of the Commoners 1(1834): 651-652 (sub St. Liz/Sheffield). Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 73 ("Anno obiit Dauid rex Scottorum ix. kal. Junii [24 May].). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.). Raine Priory of Hexham 1(1864): 115 (Chronicle of John, Prior of Hexham sub A.D. 1138: William Fitz Duncan styled "nephew" [nepos] of King David I). Skene Chronicles of the Picts, Chronicles of the Scots, & other early Memorials of Scottish Hist. (1867): 211 (Chronicle of Huntingdon: "David qui regnavit et duxit Matlldarn Comitissam Huntingdon neptem Willelmi Regis Anglie filiam Ivette que fuit Edia Lamberti de Louns Comitis. De qua genuit Henricum Comitem. Qui duxit Ade filiam Willelmi Comitis de Warenne. Et genuit ex ea Malcolmum regnavit et obiit sine herede, et Willelmum Rege patrem Alexandri Regis, et David Comitem."). Munch Chronica Regvm Manniae et Insvlarvm: The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys 1 (Manx Soc. 22) (1874): 64-65 (sub A.D. 1153: "Eodem anno obiit David rex Scotiae, cui successit Malcolm nepos ejus."). Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinite de Tiron 1 (1883): cvii-cix (arms of David, King of Scots dated 1116: Mi-parti au 1er d'argent et de gueules; au 2' d'or a deux lions d'azur). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 611 (sub Northampton) (biog. of Simon de Senlis I). Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Searle Ingulf & the Historia Croylandensis (1894): 104-110 (biog. of Earl Waltheof, the martyr). Depoin Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise (1895): 278-279. Round Feudal England (1895): 575 (ped.). D.N.B. 59 (1899): 265-267 (biog. of Waltheof, Earl of Northumberland), 267-268 (biog. of Waltheof, saint and abbot of Melrose). Depoin Cartalaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Martin de Pontoise 3 (1901): 278-279 (re. Senlis fam.). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 3-5 (sub Kings of Scotland). VCH Bedford 1(1904): 353-358; 2 (1908): 237-242. Lawrie Early Scottish Charters prior to A.D. 1153 (1905): 23-24 (confirmation charts of Earl David dated c.1117), 25 (charter of Earl David dated c.1118; charter witnessed by his "nephew" [nepotis], William), 26 (confirmation charter of Earl David dated c.1117-24), 26-28 (charter of Earl David dated c.1120 founding the Abbey of Selkirk; charter witnessed by his wife, Countess Maud, his son, Henry, and his "nephew" [nepotis], William), 41 (charter of Earl David dated c.1123), 41-42 (charter of Earl David dated c.1123, granted with consent of his wife, Maud), 44-47, 47-48 (three charters of Earl David dated 1114-24), 48-49 (charter of King David I dated c.1124), 50-52 (five charters of King David I dated 1124-30), 53 (charter of King David I dated c.1125), 54-58 (seven charters of King David I dated c.1126), 59 (charter of King David I dated c.1127), 61-64 (two charters of King David I dated c.1128), 65-66 & 69 (three charters of King David I dated c.1128), 69-74 & 75-77 (eleven charters of King David I dated c.1130), 78 (charter of King David I dated c.1132), 78 (charter of King David I dated c.1132; charter names his sister, Queen Maud [Queen of England], and his wife, Queen Maud), 79 (charter of King David I dated 1130-33), 79-80 (two charters of King David I dated c.1135), 81-82 (charter of King David I dated c.1133), 82 (charter of King David I dated c.1134; charter witnessed by his son, Henry), 83-84 (two charters of King David I dated c.1135), 84-87 (four charters of King David I dated c.1136), 89 (charter of King David I dated 1137), 90-92 (two charters of King David I dated c.1138), 92-95 (four charters of King David I dated c.1139), 95-96 (two charters of King David I dated c.1139-41), 97-98 & 110-111 (three charters of King David I dated c.1140), 100 (charter of King David I dated c.11405), 101-107 (five charters of King David I dated c.1141), 107-108 (charter of King David I dated c.1143-4),110-114 (five charters of King David I dated c.1142), 120-122 (four charters of King David I dated c.1143), 122-123 & 126-128 & 133-136 (five charters of King David I dated c.1144), 123-124 (charter of King David I dated c.1143-7), 137 (charter of King David I dated pre-1136), 138-139 (charter of King David I dated c.1145), 139-141 & 150 (three charters of King David I dated 1147), 148 (charter of King David I dated 1147-53), 151 (charter of King David I dated c.1148), 151-152 (charter of King David I dated c.1147-50), 161-165 (seven charters of King David I dated c.1147-53), 166-172 & 177-182 & 185 & 187-189 (sixteen charters of King David I dated c.1150), 190-195 (two charters of King David I dated c.1150-52), 198 & 200 & 204-205 (three charters of King David I dated 1150-3), 204 (charter of King David I dated 1152-3), 207-208 (charter of King David I dated 1153), 306. Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 25-34, 58-70. Anderson Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500-1286(1908). Rutland Mag. & County Hist. Rec. 3 (1908): 97-106,130-137. Anderson Early Sources of Scottish Hist. 2 (1922): 147 ("Simon de Senlis was a son of a Norman baron, Randolph le Riche; and brother of Warner, who was apparently father of Simon's nephews that witnessed his charters (if those charters are genuine)."). G.H. Fowler 'Shire of Bedford and the Earldom of Huntingdon' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9 (1925): 23-34. C.P. 6 (1926): 641-642 (sub Huntingdon); 9 (1936): 663 (sub Northampton). VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 227-231. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 148-151 (charter of David I, King of Scots; charter names his wife, Maud). VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 213-221. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 144-151, 203-212. Ritchie Normans in Scotland (1954). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 464:1 (Maud brought to her husband Saher de Quincy his interest in Dunmow, Bradenham and Daventry). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 118. Davis King Stephen (1967): 134 ("Huntingdon. This earldom came to King David by right of his wife, Maud daughter of Earl Waltheof, but he was her second husband and his claim was disputed by Simon de Senlis II who was Maud's son by her first marriage. Stephen was predisposed towards Simon (who supported him loyally) but anxious not to make an enemy of King David if he could help it, and he seems to have aimed at a compromise whereby Northampton would be detached from the earldom of Huntingdon and made a separate earldom for Simon. So far as Huntingdon was concerned, he granted it to King David's son Henry at the Treaty of Durham (5 February 1136). Henry presumably forfeited it during the Scottish war of 1138, but held it again from the second Treaty of Durham (9 April 1139) till the end of 1141, when he finally lost it. It was subsequently held by Simon de Senlis II together with Northampton (G.W.S. Barrow, in Regesta Regum Scottorum i. 102)."). Tait Medieval English Borough (1968): 154-155 ([King William Rufus] apparently ... rewarded the loyalty of Henry of Newburgh and Simon of Senlis with the earldoms of Warwick and Northampton and the lordships of those towns. Simon as the son-in-law of Waltheof had a hereditary claim to the earldom, though not to the town ... It has been doubted whether Simon received the earldom before Henry l's time (Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees, ii. 296), but he attests a charter of the previous reign as earl (Davis, op. cit., no. 315) and was already earl at Henry's coronation. There is some evidence that Henry I granted the earldom of Northampton as well as that of Huntingdon to David of Scotland, the husband of Simon's widow, but he kept the lordship of the town in his own hands and it was being farmed from the Crown in 1130.). Duncan Sotland: The Making of the Kingdom (1975). Barrow Kingship & Unity: Scotland 1000-1306 (1981). Fryde Handbook of British Chron. (1986): 58. Franklin Cartulary of Daventry Priory (Pubs. of Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1988): xx-xxi, 2. Bower Scotichronicon 3 (1995): 126-127 ("He David] received as his wife Matilda of Senlis, daughter and heir of Waltheof or Waldevus earl of Huntingdon and of Judith, who was the niece of the first King William. She was previously married to Simon Machald senior of Senlis."), 300-301 ("Waltheof's mother [Maud de Senlis], a cousin [consobrina] of the king, was then given in marriage by the same king to David king of Scotland, with a grant to him of the earldom of Huntingdon by way of dowry. Furthermore the said King Henry had married Maud, a sister of the said King David, a daughter of St. Margaret the great-niece [proneptis] of St. Edward king of England, a lady notable for her ancestry ..."). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 57. Scottish Hist. Rev. 75 (1996): 1-19 ("David I has a deserved reputation as one of the great kings of medieval Scotland."). Appleby & Dalton Government, Religion, & Society in Northern England, 1000-1700 (1997): 40-62. Barrow Charters of King David I: The Written Acts of David I King of Scots, 1124-1153 & of His Son Henry Earl of Northumberland, 1139-1152 (1999). Broun Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots (1999): 196. Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain (2001): lxiii-lxv (sub Scottish Royal Lineage). Gillingham Anglo-Norman Studies XXV: Procs. of the Battle Conference 2002 (2003): 162. Oram David I: The King Who Made Scotland (2004). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.).
Children of Maud of Northumberland, by Simon de Senlis:
i. SIMON DE SENLIS, Kitt., Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see next].
ii. [SAINT] WALTHEOF, Prior of Kirkham, 1145, Abbot of Melrose, 1148-59. He witnessed a charter of his step-father, King David I of Scotland, c. 1128, as "Waltheof son of the Queen." He died 3 August 1159. Stevenson Chronica de Mailros (1835): 73 ("Anno m.c.m.viu. [A.D. 1148] Walteuus frater Henrici corrals Northimbrorum, et Simonis comitis Northamtune, factus est abbas de Malros."), 76 ("Anno m.c.ux [AD. 1159]. Obiit pie memorie Waldeuus abbas ij. de Malros iii" nonarum Augusti [3 August], qui fuit awnculus regis M[alcolrni]."). Wade Hist of St. Mag's Abbey, Melrose (1861): 192-203 (biog. of Waltheof, Abbot of Melrose). Arch. Jour. 42 (1885): 453 (Chron. on Thornton Abbey: "Anno Domini 1139 ... Willielmus Grose, comes Albemarliae fundavit abbathiam sive monasterium de Thornton super Humbram .... Sabato die Hilarii. Et anno revoluto eodem die, scilicet S. Hilarii, qui erat dies dominicus, per consilium venerabilis cogriati sui Wallevi, prioris de Kyrkham in comitatu Eboraci, et fratris Simonis comitis Northamptoniae et Henrici comitis et haeredis regis Scotiae, praedictus Wallevus venit Thornton ducens secum conventum duodecim canonicorum de Kyrkhame supradicta"). Atkinson Cartularium Abbathio de Rievalle (Surtees Soc. 83) (1889): lxxxix-xci. Lawrie Early Scottish Charters prior to AD. 1153 (1905): 69 (charter of King David I dated c.1128). Barlow English Church 1066-1154 (1979). Oram Melrose Abbey (2004): 23-24. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.). Boardman & Williamson Cult of Saints & the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland (2010): 43-59.
iii. MAUD DE SENLIS, married (1st ROBERT FITZ RICHARD, of Little Durunow, Essex [see FITZ WALTER 4]; (2.d) SAHER DE QUINCY, of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire [see FITZ WALTER 4].
Child of Maud of Northumberland, by King David I:
i. HENRY OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Northumberland, married ADA DE WARRENE [see SCOTLAND 3].”
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROBERT OF MEULAN, Knt., nicknamed “le Bossu,” 1st Earl of Leicester, Justiciar of England, 1155-68, and, in right of his wife, of seigneur of Bréteuil, Lire, and Gloz in Normandy, younger son, born in 1104. He and his brother, Waleran, were brought up at the court of King Henry I of England with great care on account of the king's gratitude to their father. At his father's death in 1118, he succeeded to his English fiefs. He married after Nov. 1120 AMICE DE GAEL, daughter of Raoul de Gael, seigneur of Gael in Brittany and Bréteuil in Normandy. They had four sons, Robert, Knt. [2nd Earl of Leicester], Henry, Geoffrey, and John, and three daughters, Isabel (or Elizabeth), Hawise, and Margaret. He was granted the honour of Bréteuil in Normandy by his wife's father, who resigned it in his favor. He was knighted in 1122. Sometime in the period, 1126-68, he gave the church of Weedon, Northamptonshire to Bec Abbey. He was present at the death-bed of King Henry I in 1135. In the anarchy which followed, war broke out between Robert and his hereditary foe, Roger de Tony, whom he eventually captured with his brother, Waleran's assistance. Sometime in the period, c.1135-68, he and his son, Robert, confirmed the grant to Bec Abbey by William de Braol of £10 annual rent in “Pachem” (unidentified). In Dec. 1137 he and his brother, Waleran, returned to England with King Stephen as his chief advisers. In 1139 he and his brother seized the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln at Oxford. Sometime in the period, 1139-1141 he was granted the city, castle, and entire county of Hereford by King Stephen; the grant cannot have been much more than momentary. He devoted himself to his foundation of St. Mary de Pré at Leicester, which was accomplished in 1143. After the death of King Stephen, he appears to have made a truce with the Angevin party in Normandy. Following the death of his wife's cousin, William de Paci, in 1153, he was granted Paci in Normandy by Henry, Duke of Normandy (afterwards King Henry II). On Duke Henry's landing in England in 1153, he supplied him freely with means for his struggle. Shortly after the coronation of King Henry II in 1154, he was appointed chief justiciar of England. In 1158 he was left in charge of the kingdom, in a vice-regal capacity, until the king's return from Normandy in 1163. He was present at the Council of Clarendon, 13-28 Jan. 1163/4, and was the first to attest the "Constitutions," to which he procured the assent of Thomas à Becket. In 1165, on the king's departure, he was again left in charge of the kingdom. He appears to have accompanied the king to Normandy in spring 1166, but leaving him, returned to his post before October, and retained it until his death. In addition to St. Mary de Pré, he founded the abbey of Garendon, the monastery of Nuneaton, the priory of Lusfield, and the hospital of Brackley. He was also a benefactor to the Abbeys of Lire and la Chaise-Dieu in Normandy. At an unknown date, he confirmed to the church of Saint Nigasius of Meulan one ounce of gold in Thurmaston, Leicestershire which Amice his wife had formerly given. SIR ROBERT OF MEULAN, 1st Earl of Leicester, died 5 April 1168. His widow, Amice, is said to have entered the convent of Nuneaton Priory. She died 31 August, year uncertain.
Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 16 (1813): 107, 233-234 (letter of Thomas [Becket], Archbishop of Canterbury to Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1164 or 1165), 588-590 (letter of John of Salisbury to Master Girard Pulcelle dated 1168 states "Comes Leicestriae obdormivit in Domino."). Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 350 (Leicester ped.), 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.). Rud Codicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 216 (Monachi & alii Quorum in Margine Matyrologii: "Id. Apr. [13 April] Ob. Rodbertus Comes Leicestriæ et Amiza Comitissa uxot ejus"). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1093 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester confirming the former gift of his wife, Amice, Countess of Leicester; charter witnessed by Earl Simon and Isabel his wife). Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 (Isabel/Elizabeth de Vermandois], sister of Raoul, Count of Peronne, and mother of Robert, Earl of Leicester, Waleran, Count of Meulan, and Ada de Warenne, styled "kinswoman" of King Louis [VII] of France" [regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea]). Delisle and Passy Memoires et Notes de M. Auguste Le Prevost pour servir a l'Histoire du Départment de l’Eure 1(1862): 414-420, 433. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 50 (Tewkesbury Annals sub AD. 1168: "Robertus comes Leycestriæ et Robertus abbas Salopesbiriæ obierunt."). Thompson Essay on English Municipal Hist. (1867): 41-44 (three charters of Robert, Earl of Leicester). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 31 (1870): 2-4 Coll. Archaeologica 2 (1871):30-41. Merlet Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Tiron 1 (1883): 162-163. D.N.B. 4 (1885): 66-67 (biog. of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester). Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 335-336 (sub Leicester). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 473 (Ex Obituariis Lirensis Monasterii: "31 August Obiit Robertus, comes Leicestriæ. - Amicia comitissa."). Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 328, 329 (two charters of Robert Earl of Leicester dated c. 1162-66). Bateson Recs. of the Borough of Leicester 1 (1899): 2 (charter of Robert Earl of Leicester dated 1159-62), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 3 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 4 (undated charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester), 40-44 (inquest dated 1253 mentions Robert of Meulan, Earl of Leicester). Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 376-377 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester to Fontevrault Abbey dated 1155-59; charter names his father, Robert, Count of Meulan, and also confirms a gift of his daughter, Isabel, and her son, Earl Simon). Molinier Obituaires de la Province de Sens 1(1) (Recueil des Historiens de la France, Obituaires 1) (1902): 313 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "nonas Aprilis [5 April] Ob. Robertus, comes Leecestrie."), 325 (Abbaye de Saint-Denis: "II kal. September [31 August] Ob. Amicia, comitissa Leecestre."). Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #15 (charter of Waleran, Count of Meulan dated 1141; charter witnessed by his brother, Robert, Earl of Leicester). English Hist. Rev. 32 (1917): 245-248 (charter of Amice, Countess of Leicester, and charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester, both dated c.1150-60; charter of Earl Robert names his parents, Robert, Count of Meulan, and Isabel). Stenton Docs. Illus. of the Social & Economic Hist. of the Danelaw (1920): 251-259. C.P. 5 (1926): 688; 6 (1926): 451 (sub Hereford); 7 (1929): 527-530 (sub Leicester). Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 11 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester dated 1126-1168), 15 (charter of Robert, Earl of Leicester and Robert his son dated c.1135-1168). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 61. VCH Leicestershire 5 (1964): 256-264. Guyotjeannin Chartrier de l’Abbaye Premontrée de Saint-Yved de Braine (1134-1250) (Memoires et Docs. de l'Ecole des Chartes 49) (2000): 375 ("5 Sept. [Obiit] Amicie comitisse Lecestrie."). Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 297 (chart), 304 (Fitz Osbern ped.), 314 (Beaumont ped.).
Children of Robert of Meulan, Knt., by Amice de Gael:
i. ROBERT DE BRÉTEUIL, Knt., 2nd Earl of Leicester [see next].
ii. ISABEL (or ELIZABETH) OF LEICESTER, married (1st) SIMON DE SENLIS, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton [see BEAUCHAMP 4]; (2nd) GERVASE PAYNELL, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BEAUCHAMP 4].
iii. HAWISE OF LEICESTER, married WILLIAM FITZ ROBERT, 2nd Earl of Gloucester [see GLOUCESTER 4].
iv. MARGARET OF LEICESTER, married RALPH DE TONY, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see TONY 5].”
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