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1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, Cold Hatton, Eyton, Harley, Hope Bowdler, Marton, Meole Brace, Stanwardine-on-campo, Stapleton, Whittingslow, and Wilderley, Shropshire, Aston Cantlow, Hunningham, Ipsley, and [Upper] Shuckburgh, Warwickshire, Poulton, Wiltshire, etc., Steward of the Royal Household, 1239-51, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1239-40, Keeper of the Town of Shrewsbury, Constable of Nottingham Castle, Keeper of Lundy Island, son and heir. He married (1st) before July 1215 or 1216 (date of pardon) MILICENT DE GOURNAY, Countess of Evreux, widow of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux in Normandy, Earl of Gloucester in England (died before November 1213), and daughter of Hugh (or Hugues) de Gournay (died 1214), seigneur of Gournay-en-Brie, and of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, Houghton, Bedfordshire, Caister and Cantley, Norfolk, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, etc, by Juliane, daughter of Aubrey II, Count of Dammartin [see GOURNAY 4 for her ancestry]. They had five sons, William, Knt., [Master] Thomas [Bishop of Hereford, Chancellor of England, Chancellor of Oxford University], [Master] Hugh [Archdeacon of Gloucester], John, and Nicholas, and two daughters, Agnes and Juliane. Like his father, he was named by Roger of Wendover as one of King John's "evil counselors." In 1217 Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, granted William's wife, Milicent, the manors of Marlow, Buckinghamshire and Burford, Oxfordshire, together with the life grant of the viii of Hambleden, Buckinghamshire in satisfaction of Milicent's claims to dower in the lands of her former husband, Amaury de Evreux. In 1217 William was at the Siege of Mountsorrel and at the Battle of Lincoln. By the mid-1220s he was a follower of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, and witnessed many of his charters. He participated in Earl Ranulph's armed demonstration at the Tower of London in 1223, but then submitted with the earl. He presented to the churches of Bulwick, Northamptonshire, 1226 and 1247, and Barby, Northamptonshire, 1230. He obtained a confirmation of the manor of Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire in 1227 and again in 1231. He joined Chester on the king's expedition to Brittany in 1230. He married (2nd) after Michaelmas 1233 (date of lawsuit) MAUD FITZ GEOFFREY, widow of Henry d'Oilly (died 1232), of Hook Norton, Kidlington, and Little Minster (in Minster Lovell), Oxfordshire, and daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, by his 2nd wife, Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford [see ESSEX 2 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. Sometime in the period, 1227-36, Maud had the manor of Gussage St. Michael, Dorset by gift from her half-sister, Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford. In 1234 he served as one of the executors of the will of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. In 1236 he went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In 1237 the king granted him the manors of Great Bowden and Market Harborough, Leicestershire for life. In 1241 he was one of the English arbitrators with Dafydd of Gwynedd. He was appointed one of the guardians of the realm during the king's expedition to Poitou in 1242. In 1242 William son of William Marmion sued him. In 1242-3 he presented to the church of Coningsby, Lincolnshire, in right of his ward, Philip Marmion. In 1244 Peter de Freney conveyed the manor of Clipsharn, Rutland to him. In 1244-5 William de Cantelowe, senior, levied a fine by which William de Haket was bound not to sell, injure, waste, or spoil any part of the manor of Little Merston (in West Camel), Somerset, as it was only his or life, and afterwards should go to the said William de Cantelowe. He was one of the proctors of the English baronage at the Council of Lyons in 1245, delivering a lengthy complaint against Roman exactions. His wife, Maud, had a gift of bucks from Sherwood Forest by the king in 1245 and 1248. SIR WILLIAM DE CANTILOWE died testate 22 Feb. 1250/1. His viscera was buried at Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire. In 1252 his widow, Maud, went to Scotland with Margaret, the king's daughter, Queen of Scotland, by order of the king. She held the advowson of the Rectory of Berwick St. James, Wiltshire for life. In 1260 Hawise de London, widow of Patrick de Chaworth, Knt., leased to Maud and to Maud's nephew, John son of John Fitz Geoffrey, the manor of East Garston, Berkshire for a term of 11 years. His widow, Maud, died 1 March 1260/1.
Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 184 (charter of Amaury, Count of Evreux). Martene & Durand Veterum Scriptorum et Monumentorum 1 (1724): 1068 (charter of King Philippe Auguste of France dated 1206 mentions land given by Hugh de Gournay at Sotteville in Normandy in marriage with his daughter, [Milicent], Countess of Evreux). Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 25; 2 (1791): 289. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 5 (1806): 507 ("Henry d'Oyly who had two wives, Sibil and Maud, who remarried to William de Cantalupe; he had only one daughter, Maud, who died young. He attended King Ric. I. to Jerusalem, and as he returned, died and was buried in Austria, and was succeeded by his only brother, Robert, who was Baron of Hocknorton, and the King's Constable ..."). Rotuli Hundredorum (Record Commission) (1812): 97, 102. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Roberts Excerpta e Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi Asservatis, A.D. 1216-1272 2 (1836): 357. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Sackville-West Hist. Notices of the Parish of Witham (1857): 40-46 (re. Cantelowe fam.). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 6 (1858): 350-357; 11(1860): 82. Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 143 (sub A.D. 1250: "Obiit Willelmus de Cantilupo in Cathedra Sancti Petri"); 3 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1866): 181 (Dunstaple Annals sub A.D. 1250: "Eodem tempore mortuus est Willelmus de Cantilupo secundus."); 4 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1869): 100 (Oseney Annals sub 1250: "Eodem anno obiit dominus Willelmus de Cantilupo, et jacent ejus viscera apud Oseneiam coram altari Sancti Michaelis."), 127 (sub Oseney Annals sub A.D. 1260 [i.e., 1260/11: "Eodem anno primo die Martii obiit bonæ memoriæe domina Matildis de Cantilupo, cujus animæ propicietur Deus."), 440 (Worcester Annals sub A.D. 1251: Willelmus de Cantilupo frater domini episcopi obiit."). Francisque-Michel Roles Garcons 1 (1885): 373, 422. Worthy Devonshire Parishes, or the Antiquities, Docs. Heraldry & Fam. Hist. of Twenty-Eight Parishes in the Archdeaconry of Totnes 2(1889): 31-34. Genealogist n.s. 5 (1889): 129 (seal of Amaury, Earl of Gloucester-A shield of arms: Barry pily over the whole field. Legend: Sig. Almarici Comitis Gloverniæ. Counterseal of the same. Legend: Secretum A. Comitis Gloverniæ.). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 9-21. Batten Hist. & Topo Colls. Rel. to the early Hist. of Parts of South Somerset (1894): 1-7. Macray Cal. of Charters & Docs. rel. to Selborne & its Priory (1894): 63 (charter of Amaury, Earl of Gloucester dated before 1210, followed by fine dated 1210). Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 5 (1898): 190. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 102. Bates Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Mulchelney & Athelney (Somerset Rec. Soc. 14) (1899): 71. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm. 55) (1907): 97 (charter of Amaury, Earl of Gloucester). C.P.R 1247-1258 (1908): 123, 129, 416. VCH Buckingham 2 (1908): 331-338; 4 (1927): 260-263. C.P.R 1258-1266 (1910): 125, 184-185. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 369-375. Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 67. C.C.R. 1242-1247 (1916): 337. G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 210-215. C.C.R 1247-1251 (1922): 66. C.P. 5 (1926): 692-693 (sub Gloucester). C.C.R. 1251-1253 (1927): 19, 55, 292, 386, 413. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 12 (1928): 79-81. C.C.R. 1254-1256 (1931): 94, 181, 193-194, 208, 240, 275, 353, 380. C.C.R. 1256-1259 (1932): 21, 257, 264. C.C.R. 1259-1261 (1934): 303. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 41-45. C.C.R. 1261-1264 (1936): 178-179. Fowler Tractatus de Dunstaple et de Hocton (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 19) (1937): 40-41, 74-75. Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 6, 15, 31. VCH Warwick 3 (1945): 31-42, 123-126, 167-172, 193-196; 6 (1951): 117-120, 215-219. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 39-40, 52. Duchy of Lancaster, Descriptive List (with Index) of Carta Miscellanea, Lists and Indexes, Supplementary Ser., No. V, vol. 3, reprinted 1964): 85 ("Announcement dated 1227-36 by Maud de Oylly that Maud de Mandevill', Countess of Essex and Hereford, her sister, has granted her by charter the manor of Gussage St. Michael, co. Dorset."). VCH Leicester 5 (1964): 133-453. C.R.R. 15 (1972): 36, 40-41, 63, 288-290, 438-440, 443. Barraclough Charters of the Earls of Chester (Lanc. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 126) (1988): 416. Travers Cal. of the Feet of Fines for Buckinghamshire 1239-1307 (Buckinghamshire Rec. Soc. 25) (1989): 106. VCH Oxford 12 (1990): 188-194; 13 (1996): 118-127; 15 (2006): 184-172. VCH Wiltshire 15 (1995): 168-177. Hoskin English Episcopal Ada 13 (1997): xxvii-xxxiii (biog. of Walter de Cantelowe). Fine Rolls of Henry III, C 60/32 (Date: 1232 - Henry de Oilly deceased styled "kinsman" of Thomas [Earl] of Warwick).
Children of William de Cantelowe, Knt., by Milicent de Gournay:
i. WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt. [see next].
ii. JOHN DE CANTELOWE, of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, married MARGERY (or MARGARET) COMYN [see WEST 5].
iii. NICHOLAS DE CANTELOWE, of Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire. He married EUSTACHE FITZ RALPH, daughter and heiress of Ralph Fitz Hugh, of Greasley and South Muskham, Nottinghamshire, and Ilkeston, Derbyshire, by Joan, daughter of Ralph de la Haye, Knt., of Burwell, Lincolnshire. They had one son, William. NICHOLAS DE CANTELOWE was living 8 May 1262. His widow, Eustache, married (2nd) in 1268 WILLIAM DE ROOS (or ROS), Knt., of Ingmanthorpe (in Kirk Deighton), Yorkshire, and, in right of his wife, of Greasley, Nottinghamshire, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, etc. Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844):149-150 (sub Cantilupe). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. D.N.B. 3 (1908): 900-904 (biog. of Thomas de Cantelupe). Alington St Thomas of Hereford (2001): 4. West Yorkshire Archive Service, Leeds: Ingilby Recs., WYL230/30 (enfeoffment dated 1 March 1290 from William de Ros, lord of Ingmanthorp and Eustacia his wife to William their son, of the manors of Wythale and Kynthorp in Lincolnshire, Elkeston with the advowson of the church in Derbyshire, Greseby and Seleston with the advowson of the churches in Nottinghamshire, Claydon with the advowson of the church and Esilbergh [Ellesborough] in Buckinghamshire, lately granted to them for life, with remainder to William, by Ralph son of William, lord of Grimthorpe, for term of their lives, rendering annually £100); WYL230/31 (power of attorney dated 1 March 1290 from William de Ros, land of Ingmanthorp and Eustacia his wife to Robert de Sallow and Adam de Cossall to deliver to William de Ros their son full seisin of the manors of Wythhale and Kynthorp in Lincolnshire, Elkeston with the advowson of the church in Derbyshire, Greseley and Selseton with the advowsons of the churches in Nottinghamshire, Claydon with the advowson of the church and Esilbergh [Ellesborough] in Buckinghamshire) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Nicholas de Cantelowe, by Eustache Fitz Ralph:
a. WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, son and heir. Banks Baronies in Fees 1 (1844):149-150 (sub Cantilupe). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1(1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177.
iv. [MASTER] THOMAS DE CANTELOWE, Archdeacon of Stafford, Precentor of York, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chancellor of England, Bishop of Hereford, born about 1220. He and his brother, Hugh de Cantelowe, went to Paris in the early 1240s where they pursued arts degrees. He was appointed Rector of Wintringharn, Lincolnshire in 1244. In 1245 Thomas and his brother, Hugh, attended the 1st Council of Lyons in 1245, where Thomas was appointed papal chaplain by Pope Innocent IV, and also received a dispensation allowing him to hold benefices in plurality. After attaining his Master of Arts at Paris, he completed his studies at Oxford in canon law c.1255, incepting as a doctor in that faculty. He was presented to the church of Deighton, Yorkshire by Agatha Trussebut in 1247. He Was Rector of Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire in 1253. In 1261 he was elected Chancellor of Oxford University. In December 1263 he went to Amiens to represent baronial interests in their disputes with King Henry III. He drafted the three documents through which the barons' case was submitted to the arbitrament of Louis IX. The French king's rejection of the baronial proposals, in the mise of Amiens of January 1264, was the catalyst that brought Montfortians into open conflict with King Henry III. After Simon de Montfort's victory at the Battle of Lewes in May 1264, the magnate council of nine, and a compliant King Henry III, in February 1265 appointed Thomas as Chancellor of England. Though his execution of duties as chancellor seems to have been of brief duration, the acts he carried out were performed with his usual fastidious attention to detail and consciousness of iresponskality. Following the Battle of Evesham in 1265, he remained abroad for several years, studying theology at Paris. In 1268 he was granted a dispensation to be absent for three years to study theology. About 1272 be had returned to Oxford where, in June 1273, he became a doctor of theology. He was again appointed Chancellor of the university in Jan. 1274, where he played an important part in quelling a student riot between the `northeners' and the 'southerners'. In May 1274 he attended the 2nd Council of Lyons where, as at the first Lyons council, he was made a papal chaplain. He was elected Bishop of Hereford 15 June 1275, and was consecrated by Archbishop Kilwardby 8 September 1275. THOMAS DE CANTELOWE, Bishop of Hereford, died at Castrum Florenti (Ferento, now in ruins) 25 August 1282. He left a will dated 18 August 1282. His flesh and viscera were buried at the monastery of San Severo outside Orvieto. His bones were returned to England and placed under a slab in the east end of Hereford Cathedral, where they remained until moved into a table tomb in the north transept in 1287. His successor Richard Swinfield (died 1317) became a tireless promoter of Cantelowe's canonization. Between 1287 and 1312 nearly 500 miracles were recorded as evidence of his sanctity, a figure surpassed in the surviving records of medieval England only by the 700 attributed to Thomas Becket. Swinfield's attempts to secure the canonization of his predecessor had little immediate success, though after an inquisition authorized by Clement V found that Cantelowe had died in communion with the church, the pope ordered an investigation of his life and miracles, which took place in London and Hereford. Both inquisitorial processes occurred in 1307. Continued support for the bishop's cause, by Kings Edward I and Edward II and by many other secular and ecclesiastical magnates, resulted in his canonization 17 April 1320. A new shrine was constructed in the east end of the cathedral. On 25 October 1349, in the presence of King Edward III and many other lay and clerical notables, his bones were translated from the north transept to this new location. There the remains lay undisturbed until 1538, when, along with much else that represented papal authority in England, the shrine, its ornaments, and its contents were removed. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 176 (Cantilupe ped.). Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 9 (1860): 171. Gray Reg., or Rolls, of Walter Gr6, Lord Archbishop of York (Surtees Soc. 56) (1872): 99. Birch Cat. Seals- in the British Museum 1 (1887): 238 (seal of Thomas de Cantelowe, Bishop of Hereford-Pointed oval: the Bishop, full-length, lifting up the right hand in benediction, in the left hand a pastoral staff. In the field on each side, three fleurs-de-lis in allusion to the armorial charges of CANTELOWE, viz, three leopards' faces reversed jessants-de-lis. The feet of the Bishop rest on a wolf couchant, enraged, in allusion to the name CANTELOWE. Legend: .... OMAS : DEI : GRA: HEREFORDENSIS : EPS.). Papal Regs.: Letters 1(1893): 205, 228 (Thomas and Hugh, clerks, styled "sons of William de Cantalupo"), 417 (Master Thomas de Cantilupe styled "nephew of the bishop of Worcester" in 1264). Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 1 (1901): 170-177. List of Ancient Corr. of the Chancery & Exchequer (PRO Lists and Indexes 15) (1902): 338 (letter dated 17 Aug. 1276 written by Thomas de Cantelowe, Bishop of Hereford, requesting that his nephew, John de Cantelowe, have courtesy of England in Aylestone, Leicestershire [it being the inheritance of John's late wife, Margery de Harcourt]); see also Index to Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer, Vol. 1: A-K (Lists and Indexes, Supplementary Series, No. XV): 221, 535. Giffard Episc. Reg. Diocese of Worcester, Reg. of Bishop Godfrey Ge-ard 1 (Worcester Hist. Soc. 15) (1902): 2-3, 26, 40. Cantilupe Reg. Thome de Cantilupo Episcopi Hertfordensis (Canterbury & York Soc. 1) (1906): 171 (Nicholas de Hodenet styled "kinsman" [consanguineo] by Bishop Thomas de Cantelowe in charter dated c.1270) [see also Robinson Hist. of the Mansions & Manors of Herefordshire (1872): 37]. Capes Charters & Recs. of Hereford Cathedral (1908). D.N.B. 3 (1908): 900-904 (biog. of Thomas de Cantelupe). G.H. Fowler 'Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. No. I' in Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5 (1920): 210-215. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300 1 (1968): 91-96. Jancey St.Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford: EsseDls in his Honour (1982). Prestwich English Politics in the 13th Cent. (1990). Finucane Miracles & Pilgrims: Popular Beliefs in Medieval England (1995): 136-137, 173-190. Carpenter Reign of Henry III (1996): 293-307. Hoskin English Episcopal Acta 13 (1997): 118-119. Alington St Thomas of Hereford (2001). Hicks Who's Who in Late Medieval England, 1272-1485(2001): 14-16 (biog. of St. Thomas Cantilupe).
v. [MASTER HUGH DE CANTELOWE, Rector of Skendleby, Lincolnshire, 1244, Archdeacon of Gloucester, Papal chaplain, Treasurer of Salisbury. He is said to have been installed as Archdeacon of Gloucester 16 April 1256, but first occurs 7 July and 16 August 1255, and prob. the unnamed Archdeacon who occurs 18 May 1255. In 1268 he was granted a dispensation to be absent for three years to study theology. He and his brother, Thomas de Cantelowe, served as executors of the will of their uncle, Walter de Cantelowe, Bishop of Worcester, in 1269. [MASTER] HUGH DE CANTELOWE was living 14 May 1270, and died testate before 6 July 1279. Little Grey Friars in Oxford Pt. 2 (1892): 218 (lohn de Clara was executor of Hugh de Cantelowe, Archdeacon of Gloucester, in 1285). Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 205,223 (Thomas and Hugh, clerks, styled "sons of William de Cantalupo"), 417. Giffard Episc. Reg. Diocese of Worcester, Reg. of Bishop Gocberey Giffard 1 (Worcester Hist. Soc. 15) (1902): 3, 26, 40. Reg. Thome de Cantilupo Episcopi Herefordensis (Canterbury & York Soc. 1) (1906): 213. D.N.B. 3 (1908): 900-904 (biog. of Thomas de Cantelupe). Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-13002 (1971): 107-109. Alington St. Thomas of Hereford (2001): 4.
vi. AGNES DE CANTELOWE, married (1st) ROBERT DE SAINT JOHN, of Basing, Hampshire [see PAULET 6]; (2nd) JOHN DE TURVILLE [see PAULET 6].
vii. JULIANE DE CANTELOWE, married ROBERT DE TREGOZ, Knt., of Ewyas Harold, Herefordshire [see TREGOZ 3].”
2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersharn and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son, born before 1145. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married (1st) before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY, daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4.i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. His wife, Beatrice, died in childbed before 19 April 1197. Her body was initially buried in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, but later transferred to Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1198 Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. He was present at the Coronation of King John 27 May 1199, where he was girded with the sword of earl. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. He was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Amersham, Buckinghamshire and Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire in 1200. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a fee farm of £100 per annum. Geoffrey married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) AVELINE DE CLARE, widow of William de Munchensy, of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc. (died shortly before 7 May 1204) [see CLARE 4.ii], and daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Clare or Hertford, by Maud, daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary [see CLARE 4 for her ancestry]. They had one son, John, Knt, and four daughters, Hawise, Cecily, ___, and Maud. He campaigned against the Welsh in 1206 and 1210. He was granted a significant part of the lands forfeited by Normans, including the manors of Depden and Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and other lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, all worth over £100 per annum. In 1207 the king confirmed his possession of the manor of Notgrove, Gloucestershire, which Geoffrey had by the gift of John Eskelling. The same year he was granted a weekly market and yearly fair at Moretonhampstead, Devon. Sometime before 1212, he was granted the manor of Gussage Dynaunt (or Gussage St. Michael), Dorset, which manor was forfeited by Roland de Dinan. At some unspecified date, when already earl, he granted all his right in St. Peter's chapel in Drayton to the canons of St. Peter's Cathedral, York. He was the founder of the first church of Whitney Priory, Hampshire. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Earl of Essex, died 14 October 1213, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1213-4 the king commanded Geoffrey de Buckland to let the king have, at the price any others would give for them, the corn, pigs, and other chattels at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire which belonged his brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, lately deceased. About 1214 his widow, Aveline, granted the canons of Holy Trinity, London, in frank almoin, a half mark quit rent out of her manor of Towcester, Northamptonshire, part of whose body is buried there. In 1221 the Prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England sued her regarding two virgates and five acres of land in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Aveline, Countess of Essex, died before 4 June 1225.
Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 414-427. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (Fitz Peter ped.). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 721-722; 6(1) (1830): 339-340; 6(3) (1830): 1191 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 190-194 (Mandeville-Say ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 273 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1213: "Obiit Gaufridus filius Petri comes de Essexe, et justitiarius totrus Angliæ, tunc temporis cunctis in Anglia præstantior."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 76-114. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 193-194; 3 (1887): 452-453. Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private Prior to AD. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 97-99 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1191 to Geoffrey Fitz Peter and Beatrice his wife, as rightful and next heirs, of all the land of Earl William de Mandeville, which was hers by hereditary right), 108-110 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1198 of the division of their inheritance made by Beatrice and Maud, daughters and co-heirs of William de Say, in the time of his father, King Henry II). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91, 93. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 349-350, 354, 371-372. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 36-37, 58-59, 85, 130-131. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 1, 43, 54, 92, 117, 127, 150, 161. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1198 to A.D. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 15. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 412-414. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115; 4(1956): 158-162. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 81-85, 501-511. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (two charters of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and two charters of his widow, Aveline, Countess of Essex). Book of Fees 1 (1920): 91-92. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 215, 218-219. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 141-155; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 122-125 (sub Essex), 437 (chart) (sub Fitz John); 9 (1936):420 (sub Munchensy). VCH Kent 2 (1926): 175-176. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 34-37, 41, 92-93, 255-256. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 24, 103, 228. Hassall Cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenwell (Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 100-101. Paget (1957) 130:5 (see Genealogist n.s. 14:181). West Justiciarship in England, 1066-1232 (1966). Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 174-176. Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. VCH Hampshire 2 (1973) 149-151; 3 (1908): 107; 4 (1911): 79-81. Burton Cartulary of the Treasurer of York Minster (Borthwick Texts & Cals.: Recs. of the Northern Province 5) (1978): 52-53 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex dated 1199-1212). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85,165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 186-187, 189-190, 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville), 194-197. Holt Acta of Henry II and Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193,202-203. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 308-309 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Bocland. Seal on tag - obverse: earl of horseback, brandishing a sword. Legend: SI[GILLUM GAUFRIDI COMITI]S EXIE +; Counterseal: six-petalled flower (worn); Legend: ...IL...ETRI...), 309, 314-315 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex). Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Soc., vol. 111) (1996): 16-17, 84-91. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 35-70 (biog. of Geoffrey Fitz Peter), App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 147-172. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 78-79. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 100-101. Thorley Docs. in Medieval Latin (1998): 55-55. Breay Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (1999): 151. Greenway Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery (1999): xxviii-xxx. Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Family, Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 2706 198 x 4 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Children of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., by Beatrice de Say:
i. GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., 5th Earl of Essex, Constable of the Tower of London, 1213, Lord of the Honour of Glamorgan, 1214, Joint Marshal of the Army of the Barons, 1215, Governor of Essex for the Barons, 1215, and, in right of his 2nd wife, Earl of Gloucester, son and heir by his father's 1st marriage. He married (1st) MAUD FITZ ROBERT, 1st daughter of Robert Fitz Walter, of Little Dunmow, Burnham, and Woodharn Walter, Essex, Constable of Hertford Castle, Magna Carta Baron, by his 1st wife, Gunnor, daughter and heiress of Robert de Valoines [see FITZ WALTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. His wife, Maud, was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex. He married (2nd) 16/26 Jan. 1213/4 ISABEL OF GLOUCESTER, Countess of Gloucester, lady of Glamorgan, divorced wife of King John of England [see ENGLAND 5], and youngest daughter and co-heiress of William Fitz Robert, Earl of Gloucester, by Hawise, daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see GLOUCESTER 4 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. SIR GEOFFREY DE MANDEVILLE, 5th Earl of Essex, was killed in a tournament in London 23 Feb. 1215/6. In 1217 his widow, Isabel, granted to the canons of Holy, Trinity, London for the souls of herself and Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, her late husband, a mark quit rent in the land and dwelling house that Godard de Antiochia held in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. Isabel married (3rd) c.17 Sept. 1217 (as his 2nd wife) HUBERT DE BURGH, Knt., Chamberlain to John, Count of Mortain [future King John], 1198-9, King's Chamberlain, 1199-1205, Earl of Kent [see BARDOLF 8; SCOTLAND 4.1] son of Walter de Burgh, of Burgh near Aylsham, Norfolk, by his wife, Alice. Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, died 14 October 1217, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral Church. HUBERT DE BURGH, Earl of Kent died testate shortly before 5 May 1243. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1(1822-30): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 325 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent; charter witnessed by Walter de Burgh); 6(1) (1830): 74 (gifts by Sir Hubert de Burgh of the churches of Oulton, Norfolk and Badingham, Suffolk to Walsingharn Priory); 6(2) (1830): 942 (two charters of Hubert de Burgh). Roberts Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege 1(1835): 405-406, 465. Gilbert Parochial Hist. of Cornwall 3 (1838): 350 (charter of Hubert de Burgh, King's Chamberlain). Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2 (1849): 179 (sub 1243: "Hubertus de Burgo, comes Cantiæ, obiit III. id. Maii [13 Maii]"). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 282 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1215: "Obiit Gaufridus de Mandevilla comes de Essexia."), 289 (Annales de Waverleia sub A.D. 1217: "Obiit Isabel comitissa Gloucestriæ"); 3 (1866): 45 (Dunstable Annals sub A.D. 1214: "... ex quibus miles unus Galfridum de Mandevilla ludendo percussit, et mortuus est. Qui paulo ante guerram Johannam, comitissam Gloucestriæ, repucliatam a Johanne, rage Angliæ (archiepiscopo Burdegalensi divortium celebrante,) duxit in uxorem, licet invitus Cui sine filiis mortuo, successit Willelmus frater ejus, et relictam ipsius duxit Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Angliæ; guæ post paucos dies decessit, et apud Cantuariam sepelitur."), 128 (Dunstable Annals sub AD. 1232: "Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglia, conventus super peregrinatione sanctæ Crucis per literas Pap, per absolutionem Pandulfi legati tunc Angliæ, se rationabiliter expedivit. Super divortio vero tertiæ uxoris suæ, scilicet filiæ regis Scotiæ, conventus, super eo quod erat consanguinea secundæ uxoris suæ, scilicet cornitissæ Gloverniæ ..."). Matthew of Paris Matthæi Patisiensis 2 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1866): 477 (sub A.D. 1243: "Et eodem anno, idus Maii [12 May], post multas, quas in mundo toleraverat patienter, persecutiones, comes Canciæ Hubertus de Burgo, de quo multa praescribuntur, laudabiliter diem clausit extremum apud Banstude, manerium suum. Et delatum est corpus suum tumulandum Londoniis, in domo frattum Prædicatorum, quibus vivens multa bona contulerat, et corpus veneranter intumulandum delegaverat."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex); 2 (1886): 12-13 (sub Gloucester). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 72, 93. Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 24-30, 235 (Obit Kalendar: "9 May - Obijt Hubertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglie [A.D. 12421"). English Hist. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711; 50 (1935): 418-432. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Rec. Soc. of Lancashire & Cheshire 47) (1904): 124-125. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 102-110. VCH Lancaster 8 (1914): 77, 85, 189, 192, 207, 231. C.P. 5 (1926): 126-130 (sub Essex), 689-692 (sub Gloucester); 7 (1929): 133-142 (sub Kent). Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): chart opp. 1,26-35. Ellis Hubert de Burgh: A Study in Constang (1952). Viator 5 (1974): 235-252. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 354. Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Holt Magna Carta (1992): 206-210. Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 142 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "14 October [2 Id. Oct] Obierunt Ysabel comitissa Gouernie, soror at benefactrix nostra"). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). University of Toronto Deed Research Project, #00810076, 00810114, 00810140, 00810141, 00810142, 00810143, 00810144, 00810145, 00810146, 00810147, 00810150, 01400342 (charters of Isabel, Countess of Gloucester and Essex, dated variously 1214-1217) (available at http://res.deeds.utoronto.ca:49838/research).
ii. WILLIAM DE MANDEVILLE, Knt., 6th Earl of Essex, of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, Moreton Hampstead, Devon, Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, Wellsworth, Hampshire, Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, Cherhill, Wiltshire, etc., 2nd son by his father's 1st marriage. He married before 18 Nov. 1220 CHRISTIAN (or CHRISTINE) FITZ ROBERT, 2nd daughter of Robert Fitz Walter, of Little Dunmow, Burnham, and Woodham Walter, Essex, Constable of Hertford Castle, Magna Carta Baron, by his lst wife, Gunnor, daughter and heiress of Robert de Valoines [see FITZ WALTER 6 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, his father granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire. His wife, Christian, held four fees of the honour of Valoines of the gift of her father, including Lockleys (in Welwyn) and Radwell, Hertfordshire. She granted all her men in the vill of Ashwell, Hertfordshire to Walden Priory in Essex. At an unknown date, she gave part of the lordship of Wolferton, Norfolk to Shouldham Priory. He was heir in 1216 to his older brother, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Knt., 5th Earl of Essex. In 1218 his aunt, Maud de Say, sued him for a moiety share of various manors of the Mandeville inheritance, including Pleshey, Essex, Streatley, Berkshire, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Enfield, Middlesex, Compton, Warwickshire, etc. In 1220 he and his wife, Christian, granted the advowson of the church of Westlee, Norfolk to Binham Priory. In 1222 he rebuilt his house at Streatley, Berkshire. In 1223 he was in Wales with the Earl of Salisbury and the Earl Marshal in their campaign against Llywelyn. He was appointed Joint Ambassador to France in 1225. SIR WILLIAM DE MANDEVILLE, 6th Earl of Essex, died testate 8 Jan. 1226/7, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk, his heart being buried in Walden Abbey, Essex. In 1227 his widow, Christian, granted all her lands in the vill of Westley (in Westley Waterless), Cambridgeshire, together with the advowson of the church, to Geoffrey de Lanvallay and his mother, Hawise de Buckland [half-sister of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex]. Christian married (2nd) before 15 May 1227 RAYMOND DE BURGH, Knt., of Dartford, Kent, Constable of Hertford Castle, kinsman of Hubert de Burgh, Knt., Earl of Kent. They had no issue. He accompanied the king on the expedition to Brittany in April 1230. SIR RAYMOND DE BURGH was drowned in the Loire at Nantes on or shortly before 1 July 1230, and was buried at the Hospital of St. Mary at Dover. Christian, Countess of Essex, died shortly before 17 June 1232, and was buried with her 1st husband in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. Blomefield Esscy towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 419 (charter of Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex); 9 (1808): 195-196. Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiq. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter ped.). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 303 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1227: "Obiit Willelmus de Mandewilla comes Essexim."). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Genealogist 6 (1882): 1-7. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of … Thame (1883): 331-332 (Mandeville ped.). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 685 (sub Essex). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 72,93. Moore Cartularium Afonarterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria (1897): 201-202, 205-206 (charter dated 1227 of Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex, widow, to Geoffrey de Lanvaley son of William and Hawise sister [sororis] of Geoffrey Fitz Peter formerly Justiciar of England), 206-207 (charter dated 1227-30 of Raymond de Burgh confirming grant of his wife, Christian de Mandeville, Countess of Essex to Geoffrey de Lanvalei son of William and his wife Hawise). Ancestor 11(1904): 129-135. English Hirt. Rev. 19 (1904): 707-711. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115, 150-154. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 107. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 33-37, 73-77, 102-110, 165-171, 199-209, 244-247, 501-511. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. C.P. 5 (1926): 130-133 (sub Essex). Jenkins Cal. of the Rolls of the Justices on Eyre 1227 (Buckinghamshire Arch. Soc. 6) (1945): 46, 55. VCH Hertford 4 (1971): 426-428. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 4-16; 6 (1978): 177-182. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville). Patterson ed. Haskins Soc. Jour. Studies in Medieval Hist. 1 (1989): 170 (Fitz Peter ped.). Turner Judges, Administrators & the Common Law in Angevin England (1994): 306 (Fitz Peter ped.). Online resource: www.finerollshenrylorg.uk/content/calendar/roll_025.html.
iii. HENRY FITZ GEOFFREY, King's clerk, 3rd son. He was appointed Dean of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire by the king in 1205. The king granted him a prebend in the diocese of Lincoln in 1207. Sometime in the period, 1213-18, he resigned all his right in the church of Preston to Abbot and convent of Cirencester, Gloucestershire. He died sometime before 1224, when Giles de Erdington occurs as his successor as Dean of Wolverhampton. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1846): 1443. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped.). Lee Hist., Description & Antiqs. of ... Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Ross Cartulary of Circencester Abbey, Gloucestershire 2 (1964): 340 (notification by Henry clerk, son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter formerly Earl of Essex dated 1213-18). VCH Stafford 3 (1970): 321-331. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300 3 (1977): 118-150.
iv. MAUD DE MANDEVILLE, Countess of Essex, married (1st) HENRY DE BOHUN, Earl of Hereford [see BOHUN 5]; (2nd) ROGER DE DAUNTSEY, Knt., of Dauntsey and Wilsford, Wiltshire [see BOHUN 5].
v. ALICE FITZ GEOFFREY, died without issue sometime before 1227. Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Society 111) (1996): 84-91.
Children of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt, by Aveline de Clare:
i. JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt, of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., married ISABELLE BIGOD [see VERDUN 8].
ii. HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, married REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt, of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN 8].
iii. CECILY FITZ GEOFFREY, married SAVARY DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 3].
iv. FITZ GEOFFREY, married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. [see HARLESTON 3].
v. MAUD FITZ GEOFFREY, married (1st) HENRY D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, King's Constable [see CANTELOWE 4]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Steward of the Royal Household [see CANTELOWE 4].”
3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROGER DE CLARE (otherwise ROGER FITZ RICHARD), 2nd Earl of Hertford (also styled Earl of Clare), younger son. He married MAUD DE SAINT HILARY...
Children of Roger de Clare, by Maud de St. Hilary...
ii. AVELINE DE CLARE, married (1st) before 1186 WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc., younger son of Warin de Munchensy, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Pain Fitz John. They had two sons, William and Warin, Knt. He was heir before Michaelmas 1190 to his older brother, Ralph de Munchensy, Knt. In 1198 he was serving in Normandy. He was one of the guarantors of the treaty between King John and the Count of Flanders at Roche d'Andelys in 1199. He was fined for not serving overseas in 1201. He was a benefactor of the religious houses of West Dereham and Missenden. SIR WILLIAM DE MUNCHENSY died before 7 May 1204. His widow, Aveline, married (2nd) before 29 May 1205 (date of grant) (as his 2nd wife) GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., Earl of Essex [see ESSEX 2], of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire, Cherhill and Costow, Wiltshire, Chief Forester, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1184-89, 1191-94, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1190-93, Constable of Hertford Castle, Justiciar of England, 1198-1213, Sheriff of Staffordshire, 1198, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1198-1200, 1202-4, Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 1199-1204, Sheriff of Westmorland, 1199-1200, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1201-4, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1201-4, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Streadey, Berkshire, Amersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Pleshey, Essex, Digswell, Hertfordshire, Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, etc., younger son of Peter de Ludgershall, of Cherhill and Linley (in Tisbury), Wiltshire, and Gussage Saint Andrew (in Sixpenny Handley), Dorset, by his wife, Maud. He was born before 1145. They had one son, John, Knt., and four daughters, Hawise, Cecily, ___, and Maud. Sometime in the period, 1157-66, he witnessed an exchange of land between Roger de Tichborne and the Bishop of Winchester. He held a fee in Cherhill, Wiltshire of new enfeoffment in 1166. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, Elias de Studley conveyed to him his land held of the fee of William Malbanc in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire at an annual rent of 20s. In 1184 he accounted for the farm of Kinver before the itinerant justices in Oxfordshire. He married before 25 Jan. 1184/5 BEATRICE DE SAY (died before 19 April 1197), daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4i for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Geoffrey de Mandeville [5th Earl of Essex], William de Mandeville, Knt. [6th Earl of Essex], and Henry [Dean of Wolverhampton], and two daughters, Maud and Alice. In 1186-7 King Henry II granted him the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire, to hold in fee and inheritance by the service of one knight, as his father Peter or his brother Robert held it. In the period, 1186-89, he and his two half-brothers, William and Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, c.1189-99, he founded Shouldham Abbey, Norfolk, to which he gave the manor and the advowson of the church of Shouldham, Norfolk, together with the churches of Shouldham Thorpe, Stoke Ferry, and Wereham, Norfolk. In 1190 he obtained the lands to which his 1st wife's grandmother, Beatrice, had become heir on the death of her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. From Easter 1190 he received the third penny of the county of Essex. Sometime in the period, 1190-1213, Sibyl de Fiennes, daughter of Pharamus of Boulogne, conveyed to him 300 acres on Hyngeshill [?in Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire] at an annual rent of an unmewed sparrowhawk, or 12d. Sometime in the period 1190-1213, he granted the manor of Cherhill, Wiltshire to his younger son, William de Mandeville. He was one of those excommunicated for his part in removing Longchamp in 1191. About 1195 he and his two half-brothers, William and Geoffrey de Buckland, witnessed a charter of Geoffrey Fitz Nigel de Gardino to William de Ultra la Haia. In 1195 he owed £4 4s. in the vill of Lydford, Devon for making the market of the king there. In 1198, Eustace de Balliol and his wife, Pernel (widow of Geoffrey's brother Robert), quitclaimed all their right to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey, in return for 30 marks silver. In the period, 1199-1216, Geoffrey further gave Shouldham Priory, Norfolk twelve shops, with the rooms over them, in the parish of St. Mary's Colechurch, London, for the purpose of sustaining the lights of the church and of providing the sacramental wine. Sometime in or before 1199, he made a grant to William de Wrotham, Archdeacon of Taunton, of all his land of Sutton at Hone, Kent to make a hospital for the maintenance of thirteen poor men and three chaplains in honour of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, and All Saints. In the period, 1200-13, he made notification that Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster had at his petition confirmed to the nuns of Shouldham all tithes pertaining to them in Clakelose Hundred, Norfolk, in return for £1 10s. due annually to the almoner of Westminster. In the same period, Abbot Ralph and the convent of Westminster granted him the vill of Claygate, Surrey to hold of them for his lifetime. In 1204 King John granted him the manor of Winterslow, Wiltshire, and, in 1205, the honour of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire with the castle at a fee farm of £100 per annum. He campaigned against the Welsh in 1206 and 1210. He was granted a significant part of the lands forfeited by Normans, including the manors of Depden and Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and other lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, all worth over £100 per annum. In 1207 the king confirmed his possession of the manor of Notgrove, Gloucestershire, which Geoffrey had by the gift of John Eskelling. Sometime before 1212, he was granted the manor of Gussage Dynaunt (or Gussage St. Michael), Dorset, which manor was forfeited by Roland de Dinan. At some unspecified date, when already earl, he granted all his right in St. Peter's chapel in Drayton to the canons of St. Peter's Cathedral, York. He was the founder of the first church of Wintney Priory, Hampshire. SIR GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Earl of Essex, died 14 October 1213, and was buried in Shouldham Priory, Norfolk. In 1213-4 the king commanded Geoffrey de Buckland to let the king have, at the price any others would give for them, the corn, pigs, and other chattels at Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire which belonged his brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, lately deceased. About 1214 his widow, Aveline, granted the canons of Holy Trinity, London, in frank almoin, a half mark quit rent out of her Manor of Towcester, Northamptonshire, part of whose body is buried there. In 1221 the Prior of the Hospital of Jerusalem in England sued her regarding two virgates and five acres of land in Towcester, Northamptonshire. Aveline, Countess of Essex, died before 4 June 1225. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 7 (1807): 414-427. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiq. of the County of Hertford 1 (1815): 293 (Fitz Peter ped.). Montmorency-Morres Genealogical Memoir of the Fam. of Montmorency (1817): xxxii-xxxvi. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 721-722; 6(1) (1830): 339-340; 6(3) (1830): 1191 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 190-194 (Mandeville-Say ped). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 273 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1213: "Obiit Gaufridus filius Petri comes de Essexe, et justitiatius totius Angliæ, tunc temporis cunctis in Anglia præstantion"). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 3 (1869): 484-485 (Fitz Peter ped). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 76-114. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of … Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 193-194; 3 (1887): 452-453. Round Ancient Charters Royal & Private Prior to A.D. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 97-99 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1191 to Geoffrey Fitz Peter and Beatrice his wife, as rightful and next heirs, of all the land of Earl William de Mandeville, which was hers by hereditary right), 108-110 (confirmation by King Richard I dated 1198 of the division of their inheritance made by Beatrice and Maud, daughters and co-heirs of William de Say, in the time of his father, King Henry II). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91,93. Moore Cartularium Monasteri Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 349-350, 354, 371-372. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 36-37, 58-59, 85, 130-131. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 1, 43, 54, 92, 117, 127, 150, 161. Feet of Fines of King Richard I AD. 1198 to AD. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 15. VCH Norfolk 2 (1906): 412-414. VCH Essex 2 (1907): 110-115; 4 (1956): 158-162. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 81-85, 501-511. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (two charters of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and two charters of his widow, Aveline, Countess of Essex). Book of Fees 1 (1920): 91-92. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 215, 218-219. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 141-155; 4 (1927): 100-102. C.P. 5 (1926): 122-125 (sub Essex), 437 (chart) (sub Fitz John); 9 (1936): 420 (sub Munchensy). VCH Kent 2 (1926): 175-176. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Gibbs Early Charters of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 58) (1939): 34-37, 41, 92-93, 255-256. C.R.R. 10 (1949): 24, 103, 228. Hassall Cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenvell (Camden 3rd ser. 71) (1949): 100-101. Paget (1957) 130:5 (see Genealogist n.s. 14:181). West Justiciarship in England, 1066-1232 (1966). Elvey Luffield Priory Charters 1 (Buckingham Rec. Soc. 22) (1968): 174-176. Chew & Weimbaum London Eyre of 1244 (London Rec. Soc. 6) (1970): 118. VCH Hampshire 2 (1973) 149-151; 3 (1908): 107; 4 (1911): 79-81. Burton Cartulary of the Treasurer of York Minster (Borthwick Texts & Cals.: Recs. of the Northern Province 5) (1978): 52-53 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex dated 1199-1212). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85, 165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 186-187, 189-190, 191 (charter dated 1190-1213 of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to his son, William de Mandeville), 194-197. Holt Acta of Heny II and Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193, 202-203. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 308-309 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex; charter witnessed by Geoffrey de Bocland. Seal on tag - obverse: earl of horseback, brandishing a sword. Legend: SI[GILLUM GAUFRIDI COMITI]S EXIE +; Counterseal: six-petalled flower (worn); Legend: ...IL...ETRI...), 309, 314-315 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex). Brand Earliest English Law Reports 1 (Selden Soc., vol. 111) (1996): 16-17, 84-91. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 35-70 (biog. of Geoffrey Fitz Peter), App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 147-172. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 8 (1993): 78-79. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 100-101. Thorley Docs. in Medieval Latin (1998): 53-55. Breay Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (1999): 151. Greenway Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery (1999): xxviii-xxx. Norfolk Rec. Office: Hare Family, Baronets of Stow Bardolph, Hare 2706 198 x 4 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Child of Aveline de Clare, by William de Munchensy:
a. WARIN DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, married (1st) JOAN MARSHAL [see MARSHAL 4]; (2nd) DENISE DE ANESTY [see MARSHAL 4].
Children of Aveline de Clare, by Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt:
a. JOHN FITZ GEOFFREY, Knt., of Shere, Surrey, Fambridge, Essex, etc., married ISABEL LE BIGOD [see VERDUN 8].
b. HAWISE FITZ GEOFFREY, married REYNOLD DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset [see MOHUN ??].
c. CECILY FITZ GEOFFREY, married SAVARY DE BOHUN, of Midhurst, Sussex [see MIDHURST 3].
d. FITZ GEOFFREY. She married WILLIAM DE LA ROCHELLE, of South Ockendon, Essex, Market Lavington, Wiltshire, etc. [see HARLESTON 3].
e. MAUD FITZ GEOFFREY, married (1st) HENRY D'OILLY, of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, King's Constable [see CANTELOWE 4]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE CANTELOWE, Knt., of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, Steward of the Royal Household [see CANTELOWE 4].”
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