Countess Margaret de Bohun, of Devon

Margaret married Hugh DE COURTENAY. Hugh (son of Hugh de Courtenay, Earl of Devon and Agnes Saint John) was born on 12 Jul 1308; died on 2 May 1377. [Group Sheet]

1. Edward DE COURTENAY was born in 1329; died in 1372.

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Humphrey de Bohun VIII was born circa 1276. He was the 4th Earl of Hereford and the 3rd Earl of Essex. He was also the Lord High Constable of England. He married November 14, 1302, at Westminster, Princess Elizabeth Plantaganet, widow of John, Count of Holland and Zealand, and daughter of King Edward I. of England and Eleanor of Castile, daughter of King Ferdinand III. of Leon and Castile in Spain. In the 30th year of King Edward I., he gave and granted unto the king, by formal conversance, the inheritance of all his lands and lordships, as also of his earldoms of Hereford and Essex, and the constableship of England, which, upon his marriage with Elizabeth Plantaganet, widow of John, Earl of Holland, and daughter of the king, were regranted to him, and entailed upon his issue lawfully begotten by that lady; in default thereof, and from and after the death of himself and his wife, then the lordship Plassets, and certain other lordships in Essex, and elsewhere. together with the constableship, should remain wholly to the king and his heirs for ever. In the 34th year of the same reign he had a grant similarly entailed of the whole territory of Annadale, in Scotland. After this he was in the wars of Scotland and was taken prisoner, in the 7th year of King Edward II. (1313-1314), at the disastrous battle (to the English) of Stryvelin. But he was exchanged for the wife of Robert Bruce, who had long been captive in England. From this period we find him constantly engaged in the service of the crown, until the 14th year of the king's reign, when Edward learning that the earl was raising forces in the marches of Wales, against Hugh Despencer the Younger, sent him a peremptory command to forbear, which he not only refused obeying, but forthwith joined Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, in the great insurrection then incited by that nobleman, for the redress of certain grievances, and the banishment of the Spencers. In this proceeding, however, he eventually lost his life, being run through the body by a soldier at the battle of Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire, where his party received so signal a defeat on March 16, 1321. He joined the barons in opposition to Edward's favorites, Piers de Gaveston and the Despencers. He assisted in the execution of Piers de Gaveston in 1312, for which he was pardoned in 1313. He fought at Bannockburn and was taken prisoner at Bethwell on June 24, 1314, where he had retreated, having been betrayed by the Governor, Sir Walter Gilbertson. He was then exchanged for Elizabeth, wife of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, who had been a prisoner for some time. On February 11, 1315 or 1316 he was appointed captain of all the forces against Llewellyn Bran in the land of Glamorgan. Summoned to attend the Council at Gloucester, he sent word that he would not do so while Hugh Despencer, the younger, was in the king's comtive. He was then ordered to attend at Oxford, and preparing to attack the said Despencer was ordered on May 1, 1321, to abstain, but during May and June the lands of Despencer were ravaged. In accordance with an agreement in parliament, he received a pardon August 20, 1321. Bohun was killed at Boroughbridge on March 16, 1321 or 1322 when endeavoring to force the bridge. He was buried in the church of the Friars Preachers at York.

Humphrey married Princess Elizabeth PLANTAGENET, of Rhuddlan. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward I PLANTAGANET, 'Longshanks' King of England and Eleanor OF CASTILE) was born on 7 Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Denbigshire, Wales, England; died on 5 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England; was buried in Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Uttlesford, Essex, England. [Group Sheet]

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Humphrey de Bohun VII. was born circa 1249. He succeeded his grandfather as the 3rd Earl of Hereford and the 2nd Earl of Essex and Lord High Constable. He is said to have inherited the high and daring spirit of his predecessors, often strenuously opposed to the measures of the court, and was often therefore in disgrace, but he appears at the close of his career to have regained royal favor, for we find him attending the king into Scotland in 1298 when that monarch (Edward I.) obtained a great victory near Roxburgh. He married Maud Fiennes, daughter of Ingelram (Enguerrand) de Fiennes, Seigneur de Fiennes in Guisnes, by _______, daughter of Jacques, Seigneur de Conte, Bailleul, and Moriammez in Hainault, and granddaughter of William de Fiennes, by Agnes de Dammartin, daughter of Alberic, Count of Dammartin. Simon de Dammartin, Count of Aumale, by his wife Marie, Countess of Ponthieu and Aumale, was father of Jeanne, Countess of Ponthieu and Aumale, who married King Ferdinand III. of Castile. Maud died before her husband and was buried at Walden. He was associated with Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and other barons in their opposition to what was considered to be unfair taxation by King Edward I. He died in Pleshey (Boroughbridge), in 1297, and was succeeded by his son, Humphrey.

Humphrey married Maude de Fiennes. Maude (daughter of Ingelram (Enguerrand) DE FIENNES) was born about 1231; and died. [Group Sheet]

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Edward married Eleanor OF CASTILE on 18 Oct 1254 in Burgos, Castile, Sparin. Eleanor (daughter of Ferdinand III KING OF CASTILE AND LEON and Johanna Countess of PONTHIEU) was born in 1241 in Castile, Spain; died on 29 Nov 1290 in Herdeby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet]

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Humphrey de Bohun VI, the eldest son, was 2nd Earl of Hereford and Essex. He was a very distinguished person among the rebellious barons, in the reign of King Henry III. In 1257 he was among those who assisted his father to keep the marches between Montgomery and the lands of the Earl of Gloucester, and in 1263 was ordered to join his father at Hereford to defend the lands and fortify the castles on the marches against Llewellyn. He joined the barons against the king, and on July 23, 1264 had custody of the castle of Winchester, which he was ordered to surrender on June 3, 1265. In the 47th year of that monarch he was excommunicated, with Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and others, for plundering various churches and committing sacrilege. He was afterwards one of the commanders at the battle of Lewes, where the king was made prisoner, and was constituted Governor of Goodrich and Winchester Castles. In the year following he commanded the infantry at the battle of Evesham, where he fell into the hands of the royalists, and was sent prisoner to Beeston Castle in Cheshire, where he soon afterwards on October 27, 1265, died during his father's lifetime, leaving a son, Humphrey, by his wife, Eleanor (Alianore) Braose, daughter and co-heir of William de Braose, of Brecknock, Lord of Abergavenny, and co-heir of her mother Eve (Eva) Marshal, one of the five daughters and co-heirs of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and sister of William Marshal, Surety to the Magna Charta. He was succeeded by his son, Humphrey.

Humphrey married Eleanor de Braose. Eleanor (daughter of William V "Black Will" 6TH BARON OF BRAOSE and Eve MARSHAL) was born about 1231; and died. [Group Sheet]

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Henry married Eleanor OF PROVENCE on 14 Jan 1236 in Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England. Eleanor (daughter of Ramon IV of Berenguer COUNT OF PROVENCE and Beatrice DE SAVOY) was born about 1223 in Aix-en-Provence, France; died on 24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet]

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Eleanor OF PROVENCE was born about 1223 in Aix-en-Provence, France (daughter of Ramon IV of Berenguer COUNT OF PROVENCE and Beatrice DE SAVOY); died on 24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. Notes: Birth: View Wikipedia Article Children: Henry PLANTAGANET 6. Edward I PLANTAGANET, 'Longshanks' King of England was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster, London, Greater London, England; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-Sands, Cumberland, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Greater London, England. Margaret PLANTAGANET was born in 1240; died in 1275. Beatrice PLANTAGENET was born on 25 Jun 1242; died in 1275. Edmund 'Crouchback' PLANTAGANET, Duke of Lancaster was born on 16 Jan 1245 in London, Greater London, England; died in 1296. Richard PLANTAGANET was born in 1247; died in 1256. John PLANTAGANET, England was born in 1250; died in 1256. William PLANTAGANET, England was born in 1251; died in 1256. Katherine PLANTAGANET, of England was born in 1253; died in 1257.

14.	Ferdinand III KING OF CASTILE AND LEON was born in 1199; and died. Ferdinand married Johanna Countess of PONTHIEU. [Group Sheet]

15.	Johanna Countess of PONTHIEU Children: 7. Eleanor OF CASTILE was born in 1241 in Castile, Spain; died on 29 Nov 1290 in Herdeby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Greater London, England.

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   Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford was born in 1204 (son of Henry II "the Surety" de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford and Maud Fitz Geoffrey); died on 24 Sep 1275 in Warwickshire, England; was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Hempsted, Gloucester, Monmouthshire, England. Notes: Humphrey de Bohun V. was born in 1208. He succeeded his father as Earl of Hereford, and possessing the honor of Essex through his mother, was created Earl of that county by King Henry III., at whose marriage he performed the office of marshal in the king's house, and in three years afterwards in the year 1239, was one of the godfathers at the font, for Edward, eldest son of the king, there being no less than nine sponsors on the occasion, five temporal and four spiritual lords. He was Lord High Constable of England. In 1250 he took up the cross and proceeded to the Holy Land. In three years afterwards, he was present, with other peers, when that formal curse was denounced in Westminster Hall, with bell, book, and candle, against the violators of the Magna Charta; in which year he founded the church of the Fryers Augustines, in Broad-street, within the city of London. In the great contest between the king and the barons, he fought for the latter at Evesham, where he was taken prisoner, but he did not long continue in bondage, for we find him soon after again in favor, and receiving new grants from the crown. He died in 1275, having married (1) Maud of Eu (or of Lusignan), daughter of Ralph (Raoul I.) of Lusignan, Count of Eu, by Yolande his wife, daughter of Robert, Count of Dreux, Earl of Ewe. Humphrey married Maude de Lusignan. Maude (daughter of Count Ralph de Lusignan D'EU) was born about 1208; and died. [Group Sheet]

   
   

2. 17.	Maude de Lusignan was born about 1208 (daughter of Count Ralph de Lusignan D'EU); and died. Children: 8. Humphrey V de Bohun was born about 1229; died on 27 Oct 1265. Henry de Bohun Geoffrey de Bohun Ralph de Bohun, Clerk Matilda (Maud) de Bohun Cecelia (Alice) DE BOHUN Eleanor de Bohun

   
   

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   William V "Black Will" 6TH BARON OF BRAOSE was born about 1180 in Brecknock, Surrey, England (son of Reginald DE BRAOSE and Groecia (Alice) BRUERE); died on 2 May 1230. William married Eve MARSHAL. Eve (daughter of Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel DE CLARE, Countess of Pembroke) was born about 1199 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; died about 1245. [Group Sheet]

   
   

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   Eve MARSHAL was born about 1199 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England (daughter of Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel DE CLARE, Countess of Pembroke); died about 1245. Children: Isabel DE BRAOSE was born about 1221; and died. Maud (Matilda) DE BRAOSE was born about 1230 in Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales; died in 1301. 9. Eleanor de Braose was born about 1231; and died. Eve DE BRAOSE was born about 1234 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died before 28 Jul 1255.

   
   

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   John I "Lackland" KING OF ENGLAND was born on 24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England (son of Henry II 'Curtmantle' PLANTAGENET, King of England and Eleanor OF AQUITAINE); died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. Notes: Birth: John I - View Wikipedia Article View Biography John married Lady Isabella Taillefer OF ANGOULEME on 24 Aug 1200 in Bordeaux Cathredal, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Isabella (daughter of Aymer Taillefer OF ANGOULEME and Alice de COURTENAY) was born in 1188; died on 31 May 1246 in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] 25.   Lady Isabella Taillefer OF ANGOULEME was born in 1188 (daughter of Aymer Taillefer OF ANGOULEME and Alice de COURTENAY); died on 31 May 1246 in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. Notes: Birth: View Wikipedia Article Children: 12. Henry III PLANTAGANET, King of England was born on 1 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England; died on 16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Greater London, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Greater London, England. Earl Richard OF CORNWALL was born on 5 Jan 1209; died on 2 Apr 1272 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. of England JOAN, of England was born on 22 Jul 1210; died on 4 Mar 1238 in Havering-atte-Bower, Essex, England. Empress of Germany ISABEL, Empress of Germany was born in 1214; died on 1 Dec 1241 in Foggia, Naple, Italy. Eleanor PLANTAGENET was born in 1215; died on 3 Apr 1275 in Montargis Abbey, France. 26.   Ramon IV of Berenguer COUNT OF PROVENCE was born in 1195 (son of Alfonso II OF PROVENCE and Garsenda OF SABRAN); died on 19 Aug 1245. Ramon married Beatrice DE SAVOY on 5 Jun 1219. Beatrice was born on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] 27.   Beatrice DE SAVOY was born on Yes, date unknown. Notes: Birth: View Wikipedia Article Children: Stillborn Son was born in 1220; and died. Marguerite of BERENGER was born in 1221; died in 1295. 13. Eleanor OF PROVENCE was born about 1223 in Aix-en-Provence, France; died on 24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. Stillborn Son was born in 1225; and died. Sanchia of BERENGER was born in 1228; died in 1261. Beatrice of BERENGER was born in 1231; died in 1267. Generation: 6 32.   Henry II "the Surety" de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford was born in 1176 (son of Humphrey III de Bohun and Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany); died on 1 Jun 1220; was buried in Lathony Abbey, Vale of Ewyas, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. Notes: Henry de Bohun II, the Surety, was born before 1177 (1176?). He became the 1st Earl of Hereford of this family, being so created by King John, dated April 28, 1199; but the office of Lord High Constable of England he inherited from his father. He was one of the leaders of the barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Charta, and he was one of the twenty-five sureties, in 1215. He had his lands sequestered, but they were restored at the signing of the Magna Charta, at Runnemede. He was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope, and did not return to his allegiance on the death of King John, but was one of the commanders in the army of Louis le Dauphin, at the battle of Lincoln. He was taken prisoner by William Marshal at the battle of Lincoln, in the 1st year of Henry III. After this defeat he joined Saire de Quincy, and other Magna Charta barons in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in June, 1220. His body was brought home and buried in the chapter-house of Llanthony Abbey, in Gloucestershire. He was also Sheriff of Kent. He married Maud Fitz Geoffrey, Countess of Essex, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Piers, 4th Earl of Essex, and his first wife, Beatrix Saye, only daughter of William de Saye, eldest son of Lord William de Saye and his wife, Beatrix Mandeville. Geoffrey FitzPiers, also Baron of Mandeville, died in 1212. Maud was eventually heiress of her brother, William de Mandeville, last Earl of Essex of that family, by whom he acquired the honor of Essex and other extensive lordships. Henry II was the 1st Earl of Hereford of the Bohun family. Previously, Miles Fitz Walter of Gloucester was the 1st Earl of Hereford of the Fitz Walter family. He was succeeded by his son and heir, Roger,* the 2nd Earl of Hereford; however, when Roger died without an heir (and his brothers without issue), the Earldom of Hereford became extinct, although the shrievalty of Hereford and Gloucester passed to Roger's brother, Walter. Later (1199), their eldest sister, Margaret, took the bulk (Liber Niger) to the Bohuns, in recognition of their descent from Miles, earls of Hereford, and constables of England.**    * Round 1890, p.439   ** et al, p.440 Henry married Maud Fitz Geoffrey. Maud (daughter of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex and Rohesia DE VERE) was born in 1185; died in 1236. [Group Sheet] 33.   Maud Fitz Geoffrey was born in 1185 (daughter of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex and Rohesia DE VERE); died in 1236. Children: Henry de Bohun died in Died young. Ralph II de Bohun Margery de Bohun Robert de Bohun, II 16. Humphrey IV de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford was born in 1204; died on 24 Sep 1275 in Warwickshire, England; was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Hempsted, Gloucester, Monmouthshire, England. 34.   Count Ralph de Lusignan D'EU Children: 17. Maude de Lusignan was born about 1208; and died. 36.   Reginald DE BRAOSE was born about 1180 in Bramber, Sussex, England (son of William II DE BRAOSE and Maud (Matilda) WALERY); died on 9 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Creconshire, Wales. Reginald married Groecia (Alice) BRUERE in Bramber, Sussex, England. Groecia (daughter of William DE BRUERE and Bratrice DE VAUX) was born about 1176 in Stoke, Devonshire, England; died in 1233. [Group Sheet] 37.   Groecia (Alice) BRUERE was born about 1176 in Stoke, Devonshire, England (daughter of William DE BRUERE and Bratrice DE VAUX); died in 1233. Children: 18. William V "Black Will" 6TH BARON OF BRAOSE was born about 1180 in Brecknock, Surrey, England; died on 2 May 1230. 38.   Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke was born in 1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England (son of John FITZGILBERT, 'the Marshal' and Sybil DE SALISBURY); died on 14 May 1219 in London, Greater London, England; was buried in Temple Church, Temple District, City of London, Greater London, England. Notes: William Marshal, born in 1146 and died in 1219, was of the great baronial family of Marischal, marshal to the king. See Burke, pg. 358-359. This William is first mentioned as receiving from Prince Henry, the rebellious son of Henry II., upon the prince's deathbed, his cross, as his most confidential friend, to convey to Jerusalem. He married Isabel (Eva) Clare, only child and heiress of Richard de Clare (surnamed Strongbow), Earl of Pembroke, conqueror of Ireland and Justice of Ireland. She had been under the guardianship of Henry II., who gave her in marriage in 1189. Through his wife, William acquired the Earldom of Pembroke, in which rank he bore the royal scepter of gold surmounted by the cross, at the coronation of King Richard I.; and he was soon afterwards, on the king's purposing a journey to the Holy Land, appointed one of the assistants to Hugh, Bishop of Durham, and William, Earl of Albemarle, Chief Justice of England, in the government of the realm. He was brother and male heir, of John Marshal, otherwise Mareschall. This family enjoyed the office of marshal of the King's House, and from that post assumed its surname; which gave occasion, says Banks, to their being often styled Earls Marshal, as well as Earls of Striguil and Pembroke; but such denomination was matter of curiality more then of reality. The manor of Hempsted-Marshal, in Berkshire, belonging to the Marshals, was held of old by grand serjeanty of the Kings of England, to be the knights marshal, as the offices of steward, constable, etc. were in those times granted. Upon the decease of his brother, John Mareschall, marshal of the king's house, in 1199, he became Lord Marshal; and on the day of the coronation of King John, he was invested with sword of the Earldom of Pembroke, being then confirmed in the possession of the said inheritance. In the first year of the monarch's reign, he was appointed sheriff of Gloucestershire, and likewise of Sussex, wherein he was continued for several years. In the 5th year he had a grant of Goderich Castle, in the co. Hereford, to hold by the service of two knight's fees; and in four years afterwards, he obtained, by grant from the crown, the whole province of Leinster, in Ireland, to hold by the service of one hundred knight's fees. Upon the breaking out of the baronial insurrection, the Earl of Pembroke was deputed, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, by the king, to ascertain the grievances and demands of those turbulent lords; and at the demise of King John, he was so powerful as to prevail upon the barons to appoint a day for the coronation of Henry III., to whom he was constituted guardian, by the rest of the nobility, who had remained firm in their allegiance. He subsequently took up arms in the royal cause, and after achieving a victory over the barons at Lincoln, proceeded directly to London, and investing that great city, both by land and water, reduced it to extremity, for want of provisions. Peace, however, being soon after concluded, it was relieved. His lordship, at this period, executed the office of sheriff for the cos. of Essex and Hertford. This eminent nobleman was no less distinguished by his wisdom in the council and valor in the field, than by his piety and his attachment to the church, of which his numerous munificent endowments bear ample testimony. He had by his wife, Isabel, five sons, who succeeded each other in his lands and honors, and five daughters. William married Isabel DE CLARE, Countess of Pembroke in Aug 1189 in London, Greater London, England. Isabel (daughter of Richard 'Strongbow' DE CLARE and Aoiffe MAC MURROUGH OF LEINSTER) was born in 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; died in 1220; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales, England. [Group Sheet] 39.   Isabel DE CLARE, Countess of Pembroke was born in 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England (daughter of Richard 'Strongbow' DE CLARE and Aoiffe MAC MURROUGH OF LEINSTER); died in 1220; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales, England. Children: Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke was born in 1194; died on 27 Jun 1241; was buried in Temple Church, Temple District, City of London, Greater London, England. Anselme MARSHAL, 6th Earl of Pembroke died on 22 Dec 1245. Sybil (Sybilla) MARSHAL Joan (Joanna) MARSHAL William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke was born in 1190; died in 1231; was buried in Temple Church, Temple District, City of London, Greater London, England. Richard MARSHAL, 3rd Earl of Pembroke was born in 1191; died on 16 Apr 1234. Maud (Matilda) MARSHAL, * was born in 1192; died on 27 Mar 1248. Walter MARSHAL, 5th Earl of Pembroke was born in 1198; died in Nov 1245. 19. Eve MARSHAL was born about 1199 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; died about 1245. Isabela MARSHAL was born on 9 Oct 1200; died on 17 Jan 1240. 48.   Henry II 'Curtmantle' PLANTAGENET, King of England was born on 25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France (son of Geoffrey V "the Fair" PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou and Matilda PRINCESS OF ENGLAND); died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Loire, France; was buried on 8 Jul 1189 in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. Notes: Henry II. Plantaganet, first Plantaganet King of England (1154-1189), known as Curt Mantel, was born at Le Mans, France, on March 15, 1133. At eighteen in 1151 he was invested with the Duchy of Normandy, his mother's heritage, and within a year became also, by his father's death, Count of Anjou; while in 1152 he married Eleanor of Aquitaine, the daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine (see his ancestral lineage elsewhere in Vol. I.), and divorced wife of King Louis VII. of France, added Poitou and Guienne to his dominions. In January 1153 he landed in England, and in November a treaty was agreed to whereby Henry was declared successor to King Stephen; he was crowned in 1154 and ruled until his death in 1189. He confirmed the laws of his grandfather, King Henry I, reestablished the exchequer, banished the foreign mercenaries, demolished the hundreds of castles erected in Stephen's reign, and recovered the royal estates. The whole of 1156 he spent in France, reducing his brother, Geoffrey of Nantes, who died in 1158, and having secured his territories, he spent the next five years warring and organizing his possessions on the Continent. Henry's objective was that of all Norman kings, to build up the royal power at the expense of the barons and the church. From the barons his reforms met with little serious opposition; with the clergy he was less successful. To aid him in reducing the church to subjection, he appointed his chancellor, Thomas a Becket to the see of Canterbury. Henry compelled him and the other prelates to agree to the 'Constitution of Clarendon', but Bechet proved a sturdy churchman, and the struggle between him and the monarch terminated only by his murder. In 1174 Henry did penance at Bechet's tomb, but he ended by bringing the church to subordination in civil matters. Meanwhile he organized an expedition to Ireland. The English Pope, Adrian IV, had in 1155 given Henry authority over the entire island of Ireland; and a number of Norman-Welsh knights had gained a footing in the country, among them Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, styled Strongbow, who in 1155 married the heiress of Leinster and assumed rule as the Earl of Leinster. Henry was jealous at the rise of a powerful feudal baronage in Ireland, and during his stay there (1171-1172) he broke the power of Richard Strongbow and the other nobles. Henry was raised in the French province of Anjou and first visited England in 1142 to defend his mother's claim to the disputed throne of Stephen. His continued possessions were already vast before his coronation. He acquired Normandy and Anjou upon the death of his father in September 1151, and his French holdings more than doubled with his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitane (ex-wife of Louis VII of France). In accordance with the Treaty of Wallingford, a sucession agreement signed by Stephen and Matilda in 1151, Henry was crowned in October 1154. The continental empire ruled by Henry and his sons included the French counties of Brittany, Maine, Poitou, Touraine, Gascony, Anjou, Aquitane and Normandy. Henry was technically a feudal vassal of the King of France, but, in reality owned more territory and was more powerful than his French lord. Although King John (Henry's son) lost most of the English holdings in France, English kings laid claim to the French throne until the fifteenth century. Henry also extended his territory in the British Isles in two significant ways. First, he retrieved Cumbria and Northumbria from Malcolm IV of Scotland and settled the Anglo-Scot border in the North. Secondly, although his success with Welsh campaigns was limited. Henry invaded Ireland and secured an English presence on the island. English and Norman barons in Stephen's reign manipulated feudal law to undermine royal authority. Henry instituted many reforms to weaken traditional feudal ties and strengthen his position. Unathorized castles built during the previous reign were razed. Monetary payments replaced military service as the primary duty of vassals. The exchequer was revitalized to enforce accurate record keeping and tax collection. Incompetent sheriffs were replaced and the authority of royal courts was expanded. Henry empowered a new social class of government clerks that stabilized procedure--the government could operate effectively in the king's absence and would subsequently prove sufficiently tenacious to survive the reign of incompetent kings. Henry's reforms allowed the emergence of a body of common law to replace the disparate customs of feudal and county courts. Jury trials were initiated to end the old Germanic trials by ordeal or battle. Henry's systemanic approach to law provided a common basis for development of royal institutions throughout the entire realm. Henry's plans of dividing his myriad lands and titles evoked treachery from his sons. At the encouragement, and sometimes because of the treatment of their mother, they rebelled against their father several times, often with Louis VII of France as their accomplice. The deaths of Henry, the Young King, in 1183 and Georffrey in 1186, gave no respite from his children's rebvellious nature. Richard, with the assistance of Phillip II Augustus of France, attacked and defeated Henry on July 4, 1189 and forced him to accept a humiliating peace. Henry II died two days later, on July 6, 1189. Henry II's contemporaries were Louis VII (King of France, 1137-1180), Thomas Beckett (Archbishop of Canterbury), Pope Adrian IV, Frederick I (Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor) 1152-1190. Henry II, first of the Angevin kings, was one of the most effective of all England's monarchs. He came to the throne amid the anarch of Stephen's reign and promptly collard his errant barons. He refind Norman government and created a capable, self-standing bureaucracy. His energy was equaled by his ambition and intelligence. He survived wars, rebellion, and controversy to successfully rule one of the Middle Ages' most powerful kingdoms. Henry married Eleanor OF AQUITAINE on 18 May 1152 in Bordeaux Cathredal, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Eleanor (daughter of Duke William X Toulousan OF AQUITAINE and Aenor Chatellerault DE ROUCHEFOUCAULD) was born on 6 Dec 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Guinne, France; died on 1 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Poitiers, France; was buried in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] 49.   Eleanor OF AQUITAINE was born on 6 Dec 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Guinne, France (daughter of Duke William X Toulousan OF AQUITAINE and Aenor Chatellerault DE ROUCHEFOUCAULD); died on 1 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Poitiers, France; was buried in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. Children: William PLANTAGENET, of England was born on 17 Aug 1152 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died in Apr 1156 in Wallingford Castle, Wallingford, Berkshire, England. Henry 'the Young King' PLANTAGANET was born on 28 Feb 1155; died on 11 Jun 1183. Matilda PLANTAGENET, of England was born in Jun 1156 in London, Greater London, England; died on 28 Jun 1189 in Brunswick, Germany. Richard I 'the Lionheart' PLANTAGENET, King of England was born in 1157; and died. Geoffrey II PLANAGENET, of England was born on 23 Sep 1158 in England; died on 19 Aug 1186 in Paris, France. Eleanor PLANTAGENET, of Castile was born on 13 Oct 1162 in Domfront, Orne, France; died on 31 Oct 1214 in Las Hueglas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. Joan PLANTAGENET, of England was born in Oct 1165 in Angers, Maine-Et-Loire, France; died on 4 Sep 1199 in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. 24. John I "Lackland" KING OF ENGLAND was born on 24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcester, Worcestershire, England. 50.   Aymer Taillefer OF ANGOULEME was born on Yes, date unknown. Notes: Birth: View Wikipedia Article Aymer married Alice de COURTENAY. Alice (daughter of Peter of Courtenay and Elizabeth de Courtenay) died on 14 Sep 1211. [Group Sheet] 51.   Alice de COURTENAY (daughter of Peter of Courtenay and Elizabeth de Courtenay); died on 14 Sep 1211. Children: 25. Lady Isabella Taillefer OF ANGOULEME was born in 1188; died on 31 May 1246 in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. 52.   Alfonso II OF PROVENCE Alfonso married Garsenda OF SABRAN. [Group Sheet] 53.   Garsenda OF SABRAN Children: 26. Ramon IV of Berenguer COUNT OF PROVENCE was born in 1195; died on 19 Aug 1245. Generation: 7 64.   Humphrey III de Bohun was born before 1144 in England (son of Humphrey II de Bohun and Margaret of Hereford, Constable of England); died in Dec 1181 in France; was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Hempsted, Gloucester, Monmouthshire, England. Notes: Humphrey de Bohun IV, created Earl of Hereford, was also the hereditary Constable of England, in the right of his mother, if the chronicles of Llanthony are correct.. He married Margaret of Huntingdon, or Margaret of Scotland, daughter of Henry, Prince of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (son of St. David I, King of Scotland), and his wife, Ada Warren, daughter of William de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and his wife, Isabel Vermandois, and sister of William, King of the Scots, and widow of Conan le Petit, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond. Humphrey was succeeded by his eldest son, Henry. Humphrey married Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany. Margaret (daughter of Henry 9TH EARL OF HUNTINGDON, of Scotland and Adelaide DE WARREN) died in 1201. [Group Sheet] 65.   Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany (daughter of Henry 9TH EARL OF HUNTINGDON, of Scotland and Adelaide DE WARREN); died in 1201. Notes: Name: Princess of Scotland Children: 32. Henry II "the Surety" de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford was born in 1176; died on 1 Jun 1220; was buried in Lathony Abbey, Vale of Ewyas, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. Matilda de Bohun 66.   Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex died in Sep 1144; was buried in Temple Church, Temple District, City of London, Greater London, England. Geoffrey married Rohesia DE VERE about 1090. [Group Sheet] 67.   Rohesia DE VERE (daughter of Alberic DE VERE and Adeliza DE CLARE). Children: Ernulf DE MANDEVILLE Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex died in 1166. William DE MANDEVILLE, 3rd Earl of Essex died in 1190. 33. Maud Fitz Geoffrey was born in 1185; died in 1236. 72.   William II DE BRAOSE was born about 1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England (son of William DE BRAOSE, Fifth Baron of Braose and Berta FITZWALTER); died on 9 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, France. Notes: William de Braose likewise inherited the large estates of his grandmother, and besides possessed of the honor of Braose, in Normandy. This feudal lord was a personage of great power and influence during the reigns of King Henry II. and King Richard I., from the former of whom he received a grant of the "whole kingdom of Limerick, in Ireland," for the service of sixty knight's fees, to be held of the king and his younger son, John. For several years after this period he appears to have enjoy the favor of King John, and his power and possessions were augmented by divers grants from the crown. But in the 10th year of the king's reign, when the kingdom labored under an interdiction, and John deemed it expedient to demand hostages from his barons to ensure their allegiance, should the Pope proceed to the length of absolving them from obedience to the crown, his officers who came upon the mission to the Baron de Braose, were sent by Maud, his wife, and peremptorily informed that she would not intrust any of her children to the king, who had so basely murdered his own nephew, Prince Arthur. De Braose rebuked her, however, for speaking thus, and said that if he had in any way offended the king, he was ready to make satisfaction, according to the judgment of the court, and the barons his peers, upon an appointed day, and at any fixed place, without however giving hostages. This answer being communicated to the king, an order was immediately transmitted to seize upon the baron's person, but Braose having notice thereof fled with his family to Ireland. This quarrel between the king and Braose is, however, differently related by other authorities. The monk of Lanthony states, that King John disinherited and banished him for his cruelty to the Welsh, in his war with Gwenwynwyn, and that his wife, Maud, and William, his son and heir, died prisoners in Corfe Castle. While another writer relates, "that this William de Braose, son of Philip de Braose, Lord of Buelt, held the lands of Brechnock and Went, for the whole time of King Henry II., King Richard I., and King John, without any disturbance, until he took to wife the Lady Maud de Walerie, who in revenge of Henry de Hereford, caused divers Welshmen to be murthered in the castle of Bergavenny, as they sat at meat; and that for this, and for some other pickt quarrel, King John banished him and all his out of England. Likewise, that in his exile, Maud, his wife, with William, called Gam, his son, were taken and put in prison; where she died, the 10th year after her husband fought with Wenwynwyn, and slew three thousand Welsh." From these various relations, says Dugdale, it is no easy matter to discover what his demerits were; but what usage he had at last, take here from the credit of these two historians, who lived near that time. "This year, viz. anno 1240," qouth Matthew of Westminster, "the noble lady Maud, wife of William de Braose, with William, their son and heir, were miserably famished at Windsore, by the command of King John. ; and William, her husband, escaping from Scorham, put himself into the habit of a beggar, and privately going beyond the sea, died soon after at Paris, where he had burial in the abbey of St, Victor." And Matthew Paris, putting his death in the year 1212 (which differs a little in time), says, "That he fled from Ireland to France, and dying at Ebula, his body was carried to Paris, and there honorably buried in the abbey of St. Victor....Being by inheritance from his mother, Lord of Bergavenny, he made grants to the monks of that priory, conditionally, that the abbot and convent of St. Vincenti, in Maine should daily pray for the soul of Maud his wife." William married Maud (Matilda) WALERY. Maud (daughter of Bernard IV DE ST. VALERY and Matilda) was born about 1155 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died in 1210 in Corfe, Winsor, England. [Group Sheet] 73.   Maud (Matilda) WALERY was born about 1155 in Bramber, Sussex, England (daughter of Bernard IV DE ST. VALERY and Matilda); died in 1210 in Corfe, Winsor, England. Children: John DE BRAOSE William DE BRAOSE 36. Reginald DE BRAOSE was born about 1180 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died on 9 Jun 1228 in Brecon, Creconshire, Wales. Margery DE BRAOSE was born about Nov 1195; and died. 74.   William DE BRUERE William married Bratrice DE VAUX. [Group Sheet] 75.   Bratrice DE VAUX Children: 37. Groecia (Alice) BRUERE was born about 1176 in Stoke, Devonshire, England; died in 1233. 76.   John FITZGILBERT, 'the Marshal' (son of Gilbert (Mareschall) MARSHAL); died in 1242. John married Sybil DE SALISBURY. Sybil (daughter of Walter Baron DE SALISBURY and Sibyl DE CHAWORTH) was born about 1127 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; and died. [Group Sheet] 77.   Sybil DE SALISBURY was born about 1127 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England (daughter of Walter Baron DE SALISBURY and Sibyl DE CHAWORTH); and died. Children: Margaret MARSHAL 38. Sir William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke was born in 1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; died on 14 May 1219 in London, Greater London, England; was buried in Temple Church, Temple District, City of London, Greater London, England. Anselm MARSHAL was born in 1154 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; and died. 78.   Richard 'Strongbow' DE CLARE was born in 1130 in Tonbridge, Kent, England (son of Gilbert DE CLARE, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel Beaumont DE MEULAN); died on 20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Ireland. Richard married Aoiffe MAC MURROUGH OF LEINSTER on 26 Aug 1171 in Waterford Cathedral, Waterford, Ireland. Aoiffe (daughter of Dairmont Mac Murrough KING OF LEINSTER and More O'TOOLE) was born about 1135; died in 1177. [Group Sheet] 79.   Aoiffe MAC MURROUGH OF LEINSTER was born about 1135 (daughter of Dairmont Mac Murrough KING OF LEINSTER and More O'TOOLE); died in 1177. Children: Alina de CLARE 39. Isabel DE CLARE, Countess of Pembroke was born in 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; died in 1220; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales, England. Gilbert de STRIGOIL, 3rd Earl of Pembroke was born in 1173; and died. 96.   Geoffrey V "the Fair" PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, Pays-de-la-Loire, France (son of Fulke V 'the Younger' Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem and Ermengard OF MAINE); died on 7 Sep 1151 in Chateau-dut-Loire, France; was buried in Cathedral of St. Julian of Le Mans, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Geoffrey married Matilda PRINCESS OF ENGLAND on 22 May 1128 in Cathedral of St. Julian of Le Mans, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Matilda (daughter of Henry I 'Beauclerc' KING OF ENGLAND and Matilda OF SCOTLAND) was born on 7 Feb 1102 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; died on 10 Sep 1167 in Abbey de Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France; was buried in Sep 1167 in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, France. [Group Sheet] 97.   Matilda PRINCESS OF ENGLAND was born on 7 Feb 1102 in Winchester, Hampshire, England (daughter of Henry I 'Beauclerc' KING OF ENGLAND and Matilda OF SCOTLAND); died on 10 Sep 1167 in Abbey de Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France; was buried in Sep 1167 in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, France. Notes: Matilda is the Latin form of Maud, who was the only surviving legitimate child of King Henry I. In something of a political coup for her father, Matilda was betrothed to the German Emperor, Henry V, when she was only eight. They were married on 7 January 1114. She was twelve and he was thirty-two. Unfortunately there were no children and on the Emperor's death in 1125, Matilda was recalled to her father's court. Matilda's only legitimate brother had been killed in the disastrous Wreck of the White Ship in late 1120 and she was now her father's only hope for the continuation of his dynasty. The barons swore allegiance to the young Princess and promised to make her queen after her father's death. But she needed heirs and in April 1127, Matilda found herself obliged to marry Prince Georffrey of Anjou and Maine. He was thirteen and she twenty-three. It is thought that the two never got on. However, despite this unhappy situation, they had three sons in four years. Matilda was absent in Anjou at the time of her father's death on 1 December 1135, possibly due to pregnancy. Matilda was not in much of a position to take up the throne, which had been promised her and she quickly lost out to her fast-moving cousin, Stephen. With her husband, she attempted to take Normandy. With encouragement from supporters in England though, it was not long before Matilda invaded her rightful England domain and so began a long-standing Civil War from the power base of her half-brother, Robert of Gloucester, in the West Country. After three years of armed struggle, she at last gained the upper hand at the Battle of Lincoln, in February 1141, where King Stephen was captured. However, despite being declared Queen or "Lady of the English" at Winchester and winning over Stephen's brother, Henry of Blois, the powerful Bishop of Winchester, Matilda alienated the citizens of London with her arrogant manner. She failed to secure her coronation and the Londoners joined a renewed push from Stephen's Queen and laid seige to the Empress in winchester. She managed to escape to the West, but while commanding her rear guard, her brother was captured by the enemy. Matilda was obliged to swap Stephen for robert on 1st November 1141. Thus the King soon reimposed his Royal authority. In 1148, after the death of her half-brother, Matilda finally returned to Normandy, leaving her son, who in 1154, would become Henry II, to fight on in England. She died at Rouen on the 10th of September 1169 and was buried in Fontevrault Abbey. Matilda (Maud the Empress) of England (1102-1167), was left the sole legitimate child of Henry I. by the loss of his son in the White Ship (1120). She married (1) Emperor Henry V, Emperor of Rome, and was crowned at Mainz (1114), but was widowed in 1125 and married (2) Geoffrey IV. le Bel, Plantaganet, 10th Count of Anjou and Maine, Duke of Normandy, having won the Duchy from Stephen, son of Fulk V. the Younger, 9th Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem, and his wife, Ermengarde. See their ancestral lineage elsewhere in Vol. I. Her first husband was thirty years older, her second husband, ten years younger than herself. Henry made the barons recognize the Empress as his heir (1126, 1131, and 1133), but when he died Stephen ignored her claim to rule England by hereditary right. The Normans preferred his chivalrous geniality to her haughtiness and they disliked the House of Anjou as much as they did the House of Blois, into which Stephen's mother, the Conqueror's daughter Adela, had married. The Empress appealed to the Pope in vain (1136) and Archbishop Thurstan of York defeated her uncle and champion, David I., King of Scotland (1084-1153) at the Battle of the Standard (1138); but at last she landed in England. Geoffrey was the original Plantaganet, so named by his companions for the broom corn he wore on his person. Children: 48. Henry II 'Curtmantle' PLANTAGENET, King of England was born on 25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Loire, France; was buried on 8 Jul 1189 in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. Geoffrey VI D'ANJOU was born on 1 Jun 1134; died on 26 Jul 1158 in Nantes, Brittany, France. William Plantagenet OF ENGLAND was born in 1136; died on 30 Jan 1164 in Rouen, Normandy, France. 98.   Duke William X Toulousan OF AQUITAINE William married Aenor Chatellerault DE ROUCHEFOUCAULD in 1121. [Group Sheet] 99.   Aenor Chatellerault DE ROUCHEFOUCAULD Children: Aelith PETRONELLA William AIGRET 49. Eleanor OF AQUITAINE was born on 6 Dec 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Guinne, France; died on 1 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Poitiers, France; was buried in Fontevruad Abbey, Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France. 102.   Peter of Courtenay was born in Sep 1126 in France (son of Louis VI "the Fat" King of France and Adelaide de Maurienne); died on 10 Apr 1183 in Palestine; was buried in Exeter Cathedral, Devonshire, England. Peter married Elizabeth de Courtenay. Elizabeth was born in 1127; died in Sep 1205. [Group Sheet] 103.   Elizabeth de Courtenay was born in 1127; died in Sep 1205. Children: 51. Alice de COURTENAY died on 14 Sep 1211. Generation: 8 128.   Humphrey II de Bohun (son of Humphrey I 'the Great' de Bohun and Mathilda de Evreux); died before 29 Sep 1165. Humphrey married Margaret of Hereford, Constable of England. Margaret (daughter of Milo de Gloucester Fitz Walter, 1st Earl of Hereford and Sybyl de Neufmarch) was born about 1122/23; died on 6 Apr 1197. [Group Sheet] 129.   Margaret of Hereford, Constable of England was born about 1122/23 (daughter of Milo de Gloucester Fitz Walter, 1st Earl of Hereford and Sybyl de Neufmarch); died on 6 Apr 1197. Notes: Name: Also Margaret de Bohun née Margaret of Gloucester. Children: 64. Humphrey III de Bohun was born before 1144 in England; died in Dec 1181 in France; was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Hempsted, Gloucester, Monmouthshire, England. Margery de Bohun 130.   Henry 9TH EARL OF HUNTINGDON, of Scotland (son of David I "the Saint" KING OF SCOTLAND and Matilda (Maud) of HUNTINGDON); died on 12 Jun 1152. Notes: Henry of Scotland (Eanric mac Dab Henry married Adelaide DE WARREN in 1139. [Group Sheet] 131.   Adelaide DE WARREN (daughter of William 2ND EARL OF WARREN and Isabel (Elizabeth) DE VERMANDOIS). Notes: Ada de Warenne or Adeline de Varenne (c. 1120 Children: 65. Margaret of Huntingdon, Duchess of Brittany died in 1201. Ada OF SCOTLAND David Earl of HUNTINGDON Maud OF SCOTLAND Isabella OF SCOTLAND died in 1252. Malcolm IV 'the Maiden' KING OF SCOTLAND was born on 20 Mar 1141; and died. William "the Lion" KING OF SCOTLAND was born in 1143; and died. 134.   Alberic DE VERE (son of Alberic (Aubrey) I DE VERE and Beatrix de (Gand) GHISNES); died on 15 May 1141 in Essex, England; was buried in Colne Priory, Essex, England. Notes: Alberic (Aubrey) de Vere, who was in high favor with King Henry I., was constituted by the monarch Great High Chamberlain of England in 1133, to hold the same in fee to himself and his heirs. He replaced Robert Malet, Lord of Eye in Suffolk, who had been banished and disinherited from that office. He married Alice (Adeliza) Clare (Tonebruge), daughter of Gilbert de Clare (de Tonebruge), and grand-daughter of Hugh de Clermont, Count of Clermont and his wife Marguerita. Alice became a nun at St. Osyth's Prioy after the death of her husband. In the 5th year of Stephen, 1140, while a joint sheriff (with Richard Basset, then Justiciary of England,) of Surrey, Cambridge, Essex, and several other counties, he was slain in a popular tumult at London. He died May 15, 1141, was buried in Colne Priory, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Aubrey. Alberic married Adeliza DE CLARE. Adeliza (daughter of Gilbert de Tonebruge 2ND EARL OF CLARE and Adeliza (Adelaide) DE CLERMONT) was born about Oct 1080 in Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England; died about 1163. [Group Sheet] 135.   Adeliza DE CLARE was born about Oct 1080 in Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England (daughter of Gilbert de Tonebruge 2ND EARL OF CLARE and Adeliza (Adelaide) DE CLERMONT); died about 1163. Children: Son DE VERE, Canon of St. Osyth's Robert DE VERE Geoffrey DE VERE William DE VERE, Chancellor of England Adeliza DE VERE Juliana DE VERE 67. Rohesia DE VERE Alberic DE was born before 1120; died in 1194. 144.   William DE BRAOSE, Fifth Baron of Braose was born about 1100 in Bramber, Sussex, England (son of Philip DE BRAOSE, Second Baron of Briouze and Aenor (Johel) DE TOTENEIS); died in 1192 in England. William married Berta FITZWALTER in 1150. Berta (daughter of Miles (Milo) FITZWALTER and Sibyl DE NEUFMARCHE) was born about 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; and died. [Group Sheet] 145.   Berta FITZWALTER was born about 1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (daughter of Miles (Milo) FITZWALTER and Sibyl DE NEUFMARCHE); and died. Children: Reginald DE BRAOSE Bertha DE BRAOSE was born about 1151 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died in 1170 in England. 72. William II DE BRAOSE was born about 1153 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died on 9 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, Marne, France. 146.   Bernard IV DE ST. VALERY was born about 1117 in Iseworth, Middlesex, England; and died. Bernard married Matilda. Matilda was born about 1128 in England; and died. [Group Sheet] 147.   Matilda was born about 1128 in England; and died. Children: 73. Maud (Matilda) WALERY was born about 1155 in Bramber, Sussex, England; died in 1210 in Corfe, Winsor, England. 152.   Gilbert (Mareschall) MARSHAL (son of Robert Cheddar MARSHAL). Notes: The earliest notice of this family occurs in the time of Henry I., when Gilbert Mareschall, and John, his son, were impleaded by Robert de Venoiz, and William de Hastings, for the office of Mareschel to the king, but without success. The son (bearing the same surname, derived from his office), John Mareschall, attaching himself to the fortunes of Maud, against King Stephen, was with Robert, the consul, Earl of Gloucester., at the siege of the Winchester Castle, when the party of the empress sustained so signal a defeat. Upon the accession of Henry II., however, his fidelity was amply rewarded by considerable grants in co. Wilts; and in the 10th year of that reign, being then marshal, he laid claim, for the crown, to one of the manors of the see of Canterbury, from the celebrated prelate, Thomas a Becket, who about that period had commenced his contest with the king. This John was succeeded by his son and heir, John Mareschall, to whom King Henry II. confirmed the office of marshal, and the lands which he held of the crown of England, and elsewhere. At the coronation of Richard I., the John Mareschall bore the great gilt spurs, and the same year obtained a grant from the crown of the manor of Boseham, in Sussex, in fee farm, paying 42 pounds yearly, to the exchequer; with other extensive lordships. He died soon after, and it appears without issue, for his brother, William Mareschall, Earl of Pembroke, succeeded as his heir. We now come to the nephew of the said William, Earl of Pembroke, Sir John Marshal, who married Aliva, elder daughter and co-heir of Hubert de Rie, feudal lord of Hingham, co. Norfolk, by whom he acquired that lordship. Espousing the cause of King John against the barons, Sir John Marshal acquired from the crown, all the forfeited lands of the Earl of Evreux, in England, as also the lands of Hugh de Gornay, lying in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, whereof the said Hugh was possessed when he deserted the royal banner; and he likewise obtained a grant in fee, of the office of Marshal of Ireland. He was subsequently, in the same reign, constituted guardian of the marches of Wales, and sheriff of Lincolnshire, and afterwards joined with John Fitz-Robert, in the sheriffalty of the cos. of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the custody of the castles of Norwich and Orford. He was likewise made governor of Dorchester Castle; moreover, he had the same year, livery of the office of marshal of Ireland, and whatsoever did appertain thereto; so that he should appoint a knight to execute its duties effectually. Continuing steadfast in his allegiance to King John, he was made sheriff of Worcestershire, and governor of the castle of Worcester; and he was one of those who marched with the king into the north, to waste the lands of the insurrectionary barons there. Upon the accession of Henry III., Sir John Marshal was constituted sheriff of Hampshire, and governor of the castle of Devizes, in Wilts, and retained, during the remainder of his life, the favor of that monarch. He died in 1234, and was succeeded by his son, John. John Marshal, who dying in 1242, was succeeded by his son and heir, William. William Marshal, who, adopting a different line of politics, joined the baronial standard, in the 49th year of the reign of King Henry III., and died about the same period (1264), leaving two sons, John and William, then underage, who, the next year, through the intercession of William de Saye, obtained the king's pardon for their father's transgression, and had permission to enjoy his lands, with whatever possessions they had, by gift of Aliva, their grandmother. The elder of these sons, John Marshal, died in the 12th year of Edward I., and was succeeded by his son, William Marshal, who in the 34th year of Edward I., was in the wars of Scotland, and was summoned to parliament as a Baron, from January 9, 1309, to November 26, 1313. He died in the next year, and was succeeded by his son, John. John Marshall, 2nd baron, in the 7th year of Edward II., this John attended the Queen into Scotland, and the ensuing year doing his homage, had livery of his lands, lying in the cos. of Norfolk and Lincoln. He died soon after, about the year 1316, leaving his sister, Hawyse, wife of Robert, Lord Morley, his heir, who carried the Barony of Marshal into the Morley family, from which it passed into that of Lovel, and thence to the Parkers, when it fell into abeyance, at the decease of Thomas Parker, Lord Morley, in 1686, between the issue of that nobleman's aunts, Katherine, wife of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers, and Elizabeth, wife of Edward Cranfield, Esq., and amongst whose descendants it so continues. Children: 76. John FITZGILBERT, 'the Marshal' died in 1242. 154.   Walter Baron DE SALISBURY (son of Edward de Evreux of Salisbury, High Sheriff of Wiltshire and Maud OF SALISBURY); died in 1147; was buried in Near Bradenstoke, England. Notes: He was also known as Walter FitzEdward and Walter the Sheriff, son and heir. He was Sheriff of Wilts under Henry I, but lost the office for a time in that reign. He was present at the Council of Northampton in September 1131. He was with Stephen at Westminister at Easter 1136, and at Salisbury at Christmas, 1139. He founded the Priory of Bradenstoke, Wilts, and was a benefactor to Salisbury Cathedral. He married Sibyl, daughter of Patrick de Chaources (Chaworth), by Maud, daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin. She died before her husband and buried near the quire in Bradenstoke. He took the habit of a canon there and died in 1147, and was buried in the same grave as his wife. Walter married Sibyl DE CHAWORTH. [Group Sheet] 155.   Sibyl DE CHAWORTH (daughter of Patrick DE CHAWORTH). Children: William DE SALISBURY Earl Patrick DE SALISBURY died about 7 Apr 1168; was buried in St. Hilaire Abbey, Saint-Hilaire, Limoux, Aude, France. 77. Sybil DE SALISBURY was born about 1127 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales, England; and died. 156.   Gilbert DE CLARE, 1st Earl of Pembroke was born on 21 Sep 1100 in Tonbridge, Kent, England (son of Gilbert de Tonebruge 2ND EARL OF CLARE and Adeliza (Adelaide) DE CLERMONT); died on 6 Jan 1147 in England. Gilbert married Isabel Beaumont DE MEULAN before 1130 in Tonbridge, Kent, England. Isabel (daughter of Count Robert de Beaumont OF MEULAN and Isabel (Elizabeth) DE VERMANDOIS) was born about 1112 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died about 1172 in England. [Group Sheet] 157.   Isabel Beaumont DE MEULAN was born about 1112 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England (daughter of Count Robert de Beaumont OF MEULAN and Isabel (Elizabeth) DE VERMANDOIS); died about 1172 in England. Children: Baldwin de CLARE was born in 114 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; and died. Ages de CLARE was born in 1112 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; and died. Basilia de CLARE was born in 1116 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; and died. 78. Richard 'Strongbow' DE CLARE was born in 1130 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died on 20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Ireland. Roesia (Roheise) de CLARE, * was born in 1135 in Walhill Manor, Hertfordshire, England; and died. 158.   Dairmont Mac Murrough KING OF LEINSTER was born in 1110 (son of Donchad Macmurchada KING OF LEINSTER and Dearvolga); died on 1 May 1171. Dairmont married More O'TOOLE. More (daughter of Murcertac O'TOOLE and Inghin O'BRYNE) was born in 1110; died in 1191. [Group Sheet] 159.   More O'TOOLE was born in 1110 (daughter of Murcertac O'TOOLE and Inghin O'BRYNE); died in 1191. Children: 79. Aoiffe MAC MURROUGH OF LEINSTER was born about 1135; died in 1177. 192.   Fulke V 'the Younger' Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem was born in 1092 in Anjou, Pays-de-la-Loire, France (son of Fulk IV 'the Rude' COUNT OF ANJOU and Bertrade de MONTFORT); died on 10 Nov 1143 in Acre, Hazofan, Palestine; was buried in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Old City of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel. Notes: Foulques exerted his control over his vassals and was later caught up in dynatic quarrels between the French and English kings. In 2218, his son Georggrey Plantagenet married Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England, and became the progenitor of England's branch of the Angevin dynasty. Fulk visited Palestine in 1120 and returned in 1129 to marry Melisend, daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem. Fulk became King of Jerusalem on Baldwin II's death in 1131 and spent the first year of his reign settling a dispute in Antioch (Turkey) and putting down a revolt led by his wife's lover, Hugh de Le Puiset. In 1137, he allied himself with the Byzantines against a Turkish leader, 'Imad ad-Din Zangi, of Mosul (Iraq) and in 1140 helped the Muslims of Damascus ward off Zangi's armies. He protected Jerusalem in the south by constructing a series of fortresses, including Krak of Moab. Source: Encyclopedia Brittanica online. Fulke married Ermengard OF MAINE in 1109. Ermengard was born about 1096 in Pays de la Loire, France; and died. [Group Sheet] 193.   Ermengard OF MAINE was born about 1096 in Pays de la Loire, France; and died. Children: Matilda of ANJOU died in 1154. Sibilia D'ANJOU was born about 1105 in Anjou, Pays-de-la-Loire, France; and died. 96. Geoffrey V "the Fair" PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, Pays-de-la-Loire, France; died on 7 Sep 1151 in Chateau-dut-Loire, France; was buried in Cathedral of St. Julian of Le Mans, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France. Aumary D'ANJOU was born in 1136; and died. 194.   Henry I 'Beauclerc' KING OF ENGLAND was born in Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England (son of William I 'the Conqueror' KING OF ENGLAND and Matilda OF FLANDERS); died on 1 Dec 1135 in St. Denis-le-Fermont, Near Gisors, France; was buried in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. Notes: In addition to these legitimate births, Henry is reported to have had nineteen or twenty illegitimate children, the highest number of spurious offspring for a King of England to have acknowledged. The best known of them all is Robert the Consul, Earl of Gloucester, father of Maud, wife of Ranulph de Meschines, 2nd Earl of Chester. Another was Reginald, a natural son from a relationship between Henry I. of England and his mistress, Elizabeth Beaumont, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulent and Earl of Leicester, (son of Roger de Beaumont and his wife, Adelina, Countess of Meulent) and his wife Elizabeth Vermandois, younger daughter of Hugh Magnus, the Great, of France, Count of Vermandois. Reginald, married Beatrix, daughter of William Fitz Richard, a potent lord in Cornwall. They had a daughter, Matilda, who married Robert, Count of Meulent, son of Waleran II., Count of Meulent, who married Agnes de Montfort. Waleran II. was a son of the aforementioned Robert Beaumont, and his wife, Elizabeth Vermandois. Robert and Matilda had two children: Waleran III. and Mabel de Beaumont, who married William de Vernon, Earl of Devon, who had three children: Baldwin, Mary Vernon and Joan. Henry married Matilda OF SCOTLAND on 11 Nov 1100 in Westminster Abbey, London, Greater London, England. Matilda (daughter of Malcolm III of Dunkeld KING OF SCOTLAND and St. Margaret OF WESSEX) was born on 1 Jun 1079 in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland; died on 1 May 1118 in Westminster Palace, London, Greater London, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] 195.   Matilda OF SCOTLAND was born on 1 Jun 1079 in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland (daughter of Malcolm III of Dunkeld KING OF SCOTLAND and St. Margaret OF WESSEX); died on 1 May 1118 in Westminster Palace, London, Greater London, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, Greater London, England. Notes: Margaret (Matilda) of Scotland, born in 1079 and died in 1118, married Henry I. Beauclerc, King of England, son of William I The Conqueror (ruler from 1066 to 1087) and his wife, Matilda of Flanders, who died in 1083. See this lineage in the Early French Ancestors in Volume I. Matilda was educated at Wilton and Romsey Abbey where she said that her aunt, Christina, forced her to wear a black veil. She threw it on the ground whenever left alone, in spite of beatings. When her mother died she came to England to Edgar Atheling, her uncle. She was a sister of King David of Scotland; she was a correspondent of Anselm and Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans, who wrote poetry about her. She was a symbol of the union of Saxon and Norman. She was Henry's Queen for seventeen years and six months, and died in her prime like most of her family. Children: 97. Matilda PRINCESS OF ENGLAND was born on 7 Feb 1102 in Winchester, Hampshire, England; died on 10 Sep 1167 in Abbey de Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France; was buried in Sep 1167 in Rouen Cathedral, Rouen, France. William Adelin OF ENGLAND was born on 5 Aug 1103; died on 25 Nov 1120. 204.   Louis VI "the Fat" King of France was born on 01 Dec 1081 in Paris, France (son of Philip I "the Amorous" King of France and Bertha of Holland); died on 01 Aug 1137 in Bethisy-Saint-Pierre, France. Notes: Birth: View Wikipedia Article Louis married Adelaide de Maurienne in 1115. Adelaide was born in 1092; died in 1154. [Group Sheet] 205.   Adelaide de Maurienne was born in 1092; died in 1154. Notes: Birth: View Wikipedia Article Children: 102. Peter of Courtenay was born in Sep 1126 in France; died on 10 Apr 1183 in Palestine; was buried in Exeter Cathedral, Devonshire, England.