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Roger de Mortimer

Male 1286 - 1330  (44 years)


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  1. 1.  Roger de Mortimer was born on 3 May 1286 in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England (son of Edmund de Mortimer and Margaret de Fiennes); died on 29 Nov 1330 in Tyburn, Middlesex, England; was buried in Church of the Greyfriars, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1287

    Notes:

    Earl of March. Justiciar of Ireland, 1319. Steward of the Household to Queen Isabel, 1325. Justiciar of Wales, 1327.

    From Wikipedia:

    Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (25 April 1287 - 29 November 1330), was an English nobleman and powerful Marcher lord who gained many estates in the Welsh Marches and Ireland following his advantageous marriage to the wealthy heiress Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville. In November 1316, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1322 for having led the Marcher lords in a revolt against King Edward II in what became known as the Despenser War. He later escaped to France, where he was joined by Edward's queen consort Isabella, whom he took as his mistress. After he and Isabella led a successful invasion and rebellion, Edward was subsequently deposed; Mortimer allegedly arranged his murder at Berkeley Castle. For three years, Mortimer was de facto ruler of England before being himself overthrown by Edward's eldest son, Edward III. Accused of assuming royal power and other crimes, Mortimer was executed by hanging at Tyburn.

    Roger Mortimer (1286-1330) = Joan de Geneville (d. 1356)
    Blanche Mortimer (1316-1347) = Piers Grandison (b. 1296)
    Isabel Grandison = Baldwin Brugge (b. 1328)
    Thomas Brugge (1355-1408) = Alice Berkeley (1379-1414)
    Gyles Bruges (1396-1466) = Catherine Clifford
    Thomas Bruges (1426-1493) = Florence Darell (1425-1506)
    Henry Brydges (b. 1464) = Anne Hungerford (b. 1468)
    Joane Brydges (b. 1503) = John Gifford (b. 1502)
    Anne Gifford = Thomas Goddard
    Richard Goddard (d. 1614) = Elizabeth Walrond
    Edward Goddard (1584-1647) = Priscilla d'Oyly (1594-1681)
    William Goddard (1630-1691) = Elizabeth Miles (1627-1697)
    Edward Goddard (1675-1754) = Susanna Stone (1675-1754)
    Ebenezer Goddard (1713-1762) = Sybil Brigham (1718-1807)
    Susanna Goddard (1742-1837) = Phineas Howe (1735-1807)
    Abigail Howe (1765-1815) = John Young (1763-1839)
    Brigham Young (1801-1877)

    Brigham Young (1801-1877) = Zina Diantha Huntington (1821-1901)
    Zina Presendia Young (1850-1931) = Charles Ora Card (1839-1906)
    Orson Rega Card (1891-1984) = Lucena Richards (b. 1893)
    Willard Richards Card = Peggy Jane Park
    Orson Scott Card (b. 1951)

    Roger married Joan de Geneville on 20 Sep 1301 in Pembridge, Herefordshire, England. Joan (daughter of Peter de Geneville and Joan de la Marche) was born on 2 Feb 1286; died on 19 Oct 1356. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Katherine de Mortimer died on 4 Aug 1369; was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
    2. Joan de Mortimer died after 1337.
    3. Maud de Mortimer died after Aug 1345.
    4. Margaret de Mortimer died on 5 May 1337; was buried in St. Augustine's, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.
    5. Edmund de Mortimer was born between 1305 and 1306 in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died before 21 Jan 1332 in Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, England.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Edmund de Mortimer was born between 1251 and 1254 in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England (son of Roger de Mortimer and Maud de Briouze); died on 17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1252
    • Alternate birth: 1255, of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
    • Alternate death: Aft 17 Jul 1304, near Cilmiri, Powyth, Wales

    Notes:

    Mortally wounded at the Battle of Builth. "Intended for a church career, he was Treasurer of York 1265-1270. He commanded the troops that slew Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, at Buelt 1282, he not yet being a knight." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

    Edmund married Margaret de Fiennes before 12 Dec 1285. Margaret (daughter of Guillaume de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne) died on 7 Feb 1344. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Margaret de Fiennes (daughter of Guillaume de Fiennes and Blanche de Brienne); died on 7 Feb 1344.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Between 1333 and 1344

    Children:
    1. Maud de Mortimer died on 17 Sep 1312 in Alton, Staffordshire, England; was buried in Croxden Abbey, Staffordshire, England.
    2. 1. Roger de Mortimer was born on 3 May 1286 in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 29 Nov 1330 in Tyburn, Middlesex, England; was buried in Church of the Greyfriars, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Roger de Mortimer was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England (son of Ralph de Mortimer and Gwladus Ddu); died on 27 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1231, Cwmaron Castle, Radnorshire, Wales
    • Alternate death: Bef 30 Oct 1282, Kingsland, Herefordshire, England

    Notes:

    Captain General of the Marshes; Constable of Clun and Hereford Castles; Sheriff of Herefordshire 1266-7.

    According to one chronicle account, it was he who struck the blow that killed Simon de Montfort at Evesham.

    "He had livery of his inheritance 26 February 1246/7; and at Whitsuntide 1253 was made a knight by the King at Winchester. He was serving in Gascony in 1253, and 1254, and from 1255 to 1264 was chiefly occupied with his duties on the March, opposing the successes of his cousin Llewelyn ap Griffith, who was gradually uniting all the Welsh chieftains under his leadership. In the disputes between the King and the Barons in 1258, Mortimer at first took the Barons' side, and was one of the twelve chosen by them to act with twelve chosen by the King, and one of the twenty-four appointed to treat about an aid for the King. In October 1258 he attested the King's proclamation for the observance of the Provisions of Oxford, and in Apr. 1259 was sworn of the King's Council. The 'Provisions' drawn up by the Barons in that year directed that Roger de Mortimer and Philip Basset should accompany the justiciar. On 11 June of that year he was appointed one of the commissioners to demand satisfaction from Llewelyn for breaches of the truce, which on 25 June was prolonged for one year. He was present at the confirmation of the treaty with France, 21 July 1259. On 19 May 1260 the Council of Magnates appointed him constable of Hereford Castle. On 17 July following he arrived in London to attend a Council, and on that day Llewelyn's men took Builth Castle, of which Mortimer had custody for Prince Edward. In December 1260 he had a licence to take game and to fish along the Thames and its tributaries. In December 1261 he was commanded to send his seal, if he were unable to come in person, to have it affixed to the writing made of peace between the King and the Barons. The whole of the years 1262 and 1263 he spent in fighting Llewelyn with varying success. On 3 December 1263 he was one of the armed nobles with the King when Henry demanded, and was refused, entry to Dover Castle; and in January following attested, on the King's side, the submission of the quarrel between Henry and the Barons to Louis, King of France. On 6 April 1264 he was with the King at the taking of Northampton, and captured a number of prisoners; and in May was with the King at Lewes, but fled from the field to Pevensey. He and others who had fled were allowed to return home, giving hostages that they would come to Parliament, when summoned, and stand trial by their peers. Mortimer and the other Lords Marchers did not attend Montfort's 'Parliament' at Midsummer 1264, but were constrained to make peace with him in August. In September Mortimer, as constable of Cardigan, was ordered to give up the castle to Guy de Brien, Montfort's nominee. The Marchers again broke the truce, but before Christmas Montfort and Llewelyn finally reduced them to submission. Soon afterwards Roger and the others were banished to Ireland for a year, but did not go; and in December he had safe conduct to see the King and Prince Edward, who was at Kenilworth. In June 1265 he was among the 'rebels holding certain towns and castles throughout the land, and raising new wars.' Later in the same month he contrived the plan, and furnished the swift horse, by means of which Prince Edward escaped from Hereford Castle and came to Wigmore, where he and Roger de Clifford rode out to meet him and drove off his pursuers. At Evesham, on 4 August 1265, Mortimer commanded the rearguard; and after Montfort's death his head was sent to Mortimer's wife at Wigmore. Mortimer was liberally rewarded, receiving, among other grants, the 'county and honour' of Oxford with lands forfeited by Robert de Vere. In September 1265 he was at the Parliament at Winchester. From Easter 1266 to Michaelmas 1267 he was sheriff of Hereford. On 4 May 1266 he, with Edmund the King's son, and others, was given power to repress the King's enemies; but on 15 May he was heavily defeated by the Welsh at Brecknock, escaping only with difficulty. He took part in the siege of Kenilworth in June 1266. In February 1266/7 he quarrelled with Gloucester over the treatment of the 'disinherited,' whom Gloucester favoured. He was present at the Council at Westminster, 12 February 1269/70. Shortly before Prince Edward sailed for the Holy Land, in August 1270, he was made one of the trustees for the Prince's estates during his absence on the Crusade. On 12 September 1271 he was summoned to 'Parliament' at Westminster. In December 1272 he put down a threatened rising in the North, and the following February was sent to Chester to inquire into complaints against Reynold de Grey, justice there. In 1274 and 1275 he sat as a justice. He was one of the magnates having large interests in Ireland present in Parliament at Westminster, 19 May 1275, who granted the same export duties on wool and hides in their ports in Ireland as had been granted by the lords in England. In October following he was chief assessor of a subsidy in Salop and Staffs. On 12 November 1276 he was one of the magnates at Westminster who gave judgment against Llewelyn; four days later was appointed 'captain' of Salop and cos. Stafford and Hereford and the Marches against the Welsh prince. In 1279 he held a splendid tournament at Kenilworth. On 27 October 1282 the King ordered, 'as a special favour which has never been granted before,' that if Roger should die during his present illness, the executors of his will should not be impeded by reason of his debts to the Exchequer." [Complete Peerage]

    Roger married Maud de Briouze before 1248. Maud (daughter of William de Briouze and Eve Marshal) died on 16 Mar 1301. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Maud de Briouze (daughter of William de Briouze and Eve Marshal); died on 16 Mar 1301.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 23 Mar 1301

    Children:
    1. Isabella de Mortimer died before 1 Apr 1292; was buried in Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, England.
    2. 2. Edmund de Mortimer was born between 1251 and 1254 in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 17 Jul 1304 in Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.

  3. 6.  Guillaume de Fiennes was born in of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England (son of Enguerrand de Fiennes and (Unknown) de Condé); died on 11 Jul 1302 in Kortrijk, Flanders.

    Notes:

    He and his younger brother Giles accompanied the future Edward I on his crusade to the Holy Land. He was killed fighting on the French side at the Battle of the Golden Spurs.

    Guillaume married Blanche de Brienne between 18 Jan 1266 and Feb 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Blanche de Brienne (daughter of Jean de Brienne and Jeanne de Châteaudun).
    Children:
    1. 3. Margaret de Fiennes died on 7 Feb 1344.
    2. Joan de Fiennes died before 26 Oct 1309.
    3. Jean de Fiennes died after 1324.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Ralph de Mortimer was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England (son of Roger de Mortimer and Isabel de Ferrers); died on 6 Aug 1246; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.

    Notes:

    Constable of Clun Castle, Shropshire.

    "In 1216 he had been one of a deputation sent by King John to William de Briwere, after his forced adhesion to the Barons during their occupation of London, to arrange for his return to the King's service; and in September 1217 he had witnessed at Lambeth the articles drawn up between Henry III and Louis of France. On 23 November 1227 he gave £100 as relief for the lands of his brother Hugh, and the King took his homage; and on 8 July 1229, for his faithful service, he was pardoned all except £500 of the debts of his father and brother. In October 1230 he obtained a charter for a fair at Knighton and free warren at Stratfield, and in 1231 he was made custodian of Clun Castle and honour during pleasure. In June 1233, with the other Lords Marchers, Ralph exchanged hostages with the King de fideli servicio, quousque regnum sit ita securatum quod firma pax sit in regno Anglie. On 7 November following he attested a charter of Henry III at Hereford. He was present on 28 January 1235/6 at the confirmation of Magna Carta at Westminster, and in the same year he and the other Lords Marchers claimed the right to find and bear the silvered spears which supported the canopies held over the King and Queen in their Coronation procession; but the right of the Barons of the Cinque Ports to carry both canopies being allowed, the Marchers' claim was rejected as frivolous. In 1241 he was first of the pledges to the King for his sister-in-law Senana, wife of Griffith ap Llewelyn; but in August that year Meredith ap Howel and the other Welsh lords of Kerry made a permanent peace with Henry III, whether they should be at war with Ralph de Mortimer or not. In June 1242 he was summoned to come to the King's aid in Gascony as soon as possible." [Complete Peerage]

    "Ralph [...] was continually engaged on the Welsh marches. At first he stood on the defensive, unable to make much impression on Llywelyn's power. No doubt it was for this reason that in 1230 he married Gwladus Ddu (d. 1251), daughter of Llywelyn and widow of Reginald de Briouze. It was only after the death of his father-in-law in 1240 that Mortimer was able to take the military initiative again, with attacks upon the Welsh. In the summer of 1241 there was war in Maelienydd, and this time the Mortimers prevailed, ending Welsh control of the lordship of Gwrtheyrnion. Ralph (II) died on 6 August 1246 and was buried at Wigmore Abbey, where he was remembered as a warlike and energetic man' (Dugdale, Monasticon, 6, pt 1, 350)." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

    Ralph married Gwladus Ddu before 26 Oct 1230. Gwladus (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth and Joan of England) died in 1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Gwladus Ddu (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth and Joan of England); died in 1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England.

    Notes:

    Also called Gwladus ferch Llewelyn; Gladusia.

    Notes on the parentage of Gwladus and Margaret, daughters of Llwelyn ap Fawr:

    Complete Peerage (IX:276) and Royal Ancestry both give Gwladus as a daughter of Joan of England. Royal Ancestry gives Margaret as an illegitimate daughter of Llywelyn.

    The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that Joan was "probably" the mother of Gwladus and Margaret.

    In The American Genealogist 41:99 (1965), Walter Lee Sheppard notes that "DNB's account gives Joan only the son David with Helen as probable. Lloyd's History of Wales [...] includes a chart so drawn as to make the maternity of the daughters questionable, and omits Angharad altogether. Prof. Thomas Jones Pierce in his article on Joan in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography names David, but does not mention the daughters at all; but then his cited sources are ony DNB and Lloyd's History of Wales in earlier editions. The correspondence of the writer with Sir Anthony Richard Wagner, Garter Principal King of Arms, however, indicates that all these daughters, with the exception of Gwladys, have been accepted by Major Francis Jones, best known authority on Welsh pedigrees, and based on British Museum Manuscript Add. 15041, on folio 12a, which shows Joan to be mother of David, Gwenlian, Angharad, and Margaret. It is interesting to note that [Complete Peerage] 9:276, under Mortimer of Wigmore, identifies Gwaldys as Joan's daughter."

    Later in the same publication, TAG 41:22, Sheppard provides an addendum, first quoting a letter from E. D. Jones, Librarian of the National Library of Wales: "Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, a reliable seventeenth century authority, makes Gwladys full sister to Gruffydd, therefore the daughter of Tangwystl. He makes Gwenllian, Angharad and Marred (Margaret) to be daughters of Joan. I am inclined to accept the view that Gwladys Ddu was the daughter of Tangwystl, but in the absence of contemporary records it is not wise to be too dogmatic." Sheppard then continues: "Sir Anthony Richard Wagner KCVO, Garter Principal King of Arms, in a letter to the writer dated 24 Sept. 1964, states that he would accept Margaret as Joan's daughter and, presumably, the other daughters, except Gwladys. He refers to Major Francis Jones and the previously cited British Museum Additional MS, which shows Joan to be mother of David, and points out that the chronology also fits."

    Peter C. Bartrum's Welsh Genealogies (1974-83, searchable here; use the search term "Gruffudd ap Cynan 04"), gives Tangwystl as the mother of Gwladus and Joan as the probable mother of Margaret.

    William Addams Reitwiesner's "The Children of Joan, Princess of North Wales," in The Genealogist 1:80, Spring 1980, argues that we have no certain basis for regarding Joan as the mother of any of Llywelyn's daughters.

    On 9 April 1999, Douglas Richardson posted the following to SGM: "As for the Welsh tradition that any son, legitimate or otherwise, could make a claim to succeed Llywelyn, you may recall that Llywelyn and his son, David, went out of their way to have David recognized as Llywelyn's sole heir, to the exclusion of Llywelyn's illegitimate sons. To accomplish this, they had Llywelyn's wife, Joan, legitimized. The legitimization of Joan was no small feat seeing she was surely born out of wedlock to King John's mistress. Also, they sent David to England to be recognized as Llywelyn's sole heir by the English overlord, David's own uncle, King Henry III. Interestingly, the records of this trip show that David was accompanied by none other than his sister, Gladys. Due to the nature of this trip, it seems odd that Gladys would accompany David on this trip, UNLESS she too was a legitimate child of Llywelyn and Joan. These two pieces of evidence convince me that Gladys was legitimate." We find Richardson persuasive on this point.

    Children:
    1. 4. Roger de Mortimer was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 27 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.

  3. 10.  William de Briouze was born in of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (son of Reynold de Briouze and Grace Briwerre); died on 2 May 1230.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Totnes, Devon, England
    • Alternate death: Bef 1247

    Notes:

    "William de Briouze, s. and h. by 1st wife. He m. Eve, da. and in her issue coh. of William (Marshal), Earl of Strigul and Pembroke, by Isabel, suo jure Countess of Pembroke. He d. 1 May 1230, being hanged by Llewelyn abovenamed. His widow d. before 1246." [Complete Peerage I:22, as corrected in Volume XIV.]

    Hanged by Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, after intrigues with Llewelyn's wife.

    "He was discovered in Joan's chambers, accused of being her lover, and promptly and publicly hanged. While the story that William and Joan were lovers has been generally accepted, the Annals of Margam (in T. Gale, ed , Historiae Britannicae et Anglicanae Scriptores XX (Oxford, 1687), 2-18, [anno] MCCXXX) implies that the 'intimacy' was devised by Llywelyn to avenge himself on William for political injuries inflicted not only by William but by the entire Braose family; the execution was hailed by the Welsh as a vindication of a blood-feud against the Braoses dating from at least 1176. Indeed, shortly after the execution Llywelyn wrote to William's widow Eva and to William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, Eva's brother, stating, in effect, that so far as he was concerned, the intended marriage between Llywelyn's son Dafydd and Eva's daughter Isabella could go forward as planned, and that he could not have prevented the Welsh magnates from taking their vengeance. See J. Goronwy Edwards, Calendar of Ancient Correspondence concerning Wales (Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales, History and Law Series, 2)(Cardiff, 1935), pp 51-52, nos. XI.56a, 56b. The marriage in fact took place three months later." [William Addams Reitwiesner, "The Children of Joan, Princess of North Wales," The Genealogist 1:80, Spring 1980.]

    William married Eve Marshal. Eve (daughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare) died between Jan 1242 and 1246. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 11.  Eve Marshal (daughter of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare); died between Jan 1242 and 1246.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 1246
    • Alternate death: Bef 1247

    Children:
    1. Eve de Briouze died between 20 Jul 1255 and 28 Jul 1255.
    2. 5. Maud de Briouze died on 16 Mar 1301.
    3. Eleanor de Briouze died before 25 Jun 1252; was buried in Llanthony Priory, outside Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.

  5. 12.  Enguerrand de Fiennes was born before 1205 (son of Guillaume de Fiennes and Agnès de Dammartin); died in 1269.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef Oct 1270

    Notes:

    Seigneur of Fiennes; lord of Wendover.

    Enguerrand married (Unknown) de Condé. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 13.  (Unknown) de Condé (daughter of Nicholas de Condé and Élizabeth de Morialmé).

    Notes:

    Possibly named Isabeau.

    Children:
    1. 6. Guillaume de Fiennes was born in of Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 11 Jul 1302 in Kortrijk, Flanders.
    2. Giles de Fiennes was born in of Old Court in Wartling, Sussex, England; died after 1314.

  7. 14.  Jean de Brienne (son of Jeane de Brienne, King of Jerusalem; Latin Emperor of Constantinople and Bérenguère of Castile-León); died on 8 Jan 1296; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France.

    Notes:

    Also called Jean d'Acre. Count of Montfort jure uxoris.

    "Grand butler of France, 1258?; guardian and councillor, with his 2nd wife, Marie de Coucy, queen mother of Scotland, of Alexander III of Scotland 1257-1259; ambassador to Spain, 1275; administered Champagne for Blanche d'Artois and her 2nd husband Edmund of Lancaster, 1276-1284." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

    Jean married Jeanne de Châteaudun in 1251. Jeanne (daughter of Geoffroi VI de Châteaudun and Clémence des Roches) died about 1254; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 15.  Jeanne de Châteaudun (daughter of Geoffroi VI de Châteaudun and Clémence des Roches); died about 1254; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 1257

    Children:
    1. 7. Blanche de Brienne


Generation: 5

  1. 16.  Roger de Mortimer was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England (son of Hugh de Mortimer and Maud le Meschin); died before 19 Aug 1214; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.

    Notes:

    Some sources (including Leo van de Pas) say that this Roger de Mortimer was married twice, once to a Millicent de Ferrers, parentage unknown, and once to Isabel de Ferrers, daughter of Walkelin de Ferrers. In this model, Ralph is a son of Isabel whereas Joan is a daughter of Millicent. We have been unable to find a plausible source for any of this. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Complete Peerage, Ancestral Roots, etc., all show this Roger de Mortimer married only once, to Isabel.

    "He was a benefactor of Gloucester Abbey, of Kington, St. Michael, Wilts, of Cwmhir, of Jumièges, and of Saint-Victor-en-Caux. Between 1182 and 1189 he attested at Rouen a charter of Henry II to the monks of Barbey (diocese of Bayeux). In 1191, upon a charge of conspiring with the Welsh against the King, he was forced to surrender his castles and to abjure the country for three years. In April 1194 he was in England again, and witnessed a charter of Richard I, after his second Coronation at Winchester. Roger was a strenuous Lord Marcher, and in 1195 drove the sons of Cadwallon out of Maelienydd, and restored Cwmaron Castle; but next year Rhys, Prince of South Wales, defeated a well-equipped force of cavalry and foot under Mortimer and Hugh de Say, of Richard's Castle, with much slaughter, near Radnor. He was one of the magnates who refused to serve personally in France in 1201, but his fine was remitted. On 1 April 1207 he witnessed a charter of the King at Montfort-sur-Risle, and he appears to have been with John at Bonport in July following. On the loss of Normandy in 1204 Roger adhered to John and forfeited his Norman lands. In 1205 he landed at Dieppe, and being captured by John de Rouvray, bailiff of Caux, was compelled to pay a ransom of 1,000 marks. He was in England again by June 1207, when he was directed to hand Knighton Castle to the custody of a successor; in that year his wife Isabel had a grant of Oakham for life. In 1210 some of his knights served in the King's invasion of Ireland. In 1212 he proffered 3,000 marks for the marriage of the heir of Walter de Beauchamp, to whom he married his daughter Joan. In May 1213 he was one of the sponsors for John's good faith in his reconciliation with Archbishop Langton at the command of the Pope." [Complete Peerage]

    "To the Wigmore chronicler Roger (II) de Mortimer was 'as befitted his years, gay, full of youth and inconstant of heart, and especially somewhat headstrong'. He had served Henry II faithfully during the rebellion of the king's sons in 1173–4, but at the time of his father's death he was in King Henry's prison, because in 1179 his men had killed Cadwallon ap Madog, the ruler of Maelienydd, when the latter was returning from court with a royal safe conduct. He may not have been released until 1182. Roger's conflicts with the Welsh would persist throughout his life, as he struggled to establish his rule over the middle march of Wales. In 1195 he brought Maelienydd under his control, rebuilding the castle at Cymaron. A grant to the abbey of Cwm-hir in Powys in 1199, commemorating 'our men who died in the conquest of Maelienydd', points to casualties as well as achievement (in 1196 his forces were among those heavily defeated at Radnor by the Lord Rhys of Deheubarth), but in 1202 he could be described as supreme in central Wales. [...] In 1191 he was accused by William de Longchamp, the justiciar, of having entered into an unexplained conspiracy with the Welsh against the king, and was forced to abjure the realm, though his exile was much shorter than the three years reported by Richard of Devizes. It is possible that he had become a supporter of Count John, Richard I's brother. But if this was so, he soon transferred his allegiance back to the king, for it was with royal support that he attacked Maelienydd in 1195. However, he later served in Normandy under John as king, and in 1205 was captured when trying to occupy Dieppe, subsequently paying a ransom of 1000 marks. Roger de Mortimer remained loyal to John for the rest of his life. [...] Being overcome by ill health, he transferred his lands to his son, and by 19 August 1214 he was dead. He was buried at Wigmore Abbey. He had at first been on bad terms with the canons, and tried to revoke grants made to them by his father, until the solemnity with which they commemorated Hugh's anniversary reconciled him to them." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

    Roger married Isabel de Ferrers. Isabel (daughter of Walkelin de Ferrers) died before 29 Apr 1252; was buried in Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 17.  Isabel de Ferrers (daughter of Walkelin de Ferrers); died before 29 Apr 1252; was buried in Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England.

    Notes:

    Founded the Hospital of St. John the Baptist at Lechlade "in or before 1246" (VCH Gloucester II: 125).

    Lechlade, in Gloucester, is the highest navigable point of the Thames. It is also where, about 350 years later, TNH's 10XG-grandfather Thomas Prence, several-time governor of Plymouth Colony and husband of Patience Brewster, was born.

    Children:
    1. 8. Ralph de Mortimer was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 6 Aug 1246; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.
    2. Joan de Mortimer died in 1225.

  3. 18.  Llywelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth was born about 1173 (son of Iorwerth Drwyndwn ap Owain Gwynedd and Margred ferch Madog); died on 11 Apr 1240 in Aberconwy Abbey, Conwy, Wales; was buried in Aberconwy Abbey, Conwy, Wales.

    Notes:

    "The Great." Prince of Wales; Prince of Aberffraw; Lord of Snowden. Died as a Cistercian monk.

    Llywelyn married Joan of England before 23 Mar 1205. Joan (daughter of John, King of England and Clemence) was born before 1190; died on 30 Mar 1236; was buried in Llanvaes, Anglesey, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 19.  Joan of England was born before 1190 (daughter of John, King of England and Clemence); died on 30 Mar 1236; was buried in Llanvaes, Anglesey, Wales.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Feb 1237
    • Alternate death: 2 Feb 1237, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales

    Notes:

    Princess of North Wales. Also called, in Welsh, Siwan.

    From Leo van de Pas, in a posting to soc.genealogy.medieval, 23 Feb 1999:

    "I found the following about Joan bastard of England, after her death she was buried at Llanfaes but, at the dissolution of the monastery, her coffin was removed. In the 19th century it was discovered that it was being used as a horse trough. Rescued from this use, it was placed in Baron Hill Park, near Beaumaris in Anglesey. The most recent location is given as the Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas in Beaumaris."

    Children:
    1. 9. Gwladus Ddu died in 1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England.
    2. Ellen of Wales died before 24 Oct 1253.

  5. 20.  Reynold de Briouze was born in of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales (son of William de Briouze and Maud de St. Valéry); died between 1227 and 1228.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Kington, Herefordshire, England
    • Alternate death: Between 5 May 1227 and 9 Jun 1228
    • Alternate death: Bef 9 Jun 1228

    Notes:

    "Reynold de Briouze, next br. He had seizin of his father's lands 26 May 1216, but gave up Bramber in or after 1220 to his nephew John, s. and h. of his 1st br. William. He m., 1stly, Grecia, da. and in her issue coh. of William Brieguerre or Briwere, by Beatrice de Vaux. He m., 2ndly, 1215, Gwladus Du, da. of Llewelyn ap lorwerth. Prince of North Wales, by his 2nd wife, Joan, illegit. da. of King John. He d. between 5 May 1227 and 9 June 1228. His widow m., 2ndly, Ralph de Mortimer, of Wigmore, who d. 6 Aug. 1246, and was bur. at Wigmore Abbey. She d. at Windsor in 1251." [Complete Peerage I:22]

    He attended the king at the siege of Bitham, 1221.

    Reynold married Grace Briwerre. Grace (daughter of William de Briwerre and Beatrice de Vaux) died before 1215. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 21.  Grace Briwerre (daughter of William de Briwerre and Beatrice de Vaux); died before 1215.

    Notes:

    Also called Grecia Briwere, Brieguerre.

    Children:
    1. 10. William de Briouze was born in of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 2 May 1230.

  7. 22.  William Marshal was born about 1146 (son of John fitz Gilbert and Sybil de Salisbury); died on 14 May 1219 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Temple Church, London, England.

    Notes:

    Also spelled William le Mareschal. Earl of Pembroke.

    Hereditary Marshal of England; Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1189-94; Sheriff of Sussex 1193-1208; Warden of the Forest of Dean and Constable of St. briavels Castle 1194-1206; Constable of Lillebonne 1202; Protector and Regent of the Kingdom 1216-19; and, in right of his wife, Earl of Pembroke and Striguil and Lord of Leinster. Advisor to King John at Runnymede.

    Wikipedia:

    "William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke [...], also called William the Marshal (Norman French: Williame le Mareschal; Anglo-Norman: Guillaume le Marechal), was an English (or Anglo-Norman) soldier and statesman. Stephen Langton eulogized him as the 'best knight that ever lived.' He served four kings -- Henry II, Richard I, John, and Henry III -- and rose from obscurity to become a regent of England for the last of the four, and so one of the most powerful men in Europe. Before him, the hereditary title of 'Marshal' designated head of household security for the king of England; by the time he died, people throughout Europe (not just England) referred to him simply as 'the Marshal'. He received the title of 1st Earl of Pembroke through marriage during the second creation of the Pembroke earldom."

    William married Isabel de Clare in Aug 1189 in London, England. Isabel (daughter of Richard "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert and Eve of Leinster) was born in 1173; died on 7 Mar 1220; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 23.  Isabel de Clare was born in 1173 (daughter of Richard "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert and Eve of Leinster); died on 7 Mar 1220; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales.
    Children:
    1. 11. Eve Marshal died between Jan 1242 and 1246.
    2. Joan Marshal died before Nov 1234.
    3. Walter Marshal died on 24 Nov 1245 in Goodrich Castle, Herefordshire, England.
    4. William Marshal was born about 1190; died on 24 Apr 1231; was buried in New Temple Church, London, England.
    5. Maud Marshal, Marshal Of England was born in 1192; died on 27 Mar 1248; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales.
    6. Isabel Marshal was born on 9 Oct 1200 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died on 17 Jan 1240 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Beaulieu Abbey, Hampshire, England.
    7. Sybil Marshal was born about 1204; died before 1238.

  9. 24.  Guillaume de Fiennes (son of Enguerrand de Fiennes and Sibyl of Boulogne); died before Jul 1240.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 1241

    Notes:

    Seigneur of Fiennes in Pas de Calais; lord of Wendover.

    Guillaume married Agnès de Dammartin before 1 Jan 1204. Agnès (daughter of Aubrey II de Dammartin and Mahaut of Clermont) died after 1244. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  10. 25.  Agnès de Dammartin (daughter of Aubrey II de Dammartin and Mahaut of Clermont); died after 1244.
    Children:
    1. 12. Enguerrand de Fiennes was born before 1205; died in 1269.

  11. 26.  Nicholas de Condé (son of Roger and Alix de Mons); died after 1219.

    Notes:

    Mentioned 1188.

    Nicholas married Élizabeth de Morialmé between 1210 and 1216. Élizabeth (daughter of Arnoud de Morialmé and Jeanne de Bailleul) died after Dec 1256. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  12. 27.  Élizabeth de Morialmé (daughter of Arnoud de Morialmé and Jeanne de Bailleul); died after Dec 1256.

    Notes:

    Or Isabelle.

    Children:
    1. 13. (Unknown) de Condé

  13. 28.  Jeane de Brienne, King of Jerusalem; Latin Emperor of Constantinople was born about 1175 (son of Erard II de Brienne and Agnès); died on 23 Mar 1237 in Constantinople.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Between 1169 and 1174

    Notes:

    From Wikipedia:

    John of Brienne (c. 1170 - 27 March 1237), also known as John I, was King of Jerusalem from 1210 to 1225 and Latin Emperor of Constantinople from 1229 to 1237. He was the youngest son of Erard II of Brienne, a wealthy nobleman in Champagne. John, originally destined for an ecclesiastical career, became a knight and owned small estates in Champagne around 1200. After the death of his brother, Walter III, he ruled the County of Brienne on behalf of his minor nephew Walter IV (who lived in southern Italy).

    The barons of the Kingdom of Jerusalem proposed that John marry Maria, Queen of Jerusalem. With the consent of Philip II of France and Pope Innocent III, he left France for the Holy Land and married the queen; the royal couple were crowned in 1210. After Maria's death in 1212 John administered the kingdom as regent for their infant daughter, Isabella II; an influential lord, John of Ibelin, attempted to dethrone him. John was a leader of the Fifth Crusade. Although his claim of supreme command of the crusader army was never unanimously acknowledged, his right to rule Damietta (in Egypt) was confirmed shortly after the town fell to the crusaders in 1219. He claimed the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia on behalf of his second wife, Stephanie of Armenia, in 1220. After Stephanie and their infant son died that year, John returned to Egypt. The Fifth Crusade ended in failure (including the recovery of Damietta by the Egyptians) in 1221.

    John was the first king of Jerusalem to visit Europe (Italy, France, England, León, Castile and Germany) to seek assistance for the Holy Land. He gave his daughter in marriage to Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in 1225, and Frederick ended John's rule of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Although the popes tried to persuade Frederick to restore the kingdom to John, the Jerusalemite barons regarded Frederick as their lawful ruler. John administered papal domains in Tuscany, became the podestà of Perugia and was a commander of Pope Gregory IX's army during Gregory's war against Frederick in 1228 and 1229.

    He was elected emperor in 1229 as the senior co-ruler (with Baldwin II) of the Latin Empire, and was crowned in Constantinople in 1231. John III Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicaea, and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria occupied the last Latin territories in Thrace and Asia Minor, besieging Constantinople in early 1235. John directed the defence of his capital during the months-long siege, with the besiegers withdrawing only after Geoffrey II of Achaea and united fleets from Italian towns defeated their fleet in 1236. The following year, John died as a Franciscan friar.

    Jeane married Bérenguère of Castile-León in 1223 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Bérenguère (daughter of Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia and Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo) was born about 1199; died on 12 Apr 1237 in Constantinople. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  14. 29.  Bérenguère of Castile-León was born about 1199 (daughter of Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia and Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo); died on 12 Apr 1237 in Constantinople.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 1204

    Children:
    1. 14. Jean de Brienne died on 8 Jan 1296; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France.
    2. Louis de Brienne

  15. 30.  Geoffroi VI de Châteaudun was born in 1218 (son of Geoffroi V de Châteaudun and Adèle de Donzy); died on 6 Feb 1250.

    Notes:

    Viscount of Châteaudun. Died on crusade.

    Geoffroi married Clémence des Roches between 17 May 1219 and 15 Jul 1222. Clémence (daughter of Guillaume des Roches and Marguerite de Sablé) died after Sep 1259. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  16. 31.  Clémence des Roches (daughter of Guillaume des Roches and Marguerite de Sablé); died after Sep 1259.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft Sep 1255

    Children:
    1. 15. Jeanne de Châteaudun died about 1254; was buried in Maubuisson Abbey near Pontoise, near Paris, France.


Generation: 6

  1. 32.  Hugh de Mortimer was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England (son of Hugh de Mortimer and (Unknown first wife of Hugh de Mortimer)); died on 26 Feb 1181.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 29 Sep 1181

    Notes:

    "When Henry, Duke of Normandy (Henry II), made promises of great grants to Ranulph, Earl of Chester, in 1153, the fees of Hugh de Mortimer (and those of others) in Staffordshire were excepted. On succeeding to the throne in December 1154 Henry required from Mortimer Bridgnorth Castle, which had been in his hands for many years; he refused to surrender it, whereupon the King proceeded in person first to Cleobury, which he took and destroyed, 17 June 1155, and then to Bridgnorth, which was taken after several days' vigorous assault on 7 July. Some time before 1161 he or his father conceded to Foucarmont gifts made by Hugh and William de St. Germain. In 1167 he was fined £100 in Hants because he refused at the King's command to give up to one of his own knights certain animals taken in distraint when security was offered. He figures in the returns of knights' fees in Normandy of 1172 as owing service of 5 knights and holding himself 13 1/2 knights' fees. The foundation of Wigmore Abbey was completed before Hugh's death. He was also a benefactor to the Templars in Lincolnshire." [Complete Peerage IX:270-2, XIV:488]

    "Hugh (II) de Mortimer's rising was one of several against the new king at this time, largely prompted by Henry's demand for the return of alienated royal lands and castles. But resistance was unco-ordinated: there was no co-operation, for instance, between Mortimer and his neighbour Earl Roger of Hereford. It was at Easter 1155, according to the Battle Abbey chronicle, that Mortimer, 'estimating the king to be a mere boy and indignant at his activity' (Searle, 159–61), fortified Bridgnorth and refused to submit to royal orders. The king promptly placed Bridgnorth, Cleobury, and Wigmore under siege, surrounding Bridgnorth Castle with a rampart and ditch, so that Mortimer could not leave it. With no choice but to surrender, therefore, on 7 July he made his peace with the king, at an impressive assembly of lay and ecclesiastical magnates. He was treated lightly, for whereas the earldom of Hereford was allowed to lapse when Earl Roger died, also in 1155, Hugh de Mortimer soon recovered Bridgnorth and Wigmore (Cleobury had been destroyed), and retained the privileged status of a tenant-in-chief. The fact that King Henry was himself frequently active in Wales may subsequently have had a constraining effect on Mortimer's activities there. In any event, after 1155 he seems to have turned his attention to the affairs of Wigmore, and especially of its abbey." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

    Hugh married Maud le Meschin. Maud (daughter of William Meschin and Cecily de Rumilly) was born in of Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England; died after 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 33.  Maud le Meschin was born in of Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England (daughter of William Meschin and Cecily de Rumilly); died after 1180.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 6 Jul 1189

    Children:
    1. 16. Roger de Mortimer was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died before 19 Aug 1214; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England.

  3. 34.  Walkelin de Ferrers was born in of Oakham, Rutland, England (son of Henry de Ferrers).
    Children:
    1. 17. Isabel de Ferrers died before 29 Apr 1252; was buried in Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England.

  4. 36.  Iorwerth Drwyndwn ap Owain Gwynedd (son of Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd and Gwladus ferch Llywarch); died about 1174.

    Notes:

    Drwyndwn, "flatnose."

    Iorwerth married Margred ferch Madog. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  5. 37.  Margred ferch Madog (daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, Prince of Powys Fadog and (Unknown wife or mistress of Madog ap Maredudd)).

    Notes:

    Also called Marared of Powys.

    Children:
    1. 18. Llywelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth was born about 1173; died on 11 Apr 1240 in Aberconwy Abbey, Conwy, Wales; was buried in Aberconwy Abbey, Conwy, Wales.

  6. 38.  John, King of England was born about 27 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England); died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 1167

    Notes:

    Nicknamed "Lackland".

    "With regard to the birthdate of John, there have been disagreements as to the exact date and year, because of discrepancies in the sources. This was recently discussed in detail in Lewis (2002), where the conclusion was reached that 1166 was more likely than 1167. A statement in the early thirteenth century that John received that name because he was born about the time of the feast of St. John (27 December) would, if true, indicate that date as a plausible date of birth [Ex chronico anonymi canonici, ut videtur, Laudensis, RHF 13, 678-9]. However, that source only indicates a birth on about that date ('circa festum S. Johannis natus fuit'), not on it." [Stewart Baldwin, The Henry Project]

    For at least part of his upbringing, he was raised in the remarkable household of his father Henry II's justiciar Ranulph de Glanville, along with, among others, the Walter brothers, nephews of Glanville's wife Bertha de Valognes. Theobald Walter would become, under John, chief butler of England and Ireland and the founder of enduring lordships in Munster and Leinster. Hubert Walter would become archbishop of Canterbury, Ranulph de Glanville's successor as justiciar of England, and then, in John's kingship, chancellor of England. Also raised and educated in the same household was Geoffrey fitz Peter, who would become John's justiciar.

    John married Clemence. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  7. 39.  Clemence

    Notes:

    In her daughter's obituary in the Tewkesbury Annals, she is called "Regina Clementina"; this is the only evidence for her name..

    "The identity of Clemence, mother of King John's illegitimate daughter Joan, is presently unknown. She is perhaps the same person as Clemence le Boteler, wife of Nicholas de Verdun., Knt. (died 1231), of Brandon (in Wolston), Warwickshire, Alton, Staffordshire, etc. In 1228 Nicholas and his wife, Clemence, were granted custody of the king's niece, Susanna, daughter of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, and his wife, Joan [see C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 230; VCH Warwick 6 (1951): 273-280; Hagger Fortunes of a Norman Family (2001): 16 (chart), 68-69, 76]. If Clemence was Susanna's grandmother, it would explain her inclusion in the grant of Susanna's custody. Regardless, stronger evidence is needed before any firm conclusion can be drawn about a possible relationship between these families." [Royal Ancestry]

    Children:
    1. 19. Joan of England was born before 1190; died on 30 Mar 1236; was buried in Llanvaes, Anglesey, Wales.

  8. 40.  William de Briouze was born in of Briouze, Normandy, France (son of William de Briouze and Bertha of Hereford); died on 9 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, near Paris, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: of Bramber, Sussex, England
    • Alternate death: Sep 1211, Corbeil, near Paris, France

    Notes:

    "William was the most notable member of the de Braose dynasty. His steady rise and sudden fall at the hands of King John is often taken as an example of that king's arbitrary and capricious behaviour towards his barons." [Wikipedia]

    "William de Briouze, Lord of Briouze, Bramber, Brecon, Over Gwent, &c., s. and h. He m. Maud De St. Valery, "Lady of La Haie." In consequence of his well-known quarrel with King John, his lands were forfeited in 1208, and his wife and 1st s. starved to death in the dungeons of Corfe (or of Windsor) in 1210. He d. at Corbeil near Paris, 9, and was bur. 10 Aug. 1211, in the Abbey of St. Victor at Paris." [Complete Peerage I:22]

    "He slaughtered Seisyll ap Dyvnwal (abovenamed) and a host of unarmed Welshmen, in the castle of Abergavenny in 1175, in revenge for the death of his uncle Henry of Hereford [Brut y Tywysogian, R. de Diceto, etc.). Seisyll was owner of Castle Arnold, and is said in an inaccurate version of the Brut to have captured Abergavenny in 1172, the slaughter being dated 1177 (The Gwentian Chronicle, Cambrian Arch. Assoc, p. 137). But the better version of the Brut (Rolls Ser., p. 218; Y Brutieu, in Welsh Texts, ed. Rhys and Evans, 1890, p. 330) on the contrary, states that Seisyll was captured in 1172 by the garrison of Abergavenny. (ex inform. G. W. Watson.)" [Complete Peerage I:22, footnote (a).]

    William married Maud de St. Valéry. Maud (daughter of Bernard de St. Valéry and Matilda) was born about 1150; died in 1210 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  9. 41.  Maud de St. Valéry was born about 1150 (daughter of Bernard de St. Valéry and Matilda); died in 1210 in Windsor, Berkshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 1210, Corfe Castle, Dorset, England

    Notes:

    Also called Maud de Braose; Moll Wallbee; Lady of La Haie.

    From Wikipedia:

    "In 1208, William de Braose quarrelled with his friend and patron King John. The reason is not known but it is alleged that Maud made indiscreet comments regarding the murder of King John's nephew Arthur of Brittany. There was also a large sum of money (five thousand marks) de Braose owed the King. Whatever the reason, John demanded Maud's son William be sent to him as a hostage for her husband's loyalty. Maud refused, and stated loudly within earshot of the King's officers that 'she would not deliver her children to a king who had murdered his own nephew.' The King quickly led troops to the Welsh border and seized all of the castles that belonged to William de Braose. Maud and her eldest son William fled to Ireland, where they found refuge at Trim Castle with the de Lacys, the family of her daughter Margaret. In 1210, King John sent an expedition to Ireland. Maud and her son escaped but were apprehended in Galloway by Donnchadh, Earl of Carrick. After being briefly held at Carrickfergus Castle, they were dispatched to England.

    "Maud and her son William were first imprisoned at Windsor Castle, but were shortly afterwards transferred to Corfe Castle in Dorset where they were placed inside the dungeon. Maud and William both starved to death. [...]

    "Maud de Braose features in many Welsh legends. There is one which says that Maud built the castle of Hay-on-Wye single-handed in one night, carrying the stones in her apron. She was also said to have been extremely tall and often donned armour while leading troops into battle."

    Children:
    1. William de Briouze died in 1210 in Windsor, Berkshire, England.
    2. 20. Reynold de Briouze was born in of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died between 1227 and 1228.
    3. Bertha de Briouze
    4. Matilda de Briouze died on 29 Dec 1210 in Llanbardarn Fawr, Ceredigion, Wales; was buried in Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion, Wales.
    5. Margaret de Briouze was born about 1181; died after 25 Jun 1245.

  10. 42.  William de Briwerre was born in of Torre, Devon, England (son of Thomas Briwerre and (Unknown) de Albemarle); died on 24 Nov 1226; was buried in Dunkeswell Abbey, Devon, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1145, of King's Somborne, Ashley, Hampshire, England

    Notes:

    Also called Briwere, Briguerre. Justice of the King's Bench for both kings Richard I and John. Sheriff of Devon, 1179-89, 1200; of Berkshire 1190-94; of Oxfordshire 1190-4, 1201-2; of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1194-1200, 1203-4; of Hampshire 1199-1201, 1207-9, 1212, 1214-15; of Cornwall 1202-4; of Somerset and Dorset 1207-9; of Wiltshire 1207-9; of Sussex 1208-9; of Gloucestershire 1220. Hereditary forester of Bere Ashley Forest.

    "In 1223 he opposed the confirmation of the Magna Carta and the charter of the forest, declaring that they were 'extorted by violence.'" [Royal Ancestry]

    "When King Richard left England in 1189, he appointed Briwere to be one of the four justices to whom he committed the charge of the kingdom. Called one of King John's evil counselors who care for nothing but to please their master. One of the favorite counsellors of Henry III." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

    Buried in the habit of a Cistercian monk before the high altar in Dunkeswell Abbey, Devon.

    William married Beatrice de Vaux. Beatrice (daughter of Hubert de Vaux and Grace) was born about 1149; died on 24 Mar 1217; was buried in Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  11. 43.  Beatrice de Vaux was born about 1149 (daughter of Hubert de Vaux and Grace); died on 24 Mar 1217; was buried in Mottisfont Priory, Hampshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Bef 1156

    Notes:

    Also called Beatrice de Valle, Beatrice de Vallibus. Former mistress of Reynold Fitz Roy, earl of Cornwall (d. 1 Jul 1175), but The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz says that she "may have been identical to his wife."

    Children:
    1. Margery Briwerre died after 1232.
    2. Isabel de Briwerre died before 10 Jun 1233.
    3. 21. Grace Briwerre died before 1215.
    4. Alice de Briwere died after 1239.
    5. Joan Briwerre died before 12 Jun 1233; was buried in Hospital of Sandon, Surrey, England.

  12. 44.  John fitz Gilbert was born before 1109 in of Cherhill, Wiltshire, England (son of Gilbert); died before 29 Sep 1165.

    Notes:

    Also called John the Marshal.

    Wikipedia:

    "John FitzGilbert the Marshal of the Horses [...] was a minor Anglo-Norman nobleman during the reign of King Stephen, and fought in the 12th century civil war on the side of Empress Matilda. Since at least 1130 and probably earlier, he had been the royal marshal to King Henry I. When Henry died, John FitzGilbert swore for Stephen and was granted the castles of Marlborough and Ludgershall, Wiltshire during this time. Along with Hamstead Marshal, this gave him control of the valley of the River Kennet in Wiltshire. Around 1139, John changed sides and swore for the Empress Matilda. In September 1141, Matilda fled the siege of Winchester and took refuge in the Marshal's castle at Ludgershall. While covering her retreat from Winchester, John Marshal was forced to take refuge at Wherwell Abbey. The attackers set fire to the building, and John lost an eye to dripping lead from the melting roof.

    "In 1152, John had a celebrated confrontation with King Stephen, who had besieged him at Newbury Castle. After John had broken an agreement to surrender, Stephen threatened to kill his son, whom John had given as a hostage. John refused, saying he could make more sons, but Stephen apparently took pity on the young boy and did not kill him. The boy grew up to be William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, a legendary figure in medieval lore, and one of the most powerful men in England."

    John married Sybil de Salisbury. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  13. 45.  Sybil de Salisbury (daughter of Walter of Salisbury and Sybil de Chaworth).

    Notes:

    Also called Sibel d'Evreux.

    Died on a 3 June, year unknown.

    Children:
    1. (Unknown) Marshal
    2. 22. William Marshal was born about 1146; died on 14 May 1219 in Caversham, Oxfordshire, England; was buried in Temple Church, London, England.

  14. 46.  Richard "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert was born about 1130 (son of Gilbert "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert and Isabel de Beaumont); died about 20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Ireland; was buried in Christ Church, Dublin, Ireland.

    Notes:

    Earl of Pembroke. Earl of Striguil. Justiciar of Ireland.

    Also called Richard de Clare.

    "Like his father, he was also commonly known by his nickname Strongbow (Norman French: Arc-Fort). He was an English lord notable for his leading role in the Norman invasion of Ireland. [...] Strongbow was the statesman, whereas Raymond was the soldier, of the conquest. He is vividly described by Giraldus Cambrensis as a tall and fair man, of pleasing appearance, modest in his bearing, delicate in features, of a low voice, but sage in council and the idol of his soldiers." [Wikipedia]

    Richard married Eve of Leinster about 26 Aug 1170 in Waterford, Munster, Ireland. Eve (daughter of Diarmait mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Mor ni Tuathail) was born about 1145; died after 1185; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  15. 47.  Eve of Leinster was born about 1145 (daughter of Diarmait mac Murchada, King of Leinster and Mor ni Tuathail); died after 1185; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 1187

    Notes:

    Also called Aoife ni Darmait; Aoife MacMurrough; Red Eva.

    From Wikipedia:

    "On the 29 August 1170, following the Norman invasion of Ireland that her father had requested, she married Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, better known as Strongbow, the leader of the Norman invasion force, in Reginald's Tower in Waterford. She had been promised to Strongbow by her father who had visited England to ask for an invasion army. He was not allowed to give his daughter away, as under Early Irish Law Aoife had the choice of whom she married, but she had to agree to an arranged marriage, that is, to select from a list of suitable suitors.

    "Under Anglo-Norman law, this gave Strongbow succession rights to the Kingdom of Leinster. Under Irish Brehon law, the marriage gave her a life interest only, after which any land would normally revert to male cousins; but Brehon law also recognised a transfer of 'swordland' following a conquest. Aoife conducted battles on behalf of her husband and is sometimes known as Red Eva (Irish: Aoife Rua)."

    Children:
    1. 23. Isabel de Clare was born in 1173; died on 7 Mar 1220; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales.

  16. 48.  Enguerrand de Fiennes was born in of Fiennes, Pas de Calais, France (son of Eustache de Fiennes); died in 1189 in Acre, Palestine.

    Notes:

    Killed at the siege of Acre during the Third Crusade.

    Enguerrand married Sibyl of Boulogne before 1171. Sibyl (daughter of Faramus of Boulogne and Maud) died about 1208. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  17. 49.  Sibyl of Boulogne (daughter of Faramus of Boulogne and Maud); died about 1208.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft 1219

    Notes:

    Also called Sibyl de Tingry.

    Children:
    1. 24. Guillaume de Fiennes died before Jul 1240.

  18. 50.  Aubrey II de Dammartin was born about 1130 (son of Alberic I and Maud); died on 19 Sep 1200 in London, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 20 Sep 1200

    Notes:

    Count of Dammartin-en-Goële. Chamberlain of France 1155-1160.

    Also called Alberic II; Albri de Luzarches.

    Aubrey married Mahaut of Clermont. Mahaut (daughter of Renaud II de Clermont and Clemence de Bar-le-Duc) died in Oct 1200. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  19. 51.  Mahaut of Clermont (daughter of Renaud II de Clermont and Clemence de Bar-le-Duc); died in Oct 1200.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Aft Sep 1200
    • Alternate death: Aft 1218

    Notes:

    Also Mathilda; Mathilde; Marie; Maud; Mabile.

    Children:
    1. Juliane de Dammartin died in 1238.
    2. Simon II de Dammartin died on 21 Sep 1239; was buried in Abbey de Valloires, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France.
    3. 25. Agnès de Dammartin died after 1244.

  20. 52.  Roger

    Notes:

    Lord of Condé. Mentioned 1181.

    Roger married Alix de Mons. Alix (daughter of Gossuin III de Mons and Béatrix de Rumigny) died before 1207. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  21. 53.  Alix de Mons (daughter of Gossuin III de Mons and Béatrix de Rumigny); died before 1207.
    Children:
    1. 26. Nicholas de Condé died after 1219.

  22. 54.  Arnoud de Morialmé

    Notes:

    Or Arnoul. Seigneur of Beloeil and Morialmé.

    Arnoud married Jeanne de Bailleul. Jeanne died in 1234. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  23. 55.  Jeanne de Bailleul died in 1234.
    Children:
    1. 27. Élizabeth de Morialmé died after Dec 1256.

  24. 56.  Erard II de Brienne (son of Gautier II of Brienne and Adelais of Baudemont); died in 1191.

    Notes:

    Count of Brienne. He was a French general in the Third Crusade, most notably at the siege of Acre.

    Erard married Agnès. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  25. 57.  Agnès

    Notes:

    "[Jean de Brienne's] mother's name was Agnès, but she may have been a second wife of his father after the death of the first - who was from the Montfaucon family, but not definitely named Agnès. The mother of Jean may have been a daughter of Guillaume III, count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre by Ida of Sponheim." [Peter Stewart, SGM, 10 June 2020]

    Children:
    1. Gauthier III de Brienne was born about 1165; died in Jun 1205 in Sarno, Campania, Italy; was buried in Church of St. Maria della Foce, Sarno, Campania, Italy.
    2. 28. Jeane de Brienne, King of Jerusalem; Latin Emperor of Constantinople was born about 1175; died on 23 Mar 1237 in Constantinople.

  26. 58.  Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia was born on 15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, León, Spain (son of Fernando II, King of Leon, Galicia, and Extremadura and Urraca of Portugal); died on 24 Sep 1230 in Villanueva de Sarria, Spain; was buried in Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 1166

    Notes:

    Called "el Baboso," "the Slobberer," supposedly because he was subject to fits of rage during which he foamed at the mouth. Despite this, he is also notable for having founded the University of Salamanca and for convening what was arguably the first parliament in Western Europe that included representatives of the urban bourgeoisie. Our theory is that he was a marooned time-traveler from the future: if you found yourself stuck in twelfth-century Spain, you'd foam at the mouth once in a while too.

    From Wikipedia:

    In spite of the democratic precedent represented by the Cortes and the founding of the University of Salamanca, Alfonso is often chiefly remembered for the difficulties his successive marriages caused between him with Pope Celestine III. He was first married in 1191 to his first cousin, Theresa of Portugal, who bore him two daughters, and a son who died young. The marriage was declared null by the papal legate Cardinal Gregory for consanguinity.

    After Alfonso VIII of Castile was defeated at the Battle of Alarcos, Alfonso IX invaded Castile with the aid of Muslim troops. He was summarily excommunicated by Pope Celestine III. In 1197, Alfonso IX married his first cousin once removed, Berengaria of Castile, to cement peace between León and Castile. For this second act of consanguinity, the king and the kingdom were placed under interdict by representatives of the Pope. In 1198, Pope Innocent III declared Alfonso and Berengaria's marriage invalid, but they stayed together until 1204. The annulment of this marriage by the pope drove the younger Alfonso to again attack his cousin in 1204, but treaties made in 1205, 1207, and 1209 each forced him to concede further territories and rights. The treaty in 1207 is the first existing public document in the Castilian dialect.

    The Pope was, however, compelled to modify his measures by the threat that, if the people could not obtain the services of religion, they would not support the clergy, and that heresy would spread. The king was left under interdict personally, but to that he showed himself indifferent, and he had the support of his clergy. Berengaria left him after the birth of five children, and the king then returned to Theresa, to whose daughters he left his kingdom in his will.

    Alfonso married Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo before 17 Dec 1197 in Valladolid, Castile, Spain. Berenguela (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England) was born about 1180; died on 8 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile, Spain; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  27. 59.  Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo was born about 1180 (daughter of Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura and Eleanor of England); died on 8 Nov 1246 in Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile, Spain; was buried in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1179-1180
    • Alternate birth: Between Jan 1180 and Jun 1180
    • Alternate birth: Bef Aug 1180, Burgos, Castile, Spain
    • Alternate death: 8 Nov 1244

    Notes:

    Also called Berengaria.

    "The couple separated due to consanguinity in 1204, after which she returned to her father's dominions, where she became regent for her younger brother, Enrique I, King of Castile. She abdicated the throne of Castile 31 Aug 1217, in favor of her son, Fernando." [Royal Ancestry]

    "Starting in 1198, Pope Innocent III objected to the marriage on the grounds of consanguinity, though the couple stayed together until 1204. They vehemently sought a dispensation in order to stay together, including offering large sums of money. However, the pope denied their request, although they succeeded in having their children considered legitimate. Her marriage dissolved, Berengaria returned to Castile and to her parents in May 1204, where she dedicated herself to the care of her children." [Wikipedia]

    Notes:

    Annulled by Pope Innocent III on grounds of consanguinity.

    Children:
    1. 29. Bérenguère of Castile-León was born about 1199; died on 12 Apr 1237 in Constantinople.
    2. St. Fernando III, King Of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, and Seville was born between Jun 1201 and Jul 1201 in En route between Salamanca and Zamora; was christened before 5 Aug 1201; died on 30 May 1252 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain; was buried in Cathedral Santa María, Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
    3. Alfonso was born between 1203 and 1204; died on 6 Jan 1272 in Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.

  28. 60.  Geoffroi V de Châteaudun (son of Hugues V de Châteaudun and Jeanne de Preuilly); died after Nov 1218.

    Notes:

    Viscount of Châteaudun.

    Geoffroi married Adèle de Donzy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  29. 61.  Adèle de Donzy (daughter of Hervé III de Donzy and Mathilde Gouët).

    Notes:

    Lady of Coulanges. Mentioned 1202.

    Children:
    1. 30. Geoffroi VI de Châteaudun was born in 1218; died on 6 Feb 1250.

  30. 62.  Guillaume des Roches was born between 1155 and 1160 (son of Baudouin des Roches and Alix); died on 15 Jul 1222.

    Notes:

    Seigneur of Château-de-Loir. Senescal of Anjou.

    Guillaume married Marguerite de Sablé about 1190. Marguerite (daughter of Robert IV de Sablé and Clémence de Mayenne) died after 20 Jul 1238. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  31. 63.  Marguerite de Sablé (daughter of Robert IV de Sablé and Clémence de Mayenne); died after 20 Jul 1238.
    Children:
    1. 31. Clémence des Roches died after Sep 1259.
    2. Jeanne des Roches died on 28 Sep 1238.