Isabel Mauduit

Family/Spouse: William de Beauchamp. William (son of Walter de Beauchamp and Joan de Mortimer) was born in 1215 in of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England; died between 7 Jan 1268 and 21 Apr 1268. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Walter de Beauchamp was born in of Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died on 16 Feb 1303 in Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, England; was buried in Grey Friars, Smithfield, London, England.
2. Sarah de Beauchamp died after Jul 1317.
3. John de Beauchamp was born in of Holt, Worcestershire, England; died after 1315.
4. Margaret de Beauchamp died after 1283.
5. William de Beauchamp was born in 1237 in of Elmley, Worcestershire, England; died in 1296; was buried on 22 Jun 1298 in Friars Minor, Worcester, Worcestershire, England.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1196, of Hanslope and Hawridge, Buckinghamshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 15 Feb 1257
• Alternate death: Apr 1257
• Alternate death: 12 Apr 1257

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Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer. Joined the barons against King John, causing his castle at Hanslope to be taken and destroyed. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln in 1217. He fought in France in 1242.

William married Alice de Beaumont before 3 Mar 1216. Alice (daughter of Waleran de Beaumont and Alice de Harcourt) was born about 1197 in of Warwick, Warwickshire, England; died between 1246 and 1263. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1263

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Also called Alice of Warwick; Alice de Newburgh.

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• Alternate death: Bef 22 Jun 1222, of Hartley, Buckinghamshire, England

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Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer. Joined the barons against John in 1215, but made his piece with Henry III in 1217.

Robert married Isabel Basset before 1194. Isabel (daughter of Thurstan Basset) was born in of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England; died between 24 Oct 1225 and 11 Dec 1225. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 11 Dec 1225

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• Alternate death: 24 Dec 1203
• Alternate death: Bef 13 Oct 1204
• Alternate death: 12 Dec 1204

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Earl of Warwick. Also called Waleran de Warwick; Waleran de Newburgh.

Waleran married Alice de Harcourt about 1196. Alice (daughter of Robert de Harcourt and Isabel de Camville) died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1208
• Alternate death: Aft Aug 1212
• Alternate death: Aft Sep 1212

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• Alternate death: Aft 1197

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Hereditary Chamberlain of the Exchequer.

William married Isabel de Senlis. Isabel (daughter of Simon II de Senlis and Isabel of Leicester) died after 1210. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Isabel de St. Liz.

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Also called Roger de Warwick; Roger de Newburgh. Earl of Warwick. Crusader.

Roger married Gundred de Warenne before 1130. Gundred (daughter of William II de Warenne and Isabel de Vermandois) died after 1156. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1165
• Alternate death: Aft 1166
• Alternate death: Aft 1167

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• Alternate birth: of Stanton-Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Bosworth, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 1206

Notes:

Sheriff of Leicestershire and Warwickshire 1198-1202. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and other sources notwithstanding, his parentage is not known; specifically, he is not proven as a son of Ivo de Harcourt.

Robert married Isabel de Camville. Isabel (daughter of Richard de Camville and Milicent of Réthel) died after 1207. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Chamberlain to Henry II. Justice in the Curia Regia; baron of the Exchequer.

William married Alice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adelicia.

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Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

His career was complicated by rivalry with the Scottish royal house over the honour of Huntingdon, the inheritance of his mother, Maud. He was a minor when his father died between 1111 and 1113, and custody of the estate, with the rank of earl, passed to Maud's second husband, David, future king of Scots. Following Maud's death in 1131, by which date Senlis had reached his majority, King David remained in control, despite Senlis's demands for justice. King Stephen then recognized Henry, son of David and Maud, as earl of Huntingdon in 1136 and again in 1139; and although Senlis had probably held the honour and earldom during Henry's temporary forfeiture (January 1138 – April 1139), it was only on the final collapse of Stephen's Scottish diplomacy in the summer of 1141 that his claims were fully realized. His comital standing remains a source of much confusion. The argument that in 1136 Northampton was 'detached from the earldom of Huntingdon and made a separate earldom for Simon' is difficult to accept. (Some modern authorities have even seen him as an earl of Northumberland — he was never such.) His earliest known appearance as earl of Northampton occurs in 1138 or early in 1139; and the evidence suggests that 'Northampton' and 'Huntingdon' were alternative names for the same earldom, which normally, though not invariably, also embraced Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. One of Stephen's foremost adherents, Senlis fought at the battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141, and was a commander of the victorious royalist army at Winchester the following September. His comital authority extended over Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire, and within the first two shires he exercised regalian rights and assumed full responsibility for county government, clearly at Stephen's bidding. Jocelin of Furness's life of Abbot Waldef of Melrose, Senlis's younger brother, contains important information on his career and character. Henry of Huntingdon believed that he and Eustace, Stephen's eldest son, were the most uncompromising opponents of Henry Plantagenet in 1153, and that peace was possible only because of their sudden deaths. He was a major benefactor of numerous religious institutions, and founded a Cistercian abbey at Sawtry in 1146–7, as well as a Cluniac nunnery, Delapré Abbey. He married Isabella, or Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, earl of Leicester, and was Leicester's named ally in his famous treaty with the earl of Chester c. 1150. He and his wife, who as a widow married Gervase Paynel (d. 1194) of Dudley, had a son and at least one daughter: Simon (III) de Senlis (d. 1184), the last Senlis holder of the earldoms of Northampton and of Huntingdon, and Isabel, who married William Mauduit (d. 1194) of Hanslope. Simon (II) de Senlis died in August 1153 in Northampton and was buried in St Andrew's Priory, Northampton.

Simon married Isabel of Leicester before 1138. Isabel (daughter of Robert of Meulan and Amice de Gael) died after 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Isabel de Beaumont; Elizabeth.

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• Alternate death: 20 Jun 1123

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Earl of Warwick. Also called Henry de Newburgh.

Henry married Margaret du Perche before 1100. Margaret (daughter of Geoffrey II du Perche and Beatrix de Montdidier) was born in of Perche, Orne, France; died after 1155. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Surrey; usually styled Earl of Warenne. Advisor to King John at Runnymede.

William married Isabel de Vermandois after 5 Jun 1118. Isabel (daughter of Hugues le Grand and Adèle de Vermandois) died before Jun 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Jul 1147

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Countess of Leicester. Also called Elizabeth de Vermandois.

Royal Ancestry says she was living c. 1138 and that she died "13 (or 17) February, sometime before June 1147, when her son, William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey, left on crusade." Several sources say she died in the priory of Lewes, Sussex.

Via her two husbands and thirteen children, descent from her is so common among modern people with traceable medieval ancestry that Douglas Richardson once jokingly asserted the existence of an exclusive lineage organization called the Society of Non-Descendants of Isabel de Vermandois. Of the 19 root people in this database with demonstrable descent from any monarch, only three would be eligible for membership in such a group.

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• Alternate birth: of Godington, Oxfordshire, England
• Alternate birth: of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, England

Notes:

He was sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire in 1154, and constable of Lincoln Castle. He founded the Cistercian monastery at Combe, Warwickshire in 1150, and was a witness, in 1153, to the agreement between Stephen and the future Henry II at Wallingford. He died while accompanying the king's daughter, Joan, on her journey to Palermo to be married to King William II of Sicily.

Richard married Milicent of Réthel after 1143. Milicent (daughter of Gervase de Réthel, Archdeacon of Reims and Elizabeth of Namur) was born between 1105 and 1115. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1110
• Alternate birth: Aft 1115

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• Alternate death: Abt 1158
• Alternate death: Abt 1160

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Like his brother Robert, he was a chamberlain to Henry I.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

On [William Mauduit's] father's death, c.1100, Robert Mauduit, who seems to have been the elder son, succeeded to the family chamberlainship. He was drowned in the wreck of the White Ship in November 1120, and his chamberlainship and his daughter Constance were purchased by William de Pont de l'Arche, a senior financial officer. However William Mauduit acquired his father's Norman estates and some of his English lands; this inheritance included the reversion of Hawise's dower. A new chamberlainship was created for him, c.1131, and he was among the officials listed in the Constitutio domus regis, composed c.1136.

In the early 1130s Matilda, the daughter of a former royal official, Michael of Hanslope, was granted to William Mauduit in marriage, together with her father's barony of Hanslope (Buckinghamshire). Mauduit supported the Angevin cause in 1141 and 1153, which resulted in his acquiring Michael's soke of Barrowden (Rutland), and other lands. He also followed Michael in obtaining freedom from tolls on his goods in transit, in winning pasturage rights in the royal forests, and in becoming castellan of Rockingham Castle, from which he harried the lands of Peterborough Abbey during the Angevin campaign of 1153. From Henry II he obtained some legal privileges and a confirmation of his father's chamberlainship, cutting out Robert de Pont de l'Arche, the son of Constance Mauduit and her husband. He also obtained a confirmation of his own, newer, chamberlainship. The Mauduit family's hereditary tenure of the chamberlainship perhaps inspired the appearance of the character Malduit the Chamberlain in The Song of Roland, and Malduit the Wise in Erec et Enide. William Mauduit had six children: William, who succeeded to his lands and principal chamberlainship; John, a minor royal official; Robert, who acquired the lesser chamberlainship and, by royal grant, Warminster; and three daughters: Matilda, Sibil, and Alice, who all married members of the local gentry.

William married Maud de Hanslope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1113, La Charite-sur-Loire, Nievre, France

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Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, jure uxoris. "Went to Jerusalem cruce signatus, and returned safely, but, setting out again, d. at the Abbey of La Cherité-sur-Loire, in France, circa 1111." [The Wallop Family, citation details below.]

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Senlis, Simon (I) de [Simon de St Liz], earl of Northampton and earl of Huntingdon (d. 1111x13), magnate, was the third son of Landri de Senlis, lord of Chantilly and Ermenonville, and a lady Ermengarde. The derivation St Liz (de sancto Licio) appears to be an attempted etymology for Senlis (Silva necta). His elder brother Guy de Senlis (d. 1124), a generous benefactor to Notre Dame de Senlis and St Martin des Champs, inherited the patrimony, his sons becoming prominent supporters of the Capetian kings, with three in succession holding the title of grand butler of France. Another brother, Hubert, became a canon of Notre Dame, Paris. Both the foundation charter of Sawtry Abbey, founded by his son Simon (II) de Senlis (d. 1153), and the late register of St Andrew's Priory, Northampton, believed Simon (I) to have come to England in 1066 and to have been patronized by William I; but his absence from Domesday Book (1086) suggests that his arrival, or at least his endowment, took place under William Rufus. [...]

According to the De comitissa, Simon de Senlis made a successful pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This was almost certainly after the first crusade, for Suger notes that Simon was captured during William Rufus's Vexin campaign of 1098 against the Capetian heir-apparent, Louis, and subsequently ransomed. Earl Simon witnessed Henry I's charter of liberties issued at his coronation on 5 August 1100 and may have accompanied Henry on his campaign against Robert de Bellême's castle at Tickhill in 1102. He attests royal charters in England from 1100 to 1103, in 1106 and 1107, and in 1109 and 1110.

At Northampton Earl Simon probably constructed the first castle and walled the considerable settlement that had expanded beyond the earlier defences. Although the earliest surviving fabric of the round church of the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton dates to the second quarter of the twelfth century, it is possible that its foundation was inspired by Simon's pilgrimage. Here he also founded the church of All Saints and the Cluniac priory of St Andrew (between 1093 and 1100) as a dependency of La Charité-sur-Loire. When Hugh of Leicester, steward of Countess Maud, established monks of La Charité at Preston Capes (c. 1090) in emulation of his lord, Earl Simon granted them the endowments of the secular college at Daventry to which they subsequently moved (between 1107 and 1108). The earl also made grants to Lincoln Cathedral.

Simon de Senlis embarked on a second journey east, but died at La Charité, 'the eldest daughter of Cluny', and was buried there in the great new priory church. It is possible that his body was subsequently moved to the priory of St Neots, which he had patronized. The date of his death is uncertain. He attests a grant of Henry I to Bath Abbey on 8 August 1111 at Bishop's Waltham, as the king was crossing to Normandy, and this may mark the earl's own outward voyage. By midsummer 1113, however, David of Scotland was recognized as earl of Huntingdon, marrying Simon's widow, Maud, although the earldom of Northampton reverted to the crown.

Simon married Maud of Northumberland before 1091. Maud (daughter of Waltheof and Judith of Lens) was born about 1072; died between 1130 and 1131; was buried in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1130
• Alternate death: 1131
• Alternate death: Bef 1132

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Also called Maud of Huntingdon.

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Earl of Leicester. Also called, but only by later historians and genealogists, Robert de Beaumont.

Twin brother of Waleran, Count of Muelan, 1st Earl of Worcester. After their father's death, the two brothers were raised together in the royal household. Much detail on his career here.

Justiciar of England, 1155-1168.

Robert married Amice de Gael after Nov 1120. Amice (daughter of Ralph II de Gael) died in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Amice de Montfort.

She died as a nun in Nuneaton Priory. Complete Peerage says she died after 1168. Royal Ancestry says she died on a 31 August, year uncertain.

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• Alternate death: 29 Nov 1094

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Slew Roger de Tosny during the civil wars in the early part of Duke William's reign. Not at Hastings, but he is said to have furnished ships for the crossing. Remained in Normandy as the principal adviser of the Duchess Maud. Died as a monk.

Roger married Adeline de Meulan. Adeline (daughter of Waleran III and Oda) died on 8 Apr 1081; was buried in Abbey of Bec, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Was Adeline/Adelinde (wife of Roger de Beaumont who died 1094) a daughter of Oda, wife of Waleran? Peter Stewart's answer on 9 Dec 2016:

This is not known as a certainty from direct evidence, but seems most likely.

Oda had five children by the time her husband Waleran of Meulan tried to have their marriage annulled, and she had died by the time he occurs with a second wife in 1033.

Adela (or Adelina) was evidently the eldest daughter of Waleran, as her son Robert (born ca 1046) inherited Meulan. She was described a sister of Hugo, Waleran's heir, who was named as his son in the 1033 charter before the second wife. As far as we know Waleran had only two sons by his second wife.

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Count of Mortagne & Perche.

Ancestral Roots (8th ed.) seems a bit wobbly on his death date. At 113A:25 it's "Oct 1100"; at 151:23 it's just "1100", but at 153A:24 we see Mathilde du Perche as his daughter and yet born "1105."

Geoffrey married Beatrix de Montdidier. Beatrix (daughter of Hildouin IV de Montdidier and Adele de Roucy) died after 1129. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Beatrice de Ramerupt; de Roucy.

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• Alternate death: 1089

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1st Earl of Surrey. One of the Conqueror's fifteen proven companions. Died from wounds sustained at the siege of Pevensey.

William married Gundred of Flanders before 1070. Gundred was born in Flanders; died on 27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Surrey. Also called Gundreda de Gand; Gundrada.

"Possibly da. of Gerbod, hereditary advocate of the abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer." [Complete Peerage]

"[She] was called 'daughter of the Conqueror,' although no evidence was advanced." [Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., "Royal Bye-Blows: The Illegitimate Children of the English Kings from William I to Edward III", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 119:94, 1965]

From Wikipedia:

Gundred or Gundreda (Latin: Gundrada) (died 27 May 1085) was the Flemish-born wife of an early Norman baron, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. She and her husband established Lewes Priory in Sussex.

Gundred was almost certainly born in Flanders, and was a sister of Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester. She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis, as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey. She was also sister of Frederick of Oosterzele-Scheldewindeke, who was killed c. 1070 by Hereward the Wake. Legends based in part on late Lewes priory cartulary suggested Gundred was a daughter of William the Conqueror by his spouse Matilda of Flanders, but this is not accepted by most modern historians. The early-19th-century writer Thomas Stapleton had argued she was a daughter of Matilda, born prior to her marriage to Duke William. This sparked a debate consisting of a series of published papers culminating with those of Edmond Chester Waters and Edward Augustus Freeman who argued the theories could not be supported. Regardless, some genealogical and historical sources continue to make the assertion that she was the Conqueror's daughter.

Gundred married before 1070 William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (d. 20 June 1088), who rebuilt Lewes Castle, making it his chief residence. Sometime between 1078 and 1082, Gundrada and her husband set out for Rome visiting monasteries along the way. In Burgundy they were unable to go any further due to a war between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. They visited Cluny Abbey and were impressed with the monks and their dedication. William and Gundred decided to found a Cluniac priory on their own lands in England. They sent to Hugh the abbot of Cluny for monks to come to England at their monastery. Hugh was reluctant yet eventually sent several monks including Lazlo who became the first abbot. The house they founded was Lewes Priory, dedicated to St. Pancras. Gundred died in childbirth 27 May 1085 at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates, and was buried at the Chapter house of Lewes Priory. He was later buried beside her.

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• Alternate death: 18 Oct 1102, Tarsus, Cilicia

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Count of Crépy. Count of Vermandois and Valois. Duke of France.

Also called Hugh "Magnus".

The place where he died, in what is now south-central Turkey, is the same Tarsus as in "Saul of Tarsus," before he turned into St. Paul.

Post to SGM by Nathaniel Lane Taylor, 22 Jan 2004, about the battle in which Hugues died:

[I]t was I who first first posted the death date & circumstances on Hugh of Vermandois when I started this whole messy thread. But the 1101 date is clearly correct, because Hugh died of wounds after the battle in which a Crusader force was annihilated at Heraklea (Asia Minor) in late September of 1101. There is no mistaking the year, in the chronology of the first Crusade's aftermath. Runciman (2:28-29) does not provide a precise date for that battle, but it was one of three major failures of Western forces the Summer and Fall of 1101. See generally his History of the Crusades, vol. 2, chapter 2, "The Crusades of 1101." On the battle at Heraklea, he says:

"Early in September they [see below] entered Heraclea, which they found deserted as Konya had been. Just beyond the town flowed the river, one of the few Anatolian streams to flow abundantly throughout the summer. The Christian warriors, half-mad from thirst, broke their ranks to rush to the welcoming water. But the Turkish army lay concealed in the thickets on the river banks. As the crusaders surged on in disorder, the Turks sprang out on them and surrounded them. There was no time to reform ranks. Panic spread through the Christian army. Horsemen and infantry were mixed in a dreadful stampede; and as they stumbled in their attempt to flee they were slaughtered by the enemy. The duke of Aquitaine, followed by one of his grooms, cut his way out and rode into the mountains. After many days of wandering through the passes he found his way to Tarsus. Hugh of Vermandois was badly wounded in the battle; but some of his men rescued him and he too reached Tarsus. But he was a dying man. His death took place on 18 October and they buried him there in the Cathedral of St Paul. He never fulfilled his vow to go to Jerusalem. Welf of Bavaria only escaped by throwing away all his armor. After several weeks he arrived with two or three attendants at Antioch. Archbishop Thiemo [of Salzburg] was taken prisoner and martyred for his faith. The fate of the Margravine of Austria is unknown. Later legends said that she ended her days a captive in a far-off harem, where she gave birth to the Moslem hero Zengi. More probably she was thrown from her litter in the panic and trampled to death."

Runciman cites Albert of Aachen, 8.34-40 (pp. 579-82 in the edition he cites); and Ekkehard, 24-26 (pp. 30-32), among other material on the legend of the the Margravine of Austria, etc.

It is PNH's contention that this Hugh le Grand is the exact bellybutton of the Middle Ages. His father was a king of France; his mother was one of the daughters of Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev; and his daughter Isabel married, as her first husband, one of the Conqueror's proven companions at Hastings. Another daughter, Agnes, married a marcher lord of northern Italy. Through his mother he was also descended from three canonized Kievan saints and two kings of Sweden. He married the last member of the Carolingian dynasty. He died on Crusade. He was called Hugues le Grand. Case closed.

Hugues married Adèle de Vermandois about 1080. Adèle (daughter of Herbert IV and Adela of Vexin) died in 1120; was buried on 28 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Aisne, Picardy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 1120 and 1124

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Countess of Vermandois. Last member of the Carolingian dynasty.

According to Royal Ancestry, she died "28 September, between 1120 and 1124."

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

Notes:

John P. Ravilious quotes from Keats-Rohan's Domesday Descendants, regarding her son Richard de Camville:

"His mother was a daughter of Alberic de Vere (cf. Rot. de Dom. 84 an note; Comp. Peer. x, App. J., n. j.), as may be inferred from the descent of his Domesday manor of Hildersham as the marriage portion of Matilda de Ros, daughter of Richard; Matilda granted land there to Clerkenwell priory, c. 1190 when her daughter Beatrice became a nun and the grant was confirmed by Alberic III de Ver (Cart. Clerkenwell, 24-26)."

"[Alberic de Ver was father] possibly also of a daughter who was mother of Richard de Camville." [K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People]

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"Resigned [as archdeacon] on the death of his father and succeeded him as count of Rethel." [Ancestral Roots]

Gervase married Elizabeth of Namur. Elizabeth (daughter of Godfrey of Namur and Sibylle de Château Porcéan) died after 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Isabell.