Ernold du Bois

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• Alternate death: 1 Apr 1277

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Also called Ernold de Boys, de Bosco, etc.

He evidently avoided the conflict between the King and Simon de Montfort by means of a long illness that prevented him taking up arms at any point in its duration.

Family/Spouse: Alice de Tubney. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Isabel du Bois died before 1280.

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• Alternate death: Aft 1260
• Alternate death: Bef 12 Apr 1277

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"Ernald de Bosco [...] took the side of the barons against King John, for which act of rebellion the sheriff of co. Northants on 15 Aug., 1216, was ordered 'to take the lands of Ernald de Bosco because he was with the king's enemies.' He speedily made his peace with the king and his lands were restored to him by royal command on 4 September in the same year. [...] On 16 Feb., 1253, Ernald was appointed justice of all the king's forests this side Trent with a salary of 100 marks yearly as long as he remained chief justice, at the same time he was appointed warden of the castle of Sauvey at a yearly rent to the exchequer of 5 marks." [George Farnham, citation details below.]

Ernald married Joan de Beauchamp before 1246. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Ernald de Bosco. VCH Northampton (volume IV, pp. 266-70) appears to omit this generation.

Ernald married (Unknown sister of Roger Basingham). (Unknown died after 1206. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Andrew married Eve de Grey before 1198. Eve (daughter of John de Grey and (Unknown) Basset) was born in of Standlake, Oxfordshire, England; died in 1242. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1242
• Alternate death: Between 1242 and 1246

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• Alternate death: Bef 6 Jul 1189

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Steward to Robert Bossu, earl of Leicester.

Ernald married Emma de Houghton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hereditary sheriff of Worcestershire, 1170-1197.

William married Bertha de Briouze. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1191

John married (Unknown) Basset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"When the Earl of Leicester lost control of Breteuil in 1141, Arnold III de Bois followed his lord across the Channel and settled permanently in England. There he was the first of several De Bois men to hold the important post of Keeper of the Royal Forest as well as the first recorded De Bois family member to serve as a Leicestershire steward, a title that became hereditary." [Kathryn A. Smith, citation details below.]

Arnold married Isabel de Watteville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Payne married Alice de Raimes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff of Worcester from 1114 until his death.

William married Avicia. Avicia died after 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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"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]

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

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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."

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Gave lands at Stanlac to the monks of Eynsham in 1150-1160.

Anschetil married Maud de Revières. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sometimes called Eva de Revières; de Redvers.

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"[S]aid to be son, but more probably grandson, of William Basset of Milton Ernest, co. Bedford in 1086." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below]

Robert married Beatrix de Harcourt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sheriff of Worcestershire from sometime in the 1110s to 1130. This Walter de Beauchamp, whose origins are unknown, inherited his father-in-law Urse d'Abetot's hereditary shrievalty and most of his lands when Roger d'Abetot, Urse's son, forfeited his lands and offices upon being exiled by Henry I, allegedly for having ordered the murder of a royal official.

Walter married Emmeline d'Abetot. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Watson, soc.genealogy.medieval, 5 June 2017:

William de Beauchamp (died 1170) confirmed Walter his father's grant of land and tithes to Worcester Cathedral priory, including a virgate of land held by Alfred, chaplain of Urse d'Abetot, his grandfather.

William's mother was a daughter of Urse d'Abetot, but I have not seen any contemporary evidence that her name was Emmeline. Dugdale identified her from a register of the dean and chapter of Worcester which is now lost.

"Willelmus de Bello campo omnibus ministris suis et ballivis de Wirecestre scira salutem, Sciatis me concessise et confirmasse donationem illam, quam pater meus Walterus fecit Priori et Monachis de Wirecestria de una virgata terrae quam Elfredus capellanus Ursonis de Abbetot avi mei tenuit. Et volo, ut teneant eam liberam et quietam de geldis et omnibus secularibus exactionibus, sicut elemosinam patris mei et matris meae. T. Isnardo, Rogero de Lenz &c." William Hale Hale, Registrum sive Liber Irrotularius et Consuetudinarius Prioratus Beatae Mariae Wigorniensis (London, 1865), 92a.

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• Alternate death: Aft 1179
• Alternate death: Abt 1192
• Alternate death: Abt 1193

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Sheriff of Hereford, 8 Apr 1173-75.

"Briouze-Saint-Gervais (formerly Braiose), arrond. of Argentan, dept. of Orne. His descendants spelt the name Brewes. In some 25 early references to this name, not in charter latin, it appears as Breouse, Breuse, or Brewys (the last of which still exists as a surname), but never as Braose, the form adopted in peerages, for which it seems doubtful if there be any good authority." [Complete Peerage I:21, note (e).]

"William de Briouze, Lord of Briouze in Normandy, and of Bramber, Sussex, s. and h. of Philip de B., of the same, by Aenor, da. and h. of Juhel son of Alvred, Lord of Barnstaple and Totnes. He m., in or before 1150, Bertha, 2nd sister and coh. of William of Hereford abovenamed, being da. of Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Gloucester. Sheriff of Hereford, Easter 1173-1175, at which earlier date probably he already possessed the Lordship of Over Gwent. He was living in 1179." [Complete Peerage I:21-22, as corrected in volume XIV.]

Chris Phillips' Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage notes that Miles was earl of Hereford, not of Gloucester.

William married Bertha of Hereford about 1150. Bertha (daughter of Miles of Gloucester and Sibyl de Neufmarché) was born in of Brecknock, Breconshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The first heir to Miles of Gloucester as was his son Roger of Hereford, king's constable, who died as a monk in 1155

His brother Walter of Hereford, king's constable, died 1157-59.

His brother Henry of Hereford, king's constable, died 1159-63, slain on an Easter eve by Seisyll ap Dyvnwal at Castle Arnold near Abergavenny.

His brother Mahel of Hereford, king's constable, died sometime after Jan 1164.

His brother William of Hereford, king's constable, died before 1166, mortally hurt by a stone dropped from Bronllys Tower, co. Brecon.

Which is how the honor of Abergavenny passed to their sister Bertha and to her husband William de Briouze.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Isleworth, Middlesex, England
• Alternate birth: of Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 1191

Bernard married Matilda. Matilda died about 1151. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 25 Dec 1109

Richard married Mabilia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Baldwin de Redvers. Earl of Devon. "He was one of the first to rebel against King Stephen, and was the only first rank magnate never to accept the new king. He seized Exeter, and was a pirate out of Carisbrooke, but he was driven out of England to Anjou, where he joined the Empress Matilda. She made him Earl of Devon after she established herself in England, probably in early 1141." [Wikipedia]

Founded Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, and the priory of St. James at Exeter.

Baldwin married Adelise. Adelise was buried in Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives this Adelise a death date of 1146, and says that "between 1151 and 1155 Baldwin married as his second wife, Lucy, the widow of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Hertford." But Complete Peerage IV:312, footnote (c), says "The pedigree of the Earls of Devon in the Cartulary of Twynham makes the certainly erroneous statement that Earl Baldwin was father of Earl Richard, of William de Vernon [shown here as William de Revières], of Henry, and of Hawise de Reviers, 'ex Lucia Comitissa uxore sua.'" In other words, the ODNB biographer is clearly assuming that the Twynham cartulary pedigree is correct, and has derived a death date of 1146 for Adelise based on the known birth years of children that the pedigree mistakenly assigns to a nonexistent marriage of Baldwin to Lucy de Clare.

Anschetil married Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]