Ralph le Boteler

Ralph married Maud Marmion before 12 Sep 1278. Maud (daughter of Philip Marmion and Joan de Kilpek) was born about 1262; died before 13 Aug 1295. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ralph le Boteler was born in of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, England; died before 26 Mar 1342.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Aft 1207, of Wem, Shropshire, England
• Alternate death: 3 Jul 1281

Notes:

"He adhered to Henry III against the Barons and was rewarded with a grant of the Manor of Kington, Warwickshire, belonging to Nicholas de Segrave, 30 Sept 1266. He was summoned for military service in Wales, 1277." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Ralph married Maud Pantolf before 1245. Maud (daughter of William Pantolf and Hawise Fitzwarine) was born in of Wem, Shropshire, England; died before 6 May 1289. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1291

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Joined the barons against John in 1216, but returned to fealty by 1217.

Ralph married Maud de Neufmarche. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 4 Feb 1233

Notes:

This Post-Em note on Jim Weber's site contains, after some brief snippets from various sources about William Pantulf, an interesting and well-sourced essay about William Pantulf's peculiar incompetence at being a medieval baron.

William married Hawise Fitzwarine before Jan 1226. Hawise (daughter of Fulk III Fitzwarine and Maud le Vavasour) was born in of Narborough, Blaby, Leicestershire, England; died after Jan 1233. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Robert Pincerna.

Henry married Isabel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 28 Dec 1224

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Sheriff of Shropshire 1179-89.

Hugh married Christiana Fitz Alan about 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1178, of Lambourn, Hungerford, Berkshire, England
• Alternate death: Aft Oct 1250
• Alternate death: Between 1256 and 1257
• Alternate death: 1258

Notes:

Subject of the medieval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryne, possible basis for at least part of the Robin Hood legend.

"This Fulk had been outlawed, but was pardoned, 15 Nov. 1203, his castle of Whittington being restored to him, 17 Oct. 1204." [Complete Peerage]

Ravilious has this particular Fulk dying over two decades before many other sources do; his reasoning is set forth here.

Fulk married Maud le Vavasour before 1 Oct 1207. Maud (daughter of Robert le Vavasour and (Unknown) de Birkin) died before 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Antiquities of Shropshire by the Rev. R. W. Eyton [Vol. VII, p. 73]:

Maud le Vavasour was daughter of Robert, granddaughter of William, and sister of John le Vavasour. I think her mother was a daughter of Adam fitz Peter, Lord of Birkyn; for it appears that "Robert le Vavasour gave his share (it was a fourth) of the Vill of Bolton with Matilda le Count, his daughter, in frank marriage to Theobald Walter, and that the said Matilda afterwards gave it to Roger de Burkyn, her Uncle." (Sallay Register, Dugd. MSS. D. 2.)

It is not difficult to say why Maud le Vavasour is called Matilda le Count in the above extract. The names Vavasour and Count are treated as equivalent. It is less easy to determine why the Fitz Warin Chronicle calls the same person Maude de Caus. I, however, suggest an explanation.--

The real Maud de Caus, for there was such a person living at the time of Maud le Vavasour's marriage, was probably her Grandmother. She was daughter and sole heir of that Robert de Chaus who figures in 1165 as a great Derbyshire Feudatory (Liber Niger, I. 225), and who was hereditary Warden of the Forests of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Maud de Caus was wife, first of Adam fitz Peter, Lord of Birkyn, and secondly of Ralph fitz Stephen. By her first husband she had issue John de Birkyn, who, on her death in 1224, succeeded to her great inheritance. I think that Roger de Birkyn above-mentioned, and * * * de Birkyn wife of Robert le Vavasour, were also children of Maude de Caus by her first husband.

Maud le Vavasour, thus supposed to be her Granddaughter, had two children by her first husband, Theobald Walter. These were Theobald Walter (II.) and Matilda. Matilda was entrusted by King John to the guardianship of Gilbert fitz Reinfrid; but in 1220 King Henry III. apprises William de Lancaster (Gilbert fitz Reinfrid's son), that Theobald fitz Theobald was now to have charge of his Sister (Pat. 4 Hen. III, m. 5). This Writ, coupled with another of July 1221 (Claus. I. 463), shows that in 1220-1 Theobald Walter (II.) attained his majority.

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• Alternate death: Bef 1177

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Founder of Haughmond Priory.

William married Christiana of Gloucester. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called by Eyton (citation details below) "neice of Robert the Consul."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1197

Fulk married Hawise de Dinan. Hawise (daughter of Josce de Dinan) died after 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Edlington, Yorkshire, England
• Alternate death: 1231

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

Notes:

"Robert Pantulf (fl. 1130), according to the cartulary of the nunnery of Caen, robbed the nuns of 6 pounds of silver. In the Bedfordshire pipe roll for 1130 an entry is found concerning a trial by combat between him and Hugh Malbanc, whose estates were contiguous to Robert's." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

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Sheriff of Shropshire from 1101 onwards. Founded Sporle Priory in Norfolk.

"[A] favoured supporter of Henry I, who was descended from the hereditary stewards of Dol in Brittany." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Alan married Aveline de Hesdin. Aveline (daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin and Emmeline) died after 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1171

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 29 Sep 1189 and 29 Jun 1191

Notes:

"He was a custodian of the lands of the Archbishop of York, 1183-90, a justice itinerant, 1184 and 1187-89, farmed the lands of William Paynel, 1185-88, and levied tallage, 1187-89. He was an advisor of Maud, Countess of Warwick." [Complete Peerage]

"The [Vavasour] family, of which there were several branches, descended from Malger, who at the Domesday survey held land at Hazelwood, par. Tadcaster, Edlington and elsewhere of William de Percy, and who witnessed a charter of Alan de Percy to Whitby, 1100-c. 1115. William le Vavasour, king's justice, held 2 knights' fees of the old feoffment of William de Percy II in 1166, and half a knights' fee also of the old feoffment of the honour of Skipton, the Percy lands having been considerably extended and the Skipton lands in Craven having been acquired. In a charter to Bolton priory, 1175-90, with the consent of Robert and Malger his sons, he confirmed land in Yeadon of the gift of Robert son of Malger his uncle (avunculus). It can be deduced that William was a grandson of Malger the Domeday tenant, but it is uncertain whether this was by maternal or paternal descent. The balance of evidence, including Dodsworth's statement that William's father was named Malger, suggests that Malger of the Survey had two sons Robert and Malger, William being the heir of Robert who presumably died without issue." [Early Yorkshire Families, citation details below.]

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Also called Adam fitz Peter.

Adam married Maud de Cauz. Maud (daughter of Robert de Cauz and Sybil Basset) died before 25 May 1224. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]