Ela of Salisbury

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Also called Ela fitz William. Founded the abbey at Laycock, 1238; abbess, 1240-57. Buried "in the convent choir beneath the altar." [Royal Ancestry]

Ela married William I Longespée before Sep 1197. William (son of Henry II, King of England and Ida de Tony) was born in 1170; died about 1225; was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Idonea de Longespée died after 1266.
2. Stephen Longespée was born in of King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, England; died before 25 Jun 1260; was buried in Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England.
3. Ida Longespée died after 1261.
4. William Longespée was born before 12 May 1205; died on 7 Feb 1249 in Mansourah, Egypt.

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Earl of Wiltshire, always styled Earl of Salisbury. Also called William of Salisbury.

According to CP, he may have died in Normandy.

William married Eleanor de Vitré about 1191. Eleanor (daughter of Robert III de Vitré and Emma de Dinan) died before 12 Aug 1233; was buried in Abbey of Mondaye, Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 18 Aug 1233

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1121, of Chitterne, Warminster, Wiltshire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 7 Apr 1168, Poitou-Charentes, France

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Earl of Wiltshire, usually styled Earl of Salisbury. Also called Patrick Fitz Walter.

Hereditary Sheriff of Wiltshire; Steward of the Household to Empress Maud.

"[O]f age in 1142". [Royal Ancestry]

"Slain by Poitevin nobles while riding near the castle of Lusignanin Poitou with Queen Eleanor." [Royal Ancestry]

Patrick married Ela of Ponthieu before 1153. Ela (daughter of Guillaume III Talvas and Helie of Burgundy) was born in of Alencon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 4 Oct 1174. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 10 Dec 1174
• Alternate death: 1178

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Also called Ala; Ela Talvas; Adela Talvas; Ela d'Alencon.

Robert married Emma de Dinan before 1 Apr 1161. Emma (daughter of Alan de Dinan) died on 18 Dec 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 18 Dec 1208
• Alternate death: Bef 1209

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• Alternate death: 1147, Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire, England

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Also called Walter d'Evreux; Walter Fitz Edward; Walter the Sheriff. Hereditary sheriff of Wiltshire and constable of Salisbury Castle.

He died as a canon at Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire. [Royal Ancestry]

Walter married Sybil de Chaworth. Sybil (daughter of Patrick I de Chaources and Maud de Hesdin) died before 1147 in Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire, England; was buried in Bradenstoke Priory, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Sibella de Chaources, de Chanort.

"She died before her husband and was buried near the quire in Bradenstoke. He took the habit of a canon there, died in 1147, and was buried in the same grave as his wife." [Complete Peerage]

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Count of Ponthieu and Alençon.

Guillaume married Helie of Burgundy about 1115. Helie (daughter of Odo I of Burgundy and Sibylla of Burgundy) was born about 1080 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy, France; died on 28 Feb 1142. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alice, Alix of Burgundy; Ela of Burgundy.

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He died on a 22 May, abt 1155. [Royal Ancestry]

Robert married Emma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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AR 8 calls him Oliver de Dinan, but gives him the same parents. His wife is unknown. She was not Agnoria/Gonnor of Brittany.

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• Alternate death: Aft 9 Sep 1087
• Alternate death: 1130

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Also called Edward the Sheriff. Sheriff of Wiltshire, possibly as early as Feb 1081. Tenant-in-chief of 33 English manors.

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• Alternate birth: of Sourches, Saint-Symphorien, Maine, France

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Also called Patrick de Chaworth; Patrice de Chaources; Patrick de Sourches.

Or Patrice; or de Sourches, or de Cadurcis. Notable to at least one of us as the person who (according to Complete Peerage, volume 1, appendix C, page 608) introduced the given name Patrick to England.

Patrick married Maud de Hesdin. Maud (daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin and Emmeline) died after 1133. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Sybil de Hesdin; Matilda de Hesdin.

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• Baptised: St. Martin, Sées, Orne, Normandy, France
• Alternate death: Aft 1130
• Alternate death: Bef 8 May 1131

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Earl of Shrewsbury. Count of Ponthieu. Exiled and attainted 1102. Described by the ODNB as "a brilliant military architect but sadistically cruel."

"Robert de Bellême, seigneur de Bellême (or Belèsme), seigneur de Montgomery, viscount of the Hiémois, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Count of Ponthieu, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror. He was a member of the powerful House of Bellême. Robert became notorious for his alleged cruelty. The chronicler Orderic Vitalis calls him 'Grasping and cruel, an implacable persecutor of the Church of God and the poor... unequalled for his iniquity in the whole Christian era.' The stories of his brutality may have inspired the legend of Robert the Devil." [Wikipedia]

"The chroniclers have given Robert de Bellême an appalling reputation, though his actions as a man of violence and an oppressor of the church were probably little worse than those of his contemporaries. He was faced with an enormous task in trying to hold together his family's extensive lands, which lay in very unstable regions, and it proved to be impossible without the support of an effective ruler. Although Bellême was a capable soldier and an efficient administrator, it was his misfortune that he lacked political judgement, as his support of Robert Curthose and failure to establish satisfactory relations with Henry I indicate." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Robert married Agnes de Ponthieu before 9 Sep 1087. Agnes (daughter of Guy I and Ada) died after 1100. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 1105 and 1106

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Countess of Ponthieu.

"Agnes, who was sole heir to her father's comté, was treated cruelly by her husband, who kept her shut up for a long time in his castle at Bellême. She escaped by the help of a faithful chamberlain, took refuge with Adela Countess of Blois and retired to Ponthieu; whence she never returned to her husband." [Complete Peerage]

"[D]espite the lurid story of marital collapse given in Orderic Vitalis's ecclesiastical history (Ordericus Vitalis, Eccl. hist., 4.300), there are no signs of discord between Robert and his father-in-law, Count Gui, with whom he judged a plea in the ducal court at Rouen in 1093. Robert witnessed a charter given by Gui, apparently on his deathbed, and it may be that Agnes returned to Ponthieu in the later 1090s to act on her father's behalf because of his advanced age. She probably took her son with her since he does not attest Robert's acts until 1106. Only one act of Agnes as countess of Ponthieu is known and she must have died in 1105 or 1106, when Robert ceased to use the title count of Ponthieu." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

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Date of arrangement. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the actual marriage may not have taken place until about 1092.

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Also called Eudes Borel "the Red". Duke of Burgundy.

Odo married Sibylla of Burgundy in 1080. Sibylla (daughter of William I "The Great" of Burgundy and Stephanie) was born in 1065; died in 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1103

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Also called Matilda.

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• Alternate birth: 1067

André married Agnes de Mortain. Agnes (daughter of Robert de Mortain and Maud de Montgomery) was born in of Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1127

Geoffrey married Orieldis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Hesdin, Picardy, France

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Also Ernulf, Seigneur de Hesding; Arnulf.

From the size and extent of his landholdings listed in Domesday he must have been a favorite of the Conqueror, but despite many unsourced claims little is actually known of his life. Modern interest in him appears to have developed after the 1850s, when Shropshire historian Robert William Eyton proved that he was the father of the Avelina who married Alan fitz Flaad, making Ernulf an ancestor both of the Stewart dynasty and of the FitzAlan earls of Arundel.

He was accused of supporting de Mowbray's rebellion in 1095. According to the Hyde chronicle, which claims this accusation was unjust, his representative in the ensuing trial-by-combat defeated the king's champion, but Ernulf was so disgusted by the accusation that he renounced his lands in England and left forever, enlisting in the First Crusade where (it is claimed) he died at Antioch.

He is the subject of a quite meticulous Wikipedia article which provides a painstaking account of what is known and what is only hypothesized about him.

Ernulf married Emmeline. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Shrewsbury. Also styled, variously, as Earl of Arundel, of Chichester, of Sussex, and of Shropshire. Regent in Normandy during the Conquest. A loyal servant to the dukes of Normandy, he became an important administrator in post-Conquest England and Wales, and (following the disgrace of bishop Odo) the richest of William's tenants-in-chief. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography points out that "Alone of all the Conqueror's vassals, Roger de Montgomery gave his name to a British county, appropriately in Wales." He died as a monk.

Roger married Mabel de Bellême about 1050. Mabel (daughter of William I Talvas and Hildeburg) died in Dec 1077 in Bures-sur-Dives, Normandy, France; was buried in Troarn, Calvados, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 2 Dec 1079

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Also called Mabel Talvas; Dame de Alencon, de Seez, and Belleme; Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady of Arundel.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Earl Roger's first wife, Mabel de Bellême, has been depicted unforgettably for posterity by Orderic Vitalis, though that historian never saw her. He describes her as 'a forceful and worldly woman, cunning, garrulous, and extremely cruel', 'a perfidious woman', and 'a cruel woman, who had shed the blood of many and had forcibly disinherited many lords'; and he recounts several stories to her discredit related to him by colleagues at St Evroult. Whatever allowances can be made for Mabel there must have been something particularly aggressive and brutal about her for four of her vassals to ride at night into her castle at Bures [-sur-Dives] and cut off her head as she lay in bed after a bath. Her murderer Hugh Bunel was among those whom she had disinherited and was never caught. The date of the murder must be December 1077, not 1082 as long accepted from a marginal note in the editio princeps of Orderic. There is evidence that Mabel, like a very few other baronial wives, was a tenant-in-chief in England, but no evidence that she ever visited that land or the Montgomery estates there.

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Count of Ponthieu. He is the "Wido" on the Bayeux Tapestry.

Guy married Ada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adila, Adda. She died before her husband, on a 5 March.

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Called "The Gallant" (le Damoiseau).

Henry married (Unknown wife of Henry I of Burgundy). (Unknown died after 5 Jul 1074; was buried in Besançon, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The name of Henry's wife is not known, though both Sibylla and Clémence have been suggested. Based purely on onomastics, historian Szabolcs de Vajay proposed that she was the daughter of Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona and his third wife, Guisle of Lluca. If this is true, Henry would have been married in Barcelona while on crusade." [Wikipedia]

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Count of Burgundy and, from 1078, Count of Mâcon.

Called "tête hardie", "the rash" or "the stubborn".

William married Stephanie between 1049 and 1057. Stephanie died after 1092. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Wikipedia article about William I, Count of Burgundy, asserts (as of 29 Jun 2015) two wives for him, an "Etiennette de Longuy" that he married circa 1040 and a "Stephanie" that he married before his death in 1087. The article then lists one set of children for Stephanie and another set of "children of either Stephanie or Etiennette". This appears to be confused. [Note that as of 1 May 2016, Wikipedia's article appears to have been cleaned up and corrected.]

According to Ancestral Roots, William had one wife, whom they identify as "Stephanie, parentage NN". They then note: "Prof. David H. Kelly believes her parentage unproven (2003). De Vajay, in Annales de Bourgogne vol. 32 (1960) 258-261, identifies Stephanie (Etiennette) as dau. of Clemence de Foix & Albert de Longwy, Duke of Lorraine, d. 1048. Clemence is identified as dau. of Bernard I Roger, Comte de Foix, d. 1035, & Garsinde de Bigorre; & Bernard as son of Roger I de Carcassonne & wife Adelaide. Moriarty, The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa, supplies pedigree charts for these families, but does not agree with de Vajay as to her identity. Garnier, Tableaux Généalogiques des Souverains de la France et de ses Grand Feudataires, table XXVIII, shows her as dau. of Raymond II, Count of Barcelona."

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Mentioned 1037.

Robert married Bertha de Craon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1040, of Mortain, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

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Earl of Cornwall. Count of Mortain. Also called Robert de Mortaigne.

One of the five additional persons agreed upon by both David C. Douglas and Geoffrey H. White, and recorded in Complete Peerage XII/1 appendix L, as companions of the Conqueror at Hastings, in addition to the fifteen "proven Companions".

Robert married Maud de Montgomery before 1066. Maud (daughter of Roger de Montgomery and Mabel de Bellême) died between 1082 and 1084; was buried in Grestain Abbey, Fatouville-Grestain, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 21 Sep 1082