Robert Mauduit

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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]

1. William Mauduit was born before 1194 in of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, England; died before 14 Feb 1257.

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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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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: 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]

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• 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.