Roese Trussebut

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1152
• Alternate death: Aft 1185
• Alternate death: Bef 29 Sep 1196

Notes:

Also called Roese de Warter. Henry James Young in George Eldridge (citation details below) calls her "coheir & in her issue sole heir of her brother Robert; lady of Ribston, Hunsingore & Walleford".

Young also has her as a daughter of "Robert Trussebut or Trusbut, his brother Geoffrey's heir", this Robert himself a son of William (d. ~1175) and Albreda (d. >1200) Trussebut. Every other source we've seen has her as a daughter, not a granddaughter, of William and Albreda.

Family/Spouse: Everard de Ros. Everard (son of Robert de Ros and Sybil de Valognes) was born before 1146 in of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England; died before 29 Sep 1183. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert de Ros was born between 1170 and 1172 in Helmsley, Yorkshire, England; died before 23 Dec 1226; was buried in Temple Church, London, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1175
• Alternate death: Bef 1180

William married Albreda. Albreda was born about 1135; died in 1205. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1200

Notes:

Also called Audrey, etc. VCH Warwickshire ("Parishes: Morton Morrell", pp. 118-122) says her mother was "daughter and coheir of Robert Peverel," but this is sourced only to Dugdale.

Ray Phair, post to soc.genealogy.medieval, 7 Jun 2002:

Cris Nash and earlier Dick Ledyard asked who was the father of Aubreye (Albreda) de Harcourt (d. 1205), wife of William Trussebut?

There are at least three versions:

A) Bridges claimed her father was Aubrey ('Albricius') de Harcourt [1], without providing any evidence. So far, no record of his existence has been found. Clay accepted this version, rather than the next one, because it was presented earlier [2].

B) Baker (according to Clay) and Eyton said her father was Rollo de Harcourt, without providing any evidence [2,3]. So far, no record of his existence has been found. Farrer and Sanders accepted this version; Clay dismissed it as without proof [4,2].

C) Crouch, in a very brief note, proposed that her father was Ivo de Harcourt, a younger son of Robert fitz Anschetil, lord of Harcourt [5]. Ivo, who appeared possibly as early as c.1140, was alive in 1166, but may have died later that year [5,6].

By two charters Aubreye gave land in "Brandestona" to Nuneaton priory, Warwickshire [2]. Clay has identified this location as Braunston, Northamptonshire, where Aubreye and her descendants are known to have held land; Round had earlier implied this was the location of her gift [2,7]. Crouch, on the other hand, thought it was Braunstone, Leicestershire; although based on more tentative evidence, it does provides a link to the family of Ivo de Harcourt. A descendant of Ivo's heir did later hold land there [8], but Crouch's version needs further study.

[1] J. Bridges, "The history and antiquities of Northamptonshire", 1791, 1:26-7.

[2] "Early Yorkshire charters", 10:8-11, 15-6, & nos. 7-9, 12, 1955, ed. C.T. Clay.

[3] Clay said this appeared in G. Baker, "The history and antiquities of the county of Northampton", 1822-41, 1:268-9, which, unfortunately, is missing from the library. R.W. Eyton, "Antiquities of Shropshire", 9:67-9,75 (1859); he may have been familiar with Baker's work.

[4] W. Farrer, "Feudal Cambridgeshire", 1920, pp.160-3; I.J. Sanders, "English baronies", 1960, p.19.

[5] D. Crouch, "The Beaumont twins", 1986, pp. 123-7, 220-1, 237.

[6] "The red book of exchequer", 3v, ed. H. Hall, 1896, 1:325,337; Pipe Roll Society publications [PRS] 9:68 (1888), 12:167 (1890); "Sir Christopher Hatton's book of seals", ed. L.C. Loyd and D.M. Stenton, 1950, pp.31-2.

[7] PRS 35:27-8 (1913), ed. J.H. Round; "Rotuli litterarum clausarum", ed. T.D. Hardy, 1833-44, 1:24, 34; "Rotuli de oblatis et finibus", ed. T.D. Hardy, 1835, p.288; "The book of fees", 1920-31, 2:941, 945, 1288.

[8] "Calendar of inquisitions post mortem", 1:nos.411, 776 (1904). Cf. W. Farrer, "Honors and knights fees", 2:329-334 (1924).

Notes:

"The [Trussebut] family descended from William Trussebut who, as Orderic records, was among those of ignoble parentage promoted by Henry I. He occurs in Normandy in 1126 and as castellan of Bonneville-sur-Touques in 1138. The supposition of Dugdale and others that he was son of Geoffrey son of Pain, the founder of Warter priory and holder of the manor of Market Weighton, cannot be acepted; but the succession of the Trussebut family to Market Weighton by right of succession from Geoffrey son of Pain, as recorded in a case of 1204, suggests that William Trussebut married Geoffrey's sister." [Early Yorkshire Families, citation details below.]