Sybil de Mandeville

1264 - Bef 1309  (< 44 years)

• Name	Sybil de Mandeville  [1, 2]
  Birth	29 Sep 1264  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 1309  [4]
  Alternate death	Bef 23 Jan 1309  [3]
  Person ID	I1579	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2016

  
  

  Father	(Unknown) de Mandeville
  Mother	Alice Giffard
  Family ID	F771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry de Bodrugan,   b. Abt 1262   d. 1308 (Age ~ 46 years)
  Marriage	Bef 26 Oct 1288  [4, 5]
  Children	1. Joan Bodrugan,   b. Bef 1290   d. Aft 1331 (Age > 43 years)
  Family ID	F4551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  "Sybil was a lady of the Queen's chamber in the retinue of Eleanor of Castile, but whether she held this position before or after the death of her first husband is not certain. She perhaps became known to the queen as her family held one half of Eltham, while the other half was royal demesne and the site of the royal palace at Eltham. In 1270, Henry III 'kept a public Christmas at his palace of Eltham, being accompanied by the Queen, and all the great men of the realm.' Sybil is frequently found in the household records of the Queen Eleanor beginning in February 1286, though an earlier connection to the Queen may be indicated by her marriage to Peter Le Poer. [...] Sybil married Henry de Bodrugan sometime before the IPM of her brother Walter de Mandville was taken on 6 November 1288. Henry de Bodrugan was in the expedition to Gascony in 1286 with King Edward, which was also accompanied by Queen Eleanor and a large number of the royal household. It is possible that it was while traveling with the king and queen that the match with Sybil was made. Queen Eleanor was well known for matchmatching of cousins and women of the queen's household to well landed English nobles. It is also possible that the Bodrugans' strong religious connections played a roll (marrying the niece of two powerful bishops to a major benefactor of Glasney College and the brother of the archdeacon of Cornwall). The first child of Sybil and Henry was born 6 January 1290 at Bodrugan, co. Cornwall. It may be that Sybil remained in the household of Queen Eleanor for a time after her second marriage as Sybil's children were still with the queen's children in 1289-90. Eleanor died in November 1290 and her will includes a bequest 'to Sybil, wife of Henry de Boderingeham, of the marriage of John le Power, son and heir of Peter le Power, tenant in chief, her former husband.'" [Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1146] Douglas Richardson, 8 Dec 2006, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S1153] Liberties and Communities in Medieval England by Helen M. Cam. Cambridge University Press, 1944. [S797] Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S797] Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., "bef 6 Nov 1288".