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Robert fitz Eustace

Male - Bef 1163


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Robert fitz Eustace died before 1163.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 1163
    • Alternate death: Bef 1178

    Notes:

    Constable of Cheshire. Complete Peerage and Wightman (citation details below) call him "Robert fitz Eustace"; Early Yorkshire Families and The Cartulary of St. Leonard's Hospital, York both call him "Richard fitz Eustace". Ormerod calls him Richard.

    Family/Spouse: Aubrey de Lisours. Aubrey (daughter of Robert de Lisours and Aubrey de Lacy) died after 1194. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. John fitz Richard  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1145 in of Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England; died in 1190 in Acre, Palestine.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John fitz Richard Descendancy chart to this point (1.Robert1) was born about 1145 in of Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England; died in 1190 in Acre, Palestine.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 1190, Tyre

    Notes:

    Constable of Chester. Died at the siege of Acre in the Third Crusade.

    Also called John de Lacy; John fitz Eustace. Richardson calls him only "John."

    Family/Spouse: Alice fitz Roger. Alice (daughter of Roger fitz Richard and Alice de Vere) died after 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Joan of Chester  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 4. Roger de Lacy  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1165 in of Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England; died on 1 Oct 1211; was buried in Stanlaw Abbey, Wirrall, Cheshire, England.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Joan of Chester Descendancy chart to this point (2.John2, 1.Robert1)

    Notes:

    Also called Joan de Lacy, Joan le Grammaire.

    Family/Spouse: Peter de Brus. Peter (son of Adam II de Brus and Juetta de Arches) was born in of Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died in 1222. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Peter de Brus  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 1201 in of Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died before 15 Nov 1240.

  2. 4.  Roger de Lacy Descendancy chart to this point (2.John2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1165 in of Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England; died on 1 Oct 1211; was buried in Stanlaw Abbey, Wirrall, Cheshire, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Jan 1212

    Notes:

    Also called Roger of Chester, Roger Helle, Roger de Lisours.

    Hereditary Constable of Cheshire; Sheriff of Lancashire. Sheriff of York and Chester, 1204-10. Was at the storming of Acre, 1191. "His raids against the Welsh are said to have earned him the nickname 'Roger of Hell.'" [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

    Family/Spouse: Maud de Clare. Maud (daughter of Richard de Clare and Amice of Gloucester) died in 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. (Unknown daughter of Roger de Lacy)  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 7. John de Lacy  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1192 in of Pontefract, Yorkshire, England; died on 22 Jul 1240; was buried in Stanlaw Abbey, Wirrall, Cheshire, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 5.  Peter de Brus Descendancy chart to this point (3.Joan3, 2.John2, 1.Robert1) was born before 1201 in of Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died before 15 Nov 1240.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: Bef 1247

    Notes:

    Richardson, Royal Ancestry, has this Peter (Piers) de Brus dying "7 Sept., before 1247, probably in 1240." He mentions nothing about him being a "Crusader."

    The Wallop Family says he died at Marseilles, 1247.

    Ancestral Roots, 8th ed. (2004) is very confused about this individual, varying his parentage and at least once conflating him with his father:

    Ancestral Roots, 88-28:
    28. HAWISE (or HELWISE) DE LANCASTER, m. PIERS (PETER) DE BRUS (136-26), d. bef. 1247, Crusader, Lord of Skelton, son of Piers de Brus and Joan le Grammaire. (CP V: 269; VCH Lanc. I: 357-366.)

    Ancestral Roots, 136-25 and 136-26:
    25. AGNES, m. (1) William de Roumare, d. 1151; m. (2) Piers (Peter) I de Brus, Lord of Skelton, d. Feb 1218/9, son of Adam de Brus, by Joan le Grammaire, dau. Richard le Grammaire of Knottington, co. York. (West Winter XIII.84; ES II/46; CP V: 269, VII 373.)
    26. PIERS (PETER) DE BRUS, d. bef. 1222, bur. Guisborough, Lord of Skelton, co. York, Crusader; m. abt. 1210/15, HAWISE (or HELWISE) DE LANCASTER (88-28). (CP V: 267; West Winter, XIV.145; VCH Lanc. I: 357-366; Bank I: 431-432; Farrar, EYC II:15, III: 87.)

    Ancestral Roots, 184B-8:
    8. SIR WALTER DE FAUCONBERGE, 1st Lord Fauconberge, lord of Rise & Withernwick in Holderness, d. 1/2 Nov 1304; m. by Nov, 1243, AGNES DE BRUS (136-27), d. abt. 1280, dau. & coh. PIERS (PETER) II DE BRUS (136-26), d. 1222, Lord of Skelton, co. York, and HAWISE (or HELEWISE) DE LANCASTER (88-28). (CP V: 267-269; Clay, 69.)

    Peter married Hawise de Lancaster before 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Lucy de Brus  Descendancy chart to this point died after 29 Mar 1282.
    2. 9. Agnes de Brus  Descendancy chart to this point died between May 1276 and May 1279; was buried in Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, England.
    3. 10. Margaret de Brus  Descendancy chart to this point died before 30 Jan 1307.
    4. 11. Ladrana de Brus  Descendancy chart to this point died before 1301.

  2. 6.  (Unknown daughter of Roger de Lacy) Descendancy chart to this point (4.Roger3, 2.John2, 1.Robert1)

    (Unknown married Alan fitz Roland between 1200 and 1205. Alan (son of Roland fitz Uchtred and Ellen de Morville) died about 2 Feb 1234; was buried in Dundrennan Abbey, Kircudbright, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Helen of Galloway  Descendancy chart to this point died after 21 Nov 1245; was buried in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England.

  3. 7.  John de Lacy Descendancy chart to this point (4.Roger3, 2.John2, 1.Robert1) was born about 1192 in of Pontefract, Yorkshire, England; died on 22 Jul 1240; was buried in Stanlaw Abbey, Wirrall, Cheshire, England.

    Notes:

    Also called John of Chester. Earl of Lincoln. Magna Carta surety.

    Hereditary Constable of Chester; Keeper of Duninton Castle 1214; Constable of Whitchurch Castle 1233; Privy Councillor 1237; Sheriff of Cheshire 1237; Constable of Chester and Beeston Castles 1237.

    "In 1218 he went on the Fifth Crusade with Earl Ranulf of Chester and was present at the siege of Damietta." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

    John married Margaret de Quincy before 21 Jun 1221. Margaret (daughter of Robert de Quincy and Hawise of Chester) was born before 1217; died before 30 Mar 1266 in Hampstead, Middlesex, England; was buried in Church of the Hospitallers, Clerkenwell, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Maud de Lacy  Descendancy chart to this point died before 10 Mar 1289.
    2. 14. Edmund de Lacy  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1230; died on 2 Jun 1258; was buried in Stanlaw Abbey, Wirrall, Cheshire, England.


 

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