(Unknown mistress or mistresses of Henry I)

Family/Spouse: Henry I, King of England. Henry (son of William I, King of England and Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England) was born in 1068; died on 1 Dec 1135 in Lyon-la-Forêt, near Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; was buried in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Maud. She was definitely a natural child of Henry I. According to some sources, her mother was Isabel de Beaumont, wife of Gilbert "Strongbow" Fitz Gilbert, Earl of Pembroke (also called Gilbert de Clare). This relationship is not confirmed in Royal Ancestry's extensive coverage of Henry I's many illegitimate offspring, although her marriage to Roscelin de Beaumont is noted.

Constance married Roscelin de Beaumont before 1130. Roscelin (son of Raoul de Beaumont and (Unknown) de Laval) died after 1145. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mabel married Guillaume III Gouët before 1125. Guillaume (son of Guillaume II Gouët and Eustachie Crespon) was born before 1080; died after 1140. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Conan III of Brittany before 1113. Conan (son of Alain Fergant and Ermengarde of Anjou) was born about 1093; died in 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Aline.

Alice married Matthieu I de Montmorency in 1126. Matthieu (son of Bouchard IV de Montmorency and Agnes de Beaumont) was born about 1100; died in 1160. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Gloucester. Also called Robert de Caen; Robert fitz Roy; Rufus; Robert "The Counsel".

Fought at Brémulé, 20 Apr 1119, where Henry I defeated Louis VI. Present at the death of Henry I in Dec 1135. Commander-in-chief for the Empress Maud from 1139 on. From Complete Peerage: "In 1140 he burnt Nottingham, and in Feb. 1141 he and his son-in-law, Ranulph, Earl of Chester, relieved Lincoln and took Stephen prisoner, sending him to Bristol. He accompanied Maud in her progress to Winchester and London, and when the citizens drove her out fled with her to Oxford. He took part in the fighting at Winchester and helped Maud escape from the city, but was captured 14 Sep. (1141) at Stockbridge and taken prisoner to Rochester. Shortly afterwards he was exchanged, without concessions on either side, for Stephen, who was set at liberty on 1 Nov., and Robert then joined Maud at Bristol, and with her proceeded to Oxford. In June 1142 Maud sent him over to her husband, Geoffrey of Anjou, to urge him to invade England. It would appear that on this occasion Robert entered into a treaty of alliance with Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford. Geoffrey declined to help until he had conquered Normandy, whereupon Robert joined him in his campaign. On hearing that Maud was besieged in Oxford, Robert hurried back to help her, taking with him her son, afterwards Henry II. He captured Wareham and other places, and on Maud's escape from Oxford he and Henry met her at Wallingford, and they went to Bristol, which was Robert's chief residence till 1146. In 1143 Robert defeated Stephen at Wilton, and in 1144 blockaded Malmesbury, Stephen refusing battle; but Maud's party was now so much reduced that Stephen was able to take Faringdon, which Robert had fortified. In the spring of 1147 Robert took Henry, Maud's son, back to Wareham and sent him over to Anjou; and in the same year, he founded Margam Abbey." Shortly thereafter he died of a sudden fever, in the priory of St. James in Bristol, which he had earlier founded; his death effectively ended Maud's military campaign. The Dictionary of National Biography (1909) said that "his sister's cause almost invariably prospered when she allowed him to direct her counsels, and declined as soon as she neglected his advice."

He was highly literate, a patron of scholars and chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Monmouth and William of Malmesbury, the latter of whom wrote the Historia Novella at his request. An enemy, Baldwin Fitz Gilbert, called him someone who "threatens much but does little, lionlike in his speech, but like a hare in his heart, great in eloquence but insignificant through laziness", which is pretty much the same insult lobbed by all of history's meatheads at people who are, like Robert, both well-spoken and ruthless at war. When Ralph Peters calls the slayer of Osama bin Laden, warlord of Libya and Afghanistan, commander of a secret empire of unimaginable violence, a "pussy", it's the voice of Baldwin Fitz Gilbert we hear. No matter how many cities you burn, if you also talk like an intellectual, some people will feel that you've let the meathead side down.

Robert married Mabel fitz Robert before 1122. Mabel (daughter of Robert fitz Hamon and Sibyl de Montgomery) died on 29 Sep 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft Aug 1199

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Vicomte de Maine.

Richard married Lucy de l'Aigle before 1177. Lucy (daughter of Richer de l'Aigle and Beatrice) died after 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Todd A. Farmerie, 9 Jun 2002, post to SGM:

Eustachie was suggested by Charles Evans to be illegitimate daughter of Eustace, son of King Stephen. This conclusion was based on onomastics and kinship. Eustachie is specifically stated to have been a kinswoman of King Henry II, and is found in several modern sources as Eustachie of Champagne. Eustachie being the female form of Eustace, Evans argued that the only time that Eustace/Eustachie was associated with Champagne was following the marriage of King Stephen to Matilda of Boulogne, daughter of Eustace III of Boulogne. He then chose Eustace, Stephen's son (and Henry II's second cousin) to be father of Eustachie. (It is unclear why Eustace was preferable to Evans over his brother William.) That, anyway, is Evans' suggestion.

The problem with this is that I have traced back her being called Eustachie "of Champagne", and cannot find anything contemporary that calls her this. Where does it come from, then? (One possibility is that this somehow derived from a misunderstanding regarding the nickname of her husband, Anselme "Campdaveine.") If "de Champagne" is non-contemporary, then the primary reason for attaching her to the Champagne/Boulogne family disappears.

It is in this context that we can view the suggestion of Kathleen Thompson, (apparently again based on onomastics and kinship), that Eustachie was daughter of William Gouet (III) by his wife Mabel. This would make her, on her father's side, granddaughter of Eustachie, wife of William Gouet (II), explaining her given name, and on her mother's side, granddaughter, through an illegitimate daughter Mabel, of King Henry I, making her (half-) first cousin of King Henry II. Thus this solution accounts for both the kinship and onomastics.

The take-home message here is that Evans based his conclusion on scant evidence, at least some of which appears to have been flawed. There is an alternative that explains the existing material at least as well, and doesn't require the invention of an illegitimate child of Eustace IV of Boulogne, otherwise thought to have d.s.p.

Family/Spouse: Alselm Campdavaine. Alselm (son of Hugh III Campdavaine) died in 1164. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1170

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Baron of Perche-Gouët. Seigneur of Montmirail. Died on crusade.

Guillaume married Isabelle of Blois between 1150 and 1155. Isabelle (daughter of Thibaut IV of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes and Mathilde of Carinthia) was born in 1130. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1162
• Alternate death: Bef Nov 1162

Constance married Geoffroi II de Mayenne about 1135. Geoffroi (son of Juhel I de Mayenne and Clemence de Ponthieu) was born about 1135; died on 18 Feb 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bertha married Alan III about 1137. Alan (son of Stephen of Brittany and Hawise) was born before 1100; died on 15 Sep 1146 in Brittany, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bouchard married Laurence de Hainault in Jan 1173. Laurence (daughter of Baldwin IV of Hainaut and Alix de Namur) died on 9 Jun 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Seigneur of Attichy and Marly.

Matthieu married Mathilde de Garlande about 1189. Mathilde (daughter of Guillaumne III de Garlande and Idoine de Trie) was born about 1150; died on 16 Mar 1224. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Gloucester. Governor of Wareham Castle, 1144.

"After Henry II's accession in 1154 William's status with his royal cousin began to change. The honour of Eudo Dapifer, which Henry had earlier promised to the earl's son, was given to another. Gloucester understandably yielded place of honour at court to members of the royal family like the king's brother William, and even to Robert, earl of Leicester, who was chief justiciar; but William was also regularly outranked by his uncle, Reginald, earl of Cornwall, who held no central administrative office. In the 1150s there is evidence of a certain ambivalence in Henry's government about Gloucester's right to be exempted from geld and other remittances. The earl's infrequent court appearances indicate that he was becoming a political outsider. Even though he was ultimately favoured by the bountiful royal fiscal patronage accorded to members of his class, served as a royal justice, and was promised that he would enjoy all the estates his father had held, William was to die with his career, earldom, and house in ruins." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

William married Hawise of Leicester about 1150. Hawise (daughter of Robert of Meulan and Amice de Gael) died on 24 Apr 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Maud fitz Robert; Maud de Caen.

"Matilda may have played a central role in the capture of Lincoln Castle in December 1140, a key turning point in the conflict that set in train the series of events that led eventually to the capture of Stephen. While their husbands were besieging Lincoln Castle, Matilda and her sister-in-law Hawise, countess of Lincoln, made a friendly social visit to the wife of the castellan. Under the pretext of providing an escort for his wife's safe return to his armed camp, Earl Ranulf penetrated and captured the castle. On the subsequent approach of the king's army towards Lincoln, it is unclear whether Matilda held the castle while Ranulf attempted to rally support or whether she was captured. None the less Ranulf escaped from the castle leaving his wife and sons to face the besieging royalists. Robert, earl of Gloucester, went to the aid of Ranulf since he was worried about the safety of his daughter and grandchildren. In the subsequent battle of Lincoln on 2 February 1141 King Stephen was captured." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

It's worth noting that, at least as of 12 Mar 2017, the ODNB's entry on this Matilda begins with an extremely confused opening sentence that appears to be claiming that she was a daughter of Robert, illegitimate son of Henry I, by his wife Sibyl de Montgomery. In fact Sibyl was Robert's mother-in-law.

Matilda married Ranulph de Gernons before 1135. Ranulph (son of Ranulf le Meschin and Lucy of Bolingbroke) was born before 1100 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France; died on 16 Dec 1153; was buried in Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jordan de Cambernon. Jordan was born in of Cambernon, Manche, Normandy, France; died after 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Castellan of Gloucester.

Family/Spouse: Hawise de Revières. Hawise (daughter of Baldwin de Revières and Adelise) died after 1211. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1236

Constance married Roger de Tony in 1175. Roger (son of Ralph de Tony and Margaret of Leicester) was born in of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England; died in Jan 1209. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Complete Peerage VI:645 has her as a daughter of Richard de Beaumont by Constance, illegitimate daughter of Henry I. This is corrected in CP XI, appendix D, page 116, and XII:1, page 768, note (j). Constance was Richard's mother.

Ermengarde married William I "The Lion", King of Scotland on 5 Sep 1186. William (son of Henry of Scotland and Ada de Warenne) was born in 1143; died on 4 Dec 1214 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was buried in Arbroath Abbey, Angus, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Viscount of Maine.

Family/Spouse: Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Beatrice Candavaine; Beatrice of St. Pol.

Beatrice married Jean I of Ponthieu before 4 Dec 1170. Jean (son of Guy II of Ponthieu and Ida) was born about 1140; died on 30 Jun 1191 in Acre, Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Mabille.

Family/Spouse: Hervé III de Donzy. Hervé (son of Geoffroi IV de Donzy) died after 1188. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Andre II de Vitré. Andre (son of Robert III de Vitré and Emma de Dinan) died in Sep 1211. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clémence married Robert IV de Sablé after 1168. Robert (son of Robert III de Sablé and Hersende) died about 1195 in Palestine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Brittany. Earl of Richmond.

Conan married Margaret of Huntingdon in 1160 in England. Margaret (daughter of Henry of Scotland and Ada de Warenne) was born about 1145; died in 1201; was buried in Sawtrey Abbey, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alix married Simon V de Montfort about 1190. Simon (son of Simon IV de Montfort and Amicie de Beaumont) was born about 1175; died on 25 Jun 1218 in Toulouse, Languedoc, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lord of Marly.

Bouchard married Mahaut de Châteaufort before Jun 1209. Mahaut (daughter of Gasce de Poissy and Constance de Courtenay) died after 25 Jul 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Isabelle, Isabella, Joan, and Eleanor. Suo jure Countess of Gloucester.

Isabel married John, King of England on 29 Aug 1189 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. John (son of Henry II, King of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born about 27 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Hubert de Burgh in Sep 1217. Hubert (son of Walter de Burgh and Alice) was born about 1170; died in 1243; was buried in Black Friars, Holborn, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Amice fitz William.

According to RA, she was not "recognized" before her death as "Countess of Gloucester," despite CP's assertion to this effect. All contemporary charters and other documents involving her refer to her as countess of Clare, i.e., Hertford.

Amice married Richard de Clare about 1180. Richard (son of Roger de Clare and Maud de St. Hilary) was born about 1153 in of Clare, Suffolk, England; died between 30 Oct 1217 and 28 Nov 1217. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1147, Merionethshire, Wales

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Earl of Chester. Also known as Hugh le Meschin; Hugh de Meschines; Hugh of Kevelioc; Hugh de Cyveiliog.

1908 DNB entry on Hugh of Kevelioc:

[By Thomas Frederick Tout.]

HUGH (D. 1181) called HUGH of CYVEILIOG, palatine Earl of Chester, was the son of Ranulf II, Earl of Chester, and of his wife Matilda, daughter of Earl Robert of Gloucester, the illegitimate son of Henry I. He is sometimes called Hugh of Cyveiliog, because, according to a late writer, he was born in that district of Wales (Powel, Hist. of Cambria, p. 295). His father died on 16 Dec. 1153, whereupon, being probably still under age, he succeeded to his possessions on both sides of the Channel. These included the hereditary viscounties of Avranches and Bayeux. Hugh was present at the council of Clarendon in January 1164 which drew up the assize of Clarendon (Stubbs, Select Charters, p. 138). In 1171 he was in Normandy (Eyton, Itinerary of Henry II, p. 158).

Hugh joined the great feudal revolt against Henry II in 1173. Aided by Ralph of Fougeres, he utilised his great influence on the north-eastern marches of Brittany to excite the Bretons to revolt. Henry II despatched an army of Brabant mercenaries against them. The rebels were defeated in a battle, and on 20 Aug. were shut up in the castle of Dol, which they had captured by fraud not long before. On 23 Aug. Henry II arrived to conduct the siege in person (Hoveden, ii. 51). Hugh and his comrades had no provisions (Jordan Fantosme in Howlett, Chron. of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I, iii. 221). They were therefore forced to surrender on 26 Aug. on a promise that their lives and limbs would be saved (W. Newburgh in Howlett, i. 176). Fourscore knights surrendered with them (Diceto, i. 378). Hugh was treated very leniently by Henry, and was confined at Falaise, whither the Earl and Countess of Leicester were also soon brought as prisoners. When Henry II returned to England, he took the two earls with him. They were conveyed from Barfleur to Southampton on 8 July 1174. Hugh was probably afterwards imprisoned at Devizes (Eyton, p. 180). On 8 Aug., however, he was taken back from Portsmouth to Barfleur, when Henry II went back to Normandy. He was now imprisoned at Caen, whence he was removed to Falaise. He was admitted to terms with Henry before the general peace, and witnessed the peace of Falaise on 11 Oct. (Fœdera, i. 31).

Hugh seems to have remained some time longer without complete restoration. At last, at the council of Northampton on 13 Jan. 1177, he received grant of the lands on both sides of the sea which he had held fifteen days before the war broke out (Benedictus, i. 135; Hoveden, ii. 118). In March he witnessed the Spanish award. In May, at the council at Windsor, Henry II restored him his castles, and required him to go to Ireland, along with William Fitzaldhelm and others, to prepare the way for the king's son John (Benedictus, i. 161). But no great grants of Irish land were conferred on him, and he took no prominent part, in the Irish campaigns. He died at Leek in Staffordshire on 30 June 1181 (ib. i. 277; Monasticon, iii. 218; Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 29). He was buried next his father on the south side of the chapter-house of St. Werburgh's, Chester, now the cathedral.

Hugh's liberality to the church was not so great as that of his predecessors. He granted some lands in Wirral to St. Werburgh's, and four charters of his, to Stanlaw, St. Mary's, Coventry, the nuns of Bullington and Greenfield, are printed by Ormerod (i. 27). He also confirmed his mother's grants to her foundation of Austin Canons at Calke, Derbyshire, and those of his father to his convent of the Benedictine nuns of St. Mary's, Chester (Monasticon, vi. 598, iv. 314). In 1171 he had confirmed the grants of Ranulf to the abbey of St. Stephen's in the diocese of Bayeux (Eyton, p. 158). More substantial were his grants of Bettesford Church to Trentham Priory, and of Combe in Gloucestershire to the abbey of Bordesley, Warwickshire (Monasticon, vi. 397, v. 407).

Hugh married before 1171 Bertrada, the daughter of Simon III, surnamed the Bald, count of Evreux and Montfort. He was therefore brother-in-law to Simon of Montfort., the conqueror of the Albigenses, and uncle of the Earl of Leicester. His only legitimate son, Ranulf III, succeeded him as Earl of Chester [see Blundevill, Randulf de]. He also left four daughters by his wife, who became, on their brother's death, co-heiresses of the Chester earldom. They were: (1) Maud, who married David, earl of Huntingdon, and became the mother of John the Scot, earl of Chester from 1232 to 1237, on whose death the line of Hugh of Avranches became extinct; (2) Mabel, who married William of Albini, earl of Arundel (d. 1221); (3) Agnes, the wife of William, earl Ferrers of Derby; and (4) Hawise, who married Robert de Quincy, son of Saer de Quincy, earl of Winchester. Hugh was also the father of several bastards, including Pagan, lord of Milton; Roger; Amice, who married Ralph Mainwaring, justice of Chester; and another daughter who married R. Bacon, the founder of Roucester (Ormerod, i. 28). A great controversy was carried on between Sir Peter Leycester and Sir Thomas Mainwaring, Amice's reputed descendant, as to whether that lady was legitimate or not. Fifteen pamphlets and small treatises on the subject, published between 1673 and 1679, were reprinted in the publications of the Chetham Society, vols. lxxiii. lxxix. and lxxx. Mainwaring was the champion of her legitimacy, which Leycester had denied in his 'Historical Antiquities.' Dugdale believed that Amice was the daughter of a former wife of Hugh, of whose existence, however, there is no record. A fine seal of Earl Hugh's is engraved in Ormerod's 'Cheshire,' i. 32.

[Benedictus Abbas and Roger de Hoveden (both ed. Stubbs in Rolls Ser.); Howlett's Chronicles of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I (Rolls Ser.); Eyton's Itinerary of Hen. II; Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 26-32; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 40-1; Dugdale's Monasticon, ed. Ellis, Caley, and Bandinel; Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 364; Beamont's introduction to the Amicia Tracts, Chetham Soc.]

[DNB, Editor, Sidney Lee, Macmillan Co., London & Smith, Elder & Co., NY, 1908, vol. x, pp. 164-5]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown first wife of Hugh of Chester). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Unknown mistress of Hugh of Chester). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hugh married Bertrade de Montfort in 1169. Bertrade (daughter of Simon de Montfort and Maud) was born about 1155; died after 31 Mar 1227. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isabel. Isabel died after 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1205

Notes:

Also called Mabira of Gloucester.

Family/Spouse: Jordan de Chambernun. Jordan (son of Jordan de Chambernun) was born in of Cambernon, Manche, Normandy, France; died after 1171. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]