Maud de Senlis

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• Alternate death: 1140
• Alternate death: Between 1158 and 1163
• Alternate death: Bef 1165

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Also called Maud de St. Liz.

Maud married Robert fitz Richard in 1112. Robert (son of Richard fitz Gilbert and Rohese Giffard) was born in of Dunmow, Essex, England; died after 28 Nov 1137; was buried in St. Neot's Priory, Cambridgeshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Saher I de Quincy after 1136. Saher was born in of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England; died between 1156 and 1158. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1135

Notes:

Also called Maud de St. Liz and (mysteriously) Maud de Clare.

Family/Spouse: William II d'Aubeney. William (son of William "Brito" d'Aubeney and Cecily le Bigod) was born in of Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; died in 1167. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Maud de Lucy. Maud (daughter of Richard de Lucy and Rohese de Boulogne) was born in of Diss, Norfolk, England; died after 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Buckby, Northamptonshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 29 Sep 1197
• Alternate death: Bef 1208

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Or de Quency. [Royal Ancestry] Justiciar of Scotland; Crusader.

Robert married Orabel fitz Ness before 1155, and was divorced before 1174. Orabel (daughter of Ness fitz William) died before 30 Jun 1203. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Huntingfield. Roger (son of William Fitz Roger de Huntingfield and Sibyl de Gigny) was born before 1145 in of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England; died in 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Complete Peerage calls her "probably" a daughter of William d'Aubeney and Maud de Senlis.

Family/Spouse: Gilbert of Strathearn. Gilbert (son of Ferteth and Ethen) was born before 1151; died in 1223. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1 May 1236

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Magna Carta surety. Sheriff of Rutland 1195; Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire 1197; Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1197; Governor of Rochester Castle. He was buried at Newstead, but his heart was interred at Belvoir Priory, Leicestershire.

From Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans (citation details below):

Having been forced to give his son to King John as a hostage in 1201, he was a member of the moderate or middle section of the baronage in the conflict between King John and the barons, remaining in attendance on the king until going over to the extreme party upon their taking possession of London on 24 May 1215. Going with them to Runnymede, he was elected a Magna Carta surety in 1215, and then withdrew to Belvoir. Although he was excommunicated by name by the Pope, along with de Quency and Mowbray, as a result of Runnymede, he refused to attend the Hounslow tournament on 6 July 1215.

He was prevailed upon to return to service in the fall, and was placed in charge of Rochester, but was forced to surrender it to John after a gallant defense lasting from 11 Oct. to 30 Nov. 1215, and was thrown into prison, narrowly escaping hanging.

In 1216, upon payment of a fine of 6,000 marks [£4000], he was released and regained his lands. He did homage to King Henry III, was entrusted with Sleaford Castle and a command at the battle of Lincoln of 19 May 1217, which earned him high favor. In 1219 and 1225 he served again as an itinerant justice.

Family/Spouse: Margary de Umfreville. Margary (daughter of Odinel de Umfreville and Alice de Lucy) died before 1198. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Leader of the Magna Carta sureties. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

"Fitzwalter, Robert (d. 1235), magnate and rebel, lord of Dunmow, Essex and Baynard's Castle, London, was the son of Walter fitz Robert and Matilda, daughter of Henry II's justiciar Richard de Lucy. Henry I had granted the honours of Dunmow and Baynard's Castle to Walter's father, Robert, the king's steward, a younger son of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare. The date of Fitzwalter's birth is unknown, as are the circumstances of his upbringing, though he may be the Robert Fitzwalter mentioned in the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal as fighting in the Young King's retinue of over 200 knights at the great tournament at Lagny-sur-Marne in 1180.

"[...]

"The families of Quincy and Fitzwalter had long been linked, for Robert's father, Walter, and Saer (d. 1190) were half-brothers, the latter's father, also Saer, having married Maud de Senlis, the widow of Robert fitz Richard (d. 1134), and the Quincys held a fief of 1 1/2 fees from the barony of Dunmow. In a noted demonstration of alliance Fitzwalter and Quincy each bore the other's arms on their seals.

"[...]

"Fitzwalter's close involvement with the rebellion of 1215–17 and with Magna Carta has ensured his prominence, but historians have been sharply divided in their assessment of him. To Tout, Fitzwalter was 'the first champion of English liberty' (DNB), and prefigured Simon de Montfort. Others, like Norgate and Painter, reacting against this naive idealism, dismissed him as a haughty, selfish, but ultimately cowardly, feudal grandee, ready to obstruct justice by private warfare and to cloak treason with a series of makeshift justifications. Yet, given John's harsh and arbitrary rule, the king's opponents had little option save for conspiracy or armed rebellion, particularly after 1213 when Innocent III fully supported John. To see Fitzwalter falling short of the qualities of a great constitutional statesman is to be as anachronistic as Tout. He may have fought in large part to avenge personal wrongs and to regain lost rights, but he played an important role in sustaining the resistance which resulted in Magna Carta. Although Fitzwalter was resolute in his opposition to John, his participation on crusade and his conduct during Henry III's minority belie the image of a turbulent malcontent. Matthew Paris had little cause to praise Fitzwalter, but the final verdict is best left to him. He 'could match any earl in England; valiant in arms, spirited and illustrious, endowed with many possessions, generous, encompassed by a multitude of powerful blood relatives and strengthened by numerous relatives in marriage' (Gesta abbatum, 1.220–21)."

Family/Spouse: Rohese. Rohese died in 1256 in Woodham Walter, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert Pecche. Gilbert (son of Hamon Pecche and Alice Peverel) was born in of Great Bealings, Suffolk, England; died before 9 Jul 1212. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, England

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Earl of Winchester. Also spelled Saier, Saer.

Magna Carta surety.

Steward of the King 1205-7; Constable of Fotheringay Castle 1215; Judge in the King's Court 1211, 1213-14; Keeper of Canford and Hedingham Castles 1214.

Died in the Fifth Crusade. His heart was brought back and interred at Garendon Abbey near Loughborough, a house endowed by his wife's family. The rest of him was buried in Acre. [Royal Ancestry]

Saher married Margaret of Leicester before 1173. Margaret (daughter of Robert de Breteuil and Pernel de Grandmesnil) died on 12 Jan 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Magna Carta surety. He was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent in late 1215, and his lands were taken by the king. He reduced Essex and Sussex for Prince Louis of France, and in consequence his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk were plundered by John. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln, 20 May 1217, and his Lincolnshire lands were given to John Marshal. At the war's end, he made peace with Henry III and was restored to his estates.

Warden of the Cinque Ports. Constable of Dover Castle, 1203-04. Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1209-11. Justice itinerant in Lincolnshire.

He died on crusade, possibly in the Near East. 25 Jan 1221 is that date on which his son Roger gave 100 marks for the livery of his inheritance.

William married Isabel de Gressinghall before 1194. Isabel was born between 1160 and 1165; died in 1207. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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4th Earl of Strathearn.

"[He] was a witness to his father’s charters to Inchaffray, 1199-1220, being described as s. and h. in that of 1210. He witnessed the pact made between Alexander II of Scotland and Henry III of England, in the presence of the Papal Legate at York, Sep. 1237." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

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

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• Alternate death: Between 1247 and 1248

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Also called William de Beauvoir.

Family/Spouse: Isabel. Isabel died after 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Luvetot. William (son of Richard de Luvetot and Cecily Brito) was born in of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England; died on 7 Apr 1181; was buried in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ida Longespée. Ida (daughter of William I Longespée and Ela of Salisbury) died after 1261. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Lanvallay. William (son of William de Lanvallay and Hawise de Buckland) was born in of Walkern, Hertfordshire, England; died before 3 Oct 1217; was buried in St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"[D]ead on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, probably summer 1241." [David L. Greene, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Eve. Eve died after 1266. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1232

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First of his name. Not to be confused with his younger brother Robert de Quincy (1200-1257).

"The circumstances of his death by misadventure -- he was accidentally poisoned through medicine prepared by a Cistercian monk -- are fully described by Giraldus [Brackley Deeds]. His heart was bur. with that of his mother at Brackley." [Complete Peerage]

Robert married Hawise of Chester between 1197 and 1200. Hawise (daughter of Hugh of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort) was born in 1180; died before 19 Feb 1243. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1273

Hawise married Hugh de Vere after 11 Feb 1223. Hugh (son of Robert de Vere and Isabel de Bolebec) was born about 1210 in of Castle Hedingham, Essex, England; died before 23 Dec 1263; was buried in Earl's Colne Priory, Halstead, Great Bromley, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Arabella. Predeceased her husband.

Orabel married Richard de Harcourt before 1219. Richard (son of William de Harcourt and Alice Noel) was born about 1202 in of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England; died about Jan 1258. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Winchester. In right of his first wife, hereditary Constable of Scotland. "At his death he was probably the greatest Anglo-Scottish landowner of his day" [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

"Little is known of Roger de Quincy before 1219. He was probably the son whom Saer delivered to King John in 1213 as a Scottish hostage for the security of the Anglo-Scottish treaty of 1212. He emerged onto the political stage in 1215 when, along with Saer and the leaders of the baronial rebellion against John, he was excommunicated by Innocent III (r. 1198–1216), but did not figure prominently in the civil war that followed the king's death. [...]

"Roger de Quincy did not hold the prominence in politics that his father had commanded in England [...] but his wealth secured him an important role. In 1239 and 1246 he joined in written remonstrances from the English nobility to Gregory IX (r. 1227–41) and Innocent IV (r. 1243–54) concerning papal interference in English affairs. Association with the stirrings of dissatisfaction with the government of Henry III expressed in the parliaments of 1248 and 1254 led to identification with the baronial opposition in 1258. At the Oxford parliament Quincy was elected by the barons to the twelve-member commission charged with attendance at the three annual parliaments provided for under the provisions of Oxford, and was appointed also to the committee that arranged the financial aid promised to Henry. In 1259 he led a delegation to St Omer to intercept Richard, earl of Cornwall (d. 1272), and forbid him to return to England until he had sworn to observe the provisions of Oxford. This appears to have been Roger de Quincy's last major act, for he played little part in subsequent events which culminated in open conflict between the king and his baronial opponents, and died on 25 April 1264, eighteen days after Henry had precipitated the country into civil war."

Family/Spouse: Helen of Galloway. Helen (daughter of Alan fitz Roland and (Unknown daughter of Roger de Lacy)) died after 21 Nov 1245; was buried in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eleanor de Ferrers. Eleanor (daughter of William de Ferrers and Sybil Marshal) died before 26 Oct 1274; was buried on 26 Oct 1274. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Second of his name. Not to be confused with his older brother Robert de Quincy (d. 1217). Took the cross in 1250.

Robert married Ellen of Wales before 5 Dec 1237. Ellen (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth and Joan of England) died before 24 Oct 1253. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Hugh le Rus before 1215. Hugh (son of Ernald Rufus and Isabel) was born in of Akenham, Suffolk, England; died in 1230. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Richard de Keynes between 1221 and 1223. Richard (son of William de Keynes and Gunnor) was born in of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, England; died in 1241. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 11 Jul 1257

Family/Spouse: Joan de Howbridge. Joan (daughter of William de Howbridge and Agnes Picot) died before 8 Sep 1297. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]