Sybil de Salisbury

Notes:

Also called Sibel d'Evreux.

Died on a 3 June, year unknown.

Family/Spouse: John fitz Gilbert. John (son of Gilbert) was born before 1109 in of Cherhill, Wiltshire, England; died before 29 Sep 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William le Gras. William (son of William le Gras) was born in of Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England; died before 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also spelled William le Mareschal. Earl of Pembroke.

Hereditary Marshal of England; Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1189-94; Sheriff of Sussex 1193-1208; Warden of the Forest of Dean and Constable of St. briavels Castle 1194-1206; Constable of Lillebonne 1202; Protector and Regent of the Kingdom 1216-19; and, in right of his wife, Earl of Pembroke and Striguil and Lord of Leinster. Advisor to King John at Runnymede.

Wikipedia:

"William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke [...], also called William the Marshal (Norman French: Williame le Mareschal; Anglo-Norman: Guillaume le Marechal), was an English (or Anglo-Norman) soldier and statesman. Stephen Langton eulogized him as the 'best knight that ever lived.' He served four kings -- Henry II, Richard I, John, and Henry III -- and rose from obscurity to become a regent of England for the last of the four, and so one of the most powerful men in Europe. Before him, the hereditary title of 'Marshal' designated head of household security for the king of England; by the time he died, people throughout Europe (not just England) referred to him simply as 'the Marshal'. He received the title of 1st Earl of Pembroke through marriage during the second creation of the Pembroke earldom."

William married Isabel de Clare in Aug 1189 in London, England. Isabel (daughter of Richard "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert and Eve of Leinster) was born in 1173; died on 7 Mar 1220; was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Margaret Marshal.

Margaret married Ralph de Somery before 1194. Ralph (son of John de Somery and Hawise Paynel) was born in of Dudley, Staffordshire, England; died between 29 Sep 1210 and 29 Sep 1211; was buried between 1210 and 1211. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1246
• Alternate death: Bef 1247

Family/Spouse: William de Briouze. William (son of Reynold de Briouze and Grace Briwerre) was born in of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 2 May 1230. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 15 Jun 1235
• Alternate death: Bef 1247

Joan married Warin de Munchensy after 14 May 1219. Warin (son of William de Munchensy and Aveline de Clare) was born in of Winfarthing, Norfolk, England; died about 20 Jul 1255. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of Pembroke, Lord of Striguil, Lord of Leinster, Earl Marshal of England.

Walter married Margaret de Quincy in Jan 1242. 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]

Notes:

2nd Earl of Pembroke. A Magna Carta surety.

William married Eleanor of England on 23 Apr 1224. Eleanor (daughter of John, King of England and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) was born in 1215; died on 13 Apr 1275 in Montargis Abbey, Loiret, France; was buried on 13 Apr 1275 in Montargis Abbey, Loiret, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 29 Mar 1248
• Alternate death: Between 1 Apr 1248 and 7 Apr 1248

Notes:

Countess of Norfolk and Surrey.

"Which Maud in July 1246, as senior coh. of her brother Walter, late Earl of Pembroke, was allowed the office of Marshal." [Complete Peerage]

Maud married Hugh II le Bigod in 1207. Hugh (son of Roger II le Bigod and Ida de Tony) died between 11 Feb 1225 and 18 Feb 1225. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married William de Warenne before 13 Oct 1225. William (son of Hamelin of Anjou and Isabel de Warenne) was born in of Lewes, Sussex, England; died on 27 May 1240 in London, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1247

Notes:

Suo jure Countess of Pembroke. Wikipedia: "When Isabel was dying she asked to be buried next to her first husband at Tewkesbury Abbey, but Richard had her interred at Beaulieu Abbey, with her infant son, instead. As a pious gesture, however, he sent her heart, in a silver-gilt casket, to Tewkesbury."

Isabel married Gilbert de Clare on 9 Oct 1217. Gilbert (son of Richard de Clare and Amice of Gloucester) was born about 1180; died on 25 Oct 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans on 30 Mar 1231 in Fawley, Buckinghamshire, England. Richard (son of John, King of England and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) was born on 5 Jan 1209 in Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England; died on 2 Apr 1272 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England; was buried in Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1247

Sybil married William de Ferrers before 14 May 1219. William (son of William de Ferrers and Agnes of Chester) was born about 1193 in of Tutbury, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England; died on 24 Mar 1254 in Evington, Leicestershire, England; was buried on 31 Mar 1254 in Merevale Abbey, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married Thomas de Berkeley about 1217. Thomas (son of Maurice fitz Robert fitz Harding and Alice de Berkeley) was born about 1170; died on 29 Nov 1243; was buried in Abbey Church of St. Augustine, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1272
• Alternate death: Bef 27 Aug 1273

Notes:

Fought at Evesham on the King's side, according to the CP entry on his son-in-law Ralph Basset. Earlier, according to The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, he was taken prisoner with the King at the battle of Lewes.

Roger married Nichole d'Aubigny before 22 Nov 1232. Nichole (daughter of William d'Aubigny and Mabel of Chester) was born in of Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, England; died about 1240. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Amabil de Chaucombe after 8 Oct 1254. Amabil (daughter of Robert de Chaucombe and Juliana de Cornhill) was born in of Chacombe, Northamptonshire, England; died about 1278 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England; was buried in Chaucombe Priory, Chaucombe, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 28 Jul 1255

Notes:

"Eve de Briouze, da. and coh., heiress of Abergavenny. She m., after 25 July 1238 (when his father, William de C., obtained her wardship and marriage together with the custody of Abergavenny and the other lands falling to her share), and before 15 Feb. 1247/8, William de Cantelou, of Calne, Wilts, and Aston Cantlow, co. Warwick. He d. at Calstone, Wilts, 25, and was bur. 30 Sep. 1254, at Studley Priory, co. Warwick. Writ of extent 15 Oct. 1254. She d. in 1255, about 20 and before 28 July." [Complete Peerage I:22-23]

Eve married William III de Cantelowe before 1241. William (son of William II de Cantelowe and Milicent de Gournay) was born in of Calne, Wiltshire, England; died on 25 Sep 1254 in Calstone, Wiltshire, England; was buried on 30 Sep 1254 in Studley Priory, Warwickshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 23 Mar 1301

Maud married Roger de Mortimer before 1248. Roger (son of Ralph de Mortimer and Gwladus Ddu) was born in of Wigmore, Herefordshire, England; died on 27 Oct 1282 in Kingsland, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1264

Family/Spouse: Humphrey de Bohun. Humphrey (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Maud of Eu) was born in of Havering, Essex, England; died on 27 Oct 1265 in Beeston Castle, Cheshire, England; was buried in Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 20 Sep 1307

Notes:

Walter Rye (citation details below) erroneously has her as a daughter of her father's second wife, Denise de Anesty.

Joan married William de Valence on 13 Aug 1247. William (son of Hugh X de Lusignan and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) was born before 1225; died on 16 May 1296 in Brabourne, Kent, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gilbert de Lacy. Gilbert (son of Walter de Lacy and Margaret de Briouze) was born in of Ewyas Lacy, Herefordshire, England; died between 12 Aug 1230 and 15 Dec 1230. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isabel married John fitz Geoffrey before 12 Apr 1234. John (son of Geoffrey fitz Peter and Aveline de Clare) was born about 1205 in of Shere, Surrey, England; died on 23 Nov 1258. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Bertha de Ferrers after 1240. Bertha (daughter of William de Ferrers and Agnes of Chester) died after 10 Feb 1267; was buried in Grey Friars, Dunwich, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Justiciar of England, 22 Jun 1257-1260.

"In 1258 the Provisions of Oxford established a baronial government of which Hugh's elder brother Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk was a leading member, and Hugh was appointed Chief Justiciar. He also had wardship of the Tower of London, and, briefly, of Dover Castle. But at the end of 1260 or in early 1261 he resigned these offices, apparently due to dissatisfaction with the new government. Thus in 1263 he joined the royalists, and was present on that side at the Battle of Lewes. That battle took place by a village called Fletching, north of Lewes. Hugh escaped but the King and his son, Prince Edward, were taken prisoner." [Wikipedia]

Hugh married Joanne de Stuteville before 5 Feb 1244. Joanne (daughter of Nicholas II de Stuteville and Devorguilla of Galloway) died before 5 Apr 1276. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1305

Notes:

Earl of Surrey. Constable of Bamburgh, Hope, and Pevensey Castles; Warden of the Maritime Ports of Surrey and Sussex 1295. Commander of the army at the battle of Stirling, where he was defeated by the Scots. Present at the siege of Caerlaverock.

"John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey (1231 – c. 29 September 1304) was a prominent English nobleman and military commander during the reigns of Henry III of England and Edward I of England. During the Second Barons' War he switched sides twice, ending up in support of the king, for whose capture he was present at Lewes in 1264. Warenne was later appointed a Guardian of Scotland and featured prominently in Edward I's wars in Scotland." [Wikipedia]

"In July 1270 he quarreled in Westminster Hall with Alan la Zouche, Knt. and attacked him so violently that he died on 10 August following, his son escaping with difficulty. The earl fled to his castle at Reigate, Surrey, pursued by Prince Edward, and begged for mercy. On 4 Aug 1270 he was pardoned upon his agreeing to pay a substantial sum to the king." [Royal Ancestry]

John married Alice de Lusignan in Aug 1247. Alice (daughter of Hugh X de Lusignan and Isabel of Angoulême, Queen Consort of England) died on 9 Feb 1256; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Amice married Baldwin de Revières in 1226. Baldwin (son of Baldwin de Revières and Margaret) died on 15 Feb 1245; was buried in Breamore Priory, Hampshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 15 Jul 1262, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England

Notes:

Earl of Gloucester; Earl of Hertford; High Marshal and Chief Butler to the Archbishop of Canterbury; Privy Councillor 1255, 1258; Warden of the Isle of Portland, Weymouth, and Wyke, 1257.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Richard de Clare was a minor at the time of his father's death, and heir to one of the greatest collections of estates and lordships in all of England and Wales. His wardship and marriage were thus matters of the keenest interest to the politically powerful and ambitious of the day. The justiciar Hubert de Burgh, using his position in the government of Henry III, managed to have custody of Richard assigned to himself. On Hubert's fall from power in 1232, the king transferred custody of both Richard and his lands to the new royal favourites, Peter des Roches, bishop of Winchester, and his nephew Peter des Rivaux. Hubert de Burgh's wife, in an apparent effort to rescue the family fortunes, secretly married Richard de Clare to her daughter Margaret; but the marriage was apparently never consummated, and was in any event mooted by Margaret's death in 1237. In the meantime both Peter des Roches and Peter des Rivaux had themselves fallen from power in 1234, and thereafter King Henry kept the wardship in his own hands, although allowing custody of at least some of the Clare lands to be secured by Richard de Clare's uncle Gilbert Marshal, earl of Pembroke. During this time the king began searching for a suitable marriage. A proposed arrangement with the great French comital family, the Lusignans, fell through, and in 1238 Richard de Clare was married to Maud, daughter of John de Lacy, earl of Lincoln. The prime mover in the marriage negotiations seems to have been the king's brother, Richard of Cornwall, who was Richard de Clare's stepfather, having married the widowed Isabel Marshal in 1231. Notwithstanding his marriage Clare remained the ward of the king until 1243, when he came of age and received both official seisin of his inheritance and formal dubbing to knighthood.

The complexities, intricacies, and rivalries involved in the story of Richard de Clare's wardship are an excellent case study of the stakes and resources at issue when contemplating the lives of the upper aristocracy in the thirteenth century. A connection to Richard de Clare was a prize well worth pursuing at full tilt. His inheritance was vast. [...] Richard de Clare was, by every criterion--annual income (close to £4000), knight's fees (nearly 500), and both the sheer number of and the strategic location of his estates and lordships--easily the richest and potentially the most powerful baron, next to the members of the immediate royal family, in the British Isles (excluding Scotland) as a whole.

From Wikipedia:

He joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope in 1246 against the exactions of the Curia in England. He was among those in opposition to the King's half-brothers, who in 1247 visited England, where they were very unpopular, but afterwards he was reconciled to them.

In August 1252/3 the King crossed over to Gascony with his army, and to his great indignation the Earl refused to accompany him and went to Ireland instead. In August 1255 he and John Maunsel were sent to Edinburgh by the King to find out the truth regarding reports which had reached the King that his son-in-law, Alexander III, King of Scotland, was being coerced by Robert de Roos and John Balliol. If possible, they were to bring the young King and Queen to him. The Earl and his companion, pretending to be two of Roos's knights, obtained entry to Edinburgh Castle, and gradually introduced their attendants, so that they had a force sufficient for their defense. They gained access to the Scottish Queen, who made her complaints to them that she and her husband had been kept apart. They threatened Roos with dire punishments, so that he promised to go to the King.

Meanwhile the Scottish magnates, indignant at their Castle of Edinburgh's being in English hands, proposed to besiege it, but they desisted when they found they would be besieging their King and Queen. The King of Scotland apparently traveled South with the Earl, for on 24 September they were with King Henry III at Newminster, Northumberland."

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In July 1258 Richard de Clare and his brother William both fell ill. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes contemporary reports that this was due to an attempted poisoning, "supposedly instigated by King Henry's uncle, William de Valence, earl of Pembroke, in retaliation for Clare's support of the baronial reform movement; and Valence's purported agent in the plot, Clare's seneschal, Walter de Scoteny, was tried and hanged." William died, but Richard survived with the loss of his hair and nails. In 1259 Richard was appointed chief ambassador to the Duke of Brittany, presumably in hopes of frightening the duke by sending a hairless, nailless creature to his court. Three years later, Richard died at Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, on the 15th, the 16th, or the 22nd of July 1262. It was again bruited about that he had been poisoned, this time by the Queen's uncle Peter of Savoy, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, noting that "the annals of Tewkesbury Abbey are the single most valuable literary source for the reconstruction of [de Clare] family history for this period", points out that "the silence of the Tewkesbury account on this point strongly indicates that such rumours were unfounded."

In a perfectly medieval series of postmortem events, Richard de Clare's body was borne to the Cathedral Church of Christ at Canterbury, where his entrails were buried before the altar of St. Edward the Confessor; it was then taken to the Collegiate Church of Tonbridge, Kent, where his heart was buried; finally, what remained of his body was taken to Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire where it was buried in the choir at his father's right hand.

Richard married Margaret de Burgh before 29 Sep 1236 in St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Margaret (daughter of Hubert de Burgh and Margaret of Scotland) died in Nov 1237. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Richard married Maud de Lacy about 25 Jan 1238. Maud (daughter of John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy) died before 10 Mar 1289. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 8 Nov 1226

Isabel married Robert de Brus in May 1240. Robert (son of Robert de Brus and Isabel of Huntingdon) was born about 1220 in of Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died on 31 Mar 1295 in Lochmaben Castle, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; was buried on 17 Apr 1295 in Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef Jun 1269

Family/Spouse: Robert Aguillon. Robert (son of William Aguillon and Joan) was born in of Addington, Surrey, England; died on 15 Feb 1286. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joan married John de Mohun after 1245. John (son of Reynold II de Mohun and Hawise fitz Geoffrey) died in 1254 in Gascony, France; was buried in Bruton Priory, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Quincy. Roger (son of Saher de Quincy and Margaret of Leicester) was born about 1195; was christened in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England; died on 25 Apr 1264. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sibyl married Frank de Bohun before 21 Sep 1247. Frank (son of Savary de Bohun and Cecily fitz Geoffrey) was born in of Midhurst, Sussex, England; died on 14 Sep 1273. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Vicomtesse de Rochechouart. According to Richardson, "generally known" as Maud de Kyme, presumably owing to her first marriage to Simon de Kyme (d. 1248).

Maud married William de Forz about 30 Jul 1248. William (son of Hugh de Vivonne and Mabel Malet) was born in of Chewton, Somerset, England; died before 22 May 1259. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]