Guiscard de Charron

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Knight of the shire for Northumberland, 1311. Sheriff of Northumberland, 1308-10. Constable of Bowes castle. Killed at the Battle of Bannockburn.

Guiscard married Alice about 1288. Alice died after 1332. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joan de Charron died in 1342.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 26 Feb 1308

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Constable of the honour of Richmond 1261-68; sheriff of Northumberland, 1267-72; justice of assize from 1274 onward; hereditary constable of Bowes castle; seneschal of the bishopric of Durham 1278-83.

"Guischard de Charron II, living in 1297, knight, son of the cleric, was appointed by Peter of Savoy (d. 1268) to be an executor of his will. Guischard's father had apparently died earlier. He m. (1) Mary, daughter and co-heir of Richard de Sutton (Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire); m. (2) 1269, Isabel, daughter and heir of Walran de Horton, widow of Thomas de Castre and Thomas de Ryhill (who had appointed Guischard as executor of his will). Isabel had sons by her second marriage, but the manor of Horton passed to Guischard's son Guischard III apparently by his 1st wife Mary. Craster discussed the conflicting evidence for this point and noted R. Thoroton in History of Nottinghamshire (1796) had assumed Guischard III was a son of Isabel." [Raymond Phair, SGM, citation details below.]

Guiscard married Mary de Sutton. Mary (daughter of Richard de Sutton) was born in of Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England; died before 1269. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Guiscard de Sabaudia.

"When the king's uncle, Peter of Savoy, came to England in 1241, he brought with him three of his kinsmen, a knight, a cleric and a Cluniac monk. They were brothers, and they all obtained positions of preferment in their new home. The clerk, Guischard de Charron, a man of Falstaffian proportions and appetite, was appointed by Peter of Savoy to be seneschal of the honor of Richmond. Although in orders and rector of Fransham in Norfolk, a living to which the king, on September 22, 1242, presented him, he married and had a son, also named Guischard, who in his turn had a son Guischard, a circumstance that renders it difficult to determine, in some cases, the identity of the person named. Probably the elder Guischard continued to be seneschal until his death, and was succeeded in that office by his son, whom Peter of Savoy, on leaving England early in 1261, entrusted with the administration of his English estates." [H. H. E. Craster, A History of Northumberland IX, citation details below.]