Amabel Fitz William

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Lady of Copeland.

Amabel married Reynold de Lucy before 1162. Reynold (son of Richard de Lucy and Rohese de Boulogne) died about Jan 1199. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard de Lucy was born in of Egremont, Cumberland, England; died in 1213; was buried in St Bees Priory, Cumberland, England.
2. Cecily de Lucy died after 1230.
3. Cecily de Lucy

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• Alternate death: 1154

William married Alice de Rumilly before 1138. Alice (daughter of William Meschin and Cecily de Rumilly) was born in of Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, England; died in 1187. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lady of Skipton.

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Killed in the battle of Monthechin.

Duncan married Athelreda of Dunbar about 1090. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ethelreda, Octreda.

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• Alternate death: Abt 1135

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"The most important member of a tightly knit family group was Ranulf's younger brother William le Meschin (d. 1129x35). William went on the first crusade, where he is mentioned, as 'William son of Ranulf le vicomte' at the siege of Nicaea in 1097 (Ordericus Vitalis, Eccl. hist., 5.59). In Cumbria William le Meschin was first given charge of Gilsland, which he failed to hold against the Scots, and then Egremont (the barony of Copeland). He built the castle at Egremont, and close by on the coast he founded the priory of St Bees, a further daughter house of St Mary's, York. William le Meschin married Cecily de Rumilly, the daughter of Robert de Rumilly and heir to the barony of Skipton in Craven, west Yorkshire, thus creating a substantial cross-Pennine estate. William and Cecily were the founders of the priory of Embsay, which later removed to Bolton in Wharfedale. In addition to the two baronies of Egremont and Skipton, William le Meschin acquired tenancies in several counties, the more significant held of his brother in Lincolnshire (where the Lindsey survey of 1115 - 18 provides detailed record) and in Cheshire. William remained closely linked with Ranulf, whom he survived by just a few years, dying before 1135. An elder son, Matthew, having predeceased him, William's heirs were successively his younger son, also called Ranulf le Meschin, and three sisters, Amice, Alice, and Matilda, who in the course of a total of seven marriages comprehensively dismembered the estate." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"William le Meschin, Lord of Copeland, br. of Ranulph, 1st Earl of Chester, yr. s. of Rannulf, Vicomte of the Bessin, m. Cicely de Rumilly, Lady of Skipton, da. and h. of Robert de Rumelli, of Harewood and Skipton, co. York (see ped. of Lisle in vol. viii, between pp. 48 and 49), and had 3 daughters and coheirs. (1) Alice, Lady of Skipton, who m., 1stly, William fitz Duncan, s. of Duncan II, King of Scots. See Clay, Early Yorks Charters, vol. vii, pp. 9—10. They had one s., William, 'the Boy of Egremont', who d. in the King’s ward after 1155, leaving his 3 sisters his coheirs: (i) Cicely, as in the text; (ii) Amabel, Lady of Copeland (called in the Pipe Rolls and elsewhere, Comitissa de Couplanda, who m. Reynold de Lucy (see vol. iii, pp. 247-8, sub Lucy); (iii) Alice de Rumilly, Lady of Allerdale, who m., 1stly, Gilbert Pipard, Sheriff of cos. Gloucester and Hereford, and 2ndly, Robert de Courtenay, Sheriff of Cumberland and d. s.p. (see vol. ix, pp. 527-8, sub Pipard). Alice, Lady of Skipton, m. 2ndly, Alexander FitzGerold. (2) Avice, Lady of Harewood, who m., 1stly, William de Courcy III, 2ndly, William Paynell, of Drax, co. York, and 3rdly, William de Percy of Rougemont, in Harewood, co. York (see vol. x, p. 319, sub Paynel, and p. 439, sub Percy). (3) Maud, m. 1stly, Philip de Belmeis, of Tong, Salop., and 2ndly, Hugh de Mortimer, of Wigmore, co. Hereford (see vol. ix, p. 271, note sub Mortimer (of Wigmore), and vol. xii, part 2, pp. 930—1, sub Zouche.)" [Complete Peerage I:353, footnote (d), as thoroughly corrected in Volume XIV.]

William married Cecily de Rumilly. Cecily (daughter of Robert de Rumilly) was born in of Skipton, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1031
• Alternate birth: Abt 1031

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King of the Cumbrians; King of Scots.

Also called Mael Coluim mac Donnchada.

"In 1057 various chroniclers report the death of Macbeth at Malcolm's hand, on 15 August 1057 at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire." [Wikipedia]

"He defeated and killed Macbeth, King of Scots at Lunfanen, 15 Aug 1057." [Royal Ancestry]

"MALCOLM III, King of Scots, was killed by Morel of Banborough at Alnwick, Northumberland 13 Nov. 1093. He was initially buried at Tyenmouth, but his son, King Alexander I, later removed his body to Dunfermline, Fife." [Royal Ancestry]

Malcolm married Ingibjorg Finnsdottir. Ingibjorg (daughter of Finn Arnesson and Bergljot Halvdansdottir) died before 1058. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1070

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Also called Ingebiorg of Orkney.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1040 and 1048
• Alternate death: Abt 1075

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Earl of Northumberland; Lord of Carlisle and Allerdale. Visited Rome, 1061.

"Gospatric, earl of Northumbria (d. 1073x5), magnate, was the son of Maldred, whose father, Crinan, named in one source as Crinan 'the thegn', is usually identified with the lay abbot of Dunkeld of that name, who was father of Duncan I, king of Scots, and was killed in battle in 1045. That identification cannot be regarded as certain, but there is no doubt that Maldred was a man of high status, who married Ealdgyth, the daughter of Earl Uhtred of Northumbria and his wife, Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred II, and that Ealdgyth was Gospatric's mother." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

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Sometimes also called Ranulph le Meschin, but that seems to have originally been applied to his son, as "meschin" means "younger" or "junior." Vicomte de Bessin; Count of Bayeux.

"The Bessin is an area in Normandy, France, corresponding to the territory of the Bajocasses tribe of Gaul who also gave their name to the city of Bayeux, central town of the Bessin. [...] The Bessin corresponds to the former diocese of Bayeux, which was incorporated into the Calvados département following the French Revolution." [Wikipedia]

Ranulph married Margaret d'Avranches. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The ODNB calls her "Matilda, daughter of Richard, vicomte of the Avranchin."

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Also spelled Romelli, Rumelli, etc.

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Also called Donnchad I mac Crinain; "An t-Ilgarach" ("The Diseased" or "The Sick").

Murdered by Macbeth. Bothirgouane, Bothgouanan is now called Pitgaveny.

Duncan married Suthen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Called by Richardson merely an unnamed "cousin of Siward, Earl of Northumberland" and by Ancestral Roots "a dau. of Siward, Danish Earl of Northumbria". Stewart Baldwin's coverage at the Henry Project is here; he notes that "[t]he name of Suthen is known only from an interlined addition to a king list contained in an early fourteenth century manuscript." The name "Suthen" is Gaelic; as Baldwin observes, "if the name is correct, it would call into question the suggestion that Suthen was a relative of Siward."

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"Finn Arnesson (died c. 1065) was a Norwegian nobleman and advisor to both King Olaf II of Norway and King Harald III of Norway and later served King Sweyn II of Denmark." [Wikipedia]

Finn married Bergljot Halvdansdottir. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Niece of the Norwegian kings St. Olay and Harald Hardraade. [Wikipedia]

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Also called Aldred; Maldred MacCrinan.

According to The Scots Peerage (citation details below), he was probably killed in the same battle as his father Crinan, attempting to avenge the murder of his brother Duncan by Macbeth.

The Henry Project calls Maldred a "probable" child of the Crinan who married Bethoc, daughter of Malcolm II, King of Scotland (this Crinan and Bethoc being the parents of the Scots king Duncan I), but THP also notes that there is no direct evidence that Bethoc was Maldred's mother.

From The Henry Project:

Maldred is given as a son of a Crinán in three of the works of Simeon of Durham, with Crínán given the title of "thane" (tein) in one of these works. Maldred married Ealdgyth, daughter of Uhtred, earl of Northumbria, by whom he Dolphin, Waltheof, and Cospatric (ancestor of the House of Dunbar) ["Postea vero illo, scilicet Ucthredo, proficiente magis et magis in re militari, rex Ethelredus filiam suam Elfgivam ei copulavit uxorem. Ex qua habuit filiam Aldgitham, quam pater in conjugium dedit Maldredo filio Crinan tein, ex qua Maldredus Cospatricum, patrem Dolphini et Walteofi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Obsessione Dunelmi, c. 2 (1: 216); "... Cospatricus, filius Maldredi filii Crinani ... Erat enim ex matre Algitha, filia Uchtredi comitis, quam habuit ex Algiva filia Agelredi Regis. Hanc Algitham pater dedit in conjugium Maldredo filio Crinani." Sim. Durh., Historia Regum, c. 159 (2: 199); "Deinde Uctredus filius Walthefi administravit comitatum omnium Northanhymbrorum provinciarum. Huic rex Eathelredus suam filiam Ælfgeovam dederat uxorem. Ex qua filiam habens Aldgitham, dedit in conjugium prædiviti cuidam, Maldredo filio Crinani: de qua habuit Cospatricum comitem, patrem Dolphini, Walthefi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Primo Saxonum Adventu (2: 383)]. Anderson states that Maldred appears to have ruled in Cumbria [ESSH 1: 577], but there does not seem to be a clear source for that statement [however, see ESSH 2: 37 for the possible Cumbrian origin of Maldred's son Cospatric I]. No primary source explicitly identifies the Crínán who was Maldred's father with the Crínán who was Duncan's father.

[Key to abbreviations in the above:]

Sim. Durh. = Thomas Arnold, ed., Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, 2 vols. (Rolls Series 75, 1882-5.)

ESSH = Alan Orr Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1922, reprinted Stamford, 1990). [Contains English translations of many of the primary records.]

Maldred married Ealdgyth of Northumbria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Aeldgyth; Ealdgith; Algitha; Edith.

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Vicomte of the Bessin. Fought at the battle of Val-es-Dunes, 1047.

Ranulph married (Unknown daughter of Richard III of Normandy). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Possibly named Alice, Adeliza, etc. AR calls her "Alice of Normandy."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1082
• Alternate death: Aft 1082
• Alternate death: Aft 1084

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Viscount of the Avranchin. Probably Scandinavian in origin. Shown in some sources (including CP) as a son of a "Thurstan le Goz", son of Ansfrid, a Dane.

Another persistent genealogical tradition is the identification of his wife as "Emma de Conteville," an alleged daughter of the Conqueror's mother Herleve by her husband Herluin. His wife is in fact unknown.

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• Alternate birth: 978

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Also called Cronan. Lay-abbot of Dunkeld (Dun Caillen).

Killed in battle against Macbeth, who (in 1040) had slain his son Duncan.

Crinan married Bethoc of Scotland about 1005. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Beatrice, Bethóc ingen Maíl Coluim meic Cináeda.

Arne married Tora Torsteinsdatter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Earl of Northumbria. On his way to a meeting with king Cnut, Uchtred and forty of his men were slain by a force led by Northumbrian magnate Thurbrand the Hold, supposedly with assistance of Uchtred's servant Wighill and with the connivance of Cnut. This either set off, or was the first recorded act of, a Northumbrian blood feud that lasted several decades.

Uchtred married Ælfgifu about 1014. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Elgiva, Algiva.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 6 Aug 1027
• Alternate death: 6 Aug 1028

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Duke of Normandy.

Possibly poisoned after subduing a revolt by his brother.

Richard married (Unknown mistress of Richard III of Normandy). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]