Margery Gobion

Family/Spouse: Roger de Heyford. Roger (son of Richard de Heyford) was born in of Heyford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Roger de Heyford
2. Agnes de Heyford was born about 1230 in of Heyford, Oxfordshire, England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Higham Gobion, Bedfordshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 29 Dec 1230, Gascony, France

Notes:

From A History of the Church of St. Giles Northampton, citation details below:

Richard Gobion added largely to his estates by marrying the daughter of Roger de Merley, the powerful Baron of Morpeth, who brought in frank marriage the manors of Knaptoft in Leicestershire, Shilvington in Northumberland, and Yedingham in Yorkshire.

He was only a simple knight, but writers of later days persist in speaking of him as "Earl Gobion," and even as "Earl of Northampton," to neither of which titles had he the slightest claim.

Thus the Heralds who visited Leicestershire in 1562-64, and who ought to have known better, left the following record of him:--"It ys to be remembered that the forenamed Rychard Gubbyon, Erl of Northampton was also Lord of Knapthorp, where he remeaned as apereth before proved by Sundry evydences. And for manyfest proff that this same was he that was Erl of Northampton he had in the said towme of Northampton, one manner called by the name of Gobyon, and the most parte of the towne, and also his tenents few or none reserved but paid rent to the said manner, And he gave goodly comons and sundry lybertyes on Gobyon's [Manner]. And this manner was throwne by descent from the name of Gubbyon to Pannell, and from Pannell to Kynesman, and so to Turpyn."

The gift of the commons and liberties above mentioned, is thus explained by Henry Lee, a seventeenth century Town Clerk:

"Earl Gobion, who lived in ye farme house in Abington street in this Town killed a man [in an election riot]. And he gott his pardon, and to quiett the Town granted to the poor liberty to follow syth and sickle in ye fields of Northampton, called Gobion’s farme to this day."

Richard married Agnes de Merlay. Agnes (daughter of Roger de Merlay and Alice de Stuteville) was born in of Morpeth, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1182
• Alternate death: Between 1182 and 1185
• Alternate death: Bef 1186

Notes:

Benefactor of the priory of St. Andrew, Northampton. Acquired Higham, later Higham Gobion, through his marriage to Beatrice de Lucelles.

Richard married Beatrice de Lucelles before 1159. Beatrice (daughter of Hugh de Lucelles) was born in 1145; died after 1184. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1185

Roger married Alice de Stuteville. Alice (daughter of Roger de Stuteville) died in 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Agnes.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 1166 and 1168
• Alternate death: Bef 1168
• Alternate death: Bef 1177

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Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1161 - 29 Sep 1164.

Hugh married (Unknown wife of Hugh Gobion). (Unknown died about 1175. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1175

Notes:

"Who appears as a donor to Woburn Abbey" [Moriarty, citation details below].

"Recently deceased in 1165." [Honors and Knights' Fees, citation details below.]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1160

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Founder, in 1138, of the Cistercian monastery of Newminster.

Ralph married Juliana of Dunbar. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef Sep 1202

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Sheriff of Northumberland 1169-83.

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"[W]ho appears in the Pipe Roll of 31 Henry I (1130-31) as a landowner in Northampton vill, where he owed 10 silver marks for a plea." [Moriarty, citation details below].

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"[W]ho by his charter covenanted with the Abbot of Ramsey for the use of the water rising at Pekesdene (Pegsdon in Skillington)" [Moriarty, citation details below].

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"William de Merlay, a serjeant to Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances; he gave the lordship of Morwick to the monks of Durham." [The Blackmans of Knight's Creek, citation details below]

William married Menialde. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 23 Aug 1138
• Alternate death: Bef 16 Aug 1139

Notes:

Possibly killed in the Battle of the Standard, commanding the men of Lothian; alternately, Moriarty (citation details below) thinks he was most likely killed at the battle of Northallerton.

Note from AR8: "Sybil Morel, dau. of Arkil Morel, d. 1095, was the wife of his son, Edward."

From The Scots Peerage, citation details below:

GOSPATRIC, who in one place calls himself Earl, and certainly held the rank and place of Earl or ruler of Lothian, does not appear on record until after 1100, the year of the accession of King Henry I of England, and his earliest mention in Scottish writs is in 1119. Another peculiarity about his designation is that during his lifetime he is never but once, by himself, in a charter to the monks of Coldingham, styled Earl in Scottish charters. He is referred to, whether as a witness to charters, or a granter or recipient of charters, in nearly every case as Gospatric, brother of Dolfin. In 1119 he is a witness to the charter to the monks of Selkirk, and to the Inquisition of the see of Glasgow, as well as, later, to the foundation charter of Scone. He has also the same designation in the first grant to Holyrood. These are the chief references to him during his life in Scottish records, and while he evidently held a high position, he is never styled Earl until after his death.

King Henry I, also in a charter of unknown date, but certainly some time after 1100, conferred upon him, as Gospatric, brother of Dolfin, a large tract of land lying between Wooler and Morpeth, in Northumberland. This extensive grant, which was confirmed at York about 1136, was held, not by knight's service or other service usual from a barony, though it is sometimes described as the barony of Beanley. It was held in grand serjeanty, the Earl and his descendants bound to be "inborwe" and "utborwe" between England and Scotland; that is, they were to be security for persons passing to and fro between the two countries, who would not be allowed to travel north or south without permission of the lords of Beanley, a fact which practically gave to the Earls of Dunbar the important position of Wardens on both sides of the East March.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, England

Notes:

"[W]ho in the Domesday held Streatley cum Sharpenhoe and Heigham Gobion of Hugh de Beauchamp, the founder of the Barony of Beauchamp of Bedford" [Moriarty, citation details below].

Notes:

Also called Robert de Merle; Robert Melrant.

Robert married Emma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1138
• Alternate death: Bef 1140

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Sheriff of Yorkshire. Fought in the Battle of the Standard.

Robert married Erneburga. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Emberga. According to Keats-Rohan (Domesday Descendants), Ancestral Roots, and Moriarty (citation details below) she may have been a daughter of Hugh fitz Baldric, Domesday tenant in Yorkshire. (The Wallop Family calls him "a Saxon Thane.")