Agnes de Brus

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• Alternate death: Abt 1280
• Alternate death: Aft 25 May 1280
• Alternate death: 22 May 1286

Agnes married Walter de Faucomberge before Nov 1243. Walter (son of Peter de Faucomberge and Margaret de Montfitchet) was born in of Rise, Holderness, Yorkshire, England; died on 1 Nov 1304 in Rise, Holderness, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Nunkeeling Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Walter de Faucomberge was born about 1254-1264 in of Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died on 31 Dec 1318.

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• Alternate death: Bef 1247

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Richardson, Royal Ancestry, has this Peter (Piers) de Brus dying "7 Sept., before 1247, probably in 1240." He mentions nothing about him being a "Crusader."

The Wallop Family says he died at Marseilles, 1247.

Ancestral Roots, 8th ed. (2004) is very confused about this individual, varying his parentage and at least once conflating him with his father:

Ancestral Roots, 88-28:
28. HAWISE (or HELWISE) DE LANCASTER, m. PIERS (PETER) DE BRUS (136-26), d. bef. 1247, Crusader, Lord of Skelton, son of Piers de Brus and Joan le Grammaire. (CP V: 269; VCH Lanc. I: 357-366.)

Ancestral Roots, 136-25 and 136-26:
25. AGNES, m. (1) William de Roumare, d. 1151; m. (2) Piers (Peter) I de Brus, Lord of Skelton, d. Feb 1218/9, son of Adam de Brus, by Joan le Grammaire, dau. Richard le Grammaire of Knottington, co. York. (West Winter XIII.84; ES II/46; CP V: 269, VII 373.)
26. PIERS (PETER) DE BRUS, d. bef. 1222, bur. Guisborough, Lord of Skelton, co. York, Crusader; m. abt. 1210/15, HAWISE (or HELWISE) DE LANCASTER (88-28). (CP V: 267; West Winter, XIV.145; VCH Lanc. I: 357-366; Bank I: 431-432; Farrar, EYC II:15, III: 87.)

Ancestral Roots, 184B-8:
8. SIR WALTER DE FAUCONBERGE, 1st Lord Fauconberge, lord of Rise & Withernwick in Holderness, d. 1/2 Nov 1304; m. by Nov, 1243, AGNES DE BRUS (136-27), d. abt. 1280, dau. & coh. PIERS (PETER) II DE BRUS (136-26), d. 1222, Lord of Skelton, co. York, and HAWISE (or HELEWISE) DE LANCASTER (88-28). (CP V: 267-269; Clay, 69.)

Peter married Hawise de Lancaster before 1219. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Helewise fitz Renfrid, Hawise Fitzgilbert.

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• Alternate death: Bef 3 Feb 1222
• Alternate death: 12 Feb 1222

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Took the side of the barons against John. Patron of Guisborough Priory.

Peter married Joan of Chester. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Joan de Lacy, Joan le Grammaire.

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• Alternate death: Bef 5 May 1220, of Kendal, Westmorland, England
• Alternate death: Bef 6 May 1220

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Also called Gilbert fitz Roger. "Steward to Henry II, in France 118-89, and later to Richard I; was justice of the King's Court 1185, sheriff of Lancashire 1205-1216, and of Yorkshire 1209-1212." [Ancestral Roots]

Andrew Lancaster (citation details below):

Gilbert Fitz Reinfred. Often referred to in his charters in a more complete way as Gilbert son of Roger Fitz Reinfred. (Reinfred seems to have been his grandfather.) His ancestors are thought to have also used the name or title of "De Bruere".

Gilbert was William de Lancaster II’s son-in-law, but sometimes dubiously said to be a distant relative of the de Lancasters, with various groundless connections between Reinfrid, Taillebois and Workington being spread over the internet.

More seriously, he is argued to have been the first Lord of Kendal who was really a Baron of Kendal. He was an important man, who was constantly in the retinue of King Henry while in France in 1180-89. Later, he also took part in the incidents surrounding the creation of the Magna Carta in the time of King John, leading to his sons imprisonment during action taking place near Rochester. His children’s marriages show a very strong alliance with yet another Anglo-Scottish dynasty, the "De Brus" family. He was Sheriff of Lancaster from 1205 to 1215.

Gilbert married Hawise de Lancaster before 20 Jul 1189. Hawise (daughter of William de Lancaster and Helewise de Stuteville) died after Sep 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Helwise.

Shown in CP (XII/1, p. 739) as "da. and coh. of William de Lancaster (d. 1246), lord of Kendal, Westmorland." We are showing the ancestry for her given in Ancestral Roots, and also by Andrew Lancaster.

"Hawise de Lancastre. William's heir. Perhaps the only child of William de Lancaster with his known wife Hawise de Stuteville. Became a ward of the 'perfect knight' William le Mareschal, and was eventually married to Gilbert Fitz Reinfrid, with the permission of king Henry II." [Andrew Lancaster, citation details below.]

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• Alternate death: 20 Mar 1196

Adam married Juetta de Arches after 1169. Juetta (daughter of William de Arches) died after 1209. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1213

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Early Yorkshire Families (citation details below) says that Roger de Flamville was Juetta's second husband, and claims that her first husband was the earlier Adam de Brus who died in 1142 or 1143. But this creates a number of chronological problems. For instance, if Juetta married the older Adam de Brus, their daughter Isabel (wife of Henry de Percy, d. 1198) could not have been born later than ca. 1143, and would thus have been at least 103 years old when she died in 1246. It seems vastly more plausible that Juetta's first husband was Roger de Flamville, who died in 1169, and her second husband was the younger Roger de Brus who died in 1196. In this model, the estimated birth dates and known death dates of all her children by both husbands make much more sense.

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• Alternate death: 1190, Tyre

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Constable of Chester. Died at the siege of Acre in the Third Crusade.

Also called John de Lacy; John fitz Eustace. Richardson calls him only "John."

John married Alice fitz Roger. Alice (daughter of Roger fitz Richard and Alice de Vere) died after 1190. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alice de Vere.

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• Alternate death: Aft 1198

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From Roger fitz Reinfrid: His Family and Connections by John Watson:

Roger fitz Reinfrid is said to have been a protégé of Richard de Lucy and may have entered his service in the 1160s. He was probably in royal service before Michaelmas 1169. He was employed from 1170 to 1174 with Richard de Lucy in the administration of Windsor. In July 1175, Henry II confirmed to Roger fitz Reinfrid a soke in London given to him by Earl Simon (de St. Liz, III) of Huntingdon. A case in the Curia Regis in 1204 shows that Roger exchanged land in Toft and Menthorpe, Lincolnshire with Earl Simon and Alice de Gant his wife in exchange for three parts of a knight’s fee in Sutton and Beckingham, Lincolnshire and that Roger also held land in Holme, Lincolnshire granted to him by Robert de Gant.

Roger was sheriff of Sussex from Michaelmas 1176 to March 1187 and sheriff of Berkshire in 1188. In January 1176, he was appointed as a justice itinerant in Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. By 1181, he was one of the regular justices sitting at Westminster. In March 1182, he was one of the witnesses to the will of Henry II, together with his brother Walter de Coutances, archdeacon of Oxford. He continued to be a justice in eyre throughout the reign of Henry II and into the reign of Richard I. Roger died before Michaelmas 1196 when Reinfrid son of Roger occurs as his father’s heir.

Roger married Alice Foliot. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1184

William married Helewise de Stuteville. Helewise (daughter of Robert de Stuteville and Helewise) was born in 1165; died in 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1228

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• Alternate death: 1143

Adam married Agnes of Aumale. Agnes (daughter of Stephen of Aumale and Hawise de Mortimer) was born between 1110 and 1120. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1163
• Alternate death: Bef 1178

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Constable of Cheshire. Complete Peerage and Wightman (citation details below) call him "Robert fitz Eustace"; Early Yorkshire Families and The Cartulary of St. Leonard's Hospital, York both call him "Richard fitz Eustace". Ormerod calls him Richard.

Robert married Aubrey de Lisours. Aubrey (daughter of Robert de Lisours and Aubrey de Lacy) died after 1194. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Albereda de Lisoriis.

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• Alternate death: 1178

Roger married Alice de Vere after 1144. Alice (daughter of Aubrey de Vere and Alice de Clare) was born before 1141; died after 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Alice (or Adeliza) of Essex.

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Steward to David, Earl of Huntingdon, heir to the Scottish throne.

Robert married Margaret before Dec 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called William Fitz Gilbert. Castellan of William fitz Duncan's castle of Egremont 1138; Governor of the castle of Lancaster.

Andrew Lancaster (citation details below):

William de Lancaster I, Gilbert's son (and nephew, possibly through a sister, of Ketel) was said to have taken the "de Lancaster" name by royal licence and is probably the first person to have ever passed the name on to his children as a family name. On the other hand his grand daughter seems to have claimed that he used the name "de Tailboys" before being granted the new name. He was an important man, and married (probably as a second wife) Gundred, who is normally said, though this is doubted by William Farrer, to be Gundred de Warrene, an important member of one of the most powerful families in England. He lived in troubled times, including a major Scottish invasion and must have served under three competing claims to the monarchy above him during the anarchy in Britain (King David of Scotland, King Stephen of England and Mathilda his competitor in England).

The earliest records of his adult life seem to centre around Western Cumberland. Several websites even claim that he served as castellan of Egremont in Cumberland 1138 to William Fitz Duncan, a member of the Scottish royal family. In one article it is claimed that the De Lancaster arms are derived from this Scottish William. Others claim he helped command forces against the Scots in this area. A charter refers to him as if he were lord of Muncaster, which is also in Cumberland and apparently a lordship which would have come under Egremont. He also seems to have been lord of Lamplugh and Hensington before he was enfeoffed by Roger de Mowbray of the future Barony of Kendal, Lonsdale and Horton in Ribblesdale (these latter often suggested to imply lordship of the entire Wapentake of Ewcross), as well as parishes of Garstang and Warton in northern Lancashire. This happened about 1150. Farrer believes he died before Michaelmas 1170.

William married (Unknown first wife of William de Lancaster). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1183

Robert married Helewise. Helewise died after 1183. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

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Per Rosie Bevan on SGM, probably not "Agnes Paynel". William Farrer hypothesized that she was a Sourdeval. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls her "probably daughter of Geoffrey Bainard (sheriff of York before 1100)."

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• Alternate birth: Bef 1070
• Alternate death: Bef 1130

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Count of Aumale. Also called Étienne.

"Stephen, Count of Aumale, Lord of Holderness, s. and h. of the said Adelaide, by her 3rd husband. He was b. before 1070. In 1090 he took part with William II, and fortified his castle of Aumale against Duke Robert. By reason of his descent from the ducal house of Normandy he was chosen by Robert de Mowbray and his confederates as the person on whom to bestow the Crown, had they succeeded in their attempt to dethrone William II in 1094. He went on Crusade in 1096 with Duke Robert, before which, 14 July 1096, as Comes de Alba-marla, he gave the Church of St. Martin at Auchy to the Abbey of St. Lucien at Beauvais. He took the part of Henry I against Duke Robert in 1104, but in 1118 supported Baldwin a? la Hache, Count of Flanders, and the French King, in their invasion of Normandy on behalf of William Cliton, son of Duke Robert. He persisted in his rebellion, but was reduced to submission in 1119. He often occurs, but only once as Comes de Albamara, in the Lindsey Survey. He m. Hawise, da. of Ralph de Mortemer, of Wigmore, co. Hereford, Seigneur de Saint Victor-en-Caux, by Milicent, his wife. He d. before 1130." [Complete Peerage 1:352-53]

Stephen married Hawise de Mortimer. Hawise (daughter of Ralph de Mortimer and Melisende) died in 1189. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Constable of Knaresborough and of Chester; Governor of Bamborough Castle; justice itinerant; commanded a division of the Scots army against Stephen at the Battle of the Standard, 1138; founded the abbeys of Alnwick, Northumberland, and of Old Malton and Watton in Yorkshire.

"[H]e took part in Henry II's first disastrous expedition into Wales, and was slain (July 1157) in the unequal fight when the king's army fell into an ambush at Basingwerk." [1885 DNB]

Eustace married Agnes fitz William. Agnes (daughter of William fitz Nigel) died after 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Agnes Fitz Neel.

Robert married Aubrey de Lacy. Aubrey (daughter of Robert de Lacy and Maud) was born in of Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Albreda, etc.

Richard married Jane Bigod. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Great Addington, Northampton, England

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"Slain in a riot in London." [Complete Peerage]

Also known as Alberic; Albericus de Ver.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

"Vere, Aubrey (II) de (d. 1141), administrator, was the son and successor of Aubrey (I) de Vere and Beatrice, his wife. While the family was from Ver, south of Coutances in Normandy, there is no evidence that Aubrey senior or his descendants held lands either there or in Brittany, with which they retained ties. The elder Aubrey was most probably the younger son of a Norman lord who prospered in England after the conquest, becoming a royal chamberlain. Probably born in the early 1080s, Aubrey junior married Alice (d. 1163?), daughter of Gilbert de Clare, before 1107. He was to become one of the most prominent royal administrators of the later years of the reign of Henry I and the early years of Stephen. It is likely that Aubrey (II) began his administrative career as royal chamberlain, possibly inheriting that office from his father when the latter died c.1112. By 1121 he was sheriff of Essex, and, later in that decade, of London and Middlesex. The extent of the king's confidence in de Vere is evident in his appointment as joint sheriff, with Richard Basset, to the custody of eleven counties in 1129-30. This unprecedented situation was probably part of an effort to collect arrears and to adjust the shrieval farms. While the king had levied one fine of 550 marks and four war-horses against him for having allowed a prisoner to escape, and another of at least 100 marks for permission to resign the shrievalty of Essex and Hertfordshire, these fines had gone largely uncollected -- another sign of royal favour. In 1133 Henry I bestowed the hereditary office of master chamberlain of England on de Vere; the office was to remain in the de Vere family until 1703. Although his royal service was primarily confined to England, he was at least twice with Henry I in Normandy.

"When Aubrey de Vere's son William de Vere asserted that his father was 'justiciar of all England', and privy to important royal secrets, he seems to have meant that his father had travelled extensively as a justice, rather than that he had been chief justiciar of the realm. William of Malmesbury describes him as causidicus -- a pleader or advocate -- and skilled in the law. De Vere may have served as an itinerant justice under Henry I; he certainly did so in Stephen's reign. He had accepted Stephen's rule by Easter 1136, and when the king was summoned before an ecclesiastical council after his arrest of Roger of Salisbury and other bishops in 1139, he sent de Vere as his advocate. Aubrey de Vere was killed in a London riot on 15 May 1141, perhaps while supporting his son-in-law Geoffrey de Mandeville, first earl of Essex (d. 1144). [...]

"His family was to prove one of the longest lasting in the history of the English aristocracy. His eldest son was made earl of Oxford in the year of Aubrey (II)'s death, and although its descent was several times transmitted through collaterals, and twice interrupted by forfeitures, the title nevertheless passed to no fewer than nineteen successive descendants, until the twentieth earl, also Aubrey de Vere, died without a male heir in 1703."

Aubrey married Alice de Clare before 1106. Alice (daughter of Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare and Alice de Clermont) died in 1163 in St. Osyth Priory, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Adeliza the wife of Aubrey de Vere is attested by a fairly unimpeachable source, her own son William in notes added to his life of St Osyth. According to him she lived for 22 years as a widow at St Osyth's priory in Essex, so she evidently died ca 1163." [Peter Stewart, citation details below]

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"A Norman knight." [Ancestral Roots]

"Gilbert. The name of the father of the first De Lancaster is known, as is his apparent wife’s name Godith (mentioned in a benefaction of her son to St Mary de Pré in Leicester), but almost nothing else is known about either of them with any security. He is often referred to by genealogists with second names such as 'de Taillebois', 'de Lancaster', 'Fitz Ketel', or 'de Furness' (de Furnesio). However I can find no contemporary references like this. So like Eldred he is apparently mainly (or perhaps only) known from references to progeny, William de Lancaster I, and his brothers." [Andrew Lancaster, citation details below.]

Gilbert married Godith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sister of Ketel, 3rd Baron Kendal.

"If we accept the evidence that Ketel was uncle of William de Lancaster, was Ketel then the brother of Gilbert, or the brother of Godith? I think the slightly more popular theory is that he is the brother of Gilbert. However, I believe the evidence points at least softly in the other direction." [Andrew Lancaster, citation details below.]

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• 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]

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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.")