John de Cantelowe

John married Margery Comyn between 1227 and 1236. Margery (daughter of William Comyn and Eve) was born before 1224; died after 1278. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John de Cantelowe was born in of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England; died in 1333.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1185, of Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, England

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Steward of the royal household to Henry III. "[N]amed by Roger of Wendover among the evil counsellors of King John of England, apparently for no better reason than that they were consistently loyal to an unpopular master." [Wikipedia]

William married Milicent de Gournay before Jul 1215. Milicent (daughter of Hugh de Gournay and Juliane de Dammartin) died before 1233. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1260

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Countess of Gloucester; Countess of Evreux.

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• Alternate birth: Between 1170 and 1175, of Caln, Wiltshire, England

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Also spelled Cantelou; Cantilupe.

Count of Mortain. Sheriff of Worcestershire 1200-15; Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire 1201-4, 1209-23; itinerant Justice in Staffordshire 1203; Sheriff of Herefordshire 1204-5; Steward of the King's Household 1204-22; justice in Nottinghamshire 1208; itinerant justice in Bedfordshire 1218. Fought at the siege of Bitham Castle, 1221.

"He and William Briwerre supervised elections in the vacant sees of York and Carlisle in 1214. Wendover's description of him as one of John's 'evil counselors' probably owes much to his role as a gaoler of baronial hostages. Wendover also suggests that Cantelowe may have wavered in his loyalty after the rebel seizure of London in 1215, but this is belied by the stream of royal writs sent to him in 1215-16. In 1215 he also witnessed the royal declaration of free election to sees and abbeys. He took the side of the king in his war with the barons. In 1215-16 he was granted a number of manors belonging to rebels, and was commissioned to treat with those who might return to the king's peace." [Royal Ancestry]

"A Norman by birth." [Royal Ancestry]

William married Masceline de Bracy. Masceline (daughter of Adulf de Bracy) died after 1220. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Mazalia; Mazra; Brascy; Braci.

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• Alternate birth: of Bledlow, Buckinghamshire, England
• Alternate death: 1215

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Accompanied Richard I on the Third Crusade, 1191. Commanded 100 knights at Acre. Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, 1214. According to Royal Ancestry, he died in Rouen "after donning the garb of a Templar and discarding it by apostasy."

Hugh married Juliane de Dammartin before 1193. Juliane (daughter of Aubrey II de Dammartin and Mahaut of Clermont) died in 1238. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Amice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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One of the leaders of the attempt, in 1118, to place William Clito on the throne. After Henry I crushed the revolt, High de Gournay was among those pardoned. In 1147-49 he accompanied King Louis VII of France on a short-lived crusade to the Holy Land.

During the revolt of the Young King, this Hugh de Gournay was captured by the rebels along with his son Hugh.

Hugh married Millicent de Coucy before 1162. Millicent (daughter of Thomas de Marle and Mélisende de Crecy) died after 1181. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Melisende.

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• Alternate death: 20 Sep 1200

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Count of Dammartin-en-Goële. Chamberlain of France 1155-1160.

Also called Alberic II; Albri de Luzarches.

Aubrey married Mahaut of Clermont. Mahaut (daughter of Renaud II de Clermont and Clemence de Bar-le-Duc) died in Oct 1200. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft Sep 1200
• Alternate death: Aft 1218

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Also Mathilda; Mathilde; Marie; Maud; Mabile.

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"He accompanied Robert, Duke of Normandy, on a crusade in 1096, and was with Bohemond on the advance from Nice in Bythnia. [...I]s said to have died on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem." [Royal Ancestry]

Gerard married Ediva de Warenne before 1091. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Edeva, Edith.

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Also called Thomas de Coucy. Count of Amiens; lord of Coucy and Marle. "A notorious knight brigand."

From Leo van de Pas's site:

Thomas was lord of Coucy, Boves, Marle, La Fère, Crépy and Vervins. There was some doubt as to whether Enguerrand I was really his father (he had repudiated Thomas' mother over her adultery), and it appears that Enguerrand detested his son and sought to disinherit him.

Before 1095 Thomas developed a reputation for rapacious cruelty. In April 1096 he joined the first crusade with his father and alongside the notorious Emicho of Leiningen, persecutor of the Rhineland Jews. He fought with great courage in a number of battles: Nicea (June 1097), Dorylaeum (July 1097), Al-Bara (December 1097), Antioch (June 1098), and Jerusalem in July 1099 he was one of the first Crusaders to enter the city.

Thomas may have been marked by the cross, but he could not switch off the elemental ferocity that had driven him, and many of his comrades, to the gates of the Holy City. Returning to his country with little to show for such a long crusade, Thomas resumed his pillaging and devastation of the regions around Laon, from Amiens to Reims. He was even excommunicated by the pope during a council held in Beauvais in 1114.

In October 1130 he was severely wounded by Raoul I 'the Valiant', comte de Vermandois, during the siege of Coucy ordered by King Louis VI, who wanted to put an end to the ravages of his vassal.

Thomas died of his wounds on 9 November 1130. He was buried under the tower of the abbatial church of Nogent-sous-Coucy, and his body remained there until 3 April 1219, when it was moved to the church built by his grandson Enguerrand III. The chronicler of the time, Guibert de Nogent, abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Nogent-sous-Coucy, wrote of him that he was the greatest scoundrel of his time.

Thomas married Mélisende de Crecy about 1102. Mélisende (daughter of Guy de Crecy) died after 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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AR8 says "whose parentage is in doubt". She is sometimes shown as a daughter of Guy II de Montlhery and his wife Adelaide de Crecy. Van de Pas gives her father as "Guy de Crécy, Comte de Rochefort sur Yvelin."

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Count of Dammartin-en-Goële.

Alberic married Maud. Maud died before 1164. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Possibly daughter of William Saint Clair, of Hamerton, Huntingdonshire." [Royal Ancestry]

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Count of Clermont, afterwards Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Châtelain of Creil, and, in right of his wife, Count of Vermandois.

Went on Crusade in 1099.

Renaud married Clemence de Bar-le-Duc. Clemence (daughter of Renaud I of Mousson and Bar-le-Duc and Gisele de Vaudemont) was born in of Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne, Lorraine, France; died after 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Dammartin.

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Domesday tenant of Liston, Ardley, and Fordham, Essex.

"In 1077 he witnessed the foundation charter of the monastery of St. Stephens at Caen by King William the Conqueror and in 1082 the foundation charter of the nunnery of Holy Trinity Caen by King William the Conqueror and his wife, Queen Maud. Hugh and his wife, Basile, retired to the Abbey of Bec in France c. 1082 with her neice, Ansfride. They were still living c. 1093, when St. Anselm was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. A letter from Anselm to Basile has been preserved. He predeceased his wife." [Royal Ancestry]

Hugh married Basile Flaitel. Basile (daughter of Gerard Flaitel) died after 1093 in Abbey of Bec, Eure, Normandy, France; was buried in Abbey of Bec, Eure, Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1089

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1st Earl of Surrey. One of the Conqueror's fifteen proven companions. Died from wounds sustained at the siege of Pevensey.

William married Gundred of Flanders before 1070. Gundred was born in Flanders; died on 27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England; was buried in Lewes Priory, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Countess of Surrey. Also called Gundreda de Gand; Gundrada.

"Possibly da. of Gerbod, hereditary advocate of the abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer." [Complete Peerage]

"[She] was called 'daughter of the Conqueror,' although no evidence was advanced." [Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., "Royal Bye-Blows: The Illegitimate Children of the English Kings from William I to Edward III", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 119:94, 1965]

From Wikipedia:

Gundred or Gundreda (Latin: Gundrada) (died 27 May 1085) was the Flemish-born wife of an early Norman baron, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey. She and her husband established Lewes Priory in Sussex.

Gundred was almost certainly born in Flanders, and was a sister of Gerbod the Fleming, 1st Earl of Chester. She is explicitly so called by Orderic Vitalis, as well as the chronicle of Hyde Abbey. She was also sister of Frederick of Oosterzele-Scheldewindeke, who was killed c. 1070 by Hereward the Wake. Legends based in part on late Lewes priory cartulary suggested Gundred was a daughter of William the Conqueror by his spouse Matilda of Flanders, but this is not accepted by most modern historians. The early-19th-century writer Thomas Stapleton had argued she was a daughter of Matilda, born prior to her marriage to Duke William. This sparked a debate consisting of a series of published papers culminating with those of Edmond Chester Waters and Edward Augustus Freeman who argued the theories could not be supported. Regardless, some genealogical and historical sources continue to make the assertion that she was the Conqueror's daughter.

Gundred married before 1070 William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey (d. 20 June 1088), who rebuilt Lewes Castle, making it his chief residence. Sometime between 1078 and 1082, Gundrada and her husband set out for Rome visiting monasteries along the way. In Burgundy they were unable to go any further due to a war between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. They visited Cluny Abbey and were impressed with the monks and their dedication. William and Gundred decided to found a Cluniac priory on their own lands in England. They sent to Hugh the abbot of Cluny for monks to come to England at their monastery. Hugh was reluctant yet eventually sent several monks including Lazlo who became the first abbot. The house they founded was Lewes Priory, dedicated to St. Pancras. Gundred died in childbirth 27 May 1085 at Castle Acre, Norfolk, one of her husband's estates, and was buried at the Chapter house of Lewes Priory. He was later buried beside her.

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Lord of Boves and Coucy.

From Leo van de Pas's site:

The first Enguerrand to be lord of Coucy was the son of Dreux de Coucy, seigneur de Boves, and great grandson of Jean de Coucy. He probably received Coucy in fief at the end of the 11th century. With his first wife Ada de Marle, daughter of Liétaud de Roucy, Seigneur de Marle, Enguerrand had a son Thomas de Marle, a notorious knight brigand in conflict with King Louis VI. Enguerrand had some doubts about the parentage of his son, as his wife Ada had committed adultery. He strongly disliked Thomas and sought to disinherit him. Enguerrand repudiated Ada for her adultery. After her death he abducted Sibil de Porcean, wife of Godefroid, comte de Namur. He married her despite the fact that she was still married to Godefroid (who later divorced her and married Ermesinde, Gräfin von Luxemburg).

For his actions Enguerrand was excommunicated by the Church. He sought to make amends by taking part in the First Crusade; between 1096 and 1099 he fought heroically in the Holy Land. During one battle with the Muslims he mislaid his banner; he tore off his coat of scarlet lined with squirrel fur, and cut out a new emblem from it. Thus was born the celebrated description of his arms: 'Fassé de vair et de gueulle de six pieces' (fessy of squirrel fur and gules of six parts), which would bear the name of Coucy on many battle fields.

Enguerrand's excommunication was lifted through the help of his kinsman, also called Enguerrand, the bishop of Laon. Enguerrand died about 1116.

Enguerrand married Ade de Roucy before 1060, and was divorced. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ada de Marle. Vicountess of Coucy. Mentioned 1059.

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Count of Rochefort sur Yvelin.

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Chamberlain to King Louis VI of France, 1122-29.

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• Alternate death: Between 1101 and 1103
• Alternate death: 1102

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Also called Hugh de Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.

Count of Clermont, Breuil-le-Vert, Creil, Gournay, Luzarches, and Mouchy-Saint-Elou.

Hugues married Marguerite de Montdidier about 1080. Marguerite (daughter of Hildouin IV de Montdidier and Adele de Roucy) was born about 1050 in of Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France; died before 1101. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Marguerite de Roucy.

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• Alternate death: 1150

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Count of Mousson; Count of Bar-le-Duc. Fought in the Second Crusade.

Renaud married Gisele de Vaudemont about 1120. Gisele (daughter of Gerard of Lorraine and Edith of Egisheim) was born in 1090; died in 1141. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]