Elias III Giffard

- Bef 1190

• Name	Elias III Giffard  [1]
  Birth	of Elston in Orcheston St. George, Wiltshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England   [3, 4]
  Death	Bef 29 Sep 1190  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Person ID	I123	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of FF, Ancestor of FW, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Elias II Giffard,   b. of Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England d. 1159
  Mother	Bertha de Clifford,   b. of Clifford, Herefordshire, England d. Aft 1167
  Family ID	F3694	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	(Unknown wife of Elias III Giffard)
  Children	+ 1. Elias IV Giffard,   b. Abt 1170, of Brimpsfield, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England d. Bef 2 May 1248 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Family ID	F4396	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Maud fitz Maurice
  Children	+ 1. Osbert Giffard,   b. of Winterbourne Houghton, Dorset, England d. Abt 1237
  Family ID	F3931	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2016

  
  

• Notes

  "Elis III m. Maud, daughter of Morice fitz Robert fitz Hardinge, of Berkeley: which Elis III owed 100 marks 'pro fine terre sue' in 1166 and died before Michaelmas 1190, when William le Mareschal owed 140 marks for the custody of the lands of Elis Giffard. Elis III was son and heir of Elis II (who became a monk in Gloucester Abbey), by Berta (living 1167), sister of Walter de Clifford, of Clifford and Glasbury, and daughter of Richard fitz Ponce. In 1130 Elis II rendered account of 100 marks of silver for the relief of his father's lands, being son and heir of Elis I, by Ala, his wife. Before 1096 Elis I had succeeded his father Osbern Giffard, the Domesday tenant of Brimpsfield, Stoke, Rockhampton, Elston, Orcheston, etc." [Complete Peerage V:639, note (c)]

  
  

• Sources

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