Eustace fitz John

Bef 1100 - 1157  (> 57 years)

• Name	Eustace fitz John
  Birth	Bef 1100	of Saxlingham, Norfolk, England   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Jul 1157	Pass of Consyllt, near Basingwerk, Flintshire, Wales   [1, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Siblings	4 siblings
  1. Payn fitz John ,   b. Bef 1100   d. 10 Jul 1137  (Age > 37 years) ▻ Sybil   2. Eustace fitz John ,   b. Bef 1100, of Saxlingham, Norfolk, England d. Jul 1157, Pass of Consyllt, near Basingwerk, Flintshire, Wales  (Age > 57 years) ▻ Agnes fitz William ;  Beatrix de Vescy   3. Agnes fitz John   d. Aft 1184 ▻ Roger de Valognes   4. Alice, Abbess of Barking   5. William
  Person ID	I5277	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2019

  
  

  Father	John fitz Richard,   b. Bef 1056, of Elsenham, Essex, England d. Aft 1107 (Age > 53 years)
  Family ID	F138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Agnes fitz William   d. Aft 1157
  Children	1. Robert fitz Eustace   d. Bef 1163
  Family ID	F4622	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Beatrix de Vescy
  Children	1. William de Vescy   d. Bef 29 Sep 1183, Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland, England
  Family ID	F15940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Dec 2019

  
  

• Notes

  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]

  
  

• Sources

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