Isolde le Rous

- Bef 1338

• Name	Isolde le Rous  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 4 Aug 1338  [3, 4]
  Person ID	I3233	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Roger le Rous,   b. of Harescombe, Gloucestershire, England d. Bef 31 Aug 1294
  Mother	Eleanor de Avenbury   d. Aft 1312
  Family ID	F302	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hugh de Audley,   b. Abt 1267, of Stratton, Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England d. Between 1325 and 1326 (Age ~ 58 years)
  Marriage	Bef Jul 1291  [5]
  Children	1. Hugh de Audley,   b. Abt 1289, of Great Marcle, Herefordshire, England d. 10 Nov 1347 (Age ~ 58 years)   2. Alice de Audley,   b. Abt 1300   d. 12 Jan 1374 (Age ~ 74 years)
  Family ID	F1335	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Complete Peerage and Ancestral Roots give her as a daughter of Sir Edmund Mortimer, 7th Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, by an unidentified first wife, but various discussions on SGM and elsewere led to a consensus that this is chronologically improbable and that her parentage must be regarded as unknown. See also this page on Chris Phillips' site. More recently, on 17 Dec 2017, Douglas Richardson posted to SGM evidence that she was a daughter of Roger le Rous and his wife Eleanor de Avenbury. Both pieces of evidence have to do with the known fact that her first husband was Walter de Balun, who died in 1287. In 1296 one Isolde sued Reynold de Balun in the Court of Common Pleas regarding the manor of Eastington, Gloucester, which she claimed as her right and which she was in fact holding at that time. Reynold de Balun was Walter de Balun's brother and heir. The record identifies Isolde, the plaintiff, as "daughter of Roger le Rus." The other document is a record of Walter de Balun and his wife, Isolde, being enfeoffed with the manor of Much Marcle, Herefordshire by Roger le Rous. Between these two it seems clear that the wife of Hugh de Audley, widow of Walter de Balun, was a daughter of Roger le Rous. Complete Peerage and Ancestral Roots give her as a daughter of Sir Edmund Mortimer, 7th Baron Mortimer of Wigmore, by an unidentified first wife, but various discussions on SGM and elsewere led to a consensus that this is chronologically improbable and that her parentage must be regarded as unknown. See also this page on Chris Phillips' site. More recently, on 17 Dec 2017, Douglas Richardson posted to SGM evidence that she was a daughter of Roger le Rous and his wife Eleanor de Avenbury. Both pieces of evidence have to do with the known fact that her first husband was Walter de Balun, who died in 1287. In 1296 one Isolde sued Reynold de Balun in the Court of Common Pleas regarding the manor of Eastington, Gloucester, which she claimed as her right and which she was in fact holding at that time. Reynold de Balun was Walter de Balun's nephew and heir. The record identifies Isolde, the plaintiff, as "daughter of Roger le Rus." The other document is a record of Walter de Balun and his wife, Isolde, being enfeoffed with the manor of Much Marcle, Herefordshire by Roger le Rous. Between these two it seems clear that the wife of Hugh de Audley, widow of Walter de Balun, was a daughter of Roger le Rous.

  
  

• Sources

  [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S895] John P. Ravilious, 8 Dec 2006, post to soc.genealogy.medieval. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S1522] Douglas Richardson, 17 Dec 2017, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., year only. [S848] Douglas Richardson, 8 Aug 2020, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.