Bernard de Neufmarché

- 1093

• Name	Bernard de Neufmarché  [1, 2]
  Birth	of Neuf-Marche, Normandy, France   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1093  [5]
  Alternate death	Between 1121 and 1125  [3, 6]
  Person ID	I5554	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Geoffrey de Neufmarché
  Mother	Ada de Hugleville
  Family ID	F2265	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nest ferch Osbern
  Marriage	Between 1086 and 1088  [3]
  Children	1. Sibyl de Neufmarché,   b. of Brecon, Breconshire, Wales bur. Llanthony Priory, outside Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
  Family ID	F649	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Lord of Brecon, according to CP, which cites Round, Ancient Charters, no. 6. Henry James Young (citation details below) calls him “lord of Brecknock.” From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: He was in England by 1086-7, witnessing William’s ‘foundation charter’ to Battle Abbey. He does not appear in Domesday Book. Between 1086 and 1088 he was granted lands in Herefordshire (including Burghill, Brinsop, and Much Cowarne) by either William I or William II. At about the same time, Bernard married Nest (also known as Agnes), daughter and heir of the Herefordshire lord Osbern fitz Richard, and granddaughter of the north Welsh king Gruffudd ap Llywelyn. [...] In 1088, Bernard de Neufmarché participated in the rebellion against William II, joining the force which attacked Worcester. He may have been drawn into the rebellion by his father-in-law, and was apparently not punished for his actions. Also in 1088, he seems to have embarked upon his conquest of the minor Welsh kingdom of Brycheiniog, for late in 1088 he made a grant of Glasbury in Brycheiniog, together with Much Cowarne church, to St Peter’s, Gloucester. This may have been a ‘first fruits’ offering. By 1093, Bernard was probably in possession of the Welsh capital of Brycheiniog, Talgarth, and in that year, the south Welsh king Rhys ap Tewdwr was killed near Aberhonddu by the Norman invaders of Brycheiniog. His death cleared the way for Bernard to annex the whole region, establishing himself and his feudal vassals in new castles and fiefs there.

  
  

• Sources

  [S789] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry by Vernon James Watney. Oxford, 1928. [S2158] Pedigree and Progress: Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History by Anthony Wagner. London: Phillimore & Co., 1975. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [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. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.