Sibyl de Neufmarché

Sibyl married Miles of Gloucester in 1121. Miles (son of Walter fitz Roger de Pîtres) was born about 1100; died on 24 Dec 1143; was buried in Llanthony Priory, outside Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef Oct 1198

Notes:

Also called Margery; Margaret of Gloucester; Margaret de Bohun.

"At the time that she became an heiress Margaret was recently widowed and in her forties. She outlived her husband by thirty years or more, never remarrying, and during her lengthy widowhood proved herself an ambitious matriarch, a conscientious donor to the church (clauses in some of her charters suggest that she had a keen and vigorous religious faith), a tough legal adversary, and a striking figure in the history of her family. Not only do certain statements in her charters articulate an intimate concern for the spiritual wellbeing of her immediate family, but Margaret was evidently also determined to see the Gloucester family's material interest, their extensive lands and honours, united in her own descendants. By 1173, if not earlier, her son and heir Humphrey had succeeded to the royal constableship first granted to her grandfather about 1114. After her son's death in 1181, Margaret took custody of her grandson Henry de Bohun and his lands, and shortly after her own death Henry was made earl of Hereford and constable of England by King John. In widowhood Margaret was also actively involved in the religious affairs of her family and, like many long-lived women of the medieval period, appears to have taken her commemorative, spiritual duties seriously--a concern perhaps enhanced by the deaths of a great number of her closest kin during her lifetime. She appears as grantor, confirmer, or witness on no less than thirty-three of her family's charters, most of them issued to her father's Augustinian foundation of Llanthony Secunda, just outside Gloucester, the mausoleum of her natal family and ultimately her own final resting place. Her charters to the Llanthony canons speak of an anxiety to make good on the unfulfilled eleemosynary promises of her brothers and to rescue their souls from the danger of hell (a periculo Inferni). She was also an occasional benefactor to Gloucester Abbey and to Monkton Farleigh Priory in Wiltshire, to which her late husband had been a donor, and on at least one occasion she confirmed the religious gifts of her Gloucestershire tenants. Seigneurial obligations in widowhood also compelled her to issue a series of grants to individuals within the purview of her lordship and connection." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Family/Spouse: Humphrey de Bohun. Humphrey (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Maud of Salisbury) was born before 1114 in of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; died before 29 Sep 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The first heir to Miles of Gloucester as was his son Roger of Hereford, king's constable, who died as a monk in 1155

His brother Walter of Hereford, king's constable, died 1157-59.

His brother Henry of Hereford, king's constable, died 1159-63, slain on an Easter eve by Seisyll ap Dyvnwal at Castle Arnold near Abergavenny.

His brother Mahel of Hereford, king's constable, died sometime after Jan 1164.

His brother William of Hereford, king's constable, died before 1166, mortally hurt by a stone dropped from Bronllys Tower, co. Brecon.

Which is how the honor of Abergavenny passed to their sister Bertha and to her husband William de Briouze.

Bertha married William de Briouze about 1150. William (son of Philip de Briouze and Aenor de Totnes) was born about 1100 in of Bramber, Sussex, England; died about 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Lucy of Gloucester, Lucy Fitz Walter.

Family/Spouse: Herbert fitz Herbert. Herbert (son of Herbert fitz Herbert and Sybil Corbet) was born about 1140 in of Halnaker, Sussex, England; died before Jun 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1182

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Earl of Hereford. Hereditary Constable of England.

"Humphrey (III) de Bohun [...] distinguished himself on the king's side in the war of 1173–4. He was in the royal army at Breteuil in August 1173, and with the justiciar Richard de Lucy later sacked Berwick and led troops into Lothian against William the Lion, king of Scots, before having to return south to deal with rebellion in England. In October 1173 he featured prominently in the defeat and capture of the earl of Leicester and others at Fornham near Bury St Edmunds. He witnessed the treaty of Falaise between Henry II and the king of Scots at the close of 1174. Through his marriage, which took place between February 1171 and Easter 1175, to Margaret (d. 1201), daughter of Henry of Scotland, earl of Northumberland (d. 1152), and widow of Conan (IV), duke of Brittany (d. 1171), he became brother-in-law to the king of Scots. He died while a member of the army led into France towards the end of 1181 by Henry II's sons to assist Philippe II against the count of Flanders, and was buried at Llanthony (Secunda) Priory, Gloucestershire." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Humphrey married Margaret of Huntingdon between 29 Sep 1172 and 1 Jan 1175. Margaret (daughter of Henry of Scotland and Ada de Warenne) was born about 1145; died in 1201; was buried in Sawtrey Abbey, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Bramber, Sussex, England
• Alternate death: Sep 1211, Corbeil, near Paris, France

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"William was the most notable member of the de Braose dynasty. His steady rise and sudden fall at the hands of King John is often taken as an example of that king's arbitrary and capricious behaviour towards his barons." [Wikipedia]

"William de Briouze, Lord of Briouze, Bramber, Brecon, Over Gwent, &c., s. and h. He m. Maud De St. Valery, "Lady of La Haie." In consequence of his well-known quarrel with King John, his lands were forfeited in 1208, and his wife and 1st s. starved to death in the dungeons of Corfe (or of Windsor) in 1210. He d. at Corbeil near Paris, 9, and was bur. 10 Aug. 1211, in the Abbey of St. Victor at Paris." [Complete Peerage I:22]

"He slaughtered Seisyll ap Dyvnwal (abovenamed) and a host of unarmed Welshmen, in the castle of Abergavenny in 1175, in revenge for the death of his uncle Henry of Hereford [Brut y Tywysogian, R. de Diceto, etc.). Seisyll was owner of Castle Arnold, and is said in an inaccurate version of the Brut to have captured Abergavenny in 1172, the slaughter being dated 1177 (The Gwentian Chronicle, Cambrian Arch. Assoc, p. 137). But the better version of the Brut (Rolls Ser., p. 218; Y Brutieu, in Welsh Texts, ed. Rhys and Evans, 1890, p. 330) on the contrary, states that Seisyll was captured in 1172 by the garrison of Abergavenny. (ex inform. G. W. Watson.)" [Complete Peerage I:22, footnote (a).]

Family/Spouse: Maud de St. Valéry. Maud (daughter of Bernard de St. Valéry and Matilda) was born about 1150; died in 1210 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1183, of Blaen Llyfni, Cathedine, Brecconshire, Wales

Notes:

Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1214. "[W]ho, being very obsequious to King John, was reputed one of that prince's evil counsellors." [Burke's Peerage] Advisor to John at Runnymede.

Peter married Alice fitz Robert after 28 Nov 1203. Alice (daughter of Robert fitz Roger and Margaret de Chesney) was born in of Warkworth, Northumberland, England; died before 12 Apr 1225. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1176
• Alternate birth: Abt 1176, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

Earl of Hereford. Hereditary Constable of England. Sheriff of Kent, 1200.

Magna Carta surety; as such, excommunicated by Innocent III 16 Dec 1215. Fought for Louis of France at the battle of Lincoln, where he was taken prisoner 20 May 1217, subsequently released and his forfeited lands restored. Left on the Fifth Crusade 1219; died in Palestine the following year.

Family/Spouse: Maud de Mandeville. Maud (daughter of Geoffrey fitz Peter and Beatrice de Say) died on 27 Aug 1236. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1210, Corfe Castle, Dorset, England

Notes:

"By order of King John, he was starved to death with his mother in the dungeons of Windsor Castle in 1210." [Royal Ancestry] Wikipedia says they were subsequently transferred to Corfe Castle in Dorset and died there. Ancestral Roots and CP place their deaths "at Corfe or Windsor Castle".

William married Maud de Clare before 1198. Maud (daughter of Richard de Clare and Amice of Gloucester) died in 1213. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Kington, Herefordshire, England
• Alternate death: Between 5 May 1227 and 9 Jun 1228
• Alternate death: Bef 9 Jun 1228

Notes:

"Reynold de Briouze, next br. He had seizin of his father's lands 26 May 1216, but gave up Bramber in or after 1220 to his nephew John, s. and h. of his 1st br. William. He m., 1stly, Grecia, da. and in her issue coh. of William Brieguerre or Briwere, by Beatrice de Vaux. He m., 2ndly, 1215, Gwladus Du, da. of Llewelyn ap lorwerth. Prince of North Wales, by his 2nd wife, Joan, illegit. da. of King John. He d. between 5 May 1227 and 9 June 1228. His widow m., 2ndly, Ralph de Mortimer, of Wigmore, who d. 6 Aug. 1246, and was bur. at Wigmore Abbey. She d. at Windsor in 1251." [Complete Peerage I:22]

He attended the king at the siege of Bitham, 1221.

Family/Spouse: Grace Briwerre. Grace (daughter of William de Briwerre and Beatrice de Vaux) died before 1215. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reynold married Gwladus Ddu in 1215. Gwladus (daughter of Llywelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth and Joan of England) died in 1251 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William de Beauchamp. William (son of William de Beauchamp and Avicia) was born in of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England; died in 1197 in Normandy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gruffudd ab Yr Arglwydd Rhys. Gruffudd (son of Rhys ap Gruffydd, King of Deheubarth and Gwenllian ferch Madog) died on 25 Jul 1201 in Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion, Wales; was buried in Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1254

Margaret married Walter de Lacy before 19 Nov 1200. Walter (son of Hugh de Lacy and Rohese de Monmouth) was born about 1172; died before 24 Feb 1240. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1266

Lucy married William I de Ros before 24 Jan 1234. William (son of Robert de Ros and Isabel of Scotland) was born after 1192 in of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England; died in 1264; was buried in Kirkham Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Blaen Llyfni in Cathedine, Breconshire, Wales
• Alternate death: 5 May 1286

Notes:

Also called Reynold Fitz Piers. He supported Henry III against the rebelling barons. He fought extensively in Wales. He was joint guardian of the Welsh marshes 10 May 1257, Sheriff of Hampshire 1261-64, and constable of Winchester castle in 1261.

Reynold married Alice de Stanford before Sep 1249. Alice died after 24 Oct 1265. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reynold married Joan de Vivonne before 3 Jan 1279. Joan (daughter of William de Forz and Maud de Ferrers) was born in 1251; died on 1 Jun 1314. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]