Ebel de Grandison

Family/Spouse: Adelaide. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1159

Family/Spouse: Jordane. Jordane died after 1157. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1140, of Grandson, Switzerland
• Alternate death: Aft 1235

Notes:

Many genealogical sources identify this Ebel de Grandison, who was husband of a daughter of Amadeus I of Geneva, as a son of another Ebel de Grandison (claimed to have died about 1173) and his wife Jordane, the older Ebel a son of Barthélemy de Grandison who died about 1158, and whose wife is said to be unknown.

David Williams (citation details below) points out that model traces back to the research of the 19th-century Swiss historian Louis de Charrière, who postulated that Barthélemy's son Ebel could not have lived much beyond 1177 and that therefore the Ebel who appears in documents after that date must have been a son. This hypothesis was rejected in the mid-20th century by Swiss historian and genealogist Olivier Dessemontet, who argued that evidence for an additional Ebel was nonexistent, and further pointed out that Charrière had based his argument on his misunderstanding of a particular Latin text. Williams's piece, cited below, takes stock of the de Grandison pedigree in light of this and argues convincingly that Jordane was the wife of Barthélemy, not of Barthélemy's son Ebel, and that Barthélemy's son Ebel and supposed grandson Ebel were in fact a single individual who lived from about 1144 to the mid-1230s.

Family/Spouse: (Unknown daughter of Amadeus I of Geneva). (Unknown (daughter of Amadeus I and (Unknown second wife of Amadeus I of Geneva)) died after 1234. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 29 Dec 1257 and 15 Jul 1259
• Alternate death: 31 Aug 1263

Notes:

Seigneur of Grandson, on Lake Neuchatel, now in Switzerland. Châtelain of Moudon c. 1255.

Pierre married Agnès de Neufchâtel about 1225. Agnès (daughter of Ulric III de Neufchâtel and Jolante of Urach) was born between 1207 and 1209; died after 15 Apr 1283; was buried in Priory Church of Saint-Jean Baptiste, Grandson, Jura-Nord Vaudois, Vaud, Switzerland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1243, of Ashperton, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
• Alternate death: 17 Jun 1335

Notes:

1st Baron Grandison 1299?1335, Knight, Deputy Justiciar of North Wales 1284?1293, Deputy Warden of the Channel Islands 1294?1296.

He served in the household of Edmund "Crouchback", Earl of Lancaster. He fought in the Scottish wars and was at the seige of Caerlaverock. He was an executor of Edmund's will and of that of his widow Blanche of Artois.

Summoned to Parliament by writs dated from 6 Feb 1299 to 10 Oct 1325.

William married Sibyl de Tregoz before 1286. Sibyl (daughter of John de Tregoz and Mabel Fitzwarine) was born about 1272; died on 21 Oct 1334 in Dore, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Dore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mabel married John de Pateshulle before 1313. John (son of Simon de Pateshulle and Isabel de Stonegrave) was born about 1291 in of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England; died between Jul 1349 and Aug 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Katherine married William de Montagu before 1328. William (son of William de Montagu and Elizabeth de Montfort) was born between 1302 and 1303 in of Shepton Montague, Somerset, England; died on 30 Jan 1344. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 4 Dec 1438

Agnes married John de Northwode before 1307. John (son of John de Northwode and Joan de Badlesmere) was born in of Northwood in Sheppey, Kent, England; died before 1318. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maud married Walter de Fauconberge about Dec 1330. Walter (son of John de Faucomberge and Eve de Bulmer) was born before 1319 in of Skelton, Yorkshire, England; died on 29 Sep 1362; was buried in Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sibyl married Roger de Beauchamp before 15 Mar 1337. Roger (son of Roger de Beauchamp) was born in of Bloxham, Oxfordshire, England; died on 3 Jan 1380. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Wake. Thomas (son of Thomas Wake and Elizabeth de Cransley) was born in of Blysworth, Northamptonshire, England; died after 12 Sep 1379; was buried in East Deeping Church, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger de Mortimer. Roger (son of Edmund de Mortimer and Elizabeth de Badlesmere) was born on 11 Nov 1328 in Ludlow, Shropshire, England; died on 26 Feb 1360 in Rouvray, Côte d'Or, Burgundy, France; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sybil married Edmund Fitz Alan before 16 Jul 1347. Edmund (son of Richard Fitz Alan and Isabel le Despenser) was born about 1329 in of Chedzoy, Devon, England; died before 12 Feb 1382. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 4 Mar 1390

Family/Spouse: Margaret Monthermer. Margaret (daughter of Thomas de Monthermer and Margaret de Brewes) was born in 1329; died on 24 Mar 1395; was buried in Selwood Priory, Wiltshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Juliane de Say after 23 Mar 1322. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Skelton, Yorkshire, England

Notes:

"In 1378, having joined or supported the King of France, he was imprisoned as a traitor for at least thirteen years, part of that time in the custody of his brother, Roger; thereafter it was indicated in at least some records that he was not of sound mind." [Terry J. Booth, citation details below]

Family/Spouse: Joan Bromflete. Joan died on 4 Mar 1409. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Constance Felton before 21 Sep 1354. Constance died before 8 Jun 1402. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Roger married Margaret about 1370. Margaret died after 10 Dec 1391. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Complete Peerage volume 14, the additions-and-corrigenda volume, notes that this Roger Beauchamp marriedly, secondly, Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Walter Clopton, widow of Sir Walter Walcot of Gunton, Norfolk. CP14 further notes that Joan cannot have been the mother of Roger's heir Roger, who was born in 1362, because Walter Walcot didn't die until 1366.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Philip Courtenay about 1378. Philip (son of Hugh de Courtenay and Margaret de Bohun) was born in of Powderham, Exminster, Devon, England; died on 29 Jul 1406. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Earl of March. Earl of Ulster.

From Wikipeia:

An infant at the death of his father, Edmund, as a ward of the crown, was placed by Edward III of England under the care of William of Wykeham and Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel.

The position of the young earl, powerful on account of his possessions and hereditary influence in the Welsh marches, was rendered still more important by his marriage on 24 August 1369 at the age of 17 to the 14-year-old Philippa, the only child of the late Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, the second son of Edward III.

Lionel's late wife, Elizabeth, had been daughter and heiress of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, and Lionel had himself been created Earl of Ulster before his marriage. Edmund inherited the title Earl of Ulster on Lionel's death.

Therefore, the Earl of March not only represented one of the chief Anglo-Norman lordships in Ireland in right of his wife Philippa, but Philippa's line was also the second most senior line of descent in the succession to the crown, after Edward, the Black Prince and his son, King Richard II of England. John of Gaunt, younger brother of Prince Edward, had become the 1st Duke of Lancaster and thus the source of the House of Lancaster's claim to the throne.

This marriage had, therefore, far-reaching consequences in English history, ultimately giving rise to the claim of the House of York to the crown of England contested in the Wars of the Roses between the Yorks and the Lancasters; Edward IV being descended from the second adult son of Edward III as great-great-grandson of Philippa, countess of March, and in the male line from Edmund of Langley, the first Duke of York and the fourth adult son of Edward III.

Edmund Mortimer's son Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March would become heir presumptive to the English crown during the reign of Richard II.

Mortimer, now styled Earl of March and Ulster, became Marshal of England in 1369, and was employed in various diplomatic missions during the next following years. He was a member of the committee appointed by the Peers to confer with the Commons in 1373 - the first instance of such a joint conference since the institution of representative parliaments on the question of granting supplies for John of Gaunt's war in France.

He participated in the opposition to Edward III and the court party, which grew in strength towards the end of the reign, taking the popular side and being prominent in the Good Parliament of 1376 among the lords who supported the Prince of Wales and opposed the Court Party and John of Gaunt. The Speaker of the House of Commons in this parliament was March's steward, Peter de la Mare, (1294-1387 of Little Hereford, Hereford), who firmly withstood John of Gaunt in stating the grievances of the Commons, in supporting the impeachment of several high court officials, and in procuring the banishment of the king's mistress, Alice Perrers. March was a member of the administrative council appointed by the same parliament after the death of Edward, the Black Prince to attend the king and advise him in all public affairs.

Following the end of the Good Parliament its acts were reversed by John of Gaunt, March's steward was jailed, and March himself was ordered to inspect Calais and other remote royal castles as part of his duty as Marshal of England. March chose instead to resign the post.

On the accession of Richard II, a minor, in 1377, the Earl became a member of the standing council of government; though as husband of the heir-presumptive to the crown he wisely abstained from claiming any actual administrative office. The richest and most powerful person in the realm was, however, the king's uncle John of Gaunt, whose jealousy led March to accept the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1379. March succeeded in asserting his authority in eastern Ulster, but failed to subdue the O'Neills farther west. Proceeding to Munster to put down the turbulent southern chieftains, March was killed at Cork on 27 December 1381. He was buried in Wigmore Abbey, of which he had been a benefactor, and where his wife Philippa was also interred.

Edmund married Philippe of Clarence about May 1368 in Reading, Berkshire, England. Philippe (daughter of Lionel of Antwerp and Elizabeth de Burgh) was born on 16 Aug 1355 in Eltham, Kent, England; was christened in Eltham, Kent, England; died before 8 Jan 1378; was buried in Wigmore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philippa married Richard Sergeaux before 1371. Richard (son of Richard Sergeaux and Margaret Seneschal) was born in of Colquite, Cornwall, England; died on 30 Sep 1393. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Leonard de Carew. Leonard (son of John de Carew and Margaret de Mohun) was born on 23 Apr 1342 in Stoke Fleming, Devon, England; died on 9 Oct 1369. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

3rd Earl of Salisbury. King's knight. Pricy councillor, 1395. Deputy Earl Marshall of England, 1398. Summoned to Parliament 18 Jul 1397 to 30 Sep 1399 as Earl of Salisbury. Beheaded for conspiring against Henry IV.

John married Maud Fraunceys before 4 May 1383. Maud (daughter of Adam Fraunceys, Lord Mayor of London and Agnes Champneys) died before 5 Aug 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1394

Eleanor married John Dinham before 3 Feb 1380. John (son of John de Dinham and Muriel Courtenay) was born between 1358 and 1359 in of Hartland, Devon, England; died on 25 Dec 1428; was buried in St. Mary's, Kingskerswell, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Summoned to Parliament by writ from 1 Jun 1363.

John married Joan Hert in 1350. Joan (daughter of Robert Hert) died after Aug 1398. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]