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Family/Spouse: Urse d'Abetot. Urse (son of Almaric d'Abetot) was born about 1040 in St. Jean d'Abbetot, near Tancarville, Normandy, France; died in 1108. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Watson, soc.genealogy.medieval, 5 June 2017:

William de Beauchamp (died 1170) confirmed Walter his father's grant of land and tithes to Worcester Cathedral priory, including a virgate of land held by Alfred, chaplain of Urse d'Abetot, his grandfather.

William's mother was a daughter of Urse d'Abetot, but I have not seen any contemporary evidence that her name was Emmeline. Dugdale identified her from a register of the dean and chapter of Worcester which is now lost.

"Willelmus de Bello campo omnibus ministris suis et ballivis de Wirecestre scira salutem, Sciatis me concessise et confirmasse donationem illam, quam pater meus Walterus fecit Priori et Monachis de Wirecestria de una virgata terrae quam Elfredus capellanus Ursonis de Abbetot avi mei tenuit. Et volo, ut teneant eam liberam et quietam de geldis et omnibus secularibus exactionibus, sicut elemosinam patris mei et matris meae. T. Isnardo, Rogero de Lenz &c." William Hale Hale, Registrum sive Liber Irrotularius et Consuetudinarius Prioratus Beatae Mariae Wigorniensis (London, 1865), 92a.

Family/Spouse: Walter de Beauchamp. Walter was born in of Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, England; died in 1131. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger Marmion. Roger (son of Robert Marmion and Hadeguisa) was born between 1060 and 1070 in Normandy, France; died before 29 Sep 1129. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sheriff of Worcester from 1114 until his death.

Family/Spouse: Avicia. Avicia died after 1170. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1095
• Alternate death: 1143
• Alternate death: Abt 16 Sep 1144, Coventry, Warwickshire, England

Notes:

"Robert Marmion, son of Roger Marmion, which Roger at the time of the Lindsey Survey, circa 1115-18, held land in Lincolnshire, rendered an account of 176£ 13s. 4d. for relief on his father's lands, of which 60£ had been paid by Michaelmas 1130. He was granted by Henry I, circa 1129-33, free warren in Warwickshire as his father had it, especially at Tamworth. With his wife Milicent he granted the church of Polesworth and other property to the nuns there, and the vill of Buteyate to Bardney Abbey. In 1140 Geoffrey, Earl of Anjou, besieged and destroyed his castle of Fontenay. A prominent figure in the anarchy of Stephen's reign, he evicted the monks of Coventry and profaned their church. [...] He died in 1143 or 1144, being slain in warfare with the Earl of Chester." [Complete Peerage]

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Marmion took King Stephen's part in the struggle with the Empress Matilda. In 1140 he appears as castellan of Falaise, where he successfully held out against Geoffrey, count of Anjou. His own castle at Fontenoy-le-Marmion was destroyed as a reprisal. In England he was in contention with William de Beauchamp over the castle and honour of Tamworth, where he had received a grant of free warren from Henry I.

Marmion faced a more formidable opponent, however, in Ranulf (II), earl of Chester. Here the struggle centred on the town of Coventry. Marmion was no mean figure himself militarily, being described as a warlike man, almost unequalled in his time for ferocity, adroitness, and daring, renowned for his many successes far and wide. At Coventry he expelled the monks and fortified the priory, using its stone buildings as a fortress from which to launch frequent attacks on the earl's castle. He also covered the field between the two with ditches to impede the enemy's forces. It was an act of desecration from which the chroniclers were soon able to draw a moral. The story is told in outline by Henry of Huntingdon, referred to by John of Salisbury, and given detail by the later twelfth-century chronicler, William of Newburgh. When the earl came with a considerable force to relieve the castle, Marmion's forces went out to engage him. During the action he was thrown from his horse into one of his own ditches. As he lay immobilized, with a broken thigh, he was decapitated, in full view of all, by a common soldier of the opposing army. He was apparently the only man killed in the action, 'crushed under the weight of divine judgement' (William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum ed. R. Howlett, Rolls Series, 1884, 1.71). This occurred about 16 September 1144. Marmion was buried at Polesworth, in unconsecrated ground as an excommunicate, and was succeeded by his son Robert. His widow, Milicent, married Richard de Camville.

Family/Spouse: Milicent of Réthel. Milicent (daughter of Gervase de Réthel, Archdeacon of Reims and Elizabeth of Namur) was born between 1105 and 1115. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hereditary sheriff of Worcestershire, 1170-1197.

Family/Spouse: Bertha de Briouze. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1180

Family/Spouse: Robert Marmion. Robert (son of Robert Marmion and Elizabeth) was born between 1150 and 1160 in of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, England; died on 15 May 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef Nov 1181
• Alternate death: Abt 1185

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