Husband William de Percy 4th Baron Percy 1 2
Born: Abt 1088 - Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Christened:
Died: Abt 1175
Buried:
Father: Alan de Percy 2nd Baron Percy (Abt 1067-Bef 1135) 3
Mother: Emma de Gaunt (Abt 1071-Bef 1135) 3
Marriage: 1136 - Tunbridge, Kent, England
Wife Alice de Clare 3 4
AKA: Adeliza de Clare de Tunbridge, Alice de Tunbridge
Born: Abt 1102 - <Tonbridge, Kent>, England
Christened:
Died: After 1148 - England
Buried:
Father: Richard FitzGilbert de Clare 1st Earl of Hertford (Between 1084/1090-1136) 5 6 7 8
Mother: Adelize de Gernon (Abt 1094-1128) 6 7 9
Other Spouse: Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd ap Cynan ( - )
Children
1 F Agnes de Percy 1 10 11
Born: Abt 1134 - <Whitby>, Yorkshire, England
Christened:
Died: Abt 1205
Buried:
Spouse: Joscelin de Louvain (Abt 1121-Bef 1180) 1 10
Marr: Abt 1154 - Egmanton, Nottinghamshire, England
Husband Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd ap Cynan
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Gruffydd ap Cynan Prince of North Wales (Gwynedd) (1055-1137) 12 13
Mother: Angharad verch Owain ap Edwin of Tegeingl (Abt 1065-1162) 12 14
Marriage:
Wife Alice de Clare 3 4
AKA: Adeliza de Clare de Tunbridge, Alice de Tunbridge
Born: Abt 1102 - <Tonbridge, Kent>, England
Christened:
Died: After 1148 - England
Buried:
Father: Richard FitzGilbert de Clare 1st Earl of Hertford (Between 1084/1090-1136) 5 6 7 8
Mother: Adelize de Gernon (Abt 1094-1128) 6 7 9
Other Spouse: William de Percy 4th Baron Percy (Abt 1088-Abt 1175) 1 2 - 1136 - Tunbridge, Kent, England
Children
Research Notes: Husband - Cadwaladr ap Gruffydd ap Cynan
Source: Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales by Thomas Nicholas, Vol. I, London, 1872, p. 362.
Husband Geoffrey FitzPeter 1st Earl of Essex 15 16
AKA: Geoffrey FitzPiers 1st Earl of Essex, Geoffrey Fitz Peter 1st Earl of Essex, Geoffrey Fitz Piers 3rd Earl of Essex
Born: Abt 1162 - <Walden, Essex>, England
Christened:
Died: 14 Oct 1213
Buried: - Shouldam Priory, Norfolk, England
Father: Piers de Lutegareshale (Abt 1134-1198) 6 17
Mother: Maud de Mandeville Lady of Costow, Wiltshire (Abt 1138- ) 6 17
Marriage: by 29 may 1205 - <England>
Other Spouse: Beatrice de Say ( - ) 18
Events
• Adult: 1184.
• Sheriff of Northamptonshire: 1184-1189.
• Earl of Essex:
• Justiciar of England: 1189-11 Jul 1198.
• Chief Justiciar of England: 11 Jul 1198-14 Oct 1213.
Wife Aveline de Clare 19 20
AKA: Eveline de Clare
Born: 1164 - <Hertford, Hertfordshire>, England
Christened:
Died: by 4 Jun 1225 - England
Buried:
Father: Roger de Clare 3rd Earl of Hertford (1116-1173) 6 8 21 22
Mother: Maud de St. Hilary (1132-1193) 6 20 23
Events
• Living: 1220.
Children
1 M John FitzGeoffrey of Fambridge, Essex 6 24
AKA: John Fitz Geoffrey Justiciar of Ireland
Born: Abt 1215 - Shere, Surrey, England
Christened:
Died: 23 Nov 1258
Buried:
Spouse: Isabel Bigod (Abt 1212-1250) 25 26
Marr: Bef 12 Apr 1234
Research Notes: Husband - Geoffrey FitzPeter 1st Earl of Essex
First husband of Aveline de Clare. 2nd wife of Geoffrey Fitz Piers (Geoffrey Fitz Peter). Hanged and quartered for teason
From Wikipedia - Hugh Despenser the Younger : Wikipedia - Eleanor de Clare : Wikipedia - Eleanor de Clare : Events
• 3rd Earl of Gloucester:
• 7th Earl of Hertford:
• Knighted: 14 May 1264.
First husband of Joan of Acre. Events
• Magna Charta Surety: 1215.
• 5th Earl of Hertford: 1217-1230.
• Earl of Gloucester: 1217-1230.
7th Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester. Co-heiress of Sir William Marshal. Events
• Protector of England:
From <i>Ancestral Roots</i>, Line 66-27: Heiress of Pembroke, Leinster, Bienfate and Orbec Ancestral Roots also has d. Apr 1248.
Source: A History of Wales by John Davies, London, 2007 1st husband of Margaret de Clare.
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43. Wikipedia.org, Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Arundel.
44. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 28-33 (Richard FitzAlan).
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46. Wikipedia.org, Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel.
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50. Wikipedia.org, Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford.
51. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 54-30.
52. Wikipedia.org, Maud de Lacy.
53. Browning, Charles Henry, The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants (Philadelphia, 1898.), p. 103.
54. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Lines 153-29, 153A-29, 83-28 (John de Warenne).
55. Wikipedia.org, Hugh X of Lusignan.
56. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Lines 275-27.
57. Wikipedia.org, Isabella of Angoulême.
58. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 83-27.
59. Website - Genealogy, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593872173.
60. Website:, http://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/heritage/holt_castle.htm.
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62. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 63-29.
63. Wikipedia.org, Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford.
64. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 63-27 (Amice).
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66. Wikipedia.org, Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford.
67. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 63-27.
68. Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 63-29 (Gilbert de Clare).
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70. Wikipedia.org, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
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From Wikipedia - Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex :
Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, (Piers de Lutegareshale), (c. 1162 - 1213), was a prominent member of the government of England during the reigns of Richard I and John . The patronymic is sometimes rendered Fitz Piers
Life
He was from a modest landowning family that had a tradition of service in mid-ranking posts under Henry II . Geoffrey's elder brother Simon was at various times sheriff of Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, and Bedfordshire. Geoffrey, too, got his start in this way, as sheriff of Northamptonshire for the last five years of Henry II's reign.
Around this time Geoffrey married Beatrice de Say, daughter and eventual co-heiress of William de Say II. This William was the son of William de Say I and Beatrice, sister of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex . This connection with the Mandeville family was later to prove unexpectedly important. In 1184 Geoffrey's father-in-law died, and he received a share of the de Say inheritance by right of his wife, co-heiress to her father. He also eventually gained the title of earl of Essex by right of his wife, becoming the 4th earl.
When Richard I left on crusade, he appointed Geoffrey one of the five judges of the king's court, and thus a principal advisor to Hugh de Puiset , Bishop of Durham , who, as Chief Justiciar , was one of the regents during the king's absence. Late in 1189, Geoffrey's wife's cousin William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex died, leaving no direct heirs. His wife's inheritance was disputed between Geoffrey and his in-laws, but Geoffrey used his political influence to eventually obtain the Mandeville lands (but not the earldom, which was left open) for himself.
On 11 July 1198 , King Richard appointed Geoffrey Chief Justiciar , which at that time effectively made him the king's principal minister. He continued in this capacity after the accession of king John until his death on October 14, 1213.[1] On his coronation day the new king also recognized Geoffrey as Earl of Essex .
Marriage and issue
Spouses
Children of Beatrice
Note that his sons by this marriage took the de Mandeville surname.
Children of Aveline
Geoffrey's first two sons died without issue. Apparently the earldom was associated with their mother's Mandeville heritage, for the earldom was inherited by the husband of their sister Maud, instead of their half-brother John. 6
Research Notes: Wife - Aveline de Clare
Husband Sir Hugh le Despenser Baron Despenser 27 28 29
AKA: Hugh "the Younger" le Despenser Baron Despenser
Born: 1286
Christened:
Died: 24 Nov 1326 - Hereford, Herefordshire, England
Buried: After 15 Dec 1330 - Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
Father: Sir Hugh le Despenser 1st Earl of Winchester (1260-1326) 29 30 31
Mother: Isabella de Beauchamp (Abt 1252-Bef 1306) 32 33 34
Marriage: After 14 Jun 1306
Wife Eleanor de Clare 35 36 37
AKA: Alianore de Clare, Eleanore de Clare
Born: 3 Oct 1292 - Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales
Christened:
Died: 30 Jun 1337
Buried: - Tewkesbury, Wiltshire, England
Father: Sir Gilbert de Clare 9th Earl of Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford (1243-1295) 37 38 39
Mother: Joan of Acre (1272-1307) 40 41
Other Spouse: William La Zouche ( -1337) 42 - 1327
Children
1 M Philip Le Despenser of Stoke, Gloucestershire 29
Born: Abt 1244 - <Gloucestershire>, England
Christened:
Died: 24 Sep 1313
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret de Goushill (1294-1349) 37
2 F Isabel le Despenser 43 44
AKA: Isabel Despenser
Born: 1312
Christened:
Died: 1356
Buried:
Spouse: Sir Richard "Copped Hat" FitzAlan 10th Earl of Arundel and Warenne (Abt 1313-1376) 45 46 47
Marr: 9 Feb 1321. (Annulled in Dec 1344)
Death Notes: Husband - Sir Hugh le Despenser Baron Despenser
Research Notes: Husband - Sir Hugh le Despenser Baron Despenser
Hugh Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser (1286 - 24 November 1326 , sometimes referred to as "the younger Despenser", was the son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester , by Isabel Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick .
Background
He was knight of Hanley Castle , Worcestershire , King's Chamberlain , Constable of Odiham Castle , Keeper of the castle and town of Portchester , Keeper of the castle, town and barton of Bristol and, in Wales , Keeper of the castle and town of Dryslwyn , and the region of Cantref Mawr , Carmarthenshire . Also in Wales , he was Keeper of the castles, manor, and lands of Brecknock , Hay , Cantref Selyf, etc., in County Brecon , and, in England of Huntington , Herefordshire . He was given Wallingford Castle although this had previously been given to Queen Isabella for life.
Marriage
In May 1306 Hugh was knighted, and that summer he married Eleanor de Clare , daughter of Gilbert de Clare , 9th Lord of Clare and 7th Earl of Hertford and Joan of Acre . Eleanor's grandfather, Edward I , owed Hugh's father vast sums of money, and the marriage was intended as a payment of these debts. When Eleanor's brother was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn , she unexpectedly became one of the three co-heiresses to the rich Gloucester earldom, and in her right Hugh inherited Glamorgan and other properties. In just a few short years Hugh went from a landless knight to one of the wealthiest magnates in the kingdom.
Eleanor was also the niece of the new king, Edward II of England , and this connection brought Hugh closer to the English royal court. He joined the baronial opposition to Piers Gaveston , the king's favourite , and Hugh's brother-in-law, as Gaveston was married to Eleanor's sister. Eager for power and wealth, Hugh seized Tonbridge Castle in 1315. In 1318 he murdered Llywelyn Bren , a Welsh hostage in his custody.
Eleanor and Hugh had nine children:
Hugh le Despenser III (1308-1349)
Gilbert le Despenser , (1309- 1381).
Edward le Despenser , (1310 - 1342), soldier, killed at the siege of Vannes [1]; father of Edward II le Despenser , Knight of the Garter
John le Despenser , (1311 - June 1366).
Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Arundel (1312-1356), married Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel
Eleanor le Despenser , (c. 1315 - 1351), nun at Sempringham Priory
Joan le Despenser , (c. 1317 - 1384), nun at Shaftesbury Abbey
Margaret le Despenser , (c. 1319 - 1337, nun at Whatton Priory
Elizabeth le Despenser , born 1325, died July 13 , 1389 , married Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley .
Political Manoeuvrings
Hugh became royal chamberlain in 1318. As a royal courtier , Hugh manoeuvred into the affections of King Edward, displacing the previous favourite, Roger d'Amory . This was much to the dismay of the baronage as they saw him both taking their rightful places at court and being a worse version of Gaveston. By 1320 his greed was running free. Hugh seized the Welsh lands of his wife's inheritance, ignoring the claims of his two brothers-in-law. He forced Alice de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln , to give up her lands, cheated his sister-in-law Elizabeth de Clare out of Gower and Usk , and allegedly had Lady Baret's arms and legs broken until she went insane. He also supposedly vowed to be revenged on Roger Mortimer because Mortimer's grandfather had murdered Hugh's grandfather, and once stated (though probably in jest) that he regretted he could not control the wind. By 1321 he had earned many enemies in every stratum of society, from Queen Isabella to the barons to the common people. There was even a bizarre plot to kill Hugh by sticking pins in a wax likeness of him.
Finally the barons prevailed upon King Edward and forced Hugh and his father into exile in 1321. His father fled to Bordeaux , and Hugh became a pirate in the English Channel , "a sea monster, lying in wait for merchants as they crossed his path". Following the exile of the Despensers, the barons who opposed them fell out among themselves. The following year, King Edward took advantage of these divisions to secure the defeat and execution of the Earl of Lancaster, and the surrender of Roger Mortimer, the Despensers' chief opponents. The pair returned and King Edward quickly reinstated Hugh as royal favourite. His time in exile had done nothing to quell his greed, his rashness, or his ruthlessness. The time from the Despensers' return from exile until the end of Edward II's reign was a time of uncertainty in England. With the main baronial opposition leaderless and weak, having been defeated at the Battle of Boroughbridge , and Edward willing to let them do as they pleased, the Despensers were left unchecked. They grew rich from their administration and corruption. This period is sometimes referred to as the "Tyranny". This maladministration caused hostile feeling for them and, by proxy, Edward II. Hugh repeatedly pressed King Edward to execute Mortimer, who had been held prisoner in the Tower of London, following his surrender. However, Mortimer escaped from the Tower and fled to France.
Relationship with Edward and Isabella
Queen Isabella had a special dislike for the man. Various historians have suggested, and it is commonly believed, that he and Edward had an ongoing sexual relationship. (Froissart states "he was a sodomite, even it is said, with the King.") Some speculate it was this relationship that caused the Queen's dislike of him.[citation needed ] Others, noting that her hatred for him was far greater than for any other favourite of her husband, suggest that his behaviour towards herself and the nation served to excite her particular disgust. Alison Weir , in her 2005 book, Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England, speculates that he had raped Isabella and that was the source of her hatred. While Isabella was in France to negotiate between her husband and the French king, she formed a liaison with Roger Mortimer and began planning an invasion. Hugh supposedly tried to bribe French courtiers to assassinate Isabella, sending barrels of silver as payment. Roger Mortimer and the Queen invaded England in October 1326. Their forces only numbered about 1,500 mercenaries to begin with, but the majority of the nobility rallied to them throughout October and November. By contrast, very few people were prepared to fight for Edward II, mainly because of the hatred which the Despensers had aroused. The Despensers fled West with the King, with a sizable sum from the treasury. The escape was unsuccessful. Separated from the elder Despenser, the King and the younger Hugh were deserted by most of their followers, and were captured near Neath in mid-November. King Edward was placed in captivity and later deposed. Hugh the father (the elder Despenser) was hanged at Bristol on 27 October 1326, and Hugh the son was brought to trial.
Trial and Execution
Hugh tried to starve himself before his trial, but face trial he did on 24 November 1326 , in Hereford , before Mortimer and the Queen. He was judged a traitor and a thief, and sentenced to public execution by hanging, as a thief, and drawing and quartering , as a traitor. Additionally, he was sentenced to be disembowelled for having procured discord between the King and Queen, and to be beheaded, for returning to England after having been banished. Treason had also been the grounds for Gaveston's execution; the belief was that these men had misled the King rather than the King himself being guilty of folly. Immediately after the trial, he was dragged behind four horses to his place of execution, where a great fire was lit. He was stripped naked, and biblical verses denouncing arrogance and evil were written on his skin. He was then hanged from a gallows 50 ft (15 m) high, but cut down before he could choke to death, and was tied to a ladder, in full view of the crowd. The executioner climbed up beside him, and sliced off his penis and testicles which were burnt before him, while he was still alive and conscious; (although castration was not formally part of the sentence imposed on Despenser, it was typically practised on convicted traitors). Subsequently, the executioner slit open his abdomen, and slowly pulled out, and cut out, his entrails and, finally, his heart, which were likewise thrown into the fire. The executioner would have sought to keep him alive as long as possible, while disembowelling him. The burning of his entrails would, in all likelihood, have been the last sight that he witnessed. Just before he died, it is recorded that he let out a "ghastly inhuman howl," much to the delight and merriment of the spectators. Finally, his corpse was beheaded, his body cut into four pieces, and his head was mounted on the gates of London. Mortimer and Isabella feasted with their chief supporters, as they watched the execution...
After his death, his widow asked to be given the body so she could bury it at the family's Gloucestershire estate, but only the head, a thigh bone and a few vertebrae were returned to her.[2]
Research Notes: Wife - Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare (3 October 1292 - June 30 , 1337 ) was the wife of the powerful Hugh Despenser the younger . She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly in Glamorgan , Wales . She was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester , and Joan of Acre , daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile ; thus she was a granddaughter to Edward I of England . With her sisters, Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare , she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Gloucester at Bannockburn in 1314.
Marriage to Hugh Desepenser the younger
In May 1306 at Westminster , Eleanor married Hugh Despenser the younger , the son of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester and Isabel Beauchamp , daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick . Her grandfather, King Edward I of England , granted Eleanor a maritagium of 2,000 pounds sterling. Eleanor and Hugh had nine children:
Hugh le Despenser III (1308-1349)
Gilbert le Despenser , (1309- 1381).
Edward le Despenser , (1310 - 1342), soldier, killed at the siege of Vannes [1]; father of Edward II le Despenser , Knight of the Garter
John le Despenser , (1311 - June 1366).
Isabel le Despenser (1312-1356), married Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel
Eleanor le Despenser , (c. 1315 - 1351), nun at Sempringham Priory
Joan le Despenser , (c. 1317 - 1384), nun at Shaftesbury Abbey
Margaret le Despenser , (c. 1319 - 1337, nun at Whatton Priory
Elizabeth le Despenser , born 1325, died July 13 , 1389 , married Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley .
Eleanor's husband rose to prominence as the new favourite of her uncle, King Edward II of England . The king strongly favoured Hugh and Eleanor, visiting them often and granting them many gifts. One foreign chronicler even alleged that Edward was involved in a ménage à trois with his niece and her husband. Whatever the truth, Eleanor's fortunes changed drastically after the invasion of Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer . Hugh le Despenser was gruesomely executed.
Imprisonment
In November 1326, Eleanor was confined to the Tower of London . The Despenser family's fortunes also suffered with the executions of Eleanor's husband and father-in-law. Eleanor and Hugh's eldest son, another Hugh, who held Caerphilly Castle against the queen's forces until the spring of 1327, was spared his life when he surrendered the castle but remained a prisoner until July 1331, after which he was slowly restored to royal favor. Three of Eleanor's daughters were forcibly veiled as nuns. Only the eldest daughter, Isabel, and the youngest daughter, Elizabeth, escaped the nunnery, Isabel because she was already married and Elizabeth on account of her infancy.
In February 1328 Eleanor was freed from imprisonment. In April 1328, she was allowed possession of her own lands, for which she did homage.
Marriage to William de la Zouche
Eleanor was abducted from Hanley Castle in January, 1329, by William de la Zouche , who had been one of her husband's captors and who had led the siege of Caerphilly Castle. The abduction may in fact have been an elopement; in any case, Eleanor's lands were seized by the King, Edward III , and the couple was ordered to be arrested. At the same time, Eleanor was accused of stealing jewels from the Tower. Sometime after February 1329, she was imprisoned a second time in the Tower of London; later, she was moved to Devizes Castle . In January 1330, she was released and pardoned after agreeing to sign away the most valuable part of her share of the lucrative Clare inheritance to the crown. She could recover her lands only on the condition that she pay the enormous sum of 50,000 pounds in a single day.
Within the year, however, the young Edward III overthrew Queen Isabella's paramour, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and had him executed. Eleanor was among those who benefited from the fall of Mortimer and Isabella. She petitioned Edward III for the restoration of her lands, claiming that she had signed them away after being threatened by Roger Mortimer that she would never be freed if she did not. In 1331, Edward III granted her petition "to ease the king's conscience" and allowed her to recover the lands on the condition that she pay a fine of 10,000 pounds, later reduced to 5,000 pounds, in installments. Eleanor made payments on the fine, but the bulk of it was outstanding at the time of her death.
Eleanor's troubles were by no means over, however. After Eleanor's marriage to Zouche, Sir John Grey, 1st Baron Grey claimed that he had married her first. Grey was still attempting to claim Eleanor in 1333; the case was appealed to the Pope several times. Ultimately, Zouche won the dispute. Eleanor remained with him until his death in February 1337, only a few months before Eleanor's own death. Eleanor and William had children:
William de la Zouche, born 1330, died after 1360, a monk at Glastonbury Abbey .
Joyce Zouche, born 1331, died after 4 May 1372 , married John de Botetourt, 2nd Lord Botetourt.
Tewkesbury Abbey Renovations
Hugh le Despenser the younger and Eleanor are generally credited with beginning the renovations to Tewkesbury Abbey that transformed it into the fine example of the decorated style of architecture that it is today. The famous fourteenth-century stained-glass windows in the choir, which include the armor-clad figures of Eleanor's ancestors, brother, and two husbands, were most likely Eleanor's own contribution, although she probably did not live to see them put in place. The nude, kneeling woman watching the Last Judgment in the choir's east window may represent Eleanor.
Husband William La Zouche 42
AKA: William de Mortimer
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1337
Buried:
Marriage: 1327
Wife Eleanor de Clare 35 36 37
AKA: Alianore de Clare, Eleanore de Clare
Born: 3 Oct 1292 - Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales
Christened:
Died: 30 Jun 1337
Buried: - Tewkesbury, Wiltshire, England
Father: Sir Gilbert de Clare 9th Earl of Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford (1243-1295) 37 38 39
Mother: Joan of Acre (1272-1307) 40 41
Other Spouse: Sir Hugh le Despenser Baron Despenser (1286-1326) 27 28 29 - After 14 Jun 1306
Children
Research Notes: Wife - Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare (3 October 1292 - June 30 , 1337 ) was the wife of the powerful Hugh Despenser the younger . She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly in Glamorgan , Wales . She was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester , and Joan of Acre , daughter of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile ; thus she was a granddaughter to Edward I of England . With her sisters, Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare , she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother, Gilbert de Clare, 4th Earl of Gloucester at Bannockburn in 1314.
Marriage to Hugh Desepenser the younger
In May 1306 at Westminster , Eleanor married Hugh Despenser the younger , the son of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester and Isabel Beauchamp , daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick . Her grandfather, King Edward I of England , granted Eleanor a maritagium of 2,000 pounds sterling. Eleanor and Hugh had nine children:
Hugh le Despenser III (1308-1349)
Gilbert le Despenser , (1309- 1381).
Edward le Despenser , (1310 - 1342), soldier, killed at the siege of Vannes [1]; father of Edward II le Despenser , Knight of the Garter
John le Despenser , (1311 - June 1366).
Isabel le Despenser (1312-1356), married Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel
Eleanor le Despenser , (c. 1315 - 1351), nun at Sempringham Priory
Joan le Despenser , (c. 1317 - 1384), nun at Shaftesbury Abbey
Margaret le Despenser , (c. 1319 - 1337, nun at Whatton Priory
Elizabeth le Despenser , born 1325, died July 13 , 1389 , married Maurice de Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley .
Eleanor's husband rose to prominence as the new favourite of her uncle, King Edward II of England . The king strongly favoured Hugh and Eleanor, visiting them often and granting them many gifts. One foreign chronicler even alleged that Edward was involved in a ménage à trois with his niece and her husband. Whatever the truth, Eleanor's fortunes changed drastically after the invasion of Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer . Hugh le Despenser was gruesomely executed.
Imprisonment
In November 1326, Eleanor was confined to the Tower of London . The Despenser family's fortunes also suffered with the executions of Eleanor's husband and father-in-law. Eleanor and Hugh's eldest son, another Hugh, who held Caerphilly Castle against the queen's forces until the spring of 1327, was spared his life when he surrendered the castle but remained a prisoner until July 1331, after which he was slowly restored to royal favor. Three of Eleanor's daughters were forcibly veiled as nuns. Only the eldest daughter, Isabel, and the youngest daughter, Elizabeth, escaped the nunnery, Isabel because she was already married and Elizabeth on account of her infancy.
In February 1328 Eleanor was freed from imprisonment. In April 1328, she was allowed possession of her own lands, for which she did homage.
Marriage to William de la Zouche
Eleanor was abducted from Hanley Castle in January, 1329, by William de la Zouche , who had been one of her husband's captors and who had led the siege of Caerphilly Castle. The abduction may in fact have been an elopement; in any case, Eleanor's lands were seized by the King, Edward III , and the couple was ordered to be arrested. At the same time, Eleanor was accused of stealing jewels from the Tower. Sometime after February 1329, she was imprisoned a second time in the Tower of London; later, she was moved to Devizes Castle . In January 1330, she was released and pardoned after agreeing to sign away the most valuable part of her share of the lucrative Clare inheritance to the crown. She could recover her lands only on the condition that she pay the enormous sum of 50,000 pounds in a single day.
Within the year, however, the young Edward III overthrew Queen Isabella's paramour, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and had him executed. Eleanor was among those who benefited from the fall of Mortimer and Isabella. She petitioned Edward III for the restoration of her lands, claiming that she had signed them away after being threatened by Roger Mortimer that she would never be freed if she did not. In 1331, Edward III granted her petition "to ease the king's conscience" and allowed her to recover the lands on the condition that she pay a fine of 10,000 pounds, later reduced to 5,000 pounds, in installments. Eleanor made payments on the fine, but the bulk of it was outstanding at the time of her death.
Eleanor's troubles were by no means over, however. After Eleanor's marriage to Zouche, Sir John Grey, 1st Baron Grey claimed that he had married her first. Grey was still attempting to claim Eleanor in 1333; the case was appealed to the Pope several times. Ultimately, Zouche won the dispute. Eleanor remained with him until his death in February 1337, only a few months before Eleanor's own death. Eleanor and William had children:
William de la Zouche, born 1330, died after 1360, a monk at Glastonbury Abbey .
Joyce Zouche, born 1331, died after 4 May 1372 , married John de Botetourt, 2nd Lord Botetourt.
Tewkesbury Abbey Renovations
Hugh le Despenser the younger and Eleanor are generally credited with beginning the renovations to Tewkesbury Abbey that transformed it into the fine example of the decorated style of architecture that it is today. The famous fourteenth-century stained-glass windows in the choir, which include the armor-clad figures of Eleanor's ancestors, brother, and two husbands, were most likely Eleanor's own contribution, although she probably did not live to see them put in place. The nude, kneeling woman watching the Last Judgment in the choir's east window may represent Eleanor.
Husband Sir Gilbert de Clare 9th Earl of Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford 37 38 39
AKA: Gilbert "the Red" de Clare 9th Earl of Clare
Born: 2 Sep 1243 - Christchurch, Hampshire (Dorset), England
Christened:
Died: 7 Dec 1295 - Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales
Buried: 22 Dec 1295 - Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
Father: Sir Richard de Clare 8th Earl of Clare (1222-1262) 48 49 50
Mother: Maud de Lacy Countess of Lincoln (1223-Bef 1289) 51 52 53
Marriage: 2 Feb 1253 - (Divorced)
Other Spouse: Joan of Acre (1272-1307) 40 41 - Abt 30 Apr 1290 - Westminster Abbey, London, Midlesex, England
Wife Alice de Lusignan 54
AKA: Alfais de Lusignan
Born:
Christened:
Died: 9 Feb 1256
Buried:
Father: Hugues X "le Brun" de Lusignan Comté de La Marche et d'Angoulême (Between 1183/1195-1249) 55 56 57
Mother: Isabella of Angoulême (Abt 1186-1246)
Other Spouse: John de Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey (1231-1304) 58 59 60 61 - Aug 1247
Children
Research Notes: Husband - Sir Gilbert de Clare 9th Earl of Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford
From Wikipedia - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford :
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford and 3rd Earl of Gloucester (2 September 1243 , at Christchurch , Hampshire - 7 December 1295 ) was a powerful English noble. Also known as "Red" Gilbert de Clare, probably because of his hair colour.
Lineage
Gilbert de Clare was the son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, and Maud de Lacy , Countess of Lincoln , daughter of John de Lacy and Margaret de Quincy . Gilbert inherited his father's estates in 1262. He took on the titles, including Lord of Glamorgan , from 1263.
Being under age at his father's death, he was made a ward of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford .
Massacre of the Jews at Canterbury
In April 1264, Gilbert de Clare led the massacre of the Jews at Canterbury [1], as Simon de Montfort had done in Leicester .
Gilbert de Clare's castles of Kingston and Tonbridge were taken by the King, Henry III . However, the King allowed de Clare's Countess Alice de Lusignan , who was in the latter, to go free because she was his niece; but on 12 May de Clare and de Montfort were denounced as traitors.
The Battle of Lewes
Two days later, just before the Battle of Lewes , on 14 May , Simon de Montfort knighted the Earl and his brother Thomas. The Earl commanded the second line of the battle and took the King prisoner, having hamstrung his horse. As Prince Edward had also been captured, Montfort and the Earl were now supreme and de Montfort in effect de facto King of England.
Excommunication
On 20 October 1264 , de Gilbert and his associates were excommunicated by Guy Foulques , and his lands placed under an interdict .
In the following month, by which time they had obtained possession of Gloucester and Bristol , the Earl was proclaimed to be a rebel. However at this point he changed sides as he fell out with de Montfort and the Earl, in order to prevent de Montfort's escape, destroyed ships at the port of Bristol and the bridge over the River Severn at Gloucester .
Having changed sides, de Clare shared the Prince's victory at Kenilworth on 16 July , and in the Battle of Evesham , 4 August , in which de Montfort was slain, he commanded the second division and contributed largely to the victory.
On 24 June 1268 he took the Cross at Northampton in repentance and contrition for his past misdeeds.
Activities as a Marcher Lord
In October 1265, as a reward for supporting Prince Edward, Gilbert was given the castle and title of Abergavenny and honour and castle of Brecknock .
At Michaelmas his disputes with Llewelyn the Last were submitted to arbitration, but without a final settlement. Meanwhile he was building Caerphilly Castle into a fortress. At the end of the year 1268 he refused to obey the King's summons to attend parliament, alleging that, owing to the constant inroads of Llewelyn the Last , his Welsh estates needed his presence for their defence.
At the death of Henry III , 16 November 1272 , the Earl took the lead in swearing fealty to Edward I , who was then in Sicily on his return from the Crusade . The next day, with the Archbishop of York , he entered London and proclaimed peace to all, Christians and Jews , and for the first time, secured the acknowledgment of the right of the King's eldest son to succeed to the throne immediately.
Thereafter he was joint Guardian of England, during the King's absence, and on the new King's arrival in England, in August 1274, entertained him at Tonbridge Castle .
The Welsh war in 1282
During Llywelyn the Last 's Welsh rebellion in 1282, de Clare insisted on leading an attack into southern Wales. King Edward thus made de Clare the commander of the southern army invading Wales. However de Clare's army faced disaster after being heavily defeated at the Battle of Llandeilo Fawr . Following this defeat, de Clare was relieved of his position as the southern commander and was replaced by William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke (who's son had died during the battle).
Marriage and succession
Gilbert's first marriage was to Alice de Lusignan , also known as Alice de Valence, the daughter of Hugh XI of Lusignan and of the family that had now succeeded the Marshal family to the title of the Earl of Pembroke in the person of William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke. They were married in 1253, when Gilbert was ten-years-old. She was of high birth, being a niece of King Henry , but the marriage floundered.
Gilbert and Alice separated in 1267; allegedly, Alice's affections lay with her cousin, Prince Edward . Previous to this, Gilbert and Alice had produced two daughters:
Isabel de Clare (10 March 1262 -1333), married (1) Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick ; (2) Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley
Joan de Clare (1264-after 1302), married (1) Duncan Macduff, 7th Earl of Fife ; (2) Gervase Avenel
After his marriage to Alice de Lusignan was finally annulled in 1285, Gilbert was to be married to Joan of Acre , a daughter of King Edward I of England and his first wife Eleanor of Castile . King Edward sought to bind de Clare, and his assets, more closely to the Crown by this means. By the provisions of the marriage contract, their joint possessions and de Clare's extensive lands could only be inherited by a direct descendant, i.e. close to the Crown, and if the marriage proved childless the lands would pass to any children Joan may have by further marriage.
On 3 July 1290 the Earl gave a great banquet at Clerkenwell to celebrate his marriage of 30 April 1290 with Joan of Acre (1272 - 23 April 1307 ). The delay was in getting the Pope to facilitate and agree the arrangement.
Thereafter Gilbert and Joan are said to have taken the Cross and set out for the Holy Land , but in September he signed the Barons' letter to the Pope, and on 2 November surrendered to the King his claim to the advowson of the Bishopric of Llandaff .
Gilbert and Joan had one son - his successor Gilbert, Earl of Gloucester (1291-1314) who was killed at Bannockburn, and 3 daughters: Eleanor (1292-1337) who married firstly Hugh Despencer (The Younger, favourite of her uncle Edward II)-he was executed in 1326, and she married secondly William de la Zouche; Margaret (1293-1342) who married firstly Piers Gaveston (executed in 1312) and then Hugh Audeley; and the youngest Elizabeth de Clare (16 Sep 1295 -04 Nov 1360), who married John de Burgh , 30th Sept 1308, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England, then Theobald of Verdun in 1316, and finally Roger Damory in 1317. Each marriage was brief, produced one child (a son by the 1st, daughters by the 2nd and 3rd), and left her a widow.
Private Marcher War
In the next year, 1291, he quarrelled with the Earl of Hereford , Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford , grandson of his onetime guardian, about the Lordship of Brecknock , where de Bohun accused de Clare of building a castle on his land culminated in a private war between them. Although it was a given right for Marcher Lords to wage private war the King tested this right in this case, first calling them before a court of their Marcher peers, then realising the outcome would be coloured by their likely avoidance of prejudicing one of their greatest rights they were both called before the superior court, the Kings own. At this both were imprisoned by the King, both sentenced to having their lands forfeit for life and de Clare, the Earl of Gloucester , as the aggressor, was fined 10,000 marks, and the Earl of Hereford 1,000 marks.
They were released almost immediately and both of their lands completely restored to them - however they had both been taught a very public lesson and their prestige diminished and the King's authority shown for all.
Death & Burial
He died at Monmouth Castle on 7 December 1295 , and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey , on the left side of his grandfather Gilbert de Clare .
His extensive lands were enjoyed by his surviving wife Joan of Acre until her death in 1307. Gilbert and Joan had a descendant named Ursula Hildyard of Yorkshire, who in 1596 married (Sir) Richard Jackson of Killingwoldgraves, near Beverley in the East Riding. Jackson died in 1610 and was interred at Bishop Burton. In 1613, James posthumously awarded a coat of arms and a knighthood to Richard for meretorious military service in the Lowlands of Scotland.
Husband Sir Gilbert de Clare 7th Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester 49 62 63
Born: Abt 1180 - Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
Christened:
Died: 25 Oct 1230 - Penros, Brittany, France
Buried: - Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
Father: Richard de Clare 6th Earl of Clare (Abt 1153-1218) 64 65 66
Mother: Amice FitzWilliam Countess of Gloucester (Abt 1160-1225) 66 67
Marriage: 9 Oct 1217
Wife Isabel Marshal 68 69
AKA: Isabel Marshall
Born:
Christened:
Died: 17 Jan 1240 - Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England
Buried:
Father: Sir William Marshal 1st Earl of Pembroke (Abt 1146-1219) 70 71 72
Mother: Isabel de Clare (Abt 1172-1220) 37 73
Children
1 F Agnes de Clare 63
Born: 1218
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Amice de Clare 63
Born: 1220
Christened:
Died: 1287
Buried:
3 M Sir Richard de Clare 8th Earl of Clare 48 49 50
Born: 4 Aug 1222
Christened:
Died: 15 Jul 1262 - Asbenfield, Waltham, Kent, England
Buried: - Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
Spouse: Maud de Lacy Countess of Lincoln (1223-Bef 1289) 51 52 53
Marr: 25 Jan 1238
4 F Isabel de Clare 63
AKA: Isabella of Gloucester and Hertford, Isobel de Clare
Born: 2 Nov 1226
Christened:
Died: 10 Jul 1264
Buried:
Spouse: Robert de Brus 5th Lord of Annandale (Abt 1215-1295) 74 75
Marr: 12 May 1240
5 M William de Clare 63
Born: 1228
Christened:
Died: 1258
Buried:
Research Notes: Husband - Sir Gilbert de Clare 7th Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester
From Wikipedia - Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford :
Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford (1180 - October 25 , 1230 ) was the son of Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford , from whom he inherited the Clare estates, from his mother, Amice Fitz William, the estates of Gloucester and the honour of St. Hilary, and from Rohese, an ancestor, the moiety of the Giffard estates. In June 1202, he was entrusted with the lands of Harfleur and Montrevillers .
In 1215 Gilbert and his father were two of the barons made Magna Carta sureties and championed Louis "le Dauphin" of France in the First Barons' War , fighting at Lincoln under the baronial banner. He was taken prisoner in 1217 by William Marshal , whose daughter Isabel he later married.
In 1223 he accompanied his brother-in-law, Earl Marshal , in an expedition into Wales. In 1225 he was present at the confirmation of the Magna Carta by Henry III . In 1228 he led an army against the Welsh, capturing Morgan Gam , who was released the next year. He then joined in an expedition to Brittany , but died on his way back to Penrose in that duchy. His body was conveyed home by way of Plymouth and Cranborne to Tewkesbury . His widow Isabel later married Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall & King of the Romans . His own arms were: Or, three chevronels gules.
Hertford had six children by his wife Isabel , née Marshal:[1]
Research Notes: Wife - Isabel Marshal
Husband Sir William Marshal 1st Earl of Pembroke 70 71 72
AKA: Guillaume le Maréchal, William the Marshal, William the Marshal, William Marshall 1st Earl of Pembroke
Born: Abt 1146
Christened:
Died: 14 May 1219 - Caversham, England
Buried: May 1219 - Round Chapel Of Knight's Temple, London, Middlesex, England
Father: John "the Marshall" FitzGilbert (Abt 1105-Abt 1165) 71 76 77
Mother: Sibyl of Salisbury (Abt 1139- ) 71 76
Marriage: Aug 1189 - London, England
Wife Isabel de Clare 37 73
Born: Abt 1172 - Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Christened:
Died: 1220 - Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Buried: - Tintern Abbey, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales
Father: Richard "Strongbow" de Clare 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1130-1176) 78
Mother: Aoife MacMurrough (1145-1188) 79
Children
1 F Isabel Marshal 68 69
AKA: Isabel Marshall
Born:
Christened:
Died: 17 Jan 1240 - Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England
Buried:
Spouse: Sir Gilbert de Clare 7th Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester (Abt 1180-1230) 49 62 63
Marr: 9 Oct 1217
2 F Sibyl Marshal 37 80
Born: 1209 - Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Christened: 1209 - St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Died: 27 Apr 1245
Buried:
Spouse: Sir William de Ferrers 5th Earl of Derby (Abt 1193-1254) 81 82 83
Marr: by 14 may 1219 - <Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales>
3 F Maud Marshal 1 84 85
AKA: Matilda Marshall
Born: Abt 1192 - <Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales>
Christened: Sep 1201
Died: 27 Mar 1248
Buried: - Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthshire, Wales
Spouse: Hugh Bigod 3rd Earl of Norfolk (Abt 1182-1225) 6 85 86
Marr: Between 1206 and 1207
Spouse: William de Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (Abt 1174-1240)
Marr: 13 Oct 1225
4 F Eve Marshal 71 87 88
AKA: Eva Marshall, Eve Marshall
Born: Abt 1194 - Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Christened:
Died: Bef 1246 - England
Buried: - Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire, Wales
Spouse: William de Braose , 6th Lord de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny (Abt 1204-1230) 71 89 90 91
Marr: 2 May 1230 - Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Research Notes: Husband - Sir William Marshal 1st Earl of Pembroke
"3rd Earl of Pembroke, Marshal of England, Protector, Regent of the Kingdom, 1216-1219, son of John Fitz Gilbert (styled John the Marshal) (son of Gilbert Marshal), by his 2nd wife, Sibyl of Salisbury, dau. of Walter of Salisbury, d. 1147, of Chitterne, co. Wilts, sheriff of Wiltshire, founder of Bradenstock Priory."
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From Wikipedia - William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke :
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146 - 14 May 1219), also called William the Marshal (Guillaume le Maréchal), was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman. He has been described as the "greatest knight that ever lived" (Stephen Langton ). He served four kings - Henry II , Richard the Lionheart , John and Henry III - and rose from obscurity to become a regent of England and one of the most powerful men in Europe. Before him, the hereditary title of "Lord Marshal " designated a sort of head of household security for the king of England; by the time he died, people throughout Europe (not just England) referred to him simply as "the Marshal".
Early life
In 1152, when William was probably about six years old, his father John Marshal switched sides in the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda . According to one chronicler, when King Stephen besieged Newbury Castle , Stephen used the young William as a hostage to ensure that John kept a promise to surrender the castle. John broke his word, and when Stephen ordered John to surrender immediately or watch as he hanged William in front of the castle, John replied that he go ahead, for "I still have the hammer and the anvil with which to forge still more and better sons!" Fortunately for the child, Stephen could not bring himself to hang young William.
Knight-Errant
As a younger son of a minor nobleman, William had no lands or fortune to inherit, and had to make his own way in life. As a youth he was sent to Normandy to serve in the household of William de Tancarville , where he began his training to become a knight. Through William de Tancarville, he then served in the household of his mother's brother, Patrick , Earl of Salisbury . In 1168 William's uncle was killed in an ambush by Guy of Lusignan . William was injured and captured in the same battle, but was ransomed by Eleanor of Aquitaine , who was apparently impressed by tales of his bravery. He had been knighted in 1167 and soon found he could make a good living out of winning tournaments . At that time tournaments were dangerous, often deadly, staged battles, not the jousting contests that would come later, and money and valuable prizes could be won by capturing and ransoming opponents. His record is legendary: he supposedly fought in 500 such bouts in his life and never lost once.
Royal favour
Upon his return William rejoined the court of King Henry II, and now served the father through the many rebellions of his remaining sons (Richard , Geoffrey , and John ). In 1189, while covering the flight of Henry II from Le Mans to Chinon, William unhorsed the undutiful Richard in a skirmish. William could have killed the prince but killed his horse instead, to make that point clear. After Henry's death, he was welcomed at court by his former adversary, now King Richard I, who was not foolish enough to exclude a man whose legend, and power, just kept growing.
In August 1189, when he was 43, King Richard arranged for him to marry the second-richest heiress in England, Isabel de Clare (1172-1240), the 17-year-old daughter of Strongbow . Her father had been Earl of Pembroke , and this title was granted to William, along with large estates in England, Wales , Normandy and Ireland. The marriage transformed the landless knight from a minor family into one of the richest men in the kingdom, a sign of his power and prestige at court. They had five sons and five daughters, and though every one of them survived into adulthood, their family line went no further (see below). William made numerous improvements to his wife's lands, including extensive additions to Pembroke Castle and Chepstow Castle .
William was included in the council of regency which the King appointed on his departure for the Third Crusade in 1190. He took the side of Prince John when the latter expelled the justiciar, William Longchamp , from the kingdom, but he soon discovered that the interests of John were different from those of Richard. Hence in 1193 he joined with the loyalists in making war upon the prince. Richard forgave Marshal his first error of judgement, and allowed him to succeed his brother, John Marshal, in the hereditary marshalship , and on his death-bed designated him as custodian of Rouen and of the royal treasure during the interregnum.
King John and Magna Carta
William supported King John when he became king in 1199, but they had a falling out when William paid homage to King Philip II of France for his Norman lands. William left for Leinster in 1207 and stayed in Ireland until 1212, during which time he had Carlow Castle erected[1]. In 1212 he was summoned to fight in the Welsh wars. Despite these differences, it was William on 15 June 1215 at Runnymede who dealt with the barons who made King John agree to the Magna Carta , and he was one of the few English noblemen to remain loyal to the royal side through the First Barons' War . It was William whom King John trusted on his deathbed to make sure John's nine-year-old son Henry would get the throne.
On 11 November 1216, upon the death of King John, William Marshal was named by the king's council (the chief barons who had remained loyal to King John in the First Barons' War ) to serve as both regent of the 9 year old King Henry III , and regent of the kingdom. In spite of his advanced age (around 70) he prosecuted the war against Prince Louis and the rebel barons with remarkable energy. In the battle of Lincoln he charged and fought at the head of the young King's army, leading them to victory. He was preparing to besiege Louis in London when the war was terminated by the naval victory of Hubert de Burgh in the straits of Dover. He was criticized for the generosity of the terms he accorded to Louis and the rebels in September 1217; but his desire for an expeditious settlement was dictated by sound statesmanship. Self-restraint and compromise were the key-notes of Marshal's policy, hoping to secure peace and stability for his young liege. Both before and after the peace of 1217 he reissued Magna Carta, in which he is a signatory as one of the witnessing barons. Without his presence England might not have survived the disastrous reign of John; where the French and the rebels would not trust the English king's word, they would trust William.
Death and legacy
William Marshal's health finally failed him in February 1219. In March 1219 he realized that he was dying, so he summoned his eldest son, also William, and his household knights, and left the Tower of London for his estate at Caversham in Oxfordshire, near Reading , where he called a meeting of the barons, Henry III, the papal legate, the royal justiciar (Hubert de Burgh ), and Peter des Roches (Bishop of Winchester and the young King's guardian). William rejected the Bishop's claim to the regency and entrusted the regency to the care of the papal legate; he apparently did not trust the Bishop or any of the other magnates that he had gathered to this meeting. Fulfilling the vow he had made while on crusade, he was invested into the order of the Knights Templar on his deathbed. He died on 14 May 1219 at Caversham, and was buried in the Temple Church in London, where his effigy can still be seen.
After his death, his eldest son, also named William, commissioned a biography of his father to be written called L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal . This book, written so soon after his death, has preserved (and probably enhanced) the legend of William Marshal for posterity. While his knightly achievements may be debatable, there is no doubt of his impact on the history and politics of England, from his stalwart defence of the realm to his support of the Magna Carta.
Lineage of William Marshal & Isabel de Clare
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1190 - 6 April 1231), married (1) Alice de Betun, daughter of Earl of Albemarle ; (2) 23 April 1224 Eleanor Plantagenet , daughter of King John I of England . They had no children.
Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1191 - 16 April 1234), married Gervase le Dinant. He died in captivity. They had no children.
Mahelt Marshal (1194 - 27 March 1248), married (1) Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk , they had four children; (2) William de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey , they had two children; (3) Walter de Dunstanville.
Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke (1197 - 27 June 1241), married (1) Marjorie of Scotland , youngest daughter of King William I of Scotland
Isabel Marshal, married to Rhys ap Maeldon Fychan .
Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke (c. 1199 - November 1245), married Margaret de Quincy, granddaughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester . No children.
Isabel Marshal (9 October 1200 - 17 January 1240), married (1) Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford ; (2) Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall
Sibyl Marshal (c. 1201 - 27 April 1245), married William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby - they had seven daughters.
Agnes Ferrers (died 11 May 1290), married William de Vesci.
Isabel Ferrers (died before 26 November 1260)
Maud Ferrers (died 12 March 1298)
Sibyl Ferrers, married Sir Francis or Franco de Bohun, an ancestor of American pioneer Daniel Boone .
Joan Ferrers (died 1267)
Agatha Ferrers (died May 1306), married Hugh Mortimer, of Chelmarsh .
Eleanor Ferrers (died 16 October 1274), married to:
Lady Eva Marshal (c. 1204 - 1246), married William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny - from whom was descended Queen Jane Seymour
Isabella de Braose (b.1222), married Prince Dafydd ap Llywelyn . She died childless.
Maud de Braose (1224 -1301 , in 1247, she married Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Wigmore .
Eleanor de Braose (1226 -1251 ). On an unknown date after August 1241, she married Humphrey de Bohun.
Eve de Braose (1227 - 28 July 1255 ), married William de Cantelou.
Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke (c. 1208 - 22 December 1245), married Maud de Bohun, daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford . They had no children.
Joan Marshal (1210 - 1234), married Warin de Munchensi (d. 1255), Lord of Swanscombe
Joan de Munchensi (1230 - September 20, 1307) married William of Valence , the fourth son of King John 's widow, Isabella of Angoulême , and her second husband, Hugh X of Lusignan , Count of La Marche . Valence was half-brother to Henry III and Edward I 's uncle.
The Fate of the Marshal Family
During the civil wars in Ireland, William had taken two manors that the Bishop of Ferns claimed but could not get back. Some years after William's death, that bishop is said to have laid a curse on the family that William's sons would have no children, and the great Marshal estates would be scattered. Each of William's sons did become earl of Pembroke and marshal of England, and each died without issue. William's vast holdings were then divided among the husbands of his five daughters. The title of "Marshal" went to the husband of the oldest daughter, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk , and later passed to the Mowbray dukes of Norfolk and then to the Howard dukes of Norfolk, becoming "Earl Marshal" along the way. The title of "Earl of Pembroke" passed to William of Valence , the husband of Joan Marshal's daughter, Joan de Munchensi ; he became the first of the de Valence line of earls of Pembroke .
Research Notes: Wife - Isabel de Clare
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall (Baltimore, 2008), line 66-27
Death Notes: Child - Maud Marshal
Husband Rhys Gwyg ap Rhys Lord of Yestradtywy
AKA: Rhys-Gryd Lord of Yestradtywy
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Rhys ap Gruffudd ap Rhys Tewdwr Justice of South Wales ( - )
Mother:
Marriage:
Wife Joan de Clare 66 92
Born: 1184 - Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Richard de Clare 6th Earl of Clare (Abt 1153-1218) 64 65 66
Mother: Amice FitzWilliam Countess of Gloucester (Abt 1160-1225) 66 67
Children
1 M Rhys-Mechyllt of Llandovery Castle
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Research Notes: Husband - Rhys Gwyg ap Rhys Lord of Yestradtywy
Source: Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania by Charles H. Browning, Philadelphia, 1912. From that book, p. 281:
"RHY-GRYD, feudal lord of Yestradywy. He m. Lady Joan, daughter of Richard de Clare*, fourth Earl of Hertford, &c., one of the celebrated twenty-five Sureties for the Magna Charta, 1215,..."
From: A History of Wales by John Davies, London, 2007, pp. 130-131:
"In Deheubarth [about 1194], Rhys ap Gruffudd was troubled by the waywardness of his sons, and the agreement between Rhys and the king of England came to an end when Henry II was succeeded by his son, Richard I, in 1189. Rhys died in 1197. His heir was his eldest son, Gruffudd, whom Chronica de Wallia referred to in 1200 as prince, the last of the rulers of Deheubarth to be given that title. Gruffudd was challenged by his brothers, Maelgwn and Rhys Gryg in particular, and following his death in 1201 the authority of his son, Rhys Ieuanc, was restricted to Cantref Mawr, the region between the rivers Tywi and Teifi. In the struggles in Deheubarth, Maelgwn received the support of John who became king of England on the death of his brother, Richard, in 1199. John had direct interests in Wals, for, through his marriage with the heiress of Glamorgan, he was lord of the greatest of the Marcher Lordships. In 1199, John bestowed Ceredigion and Emlyn on Maelgwn through royal grant.."
Husband Gilbert d' Umfreville Earl of Angus 93
Born: 1244
Christened:
Died: Bef 13 Oct 1307
Buried:
Father: Gilbert d' Umfreville ( - ) 93
Mother: Maud ( - )
Marriage: 1289
Wife Margaret de Clare 94 95 96 97
Born: Abt 1 Apr 1287 - Bunratty Castle, Thomond, Ireland
Christened:
Died: Between 22 Oct 1333 and 8 Jan 1334
Buried:
Father: Thomas de Clare Lord of Inchiquin and Yougal (Abt 1245-1287) 98 99
Mother: Juliana FitzGerald of Offaly (Abt 1263-1300) 99 100
Other Spouse: Bartholomew de Badlesmere of Badlesmere & Chilham Castle, Kent (Abt 1275-1322) 95 101 102 - Bef 30 Jun 1308
Children
Research Notes: Husband - Gilbert d' Umfreville Earl of Angus
Research Notes: Wife - Margaret de Clare
"Heiress to her nephew Thomas de Clare, son of Richard de Clare, 2nd son of Thomas and Juliane... She was therefore sister to Richard, 2nd son, and to Thomas, 1st son..." -- Ancestral Roots, Line 54-32.
Also www.thepeerage.com
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From Wikipedia - Margaret de Clare, Lady Badlesmere :
Margaret de Clare (c.1 April 1287 - 22 October 1333/ 3 January 1334) was a Norman -Irish noblewoman and the wife of Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere .[1]In 1321, she was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London for refusing Isabella of France , Queen consort of King Edward II , admittance to Leeds Castle of which her husband, Lord Badlesmere, was castellan .
Family
Margaret was born at Bunratty Castle in Thomond , Ireland on or about 1 April 1287, the youngest child of Thomas de Clare , Lord of Thomond and Juliana FitzGerald of Offaly . Her paternal grandparents were Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Maud de Lacy . Her maternal grandparents were Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly and Maud de Prendergast (born 17 March 1243), daughter of Gerald de Prendergast and a de Burgh daughter whose first name is not known. Margaret's maternal ancestors included Brian Boru , Dermot McMurrough , and Maud de Braose .
Margaret had an elder sister, Maud and two brothers, Richard de Clare, 1st Lord Clare , who was killed at the Battle of Dysert O'Dea in 1318, and Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Thomond.[2]
On 29 August 1287, when she was almost five months of age, her father died. Her mother married her second husband, Nicholas Avenel sometime afterwards.
Margaret was co-heiress to her nephew Thomas de Clare, son of her brother Richard, by which she inherited the manors of Plashes in Standon, Hertfordshire and lands in Thomond, Limerick and Cork in 1321 upon the death of Thomas.[3]
Marriages
Before 1303, she married firstly, Gilbert de Umfraville, son of Gilbert de Umphraville, Earl of Angus, and Elizabeth Comyn. Upon their marriage, the Earl of Angus granted Gilbert and Margaret the manors of Hambleton and Market Overton. When Gilbert died childless, sometime before 1307, the manors passed to Margaret.
Sometime before 30 June 1308, she married secondly, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere ,(1275 -14 April 1322 ) an English baron and Governor of Bristol Castle, by whom she had five children.[4] She was styled as Lady Badlesmere on 26 October 1309 , and henceforth known by that title.[5]
Leeds Castle
Lord Badlesmere was appointed castellan of the Royal Castle of Leeds in Kent , by Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster , Regent of King Edward II . In October 1321, the queen consort Isabella of France went on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury . She decided to break her journey by stopping at Leeds Castle, which was given to her as part of her dowry[6] Bartholomew was away at the time leaving Margaret in charge of the castle. Due to her dislike of Isabella as well as her own belligerent character, she refused the Queen admittance, and subsequently ordered her archers to fire upon Queen Isabella when she approached the outer barbican . When King Edward heard of the treatment meted out to his consort by Margaret, he sent an expeditionary force to the castle. After a successful assault of the castle, with the King's troops using ballistas , the defenders surrendered, and Margaret was seized and sent to the Tower of London .[7]
As a result of Margaret's arrest, Lord Badlesmere joined Lancaster's rebellion and fought in the Battle of Boroughbridge on 16 March 1322. He was arrested and afterward hanged for treason on 14 April 1322. Margaret remained imprisoned in the Tower until 3 November 1322.[2] She was released from the Tower, due to the successful mediation, on her behalf, of her son-in-law William de Ros. She retired to the convent house of the Minorite Sisters, outside Aldgate .[8]
In 1328, her son Giles obtained a reversal of his father's attainder and succeeded to the barony as the 2nd Baron Badlesmere.
Margaret died between 22 October 1333 and 3 January 1334.[9]
List of children
Margery de Badlesmere (1308/1309- 18 October 1363), married before 25 November 1316, William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros of Hamlake. (c.1290- 3 February 1343[10]), by whom she had six children.
Maud de Badlesmere (1310- 24 May 1366), married firstly Robert FitzPayn, and secondly, John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford . By her second marriage, Maud had seven children.
Elizabeth de Badlesmere (1313- 8 June 1356), married firstly Sir Edmund Mortimer , and secondly, William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton . Both marriages produced children.
Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere (18 October 1314 - 7 June 1338 , married Elizabeth Montagu, by whom he had four daughters.
Margaret de Badlesmere (born 1315), married John Tiptoft, 2nd Lord Tiptoft, by whom she had one son, Robert Tiptoft.
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