Ida of Hainault1

F, #6271

Father*Baldwin III of Hainault1 b. bt 1087 - 1088, d. 1120
Mother*Adelaide of Gueldres1
Ida of Hainault||p210.htm#i6271|Baldwin III of Hainault|b. bt 1087 - 1088\nd. 1120|p124.htm#i3691|Adelaide of Gueldres||p124.htm#i3692|Baldwin I. of Hainault|b. 1056\nd. a 8 Jun 1098|p150.htm#i4495|Ida o. L. (?)|b. c 1065\nd. Apr 1139|p150.htm#i4496|Gerhard I. F. von Wassenberg|d. 1138|p330.htm#i9884|Clemence d. Poitou|b. c 1048\nd. a 1129|p130.htm#i3884|

Marriage*before 9 August 1138 Principal=Roger III de Tony1 

Family

Roger III de Tony b. c 1104, d. a 29 Sep 1158
Children

Last Edited10 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Constantia FitzHenry Beaumont/1

F, #6272, d. after 1168

Death*after 1168 1 

Last Edited9 Mar 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Ermengaud de Nevers Beaumont1

F, #6273, d. 14 October 1998

Father*Count William I of Nevers1 b. c 1030, d. 20 Jun 1100
Mother*Ermengarde of Tonnerre1 d. 1090
Ermengaud de Nevers Beaumont|d. 14 Oct 1998|p210.htm#i6273|Count William I of Nevers|b. c 1030\nd. 20 Jun 1100|p173.htm#i5189|Ermengarde of Tonnerre|d. 1090|p173.htm#i5190|Count Rainald I. of Nevers|d. 29 May 1040|p174.htm#i5191|Adèle of France|b. c 1003\nd. 8 Jan 1079|p148.htm#i4439|Count Renaud I. of Tonnerre|b. c 980\nd. 16 Jul 1039|p174.htm#i5192|Ervig (?)||p118.htm#i3539|

Death*14 October 1998 1 

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Ralph II de Beaumont1

M, #6274, d. 1040

Father*Raoul III (?)1 d. a 997
Mother*Godechilde de Bellême1 d. a 1015
Ralph II de Beaumont|d. 1040|p210.htm#i6274|Raoul III (?)|d. a 997|p210.htm#i6275|Godechilde de Bellême|d. a 1015|p349.htm#i10465|(Mr.) FitzRalph||p210.htm#i6276||||Yves de Bellême|d. a 1005|p158.htm#i4713|Godchilde de Ponthieu|b. c 944\nd. a 1005|p158.htm#i4714|

Death*1040 1 

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Raoul III (?)1

M, #6275, d. after 997

Father*(Mr.) FitzRalph1
Raoul III (?)|d. a 997|p210.htm#i6275|(Mr.) FitzRalph||p210.htm#i6276||||Ralph (?)|d. bt 895 - 898|p210.htm#i6277||||||||||

Marriage* Principal=Godechilde de Bellême1 
Death*after 997 1 

Family

Godechilde de Bellême d. a 1015
Children

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

(Mr.) FitzRalph1

M, #6276

Father*Ralph (?)1 d. bt 895 - 898
(Mr.) FitzRalph||p210.htm#i6276|Ralph (?)|d. bt 895 - 898|p210.htm#i6277||||||||||||||||

Marriage* 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Ralph (?)1

M, #6277, d. between 895 and 898

Marriage* 1 
Death*between 895 and 898 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Katherine Basset Lovel/1

F, #6278, d. VERY OLD

Father*Alan Basset1 b. c 1155, d. 1233
Mother*Aline de Gay1 b. c 1159
Katherine Basset Lovel/|d. VERY OLD|p210.htm#i6278|Alan Basset|b. c 1155\nd. 1233|p210.htm#i6279|Aline de Gay|b. c 1159|p210.htm#i6280|Thomas Bassett|d. c Feb 1181|p210.htm#i6282|Adeliza Dunstanville|d. a 1186|p210.htm#i6283|Steven de Gay||p210.htm#i6284|Aline Pippard||p210.htm#i6285|

Death*VERY OLD 1 

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Alan Basset1

M, #6279, b. circa 1155, d. 1233

 

Father*Thomas Bassett1 d. c Feb 1181
Mother*Adeliza Dunstanville1 d. a 1186
Alan Basset|b. c 1155\nd. 1233|p210.htm#i6279|Thomas Bassett|d. c Feb 1181|p210.htm#i6282|Adeliza Dunstanville|d. a 1186|p210.htm#i6283|Gilbert Basset|d. a 1167|p210.htm#i6288|Edith d' Oilly Basset/||p240.htm#i7193|Alan d. Dunstanville||p210.htm#i6293|Emma d. Langetot Dunstanville/||p210.htm#i6294|

Birth*circa 1155 Mapledurham, Wycombe, & Berewick, England1 
Marriage* Principal=Aline de Gay1 
Death*1233 of Headington, Oxfordshire, England1 
DNB* Basset, Alan (d. 1232), administrator, was one of the three sons (probably the youngest) of Thomas Basset (d. c.1182). He founded the Bassets of Wycombe, and was a noted servant of Richard I, John, and Henry III. In 1197 Richard I sent him on a diplomatic mission with William (I) Marshal to the counts of Flanders and Boulogne to detach them from their allegiance to King Philip of France, and shortly afterwards, with his elder brother Thomas, he attested as surety for Richard in France concerning the king's treaty with the count of Flanders against Philip. Between 1197 and 1199 he witnessed six more of Richard's documents in France. Following Richard's death, he was soon in attendance upon John; Alan, Thomas, and Gilbert Basset were all described as barons when they witnessed the homage of the king of Scots to John at Lincoln on 22 November 1200. In 1202 and 1203 Alan witnessed ten of John's charters in France, and, between 1200 and 1215, twenty-five royal charters in England. Remaining loyal to John, he is often recorded in that king's service, and received such rewards as numerous quittances of scutage. In 1215 he was named in Magna Carta as one of the ‘noblemen’ whose counsel the king relied upon, and he was among the royalist barons who attended John at Runnymede. He appears to have accompanied John on his expedition to the north of England in the winter of 1215–16. He was in Henry III's service by 14 December 1216. In 1217 he fought at the battle of Lincoln, and helped to pacify the kingdom afterwards, and in 1220 he was one of three ambassadors sent to France to arrange a four-year truce. He was still in royal service in 1228, but died late in 1232.

Basset and his brothers each held only enough knights' fees in chief to constitute a very small barony. Richard I granted Alan the manor of Woking in Surrey and the vill of Mapledurwell in Hampshire as one half fee each, while John granted him part of the manor of Wycombe, on highly favourable terms, to hold in chief as one fee of the honour of Wallingford. He held five fees of that honour, two being in Wootton Bassett and Broad Town (both in Wiltshire) which he held of the inheritance of his wife, Alina de Gai, together with the manor of Compton Bassett, also in Wiltshire. John also granted him the manors of Berwick Bassett in Wiltshire and Greywell in Hampshire.

Basset and Aline had a daughter, Aline, and another daughter, whose name is unknown. With his likely first wife, Alice de Gray (the similarity of their names is such that the possibility that Alan had only one wife cannot be excluded), he had seven children—Thomas, Gilbert, Alice, Fulk, David, Warin, and Philip. Gilbert Basset, Fulk Basset, and Philip Basset are the subjects of separate notices. Thomas (d. 1230) was a crown servant, and David was in royal service in Ireland.

W. T. Reedy
Sources

W. T. Reedy, ed., Basset charters, c.1120–1250, PRSoc., new ser., 50 (1995) · GEC, Peerage · E. B. Fryde and others, eds., Handbook of British chronology, 3rd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 2 (1986) · PRSoc. · court of common pleas, feet of fines, PRO, CP 25/1 · A. Hughes, List of sheriffs for England and Wales: from the earliest times to AD 1831, PRO (1898) · Chancery records (RC) · D. A. Carpenter, The minority of Henry III (1990) · J. C. Holt, Magna Carta, 2nd edn (1992) · Paris, Chron., vol. 2 · Chronica magistri Rogeri de Hovedene, ed. W. Stubbs, 4, Rolls Series, 51 (1871) · H. E. Salter and A. H. Cooke, eds., The Boarstall cartulary, OHS, 88 (1930), appx 2 · I. J. Sanders, English baronies: a study of their origin and descent, 1086–1327 (1960) · ‘Basset, Philip’, DNB · R. C. Stacey, Politics, policy and finance under Henry III, 1216–1245 (1987) · Curia regis rolls preserved in the Public Record Office (1922–)C. Roberts, ed., Excerpta è rotulis finium in Turri Londinensi asservatis, Henrico Tertio rege, AD 1216–1272, 1, RC, 32 (1835), 231
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W. T. Reedy, ‘Basset, Alan (d. 1232)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1635, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

Alan Basset (d. 1232): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16352 
Arms* Two bars undy (Birch)3

Family

Aline de Gay b. c 1159
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  3. [S325] Rev. C. Moor, Knights of Edward I, p. 51.

Aline de Gay1

F, #6280, b. circa 1159

Father*Steven de Gay1
Mother*Aline Pippard1
Aline de Gay|b. c 1159|p210.htm#i6280|Steven de Gay||p210.htm#i6284|Aline Pippard||p210.htm#i6285|||||||||||||

Birth*circa 1159 England1 
Marriage* Principal=Alan Basset1 

Family

Alan Basset b. c 1155, d. 1233
Children

Last Edited14 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Auberie de Beaumont1

F, #6281, d. after 1189

Father*Robert de Beaumont1 b. 1049, d. 5 Jun 1118
Mother*Isabel de Vermandois1 b. 1081, d. 13 Feb 1131
Auberie de Beaumont|d. a 1189|p210.htm#i6281|Robert de Beaumont|b. 1049\nd. 5 Jun 1118|p92.htm#i2754|Isabel de Vermandois|b. 1081\nd. 13 Feb 1131|p64.htm#i1915|Roger de Beaumont|b. c 1022\nd. 29 Nov 1094|p113.htm#i3385|Adeline de Meulan|b. c 1014\nd. 8 Apr 1081|p113.htm#i3386|Hugh Magnus of France|b. 1057\nd. 18 Oct 1101|p64.htm#i1916|Adelaide de Vermandois|b. c 1062\nd. 28 Sep 1124|p64.htm#i1917|

Death*after 1189 1,2 
Name Variation Aubrée2 

Last Edited1 May 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 18.

Thomas Bassett1

M, #6282, d. circa February 1181

Father*Gilbert Basset1 d. a 1167
Mother*Edith d' Oilly Basset/1
Thomas Bassett|d. c Feb 1181|p210.htm#i6282|Gilbert Basset|d. a 1167|p210.htm#i6288|Edith d' Oilly Basset/||p240.htm#i7193|Thomas Basset||p210.htm#i6290||||Robert II d' Oilly|d. 1192|p257.htm#i7709|Edith FitzForne||p257.htm#i7710|

Birth* of Hedenton, Oxfordshire, England1 
Marriage* Principal=Adeliza Dunstanville1 
Death*circa February 1181 1 
DNB* Basset, Thomas (d. c.1182), justice, belonged to a distinguished family of royal servants which began with Ralph Basset (d. 1127?), the brother of Thomas's father, Gilbert (d. in or before 1154). Thomas Basset had entered Henry II's service by 1163. His first known post in the royal administration was as sheriff of Oxfordshire (1163–4). A baron of the exchequer from 1169 to c.1181, he was an itinerant justice in the south and west in 1175, and again in 1179; in December 1180 he joined the justiciar Ranulf de Glanville and other royal justices at Lincoln in approving a final concord. He was custodian of the honour of Wallingford for the king from 1172 to 1179. He witnessed royal documents in England fourteen times between 1174 and 1179, and he was with the king in Normandy, c.1181, attesting at Barfleur. He died shortly afterwards, perhaps in 1182.

In 1166 Thomas Basset held seven knights' fees of the king, representing estates of the honour of Wallingford in Middlesex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. He still held the fees in 1172, when he was pardoned scutage on them.

Basset married Adeliza de Dunstanville [see Basset, Adeliza, under Dunstanville, de, family], who survived him, dying in or after 1210, and they had three sons and a daughter, Isabel, who married Albert (III) de Grelley, lord of Manchester. When Albert died in late September 1180, Basset, by the king's order, took custody of Isabel, of his son-in-law's land, and of their son and heir, Robert de Grelley, holding the custody until his death. All three of Basset's sons followed him into the king's service: the eldest, Gilbert (d. 1205); Thomas Basset (d. 1220), to whom King John granted the barony of Headington, Oxfordshire, in 1203; and Alan Basset of Wycombe (d. 1232), apparently the youngest, founder of the line of Bassets of Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. In 1194 the two younger sons were both serving in Richard I's army in Normandy; and they continued to serve John and Henry III.

Ralph V. Turner
Sources

W. T. Reedy, ed., Basset charters, c.1120–1250, PRSoc., new ser., 50 (1995) · Pipe rolls, 4, 11–12, 16, 18, 25–6, 28 Henry II · J. H. Round, ed., Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis de XII comitatibus (1185), PRSoc., 35 (1913) · H. Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer, 3 vols., Rolls Series, 99 (1896) · D. M. Stenton, ed., Pleas before the king or his justices, 1198–1212, 3, SeldS, 83 (1967) · A. Hughes, List of sheriffs for England and Wales: from the earliest times to AD 1831, PRO (1898); repr. (New York, 1963) · R. W. Eyton, Court, household, and itinerary of King Henry II (1878) · J. H. Round, ed., Calendar of documents preserved in France, illustrative of the history of Great Britain and Ireland (1899) · I. J. Sanders, English baronies: a study of their origin and descent, 1086–1327 (1960) · VCH Oxfordshire, vol. 6 · VCH Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, vol. 4 · VCH Berkshire, vol. 4
Wealth at death

held seven knights' fees at least: Reedy, ed., Basset Charters
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Ralph V. Turner, ‘Basset, Thomas (d. c.1182)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1648, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

Thomas Basset (d. c.1182): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16482 

Family

Adeliza Dunstanville d. a 1186
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.

Adeliza Dunstanville1

F, #6283, d. after 1186

Father*Alan de Dunstanville1
Mother*Emma de Langetot Dunstanville/1
Adeliza Dunstanville|d. a 1186|p210.htm#i6283|Alan de Dunstanville||p210.htm#i6293|Emma de Langetot Dunstanville/||p210.htm#i6294|Reginald d. Dunstanville|d. a 1124|p210.htm#i6295|Adeliza d. Lisle Dunstanville/|d. a 1130|p210.htm#i6296||||Emma Langetot||p210.htm#i6297|

Marriage* Principal=Thomas Bassett1 
Death*after 1186 1 
DNB* Dunstanville, de, family (per. c.1090-c.1292), gentry, was a landholding family with interests in Wiltshire, Shropshire, Sussex, Cornwall, and Oxfordshire. The family, whose members make their first appearance in the late 1090s, probably originated from Dénestanville (Seine-Maritime) in Normandy. Walter de Dunstanville, his brother Robert, and son Adam witnessed an act of William II, while Robert attested three acts of Arnulf de Montgomery (d. 1118x22), and it is these links with the Montgomery family that probably account for the family's later holdings in Sussex and Shropshire. Before 1114 Adeliza de Insula [de Dunstanville] (fl. 1114-1130) gave land in Wiltshire to Tewkesbury Abbey for her husband, Reginald de Dunstanville (fl. 1114); they were probably the parents of Reginald de Dunstanville and his sister Gundreda who appear in the Wiltshire section of the pipe roll for 1130. Much of the Wiltshire property afterwards held by the family had been listed in Domesday Book as that of Humphrey de Insula, which suggests that Adeliza de Insula was Humphrey's daughter and a figure of some importance, and an Adeliza de Dunstanville appears as security for a debt in the roll of 1130.

Reginald, earl of Cornwall (d. 1175), is given the toponym of Dunstanville by Orderic Vitalis and, although his relationship to the family is nowhere made explicit, Dunstanvilles, particularly the clerk, Hugh, and another Robert de Dunstanville (d. 1166/7), were often in his entourage. The connection with Earl Reginald introduced the Dunstanvilles into the Empress Matilda's circle and an Alan [i] de Dunstanville (fl. 1141) witnessed a charter given by her in 1141. Robert de Dunstanville witnessed acts both of the empress and of her son, the future Henry II, attesting one royal act as the king's dapifer (‘steward’) . In the mid-1150s he was given the revenues of Heytesbury, Wiltshire (£40 annually), and from about 1160 received the revenues of Colyton in Devon (£20 annually).

When Robert died his property was inherited by his nephew Walter [i] de Dunstanville (d. c.1195), the son of his (probably older) brother Alan [i]. Walter [i] and his brother Alan [ii] de Dunstanville (d. before 1199) confirmed Robert's grant of land to Monkton Farleigh Priory before 1169, but the younger Alan's interests lay chiefly in Oxfordshire. He farmed the honour of Earl Giffard from 1180 and married Muriel de Langetot (b. 1155), daughter of Geoffrey fitz William, who had himself administered the Giffard honour, securing her property at Shiplake, Oxfordshire. Alan [ii] also held property in Cornwall. His eldest son, Walter, died before 1206 when a second son, Alan [iii] de Dunstanville (d. after 1216), took control of the Cornish property. Alan [iii] died childless, as did his brother, Geoffrey (d. 1234), and the Oxfordshire branch of the Dunstanvilles then failed, the estates descending to the heirs of Alan's and Muriel's daughters.

When Walter [i] inherited the Wiltshire holdings of his uncle Robert he already held lands in Shropshire and Sussex, inherited from his father, Alan [i], and his Wiltshire interests were to be yet further increased by the estates of the senior branch of the family, after the death of Reginald, earl of Cornwall. Walter [i] attested acts of Henry II and later those of King John, but he was not as conspicuous at the royal court as his uncle Robert had been. Links with another family in royal service had been fostered when his sister Adeliza de Dunstanville [Adeliza Basset (d. in or after 1210)] married Thomas Basset (d. c.1182). Although Walter received some signs of favour from Richard I, his lands and those of a number of his associates were forfeited in 1194, the year in which Richard returned from captivity, suggesting that they may have been involved in Prince John's disloyalty. Walter [i] had apparently taken the cross, but died before he could set out.

A long minority followed when the property was held on behalf of Walter [i]'s son, Walter [ii] de Dunstanville (c.1192-1241), by a series of custodians, including William Brewer (d. 1244) and Walter [ii]'s cousins, Gilbert and Thomas Basset, and serious inroads were made on the lands of the family. Walter attained his majority about 1213 and was summoned to the king's expedition to Poitou in 1214. He was among those who rebelled against King John in 1215, but was quickly restored to favour under Henry III. He fought in the campaigns against the Welsh in the late 1220s and joined the king's expedition to France in 1230. His marriage to Petronilla, daughter of William Fitzalan, brought the family the manor of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, and did something to revive its fortunes.

In 1242 Walter [ii]'s son, Sir Walter [iii] de Dunstanville (b. after 1212, d. 1270), joined Henry III's expedition to Gascony and fought the Welsh in the campaigns of the mid-1240s and 1250s. His service to the royal cause at the battle of Lewes was less distinguished, although the king later pardoned him for running away and in May 1265 made him constable of Salisbury Castle. Walter [iii] was a benefactor of the Cistercian house at Stanley in Wiltshire, to which he gave the services from lands in Costow in Wroughton, Wiltshire. His death on 14 January 1270 ended the direct Dunstanville line. His son, who was probably also called Walter, had died in 1246 and his heir was therefore his daughter, Petronilla [Petronilla de la Mare (b. 1248, d. in or before 1292)]. She married first Robert de Montfort (d. 1274) and second John de la Mare (d. 1313), and left as her heir William de Montfort, who disposed of most of his interests in the Dunstanville lands by sale.

The Dunstanvilles were a family of middling wealth, whose title was never more elevated than a knighthood. Their interests spread through southern England and the marches, and indicate what such a family might achieve through marriages and access to royal patronage. The family extended its interests beyond Wiltshire through their links with the Montgomery family and built on the advantageous marriage that brought them the lands of Humphrey de Insula. Younger sons of the family had successful careers as royal servants and established their own landed holdings, which by accidents of inheritance were sometimes consolidated into the main branch of the family. In the thirteenth century the Dunstanvilles played an important role in their localities, but were not significant figures at the royal court.

Kathleen Thompson
Sources

R. W. Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, 12 vols. (1854–60), vol. 2, pp. 268–304 · W. Farrer, Honours and knights' fees (1923–5), vol. 3, pp. 37–41 · Pipe rolls, 2 John, 162–3 · [W. Illingworth], ed., Rotuli hundredorum temp. Hen. III et Edw. I, 2 vols., RC (1812–18) · T. D. Hardy, ed., Rotuli chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati, RC, 36 (1837) · Chancery records · H. C. M. Lyte and others, eds., Liber feodorum: the book of fees, 3 vols. (1920–31) · H. Hall, ed., The Red Book of the Exchequer, 3 vols., Rolls Series, 99 (1896) · L. F. Salzman, ed., The chartulary of the Priory of St Pancras of Lewes, 2 vols., Sussex RS, 38, 40 (1932–4) · J. L. Kirby, ed., Hungerford cartulary, Wilts RS, 49 (1993) · CIPM, 1, no. 625 · K. Thompson, ‘Affairs of state: the illegitimate children of Henry I’, Journal of Medieval History, 29 (2003)
Wealth at death

£122 14s. 1d.—for landed property; Walter [iii] de Dunstanville · 35 marks—for advowsons in Wiltshire in 1270; Walter [iii] de Dunstanville: Kirby, ed., Hungerford cartulary, no. 625; CIPM
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Kathleen Thompson, ‘Dunstanville, de, family (per. c.1090-c.1292)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [accessed 24 Sept 2005: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61219]2 

Family

Thomas Bassett d. c Feb 1181
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.

Steven de Gay1

M, #6284

Marriage* Principal=Aline Pippard1 

Family

Aline Pippard
Child

Last Edited14 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Aline Pippard1

F, #6285

Marriage* 1st=John FitzGilbert (?)1 
Marriage* Principal=Steven de Gay2 
Divorce*before 1141 Principal=John FitzGilbert (?)3 

Family 1

John FitzGilbert (?) b. c 1106, d. b Michaelmas in 1165
Child

Family 2

Steven de Gay
Child

Last Edited14 Apr 2005

Citations

  1. [S344] Douglas Richardson, Aline Basset in "Hugh le Despenser," listserve message 14 Apr 2005.
  2. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 147.

William (?)1

M, #6286, d. after 1102

Father*Ralph de Guarder1 b. c 1042, d. 1097
Mother*Emma FitzWilliam1
William (?)|d. a 1102|p210.htm#i6286|Ralph de Guarder|b. c 1042\nd. 1097|p113.htm#i3387|Emma FitzWilliam||p92.htm#i2752|Ralph the Staller|b. b 1011|p114.htm#i3393||||William FitzOsbern|d. 20 Feb 1071|p92.htm#i2753|Adelisa de Tony|d. 5 Oct 1070|p112.htm#i3340|

Death*after 1102 1 

Last Edited1 Jun 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Hugh (?)1

M, #6287

Father*Ralph (?)1
Mother*Erneburge de Crux1
Hugh (?)||p210.htm#i6287|Ralph (?)||p151.htm#i4528|Erneburge de Crux||p151.htm#i4529|Sperling t. M. (?)||p151.htm#i4530|Espriota d. St. Liz|b. c 911|p147.htm#i4390|Canville d. Caux||p152.htm#i4531||||

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Gilbert Basset1

M, #6288, d. after 1167

Father*Thomas Basset1
Gilbert Basset|d. a 1167|p210.htm#i6288|Thomas Basset||p210.htm#i6290||||Ralph Basset|d. 1120|p199.htm#i5956|(?) de Buci||p210.htm#i6292|||||||

Birth* of Wellingford, Oxfordshire, England1 
Marriage* Principal=Edith d' Oilly Basset/1 
Death*after 1167 1 

Family

Edith d' Oilly Basset/
Children

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Thomas Basset1

M, #6290

Father*Ralph Basset1 d. 1120
Mother*(?) de Buci1
Thomas Basset||p210.htm#i6290|Ralph Basset|d. 1120|p199.htm#i5956|(?) de Buci||p210.htm#i6292|Thurston Basset|d. a 1086|p199.htm#i5957||||Robert d. Buci||p210.htm#i6291||||

Marriage* 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Robert de Buci1

M, #6291

Marriage* 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

(?) de Buci1

F, #6292

Father*Robert de Buci1
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Marriage* Principal=Ralph Basset1 

Family

Ralph Basset d. 1120
Children

Last Edited31 Jan 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S342] Sir Bernard Burke, Extinct Peerages, p. 26.

Alan de Dunstanville1

M, #6293

Father*Reginald de Dunstanville1 d. a 1124
Mother*Adeliza de Lisle Dunstanville/1 d. a 1130
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Birth* of Tehidy, Cornwall, England1 
Marriage*before 1156 Principal=Emma de Langetot Dunstanville/1 

Family

Emma de Langetot Dunstanville/
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Emma de Langetot Dunstanville/1

F, #6294

Mother*Emma Langetot1
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Marriage*before 1156 Principal=Alan de Dunstanville1 

Family

Alan de Dunstanville
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Reginald de Dunstanville1

M, #6295, d. after 1124

Father*Hugo de Dunstanville1
Reginald de Dunstanville|d. a 1124|p210.htm#i6295|Hugo de Dunstanville||p210.htm#i6298||||||||||||||||

Marriage* Principal=Adeliza de Lisle Dunstanville/1 
Death*after 1124 1 

Family

Adeliza de Lisle Dunstanville/ d. a 1130
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Adeliza de Lisle Dunstanville/1

F, #6296, d. after 1130

Father*Humphrey de Lisle1 d. a 1080
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Marriage* Principal=Reginald de Dunstanville1 
Death*after 1130 1 

Family

Reginald de Dunstanville d. a 1124
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Emma Langetot1

F, #6297

Marriage* 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Hugo de Dunstanville1

M, #6298

Marriage* 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Humphrey de Lisle1

M, #6299, d. after 1080

Marriage* 1 
Death*after 1080 1 

Family
Child

Last Edited24 Oct 2003

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.

Hugh de Lacey1

M, #6300, d. 25 July 1185

Father*Gilbert de Lacey1 b. c 1104, d. 1163
Mother*Agnes (?)1 b. c 1108
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Of Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England1 
Marriage*circa 1172 Bride=Rose of Monmouth1,2,3 
Death*25 July 1185 Durrow, Meath, Ireland, (murdered)|He had his head cut off by an Irishman as he was demonstrating how to use a pick1,3 
Burial St. Thomas's, Dublin, Ireland3 
DNB* Lacy, Hugh de (d. 1186), magnate, was the son of an unknown mother and of Gilbert de Lacy (fl. 1133-1163). In 1158 or 1159 Gilbert became a knight templar and by 1159–60 had been succeeded as lord of Weobley, Herefordshire (one of the family's chief castles), by his son Robert. By 1162 Robert, in turn, had been succeeded by Hugh, presumably his younger brother. Hugh de Lacy thus became an important tenant-in-chief of the crown. He held fees hereditarily in Normandy at Lassy and Campeaux; additionally about 1172–3 he obtained by purchase of 200 livres angevins the honour of Le Pin from Robert, count of Meulan, to be held of Henry II for 2 knights' fees. In 1166 he made a return to the king stating that in England he had 54¼ fees of old feoffment, of which, however, 3½ fees were not acknowledged as his by their holders; he also had 5½ fees of new feoffment, land worth 800s., and 9 resident knights maintained in his household. In 1167/8 scutage was calculated on 51¼ knights' fees, indicating that Lacy had not recovered the contested fees. Lacy did not pay scutage in 1164/5, suggesting that he participated in person in Henry II's campaign from Shrewsbury into north Wales in 1165.

Lacy accompanied Henry II to Ireland in October 1171. Gerald of Wales certainly exaggerated, if he did not entirely invent, a meeting at the River Shannon between Lacy, William fitz Aldelin, and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, king of Connacht and claimant to the high-kingship, at which the latter supposedly offered submission to Henry II. Hugh de Lacy had definitely attained a prominent position in the king's entourage. Before Henry left Ireland in April 1172 he granted Lacy the kingdom of Mide for the service of 50 knights, as well as custody of the city of Dublin which the king retained as royal demesne. The terms suggest the king's determination that tenure of the Irish lordships should be more strictly controlled than that of the semi-autonomous Welsh marcher domains. Such had been the confusion over the kingship of Mide in the previous twenty years that Henry specifically granted the kingdom ‘as it had been held by Murchad Ua Máel Sechlainn’ (Orpen, 1.285–6), who had died in 1153. One Irish contender for the lordship of Mide, Tigernán Ua Ruairc, king of Bréifne, had made such inroads into Mide in the immediate pre-Norman period that he is actually termed ‘king of Mide’ by Gerald (Expugnatio, 95, 113). Lacy assassinated Ua Ruairc at the hill of Tlachtga (Ward, Meath) in 1172 while negotiations between the two were in progress.

Lacy was back in England by 29 December 1172, the anniversary of the death of Archbishop Thomas Becket, when he was at Canterbury, probably en route for Normandy. In the summer of 1173 he fought on Henry II's behalf in Normandy and in July held the castle of Verneuil against Louis VII of France, although eventually it was forced to capitulate. Lacy can be traced intermittently in Henry's entourage up to 1177. In May 1177 he was present at the Council of Oxford, when arrangements were made for the administration of the Angevin lordship in Ireland following the death in April 1176 of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare (Strongbow), earl of Pembroke and Striguil and lord of Leinster. According to Gerald of Wales, Lacy was appointed as the king's procurator generalis in Ireland (Expugnatio, 183), but the diplomatic of royal records indicates that it was William fitz Aldelin who exercised the role of principal royal agent in Ireland at this time. The king may have considered that his bond with William fitz Aldelin, a long-standing administrator and member of the royal familia, was more dependable than his personal relationship with Lacy as a tenurial vassal. Few such administrators were available to Henry in Ireland, however, and in 1177 Lacy retained custody of the royal demesne of Dublin. Extant documents testify to his administrative role. In 1176/7 the sheriff of Shropshire accounted for 200 bushels of wheat sent to Lacy in Ireland; in 1177/8 he received 200 bushels from Dorset and Somerset and 300 from Gloucestershire, while 500 bushels were shipped with his servants in 1178/9 for the use of the king's familia in Ireland. None the less, Henry II evidently remained wary of Lacy's intentions, and in the summer of 1177 took into his hand Lacy's demesne castle of Ludlow, which he retained for the remainder of Lacy's life: this would have had the effect of weakening Lacy power in the central Welsh march and may therefore have been intended as a mechanism of royal control in case Hugh de Lacy overstepped his position in Ireland.

The so-called Song of Dermot and the Earl gives an account of Hugh de Lacy's subinfeudation of Mide. The details of the process are obscure as only three charter-texts of enfeoffment survive. Settlement seems to have proceeded on the basis of pre-existing units—the charters give the Irish names of the lands and their previous holders—which were now held by knights' service, orientated towards a castle. The precise number of castles that Lacy built in Mide is unknown. His castle at Trim was to become the caput of the Anglo-Norman lordship of Mide. Some of his castles reused royal sites of the pre-Norman kingdom of Mide. Gerald of Wales praised Lacy in contrast to William fitz Aldelin, for fortifying Leinster and Mide with castles and pacifying Ireland. Lacy also dispensed religious patronage from his new lordship. He endowed Llanthony Prima, in Gwent, and Llanthony Secunda, in Gloucestershire, with extensive ecclesiastical benefices and lands in Mide, founding a cell of Llanthony Prima at Colp and a cell of Llanthony Secunda at Duleek. He founded a Benedictine alien priory at Fore, Westmeath, as a dependency of St Taurin, Évreux, and was a benefactor of St Thomas's Abbey, Dublin, the Augustinian priory of Kells, Meath, and the archbishopric of Dublin.

Some of Lacy's activities did nothing to lessen the king's suspicion of him. In 1178 he reached an accommodation with Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, who had repulsed him after he had plundered the ecclesiastical site of Clonmacnoise, co. Offaly, with the Dublin garrison. Without Henry II's permission, Lacy married Ua Conchobair's daughter around this time, which apparently displeased Henry, and may have led to Lacy's recall to England in 1179 and again in 1181. In late 1181 or 1182, however, Lacy returned to Ireland, this time as the king's principal agent, though a royal clerk, Robert of Shrewsbury, was to oversee his actions. In September 1184 he was recalled again and replaced by a royal familiaris, Philip of Worcester, one of whose first actions was to seek the recovery of Saithne, in the north of the county of Dublin, which Hugh de Lacy was deemed to have misappropriated from the royal demesne of Dublin. When Henry II's son John went to assume the lordship of Ireland in person in 1185, he is said by the annals of Loch Cé to have reported back to Henry that Lacy had prevented the Irish kings from giving him tribute or hostages.

Hugh de Lacy was assassinated at Durrow on 26 July 1186. He was beheaded with an axe by Gillaganinathair Ó Miadaig of Bregmuine at the direction of In Sinnach Ua Ceithernaig, king of Tethba, perhaps to avenge the killing of the latter's son in battle against the Anglo-Normans eight years earlier. The annals of Loch Cé describe Lacy at the time of his death as ‘king of Mide and Bréifne, and Airgialla’, and further state that ‘it was to him that the tribute of Connacht was paid’ (Annals of Loch Cé, 1.173). Roger of Howden and William of Newburgh claim that news of Lacy's death was welcomed by Henry II, while Newburgh adds that the king intended to send John back to Ireland to seize Lacy's lands and castles. Lacy was buried at Durrow in 1186. His honour of Weobley was in the hands of the crown until his son and heir, Walter de Lacy (d. 1241), came of age in 1189. In 1195, in moves probably linked to the assumption of the lordship of Mide by Walter, Hugh de Lacy's body was recovered at the instigation of Muirges Ua hÉnna, archbishop of Cashel and papal legate, and John Cumin, archbishop of Dublin, and removed to Bective Abbey, Meath, while his head was buried at St Thomas's Abbey, Dublin. Further controversy over his remains ended in 1205 with a papal judgment in favour of removal of the body to St Thomas's, where it was buried alongside that of his first wife, Rose, widow of Baderon of Monmouth (d. 1170×76), and mother of his sons, Walter, Hugh de Lacy (d. 1242), Gilbert, and Robert. Rose died some time before 1180, by when Lacy had taken as his second wife the daughter of Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair, the elder, with whom he had a son, William Gorm, deemed to be illegitimate, who was to act in close concert with his half-brothers.

M. T. Flanagan
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M. T. Flanagan, ‘Lacy, Hugh de (d. 1186)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15852, accessed 24 Sept 2005]

Hugh de Lacy (d. 1186): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/158524 
Name Variation Lacy3 

Family 1
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Family 2

Rose of Monmouth
Children

Last Edited24 Sep 2005

Citations

  1. [S218] Marlyn Lewis, Ancestry of Elizabeth of York.
  2. [S168] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots, 177A-7.
  3. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 118.
  4. [S376] Unknown editor, unknown short title.
  5. [S347] Carl Boyer 3rd, Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 119.
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