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• FSID: LT5W-RGJ

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"The identity of Amieria’s parents is NOT KNOWN. She is shown as the daughter of Gilbert in Europäische Stammtafeln, BUT THIS MAY BE NO MORE THAN SPECULATION. The word "neptis" may indicate a more remote family relationship than niece."

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#RogerIMontgommery

Family/Spouse: de Hesdin, Sir Gérard. Gérard was born in 1022 in Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Keevil, Wiltshire, England; Baron Hesdin
• Appointments / Titles: Seigneur (Lord)
• Appointments / Titles: Sir Knight
• FSID: L5JF-FGC

Notes:

A Tenant-in-Chief in ten counties at the time of Domesday. Medieval Soldier and landholder"

Ernulf de Hesdin (died 1097), also transcribed as Arnulf and Ernulphe, was a French knight who took part in the Norman conquest of England and became a major landholder under William the Conqueror and William Rufus, featuring prominently in the Domesday Book.

Known as Ernulph or Arnulf.

Family/Spouse: Baladon, Lady Emmelina. Emmelina was born in 1040 in Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died in 1091 in Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Princess of Wales
• FSID: LKPJ-FZ3

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Aveline de Hesding was the daughter of Arnulph de Hesding, Seigneur of Hesdin and Emmelina (?).She married Alan fitz Flaald, son of Flaald, Seneschal de Dol en Bretagne.Children of Aveline de Hesding and Alan fitz Flaald1. Walter fitz Alan, 1st High Street.

This person is NOT Avelina, she is the first wife to Alan Flaald, check sources under Alan Flaald for more details.

Avelina married FitzFlàald, Sir Alan in 1114 in Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France. Alan (son of FitzAlan, Fledaldus and verch Griffith, Guenta) was born in 1076 in Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France; died in 1121 in Oswestry Castle, Oswestry, Shropshire, England; was buried in 1121 in Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: LZKN-97G

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PATRICK [III] [renumbered [I] for the purposes of the present document] de Chaources [Chaworth], son of [PATRICE [II] de Chaources & his wife ---] (-after 1133). ...
m (before 14 Sep 1100) MATHILDE, daughter and co-heiress of ARNOUL de Hesdin & his wife Emmeline [de Ballon] (-after 1133). The Historia sancti Petri Gloucestriæ records that "Ernulphus de Hesdyng" donated "ecclesiam de Heythrop, Lynkbolt…et ecclesiam de Kynemerforde", confirmed by "Patricius de Cadurcis et Matilda uxor eius", and by "hæredum suorum" in "quatuor cartæ", in the fourth of which "Paganus filius Patricii" donated "decimam domini sui de Kynermerforde", that "Johannes episcopus" confirmed and donated "quatuor marcas annuas in ecclesia de Kynermerforde", with the confirmation of "Rex Henricus senior…tempore Serlonis abbatis" [abbot from 1072 to 1104][1295]. The date of her marriage is set by the charter dated 14 Sep 1100 under which her husband donated property for the soul of his father-in-law, although the document does not specify the relationships between the parties. “Patricius de Cadurcis et uxor mea Mathildis” donated “ecclesiam de Dedintona” to Saint-Pierre de la Couture, for the soul of “Ernulfi de Hodine”, by charter dated to [1120][1296]. "Patricius de Cadurcis et Matilda uxor mea" donated "unam virgatam in Kynemereforde" to Gloucester St Peter by charter dated 1133[1297]. Patrick [I] & his wife had [four] children:

1. [PAGAN de Chaources (-after [1100]). ...

2. PATRICK [II] de Chaources (-before [1142]). ...
m GUIBURGE [de Mondoubleau], daughter of --- & his wife [--- de Mondoubleau] (-after 1151). ... Patrick [II] & his wife had two children.

3. SIBYL de Chaources (----, bur Bradenstoke Priory[1320]). ...
m ([1115/20]) WALTER de Salisbury, son of EDWARD de Salisbury & his wife --- (-1147).

4. [CECILIA . ...
m HENRY de Albini, son of NELE [Nigel] de Albini of Cainhoe & his wife Amice de Ferrers (-after 1130).]

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntac.htm#SibylChaourcesMWalterSalisbury

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Matilda married Patrick de Cadurcis, Anglicised as Chaworth. His family was traced to a castle near Le Mans by Round, who remained doubtful whether Matilda really was a daughter of Ernulf and Emmelina. However, the couple inherited a substantial part of Ernulf's Domesday estates. Round's comments were followed soon after by the discovery of stronger evidence by Barkley. In the early 12th century the couple gave a church at Toddington, Bedfordshire to the Abbey of St Pierre de la Couture. They named Ernulf de Hesdin as one of the spiritual beneficiaries, but referred to him as one who held their estates before them, rather than specifying him as Matilda's father.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernulf_de_Hesdin

Family/Spouse: de Chaworth, Sir Patrick I. Patrick (son of de Chaworth, Hugh and de Londres, Hawise) was born in 1052 in Saint-Symphorien, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France; died in 1133 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Oswestry, Shropshire, England; Lord
• FSID: LCTX-HJN

Notes:

William FitzAlan (1105–1160) was a nobleman of Breton ancestry. He was a major landowner, a Marcher lord with large holdings in Shropshire, where he was the Lord of Oswestry, as well as in Norfolk and Sussex. He took the side of Empress Matilda during the Anarchy and underwent considerable hardship in the Angevin cause before regaining his lands and former status. William's younger brother, Walter fitz Alan (d. 1177), became ancestor of the royal House of Stuart.

Background and early life
William was born around 1105. He was the eldest son and heir of Alan fitz Flaad, a Breton noble whose family were closely associated with the sacred environs of Dol-de-Bretagne, close to the border with Normandy and a short distance south-west of the great abbey of Mont Saint-Michel. Alan was a close ally of Henry I of England (1100-1135), who was determined to insert reliable supporters into strategically key areas after the disloyalty of Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, who had a strong support network in the Marches. Alan received extensive fiefs in Shropshire and Norfolk from around the beginning of Henry's reign and more as he proved his worth. Much of the Shropshire land was taken from the holdings of Rainald de Bailleul, ancestor of the House of Balliol, as was land around Peppering, near Arundel in Sussex.[1]

William's mother was Avelina de Hesdin. Her father was Ernulf de Hesdin (also transcribed as Arnulf), a crusader baron from Hesdin in Artois, which was a fief of the County of Flanders and only loosely attached to France. Ernulf built up large holdings in Staffordshire and Gloucestershire. After his death in the First Crusade, Avelina's brother, also called Ernulf, inherited his lands and titles.

Baron and rebel
William succeeded his father around 1114, probably still aged under 10. He was appointed the High Sheriff of Shropshire by Adeliza of Louvain, the second wife of Henry I.[2] His first notable appearance is as a witness to King Stephen's charter to Shrewsbury Abbey in 1136.

As Sheriff of the county, William was also castellan of Shrewsbury Castle. In 1138, he joined in the revolt against Stephen and garrisoned the castle against the king. After resisting the attacks of the royal army for a month,[2] he fled with his family in August 1138, leaving the castle to be defended by his uncle, Ernulf de Hesdin. When the town fell, Stephen acted in anger, hanging Ernulf and 93 others immediately, frightening the local people and magnates into transferring their allegiance to him.[2]

William was deprived of his lands and titles and spent the next fifteen years in exile, until the accession of Henry II to power in place of Stephen in 1153–4.[2][3] He was a close supporter of the Angevin cause, accompanying the Empress or her son on numerous occasions. He was present with Empress Matilda at Oxford in the summer of 1141,[4] and shortly after at the siege of Winchester Castle. He remained in attendance on her at Devizes, witnessing the charter addressed to himself by which she grants Aston to Shrewsbury Abbey. In June 1153 he was present with Henry FitzEmpress, then Duke of Normandy, at Leicester. It was during this period that his younger brother, Walter, used the family's royal connections to make a new career in Scotland under David I of Scotland, an uncle of the Empress.

William's active support did not end with Henry's accession to the throne. In July 1155, when the king marched against Hugh de Mortimer, a turbulent Marcher lord who had been a key supporter of Stephen, and recaptured the castles at Shrewsbury and Bridgnorth, William FitzAlan was the chief beneficiary. At Bridgnorth 'the king restored his lands' and William there received the feudal homage of his tenants. Thus he regained his paternal fief. He was also restored as High Sheriff of Shropshire in 1155, holding the post until his death in 1160.

Benefactor
It was probably between 1130 and 1138 that FitzAlan made the first recorded grant to Haughmond Abbey: a fishery at Preston Boats on the River Severn, near Shrewsbury.[1] It is possible that there was a hermitage or a small religious community at Haughmond even in his father's time, and a small church from this earlier period has been revealed by excavations on the site, so it is not clear that William was the founder of the abbey. However, it was he who set it on a secure financial basis, with a series of important land grants in Shropshire and Sussex, which were reciprocated by other magnates in the region. Haughmond received lands from the Empress, confirmed by Stephen and Henry II. William continued to make benefactions to it when he returned from exile, including the wealthy portionary church of Wroxeter, declaring his intention to increase the number of priests there too. He also made grants to nearby Lilleshall Abbey, another Augustinian house.[5] Though not the founder of Wombridge Priory, a smaller Augustinian house, he sanctioned its foundation by the Hadley family, his vassals.[6] It was, however, Haughmond that became the FitzAlan shrine, with all heads of the family after William buried there for a century and a half.[1]

Death and burial
William died around Easter 1160. He was buried at Shrewsbury Abbey, according to Eyton, noted in the Haughmond Abbey history ("After William FitzAlan (I), who left his body for burial in Shrewsbury Abbey").[1]

Family and heritage
William's first wife was Christiana. She was the niece of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an illegitimate son of Henry I, and thus cousin to William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, who was a principal supporter of the Empress. She was the mother of his heir and other children.

William's eldest son and heir was also called William FitzAlan.
Christiana, their daughter married Hugh Pantulf, 4th Baron of Wem, a later High Sheriff of Shropshire.
His wife Christiana died before William regained his ancestral estates in 1155. Henry II therefore gave him the hand of Isabel de Say.[7] She was the sole heiress of Helias de Say, who held the lordship of Clun[8] and was an early benefactor of Haughmond Abbey. Clun was to pass to the FitzAlans on the death of Helias, but he outlived William, so it passed to his son, the second William. Isabel brought prestige as well as land.

The FitzAlans remained important Marcher lords and magnates in central England for several centuries. A strategic marriage with their Sussex neighbours, the d'Aubigny family, brought the FitzAlans the rich and important Earldom of Arundel. This they held from 1243 until 1580. It was as earls of Arundel that William FitzAlan's descendants made their most important mark on the history of England.

In literature
The taking of Shrewsbury in 1138 by King Stephen, including the escape of William FitzAlan and the hanging of the supporters who did not escape, was the historical background for the novel One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters.[9] Agents of FitzAlan are characters in a few of the later novels in The Cadfael Chronicles.

Buried:
Abby

William married of England, Christiana in 1140 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. Christiana was born in 1120 in England; died in 1153 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: G9BH-R2F

Notes:

“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):

“PATRICK (or PATRICE) DE CHAOURCES (or DE SOURCHES), of Kempsford, Gloucestershire, son and heir. He married WIBURGE (or GUIBURGE, GUIBOURGE) They had two sons, Pain (or Payen) [de Mondoubleau] and Hugh (or Hugues). In 1130 he granted to St. Peter's, Gloucester the mill of Horcote, near Kempsford, Gloucestershire. At an unknown date he and his son, Pain, granted the monks of la Couture their right to the patronage of the churches of Brillon, Bemay, and Saint-Mars-sous-Ballon. PATRICK DE CHAOURCES was deceased before 1149. About 1149 Wilburge, and her son, Pain, founded Tironneau Abbey (commune de Saint-Aignan, canton de Marolles-les-Braux).

Pesche Dictionnaire topographique, historique et statistique de la Sarthe 6 (1842): 224-226. Gueranger Essai historique sur l'Abbaye de Solesmes (1846): 23 ("En 1147, Patrice de Sourches et Guiburge sa mere [fonda l'abbaye] de Tironneau."). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Cartulaire des Abbeyes de Saint-Pierre de la Couture et de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (1881): 42 (charter of Patrick de Sourches and his son, Pain). Inventaire-Sommaire des Archives Départementales antérieures 1790: Sarthe 3 (1881): 414 ("Abbaye de Tironneau. XIIe siècle. Chartes … que les religieux avaient payé a Guiburge de Cadurcis (Chaourses) 25 sols, et a Massile, son fils aine, 5 sols, pour que l'un et l'autre ratifiassent cette donation comme seigneurs suzerains …”). Duc des Cars Le Chateau de Sourches au Maine & ses Seigneurs (1887). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Chaworth ped). Genealogist n.s. 5 (1889): 209-212

("Patrick de Cadurcis (I) had a son of the same name, who had apparently succeeded him prior to 1130, when he appears, from the Cartulary of St. Peter's, Gloucester, to have added the mill of Horcote, near Kempsford, to the donations which his grandfather, Arnulph de Hesding, had made to that Abbey. This Patrick (II), however, seems, from the Pipe Roll of 31 Hen. I, to have had his lands seized by the King, and there is some reason to suppose that they were never restored to him. Not improbably he succeeded to the headship of the family in France, and, dying there, left sons too young to assert a claim to their English heritage, which, during the confusion of the Civil war, came into the hands of the other descendants of Arnulph de Hesding of Domesday."). Province du Maine 5 (1897): 179-180. Bull. de la Société Archéologique, Scientifique & Littéraire du Vendomois 43 (1904): 100-104 ("Geoffroy de Brulon … ce personnage tenait ce lieu de sa mere N... de Mondoubleau, file probablement de Payen de Mondoubleau et mariée avant 1167 a Payen de Sourches qui devint seigneur de Brulon par le fait même de son mariage."). Pubs. of Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7 (1923): 165-167; 10 (1926): 304-306 ("Patric II de Chaworth hardly appears in records, and probably died young and in his father's lifetime. With his son Payn he confirmed to la Couture three churches in Maine; there is also a notification possibly granted by him. His wife Wiburga seems to have long survived him."). Boussard Le Comte d'Anjou sous Henri Plantegenet & ses Fils (1151-1204) (1938): 55-57. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 125. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants (2002): 391-392.”

Family/Spouse: de Mundubleau, Wilberga. Wilberga was born in 1098 in Mondoubleau, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France; died after 1149 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]