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Adelaida de ("Adelaide") Beziers was born about 1105 in Beziers, Narbonne, Languedoc, France. She died before 1134.

Adelaida de ("Adelaide") Beziers had person sources.¹

Matilda Lackland was born in June 1156 in London, Middlesex, England. She died on 28 June 1189, at age ~33, in Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany. She was buried in July 1189 in St. Blasius, Braunschweig, Hannover, Germany.

Matilda Lackland had person sources.¹

Margaret England was born on 5 October 1240 in Castle Windsor, Windsor, Berkshire, England. She died on 27 February 1275, at age 34, in Castle Cupar, Cuper, Fifeshire, Scotland.¹ She was buried in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland.

Margaret England had person sources.²

Jean d' Estouteville was born about 1190 in Estouteville-sur-Mer, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France. He died on 15 August 1258, at age ~68.¹

Jean d' Estouteville had person sources.²

Philip de Savoy was born in 1207 in Evian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France.¹ He died on 16 August 1285, at age ~78.¹

Philip de Savoy had person sources.²

Clemence le Boteler was born about 1175. She and John I ("King of England") Lackland King of England were married before 1189.¹ She and Nicholas de Verdun were married about 1205.¹ She died after 23 October 1231.¹

Clemence le Boteler had person sources.²

Margaret de Clare was born in 1249 in Clare, Risbridge, Suffolk, England.¹ She died before 16 September 1312.¹

Margaret de Clare had person sources.²

Alphonso Plantagenet was born on 24 November 1273 in Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France.¹ He died on 19 August 1284, at age 10.¹ He was buried in Abbey Westminster, Westminster, Middlesex, England.

Alphonso Plantagenet had person sources.²

Thomas de Clare was born about 1246 in Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. He died on 29 August 1287, at age ~41, in Castle Bunratty, Thomond, Clare, Ireland.¹

Thomas de Clare had person sources.²

Gruffudd "Maelor" ap Madog was born about 1133 in Maelor Saesneg, Flintshire, Wales. He died in 1191, at age ~58.

Gruffudd "Maelor" ap Madog had person sources.¹

Hugh de Morville was born about 1138 in Burgh-by Sands, Cumberlandshire, England. He and Helwise de ("Helewise") Stuteville were married after 1184. He died in 1202, at age ~64, in Castle Knaresborough, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.¹

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This Hugh de Morville was one of the murderers of Thoma s a Becket on 29 Dec 1170 (along with William de Tracy, Reg inald FitzUrse, and Richard le Bret). Note: There is a dif ference of opinion about whether this Hugh (or his nephew H ugh) was the murderer of Thomas a Becket. This Hugh de Morville was one of the murderers of Thomas a Becket on 29 Dec 1170 (along with William de Tracy, Reginald FitzUrse, and Richard le Bret). Note: There is a difference of opinion about whether this Hugh (or his nephew Hugh) was the murderer of Thomas a Becket--see e-mail from Dennis Theriot far below.

The following post to SGM, 5 Jan 2003, by Hal Bradley, differentiates the ancestry of Hugh who participated in the murder of Thomas a Becket, 1170 and d. in 1204 from the other Hugh who m. Beatrice deBeachamp:

From: "Hal Bradley" (hw.bradley AT verizon.net)
Subject: RE: Morville-Stuteville-Beauchamp
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2003-01-05 15:48:49 PST

I believe you are conflating two distinct individuals. Hugh de Morville, who died in 1204, was one of the murderers of St. Thomas of Canterbury. He was most probably the son of Simon de Morville, whoheld the barony of Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, in right of his mother, Ada, daughter of William de Engaine. This Hugh married Helewise de Stuteville. He should be distinguished from Hugh de Morville (d. 1162) father of Richard de Morville (d. 1189), who married Beatrice de Beauchamp.

I can provide references if desired.

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Note that I differ from the ancestry given for Hugh in the following notes, given in a post-em by Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann AT yahoo.com. I agree with The Complete Peerage which has Hugh as son ofSimon & Ada d'Engaine, while the text below has Hugh the son of Hugh & Ada d'Engaine.

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The following information was provided in a post-em by Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann AT yahoo.com:

from: Wedgewood website at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3203/Morville.html

Hugh de Morville, d. 1204, one of the murderers of St. Thomas of Canterbury, was most probably the son of Hugh de Morville, who held the barony of Burgh-by-Sands, Cumberland, and several other estates in the northern shires, in succession to his mother, Ada, daughter of William de Engaine(1). He must be distinguished from Hugh de Morville (d. 1162) son of Richard de Morville (d. 1189) and fromHugh de Morville (d. 1200). Hugh's mother was licentious and treacherous(2), he ‘was of a viper's brood.’ From the beginning of the reign of Henry II he was attached to the court, and is constantly mentioned as witnessing charters. His name occurs also as a witness to the Constitutions of Clarendon. He married Helwis de Stuteville, and thus became possessor of the castle of Knaresborough.

He was forester of Cumberland, and itinerant justice for Cumberland and Northumberland in 1170, and he held the manor of Westmereland. He had been one of Becket's men when he was chancellor; but hehad always been of the king's party, and he was easily stirred by the king's bitter words to avenge him on the archbishop. In the verbal contest which preceded the murder he asked St. Thomas ‘why, ifthe king's men had in aught offended him or his, he did not complain to the king before he took the law into his own hands and excommunicated them’(3) While the others were smiting the saint he keptback with his sword the crowd which was pouring into the transept from the nave, ‘and so it happened that with his own hand he did not strike him’(3). After all was over he fled with the other knightsto Saltwood, thence to South Malling, later to Scotland; but he was finally forced to flee to his own castle of Knaresborough, where he sheltered his fellow-criminals(4). There they remained, thoughthey were accounted vile by all men of that shire. All shunned converse with them, nor would any eat or drink with them(4).

Finally a penance of service in the Holy Land was given by the pope, but the murderers soon regained the royal favour. In 1200 Hugh de Morville paid fifteen marks and three good horses to hold hiscourt with the rights of tol and theam, infangenetheof, and the ordeal of iron and of water, so long as his wife, in whose right he held it, should retain the secular habit. He obtained also license to hold a market at Kirkoswald, Cumberland, on One of the Murderers of St. Thomas of Canterbury.

Thursdays, and a fair on the feast of St. Oswald(5). He died shortly afterwards (1204), leaving two daughters: Ada, married in 1200 to Richard de Lucy, son of Reginald of Egremont, and afterwards to Thomas de Multon, and Joan, married to Richard de Gernum, nephew of William Brewer, who had been appointed her guardian.

Legends soon attached to his sword, as to the sword of Tracy. It was said to have been long preserved in Carlisle Cathedral, and a sword, with a much later inscription, now at Brayton Castle, is supposed to be the one which he wore on the day of the murder. This is the most probable account of his last years. But it may be that he was the Morville who was Richard I's hostage in 1194, in which case he would be noteworthy as having lent Ulrich of Zatzikoven the Anglo-Norman poem which Ulrich made the basis of his ‘Lanzelet.’ Tradition also states that he died in the Holy Land, and was buriedin the porch outside the church of the Templars (afterwards the Mosque el Aksa) at Jerusalem. The tomb is now inside the building.

(1)WILLIAM OF CANTERBURY in "Materials for Life of Becket, i. 128; RICHARD OF HEXHAM, Chron. Stephen, &c., Rolls Ser. iii. 178).

(2)WILLIAM OF CANTERBURY, ib.
(3)ROGER OF PONTIGNY Materials, iv. 73.
(4)BENEDICT OF PETERBOROUGH, Rolls Ser., i. 13)
(5)LYSONS, Cumberland, p. 127)
Sources:
Materials for the Hist. of Becket (Rolls Ser.), vols.i-iv.; William of Newburgh, lib. ii. cap. 25 (Rolls Ser. Chronicles Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I, i. 161-5); Benedict of Peterborough, Rolls Ser. i. 13; Garnier, ed. Hippeau, pp.178-200; Pipe Rolls (Pipe Roll Soc.), 5 Henry II p. 29, 6 Henry II p. 14, 7 Henry II p. 35, 8 Henry II p. 51, 9 Henry II p. 57, 10 Henry II p. 11, 11 Henry II p. 47,12 Henry II p. 35, 13 Henry II p. 78, 14 Henry II p. 79, 15 Henry II p. 31; Thomas Saga, ed. Magnsson, Rolls Ser. i. 514; Foss's Judges of England, i. 279, 280; Stanley's Memorials of Canterbury, 4thedit. pp. 70, 107, 196; Lysons's Cumberland, p. 127; Eyton's Itinerary of Henry II, pp. 33, 53, 68, 78, 145, 150, 152; Robertson's Life of Becket, pp. 266 sqq.; Morris's St. Thomas Becket pp. 137, 407 sqq.; Norgate's Angevin Kings, ii. 78, 432 note n; Gent. Mag. 1856, i. 380-2.

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Regards,
Curt

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The following e-mail from Dennis Theriot, denther AT gte.net, cites a source that has Hugh's nephew as the murderer of Thomas a Becket:

Dear Jim,

I do not believe that Hugh de Morville, ID:I00338, of Burgh-by-Sands was the murderer of Becket. I will quote K. J. Stringer, "Earl David of Huntingdon", p 196, Edinburgh University Press, 1985: "Ifwe take the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a whole, there are merely two important examples of partition between surviving sons, and each arose in exceptional circumstances rather than from any deep-seated family desire 'to keep English estates distinct from Scottish'. The Brus partition of c. 1138 was followed by the division of the Moreville lands: the former had been precipitated by war,the later was dictated by King Henry II. In the 1140's King David had settled the lordship of north Westmoreland upon his Constable, Hugh de Moreville of Lauderdale and Cunningham (d. 1162). But whenthe northern shires were surrendered in 1157, Henry II recognized the Moreville title only on the condition that Hugh stood down in favor of his (oldest?) son and namesake, subsequently a member of Henry II's military household, an Angevin royal justice, and one of the assassins of Thomas Becket. King Henry's concern to reassert systematically his powers in the north country was made fully explicit when Hugh II died on pilgrimage to Jerusalem in c. 1173. Most of Westmoreland proper thereupon escheated to the crown, although Hugh was survived by his brother Richard, successor in 1162 to Lauderdale and Cunningham and the Constableship of Scotland, and by his sister Maud, wife of William de Vieuxpont II. Here the royal will made a rare intervention in succession and descent." Stringer goeson in a note: " It has usually been assumed that the younger Hugh de Moreville's estates escheated for his support of the Scots in 1173-4."

According to this "Hugh the Murderer" was the son of Hugh de Morville (d 1162) and Beatrice de Beauchamp. So I will repeat what I said in my last e-mail, I believe that Simon de Morville of Burgh-by-Sands, ID: I04650, was (1) the brother of Hugh the Constable, (2) father of Hugh of Burgh-by-Sands, and (3) uncle of Hugh the Murderer. Stringer may be wrong, but that is my reference. Apparently, Hugh the Murderer left no children.

Dennis Theriot. Hugh de Morville had person sources.²¹

Thorold Lincoln was born about 1015 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. He died before 1079 in Buckinghamshire, England.¹

Thorold Lincoln had person sources.²

De Caen was born about 1110 in Horsford, St. Faith's, Norfolk, England. She died.

De Caen had person sources.¹

Mathilde de Cuiseaux was born about 1110 in Cuiseaux, Seine-Et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. She and Amadeo de Geneva were married before 1131. She died before 2 July 1137.

Mathilde de Cuiseaux had person sources.¹

Agnes d' Isles was born about 1140 in Morven, Argyllshire, Scotland. She died after 1198 in Ixworth, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England.

Agnes d' Isles had person sources.¹

Agnes de Ferrers was born about 1252 in Derby, Derbyshire, England. She died after 9 May 1281 in Charlton Musgrove, Wincanton, Somersetshire, England.^1,2,3

Agnes, living 9 May 1281, daughter of Sir William de Ferrer s, Earl of Derby, and Margaret de Quincy. [Magna Charta Su reties]. Agnes de Ferrers had person sources.⁴

Hugh de Kevelioc was born in 1147 in Kevelioc (Cyfeiliog), Monmouthshire, Wales.^1,2 He and Bertrade de Montfort were married in 1169 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France.^3,1,2 He died on 30 June 1181, at age ~34, in Leeke, Staffordshire, England.^3,1,2 He was buried in St. Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England.

Hugh de Kevelioc had person sources.⁴

Amice de Beaumont was born about 1156 in Leicestershire, England. She and Simon de Montfort IV were married in 1165.^1,2 She died on 3 September 1215, at age ~59.¹

Amice de Beaumont had person sources.³

Maud FitzRoy was born about 1143 in Launceston, Lamborne, Cornwall, England. She died.

Maud FitzRoy had person sources.¹

Waleran de Beaumont was born in 1104 in Beaumont-le-Roger, Eure, Normandy, France.^1,2 He and Agnes Elizabeth de Montfort were married about 1141.^1,2 He died on 10 April 1166, at age ~62, in Preaux, Eure, Normandy, France.^1,2 He was buried in Abbaye des Preaux, Ponteaudemer, Normandy, France.

He was born in 1104, with his twin brother Robert, afterwar ds 2nd Earl of Leicester. When the twins were only 3 or 4 y ears old, their father obtained the King's confirmation o f his plan to dividehis vast estates in England and Norman dy between them after his death. He died 5 June 1118 and th e two boys were brought up at Court by Henry I out of grati tude to their father. Waleran inherited the comti of Meula n in the French Vexin, with the castle and town of Meulan o n the Seine. In accordance with the settlement, he receive d the Norman baronies, with the castles of Pontaudemer, Bri onne and Beaumont aligned along the valley of the Risle, an d the castle of Vatteville on the Seine, as well as the lan ds in the counties of Dorset and Gloucester which had bee n held by his grandfather, Roger de Beaumont. He remained f aithful to Henry I in the rebellion which broke out in Sept ember 1118.

In 1119, at the King's palace in Rouen, Waleran attested, a s Count of Meulan, a charter issued by his brother, as Ear l of Leicester, in favour of St. Nicaise de Meulan. In Nove mber 1119 they were with the King when he met Pope Calixtu s at Gisors; but in 1123 Waleran was drawn into a conspirac y on behalf of William Clito, the son of Robert Curthose. T he King took up arms in October, and captured the castles o f Montfort and Pontaudemer before going into winter quarter s. In March following Henry besieged the castle of Vattevil le. Waleran succeeded in getting supplies through to the de fenders, but on his way back to Beaumont he was intercepte d by a royal force at Bourgtéroude on 26 March 1124.

He charged at the head of 40 men-at-arms, but his horse wa s riddled with arrows and he was captured. He was imprisone d successively at Rouen, Bridgnorth and Wallingford till 11 29, when the King sethim free and gave him back all his la nds and castles, except the castle of Pontaudemer. During t he remainder of the reign Waleran was usually with the Kin g in England or in Normandy, although in May 1131 he was i n his own town of Meulan. He was with Henry when the King d ied, 1 December 1135, at the castle of Lions. Stephen haste ned to secure his support. He gave Waleran the castle of Mo ntfort-sur-Risle and betrothed his little two-year old daug hter to the Count, to whom he also gave the City of Worcest er. Waleran was at Westminster with the King at Easter 1136 , after which he returned to Normandy and joined his brothe r Robert in fighting their hereditary enemy, Roger de Toeny , whom he eventually captured on 3 October near Vaudreuil . After a visit to England he returned to Normandy with Ste phen in March 1137, but went back to England with the Kin g before Christmas. Early in 1138 he drove the King of Scot s from the siege of Wark Castle. In May he returned to Norm andy, where he again fought against Roger de Toeny, who ha d been released by Stephen; and the Angevins having invade d Normandy in June, he marched against them in July and the y retreated without fighting.It was probably in the latte r part of 1138 that he was created EARL OF WORCESTER, perha ps as a reward for his exertions in Normandy. He was agai n in the Duchy before the end of the year, but returned t o England before the summer and became the leader of the pa rty opposed to the Chief Justiciar, the great Bishop Roge r of Salisbury; and in June 1139 Waleran and his brother Ro bert took a leading part in the arrest of Roger and his kin smen. In the autumn, when the Empress Maud landed in Englan d, he accompanied Stephen to Arundel; and when the King all owed his rival to join the Earl of Gloucester at Bristol, h e chose Waleran, with his own brother the Legate, to escor t her. In November 1139, Waleran's city of Worcester havin g been burnt by Gloucester's troops, the Count marched toW orcester, which he reached on 30 November; and hearing tha t John, son of Harold of Sudeley, had gone over to the Empr ess, he made a raid on Sudeley. At the battle of Lincoln , 2 February 1140/1, he was one of the Commanders of the ro yal army who fled when the front was broken by the openin g charge, leaving the King to be captured. However, he wa s one of the 3 Earls who remained faithful toStephen durin g his captivity, and he joined the Queen when she recovere d London in June; but before the end of 1141 he abandoned S tephen and came to terms with Geoffrey Plantagenet. He seem s to have returned to England in the winter of 1141/42, bu t soon went back to Normandy and remained there. Early in 1 144 he went to the aid of Geoffrey, who had taken the cit y of Rouen but had failed to take the tower. He acted as on e of Geoffrey's Justiciars and attested his charters at Rou en. It was probably in the same year that he went on Pilgri mage to St. James of Compostela. In 1146 he took the cros s on Palm Sunday with the King of France, his half-brothe r the Earl of Surrey and many others. The Crusaders set for th in June 1147 and Waleran seems to have accompinied the K ing of France.There is no record of his deeds in the Crusa de, but on his way home in 1149 his ship was caught in a st orm and wrecked off the south coast of France. However, th e Count and his companions gained the shore by clinging t o a couple of planks and some pieces of wreckage. Early i n 1150 Geoffrey Plantagenet resigned the Duchy of Normand y to his son Henry; and Waleran acted as one of the young D uke's Justiciars. In 1150, 1151 and/or 1152 Stephen made fu tile attempts to take Worcester Castle. In 1152 Waleran's m aternal uncle the Count of Vermandois died, leaving a son a nd daughter, who became his wards.

In 1153 he was at Meulan; but in that year he was seized a t a conference by his nephew, Robert de Montfort, who impri soned him at Orbec; and he was compelled to surrender the c astle of Montfort-sur-Risle to regain his freedom. Next yea r he besieged Montfort, but was put to flight by Robert. N o evidence has been found that he returned to England afte r the accession of Henry II; or that he enjoyed the Earldo m of Worcester under that monarch; and it seems likely tha t the King either refused to recognize the existence of tha t Earldom, a creation of King Stephen, or simply expropriat ed it. However, Waleran evidently remained on good terms wi th Henry, for he attested royal charters in Normandy. In 11 60 he was one of the witnesses to the Treaty between Henr y II and Louis VII concerning the marriage of their childre n; and when Henry's action in having the marriage celebrate d prematurely led to a breach with the King of France, Wale ran is said to have sided with Louis. In 1161 Henry seize d the castles of the Count of Meulan and his other barons i n Normandy, and if he had not already seized the Earldom o f Worcester, he probably took this opportunity to do, so; f or on 21 July 1162 Waleran granted a charter in favour of t he Holy Trinity of Beaumont, and the legend on the counters eal is "Sigillum Galeranni Comitis Bellomontis," instead o f "Wigornensis." Probably the breach between Henry and Wale ran was only temporary. In 1166, when his end was approachi ng, he became a monk at Préaux.

He founded the abbey of Bordesley in 1140 or 1141, and wa s a benefactor to the cathedral church of Worcester, the ab bey of St. Peter at Gloucester and the priory of Leominster . In Normandy he founded the abbey of le Valasse about 1150 , in fulfilment of a vow which he made on the occasion of h is shipwreck; in 1135 the hospital of St. Giles at Pontaude mer; and in 1154 or 1155 a chapel in honour of the Virgin M ary before the gate of his castle at Vatteville. He was a b enefactor to the abbeys of Jumiéges, le Bec, Préaux and Lir e, to the priories of Corneville and Ecajeul, and to the co llegiate church of Beaumont; and confirmed grants to the ab bey of St. Wandrille. In France about 1144 he founded the c hapel of St. James at Meulan, and he was a benefactor to th e abbey of Gournay-sur-Marne and the priory of St. Nicais e of Meulan; in Chartres to the abbey of St. Pére and the p riory of St. Pierre de Jouziers; and in Perche to the abbe y of Tiron. Waleran de Beaumont had person sources.³

Godheut was born about 1010 in Normandy, France. She died.

Godheut had person sources.¹

Richard Talbot was born about 1122 in Eccleswall Manor, Hertfordshire, England. He died before September 1175 in Linton Manor, Bromyard, Hertfordshire, England.^1,2

Alt. Birth

Richard Tal(e)bot was granted by Henry II the manor of Lint on. At Michaelmas 1156 he is recorded as holding out of lan ds granted from Ancient Demesne, farmed by the sheriff of H erefordshire, 33 l.bl. in Linton and Wilton with Hugh de L ongchamp. [Complete Peerage XII/1:607, (transcribed by Dav e Utzinger]. Richard Talbot had person sources.³²

William de St. Pierre was born about 1103 in St. Pierre & Runstone, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. He died.

William de St. Pierre had person sources.¹

Guillaume-Arnaud de Beziers was born about 1078 in Beziers, Narbonne, Languedoc, France. He died in 1105, at age ~27.

END. Guillaume-Arnaud de Beziers had person sources.¹

Matalina ("MantilneMetheline") Trencavel was born about 1090 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France. She and Bertrand de la Tour d' Auvergne were married after 1105.¹ She died.

Matalina ("MantilneMetheline") Trencavel had person sources.²