Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GDDS-GWT

Notes:

Matilda (Maud) d' Aubigny married Gilbert, 3rd Earl of Strathearn. The couple had several children; Robert (4th Earl of) STRATHEARN, Cecilia of STRATHEARN, and Ethna of STRATHEARN. Matilda was His Majesty George I's 14-Great Grandmother, Lady Diana's 22-G

Matilda married Strathearn, Gilbert in 1174 in Perthshire, Scotland. Gilbert was born in 1150 in Scotland; died in 1223 in Strathearn, Pethshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Strathearn, Robert Mormaer was born in 1176 in Perthshire, Scotland; died in Aug 1244 in Huntingtower, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried in Aug 1244 in Huntingtower, Perthshire, Scotland.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; 4th Lord
• FSID: GHL7-HWX
• Death: 1168, Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England

William married FitzRobert, Maud de Senlis. Maud (daughter of FitzRichard, Lord Robert de Clare and de Senlis, Matilda) was born in 1134 in Little Dunmow, Essex, England; died in 1170 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Ches
• FSID: G467-S4S

Notes:

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Brito
• FSID: LYCY-6T5
• Appointments / Titles: 1141, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England; Earl of Lincholnshire
• Appointments / Titles: 1143; Earl of Arndel

Notes:

William de Aubigne (Brito) I was a younger son of the Breton seigneur Main. His cognomen Brito distinguished him from his Norman namesake, William the Pincerna (Butler) , who came from Saint-Martin-Aubigne (Manche). William de Aubigne (Brito) assisted in the victory of Tinchebray in 1106, and was in favor with Henry I, attesting numerous royal charters, the earliest belonging to the periods from 1104 to 1116. William married Cecilia, daughter of Roger Bigod and Adeliza de Tosny, the principal coheiress of her maternal grandfather Robert de Tosny, lord of the honour of Belvoir in Lincolnshire. William de Aubigne (Brito) appears to have held land in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire, some or all of which was his wife's marriage portion. The bulk of the Tosny inheritance, including Belvoir, appears not to have been held by William and Cecilia until c. 1130, after the death of Cecilia's mother Adeliza. Cecilia's younger sister Maud married William de Aubigne Pincera.

https://www.quickgen.net/p/blog-page_29.html

William married Bigod, Cecily. Cecily was born in 1090 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; died in 1134 in Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Belvoir, Leicestershire, England; Heiress
• FSID: LVD6-GCJ

Notes:

CECILY Bigod (-after 1136). Her parentage is indicated by the charter dated 23 Apr [1430] under which her descendant “Thomas dominus de Ros, de Hamelake, de Trussebout et de Beavoir” confirmed the possessions of Belvoir priory, Lincolnshire made by "antecessores nostros…Robertum de Toteneio, Willielmum de Toteneyo filium suum, Agnetem de Toteneio filiam dicti Roberti de Toteneyo, Henricum de Rya filium Huberto de Rya, Agnetem de Toteneyo, Willielmum de Albeneio primum, Willielmum de Albeneio secundum, Willielmum de Albeneio tertium, Willielmum de Albeneio quartum, Ywynum de Albeneyo, Heliam de Albeneyo et uxores eorundem, Isabellam filiam domini Willielmi de Albeneio quæ fuit uxor domini de Ros, domini de Beauvoire et de Hamelake"[937], the connection with Robert de Tosny Lord of Belvoir, her maternal grandfather, being established through her marriage. She inherited Belvoir from her mother. "…Willelmu[us] de Albinioc, Cecilia uxor eius, filii eius Willelmus, Rogerius, Matildis filia eius" are listed in the Liber Vitæ of Thorney abbey[938]. "Willielmus de Albeneio Brito…et Ceciliam uxorem meam et Willielmum filium meum" donated land to Thorney monastery, Cambridgeshire by undated charter, witnessed by "Rogero et Roberto filiis meis et Warino Ridel et Olivero et Iwan et Gaufrido nepotibus meis et Roberto Brito…”[939]. "Willielmus de Albenei Brito" donated "terram de Pipewell…de feodo de Bellovidere" to Thorney monastery, Cambridgeshire, with the consent of "Ceciliæ uxoris meæ et Willelmi filii mei", by undated charter, witnessed by "…tres nepotes mei, Oliverus filius Galfridi et Iwanus et Gaufridus de Cabivin…”[940]. "Willielmus de Albineio" donated "ecclesiam de Redmelina" to Belvoir monastery, Lincolnshire, with the consent of "Willielmi filii et hæredis mei et Matildis uxoris meæ et Ceciliæ matris meæ, necnon et Radulphi de Albinei fratris mei", by undated charter[941]. “Willielmus de Albineio” confirmed the possessions of Belvoir priory, Lincolnshire, with the consent of "Willielmi filii et hæredis mei et Matildis uxoris meæ et Ceciliæ matris meæ, necnon de Radulphi de Albineio fratris mei", by undated charter[942].

m WILLIAM de Albini Brito, son of MAIN & his wife Adelisa [de Bohun] (-after 1148). He owned part of the fee of Belvoir before Cecily's mother held it, the Complete Peerage concluding therefore that the marriage may have been arranged to settle rival claims.

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL.htm#RogerBigoddied1107

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Lord of Bienfaite
• FSID: GD4Z-LRX
• Occupation: Steward to King Henry I

Notes:

Robert Fitz Richard (1064–1136) was an Anglo-Norman feudal baron of Little Dunmow, Essex and constable of Baynard's Castle in the City of London. His feudal barony, the caput of which was at Little Dunmow in Essex, was granted to him by the king after it had been forfeited in 1110 by William Baynard, whose grandfather Ralph Baynard was the first holder and the builder of Baynard's Castle in the City of London.[1][2]

Robert was steward under King Henry I (1100–1135)[3] and under King Stephen (1135–1154).[4]

Family
Robert was the son of Sir Richard Fitz Gilbert, Lord of Clare and Tonbridge (c. 1030–1091) and Rohese Giffard, (b. c. 1034), daughter of Sir Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, and Agnes Flatel.[a]

Robert married (c. 1114), Matilda de St. Liz (Maud), daughter of Sir Simon de St Liz, Earl of Northampton, and Maud de Huntingdon.

Children were:

- Sir Walter Fitz Robert, (b. c. 1124), married Maud de Lucy. The Magna Carta surety, Robert Fitzwalter, was their son.
- Maud Fitz Robert, (b. c. 1132), Essex, who married (c. 1146), William d'Aubigny, son of Sir William d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir, and Cecily Bigod. Another Magna Carta surety, William d'Aubigny, was their son.

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

Robert married de Senlis, Matilda in 1112. Matilda (daughter of de Senlis, Earl Simon and of Huntingdon, Matilda) was born in 1091 in Northamptonshire, England; died in 1158 in Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Baroness
• FSID: MGTS-BQY
• Name: Matilda de St Liz

Notes:

“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“MAUD DE SENLIS, married in 1112 ROBERT FITZ RICHARD, of Little Dunmow, Essex, Baynard's Castle, London, Cratfield, Suffolk, etc., Steward of Kings Henry I and Stephen, 5th son of Richard Fitz Gilbert, of Bienfaite and Orbec, Normandy, Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, by Rohese, daughter of Walter Giffard, of Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire [see CLARE 1 for his ancestry]. They had one son, Walter, and one daughter, Maud. He witnessed a number of charters of King Henry I. Sometime before 1136 he gave all his part of the water of Stour Mere, for the souls of himself and his ancestors, and for the love of his kinsman, Gerard Giffard the prior, to Stoke by Clare Priory, Suffolk. He accompanied King Stephen to York and Exeter in 1136. ROBERT FITZ RICHARD died in 1137, after 28 November, and was buried at St. Neot's Priory, Cambridgeshire. His widow, Maud, married (2rid) between 1137 and 1140 (as his 1st wife) SAHER DE QUINCY (or QUENCY), of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire and Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, and, in right of his 1st wife, of East Bradenham, Norfolk and Daventry, Northamptonshire; and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Great Childerley (in Childerley), Cambridgeshire. They had two sons, Robert and Saher, and one daughter, Alice.

Sometime before 1176 Maud granted the church of East Bradenham, Norfolk to Norwich Cathedral with the consent of her son, Walter Fitz Robert. At an unknown date, with consent of Walter her son, she granted to Maurice Fitz Geoffrey all her dower lands in Essex and London, which William Fitz Walcher formerly held. He witnessed a charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton in 1153-7. His wife, Maud, was living in 1158. In 1158 he was pardoned 25s. danegeld in Northamptonshire. Sometime after 1163 he granted Sibton Abbey 20 acres of land from his demesne and 30 acres of broken heath in the village of Tuddenham, Suffolk. At an unknown date, Saher granted the canons of Dunmow, Essex a yearly rent of 10s. issuing out of the lordship of East Bradenham, Norfolk. Saher married (2nd) after 1165 ASCELINE PEVEREL, widow of Geoffrey de Waterville (occurs c.1138-61, dead in 1162), of Ailsworth and Upton (in Castor), Northamptonshire, and daughter of Robert Peverel, by his wife, Adelicia. They had no issue. She was co-heiress in 1148 to her brother, William Peverel, of Dover, by which she inherited a one-quarter share of the barony of Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Sometime between 1161 and 1172, she and her son, Ralph de Waterville, conceded to Shrewsbury Abbey a third of Crugelton and Slepe, Shropshire, as given previously by her uncle, Hamon Peverel. Sometime in the 1170s Saher confirmed William [de Belvoir] and his son, Reynold [de Oakley], in their possession of the manor of Great Childerley (in Childerley), Cambridgeshire. SAHER DE QUINCY died in 1190 (or about 1193).

Weever Antient Funeral Monuments (1767): 388-391.
Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-30): 563 (Beaumont-Quincy ped.).
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 181 (charter of Maud de Senlis to Daventry Priory, naming her deceased husband, [Robert] Fitz Richard, and her mother, Queen Maud [of Scotland]); 6(1) (1830): 147 ("[Year] 1112. Robertus filius Ricardi deponsavit Matildam de Sancto Licio quae fuit domina de Brade[n]ham"). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 225-226 (Clare ped). Hodgson Hist. of Northumberland Pt. 2 Vol. 3 (1840): 6-8 (ped.)". Trans. British Arch. Assoc., 2nd Annual Congress (1846): 294-306. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Eyton Antiqs. of Shropshire 9 (1859): 62-78. Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 11(1873): 269-271, 305-308. Remarks & Colls. of Thomas Hearne 3 (Oxford Hist. Soc.) (1889): 104 (ped. chart). Birch Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 397 (seal of Maud de Senlis dated temp. Henry II.- Pointed oval. To the left. In tightly-fitting dress with long maunches, in the right hand a fleur-cle-lis. Standing. Legend wanting,). Round Feudal England (1895): 468 -479,575 (ped.). Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #37 (charter of William, Count of Boulogne and [Earl] of Warenne dated 1154; charter witnessed by Saher de Quincy). Copinger Manors of Suffolk (1905): 45-46; 2 (1908): 45-53. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 483. Lindsay et al. Charters, Bulls and other Docs. Rel. to the Abbey of Inchaffray (Scottish Hist. Soc. 56) (1908): lxxxvi-lxxxix. C.P. 5 (1926): 472, footnote f; 6 (1926): 641, footnote b. Leys Sandford Cartulary 2 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 22) (1941): 280-281 (charter of Simon son of Simon Earl of Northampton dated 1153-7; charter witnessed by Saher de Quincy). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 102-103 (charter of Maud de Senlis dated early Henry II; charter witnessed by Walter Fitz Robert and Saher [de Quincy] her sons; attached seal displays a lady standing in mantle and gown, no legend), 194-195 (charter of Saher de Quincy dated after 1163; charter witnessed his son, Saher de Quincy, and [son-in-law], Roger de Huntingfield). Paget (1957) 14:2 (daughter Maud, who retained her mother's surname, has been confused with the latter), 230:1 (he died after Easter 1136 when he was one of the witnesses to Stephen's Charter to Winchester). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 129-130. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 4-16, 16-25,111-120, 241-251; 6 (1978): 220-230; 8 (1982): 97-110, 127-135, 248-267; 9 (1989): 41-44, 118-120. Dodwell Charters of the Norwich Cathedral Priory 1 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 40) (1974): 180-183 (charter dated 1176 mentions gift of the church of Bradenham, Norfolk "quarn Matilda de Silvenecti concessione filii sin Gwalteri ecclesie tue dedit et carta sua confirmauit"). Harper-Bill Stoke by Clare Cartulary 1 (Suffolk Charters 4) (1982): 115 (Gerard Giffard, Prior of Stoke by Clare, styled "kinsman" by Robert Fitz Richard before 1136). Kealey Harvesting the Air (1987): 107-131. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William Ito Richard 11 (Selden Soc. 106) (1990): 249-250. Franklin English Episcopal Acta 14: Coventry and Lichfield 1072-1159 (1997): 85-87. Raban White Book of Peterborough (2001): 250. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 291 (chart), 313 (Scotland ped.), 316 (Clare ped.).

Children of Maud de Senlis, by Robert Fitz Richard:
i. WALTER FITZ ROBERT [see next].
ii. MAUD DE SENLIS, married (1st) WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, of Belvoir, Leicestershire [see DAUBENEY 5]. (2nd) RICHARD DE LUVETOT, of Sheffield, Yorkshire [see DAUBENEY 5].
Children of Maud de Senlis, by Saher de Quincy:
i. ROBERT DE QUINCY, of Tranent, Fawside, and Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, etc., married ORABEL FITZ NESS [see QUINCY 5].
ii. ALICE DE SENLIS, married ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD, of Linstead and Mendham, Suffolk, Frampton, Lincolnshire, East Bradenham, Norfolk, etc. [see HUNTINGFIELD 5].”

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Tonbridge, Kent, England; 1st Earl of Tonbridge
• Appointments / Titles: France; Lord of Bienfaite
• FSID: M9L6-6YN
• Occupation: Joint Chief Justiciar of England
• Military: 1066; Norman conquest of England
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1066 and 1091, Clare, Suffolk, England; 1st Lord
• Appointments / Titles: 1075; Regent of England

Notes:

Richard fitz Gilbert (before 1035–c. 1090) was a Norman lord who participated in the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and was styled "de Bienfaite", "de Clare", and of "Tonbridge"[n 1][1] from his holdings.[2][3]

Biography
He was the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne in Normandy[2] (fitz was a variant spelling of filz > French fils, that means "son"). Gilbert was a guardian of the young duke William and when Gilbert was killed by Ralph de Wacy in 1040, his two older sons Richard and Gilbert fled to Flanders.[4] On his later return to Normandy Richard was rewarded with the lordship of Bienfaite and Orbec in Normandy.[4] In 1066, Richard came into England with his kinsman William the Conqueror, and received from him great advancement in honour and possessions.[2]

The Dictionary of National Biography and other sources are vague and sometimes contradictory about when the name de Clare came into common usage, but what we do know is that Richard fitz Gilbert (of Tonbridge), the earliest identifiable progenitor of the family, is once referred to as Richard of Clare in the Suffolk return of the Domesday Book.[5]

Rewards
He was rewarded with 176 lordships and large grants of land in England, including the right to build the castles of Clare and of Tonbridge. Richard fitz Gilbert received the lordship of Clare, in Suffolk, where parts of the wall of Clare Castle still stand.[6] He was thus Lord of Clare. Some contemporaneous and later sources called him Earl of Clare, though many modern sources view the title as a "styled title".

He served as Joint Chief Justiciar in William's absence, and played a major part in suppressing the revolt of 1075.

Rebel baron
On the Conqueror's death, Richard and other great Norman barons, including Odo of Bayeux, Robert, Count of Mortain, and Geoffrey of Coutances, led a rebellion against the rule of William Rufus in order to place Robert Curthose on the throne. However, most Normans in England remained loyal. William Rufus and his army successfully attacked the rebel strongholds at Tonbridge, Pevensey and Rochester.[7]

Death and succession
He was buried in St. Neot's Priory in 1091. His widow was still living in 1113. His lands were inherited by his son, Gilbert fitz Richard.

Marriage
Richard married Rohese Giffard, daughter of Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville and Agnes Flaitel,[3] and they had at least the following children:

Roger fitz Richard de Clare, received Norman lands and d. 1131.[3] Wife unknown, daughter Joanna married Gilbert de Neville.[8]
Gilbert fitz Richard, d. 1115, succeeded his father as Earl of Clare.[3]
Walter de Clare, Lord of Nether Gwent, d. 1138.[3]
Richard fitz Richard de Clare, Abbot of Ely.[3]
Robert fitz Richard,[3] Lord of Little Dunmow, Baron of Baynard, d. 1136.[9]
Godfrey
Alice (or Adeliza) de Clare, d. 1138. m. Walter Tirel.[3][10]
Rohese de Clare, d. 1121, m. (ca. 1088), Eudo Dapifer.[3]
Isabel de Clare, d. 1088, m. Humphrey d'Isle.[3]
Avice de Clare, m. Robert de Stafford / Tosny.

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

Richard married Giffard, Rohese. Rohese (daughter of Giffard, Walter and Flaitel, Agnès Ermengarde) was born on 13 Apr 1034 in Longueville, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; died on 7 Jan 1113 in Clare Castle, Clare, Suffolk, England; was buried on 14 Jan 1113 in Colchester, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Giffard
• FSID: 2MYM-NS1
• Possessions: Clare, Suffolk, England; Clare Castle

Notes:

Rohese Giffard (sometimes Rose, or Rohais; died after 1113) was a Norman noblewoman in the late 11th and early 12th century.
Early life
Giffard was the daughter of Walter Giffard. Her maternal grandfather was Gerard Fleitel. Walter Giffard was the lord of Longueville-sur-Scie in upper Normandy.

Marriage
Giffard was the wife of Richard fitzGilbert, the son of Gilbert, Count of Brionne. Domesday Book records him as the eighth richest landowner in England, with lands centered on two locations – lands in Kent and Surrey grouped around Tonbridge and lands in Essex and Suffolk grouped around Clare.
Their children were
1. Roger,
2. Gilbert,
3. Walter,
4. Robert,
5. Richard,
6. Godfrey,
7. Rohese (or Rohais), and
8. Adelisa.

Roger received the Norman lands after Richard fitzGilbert's death, Gilbert received his father's English lands, Walter was given a Welsh lordship by King Henry I of England, and Robert was given lands around London by King Henry I. Richard became a monk at Bec Abbey and was later abbot of Ely Abbey. The last son, Godfrey, is known only from his burial at Clare. Rohais married Eudo Dapifer and Adelisa married Walter Tirel.
A daughter of Richard, who is unnamed, is said to have married Ralph de Fougères, but it is not known whether this refers to another marriage for either Rohais or Adelisa or if this is a third daughter. Some of the children were born before 1066, as a gift to Jumièges Abbey in 1066 mentions the souls of their children.

Landowner
Giffard occurs in Domesday Book as a landowner in her own right. Richard died between 1085 and 1087, as his son Gilbert witnesses a charter of King William II of England in that year. Rohese survived him and was still alive in 1113, when she gave a gift to St Neot's Priory which had been founded as a dependent priory of Bec on Rohese's own manor of Eynesbury. Rohese's descendants eventually were the heirs to the lands held by her father, receiving half the honour of Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire in the reign of King Richard I of England (r. 1189–1199).

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

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“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, of Bienfaite and Orbec, Normandy, lord of Clare, Suffolk, Tonbridge, Kent, Standon, Hertfordshire, Blechingley, Surrey, etc., son of Gilbert Fitz Godfrey, Count of Brionne, born about 1030-35.
He married ROHESE (or ROHAIS, ROHAID, ROAXIDIS) GIFFARD, daughter of Walter Giffard, of Longueville-sur-Scie (Seine-Maritime), Normandy, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Gerard Flaitel (or Fleitel).
They had six sons,
1. Roger,
2. Gilbert,
3. Walter,
4. Richard [Abbot of Ely],
5. Robert, and
6. Godfrey,
and four daughters,
7. Rohese,
8. Alice (wife of Walter Tirel), and
9. Avice.
He was among those consulted about the proposed invasion of England in the assembly at Bonneville-sur-Touques in 1066, but there is no direct evidence of his personal participation at Hastings or in the campaign. Nevertheless, he was a significant figure soon afterwards and occurs as a witness of royal charters throughout the reign of King William the Conqueror. He was rewarded with no fewer than 176 lordships, which consisted of two concentrations of lands, one in Kent and Surrey, and the other in Suffolk and Essex. His holdings at Tonbridge, Kent and Clare, Suffolk were both given motte and bailey castles. During the king's absence, he served as Joint Chief Justiciar. He played a leading role in suppressing the rebellion of Roger de Breteuil, Earl of Hereford and Ralph de Gael in 1075 or 1076. In 1078 or 1079 he and his wife, Rohese, sent to Bec Abbey for a colony of monks to replenish the vacant convent at Neotsbury, Huntingdonshire. Sometime before 1086 he granted the monks of Bec his manors of Tooting and Streatham, and land in Horsham (in Walton-on-Thames), all in Surrey. Sometime before 1090 he confirmed to the monks of Bec two thirds of his demesne tithes and one villain in Standon, Hertfordshire; and two thirds of his demesne tithes in Blechingley, Chivington, Woodmansteme, Tolworth, Chipstead, Betchworth, and Walton Leigh, Surrey and houses in Southwark, Surrey and Tonbridge, Kent.
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RICHARD FITZ GILBERT died about 1090, and was buried at St. Neots, Huntingdonshire. His widow, Rohese, was still living in 1113, when she granted the whole of her manor of Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire to St. Neot's Priory, Huntingdonshire.

Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Rohese Giffard:
i. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD [see next].
ii. ROBERT FITZ RICHARD, of Little Dunmow, Essex, married MAUD DE SENLIS [see FITZ WALTER 4]
iii. ROHESE (or ROSE) FITZ RICHARD, married EUDES THE STEWARD (or EUDES FITZ HUB) of Colchester, Essex [see SAY 2].
iv. AVICE FITZ RICHARD, married RAOUL [I] DE FOUGÈRES, seigneur of Fougères [see FOUGÈRES 2].”

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LBSY-43P
• Appointments / Titles: 1087; He was created Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton.

Notes:

Simon I de Senlis (or Senliz), 1st Earl of Northampton and 2nd Earl of Huntingdon "jure uxoris," was a Norman nobleman. In 1098, he was captured during the Vexin campaign of King William Rufus and subsequently was ransomed. He witnessed King Henry I’s Charter of Liberties that were issued at his coronation in 1100. He attested royal charters in England from 1100 to 1103, 1106 to 1007, and 1109 to 1011. Sometime in the period 1093 to 1100, he and his wife Maud founded the Priory of St Andrew's, Northampton. He witnessed a grant of King Henry I to Bath Abbey on August 8, 1111, at Bishop's Waltham, as the king was crossing to Normandy. He built Northampton Castle, the town walls and one of the four remaining round churches in England, The Holy Sepulchre, Northampton. He subsequently went abroad and died at La Charité-sur-Loire, where he was buried in the new priory church. The date of his death is uncertain.

Simon was the third son of Laudri de Senlis, Sire of Chantilly and Ermenonville, in Picardy, and his spouse Ermengarde. In or before 1090, Simon married Maud of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, Northampton and Huntingdon, and the better-connected Judith of Lens. Judith was the niece of William the Conqueror, who earlier had wanted Judith to marry Simon, but she had refused and fled abroad to avoid William's wrath.

Simon and Maude had three children: Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton; Waltheof of Melrose; Saer de Quincy, Magna Carta Surety; and Maud de Senlis, who married first Robert Fitz Richard of the de Clare family of Little Dunmow, Essex, and had issue, then, after Robert's death, she married Saer de Quincy, Lord of Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, and had Robert de Quincy, who was father of Alice de Senlis (St. Liz), the mother of Sir William de Huntingfield, Magna Carta surety.

Following Simon's death, his widow Maud married, at about Christmas 1113, David I, nicknamed "the Saint," who became King of Scots in 1124. David was recognized as Earl of Huntingdon to the exclusion of his step-son Simon, and the earldom of Northampton reverted to the crown. Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, the Queen of Scots, died in 1130/31.

In popular culture
Simon was featured in Alan Moore's book "Voice of the Fire" as the main character of the chapter "Limping to Jerusalem."

-- Wikiwand: Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton

Buried:
Cremated

Simon married of Huntingdon, Matilda in 1087. Matilda (daughter of Siwardsson, Waltheof of Northumbria and of Lens, Countess of Lens Judith) was born on 2 Jul 1072 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England; was christened in 1080 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; died on 23 Apr 1131 in Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried after 23 Apr 1131 in Scone Abbey, Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: Maud
• FSID: L8M6-YWJ
• Appointments / Titles: Between 2 Jul 1072 and 1113, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England; 2nd Countess
• Appointments / Titles: 1124, Scotland; Queen

Notes:

Maud, or Matilda, was the queen consort of King David I of Scotland. She was the great-niece of William the Conqueror and the granddaughter of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Her parents were Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his Norman wife Judith of Lens. Her father was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon earls to remain powerful after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Her mother was William the Conqueror's niece. Through her ancestors, the Counts of Boulogne, Maud also was a descendant of Alfred the Great and Charles the Bald, and a cousin of Godfrey of Bouillon.

Maud married Simon de Senlis (or St Liz) in about 1090. Earlier, her great-uncle William the Conqueror had tried to get Maud's mother, Judith, to marry Simon. Simon received the honour of Huntingdon (whose lands stretched across much of eastern England) probably in right of his wife from William Rufus before the end of the year 1090. Maud and Simon had three known children: Matilda of St Liz (Maud), who married first, Robert Fitz Richard of Tonbridge, and second, Saer De Quincy; Simon of St Liz; and Saint Waltheof of Melrose.

Maud's first husband Simon died sometime after 1111, and Maud next married David, the brother-in-law of Henry I of England, in 1113. Through this marriage, David gained control over Maud's vast estates in England to add to his own lands in Cumbria and Strathclyde. David and Maud had four children (two sons and two daughters): Malcolm, who died young; Henry; Claricia, who never married; and Hodierna, who also never married.

In 1124, David became King of Scots. Maud's two sons by different fathers, Simon and Henry, would later vie for the Earldom of Huntingdon.

Maud died in 1130 or 1131 and was buried at Scone Abbey in Perthshire, but she appears in a charter of dubious origin dated 1147.

Maud of Huntingdon appears as a character in Elizabeth Chadwick's novel "The Winter Mantle" (2003), as well as Alan Moore's novel "Voice of the Fire" (1995) and Nigel Tranter's novel "David the Prince" (1980).