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• FSID: LH1B-7W8

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Anesty is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire. Little Hormead is a hamlet in Hertfordshire.

Dionisie de Anesty died between 1293 and 1304. She was the second wife of the wealthy landowner Warin de Munchensi, stepmother to the great heiress Joan de Munchensi (King Henry III's sister in law). Dionsie de Anesty (her forename is sometimes modernized to Denise) was the daughter and only child of Nicholas de Anesty, a farmer living at Anstey Castle in Hertfordshire. She inherited land from her mother, a descendant of Hamon Peche, sheriff of Cambridgeshire 1155-1165. Dionisie first married Walter Langton. (This is thought to have been the Walter who was brother of the archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton, and fought in the Albigensian Crusade: he would have been about 70 by the time of the marriage.) There were no children of the marriage and Walter was dead by 1234. In that year Dionisie married Warrin de Munchensi, lord of Swanscombe, Painwick and other estates. Warin's first wife, Joan, daughter of William Marshal, had just died leaving two small children, John and Joan. Dionisie was stepmother to these; in 1236 she bore Warin a son, William. Warin died in 1255. Dionisie married 3rd Robert Butyller. There were no children of that marriage. She outlived her son William, a turbulent politician who died in 1287. She acted as his executrix and as guardian of her granddaughter, named Dionisie after her, who was still a child when William died. In 1293 Dionisie endowed a nunnery in the order of Poor Clares at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire. Walter de Bibbesworth's Treatise, addressed to Madame Dyonise de Mountechensi is preceded in some manuscripts by a letter of dedication in which he explains, "you have asked me to put in writing for your children a phrase book to teach them French."

“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOAN MARSHAL, married after 1219 (as his 1st wife) WARIN DE MUNCHENSY, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, 2nd son of William de Munchensy, Knt., of Swanscombe, Kent, Winfarthing and Gooderstone, Norfolk, etc., by Aveline, daughter of Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford [see CLARE 4.ii for his ancestry]. He was born about 1192 (came of age in 1213). He was heir about 1208 to his older brother, William de Munchensy. They had one son, John, and one daughter, Joan. He was involved on the side of the Barons against King John, and his lands were forfeited. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217. He returned to allegiance by Nov. 1217. In 1221 he accompanied the king to the Siege of Byham. He was serving in Wales in 1223, with his brother-in-law, William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. He was with the king overseas in 1229-30, and in Wales at the end of 1233. He married (2nd) between November 1234 and June 1235 DENISE DE ANESTY, widow of Walter Langton (died 1234), of Langton, Lincolnshire, and Ridgwell, Essex (brother of Archbishop Stephen Langton), and daughter and heiress of Nicholas de Anesty, of Ansty and Little Hormead, Hertfordshire, Bourn, Cambridgeshire, etc., by ___, sister of Hamon Pecche. They had one son, William. In 1237-8 he and his wife, Denise, acquired 1-1/2 virgate in Bourn, Cambridgeshire from William Haretail. He was serving in Gascony in 1242-44, where he took part in the Battle of Saintes. He was summoned against the Scots in 1244, and, in June 1245, for service in Wales. He was in Gascony again in 1252. He was at Dover 26 Dec. 1254, the day King Henry III appears to have crossed from Boulogne. SIR WARIN DE MUNCHENSY died testate about 20 July 1255. His widow, Denise, married (3rd) before 4 June 1260 ROBERT LE BOTELER (or LE BOTILLER). In 1260 he and his wife, Denise, were granted protection, they then going beyond seas. In 1266 he was granted a safe conduct, he then coming to the king's court. His wife, Denise, again went beyond seas in 1271. ROBERT LE BOTELER died before autumn 1272. In 1294 his widow, Denise, founded the nunnery of Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. She died shortly before 23 May 1304, and was buried in the church of the Grey Friars, London.
Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 271 (Abbey of Tintern, Titulus illorum de Verdon et de Genevill …: "Secunda filia antedicto Willihelmi Marescalli vocabatur Johanna, nupta Warino de Montecaniso, de qua habuit exitum Johannem de Montecaniso qui obiit sine hærede de se, et Johannam sororem ejus nuptam domino Willihelmo de Valentia."). Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Matthew of Paris Chronica Majora 5 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1880):504 (sub AD. 1255: "Obiit eodem tempore nobilis baro, inter omnes Angliae nobiles vel nobilissimus et sapientissimus vel unus de nobilioribus et sapientibus, Warinus de Muntcheinsil ... Dominus autem rex ilico custodiam haeredis ejus nomine Willeimi contulit Willelmo de Valentia fratri suo uterino, qui filiam ejusdem Warini, ut gener ejus esset, desponsaverat."). Stubbs Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury 2 (Rolls Ser. 73) (1880): 110-111. Francisque-Michel Riles Gascons 1 (1885): 6, 10-11, 30-32, 190. Papal Regs.: Letters 1 (1893): 566 (Denise de Munchensy, foundress of Waterbeach Abbey, styled "king's kinswoman"). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 91. C.C.R. 1302-1307 (1908): 513. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 75, 621, 667. C.F.R. 1 (1911): 493. Inv. of the Hist. Monuments in Herefordshire (1911): 12. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 51-56. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Warin de Munchensy in 1213, he being half-brother of Warin's mother, Aveline de Clare). Bourdillon Order of Minoresses in England (1926): 13-16. Powicke Stephen Langton (1928). Pubs Bedfordshire Hist. oc. 13 (1930): Ped. 11 (Lenveyse, Birkin, Anstey ped.). C.P. 9 (1936): 421-422 (sub Munchensy). VCH Cambridge 2 (1948): 292-293; 5 (1973): 4-16. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 63, 144. Clanchy From Memory to Written Record: England 1066-1307 (1993): 197-200, 245. McCash Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women (1996): 245-246, 262-263. Higgitt Murthly Hours (2000): 175. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 75-76, 142. Lawrence Letters of Adam Marsh 1 (2006): 56-63.”

Denise married de Munchensy, Warin in 1234. Warin (son of de Munchensy, William and de Clare, Aveline) was born in 1192 in Gooderstone, Norfolk, England; died on 20 Jul 1255 in Swaffham, Norfolk, England; was buried after 20 Jul 1255 in Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Munchesney, Sir William was born in 1236 in Edwardstone, Suffolk, England; died on 5 May 1302 in Dinton, Buckinghamshire, England.

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• FSID: KGC7-2JX
• Occupation: Farmer

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Nicholas de Anesty was of Anstey Castle. Anstey Castle was in the village of Anstey, Hertfordshire. The castle passed into the hands of the medieaval de Anstey family in the mid 12th century and was strengthened during the Magna Carta War of 1215-16 by Nicholas de Anstey, an opponent of King John.

Nicholas married de Pecche, Alice. Alice (daughter of de Pecche, Gilbert and FitzWalter, Alice de Clare) was born in 1190 in Great Thurlow, Suffolk, England; died in 1212 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: KGC7-2VJ
• Residence: 1213

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Alice was born circa 1190 in Cheveley, Cambridge, England (from internet)

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• Appointments / Titles: Baron Bourne, Crusader Knight
• Appointments / Titles: Sir
• Occupation: Crusader Knight

Notes:

GILBERT PECCHE, brother and heir [of elder brother Geoffrey, dsp. bef. 29 Sep 1188]. Before his brother's death he went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. As a knight of the Abbot of Bury he took part in 1196 in the dispute between Abbot Sampson and his tenants about their services (j). He received the freedom of Ipswich under their recent charter, November 1200. In 1201 he was assessed 58 marks for not having crossed the seas with the King. He fined 100 marks in 1203-04 to have seisin of Bourn, and again to send two knights in his place to John's campaign in Ireland in 1210.

He married Alice, daughter of Walter FITZROBERT, lord of Dunmow, Essex, and sister of Robert F1TZWALTER. He died shortly before, 9 July 1212. His widow was living in 1213. [Complete Peerage X:333-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(j) He fined in 1199 for having his manor of Cheveley, and received from John a charter confirming it, as his ancestors had held it, of the gift of Roger FitzRichard, and as the deeds they have thereof testified.

Gilbert married FitzWalter, Alice de Clare in 1186 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. Alice (daughter of FitzRobert, Walter de Clare and de Lucy, Maud) was born in 1145 in England; died in 1214 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Baron of Cheveley
• Appointments / Titles: Baron of Cheveley, Sir

Hamon married de Peverel, Alice in 1135 in Suffolk, England. Alice (daughter of Peverel, Robert and Deincourt, Adelicia) was born in 1115 in Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England; died in 1180 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Appointments / Titles: Bourn, Cambridgeshire, England; Baroness Peche Bourne
• FSID: L2L4-QM9
• Death: 1188, England

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• Life Event: 2nd Lord of Little Dunmow

Walter married de Lucy, Maud. Maud (daughter of de Lucy, Sir Richard and de Boulogne, Rohese) was born in 1118 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England; died in DECEASED in Diss, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Death: DECEASED
• Name: Margaret de Bohun
• Name: Maud Bohun
• Name: Maud De Bohun