Notes for Margaret Baroness Audley DE AUDLEY


Margaret was the daughter and heir of Hugh De Audley, Earl of Gloucester.

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Ralph De Stafford
Spouse Name Margaret Audley
[no marriage date in this index
record]
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Notes for Alianore DE BLANCMINSTER


The titles are sometimes confusing.  Many nobles had multiple estates and thus
multiple titles.  A child might be known by the estate where he/she was born,
or by the primary estate of the father.  Other factors might enter in.

Eleanor (Alianore) is most commonly called de Blancminster.  Some sources
report Eleanor by another style, Eleanor de Whitchurch (Whitechurch).

Jamesina Remfry, on the Le Strange Website, reports that Alianore was born at
High Ercall.  This is puzzling, since her primary style is Alianore de
Blancminster.  And I understood that Ercall was a Le Strange holding.

The LeStrange genealogy reports that she lived untoil 1304, but another
genealogy reports she died in 1276.

Alianore de Blancminster
Born in 1232 - Blackmore, Shropshire, England
Deceased in 1276 - Longnor, Shropshire, England , age at death: 44 years old
Father William de Blancminster b 1205; Mother unknown
Married to Robert le Strange 1232-1276
Son William le Strange de Felton d 1329
--  Ancestros de Eduardo Cruz-Pesantes,
http://gw.geneanet.org/tiguayo60?lang=en;pz=eduardo+augusto+javier;nz=cruz+pesantes;ocz=0;p=alianore;n=de+blancminster
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Notes for William DE BLANCMINSTER


No source I have seen has a name for William's wife.
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Notes for Humphrey 7th Earl of Hereford 6th Essex 2nd Northampton DE BOHUN


The name is spelled Humphrey or Humphry.  I am following the more common form,
Humphrey.

Titles:  Humphrey 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd of Northampton & 7th of Hereford De
Bohun
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Notes for Theobald Walter 1st Butler DE BOTILLER


Theobald Walter born before 1156 was created the first "Butler of Ireland"
(about 1185) on behalf of the Norman King of England.  "De Botiler" or "De
Botiller" are spellings of the word that became modern English "butler."

Theobald Walter was also known as the Baron of Arklow, though there might not
have been an official barony of Arklow established at that time.

Encyclopaedia Britannica gives us this sumamry of Arklow:

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Arklow

"Irish AN TINBHEAR MÓR, port, seaside resort and urban district on the Irish
Sea coast, in County Wicklow, southeast Ireland. In 431 St. Palladius, the
Christian missionary, landed at the present site of Arklow. The Vikings had a
settlement there, and the town was granted by John of England in 1189 to
Theobald Fitz-Walter, Lord Butler of Ireland. It was an English stronghold
during the late medieval period, and there are remains of a 13th-century
Dominican friary and fragments of the Butler castle. Small boats, pottery, and
fertilizers are manufactured there."
--  Encyclopaedia Britannica, Electronic, 1997, "ARKLOW"
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A source presents comments by Jay Weber on the relation of the
Fitzwalter/Butler family to Arklow, their primary seat in Ireland:

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"BARONY" of ARKLOW

"The existence of the Barony of Arklow as an Irish Peerage, though believed in
by some, can hardly be maintained. In the elaborate account of the Butler
family give (1754 and 1789) by John Lodge, in his Peerage of Ireland, the
title of "Baron of Arklow" is not even mentioned. William Lynch, however (who
may be considered as an authority on Feudal Institutions in Ireland), classes
it as "an ancient feudal Barony" descending (in accordance with his views on
these "prescriptive or feudal dignities") to the heir male. He contends that
the first holder of this "Barony" was Theobald Walter, the first "Butler" (who
was possessed, possibly in 1177, but certainly in 1205, of the Lordship of
Arklow), and that from him it has descended to his heirs male, thereby vesting
in each successive Earl of Ormonde of the house of Butler. In support of this
assertion he urges that "it continued to be enjoyed by the heir male of the
Butler family, even when, under Henry VII, the heir male had ceased to hold
the Earldom", and that it was "so enjoyed by the successive heirs male who
became Earls". [Complete Peerage I:213-4] Note: CP does not recognize the
"Barony" of Arklow."  This source includes other facts from Irish Butler
history.
-- http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2738450&id=I76626
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The Butlerage was associated with the title of the Earl of Ormonde.  I became
first acquainted with them in the history of King Edward I in relation to the
De Burgh house in Ireland.  De Burghs were allied with the Norman King Edward
and attempted to bring some Norman order (read: submission) to the unruly and
independent Lords of Ireland, the traditional kings (chiefs) of the island.  A
De Burgh married into the Irish family.  Though the Norman lords were
initially allied with the ruling dynasty of England, they gradually became
more Irish.  They are often referred to in history as the "Anglo-Irish" lords. 
This De Burgh name is also found in the spelling Burke or Burk.

This De Burgh line is related to the Butler line in Scotland, which is the
source of the Butler lineage related in this genealogy the McSwains of
Arkansas.  One connection to Scotland is that an Elizabeth de Burgh, daughter
of Richard De Burgh, the Earl of Ulster Richard De Burgh, married Robert de
Bruce (de Bruis).

Richard was the son of Walter de Burgh (c. 1230-71), the 1st earl of Ulster. 
(There has previously been an Earldom of Ulster; this one was a new "creation"
for Walter De Burgh.)  Richard was ruthless in his dominance of the province
of Connaught, re-establishing his family's power there by deposing the native
King of Ulster, Brian O'Neill, and appointing his own.

Elizabeth's husband Robert the Bruce already had associations with Ireland,
since he inherited form his father (also Robert) the title of Earl of Carrick
(Ireland).  Robert later became King of Scotland about 1304 under the
suzerainty of King Edward.  It was this Robert the Bruce (there were several
among his descendants) who finally led the successful independence movement
stared at the popular level by William Wallace, that led to independence of
Scotland.

This independence was much more successful than the Irish efforts.  Scotland
continued independent, though with much interference from the English crown,
until the unification of the two crowns under the Stewart family, when James
VI of Scotland became James I of England, to succeed the "Virgin Queen,"
Elizabeth I of England.  The two countries were united into one united kingdom
in 1707 under the Stewart Queen Anne.

More detail is provided about the appointment of the Frist Butler in another
source.  The following was provided by Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann@yahoo.com,
in a post-em:

"King Henry II of England appointed his youngest son John as Lord of Ireland.
John came to view his acquisition in 1185 and initiated a policy of granting
lands, hitherto uncolonised, to members of his entourage. lmost all of the
area now comprising the administrative county called Tipperary North Riding -
which includes the baronies of Upper and Lower Ormond - was part of the grant
made by John to Theobald, eldest son of Hervey Walter of Lancashire, England.
Theobald was subsequently appointed Pincerna Hiberniae or Chief Butler of
Ireland. By about 1250, title and surname had become Le Botiller, later
anglicised to Butler."
--  Curt Hofemann, http://homepage.tinet.ie/~marydan/nenagh.htm

"Le Botller" or "Le Botiler" were the Norman-French forms of the germanic word
for "butler."  The Latin words for the equivalent meaning are given in the
above source:  "Pincerna Hiberniae."  The term was at that time roughly
equivalent to the title originally held by the father of Charlemagne, Charles
Martel, in the kingdom of the Franks, "Major Domo" of the palace.

The Butler Family History, cited by several sources, reports that the First
Butler (Theobald FitzWalter) built the Abbey of Wotheney, where he was buried,
and the Monastery of Arklow, in Wicklow, where the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Butlers
were buried.
--  cited in
http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2738450&id=I76626
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Notes for Margery DE BURGH


Theobald le Butler d 1248 (3rd Lord Butler)
Spouse Margery Burgo (no dates)
Children Theobald le Butler d 26 Sept 1285 (4th Lord Butler)
mar Joan Fitz Geoffrey (no dates)
--  Family book of remembrance and genealogy, with allied lines, p 66,
http://search.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=29492&pid=65&iid=dvm_GenMono008341-00034-0&ssrc=pt_t6832896_p6034112730_kpidz0q3d6034112730z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid
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Notes for Maud DE CHAWORTH


Millennium File
Maud De Chaworth
Spouse Henry "Earl Of Lancaster" Plantagenet
Birth 1282 Kidwell, Carmarthen County, Wales
Children:
Joan Plantagenet
Eleanor
Plantagenet
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