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Stephen Of Aumale
Stephen (Étienne) of Aumale (–1127) was Count of Aumale from before 1089 to 1127, and Lord of Holderness. Life Stephen I was the only son of Odo, Count of Champagne, and Adelaide of Normandy, Countess of Aumale, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy.George Edward Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant'', Vol. I, ed. Vicary Gibbs (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1910), p. 352 Via his mother, Stephen was therefore the nephew of William I of England and first cousin to his sons Robert II, Duke of Normandy and Kings William II and Henry I of England. Stephen succeeded his mother as Count before 1089. In the 1095 conspiracy against William II, the objective of the rebels was to place Stephen on the English throne. The leaders of the conspiracy were Robert de Mowbray and Guillaume III of Eu, Count of Eu. After the failure of the rebellion, Stephen was apparently not put on trial hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honour Of Holderness
Holderness is an area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the north-east coast of England. An area of rich agricultural land, Holderness was marshland until it was drained in the Middle Ages. topography, Topographically, Holderness has more in common with the Netherlands than with other parts of Yorkshire. To the north and west are the Yorkshire Wolds. Holderness generally refers to the area between the River Hull and the North Sea. The Prime Meridian passes through Holderness just to the east of Patrington and through Tunstall to the north. Between 1974 and 1996, Holderness lay within the Holderness (borough), Borough of Holderness in Humberside. It gave its name to a wapentake until the 19th century, when its functions were replaced by other local government bodies, particularly after the Local Government Act 1888. The city of Kingston upon Hull lies in the south-west corner of Holderness and Bridlington borders the north-east but both are usually considered separately. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William De Forz, 3rd Earl Of Albemarle
William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle ( 1190 − 26 March 1242) was an English nobleman. He is described by William Stubbs as "a feudal adventurer of the worst type". Family background Forz was the son of William de Forz (died 1195), and Hawise, Countess of Aumale (died 11 March 1214), a daughter of William le Gros, 1st Earl of Albemarle. His father was a minor nobleman from the village of Fors in Poitou; the toponymic is variously rendered as Fors and Forz, or else Latinised to ''Fortibus''. Estate holdings Soon after 1213, Albemarle was established by King John in the territories of the Earldom of Albemarle, and in 1215 the whole of his mother's estates were formally confirmed to him. The Earldom of Albemarle which he inherited from his mother, included a large estate in Yorkshire, notably the wapentake of Holderness, including the castle of Skipsea, and the honour of Craven, as well as estates in Lincolnshire and elsewhere. It had also included the county of Auma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baldwin Of Bethune
Baldwin may refer to: People * Baldwin (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname Places Canada * Baldwin, York Regional Municipality, Ontario * Baldwin, Ontario, in Sudbury District * Baldwin's Mills, Quebec United States * Baldwin County, Alabama * Mount Baldwin (California) * Baldwin, Florida * Baldwin, Georgia * Baldwin County, Georgia * Baldwin, Illinois * Baldwin, Iowa * Baldwin City, Kansas * Baldwin, Louisiana * Baldwin, Maine * Baldwin, Maryland * Baldwin, Cambridge, Massachusetts * Baldwin, Michigan * Baldwyn, Mississippi * Baldwin (town), New York, in Chemung County * Baldwin (hamlet), New York, in Nassau County ** Baldwin station * Baldwin, North Dakota * Baldwin, Pennsylvania * Baldwin, Wisconsin * Baldwin (town), Wisconsin Other places * Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the world's steepest street * Baldwin Hills, neighborhood in Los Angeles, California * Montgomery, Powys, named in Welsh " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William De Forz (died 1195)
William de Forz (died 1195) was a French noble, believed to be from Fors in Poitou. He became by right of his wife Count of Aumale following his marriage to Hawise of Aumale, sole heiress of William le Gros, Count of Aumale, and their son was William de Forz. After his death, the French king Philip Augustus Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks (Latin: ''rex Francorum''), but from 1190 onward, Philip became the firs ... took control of Aumale, thus depriving Hawise of her continental land-holdings, but she continued to call herself countess of Aumale and her son after her death used the title of count. References 1195 deaths Earls of Albemarle Christians of the Third Crusade Jure uxoris counts {{France-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William De Mandeville, 3rd Earl Of Essex
William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex (1st Creation) (died 14 November 1189) was a loyal councillor of Henry II and Richard I of England. William was the second son of Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex and Rohese de Vere, Countess of Essex. After his father's death while in rebellion (1144), William grew up at the court of the Count of Flanders. On the death of his elder brother Geoffrey late in 1166, he returned to England and became Earl of Essex, where he spent much time at the court of Henry II. He stayed loyal to the king during the Revolt of 1173–1174, known as the Revolt of the Young King. In 1177 William became a crusader, in company with Count Philip of Flanders. Philip attempted to intervene in the court politics of the Kingdom of Jerusalem but was rebuffed, and the two fought for the Principality of Antioch at the siege of Harim. William returned to England in the autumn of 1178. In 1180 William married Hawise, daughter and heiress of William, Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawise, Countess Of Aumale
Hawise, Countess of Aumale (''c''. 1160 - 11 March 1214) was ruling Countess of Aumale, (''suo jure'') from 1179 until 1194, with her husbands. She was an heiress of the highest social standing and the greatest financial holdings, and became Countess of Essex by her marriage to William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex. Early life Hawise was the daughter and sole heiress of William le Gros, Count of Aumale and his wife Cicely, daughter and co-heiress of the William fitz Duncan, son of Duncan II of Scotland. Hawise was therefore the great-granddaughter of the King of Alba. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Hawise de Mortimer, daughter of Ranulph de Mortimer. First marriage Hawise was Countess in her own right (''suo jure'') when she married, on 14 January 1180, to William, Earl of Essex. On his death late in 1189 the widowed Hawise was described by the monk and chronicler Richard of Devizes as "a woman who was almost a man, lacking nothing virile except the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fitz Duncan
William fitz Duncan (a modern anglicisation of the Old French Guillaume fils de Duncan and the Middle Irish language">Middle Irish Uilleam mac Donnchada) was a Scottish prince, the son of King Duncan II of Scotland by his wife Ethelreda, daughter of Gospatric, Ethelreda of Dunbar. He was a territorial magnate in northern Scotland and northern England and a military leader. In 1094, his father King Duncan II was killed by Mormaer Máel Petair of Mearns, supporting the claims of King Domnall (Donald) III Bán. It is probable that his mother Ethelreda took the infant William and fled Scotland to the safety of Allerdale in Cumberland where her brother Waltheof of Allerdale was lord. William, an only child, grew up there among his cousins. A decade or so later, he ventured to the court of his half-uncle. Under the reign of his half-uncle Alexander I, it is highly likely that William was regarded as a viable ''tánaiste'' (i.e. "designated heir"), but Henry I of England supported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan II Of Scotland
Donnchad mac Máel Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: ''Donnchadh mac Mhaoil Chaluim'';''Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim'' is the Mediaeval Gaelic form. anglicised as Duncan II; c. 1060 – 12 November 1094) was King of Alba. He was son of Malcolm III (Máel Coluim mac Donnchada) and his first wife Ingibiorg Finnsdottir, widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson, earl of Orkney. Early life The identity of Duncan's mother is given by the Orkneyinga saga, which records the marriage of Malcolm and Ingibiorg, and then mentions "their son was Duncan, King of Scots, father of William". Duncan II got his name from that of his grandfather, Duncan I of Scotland. However, Ingibiorg is never mentioned by primary sources written by Scottish and English chroniclers. She might have been a concubine or had a marriage not recognized by the Church. William of Malmesbury calls Duncan an illegitimate son of Malcolm III. This account influenced a number of Medieval commentators, who also dismissed Duncan as an illegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Le Gros, Earl Of York
William le Gros, William le Gras, William d'Aumale, William Crassus (died 20 August 1179) was Earl of York and Lord of Holderness in the English peerage and the Count of Aumale in France. He was the eldest son of Stephen, Count of Aumale, and his spouse, Hawise, daughter of Ralph de Mortimer of Wigmore. William witnessed two charters of King Stephen in 1136, in which he is recorded as ''Willelmus de Albamarla'', but is not placed among the earls. He distinguished himself at the Battle of the Standard in 1138, and was made Earl of York (apart from Richmondshire) as his reward. He was with Stephen in his defeat at Lincoln on 2 February 1141. His Scarborough Castle was forfeited to King Henry II as a result of unauthorised construction during the Anarchy. He founded the Abbey of Meaux in 1150. He was intombed within the Abbey of Thornton, Lincolnshire, which he had founded in 1139. William married Cicely, Lady of Skipton, the daughter and co-heir of William Fitz-Duncan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranulph De Mortimer
Ranulph I de Mortimer (''Ralf'', ''Ralph'', ''Raoul de Mortemer'') (born before –died in/after 1104) was a Marcher Lord from the Montgomery lands in the Welsh Marches (border lands between Wales and England). In England, he was Lord of Wigmore in Herefordshire. In Normandy, he was the Seigneur of St. Victor-en-Caux. Ranulph was the founder of the English House of Mortimer of Wigmore. He acquired Wigmore Castle after William Fitz Osbern's son Roger de Breteuil joined the Revolt of the Earls of 1075. His lands and holdings in Herefordshire and Shropshire were granted to him by William the Conqueror before 1086. Background Allegiance to England After William the Conqueror's death, the Kingdom of England and the Duchy of Normandy were divided. Ranulph of Mortimer joined the ranks of the Rebellion of 1088 against the new King of England, William Rufus. Together with Norman, English and Welsh Marcher Lords, they invaded and conquered the lands of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
