Generation No. 26
33554432. Hervey WALTER283,284, born Abt. 1070 in West Dereham, Downham, Norfolk, England; died Abt. 1150 in Weeton & Preese, Fylde, Lancashire, England. He was the son of 67108864. Herverus.
Notes for Hervey WALTER:
BUTLER FAMILY HISTORY
It is from acorns that great oak trees grow. So let us begin by looking at the seedling of the Butler family tree. It will be found in 12th century England. The paternal ancestry of the family is traceable in unbroken succession to a certain Hervey who was living about 1130. From the "Testa de Nevil", which was compiled a century later, we know Hervey had a son, Hervey Walter (which suggests a maternal connection with someone by the name of Walter) and a daughter Alice, to whom her father gave a dowry of about 400 acres in Lancashire. Harvey seems also to have had various estates in East Anglia. But the identity of his father, mother or wife has not yet been established. It has been suggested in "The Complete Peerage" that he may have married an aunt of Thomas Becket, with whose family the Butlers were reputedly connected.
Theobald Blake Butler, a leading authority on the history of the family, who died only this year [1965] and whose works are now available to scholars in the National Library, Dublin, the British Museum and the Irish Genealogical Research Society, laboriously traced back to Domesday the lands which this family subsequently held in East Anglia and Lancashire and discovered that at least nine of the sixteen or more holdings which our Hervey was believed to have owned in Norfolk and Suffolk were entered in Domesday Book under the ownership of Walter de Caen. The discovery led him to surmise that the paternal ancestor of the Butlers was Walter de Caen (son of William Malet who accompanied the Conqueror and, being half Saxon, was entrusted with the burial of King Harold after the Battle of Hastings). In his last years, however, Blake Butler was inclining to the view that Hervey in about 1130 may have acquired much of Walter de Caen's lands by marriage, which would make Hervey, not the son or grandson, but son-in-law of Walter de Caen. Further research on the point might prove rewarding, paricularly with reference to the most likely candidates of the name of Herve in 11th Century France and to the Hervey who was Becket's envoy at the Papal Court 1163 to 1166 when he died. The scattered Keurdon MSS are unlikely to carry the matter any further, though Carte did hint to the contrary; nor has the Buxton Collection of hundreds of unpublished medieval charters in Cambridge University Library helped on the point. But in Germany, the early archives of the Buttlar family certainly need appraisal. [Butler Family History]
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from the 1911 version of the Encyclopedia Britannica:
BUTLER, the name of a family famous in the history of Ireland. The great house of the Butlers, alone among the families of the conquerors, rivalled the Geraldines, their neighbours, kinsfolk and mortal foes. Theobald Walter, their ancestor, was not among the first of the invaders. He was the grandson of one Hervey Walter who, in the time of Henry I., held Witheton or Weeton in Amoundernêss, a small fee of the honour of Lancaster, the manor of Newton in Suffolk, and certain lands in Norfolk. In the great inquest of Lancaster lands that followed a writ of 1212, this Hervey, named as the father of Hervey Walter, is said to have given lands in his fee of Weeton to Orm, son of Magnus, with his daughter Alice in marriage.
Whether his wife was Walter de Caen's daughter or Thomas Becket's aunt or someone else, Hervey was succeeded by his son Hervey Walter, whose marriage was of considerable consequence to the family that was taking root. For his wife was Maud de Valognes, sister in law of Ranulph de Glanville, the most powerful of all Henry II's subjects; and Ranulph, who took an avuncular interest in the upbringing of Maud's children, so advanced them that even by the end of the 12th century the family tree was no mean sapling.
At least one of those children, Hubert Walter, was outstanding. Contemporary records give us some idea of him: he was tall and stately, not exactly gifted with the eloquence of one who had kissed the Blarney Stone and perhaps a bit too attentive to idle rumours, but loyal, resolute, witty and wary and wise withal.
I suppose he is commonly remembered as having been mainly instumental in raising the enormous ransom demanded by the Emperor Henry VI for Richard Couer de Lion. But Hubert had other claims to fame: he governed England ably and far better than King Richard would have done; he even laid some of the foundations of democracy as we know it. He enriched the See of Canterbury, he founded monasteries, he was learned in the law and altogether his achievements were legion; but above all, he was immensely prudent and immensely powerful.
His prudence is best illustrated by the fact that, without surrendering any of his integrity, he managed to enjoy and retain the confidence of Henry II, Richard I, and John--three kings of widely contrasting characters and predilections.
As to his power and prestige: Hubert had been Bishop of Salisbury and had accompanied Richard on the Third Crusade; he was then Primate, Chief Justiciar, Papal Legate and Chancellor--a sort of Pooh-Bah of his day--and when Hubert died in 1205, John paid him the oblique compliment: "Now for the first time am I King of England". That was what led to Magna Carta ten years later. [Butler Family History]
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of Amounderness, Lancashire, and West Dereham, Norfolk [Ref: Watney p187]
from the 1911 version of the Encyclopedia Britannica:
Hervey Walter, son of this Hervey, advanced his family by matching with Maude, daughter of Theobald de Valognes, lord of Parham, whose sister Bertha was wife of Ranuif de Glanville, the great justiciar, "the eye of the king." When Ranulf had founded the Austin Canons priory of Butley, Hervey Walter, his wife's brother-in-law, gave to the house lands in Wingfield for the soul's health of himself and his wife Maude, of Ranulf de Glanville and Bertha his wife, the charter, still preserved in the Harleian collection, being witnessed by Hervey's younger sons, Hubert Walter, Roger and Hamon.
Child of Hervey WALTER is:
16777216 i. Hervey WALTER, born Abt. 1130 in Weeton & Preese, Fylde, Lancashire, England; died 1189; married Maud De Valognes.
33554434. lord of Parham Theobald de Valognes285, born 1104 in of Parham, Plomesgate, Suffolk, England; died Abt. 1190 in of Panmure, Forfar, Scotland. He was the son of 67108868. Robert de Valoines and 67108869. Agnes FitzJohn. He married 33554435. Helewise de Valensis.
33554435. Helewise de Valensis, born Abt. 1110 in of Parham, Suffolk, England. She was the daughter of 67108870. Hamo de Valenis and 67108871. Bertha.
Children of Theobald de Valognes and Helewise de Valensis are:
16777217 i. Maud De Valognes, born Abt. 1133 in Parham, Plomesgate, Suffolk, England; married Hervey WALTER.
ii. Bertha de Valognes, married Ranuif de Glanville.
33554436. William le Vavasour, Lord of Hazelwood286, born Abt. 1131 in England, Yorkshire, West Riding, Skipton; died 29 Jun 1191. He was the son of 67108872. Sir Mauger le Vavasour. He married 33554437. Matilda Perry.
33554437. Matilda Perry, born Abt. 1133 in Yorkshire, England.
Notes for William le Vavasour, Lord of Hazelwood:
William le Vavasour, Lord of Hazelwood was Knight, Lord of Hazelwood, grandson of Domesday tenant, Mauger
Child of William le Vavasour and Matilda Perry is:
16777218 i. High Sheriff of Lancashir Robert le Vavasour, born Abt. 1148; married Julian de Ros.
33554490. Walter fitz Edward de Salisbury He married 33554491. Sibyl de Chaworth.
33554491. Sibyl de Chaworth
Child of Walter de Salisbury and Sibyl de Chaworth is:
16777245 i. Sibyl de Salisbury, born Abt. 1126 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales; married Marshal John fitz Gilbert 1143 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
33554492. Gilbert Strongbow de Clare287, born 21 Sep 1100 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died 06 Jan 1148 in England. He married 33554493. Countess of Pembroke Isabel 1130 in Tonbridge, Kent, England.
33554493. Countess of Pembroke Isabel288, born Aft. 1096 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died 1147. She was the daughter of 67108986. 1st Earl of Leicester Robert I de Beaumont-le-Roger and 67108987. Isabel de Vermandois.
More About Gilbert de Clare and Countess Isabel:
Marriage: 1130, Tonbridge, Kent, England
Child of Gilbert de Clare and Countess Isabel is:
16777246 i. Richard "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert, born 1130 in Tonbridge, Kent, England; died May 1177 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland; married Eva MacMurrough 26 Aug 1171 in Waterford, Ireland.
33554494. rí Laigin Diarmait na-nGall MacMurchada289, born 1100 in Leinster, Ireland; died 01 May 1171 in Ferns, Leinster, Ireland. He married 33554495. Mor ingen Muirchertaig Ó Toole Abt. 1140 in Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland.
33554495. Mor ingen Muirchertaig Ó Toole, born 1114 in Leinster, Ireland; died Abt. 1140 in Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland. She was the daughter of 67108990. rí Uí Muiredaig Muirchertach Ó Toole and 67108991. Cacht ingen Loigsig Ua Mórdha.
Notes for rí Laigin Diarmait na-nGall MacMurchada:
Also called Dermot MacMurrough
He abducted the wife of his rival for the kingdom of Meath, Tiernan O'Rourke [Tighernán Ua Ruairc], King of Breifne, sealing the hatred between these two kings before 1166.
He saw his kingdom invaded by Ruairi O'Connor [Ruadrí Ua Conchobair] of Connacht, and Tiernan O'Rourke, on the death of the high-king Muirchertach MacLochlainn, Diarmat's greatest ally and protector, and on this occasion the Ostmen (Norsemen) of Dublin also participated, and he was ousted from his kingship in Leinster in 1166.
He returned to Ireland with a small force of Welsh and Flemish under Richard FitzGodebert, and along with native Irish support to regain control of his homeland, Ui Ceinnsealaigh in southest Leinster, Dermot attempted to reclaim his kingship of Leinster in 1167.
Annals of Ulster 1167: "Diarmait Mac Murchadha came from over sea this year. / Diarmait Mac Murchadha do thuidecht tar muir in bliadhain-si."
He solicited succor from the Norman King Henry II in 1168.
He was defeated southest of Carlow town by the high-king Ruairi O'Conor and his ally Tiernan O'Rourke in 1168 in Carlow town.
He recaptured Wexford from the Norse-Irish with the assistance of the Normans under Robert fitz Stephen and Maurice de Prendergast circa May 1169.
He arrived in Waterford, after Richard de Clare, aka Strongbow, had taken the town, on 25 August 1170.6 Annals of Tigernach 1171: "Diarmuid Mac Murchadha, rí Laigen & Gall, & fer buaidhirtha na Banba & aidhmillti Erenn, iar toichestal Gall & iar n-gnath-milled Gaedel, iar n-argain & iar n-dian-scailedh chell & coicrich, do ég iar cínd bliadne do galar etualaing tria mirbuile Findén & Cholaim Chille & na naem aile ro airg."
Annals of Ulster 1171: "Diarmait Mac Murchadha, king of the Fifth of Leinster, after destroying many churches and territories, died in Ferna without Unction, without Body of Christ, without penance, without a will, in reparation to Colum-cille and Finnian and to the saints besides, whose churches he destroyed. / Diarmait Mac Murchadha, rí Coicidh Laighen, iar milledh ceall n-imdha & tuath, do éc i Ferna, cen ongadh, cen Corp Crist, cen aithrighi, cen timna, i n-einech Coluim Cille & Finnein & na naem archena, isa cella ro mhíll."
Annals of the Four Masters 1171: "Diarmaid Mac Murchadha, King of Leinster, by whom a trembling sod was made of all Ireland, -after having brought over the Saxons, after having done extensive injuries to the Irish, after plundering and burning many churches, as Ceanannus, Cluain-Iraird, &c.,-died before the end of a year after this plundering, of an insufferable and unknown disease; for he became putrid while living, through the miracle of God, Colum-Cille, and Finnen, and the other saints of Ireland, whose churches he had profaned and burned some time before; and he died at Fearnamor, without making a will, without penance, without the body of Christ, without unction, as his evil deeds deserved."
He died on 1 May 1171 in Ferns, Leinster, Ireland, at age 71 years. He died at Fearnamor, without making a will, without penance, without the body of Christ, without unction, "as his evil deeds deserved."
More About rí MacMurchada and Mor Toole:
Marriage: Abt. 1140, Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland
Child of rí MacMurchada and Mor Toole is:
16777247 i. Eva MacMurrough, born Abt. 1141; married Richard "Strongbow" fitz Gilbert 26 Aug 1171 in Waterford, Ireland.
33619968. DE COKELE He was the son of 67239936. WALTER.
Child of DE COKELE is:
16809984 i. WILLIAM.
36923392. Hervey fitz Ankaris290, died 1161.
Child of Hervey fitz Ankaris is:
18461696 i. Henry fitz Hervey, died 1201.
36923552. ,2nd Lord Hamlake Robert de Ros, 2nd Lord Hamlake291, born Abt. 1110. He married 36923553. Sibyl de Valognes Bef. 1145.
36923553. Sibyl de Valognes291, born Abt. 1112.
More About Robert de Ros and Sibyl de Valognes:
Marriage: Bef. 1145
Child of Robert de Ros and Sibyl de Valognes is:
18461776 i. 3rd Lord Hamlake Everard de Ros, born Abt. 1145; married Roese Trussebut Bef. 1170.
Generation No. 27
67108864. Herverus, born Abt. 1045 in Normandy, France; died Aft. 1086 in West Dereham, Downham, Norfolk, England.
Notes for Herverus:
Herverus came to England with William the Conqueror in 1066. After the battle, he obtained large possessions in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Lancashire
Child of Herverus is:
33554432 i. Hervey WALTER, born Abt. 1070 in West Dereham, Downham, Norfolk, England; died Abt. 1150 in Weeton & Preese, Fylde, Lancashire, England.
67108868. Robert de Valoines, born 1080 in Valognes, Contentin, France. He was the son of 134217736. Lord de Valoines Piers and 134217737. Albreda de Rie. He married 67108869. Agnes FitzJohn.
67108869. Agnes FitzJohn, born Abt. 1085 in of Valognes, Contentin, France.
Children of Robert de Valoines and Agnes FitzJohn are:
33554434 i. lord of Parham Theobald de Valognes, born 1104 in of Parham, Plomesgate, Suffolk, England; died Abt. 1190 in of Panmure, Forfar, Scotland; married Helewise de Valensis.
ii. Philip de Valoines, Lord of Panmure, born 1109 in of Panmure, Forfar, Scotland,; died 11 May 1175 in Panmure, Forfar, Scotland.
67108870. Hamo de Valenis He married 67108871. Bertha.
67108871. Bertha
Child of Hamo de Valenis and Bertha is:
33554435 i. Helewise de Valensis, born Abt. 1110 in of Parham, Suffolk, England; married lord of Parham Theobald de Valognes.
67108872. Sir Mauger le Vavasour292,293, born 1106 in Yorkshire, England; died 1166. He was the son of 134217744. Mauger le Vavasour.
Child of Sir Mauger le Vavasour is:
33554436 i. William le Vavasour, Lord of Hazelwood, born Abt. 1131 in England, Yorkshire, West Riding, Skipton; died 29 Jun 1191; married Matilda Perry.
67108986. 1st Earl of Leicester Robert I de Beaumont-le-Roger294, born 1046 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France; died 05 Jun 1118 in Leicestershire, England. He married 67108987. Isabel de Vermandois.
67108987. Isabel de Vermandois295, born 1081 in Valois, Bretagne, France; died 13 Mar 1131 in England. She was the daughter of 134217974. Hugues I "le Grand", comte de Vermandois and 134217975. comtesse de Vermandois et de Valois Alix.
Notes for 1st Earl of Leicester Robert I de Beaumont-le-Roger:
Robert I de Beaumont-le-Roger, 1st Earl of Leicester became Count of Meulan through his mother.
Also called Lord Robert of Beaumont. Earl of Mellent, Normandy.
He was born in 1046 in Pont-Audemer, Beaumont, Normandy, France.
He was the son of Roger de Beaumont-le-Roger and Adeline de Meulan.
He was recorded by William of Poitiers, he is the 1st of 20 men known with certainty to have fought with William the Conqueror on 14 October 1066 in the Battle of Hastings, England.
He was described as young and inexperienced in arms at the Battle of Hastings.
He married an unknown person circa 1070.
He had holdings in Leicestershire, Northhamptonshire, and Warwickshire in 1086.
Count of Meulan, Normandy, France.
He was created Earl of Leicester by King Henry I in 1103.
1st Earl of Leicester, England, between 1103 and 1118
Children of Robert de Beaumont-le-Roger and Isabel de Vermandois are:
33554493 i. Countess of Pembroke Isabel, born Aft. 1096 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England; died 1147; married Gilbert Strongbow de Clare 1130 in Tonbridge, Kent, England.
ii. Robert II de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester
iii. comte de Meulan Valeran
67108990. rí Uí Muiredaig Muirchertach Ó Toole296, born Abt. 1080 in Leinster, Ireland; died 1164. He was the son of 134217980. Abbot of Glendalough Gilla Comgaill Baccach Ó Toole and 134217981. Sadb ingen Máel Uí Cheinnselaig. He married 67108991. Cacht ingen Loigsig Ua Mórdha Abt. 1113.
67108991. Cacht ingen Loigsig Ua Mórdha297, born Abt. 1094 in Leinster, Ireland.
Notes for rí Uí Muiredaig Muirchertach Ó Toole:
Of Uí Muiredaig branch of Uí Dúnlaing
He slew Mac-Cuirr-na-gColpach Ua Fiachrach, lord of Ui-Feineachlais, in 1154.
King of Uí Muiredaig, Leinster, Ireland, before 1164.
Annals of the Four Masters 1164: "Muircheartach Ua Tuathail, lord of Ui-Muireadhaigh, and chief of Leinster in hospitality and prowess, died after penance. / Muirchertach Ua Tuathail , tigherna Ua Muireadhaigh, & flaith Laighen ar eineach & ghaisccidh, d'écc iar n-aithríghe."
He died in 1164. He died after penance
More About rí Toole and Cacht Mórdha:
Marriage: Abt. 1113
Child of rí Toole and Cacht Mórdha is:
33554495 i. Mor ingen Muirchertaig Ó Toole, born 1114 in Leinster, Ireland; died Abt. 1140 in Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland; married rí Laigin Diarmait na-nGall MacMurchada Abt. 1140 in Lough Carmen, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland.
67239936. WALTER He was the son of 134479872. COKELE.
Child of WALTER is:
33619968 i. DE COKELE.
Generation No. 28
134217736. Lord de Valoines Piers, born Abt. 1050 in Valognes, Contentin, France; died 1107 in Oxford, Suffolk, England.. He was the son of 268435472. Count of Ponthieu Enguerrand II d'Aumale and 268435473. Countess of Normandy Adelaide de Gand. He married 134217737. Albreda de Rie.
134217737. Albreda de Rie, born Abt. 1060 in Normandy, France; died 1107 in of Oxford, Suffolk, England. She was the daughter of 268435474. Hubert de Rie and 268435475. Albreda de Preaux.
Children of Lord Piers and Albreda de Rie are:
67108868 i. Robert de Valoines, born 1080 in Valognes, Contentin, France; married Agnes FitzJohn.
ii. Muriel Valoines, born Abt. 1087 in Valognes, Cotentin, France.
134217744. Mauger le Vavasour298, born Abt. 1105; died 1166.
Child of Mauger le Vavasour is:
67108872 i. Sir Mauger le Vavasour, born 1106 in Yorkshire, England; died 1166.
134217974. Hugues I "le Grand", comte de Vermandois He married 134217975. comtesse de Vermandois et de Valois Alix.
134217975. comtesse de Vermandois et de Valois Alix
Child of Hugues Grand" and comtesse Alix is:
67108987 i. Isabel de Vermandois, born 1081 in Valois, Bretagne, France; died 13 Mar 1131 in England; married 1st Earl of Leicester Robert I de Beaumont-le-Roger.
134217980. Abbot of Glendalough Gilla Comgaill Baccach Ó Toole He married 134217981. Sadb ingen Máel Uí Cheinnselaig.
134217981. Sadb ingen Máel Uí Cheinnselaig
Child of Gilla Toole and Sadb Cheinnselaig is:
67108990 i. rí Uí Muiredaig Muirchertach Ó Toole, born Abt. 1080 in Leinster, Ireland; died 1164; married Cacht ingen Loigsig Ua Mórdha Abt. 1113.
134479872. COKELE He was the son of 268959744. COKELE.
Child of COKELE is:
67239936 i. WALTER.
