Fulk III FitzWarin

• Preferred Name: Fulk III FitzWarin^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
  
• Alternate Name: Fulk Whittington
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: BET 1160 AND 1165 in Whittington Castle, Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.874 LONG: E3.003 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Alt. Birth: BET 1160 AND 1165 in Whittington, Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.8739 LONG: E3.0042
  
• Death: 8 OCT 1258 in Whittington, Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.8739 LONG: E3.0042
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Alberbury Castle
  
• Fact: with note: Description: During his attainder he sought refuge from LLywelyn Fawr
  
• Burial: AFT 8 OCT 1258 in Alberbury, Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.7225 LONG: E2.9504
  
• Fact: with note: Description: Sued for John's pardon & rec'd it, to the surprise of many,
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir Knight
  
• Rose+in+rebellion+against+King+John+when+John+demanded+Whittington+Castle: AUG 1201
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Whittington
  
• FSID: LBJF-GP2
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
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  Sir Fulk FitzWarin, III
  Also Known As: "Robin Hood", "Fulke", "Fouke", "FitzWaryn", "FitzWarren", "Fitz Warine", "Fouke le Fitz Waryn", "alias Fulke", "FitzWarren and Fitz Warine", "Legend of Robin Hood is based on his life"
  Birthdate: between circa 1160 and 1165
  Birthplace: Whittington Castle, Shropshire, England
  Death: 1258 (92-102)
  Whittington, Shropshire, England (Blindness)
  Place of Burial: Alberbury, Shropshire, England
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Lord Fulk FitzWarin, II, of Whittington and Alveston and Hawise FitzWarin
  Husband of
  Clarise d'Auberville FitzWarin;
  Eva de Blancminister Warrine and
  Lady Maude FitzWarin (born le Vavasour)
  Father of Mable Fitz Warin de Crevequer;
  Hawise fitzWarin, lady of Wem;
  Fulk FitzWarin, IV;
  Eva FitzWarin;
  Joan FitzWarin; and
  Sir Knight Fulk Glas Fitz Warine, de Layham of Alberbury « less
  
  Brother of Philip FitzWarin; Eva FitzWarin; Jonet FitzWarin; John FitzWarin; Alan FitzWarin; Warin FitzWarin; William FitzWarin " de Brightley" and Ivo FitzWarin « less
  
  Occupation: Marcher lord of Whittington Castle, Knight
  
  Fulk FitzWarin (c. 1258), variant spellings (Latinized Fulco filius Garini, Welsh Syr ffwg ap Gwarin), the third (Fulk III), was a prominent representative of a marcher family associated especially with estates in Shropshire (on the English border with Wales) and at Alveston in Gloucestershire. In young life (c. 1200-1203), early in the reign of King John (1199-1216), he won notoriety as the outlawed leader of a roving force striving to recover his familial right to Whittington Castle in Shropshire, which John had granted away to a Welsh claimant. Progressively rehabilitated, and enjoying his lordship, he endured further setbacks in 1215-1217.
  
  Thereafter, his connections with the court of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and his usefulness to the English king placed him in the midst of a larger conflict in which he lost Whittington to Llywelyn for a year in 1223-1224, though that prince later married his daughter. During the 1220s Fulk founded Alberbury Priory in Shropshire, which became the smallest and last-established of the three English houses dependent upon the Order of Grandmont. Always ready to defend his rights, Fulk lived to a ripe old age and was buried at Alberbury beside his two wives, leaving heirs and daughters and a plentiful posterity among whom the name of Fulk FitzWarin was continuously renewed in later centuries. His grandson was Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251-1315).
  
  After his death Fulk became the subject of a popular "ancestral romance" in French verse, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, relating his life as an outlaw and his struggle to regain his patrimony from the king. This survives in a prose version, and combines historical material with legendary and fantastical elements which are heroic rather than strictly biographical.
  
  Origins
  Although the name Fitz Warin means "son of Warin", it was Fulk's grandfather, Fulk I FitzWarin, whose father's name was Warin, or Guarine, of Metz, in Lorraine. Warin (who appears in the Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn as "Warin de Meer") is however a "shadowy or mythical figure" about whom little is known. Whatever his origin, the head of this family is generally held to have come to England during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Neither he nor his sons were then tenants-in-chief (i.e. important vassals or feudal barons): their estates were granted by later kings.
  Fulk I was associated with the Peverels: William Peverel the Younger granted him a knight's fee in Tadlow, Cambridgeshire, before 1148 which King Henry II confirmed in 1154.[9] Henry rewarded Fulk I for his support of the Empress Matilda during the civil war by conferring upon him the royal manor of Alveston in Gloucestershire (by 1155) and the manor of Whadborough in Loddington, Leicestershire. His son Fulk II held those properties after the death of his father in 1171. In the time of Robert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford (1174-1186), Fulk II gave land at Tadlow to Shrewsbury Abbey to settle a controversy over the patronage of the church of Alberbury, Shropshire, in his own favour. The FitzWarin land tenure at Alberbury, held from the Fee of Caus, was therefore presumably already in place.
  
  At some time before 1178 Fulk II married Hawise, one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Josce de Dinan and his wife Sybil, widow of Pain fitzJohn. Josce had held Ludlow Castle in the Welsh Marches for the Empress Matilda during the civil war, but it was not expedient for Henry II to confirm Ludlow to Josce, and in place thereof he granted to him the large manorial estate of Lambourn in Berkshire, with its appurtenances, amounting to a considerable value. Josce died by 1167, and Lambourn became the inheritance, in two parts, of his daughters Hawise and Sybil (who married Hugo de Plugenet). Fulk II and Hawise de Dinan were the parents of Fulk FitzWarin III.
  ...The first marriage
  By 1207 Fulk III married Maud (Matilda), daughter and heir of Robert le Vavasour, and relict of Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland, who died late in 1205 in Ireland.
  The second marriage
  Mabil was the daughter of Fulk's second wife, Clarice de Auberville, who (as the Fine rolls record) was certainly living in 1250.
  
  Death and burial
  Historians cannot exactly state when FitzWarin passed away, but 1258 is given as the latest probable date. Most likely, he handed some of his affairs over to his son Fulk IV during his lifetime. According to the Romance narrative his second wife Clarice died before him, and was buried at Alberbury Priory, and he died a year later and was laid to rest beside both of his wives there in the monastery church, part of which was incorporated into later buildings at the site.
  
  Family
  Fulk III FitzWarin married first, c. 1207, to Maud (Matilda) le Vavasour, daughter of Robert le Vavasour and widow of Theobald Walter. Maud died in 1226 and was buried at Alberbury Priory (alias New Abbey, Alberbury) in Shropshire.
  
  Their offspring included:
  1. Fulk IV FitzWarin (d.1264). He received the manor of Edlington, Yorkshire, as part of his inheritance. He married Constance de Tosny, and was the father of Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin.
  2. Hawise FitzWarin, married (first) William Pantulf, a Marcher Lord (who died in 1233), and (secondly) Hubert Huse. She received the manor of Narborough.
  3. Joan FitzWarin married Sir Henry de Penebrugge, of Pembridge Castle, Herefordshire.
  4. Eleanor FitzWarin, married William de Rivers (de Ripariis) of Great Shefford in the Lambourn valley, Berkshire, son of Richard de Rivers of East Mersea (Essex).
  5. Eva FitzWarin, married William de Blanchminister.
  6. Fulk Glas (sometimes attributed to his father's second marriage)
  
  Fulk's second marriage, to Clarice de Auberville, is described in the Romance narrative. Clarice is taken to have been the daughter and heiress of Robert de Auberville of Iden and Iham (Higham, in Icklesham), Sussex, and his wife Claricia de Gestling.
  Fulk's daughter by this marriage was:
  1. Mabel FitzWarin (−1297), who married (first) William de Crevequer (no issue), and (secondly) John de Tregoz, Lord Tregoz (died before 6 Sept 1300). By the second marriage she had two daughters and coheirs, Clarice and Sybil Tregoz. She received the manor of Lambourn.
  Sir William Dugdale, in his Baronage, accepted as factual the identification of Clarice as the second wife of Fulk III and, despite occasional doubts, later accounts of the family have followed this precedent.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_FitzWarin
  He sued for John's pardon & rec'd it, to the surprise of many. During his attainder he sought refuge from LLywelyn Fawr.
  
  Real Life Robin Hood
  Fulk FitzWarin II & III (d. 1197 & 1219)
  Born: circa 1160
  Died: 1197 probably at Whittington Castle, Shropshire
  & Born circa 1180
  Died: 1219 probably at Whittington Castle, Shropshire
  Fulk II was the
  
  Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160-1258; alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of W
  Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160-1258; alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of Warin") was a powerful marcher lord seated at Whittington
  
  === !The Complete Peerage GS 942 D22 cok vol ===
  !The Complete Peerage GS 942 D22 cok vol 5 p. 495 Dic. Nat'l Biography Vol 19 p. 223. Aristocratic & Royal Ancestors GS 929.242 H249t p. 860.
  
  === Fulk FitzWarin d. 1258 m. Maud Le Vavaso ===
  Fulk FitzWarin d. 1258 m. Maud Le Vavasour
  This particular Fulk FitzWarin married Maud, the widow of Theobald Walter (aka Butler). Fulk was her second husband. Her child, Theobald Walter II came into his inheritance approx. 1221-23. This Butler inheritance in Ireland eventually transformed to the Earl of Ormonde. Her father Robert was a deputy sheriff to Theobald I (d. 1205) in Lancashire (approx 1194)
  Sidney Painter has an article on Fulk in a collection of his articles published in: Feudalism and Liberty, ed. Fred A Cazel, Jr now emeritus professor at U. of Conn. Title of article: The sources of Fouke Fitz Warin (pgs 111-114).
  Painter also provides detail on this FitzWarin in his study King John.
  
  === During his attainder, he sought and rec ===
  During his attainder, he sought and received refuge from LLywelyn Fawr. He pursued John's pardon and to the surprise of many received it. In August 1201 he rose in rebellion against King John when John demanded Whittington Castle.
  
  === Fulke FitzWarine, who had a castle at A ===
  Fulke FitzWarine, who had a castle at Adderbury, the ruins of which were remaining at the time that Dugdale wrote. (Latter part of the 17th century.) This Fulke was left by Richard I to defend the Marches of Wales when that monarch set out himself for the Holy Land; and in the 7th of the same reign, 1196, he paid 40 marks to the crown for livery of Whittington Castle, in conformity with the judgment then given in his favour by the court of the King's Bench. After the accession of King John, however, this castle was seized by the crown and conferred on another person, which act drove FitzWarine and his brothers into rebellion, and they were in consequence outlawed; but through the mediation of the Earl of Salisbury, the King's brother, and the Bishop of Norwich, the outlawry was reversed and FitzWarine, upon paying 200 marks, and two courses, had livery of the Castle as his hereditary right; command being given to the Sheriff of Shropshire to yield him possession thereof accordingly. About this time he paid the crown 1,200 marks and two palfreys for permission to marry Maud, daughter of Robert Vavasour and widow of Theobald Walter. In the 12th of King John, 1211, he attended that prince into Ireland, and in the 17th he had livery of his wife's inheritance, lying in Amundernesse, in Lancashire. After this we find himactive in the baronial cause, and amongst those excommunicated by the Pope; nor did he make peace until 4th of Henry III, 1220, when he compromised by paying 262 pounds and two great coursers, for the repossession of Whittington Castle, which in the baronial conflict had again been alienated. Whereupon, undertaking that it should not be prejudiced to the King, he had license the next year to fortify the same, and he henceforth evinced his loyalty by the good services he rendered against the Welsh, under William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and by his personal attendance upon the King himself, in his army at Montgomery. He had subsequently military summonses upon several occasions, and fought at the Battle of Lewes, anno 1263, under the royal banner, in which action he lost his life by being drowned in the adjacent river. This feudal lord married 1st Maud Vavasour and 2nd Clarice ..... He left at his decease a daughter Eve, who married as his 2nd consort Llewellyn, the Great, Prince of North Wales ap Iorwerth Drwyndun and a son Fulke, his successor.
  
  === Sources: Kraentzler 1110; History of Pow ===
  Sources: Kraentzler 1110; History of Powys Fadog, Vol. 6; Dot Clark;Ayers, p376; Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. II. Powys Fadog: Fulk III Fitz Warin. K: Fulk III Fitz-Warin of Whittington,Salops England. Born atWhittington Castle. Died about 1257. Dot Clark: Info based on Welsh records. Ayers: Fulk Fitz Warin of Whittington; died about 1256/7. Had liv. ofwife's inheritance, 1216. Antiquities: Fulk fitz Warin (III). Occurs 1201-1251. Died about1256/7. Married (2) Clarice de Auberville, 1250. No issue shown on chart.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29, 41; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1132, of Whittingt ===
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1132, of Whittington, Shropshire, and Alveston, Gloucestershire, England, d 1170-71 The identity of his wife is not known. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1158, of Whittington, Shropshire, England. He md Hawise de Dinan abt 1176, daughter of Josce de Dinan. She was b abt 1163. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Hawise de Dinan was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1182, of Whittington, Shropshire, England, d abt 1235. He md Maud le Vavasour [a] bef 1 Oct 1207, daughter of Robert le Vavasour. She was b abt 1178. Children of Fulk Fitz Warin and Maud le Vavasour were:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1208.
  
  Hawise Fitz Warin b abt 1212; md [1] William Pantulf bef 1226, and [2] Hubert Huse.
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin [b] b abt 1208, of Shropshire, England, d 14 May 1264, Ouse River, England. He md:
  [1] Clarice d'Auberville abt 1230. She was b abt 1216, d abt 1238. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Clarice d'Auberville was:
  
  Mabel Fitz Warin b abt 1236, Whittington, Shropshire, England, d 24 May 1297. She md [1] John de Crevequer, and [2] Sir John de Tregoz, Lord of Ewyas Harold, abt 1262, son of Sir Robert II de Tregoz, Lord of Ewyas Harold, and Juliane de Cantelou.
  
  [2] Constance de Toeni abt 1249, daughter of Sir Ralph VI de Toeni, Lord of Flamstead, and Petronilla de Lacy. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Constance de Toeni was:
  
  Sir Fulk Fitz Warin [c], Lord Fitz Warin, b 14 Sep 1251, Whittington, Shropshire, England, d 24 Nov 1315. He md Margred verch Gruffydd bef 25 Feb 1276/77, daughter of Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys, and Hawise le Strange. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Margred verch Gruffydd was:
  
  Hawise Fitz Warin b abt 1277, of Whittington, Shropshire, England, d aft 1345. She md Sir Ralph de Goushill abt 1292, son of Sir Piers de Goushill and Ela de Camoys.
  
  NOTES:
  a. Daughter of Robert le Vavasour by his first wife (whose identity is not known), Maud first married Theobald Walter, ancestor of the illustrious Earls of Ormond, and secondly, in 1207, Fulk Fitz Warin. Robert le Vavasour, son of William le Vavasour, served as deputy for Theobald Walter, Sheriff of Lancashire in 1197.
  
  b. By his wife Constance, daughter of Ralph de Toeni and Perronelle, he received in free marriage a moiety of the manor of Yarkhill in co. Hereford, to them and the heirs of their bodies. He was drowned in the Ouse River, when endeavoring to escape at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. Constance had livery, 11 Feb 1265/66, of the manor of Alveston and tenements in Stanton, which had been assigned to her as dower. Recent findings posted on SGM indicate that Fulk was twice married, his first wife having been Clarice d'Auberville, who has traditionally been attributed as the second wife of his father, Fulk (III). Additionally, Clarice is now believed to be the mother of Mabel, while Constance was the mother of his heir, Fulk (V) Fitz Warin. Note also that Fulk and Clarice's daughter, Mabel, married (as her second husband) John de Tregoz, and that one of their daughters was named Clarice.
  
  c. Of Whittington, Salop, Alveston, co. Gloucester, Wantage, Berkshire, and Stanton Fitwarren, Wiltshire, he was the only son and heir. His fealty was taken 29 Apr 1273, and had livery of his father's lands. He was with the King in the Army of Wales in 1282, and in 1292, before leaving for Gascony on the King's service, he demised the manor of Wantage to Master Henry Huse for nine years (his heir being then under age). He was summoned for military service from 12 Dec 1276 to 30 Jun 1314, to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 Jun 1283, to attend the King wherever he might be, 8 Jun 1294, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 Jan 1295/97, and to Parliament from 24 Jun 1295 to 16 Oct 1315, whereby he is held to have become Lord FitzWarin. On 10 Aug 1301, the King ordered Fulk and Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, to abstain from attacking each other (this having been a long-standing feud which had begun in 1295 when Fulk had accused the Earl of ravaging his lands at Whittington). He was pardoned on 16 Oct 1313, having been an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for any part he had taken against Piers de Gaveston.
  
  SOURCES:
  CP: Vol V[495-497] Vol XII/2[231]; AR: Line 74A[32], Line 255A[30]; SGM: John Ravilious [ref: Keats-Rohan's Domesday Descendants].
  
  Whittington Castle was rebuilt beginning in 1221 on the site of an earlier fortress which dates back to the 9th century. Fulk applied to Henry III for permission to build a stone fortress. The original castle that Fulk built had seven towers 60' high and a 40' drawbridge. Fulk quarrelled with King John and the feud caused Fulk to flee to France. He was granted a pardon and returned to his castle. Fulk survived a siege in 1223 by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth of Gwynedd, but the castle was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt. The castle fell into disrepair after the Civil War and the stones were used for local building and road projects. Today Whittington Castle is the only castle in England which is owned and managed by a group of local residents.
  
  The most famous legend concerning Whittington is in regards to the Marian Chalice, which is thought by some to be the Holy Grail. Sir Fulk was supposedly in the line of gardians of the Grail and King Arthur and that the Grail was kept in a private chapel in the castle.
  
  Fulk was immortilized in the Romance of Fulk FitzWarin which survives as a manuscript in the British Library as a pre-1320 transcription of an earlier French manuscript.
  
  In the year ending on Michaelmas 1200, Fulk was fined £100 with King John to have judgement concerning the castle as his right. The king was bribed by Meurig of Powys to confirm him in the possession of Whittington Castle and subsequently Fulk and his brothers and friends rebelled. The Romance of Fulk FitzWarin says that King John gave Fulk's inheritance away due to the humiliation he had received as a child by his father. With his brothers and a band of followers he lived in the forests and robbed the king's wagon trains and harassed his soldiers. Fulk fled to France and became pirates in the Channel and in their adventures rescued the daughter of the King of Orkney and saved the Duke of Carthage from a dragon!
  
  Upon returning to England he heard that the king was holding court at Windsor castle so they went to Windsor forest and waited for John to go hunting there. Hearing that the king was in the area, Fulk put on the clothes of a charcoal burner and sat by his fire in the forest. The king and his hunting party rode by and asked if he had seen any deer. Fulk said he had seen a large stag run into the woods and leg the king into an ambush and the king and his party was surrounded. The Romance states that Fulk just wanted to live a quiet life and agreed to let the king go if he would promise to be his friend again. The king of course agreed and upon returning to Windsor he sent out James de Normandy with an armed force, but, Fulk and his men were ready for them and were able to overcome them. Fulk exchanged clothes and horses with Sir James and rode off to present the king with his prisoner. Fulk told the king that he must return to the battle and John gave him a fresh horse. Only when Sir James' helmet was removed did the king realize what had happened.
  
  King John sent out another force and during this bloody battle many of Fulk's followers were killed. Fulk was wounded and his brother John scooped him up onto his horse and they headed for the coast. The Earl of Chester hid his other brother, Hurley, in a nearby monastery but was soon discovered and thrown into prison at Windsor. Fulk escaped to Spain and the Barbary Coast and after more adventures he returned to England and rescued his brother from prison in London. Fulk supposedly captured King John again while he was hunting in the New Forest and they finally made peace and his outlawry was revoked by patent in Rouen 11 Nov. 1203 and in 1204 King John restored Whittington Castle to him.
  
  Fulk was one of the rebel barons and excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. He made his peace with King Henry III in 1218.
  Sounds to me that Fulk was a real-life Robin Hood.
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  About Sir Fulk FitzWarin III
  Fulk III FitzWarin
  (The tale of Fulk FitzWarin has been noted for its parallels to the Robin Hood legend.)
  
  Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160-1258) (alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of Warin") was a powerful marcher lord seated at Whittington Castle in Shropshire in England on the border with Wales, and also at Alveston in Gloucestershire. He rebelled against King John (1199-1216) from 1200 to 1203,[2] mainly over a dispute concerning his familial right to Whittington Castle, and was declared an outlaw. He was the subject of the famous mediaeval legend or "ancestral romance" entitled Fouke le Fitz Waryn, which relates the story of his life as an outlaw and his struggle to regain his patrimony from the king. He founded, between 1221 and 1226, Alberbury Priory in Shropshire which he granted to the Augustinian canons of Lilleshall but later transferred to the Order of Grandmont. His grandson was Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251-1315).[3]
  
  Origins
  
  Fulk III was the son of Fulk II FitzWarin (died 1197) by his wife Hawise le Dinan, a daughter and co-heiress of Josce de Dinan.[4] Fulk II was a marcher lord of Shropshire,[5] the son and heir of Fulk I FitzWarin (d.1170/1) of Whittington and Alveston, who himself was the son of (i.e. in Norman French Fitz, in modern French fils de) the family's earliest known ancestor, thus deemed the family patriarch, "Warin of Metz", from Lorraine.[4]
  
  Earliest ancestry
  
  Warin of Metz the patriarch is however a "shadowy or mythical figure",[4] about whom little is certain. The later mediaeval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn gives his name a
  
  === The man behind the legend of Robin Hood ===
  Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn
  After Foulk's death he became the subject the famous "ancestral romance" known as Fouke le Fitz Waryn, which contains a highly embellished account of his life and family history.[33]
  
  The biography of Fulk III survives in a French prose "ancestral romance", extant in a manuscript containing English, French and Latin texts, which is based on a lost verse romance. A 16th-century summary of a Middle English version has also been preserved. The work is part of the Matter of England.[34] The outline of the work is as follows. As a young boy, Fulk was sent to the court of King Henry II (1154-1189), where he grew up with the king's younger son, the future King John (1199-1216). John became his enemy after a childhood quarrel during a game of chess. As an adult, King John retained his animosity toward Fulk whom he stripped of his ancestral holdings. Fulk thereupon took to the woods as an outlaw and lived a life of adventure. The story may in fact have confused aspects of the lives of two FitzWarins, Fulk I (d. 1171) and Fulk II (d. 1197), father and son. The romance of Fulk FitzWarin is noted for its parallels to the legend of Robin Hood.[35]
  Fulk FitzWarin
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  === The King was bribed by Meuric de Powis t ===
  The King was bribed by Meuric de Powis to confirm the latter in the possession of Whittington, whereupon in 1201 Fulk, his brothers and friends rebelled. The story is that they roamed through the country with a nimble-witted jongleur, John de Rampayne, spoiling the king and succoring the poor. He was twice compelled to quit England and encounter sea perils from the Orkneys to Barbary. Such stories are from a French manuscript first transcribed in 1320, and is evidently paraphrased from an earlier record written before the end of the thirteenth century in octosyllabic verses, some of which remained unaltered. As is the case with most such stories it is difficult to separate the fact from fiction. By 1204 Whittingdon was restored to Fulk. In 1215, he was despoiled of fiefs for making war on his neighbors. He was one of the barons who met at Stamford and Brackley in 1215, and was among those specially excommunicated in the bull of Innocent III. Sometime in the 1220's he founded Alberbury Priory. It is said that he was blind in the last seven years of his life.
  
  === geni.com ===
  geni.com
  
  Sir Fulk FitzWarin, III
  Also Known As: "Robin Hood", "Fulke", "Fouke", "FitzWaryn", "FitzWarren", "Fitz Warine", "Fouke le Fitz Waryn", "alias Fulke", "FitzWarren and Fitz Warine", "Legend of Robin Hood is based on his life"
  Birthdate: between circa 1160 and 1165
  Birthplace: Whittington Castle, Shropshire, England (United Kingdom)
  Death: 1258 (92-102)
  Whittington, Shropshire, England (United Kingdom) (Blindness)
  Place of Burial: Alberbury, Shropshire, England
  Immediate Family:
  
  Son of Lord Fulk FitzWarin, II, of Whittington and Alveston and Hawise FitzWarin
  
  Husband of
  Clarise d'Auberville FitzWarin;
  Eva de Blancminister Warrine and
  Lady Maude FitzWarin (born le Vavasour)
  
  Father of Mable Fitz Warin de Crevequer;
  Hawise fitzWarin, lady of Wem;
  Fulk FitzWarin, IV;
  Eva FitzWarin;
  Joan FitzWarin; and
  Sir Knight Fulk Glas Fitz Warine, de Layham of Alberbury « less
  
  Brother of Philip FitzWarin; Eva FitzWarin; Jonet FitzWarin; John FitzWarin; Alan FitzWarin; Warin FitzWarin; William FitzWarin " de Brightley" and Ivo FitzWarin « less
  
  Occupation: Marcher lord of Whittington Castle, Knight
  
  Fulk FitzWarin (1160x1180 - c. 1258), variant spellings (Latinized Fulco filius Garini, Welsh Syr ffwg ap Gwarin), the third (Fulk III), was a prominent representative of a marcher family associated especially with estates in Shropshire (on the English border with Wales) and at Alveston in Gloucestershire. In young life (c. 1200-1203), early in the reign of King John (1199-1216), he won notoriety as the outlawed leader of a roving force striving to recover his familial right to Whittington Castle in Shropshire, which John had granted away to a Welsh claimant. Progressively rehabilitated, and enjoying his lordship, he endured further setbacks in 1215-1217.
  
  Thereafter, his connections with the court of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and his usefulness to the English king placed him in the midst of a larger conflict in which he lost Whittington to Llywelyn for a year in 1223-1224, though that prince later married his daughter. During the 1220s Fulk founded Alberbury Priory in Shropshire, which became the smallest and last-established of the three English houses dependent upon the Order of Grandmont. Always ready to defend his rights, Fulk lived to a ripe old age and was buried at Alberbury beside his two wives, leaving heirs and daughters and a plentiful posterity among whom the name of Fulk FitzWarin was continuously renewed in later centuries. His grandson was Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251-1315).
  
  After his death Fulk became the subject of a popular "ancestral romance" in French verse, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, relating his life as an outlaw and his struggle to regain his patrimony from the king. This survives in a prose version, and combines historical material with legendary and fantastical elements which are heroic rather than strictly biographical.
  
  Origins
  Although the name Fitz Warin means "son of Warin", it was Fulk's grandfather, Fulk I FitzWarin, whose father's name was Warin, or Guarine, of Metz, in Lorraine. Warin (who appears in the Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn as "Warin de Meer") is however a "shadowy or mythical figure" about whom little is known. Whatever his origin, the head of this family is generally held to have come to England during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Neither he nor his sons were then tenants-in-chief (i.e. important vassals or feudal barons): their estates were granted by later kings.
  
  Fulk I was associated with the Peverels: William Peverel the Younger granted him a knight's fee in Tadlow, Cambridgeshire, before 1148 which King Henry II confirmed in 1154.[9] Henry rewarded Fulk I for his support of the Empress Matilda during the civil war by conferring upon him the royal manor of Alveston in Gloucestershire (by 1155) and the manor of Whadborough in Loddington, Leicestershire. His son Fulk II held those properties after the death of his father in 1171. In the time of Robert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford (1174-1186), Fulk II gave land at Tadlow to Shrewsbury Abbey to settle a controversy over the patronage of the church of Alberbury, Shropshire, in his own favour. The FitzWarin land tenure at Alberbury, held from the Fee of Caus, was therefore presumably already in place.
  
  At some time before 1178 Fulk II married Hawise, one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Josce de Dinan and his wife Sybil, widow of Pain fitzJohn. Josce had held Ludlow Castle in the Welsh Marches for the Empress Matilda during the civil war, but it was not expedient for Henry II to confirm Ludlow to Josce, and in place thereof he granted to him the large manorial estate of Lambourn in Berkshire, with its appurtenances, amounting to a considerable value. Josce died by 1167, and Lambourn became the inheritance, in two parts, of his daughters Hawise and Sybil (who married Hugo de Plugenet). Fulk II and Hawise de Dinan were the parents of Fulk FitzWarin III.
  ...
  The first marriage
  By 1207 Fulk III married Maud (Matilda), daughter and heir of Robert le Vavasour, and relict of Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland, who died late in 1205 in Ireland.
  ...
  The second marriage
  Mabil was the daughter of Fulk's second wife, Clarice de Auberville, who (as the Fine rolls record) was certainly living in 1250.
  ...
  Death and burial
  Historians cannot exactly state when FitzWarin passed away, but 1258 is given as the latest probable date. Most likely, he handed some of his affairs over to his son Fulk IV during his lifetime. According to the Romance narrative his second wife Clarice died before him, and was buried at Alberbury Priory, and he died a year later and was laid to rest beside both of his wives there in the monastery church, part of which was incorporated into later buildings at the site.
  
  Family
  
  Fulk III FitzWarin married first, c. 1207, to Maud (Matilda) le Vavasour, daughter of Robert le Vavasour and widow of Theobald Walter. Maud died in 1226 and was buried at Alberbury Priory (alias New Abbey, Alberbury) in Shropshire.
  
  Their offspring included:
  1. Fulk IV FitzWarin (d.1264). He received the manor of Edlington, Yorkshire, as part of his inheritance. He married Constance de Tosny, and was the father of Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin.
  2. Hawise FitzWarin, married (first) William Pantulf, a Marcher Lord (who died in 1233), and (secondly) Hubert Huse. She received the manor of Narborough.
  3. Joan FitzWarin married Sir Henry de Penebrugge, of Pembridge Castle, Herefordshire.
  4. Eleanor FitzWarin, married William de Rivers (de Ripariis) of Great Shefford in the Lambourn valley, Berkshire, son of Richard de Rivers of East Mersea (Essex).
  5. Eva FitzWarin, married William de Blanchminister.
  6. Fulk Glas (sometimes attributed to his father's second marriage)
  
  Fulk's second marriage, to Clarice de Auberville, is described in the Romance narrative. Clarice is taken to have been the daughter and heiress of Robert de Auberville of Iden and Iham (Higham, in Icklesham), Sussex, and his wife Claricia de Gestling.
  Fulk's daughter by this marriage was:
  1. Mabel FitzWarin (−1297), who married (first) William de Crevequer (no issue), and (secondly) John de Tregoz, Lord Tregoz (died before 6 Sept 1300). By the second marriage she had two daughters and coheirs, Clarice and Sybil Tregoz. She received the manor of Lambourn.
  
  Sir William Dugdale, in his Baronage, accepted as factual the identification of Clarice as the second wife of Fulk III and, despite occasional doubts, later accounts of the family have followed this precedent.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_FitzWarin
  He sued for John's pardon & rec'd it, to the surprise of many. During his attainder he sought refuge from LLywelyn Fawr.
  
  Fulk FitzWarin d. 1258 m. Maud Le Vavasour
  This particular Fulk FitzWarin married Maud, the widow of Theobald Walter (aka Butler). Fulk was her second husband. Her child, Theobald Walter II came into his inheritance approx. 1221-23. This Butler inheritance in Ireland eventually transformed to the Earl of Ormonde. Her father Robert was a deputy sheriff to Theobald I (d. 1205) in Lancashire (approx 1194)
  Sidney Painter has an article on Fulk in a collection of his articles published in: Feudalism and Liberty, ed. Fred A Cazel, Jr now emeritus professor at U. of Conn. Title of article: The sources of Fouke Fitz Warin (pgs 111-114).
  Painter also provides detail on this FitzWarin in his study King John.
  
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29, 41; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  Sources: Kraentzler 1110; History of Powys Fadog, Vol. 6; Dot Clark;Ayers, p376; Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. II. Powys Fadog: Fulk III Fitz Warin. K: Fulk III Fitz-Warin of Whittington,Salops England. Born atWhittington Castle. Died about 1257. Dot Clark: Info based on Welsh records. Ayers: Fulk Fitz Warin of Whittington; died about 1256/7. Had liv. ofwife's inheritance, 1216. Antiquities: Fulk fitz Warin (III). Occurs 1201-1251. Died about1256/7. Married (2) Clarice de Auberville, 1250. No issue shown on chart.
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1132, of Whittington, Shropshire, and Alveston, Gloucestershire, England, d 1170-71 The identity of his wife is not known. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1158, of Whittington, Shropshire, England. He md Hawise de Dinan abt 1176, daughter of Josce de Dinan. She was b abt 1163. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Hawise de Dinan was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1182, of Whittington, Shropshire, England, d abt 1235. He md Maud le Vavasour [a] bef 1 Oct 1207, daughter of Robert le Vavasour. She was b abt 1178. Children of Fulk Fitz Warin and Maud le Vavasour were:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1208.
  
  Hawise Fitz Warin b abt 1212; md [1] William Pantulf bef 1226, and [2] Hubert Huse.
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin [b] b abt 1208, of Shropshire, England, d 14 May 1264, Ouse River, England. He md:
  [1] Clarice d
  === Life Sketch ===
  geni.com
  Sir Fulk FitzWarin, III
  Also Known As: "Robin Hood", "Fulke", "Fouke", "FitzWaryn", "FitzWarren", "Fitz Warine", "Fouke le Fitz Waryn", "alias Fulke", "FitzWarren and Fitz Warine", "Legend of Robin Hood is based on his life"
  Birthdate: between circa 1160 and 1165
  Birthplace: Whittington Castle, Shropshire, England
  Death: 1258 (92-102)
  Whittington, Shropshire, England (Blindness)
  Place of Burial: Alberbury, Shropshire, England
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Lord Fulk FitzWarin, II, of Whittington and Alveston and Hawise FitzWarin
  Husband of
  Clarise d'Auberville FitzWarin;
  Eva de Blancminister Warrine and
  Lady Maude FitzWarin (born le Vavasour)
  Father of Mable Fitz Warin de Crevequer;
  Hawise fitzWarin, lady of Wem;
  Fulk FitzWarin, IV;
  Eva FitzWarin;
  Joan FitzWarin; and
  Sir Knight Fulk Glas Fitz Warine, de Layham of Alberbury « less
  
  Brother of Philip FitzWarin; Eva FitzWarin; Jonet FitzWarin; John FitzWarin; Alan FitzWarin; Warin FitzWarin; William FitzWarin " de Brightley" and Ivo FitzWarin « less
  
  Occupation: Marcher lord of Whittington Castle, Knight
  
  Fulk FitzWarin (c. 1258), variant spellings (Latinized Fulco filius Garini, Welsh Syr ffwg ap Gwarin), the third (Fulk III), was a prominent representative of a marcher family associated especially with estates in Shropshire (on the English border with Wales) and at Alveston in Gloucestershire. In young life (c. 1200-1203), early in the reign of King John (1199–1216), he won notoriety as the outlawed leader of a roving force striving to recover his familial right to Whittington Castle in Shropshire, which John had granted away to a Welsh claimant. Progressively rehabilitated, and enjoying his lordship, he endured further setbacks in 1215-1217.
  
  Thereafter, his connections with the court of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and his usefulness to the English king placed him in the midst of a larger conflict in which he lost Whittington to Llywelyn for a year in 1223-1224, though that prince later married his daughter. During the 1220s Fulk founded Alberbury Priory in Shropshire, which became the smallest and last-established of the three English houses dependent upon the Order of Grandmont. Always ready to defend his rights, Fulk lived to a ripe old age and was buried at Alberbury beside his two wives, leaving heirs and daughters and a plentiful posterity among whom the name of Fulk FitzWarin was continuously renewed in later centuries. His grandson was Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251–1315).
  
  After his death Fulk became the subject of a popular "ancestral romance" in French verse, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, relating his life as an outlaw and his struggle to regain his patrimony from the king. This survives in a prose version, and combines historical material with legendary and fantastical elements which are heroic rather than strictly biographical.
  
  Origins
  Although the name Fitz Warin means "son of Warin", it was Fulk's grandfather, Fulk I FitzWarin, whose father's name was Warin, or Guarine, of Metz, in Lorraine. Warin (who appears in the Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn as "Warin de Meer") is however a "shadowy or mythical figure" about whom little is known. Whatever his origin, the head of this family is generally held to have come to England during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Neither he nor his sons were then tenants-in-chief (i.e. important vassals or feudal barons): their estates were granted by later kings.
  Fulk I was associated with the Peverels: William Peverel the Younger granted him a knight's fee in Tadlow, Cambridgeshire, before 1148 which King Henry II confirmed in 1154.[9] Henry rewarded Fulk I for his support of the Empress Matilda during the civil war by conferring upon him the royal manor of Alveston in Gloucestershire (by 1155) and the manor of Whadborough in Loddington, Leicestershire. His son Fulk II held those properties after the death of his father in 1171. In the time of Robert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford (1174-1186), Fulk II gave land at Tadlow to Shrewsbury Abbey to settle a controversy over the patronage of the church of Alberbury, Shropshire, in his own favour. The FitzWarin land tenure at Alberbury, held from the Fee of Caus, was therefore presumably already in place.
  
  At some time before 1178 Fulk II married Hawise, one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Josce de Dinan and his wife Sybil, widow of Pain fitzJohn. Josce had held Ludlow Castle in the Welsh Marches for the Empress Matilda during the civil war, but it was not expedient for Henry II to confirm Ludlow to Josce, and in place thereof he granted to him the large manorial estate of Lambourn in Berkshire, with its appurtenances, amounting to a considerable value. Josce died by 1167, and Lambourn became the inheritance, in two parts, of his daughters Hawise and Sybil (who married Hugo de Plugenet). Fulk II and Hawise de Dinan were the parents of Fulk FitzWarin III.
  ...The first marriage
  By 1207 Fulk III married Maud (Matilda), daughter and heir of Robert le Vavasour, and relict of Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland, who died late in 1205 in Ireland.
  The second marriage
  Mabil was the daughter of Fulk's second wife, Clarice de Auberville, who (as the Fine rolls record) was certainly living in 1250.
  
  Death and burial
  Historians cannot exactly state when FitzWarin passed away, but 1258 is given as the latest probable date. Most likely, he handed some of his affairs over to his son Fulk IV during his lifetime. According to the Romance narrative his second wife Clarice died before him, and was buried at Alberbury Priory, and he died a year later and was laid to rest beside both of his wives there in the monastery church, part of which was incorporated into later buildings at the site.
  
  Family
  Fulk III FitzWarin married first, c. 1207, to Maud (Matilda) le Vavasour, daughter of Robert le Vavasour and widow of Theobald Walter. Maud died in 1226 and was buried at Alberbury Priory (alias New Abbey, Alberbury) in Shropshire.
  
  Their offspring included:
  1. Fulk IV FitzWarin (d.1264). He received the manor of Edlington, Yorkshire, as part of his inheritance. He married Constance de Tosny, and was the father of Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin.
  2. Hawise FitzWarin, married (first) William Pantulf, a Marcher Lord (who died in 1233), and (secondly) Hubert Huse. She received the manor of Narborough.
  3. Joan FitzWarin married Sir Henry de Penebrugge, of Pembridge Castle, Herefordshire.
  4. Eleanor FitzWarin, married William de Rivers (de Ripariis) of Great Shefford in the Lambourn valley, Berkshire, son of Richard de Rivers of East Mersea (Essex).
  5. Eva FitzWarin, married William de Blanchminister.
  6. Fulk Glas (sometimes attributed to his father's second marriage)
  
  Fulk's second marriage, to Clarice de Auberville, is described in the Romance narrative. Clarice is taken to have been the daughter and heiress of Robert de Auberville of Iden and Iham (Higham, in Icklesham), Sussex, and his wife Claricia de Gestling.
  Fulk's daughter by this marriage was:
  1. Mabel FitzWarin (−1297), who married (first) William de Crevequer (no issue), and (secondly) John de Tregoz, Lord Tregoz (died before 6 Sept 1300). By the second marriage she had two daughters and coheirs, Clarice and Sybil Tregoz. She received the manor of Lambourn.
  Sir William Dugdale, in his Baronage, accepted as factual the identification of Clarice as the second wife of Fulk III and, despite occasional doubts, later accounts of the family have followed this precedent.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_FitzWarin
  He sued for John's pardon & rec'd it, to the surprise of many. During his attainder he sought refuge from LLywelyn Fawr.
  
  Real Life Robin Hood
  Fulk FitzWarin II & III (d. 1197 & 1219)
  Born: circa 1160
  Died: 1197 probably at Whittington Castle, Shropshire
  & Born circa 1180
  Died: 1219 probably at Whittington Castle, Shropshire
  Fulk II was the
  
  Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160-1258; alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of W
  Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160-1258; alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of Warin") was a powerful marcher lord seated at Whittington
  
  === Fulk FitzWarin d. 1258 m. Maud Le Vavaso ===
  Fulk FitzWarin d. 1258 m. Maud Le Vavasour
  This particular Fulk FitzWarin married Maud, the widow of Theobald Walter (aka Butler). Fulk was her second husband. Her child, Theobald Walter II came into his inheritance approx. 1221-23. This Butler inheritance in Ireland eventually transformed to the Earl of Ormonde. Her father Robert was a deputy sheriff to Theobald I (d. 1205) in Lancashire (approx 1194)
  Sidney Painter has an article on Fulk in a collection of his articles published in: Feudalism and Liberty, ed. Fred A Cazel, Jr now emeritus professor at U. of Conn. Title of article: The sources of Fouke Fitz Warin (pgs 111-114).
  Painter also provides detail on this FitzWarin in his study King John.
  
  === The King was bribed by Meuric de Powis t ===
  The King was bribed by Meuric de Powis to confirm the latter in the possession of Whittington, whereupon in 1201 Fulk, his brothers and friends rebelled. The story is that they roamed through the country with a nimble-witted jongleur, John de Rampayne, spoiling the king and succoring the poor. He was twice compelled to quit England and encounter sea perils from the Orkneys to Barbary. Such stories are from a French manuscript first transcribed in 1320, and is evidently paraphrased from an earlier record written before the end of the thirteenth century in octosyllabic verses, some of which remained unaltered. As is the case with most such stories it is difficult to separate the fact from fiction. By 1204 Whittingdon was restored to Fulk. In 1215, he was despoiled of fiefs for making war on his neighbors. He was one of the barons who met at Stamford and Brackley in 1215, and was among those specially excommunicated in the bull of Innocent III. Sometime in the 1220's he founded Alberbury Priory. It is said that he was blind in the last seven years of his life.
  
  === The man behind the legend of Robin Hood ===
  Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn
  After Foulk's death he became the subject the famous "ancestral romance" known as Fouke le Fitz Waryn, which contains a highly embellished account of his life and family history.[33]
  
  The biography of Fulk III survives in a French prose "ancestral romance", extant in a manuscript containing English, French and Latin texts, which is based on a lost verse romance. A 16th-century summary of a Middle English version has also been preserved. The work is part of the Matter of England.[34] The outline of the work is as follows. As a young boy, Fulk was sent to the court of King Henry II (1154–1189), where he grew up with the king's younger son, the future King John (1199–1216). John became his enemy after a childhood quarrel during a game of chess. As an adult, King John retained his animosity toward Fulk whom he stripped of his ancestral holdings. Fulk thereupon took to the woods as an outlaw and lived a life of adventure. The story may in fact have confused aspects of the lives of two FitzWarins, Fulk I (d. 1171) and Fulk II (d. 1197), father and son. The romance of Fulk FitzWarin is noted for its parallels to the legend of Robin Hood.[35]
  Fulk FitzWarin
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
  === Fulke FitzWarine, who had a castle at A ===
  Fulke FitzWarine, who had a castle at Adderbury, the ruins of which were remaining at the time that Dugdale wrote. (Latter part of the 17th century.) This Fulke was left by Richard I to defend the Marches of Wales when that monarch set out himself for the Holy Land; and in the 7th of the same reign, 1196, he paid 40 marks to the crown for livery of Whittington Castle, in conformity with the judgment then given in his favour by the court of the King's Bench. After the accession of King John, however, this castle was seized by the crown and conferred on another person, which act drove FitzWarine and his brothers into rebellion, and they were in consequence outlawed; but through the mediation of the Earl of Salisbury, the King's brother, and the Bishop of Norwich, the outlawry was reversed and FitzWarine, upon paying 200 marks, and two courses, had livery of the Castle as his hereditary right; command being given to the Sheriff of Shropshire to yield him possession thereof accordingly. About this time he paid the crown 1,200 marks and two palfreys for permission to marry Maud, daughter of Robert Vavasour and widow of Theobald Walter. In the 12th of King John, 1211, he attended that prince into Ireland, and in the 17th he had livery of his wife's inheritance, lying in Amundernesse, in Lancashire. After this we find himactive in the baronial cause, and amongst those excommunicated by the Pope; nor did he make peace until 4th of Henry III, 1220, when he compromised by paying 262 pounds and two great coursers, for the repossession of Whittington Castle, which in the baronial conflict had again been alienated. Whereupon, undertaking that it should not be prejudiced to the King, he had license the next year to fortify the same, and he henceforth evinced his loyalty by the good services he rendered against the Welsh, under William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and by his personal attendance upon the King himself, in his army at Montgomery. He had subsequently military summonses upon several occasions, and fought at the Battle of Lewes, anno 1263, under the royal banner, in which action he lost his life by being drowned in the adjacent river. This feudal lord married 1st Maud Vavasour and 2nd Clarice ..... He left at his decease a daughter Eve, who married as his 2nd consort Llewellyn, the Great, Prince of North Wales ap Iorwerth Drwyndun and a son Fulke, his successor.
  
  === !The Complete Peerage GS 942 D22 cok vol ===
  !The Complete Peerage GS 942 D22 cok vol 5 p. 495 Dic. Nat'l Biography Vol 19 p. 223. Aristocratic & Royal Ancestors GS 929.242 H249t p. 860.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29, 41; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Sources: Kraentzler 1110; History of Pow ===
  Sources: Kraentzler 1110; History of Powys Fadog, Vol. 6; Dot Clark;Ayers, p376; Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. II. Powys Fadog: Fulk III Fitz Warin. K: Fulk III Fitz-Warin of Whittington,Salops England. Born atWhittington Castle. Died about 1257. Dot Clark: Info based on Welsh records. Ayers: Fulk Fitz Warin of Whittington; died about 1256/7. Had liv. ofwife's inheritance, 1216. Antiquities: Fulk fitz Warin (III). Occurs 1201-1251. Died about1256/7. Married (2) Clarice de Auberville, 1250. No issue shown on chart.
  
  === Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1132, of Whittingt ===
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1132, of Whittington, Shropshire, and Alveston, Gloucestershire, England, d 1170-71 The identity of his wife is not known. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1158, of Whittington, Shropshire, England. He md Hawise de Dinan abt 1176, daughter of Josce de Dinan. She was b abt 1163. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Hawise de Dinan was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1182, of Whittington, Shropshire, England, d abt 1235. He md Maud le Vavasour [a] bef 1 Oct 1207, daughter of Robert le Vavasour. She was b abt 1178. Children of Fulk Fitz Warin and Maud le Vavasour were:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1208.
  
  Hawise Fitz Warin b abt 1212; md [1] William Pantulf bef 1226, and [2] Hubert Huse.
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin [b] b abt 1208, of Shropshire, England, d 14 May 1264, Ouse River, England. He md:
  [1] Clarice d'Auberville abt 1230. She was b abt 1216, d abt 1238. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Clarice d'Auberville was:
  
  Mabel Fitz Warin b abt 1236, Whittington, Shropshire, England, d 24 May 1297. She md [1] John de Crevequer, and [2] Sir John de Tregoz, Lord of Ewyas Harold, abt 1262, son of Sir Robert II de Tregoz, Lord of Ewyas Harold, and Juliane de Cantelou.
  
  [2] Constance de Toeni abt 1249, daughter of Sir Ralph VI de Toeni, Lord of Flamstead, and Petronilla de Lacy. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Constance de Toeni was:
  
  Sir Fulk Fitz Warin [c], Lord Fitz Warin, b 14 Sep 1251, Whittington, Shropshire, England, d 24 Nov 1315. He md Margred verch Gruffydd bef 25 Feb 1276/77, daughter of Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys, and Hawise le Strange. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Margred verch Gruffydd was:
  
  Hawise Fitz Warin b abt 1277, of Whittington, Shropshire, England, d aft 1345. She md Sir Ralph de Goushill abt 1292, son of Sir Piers de Goushill and Ela de Camoys.
  
  NOTES:
  a. Daughter of Robert le Vavasour by his first wife (whose identity is not known), Maud first married Theobald Walter, ancestor of the illustrious Earls of Ormond, and secondly, in 1207, Fulk Fitz Warin. Robert le Vavasour, son of William le Vavasour, served as deputy for Theobald Walter, Sheriff of Lancashire in 1197.
  
  b. By his wife Constance, daughter of Ralph de Toeni and Perronelle, he received in free marriage a moiety of the manor of Yarkhill in co. Hereford, to them and the heirs of their bodies. He was drowned in the Ouse River, when endeavoring to escape at the battle of Lewes, 14 May 1264. Constance had livery, 11 Feb 1265/66, of the manor of Alveston and tenements in Stanton, which had been assigned to her as dower. Recent findings posted on SGM indicate that Fulk was twice married, his first wife having been Clarice d'Auberville, who has traditionally been attributed as the second wife of his father, Fulk (III). Additionally, Clarice is now believed to be the mother of Mabel, while Constance was the mother of his heir, Fulk (V) Fitz Warin. Note also that Fulk and Clarice's daughter, Mabel, married (as her second husband) John de Tregoz, and that one of their daughters was named Clarice.
  
  c. Of Whittington, Salop, Alveston, co. Gloucester, Wantage, Berkshire, and Stanton Fitwarren, Wiltshire, he was the only son and heir. His fealty was taken 29 Apr 1273, and had livery of his father's lands. He was with the King in the Army of Wales in 1282, and in 1292, before leaving for Gascony on the King's service, he demised the manor of Wantage to Master Henry Huse for nine years (his heir being then under age). He was summoned for military service from 12 Dec 1276 to 30 Jun 1314, to attend the King at Shrewsbury, 28 Jun 1283, to attend the King wherever he might be, 8 Jun 1294, to attend the King at Salisbury, 26 Jan 1295/97, and to Parliament from 24 Jun 1295 to 16 Oct 1315, whereby he is held to have become Lord FitzWarin. On 10 Aug 1301, the King ordered Fulk and Richard Fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, to abstain from attacking each other (this having been a long-standing feud which had begun in 1295 when Fulk had accused the Earl of ravaging his lands at Whittington). He was pardoned on 16 Oct 1313, having been an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for any part he had taken against Piers de Gaveston.
  
  SOURCES:
  CP: Vol V[495-497] Vol XII/2[231]; AR: Line 74A[32], Line 255A[30]; SGM: John Ravilious [ref: Keats-Rohan's Domesday Descendants].
  
  Whittington Castle was rebuilt beginning in 1221 on the site of an earlier fortress which dates back to the 9th century. Fulk applied to Henry III for permission to build a stone fortress. The original castle that Fulk built had seven towers 60' high and a 40' drawbridge. Fulk quarrelled with King John and the feud caused Fulk to flee to France. He was granted a pardon and returned to his castle. Fulk survived a siege in 1223 by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth of Gwynedd, but the castle was destroyed and subsequently rebuilt. The castle fell into disrepair after the Civil War and the stones were used for local building and road projects. Today Whittington Castle is the only castle in England which is owned and managed by a group of local residents.
  
  The most famous legend concerning Whittington is in regards to the Marian Chalice, which is thought by some to be the Holy Grail. Sir Fulk was supposedly in the line of gardians of the Grail and King Arthur and that the Grail was kept in a private chapel in the castle.
  
  Fulk was immortilized in the Romance of Fulk FitzWarin which survives as a manuscript in the British Library as a pre-1320 transcription of an earlier French manuscript.
  
  In the year ending on Michaelmas 1200, Fulk was fined £100 with King John to have judgement concerning the castle as his right. The king was bribed by Meurig of Powys to confirm him in the possession of Whittington Castle and subsequently Fulk and his brothers and friends rebelled. The Romance of Fulk FitzWarin says that King John gave Fulk's inheritance away due to the humiliation he had received as a child by his father. With his brothers and a band of followers he lived in the forests and robbed the king's wagon trains and harassed his soldiers. Fulk fled to France and became pirates in the Channel and in their adventures rescued the daughter of the King of Orkney and saved the Duke of Carthage from a dragon!
  
  Upon returning to England he heard that the king was holding court at Windsor castle so they went to Windsor forest and waited for John to go hunting there. Hearing that the king was in the area, Fulk put on the clothes of a charcoal burner and sat by his fire in the forest. The king and his hunting party rode by and asked if he had seen any deer. Fulk said he had seen a large stag run into the woods and leg the king into an ambush and the king and his party was surrounded. The Romance states that Fulk just wanted to live a quiet life and agreed to let the king go if he would promise to be his friend again. The king of course agreed and upon returning to Windsor he sent out James de Normandy with an armed force, but, Fulk and his men were ready for them and were able to overcome them. Fulk exchanged clothes and horses with Sir James and rode off to present the king with his prisoner. Fulk told the king that he must return to the battle and John gave him a fresh horse. Only when Sir James' helmet was removed did the king realize what had happened.
  
  King John sent out another force and during this bloody battle many of Fulk's followers were killed. Fulk was wounded and his brother John scooped him up onto his horse and they headed for the coast. The Earl of Chester hid his other brother, Hurley, in a nearby monastery but was soon discovered and thrown into prison at Windsor. Fulk escaped to Spain and the Barbary Coast and after more adventures he returned to England and rescued his brother from prison in London. Fulk supposedly captured King John again while he was hunting in the New Forest and they finally made peace and his outlawry was revoked by patent in Rouen 11 Nov. 1203 and in 1204 King John restored Whittington Castle to him.
  
  Fulk was one of the rebel barons and excommunicated by Pope Innocent III 16 Dec. 1215. He made his peace with King Henry III in 1218.
  Sounds to me that Fulk was a real-life Robin Hood.
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  About Sir Fulk FitzWarin III
  Fulk III FitzWarin
  (The tale of Fulk FitzWarin has been noted for its parallels to the Robin Hood legend.)
  
  Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160–1258) (alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of Warin") was a powerful marcher lord seated at Whittington Castle in Shropshire in England on the border with Wales, and also at Alveston in Gloucestershire. He rebelled against King John (1199-1216) from 1200 to 1203,[2] mainly over a dispute concerning his familial right to Whittington Castle, and was declared an outlaw. He was the subject of the famous mediaeval legend or "ancestral romance" entitled Fouke le Fitz Waryn, which relates the story of his life as an outlaw and his struggle to regain his patrimony from the king. He founded, between 1221 and 1226, Alberbury Priory in Shropshire which he granted to the Augustinian canons of Lilleshall but later transferred to the Order of Grandmont. His grandson was Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251-1315).[3]
  
  Origins
  
  Fulk III was the son of Fulk II FitzWarin (died 1197) by his wife Hawise le Dinan, a daughter and co-heiress of Josce de Dinan.[4] Fulk II was a marcher lord of Shropshire,[5] the son and heir of Fulk I FitzWarin (d.1170/1) of Whittington and Alveston, who himself was the son of (i.e. in Norman French Fitz, in modern French fils de) the family's earliest known ancestor, thus deemed the family patriarch, "Warin of Metz", from Lorraine.[4]
  
  Earliest ancestry
  
  Warin of Metz the patriarch is however a "shadowy or mythical figure",[4] about whom little is certain. The later mediaeval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn gives his name a
  
  === geni.com ===
  geni.com
  
  Sir Fulk FitzWarin, III
  Also Known As: "Robin Hood", "Fulke", "Fouke", "FitzWaryn", "FitzWarren", "Fitz Warine", "Fouke le Fitz Waryn", "alias Fulke", "FitzWarren and Fitz Warine", "Legend of Robin Hood is based on his life"
  Birthdate: between circa 1160 and 1165
  Birthplace: Whittington Castle, Shropshire, England (United Kingdom)
  Death: 1258 (92-102)
  Whittington, Shropshire, England (United Kingdom) (Blindness)
  Place of Burial: Alberbury, Shropshire, England
  Immediate Family:
  
  Son of Lord Fulk FitzWarin, II, of Whittington and Alveston and Hawise FitzWarin
  
  Husband of
  Clarise d'Auberville FitzWarin;
  Eva de Blancminister Warrine and
  Lady Maude FitzWarin (born le Vavasour)
  
  Father of Mable Fitz Warin de Crevequer;
  Hawise fitzWarin, lady of Wem;
  Fulk FitzWarin, IV;
  Eva FitzWarin;
  Joan FitzWarin; and
  Sir Knight Fulk Glas Fitz Warine, de Layham of Alberbury « less
  
  Brother of Philip FitzWarin; Eva FitzWarin; Jonet FitzWarin; John FitzWarin; Alan FitzWarin; Warin FitzWarin; William FitzWarin " de Brightley" and Ivo FitzWarin « less
  
  Occupation: Marcher lord of Whittington Castle, Knight
  
  Fulk FitzWarin (1160x1180 – c. 1258), variant spellings (Latinized Fulco filius Garini, Welsh Syr ffwg ap Gwarin), the third (Fulk III), was a prominent representative of a marcher family associated especially with estates in Shropshire (on the English border with Wales) and at Alveston in Gloucestershire. In young life (c. 1200-1203), early in the reign of King John (1199–1216), he won notoriety as the outlawed leader of a roving force striving to recover his familial right to Whittington Castle in Shropshire, which John had granted away to a Welsh claimant. Progressively rehabilitated, and enjoying his lordship, he endured further setbacks in 1215-1217.
  
  Thereafter, his connections with the court of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and his usefulness to the English king placed him in the midst of a larger conflict in which he lost Whittington to Llywelyn for a year in 1223-1224, though that prince later married his daughter. During the 1220s Fulk founded Alberbury Priory in Shropshire, which became the smallest and last-established of the three English houses dependent upon the Order of Grandmont. Always ready to defend his rights, Fulk lived to a ripe old age and was buried at Alberbury beside his two wives, leaving heirs and daughters and a plentiful posterity among whom the name of Fulk FitzWarin was continuously renewed in later centuries. His grandson was Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251–1315).
  
  After his death Fulk became the subject of a popular "ancestral romance" in French verse, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, relating his life as an outlaw and his struggle to regain his patrimony from the king. This survives in a prose version, and combines historical material with legendary and fantastical elements which are heroic rather than strictly biographical.
  
  Origins
  Although the name Fitz Warin means "son of Warin", it was Fulk's grandfather, Fulk I FitzWarin, whose father's name was Warin, or Guarine, of Metz, in Lorraine. Warin (who appears in the Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn as "Warin de Meer") is however a "shadowy or mythical figure" about whom little is known. Whatever his origin, the head of this family is generally held to have come to England during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Neither he nor his sons were then tenants-in-chief (i.e. important vassals or feudal barons): their estates were granted by later kings.
  
  Fulk I was associated with the Peverels: William Peverel the Younger granted him a knight's fee in Tadlow, Cambridgeshire, before 1148 which King Henry II confirmed in 1154.[9] Henry rewarded Fulk I for his support of the Empress Matilda during the civil war by conferring upon him the royal manor of Alveston in Gloucestershire (by 1155) and the manor of Whadborough in Loddington, Leicestershire. His son Fulk II held those properties after the death of his father in 1171. In the time of Robert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford (1174-1186), Fulk II gave land at Tadlow to Shrewsbury Abbey to settle a controversy over the patronage of the church of Alberbury, Shropshire, in his own favour. The FitzWarin land tenure at Alberbury, held from the Fee of Caus, was therefore presumably already in place.
  
  At some time before 1178 Fulk II married Hawise, one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Josce de Dinan and his wife Sybil, widow of Pain fitzJohn. Josce had held Ludlow Castle in the Welsh Marches for the Empress Matilda during the civil war, but it was not expedient for Henry II to confirm Ludlow to Josce, and in place thereof he granted to him the large manorial estate of Lambourn in Berkshire, with its appurtenances, amounting to a considerable value. Josce died by 1167, and Lambourn became the inheritance, in two parts, of his daughters Hawise and Sybil (who married Hugo de Plugenet). Fulk II and Hawise de Dinan were the parents of Fulk FitzWarin III.
  ...
  The first marriage
  By 1207 Fulk III married Maud (Matilda), daughter and heir of Robert le Vavasour, and relict of Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland, who died late in 1205 in Ireland.
  ...
  The second marriage
  Mabil was the daughter of Fulk's second wife, Clarice de Auberville, who (as the Fine rolls record) was certainly living in 1250.
  ...
  Death and burial
  Historians cannot exactly state when FitzWarin passed away, but 1258 is given as the latest probable date. Most likely, he handed some of his affairs over to his son Fulk IV during his lifetime. According to the Romance narrative his second wife Clarice died before him, and was buried at Alberbury Priory, and he died a year later and was laid to rest beside both of his wives there in the monastery church, part of which was incorporated into later buildings at the site.
  
  Family
  
  Fulk III FitzWarin married first, c. 1207, to Maud (Matilda) le Vavasour, daughter of Robert le Vavasour and widow of Theobald Walter. Maud died in 1226 and was buried at Alberbury Priory (alias New Abbey, Alberbury) in Shropshire.
  
  Their offspring included:
  1. Fulk IV FitzWarin (d.1264). He received the manor of Edlington, Yorkshire, as part of his inheritance. He married Constance de Tosny, and was the father of Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin.
  2. Hawise FitzWarin, married (first) William Pantulf, a Marcher Lord (who died in 1233), and (secondly) Hubert Huse. She received the manor of Narborough.
  3. Joan FitzWarin married Sir Henry de Penebrugge, of Pembridge Castle, Herefordshire.
  4. Eleanor FitzWarin, married William de Rivers (de Ripariis) of Great Shefford in the Lambourn valley, Berkshire, son of Richard de Rivers of East Mersea (Essex).
  5. Eva FitzWarin, married William de Blanchminister.
  6. Fulk Glas (sometimes attributed to his father's second marriage)
  
  Fulk's second marriage, to Clarice de Auberville, is described in the Romance narrative. Clarice is taken to have been the daughter and heiress of Robert de Auberville of Iden and Iham (Higham, in Icklesham), Sussex, and his wife Claricia de Gestling.
  Fulk's daughter by this marriage was:
  1. Mabel FitzWarin (−1297), who married (first) William de Crevequer (no issue), and (secondly) John de Tregoz, Lord Tregoz (died before 6 Sept 1300). By the second marriage she had two daughters and coheirs, Clarice and Sybil Tregoz. She received the manor of Lambourn.
  
  Sir William Dugdale, in his Baronage, accepted as factual the identification of Clarice as the second wife of Fulk III and, despite occasional doubts, later accounts of the family have followed this precedent.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_FitzWarin
  He sued for John's pardon & rec'd it, to the surprise of many. During his attainder he sought refuge from LLywelyn Fawr.
  
  Fulk FitzWarin d. 1258 m. Maud Le Vavasour
  This particular Fulk FitzWarin married Maud, the widow of Theobald Walter (aka Butler). Fulk was her second husband. Her child, Theobald Walter II came into his inheritance approx. 1221-23. This Butler inheritance in Ireland eventually transformed to the Earl of Ormonde. Her father Robert was a deputy sheriff to Theobald I (d. 1205) in Lancashire (approx 1194)
  Sidney Painter has an article on Fulk in a collection of his articles published in: Feudalism and Liberty, ed. Fred A Cazel, Jr now emeritus professor at U. of Conn. Title of article: The sources of Fouke Fitz Warin (pgs 111-114).
  Painter also provides detail on this FitzWarin in his study King John.
  
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.29, 41; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  Sources: Kraentzler 1110; History of Powys Fadog, Vol. 6; Dot Clark;Ayers, p376; Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. II. Powys Fadog: Fulk III Fitz Warin. K: Fulk III Fitz-Warin of Whittington,Salops England. Born atWhittington Castle. Died about 1257. Dot Clark: Info based on Welsh records. Ayers: Fulk Fitz Warin of Whittington; died about 1256/7. Had liv. ofwife's inheritance, 1216. Antiquities: Fulk fitz Warin (III). Occurs 1201-1251. Died about1256/7. Married (2) Clarice de Auberville, 1250. No issue shown on chart.
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1132, of Whittington, Shropshire, and Alveston, Gloucestershire, England, d 1170-71 The identity of his wife is not known. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1158, of Whittington, Shropshire, England. He md Hawise de Dinan abt 1176, daughter of Josce de Dinan. She was b abt 1163. Child of Fulk Fitz Warin and Hawise de Dinan was:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1182, of Whittington, Shropshire, England, d abt 1235. He md Maud le Vavasour [a] bef 1 Oct 1207, daughter of Robert le Vavasour. She was b abt 1178. Children of Fulk Fitz Warin and Maud le Vavasour were:
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin b abt 1208.
  
  Hawise Fitz Warin b abt 1212; md [1] William Pantulf bef 1226, and [2] Hubert Huse.
  
  Fulk Fitz Warin [b] b abt 1208, of Shropshire, England, d 14 May 1264, Ouse River, England. He md:
  [1] Clarice d
  
  === During his attainder, he sought and rec ===
  During his attainder, he sought and received refuge from LLywelyn Fawr. He pursued John's pardon and to the surprise of many received it. In August 1201 he rose in rebellion against King John when John demanded Whittington Castle.

• m. 1 OCT 1207 in Whittington, Shropshire, England

1. Lady Alice Hawise FitzWarin, b. 3 FEB 1210 in Whittington, Shropshire, England     d. 1253 in Wem, Shropshire, England
2. Fulk FitzWarin IV, b. ABT 1210     d. 14 MAY 1264 in Lewes, Sussex, England
3. Eve FitzWarin, b. ABT 1208 in Hertfordshire, England     d. AFT 1282 in England
4. Joan FitzWarin, b. ABT 1197 in Weston Subedge, Gloucestershire, England    
5. Mabel FitzWarin, b. APR 1247 in Whittington, Shropshire, England     d. 24 MAY 1297 in Ewyas-Harold, Herefordshire, England

1. Title: Marriage, Maud le Vavasour and Fulk FitzWarin, before 1 October 1207, Book ‘Antiquities of Shropshire Vol Vll’, Pages 73 & 74
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2. Title: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_FitzWarin;
   Note: Fulk FitzWarin (1160x1180 – c. 1258), variant spellings (Latinized Fulco filius Garini, Welsh Syr ffwg ap Gwarin), the third (Fulk III), was a prominent representative of a marcher family associated especially with estates in Shropshire (on the English border with Wales) and at Alveston in Gloucestershire. In young life (c. 1200-1203), early in the reign of King John (1199–1216), he won notoriety as the outlawed leader of a roving force striving to recover his familial right to Whittington Castle in Shropshire, which John had granted away to a Welsh claimant. Progressively rehabilitated, and enjoying his lordship, he endured further setbacks in 1215-1217. Thereafter, his connections with the court of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and his usefulness to the English king placed him in the midst of a larger conflict in which he lost Whittington to Llywelyn for a year in 1223-1224, though that prince later married his daughter. During the 1220s Fulk founded Alberbury Priory in Shropshire, which became the smallest and last-established of the three English houses dependent upon the Order of Grandmont. Always ready to defend his rights, Fulk lived to a ripe old age and was buried at Alberbury beside his two wives, leaving heirs and daughters and a plentiful posterity among whom the name of Fulk FitzWarin was continuously renewed in later centuries. His grandson was Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251–1315). After his death Fulk became the subject of a popular "ancestral romance" in French verse, Fouke le Fitz Waryn, relating his life as an outlaw and his struggle to regain his patrimony from the king. This survives in a prose version, and combines historical material with legendary and fantastical elements which are heroic rather than strictly biographical. Origins Although the name Fitz Warin means "son of Warin", it was Fulk's grandfather, Fulk I FitzWarin, whose father's name was Warin, or Guarine, of Metz, in Lorraine. Warin (who appears in the Romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn as "Warin de Meer") is however a "shadowy or mythical figure" about whom little is known. Whatever his origin, the head of this family is generally held to have come to England during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Neither he nor his sons were then tenants-in-chief (i.e. important vassals or feudal barons): their estates were granted by later kings. Fulk I was associated with the Peverels: William Peverel the Younger granted him a knight's fee in Tadlow, Cambridgeshire, before 1148 which King Henry II confirmed in 1154.[9] Henry rewarded Fulk I for his support of the Empress Matilda during the civil war by conferring upon him the royal manor of Alveston in Gloucestershire (by 1155) and the manor of Whadborough in Loddington, Leicestershire. His son Fulk II held those properties after the death of his father in 1171. In the time of Robert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford (1174-1186), Fulk II gave land at Tadlow to Shrewsbury Abbey to settle a controversy over the patronage of the church of Alberbury, Shropshire, in his own favour. The FitzWarin land tenure at Alberbury, held from the Fee of Caus, was therefore presumably already in place. At some time before 1178 Fulk II married Hawise, one of the two daughters and co-heirs of Josce de Dinan and his wife Sybil, widow of Pain fitzJohn. Josce had held Ludlow Castle in the Welsh Marches for the Empress Matilda during the civil war, but it was not expedient for Henry II to confirm Ludlow to Josce, and in place thereof he granted to him the large manorial estate of Lambourn in Berkshire, with its appurtenances, amounting to a considerable value. Josce died by 1167, and Lambourn became the inheritance, in two parts, of his daughters Hawise and Sybil (who married Hugo de Plugenet). Fulk II and Hawise de Dinan were the parents of Fulk FitzWarin III. ... The first marriage By 1207 Fulk III married Maud (Matilda), daughter and heir of Robert le Vavasour, and relict of Theobald Walter, 1st Chief Butler of Ireland, who died late in 1205 in Ireland. ... The second marriage Mabil was the daughter of Fulk's second wife, Clarice de Auberville, who (as the Fine rolls record) was certainly living in 1250. ... Death and burial Historians cannot exactly state when FitzWarin passed away, but 1258 is given as the latest probable date. Most likely, he handed some of his affairs over to his son Fulk IV during his lifetime. According to the Romance narrative his second wife Clarice died before him, and was buried at Alberbury Priory, and he died a year later and was laid to rest beside both of his wives there in the monastery church, part of which was incorporated into later buildings at the site. Family Fulk III FitzWarin married first, c. 1207, to Maud (Matilda) le Vavasour, daughter of Robert le Vavasour and widow of Theobald Walter. Maud died in 1226 and was buried at Alberbury Priory (alias New Abbey, Alberbury) in Shropshire. Their offspring included: 1. Fulk IV FitzWarin (d.1264). He received the manor of Edlington, Yorkshire, as part of his inheritance. He married Constance de Tosny, and was the father of Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin. 2. Hawise FitzWarin, married (first) William Pantulf, a Marcher Lord (who died in 1233), and (secondly) Hubert Huse. She received the manor of Narborough. 3. Joan FitzWarin married Sir Henry de Penebrugge, of Pembridge Castle, Herefordshire. 4. Eleanor FitzWarin, married William de Rivers (de Ripariis) of Great Shefford in the Lambourn valley, Berkshire, son of Richard de Rivers of East Mersea (Essex). 5. Eva FitzWarin, married William de Blanchminister. 6. Fulk Glas (sometimes attributed to his father's second marriage) Fulk's second marriage, to Clarice de Auberville, is described in the Romance narrative. Clarice is taken to have been the daughter and heiress of Robert de Auberville of Iden and Iham (Higham, in Icklesham), Sussex, and his wife Claricia de Gestling. Fulk's daughter by this marriage was: 1. Mabel FitzWarin (−1297), who married (first) William de Crevequer (no issue), and (secondly) John de Tregoz, Lord Tregoz (died before 6 Sept 1300). By the second marriage she had two daughters and coheirs, Clarice and Sybil Tregoz. She received the manor of Lambourn. Sir William Dugdale, in his Baronage, accepted as factual the identification of Clarice as the second wife of Fulk III and, despite occasional doubts, later accounts of the family have followed this precedent.
   
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9. Title: Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160–1258; alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, Robin Hood)
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   Page: This site has lots of information on his life and also refers to his life being behind the legend of Robin Hood.