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Matilda or Maud Marshal



Preferred Parents:
Father: William Marshall, b. ABT 1146   d. 14 May 1219. 73 yrs old in Caversham Manor, Caversham, Berkshire, England

Family 1: Hugh Bigod 3rd Earl of Norfolk,    b. 18 FEB 1186 in Thetford, Norfolk, England    d. 11 FEB 1225 in Thetford, Breckland Borough, Norfolk, England
  1. Isabel Bigod,     d. 1239
  2. Isabel le Bigod, b. 1 NOV 1210 in Thetford, Norfolk, England     d. 1250 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
  3. le Bigod, b. in Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom     d. ABT 1254
Family 2: William Plantagenet de Warrenne,    b. 1166    d. 27 MAY 1240 in London, England
  1. John Plantagenet de Warrenne, b. ABT AUG 1231 in Warren, Sussex, England     d. 27 SEP 1305
Sources:
  1. Title: * Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum
    Author: William Dugdale, ed, Monasticon anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in any manner connected with religious houses in England. Together with a particular account of their respective foundations, grants, and donations, and a full statement of their possessions, as well temporal as spiritual., 6 Vols , Roger Dodsworth John Stevens (London: James Bohn, 1846), Monasticon V, Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire IV, In Chronicis Abbatiæ Tynterne in Wallia, p. 270.
    Note: The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, names (in order) ”Matilda…Johanna…Isabella” as the daughters of “Willielmi Marescalli comitis Penbrochiæ”, adding that Matilda married “Hugoni le Bigod comiti Norfolke et Suffolke” and secondly “Johanni de Garrene comiti de Surrey”
    Page: Primary Evidence
  2. Title: Hugh Bigod & Marshall in Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QR-717?cc=2060211&wc=WWNV-N28%3A352088201%2C353191201
    Author: "Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section, 1942-1969," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QR-717?cc=2060211&wc=WWNV-N28%3A352088201%2C353191201 : 20 May 2014), B > Biggs, Edward (1637) - Bijmholt, Geert > image 721 of 1406; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, compiler, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9QR-717;
    Note: Hugh Bigod (1175-1225) married Maud Marshall and had children according to research before 1950
    Page: Names, dates, locations, and relationships match research
  3. Title: Matilda “Maud” Marshal De Warenne (1192-1248), Find a Grave
    Author: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45182189/matilda-de_warenne
    Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45182189/matilda-de_warenne;
    Note: Matilda “Maud” Marshal De Warenne BIRTH 1192 Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales DEATH 27 Mar 1248 (aged 55–56) Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales BURIAL Tintern Abbey Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales MEMORIAL ID 45182189 Born Matilda, the daughter of William Marshal and Isabella de Clare, the tenth of eleven children, she was often called Maud. She married Roger le Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk in 1207 and with him had three children. Widowed in February 1225, she married a second time to William de Warrne, 6th Earl of Surrey the following October, and with him had two children. She died at about age 56.
  4. Title: Famous Kin
    Publication: Name: https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=3964+maud+marshal&ahnum=1;
  5. Title: Royal Index, University of Hull
    Author: Royal Index, University of Hull, England, Internet, Internet, www.dcs.hull.ac.uk
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2332880681
  6. Title: Wilipedia Bio
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Marshal;
  7. Title: Book - Yorkshire archeaological Journal
  8. Title: SULPICE . The Chronicle of Saint-Maxence
    Page: British Isles - England, Earls 1067-1122, p. 115 HUGH Bigod, son of ROGER Bigod Earl of Norfolk & his wife Ida --- (-[11/18] Feb 1225). “Rogerus Bigot comes Norfolchiæ” donated property to Colne priory, for the souls of “Hugone Bigot fratris mei et comitissæ Julianæ matris meæ et Idæ uxoris meæ”, by undated charter, witnessed by “Hugone Bigot filio meo…”[993]. He succeeded his father in 1221 as Earl of Norfolk. The Annals of Dunstable record that “Hugo Bigot comes” died in 1225[994]. The Annals of Waverley record the death in 1225 of “Hugo Bigot comes Norfolchiæ”[995]. m ([before Lent] 1207) as her first husband, MATILDA Marshal of Pembroke, daughter of WILLIAM Marshal Earl of Pembroke & his wife Isabel Ctss of Pembroke ([before 1195]-1/7 Apr 1248). The Chronicle of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, names (in order) ”Matilda…Johanna…Isabella” as the daughters of “Willielmi Marescalli comitis Penbrochiæ”, adding that Matilda married “Hugoni le Bigod comiti Norfolke et Suffolke” and secondly “Johanni de Garrene comiti de Surrey”[996]. Her birth date is estimated from the birth of her first child in [1212/13]. Henry III King of England granted letters of conduct to "Matildis uxor Hugonis Bygod" dated 7 Sep 1217[997]. The Annals of Dunstable record that “Hugo Bigot comes…uxor” married “comiti Warenniæ”[998]. She married secondly as his second wife, William [IV] de Warenne Earl of Surrey.
  9. Title: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215
    Author: The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, Fourth ed., Weis, Frederick Lewis, Th.D., Genealogical Publishing Co., Boston, 1997, Ryan and Heather Cromar, 511 Bordeaux Place, Hollister, CA 95023, Page number: Line 3
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2333200876
  10. Title: "Héraldique européenne", Arnaud Bunel , Coats of Arms for European Royalty and Nobility
    Author: "Héraldique européenne", Arnaud Bunel , Coats of Arms for European Royalty and Nobility (http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org, Arnaud Bunel, 1998) , Internet
    Note: Unknown-Begin: ; Norfolkshire, England, United Kingdom "Armigerous" (ahr-MIJ-ehr-us) adjective Bearing or entitled to bear heraldicarms. The reason the notion of a family crest was brought into the languagewas that those who were armigerous (entitled to bear arms) used to put their crest or achieveme
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2037060934
  11. Title: Maud Marshal (1192-1248), Wikipedia
    Author: Wikipedia.org
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Marshal;
    Note: Maud Marshal, Countess of Norfolk, Countess of Surrey (1192 – 27 March 1248) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy co-heiress of her father William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and her mother Isabel de Clare suo jure 4th Countess of Pembroke. Maud was their eldest daughter.[1] She had two husbands: Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, and William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey. Maud was also known as Matilda Marshal. Sometime before Lent in 1207, Maud married her first husband, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk. He came into his inheritance in 1221, thus Maud became the Countess of Norfolk at that time. Hugh Bigod died in 1225. Maud married her second husband, William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey before 13 October that same year. Together they had two children. Maud died on 27 March 1248 at the age of about fifty-six years and was buried at Tintern Abbey with her mother, possibly her maternal grandmother, and two of her brothers.
  12. Title: Wikipedia, "Tintern Abbey"
    Author: Wikipedia.org
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey;
    Note: Info on the abbey, including location and history.
    Page: Info on the abbey where she was buried, including location and history.
  13. Title: Book - Gentlemen Magazine
  14. Title: Book - Magna Charta Barons
  15. Title: Matilda Marshal de Warenne, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKR-45V5 : 9 September 2022), Maud, ; Burial, Tintern, , Monmouthshire, Wales, Tintern Abbey; citing record ID 45182189, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKR-45V5;
  16. Title: Book - History of the Manor & ancient Barony of Castle Combe
    Author: Google Books
  17. Title: The Royal Ancestry Bible
    Author: The Royal Ancestry Bible, Michel L. Call, Copyright 2006
    Note: birth: death:
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2026280052
  18. Title: Plantagenet Ancestry, Douglas Richardson - William de Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey
    Author: Vol. 3, page 436
    Note: Excerpt: WILLIAM DE WARENNE, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey, of Leves, Sussex, Reigate, surrey, Conisbrough and Sandal (in Wakefield), Yorkshire, etc., Warden of the Cinque Ports, a justicar of England, custodian of Bamburgh and Knapp Castles, King's councillor, Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1216, Sheriff of Surrey, 1217-26, son and heir. He witnessed a charter for King Richard I at Rouen in 1197. In 1202 he had seisin of his father's lands. In 1204 he was granted a yearly fair at Wakefield, Yorkshire. In 1205 the King granted him Grantham and Stamford, Lincolnshire to compensate him for the loss of his lands in Normandy. In 1206 he owed 100 marks for an advance made to him in Poitou, and 100 marks for robes provided for him there. In 1206 he was directed to escort William, King of Scots to York. He married (1st) before 1207 MAUD D'AUBENEY, daughter of William d'Aubeney, 2nd Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), by Maud, daughter and heiress of James de St. Hilary, of Field Dalling, Norfolk. They had no known issue. In 1213 he witnessed King John's submission to the Pope and resignation of the crown. He was security for the king in his promise of concessions to the Barons 10 May 1215. He took part with the Barons in the seizure of London 24 May 1215, and on 15 June at Runnymede was one of those who advised the king to grant the Great Charter [Magna Carta]. His wife, Maud, died 6 Feb. 1215/6, and was buried in the chapter-house of Lewes Priory. In 1217 he took part in the naval Battle of Sandwich in which Eustace the Monk was defeated and slain. In 1220 he was appointed to meet the King of Scotland in Berwick. In 1223 he went on pilgrimages to St. James (Santiago) in Spain and to St. John. He married (2nd) before 13 Oct. 1225 Maud Marshal, widow of Hugh le Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk, hereditary Steward of the Household (died shortly before 18 Feb. 1224/5), and eldest daughter of William Marshal, nt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke(or Striguil). They had one son, John, Knt. [7th Earl of Surrey], and one daughter, Isabel. In May 1225 Maud granted land in Stockton, Norfolk to her son, Ralph le Bigod. In 1226-7 Mary daughter of William de Newmarch, of Cateby, Yorkshire, granted to Maud Bigot, countess of Warenne and Norfolk, the hermitage of St. Margaret's Cateby on the Don, with land inn Eadmunde croft, and common of pasture for the cattle of the hermitage, rendering yearly to the grantor at Easter white gloves. In 1227 he joined the Earl of Cornwall at Stamford in his revolt against the king, but at Christmas was with the king at York. In 1229 he was about the make a voyage on the king's service. He was heir in 1234 to his sister, Isabel de Warenne, widow of Gilbert de l'Aigle. In 1236 he acted as Butler at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor of Provence, in place of his son-in-law, Hugh, Earl of Arundel. In 1238 he was cited to appear before Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, because mass has been celebrated in the earl's hall at Grantham, Lincolnshire. SIR WILLIAM DE WARENNE, 6th Earl of Surrey, died testate in London 27 May 1240, and was buried in the priory church of Lewes, Sussex. In the period, 1240-6 his widow, Maud, granted a tenement in Thorne, Yorkshire to Richard de Otley her chaplain. In 1241 she granted Sir Adam de Newmarch and his heirs a watercourse and ditch in Balne, Yorkshire from Flaxcleyker to the Dike to be 8 feet wide and 4 feet deep. In the period, 1241-5, she granted land in Stockton, Norfolk to her son, Ralph le Bigod. Maud was co-heiress in 1245 to her brother, Anselm Marshal, by which she inherited the marshalcy of England and honour of Chepstow, Monmouthshire. In 1246-8 she confirmed the union of Kilkenny Abbey with Duiske Abbey. In 1246-8 she granted three silver marks of annual rent to St. George's Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk. Maud, Marshal of England, Countess of Norfolk and Warenne, died 27 (or 29) March 1248. Children of William de Warenne, Knt., by Maud Marshal: JOHN DE WARENNE, Knt., 7th Earl of Surrey ISABEL DE WARENNE, married in 1234 HUGH D'AUBENEY, Knt., 5th Earl of Arundel, Chief Buler of England, 2nd son of William d'Aubeney, 3rd Earl of Arundel, by Mabel, 2nd daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester. He was born about 1214 (of age in 1235). They had no issue. He was heir in 1224 to his older brother, William d'Aubeney, 4th Earl of Arundel. e was co-heir in 1232 to his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1233 he made fine with the king by 2500 marks to have the lands of his late brother, William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, until his legal age, as well as the lands which fell to Hugh by hereditary right of the lands formerly of his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1240 he was summoned to restore the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire to the king as an escheat of the Normans. Hugh stated that he, his brother, and his father had all been given livery of the lands, but though he quoted the terms of the original grant made to his father in 1207, Whaddon was surrendered to the king. In 1242 he accompanied the King in his expedition to Guienne. SIR HUGH D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 7 May 1243, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk. In 1244 his widow, Countess Isabel, sued Robert de Sheney for the third part of one carucate of land in Smisby, Derbyshire, and Ralph de Kenninghall for the third part of nine acres of land and one acre of pasture in Kenninghall, Norfolk, and one third part of 14 acres of land in Riddlesworth, Norfolk. The same year she also sued Thomas le Ireys for the third part of one carucate of land in Attleborough, Norfolk, William de Oddingseles for the third part of one-half carucate of land in Leeds, Yorkshire, Roger de Somery and Nichole his wife for the third part of two carucates of land in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and one third part of one carucate of land in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and Hugh le Bigod for the one third part of one carucate of land in Stoughton, Sussex. In 1249 Countess Isabel founded the Abbey of Marham, Norfolk. She presented to the church of Shenley, Buckinghamshire in 1272. In 1273 the pope was notified that the patronage of the church of Olney, Buckinghamshire was to remain to Roger de Somery by an agreement entered into between him and Countess Isabel. In 1277-8 Master John de Croft arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Bilsham, Sussex. In 1278-9 Nigel le Got arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Wyndomham, Norfolk. Isabel, Countess of Arundel, died shortly before 23 Nov. 1282, and was buried at Marham, Norfolk.
  19. Title: Book - Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to america
  20. Title: Maud Matilda Marshall, "Find A Grave Index" [removed]
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-92KT : 2 July 2020), Countess of Norfolk, 1248; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLG-92KT;
  21. Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "MATILDA Marshal"
    Author: Online.
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#MaudMarshaldied1248;
    Note: Cites primary sources.

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