Osmund de Stuteville of Cowesby and Gressenhall

• Preferred Name: Osmund de Stuteville of Cowesby and Gressenhall^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Residence: in Cowesby, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.3016 LONG: E1.2879
  
• MilitaryService: Crusader in the Third CrusadeBET 1189 AND 1192
  
• Death: AUG 1192 in Joppa, Palestine at LATI: N1.67 LONG: E5.25
  
• FSID: L2RN-RP4
  
• Residence: in Gressenhall, Norfolk, England at LATI: N2.6992 LONG: E0.9022
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: ancestor of the Stuteville families of Weston Colville and Burton Agnes
  
• Birth: ABT 1150
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: branche des Stuteville of Gressing Hall ou Cressinghall - extinction 1312
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Jaffa ... Siege of Joppa, Holy Land1192
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “WILLIAM DE HUNTINGFIELD, Knt., of Huntingfield and Mendham, Suffolk, Harlton, Cambridgeshire, Frampton, Fishtoft, and Southorpe, Lincolnshire, etc., Constable of Dover Castle, 1203-4, Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1209-11, justice itinerant in Lincolnshire, and, in right of his wife, patron of Castleacre Priory, son and heir of Roger [Fitz William] de Huntingfield, of Huntingfield, Linstead, and Mendham, Suffolk, Frampton, Huttoft, Southorpe, and Tytton (in Wyberton), Lincolnshire, East Bradenham, Norfolk, etc., by Alice de Senlis, daughter of Saher de Quincy, of Long Buckby and Daventry, Northamptonshire. He was born about 1160. He married before 1194 ISABEL FITZ WILLIAM (otherwise DE GRESSENHALL), widow successively of Berenger de Cressy, and Osmond de Stuteville, of Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire (died in Palestine, probably during the Siege of Joppa about 1187), and daughter and heiress of William Fitz Roger, of Gressenhall and Castleacre, Norfolk, by his wife, Aeliva. They had two sons, Roger, Knt., and presumably Saher, and four daughters, Alice, Isabel, Sarah, and Margaret (or Margery). In 1194 he disputed with his wife's son, William de Stuteville, concerning his wife's dower. In 1195 the Abbot of St. Edmunds granted the whole vill of Wendling, Norfolk to William de Huntingfield and his wife, Isabel, and her heirs for 50s. a year. Sometime c.1204-12, he witnessed a charter of Alexander, Abbot of Sibton to Thomas son of Roger de Huntingfield, presumably his brother. In 1205 he was granted the manor of Clafford, Hampshire. In the period, 1204-17, he witnessed a charter of Ralph the chaplain of Heveningham to John Fitz Robert, lord of Ubbeston. His wife, Isabel, died in 1207. In 1208 he had custody of the lands of his brother, Roger, which had been seized in consequence of the interdict. From 1208 to 1210 he was one of the justices before whom fines were levied. In the period, 1210-18, he witnessed a charter of his kinsman, Saher de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. In 1211 he gave the king six fair Norway goshawks for license to marry his daughter, Alice, then widow of Richard de Solers, and to have assignation of her dowry out of the lands of her late husband. In 1213 he held the office of accountant with Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford, for the customs of Norfolk and Suffolk. In 1215 he joined the confederate barons against the king. He was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to secure the observance of Magna Carta, which King John signed 15 June 1215. He served as a witness to the charter granting freedom of elections to the abbeys. He was among the barons excommunicated by Pope Innocent III in late 1215, and his lands were taken into the king's hands. He reduced Essex and Suffolk for Prince Louis of France, and in retaliation John plundered his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk. In Nov. 1216 he was granted the vill of Grimsby, Lincolnshire with all liberties and free customs by Prince Louis of France. He fought at the Battle of Lincoln 20 May 1217, where he was taken prisoner by the king's forces. On 23 June 1217 all his lands in Lincolnshire were granted to John Marshal. On conclusion of peace, he made peace with King Henry III 6 Oct. 1217, and had restitution of his estates. In 1218 he sued Nichole de la Haye for the recovery of chattels worth £273, which she seized from him in Lincolnshire when he was at arms against the king; a compromise was reached whereby Nichole gave William 30 silver marks in return for which he quitclaimed to her "all the right and claim that he had against her." In 1219 he had leave to go to the Holy Land on crusade; he appointed Thomas his brother to act on his behalf during his absence. SIR WILLIAM DE HUNTINGFIELD died on crusade, possibly in the Holy Land, before 25 Jan. 1220/1.
  Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-138; 9 (1808): 510-515. Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 3, 38. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicarium 5 (1825): 52 (charter of Isabel de Gressenhall, wife of William de Huntingfield), 58. Benedict of Peterborough Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi Benedict Abbatis (or Chron. of the Reigns of Heny II. & Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192) 2 (Rolls Ser. 49) (1867): 149-150 (death of Osmund de Stuteville at Joppa). Foss Judges of England (1870): 358-359 (biog. of William de Huntingfield). Paris Chronica Majora 2 (Rolls Ser. 57) (1874): 604-605, 642-645. Lincolnshire Notes & Queries 2 (1891): 65-67. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 86. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 2 (1908): 100-103; 4 (1909): 66-68. Copinger Manors of Suffolk, 4(1909): 66-67. D.N.B. 10 (1908): 306 (biog. of William de Huntingfield). Lindsay et al. Charters, Bulls & Other Docs. Rel. the Abbey of Inchaffray (Scottish Hist. Soc. 56) (1908): 157-158. Rye Norfolk Fams. (1911): 386-387. Foster Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 333. Book of Fees 1 (1920): 195. Salter Newington Longeville Charters (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 3) (1921): 76. Farrer Honours & Knights Fees 3 (1925): 395-397. C.P. 6 (1926): 671, footnote a (sub Huntingfield) (also known as Isabel de Freville, and is stated to have died in 1209). Stenton Rolls of the Justices in Eyre (Selden Soc. 53) (1934): 233. TAG 14 (1937-38): 10-12. Stenton Pleas Before the King 1198-1202 1 (Selden Soc. 67) (1953): 199. Foster Reg. Antignissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 7 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 46) (1953): 14. Davis Kalendar of Abbot Samson of Bury St. Edmunds & Related Docs. (Camden 3rd Ser. 84) (1954): 159 (charter of William and wife, Isabel; available at www.utoronto.ca/deeds/research/research.html). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 299: 1-5 (sub Huntingfield). Stenton Pleas Before the King1198-1202 3 (Selden Soc. 83) (1967): xxxi, cclxiv-vi, cdxix. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 217. Brown Sibton Abbey Cartularies & Charters 1 (Suffolk Charters 7) (1985): 21-22 (re. Cressy him.), 64, 91-92; 2 (Suffolk Charters 8) (1986): 53-56; 3 (Suffolk Charters 9) (1987): 152; 4 (Suffolk Charters 10) (1988): 4-5. Caenegem English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I 2 (Selden Soc. 107) (1991): 598-599. White Restoration & Reform; 1153-1165 (2000): 168. Kauffmann Biblical Imagery in Medieval England, 700-1550 (2003): 160. Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 117. Wilkinson Women in 13th-Cent. Lincolnshire (2007): 21. Suffolk Rec. Office, Ipswich Branch: Iveagh (Plaillipps) Suffolk MSS, HD 1538/301/1 (feoffment dated before 1221 in free alms from William de Huntingfeld to the Monks of St. Mary of Mendham, Suffolk for salvation of souls of himself, his wife Isabel, and his parents and all ancestors, he grants to the monks in free alms all his wood in Metfield, Suffolk called Haute) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
  Children of William de Huntingfield, Knt., by Isabel Fitz William:
  i. ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD, Knt. [see next].
  ii. ALICE DE HUNTINGFIELD, married (1st) in or after 1200 RICHARD DE SOLERS, of Faccombe and Tangley, Hampshire, and Bonby, Lincolnshire, younger son of Guillaume (or William) de Solers (or Soliers), of Ellingham, Hampshire, Constable of Moulins-la-Marche, 1180, by Mabel, daughter of Robert Fitz Robert (or Fitz Count), of Conerton, Cornwell, Castellan of Gloucester [grandson of King Henry I of England]. In 1200, as "Ric[ardus] de "Soliis," he gave £600 Anjou to have his lands in Normandy and England, and to marry as he pleased. RICHARD DE SOLERS died shortly before Michaelmas 1207. In 1208 his widow, Alice, sued Thomas Peverel for one-half of vill of Faccornbe, Hampshire as her dower. In 1211 her father gave the king six fair Norway goshawks for the marriage of his daughter, Alice, widow of Richard de Solers, and to have assignation of her dowry out of the lands of her late husband. She married (2nd) before 1215 HUGH LE RUS (or RUFUS, RUFFUS), of Akenharn, Bircholt, Clopton, Hasketon, Stradbroke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1225-7, son and heir of Ernald Rufus, of Bircholt, Hasketon, Stradbroke, and Whittingham (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, by his wife, Isabel. They had two sons, Hugh and William. He was granted the manor of Fawsley, Northamptonshire in 1214 by King John. In 1215 the Sheriff of Hampshire was ordered to deliver up to Hugh and Alice his wife the dower of Alice in Faccombe and Tangle)', Hampshire, of which they had been disseised in the Barons' War. He was granted a weekly market at Stradbroke, Suffolk in 1225. In 1227 he was granted a weekly market at Woodbridge, Suffolk, which he later granted to Woodbridge Priory. HUGH LE RUS died in 1230. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-138. Hardy Rotuli Normanniae in Turri Londinensi Asservati 1 (1835): 38. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 86. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 4 (1909): 84-85. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 314, 326-328. Book of Fees 2 (1923): 1268. Kirkus Great Roll of the Pipe for the 9th Year of the Reign of King John Michaelmas 1207 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 22) (1946): 60, 148. Stenton Great Roll of the Pipe for the 13th Year of the Reign of King John Michaelmas 1211 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 28) (1953): 6, 179, 185. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 299: 1-5 (sub Huntingfield). Hockey Beaulieu Cartulag (Southampton Recs. 17) (1974): 104. Brown Eye Priory Cartulay & Charters 1 (Suffolk Charters 12) (1992): 235-236; 2 (Suffolk Charters 13) (1994): 77-81.
  Children of Alice de Huntingfield, by Hugh le Rus:
  a. HUGH LE RUS, of Stradbroke, Suffolk, son and heir. He died without issue shortly before 24 Sept. 1232. Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 2 (Suffolk Charters 13)
  
  === Younger son of Robert III de Stuteville. ===
  Younger son of Robert III de Stuteville.
  
  Osmuns de Stuteville married Isabel, daughter of William FitzRoger de Gressinghall, the dapifer of the Earl of Warenne, and widow of Beranger de Cressi. Isabel de Gressinghall, wife of Beranger Cressi, gave, with the consent of William de Hunterfield, to the monks of Castle Acre Priory, co. Norfolk, the nomage of Hugo de Crec, etc., with his tenement in Wesenam. Osmund de Stuteville, lord of the Honor of Gressinghall, with the consent of his wife Isabel and his heirs, confirmed al the prior givts made to the monks of Castle Acre by Wimar, the seneschal of Gressinghall, and Roger his son, and by Walter, son of Wimar, and William, son of Roger, and Roger son of William, and by Drogo, his brother, and by Beranger de Cressi. Roger, son of William, dapifer, gave to the monks of Castle Acre Lechesham Mill (Estlechesham) and lands in Weseham. Witness: Aelina, his mother, William, his brother, Walter, son of Wimar, and William, his son, and others named. Drogo, son of William, dapifer de Gressinghall, gave to the said monks the churches of Kemestune, Estlechesham, Dunham, etc. Roger, dapifer of the Earl of Wareene, gave for the souls of his brother Oddo and his father William lands in Lechesham to Castle Acre Priory. Witnesses: Ralph and Baldwin de Frivill, Waler FitzWimar, Ralph, son of Osmund, William, son of Walter, and others named.
  
  After Osmund's death, Isabel married William de Hunterfield, who, with his wife Isabel, levied a fine with William de Stuteville for her dower in the free tenements that were her husband's, Osmund de Stuteville's, in Brantingham, Riplingham, Newehald, Stiuelingflet, Newesum, Causby, Kipwic, and Nesse, and William gave to her all the lands in Causby, 29 Sept - 27 Oct 1202. This is evidentlyy a final concourd. We may note here that Newsham and Brantingham were part of the Bruce fee. It is not easy to say just when Osmund de Stuteville died, but it is clear that he was dead before Sept 1202.
  
  Osmund had with certainty two sons, William and Roger, and probably a son or grandson, Osmund, for in the Patent Roll of 18 John (1216) there is a safe conduct for those who come to the King's service through Osmund de Stutevile, and in the Close Roll there is an order ot the sheriff of Norfolk to give to Osmund de Stuteville the lands of William de Mandeville in that county, to be held during the King's pleasure. [English Origins of New England Families I:34-36]

• m. 1170 in Gressenhall, Mitford, Norfolk, England
• m. ABT 1187 in Suffolk, England

1. William de Stuteville of Gressenhall, b. ABT 1170 in Weasenham, Norfolk, Cowesby, Yorkshire, England     d. BEF 20 MAY 1259 in Norfolk, England

1. Title: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2005 edited by C. P. Lewis
   Author: pages 69-70 gives details of the Stuteville line and Roger son of Osmund etc...
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