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Hugh Giffard
- Preferred Name: Hugh Giffard
- Alternate Name: Hugh de Bolbec II
- Gender: M
- Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Sir Knight
- Occupation: Constable of the Tower of London
- Death: ABT 1246 in Warminster, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.1784 LONG: E2.1285 with note: Standard
- FSID: G9ZH-BQX
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Hugh-Giffard-Lord-of-Boyton/6000000003087186013
- Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of Boyton
- Birth: ABT 1195 in Warminster, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.1784 LONG: E2.1285 with note: Standard
- Notes:
=== V M Norr: Some Early English Pedigrees P ===
V M Norr: Some Early English Pedigrees P. 72
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.20, 46;
=== Hugh, of Boyton, Kt. of the King's House ===
Hugh, of Boyton, Kt. of the King's Household, Constable of the Tower, 13 April, 1236 (Patent Roll, 20 Hen. III, m. 10), and guardian of Prince Edward (Cal. Patent Rolls, 26 Hen. III, 1242 and 30 Hen. III, 1246), m. 1216 (Close Roll, 1 Hen. III, m. 21), Sibyl, dau. and co-heiress of Walter de Cormeilles, one of the co-heiresses of the barony of Cormeilles, and sister and co-heiress of Alice de Craucumbe (Fine Role, 23 Hen. III, M. 2) (she, who had the care of the King's yr. children, was a great favorite of the King and Queen, and many of their gifts to her are recorded in the Patent and Close Rolls), and d. of apoplexy while with the King at Canterbury, 1246. [Burke's Landed Gentry III:370]
Preferred Parents:
Father: Walter Giffard of Boyton, b. ABT 1133 in Boyton, Brimfield, Gloucestershire, England d. BET DEC 1185 AND 1226 in Northampton, England
Mother: Anne Brewster, b. 1158 in Buckland Barton, Devon, England d. 1192 in Somme, Picardie, France
Family 1: Sybil Cormeilles, b. 1200 in Hereford, Hereford Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. 1279 in Boyton, Wiltshire, England
- m. 18 MAR 1216 in Wiltshire, England
- Hugh Giffard, b. 1222 d. 1267
Family 2: Sybil de Cormeilles, b. ABT 1193 in Tarrington, Herefordshire, England d. 1278 in Boyton, Wiltshire, England
- Matilda de Giffard, b. ABT 1224 in Boyton, Wiltshire, England d. 20 AUG 1297 in Herefordshire, England
- Alice Giffard, b. ABT 1240 in Boynton, Yorkshire, England d. ABT 1308
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