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Siward Of Wallingford




Family 1: Alicia Rohaud,    b. ABT 840 in Wallingford, Berkshire, England    d. 900 in England
  1. Guy De Wallingford, b. 870 in England, United Kingdom     d. 927
  2. Guy of Warwick , b. 870 in Wallingford, Berkshire, England     d. 967
Family 2: Siward of Wallingford,    b. ABT 843 in England, United Kingdom   
  1. Guy of Warwick , b. 870 in Wallingford, Berkshire, England     d. 967
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  1. Title: Arden Ancestors: Line of Descent from Rohand to Turchill in Burke' A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland 1833, pp. 637-640[See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Burke' A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland 1833, pp. 637-640
    Note: Arden Ancestors: Line of Descent from Rohand to Turchill in Burke' A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland 1833, pp. 637-640[See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Arden Ancestors: Line of Descent from Rohand to Turchill in Burke' A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland 1833, pp. 637-640[See document in the Memories section]
  2. Title: WikiTree: Siward De Wallingford (0843 - 0927)
    Author: Profile managers: Disproven Existence WikiTree and Rhoda Pam McCarty De_Wallingford-2 created 10 Sep 2010 | Last modified 7 Mar 2019
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/De_Wallingford-2;
    Note: Siward De Wallingford Born 0843 in Wallingford, Berkshire, England Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown] [spouse(s) unknown] [children unknown] Died 0927 [location unknown]
  3. Title: Pedigree of the Arden [Arderne] Family in Twenty-eight generations of The Arden Family by James Frederick Bell, pg. 24 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Twenty-eight generations of The Arden Family by James Frederick Bell, pg. 24
    Note: Pedigree of the Arden [Arderne] Family in Twenty-eight generations of The Arden Family by James Frederick Bell, pg. 24 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Pedigree of the Arden [Arderne] Family in Twenty-eight generations of The Arden Family by James Frederick Bell, pg. 24 [See document in the Memories section]
  4. Title: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 12: Guy of Warwick
    Author: 1. Some writers have supposed that the fight with Colbrand symbolizes the victory of Brunanburh. Anelaph and Gonelaph would then represent the cousins Anlaf Sihtricson and Anlaf Godfreyson (see Havelok). 2. See the English legends in C. Horstmann, "Altenglische Legenden," Neue Folge (Heilbronn, 1881).
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Guy_of_Warwick;
    Note: GUY OF WARWICK, English hero of romance. Guy, son of Siward or Seguard of Wallingford, by his prowess in foreign wars wins in marriage Félice (the Phyllis of the well-known ballad), daughter and heiress of Roalt, earl of Warwick. Soon after his marriage he is seized with remorse for the violence of his past life, and, by way of penance, leaves his wife and fortune to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After years of absence he returns in time to deliver Winchester for King Æthelstan from the invading northern kings, Anelaph (Anlaf or Olaf) and Gonelaph, by slaying in single fight their champion the giant Colbrand. Local tradition fixes the duel at Hyde Mead near Winchester. Making his way to Warwick he becomes one of his wife’s bedesmen, and presently retires to a hermitage in Arden, only revealing his identity at the approach of death. The versions of the Middle English romance of Guy which we possess are adaptations from the French, and are cast in the form of a "roman d’aventures," opening with a long recital of Guy’s wars in Lombardy, Germany and Constantinople, and embellished with fights with dragons and surprising feats of arms. The kernel of the tradition evidently lies in the fight with Colbrand, which represents, or at least is symbolic of an historical fact. The religious side of the legend finds parallels in the stories of St Eustachius and St Alexius, and makes it probable that the Guy-legend, as we have it, has passed through monastic hands. Tradition seems to be at fault in putting Guy’s adventures under Æthelstan. The Anlaf of the story is probably Olaf Tryggvason, who, with Sweyn of Denmark, harried the southern counties of England in 993 and pitched his winter quarters in Southampton. Winchester was saved, however, not by the valor of an English champion, but by the payment of money. This Olaf was not unnaturally confused with Anlaf Cuaran or Havelok (q.v.). The name Guy (perhaps a Norman form of A. S. "wig" = war) may be fairly connected with the family of Wigod, lord of Wallingford under Edward the Confessor, and a Filicia, who belongs to the 12th century and was perhaps the Norman poet’s patroness, occurs in the pedigree of the Ardens, descended from Thurkill of Warwick and his son Siward. Guy’s Cliffe, near Warwick, where in the 14th century Richard de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, erected a chantry, with a statue of the hero, does not correspond with the site of the hermitage as described in the romance. The bulk of the legend is obviously fiction, even though it may be vaguely connected with the family history of the Ardens and the Wallingford family, but it was accepted as authentic fact in the chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft (Peter of Langtoft) written at the end of the 13th century. The adventures of Reynbrun, son of Guy, and his tutor Heraud of Arden, who had also educated Guy, have much in common with his father’s history, and form an interpolation sometimes treated as a separate romance. There is a certain connexion between Guy and Count Guido of Tours (fl. 800), and Alcuin’s advice to the count is transferred to the English hero in the Speculum Gy of Warewyke (c. 1327), edited for the Early English Text Society by G. L. Morrill, 1898. The French romance (Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 3775) has not been printed, but is described by Émile Littré in "Hist. litt. de la France" (xxii., 841-851, 1852). A French prose version was printed in Paris, 1525, and subsequently (see G. Brunet, "Manuel du libraire, s.v." "Guy de Warvich"); the English metrical romance exists in four versions, dating from the early 14th century; the text was edited by J. Zupitza (1875–1876) for the E.E.T.S. from Cambridge University Lib. Paper MS. Ff. 2, 38, and again (3 pts. 1883–1891, extra series, Nos. 42, 49, 59), from the Auchinleck and Caius College MSS. The popularity of the legend is shown by the numerous versions in English: Guy of Warwick, translated from the Latin of Girardus Cornubiensis (fl. 1350) into English verse by John Lydgate between 1442 and 1468; "Guy of Warwick," a poem (written in 1617 and licensed, but not printed) by John Lane, the MS. of which (Brit. Mus.) contains a sonnet by John Milton, father of the poet; "The Famous Historie of Guy, Earl of Warwick" (c. 1607), by Samuel Rowlands; "The Booke of the Moste Victoryous Prince Guy of Warwicke" (William Copland, no date); other editions by J. Cawood and C. Bates; chapbooks and ballads of the 17th and 18th centuries: "The Tragical History, Admirable Atchievements and Curious Events of Guy, Earl of Warwick," a tragedy (1661) that possibly may be identical with a play on the subject written by John Day and Thomas Dekker, and entered at Stationers’ Hall on the 15th of January 1618/19; three verse fragments are printed by Hales and Furnivall in their edition of the Percy Folio MS. vol. ii.; an early French MS. is described by J. A. Herbert ("An Early MS. of Gui de Warwick," London, 1905). See also M. Weyrauch "Die mittelengl. Fassungen der Sage von Guy" (2 pts., Breslau, 1899 and 1901); J. Zupitza in "Silzungsber. d. phil.-hist. Kl. d. kgl. Akad. d. Wiss. (vol. lxxiv., Vienna, 1874), and Zur Literaturgeschichte des Guy von Warwick" (Vienna, 1873); a learned discussion of the whole subject by H. L. Ward, "Catalogue of Romances" (i. 471-501, 1883); and an article by S. L. Lee in the "Dictionary of National Biography."
  5. Title: Wikiwand: Guy of Warwick
    Author: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Guy_of_Warwick;
    Note: Guy of Warwick, or Gui de Warewic, is a legendary English hero of Romance popular in England and France from the 13th to 17th centuries. The story of Sir Guy is considered by scholars to be part of the Matter of England. Plot The core of the legend is that Guy falls in love with the lady Felice ("Happiness"), who is of much higher social standing. In order to wed Felice he must prove his valour in chivalric adventures and become a knight; in order to do this he travels widely, battling fantastic monsters such as dragons, giants, a Dun Cow and great boars. He returns and weds Felice but soon, full of remorse for his violent past, he leaves on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land; later he returns privately and lives out his long life as a hermit (according to local legend in a cave overlooking the River Avon, situated at Guys Cliffe). In one recension, Guy, son of Siward or Seguard of Wallingford, by his prowess in foreign wars wins in marriage Felice (the Phyllis of the well-known ballad), daughter and heiress of Roalt, Earl of Warwick. Soon after his marriage he is seized with remorse for the violence of his past life, and, by way of penance, leaves his wife and fortune to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. After years of absence he returns in time to deliver Winchester for Athelstan of England from the invading northern kings, Anelaph (Anlaf or Olaf) and Gonelaph, by slaying in single combat their champion, the giant Colbrand. Winchester tradition fixes the duel at Hyde Mead, before the Abbey near Winchester. Making his way to Warwick, he becomes one of his wife's beadsmen, and presently retires to a hermitage in Arden, only revealing his identity, like Saint Roch, at the approach of death. Historical basis Velma Bourgeois Richmond[4] has traced the career of Guy of Warwick from the legends of soldier saints to metrical romances composed for an aristocratic audience that widened in the sixteenth century to a popular audience that included Guy among the Nine Worthies, passing into children's literature and local guidebooks, before dying out in the twentieth century. The kernel of the tradition evidently lies in the fight with Colbrand, which symbolically represents some kernel of historical fact. The religious side of the legend finds parallels in the stories of St Eustachius and St Alexius, and makes it probable that the Guy-legend, as we have it, has passed through monastic hands. Tradition seems to be at fault in putting Guy's adventures anachronistically in the reign of Athelstan; the Anlaf of the story is probably Olaf Tryggvason, who, with Sweyn I of Denmark, harried the southern counties of England in 993 and pitched his winter quarters in Southampton; this means the King of England at the time was Æthelred Unready II. Winchester was saved, however, not by the valour of an English champion, but by the payment of money. This Olaf was not unnaturally confused with Anlaf Cuaran or Havelok the Dane. The Anglo-Norman warrior hero of Gui de Warewic, marked Guy's first appearance in the early thirteenth century. Topographical allusions show the poem's composer to be more familiar with the area of Wallingford, near Oxford, than with Warwickshire. Guy was transformed in the fourteenth century with a spate of metrical romances written in Middle English. The versions which we possess are adaptations from the French, and are cast in the form of a roman; the adventures open with a long recital of Guy's wars in Lombardy, Germany and Constantinople, embellished with fights with dragons and surprising feats of arms. The name Guy entered the Beauchamp family, earls of Warwick, when William de Beauchamp IV inherited the title in 1269 through his mother's brother, named his heir "Guy" in 1298. A tower added to Warwick Castle in 1394 was named "Guy's Tower." and Guy of Warwick relics began to accumulate. "Filicia," who belongs to the 12th century, was perhaps the Norman poet's patroness, occurs in the pedigree of the Ardens, descended from Thurkill of Warwick and his son Siward. Guys Cliffe, near Warwick, where in the 14th century Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, erected a chantry, with a statue of the hero, does not correspond with the site of the hermitage as described in the Godfreyson (see Havelok). The narrative detail of the legend is obvious fiction, though it may have become vaguely connected with the family history of the Ardens and the Wallingford family, but it was accepted as authentic fact in the chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft (Peter of Langtoft) written at the end of the thirteenth century. The adventures of Reynbrun, son of Guy, and his tutor Heraud of Arden, who had also educated Guy, have much in common with his father's history, and form an interpolation sometimes treated as a separate romance. A connection between Guy and Guido, count of Tours (flourished about 800) was made when Alcuin's advice to the count, Liber ad Guidonem, was transferred to the English hero in the Speculum Gy de Warewyke (c. 1327), edited for the Early English Text Society by Georgiana Lea Morrill Morrill, 1898. Today Guy of Warwick's Sword can be seen at Warwick Castle.
  6. Title: Rohand, Guy, Reynburn, Wugent, Ufa and Wolgeat in Dugdale’s The Antiquities of Warwickshire, pg. 299-300 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Dugdale’s The Antiquities of Warwickshire, pg. 299-300
    Note: Rohand, Guy, Reynburn, Wugent, Ufa and Wolgeat in Dugdale’s The Antiquities of Warwickshire, pg. 299-300 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Rohand, Guy, Reynburn, Wugent, Ufa and Wolgeat in Dugdale’s The Antiquities of Warwickshire, pg. 299-300 [See document in the Memories section]
  7. Title: Arden (Arderne) Ancestors in the History of the Forest and Chase of Sutton Coldfield, pg. 21-22 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: History of the Forest and Chase of Sutton Coldfield, pg. 21-22
    Note: Arden (Arderne) Ancestors in the History of the Forest and Chase of Sutton Coldfield, pg. 21-22 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Arden (Arderne) Ancestors in the History of the Forest and Chase of Sutton Coldfield, pg. 21-22 [See document in the Memories section]
  8. Title: Arden (Arderne) Ancestors in The House of Goldsborough, Vol. 1, pg. 127, 130 and 131 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: The House of Goldsborough, Vol. 1, pg. 127, 130 and 131
    Note: Arden (Arderne) Ancestors in The House of Goldsborough, Vol. 1, pg. 127, 130 and 131 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Arden (Arderne) Ancestors in The House of Goldsborough, Vol. 1, pg. 127, 130 and 131 [See document in the Memories section]
  9. Title: Geni: Siward de Wallingford
    Author: Added by: Justin Howery on May 11, 2009 Managed by: Marsha Gail Veazey Kamish, Stéphane Pierre Édouard Chappellier, John Raymond Larochelle and Curtis Thomas Whitacre Curated by: Marsha Gail Kamish
    Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Siward-de-Wallingford/6000000014726794459?through=6000000009304953670;
    Note: Siward de Wallingford Gender: Male Birth: 843 Wallingford, Berkshire, England Immediate Family: Father of Guy Wallingford, Earl of Warwick Siward av Wallingford Far til Gay av Warwick fra Wallingford Ridder (Sagnfigur) Immediate Family Showing 1 person Guy Wallingford, Earl of Warwick son
  10. Title: Guy, Earl of Warwick, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 23, pg. 386-387 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 23, pg. 386-387
    Note: Guy, Earl of Warwick, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 23, pg. 386-387 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Guy, Earl of Warwick, in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 23, pg. 386-387 [See document in the Memories section]
  11. Title: "The Legend of Guy of Warwick," by Velma Bourgeois Richmond
    Author: Psychology Press, 1996
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=ptyvSphvRtsC&pg=PA389&lpg=PA389&dq=Wyeth+Warwick&source=bl&ots=QfdsRAkvr9&sig=jPHUgGinLonhCsR_5gH9addl2ww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8u-_wo6LbAhVnplkKHX9iCvkQ6AEIWzAO#v=snippet&q=siward&f=false;
    Note: Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

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