Ribald de Bretagne Lord Of Middleham

• Preferred Name: Ribald de Bretagne Lord Of Middleham^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Ribaud de Middleham
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: 1131 in St. Mary And St. Alkelda Churchyard, Middleham, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.2842 LONG: E1.8184
  
• FSID: 9CMM-X9S
  
• Occupation: Lord of Middleham
  
• Other: livg 1150 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N4.2856 LONG: E1.8064 with note: All vital information and relationships match. ID numbers: MVDC-1F4 and 9CMM-X9S.
  
• Residence: Lord of Middleham in 1086, which he held of his brother Count Alan of Brittany1086 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.2842 LONG: E1.8184 with note: https://opendomesday.org/place/SE1287/middleham/
  
• DOOMSDAY+BOOK+IDENTIFIES+RIBALD+AS+LORD+OF+MULTIPLE+PROPERTIES: with note: Description: Allerthorpe Hall, Castle Bolton, East Hauxwell, East Walton, Low Swainby, Middleham, Redmire, Spennithorne, Thornton Watlass, Warham [All Saints and St Mary], West Scrafton, and more possibly as many as 28 properties. Held of his brother Count Alan of Brittany https://opendomesday.org/name/ribald-brother-of-count-alan/
  
• Death: 1121 in Middleham, North Riding, Yorkshire, England
  
• Birth: ABT 1050 in Penthièvre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France at LATI: N7.5554 LONG: E3.1344
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From Medieval Lands:
  RIBALD, illegitimate son of EUDES de Bretagne Comte de Penthievre & his mistress --- . “Ribaldus frater comitis” donated property to St Mary, York, for the soul of “Alani comitis et Beatricis uxoris meæ”, by undated charter[1232]. “Comes Alanus Rufus” donated property to Swavesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, for the soul of “patris sui Eudonis comitis”, by undated charter witnessed by “…Ribaldus et Bardulfus fratres comitis…”[1233].
  
  m [firstly] [BEATRIX], daughter of IVO Taillebois [I] & his wife Lucy ---. Assuming that “genero” in the following document was used in its strict sense of son-in-law, Ribald’s wife was Ivo’s daughter: “Ivo Talliebois” donated property to St Mary, York, for the soul of “uxoris meæ Luciæ”, by undated charter witnessed by “Lucia uxore mea, Ribaldo genero meo, Radulpho Taillebois…”[1234]. The difficulty is that “gener” was sometimes used in medieval documents to indicate brother-in-law. Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland records that the "only daughter" of "Ivo Taillebois…[and] his wife the lady Lucia" married "a husband of noble rank" but "died before her father"[1235]. It is possible that this passage refers to the wife of Ribald. Assuming that this was the same wife of Ribald, her name is confirmed by the following document: “Ribaldus frater comitis” donated property to St Mary, York, for the soul of “Alani comitis et Beatricis uxoris meæ”, by undated charter[1236]. However, as Ingulph says that Ivo’s daughter predeceased her father, it is possible that Beatrix was a later wife of Ribald and not Ivo’s daughter.
  
  [m secondly BEATRIX, daughter of ---. “Ribaldus frater comitis” donated property to St Mary, York, for the soul of “Alani comitis et Beatricis uxoris meæ”, by undated charter[1237]. As noted above, it is possible that Beatrix was a later wife of Ribald. This assumes that the passage in Ingulph’s Chronicle quoted above is accurate and that Ivo’s “only daughter”, who predeceased her father, was Ribald’s wife.]
  
  Ribald & his [first/second] wife had [four] children: (Ralph, Herve, Raynaud and William).
  
  [Source: The Medieval Lands Project, "RIBALD", retrieved 4 October 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.20, 49; THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.123;
  
  === !Eng Pub AD v 16 Vix of York p 220-2; L ===
  !Eng Pub AD v 16 Vix of York p 220-2; Lordhip a gift of his brother Allen.
  
  === Ribald was Lord of Middleham, had by gi ===
  Ribald was Lord of Middleham, had by gift from his brother Alan Earl of Richmond, Middleham, together with Scrasbane, Spenningetorpe, Havogswell and Wadles. In his old age Ribald entered the Convent or Abbey of St. Mary's in Yorkshire and died about 1131, leaving three sons, Ralph, or Randolph, Hervey and Henry, by his wife Beatrice ..... Just as Henry, Hal and Harry are substantially the same name, so are the various forms of the name Ranulphus, Randolph or Ralph.
  
  === He received the lands of Middleham and S ===
  He received the lands of Middleham and Spennithorne from his brother Count Allen of Richmond in 1086, which were then in waste.
  
  Ribald was called a brother of count Alan (Rufus) in a charter o f Alan for the soul of his father count Eudo and others [Early Y oprkshire Charters 4:no.1]. Before the Domesday Survey Alan Rufus granted to Ribald lands in Yorkshire, Norfolk, and possiblyel sewhere [EYC 5:297-8]; the caput was Middleham, Richmondshire, Yorkshire. About 1121 Ribald made a gift to St. Mary's, York, for the souls of his brother count Alan and his own wife Beatrice (who may have died before 1112), with the consent of his son and heir Ralph Taillebois [EYC 5:no. 358]. Ralph fitz Ribald had succeeded by 1130 ["Pipe Roll 31 Henry I", 1929, p.27]. A 15th century account states Ribald was a monk at St. Mary's before he died [T.D. Whitaker, "Richmondshire", 1823, 1:331].
  
  "SPENNITHORNE
  "Spennithorne was a parish at the lower end of Wensleydale on the north bank of the Ure River in Nottinghamshire. Before the Conquest it was held by the Saxon Ghilpatric. Ribald [b. abt. 1050] came into possession of Spennithorne by grant from Alan Rufus [his half brother, both sons of Eudo] and it followed in his descent for many years. About the middle of the thirteenth century it was given to Ranulph [d. bef. 7 Dec. 1252] who founded the family of Fitz Randall or Fitz Randolph of Spennithorne."
  
  Sources:Ancestral File #: FL8X-8Q
  Text: William Page, ed., The Victoria History of the Counties of Engla nd, (London, Constable, 1906- ).
  Text: North Riding of York
  Text: New England Historical and Genealogical Register
  Text: 97:245
  Text: George Edward Cokayne, 1825-1911; The Complete Peerage of Englan d, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, exta nt, extinct, or dormant; London, (1910)
  Text: X:781, note b
  Text: Oris Hugh Fitz Randolph, Edward Fitz Randolph Branch Lines, Alli ed Families, and English and Norman Ancestry, 2nd ed., privatel y printed, 1980.
  Text: Oris H. F. Randolph; Daniel Fitz Randolph, His Ancestry and Desc endants; 1959
  
  Ribald was the 1st Norman Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne in Yorkshire. His brother, Alan Rufus, son-in-law of William the Conqueror, gave him these estates which, after the Norman Conquest, were left waste, and in that condition granted to Ghilpatric the Dane, Earl of Brittany by William the Conqueror, whose home and camp had been upon an eminence overlooking Middleham in Yorkshire.
  He gave to God and St. Mary's at York and the Abbott Gosfried, in perpetual alms for Beatrix's soul, and 5 carucates of land in Burniston for Earl Alan's soul.
  He became a monk in the Abbey at St. Mary's after Beatrice's death.
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “EUDON OF BRITTANY, Count (or Duke) of Brittany, 2nd son. He married ORGUEN ___. They had eight sons, Geoffrey Boterel [I] [Count of Brittany], Alan the Red [Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond], Guillaume, Robert, Richard, Alan the Black [Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond], Brian [Count of Brittany], and Stephen or (Étienne) [Count of Brittany, lord of Richmond). By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had four illegitimate sons, Bodin, Bardulf, Ribald, and Ernulf. During Their mother's lifetime, he and his older brother, Alan, seem to have been joint rulers of Brittany, but on her death in 1034, dissension broke out between them. Peace was restored by a settlement under which Eudon received a territory corresponding roughly to the dioceses of Dol, St. Malo, St. Brieuc, and Tréguier. After the death of Alan in 1140, Eudon seized the government of Brittany to the exclusion of Alan's son, Conan, who recovered it in 1057. His wife, Orguen, was living in 1056-60 (date of charter). EUDON OF BRITTANY died 7 Jan. 1079, and is said to have been buried in the Cathedral of St. Brieuc.
  Morice Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1 (1750): xiii-xv (Counts of Cornouaille ped.) (author identifies Orguen or Agnes, wife of Eudon, Count of Penthièvre, as daughter of Benedic, Count of Cornouaille), xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthièvre ped). Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 12 (1874): 557 (Ex Chronico Britannico: ("MLXXIX [A.D. 10791. Obiit Eudo Dux Brittaniae."). Broussillon Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Aubin d'Angers 2 (1903): 171-174. C.P. 10 (1945): 780 (chart), 779, 781 (sub Richmond). Le Baud Histoire de Bretagne (1638): 155 (author identifies "Ouuen," wife of Eudon of Brittany, as daughter of Allain Caignart, Count of Comouaille). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 75. Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XI.11, XII.12-XII.16d.”

1. Ranulf (Randolph) FitzRibald de Tailboys, b. 1080 in Grimsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England     d. 1168 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England
2. Ralph FitzRibald Lord Of Middleham, b. BEF 1110 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England     d. AFT 1168

1. Title: Geni.com, Mistress(es) of Odo de Penthièvre, listed as child of Odo
   Author: Ribald, Lord of Middleham was born Abt 1055 in Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France, and died 1121 in Middleham, North Riding Yorkshire, England.
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Mistress-es-of-Odo-de-Penthi%C3%A8vre/6000000020168562609?through=6000000003036785872;
   
2. Title: Ribald of Middleham, Find a Grave
   Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/171800592/ribald-of_middleham;
   Note: Ribald of Middleham Birth unknown Penthievre, Departement du Morbihan, Bretagne, France Death 1131 Middleham, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England Burial St. Mary and St. Alkelda Churchyard Middleham, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England Memorial ID 171800592 · View Sourceord Of Middleham, Ribald The land around Middleham was given to Alan The Red, Ribald's brother. Alan built a wooden motte-and-bailey castle, 500 yards to the south-west of where the present castle stands, on a site known as William's Hill. It can be seen from the current keep. Parents: Eudes de Penthièvre Spouse: Beatrix de Taillebois of Middleham (unknown–1122)
   
3. Title: EUDES de Bretagne, son of GEOFFROY - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/brittcope.htm#EudesIdied1062B;
   Note: B. COMTES de PENTHIEVRE EUDES de Bretagne, son of GEOFFROY I Duke of Brittany & his wife Havise de Normandie (-Cesson 1079, bur Saint-Brieuc). Guillaume of Jumièges names “Emma...secunda Hadvis...tertia Mathildis” as the three daughters of Richard and his wife “Gunnor ex nobilissima Danorum prosapia ortam”, adding that Havise married “Goiffredo Britannorum comiti” by whom she had “Alanum et Eudonem duces”[322]. A charter dated 1008 records that, after the death of "Gaufrido comite Britanniæ", "filii eius Alanus et Eudo cum matre eorum Hadeguisia" restored the abbey of Saint-Méen[323]. "Alanus et Egio Britannorum monarchi" founded the priory of Livré "in pago Redonensi" by charter dated to [1013/22], signed by "…Aduise matre eorum comitum, Rivalloni vicarii, Triscanni…"[324]. A charter dated 1026 recalls that "Gaufridus, Conani Curvi filius" was killed "apud Concuruz prelium", recalling that "quo defuncto, Alanus filius eius…renum patris suscipiens", witnessed by "Alanus comes…Heudo frater eius"[325]. He appears to have ruled Brittany jointly with his brother until the death of their mother in 1034. Following disputes with his brother, a division of territories was agreed, Eudes taking the dioceses of Dol, Saint Malo, Saint Brieuc and Tréguier, at which time he can be said to have become Comte de Penthièvre. "Manigenius…miles" founded the priory of Saint-Cyr-lès-Rennes and donated it to Tours Saint-Julien by charter dated 23 May 1037, subscribed by "Alanus dux…Eudonis fratris Alani ducis Britannorum, Gotzelini vicecomitis, Rualentis domini Doli…"[326]. After the death of his brother in 1040, Eudes seized Brittany and excluded his nephew, succeeding as EUDES I Duke of Brittany. According to Orderic Vitalis, Eudes ruled the country "freely without acknowledging any lord for 15 years"[327]. However, his nephew retaliated, captured Eudes and imprisoned him in chains[328]. "Comes Eudo et nepos eius Gaufridus, Robertus vicecomes et frater eius Eudo…Guichomarus filius Alani vicecomitis…" witnessed a charter dated to 1050 relating to the abbey of Saint-Georges de Rennes[329]. "Comes Eudo, uxor eius Orguen et filii eorum Gausfridus, Alanus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus…" witnessed the charter dated to [1056/60] records the history of the acquisition by Angers Saint-Aubin of property "in pago Belvacensi", finally donated by "comiti Britannie Eudoni"[330]. The Chronicon Britannico records the death in 1079 of "Eudo Dux Britanniæ"[331]. m ORGUEN [Agnes] de Cornouaïlle, daughter of ALAIN "Caignard" Comte de Cornouaïlle & his wife Judith de Nantes . "Comes Eudo, uxor eius Orguen et filii eorum Gausfridus, Alanus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus…" witnessed the charter dated to [1056/60] records the history of the acquisition by Angers Saint-Aubin of property "in pago Belvacensi", finally donated by "comiti Britannie Eudoni"[332]. The primary source which confirms her parentage has not yet been identified. Mistresses (1) - (x): ---. The names of Eudes's mistresses are not known. Comte Eudes & his wife had six children: 1. GEOFFROY "Boterel" de Bretagne (-killed in battle Dol 24 Aug [1091/93], bur Saint-Brieuc). m ---. The name of Geoffroy's wife is not known. Geoffroy & his wife had [one child]: a) [CONAN (-killed in battle Antioch 9 Feb 1098). 2. ALAIN "Rufus/the Red" de Bretagne (-4 Aug 1093, bur Bury St Edmunds). "Eudo Comes Britanniæ", stating that Alain "Rufus" came to England with "Willelmo bastard Duce Normanniæ" who awarded him the "honorem et Comitatum Comitis Edwini in Eborakshire…Richmundshire" and built "castrum Richemont" but died childless and was buried "apud S Edmundum"[343]. Mistress: GUNHILD, illegitimate daughter of HAROLD II King of England & his mistress Eadgyth Swanneshals (-after 1093). Alan abducted Gunhild, daughter of Harold II King of England, from Wilton Abbey and lived with her[349]. Alain & his mistress had [one possible illegitimate child]: a) [MATHILDE . Richard Sharp suggests that the wife of Walter [I] de Aincourt was the [illegitimate] daughter of Alain "Rufus" de Bretagne Lord of Richmond & his mistress Gunhild ---[350]. m WALTER [I] de Aincourt, son of --- (-[1103]).] 3. GUILLAUME de Bretagne . "Comes Eudo, uxor eius Orguen et filii eorum Gausfridus, Alanus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus…" witnessed the charter dated to [1056/60] records the history of the acquisition by Angers Saint-Aubin of property "in pago Belvacensi", finally donated by "comiti Britannie Eudoni"[352]. 4. ROBERT de Bretagne (-after 1083). 5. RICHARD de Bretagne . 6. ETIENNE de Bretagne ([1058/62]-21 Apr [1135/36], bur York, St Mary or Saint-Brieuc). He succeeded his brother Geoffroy (or Geoffroy's son) [in 1093] as Comte de Penthièvre, and in his other lands in Brittany. He succeeded his brother Alain "the Black" as Lord of Richmond in Yorkshire. Comte Eudes had [eight] illegitimate children by Mistresses (1) - (x): 7. BRIEN [Brient] de Bretagne (-maybe 14 Feb ----). He is said to have commanded a band of Bretons, with his brother Alain, at the battle of Hastings 1066. Appointed Lieutenant in south-west England by King William I. "Geoffrey count of the Bretons called Boterel" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Florent, Saumur with the consent of "all his brothers namely Brientius comes Angliæ terræ, and Alan Rufus his successor and another Alan who was called Niger, this third succeeded him in the kingdom" by charter dated to [1084][361]. He lived the remainder of his life as a semi-invalid in Brittany[363]. 8. ALAIN "Niger/the Black" de Bretagne (-1098[364]). The Genealogia Comitum Richemundiæ names "Alanum…Rufum…Alanus Niger…Stephanus" as the three sons of "Eudo Comes Britanniæ", stating that Alain "Niger" succeeded his brother "in honorem Richemundiæ" but died childless[365]. The mention of only one legitimate son named Alain in the charter dated to [1056/60], witnessed by "comes Eudo, uxor eius Orguen et filii eorum Gausfridus, Alanus, Willelmus, Rotbertus, Ricardus…"[366], suggests that the other son named Alain was illegitimate. For the purpose of presentation in this document, it has been assumed that the illegitimate son was Alain "Niger", who succeeded to the honours in Yorkshire after the death of his [half-]brother Alain "Rufus", but this is not beyond all doubt. Mistress: GUNHILD, illegitimate daughter of HAROLD II King of England & his mistress Eadgyth Swanneshals (-after 1093). Gunhild, his brother's mistress, may have lived with him after her first lover's death[370]. 9. [DERIEN . Seigneur de la Roche-Derien. No primary source has been found which confirms the parentage of this person. Du Paz (whose work is of dubious reliability as it includes numerous obvious errors) records “Derien, qui fit bastir un chasteau, de luy nommé la Roche-Derien, en la terre et seigneurie qui luy fut baillée en partage” as a son of Comte Eudes but cites no primary source on which the information is based[371]. Lobineau names “un bastard nommé Derien” as one of the sons of Eudes[372]. He cites no source which confirms Derien’s parentage, but presumably bases his assumption of Derien’s illegitimacy on the following charter: “Ex parte comitis...Deriandus bastardus...” subscribed the undated charter under which “Gaufredus Britannorum comes qui et Boterellus cognominabatur” donated “veterem Lambalam...” to Marmoutiers[373]. However, this document gives no indication of the parentage of the subscriber Derien and other parts of the same document suggest that he was not the son of Eudes at all: after the subscription list, a final clause in the document indicates that “omnes fratres eius Brientius...comes Anglicæ terræ et Alanaus Rufus eius...successor, atque alter Alanus qui et Niger dicebatur, hic etiam tertius successit in regno, et quidam qui sororem bastardam uxorem duxerat, Guisandus de Pleveno”. Despite the phrase “omnes fratres eius”, the list is not exclusive as the donor’s brother Alain, who must have been living at the time, is not included. However, the omission of Derien is surprising, if he had been another brother of the donor, because his subscription shows his presence at the donation.] 10. BODIN (-after 1086). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. In Yorkshire 1086. He became a monk of St Mary's soon after 1086 and gave all his holdings to his brother Bardulf[374]. 11. RIBALD . “Ribaldus frater comitis” donated property to St Mary, York, for the soul of “Alani comitis et Beatricis uxoris meæ”, by undated charter[375]. “Comes Alanus Rufus” donated property to Swavesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, for the soul of “patris sui Eudonis comitis”, by undated charter witnessed by “…Ribaldus et Bardulfus fratres comitis…”[376]. - UNTITLED ENGLISH NOBILITY - MIDDLEHAM. 12. BARDULF . “Comes Alanus Rufus” donated property to Swavesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire, for the soul of “patris sui Eudonis comitis”, by undated charter witnessed by “…Ribaldus et Bardulfus fratres comitis…”[377]. In Yorkshire. m ---. The name of Bardulf’s wife is not known. Bardulf & his wife had [two] children: a) ACARIAS (-after [1130]). A manuscript history of Joreval Abbey records that “Akarius filius Bardolfi” founded the abbey[378]. “Alanus comes Britanniæ et Angliæ” confirmed the foundation of Joreval Abbey by “Akarius filius Bardolfii” and donated property to the abbey[379]. According to Domesday Descendants, he was ancestor of the FITZHUGH family of Ravensworth[380]. b) [SCOLLAND (-after [1130]). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. He was steward to his father's half-brother Stephen of Richmond[381].] 13. ARNALD . He occurs in charters of his half-brother Alain "Niger"[382]. 14. daughter . "Omnes fratres eius:
   Page: Identifies Ribald as one of the illegitimate sons of Eudes de Bretagne Also the brother of Count Alan Rufus and Bardulf, and the husband of Beatrix