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Gaulter Somerville



Preferred Parents:
Father: Gaulter Somerville, b. ABT 1030 in Caen, Normandy, France   d. 1100 in Wychnor, Staffordshire, England
Mother: Gaulter Somerville,   

Family 1: Cecily de Lunsie,    b. 1090 in Stockton Warwickshire England   
  1. Roger Somerville, b. ABT 1118 in Wychnor, Staffordshire, England     d. 1195 in Linton Tower, Linton, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Sources:
  1. Title: Gualter de Somerville, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1V-BWHM : 2 August 2020), Gualter de Somerville, ; Burial, Linton, , Scottish Borders, Scotland, Linton Church Cemetery; citing record ID 144382557, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1V-BWHM;
  2. Title: The History of the Parish of Tatenhill - Gautier II de Somerville
    Author: Sir Reginal Hardy of Dunstall, 1907, Harrison and Sons, St Martin's Lane, London; The Manor of Wychenor, page 34
    Publication: Name: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_the_Parish_of_Tatenhill_in/XSFJAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Pedigree+of+the+Pincerna&pg=PA40&printsec=frontcover;
    Note: translation of quote: it is notified to you that Robert Coppa and Simon his younger brother came of their own accord to my carelessness and there before the court they cried out to William of Ridware and his heirs.... Walter also witnessed a charter by which Robert Coppa and Simon, his brother released their claim.
  3. Title: The peerage of Scotland
    Publication: Name: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004896980.0001.000/1:225?rgn=div1;view=fulltext;
    Note: I. Sir GUALTER, or WALTER de SO∣MERVILLE, obtained from the Conqueror, Page 624 (having been one of his chief commanders) the whole lordship and territory of Whitch∣nour,* in the county of Stafford, where he set∣tled, as also Somerville Aston in Glocester∣shire. He was progenitor of all the Somer∣villes in Great Britain. He lived after the year 1100, and left issue several sons. 1. Sir Walter de Somerville, who succeed∣ed him in the lordship of Whitchnour, and carried on the line of that great and opulent family,* which flourished with lustre in England for many ages. He lived in the reigns of king Henry I. and king Stephen, and of him was lineally descended sir Philip de Somerville, lord of Whitchnour, who made a considerable figure in the reigns of kings Henry IV. and V. and was so famous for his great hospitality, that he is recorded for having given a flitch of ba∣con as a reward to any husband and wife,* who could say that they never had the least diffe∣rence, nor contradicted one another within the space of twelve months after marriage, &c. The figure of a flitch of bacon, neatly carved on wood, is at this day in Whitchnour house, near Litchfield, now the seat of— Offby, Esq; but the male line of the Whitch∣nour family is long since extinct, having end∣ed in a single daughter, married to the great Stafford duke of Buckingham, constable of England, forfeited and beheaded in Henry the VIII's time. Sir Gualter's second son was, 2. William, of whom all the Somervilles in Scotland are descended, as will be shown hereafter. 3. Roger, who got from his father the ba∣tony of Aston in Glocestershire, which, after him, was called Somerville Aston, &c. Sir John of Somerville-Aston,* son or grandson of Roger, flourished in the reign of king Henry III. and married Cecilia de Limefie*, with whom he got the manor of Stockton, and several other considerable possessions in Warwick-shire. *this of course is incorrect, she was his mother!

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