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Gaulter Somerville
- Preferred Name: Gaulter Somerville[1] [2] [3]
- Gender: M
- FSID: GHV6-CPZ
- Death: 1165 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.6833 LONG: E3.6333
- Birth: ABT 1071 in Wychnor, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England at LATI: N2.743 LONG: E1.739
- Notes:
=== A21718-4 B 20 Scot 2B vol 8 Peerage of S ===
A21718-4 B 20 Scot 2B vol 8 Peerage of Somervilles A1F3 vol 1 Memorie Scot 29 vol 3 p.487 Scottish Nation, by Wm. Anderson
=== Son of Gualter de Somerville; m. Cecilly ===
Son of Gualter de Somerville; m. Cecilly de Lemesi; father of Roger whom. Edilene de Boteler. [Bob Furtaw BURR LINE
=== Sir ===
Sir
=== Possible duplicate ===
Hi,
I think this is a duplicate of L857-9CP, please review and correct if in agreeance.
Thanks,
John Summerville.
=== 1064 ===
1064
=== SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.38;
=== Living 1165 ===
Living 1165
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
- m. ABT 1110 in Wichnor, Staffordshire, England
- m. 1111 in Wychenor Staffordshire England
- Roger Somerville, b. ABT 1118 in Wychnor, Staffordshire, England d. 1195 in Linton Tower, Linton, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Sources:
- 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;
- 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.
- 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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