Emmelina "Ameline" Baladon

• Preferred Name: Emmelina "Ameline" Baladon^[1]
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: ABT 1094 in Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France at LATI: N0.95 LONG: E0.85
  
• Birth: ABT 1038 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandie, France at LATI: N8.8936 LONG: E0.202
  
• FSID: G8KM-2KQ
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Biography
  Disambiguation
  Two women have often been confused:
  Baladon-3 Emmeline, born 1080, daughter of Dryw and married to Sir Gwyn ap Gwaithfoed, born 1075,
  Baladon-4, Emma or Emmeline, no father shown, born 1040. 1060 married to Ernulf de Hesdin, born 1038. Children Matilda, Warine and Aveline.
  Name
  Emmelina de Normandy [1]
  Emmelina /De Hesding/
  1040 Estimated Birth Year
  Frank Evans gives 1040 (in Hesdin) as an estimated birth year [1]
  Parents
  Cawley states that the parentage of Emmeline, wife of Arnoul de Hesdin, has not been identified with certainty. However, Cawley adds, two sources indicate that she was closely related to the Ballon family. If that is correct, the chronology suggests that she was the daughter of Dreux de Baladon. [2]
  Emmeline's father was Dreux de Baladon. If she was born about 1040, estimate Dreux' birth at about 1025. However, no records, regardless of quality, have been found for a Dreux de Baladon in this time period.
  There is a Sir Dryw (Drew de) Baladon formerly Balun aka Balon, Ballon, Born about 1050, who was in Wales about 1100, and whose two daughters, including Ema, married Welsh princes after 1100. This Dryw would have been a generation later than Emmeline's father, and might be Emmeline's brother.
  The first source is a charter dated 14 Sep 1100 under which [her grandson] "Patricius" donated "v hidas terræ de Westona" to Bath St Peter, for the souls of "…Hamelini et Winebaldi de Baalun…ac…Arnulfi de Hesding…et Warini clerici mei", witnessed by "Hamelinus et Winebaldus de Baalun…"[1694]. [2]
  The second source is a donation to Gloucester St Peter made by [her grandson] "Patricius de Cadurcis" of land "apud Ameneye de feodo suo…[et] apud Ameneye Sancti Nicholai" to Gloucester St Peter, with the confirmation of "rege Henrico seniore"[1695], read together with the donation to the same abbey of land "in Ameneye" made by "Wynebaldus de Balon…et Rogerius filius meus"[1696]. [2]
  It should also be noted that, if this is correct, her supposed brother Hamelin had a daughter who was also named Emmeline. [2]
  Family ETC
  Family of Ernulf + of HESDIN and Emmelina + of NORMANDY
  Husband: Ernulf + of HESDIN (1038-1091)
  Wife: Emmelina + of NORMANDY (1040-1094)
  Children: Mathilda + of HESDIN (1070-1133)
  Avelina of HESDIN (1081- )
  Marriage 1060
  Husband: Ernulf + of HESDIN
  Father: Gerard + (1015-1065)
  Birth 1038 Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France
  Death 1091 (age 52-53) Toddington, Bedfordshire, England
  Wife: Emmelina + of NORMANDY
  Name: Emmelina + of NORMANDY
  Father: Alan III + of TOURS (997- )
  Mother: Bertha +of BLOIS (1005-1085)
  Birth 1040 Normandy, France
  Death 1094 (age 53-54) Pas-de-Calais, France
  Child 1: Mathilda + of HESDIN
  Spouse: Patrick + of CHAWORTH
  Name: Mathilda + of HESDIN
  Spouse: Patrick + of CHAWORTH (1052-1133)
  Birth 1070 Toddington, Bedfordshire, England
  Death 1133 (age 62-63)
  Child 2: Avelina of HESDIN
  Name: Avelina of HESDIN
  Sex: Female
  Birth 1081
  1067 Marriage
  In 1067 at Hesdin he married Emmelina of Falaise, Normandy b: 1047 in Hesdin[3]
  First Marriage to Walter de Lacy
  Emmeline first married Walter de Lacy.
  Some genealogies see the de Lacy connection and make her a daughter, rather than spouse, of Walter. [4]
  Walter may be Walter de Lacy or may be another person. Walter de Lacy-288 married Emaline de Saer who may or may not be the same person as Emmaline.
  1085 Marriage to Arnulf
  After 27 May 1085 Emmeline, widow of Walter de Lacy, married Arnulf. He was her second husband.
  "Emelina uxor Ernulfi de Hestink" donated "ecclesiam de Northona" to Gloucester St Peter by undated charter witnessed by "Rogerus filius Dodonis"[1693]. [2]
  The Historia sancti Petri Gloucestriæ records that "Robertus filius Walteri et Avelina uxor eius" donated "ecclesiam de Nortone", as previously donated by "Elmelina mater Avelinæ ante plures annos"[1697]. [2]
  A charter of Stephen King of England dated 1138 confirmed donations to Gloucester St Peter including the donation by "Ernulfi de Hesding et Emelina uxoris eius" of “ecclesiam de Nortuna"[1698]. [There are indications that Emmeline, wife of Arnoul de Hesdin, was the widow of Walter de Lacy. Both families made numerous donations to Gloucester St Peter, although it has not yet proved possible to link any of the names of land donated to both families, but most significantly the Historia sancti Petri Gloucestriæ, in a list of holdings, records (in order) donations made by "Walterus de Lacy dedit Leden, Ernulfus de Hesding dedit Lyncoholt, Hermelina de Lacy dedit pro anima viri sui Duntesbourne…"[1699]. The interposition of Arnoul’s name between Walter de Lacy and his wife Emmeline is best explained if he was Emmeline’s second husband. From a chronological point of view, the two marriages would fit. It should be emphasised that this suggestion is speculative.] [2]
  She married Arnulf, Seigneur de Hesdin [5][4][6]
  Ernulf de Hesdin[7] aka Arnulf[8]
  Ernulph de Hesding.[3]
  Arnulf [3]
  Arnoul de Hestin [2]
  Arnulf, Seigneur de Hesdin was born at of Picardy, France. [9]
  Arnulf was born 1041 in Hesdin. [10]
  Hesdin
  The County of Hesdin was historically part of Picardy or Artois and centred at that a flourishing fortified town known as Hesdin on the bank of the Canche river, about 6 km from modern Hesdin. [11] The town of Hesdin was completely destroyed by Charles V in 1553, sparing only the church, and the location is now known as Vieile Hesdin (Old Hesdin). The location is in the contemporary departement of Pas de Calais.
  Wealthy Merchant
  The family tradition relates that Ernulph was a merchant, having ships of his own, and trading to every known nation; that he was richer than the king, and had assisted William the Conqueror with money and ships when he invaded England. [10]
  1086 Lands
  At the Domesday survey of England, 1086, Ernulf was a tenant-in-chief in ten counties.[7]
  Ernulf or Ernulph de Hesding, and his brother Ilbodus de Hesding, had large possessions in co. Oxford, both living at the time of the Conquest. [10]
  Ernulph de Hesding is mentioned in Doomsday Book as also holding vast possessions of the king, in Bedfordshire, at Dodintone, now called Toddington, near Ampthill, and at Opeforde, now called Offord, in co. Huntingdon. [10]
  Domesday Book records that “Ernulf de Hesdin” held Farningham, Axton Hundred, and Chelsfield, Helmestrei Hundred, and Cliff and Haven in Shamwell Hundred, in Kent of the bishop of Bayeux, Combe in Hurstbourne Hundred in Hampshire/Berkshire, Newbury in Thatcham Hundred in Berkshire, numerous land-holdings in Wiltshire, land in Dorset including Kington Magna and Melbury, Ruislip in Middlesex[1686]. [2]
  A charter of Stephen King of England dated 1138 confirmed donations to Gloucester St Peter including the donation by "Ernulfi de Hesding et Emelina uxoris eius" of “ecclesiam de Nortuna"[1689]. [2]
  1096 Trial of Battle for Treason
  The Chronicle of Hyde records that "Ernulfus de Hednith" was unjustly accused of treason but successfully defended himself by trial of battle (dated to [1096] from the context), and left on Crusade and died at Antioch[1691]. [2]
  Death
  Burke reports that Arnulf died in 1092 in Keevil, Wiltshire, England [10] While Cawley states that Arnould de Hesdin died in Antioch in 1098. [2]
  The Chronicle of Hyde records that "Ernulfus de Hednith" was unjustly accused of treason but successfully defended himself by trial of battle (dated to [1096] from the context), and left on Crusade and died at Antioch[1691]. [2]
  Death
  She died in 1094 in Hesdin.[1]
  1100 Donation to Bath on Behalf of his soul
  "Patricius" donated "v hidas terræ de Westona" to Bath St Peter, for the souls of "…Arnulfi de Hesding…", by charter dated 14 Sep 1100[1692]. [2]
  Issue
  Cawley reports that Arnoul & his wife had three children, Arnoul, Mathilde and Adeline.
  Well sourced children
  Ernulf was the father, and presumably Emmeline the mother of:
  William;[8]
  Ava;[8]Aveline de Hesdin+ d. a 1126 [9]Avelina De Hesding, b. Abt 1080, Picardy, France - Dtr Of Ernulf ABT 1038, Hesdin, Artois/Pas-de-Calais, France. Aveline De HESDING b: Abt 1081 in Dol, Normandy, France[3] #ADELINE [Aveline] (-after 1126). “Alanus filius Flaaldi et Adelina uxor mea” donated property to Castle Acre Priory by undated charter[1704]. Her parentage is confirmed by Orderic Vitalis who records that Ernulf de Hesdin was avunculus of "William fitz Alan castellan and vicecomes of Shrewsbury"[1705]. It is assumed that her [first] marriage took place early in the reign of Henry I King of England, who sponsored her husband’s rise to prominence in England as shown by the king’s charters in which he is named. Eyton states that Dugdale intimates that "Dame Adeliza" who donated land at Wolston to Burton abbey, by charter dated to before 1114, was Alan FitzFlaad’s widow and the mother of "Sibil" who with her husband Roger de Freville confirmed her mother’s donation by charter dated 1132[1706]. Henry I King of England confirmed an agreement between the bishop of Norwich and "Avelinam de Hesding" concerning "terra de Ettona" by charter dated to [1121/27][1707]. A charter of Henry II King of England, dated 1176, recites donations to Haughmond abbey including that of "Willielmus filius Alani" of "terram de Piperinges" previously enjoyed by "Aveline matris ipsius Willielmi filius Alani"[1708]. The Historia sancti Petri Gloucestriæ records that "Robertus filius Walteri et Avelina uxor eius" donated "ecclesiam de Nortone", as previously donated by "Elmelina mater Avelinæ ante plures annos"[1709]. "Robertus filius Walteri et Avelina uxor sua" donated "ecclesiam de Northona" to Gloucester St Peter by undated charter[1710]. “Margareta uxor Hamonis de Sancto Claro” donated “Stoches...manerium meum cum suis appendiciis de Sudfolchia et Norfolc...sicut...michi pater meus concessit” to Colchester St. John, for the souls of “patris mei Roberti et Aueline matris mee et Johannis fratris mei”, by undated charter[1711]. m firstly ([1100/05]) [as his second wife,] ALAIN FitzFlaald,

• m. ABT 1054 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
• m. in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

1. Aveline de Hesdin., b. ABT 1075 in Vieil-Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France     d. 5 NOV 1126 in Shropshire, England
2. Ernulf de Hesdin, b. 1055 in Shropshire,England     d. 1138, hanged on the orders of King Stephen in Shropshire, England
3. Matilda de Hesdin, b. ABT 1065 in Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France     d. AFT 1133 in Toddington, Bedfordshire, England

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