Harding Fitz Ealdnoth

• Preferred Name: Harding Fitz Ealdnoth^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: King's Reeve in Bristol
  
• Alt. Birth: 1048 in Gloucestershire, Anglo-Saxon England at LATI: N1.8842 LONG: E2.1446
  
• FSID: LDMY-H1L
  
• Death: 6 NOV 1125 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
  
• LdsBaptism: 19 NOV 1932 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• LdsEndowment: 13 MAR 1933 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Mayor of Bristol
  
• Birth: ABT 1050 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Anglo-Saxon England at LATI: N1.6906 LONG: E2.4579
  
• Notes:

  See - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harding_of_Bristol
  
  Harding (Son of Alnod) Prince of Denmark

• m. 1089 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Anglo-Saxon England, UK
• m. 1089 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, Anglo-Saxon England

1. John de la Warre, b. ABT 1100 in Beaudesert, Warwickshire, England     d. 1212
2. Robert "The Devout" Fitzharding, b. ABT 1095 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England     d. 5 FEB 1169 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England

1. Robert Fitz Harding, b. 1095 in Bristol, Bristol, England     d. 5 FEB 1171 in Bristol, Bristol, England

1. Title: Wikipedia, Harding of Bristol
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harding_of_Bristol;
   
2. Title: Berkeley Manuscripts: Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeley Family
   Author: Berkeley Manuscripts: Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeley Family, MS By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (London, 1821), pp. 69-74 [on Googlebooks]
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/berkeleymanuscr00smytgoog;
   Note: Berkeley Manuscripts: Abstracts and Extracts of Smyth's Lives of the Berkeley Family, MS By Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (London, 1821), pp. 69-74 [on Googlebooks] Descent of Robert Fitzharding — Origin of Danish Emigration. — “There was asometyme an ordinance made in Denmark, that if soe the Kynge of that land had any more sons then on, then shuld the eldist sonne and heyre remain within the lande ; and the yonger brethren shulde be send with a substance of goods into other landis, and ther to live in eoviding all inconveniences of debates, that might chance atwixe them within their owne land; and for this cause this herding, a second sonne of the Kynge of Denmark, was send into this land, to Kinge William Conqueror; unto whom this Kinge William Conqueror gave grete riches, and send him to Bristowe, ther to inhabite, the yeare of our Lord 1069.” Id. p. 10, 11. Fitzharding's Rank. — Robert Fitzharding, sometime Mayor of Bristol. Id. p. 14. Harding. — Probably the son of Harold or Hardicanute. Id. Harding settled himself in Baldwin Street, Bristol, and became Mayor. He married one Livida, and had issue — sons, Robert, Nicholas, Elias, Jurden, Maurice — daughters, Agnes, Maud, Cicely. Id. p. 23. Fitzharding. — Robert Fitzharding was born in Bristol towards the end of William the Conqueror's reign; bred up in that town with Harding his father, to whose estate he succeeded, and removed from Baldwin Street to a great stone house, which he built, upon the Frome. MS. Peel, p. 23. Few small Properties in the Middle Ages. – There were not nineteen small Freeholds in all the Townships, Parishes, and Manors in the whole of Berkeley Hernesse, which Roger Berkeley of Dursley held. Id. p. 32. Marriages in private Houses. –The Marriages, Covenants, and Peace of Robert Fitzharding's son were made in Robert's house at Bristol, in the presence of King Stephen, Henry Duke of Normandy, &c. MS. Peel, p. 45. Berkeley Castle.—This antient fabrick at first comprehended only the inmost of the three gates, and what was within the same; the two utmost and all the buildings within them being the additions of Maurice eldest son to this Robert, and of Thomas the second, in the sixth year of King Edward II., and of Thomas the third, 8 Edward III. MS. Berkeley, p. 36. Consecrated Ground supposed a Preservative of Buildings upon it, in the Family. — Mr. Smyth is of opinion that the site of the Castle, being upon that of the Nunnery, it would, because upon holy ground, continue happily in the Family of Berkeley. Id. p. 36. Nunnery. —The Nunnery (at least some of the survivors of the Nuns) had a kind of hold or remaindership at Berkeley till King Stephen's death. Id. p. 42. [Three pounds laid out for cloathing three nuns. Rot. Pip. 1 Hen. II.] Abbey of Augustine, Bristol. — Robert Fitzharding began the Abbey when Henry II. was only nine years old. Id. MS. Peel. Abbeys founded for the Preservation of Family. —“Robert Fitzharding is supposed by Mr. Smyth to have established the foundation of his Castle of Berkeley by building a House to God at Bristowe.” Id. p. 62. [See Fuller's Church History, Book VI. p. 326.] Berkeley Hyrnesse. —The Grant of Berkeley Herness was made between September 7, 1150, and October 25, 1154. MS. Berkeley, p. 39. The tenure was by Barony; and Lord Berkeley takes his place and precedency from the first year of Henry II., anno 1154. The Hundred of Berkeley was appendant to the Manor; and a Leet of Resiants in the said Villages and Townships also annexed to it. Id. p. 44. Robert Fitzharding's wife and Issue. —Eve, wife of Robert Fitzharding, founded the Maudlins of Bristol, and lived and continued there Prioress. MS. Peel, p. 46. She and her husband Robert both died in 1170. Brothers and Sisters of Robert Fitzharding—Combe by Isotton Underedge— Price of Land–Estates partitioned, not descending in primogeniture — Huntingford — Peel Family. —“Elias Fitzharding was enfeoffed by his brother in one hide in Combe by Wotton Underedge; which land in 1618 was the inheritance of John Bridges. He held also one hide of land in Hunteneford, on the other side of Wotton, now (1618) the inheritance of Sir William Throgmorton, Bart. And if it be this Elias filius Hardingi, and not his grandchild, who by fine 5 Henry III. sold a yard-land in Stapleton to William Aldbury, for two markes, which was 76 yeares after, hee then survived his children's children, and died in extreme old age.— This Elias filius Hardingi had issue William, Harding, and Margaret. The said William had his father's land in Combe; aboute the wardship of whose sonne, called also William, was a suit in the 17th yere of King Henry the Third, betweene Thomas then Lord Berkeley, the first of that name, and the Abbot of Kingswood; which is all I have found of him, or of Margaret his sister. Harding, second sonne of the said Elias, had his father's land in Huntingford, who by Dionisan his wife had issue Matilda or Maud, who was married to Galfridus Vitulus, alias Geffrey Veel, a gentleman much favoured by Kinge John, and of special acceptation with many great Lords of that tyme, as the confirmacyon of that Kinge, made to him in the seventh of his raigne, doth of itself assure us: to which Geffry Veel also the Lord Robert de Berkeley, the second of that name, did, about the beginning of that King's raigne, give in frank marriage with the said Matilda or Maud, his cozen, divers other parcells of land in Hunteneford, and in the skirts of his Chace (or Forest, as it is there called) of Sincklewood: hereby that Hyde, Farme, or little Maner of Hunteneford was much enlarged.” MS. Berkeley, p. 27, 28. Children of Robert Fitzharding — Cokerford — Longstane. — Nicholas second son of Robert Fitzharding had from his father Robert the Manors of Cokerford and Longstane, and divers lands in Tykenham, co. Somerset; and other lands and tenements in Cheshull, Porthashed, Rualach, &c. Harding Mayor of Bristol was born 1060 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. He died 6 Nov 1115 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Harding married Livida on 1089 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. Livida was born 1069 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. She married Harding Mayor of Bristol on 1089 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. They had the following children: F i Agnes FITZ HARDING was born 1090. F ii Maude FITZ HARDING was born 1092 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. M iii Robert FITZ HARDING Lord Berkeley was born 1094 and died 5 Feb 1171. M iv Nicholas FITZ HARDING was born 1096 and died 1171. M v Elias FITZ HARDING was born 1098 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. M vi Jordan FITZ HARDING was born 1100 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. F vii Cecily FITZ HARDING was born 1102 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. M viii Maurice FITZ HARDING was born 1104 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HARDING is said to have been a younger son of the King of Denmark, who, according to a custom in his family, went forth into the world to seek his fortune, and attached himself to William Duke of Normandy, who was at that time preparing for the invasion and conquest of England. William rewarded his services with a large grant of lands and property in and around Bristol, where he settled about A.D., 1069, and became Praepositus; an office somewhat resembling the more modern one of Mayor, except that it was a permanent appointment. He resided in Baldwin street, married a lady whose name was Livida, had five sons and three daughters, and died 6th Nov. 1115. ------------------------------------------------------------- From "The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire", "The Earl of Berkeley", pp 70-71 (1882). Also Burke's "Peerage and Baronetage", pp 232-233. "Harding of Bristol, said by genealogists to have been the son of a king of Denmark and companion to the Conqueror, has been conjectured by a modern historian to be identical with Harding (a contemporary of Harold and William, son of Eadnoth the Staller, an officer of Edward the Confessor, who survived the Conquest; but this identification can only be regarded as `not improbable.' His son, Robert FitzHarding, of Bristol, obtained from Henry, Duke of Normandy, afterwards Henry II, a grant of the hundred of Berkeley, called Berkeley Herness. He granted all the churches in Berkeley Herness to St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol (now the cathedral), of which he is the reputed founder, and where he was buried, 1171. His only surviving son, Maurice de Berkeley, obtained in 1189 confirmations from King Richard I., and from Queen Eleanor of Berkeley Herness. `to be held in barony by the service of five knights.' He married Alice, daughter of Roger de Berkeley, of Dursley, the former Lord of Berkeley. Their eldest son, Robert de Berkeley, obtained a charter of confirmation from King Richard I., in 1199. He was one of the Barons at war with King John, and died May 13, 1219. He was succeeded by Thomas, his brother, whose grandson, Thomas de Berkeley, 6th Baron by tenure, had writs of summons to parliament from June 24, 1295 (the 23rd year of King Edward I.), to May 15, 1321 (the 14th year of King Edward II.). In 1301, 1302, and 1305 he was serving in the Scottish wars with Maurice and John his son; prisoner at the battle of Bannockburn, in June 1314; Justice of West Wales, 1317. He died July 23, ???. His younger son, James, was Bishop of Exeter, 1326." . HARDING (EADNOTH 1) b.c.1060 m. LIVIDA of Gloucester d. after 1125 Bristol The Berkeley family is unique in having an unbroken male line of descent from a Saxon ancestor before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 to the 20th Century. The family descends from Harding, the son of Eadnoth (Alnod), who was "Marshal" or "Staller", a high official under King Edward the Confessor. A study of dates makes it probable that this Harding had a son of the same name, perhaps the man who played a distinguished part i
   
3. Title: ENGLISH NOBILITY MEDIEVAL 3/ENGLISH LORDS A - C
   Author: From "The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of the British Empire", "The Earl of Berkeley", pp 70-71 (1882). Also Burke's "Peerage and Baronetage", pp 232-233.
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#_Toc21417709;
   Note: B. BERKELEY (FITZHARDING) 1. EALDNOTH (-killed in battle Somerset 1068). Staller to King Edward the Confessor[567]. Florence of Worcester records that "Haroldi regis filii Godwinus, Eadmundus, Magnus" returned from Ireland and landed in Somerset where they were defeated, when "Eadnothus qui fuit Haroldi regis stallarius" was killed in the battle, in a passage which deals with events in mid-1068[568]. m ---. The name of Ealdnoth’s wife is not known. Ealdnoth & his wife had one child: a) HARDING (-6 Nov after 1100). William of Malmesbury records that "Ednodus" (whose death he describes as above) was "pater Herdingi qui adhuc superest"[569]. As William of Malmesbury records events until 1142, it is possible that Harding survived considerably later than 1100, although it is of course not known when precisely the passage just quoted was written. ["…Herding…" witnessed the charter dated 1067 under which William I King of England donated property to the bishop of Wells[570]. The chronology suggests that it is unlikely that this entry relates to the same person named Harding.] m ---. The name of Harding’s wife is not known. Harding & his wife had seven children: i) NICHOLAS FitzHarding (-[1167/71]). The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Nicholaus filius Herding" with "ii et dimidium" knights’ fees in Somerset in [1160/61][571]. The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Nicholaus Herding" with "i et dimidium" knights’ fees "de feodo de Monte Acuto" in Somerset in [1167/68][572]. He died before [1171/72] when the Red Book of the Exchequer records "Henricus filius Nicholai" with "i et dimidium" knights’ fees "de feodo de Monte Acuto" in Somerset[573]. m ---, niece of Roger Bishop of Salisbury, daughter of ---. The primary source which confirms her family origin and marriage has not yet been identified. Nicholas & his wife had one child: (a) HENRY [de Meriet] . The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Henricus filius Nicholai" with "i et dimidium" knights’ fees "de feodo de Monte Acuto" in Somerset in [1171/72][574]. Ancestor of the Meriet family of Meriet, Somerset[575]. ii) ROBERT FitzHarding ([1094/96]-5 Feb 1171, bur Bristol St Augustine). “Robertus filius Hardingi” founded the priory of St Augustine at Bristol, during the reign of King Henry II, by undated charter witnessed by "Henrico decano Moretoniæ et Mauritio fratre eius…"[576]. - see below. iii) ELIAS FitzHarding (-after [1153/54]). The marriage contract between “Mauricius filius Rodberti filii Hardingi” and “filiam Rogeri de Berckel” (with “Slimbrugiam” as her dowry), as well as “filius Rogeri de Berckel qui heres est” and “filie Rodberti” or failing her “filiam Hugonis de Hasle neptim Rodberti filii Hardingi” (with “manerium Sistone prope Bristou” as dowry), is dated to [Nov 1153], witnessed by “...Helyas frater Rodberti filii Hardingi, Jordanus frater eius...”[577]. “Robert Fitzharding” notified his grant of “land of Combe” to “his brother Helyas” by charter dated to [1150/60], witnessed by “Domina Eva, Maurice, Nicholas and Robert his sons...Otho son of William...”[578]. “Ricardus Foliot” granted “terram de Accatona et terram de Hanam et...de Hamtona” to “Mauricio filio Roberti filio Hardingi” by charter dated to before 1173, witnessed by “...Jurdano filio Hardingi et Helya filio Hardingi...”[579]. iv) JORDAN FitzHarding (-after [1153/54]). Henri Duke of Normandy [later King Henry II] granted “manerium Betthone...et...terre in manerio de Berkelai” to “Rodberto filio Hard[ingi]” by charter dated to [1153], witnessed by “...Jordanus frater Rodberti et Jordanus et David nepotes eius...”[580]. The marriage contract between “Mauricius filius Rodberti filii Hardingi” and “filiam Rogeri de Berckel” (with “Slimbrugiam” as her dowry), as well as “filius Rogeri de Berckel qui heres est” and “filie Rodberti” or failing her “filiam Hugonis de Hasle neptim Rodberti filii Hardingi” (with “manerium Sistone prope Bristou” as dowry), is dated to [Nov 1153], witnessed by “...Helyas frater Rodberti filii Hardingi, Jordanus frater eius...”[581]. “Ricardus Foliot” granted “terram de Accatona et terram de Hanam et...de Hamtona” to “Mauricio filio Roberti filio Hardingi” by charter dated to before 1173, witnessed by “...Jurdano filio Hardingi et Helya filio Hardingi...”[582]. v) AGNES (-20 Jul ----). Smyth records the deaths of the three sisters Agnes (20 Jul), Matilda (22 Mar), and Cecily (25 Nov) all recorded in the necrology of Bristol St Augustine[583]. m HUGH de Haseley, son of --- (-after [1153/54]). The marriage contract between “Mauricius filius Rodberti filii Hardingi” and “filiam Rogeri de Berckel” (with “Slimbrugiam” as her dowry), as well as “filius Rogeri de Berckel qui heres est” and “filie Rodberti” or failing her “filiam Hugonis de Hasle neptim Rodberti filii Hardingi” (with “manerium Sistone prope Bristou” as dowry), is dated to [Nov 1153], witnessed by “...Hugo de Hasela...Helyas frater Rodberti filii Hardingi, Jordanus frater eius...”[584]. One child: (a) daughter . The marriage contract between “Mauricius filius Rodberti filii Hardingi” and “filiam Rogeri de Berckel” (with “Slimbrugiam” as her dowry), as well as “filius Rogeri de Berckel qui heres est” and “filie Rodberti” or failing her “filiam Hugonis de Hasle neptim Rodberti filii Hardingi” (with “manerium Sistone prope Bristou” as dowry), is dated to [Nov 1153], witnessed by “...Hugo de Hasela...Helyas frater Rodberti filii Hardingi, Jordanus frater eius...”[585]. vi) MATILDA (-22 Mar ----). Smyth records the deaths of the three sisters Agnes (20 Jul), Matilda (22 Mar "Matilda filia Hardingi"), and Cecily (25 Nov) all recorded in the necrology of Bristol St Augustine[586]. vii) CECILY (-25 Nov ----). Smyth records the deaths of the three sisters Agnes (20 Jul), Matilda (22 Mar), and Cecily (25 Nov) all recorded in the necrology of Bristol St Augustine[587].
   
4. Title: Family, spouse Geneanet record
   Author: Geneanet.com
   Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/devino750?lang=en&pz=devin+scott&nz=o+leary&p=harding&n=fitzeadnoth;