William FitzRichard Lord of Cardinham

• Preferred Name: William FitzRichard Lord of Cardinham
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 1060 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N0.4725 LONG: E4.7184
  
• National Identification: with note: Description: IND1933
  
• Mentioned in deeds.: BET 1110 AND 1130
  
• One of the witnesses to a charter under which King Henry I resto: 15 APR 1123
  
• Burial: in London, England with note: Bermondsey Abbey, Bermondsey, London, England
  
• Title of Nobility: with note: Description: Lord of Cardinham, Cornwall
  
• Death: ABT 1140 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N0.4725 LONG: E4.7184
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Galloway, Earl of Cornwall, 2nd Baron of Cardinham
  
• Witnessed the charter under which King Henry I confirmed property.: 1103/04
  
• FSID: L8YS-BMR
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan, son and heir of Waleran (or Galeran) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux. He married about 1165 MAUD OF CORNWALL, daughter of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall (illegitimate son of King Henry I), by Mabel, daughter of William Fitz Richard [see ENGLAND 2.i for her ancestry].
  He appears already as lord of Cardinham in 1110.[1]
  
  In 1123, in the company of other prominent west country landholders, he witnessed Henry I's charter in favour of Exeter Cathedral.[2]
  
  At the beginning of Stephen's reign (according to the author of the Gesta Stephani), he swore allegiance to the new king and in return, as the most influential landholder in Cornwall, was given custody of the royal castle of Launceston and a general responsibility for administering the county.
  
  However, in 1140, following the Angevin invasion of England, he broke faith with the king and admitted into the castle Reginald (d. 1175), one of Henry I's illegitimate sons and a leading partisan of the Empress Matilda. He also gave him his daughter in marriage and effectively handed over control of the county to him. Although King Stephen attempted to reverse this arrangement, Reginald's creation as earl of Cornwall later in the year confirmed his ascendancy in the county. William fitz Richard became his vassal, thereafter holding his fief of the earl for the service of fifty-one knights. On his granting of land at Goodmansleigh, Devon, to Launceston Priory, William duly described Earl Reginald as his lord and friend. He also made grants to his father's foundation at Tywardreath.
  
  === BIOGRAPHY: Earl of Cornwall ===
  BIOGRAPHY: Earl of Cornwall, who rebelled against Henry I, supporting the claims of Duke Robert upon the English throne, and joining the party, at the head of which was his uncle, Robert de Belleme. He was detained, and died a prisoner.
  
  === Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall. ===
  He rebelled, with Robert de Belleme, against the King in Normandy in an attempt to recovery the Duchy Kent for Robert, the King's elder brother. They were defeated and taken prisoners April 24, 1106 at Tinchebray. His honours were forfeited. After years of imprisonment he became a Cluniac monk, in 1140, at Bermondsey.
  
  === He also bore the title Earl of Cornwall ===
  He also bore the title Earl of Cornwall (2). He rebelled against Henry II (of Bavaria?), was captured, blinded and died in captivity.
  
  === “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families.” ===
  by Douglas Richardson (2013):
  
  “ROBERT [II], Count of Meulan, son and heir of Waleran (or Galeran) [II], Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester, seigneur of Beaumont-le-Roger, Brionne, la Croix Saint-Leufroy, Elbeuf, Port-Audemer, etc., by Agnes, daughter of Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux. He married about 1165 MAUD OF CORNWALL, daughter of Reynold Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall (illegitimate son of King Henry I), by Mabel, daughter of William Fitz Richard [see ENGLAND 2.i for her ancestry].
  
  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v3-p429,-v4pt1-p3 ===
  !#21> Complete Peerage-v3-p429,-v4pt1-p313,-v11apndx(D)-p108,-v12pt2-p838, (FHL 942 D22cok); !PROP> had large estates in Cornwall;
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.14, 40; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 604;
  
  === Weis. 121-26, 50-26. ===
  Weis. 121-26, 50-26.
  
  === NOTES: Earl of Cornwall ===
  NOTES: Earl of Cornwall
  
  === 1. Source: "Ancestry of Roger Ludlow" b ===
  1. Source: "Ancestry of Roger Ludlow" by Seversmith, pp. 2,449 & 2,514. 2. In the first referenced page, his daughter's name is "fitz Richard"; in the second, his is "Fitz Richard". 3. "Was termed a man of large estates in Cornwall".
  
  === succ. as Earl of Cornwall after 1087; st ===
  succ. as Earl of Cornwall after 1087; st. always comte de Mortain; Knight; deprived 1106; prisoner, sept. 28,1106-1140; took Cluniac habit at Bermondsey, 1140;
  
  === Collins RA ===
  Collins RA
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ROBERT, Count of Mortain (in Cotentin), Domesday lord of Pitstone and West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Blisland, Boyton, Lancarffe, Poundstock, Treroosel, and Truthwall, Cornwall, Bere Ferrers, Bolberry, Bratton Fleming, Buckland Brewer, Densham, Dunsdon, Fardel, and Weare Giffard, Devon, Ashill, Barton St. David, Bishopston, Brompton Regis, Bruton, Crewkerne, Curry Rivel, Kingstone, Shepton Montague, Stoke sub Hamdon, Swell, and Tintinhill, Somerset, etc., born about 1040. He was an uterine half-brother of William the Conqueror, King of England [see ENGLAND 1]. He was created a count about 1060. He married (1st) before 1066 MAUD DE MONTGOMERY, daughter of Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury, by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter and heiress of William, seigneur of Alencon and Bellême. They had one son, William [Count of Mortain], and four daughters, Agnes, Denise (wife of Guy III, seigneur of Laval), Emma (wife of William IV, Count of Toulouse), and Sibylle [Abbess of Saintes]. About 1082 he and his wife, Maud, founded a collegiate church at St. Evroult at Mortain. His wife, Maud, died 21 Sept. 1082, and was buried in Grestain Abbey. He married (2nd) ALMODIS ___. They had one son, Robert, and one daughter, Almodis (wife of Raimon Berenguer III of Barcelona). In the period, 1082-84, he granted land in Dorset to Marmoutier Abbey at Tours. He joined the rebellion against King William Rufus in 1088, which was soon put down. He was a benefactor of many religious houses, including the abbeys of Grestain, Marmoutier, Caen, Préaux, Fécamp, Mont-St-Michel, St.- Nicholas, Angers and St. Albans. ROBERT, Count of Mortain, died 8 Dec. 1090.
  L'Art de Vérifier les Dates 2 (1784): 790 (sub Montgomeri). Rud Coelicum Manuscriptorum Ecclesia Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 214 ("Nomina quae in Kalendario (supra Tr. 5.) occurrunt: XI. Kal. Octobr. [21 September] - Obiit Mathildis Comitissa de Moretonio."). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 1090-1091 (Robert, Count of Mortain, styled "brother" [fratris] of King William the Conqueror in charter dated 1189). Guerard Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Saint-Bertin (Coll. des Cartulaires de France 3) (1840): 462-463 (Count Robert, brother of the King [i.e., King William the Conqueror] witness to doc. dated c.1066-87). Le Prévost Notes pour servir el la Topographie et a l'Histoire des Communes du Département de l'Eure (1849): 30-31 (charter dated April 1066 witnessed by William, Duke of Normandy, his wife, Maud, and his "brother" [fratris], Robert). Desroches Annales civiles, militaires et généalogiques du Pays d'Avranches (1856): 58. Munford Analysis of the Domesday Book of the County of Norfolk (1858): 7-8. Delisle Rouleaux des Morts du IXe au XVe Siècle (1866): 207-208, 289-290. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 1 (1872): 319 ("Siquidem Robertus, comes Moritonii, uterinus frater Willermi regis qui regnum Angliæ subjugavit, habuit unum filium Guillermum, qui ei successit ... et tres filias, quarum unam duxit Andreas de Vitreio, aliam Guido de Laval, terciam comes Tolosanus, frater Raimundi comitis Sancti Ægidii, qui in expeditione Ierosolimitana viriliter se habuit. Genuit autem ex ea comes Tolosanus unam solummodo filiam, quam Guillermus, comes Pictavensis et dux Aquitanorum, mortuo patre prædictæ puellæ, cum hereditate propria, scilicet urbe Tolosa et comitatu Tolosano, duxit uxorem; ex qua genuit idem Guillermus filium Guillermum nomine, qui ei successit, qui pater fuit Alienor, reginæ Anglorum."). Planché The Conqueror & his Companions 1 (1874): 107-116 (biog. of Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall). Le Fizelier Mémoire chronologique de Maucourt de Bourjolly seer la Ville de Laval 1 (1886): 122-128. Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 23 (1894): 583 (Ex Obtuario Ecclesiæ Moretoniensis: "8. Dec. Obiit Robertus comes Moretonii fundator istius ecclesi"). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton & Cluniac Priory of Montacute (Somerset Rec. Soc. 8) (1894): 119-120 (foundation charter of William, Count of Mortain for Montacute Cartulary dated 1102; charter names his parents, Count Robert and Countess Matilda). Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 108, 256 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain dated ?1085), 256-257 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain and Almodis his wife dated 1087-91), 359, 433. Notes & Oueries 9th Ser. 8 (1901): 525-526. Bréard L’Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Grestain (1904.) Rpt. & Trans. of the Devonshire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Lit. & Art 2nd Ser. 8 (1906): 338-339. D.N.B. 13 (1909): 1014 (biog. of Robert of Mortain, Count of Mortain). VCH Somerset 2 (1911): 111-115. C.P. 3 (1913): 427- 428 (sub Cornwall). Douglas Domesday Monachorum (1944): 33-36. Hull Cartulary of St. Michael's Mount (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 5) (1962): 3-4. Douglas William the Conqueror (1964). D. Bates "Herluin de Conteville et sa famille" in Annales de Normandie 23 (1973): 21-38. Brown Angle-Norman Studies III (1981): 74-75. Hull Cartulary of Launceston Priory (Devon & Cornwall Rec. Soc. n.s. 30) (1987): 2-4 (charter of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall brother [frater] of William King of the English, and Maud his wife dated 1076). Bates and Gazeau `L'Abbaye de Grestain & la Famille d'Herluin de Conteville,' in Annales de Normandie 40 (1990): 5-30. Anglo-Norman Studies 13 (1991): 119-144. Haskins Soc. Jour. 3 (1991): 161-162. Bates & Curry England & Normandy in the Middle Ages (1994): 136-137. Cownie Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135 (1998): 197-199. Fleming Domesday Book & the Law (1998).
  Children of Robert, Count of Mortain, by Maud de Montgomery:
  i. AGNES OF MORTAIN [see next].
  ii. EMMA OF MORTAIN, married WILLIAM IV, Count of Toulouse [see AQUITAINE 2].”
  
  === Ancestral roots of Sixty Colonists pg 66 ===
  Ancestral roots of Sixty Colonists pg 66 by Frederick Lewis Weis Baltimore Genealogical Pub. 1964

1. Mabel FitzWilliam de Cardinham de Dunstanville, b. 1121 in Cardinham, Cornwall, England     d. 1162 in Chertsey, Surrey, England
2. Robert FitzWilliam de Cardinham, b. 1 JAN 1115 in Cotleigh, Devon, England     d. 1177 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England