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Arnoulf de Montgomery


Preferred Parents:
Father: Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, b. in Saint-Germain-de-Montgommery, Calvados, Normandy, France   d. 27 JUL 1094 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
Mother: Mabel de Bellême, b. 1030 in Alençon, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France   d. 2 DEC 1079 in Murdered - Bures Castle, Dives, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Family 1: Lafracoth O'Brien,    b. ABT 1076 in County Tipperary, Ireland    d. ABT 1135 in Garth, Caernarfonshire, Wales
  1. Robert De Montgomery, b. 1125 in Pembrokeshire, Wales     d. 1165 in Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
  2. Alice Montgomery, b. 1100 in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales     d. 1 SEP 1176 in Welford, Berkshire, England
  3. Maria de Montgomery, b. ABT 1107 in Pembroke, Wales     d. ABT 1176 in England, United Kingdom
  4. Philip de Montgomery, b. 1102 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales     d. 1177 in Thornton, Fifeshire, Scotland
Sources:
  1. Title: Wikitree
    Author: ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirchertach_Ua_Briain ↑ Montgomery: Pages 39-41 Arnulph, or Arnaud de Montgomerie Wikipedia : Arnulf de Montgomery Montgomery, Thomas Harrison (1830-1905) A Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery, Including the Montgomery Pedigree (Ashmead, H. B., Philadelphia, 1863) Lewis, Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins (over 181,000 names). Alice de Montgomery Portland Oregon. Citing [S3069] Unknown author, Europaische Stammtafeln by Isenburg, chart 640, Vol. 3.
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Montgomery-132;
    Note: Arnoulf "Arnulph" de Montgomery formerly Montgomery Born about 1048 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Ancestors Son of Roger (Montgomery) de Montgomery and Mabile (Bellême) de Montgomery Brother of Maud (Montgomery) de Normandie, Hugues (Montgomery) de Montgomery, Robert (Montgomery) de Belleme, Roger (Montgomery) de Montgomery, Sybil (Montgomery) FitzHamon, Philip (Montgomery) de Montgomery, Emma (Montgomery) de Montgomery, Mabel (Montgomery) de Montgomery, Adeline (Montgomery) de Montgomery, Arnulph de Montgomerie [half] and Ebrard (Montgomery) de Montgomery [half] Husband of Lafracoth (O'Brien) de Montgomery — married [date unknown] [location unknown] Descendants Father of Philip (Montgomerie) Montgomery and Alice (Montgomerie) de Montgomery Died 1126 at about age 78 in Pembroke Castle, Englandmap Arnoulf (Montgomery) de Montgomery is a member of Clan Montgomery. Alliance with Arnulf de Montgomery In an effort to gain military support against Henry I, Arnulf de Montgomery sent his steward, Gerald of Windsor, to Ireland to negotiate terms with Muirchertach. According to a Welsh chronicle (Sean Duffy, p. 45, 1997), Arnulf "though to make peace with the Irish and to obtain help from them. And he sent messengers to Ireland, that is Gerald the Steward (Gerald of Winsor) and many others, to ask for the daughter of King Murtart for his wife. And that he easily obtained; and the messengers came joyfully to their land. And Murtart sent his daughter and many armed ships along with her to his aid. And when the earls had exalted themselves with pride because of those events, they refused to accept any peace from the king." De Montgomery and his brother Robert, were however defeated by Henry and fled to Ireland. The Montgomery brothers fought under Muirchertach during his campaign with Magnus Barelegs, but when de Montgomery attempted to seize the kingship for himself, Muirchertach "took his daughter away from Arnulf and gave the wanton girl in an unlawful marriage to one of his cousins. He resolved to kill Arnulf himself as a reward for his alliance, but the latter ... fled to his own people and lived for twenty years afterwards with no fixed abode." (Sean Duffy, 1997, p. 46). [1] Despite their checkered relationship, some sources list Lafracoth, the daughter of Muirchertach, as the mother of two daughters by Arnulf, Alice de Montgomery and Marie de Montgomery. See account of Arnulph, or Arnaud de Montgomerie and his only son. [2]
  2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Arnulph De MONTGOMERY -
    Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2035901749
  3. Title: Normandy then and now - Story of the Montgomery Family
    Publication: Name: https://www.normandythenandnow.com/the-marvellous-montgomerys-of-sainte-foy-de-montgommery/;
    Note: 1066 and all that William the Conqueror rewarded Roger de Montgomerie’s enthusiastic support with large parts of England. The Conqueror’s trusted advisor, he was soon made 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. According to the Doomsday book by 1086 Roger’s exceptional ambition had bought him 150 castles and lordships in ten English counties and the income from his estates amounted to 3% of the nations GDP. He built Arundel Castle and married the bountiful Mabel, who gave him ten children. After Mabel’s head was detached by an aggrieved relation, Roger recovered manfully in the arms of Adelaide de Le Puiset and another son was born. Roger died in 1094 but not one to be forgotten his smug ghost regularly glides through the magnificent keep at Arundel.
  4. Title: en.Wikipedia Arnulf de Montgomery
    Author: Notes and Citations are extensive click on link to view
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_de_Montgomery;
    Note: Arnulf de Montgomery (born c.1066; died 1118×1122) was an Anglo-Norman magnate.[note 1] He was a younger son of Roger de Montgomery and Mabel de Bellême. Arnulf's father was a leading magnate in Normandy and England, and played an active part in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Wales in the late eleventh century. Following the Montgomerys' successes against the Welsh, Arnulf established himself at Pembroke, where a earth and timber castle was erected, and was probably rewarded with the title Earl of Pembroke. At the turn of the twelfth century Arnulf reached height, with his lordship including much of the former Welsh Kingdom of Deheubarth as well as various lands in Yorkshire. Not long after reaching this apex of his career, Arnulf assisted his eldest surviving brother, Robert de Bellême, in a rebellion against Henry I, King of England. It was also about this time that Arnulf married a daughter of Muirchertach Ua Briain, King of Munster, in what appears to have been an effort to gain military support against the English Crown. Following the ultimate collapse of the rebellion, however, the Montgomerys were outlawed and banished from the realm, and Arnulf appears to have spent much of the next twenty-odd years in a peripatetic life in Ireland and Normandy. Arnulf's career exemplifies the opportunities available to younger sons of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy. Arnulf appears to have died between 1118 and 1122. He is not known to have left any descendants, and the family's surname appears to have died with him. Background: Arnulf was likely born in the late 1060s,[7] possibly about 1066.[8] He was a younger son of Roger de Montgomery, Vicomte of the Hièmois and Mabel de Bellême.[9] Arnulf's parents likely married in about 1050.[10] His mother was a daughter of, and eventual heiress of, William de Bellême, Lord of Alençon.[9] Arnulf's father, an apparent kinsman and close companion of William II, Duke of Normandy, was an eminent magnate in Normandy.[11] As tutor to Matilda, Duchess of Normandy, Roger and his eldest sons did not embark on the 1066 Norman invasion of England. When William returned to Normandy as king in 1067, Roger accompanied him back to England, and was granted extensive lands, including the Sussex rapes of Arundel and Chichester, followed by the county of Shropshire.[10] Soon afterwards, Roger was made Earl of Shrewsbury. By 1086, he was one of the wealthiest tenants-in-chief in England.[12] Arnulf makes his first appearance in the historical record at about this time when he and his elder brother, Roger de Poitou, witnessed William's confirmation of their father's grant to the Norman abbey of Troarn in 1082/1083.[13][note 2] In 1088, Roger and at least three of his sons participated in plot to eject William Rufus, King of England from the throne with the intent to replace him with Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, William Rufus' elder brother.[15] This rebellion is documented by several sources, such as the ninth- to twelfth-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,[16] and the twelfth-century texts Chronicon ex chronicis,[17] Gesta regum Anglorum,[18] and Historia Anglorum.[19] According to the "E" version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle—the only strictly contemporary source of the four—Robert Curthose's followers captured Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and thereby gained control of the castle of Rochester. This source identifies several leading members of the insurrection, including three unnamed sons of Roger.[20] Whilst it is possible that these brothers were Roger's eldest sons Robert de Bellême, Hugh de Montgomery, and Roger de Poitou,[21] it is not impossible that the latter took no part in the rising, and that the third brother was in fact Arnulf himself.[22] Although the rebellion was an ultimate failure, the king imposed no penalty upon Roger, and allowed Roger de Poitou to be reinstated with most of the lands that the eleventh-century Domesday Book shows he previously held.[23] Rise: Arnulf's father was one of three close supporters of the king who were settled along the Anglo-Welsh border, in a region known as the Welsh marches. Although the first real penetration of Anglo-Norman power occurred in the 1070s, it wasn't until the last decade of the eleventh century that more permanent marcher settlements were envisaged in Wales.[27] In 1093, encroaching marcher lords engaged and slew Rhys ap Tewdwr, King of Deheubarth in Brycheiniog.[28] Contemporaries marked Rhys' fall as the end of kingship amongst the Welsh,[29] and his demise left a power-vacuum in which men such as Arnulf seized upon.[30] The south-west Welsh gwladoedd ("countries")[31] of Ceredigion and Dyfed were thus overwhelmed and settled by the conquering incomers.[29] In the latter gwlad ("country"),[31] Arnulf's father founded an earth and timber castle in which Arnulf established himself.[32] This ringwork,[33] strategically seated on the highest point of a promontory between two tidal inlets, sat on the site where the castle of Pembroke stands today. Although nothing now remains of the original castle,[34] it is described by the twelfth- to thirteenth-century Itinerarium Kambriæ as a "slender fortress built of stakes and turf".[35] William Rufus subsequently rewarded Arnulf with a lordship seated at his castle.[36] There is substantial evidence indicating that Arnulf was, in fact, made Earl of Pembroke.[37] For example, he was accorded forms of the Latin style comes by Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury,[38] Itinerarium Kambriæ,[39] the twelfth-century Vita Anselmi,[40] the twelfth-century Historia ecclesiastica,[41] the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Brut y Tywysogyon,[42] the twelfth-century Warenne Chronicle,[43] and the cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Martin de Sées.[44] The castle at Pembroke is remarkable in the fact that, unlike other Anglo-Norman or English fortresses in west Wales, it never fell into the hands of the Welsh.[45] At some time between 1097 and 1108, Arnulf's castellan at Pembroke, Gerald de Windsor, married Rhys' daughter, Nest.[46] According to Brut y Tywysogyon, Arnulf captured and imprisoned Rhys' young son, Hywel, before the latter was able to escape after suffering certain bodily injuries.[47] Having established himself at Pembroke, Arnulf appears to have resided in England, leaving Gerald at Pembroke as his de facto custos or steward.[48][note 4] On his father's death in 1094, Arnulf's elder brother, Hugh de Montgomery, inherited the earldom of Shrewsbury. Surviving sources reveal that the brothers were closely associated with each other.[51] Within two years they made a joint grant to the far-off abbey of La Sauve-Majeure.[52][note 5] Furthermore, Arnulf appears to have witnessed a grant of Hugh de Montgomery's dapifer to the abbey, in a charter dated to 1095–1098.[54] In a Latin grant to the abbey of Saint-Martin de Sées,[51] founded by his father,[55] Arnulf bestowed a donation on behalf of his ancestors, lord, friends, and "very dear brother Hugh" ("carissimi fratris sui Hugonis").[56][note 6] Although the particular wording in this grant may reveal genuine affection for his brother,[51] these acta as a whole could reveal that Arnulf was regarded as the heir of the unmarried and childless Hugh de Montgomery,[58] and that William Rufus intended to acknowledge this inheritance as well.[51] Partly as a result of the political conquest of Wales in the late eleventh century, the Anglo-Norman Church endeavoured to subjugate and exploit the Welsh Church. From the perspective of the English Crown, the Welsh Church was isolated, archaic, deviant, and backward-looking. Conversely, Anglo-Normans regarded themselves as religious reformers, and sought to impose their own standards and practices upon the Welsh. One way in which the Anglo-Normans imposed their ecclesiastical authority upon the Welsh was through the appointment and control of bishops.[61] Within a year of his consecration as Archbishop of Canterbury in December 1093, Anselm temporarily suspended the Welsh bishops of Glamorgan and St David's, revealing that these diocesan territories had fallen under Canterbury's ecclesiastical authority.[62][note 7] In May 1095, Wilfrid, Bishop of St David's came to terms with Anselm.[65] In turn, the latter admonished several leading Anglo-Normans holding lands in the diocese of St David's, urging them to regard Wilfrid as their bishop, and to return the lands, tithes, and churches that they had unjustly seized from him. Two marcher lords specifically singled out by Anselm were Arnulf and Robert de Bellême.[66][note 8] In fact, the ravaging of the lands of St Davids in 1097 by Arnulf's steward at Pembroke, Gerald, is recorded by the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Brenhinedd y Saesson, Brut y Tywysogyon, the "B" and "C" versions of the eleventh- to thirteenth-century Annales Cambriæ.[68] As a friend of the archbishop, Arnulf may have been more liable to respect this call of restraint from Anselm than from anyone else.[69] In 1098, together with Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester, Hugh de Montgomery led a summer invasion of Gwynedd. Although the Anglo-Normans easily defeated the Welsh defenders, the attackers were later overwhelmed on Anglesey in an encounter with the forces of Magnús Óláfsson, King of Norway.[70] Arnulf appears to have learned of his brother's fate about a month later in Normandy, since he travelled to Sées, and founded a priory of the abbey's monks at Pembroke in dedication to the memory of Hugh de Montgomery and his father.[71] Although Arnulf may well have hoped to inherit his brother's title and lands, William Rufus granted them to Arnulf's older brother Robert de Bellême,[72] who had captured Helias de la Flèche, Count of Maine only months before, dutifully handing the count over to the king.[73][note 9] read further in memories!
  5. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy - Arnoul de Montgomery, 6th son of Roger
    Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORMANDY%20NOBILITY.htm#RogerMontgommeryShrewsburydied1094A;
    Note: ARNOUL de Montgommery (-after 1119). Guillaume of Jumièges names “quinque filios et quatuor filias...Robertus et Hugo, Rogerius Pictavinus, Philippus et Arnulfus, Emma, Mathildis, Mabilia et Sibylla” as the children of “Willelmus Talavatius...filiam suam...Mabiliam” and “Rogerium de Monte-Gummeri”[546]. Orderic Vitalis names “Rodbertus de Bellismo, Hugo de Monte-Gomerici, Rogerius Pictavinus, Philippus atque Arnulfus” as the five sons of “Rogerius [de Monte-Gomerici]” and his first wife[547]. "Roger ex Northmannis Northmannus son of Roger" donated property to St Martin, Troarn for the soul of "his wife Mabel lately deceased" by charter dated to [1079/82], subscribed by "Rogerii comitis, Rotberti filii eius, Hugonis, Rogerii, Philippi, Arnulfis [filiorum eius]"[548]. "Rotbertus de Belismo filius Rotgerii comitis et Mabilie" donated the church of Saint-Léonard de Bellême, built by "Willelmus attavus Rotberti", to Marmoutier, with the consent of "fratres ipsius Rotberti, Hugo, Rotgerius, Arnulfus", by charter dated 1092[549]. "Arnulf son of earl Roger" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Martin, Sees for the souls of "his father Roger and his brother Hugh who was slain that year" by charter dated 27 Aug 1098[550]. He obtained the comitatus of Pembroke but was apparently not an Earl. The Annals of Margan record that “Robertus comes de Belesmo” was expelled from England in 1102 “cum fratre suo Arnulfo”[551]. He was banished from England with his brother Robert[552]. According to Europäische Stammtafeln, he went to Scotland and was ancestor of the MONTGOMMERIE family in Scotland[553], but the following charter indicates that he was still active in the Maine/Anjou area twenty years later. “Berlaius de Monasteriolo et Geraudus filius eius, Hernulfus de Monte Gomeri” witnessed the charter dated to [1118/26] which records that “Herbertum de Wircha generum Goffirdi de Asceio” confirmed the donation of the church of Saint-Médard de Vernie to Angers Saint-Nicolas by “Goffridus de Asceio et uxor sua filia Willelmi de Verneia”[554]. m (1102) LAFRACOTH of Munster, daughter of MURTACH O'Brien King of Munster & his wife ---. She is named daughter "of an Irish king named Murchertach" by Orderic Vitalis[555]. The Annals of Inisfallen record that "Muirchertach Ua Briain made a marriage alliance with the French and with the Norsemen” in 1102[556].
  6. Title: Geneanet - Arnulph de Montgomery
    Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=en&n=de+montgomery&oc=0&p=arnulf;
  7. Title: Geni - Arnulph de Montgomery, Earl of Pembroke
    Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Arnulph-de-Montgomery-Earl-of-Pembroke/6000000002043201668;
  8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Arnulph DeMontgomery - birth: 1048;
    Author: Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2006;, www.ancestry.com, Page number: Database online.
    Note: birth: 1048; Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA, The GenerationsNetwork, Inc., 2006). death: 1126; ,,,France Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA, The GenerationsNetwork, Inc., 2006). Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA, The GenerationsNetwork, Inc., 2006).
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244514587
  9. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Arnulph De Montgomery -
    Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3243695014
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