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Matilda Fitz Swain
- Preferred Name: Matilda Fitz Swain[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
- Alternate Name: Matilda
- Gender: F
- Fact: with note: Description: Co-Heir of Adam Fitz Swain
- Daughters+of+Adam: with note: Adam left two daughters. The eldest was Amabel, who married as her first husband Alexander de Crevequeur, and second, to William de Neville. Adam's second daughter was Matilda who married Adam de Montbegon.
- Birth: ABT 1136 in Silkstone, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.5521 LONG: E1.5635 with note: THERE WAS NO UNITED KINGDOM
- FSID: G8VP-ZWH
- Death: 1181 in Worsbrough-St Thomas, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.5349 LONG: E1.4633 with note: THERE WAS NO UNITED KINGDOM
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Matilda-fitz-Swain/6000000005965533083
- Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Baroness
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
EYC v.3 p.318 shows that Matilda, da of Adam fitz Swain was married three times.
By Adam de Montbegon who died before 1172, she had issue Roger de Montbegon d.s.p. 1227.
Her second husband was John Malherbe of Appleby, Lincs. d.1181, by whom she had three children - John Malherbe d.s.p. bef 1216; Mabel, wife of William de Lemare; and Clemence, wife of Eudes de Longviliers.
Maud married thirdly Gerard de Glanvill but had no issue by him.
A succession of charters to the monastery of Monk Bretton, which Adam fitz Swein founded, indicates that her eventual heirs were her grandchildren, Mabel de Lemare, wife of Geoffrey de Nevill, and John de Longviliers, by her second husband John Malherbe.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Adam Fitz Swain, b. ABT 1118 in Worsbrough Manor, Silkstone, Yorkshire, England d. ABT 1159 in Silkstone, Yorkshire, England
Mother: Beatrice FitzWalter, b. ABT 1118 in Silkstone, Yorkshire, England d. ABT 1170 in Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Family 1: Gerard de Glanville, b. 1122 in Brom Bacton, Suffolk, England d. AFT 1189 in England
Family 2: Adam de Bury, b. ABT 1140 in Hornby, Lancashire, England d. 1171 in Hornby, Lancashire, England
Family 3: Adam de Montbegon, b. 1140 in Hornby Castle, Lancashire, England d. 1189 in England
- Cecilia de Montbegon, b. ABT 1162 in Hornby Castle, Lancashire, England d. in Radcliffe, Lancashire, England
Family 4: John De Malherbe II, b. ABT 1135 in Appleby, Lincolnshire, England d. ABT 1181 in Silkstone, Yorkshire, England
- m. 1160 in Silkstone, Yorkshire, England
- Roger de Malherbe, b. ABT 1165 in Tacolneston, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
- Clemencia de Malherbe, b. ABT 1180 in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom d. ABT 1246 in Mulcastre Castle, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
- Mabel de Malherbe, b. ABT 1160 in Appleby, Lincolnshire, England d. ABT 1207 in Yorkshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Matilda FitzSwain, Daughter of Adam FitzSwain, Book ‘Final Concords of Lancaster', Pages 31 & 32, Footnote 1
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfor39reco/page/n52/mode/1up?view=theater;
- Title: Matilda FitzSwain, Wife of Adam de Montbegon, Book ‘Final Concords of Lancaster’, Pages 56, 57 & 58
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfor39reco/page/n77/mode/1up?view=theater;
- Title: Maud FitzSwain, Wife of Adam de Montbegon, Magna Carta Trust
Publication: Name: https://magnacarta800th.com/schools/biographies/the-25-barons-of-magna-carta/roger-de-montbegon/;
- Title: Matilda FitzSwain, Daughter of Adam FitzSwain, Book ‘Final Concords of Lancaster’, Pages 56, 57 & 58
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfor39reco/page/n77/mode/1up?view=theater;
- Title: A History of Cawthorne by Charles Tiplady Pratt Published 1882
Author: pages 15-24
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/ahistorycawthor00pratgoog#page/n38/mode/2up;
Note: Gives detailed acct of Ailric and his posterity down to John de Lungvillers, who had a daughter Margaret that Married the Neville line...
- Title: Matilda FitzSwain, Wife of Adam de Montbegon, Book ‘Final Concords of Lancaster', Pages 31 & 32, Footnote 1
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfhttps://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfor39reco/page/n52/mode/1up?view=theateror39reco/page/n52/mode/1up?view=theater;
- Title: Adam de Montbegon, Married One of the Daughters and Co-Heiresses of Adam FitzSwain, Book ‘Final Concords of Lancaster’, Page 51, Footnote 1
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfor39reco/page/n72/mode/1up?view=theater;
- Title: Lancashire inquests, extents, and feudal aids, Part 3 By Lancashire (England)
Author: page 62
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=OEcJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=lungviller+line&source=bl&ots=2grbw7egHy&sig=tZccbQK8c0pd3D8DEq-nPmuOqt4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXgZXlkpLMAhWFnIMKHbgcCg04ChDoAQggMAI#v=onepage&q=lungviller%20line&f=false;
Note: Gives more information on the Swein line of Ailric...
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