Elias de Giffard

• Preferred Name: Elias de Giffard^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: Elias Giffard Lord of Brimpsfield II
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: 97B7-XFS
  
• Birth: 1100 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8132 LONG: E2.0923 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• LdsBaptism: 1 APR 1933 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 1166 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8644 LONG: E2.239 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• LdsEndowment: 15 MAY 1933 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Alt. Death: BEF 29 SEP 1159 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8132 LONG: E2.0923
  
• Residence: in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8132 LONG: E2.0923 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87998007/elias_ii-giffard
  
• Burial: ABT 1166 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8132 LONG: E2.0923 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• NFS ID: with note: Description: LHGB-2VX NFS
  
• Alt. Birth: ABT 1095 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8132 LONG: E2.0923
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Brimpsfield in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8132 LONG: E2.0923
  
• Nickname:
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Elias-Giffard-Lord-of-Brimpsfield/6000000003148535391?through=6000000003051222123
  
• Residence: in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England, Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England, Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.8133 LONG: E2.0914 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Residence: in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.8133 LONG: E2.0914 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  
  Elias / Elis (Helias) "The Boy" Giffard, of Brimpsfield
  Also Known As: ""The Boy""
  Birth 1100 Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England
  Death: Died 1159 in Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, England
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Elias Giffard, I and Ala Giffard
  Husband of Bertha FitzRichard
  Father of Matilda (Maud) Scudamore; Walter Giffard; Richard Giffard; Berta Giffard de Clifford; Elias / Elis (Helias) Giffard, Lord of Brimpsfield and 2 others
  Brother of Gilbert Giffard, Sr
  Half brother of Osbourne Giffard
  Occupation:M. Abt 1126 Of Brimfield, Hereford, England, Lord Brimpsfield
  About Elias / Elis (Helias) "The Boy" Giffard, of Brimpsfield
  Succeeded his father in 1130; He was called “the Boy,” probably to distinguish him from his father. As “the Boy” he is named with wife Berta and son Walter in the time of Abbott Hamelin, who was abbott from 1148 to 1179. He grants the church of Boyton to the monks for the soul of Berta, his wife. [NEHGR 75:57ff Geneal Res in England, by Moriarty]
  alt dates: 1095-1166
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  Elias II Giffard
  BIRTH 1095
  Gloucestershire, England
  DEATH 1166 (aged 70–71)
  Gloucester, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
  BURIAL
  Saint Michael and All Angels Churchyard
  Brimpsfield, Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, England
  MEMORIAL ID 87998007 · View Source
  
  MEMORIAL
  PHOTOS 1
  FLOWERS 17
  Helias II Giffard was the son of Elias Giffard and Ala. He married Bertha de Clifford, daughter of Richard fitz Ponce. He paid 100 marks for his father's relief in 1130 (Pipe Roll, 31 Henry I) He succeeded his father in 1130. He was called "the Boy," probably to distinguish him from his father; and, as such he is named with his wife Berta and his son Walter, in the time of
  Abbot Hamelin, who was abbot from 1148-1179. He granted the church of Boynton to the monks for the soul of Berta, his wife, and this grant was afterwards confirmed by his son Walter. A later Helias Gifford tried to reclaim the grant of the
  church of Boynton, which had been made by his father Helias and his uncle Walter, but the gift was confirmed by Bishop Josceline of Sarum and afterwards by Bishop John, who was acting during the vacancy of that see, 1184-1189.
  Elias became a monk in Gloucester Abbey.
  Children
  Elias III Giffard b: 1145 in Brimsfield,Gloucestershire,England
  Matilda Giffard b: 1127 in Brimfield, Gloucestershire, England
  
  Family Members
  Parents
  Elias Giffard
  1064–1130
  
  Spouse
  Photo
  Bertha de Clifford
  1106–1170
  
  Children
  Elias III Giffard
  1152–1190
  
  === !: SOUR AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ ===
  !: SOUR AUTH The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints TITL Ancestral File(TM) PUBL June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 REPO @R01@
  
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  === !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
  !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
  === Sources: Norr p72 and 74; Genealogical R ===
  Sources: Norr p72 and 74; Genealogical Research in England by G.Andrews Moriarty, NEHGR 75/57-63 and 129-139; Ayers, p204, 409, 410. NEHGR: Elias (Helias) Giffard, succeeded his father in 1130. Hemarried Berta de Clifford. He was called "the boy," probably to distinguish himfrom his father. Had sons Elias (Helias) III and Walter of Boyton and Gilbert,both mentioned with their mother in 1177. Their father die before then? Norr p72: Elias Gifford II of Brimsfield, born about 1100, died about1159. Succeeded about 1129; became a monk in 1153. Norr p74: Born about 1094, died 1166. Take your pick. Ayers: Elias Giffard (II); became a monk in Gloucester Abbey; diedabout 1166.
  
  === !#21> Complete Peerage-v5-p639fn(c), (FH ===
  !#21> Complete Peerage-v5-p639fn(c), (FHL 942 D22cok); !AF: BAPT-END-SS> AFN:9HNHH2; !KIN> s & h; OCC> later, a monk in Gloucester Abbey;
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 5 J ===
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  === Elias (Helia) Giffard, of Brimsfield, su ===
  Elias (Helia) Giffard, of Brimsfield, succeeded his father in 1130. He married Berta de Clifford. He was called "the Boy," probably to distinguish him from his father; and as such he is named, with his wife Berta and his son Walter, in the time of Abbot Hamelin, who was abbot from 1148 to 1179. He granted the church of Boyton to the monks for the soul of Berta, his wife, and this grant was afterwards confirmed by his son Walter. A later Helias Gifford tried to reclaim the grant of the church of Boyton which had been made by his father Helia and his uncle Walter, but the gift was confirmed by Bisho Josceline of Sarum and afterwards by Bishop John, who was acting during the vacancy of that see, 1184-1189. [NEHGR: "Gifford-Sargent (cont)", G Andrews Moriarty; LXXV:61]
  
  === !NAME-SPOUSE-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-FATHER-DE ===
  !NAME-SPOUSE-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN-FATHER-DEATH: L.G. Pine, B.A., F.S.A. Scot., F.R.S.A., editor of "BURKE'S Genealogical and Heraldic History of the LANDED GENTRY" founded 1836 by John Burke and Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D (Ulster King of Arms 1853-92); Seventeenth edition; MCMLI London Burke's Peerage Ltd.; The Landed Gentry; pages 973-975; Mesa Family History Library, 942 D2buf A to Foster; Notes: Elias Gifford, Lord of Brimsfield, son of Elias and Ada (.......) Giffard, lord of Brimsfield, son of Osbern de Bolebec, Lord of Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, 3rd son of Duke of Normandy, Osbern De Bolbec, Sire de Longeville, living in the time of Richard (surnames Sans Peur); rendered account in 1130-1131 of 100 marks of silver for the relief upon his father's land (Pipe Roll, in 31st year of reign of Henry I, Gloucestershire), rendered account of 25 marks scrutage for his 12 1/2 knights' fees (Pipe Roll, 7th year of reign of Henry II, Wiltshire; Red Book of the Exchequer, 7th year of reign of Henry II, Wiltshire, fo. 50d.), gave the church of Boyton and the land of Craneham to the monastery of St. Peter of Gloucerstershire, of which he apparantly became a monk towards the close of his life; he married about 1127, Berta fitz Pons, daughter of Richard fitz Pons, and sister of Walter de Clifford (Round's Ancient Charters), (with the concent of her husband and her eldest son Elias, Berta granted one-half of the manor of Ullingwike, Herefordshire, which manor had been the gift of her father on her marriage, to the church of St. Peter of Gloucestershire, and her brother, Walter de Clifford, with the consent of his eldest son, Walter de Clifford, confirmed the grant), and he died about 1165/1166, leaving issue.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.13, 20, 45; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === !The Clifford Association: Died a monk, ===
  !The Clifford Association: Died a monk, after his wife's death.
  
  === Non-standard gedcom data: 1 HEAL 180P- ===
  Non-standard gedcom data: 1 HEAL 180P-FW9
  
  === {{British Isles 742-1499}} ===
  {{British Isles 742-1499}}
  == Biography ==
  
  TITLE: Lord of BRIMSFIELD / Earl of BUCKINGHAM.
  Paid 100 marks for his father's relief in 1130 (Pipe Roll, 31 Henry I).
  Succeeded his father in 1130. Called "the Boy," probably to distinguish him from his father; and, as such he is named with his wife Berta and his son Walter, in the time of Abbot Hamelin, who was abbot from 1148-1179. He granted the church of Boynton to the monks for the soul of Berta, his wife, and this grant was afterwards confirmed by his son Walter.
  Helias III Gifford tried to reclaim the grant of the church of Boynton, which had been made by his father Helias and his uncle Walter, but the gift was confirmed by Bishop Josceline of Sarum and afterwards by Bishop John, who was acting during the vacancy of that see, 1184-1189.Moriarty, G. Andrews. "Gifford-Sargent - GenealogicalResearch in England" New England Historical and Genealogical Register75:61 (1921) [https://books.google.com/books?id=88sUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA61&lpg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false at Google Books]
  
  : Became a monk in Gloucester Abbey.
  
  Children:
  *Elias (Helias)
  *Walter of Boyton
  *Gilbert
  
  == Sources ==
  
  * Ancestry family trees
  
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  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
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  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
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  === ! "He succeeded his father in 1130. He ===
  ! "He succeeded his father in 1130. He was called 'the boy' prob. to distinguish him from his father; and as such, he is named with his wife Berta and his son Walter, in the time of Abbot Hamelin, who was abbot from 1148 to 1179." ! References: English Origins of New England Families, NEHGR, I:623.
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
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• m. ABT 1127 in Gloucestershire, England

1. Richard Giffard, b. um 1122 in Fonthill Gifford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1232 in Oxfordshire, England
2. Elias Giffard III Lord of Brimpsfield, b. 1145 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England     d. 1190 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England
3. Walter Giffard of Boyton, b. ABT 1133 in Boyton, Brimfield, Gloucestershire, England     d. BET DEC 1185 AND 1226 in Northampton, England
4. Matilda Maud de Giffard, b. ABT 1128 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England     d. 12 JUN 1227 in Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England

1. Title: G. E. Cokayne: "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom"
   Author: G E Cokayne: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; Palgrave Mac\Mmillan (New York, November 1984); ISBN-10: 031215836X, ISBN-13: 978-0312158361
   Publication: Name: http://myheritage.com;
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Elias Giffard -
   Author: English Origins of New England Families; Gary Boyd Roberts {1984}, Page number: I:624
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742375
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Elias Giffard -
   Author: New England Historic and Genealogical Society Register, Page number: "Gifford-Sargent (cont)", G Andrews Moriarty; LXXV:61
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742369
   
4. Title: Elias II Giffard, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL7-1KPW : 12 June 2020), Elias II Giffard, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL7-1KPW;
   
5. Title: Book - The Origins of the Giffards of Twyford
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Elias Giffard -
   Author: Battle Abbey Roll with Account of the Norman Lineages; Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland {1889}, Page number: II:123
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741141
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Elias Giffard -
   Author: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Page number: V:639(b)
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741118