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Muriel le Despenser
- Preferred Name: Muriel le Despenser[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Alternate Name: de Dutton
- Gender: F
- LdsEndowment: 22 JUN 1950 with note:
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Despenser-42: with note: Description: Wikitree
- FSID: LCJY-6WD
- LdsBaptism: 4 MAY 1950
- Death: AFT 1220 in Dutton, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.3089 LONG: E2.6395
- AFN: with note: Description: B6HW-5V
- Birth: ABT 1188 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England at LATI: N2.7727 LONG: E1.2068
- Fact: with note: Description: Heiress of Burton
- Christening: in Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1827 LONG: E2.5305
- LdsSealingToParents: 8 MAR 1957
- https://www.geni.com/people/Muriel-le-Despencer/6000000000490954545: with note: Description: Geni
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lady
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
NOTHING BELOW GIVES ANY EVIDENCE OF HER PARENTAGE. A "DESPENSER" WAS A JOB, SO THERE IS NO REASON WHY PEOPLE WITH THAT NAME SHOULD BE RELATED. AND GENI IS MOSTLY MISINFORMATION.
Muriel le DESPENSER [Parents] 1 was born 1188 in Arnesby, Leicestershire, England. She married Sir Hugh de DUTTON Knight on 1204 in Dutton, Cheshire, England.
They had the following children:
M i Sir Thomas de DUTTON Sheriff of Cheshire was born 1205 and died 1272.
M ii Geoffrey de DUTTON was born 1207.
source:
1Ormerod, George, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819.), 1:644, Family History Library, 942.71 H2or.
She married Hugh de Dutton 5th Lord of Dutton-77761 in 1211 in Cheshire, England, Great Britain
Ancestors & Descendants
Not sure if this is correct or not but found - I have linked some of the profiles on GENI as food for thought and to show where some of the information has been gleaned form or copied from
1 Amaury Raoul d'Arbetot born about 1056 Lincolnshire, England died after 1096
father: unknown
mother: unknown
spouse: unknown
children:
Robert d'Arbetot (Abbetot) Despencer born about 1070? Lincolnshire, England
http://www.mathematical.com/arbetotamaury1056.html
2 Robert d'Arbetot (Abbetot) Despencer born about 1070? Lincolnshire, England
father: Amaury Raoul d'Arbetot born about 1056 Lincolnshire, England died after 1096
mother: unknown
spouse: wife of Robert d'Arbetot (Abbetot) Despencer
children:
Robert le Despencer born Lincolnshire, England
Urse or Urso d'Arbitot born 1090 married Adeline wife of Urso d'Arbitot born about 1090? Derbyshire, England born about 1070? Lincolnshire, England
William Talvas Montgomery Despencer born 1100 Elington, Lincolnshire, England
http://www.mathematical.com/despencerrobert1094.html
3 William Talvas Montgomery Despencer born 1100 Elington, Lincolnshire, England
Father: Robert d'Arbetot (Abbetot) Despencerborn 1070? Lincolnshire, England
mother: unknown
spouse: Alix Ala de Burgundy born about 1102/03 died before 1150
children:
Richard le Despencer born 1120 Elington, Lincolnshire, England
Thurston le Despencer born about 1122 London, Middlesex, England
http://www.mathematical.com/despencerwilliam1100.html
4 Thurston le Despencer born about 1122 London, Middlesex, England
father: William Talvas Montgomery Despencer born 1100 Elington, Lincolnshire, England
mother: Alix Ala de Bourgogne born about 1103 died before 1150
spouse: unknown
children:
Galfridus (Geoffrey) le Despencer born about 1155 Defford, Worcestershire, England died 1251
Hugh Despencer born about 1152 Ryhale, Rutland, England died 1199
Walter Despencer born about 1148 Stanley, Lincolnshire, England
Almaric Despencer born about 1150 Ryhale, Rutlandshire or Stanley, Gloucestershire, England died after 1189
http://www.mathematical.com/despencerthurston1122.html
5 Hugh Despencer born about 1152 Ryhale, Rutland, England died 1199
father: Thurston le Despencer born about 1122 London, Middlesex, England
mother: unknown
spouse: unknown
children:
Thomas Despencer born about 1169 Elington, Lincolnshire, England
http://www.mathematical.com/despencerhugh1152.html
6 Thomas Despencer born about 1169 Elington, Lincolnshire, England
father: Hugh Despencer born about 1152 Ryhale, Rutland, England died 1199
mother: unknown
spouse: *Rohese wife of Thomas Despencer
children:
Hugh le Despencer born about 1197 Ryhall, Rutlandshire, England died 23 February 1238
*Thomas le Despencer born about 1195 Leicestershire, England died 1218
Muriel le Despencer born about 1181 Cheshire, England
Galfridus (Geoffrey) le Despencer born about 1185 Defford, Worcestershire, England
christened Martley, Worcestershire, England died 1242
Rohesia le Despencer born about 1180 Ryhale, Rutlandshire died Seagrave, Leicestershire, England
http://www.mathematical.com/despencerthomas1169.html
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Muriel le Despencer's Timeline
1181
1181
Birth of Muriel
Lougborough, Leicestershire, England
1212
1212
Age 31
Birth of Hugh V, 6th Lord of Dutton
Dutton, Cheshire, England
1214
1214
Age 33
Birth of Sir Thomas de Dutton, 7th Lord of Dutton
Dutton, Cheshire, England
1215
1215
Age 34
Birth of John Dutton
Dutton, Cheshire, England
1216
1216
Age 35
Death of Muriel at Dutton, Cheshire, England
Dutton, Cheshire, England
1217
1217
Age 35
Birth of Adam Dutton
Dutton, Cheshire, England
1217
Age 35
Birth of Geoffrey de Dutton, of Nether Tabley
Dutton, Cheshire, England
=== Lawson, P. H., Fellow of the Society of ===
Lawson, P. H., Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians; "The Duttons of Dutton, county Chester," Chart, Cheshire County, England. Sources cited by Lawson: Ormerod's "Cheshire," 2nd Ed.; J.P. Yeatman, Ho. of Arundel, 1882, in Lt. Col. W.H.
Turtor's Plantagenet Ancestry; J. H. Tyrrell's History of the Tyrell's; Latrie's Tresor de Chronologie; Harl., Wills, Visitations of Cheshire, 1580, 1613; Randle Holme pedigrees in Harl MSS; Wills; Marriage Lics; Freeman Rolls; and parish
registers from Frodsham, Waverton and Thornton; and private information.
Cope, Gilbert. Genealogy of the Dutton Family of Pennsylvania. F. S. Hickman, Printer, West Chester, 1871.
This work contains the relevant parts of "Leycester's Historical Antiquities," published in 1673 by Peter Leycester, baronet, in which the author presents the principal families and estates in the Bucklow Hundred.
Currently available through Higginson Genealogical Books. 14 Derby Square, Salem, Mass. 01970. Abbr. Cope: person, page 15
Ormerod, George. History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Second Edition Revised and Enlarged by Thomas Helbsy, Esq., London: 1882. (Vol.1-3) pps. 643-654. (Compact Disk available from the Cheshire Local History Association and the
Family History Society of Cheshire.)
http://www.genealogy.dutton.net/
*Forrest=fathers direct line,! dna connections
@Stolp=mothers direct line
+Tamer=husbands direct line
#Wallace & ^Stuetelberg=son-in-laws direct lines
all lines separated.With multiple marks cross over lines
without documentations all is speculative/with ???
Family 1: Hugh de Dutton 5th Lord of Dutton, b. ABT 1177 in Dutton, Cheshire, England d. 1234 in Dutton, Cheshire, England
- Sir Thomas de Dutton 7th Lord of Dutton, b. 1214 in Dutton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England d. 1272 in Dutton Hall, Runcorn, Cheshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Murial de Spencer -
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
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Murial de Spencer -
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:2676700743
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Murial de Spencer -
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:2041640822
- Title: Geoffrey "Galfiridus" le Despenser update
Author: internet
Publication: Name: https://soc.genealogy.medieval.narkive.com/3ymMEV2d/geoffrey-galfiridus-le-despenser-update;
Note: This Geoffrey "Galfridus" Dispensator de Hickeling, aka: de Rempeston seems to have had 3 sons:
1. Thomas le Despenser [1159-1207] of Burton-on-the-Wolds, Loughborough, Leicestershire, 'dispensator' of the Earl of Chester, died in Arnesby, Lutterworth, Leicestershire. = "Recuara' I Thoma dispensatore', witness together with Elias, 'his brother' of the gift of Ivo de Alspath, 'ca. 1160' .
2. Elias le Despenser, d. bef. 1254,
of Arnesby and Loughborough, co. Leics.
Ancestor of the Nell's family, who bear same arms.
witness to gift of Ivo de Alspath to the monks of St. Nicholas of
Kirby, ca. 1160, together with Thomas 'dispensatore' as 'Elias, his
brother'[11],[13],[14] enfeoffed in Arnesby, co. Leics. by Hugh de Beauchamp, and also Loughborough, co. Leics.: ' Henry II, about 1158, enfeoffed Hugh de Bello Campo of the vill of Arnesby, Leics., ...by the service of 1 knight, and Hugh enfeoffed among others Ellis Despenser of 15 virgates. The
successor of Ellis was Thomas Despenser,...' Farrer, HKF II:58[6]
(cited by Kay Allen)[15]
Children of Elias:
.............Nigel le Despenser kt. , fls. 1230 = Alice "Dispensatoris" - seal three fleur de-lys
.............Isabel le Despenser = Thomas Hotoft
.............Muriel le Despencer (c.1181 - 1216)= Sir Hugh de Dutton Knight 1204 in Dutton, Cheshire
.............Alice le Despenser = John Putrell
3. Hugo de Rempston , Notts. gave 5 BOVATES of land to Garanden Abbey.
Page: parentage of Muriel. Given dates (born 1181) do not fit as a daughter of Thomas (married 1185)
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Murial de Spencer - Published information: death: ; England, United Kingdom
Note: Published information: death: ; England, United Kingdom
Published information: female
Published information: birth: about 1191; Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Published information: birth-name: Muriel le Despencer
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2036922561
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