Piers de Lutegareshale

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PIERS de Lutegareshale [Ludgershall], son of --- (-Winchester 11--, bur 8 May 1198 Winchester, Church of St Swithin). He became a monk at Winchester before he died[550].

m as her first husband, MATILDA, daughter of ---. She married secondly Hugh de Bocland of Buckland (-1175).

Piers & his wife had two children:

1. ROBERT FitzPiers of Cherhill (-[1185/86]). m as her first husband, PERRONELLE, daughter of ---. She married secondly Eustace de Balliol of Barnard Castle.

2. GEOFFREY FitzPiers (-14 Oct 1213, bur Shouldham Priory). Having acquired part of the Mandeville inheritance from 1190, de iure uxoris, he was created Earl of Essex 27 May 1199. “Gaufridus filius Petri comes Essex” donated the chapel of St Peter, Drayton to York Cathedral by undated charter[551]. The Red Book of the Exchequer, listing scutage payments in [1194/95], records "Galfridus filius Petri" paying "iv xx xviii [=98?] l vi s viii d" in Essex, Herefordshire[552]. The Continuator of Florence of Worcester records that King John gave "comitatum Estsexiæ" to "Galfrido filio Petri" the day of his coronation "VI Kal Jul" 1199[553]. The Annals of Waverley record the death in 1213 of “Gaufridus filius Petri comes de Essexe et justitiarius totius Angliæ”[554]. The History of the foundation of Walden abbey records the death in 1214 of “Galfridus filius Petri, comes Essexiæ” and his burial “apud Soldham”[555]. m firstly (before 25 Jan 1185) BEATRICE de Say, daughter and co-heiress of WILLIAM de Say of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire & his wife --- (-before 19 Apr 1197, bur Chicksand Priory). The History of the foundation of Walden abbey names “Beatricem” as daughter of “Willielmus de Say”, son of “Beatrix de Mandavilla domina de Say, soror Galfridi primi, fundatoris, et amita Willielmi” and adds that she married “domino Galfrido filio Petri”[556]. Through her paternal grandmother, Beatrice de Mandeville, Beatrice was heir to William de Mandeville Earl of Essex. She died in childbirth, presumably giving birth either to her youngest son Henry or to her daughter Matilda. m secondly (before 29 May 1205) AVELINE de Clare, daughter of ROGER de Clare Earl of Hertford & his wife Matilda de Saint-Hilaire (-(-[22 Nov 1220/4 Jun 1225).

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Piers de Lutegareshale married Maud (?).

Child of Piers de Lutegareshale and Maud (?)

1.Geoffrey FitzPiers, 1st Earl of Essex+ b. b 1170, d. 14 Oct 1213

Citations

1. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume V, page 122. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

source: http://www.thepeerage.com/p23401.htm

This family is descended from one Piers de Lutegareshale (c1134-1180), who was forester of Lutegaresdale or Lutegareshale in Wiltshire in the reign of Henry II. Though not well documented, his father was probably named John. Piers married Maud, and they were the parents of at least two sons: (1) Robert FitzPiers, married but no children, died 1186; and (2) Geoffrey FitzPiers (died 1213) Justiciar, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, who married twice. His first wife was Beatrix, daughter of William de Say and granddaughter and heiress of William de Mandeville, third Earl of Essex. Geoffrey therefore became Earl of Essex jure uxoris, and his four children by Beatrix took the name Mandeville - see that page for that family.

Geoffrey FitzPiers married second (in 1205) Aveline (died 1225), daughter of Roger de Clare, 2nd/3rd Earl of Hertford, 'Earl of Clare' (1116-1173), and widow of Sir William de Munchensy of Gooderstone (see Mouchensi); she is our ancestor by both marriages. They had three children: (1) John FitzGeoffrey FitzPiers, see below; (2) Cecily (died 1253), married Savary de Bohun of Midhurst; and (3) Hawise (died 1246), married Reginald de Mohun, 5th Lord of Dunster.

John FitzGeoffrey FitzPiers of Shere, Sheriff of Yorkshire, Baron of Birkhampstead (died 1256) married Isabel, daughter of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, and widow of Gilbert de Lacy of Ewyas Lacy; she is our ancestor by both marriages. They had six children: (1) John FitzJohn of Shere, Sheriff of Westmoreland, 1st Lord Shere, married but died childless in 1275; (2) Richard FitzJohn of Shere, 2nd Lord, married but died childess in 1297; (3) Maud (died 1301), married first Sir Gerard de Furnivalle of Hallamshire, no children, and second William de Beauchamp of Elmley, 1st Earl of Warwick; (4) Isabel, married Robert de Vipont of Appleby, Sheriff of Westmorland; (5) Aveline (died 1274), married Walter de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, 1st Earl of Ulster; and (6) Joan (died 1303), married Theobald, 1st Lord de Botiller (see Butler).

The arms are described as: Quarterly, or and gules, a bordure vair.

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