Theophania de Balliol

• Not the same as Tiphaine de Baliol
• not a known daughter of Agnes de Percy (?)
• not a known daughter of Eustace de Balliol, Sheriff of Cumberland

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PoMS, no. 2051 (https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/person/2051/; accessed 01 May 2023)

Gilbert (II) was the son and heir of Richard de Umfraville (d.1226), lord of Prudhoe and Redesdale (Northumberland), titles which Gilbert inherited upon his father's death. … Gilbert married first Theophania, perhaps a member of the Balliol family, who brought her husband the lands of Mickley in England. They had no children. She died before 1243, in which year he married Maud/Mathilda, daughter of Malcolm, earl of Angus and widow of John Comyn.

Theophania de Umfraville was dead before 1243, when Sir Gilbert married his second wife, Maud (or Matilda) Angus, daughter of Malcolm, earl of Angus, and widow of John Comyn.[1]

Summerson, Henry. "Umfraville, de, family (per. c. 1100–1245), barons." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online version: 3 January 2008; (https://www-oxforddnb-com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/97801... accessed 2 March 2022).

Family

Wikipedia contributors. "Gilbert de Umfraville (died 1245)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 23 Apr. 2022. Web. 1 May. 2023

Gilbert de Umfraville (d.1245) was a 13th-century nobleman. Gilbert was the eldest son of Richard de Umfraville, Lord of Redesdale. He succeeded his father as Lord of Redesdale and Baron Prudhoe from 1226 at his seat of Prudhoe Castle. He also had lands at Otterburn.

Marriage and issue

He married firstly Theophania de Balliol, [daughter of Eustace de Balliol and Agnes de Percy] [unproven]

He married secondly Matilda of Angus, daughter of Máel Coluim, Earl of Angus and Mary de Berkeley and had issue:

• Gilbert, married Elizabeth Comyn, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, had issue. Died in 1308.

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Wikipedia contributors. "Umfraville." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 24 Apr. 2022. Web. 1 May. 2023.

The Umfraville family were Anglo-Norman landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of England, where they held the strategic lordships of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northumberland. They held, for the English Crown, Tynedale to the Cumbrian Border up to the border with Scotland.

Gilbert II, Earl of Angus (died 1245)
Further information: Gilbert de Umfraville

Succeeding his father Richard in 1226, his first wife was Tiffany, a member of the Balliol family. After she died, in 1243 he married Maud, widow of John Comyn and daughter of Malcolm, Earl of Angus, who was the mother of his only son, Gilbert III. He is usually called Earl of Angus in right of his wife, who remarried after his death.[2]

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jmc4 - Church Explorer Northumberland, Hexham

1244/45 Sir Gilbert Umfreville , Lord of Prudhoe and lady who could be his second wife Maud Countess of Angus, daughter of Malcolm 6th Earl of Angus and Mary Berkeley whom he married in 1243... As a titled heiress she lies on the high status position.

Gilbert was born pre 1217. He was the son of Richard de Umfreville. . As a result of his marriage, Gilbert was styled as Earl of Angus, jure uxoris. He gained the title of Lord of Prudhoe and Redesdale, in Northumberland. On 8 January 1226/27 he did homage for his father's lands.

Children of Gilbert and Maud

• 1. Gilbert de Umfreville, 8th Earl of Angus (bc1244 d pre 1307) m Elizabeth daughter of Alexander Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchan and Elizabeth de Quincy.
• 2. John the younger m Alice de Laherne
• 3. Isabella m1 David I Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl m2 Alexander de Baliol of Cavers
• 4. Richard of Dover

Gilbert m1 Theophania daughter of Eustace de Balliol and Perronnelle Fitzpiers having 4 sons John, Henry, William and Ralf

Origins

Wikipedia contributors. "Eustace de Balliol, Sheriff of Cumberland." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 Feb. 2023. Web. 1 May. 2023.

Eustace de Balliol (died 1274), Baron of Kirklington, Sheriff of Cumberland and Governor of Carlisle Castle was an English knight.

He was a younger son of Hugh de Balliol and Cecily de Fontaines. Eustace served as the Sheriff of Cumberland and the Governor of Carlisle Castle from October 1261 until 1265. Eustace married Helewise, daughter of Ranulph de Lexington and Ada de Gernon.[2] He took the cross in 1271 and went on crusade in the Holy Land, as part of Lord Edward's crusade. He returned and learned that his wife Helewise had died. Eustace married secondly Agnes, daughter of William de Percy and Joan Briwere. He died in 1274 and had no surviving issue.

Arms of Eustace de Balliol from Henry III's Roll (Glover's Roll #40): Azure crusilly an orle or

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustace_de_Balliol,_Sheriff_of_Cumber... cites
  • Beam, Amanda G. (2008). The Balliol dynasty : 1210-1364. Edinburgh: John Donald. ISBN 978-1-904607-73-1. OCLC 195741774.
  • McAndrew, Bruce A. (2006). Scotland's historic heraldry. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 1-84383-261-5. OCLC 71264510.
  • Waters, Robert Edmond Chester (1878). Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley: Their Ancestors and Descendants. Vol. 1. Robson & Sons.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_de_Umfraville_(died_1245) cites
  • Burke, Sir Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (London 1883)
  • Paul, Sir James Balfour, The Scots Peerage, (Edinburgh, 1904), vol. i, Angus. Page 167. < GoogleBooks >
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umfraville
• https://www.cotyroneireland.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I4905&tr... lists as daughter of Eustace de Balliol, Baron of Bywell (d 1221)
• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall. < GoogleBooks > lists Tiphaine de Baliol as wife of Hugh de Bolebec