INTRODUCTION

The great antiquarian John Riddell (in ‘Stewartania’, 1843) made the case for a settlement in Scotland of a family of Hamilton prior to that of Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton.

‘But who, then, was the first Hameldun or Hamelton who actually held lands and had thus settled in Scotland anterior to Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton, the hitherto earliest discovered founder of the family? This may be a material preliminary to fixing their original ancestry, and, as it happens, is all in statu that we may be enabled to ascertain. The writer believes he can answer the preceding question by adduction of an original quit-claim by ‘Roger de Hameldun’ of his right to a carrucate of land in Oxenham, in Roxburghshire, which held of the Crown of Scotland, to John, Abbot of Whitby, in Yorkshire. It is without date, but must have been between 1245 and 1258, when the latter can be proved to have been Abbot. The preceding we may conclude also to have been the ‘Roger de Hameldun’, who is established by other Whitby deeds to have possessed Geker in ‘Hamelton’, along with the woods of ‘Hamilton’ which formed a manor in Yorkshire and hence must have been the foyer of these Hamiltons.

It hence follows that the first of the surname (for there is no prior notice of it there elsewhere) who had settled and actually held lands of the Crown in Scotland, was the preceding Roger de Hameldun, ‘as proprietor of Oxenham’, in Roxburghshire, between 1243 and 1258; and, singularly, of an English family, who, precisely like the Scottish eventually, had an estate named Hamilton, and who, in Scotch parlance, might be styled the Hamiltons of that Ilk in Yorkshire. In the Chartulary of Melrose, there are two charters, so far back as the reigns of William the Lyon and Alexander II, that is from 1166 to 1214, and from 1214 to 1249, thus far anterior to any Paisley Hamilton notice, which are respectively witnessed – the oldest by ‘Thoma de Homeldun, et Rogero filio ejus’, and the later by ‘Roberto de Hameldun’ and ‘Rogero de Hameldun’.

Hameldun, as has been shewn, is much earlier than the time of the fictitious Sir Gilbert, or true Walter Fitz-Gilbert, being traced through the Chartulary of Melrose from the reign of William the Lyon, down to that of Alexander II, who died in 1249, when we meet with Robert, and Roger de Hamelduns. I conceive this Roger may possibly have been the cotemporary of the same name, who figures in this excerpt from Burton’s Monasticon Eboracense, relative to the right of the Abbey of Whitby, Yorkshire, to parts of Oxenham. ‘Oxenham, Alan de Percy II., son of Alan de Perci, gave one carucate here (Gaufrid de Perci, another), confirmed by Malcom, King of Scotland, and by Henry de Perci, brother of Gaufrid, and by David, King of Scotland, and by Philip de Colevile, in Scotland … Roger de Hameldun, quit claimed to John Abbot of Whitby all his right herein. John, Abbot of Whitby, is shewn by the same Monasticon to have been elected Abbot in 1245, that is, in the identical reign of Alexander II, which makes the above Roger de Hameldun a cotemporary with the Roger de Hameldun in the Melrose Chartulary.

The property of Oxenham, afterwards, as can be proved, possessed by the Scotch Colvilles, also mentioned above, lay in Roxburghshire. Indeed it is further coincidental, that the first Melrose charter referred to during King William’s reign, and witnessed by Thomas de Hameldun, and Roger his son, though it does not prove any possessions by them, yet relates to the lands of Clifton and others, in the same county. Thus Hamiltons have been attached to the latter, but more especially by means of the transaction in Burton’s Monasticon, which proves their first possession in Scotland, in the person of Roger de Hameldon, to have been Oxenham, in Roxburghshire, as early as the reign of Alexander II, though he quit-claimed it; the family may have gone afterwards into the interior. But we have now at least got a high antiquity for ‘Hameldun’ with us, honestly come at, much above what has been so contorteously and inadequately strained’.

The following suggestion may account for the origins of these Hamiltons. William Crispin II. was an Anglo-Norman lord who held land in Wheldrake, Goodmanham, Arnodestorp, Dunnington, Elvington, Fyling, Hinderwell, Kirkleatham, Nafferton, Pockthorpe, Sutton upon Derwent, and Warter (Domesday Book, folio 322v.) of William de Percy I., who had taken over a Malet undertenant.

Of his sons were:

1. Philip de Colleville, from whom descended the Lords Colville of Scotland (E. A. Freeman, The Norman People, pp. 405-406, 1874). Philip de Colleville’s son, Philip de Colville, accepted an invitation of King Malcolm IV. of Scotland to settle in Scotland, and founded the baronies of Culross and Ochiltree. He was witness to a general confirmation by King Malcolm of all donations made by his predecessors to the monastery of Dunfermline before 1159. He was one of the hostages for the release of King William the Lion from captivity in 1174. The first possessions he obtained in Scotland were Heton and Oxenhame, in the county of Roxburgh.

‘Philippus de Colvill’ donated ‘terre in Hetoun ex dono Galphridi de Percy et Henrici patris sui’ to Dryburgh monastery by undated charter Bannatyne Club (1847) Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh: Registrum Cartarum Abbacie Premonstratensis de Dryburgh). Henry de Percy has granted and by this his charter established, to Whitby Abbey in perpetual alms, those donations by which Alan de Percy II., his brother, gave two ploughgates of land, one in Oxnam (ROX) and the other in Heiton (ROX), and that donation of one ploughgate of land in Oxnam which Geoffrey, his brother, gave to the same church in perpetual alms … Whitby Cart., no. 60, 24 May 1153. These were grandsons of William de Percy I., by his son, Adam de Percy I. : ‘By Emma de Gand,* dau. of Gilbert de Gand, Alan de Percy had issue had seven sons, whose names all appear in the Chartulary of Whitby Abbey, either as benefactors to that foundation, or at least as witnesses to the grants of others of their family. These sons were first, William de Percy, eldest son and heir; second, Walter Percy, surnamed of Rugemond, who was himself a Baron, and his name occurs as such in witness to a charter, which is printed in Selden’s Titles of honour. He or some other Walter de Percy had a son named Robert; third, Alan de Percy, surnamed Le Meschin, or The Younger; fourth, Geoffrey de Percy. These two last obtained considerable possessions in Scotland from King David; out of which they made grants to Whitby Abbey’. *Her niece was Alice de Gand, who married Roger de Mowbray, son of Neil d’Aubigny, overlord of Thomas de Colville.

Phillip de Colville’s son, another Thomas de Colville, obit.1219, constable of Dumfries Castle, was witness to several charters of King William the Lion between 1189 and 1199. ‘Thomas de Colevilla cognomento Scot’ donated ‘quartam partam de Almelidum … Keresban’ to Melrose abbey by charter dated to after 1200 (Melrose Liber, tome i., 192, p. 172). Roll constabul. – Philipp de Mubray,* Willmo de Vallon, Henr. Biset, Thomas de Colville, Adam fil Herb … Chart. Kelso. Thomas de Colville was a witness to several charters of K. William, between the year 1189 and 1199. Chart. Soltre, no. 6; Chart. Arbroth, no. 51. Thomas de Colville had property in Berwickshire. He was succeeded by William de Colville, his son, who granted to the monks of Newbotle the lands which belonged to his father ‘super le Ness.’ Chart. Newbotle, no. 210. William de Colville settled at Morham, in East Lothian, under William, the Lion. *Son of Nigel de Mowbray, son of Roger de Mowbray, who married Galiena, daughter of Waldeve, Earl of Dunbar, and with her acquired considerable property, particularly the Baronies of Barbougle, Dalmeny, and Inverkeithing.

2. Thomas de Colleville, the youngest son of the Anglo-Norman Colvilles, obtained, by gift of his father,Yearsley, also spelt Everley, Ifferley, and Yresley, a name deriving from Efor’s Leigh, meaning field of the wild boar, near York, where he granted lands to Byland Abbey: ‘In the reign of Stephen, Thomas de Colvyle gave pasture in the wood of Eversley (Yearsley) to Byland Abbey’ (Excerpt from The Yorkshire Archeological Journal, vol. xiv. See also Burton, Mon. Ebor., 72). He married Matilda d’Aubigny, who was third witness, after two canons, to a charter in which her husband granted lands to Newburgh Pryory, c. 1150. She was probably a close relative of Roger de Mowbray (Aubigny). ‘Lord Thomas de Colvyle gave to God and the monks all the land which is between the pool of their mill and Thorpe. He gave also all Bersclyve and Bertoft, and the appertenances of the vill of Cuckwald (Coxwold), lying to the north toward Whitaker, to do there with whatsoever they would for ever’ (Excerpt from Foundations of Bylands Abbey, Gentleman’s Magazine, 1843).

He had several sons recognised by posterity, among which were Philip de Colville, who was ancestor of the Colvilles of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and the Everlys of Yorkshire. He held land in Thimbleby and Sigston, Yorkshire. He was founder of the Nunnery of St. Stephens, Foukeholm, and of St. James Hospital, Northallerton (William Page, History of the County of York, p. 116, 1974). His son was William de Colville, who held one night’s fee of Robert de Gand, husband of Gunnora d’Albini Brito,* in the honour of Bourne, Lincolnshire, and 14 others in the same county, who, temp. Richard I., gave land to Whitby Abbey (J. C. Atkinson, ed., Cartularium Abbathiae de Whiteby, 1879). *Her sister, Maud d’Albini Brito, was the wife of William de Colville, brother-in-law of Robert de Gand. They were the daughters of Ralph de Albini Brito. This family were cousins of the Umfamvilles of Scotland.

The sons of William de Colville and Maud d’ Albini Brito were (1) William de Colville, who married Beatrice de Stuteville.*Their son was

Roger de Colville, of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire, father of Walter de Colville, who married Isabella d’ Albini Brito, of Aubourn and Counthorpe, Lincolnshire, daughter of William d’Albini Brito II.**, obit. 1242, son of William d’Albini Brito I. and Matilda, the daughter of Odonel de Umframville. (2) Robert de Colville, who held lands at Thimbleby and Arncliffe. His sons were Walter de Colville, obit. 1277, and Thomas de Colville, who held land in Coxwold, Oulston, and Yearsley. Thomas de Colville’s desmesnes formed one knight’s fee of Roger de Mowbray II. *She was the second-cousin of Nicholas de Stuteville II., of Liddel, Cumberland, who m. Devorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Roland of Galloway and Elena de Morville. Nicholas died in 1218, in Newcastleton, Liddesdale, Scotland. **His brother was Odinel d’Albini Brito. Walter de Colville and Isabella may have had a son, Gilbert, whose son, Walter, assumed the armorial bearings of his Umframville cousins.

‘Potentum de Northumb. potentiss: Odonellus De Umframvilla ad Castelli sui resartienda tecta indebite exactionibus vicinos suos compellebat,’ &c. He opposed the Scotch Invasion made under Duncan, and was in the Battle when William The Scotch King was made prisoner — Holingshed p. 424. Anno 20 Hy. 2d. his Castle at Harbottel was taken by the Scots — Leland Col. vol. 1, p. 353 — and his Castle of Prudhou besieged. But Robert de Stutevile, then Sheriff of Yorkshire, by the help of some Northern Barons timely relieved it. — Hoveden 308. In 23 Hy. 2d. this Odonel was one of the Witnesses to the arbitrament betwixt Alphonsus, King of Castile, and Sanctius, King of Navarre — Hoveden’s Annals, p. 332 and 538. As to his pious works, first he demised to the Monks of Newminster the Moors of Chyviott, with the Granges of Filtone and Tollard — Mon. Angl. vol. 2, p. 917, viz., Dominus Odonellus De Umframvill qui primus dimisit Nobis ad firmam Moras de Chyviothe et Grangias de Viltone & de Tollard, Will, De Umframvill, Ricardus De Umframville filii dicti Odonelli Gilberttjs De Umframville Matildis. Uxor ejus qui dederunt Nobis pasturam de turfhelle Gilbertus De Umframville filius ejus qui vendidit Nobis dicta loca ex integro cum omnibus pertin et libertatibus suis. … And gave to the Canons of Hexham the Church of Chelverton, with the Chapels of Birteley, Chipchess, Gonewarton, and Swynburne, Little Heton and Colevell.

In the Choir at Hexham, is an ancient and handsome tomb of that warlike family of the Umfrevilles, and figured in token of their having been in the Crusades: his children were Robert, William, Richard, Matilda, and Alicia. Matilda, the daughter to Odonel, married William Albini,* (Brito), and his first wife by whom she had issue, William de Albini, Son and Heir ye 4th of his name, Odonel Albini, and others — Dugd. Baron. vol. 1, p. 115, a. and b. This Odonel Albini lyes buried near the Chapter house in the Priory of Belvoir, and near him his Mother, Matildis de Umframville, both on the West side.— Mon. Angl, vol. 1, p. 328, b.

*His uncle was Ralph d’Albini Brito, who obtained fifteen knights’ fees from his brother William, in the 12th of Henry II, and in the 28th of the same reign, he gave two hundred marks for license to marry the mother of Evrard de Ross, (whose name was Sibill a de Valoines) This feudal baron, who founded some religious houses, died at Acre, in the Holy Land, in 1190. William, Son of Odonel de Umframville — Dugd. Mon. Angl, vol. 2, 917, a. 9, is cited. And the Arms of gules, 3 cinque foils or, appropriated to him , finding such a coat borne by the name of D’umfrevile in the delineated MSS. of Wingfield, of Crowfield in Suffolk, 1602, reduced into alphabetical order by J. Gibbon, Bluemantle Poursuivant, living 1714, for as omnis additio probat minor italser, so taken to be here; and that his elder brother’s coat was gules, a cinque foil or, the crosses not being as yet added’ (Simon Segar, The Umfrevilles: their ancestors and descendants, pp. 8-9, 1855).

Ralph de Albini Brito (- 1191) m. as her third husband, Sybil de Valognes, widow firstly of Robert de Ros,* and secondly of William de Percy, son of Allan de Percy II. and Emma de Gand. Her third marriage is confirmed by the 1181/82 Pipe Roll which records ‘Radulfus de Alben’ accounting for ‘cc. m pro ducenda matre Ebrardi de Ros’ in Yorkshire. Gunnora de Albini Brito married (1) Robert de Gand and (2) Nicholas de Stuteville I., as the youngest of the three daughters of Ralph de Albini Brito and his wife. Robert de Gand was a benefactor to the Abbey of Bardney. He died in 1192, leaving issue by his first wife Alice,** the dau. of William Paynel, one daughter the wife of Robert Fitz Harding, by whom she had issue an only son Maurice, who assumed the name of Gand. Dying without issue in 1230, the estates reverted to his uncle Gilbert de Gand, son of the above Robert by his second wife Gunnora, the neice of Hugh de Gurnay. *Their grandson was Robert de Ros II., who was deputed one of those to escort William the Lion, his father-in-law, into England, to swear fealty to King John. Some years later, Robert de Ros assumed the habit of a monk, whereupon the custody of all his lands and Castle Werke (Wark), in Northumberland, were committed to Philip d’Ulcote, but he soon returned and about a year later he was High Sheriff of Cumberland. In early 1191, in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, Ros m. Isabella MacWilliam (Isibéal nic Uilliam), widow of Robert III de Brus. Isabella was the illegitimate dau. of William the Lion, King of Scots by a daughter of Richard Avenel. **Alice Paynell, widow of Richard de Courcy, daughter of William Paynell of Drax & his second wife Avice de Rumilly.

Thomas de Colville was witness to a gift of Roger de Mowbray I. (whose wife was the cousin of Alan de Percy II., and who was the overlord of Thomas de Colville, who had married Roger’s kinswoman) of land in Stainton which was confirmed by Henry II. (1155-1157). His testibus were Nigelo de Mowbrai (son), Roberto Capellano, Rogeri de Mowbrai (son), Roberto capellano de Helmeslac, fratre Waltero Ruffo de Templo, Roberto de Daivilla, Thoma de Colevilla, Radulfo de Belvere, Helia de Ferlinctuna, Thoma de Hamelduna. Thomas de Hameldun took his name from a range of hills known as Black Hambleton’ (William Farrer ed., EYC, vol. iii. Malet Fee, p. 453, repub. 2013). Thomas de Colville’s main residence was Coxwold, eighteen miles north of York, set just on the rise into the Hambleton Hills, with a view over to the ruins of Byland Abbey. Domes. Hameltun, Hameldun, or Hamelton Hill is a specific place in Nidderdale: In the Carta of Roger de Mowbray de recompensatione de Niderdala, in the Register of Fountains Abbey, fol. 148. 6., given in Dugdale, Throstle How is thus mentioned as a point on the boundary of Fountains Earth: ‘et sic usque ad Frostilde hou, et de Frostilde-hou usque ad Hameldon, et inde usque ad Dalhagha et totum Dalhagha (Dallowgill) et inde trans versnm moram deversus Scfoldene’.

Thoma de Hamelduna was probably a younger son of Thomas de Colville, and was he who witnessed the Melrose charter as Thoma de Homeldun (probably c. 1175) with his son Roger de Homeldun, a later Melrose charter being witnessed by ‘Roberto de Hameldun’ (probable son of Roger) and his son ‘Rogero de Hameldun’, who witnessed the gift of Alan de Percy II. to Whitby of lands in Oxenham, given to him by Henry and Geoffrey de Percy, his brothers, their tenant in Hetoun being ‘Philippus de Colvill’. The interwoven nature of these associations is typical of the medieval kinship group, which gave patronage to those within.

The earliest recorded Hamiltons in Scotland were probably of the Colville family, whose historic links to the Percys saw them established in Roxburghshire as both Colville and Hameldun. This is not to say that any subsequent Hamiltons of Scotland were their offspring, yet the probability is there to the open mind.

Of the ‘de Hamelduns’ of Rutland: Odinel d’Umfraville, one of the barons who captured William the Lion at Alnwick, died seised of land in Normanton and elsewhere in the county of Rutland in 1182 and was succeeded by his son Robert (ob.s.p. about 1195).Hambleton was taken into the king’s hands in 1199 as security for a debt owed by Robert’s brother and heir Richard to Maud, daughter of Ralph Vinitor. Richard joined the barons against King John and his lands were forfeited, but were restored in 1217. He was succeeded in 1226 by his son Gilbert, who married Maud, Countess of Angus, aunt and heir of Earl Malcolm, and daughter and heir of Gilechrist, Earl of Angus, by Maud, sister of William the Lion, and became Earl of Angus in her right in 1243. His widow Maud (d. 1261) received the manor of Hambleton in dower in 1245 until the king assigned her full dower. The heir Gilbert, second Earl of Angus, was in possession of Hambleton in 1275. He settled the two manors in 1289 on his eldest son Gilbert III. and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Thomas de Clare.

The institution of Richard de Hameldon to Normanton: ‘Nouverit universitatas vestra, nos, ad presentationem noblis viri Gilberti de Dunfranvill, patroni eclesie de Normanton …’ (Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste, episcopi lincolniensis, A. D. MCCXXXV-MCCLIII). In that granting of church ‘livings’ was usually confined to someone related to the patron, it is reasonable to assume that Richard de Hameldon was of the family of ‘noblis viri Gilberti de Dunfranvill, although this relationship was not necessarily of the blood (see genealogical table, as follows). Richard de Hameldon was not the first of that name to have been a cleric associated with the Umfravilles – 1238, Adam de Hameldon, Sub-deacon, Market Overton (sponsored) by Dns. Gilbert de Umfraville; in 1252 notice is made of ‘Willielmus de Hameldene’ and the ‘maneria Hameldon’ and Overton in comitatu Botelandiae’, this William being alive in c. 1280. Patronage of the church of Hameldon was of the Bishops of Lincoln from 1232 (R. iii, f. 123., f. 192). The fact that these ‘de Hameldens’ were priests detracts from them having any genealogical significance.

The only evidence for a non-clerical ‘de Hameldon’ occurs in a deed of c. 1280-1300 relating to North Luffenham (Oakham juxta Hameldon), in which place Simon Basset was lord, who had married a daughter of William de Avenel. I assume John Basset to be his son, a younger brother of Ralph Bassett, living 1292, who m. Elizabeth, dau & coheir of Roger Colvile, descendant of William de Colville and Maud d’Albini (Brito/Bretoun). This family were cousins of the Umfamvilles of Scotland. Exchange: (i) William son of William of North Luffenham (Oakham), (ii) John Basset, his Lord – 3 rods arable land in North Luffenham (lies in the east field of the town between John’s own land and that of Richard de Hameldon abutting on the garden of Thomas de Cimiterio and 1 rod lies in the north field above the town between ii’s own land and that once Henry Gernet’s stretching over Middilsti); and service of 2d annual rent. In exchange for 1a land in the west field Witnesses: John de Glaston; Richard Toky; Robert Waytesckach; Robert Bretoun; Hugh de Halinton; William the clerk. It is not improbable that the Umfravilles were patrons of their Colville (Hameldon) cousins in Rutland.

Or, in some cases at least, the appelation ‘de Hameldun’ was adopted by a series of clerics – William de Hameldon, ‘rectoris’ was almost certainly the son of Roger de Hameldon, i.e. ‘Roger Bridge of Hambledon’ (‘Rogeri ad pontem de Hamelton’). A ‘Johen ad Pontem’ appears in military writs of Leicester, 1296. It was a toponym adopted by those who settled ‘at the bridge’ in various places.

ROLLS AND REGISTER OF BISHOP SUTTON

‘Whissendine in Rutland (Wyssenden’). R. William son of Roger Bridge of Hambledon, clerk in minor orders, p. by Sir John of Swinburn, knight, and John, sacristan of Lindores, proctors of the A. and C. of Lindores, to the church of Whissendine vacant by the death of Master Rolandinus and the res. of William of Swinburn who was first presented. The presentation was disputed by Lady Devorguilla de Balliol, Robert Bruce the elder and John of Hastings, who presented another candidate. After litigation, a royal writ directed the bishop to accept the candidate of the abbot of Lindores. (This writ is given in full). William was therefore given custody of the church August 8, 1289, and ordained subd. and inst. at S. Leonard’s outside Stamford, December 17, 1289. Had letters patent.

Willelmo filio Rogeri ad pontem de Hamelton’ clerico presentato hi minoribus ordinibus per dominum Johannem de Swyneburn’ militem et fratrem Johannem de Lundors sacristam monasterii de Lundors in Scotia procuratores Abbatis et Conventus de Lindores, presentandi ad ecclesiam de Wyssenden’ cum vacaret specialem potestatem habentes, ad eandem ecclesiam de Wyssenden’ vacantem per mortem Magistri Rolandini ultimi rectoris ejusdem, facta prius inquisitione per Decanum de Roteland’ per quam acceptum extitit inter cetera dictam ecclesiam esse litigiosam per oppositionem domine Deverguyle de Balliolo alium clericum presentantis ex adverso et post altercationem aliqualem inter eos in curia domini Regis habitam recepto brevi regio sub hac forma: — E. etc., Sciatis quod cum Abbas de Lundors in curia nostra coram dilecto et fidele nostro Elia de Bekingham justiciario ad hoc assignato arramiasset
assisam ultime presentationis die veneris in festo beate Marie Magdalene apud Tyneweir versus Robertum de Brus seniorem, Johannem de Hasting’ et Devergullam de Balliolo de ecclesia de Wyssenden’, idem Robertus, Johannes et Devergulla venerunt in eadem curia nostra et concesserunt predicto abbati hac vice presentationem suam ad predictam ecclesiam, salvo sibi jure suo cum alias inde loqui voluerint. Ex ideo vobis mandamus quod non obtante reclamatione predictorum Roberti, Johannis et Devergulle, ad presentationem predicti abbatis ad predictam ecclesiam hac vice ydoneam’.

A PROPOSED HAMILTON ANCESTRY

A.
1. Gilbert Crispin I.
1.1. William Crispin I. (ob. ante 1084), m. Eve de Montfort.
1.1.1. Wlliam Crispin II. m. Agnes Mauvoisin.
1.1.1.1. Philip de Coleville, of Heton and Oxenhame, in the county of Roxburgh, Scotland.
1.1.1.1.1. Thomas de Colville, obit.1219, Constable of Dumfries Castle, witness to several charters of King William the Lion between 1189 and 1199.
1.1.1.2. Thomas de Coleville, m. Matilda d’Aubigny, probably a close relative of Roger (d’Aubigny) de Mowbray, his overlord.
1.1.1.2.1. Philip de Colville, held land in Thimbleby and Sigston, Yorkshire. At the end of the 12th century Bishop Hugh Pudsey granted the manors of Thimbleby, Ellerbeck and Foxton and Sigston to his seneschal Philip Colville. The land to the east of Thimbleby rises to the Hambleton Hills. The manor of Hallikeld in Sigston was held by Thomas Colville in 1302, of the Bishop of Durham.

1.1.1.2.1.1. William de Colville, m. Maud d’Albini (Brito), dau. of Ralph d’Albini (Brito). William held one night’s fee of Robert de Gand in Lincs., husband of Gunnora d’Albini (Brito), Maud’s sister. Ralph d’Albini (Brito) was the uncle of William Albini I. (Brito), who m. Matilda, the dau. of Odonel de Umframville (grandfather of Gilbert de Umframville) whose family armorial was gules, 3 cinque foils or. William Albini I. and Maud had issue: William de Albini II., obit. 1242, and Odenel d’Albini (Brito), ‘buried near the Chapter house in the Priory of Belvoir, near him his Mother, Matildis de Umframville, both on the West side’ — Mon. Angl, vol. 1, p. 328, b. (At Domesday, Robert de Tosny, lord of Belvoir, held Duxford, Gilbert the bearded being is tenant there (V.C.H. Cambs. i. 381). Belvoir passed through heiresses to the Albini Britos. The Colvilles were tenants by c. 1200 of the Belvoir estate of Temple manor, they also held land in Muston and Normanton, probably obtained through the marriage of William de Colville to Maud, the eldest dau. and eventual coheir of Ralph de Albini (Cf. Pipe R. 1194 (P.R.S. n.s. v), 118; 1202 (P.R.S. N.S. xv), 222–3; Feet of Fines, 7–8 Ric. I (Pipe R. Soc. xx), pp. 99–100). William de Colville died c. 1185, and was succeeded by his son William (Pipe R. 1174 (P.R.S. xxi), 97; 1179 (P.R.S. xxviii), 50–1; cf. Lincs. Eyre, 1218–19 (Selden Soc. liii), 358–9), who died in 1230 (Ex. e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i. 199; Cur. Reg. R. xiv, pp. 95, 144–6).

1.1.1.2.1.1.1. William de Colville, son and heir, m. Beatrice de Stuteville,* one of the daus. of Roger de Stuteville, sheriff of Northumberland, her sister being Alice, widow of Roger de Merlay, son of Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, and Juliana of Dunbar, dau. of Gospatric II. of Dunbar. Roger de Merlay and Alice de Stuteville had issue: Roger de Merlay, who m. Margery de Umframville, dau. of Richard Umframville, and sister of Gilbert de Umframville. Gospatrick II. of Dunbar was the brother of Waltheof of Dunbar. A sister of Juliana m. Gillbride, 2nd Earl of Angus, their son being Gilchrist of Angus, who m. Marjory of Scotland, daughter of Henry de Huntingdon, Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon, and Ada de Warenne. Their dau. Beatrix of Angus,* m. Sir Walter Fitz Alan le Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. *Second cousin of Nicholas de Stuteville II., of Liddel, Cumberland, who m. Devorguilla of Galloway, dau. of Roland of Galloway and Elena de Morville. *Gilbert de Umframville m. her sister, Maud.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Roger de Colville, of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Walter de Colville, born c. 1207, obit. 1277, m. Isabel d’ Albini (Brito), of Aubourn and Counthorpe, Lincs., dau. of Odenel d’ Albini Brito, son of William d’Albini Brito I.* and Matilda, dau of Odonel de Umframville.

There is much general confusion about the wife of Walter de Colville, sometimes given as Isabel or Elizabeth, who should be taken as a dau. of Odenel d’Albini, and distinguishable from Isabel, her cousin, dau. of William d’Albini II., who m. Robert de Ros. A manuscript concerning the foundation of Rievaulx Abbey records: ‘Robertum de Roos’ m. ‘Isabellam hæredem d´Albany’… ‘Robert de Ros and Isabel his wife were granted rights ‘in the manor of Belvoir by all bounds by which William de Albiniaco, father of the said Isabel who is his heiress, held…’ (July 3, 1252). The close affinity of the Colville and Ros family is shown in Muston, Hund. of Framland. In 1200, William Bosco required a guarantee from William Colville for half the land he held in Muston (Ab. Placitor. 98). In 1276, Walter de Colville held it. In 1284, Robert Ros held lands here as a member of Belvoir. In 1314, Edmund de Colville and Margaret, his wife, held the manor extent. In 1345, William Ros held a fee (Inq. post mort. vol. I. 86). Sir Walter de Colville’s lands in Barrow and Thistleton (Rutland) were seized in 1265,but they were restored, and he died holding 2 virgates here of Sir Richard de Seyton by the service of 1 lb. pepper yearly. Cal. Inq. ii, no. 227. A dau. of Robert de Ros and Isabel was Isabel de Ros, who m. Walter de Fauconberg, their granddau., Joan, m. a descendant of Philip de Colville, uncle of Walter de Colville. Both families also intermarried with that of Braose.’Willielmus de Albiniaco tertius’ donated ‘ecclesiam de Redmelina’ to Belvoir monastery, Lincolnshire, for the souls of ‘Agathæ uxoris meæ et…Margeriæ quondam uxoris meæ’, by undated charter witnessed by ‘Willielmo de Albineio quarto, Odinello, Roberto et Nicholao filiis meis’.

1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Gilbert de Colville, kin and vassal of the Umfraville lords of Redesdale. Gilbert was probably heir of the Normanton lands of his father. Normanton was one of the berewicks of the king’s manor of ‘Hameldune’, and in 1183 the sheriff rendered account of 25s. 8d. from Normanton, held by Odinell de Umfraville. Maud, his dau., m. William d’Albini Brito, and he obtained Normanton through her. Early in the 13th century Normanton was subinfeudated. Eustachia, relict of Robert d’Albini Brito, william’s grandson, claimed a third of 20 virgates and 5 acres of land in Normanton against Gilbert de Umfraville in 1237. *William d’Albini Brito I. was the brother of Matilda d’Albini, who m. Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn. A charter dated 1200 records the foundation of Inchaffray Abbey by ‘Gilbertus filius Ferthead … comes de Stradern et … Matilidis filia Willelmi de Aubengni comitissa’ (and his wife, Matilda de Senlis). Their dau., Ethne, m. David de la Haye, 2nd Laird of Erroll, they the parents of Glbert de la Haye, 3rd Laird of Erroll, who m. Idonea Comyn,* of Buchan, dau. of William de Comyn, 1st Earl of Buchan, and Margaret of Buchan, Countess Of Buchan. *Her brother, Alexander, had at least nine children with his wife, Elisabeth, dau. of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, including Elisabeth Comyn, who m. Gilbert de Umfraville, 1st Earl of Angus.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Walter FitzGilbert (de Hamilton).

1. Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar.
1.1. Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar, m. Ada, dau. of King William of Scotland.
1.1.1. Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar, m. Eupheme …
1.1.1.1. Patrick III, Earl of Dunbar, c. 1213 – August 24, 1289, m. (2) Christiana, dau. of Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, the ‘Competitor’, 1210–1295, feudal lord of the Colvilles in Engelby and Heslerton.
1.1.1.1.1. Cecily de Dunbar, m. Sir James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland.The earliest record of Walter FitzGilbert (de Hameldun) appears on January 10, 1295 as a witness to a charter by James, High Steward of Scotland, to the monks of Paisley.
1.2. Galiena de Dunbar, m. Philip de Mowbray, son of Nigel de Mowbray, son of Roger de Mowbray (Aubigny), overlord of Thomas de Colville, who m. Maud d’Aubigny.

1.3. Gunnild de Dunbar, m. Uchtred de Galloway.

1.3.1. Roland de Galloway, m. Elena de Morville.

1.3.1.1. Devorguilla de Galloway, m. Nicholas de Stuteville II., whose second-cousin was the wife of William de Colville.

1.1.1.2.1.1.1.2. Philip de Colville, s.l. 1268. m. Engelisa, sister of Robert Ingram, whose family were feudatories of Adam de Brus. Philips father, William, held half a knight’s fee in Engleby juxta Arneciiffe (where twelve carucates made one knight’s fee) of Walter de Fauconberge, Lord of Skelton, given by the Conqueror to Robert de Brus, as parcel of the barony of Skelton, to hold of the King.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1. William de Colville, fl. 1270.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.1.1. Robert de Colville, in 1302 he held land of the Brus fee in Heslerton, and was lord of Ancroft, in Northumberland — Mackenzie.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.3. Robert de Colville, held lands at Thimbleby and Arncliffe. His sons were Walter de Colville, and Thomas de Colville, who held land in Coxwold, Oulston, and Yearsley. Thomas de Colville’s desmesnes formed one knight’s fee of Roger de Mowbray II.
1.1.1.2.2. Thomas de Hamelduna. Thomas de Colville was witness to a gift of Roger de Mowbray I. of land in Stainton which was confirmed by Henry II. (1155-1157). His testibus were Nigelo de Mowbrai (son), Roberto Capellano, Rogeri de Mowbrai (son), Roberto capellano de Helmeslac, fratre Waltero Ruffo de Templo, Roberto de Daivilla, Thoma de Colevilla, Radulfo de Belvere, Helia de Ferlinctuna, Thoma de Hamelduna. ‘Thomas de Hameldun took his name from a range of hills known as Black Hambleton’ (William Farrer ed., EYC, vol. iii. Malet Fee, p. 453, repub. 2013). Thomas de Colville’s main residence was Coxwold, eighteen miles north of York, set just on the rise into the Hambleton Hills, with a view over to the ruins of Byland Abbey. Domes. Hameltun, Hameldun, or Hamelton Hill is a specific place in Nidderdale: In the Carta of Roger de Mowbray de recompensatione de Niderdala, in the Register of Fountains Abbey, fol. 148. 6., given in Dugdale, Throstle How is thus mentioned as a point on the boundary of Fountains Earth: ‘et sic usque ad Frostilde hou, et de Frostilde-hou usque ad Hameldon. Thoma de Hamelduna was probably a younger son of Thomas de Colville, and was he who witnessed the Melrose charter as Thoma de Homeldun (probably c. 1175) with his son Roger de Homeldun, a later Melrose charter being witnessed by ‘Roberto de Hameldun’ (probable son of Roger) and his son ‘Rogero de Hameldun’, who witnessed the gift of Alan de Percy II. to Whitby of lands in Oxenham, given to him by Henry and Geoffrey de Percy, his brothers, their tenant in Hetoun being ‘Philippus de Colvill’. The interwoven nature of these associations is typical of the medieval kinship group, which gave patronage to those within.

B.
1. William d’ Albini Brito, of Saint-Aubin-d’Aubigné (Ille-et-Vilaine) m. Cecily Bigod, obit. 1135, dau. of Roger Bigod, I, Earl of East Anglia and Adeliza de Toeni, heiress of Belvoir.
1.1. Ralph d’Albini Brito, obit. 1191 in Acre, Palestine, m. Sybil de Valognes, dau. of Roger de Valognes and Agnes FitzJohn, Abbess of Barking. She m. (2) William de Percy, of Alnwick, Northumberland, obit. 1168; (3) Robert de Ros, 2nd Lord of Hamlake.
1.1.1. Matilda d’Albini Brito, m. William de Colville.

1.1.1.1. William de Colville, m. Beatrice de Stuteville. In 1205-6, William de Colville I. agreed to pay the king a fine of 20 mares and one palfrey, to have seisin of Normanton, co. Leicester, then of his fee, though late parcel of the lands of William de Meynill. Turning next to the Belvoir fees we again find this William de Colville (Testa 343) as undertenant at Auburn, in 1212, and, in 1242, his son, William de Colville II., was undertenant of Walter de Coleville at Muston and Normanton. William de Colville I. left by his Ist marriage, besides Roger his heir, 3 other sons surviving, William, Henry, and Thomas (de Muston).

Quit-claim by Thomas de Muston ‘filius quondam Willelmi de Colevil’ to Sir Walter de de Colevill of a bovate of land in Muston, which he had of the gift of William de Colville, his father. c. 1200 … ‘sit omnibus sancte matris ecclesie filiis tarn futuris quam presentibus quod ego Willelmus de Colevilla pro salute anime mee et uxoris mee et heredum et a ntecessorum meorum dedi et concessi et presenti carta mea confirmavi deo et ecclesie Sancti Andree de Osolvest[ona]* et canonicis ibidem deo servientibus in liberam et perpetuam elemosinam unum de molendinis meis de Mostona scilicet illud quod est apud Seckesbroc cum crofto predicto molendino adjacenti sine aliquo retenemento habendum et tenendum libere et quiete ab omni servicio et seculari exactione Eeddendo annuatim unam marcam argenti Sanctimonialibus de Sancto Michaele d[e] Stanford, ad festum sancti Michaelis, quam marcam Willelmus de Colevilla pater meus concessit eisdem monialibus in eodem molendino. Et quia volo ut hec donacio firma permaneat eam sigilli mei apposicione corroboravi. *July 1268. — Charter of Robert de Ros, lord of Belver, giving, for the weal of his soul and that of Isabel his wife etc., to the church of Osolvestona and its canons all the land of his fee given them by Peter de Lincolnia, knight, in Hungerton’ and Thorp’. In 1276, Walter de Colevill died seised of the manor of Muston, held in capite of Sir Robert de Ros, whose Inquisition Post Mortem (Lincoln and Leicester. Thursday before St. John the Baptist, 13 Edw. I.) itemed: Beuver, the castle and manor, including lands in Wlstorp. Botelisford. A member of the manor of Beuver. Redmyld. A member of the manor of Beuver. Muston. 30d. and 1lb. pepper of rent and guard. Normanton. 13s. 4d. rent and 15¼d. for castle guard. (Unspecified.) From other small fees in co. Leicester for castle guard, 57s. 8½d.From fines, perquisites of courts &c. 40s. yearly. All held of the king in chief, service unknown, and of the inheritance of the said Isabel, who is of full age. Robert and Isabel were the parents of William de Ros, who m. Maud de Vaux, dau. of John de Vaux. In 1291 he was a candidate for the crown of Scotland. He was created 1st Lord de Ros of Helmsley on February 6, 1298. He held the offices of Joint Warden of Northumberland in 1307, and of Joint Lord Warden of Scotland in 1308. Sir Robert de Ros of Gedney, Lincolnshire. John de Ros. Nicholas de Ros, a cleric. Peter de Ros, a cleric. Isabel de Ros, who m. Walter de Fauconberg (a family intermarried with the Colvilles), 2nd Baron Fauconberg. Joan de Ros, who m. John Lovell, 1st Baron Lovell. Mary de Ros, who m. William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose. Roger de Colville, son of Walter de Colville, m. Margaret de Braose, dau. of RIchard de Braose, whose br., William, was the husband of Mary de Ros.

Robert de Stuteville (-1183) married twice; by his first wife, Helewise, he had a son William de Stuteville and two daus.; by the second, Sibilla, sister of Philip de Valognes, a son Eustace. Robert de Stuteville was probably brother of the Roger de Stuteville who was sheriff of Northumberland from 1170 to 1185, and defended Wark Castle against William the Lion in 1174. Roger received charge of Edinburgh Castle in 1177. Robert and Helewise had issue: Nicholas I. de Stuteville who m. Gunnor d’Albini Brito; Osmond de Stuteville, who m. Isabel,* dau. of William FitzRoger of Gressinghall; and Helewise de Stuteville, who m. William II. de Lancaster as her first husband, Hugh de Morville as her second and William Fitz Raulf, Lord of Greystoke as her third husband. It was through this latter Helwise that the Colvilles became enfeoffed in Ayketon, Northumberland: William de Breus was granted wardship on May 8, 1288 of the lands late of Roger de Coleville, son of Walter, as follows, tenant in chief of Bytham and other places in co. Lincoln, reserving to the King the marriage of the heirs during their minority (PRO, Calendar of the Patent Rolls, 1272-1281 p.247). His son, Edmund de Colville died shortly before March 16, 1316 when an inquisition post mortem found his heir to be his son Robert, aged 10 on the feast of St. Michael last (PRO, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortems, vol. 5, p. 375). His mother, Margaret, died shortly before May 12, 1335 when an inquisition found she held the manor of Ayketon, Cumberland and that her heir was Robert de Coleville, knight, her kinsman, aged 26 years (PRO, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortems, vol. 7, p. 450). *Lord of Mulcaster; According to Farrer, this title would have been one of those granted by Roger de Mowbray, lord of Thomas de Colville, and most likely his kinsman. *Her first husband was William de Huntingfield (son of Roger FitzWilliam de Huntingfield and Alice de Senlis, dau. of Saer de Quincy), father of Alice de Huntingfield, who m. Hugh le Rus, Sheriff of Suffolk. Their son was William le Rus, whose dau., Alice, obit 1301, m. Richard de Braose.

c. 1210. ‘Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Rogerus de Colevilla dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Willelmo de Colevilla fratri meo totam terram meam de Mustona cum omnibus pertinenciis infra villam et extra tenendam et habendam in tota vita sua quamdiu vixerit de me et heredibus meis … Et post decessum dicti Willelmi tota dicta terra cum pertinentiis vertat et descendat Willelmo filio meo et heredibus suis et si dictus Willelmus filius meus obierit sine herede de se tota dicta terra cum pertinenciis vertat et descendat Rogero fratri suo vel propinquiori fratri suorum. Hiis testibus : Henrico de Colevilla,* Thoma de Colevilla (de Muston), militibus; Willelmo de Gretroft; Nicholao filio suo; Rogero de Muston (de Colevilla); Hamone de Lunges; Hugone de Boby; Radulfo de Charneles; Fulcone de Hottot; Andrea de Muston; Ricardo filio suo. *Carta Henrici Colevill de uno tofto in Normanton, concesso prefatis Willielmo & Hesceline, Test’, Rado de Charnel, & aliis’. Easter, 1258. ‘Grant by Amedeus de Morestello, master of the knights of the Temple in England, and his brethren, in chapter at Dynneslet to Henry de Colevile, knight, of a toft and some selions at Normanton, in exchange for other land there. Hiis testibus: fratre Henrico capellano; fratre Ricardo filio Johannis; fratre Raginaldo de Scamelesby; fratre Simone de Clifford; fratre Willelmo de Merden; fratre Ricardo de Thorneton; fratre Roberto de Stratton’.Seal of the Temple.

1.1.1.1.1. Roger de Colville.

1.1.2. Gunnora d’Albini Brito, m. (1) Robert de Gand, (2) Nicholas de Stuteville, second-cousin of Beatrice de Stuteville.
1.2. William d’ Albini Brito II., m. Matilda FitzRobert de Clare, dau. of Robert FitzRichard de Clare and Matilda de St. Liz. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records ‘Matillis de Sainlis que fuit filia Roberti filii Ricardi et mater Willelmi de Albineio’.
1.2.1. William d’ Albini Brito III., m. Maud de Umframville, dau. of Odinel d’Umfraville, Baron of Prudhoe and Alice de Lucy. Maud was the sister of Richard de Umframville, father of Gilbert de Umframville I., father of Gilbert de Umframville II.
1.2.1.1. Odinel d’ Albini Brito, obit. November 26, 1235, m. Hawise. In 1238, Richard de Waterville received custody of the lands of Odinel at Dalton, Yorkshire, against Roger de Colville, until Odinel’s heir, William, was of age. Odinel is recorded as having four daus. He also held land at Barkstone and Plungar, Leicestershire, gifted by his brother, William. Odinel d’Albini Brito and William de Colville (husband of Beatrice de Stuteville), with William de Preston and William FitzAlured, held one fee in Auburn and Haddington (1211-1212) of William d’Albini Brito III.
1.2.1.1.1. Elizabeth d’ Albini Brito,* m. Walter de Colville, son of Roger de Colville, and grandson of William de Colville and Beatrice de Stuteville, her sister being Alice, who m. Roger de Merlay, son of Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, and Juliana of Dunbar, dau. of Gospatric II. of Dunbar. Roger de Merlay and Alice de Stuteville had issue: Roger de Merlay, who m. Margery de Umframville, dau. of Richard Umframville, and sister of Gilbert de Umframville I.

A sister of Juliana m. Gillbride, 2nd Earl of Angus, their son being Gilchrist of Angus, who m. Marjory of Scotland, dau. of Henry de Huntingdon, Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon, and Ada de Warenne. Their dau. Beatrix of Angus, m. Walter FitzAlan le Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. Gilbert de Umframville I. m. her sister, Maud. *Her cousin m. Robert de Ros, they the parents of William de Ros, lord of Hamlake Castle, and of Trusbut and Wartre. d. 1258. He was an active supporter of the baronial cause, and was taken prisoner at Lincoln. He m. Lucia, dau. of Reginald FitzPiers, Lord of Blewleveny Castle, and had Robert, first Baron Ros by writ, Peter de Ros, and Alice (proposed second-cousin of Walter FitGilbert), wife of John Comyn* (Lincoln Assize Rolls, ‘Lincoln N.& Q.’vol. IX., p. 250), son of Richard Comyn, and grandson of William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan. *Justiciar of Galloway, before March 18, 1259 (Rymer I. p 370). On February 8, 1262, he had a confirmation of the grant by David, King of Scotland, to his great-grandfather Richard Comyn, and Hextilde, wife of the latter, of the inheritance of Uchtred, son of Waltheof, her father, in Tindale, viz., Wallwick, Thornton, Staincroft, and Hethingishalt: which gift Henry II had confirmed to Richard and Hextilde (Cart. 46, Hen. 3. m. 4). He had the manor of Ulceby in free-marriage with Alice de Ros (De Banco, Mich. 9, Edw. 3, m. 353). He had m. (1) Eve … possible dau. of Walter Stewart, Steward of Scotland, by whom he had John Comyn, William Comyn, and Alexander Comyn, and daus. m. to Geoffrey de Mowbray, Alexander MacDougall, and Andrew Moray. By Alice de Ros, he also had a son named John, to whom his half-brother, John, key ally and kinsman of the Balliols, gifted lands in Thornton-juxta-Symonburn, Northumberland (1279, Assize Roll, Northumb., 31 Alex. III. m. 4).

1.2.1.1.1.1. Gilbert de Colville, kin and vassal of the Umfraville lords of Redesdale. Gilbert probably inherited the Normanton lands of his father. Normanton was probably one of the berewicks of the king’s manor of ‘Hameldune’, and in 1183 the sheriff rendered account of 25s. 8d. from Normanton, held by Odinell de Umfraville. Maud, his dau., m. William d’Albini Brito, and he obtained Normanton through her. Early in the 13th century Normanton was subinfeudated. Eustachia, relict of Robert d’Albini Brito, William’s grandson, claimed a third of 20 virgates and 5 acres of land in Normanton against Gilbert de Umfraville in 1237.

1.2.1.1.1.1.1. Walter FitzGilbert (de Hamilton). The Colvilles held land in Normanton, ‘near Hamleyton, Hambledon, or Hamilton, Rutlandshire’ (John Walker, Universal Gazetteer, 1798), of their Albini or Umframville kin: ‘Sr Rob. Dumframville, E. of Angus, is overlord of Normanton Manor and advowson, Rut., 8 June 1316 (Inq.), Keeper of Forests N. of Trent 19 Feb. 1315’ (Charles Moor, Knights of Edward I., p. 75, 1932). It does not stretch imagination to suggest the Colvilles were also enfeoffed in ‘Hamleyton’.
1.2.1.2. William d’ Albini Brito IV.
1.2.1.2.1. Isabel d’Albini, heiress of Belvoir, m. Robert de Ros. The close affinity of the Colville and Ros family in Muston, Hund. of Framland, has been given.
1.2.2. Maud d’ Albini Brito, m. Gilbert, 3rd Earl of Strathearn.
1.2.2.1. Ethne de Strathearn, m. David de la Haye, 2nd Laird of Erroll.
1.2.2.1.1. Glbert de la Haye, 3rd Laird of Erroll, m. Idonea Comyn,* of Buchan, dau. of William de Comyn, 1st Earl of Buchan, and Margaret of Buchan, Countess Of Buchan. *Her brother, Alexander Comyn, had at least nine children with his wife, Elisabeth, dau. of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, including Elisabeth Comyn, who m. Gilbert de Umfraville II., 1st Earl of Angus.

C.

1. William d’ Albini Brito. 1.1. Ralph d’Albini Brito. 1.1.1. Matilda d’Albini Brito, m. William de Colville. 1.1.1.1. William de Colville, m. Beatrice de Stuteville. He had seisin of Normanton, co. Leicester. Her sister, Alice de Stuteville, m. Roger de Merlay, son of Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, and Juliana of Dunbar, dau. of Gospatric II. of Dunbar. Roger de Merlay and Alice de Stuteville had issue: Roger de Merlay, who m. Margery de Umframville, dau. of Richard Umframville, and sister of Gilbert de Umframville I.1.1.1.1.1. Roger de Colville of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire. 1.1.1.1.1.1. Walter de Colville, m. Isabel d’ Albini Brito, of Aubourn and Counthorpe, Lincs., dau. of Odenel d’ Albini Brito, son of William d’Albini Brito I. and Matilda, dau of Odonel de Umframville. Walter de Colville bore or, a fess gules. Walter was a descendant of the Coxwold Colvilles, who bore or a fess gules charged with three lions rampant argent – the arms of Fauconberg, with which the Colvilles intermarried – a label of five points. (I suppose Walter to be the father of Gilbert de Colville, who may have held there of the Umframvilles, Normanton being juxta Hamilton, and he of Walter FitzGilbert (de Hamilton).

1.2. William d’ Albini Brito II., m. Matilda FitzRobert de Clare, dau. of Robert FitzRichard de Clare and Matilda de St. Liz. 1.2.1. William d’ Albini Brito III., m. Maud de Umframville, dau. of Odinel d’Umfraville, Baron of Prudhoe and Alice de Lucy. Maud was the sister of Richard de Umframville, father of Gilbert de Umframville I., father of Gilbert de Umframville II. 1.2.1.1. Odinel d’ Albini Brito, obit. November 26, 1235, m. Hawise. In 1238, Richard de Waterville received custody of the lands of Odinel at Dalton, Yorkshire, against Roger de Colville, until Odinel’s heir, William, was of age. 1.2.1.1.1. Elizabeth d’ Albini Brito, m. Walter de Colville, Roger’s son. 1.2.1.2. William d’ Albini Brito IV. 1.2.1.2.1. Isabel d’Albini Brito, heiress of Belvoir, m. Robert de Ros. 1.2.1.1.1.1.1. William de Ros. 1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1. Alice de Ros, m. John Comyn (Lincoln Assize Rolls, ‘Lincoln N.& Q.’vol. IX., p. 250), son of Richard Comyn, and grandson of William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan, and Margaret of Buchan, Countess Of Buchan. 1.2.1.1.1.1.2. … de Ros, m. Walter de Fauconberg, their granddau., Joan, m. a descendant of Philip de Colville, uncle of Walter de Colville. Walter de Fauconberg was the son of his namesake and Agnes, dau. of Peter de Brus of Skelton. The Colvilles were tenants of the Brus family in Yorkshire.

1.2.2. Maud d’ Albini Brito, m. Gilbert, 3rd Earl of Strathearn. 1.2.2.1. Ethne de Strathearn, m. David de la Haye, 2nd Laird of Erroll. 1.2.2.1.1. Glbert de la Haye, 3rd Laird of Erroll, m. Idonea Comyn,* of Buchan, dau. of William de Comyn, 1st Earl of Buchan, and Margaret of Buchan, Countess Of Buchan. *Her brother, Alexander Comyn, had at least nine children with his wife, Elisabeth, dau. of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, including Elisabeth Comyn, who m. Gilbert de Umfraville II., 1st Earl of Angus, and John Comyn – Robert de Brus granted to Walter Fitz-Gilbert the whole tenement of Machan which belonged to John Comyn In 1320. It was a medieval ‘norm’ to give forfeited lands to a member of the ‘disgraced’ family. John Comyn was the cousin of his namesake, husband of Alice de Ros, second-cousin, as suggested, of Walter FitzGilbert.

Saher de Quency (d. 1190) m., in 1162, Asceline, widow of Geoffrey de Waterville, sister and coh. of William Peverel, of Bourn, co. Cambridge (who d. on Crusade, 1147-48), da. of Robert Peverel, of the same, by his wife Adelicia. In 1190, her da. Asceline de Wateville owed 60m. for seisin of the lands of her mother, who was wife of Saher de Quency (Pipe Roll, 2 Ric. I., p. 29; 4 Ric. I., p. 261; cf. Farrer, Feudal Cambridgeshire, p. 160). Ascelina de Waterville was a great benefactresses to the nuns of S. Michael the Archangel by Stanford (Bytham Catle) … ‘For the souls of my father & my mother, & for the fouls of my lords & children, & all my anestors, & for the health of my soul … Witnesses, Hugh the capellan, Thomas de Colevill, Geoffry de Colevill, Ralph de Colevill, Philip de Colevill … & many others. These are the sons and nephews of William de Colville and Maud d’Albini Brito, that is, ‘William le Colevil & Matilda my wife (i. e. Maud d’Albini), have given & granted, & for me & my heirs sold, & by this our present charter confirmed to the monk & his heirs, for his service, one half acre of land to wit, that which lies beyond the land of the church towards North-Witham … witness (his grandson) Thomas son of Ascelina, son of his son Thomas, who predeceased his brother, William, the heir of Bytham. Peck in his ‘History of Stamford’ recites three deeds of gift from Ascelina de Waterville to the nuns of St. Michael’s in Stamford, the first of which was witnessed by William de Colewill. Peck speaks of the first William de Colville as ‘Lord of Bitam’, as early as February, 1171. Quoting from Dugdale, he writes: ‘Richard Humet, Lord of Stamford, at the request of William de Colvile, Baron of Bitam, a person highly respected by him, gave St. Andrew’s Church in Stamford, whereof he was patron, to be appropriated to the nuns of St. Michael’.

1.Saher de Quincy m. (after 1136) Matilda de Saint Liz, relict of Roger FitzGilbert de Clare, and mother of Matilda FitzRobert de Clare, wife of William d’Albini BrIto II., their son marrying Maud de Umframville, their granddau. being the wife of Walter de Colville, as shown. Matilda de Saint Liz was the dau. of Simon de Saint Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton (obit. 1111) and Maud of Huntingdon, great-niece of William the Conqueror, and dau. of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, who m. (2) King David I. of Scotland. 1.1. Saher de Quincy II., m. (1162) Asceline, relict of Geoffrey de Waterville. 1.1.1. Robert de Quincy, granted the ancient castle of Forfar by his cousin, William I of Scotland, m. Orabella. His half-sister, Asceline, m. Thomas de Colville, br. of William de Colville, who m. Maud d’Albini Brito, niece of William d’Albini Brito II. 1.1.1.1. Saher de Quincy, one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta. The arms of Saher de Quincy are described as or, a fesse gules, a file of 11 points azure, which suggest a close affinity to the Colville family. Saher de Quincy m. Margaret de Beaumont, dau. and heir of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester. On the death of Margaret’s br. , 1204, Saher de Quincy became coheir to half of the estates of the Honours of Leicester and Grandmesnil. 1.1.1.1.1. Roger de Quincy. 1.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth de Quincey, m. Alexander de Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchan, Constable of Scotland (obit. 1290), son of William Comyn and Margaret, Countess of Buchan. Alexander Comyn was uncle of John Comyn, who m. Isabella de Ros, second-cousin, it may reasonably be assumed, of Walter FitzGilbert. 1.1.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Comyn, m. Gilbert de Umframville II., Earl of Angus.

MACHAN AND DALSERF

‘Among the lands belonging to the cathedral church of Glasgow at the period of the inquest of Prince David, 1116, was Mecheyn, since called Machan, Machanshire, or Dalserf, being that portion of the haughs of Clyde lying chiefly between the Clyde and Avon — having a gentle slope towards the north.This district was attached to a chapel perhaps originally independent, but certainly dependent on the church of Hamilton from the time of David I. The chapel was dedicated to the Virgin. Robert Bruce granted to Walter Fitz-Gilbert the whole tenement of Machan which belonged to John Comyn In 1320, Walter Fitz-Gilbert presented certain vestments, a chalice, two phials, and a censer of silver, to the altar of the Virgin in the crypts of the cathedral, reserving the use of them for the chapel of Saint Mary of Maychan at the four great feasts of Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, and the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, yearly (Origines Parochiales Scotiae, p. 107, 1851).

Alexander Comyn, son of William Comyn and Marjory, Countess of Buchan, is named Alexander Comyn only in a charter by King Alexander to the monks of Lesmahago in 1240, He m. Elizabeth or Isabella, third daughter of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winton, by his first wife Alianora, dau. and co-heiress of Alan of Galloway, who was hereditary Constable of Scotland. At his death, in 1289, he left several sons and daus., inc. John Comyn, who succeeded him, upwards of thirty years of age at his father’s death. He m. Isabella, dau. of Duncan, Earl of Fife. In 1297, she remained in England managing her husband’s estates in Leicester and Warwick.

Whatever the case of his exact line of descent, given the tenurial connection of the Colville family to the Brus, the establishent of the family in Scotland; their close kinship relationships to the Umframvilles and Comyns, it is at least likely that Walter fitzGilbert was of their stock, and grandson of Walter de Colville.

1. William de Colville, m. Maud d’Albini Brito, dau. of Ralph d’Albini Brito. William held one knight’s fee of Robert de Gand in Lincs., husband of Gunnora d’Albini Brito, Maud’s sister. Ralph d’Albini Brito was the uncle of William Albini Brito I., who m. Matilda, the dau. of Odonel de Umframville (grandfather of Gilbert de Umframville I.), whose family armorial was gules, 3 cinque foils or.

1.1. William de Colville, m. Beatrice de Stuteville, one of the daus. of Roger de Stuteville, sheriff of Northumberland, her sister being Alice de Stuteville, widow of Roger de Merlay, son of Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, and Juliana of Dunbar, dau. of Gospatric II. of Dunbar. Roger de Merlay and Alice de Stuteville had issue: Roger de Merlay, who m. Margery de Umframville, dau. of Richard Umframville, and sister of Gilbert de Umframville I. William de Colville agreed to pay the king a fine of 20 mares and one palfrey, to have seisin of Normanton, juxta Hamilton, co. Leicester

1.1.1. Roger de Colville, of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire.

1.1.1.1. Walter de Colville, born c. 1207, obit. 1277, m. Elizabeth d’ Albini Brito, of Aubourn and Counthorpe, Lincs., dau. of Odenel d’ Albini Brito, son of William d’Albini Brito I. and Matilda, dau of Odonel de Umframville. Elizabeth’s cousin, Isabel, m. Robert de Ros, under whom Walter de Colville held the manor of Muston, and Walter’s uncle, Henry (the Templar), held land in Normanton juxta Hamilton, formerly held by the Umframvilles, which devolved to the Albinis, then to Robert de Ros on his marriage to Isabel d’ Albini. Robert and Isabel had issue: William de Ros,* who m. Maud de Vaux, dau. of John de Vaux. In 1291, he was a candidate for the crown of Scotland, and Mary de Ros, who m. William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose. Roger de Colville, son of Walter de Colville, m. Margaret de Braose, dau. of RIchard de Braose, whose br., William, m. Mary de Ros. William de Ros was the father of Alice de Ros, who m. John Comyn (Lincoln Assize Rolls,’Lincoln N.& Q.’vol. ix., p. 250), whose cousin and namesake’s lands were given to Walter FitGilbert (de Hamilton). Elizabeth d’ Albini’s great-aunt, Maud, m. Gilbert, 3rd Earl of Strathearn, their dau., Ethne de Strathearn, m. David de la Haye, 2nd Laird of Erroll. Their son, Glbert de la Haye, 3rd Laird of Erroll, m. Idonea Comyn,* of Buchan, dau. of William de Comyn, 1st Earl of Buchan, and Margaret of Buchan, Countess Of Buchan. *Her brother, Alexander Comyn, had at least nine children with his wife, Elisabeth, dau. of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, including Elisabeth Comyn, who m. Gilbert de Umfraville II., 1st Earl of Angus.

1.1.1.1.1. Roger de Colville. ‘Rogerus de Colevill performing part of military service of Willelmus Bardolf’ (Military Writs, 1277), whose family bore azure, three cinquefoils, or. (B.M. 7132).

1.1.1.1.2. Gilbert de Colville, grandson of a cousin of Gilbert de Umframville I.

1.1.1.1.2.1. Walter FitzGilbert. ‘The earliest representation of the Hamilton arms appears on the Bute Mazer where Gules, three cinquefoils ermine, presumably for Walter FitzGilbert is accompanied by Gules, a chevron ermine between three cinquefoils for brother John (obit. 1328). (A) sensible proposition is that they were kin, or vassals of the Umfraville lords of Redesdale and the earls of Angus’ (Bruce A. McAndrew, Scotland’s Historic Heraldry, p. 235, 2006).

1. Saher de Quincy II., m. (1162) Asceline, relict of Geoffrey de Waterville. 1.1. Robert de Quincy, granted the castle of Forfar by his cousin, William I of Scotland, m. Orabella. His half-sister, Asceline, m. Thomas de Colville, br. of William de Colville, who m. Maud d’Albini Brito. 1.1.1. Saher de Quincy, one of the 25 sureties of the Magna Carta. The arms of Saher de Quincy are described as or, a fesse gules, a file of 11 points azure, which suggest a close affinity to the (or, a fess gules) Colvilles. Saher de Quincy m. Margaret de Beaumont, dau. and heir of Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester, who bore Gules, a lion rampant queue-fourchee argent (A. C. Fox Davies, The Complete Guide to Heraldry, p. 91, 1969). On the death of Margaret’s br., 1204, Saher de Quincy became coheir to half of the estates of the Honours of Leicester and Grandmesnil. 1.1.1.1. Roger de Quincy. 1.1.1.1. Elizabeth de Quincey, m. Alexander de Comyn, 6th Earl of Buchan, Constable of Scotland (obit. 1290), son of William Comyn and Margaret, Countess of Buchan, and uncle of John Comyn, who m. Isabella de Ros. 1.1.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Comyn, m. Gilbert de Umframville II., Earl of Angus.

MARRIAGES WITHIN A KINSHIP GROUP

1. Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland, m. Beatrix of Angus, Gilbert de Umframville I. m. her sister, Maud. Gilbert de Umframville’s sister, Margery de Umframville, m. Roger de Merlay, son of Roger de Merlay and Alice de Stuteville, whose sister, Beatrice, m. William de Colville. Their son, Roger, was the father of Walter de Colville, obit. 1277, who m. Isabel d’ Albini Brito, dau. of Odenel d’ Albini Brito, son of William d’Albini Brito I. and Matilda, dau of Odonel de Umframville, Matilda being the aunt of Gilbert de Umframville I.
1.1. Elizabeth Stewart (cousin of Gilbert de Umframville II., who m. Elisabeth Comyn, dau. of Alexander Comyn and Elisabeth, dau. of Roger de Quincy). Elizabeth was the sister of Margaret de Quincy, who m. William Ferrers, 5th. Earl of Derby; their son, William Ferrers of Groby, m. Alianora, dau. of Matthew de Lovaine, and br.-in-law of Alexander Comyn, who subsequently m., as his second wife, William ‘Le Hardi’ Douglas, who was tenant of Gilbert de Umframville II. at Fawndon, Northumberland. Elizabeth was also the cousin of John Comyn, who m. Isabella de Ros, kin of the Colvilles, and sister of John Comyn, whose tenement in Machlan was granted to Walter FitzGilbert by Robert de Brus. The Colvilles were tenants of the Brus in Yorkshire, and held land in Normanton juxta Hamilton, Rutland. Roger de Quincy was kin to the Colvilles, and bore the same arms – or, a fesse gules. Elizabeth Stewart m., as his first wife, William ‘Le Hardi’ Douglas.*
1.2. John Stewart of Bonkyl (cousin of Gilbert de Umframville II., who held land in Normanton juxta Hamilton, Rutland).
1.2.1. Alan Stewart.
1.2.1.1. Elizabeth Stewart, m. John de Hamilton, son of Walter FitzGilbert, whose family armorial – three cinquefoils – was probably that of their Umframville kinsmen.

*The son of William ‘Long-leg’ Douglas, as follows.

In 1207, Richard de Umframville (son of Odinel, and father of Gilbert de Umframville I.), claimed the wardship of Henry Bataille. Although Henry Bataille, the heir of Fawdon, is not mentioned in Testa de Nevill, the name of William Bataille, possibly his uncle, is given, 5th August 1212,in one of the certificates on which that authority is based, as having married one of the four sisters and coheirs of William de Flammavill of Whittingham and Thrunton. It was probably the same William Bataille who, being seised of a rent in Fawdon, granted the same to Gylemin of Wooler for a term of years, and afterwards sold the reversion to William de Douglas, who in 1264 endeavoured to eject Gylemin, though his term was not expired.

He was called “Long-leg”. The surname of his wife, Constance, has not been ascertained, but it is not improbable that she was of the family of Bataille, and heiress of Henry Bataille whose wardship was litigated in 1207 and that it was through her that Douglas obtained Fawdon. Douglas’s acquisition of Fawdon aroused great jealousy in his immediate feudal superior, Gilbert de Umframville.

Walter Bataille held from Gilbert de Umframville, the moiety of Linnshiels by the tenth part of the service of one knight (1. c. p. 393). But previous to this there is mention of the Batailes or Bataills. William de Vescy, the first, who died in the year 1184, had under him in 1168, a Walter Bataile, holding from him (the extent of the fee omitted), on the day when King Henry II. was dead and alive (Liber Niger Scaccarii de Northumberland, 1168, Hodgson’s Hist. Part III. vol. III. p. 306); and he might then be part possessor of Screnwood; and we have in 1182, a Walter Bataille, possibly the same, occupying a position of high trust over the Umframville property. — Ann. 1182, 28 Hen. II.

Walter Bataille, and William, son of Walter, render account of £29 Ts. 4d. from the proceeds of the land of Odinell de Umframville in Northumberland for a half year. In the treasury £22 7s. 4d.; and to Robert de Umframvile, heir of Odinell, 100 shillings to maintain him in the service of the king by the king’s writ, and in clothing of the children of Odinell 40s. by the same writ; and is quit (Pipe Rolls, Hodgson, Part in. vol. III. p. 35). Odinell was incompetent to manage, and Walter Bataille appears to have had the lands and family under his guardianship. it is not improbable that Walter Bataille was the uncle of Odinell’s children, and that the descendants of William “Long-leg” de Douglas were kin of the Albini Brito and Colville families. The Douglas family would most likely have been from within this Norman kinship group, and, if conjecture is worth anything, it may be suggested they were the Norman family of de Glos.

Orderic mentions Gui de Glos, vassal de Roger de Beaumont, and a charter of William de Breteuill mentions his steward, William de Glos. ‘I, William de Breteuil, son of Count William, do give and grant to St. Evroult and his monks, out of the tolls of Glos, one hundred shillings yearly to buy fish at the beginning of Lent, for the repose of the souls of my father and mother, and that of my own; and that their anniversaries and my own may be observed by all the monks as a feast; and that on each of our anniversaries, a portion of meat and drink equal to a monk’s share be given to the poor. During my life also a mass of the Holy Trinity is to be sung for me in the abbey every Sunday. I also grant to the monks one burgess in Breteuil, and whatever my mesne-tenants, Richard Fresnel, William Halis, and Ralph de La Cunelle, and others, have granted to them I also give and confirm. All this I grant by these presents, and I faithfully promise them hereafter my counsel and aid and other privileges. Whoever, after my death, shall take away or diminish the things granted, let him be accursed.” This charter was ratified and witnessed by the signatures of William de Breteuil himself, Ralph his chaplain, William (de Glos) the steward, son of Barno*, Arnold, son of Arnold, and Robert de Louviers. *Steward of Osborn de Crepon (Ordericus Vitalis, M. Guizot, Léopold Delisle, p. 191, 1854).
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