What follows are familial links which strongly suggest the ancestry of Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton. To explain the inter-relatedness of high status families of this period in a verbose style of an antiquarian of old, such as Mr. Collins, replete with such devices as ‘returning now to the second son of …’, would stretch the modern mind. I have, thus, presented information in a series of genealogical tables, which lead to the Writs of Military Service (1292), which show Gilbertus Coleville performing military service in Scotland ‘due from Gilbertus de Neville’, his Kinsman.

The enfeoffment of his proposed son, Walter, had much to do with his family’s relationship to the families of Comyn, Umfreville, Ross, and Quincy, and to the Stewarts. That family was of Breton origin, holding the office of seneschal or steward of the counts of Do1 and Dinan, but Walter was recruited by David I and appointed high steward in 1138. William de Albini (Brito) of Belvoir. The family had connections with Dol and Rennes in Brittany. See ‘Loyd’s Address Book’. They derived from the town of Saint-Aubin d’Aubigné, de l’arrondissement de Rennes. Alan, Dapifer of Dol, was the hereditary Steward of Dol; Flaad confirmed, c. 1097, a grant of land by his brother, the said Alan, to Mezuoit, a cell of St. Florent, near Dol. Flaad was the ancestor of Alan FitzFlaald, whose son was Walter FitzAlan, 1st Steward of Scotland, we founded the Abbey of Paisley for monks of the Clunic order in 1160. Walter FitzGilbert ‘de Hamilton’ first appears in January 10, 1295, as a witness to a charter by James, the High Steward of Scotland, descendant of Walter FitzAlan, to the monks of Paisley. In an age in which charter witnesses usually had some familial link to the founder of a religious foundation, the same link between the stewards of Dol and the Albinis can be suggested, which would account for the continuous ‘interlacing’ of families associated with them.

An abridged genealogical summary:

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 I.) whose family armorial was gules, 3 cinque foils or.
1.1. William de Colville, m. Beatrice de Stuteville. 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. 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. Sir Walter FitzAlan le Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. Gilbert de Umframville m. her sister, Maud.
1.1.1. Roger de Colville of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire.(The clear relationship between himself and his Scottish cousins is given hereinafter).
1.1.1.1. Walter de Colville, m. … 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.
1.1.1.1.1. 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. The Writs of Military Service show (1292) Gilbertus Coleville performing military service in Scotland ‘due from Gilbertus de Neville’, his Kinsman, through the Merlays.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Walter FitzGilbert ‘de Hamilton’ first appears in January 10, 1295, as a witness to a charter by James, the High Steward of Scotland. Walter’s descendants bore gules, 3 cinque foils or.

As stated in para. vii, ‘Sir William Stewart’s comments regarding ‘the Hamiltons’ are of relevance to a better understanding of the ancestries of their descendants. John Hamilton, aforementioned, was incredulously ‘given’ a brother of the same name by some nineteenth-century genealogists, so as to validate a particular Hamilton narrative, the fact being that a supposed deed of his marriage provision, given a date of 1397, was not ‘interpreted’ in the same way by other genealogists, who made his son to be a son of his fictional brother. The ‘other’ John could have been more plausibly put forward as a cousin, but, then, it should be considered that Thomas de Colville, whose wife was the cousin of Sir David Hamilton, was of a branch of the Colvilles that were (at an earlier date), cognamento ‘de Hameldon’, and that Sir David Hamilton was of a different branch of the Colvilles’. To which could be added, the Hamilton ‘genealogical waters’ become even more muddy, as the clear suggestion of lines of descent from the Cadzow Hamiltons, as given by Mr. Burke, et al., are not based on any documents that the beam of history has illuminated.

One method that may suggest the origin of early Norman families is that of ‘continuation of association’, or ‘foedus inter consobinos heredes’ – inheritance passing down non-consanguineous lines of cousins, or kinfolk. At the time of the Conquest, marriages between those of close blood were disallowed. The later Middle Ages witnessed a complete reversal of this policy, and marriages between cousins and second-cousins were commonplace, leading to a ‘genetic’ collapse of many families.

The ‘connectivity’ between families is demonstrated by grants to religious foundations, which were a jealously guarded privilege, confined to those with association to the founders family. A gift may have be given to an Abbey by the founder’s grandson, witnessed by a descendant of the brother of his wife’s grandfather – such were the fine threads of what constituted kinship.

One early kinship group may have included the Crispin and Gand families, and, if this assumption is correct, we would expect to find the Gand family intermarrying into those families connected to the Crispins, such as the FitzOsborns, the Tosnys of Belvoir, and the descendants of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare. Specifically, the family of Gand would be expected to be associated with the decendants of William Crispin/Colville I. This is exactly what occurs, and they share these associations with the family of Armenters, which, I suggest, derived their name from the Crispin fief of Armentières, Verneuil, and whose progenitor was very likely the said William Crispin/Colville I. These relationships are contineously repeated, and can be seen as a distinct pattern within a historical framework.

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1. Gilbert Crispin I., commander of Tillières.
1.1. William Crispin I. (de Colville), ob. ante 1084, m. Eve de Montfort,* sister of Simon I de Montfort L’Amaury (W. Frolich, trsl., The Letters of Anselme of Canterbury, 1990-1994, nos. 22, 98, 118, and 147). They were the children of Amauri de Montfort, obit. 1031, and Bertrade de Gometz. According to Orderic (OV vii., vol. 4), Amauri was the son of William de Hainault** (Marjorie Chibnall, ed. & trans., The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, vol. iv., 1969-80).
1.1.1. Wlliam Crispin II. m. Agnes Mauvoisin. He was the probable br. of Robert d’Armentières. The Crispins held the fief of Armentières, Verneuil and there was a continuation of association between these families, see as follows.
1.1.1.1. Philip de Coleville, of Heton and Oxenhame, in the county of Roxburgh, Scotland. He was the br. of Thomas de Colville, ancestor of the Stanhopes.

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. ‘Thomas de Colevilla cognomento Scot’ donated (1200), ‘quartam partam de Almelidum’ to Melrose Abbey.

1.1.2. Robert d’ Armentières.
THE GILBERTINES

1. Rollo, one Scandinavian leader among several who vied for outright control of the relatively small amount of territory ceded to them, around Rouen, by Charles III., King of France, in return for providing protection against fellow Scandinavian raiders, and giving feudal allegiance to the king. Although history tends to be written as if evolves around the actions of individuals, making it easy for people to identify with and understand, these leaders would have had the essential support of other powerful men.

1.1. William Longsword. ‘William first appears as the leader of the Normans in the year 933 [‘Willelmus, princeps Nordmannorum, eidem regi se committit; cui etiam rex dat terram Brittonum in ora maritima sitam].’ Flodoard, Annales, s.a. 933, 55; van Houts [2000, 45], having succeeded his father Rollo sometime in or after 928 [Rollo’s last known appearance in the records, see Flodoard, Annales, s.a. 928, 41; ibid.]In (probably) 942, he was treacherously killed at the instigation of Arnulf I of Flanders [‘Arnulfus comes Willelmum, Nordmannorum principem, ad colloquium evocatum dolo perimi fecit.” Flodoard, Annales, s.a. 943, 86; supra, 47]. Shortly thereafter, an anonymous poet wrote the Planctus, a poem lamenting his death’ (Stewart Baldwin). Flodoard states that William’s mother was a ‘concubina Brittanna’, which, in the context of the Planctus, which states his mother was from ‘overseas’, might mean Britain, and, specifically, the Irish Sea (Hibernian) region associated with Viking piracy.

1.1.1. Richard I., ‘duke’ of Normandy, born 933, died November 20, 996.

1.1.1.1. Goisfred, born circa 958, died 1010, assassinated.

1.1.1.1.1. Gilbert de Brionne. He was named as ‘Gislebertus Brionensis Comes primi Ricardi Normannorum ducis nepos, ex filio Consule Godefrido’, in the foundation charter of Bec, circa 1034. He was born circa 980, and most modern historians state that he was assassinated in 1040 or 1041, after he had become tutor of the young Duke William.

1.1.1.1.1.1. Richard FitzGilbert (de Bienfait), s.l. 1088, from the town (St. Martin de Bienfait) of that name near Liseux, the caput of the Crispin family. A popular fallacy is that he was born circa 1035, this being based on an incorrect date being given for the death of his father, i.e. 1035. His son, Roger, was a justicar of England in 1075.

1.1.1.1.1.2. Glbert Crispin I. His sobriquet derives from OFr crespin, a derivative of crespe ‘curly’ – he had ‘capillos crispos et rigidos, atque sursum erectos, et ut ita dicam, rebursos ad modum pini ramorum, qui sepe tendunt sursum’. Hence the name of ‘Crispinus, quasi crispus pinus’ (Milo Crispin, How The Holy Virgin Appeared To William Crispin The Elder And On The Origin Of The Crispin Family, ed. Migne, cols. 735-744, 185). The same source notes that he was ‘of renowned origin and nobility’, without revealing detail! He was also known as ‘Gilbertus de Teuleriis’, Castellan (1041) of Tillieres, arrondissement of Evreux, and was probably a son of a concubine. That he was not the same person as Gilbert de Brionne has been recognised in academic sources for nearly 200 years – Aug. Le Provost, Rom. Rou, t. II, p. 232 and 238; Mem. League of Antiqe de Normandy, 1828-1829, p. 419; Mabillon ‘Life of St. Hellouin’, Gall. Christ., vol. xi. – as detailed in MSAN, pp. 110-112, 1837. Unfortunately, the beam of knowledge has not illuminated many ‘internet histories’, which have an ageing Gilbert, Count of Brionne, being a commander of a border fort, presumably in between his tutoring duties. Gilbert Crispin 1. was also given command of Damville, dioc. d’Evreux, another fort on the ‘frontière normande’. Gilbert’s son, also Gilbert, inherited the command of Tillieres, his brother, William, was given the command of Neaufles, another important border fort. The Crispin brothers were to become known as ‘de Colville’, the name of another fort and land (at Colleville-sur-Mer), they were given by Duke William prior to the Conquest.

1.1.1.1.1.2.1. Gilbert Crispin II. He donated a moiety of Damville to Bec in 1070, a gift witnessed by Richard FitzGilbert (de Bienfait), ‘Ricardi filii Gisleberti comitis’. The heir of this line continued to be called Gilbert for several more generations; Gilbert VI. died at Acre before March 25, 1191.

1.1.1.1.1.2. William Crispin I.

1.1.1.1.1.2.1. William Crispin II.

1.1.1.1.1.2.2. Robert d’ Armentières

*Eve de Montfort’s niece, Isabel de Montfort, m. Ralph de Tosny III., br. of Robert de Tosny, Baron of Belvoir (Dictionnaire de la noblesse, p. 583, 1772). They were the sons of Roger ‘the Spaniard’ de Tosny. In 1013, Roger and his father Raoul guarded the castle at Tillières for Richard II., Duke of Normandy. A few years later, the pair were forced into exile, and the defence of Tillières was given to Gilbert Crispin 1. Adeliza de Tosny, sister of Ralph and Robert, m. William FitzOsborn. Robert de Tosny’s dau., Adeliza de Tosni, m. Roger Bigod, earl of East Anglia. Their dau., Cecily, obit. 1135, m. William d’ Albini Brito, of Saint-Aubin-d’Aubigné (Ille-et-Vilaine) and was mother of Ralph d’Albini Brito, who m. Sybil de Valognes, widow firstly of Robert de Ros, and secondly of William de Percy, son of Alan de Percy II., and Emma de Gand, dau. of Gilbert de Gand I. The Colvilles were tenants of the Percys in Yorkshire. Ralph d’Albini Brito was the father of Gunnora de Albini Brito, who m. Robert de Gand, her sister marrying William de Colville.

1. Gilbert de Gand I, overlord of the Armentieres family of Whatton.
1.1. Hugh de Gand, m. Adeline de Beaumont, dau. of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester.
1.2. Robert de Gand, Lord Chancellor of England, s.l.1153.
1.3. Walter de Gand, m. Maude, dau. of Stephen, count of Brittany. Sir Walter de Lindissi or Lind(e)say (was) ‘almost certainly 3rd son of Gilbert de Ghent (Gilbert de Gand I.), probably accompanied David, Earl of Huntingdon, subsequently King David I, in his anglicising of the Lowlands in the early 12th century; he was witness in 1116 to an inquisition concerning the see of Glasgow’ (Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, 107th edition, vol. 1, p. 950).
1.1.1. Gilbert de Gand, 1st earl of Lincoln, obit. c. 1156, m. Rohese de Clare, dau. of Richard de Clare.
1.1.1.1. Alice de Gand, m. Simon III. de Senlis, son of Simon II. de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, son of another namsake, of whom Robert d’Armentières held land.
1.1.1.2. Gunnora de Gand.
1.1.2. Robert de Gand, m. Gunnora de Albini Brito, dau. of Ralph de Albini Brito (English Baronies’, I. J. Sanders, OUP, 2nd ed, 1963); she m. (2), Nicholas de Stuteville. A sister of Gunnora de Albini Brito, Maud, m. William de Colville. William held one night’s fee of Robert de Gand in Lincs, his br.-in-law. William de Colville agreed to pay the king a fine of 20 mares and one palfrey, to have seisin of Normanton, Rutland, held in chief by the de Umfravilles. 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..
1.1.2.1. Gilbert de Gand, Earl of Lincoln, obit. 1241, father of Juliana de Gand, who m. Geoffrey d’Armentières, son of Henry d’Armentières.
1.4. Emma de Gand, m. Alan de Percy II.
1.5. Agnes de Gand, m. William FitzNigel, lord of Halton, Constable of Chester, great-grandson of Neil II, Viccomte de St. Sauveur.
1.5.1. Agnes (or Matilda), m. Eustace FitzJohn, lord of Knaresborough, later lord of Halton, Constable of Chester.

**William de Hainault was contemporary to Regnier IV. de Hainault, who, in 985, recovered Mons and Hainault. and m. Hadwige, dau. of Hugh Capet, King of France; by whom he had issue Regnier V. who died in 1033, leaving by his wife, Maud of Lorrain, a dau., Richildis, heiress of Hainault, Brabant, Mons, and Valenciennes; which possessions she conveyed to the Counts of Flanders, marrying Count Baldwin V., brother of King William the Conqueror’s wife. Gilbert de Gand’s mother is stated to be Gisele, a sister of Otgiva, wife of Baldwin IV., count of Flanders (Europaische Stammtafeln (ES, 6:128, 1978). The same authority (E.S 2:5, 1984), gives 1012 for Otgiva’s marriage date, as does K.F. Werner’s ‘Die Nachkommen Karls des Grossen’, in Karl der Grosse, ed. W. Braunfels, vol. 4, 1967. Thus, given Gilbert de Gand’s estimated birthdate of 1040-2, there is a thirty year age difference between Gisele and Otgiva, and a relationship of niece/aunt would be more supportable, making Gilbert de Gand a second-cousin of both King William’s wife and Baldwin V., whose wife, as shown, was the granddau. of Regnier IV. de Hainault; who was likely closely related to William de Hainault, grandfather of William Crispin’s wife. This would be a typical example of the concept of ‘foedus inter consobinos heredes’.

1.1.1.1.1.1. John de Colville, of Oxnam. His parentage is confirmed by the attestation (1316) of his granddaughter, ‘domine Eustachie Lachene’, relating to ‘ecclesie de Oucheltrye’ (Melrose Liber, t. ii., 400, p. 363).
1.1.1.1.1.1.1. William de Colville, of Spindlestone, Northumberland.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante 1280. Melrose Liber, t. ii., 400, p. 363. He held land in Formartine, of Fergus de Forbes, who had a charter from Alexander, Earl of Buchan, ‘Fergusio, filio Joannis de Forbes, totum et integrum tenementum de Forbes, cum pertinent, jacent, in vicecomitatu de Aberdeen,’ to which charter William Comyn, brother of the Earl, and John Comyn, his eldest son, &c., are witnesses, c. 1236. The Forbes intermarried with the Prestons, and Sir Henry de Preston, of Formartine, m. (1375) Elizabeth de Lindsay, dau. of Sir James de Lindsay and Gille Stewart, dau. of Walter Stewart, High Steward of Scotland, and Marjorie de Brus. Tenantship relationship often followed familial ones, and Thomas de Colville may have married into the Forbes family, as is suggested by later Colville marriages. The Lindsays took their name from the fief of Lindesia in Lincolnshire, held of the de Gand family, one of whom would have been a ‘militibus de Lindesia’, ante 1135 (RBE, 292, 293, 298); a proposition repeated thus: Sir Walter de Lindissi or Lind(e)say (was) ‘almost certainly 3rd son of Gilbert de Ghent probably accompanied David, Earl of Huntingdon, subsequently King David I, in his anglicising of the Lowlands in the early 12th century; he was witness 1116 to an inquisition concerning the see of Glasgow’ (Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, 107th edition, vol. 1, p. 950).

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert de Colville, ob. ante 1341.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert de Colville, obit. c. 1400.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante February 4, 1403, m. Margaret Lindsay, dau. of James de Lindsay (son of his namesake, aforementioned), and Margaret Keith, dau. of Sir William Keith and Margaret Fraser. (1. Sir William Keith, m. Margaret Fraser, dau. of John Fraser, the father of William Fraser. 1.1. Margaret Keith, m. James de Lindsay, of Crawford, obit. 1397. 1.1.1. Margaret Lindsay, m. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante February 4, 1403. 1.1.1.1. Robert de Colville. On February 16, 1450-1, he had a charter of the barony of Ochiltree to himself and Cristina de Crichton,* his second wife, dau. of Sir Robert Crichton of Sanquhar. *Her sister, Margaret de Crichton, m. Sir John Herries of Terregles, son of John Herries of Terregles, grandson of Sir John Herries and Euphame de Lindsay, Thomas de Colville’s sister-in-law. 1.2. Janet Keith, m. Sir David Hamilton, 3rd Laird of Cadzow. 1.2.1. John Hamilton, m. Janet, dau. of Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith. 1.2.1.1. Sir James Hamilton of Cadzow, second-cousin of Robert de Colville. 1.2.1.1.1. James Hamilton, m. Janet, dau. of Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, and d. ante 1441. 1.2.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Hamilton, m. (1459), David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford, later Duke of Montrose, but was divorced ante 1485).

Sir William Stewart, (‘An abstract of the evidence adduced’, pp.165-6, 1801), was somewhat scathing of pedigree-making that ‘made one person into two’ , so as to validate contrived theories: ‘It must be attempted therefore to make it be believed, that two Sir Alexander Stewarts, and two Sir William Stewarts, two Sir William Keiths, two Janet Keiths, and two Hamiltons, &c. existed precisely at the fame period, as if it were intended by the similarity of their History to baffle the efforts of all future genealogists, who should attempt to give a consistent account of their families. The extravagant nature of these groundless suppositions, and the palpable absurdities attending these unnecessary multiplications of genealogical characters …..’. Sir William Stewart’s comments regarding ‘the Hamiltons’ are of relevance to a better understanding of the ancestries of their descendants. John Hamilton, aforementioned, was incredulously ‘given’ a brother of the same name by some nineteenth-century genealogists, so as to validate a particular Hamilton narrative, the fact being that a supposed deed of his marriage provision, given a date of 1397, was not ‘interpreted’ in the same way by other genealogists, who made his son to be a son of his fictional brother. The ‘other’ John could have been more plausibly put forward as a cousin, but, then, it should be considered that Thomas de Colville, whose wife was the cousin of Sir David Hamilton, was of a branch of the Colvilles that were cognamento ‘de Hameldon’ , and that Sir David Hamilton was of a different branch of the Colvilles.

1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir Robert Colvill of Oxnam and Ochiltree. He had a charter of several lands lying in the barony of Ochiltree, dated March 9, 1477.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Robert de Colville of Hilton.
1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. Sir James Colville of Ochiltree, the elder son, was appointed to the oflice of comptroller before 1527. He exchanged the lands of Ochiltree with Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, a natural son of James Hamilton, first earl of Arran, for the barony of East Wemyss and Lochorshyre in Fife, and obtained a charter of the same in December of that year. Sir James Colville m. (1), Alison, eldest dau. of Sir David Bruce of Clackmannan. Alison’s br. Sir Edward Bruce, was the father of Robert Bruce, who m. Margaret Hamilton, dau. of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews, an illegitimate son of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran. Sir James Colville m.(2) Margaret Forrester, sister of Davis Forrester of Garden.
1.1.1.1.1.1.2. William de Colville. ‘Willelmus de Coleville fil. Thome de Colevill’ donated ‘quartam partam de Almelidum to Melrose abbey, for the souls of ‘T. patris mei et Ade uxoris mee’, by a charter of 1224 (Melrose Liber, Tome I, 194, p. 173). ‘Willelmus de Collevill filius Thome de Collevill’ confirmed the donation to Newbattle priory made by ‘dni Thome de Collevill patris mei’ by undated charter witnessed by ‘Dno David de Lynddessay'(Newbattle, 189, p. 153), m., as her second husband, Ada, widow of John Malherbe. The aforementioned attestation of ‘domine Eustachie Lachene’, states that ‘avus suus dominus Johannes de Coluille’ was succeeded by ‘filius suus legitimus Willelmus’, who married ‘filiam domini Johanis de Normanville’* by whom he was father of ‘Thomam et Eustaciam istam’ (ibid.).

*John de Normanville, of Thryberg, descendant of Gerold de Normanville, benefactor of Battle Abbey: his grant of ‘Bocestepe’ was confirmed by Henry I.; and in one of the charters (1106), of Henry d’Eu, he is styled Dapifer meus; ‘Giroldus de Normanvilla dapifer meus’, also ‘Geroldus Dapifer’. He was probably Gerald de Caus, precept William Rufus, 1096, see ADDIT. MS 31,930, p. 85. His family held Normanton, Rutland, prior to the Umfrevilles ownership by dower. In 1147, his sons, Ralph and Gerold de Normanevilla are witnesses to the foundation of the Abbey of St. Mary, co. Huntingdon, by Simon de St. Liz, Earl of Northampton. (Robert d’Armentières, tenant of the Gand family, was succeeded in England (ante 1127), by a son or nephew, Henry d’Armentières, also tenant of the Gand family, the father of David d’Armentières, who, in 1166, held ten knights’ fees of Earl Simon of Northampton, to whom most of the Domesday fief of Gilbert de Gand had descended. His son was Henry: temp. Richard I., Michaelmas 1190-1198 (Pipe Roll 36-44), ‘Henricus de Armentieres debet c s. pro habendo recto de feodo j militis in Watton’). 1. Gilbert Crispin I.1.1. William Crispin/Colville I. 1.1.1. William Crispin II. 1.1.2. Robert de d’Armentières, held Whatton of Gilbert de Gand. 1.1.2.1. William de Whatton, pogenitor of the families of Newmarch and Wormley, m. … de Newmarch, dau. of William de Newmarch (benefactor of Blythe Priory (founded by Roger de Busli), son of Ralph de Newmarche, Domesday tenant of Roger de Busli (Keats-Rohan , D.P., p. 336); the said Roger’s dau. being the wife of William d’Eu, they the parents of Henry d’Eu, of whom ‘Giroldus de Normanvilla’ was ‘dapifer meus’, who was from Normanville, arr. Neufchatel, and who was very likely related to the Buslis of Bully, arr. Neufchatel. 1.1.2.1.1. Robert de Watton. 1.1.2.1.1.1. Adeline de Whatton, m. William de Heriz: ‘Adelina, the daughter and heir of Robert de Whatton, gave the Church of Whatton to the Abbey of Wellebek, to maintain hospitality thereof, for, the souls of her said father, her mother Beatrix, and William de Heriz her husband, who was living about 10 H. 2. c. but in 22 H. 2. (1176) his brother, Robert de Heriz, who was his heir, was amerced for trespassing on the Forest’ (Thoroton, v. i. 265). 1.1.2.1.2. Adam de Newmarch. It is claimed (CP ix. 543, citing Yorkshire Archæological Journal, vol. iv, p. 143, and Blythe cartulary, fo. 106) that Adam de Newmarch was the son of William de Watton, an unnamed son of his inheriting land from William de Newmarch, his uncle: Pipe Roll 31 Hen I (1129/30), Northumberland, p. 36., records ‘Wills de Waddona’ accounting for ‘fil suus’ having succeeded to the land of ‘Willi de Novo Mercato avunculi sui’ in Northumberland. In the third generation after Adam de Newmarch was Robert de Newmarch, alias ‘domino Roberto de Wilmersly’ (Wormely); his grandson was Roger de Newmarch, who held land in Womersley, and his son was very likely John de Wormeley, ob. ante 1373, who m. Eleanor Foliot, a likely grandaughter of William Foliot, uncle of Richard Foliot of Gressenhall and Weasenham, son of Jordan Foliot, who married Margery de Newmarch. Richard Foliot’s eldest daughter, Margery, in 1330, had livery of her purparty of the lands of her grandmother, Margery de Newmarch. Gerold de Normanevilla held Normanton in Rutland, as later did, by marriage, the Umfrevilles, overlords of the Colville family of that place. Thomas de Normanville, the brother of John, gave (1227), the monks of Melrose his land c ……………….

1.1.1.2. Thomas de Coleville, m. Matilda d’Aubigny, probably a close relative of Roger (d’Aubigny) de Mowbray, his overlord. Thomas de Colville was witness to a gift of Roger de Mowbray (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’. This latter witness was probably Thomas de Colville, obit. 1219, Constable of Dumfries Castle, aforementioned, nephew of Thomas de Colville, who 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 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’. Thomas de Colville’s father, 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. The great antiquarian John Riddell (in ‘Stewartania’, 1843) made the case for a settlement in Scotland of a Yorkshire family of ‘Hamilton’ prior to that of Walter FitzGilbert de Hamilton, and suggests a Roger de Colville to be the representative of this family. He suggests him as ‘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’. Mr. Riddell is certainly describing a younger son of Thomas de Colville, obit. 1219, Constable of Dumfries Castle, as, to borrow again from Mr. Liddell, ‘the property of Oxenham, afterwards, as can be proved, possessed by the Scotch Colvilles … lay in Roxburghshire (and) the first Melrose charter, referred to during King William’s reign, (was) witnessed by Thomas de Hameldun, and Roger his son – ‘Thoma de Homeldun, et Rogero filio ejus’. Philip de Colville, father of ‘Thomas the Constable’, was also associated with Percy family gifts to Whitby Abbey. ‘Philippus de Colevile’ (Whitby Cart., no. 63, ante 1201), donates to ‘Ecclesiae de Whiteby’ in perp. elem.; his donation being confirmed, ante 1214, as Geoffrey de Percy’s gift (Dryb. Lib., no. 225). Mr. Riddel continues: ‘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’. Roger de Hameldun was almost certainly the father of ‘Roberto de Hameldun’ and ‘Rogero de Hameldun’, recorded, ante 1249, in the Melrose chartulary. Robert de Hameldun has been wrongly assigned to the earlier grant. Mr. Riddell concludes: ‘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’.
1.1.1.1.1.2. Roger de Hameldun.
1.1.1.1.1.2.1. Roger de Hameldun.
1.1.1.1.1.2.2. Robert de Hameldun. The earliest recorded Hamiltons in Scotland were 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.

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.
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 I.) whose family armorial was gules, 3 cinque foils or. William was the br.-in-law of Robert de Gand, grandson of Gilbert de Gand I. Maud was the granddau. of Maud de Umframville, dau. of Odinel d’Umfraville. Robert de Gand was the grandfather of Juliana de Gand, who m. Geoffrey d’ Armentières.

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). 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 de Umfreville I., 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 (obit. 1261) received the manor of Hambleton in dower in 1245 until the king assigned her full dower. The heir, Gilbert de Umfreville II., 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, dau. of Thomas de Clare.

1.1.1.2.1.1.1. 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, 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). 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. 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. Sir Walter FitzAlan le Stewart, High Steward of Scotland.Gilbert de Umframville m. her sister, Maud.

1.Gospatric II. of Dunbar (Anderson, Scottish Annals, p.203, n. 4).
1.1. Juliana of Dunbar, m. Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland. She was the sister of Gospatrick III., whose son was Waltheof of Dunbar, whose son, Patrick of Dunbar, m. Christina, relict of William de Brus, son of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, whose tenants were the Colville family of Bytham and Normanton. Christina was the sister of Sir Alan FitzWalter, High Steward of Scotland. Patrick of Dunbar, heir of Patrick, m. Cecilia Fraser, dau. of John Fraser, and sister of William Fraser, whose dau., Margaret, m. Sir William Keith; their dau. Margaret Keith, m. James de Lindsay, of Crawford, obit. 1397; their dau., Margaret Lindsay, m. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante February 4, 1403. Margaret Keith’s sister, Janet Keith, m. Sir David Hamilton, 3rd Laird of Cadzow.
1.1.1. Roger de Merlay, m. Alice de Stuteville, sister of Beatrix, wife of William de Colville, tenant of Gilbert de Umfreville in Normanton juxta Hamilton.
1.1.1.1. Roger de Merlay, m. Ada of Fife, dau. of Duncan MacDuff, 5th Earl of Fife and Ela de Warenne, daughter of Reginald de Warenne, Sheriff of Sussex and Alice de Wormegay, son of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey,obit. May 11, 1138,aged 67, and Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Leicester, wife (firstly) of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester.
1.1.1.1.1. Roger de Merlay, m. Isabel de Ros, dau. of Sir Robert de Ros, of Wark-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, ob. ante April 20, 1274, and Margaret de Brus,dau. of Peter de Brus of Skelton. Sir Robert de Ros was the son of his namesake, and Isabel. dau. of William ‘the Lion’, relict of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale.
1.2. … Dunbar, m. Gillbride, 2nd Earl of Angus, br. of Maud, Countess of Angus, wife of the said Gilbert de Umfreville.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. Roger de Colville of Bytham Castle, Lincolnshire. There was a strong relationship between the Colvilles of Scotland and Normanton, Rutland, as Thomas de Colville gave land in Galloway to Vaudey Abbey, to pray for the souls of dead Scottish Kings.’The fact that a Lincolnshire Abbey received land in Galloway for the souls of Scottish Kings is only explicable because of the existence of an aristocratic family with members in both kingdoms’ (G. Barrow, The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History, 1980). The network of relations was vitally important, providing support in times of need, and promotion when influence permitted. The family of de Colville, although geographically dispersed, was a powerful political entity.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1. 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. 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.

(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.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.2.2. Robert de Colville. He held land in Spindleston (see ), and had strong connections to Scotland: In 1300, Robert was required to be present at the muster at Carlisle by Edward l. and for about 20 years Robert was a commissioner of array responsible for levying or conscripting local men to fight. It is highly likely that he would have accompanied the men he levied in 1314 to Bannockburn. He also advised Edward II in 1312 at York and again in 1324 at the great Council at Westminster. Robert was Lord of the manors of E. Heslerton, E. Lutton, Dale, Ingleby Arncliffe, Thimbleby, Foxton and Kirkby Sigston. also joint lord of W. Heslerton, W. Lutton and Knapton – and lord of the manors of Spindleston and Budle (juxta Berwick on Tweed), in Northumbria. Here he was granted a license from the king in 1317 to have a 2000 acre park. Robert’s son married well to Elizabeth daughter and heiress of Sir John Conyers of Stockburn which extended their possessions to include the manors of St. Helen’s, Auckland and W. Rounton.
1.1.1.2.1.1.1.3. Robert de Colville, held lands at Thimbleby and Arncliffe. His son was Walter de Colville.* Before 1185, Adam de Brus gave to the Templars 2 bovates in Ingleby (Arncliffe), as parcel of the Barony of Skelton. At a later period it was held under the Brus family by the Ingelrams, one of whom, Walter Ingram, gave between the years 1129 and 1196, the Churches of Arncliffe and Welbury, and certain lands in both parishes to the Priory of Guisborough. Another of that family, Robert Ingram, had, in 1255, a grant of free warren in Arncliffe, Heslerton, and Dale. His daughter, Engeliza, born 1200, was married (1228) to Sir Philip Colville, born 1195. * He appears as: ‘Walter de Colevill, d’or une fece de goulz’ (Rievaulx Chartulary, cit. A history of Northumberland, Northumberland county history committee)..

1. Sir Walter FitzAlan, High Steward of Scotland, obit 1177. King Malcom IV., on the feast of Saint John the Baptist, June 24,, 1158, granted a charter of confirmation in favour of the said Walter Fitzallan, of the oflice and lands which his grandfather had bestowed on the Steward. Walter the Steward, in imitation of his royal bencfaetor, founded the Abbey of Paisley between 1160 and 1163, and richly endowed it.
1.1. Sir Alan FitzWalter.
1.1.1. Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland, obit 1241 m. Beatrix, dau of Gilchrist, 4th Earl of Angus.
1.1.1.1. Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, obit. 1283, m. Jean Macrory, dau of James Macrory of Bute and Arran.
1.1.1.1.1. … Stewart, m. Sir Alexander Lindsay of Crawford, br. of Sir David de Lindsay.
1.1.1.1.1.1. Beatrice Lindsay of Crawford, m. Robert Erskine ‘of that Ilk’ .

Robertus Dei gracia Rex Scottorum omnibus, &c. Cum alias Concessimus Roberto de Erskyne militi consanguineo nostro dilecto hereditarie per cartam, quadraginta marcas Sterlingorum, percipiendas annuatim de illo annuo redditu Nobis debito five exeunte de Baronia de Cadiou infra vicecomitatum de Lanark, prout in carta nostra sibi exinde confecta plenius continetur: Ac idem Robertus, in presencia nostra postmodum propter hoc personaliter constitutus, ex certis causis ipsum ad hoc moventibus; et specialiter pro excambio faciendo cum David de Hamylton filio et herede David filii Walteri militis, de dictis quadraginta marcis annui redditus cum terris de Clonyschenach, del Bernys et de Auldlandys cum pertinenciis, in Baronia de Reynfrew, infra vicecomitatum de Lanark predictum, ipsus quadraginta marcas annui redditus in Baronia de Cadiou predicta Nobis sursiim reddiderit, pure et simpliciter resignavit. Nos vero resignacionem de dictis quadraginta marcis annui redditus nobis factam ut supra recipientes et ratum habentes, ipsus quadraginta marcas annui redditus, eidem David de Hamylton pro predicto excambio ut premittitur faciendo, Donamus, Concedimus, et hac presenti carta nostra Confirmamus: Tenendas et habendas eidem David et heredibus suis, de nobis et heredibus nostris in feodo et hereditate, adeo libere, quiete, plenarie, integre et honorifice, in omnibus et per omnia, ficut dictus Robertus dictas quadraginta marcas annui redditus ante factum hujusmodi resignationis, liberius tenuit, habuit, feu recepit’. David de Hamilton enfeoffs Robert Erskine.

1.1.1.1.2. James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland, obit 1309. Walter FitzGilbert ‘de Hamilton’ first appears in January 10, 1295, as a witness to a charter by James, the High Steward of Scotland, to the monks of Paisley. He was granted the Lanarkshire barony of Cadzow, and was Knighted ante July 28, 1323, receiving further grants in Kinneil (West Lothian) and Larbert (Sterlingshire). In 1296, his name appears in the Homage Roll as Walter FitzGilbert of ‘Hameldone’. James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland, m. (1) Cecilia of Dunbar, dau of Patrick, 5th Earl of Dunbar, son of Waltheof of Dunbar, son of Gospatrick III of Dunbar, whose sister Juliana of Dunbar, m. Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland. Their son, Roger de Merlay, m. Alice de Stuteville, sister of Beatrix, wife of William de Colville, tenant of Gilbert de Umfreville in Normanton juxta Hamilton, Rutland. A sister of Juliana’s m. Gillbride, 2nd Earl of Angus, br. of Maud, Countess of Angus, wife of the said Gilbert de Umfreville. Beatrix of Angus, m. Sir Walter Fitz Alan (le Stewart), son of Sir Alan FitzWalter, and grandson of Sir Walter Fitz Alan, High Steward of Scotland, obit 1177. The dau. of Gillbride, 2nd Earl of Angus and … Dunbar, Beatrix of Angus, m. Sir Walter Fitz Alan (le Stewart), son of Sir Alan FitzWalter, and grandson of Sir Walter Fitz Alan, High Steward of Scotland, obit 1177. Patrick, 5th Earl of Dunbar, was the father of Patrick, 6th Earl of Dunbar obit. 1248, who m. Eupheme Stewart, dau of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland.
1.1.1.1.2.1. Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, 1292-1325.
1.1.1.1.2.1.1. Egidia Stewart, ob. ante June, 1406, m. Sir James Lindsay of Crawford, obit. 1358.
1.1.1.2. Eupheme Stewart, m. Patrick, 6th Earl of Dunbar.
1.1.1.2.1. Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar, obit. 1289, m. (1242) Cecilia, dau of John Fraser, and sister of William Fraser, whose dau., Margaret, m. Sir William Keith; their dau. Margaret Keith, m. James de Lindsay, of Crawford, obit. 1397; their dau., Margaret Lindsay, m. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante February 4, 1403. Margaret Keith’s sister, Janet Keith, m. Sir David Hamilton, 3rd Laird of Cadzow.
1.1.1.2.1.1. Patrick, 8th Earl of Dunbar, obit. 1308. m., ante 1282, Marjorie Comyn, dau of Alexander Comyn, 2nd Earl of Buchan .
1.1.1.3. Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, 1292-1325.
1.1.1.3.1. Egidia Stewart, ob. ante June, 1406, Sir James Lindsay of Crawford, obit. 1358.
James de Lindsay was the son of Sir James Lindsay (obit 1358), and Egidia Stewart (m. 1346); he had two sisters, viz. Isabel, who m. Sir John de Maxwell, and Elizabeth, who m. Sir Henry de Preston of Formartine. (see The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 540. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 536.The Scots Peerage, Vol. VIII, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 371. The Scots Peerage, Vol. I, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 15).

THE DE MERLAYS AND ‘GILBERTUS COLEVILLE’

1. Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, m. Juliana of Dunbar, dau. of Gospatric II. of Dunbar.
1.1. Roger de Merlay, m. Alice de Stuteville, sister of Beatrix, wife of William de Colville, tenant of Gilbert de Umfreville in Normanton juxta Hamilton, Rutland. Robert de Gand,* m. Gunnora de Albini Brito, dau. of Ralph de Albini Brito (English Baronies’, I. J. Sanders, OUP, 2nd ed, 1963); she m. (2), Nicholas de Stuteville. A sister of Gunnora de Albini Brito, Maud, m. William de Colville. Nicholas de Stuteville’s sister, Joan, m. Maldred Fitz Dolfin, Lord of Raby, great-grandson of Maldred, br. of Gospatric I., Earl of Northumberland and Dunbar, grandfather of Juliana of Dunbar. Joan de Stuteville and Maldred FitzDolfin had issue: Robert FitzMaldred, Lord of Raby, who m. Isabel de Neville, dau. of Geoffrey de Neville, Lord of Ashby, Lincolnshire; their son was Sir Geoffrey de Neville, Sheriff of Northumberland. A descendant of Geoffrey de Neville, Gilbert de Neville, elected as one of the Knights of the Shire for Lincolnshire, appears in 1289 (Trinity) Case 89e: Gilbert de Neville v. William and Isabel de Ros, issue of Robert de Ros, a kinsman of Walter de Colville.
1.1.1. Roger de Merlay, m. Ada of Fife, dau. of Duncan MacDuff, 5th Earl of Fife and Ela de Warenne, daughter of Reginald de Warenne, Sheriff of Sussex and Alice de Wormegay, son of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey,obit. May 11, 1138,aged 67, and Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Leicester, wife (firstly) of Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester.
1.1.1.1. Roger de Merlay, obit. 1266, m. Isabel de Ros, dau. of Sir Robert de Ros, of Wark-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, ob. ante April 20, 1274, and Margaret de Brus,dau. of Peter de Brus of Skelton. Sir Robert de Ros was the son of his namesake, and Isabel. dau. of William ‘the Lion’, relict of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale. In 1244, he appears in the list of barons summoned to attend the king at Newcastle, with horse and arms, to repair against the Scots. By a deed, to which his kinsman. the Gilbert de Umreville, who died in 1244, was a witness, he confirmed to the canons of Brinkburn all the grants which his father and his ancestom had made to them. In 1258, he Was summoned to go with horse and arms to the rescue of Alexander, king of Scotland, from his rebellious barons.

The Writs of Military Service show (1292) Gilbertus Coleville performing military service in Scotland ‘due from Gilbertus de Neville’.

RECAP AND ADDITIONS

1. Gilbert Crispin I.
2. William Crispin I.
3. William Crispin 11.
4. Thomas de Coleville, m. Matilda d’Aubigny, probably a close relative of Roger (d’Aubigny) de Mowbray, his overlord.
5. 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.
6. 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).
7. 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, Rutland, 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).
8. Roger de Colville. 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.
9. Walter de Colville, m. Elizabeth d’ Albini Brito. He was the 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.
10. 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. *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.
11. 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’.

ALBINI, UMFREVILLE, ROSS, AND COMYN

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). 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 de Umfreville, 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.

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, Rutland. 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. … 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. 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, it is suggested, of Walter FitzGilbert.
1.1.2. Gunnora d’Albini Brito, m. (1) Robert de Gand, (2) Nicholas de Stuteville, 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. 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.

DE QUINCY

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, of whom Gilbert de Colville, who served in the Scottish Wars in 1292, was directly descended; and who m. Maud d’Albini Brito, niece of William d’Albini Brito II. He went to Scotland and through his first marriage obtained lands in Fife, Perth and Lothian, and was granted the castle of Forfar by his cousin (through his mother) William “the Lion” King of Scotland. Robertus de Quinci, Seierus de Quinci…” were the first two lay witnesses (signing before the members of the donors´ family) of the charter dated 1200 which records the foundation of Inchaffray Abbey by ‘Gilbertus filius Ferthead … comes de Stradern et … Matilidis filia Willelmi de Aubengni comitissa’. *She was the dau. of Nes of Mar (‘Nesius filius Willi et Orabile filia sua heres’ donated ‘ecclesiam de Losresc’ to St Andrew´s priory. Her son, ‘Seherus de Quency comes Wintonie’ donated ‘totam terram de Duglyn … testibus comite Patricio, justiciario’*… held by ‘Nesus filius Willelmi avus meus’ to Cambuskenneth priory. *Patrick, 6th Earl of Dumbar, husband of Euphame Stewart, father of Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar, obit. 1289, m. (1242) Cecilia, dau of John Fraser, and sister of William Fraser, whose dau., Margaret, m. Sir William Keith; their dau. Margaret Keith, m. James de Lindsay, of Crawford, obit. 1397; their dau., Margaret Lindsay, m. Thomas de Colville, ob. ante February 4, 1403. Margaret Keith’s sister, Janet Keith, m. Sir David Hamilton, 3rd Laird of Cadzow. Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar, and Cecilia Fraser, had issue: Patrick, 8th Earl of Dunbar, obit. 1308. m., ante 1282, Marjorie Comyn, dau of Alexander Comyn, 2nd Earl of Buchan, to whom the Colvilles of Normanton were kin, being kin of his cousin and namesake, as detailed herein. The representative of this line, Gilbert de Colville, being summoned to serve in Scotland in 1292, as herein shown.
Euphame was the aunt of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland, obit. 1283, m. Jean Macrory, dau of James Macrory of Bute and Arran; their dau. m. Sir Alexander Lindsay of Crawford, br. of Sir David de Lindsay. Their dau., Beatrice Lindsay of Crawford, m. Robert Erskine ‘of that Ilk’, to whom ‘David de Hamylton filio et herede David filii Walteri militis’ (son of Gilbert), granted land of the barony of Cadzow, as herein shown.
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 de Hamilton.

1.1.1.1.1.1. Elizabeth Comyn, m. Gilbert de Umframville II., Earl of Angus.

The family of Heriz seemed to follow in the footsteps of those associated with the de Gands, but, of that, I can not adduce reason. Abridged from: William Anderson, The Scottish nation, vol. ii., pp. 472-473, 1867. ‘Chalmers (Caledonia, vol. i, p. 135), states that a branch of the Anglo-Norman family of Heriz, who had their chief residence at Wyverton … in Nottinghamshire, came into Scotland during the reign of David the First (1124—1153). William de Heriz witnessed two charters by Earl Henry, son of David, before 1152; one to the monks of Wederdale, and the other to the abbey and monks of Holm Colteram (Dugdale’s Mon. Angl., vol. i. pp. 399 and 886). William de Heriz wituessed a charter bv William the Lion to the monks of Melrose in the period from 1175 to 1199; also in the same reign he witnessed two charters to the monks of Melrose, one by by Walter the son of Alan the Steward* (Lib. de Melrose, tom. i. pp. 38, 52, and 123). Nigel de Heriz witnessed two charters granted to the monastery of Melrose by Walter the son of Alan the Steward (domini regis dapifor), in the reign of William the Lion (Lib. de Melrose, tom. i. pp. 65 and 71). He is also witness to two charters of lands in the territory of Molle about 1190 (Reg. Cart, de Kelso, pp. 128 and 1-45). He was forester in the southern districts to Alexander II. … He seems to have had lands on the Ettrick; for in a charter by Alexander II. to the monks of Melrose, the lands granted are described as going up ‘from the river Etreyich by the rivulet of Timeye, as far as the marches of Nigel de Heriz’ (Lib, de Melros, p, 235). Henry de Heris, forestarius regis, is witness to a donation to the monastery of Newbottle by Alexander II. William and GIllbert, said to be his sons, are witnesses to a charter to monastery of Newbottle in 1266 (Cart of Newbottle, p. 300). William de Heris swore fealty to Edward I. for his lands in Dumfriesshire in 1296 as per Ragman Roll.Robert de Herris, in an original charter of Robert the Bruce, is designated dominus de Nithsdale in 1323.

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