Emma de percy

Emma de Port

• Father: Hugh De PORT
• Mother: Orence ?
• Married: William De PERCY (1º B. Percy)
• also seen as daughter of Gospatric (did he exist?) Children:
• 1. Alan De PERCY (2º B. Percy)
• 2. Walter De PERCY
• 3. William De PERCY (Abbot of Whitby)
• 4. Richard De PERCY

Emma was the daughter of the Norman, Hugh de Port, Domesday Lord of Basing and Orence _____ [CP XI:317, 318; _Domesday People_, p. 266.] Her father, Hugh was born in Port-En-Bessin, Calvados, Normandy, and died in 1096

Biography

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#Joh...

c) [EMMA de Port (-after 1107). A charter listing the property of Whitby Monastery names ”Emma de Port” as wife of “Willielmus de Perci cognomento Algernuus”[759]. “Willelmus de Perci” donated property to the monks of Whitby “et Serloni priori fratri meo”, for the souls of “…Emma de Port uxore mea et Alano de Perci filio meo”, by charter dated to [1090/96], witnessed by “Emma de Port uxor mea, Alanus, Walterus et Willielmus filii mei, Ernaldus de Perci…”[760]. "Emma de Percy" held a house in Winchester in [1107/15][761]. m WILLIAM de Percy, son of --- (-Jerusalem [1097/1100], bur Jerusalem).

William & his wife had [four] children:

a) ALAN de Percy (-[1130/35], bur [Reading/Whitby]). A charter listing the property of Whitby Monastery names ”Alaneo de Perci” as son of “Willielmus de Perci cognomento Algernuus” & his w

b) WALTER de Percy . “Willelmus de Perci” donated property to the monks of Whitby “et Serloni priori fratri meo”, for the souls of “…Emma de Port uxore mea et Alano de Perci filio meo”, by charter dated to [1090/96], witnessed by “Emma de Port uxor mea, Alanus, Walterus et Willielmus filii mei, Ernaldus de Perci

c) WILLIAM de Percy . “Willelmus de Perci” donated property to the monks of Whitby “et Serloni priori fratri meo”, for the souls of “…Emma de Port uxore mea et Alano de Perci filio meo”, by charter dated to [1090/96], witnessed by “Emma de Port uxor mea, Alanus, Walterus et Willielmus filii mei, Ernaldus de Perci…

d) RICHARD de Percy of Dunsley . The History of the foundation of Whitby Monastery names ”Alanum de Percy et Richardum fratrum eius” as the children of “Willielmus de Percy”[81]. A charter listing the property of Whitby Monastery records a donation by “Richardi de Percy, de Dunesleia, filii Willielmi de Percy”[82]. ”Henricus filius Henrici de Percy” confirmed donations of property to Whitby by charter dated 20 Apr 1308, among which two donations by “Alanus de Percy”, for the souls of “Willielmi de Percy patris mei et Emmæ de Porte matris meæ”, the first witnessed by “Willielmus et Ricardus fratres mei, Pyeot de Percy…” and the second by “Willielmus, Walterus et Ricardus de Percy fratres mei, Robertus de Bruse…Pycot de Percy…”

REF: Thirty One Generations :A Thousand Years of Percies and Pierces from 972-1948 (Colby, Barnard, L. 1947)

Chapter ll "The Beginning" 972-1299 (p.8)

"Our story starts in 972 with the birth of an infant named Manfred. (1) We know little about him except he grew up to become a Danish Chieftain, and that he with is son Galfred (2), and other associates and their families joined forces with "Ralph the Ganger", son of a Norwegian Viking, who was leading his people to a warmer climate. The emigrants sailed up the River Loire, and settled in the province of Maen in Normandy. Here Manfred and his family adopted the name "Percy".

"Brave Galfred to Normandy with ventrous' Rolla came; "And from his Norman Castles won, assumed the Percy name. (Hermit of Warkworth by Thomas Percy) http://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Percy_3_Hermit_of_Wark_ff.pdf (Verse 155)

"Two sons of Galfred, William and Serio de Percy with 50,000 others, crossed the English Channel in the army of William the Conqueror in 1066 and took part in the great battle of Hastings, fought in September of that year near South Hampton New England. The directory of Ancestral head of New England families says "One man bearing the name of Percy, was Captain of the conqueror's fleet, but proof that iit was either William or Serio is lacking.

For his part in the conquest of England, William (3) received large holdings in Hampshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire. By the time of the domesday book survey, the family held 86 lordships in the North Riding.

William refounded the Abbey of Whitby, which the Danes had destroyed, and his brother Serio, became Abbot. Williams's Wife Emma, daughter of Hugh de Port, a great Hampshire Baron, gave him several sons.

Disputed Origins

Seen as “Lady of Seamer”

• Father: (disputed) Hugh de Port b. c 1024, d. 1096
• or Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland [NO! He did not have a daughter called Emma or have property at Seamer]
• Mother: Orenge b. c 1028

Did William Percy have two wives named Emma?

"[Seamer] is said to have belonged to Emma de Port before the Conquest. Whitby Chartul. (Surt. Soc.), 690."

http://cybergata.com/roots/4855.htm

Emma married William de Percy.141 (William de Percy died Autumn 1096 in Jerusalem 141 and was buried in 1096 in Jerusalem.)

Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. XI, pp. 317-318

Hugh de Port had a daughter, whom as Adelisis soror Henrici de Port, the Liber Winton of 1107-1115, shows as holding a house in Winchester. Emma de Percy also had a house there. Emma was the wife of William de Percy, and either a duahgter of a near relation of Hugh.

Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, pp. 435-438

William de Percy married Emma de Port, who brought Hambledon, Hants, in marriage and who gave a mansura in Ousegate, York and a Carucate in Isleham and another in Snailwells, Cambs, to Whitby Abbey. Emma was related to Hugh de Port of Basing, the ancestor in the male line of the family of St. John. Hambledon descended in the Percy family; and it is significant that in 1242/3, William de Percy had 3 tenants there who held of him a knight's fee of old feoffment, and he of Robert de St. John, who held in chief. Moreover, in 1086, Hugh de Port had an interest in Isleham and Snailwell where Emma's interest was undoubtedly a further portion of her maritagium.

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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#Joh...

ORENCE, daughter of ---. Her marriage is confirmed by the Liber Vitæ of the New Minster of Winchester which names "Hugo de Port, Orence coniunx eius".

Hugues & his wife had [three] children:

• a) HENRY de Port (-after 1133). ...
• b) ADELAIDE de Port (-after 1107). ...
• c) [EMMA de Port (-after 1107). ..."

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Percy-382

Emma de Port m. William Percy, 1st Lord Percy, son of Geoffrey Percy, Sire de Percy; They had 4 sons (Alan; Walter; William; & Richard of Dunsley). Emma de Port was born circa 1045 at of Semar near Scarborough, England. She died after 1096.

"She was nearly related to Hugh de Port of Basing, the ancestor in the male line of the family of St. John (Round in Genealogist, vol. xvi, p. 6)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Percy (Retrieved 8 December 2019) describes one or two wives of William de Percy (d 1096):

“He appears in Domesday as a great landowner, holding 30 knight's fees, including some lands which had belonged to a Saxon lady, whom, "as very heire to them, in discharging of his conscience," he afterwards married ...”

But also:

Percy married an English noblewoman called Emma de Porte, her epithet presumably came from her landholdings at Seamer, a once thriving manor in North Yorkshire. Possibly the lands granted to Percy by the king were jure uxoris.[9]

By Emma de Porte, Percy had four sons:

1. Alan de Percy (d.1130/5), 2nd feudal baron of Topcliffe, who married Emma de Ghent, daughter of Gilbert I de Ghent (d. circa 1095).[1]
2. Walter de Percy
3. William de Percy, 2nd Abbot of Whitby
4. Richard de Percy

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“William de Percy married Emma, the daughter of Earl Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland, who was slain at the battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066.” However, that earl died 1073 Wikipedia and is not seen with a daughter Emma.

From Annals of the House of Percy: From the Conquest to the Opening of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1. Edward Barrington De Fonblanque (1887). Page 13. GoogleBooks

EMMA DE PORT. William de Percy married a Saxon lady of rank, but there are no records to establish her parentage. is generally described as Emma de Port,1 the Norman A.d. surname having probably been given to her by the invaders in right of her ownership of Semer near Scarborough, then an important seaport. A graceful legend reports her to have been a daughter of Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland,' who conferred her hand upon the Norman knight in recompense for his having saved her father's life when, on the suppression of the rebellion, he had fallen into the hands of the Conqueror's army. According to Dugdale, however, the Saxon Earl had only one daughter, Julia, who became the wife of Ranulph de Marley, and we must fall back upon this more prosaic version of Percy's marriage in an ancient MS.: "Emma of the Porte .... was Lady of Semer besides Skarburgh afore the Conquest, and of other lands, William Conqueror gave to Syr William Percye for his good service; and he weddid hyr that was very heir to them in discharging of his conscience."3
We may thus infer that Percy having received a grant of the lands of which the Saxon maiden had been either the owner or the heiress, he compensated her for the loss of her possessions by making her his wife.

• 1 The same name was borne by one of William's knights at the invasion:"Huc, le sire de Montfort, Cil d'Espine and cil de Port."—Roman de Rou
• 2 Charlton's History of Whitby Abbey, p. 50.
• 3 Ex Registro Monasterii de Whitbye, Harl. MSS. No. 692 (26), fol. 235, from which extracts are published in the Antiquarian Repertory, vol. iv. p. 4.

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From “The history of Scarbrough: from the earliest date.” Joseph Brogden Baker (1882) Page 428 GoogleBooks

"William de Percy married Emma, the daughter of Earl Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland, who was slain at the battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066. "This lady about the time of her marriage took the name of Emma de Port. She was 'Lady Emma of Seamer and Scardeburgh'. "Henry de Percy was governor of Scarbrough Castle in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Edward III. "William de Percy, surnamed Algernon, ancestor of the present family of Northumberland, possessed eighty lordships in Yorkshire alone. He came into England at the time of the Norman Conquest, and left behind him four sons.
"Emma de Port, his wife, is said to have taken the name of Port from Scarbrough, which was the name of the place prior to the erection of the castle. "She was heiress to the lands which William the Conqueror gave to Sir William de Percy for his services. "By this gift of Grospatrick's estates, this Saxon orphan was reduced to the level of the lowest of her bond maids. "She is, unquestionably, the very first Lady on record belonging to Scarbrough. "William de Percy married her 'in discharge of his conscience'.

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http://www.thepeerage.com/p15828.htm#i158274

Emma de Port was born circa 1038 at Alnwick, Northumberland, EnglandG.1 She was the daughter of Gospatric de Port.1 She married William de Percy, son of Geoffroi de Perci and Margaret (?), circa 1066 at Semar, Yorkshire, England.1 She died after 1096.1

• 1. [S125] Richard Glanville-Brown, online <e-mail address>, Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), downloaded 17 August 2005.
• 2. [S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2938. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]

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References

• "Before 1095 Hugh de Port gave Snailwell to his daughter Emma, wife of William de Percy. (fn. 11)" https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp479-482
• "At the time of the Domesday Survey William de Perci was holding this land in right of his wife, (fn. 18) Emma de Port, (fn. 19) who probably obtained it by grant of Hugh de Port. (fn. 20)" https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp238-244
• http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#_To...
• Round, J. H. (1900). "The Families of St John and of Port". Genealogist. xvi: 1–13.link
• Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 11, The Percy Fee, Volume 11. edited by William Farrer, Charles Travis Clay. (2013) Page 1. GoogleBooks
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seamer,_Scarborough Hugh de Port, Lord of Seamer@Hugh de Port was born in 1030, Port-en-Bessin, Calvados, Normandy, France and died 1066 (36) Seamer, Scarborough, North Ride Yorkshire, England.” Is this accurate?
• Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. IV p. 343-344
• Collins, A. & Brydges, E. (1812). "Percy, Duke of Northumberland." Collins's Peerage of England Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical, (Vol. II. pp. 221). London: F.C. and J. Rivington, Otridge and Son. GoogleBooks
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57840104/emma-de_port “Daughter of Gospatric de Port She married William de Percy on 1066, in Semar, Yorkshire County, England. Conflict of parentage. Her father, Hugh was born in Port-En-Bessin, Calvados, Normandy, and died in 1096.”

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Gospatrick mac Maldred, Earl of Northumbria aka Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar

Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria

This Gospatric's uncle, Gospatric, son of Uchtred (half-brother of Ealdgyth of Northumbria -- is listed among donors in the Whitby Cartulary, alongside Emma de Port and her husband and other members of the Percy family.

Cartulary of Whitby Abbey, pp.1-7

Also listed in the same section are the names of Uctred son of Thorkil de Cliveland, two carucates of land in Briniston, without danegeld, and a mill of the same town: From the gift of Uctred son of Cospatric, two carucates of land in Kaitun ... From the gift of Thorfin de Alverstain, son of the aforesaid Uctred, two bovates of land in the same town:

(All of these names that were included in the Whitby Abbey Cartulary with Emma de Port and her husband William de Percy, are Saxons.)