Gilbert de Umfraville

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Gilbert de Umfraville

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

Marriage and issue

He married firstly Theophania de Balliol, daughter of Eustace de Balliol and Agnes de Percy.

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

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

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Biography

Wikipedia contributors. "Matilda, Countess of Angus." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 18 May. 2022. Web. 1 May. 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda,_Countess_of_Angus

Matilda of Angus, also known as Maud, was the daughter of Maol Choluim, Earl or Mormaer of Angus and, as his heiress, was countess of the province in her own right.

Marriages and issue

She married John Comyn, but he died in France in 1242. They do not appear to have had issue.

A husband was needed to control the dispersed earldom; she then married Gilbert de Umfraville, a Norman, who was feudal Baron of Prudhoe in Northumberland. He died shortly before 13 March 1245, but not before Matilda had borne him a son named Gilbert to succeed to the earldom in his infancy:

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

Matilda married again before 22 December 1247, Richard de Dover (a grandson of King John of England), the feudal baron of Chilham, Kent, the son of Richard Fitz Roy. Matilda disappears from records after producing two children:

• Richard of Chilham, Lord of Chilham. He died before 10 January 1266.
• Isabel, married David I Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, son of John de Strathbogie and Ada, Countess of Atholl, had issue.

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Matilda who married three times:

• 1. John Comyn (d. 1242)
• 2. Gilbert de Umfraville, Baron of Prudhoe, Northumberland, and
• 3. Richard de Dover, Baron of Chilham, Kent and a grandson of King John of England (Dover died between 1247 - 1261), with issue.

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

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

Gilbert II, Earl of Angus (died 1245)
Further information: Gilbert de Umfraville
Succeeding his father Richard in 1226, his first wife was Tiffany, a member of the Balliol family. After she died, in 1243 he married Maud, widow of John Comyn and daughter of Malcolm, Earl of Angus, who was the mother of his only son, Gilbert III. He is usually called Earl of Angus in right of his wife, who remarried after his death.[2]

Gilbert III Earl of Angus (died 1307 or 1308)
Further information: Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus
Succeeding his father Gilbert II in 1245 while still an infant, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan and their second son was Robert III. His effigy can be seen in Hexham Abbey

Umfraville, the name of an English baronial family, derived from Amfreville in Normandy. Members of this family obtained lands in Northumberland, including Redesdale and Prudhoe, from the Norman kings, and a later member, Gilbert de Umfraville (died 1245), married Matilda, daughter of Malcolm, earl of Angus, and obtained this Scottish earldom.

Gilbert's son, Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus (c. 1244-1308), took part in the fighting between Henry III of England and his barons, and in the Scottish expeditions of Edward I of England. He was governor of Forfar and was given the right of appointing the wardens of the marches.

Gilbert, Lord of Redesdale, did homage for his father's lands on 8 January 1226/27.

Gilbert died before 13 March 1244/45.

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/116397555/gilbert-d
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_de_Umfraville_(died_1245) cites
  • *Burke, Sir Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (London 1883)
  • Paul, Sir James Balfour, The Scots Peerage, (Edinburgh, 1904), vol. i, Angus. Page 167. < GoogleBooks >
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umfraville cites
  • 1. Lower, Mark Antony (1860). Patronymica Britannica: A Dictionary of the Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. pp. 360–61.
  • 2. Summerson, Henry (January 2008). "Umfraville, de, family". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54515. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • 3. A first cousin three times removed, William was the great-great-grandson of Robert's aunt Elizabeth (died before 1337) who had married Sir Gilbert Burradon.

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