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Idonea verch Dafydd

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Malpas, Whitchurch, Cheshire, England
Death: 1295 (45-54)
Shocklach, Cheshire, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of David de Malpas and Alice de Beville
Wife of Urian St. Pierre, Baron of Malpas
Mother of Joan St. Pierre; John St. Pierre (Sancto Pietro) and Katherine de St. Pierre
Sister of Beatrice de Malpas

Occupation: A fourth of the barony of Malpas
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About Idonea de Malpas

Idonea was the daughter of David ap William ap David ap William ap David ap William II ap Sir William, who was born about 1210.

She had, on partition, 44 Henry lll [1259/60], a fourth of the barony of Malpas, as did her sister Beatrix.

Married Urien de St. Pierre, son of John. Mother of John, knight.


  • Ormerod's "barons of Malpas" pedigree
  • 'Parishes: Upton', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1936), pp. 113-116 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol3/pp113-116 [accessed 27 December 2015]. The undertenant in 1086 was Fulk [de Beville, Bainvilla], and his descendant Richard de Beville [Beyville], who held a knight's fee in Upton, (fn. 7) died before 1238 leaving three daughters and co-heirs— namely, Alice the wife of David de Malpas otherwise the Bastard, Cecily the wife of Robert de Sibthorpe, and Margery the wife of Geoffrey de Raund. (fn. 8) The pourparty of David and Alice went to their two daughters, Beatrice and Idonea. Beatrice de Malpas married, firstly, William son of Robert Patric and, secondly, Roderic son of Griffin (brother of Llewelyn son of Griffin, prince of Wales), who was holding a sixth of a fee in Upton of the heirs of Robert Patric in 1279, and had lands there in 1284. (fn. 9) Idonea de Malpas married Urian de St. Pierre, whose grandson Urian, son of John de St. Pierre, was holding lands in Upton in 1316. (fn. 10)
  • 7. V.C.H. Hunts, i, 347a; Farrer, loc. cit.
  • 8. Excerpta é Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 316–7.
  • 9. Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii, 620; Cal. Close R. 1279–88, p. 275.
  • 10. Feud. Aids, ii, 472.
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Idonea de Malpas's Timeline

1245
1245
Malpas, Whitchurch, Cheshire, England
1254
1254
Dutton, Cheshire, England
1255
1255
Oulton Lowe, Northwich, Cheshire, England
1266
1266
Shocklach, Cheshire, England
1295
1295
Age 50
Shocklach, Cheshire, England
1954
November 6, 1954
Age 50
1956
January 3, 1956
Age 50