Lady Alice Skipwith, {Fictional}

Not the wife of Robert de Willoughby, 4th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, or mother of William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, KG

Cokayne's Complete Peerage states that Alice, said to be daughter of William Skipwith, was the first wife of Robert de Willoughby and mother of his son William.[1] No sourcing is given, and subsequent research suggests that this relationship is wrong. See discussion in Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry.

From Douglas Richardson, Nov 30, 2013, posts at <Soc.Gen.Medieval>

Did Alice Skipwith exist? I have found no evidence that such a woman existed. If she did exist, she can't have been the mother of Robert\Willoughby's son and heir, William, otherwise the later intermarriage between the Skipwith and Willoughby families would have been disallowed as I have noted above.

Reviewing the evidence, I find every single piece of evidence pointing to the fact that Margery la Zouche was the mother of William Willoughby. This is based on chronology, heraldic evidence, onomastics, and the later Skipwith-Willoughby intermarriage. The traditional view that Alice Skipwith was the mother of William Willoughby appears to be erroneous.

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Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 332-334, WILLOUGHBY 7 <GoogleBooks>

References

• 1. G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. XII part II, St Catherine Press, 1916, pp. 660-661, viewable on Familysearch
• 2. Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. IV, pp. 332-334, WILLOUGHBY 7, Google Books
• 4. Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. V, pp. 360-362, WILLOUGHBY 10
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p1659.htm#i16586 has errors
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/WILLOUGHBY1.htm#Robert WILLOUGHBY (4° B. Willoughby of Eresby) has errors
• http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Skipworth has errors

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