Lady Sybilla de Vaux

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Lady Sybilla de Vaux (Longchamps)

Also Known As: "de Longchamps"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Frieston, Lincolnshire, England
Death: June 10, 1261 (44-53)
Walton, Norfolk, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Roger de Longchamp and Wife of Roger Longchamps
Wife of John de Vaux, Patron of Pentney in Norfolk
Mother of John de Vaux; Roger de Vaux, Catterlen; Pernel / Petronilla de Vaux and Matilda de Vaux, Baroness Ros

Managed by: James Fred Patin, Jr.
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About Lady Sybilla de Vaux

Lady Sibilla Longchamps BIRTH 1202 • Frieston, Lincolnshire, England DEATH 10 JUN 1261 • Walton, Cumberland, England married John de Vaux

Seen as daughter of Roger. Can not locate either in the Longchamps pedigree,


Child of Oliver de Vaux and Pernel de Craon was John de Vaux m Sybilla Longchamps.

John de Vaux, Steward of Aquitaine, 1283; who, in the 49th Henry III. for his faithful services to the crown, was made Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and soon after Governor of the castle of Norwich. He died in the 16th of Edward I. 1288, and left issue by Sybella his wife, two daughters and co-heiresses, between whom all his estates were divided.


Source <http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3T-Z.htm#Oli...>:

"OLIVER de Vaux (-[1238/41]). ... m ([1211/12]%29 as her third husband, PETRONILLA de Craon, widow firstly of WILLIAM de Longchamp and secondly of HENRY de la Mare , daughter of GUY [Wythe] de Craon & his wife Isabel ---. Oliver & his wife had four children: ...

c) JOHN de Vaux (-before Nov 1287). An undated manuscript names "Robertum, Will. et Ioh. et Oliverum" as the sons of Oliver de Vaux, adding that "Willielmus frater dicti Roberti" was succeeded by "frater eius dominus Iohannes de Vallibus". A genealogy of the founders of Freston Priory names "John de Vaux" as the son of "baron monsieur Oliver Vaux" and his wife "dame Petronil de Croune", adding that he was granted "le manoir de Freston en taile". "Johannes de Vallibus filius domini Oliveri de Vallibus" donated land "de Botendone…de dono domini Rogeri de Clifford et Matildis uxoris suæ" to Basselech Priory, Monmouth by undated charter. Inquisitions following a writ dated "15 Edw I" after the death of "John de Vallibus...on Thursday before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross 15 Edw I" name "Petronilla [...aged 28...[who married] William de Nerford] and Maud [...aged 26...[who] married William de Ros] his daughters are his next heirs and of full age".

m as her second husband, JOAN, widow of ROGER de Gyney, daughter of ---. The Complete Peerage names "Joan...widow of Roger de Gyney" as the wife of John de Vaux but implies that she may not have been his only when it questions whether she was the mother of his daughter Petronilla.

John & his wife had two children:

i) PETRONILLA de Vaux ([1258/59]-[1 May/20 Aug] 1326). ...

ii) MATILDA de Vaux ([1260/61]- [before 1316], bur Pentney Priory, Norfolk). ..."


  • Archaeologia cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society. cn Publication date 1923 Publisher [London] Kent Archaeological Society Volume 36. Page 16. “Longchamp Pedigree.” Archive.Org not listed
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Lady Sybilla de Vaux's Timeline

1212
1212
Frieston, Lincolnshire, England
1240
1240
1242
1242
Catterlen, Cumberland, England
1261
June 10, 1261
Age 49
Walton, Norfolk, England
1261
Catterlen, Cumberland, England
1261
East Walton, King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
1900
August 28, 1900
Age 49
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