Robert Avenel

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Robert Avenel (died 8 March 1185) was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman magnate. He was ruler of the small former Northumbrian province of Eskdale in Dumfriesshire, as well as Abercorn in West Lothian.[1]

Biography

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He died on 8 March 1185, according to the Chronicle of Melrose:

Robert Avenel, our novice-associate, died on the eighth day before the Ides of March. He gave to God, and to St Mary and the monks of Melrose, his land of Eskdale, as his charter testifies; may his blessed soul ever live in glory.[5]

He had entered the monastery of Melrose shortly before his death.[6]

He had three sons, by his wife Sybil, Gervase, Vincent and Robert, the latter of whom became a clerk.[7] Gervase was Robert's principal heir, and the latter also served as Justiciar of Lothian.[8] Robert had a daughter who was a concubine of William the Lion, king of the Scots.[9]

Family

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ROBERT Avenell (-after [1180]). The seal of "Roberti Avenel" is appended to a charter of "Robert Avenel and Gervase his son" for Melrose abbey dated to [1180][3]. "Rob Auenel" donated "terram meam de Eschedale" to Melrose abbey, with the consent of "dño meo Willo reg Scott…Geruasii heredis mei", for the soul of "Sibbille uxoris mee", by undated charter[4].

m SIBYLLA, daughter of ---. "Rob Auenel" donated "terram meam de Eschedale" to Melrose abbey, with the consent of "dño meo Willo reg Scott…Geruasii heredis mei", for the soul of "Sibbille uxoris mee", by undated charter[5].

Robert & his wife had three children:

a) GERVASE Avenell (-1219). "Rob Auenel" donated "terram meam de Eschedale" to Melrose abbey, with the consent of "dño meo Willo reg Scott…Geruasii heredis mei", for the soul of "Sibbille uxoris mee", by undated charter[6]. The seal of "Roberti Avenel" is appended to a charter of "Robert Avenel and Gervase his son" for Melrose abbey dated to [1180][7]. m SIBYLLA, daughter of -

b) ROBERT Avenell . "…Walt Olif, Walt Corbet, Will de la Haia, Geruasi nepos Rob Auen, Glai nepos ei, Rob fili Rob Aueñ" witnessed the undated charter under which "Geruasius Auenel filius Roberti Avenel" confirmed the donation of "terram meam de Eschedale" made by "pater meus" to Melrose abbey[18]. m ---

c) daughter . The Chronicle of Melrose refers to "the daughter of Robert Avenal" as the mother of King William's daughter Isabel[20]. Mistress of WILLIAM I “the Lion” King of Scotland, son of HENRY of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland & his wife Ada de Warenne (1143-Stirling 4 Dec 1214, bur Arbroath Abbey).

References

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Abbey
• Anderson, Alan Orr, ed. (1922), Early Sources of Scottish History A.D. 500 to 1286 (2 vols), Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd
• Barrow, G. W. S., ed. (1971), The Acts of William I : King of Scots, 1165–1214, Regesta Regum Scottorum, vol. ii, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-85224-142-9
• Barrow, G. W. S. (2003), The Kingdom of the Scots: Government, Church and Society from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century (2nd ed.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 0-7486-1802-3
• McAndrew, Bruce A. (2006), Scotland's Historic Heraldry, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, ISBN 1-84383-261-5
• Taylor, Alice (2008), "Robert de Londres, Illegitimate Son of William, King of Scots", The Haskins Society Journal: Studies in Medieval History, London: Hambledon Press, 19: 99–119, ISSN 0963-4959
• http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I46755&tre...
• Catherine Lucy Wilhilmina Stanhope Powlett Title: The Battle Abbey Roll with Some Account of the Norman Lineages Publication: Name: 1889 J. Murray; Repository: Name: Google Book
• https://gw.geneanet.org/comrade28?lang=en&p=sibyl&n=de+saluzzo
• https://gw.geneanet.org/comrade28?lang=en&p=robert+richard&n=avenal

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