The Descendants of Rollo of Normandie, born 846 in Scandanavia

35. Rosabella [102130] (Princess Of England Constance de NORMANDIE⁷, William "The Conqueror" (King Of England)⁶, Robert I "The Magnificent"⁵, Richard II⁴, Richard I³, William I², Rollo¹).

Rosabella married Odo [102129], son of Leolph [102133] and Beatrix GODWINDOTTER [102134].

36. William II de WARRENE 3rd Earl of Surrey [35143] (Princess Of England Gundred de NORMANDIE⁷, William "The Conqueror" (King Of England)⁶, Robert I "The Magnificent"⁵, Richard II⁴, Richard I³, William I², Rollo¹) was born in 1081 in Sussex England and died on 11 May 1138 in England at age 57.

William married Countess Isabel de VERMANDOIS [35147] before 1104 in France. Isabel was born in 1081 in Valois Lorraine France and died on 13 Feb 1131 in England at age 50. Another name for Isabel was Elizabeth.

+ 67 F i. Ada de WARRENE [35148] was born about 1104 in Huntingdon Huntingdonshire England.

Ada married Prince Of Scotland Henry HUNTINGDON [35153]. (b. Abt 1114, d. 12 Jun 1152)

37. Princess Of England Elizabeth BEAUCLERC [35124] (Henry I King Of England⁷, William "The Conqueror" (King Of England)⁶, Robert I "The Magnificent"⁵, Richard II⁴, Richard I³, William I², Rollo¹) was born about 1095 in Selby Yorkshire England and died about 1124 aged about 29.

Elizabeth married Lord Fergus OF GALLOWAY [35123] about 1124. Fergus was born about 1090 in Dumfries & Galloway Scotland and died in 1161 in Holyrood Abbey Edinburgh Scotland aged about 71.

38. Matilda BEAUCLERC Empress Of Germany [35146] (Henry I King Of England⁷, William "The Conqueror" (King Of England)⁶, Robert I "The Magnificent"⁵, Richard II⁴, Richard I³, William I², Rollo¹) was born before 5 Aug 1102 in London England, died on 10 Sep 1169 in Rouen Seine-Maritime France, and was buried in Notre Dame Rouen Seine-Maritime France. Another name for Matilda was Maud.

Matilda married Geoffrey V PLANTAGANET [35151] on 22 May 1127 in Le Mans Sarthe France. Geoffrey was born on 24 Aug 1113 in Anjou Rhone-Alpes France and died on 7 Sep 1151 in Chateau France at age 38.

Henry married Eleanor d'AQUITAINE Queen of England [35157]. (b. 1121, d. 1204)

40. Constance FITZHENRY [35145] (Henry I King Of England⁷, William "The Conqueror" (King Of England)⁶, Robert I "The Magnificent"⁵, Richard II⁴, Richard I³, William I², Rollo¹).

62. Henry BEAUCLERC [102356] (Henry I King Of England⁷, William "The Conqueror" (King Of England)⁶, Robert I "The Magnificent"⁵, Richard II⁴, Richard I³, William I², Rollo¹) died in 1158 in Wales. Another name for Henry was Henry FITZHENRY.

General Notes: Wikipedia states that:
In 1158 his father, Henry FitzHenry, was killed in battle during Henry II's campaign in Wales. Meilyr, Henry's oldest son, succeeded to his father's possessions of Narberth and Pebidiog, the central and north-eastern parts of the modern Pembrokeshire.
In 1169 he accompanied his uncle Fitzstephen on his first expedition to Ireland. He first distinguished himself in the invasion of Ossory along with his cousin Robert de Barry, older brother of Giraldus Cambrensis. In 1173 the return of Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke named Strongbow to England threw Ireland into revolt. Meilyr was then in garrison at Waterford, and made a rash sortie against the Irish. He pursued them into the woods, and was surrounded. But he cut a way through them with his sword, and arrived back at Waterford with three Irish axes in his horse and two on his shield.
In 1174 he returned with Raymond to Wales, but when Strongbow brought Raymond back Meilyr came with him and received as a reward Offaly, Carburybarony, and Kildare. In October 1175 he accompanied Raymond in his expedition against Limerick, was second to swim over the River Shannon, and with his cousin David stood the attack of the Irish until the rest of the army had crossed over.
He was one of the band of Geraldines who under Raymond met the new governor, William FitzAldhelm, at Waterford, and at once incurred his jealousy. Hugh de Lacy, the next Justice, took away Meilyr's Kildare estate, but gave him Leix in exchange, a marcher district. In 1182 de Lacy again became Chief Justice, built a castle on Meilyr's Leix estate at Timahoe, and gave him his niece as a wife. It seems probable that Meilyr had already been married, but he hitherto had no legitimate children. This childlessness was, in Giraldus's opinion, God's punishment to him for the want of respect to the church.

In June 1200 Meilyr was in attendance on King John in Normandy, and on 28 October of that year received a grant of two cantreds in Kerry, and one in Cork. About the same time he was appointed to Ireland as Lord Chief Justice, the King reserving to himself pleas touching the crown, the mint, and the exchange. During his six years' government Meilyr had to contend against the factiousness of the Norman nobles. John de Courci, the conqueror of Ulster, was a constant source of trouble to him. The establishment of Hugh de Lacy as Earl of Ulster (29 May 1205) was a great triumph for FitzHenry. Before long, however, war broke out between Lacy and FitzHenry.

Another lawless Norman noble was William de Burgh who was now engaged in the conquest of Connaught. But while De Burgh was devastating that region, FitzHenry and his assessor, Walter de Lacy, led a host into De Burgh's Munster estates (1203). De Burgh lost his estates, though on appeal to King John he ultimately recovered them all, except those in Connaught. FitzHenry had similar troubles with Richard Tirel and other nobles. Walter de Lacy, at one time his chief colleague, quarrelled with him in 1206 about the baronies of Limerick.

In 1204 he was directed by the king to build a castle in Dublin to serve as a court of justice, as well as a means of defence. He was also to compel the citizens of Dublin to fortify the city itself. FitzHenry continued to hold the justiciarship until 1208. The last writ addressed to him in that capacity is dated 19 June 1208. John Thomas Gilbert[1] stated that he was superseded between 1203 and 1205 by Hugh de Lacy, but many writs are addressed to him as Justice during these years. On several occasions assessors or counsellors were associated with him in his work, and he was directed to do nothing of exceptional importance without their advice (e.g. Hugh de Lacy in 1205).

FitzHenry remained one of the most powerful of Irish barons, even after he ceased to be Justiciar. About 1212 his name appears immediately after that of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke in the protest of the Irish barons against the threatened deposition of John by the Pope, and the declaration of their willingness to live and die for the king. Several gifts from the king marked John's appreciation of his administration of Ireland. But it was not till August 1219 that all the expenses incurred during his viceroyalty were defrayed from the exchequer. He must by that date have been a very old man. Already in 1216 it was thought likely that he would die, or at least retire from the world into a monastery.
There is no reference to his acts after 1219, and he died in 1220. He was buried in the chapter-house at Connell.

He founded in 1202[2] Great Connell Priory in County Kildare, which he handed over to the Austin canons of Llanthony, near Gloucester. This he endowed with large estates, with all the churches and benefices in his Irish lands, with a tenth of his household expenses, rents, and produce.

By the niece of Hugh de Lacy, Meilyr fathered a son, also named Meilyr, who in 1206 was old enough to dispossess William de Braose of Limerick, and whose forays into Tyrconnell had already spread devastation among the Irish. FitzHenry's older brother, Robert Fitzhenry, had died around 1180.

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The Descendants of Rollo of Normandie, born 846 in Scandanavia

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