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Rabel de Tancarville (c. 1080-1140) "le Chamberlain de Normandie et England". Son of Guillaume I and Maude d'Arques. Rabel de Tancarville remained the only chamberlain-in-chief of Normandy and England until Henri I of England created a separate hereditary office for England in 1133 [14] and entrusted it to Aubrey (II) of Vere and his heirs. [15]
Despenser and his brother were originally from Normandy, and were tenants of the lords of Tancarville there. [3] Despenser held the office of royal steward, or dispenser, under King William II. [1] Despenser's surname derived from his office. [4] [note 1] Although Despenser was married, the name of his wife is not known for sure.
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1146 or 1147 – 14 May 1219), also called William the Marshal (Norman French: Williame li Mareschal, [1] French: Guillaume le Maréchal), was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman during High Medieval England [2] who served five English kings: Henry II and his son and co-ruler Young Henry, Richard I, John, and finally Henry III.
The earliest recorded use of the patronymic FitzGerald is that of Raoul fitz Gerald le Chambellan, member of the Tancarville family. Raoul was a Norman baron, Chamberlain of Normandy, educator of the young William , future Conqueror of England, and father of William de Tancarville , Earl of Tankerville and chief chamberlain of Normandy and ...
Earl of Tankerville is a noble title drawn from Tancarville in Normandy. The title has been created three times: twice in the Peerage of England, and once (in 1714) in the Peerage of Great Britain for Charles Bennet, 2nd Baron Ossulston. [3] His father, John Bennett, 1st Baron Ossulston, was the elder brother of Henry Bennett, 1st Earl of ...
The likes of Christopher Gravett (Knight: Noble Warrior of England 1200-1600), Suzanne Lewis (The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora) and Matthew Strickland (War and Chivalry: The Conduct and Perception of War in England and Normandy) are all united in stating that the image of Marshal unhorsing Baldwin de Guisnes from the Chronica Majora relates to his son Richard Marshal at the ...
In 1419 John Grey was granted the comté of Tancarville. In 1419 he was again in France as Captain of Mantes, [9] and on 31 January 1419 (20 January 1418 old style) was granted the comté of Tancarville in Normandy [9] to hold by grand sergeanty of delivery of a bascinet helmet at the Castle of Roan on Saint George's Day each year. [11]
A 19th-century print of the ruins of Montebourg Abbey in Normandy where Richard de Redvers was buried in 1107. Richard de Vernon seigneur de Redvers (or Reviers, Rivers, or Latinised to de Ripariis ("from the river-banks")) (fl. c. 1066 – 8 September 1107), 1st feudal baron of Plympton in Devon, [1] was a Norman nobleman who may have been one of the companions of William the Conqueror during ...