Alice Mautravers

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: John Mautravers.

This relationship is given by Crouch. See the Commentary section below.

Mother: Hawise.

Spouse: Sir Elis Giffard.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:639-40) and by Crouch.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir John Giffard (19 January 1232 - 29 May 1299) married (1) Matilda Clifford in 1271; married (2) Margaret, widow of Sir John Neville in 1286.

Evidence

from Bracton’s Notebook (no. 1437):

Radulfus de Pinkenye petit uersus Johannem Mautrauers tres hidas et unam caruc. terre cum pert. in Sumerfordia ut ius suum etc. ut illas unde Radulfus pater suus fuit seisitus etc. tempore Regis Ricardi etc.

Et Johannes uenit et dicit quod tenet terram illam ut in proparte sua de hereditate que fuit Rogeri filii Gaufridi, quia idem Rogerus habuit duas filias scilicet Elam matrem Ricardi de Heriet, et Aliciam matrem ipsius Johannis, ita quod tenet terram illam in proparte sua et per cyrographum quod profert et quod hoe testatur, et ideo non uult respondere sine predicto Ricardo participe suo nisi curia etc. Et ideo summoneatur quod sit tali die etc. ad respondendum predicto Radulfo simul cum Johanne predicto de terra illa unde ipse particeps est de hereditate que fuit predicti Rogeri, et unde idem Johannes non uult respondere sine etc. Postea quia Johannes mortuus est et heres suus est infra etatem, consideratum est quod Radulfus eat inde die, etc. [Trinity, A.D. 1220, A.R. 4]

Commentary

There were three John Maltravers in successive generations in Alice’s time. The first, the father of the John in the case from Bracton’s notebook above, married firstly Alice daughter of Roger fitz Geoffrey, which Alice died in or before 1180, and secondly he married Alice de Bendeville. He died in about 1200. His son John was married to Hawise. He died in 1220. Their son John was underage at that time. The last John was probably too young to have had a grandchild born in 1232. The middle John was the right age. The eldest John could conceivably had the Alice of this page by his second wife, Alice de Bendeville, except that Alice’s brother John Mautravers gave the manor of Ashton and the advowson of the church at St. Peter at Codford, Wiltshire, to Elis Giffard in free marriage with his sister (CP 5:640), and the son of the elder John was dead before Alice’s marriage. Therefore, it would seem that John and Hawise must have been Alice’s parents, as they were dead, but their son John was alive and in his twenties at the time of Alice’s marriage.(See the chart before the Mautravers article in The Complete Peerage for details on the Mautravers families.)

References

Cokayne, G.E. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant. Vol. 5 (1921/6), Vol. 8 (1932) .

Crouch, David. “Giffard, John, first Lord Giffard (1232-1299)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2002).