Emma Corbet

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about August 1284.

Place of Death: probably Brompton, Shropshire.

Emma lef a will dated 1 August 1284 at Brompton.

Relationships

Father: Thomas Corbet

This relationship is given by Eyton (p. 250) and by Lieberman (2010, p. 92). Emma names her brother Sir Peter Corbet in her will.

Mother: Isabel de Vautort.

This relationship is given by Lieberman (2010, p. 86, p. 92). The Complete Peerage (3:417) gives Thomas’s wife.

Spouse: Sir Brian de Brompton.

This relationship is given by Eyton (p. 250) and by Julian-Jones. Emma names her husband in her will.

Children:

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

Sir Walter de Brompton (died 1292) married Joan de Ewelly.

John de Brompton (died 1300)

Hugh de Brompton.

Brian.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Eyton, Rev. R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire. Vol. IV. (1857).

Julian-Jones, Melissa. The land of the raven and the wolf: family power and strategy in the Welsh March. 1199-c. 1300, Corbets and the Cantilupes. (PhD Thesis, Cardiff University; 2015).

Lieberman, Max. The Medieval March of Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Lieberman, Max. “Striving for Marcher liberties: The Corbets of Caus in the thirteenth century” in Liberties and Identities in the Medieval British Isles (Michael Prestwich ed.) (The Boydell Press, 2008).