Eustace fitz John

Events

Date of Birth: before 1100.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (12/2:272).

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: July 1157.

Place of Death: in an ambush near Basingwerk.

The date and place are given by Tout (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: John fitz Richard (born before 1056).

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/2:272).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Beatrice, daughter of Ivo de Vescy.

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/2:272).

Spouse: Agnes, daughter of William fitz Nigel, baron of Halton and constable of Chester.

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by the Complete Peerage (12/2:274), and by the VCH of Lancashire (1:299).

Children (by Beatrice):

William de Vescy married Burga de Stuteville.

Children (by Agnes):

Richard fitz Eustace (died 1163) married Albreda de Lisours.

Geoffrey fitz Eustace.

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).

Page, William (ed.) The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Lancashire. Volume 1. (London: 1906).

Tout, T.F. “Eustace fitz John (d. 1157)” rev. Paul Dalton in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).