Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: in the reign of Henry II (1154-1189).
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Ormerod (3:187). Keats-Rohan (p. 212) notes that a Gilbert de Venables attested a charter in about 1170.
Relationships
(possible) Grandfather: Gilbert de Venables.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:187, 3:198). Keats-Rohan (p. 212) notes that Gislebert de Venables was a Domesday tenant of Earl Hugh. She states that he was from Venables, Eure, cant. Gaillon. Helsby notes that, according to a pedigree roll of Legh of Adlington, Gilbert was supposedly a younger brother of Stephen, earl of Blois.
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Margery, daughter of Waltheof, son of Wolfric, lord of Hatton.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:187, 3:198).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Ormerod.)
Hamon de Venables.
Gilbert de Venables.
Michael de Venables.
R….. de Venables.
Hugh de Venables, parson of Eccleston, Astbury, and Rosthorne.
Maud de Venables married (1) Ralph, son of Roger; married (2) Hugh de Brixis.
Amabil married Richard de Davenport.
References
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).