John Marshal

Marshal

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1165, before Michaelmas.

The date is given by Crouch (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Gilbert (died in or shortly before 1130), marshal of Henry I.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB), and by the Complete Peerage (10, appendix G p. 93). Keats-Rohan (p. 1029) states that Gilbert's father was possibly Robert marshal, who occurs in Domesday Wiltshire. Crouch (2016, p. 14) states that Gilbert was either the son or the son in law of a Gilbert Giffard holding lands in Wiltshire at the time of Domesday Book. Crouch cites in a note an article by N.E. Stacy, which, however, identifies Gilbert Giffard with John's father. Stacy notes that Gilbert's son William is referred to as William Giffard in a presentation to the Church of Cheddar, thus proving that his family were Giffards. Crouch (p. 14) is much less certain about the connection, noting that "[I]t is highly unlikely that Gilbert Giffard was related to the Conqueror's leading follower, Walter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham; it is conceivable on the grounds of proximity, however, that he might have had a connection with the unrelated West Country barons, the Giffards of Brimpsfield."

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Adelina (Adelicia, Aline). Repudiated about 1041.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 1029), and by the Complete Peerage (10, appendix G p. 95). The Complete Peerage states that she may have been the daughter of Walter Pipard. Crouch (1990, p. 15) notes that her identity is not fully established. Keats-Rohan notes that she was previously the wife of Stephen Gay.

Spouse: Sybil, daughter of Walter of Salisbury.

This relationship is given by Crouch (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 1030), and by the Complete Peerage (10, appendix G p. 95).

Children (by Adelina):

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

Gilbert fitz John (died before Michaelmas 1166).

Walter.

Children (by Sybil):

John Marshal (died March 1194) married Joan, daughter of Adam de Port, lord of Basing.

William (I) Marshal, 4th earl of Pembroke, married Isabel de Clare.

Ansel.

Henry (died 1206), bishop of Exeter.

a daughter married William Crassus.

Maud married Robert de Pont de l’Arche.

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).

Crouch, David. “Marshal, John (d. 1165)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Crouch, David. “Marshal, William (I), fourth earl of Pembroke (c. 1146-1219)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Crouch, David. William Marshal: Court, Career and Chivalry in the Angevin Empire 1147-1219 (London: Longman, 1990).

Crouch, David. William Marshal. (3rd. ed. Routledge, 2016).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Stacy, N.E. "Henry of Blois and the Glastonbury Connection" in The English Historical Review Vol. 114, no. 455 (Feb, 1999) pp. 1-33.