Richard de Camville (died 1176)
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1176.
Place of Death: Apulia.
The date and place are given by Vincent (ODNB). Keats-Rohan (p. 379) gives the place as Sicily.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Richard's predecessor in possession of Charlton Horethorne was Gerard de Camville (fl. 1140). (Somerset VCH 7: sub Charlton Horethorne; Dugdale 5:89).
(probable) Mother: a daughter of Aubrey (I) de Vere.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 378). The Complete Peerage (Volume 10, appendix J, page 112) states that she was probably a daughter of Aubrey (I) de Vere.
Brother: Roger de Camville.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 378).
Spouse: Alice.
This relationship is given by Vincent (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 378).
Spouse: Millicent de Rethel, widow of Robert Marmion.
This relationship is given by Vincent (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 378), and by Crouch (2000, p. 279). Vincent states that Millicent was a cousin of Adeliza de Louvain (died 1151).
Children (by Alice):
Gerard de Camville (died shortly before January 1215) married Nicola de la Haie.
Walter.
William married Auberée.
Maud.
Children (by Millicent):
Richard de Camville (died June 1191) married Hawise, daughter of Walter Fitzwilliam.
Isabel de Camville married Robert de Harcourt.
Property
“Richard de Camville (d. 1176) gave to the abbey of Jumiѐges the tithes of his land at Hautot-l’Auvray (the next parish to Canville) in a charter which mentions his two wives Adelicia and Milisent and his brother Roger.” (Loyd, p. 24).
The terre tenancy of the manor of Charlton Horethorne, Somerset. (Somerset VCH 7: sub Charlton Horethorne).
The manor of Henstridge. (Somerset VCH 7: sub Henstridge).
The manor of Hildersham, Cambridgeshire. (Cambridgeshire VCH 6: sub Hildersham).
The manor of Stanton, Oxfordshire. (Oxfordshire VCH 12: sub Stanton Harcourt).
References
Baggs, A. P., and M. C. Siraut. "Charlton Horethorne" in A History of the the County of Somerset: Volume 7, Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds (Victoria County History: London, 1999).
Baggs, A.P., W.J. Blair, Eleanor Chance, Christina Colvin, Janet Cooper, C.J. Day, Nesta Selwyn, and S.C. Townley, "Stanton Harcourt: Manors and other estates" in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock, ed. Alan Crossley and C.R. Elrington (Victoria County History: London, 1990).
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. “Harcourt family (per. c. 1050-1330)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Crouch, David. The Reign of King Stephen, 1135-1154 (Pearson, 2000).
Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830).
Golding, Brian. “Canville, Gerard de (d. 1214)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Loyd, Lewis C. The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families. (Charles Travis Clay and David C. Douglas ed.) (1951).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Richardson, Douglas. Post (9 January 2016) to soc.genealogy.medieval.
Rosen, Adrienne B., Susan M. Keeling, and C.A.F. Meekings, "Parishes: Hildersham" in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 6, ed. A.P.M. Wright (Victoria County History: London, 1978).
Vincent, Nicholas. “Canville, Richard de (d. 1191)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).