Sir Elis Giffard

Holder of the castle and barony of Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire


Events


Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.


Date of Death: 1248.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Crouch. Langton (p. 111) notes that Sir Elis died shortly before 2 May 1248.


Relationships


Father: Elis (III) Giffard.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:639-40 fn).

Mother: Maud, daughter of Maurice fitz Robert fitz Harding, of Berkeley.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:639-40 fn).


Spouse: Isabel Musard.

This relationship is given by Langton.


Spouse: Alice Mautravers.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (5:639-40) and by Crouch.


Spouse: Isolde.

This relationship is given by Langton.


Children (by Alice):

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


Sir John Giffard (19 January 1232 - 29 May 1299) married (1) Matilda Clifford in 1271; married (2) Margaret, widow of Sir John Neville in 1286.


References


Cokayne, G.E. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant. Vol. 5 (1921/6) .


Crouch, David. “Giffard, John, first Lord Giffard (1232-1299)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2002).


Langston, J.N. “The Giffards of Brimpsfield” in The Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society v. 65 (1944) pp. 105-128.