Sybil de Neufmarché

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Burial: Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire.

This place is given by Cavell (p. 179).

Relationships

Father: Bernard de Neufmarché.

This relationship is given by Maund (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 617).

Mother: Nest (Agnes), daughter of Osbern fitz Richard.

This relationship is given by Maund (ODNB).

Spouse: Miles of Gloucester (died 1143). Married in the spring of 1121.

This relationship is given by Walker (ODNB), by Maund (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 617), by Rees (p. 176), and by the Complete Peerage (1:20). Details of the maritagium are given in Ward (no. 10).

Children:

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

Margaret married Humphrey de Bohun.

Roger fitz Miles (died 1155) married Cecily, daughter of Payn fitz John. Roger was earl of Hereford.

Walter of Hereford. Walter was the King’s Constable, and sheriff of Gloucester and Hereford 1155-1157, and of Hereford 1157-1159.

Henry of Hereford married Isabella. Henry was the King’s Constable.

Mahel fitz Miles. Lord of Abergavenny and Brecon. Mahel was the King’s Constable.

William fitz Miles. Lord of Abergavenny and Brecon. William was the King’s Constable.

Bertha of Hereford married William de Briouze.

Lucy married Herbert fitz Herbert.

References

Cavell, Emma. "The Burial of Noblewomen in Thirteenth-Century Shropshire" in Thirteenth Century England XI (2005).

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) Volume 1.

Maund, K.L. “Neufmarché, Bernard de (d. 1121x5?)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

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

Rees, W. "The Medieval Lordship of Brecon", Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmordorion (1915-16), 165-225.

Roderick, A.J. "Marriage and Politics in Wales, 1066-1282" in Welsh History Review Vol. 4, no. 1 (June 1968) pp. 3-20.

Walker, David “Gloucester, Miles of, earl of Hereford (d. 1143)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Ward, Jennifer (trans. and ed.). Women of the English Nobility and Gentry 1066-1500 (Manchester University Press, 1995).