Stephen of Aumale
Stephen of Aumale (c. 1070–1127) was Count of Aumale from before 1089 to 1127, and Lord of Holderness.
Life
He was son of Odo, Count of Champagne, and Adelaide of Normandy, countess of Aumale, sister of William the Conqueror.[1] Stephen succeeded his mother as Count before 1089.[2]
In the conspiracy of 1095 against William Rufus, the object of the rebels was to place Stephen on the English throne.[3] Stephen was the first cousin of brothers William Rufus, King of England and Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. The leaders were Robert de Mowbray and Guillaume III of Eu, Count of Eu. Stephen was sentenced to imprisonment, but escaped from England.[4] Stephen's father Odo of Champagne lost his English lands for his complicity.[5]
In 1096 Stephen joined the First Crusade, with Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy.[1] Following the death of King William Rufus, in 1102 Stephen was given back his father's confiscated lands and became lord of Holderness, Yorkshire, England. He sided with Henry I in 1104 against Robert II Curthose but in 1118, when William Clito rebelled against Henry I of England, Stephen supported him, with Baldwin VII of Flanders.[1] He finally submitted to Henry I in 1119.[1]
Family
He married Hawise, daughter of Ralph de Mortimer, Lord of Wigmore and Seigneur de St. Victor-en-Caux, and Mélisende.[6] Their children were :
- Guillaume le Gros (c 1101 † 1179), Count of Aumale; married Cecily of Skipton,[a] daughter of William fitz Duncan.[7]
- Étienne le Gros (Stephen),[7] (c 1112) mentioned 1150 ; married the daughter of Roger Mortimer
- Enguerrand or Ingelran de Aumale,[7] (c 1105) mentioned 1150 ;
- Agnès, (c 1117 † post 1170) who married Adam I de Brus,Lord of Skelton.[8] , then secondly Guillaume II de Roumare
Notes
- ^ Cicily, Lady of Skipton was the granddaughter of Duncan II, King of Scotland. See: Scots Peerage, I, p. 2.
References
- ^ a b c d George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Vol. I, Ed. Vicary Gibbs (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1910), p. 352
- ^ William Dugdale, The Baronage of England, Vol. I (Thomas Newcomb, 1675), p. 23
- ^ C. Warren Hollister, 'Magnates and Curiales in Early Norman England', Viator, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1977), p. 68
- ^ Florence of Worcester 2:39
- ^ C. Warren Hollister, 'Magnates and Curiales in Early Norman England', Viator, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1977), p. 70
- ^ George Edward Cokayne, The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, Vol IX, Ed. H.A. Doubleday & Howard de Walden (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1936), p. 268 & note (g)
- ^ a b c Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 46
- ^ George Edward Cokayne, The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, Vol. VII, Ed. H. A. Doubleday & Howard de Walden (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd, 1929), p. 670
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