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and came under suspicion of treachery, being required in 1212 to hand over to the king his sons and his castle of
Prudhoe. By 1216 he joined the rebels fighting John and his lands were forfeit, though he later made peace with the government of King
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where the
Umfravilles reached the pinnacle of their power. As a prominent border landowning family, it is likely that they were invited, along with dozens of other Anglo-Norman knights, administrators, and warlords to settle in Scotland by
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Succeeding his father
Gilbert III in 1307, he married first Lucy, daughter of Sir Philip Kyme, and secondly Eleanor, daughter of Robert Lumley. With his first wife he had a son Gilbert IV and with his second wife a son Thomas I.
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Succeeding his father Thomas I in 1387, he married Agnes (died 1420), daughter of Sir Thomas Grey and his wife
Margaret Pressene, and had a son Gilbert V. A daughter Maud married Sir William Ryther, of
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Succeeding his father Robert III in 1325, he married first Joan, daughter of Sir Robert
Willoughby, and secondly Maud, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy. With Joan he had a son Robert, who died before him.
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A first cousin three times removed, William was the great-great-grandson of Robert's aunt
Elizabeth (died before 1337) who had married Sir Gilbert Burradon.
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Succeeding his nephew
Gilbert V in 1421, his wife was named Isabel and they had no children. He was the last of the family and his lands passed to Sir
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456:, who was the mother of his only son, Gilbert III. He is usually called Earl of Angus in right of his wife, who remarried after his death.
385:, and had four or five sons, including Robert II and Richard, and at least three daughters, one being Alice who married William Bertram of
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Succeeding his father Robert I in
England, he was also active in Scotland, being associated there with King David I and his grandson King
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Succeeding his half-brother
Gilbert IV in 1381, he married Joan, daughter of Adam Roddam, and had two sons Thomas II and Robert IV.
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Succeeding his brother Odinel I after 1166, he had made his career mostly in
Scotland, and was presumably the father of Odinel II.
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Succeeding his presumed father Gilbert I after 1175, he had been raised in Scotland, initially serving in the household of King
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389:. At his death in 1182 his estates in Northumberland alone were valued at nearly £60 a year and other English lands in
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Succeeding his brother Robert II around 1195, he was among the northern barons who resisted the exactions of King
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landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of
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gules, a cinquefoil pierced or in a bordure azure, the bordure being sometimes shown charged with horseshoes
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held by his descendants were probably granted then. He is taken to be the father of Odinel I and Gilbert I.
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meant the family frequently found itself as unsettled as the border and this came to a head during the
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The first historical member of the family, he held the lordships of Prudhoe and Redesdale for King
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Succeeding his father Gilbert II in 1245 while still an infant, he married Elizabeth, daughter of
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312:, the founder of the family in England was Robert de Umfraville, called Robert "with the Beard" (
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where they fought for both Scotland and England at various points of the conflict (as did the
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as part of his policy of modernising Scotland by introducing
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Summerson, Henry (January 2008). "Umfraville, de, family".
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by historians. The Umfravilles, who were granted lands in
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149:. They held, for the English Crown,
555:Hugh Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford
495:Robert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus
405:Robert II (died in or before 1195)
16:English-French aristocratic family
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365:Gilbert I (died in or after 1175)
294:Saint Rémy d'Unfreville la mivoie
353:Odinel I (died in or after 1166)
333:Robert I (died in or after 1145)
184:The split loyalties between the
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454:Malcolm, Earl of Angus
290:Onffreville-la-mi-voie
701:Anglo-Norman families
569:Further information:
565:Robert IV (died 1437)
539:Gilbert V (died 1421)
520:Thomas II (died 1391)
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440:Gilbert de Umfraville
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512:Thomas I (died 1387)
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413:Richard (died 1226)
226:W. de Hunffranvilla
171:Davidian Revolution
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246:Apud Vulfranvillam
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526:Thomas Umfraville
328:Principal members
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238:Apud Unfranvillam
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242:Wlfranvilla
222:Ulfranvilla
214:Ulfranville
210:Offranville
691:Umfraville
685:Categories
664:required.)
595:References
359:Malcolm IV
306:Onfreville
302:Unfarvilla
298:Amfréville
286:Onfrevilla
278:Onfreville
274:Offravilla
270:Onfreville
220:ab. 1130;
156:It was in
123:Umfraville
561:in 1421.
424:Henry III
391:Yorkshire
379:William I
322:Glamorgan
314:cum Barba
248:1188–89;
216:1087–88;
200:family).
167:feudalism
143:Redesdale
135:lordships
292:(1395);
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284:(1319);
276:(1282);
272:(1217);
258:Normandy
188:and the
158:Scotland
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446:Balliol
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339:Henry I
198:de Brus
139:Prudhoe
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