452189926. Magnus Duke of Saxony
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452189927. Zsofia Princess of Hungary
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452189933. Hedwig Countess of Formbach
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452189934. Gebhard Supplinburg [Count of]
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MARRIAGE: research with bibliography by Lynn Wagner White; copy in possession
of Dianne Elizabeth WintchBIRTH-MARRIAGE: English Origins of New England Families; From The New England
Historical and Genealogical Register; Second Series in Three Volumes; Vol III;
Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; 1985; pg 656; item IIHISTORY: Sometimes the Surname is written as Wentworth, Wyntworth, or Wyntword.
509616992. Robert de Ros Baron
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Magna Charta, Part VII; by John Wurts; Brookfield
Printing Co., PO Box 4933, Philadelphia, Pa.; pg 2044; #28MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists"; by Frederick Lewis
Weis; 5th Edition; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985; pg 70, line 89,
item 27HISTORY: Was 4th Baron of Hamlake Manor per above document; Magna Charta
Surety, 1215,Knight Templar
509616993. Isabella Princess of Scotland
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Magna Charta, Part VII; by John Wurts; Brookfield
Printing Co., PO Box 4933, Philadelphia, Pa.; pg 2044; #28MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists"; by Frederick Lewis
Weis; 5th Edition; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985; pg 70, line 89,
item 26
MARRIAGE-DEATH: "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists"; by Frederick Lewis
Weis; 5th Edition; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985; pg 70, line 89,
item 29NOTES: Lord of Belvoir Castle, Magna Charta Surety, 1215
AFN:97CQ-L2
AFN:97CQ-M7
MARRIAGE-BIRTH: Magna Charta Part VII; by John S. Wurts; 1954; Brookfield
Publishing Co.; PO Box 4933, Philadelphia, Pa.; pg 2044DEATH: Sureities for the Observance of the Magna Charta (Appointed 15-19 June,
1215) pg 83HISTORY: Robert FitzWalter was the leader of the Magna Charta Barons and their
army and is shown to be the 27th in descent from Pharamond, Pedigree P, page
427. Taken from page 2044 of Wurt's Magna Charta, chapter 241. He is listed on
pg 83 of the Sureties of the Observance of the Magna Charta as the lord of
Dunmow Castle. He was the third Lord of Dunmow Castle, leader of the barons and
their army, who secured the Magna Charta from King John, and styled "Marshal of
the Army of God and the Holy Church". The first public act recorded of this
subsequently important baron, who was castellan and standard-bearer of the city
of London, conveys at first a bad impression of him. It is recorded that being
trusted, together with Saire de Quincey, to keep the castle of Ruil, in France,
delibered it up to the king of that realm as soon as he came for it with his
army". This appears to imply not less of disloyalty than of cowardice; but a
short time proved to which of these motives it was to be assigned. At that
time the barons, not only those abroad, were preparing to try to compel King
John to keep his promises in the matter of the proposed statutes, and several
conspiracies to this end were discovered, wherein Robert fitz Walter was
materially concerned. On the discovery of his "treasonable practices", fitz
Walter, with his wife and children, sought asylum in France; but in the
following year, 1213, his friends persuaded him to return home, and with the
other barons, he was reconciled to King John. But this friendship was only of
short duration, for shortly it was discovered that he was still plotting
against the king in the interests of reform in the government, so his residence
in London, the Castle if Baynard, was in consequence, almost entirely
destroyed, and the hatred between John and Fitzwalter was violent in the
greatest degree. Tradition has assigned a disgraceful act on the part of the
King as the principal cause of this, which was no less than an attempt to
procure Fitzwalter's daughter, Maud for one of his concubines. But whether
this is the truth or not, Fitzwalter's opposition seemed to be dominated by the
desire for the Magna Charta, and his feelings and conduct were engulfed in the
agitated sea of history which opened up this period.
To endeaver to win him over to his side, King John pretended to admire
Fitzwalter's skill, prowess, and valor in a tournament, which took place in
Normandy and France, and making this an excuse, restored to him the whole of
his forfeited estates and permitted him to repair his destroyed fortresses, and
constituted him governor of Hertford Castle 1214-15. But Fitzwalter's heart
was still in the cause of the barons, and he was soon again in open opposition
to the king. His lands were seized, which course effectually secured him to
the discontented barons and the people. The active spirit of Fitzwalter made
him a desirable leader to their party, and he was selected as one of the
commissioners to treat of a composure of differences at a meeting at Erith
Church.
After the granting of the Magna Charta, when King John endeavored to elude
his promises, Fitzwalter was one of the committee of the baronial party which
went to France to invite the Dauphin to accept the throne of England, and on
this prince's coming he, ithe William de Mandeville and William de
Huntingfield, the Sureties, reduced the counties of Essex and Suffolk to the
authority of the Dauphin. With the accession of Henry III, Fitzwalter, again up
in arms, would not yield the castle of Mountworrel, in Leicestershire. When
William Marshall, the protector, proceeded with a part of the royal army to
besiege it, Saire de Quincey, with his fellow barons, raised an army of 20,000,
with Fitzwalter as one of his principal generals. The two armies met and
fought the battle of Lincoln, the royal army being victorious, and Fitzwalter
was once more made prisoner along with de Quincey. But, in 1218, he was
allowed to assume the cross and join a crusade, when he took part in the famous
siege of Damiette, returned home, and died a peaceful death in 1234, and was
buried before the high-altar of Dunmow Priory. Notwithstanding his enmity to
Kings John and Henry III, and the frequent confiscation of his property,
Fitzwalter died possessed of an extensive estate.
Robert married first, Gunora, daughter and heiress of Robert, the second
lord of Valoines, by his wife, Roesia, daughter of William, fifth feudal Baron
le Blount, or Blund, and married secondly, Roese, who survived him, but her
surname has not been preserved. By his first wife he had:
1. Sir Walter FitzWalter, eldest son and successor, d. 1257-8.
2. Christiana, second wife of William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex. She
married secondly, Raymond de Burgh.
3. Maud, or Matilda, died young and unmarried, whom, it is alleged King John
tried to procure as his concubine, and, failing in which, he caused her to
be poisoned. She was buried on the south side of the choir of Dunmow
Priory. The persecution and romantic death of this young lady has been
worked up into many plays, poems, and popular tales, her name appearing
under that of "Matilda the Fair"; "Maid Marian, the Queen of the May"; the
Sherwood Forest mistress of "Robin Hood", or Robert, Earl of Huntingdon.