Edith (Greystoke) d'Oilly
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Edith (Greystoke) d'Oilly (abt. 1092 - abt. 1152)

Edith d'Oilly formerly Greystoke aka de Greystoke
Born about in Greystoke, Cumberland, Englandmap
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Died about at about age 60 in Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire, , Englandmap
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Biography

European Aristocracy
Edith Greystoke was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

David X Carpenter and Hugh Doherty of the Charters of William II and Henry I Project write:[1]

Forn’s daughter Edith was a mistress of Henry I and mother by him of Robert, called ‘filius Ede et Henrici regis nothus’ by John of Hexham, and also probably of Alice, the wife of Ernulf de Mandeville.2 Edith was later married to Robert II d’Oilly. It would be useful to establish the approximate dates of birth of these children, but it does not seem possible to determine whether they were conceived before or after Henry’s long absence in Normandy in 1116–20. Robert was old enough to take part in the siege of Winchester in 1141; the marriage of Alice may have been given to Geoffrey de Mandeville by the Empress Matilda at a not dissimilar date; Robert II d’Oilly had two sons old enough to give consent to his gifts before he died in 1142 (Carpenter, Ctl. York St Leonard, Rawlinson, s. n. Mandeville).

[Is the following an extended quote from an old book?] Edith was a beautiful woman who had been Concubine to King Henry the First, "and at her entreaty founded a Priory for Black Canons at Oseney, near Oxford, "among the Isles that Isis Ryver there maketh," in 1129.

"Sum write," continues Leland, "that this was the occasion of making of it. Edith usid to walk out of Oxford Castelle with her Gentilwomen to solace, and that often tymes, wher yn a certan place in a tre as often as she cam a certan pyes usid to gether to it, and ther to chattre, and as it wer to speke unto her. Edithe much marveling at this matter, and was sumtyme sore ferid as by a wonder.

"Wherupon she sent for one Radulph, a Chanon of S. Frediswide's, a Man of a vertuus Life and her Confessor, asking hym Counsels to whom he answerid, after that he had seen the fascion of the Pies Chattering only at her Cumming, that she should builde sum Chirch or Monasterie in that Place. Then she entreatid her Husband to build a Priorie, and so he did, making Radulph the first Prior of it."

This is a curiously characteristic story. Edith, whose antecedents may have made her suspicious of reproach, was evidently possessed with the idea that the clamour of the magpies was a malicious mockery designed to humiliate and reprove her, and to convey a supernatural warning that she must make speedy atonement for her sins. The whole scene was painted on the wall of the arch over her tomb at Oseney, where she was represented in the guise of a penitent, habited as a nun offering in her hand a heart.

Her husband was a great benefactor to the Church; besides Oseney, he founded and richly endowed Missenden Abbey in Oxfordshire.

Vitals

Mistress of Henry I, king of England[2][3]

Sources

  1. Carpenter and Doherty (2014 version) "FORN SIGULFSSON AND IVO FITZ FORN, Tenants-in-chief in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmorland and Northumberland" Charters of William II and Henry I Project pdf
  2. Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.
  3. See main profile for all mistresses of Henry I.
  • The Battle Abbey Roll with Some Accounts of the Norman Lineages, by Duchess of Cleveland, publ. 1889 by John Murray, London, England

See also Sigulfson-1





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Could someone please check the birth date on this profile? Its currently set as about 1092 but first son is apparently born in 1093 which is just one year after his mother was born
posted by Sarah Long
Hello, you'll want to make a post in the G2G forum here on wikitree and ask for someone who is pre-1500 certified to make the correction. I am not and cannot.
posted by PE Rosner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osney_Abbey Osney Abbey or Oseney Abbey, later Osney Cathedral, was a house of Augustinian canons at Osney in Oxfordshire. The site is south of the modern Botley Road, down Mill Street by Osney Cemetery, next to the railway line just south of Oxford station. It was founded as a priory in 1129, becoming an abbey around 1154. It was dissolved in 1539 but was created a cathedral, the last abbot Robert King becoming the first Bishop of Oxford. The see was transferred to the new foundation of Christ Church in 1545 and the building fell into ruin.
FitzForne-8 and Greystoke-104 appear to represent the same person because: It is obvious they are intended to be the same 3 generations of people so the merges should not be rejected according to Wikitrees core policies and mission. Please discuss any questions or concerns BEFORE doing any rejection. Do NOT switch to an unmerged match.
posted by Andrew Lancaster
How much of the text is from the Duchess' Book? It is not clearly shown.
posted by Andrew Lancaster

Rejected matches › Edith Sigulfson (1065-1173)

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