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Leucha (Fitznigel) Mohaut (aft. 1130 - aft. 1177)

Leucha Mohaut formerly Fitznigel
Born after in Halton, Cheshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of [uncertain] and [mother unknown]
Sister of [half], [half] and [half]
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
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Died after at about age 47 [location unknown]
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Biography

1130 Birth

Leucha's two known sons were probably born around 1155 and 1165. So because women rarely had children at 40 or more she was probably much younger than her husband, and likely born after 1130.

Parents

Cockayne's Complete Peerage 2nd ed. Vol IX p.11 footnote "f": [1] states that "It has been conjectured that she was a daughter of William FitzNeel of Halton, because Neston and other FitzNeel manors are found to have passed to the Mohaut family. Robert dapifer was first witness to a charter by William II FitzNeel, Constable of Chester, 1130-50. CP cites Tait p.234 (The chartulary or register of the abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester) for the charter involving William FitzNeel.)

More popular recent works often simply accept that Leucha was the daughter of William fitz Nigel, lord of the barony of Halton. [2] But it should be considered unproven.

Siblings

If the above speculation about her parentage is correct, then Leucha had three siblings.

  1. William, died before 1149
  2. Agnes married Eustace fitz John.
  3. Matilda married Albert de Grelle.

But it is important to note that while the others are connected by old documentary evidence, Leucha is a modern speculation based on a possible inheritance.

Marriage

Leucha is named as the wife of Robert in the Inquisition 4 Edward I, respecting the dowry of the successive Ladies of Hawarden, ald also in Ralph de Montalt's grant of Neston to Chester Abbey for the souls of Robert his father and Leucha his mother. [3]


Residence: Mold Castle

A likely residence was Mold Castle, which Robert built in Flintshire, Wales probably around 1140. It is a good example of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle. [4]

Robert, the elder son, assumed the surname of Montalt, from a little hill in the county of Flint, then known by this name, but since corrupted into that of Moulde, and on this eminence he erected the Castle of Montalt.[4]

Robert lived at the castle (which he erected) originally Montalt castle, also called Mould in Flintshire, Wales. [5]

Ralph’s elder son Robert then continued the line, followed by his eldest son also called Robert. He was known as the Black Steward of Chester. The ‘Battle Abbey Roll lists him as ‘le Blakestiward’. The Castle of Mold, was built by Robert de Montalt in about 1140 and with Hawarden was to become the main manorial seat and another site of frequent battles between English and Welsh forces. The name Mold derives from Norman French – mont-hault meaning high hill. This was a time of castle building and also around the date Castle Rising was started. Roger was brother and successor of Robert. He married to Nicholaa and they had two children – Leucha born about 1190 and Roger born about 1200. [6]

Robert, husband to Leucha, died about 1162. He was the father of Roger, married to Cecily. [6] Cecilia d'Albiini was daughter of William, third Earl of Arundel, grandson of William d'Albini, first Ear, and of his wife the Queen Dowager Adeliza, widow of King Henry I, and daughter of Godfrey Barbatus, Duke of Brabant and lineal descendant from Charlemagne. [3] Cecilia's maternal ancestry as the princely line of the Norman Earls Palatine of Chester, of whom she was a co-heir in right of her mother Mabel, who was daughter of Earl Hugh II, and sister and co-heir of the flower of English Chivalry, Earl Rannulph III. [3]

1141 Agreement with Chester Abbey Monks

Robert made an agreement, 1141/1157.9 with the monks of Chester, concerning the manor of Lea-cum-Newbold, which they claimed by William's gifts [7]

1177 Death

Leuca was still living when her sons made a charter in favour of Chester Abbey dated between 1177 and 1182.

Issue

Complete Peerage says "By his wife Leucha he had sons Ralph, Robert, William, Ranulph and Roger of Elford" citing Bracton’s Note Book, no. 260.[8]

  1. Ralph [8]Ralph, son and heir[8]Robert de Montalt, brother and successor of Ralph[3]
  2. William[8]William, Rector of Neston.[3]
  3. Ranulph[8]Ranulph, witnss with Roger de Montalt his brother, to his borther Ralph's grant of two bovates in Eggerley to his freedman Hernyne. [3]
  4. Roger of Elford[8]Roger de Montalt, brother and successor of Robert[3]

Gibbons adds sons John and Matthew. [4]

Robert

Robert de Mohaut, born ca 1162 in Hawarden, Cheshire, Wales. [9]

Robert de Montalt, brother and heir, confirmed "his brother" Ralph's donation of Neston in the time of Philip de Orresby, 1209-1228; during which Justiciaryship also his brother Roger succeeded. He may be considered to have died unmarried, as no wife of his is named in the Inquisition 4 Edward I, taken to prove settlement of dower or otherwise, by the successive Lords of Hawarden. [3]

He confirms his brother’s donation to Chester abbey in the time of Philip de Orreby. Brother of Ralph de Montalt, seneschal of Chester, gives the said church to Chester Abbey; married Matilda, died s. p. temp. Ric. I; and William de Montalt, rector of Neston, noticed in his brother’s grant to Chester Abbey.[10]

Robert de Mohaut died ca 1232. [9]

Robert de Montalt, son of Robert, sensechal of Chester, confirms his brother’s donation to Chester abbey in the time of Philip de Orreby. Brother of Ralph de Montalt, seneschal of Chester, gives the said church to Chester Abbey; married Matilda, died s. p. temp. Ric. I; and William de Montalt, rector of Neston, noticed in his brother’s grant to Chester Abbey.

Roger

Roger de Montalt, brother and heir, omitted by Dugdale, but inserted by Glover, is proved by the Charter of Ralph de Montalt to Hernyne, already cited, "testibus Roberto de Montealto, Rogero et Ranulfo fratribus suis."[3]

Roger was Lord of Hawarden, and husband of Nicholaa, asby the Inquisition 4 Edward I.[3]

He was possessed of Neston, an appendate of Hawarden, in the time of philip of Orreby (1209-1228), and had succeeded his brother Robert therein, as he refused to respect his grant, took posssession of the church with an armed force, and introduced Ralph de Montalt. [3]

Roger de Monalt, successor of Roger preceding, and hitherto confounded with him, was most probably his son, as no wife of any possible younger brother of the elder Roger is noticed in the Inquisition above citd, which records the wives of all that succeeded to possession of Hawarden.[3]

Dugdale mentions the restitution to him of the Castle and Manor of Mold, which had suffered in the wards with llewelyn and David; also his military services against Prince David, along with the Earls of Gloucester and Hereford; his sale of a large part of his Manor of Coventry (inherited by his wife from the Earls of Chester) to dedfray cost of preparation for joining in the Crusade; and his death in 42 Henry III, leaving, by his wife the Lady Cecelia d'Albini, John, Robert and Leucha, wife of Philip de Orreby. [3]

Roger was brother and successor of Robert. He married to Nicholaa and they had two children – Leucha born about 1190 and Roger born about 1200. [6]

Rogerus de Montealto [11]

Ralph

Ralph de Montalt, "Dapifer Com. Cest." son and heir of Robert and Leucha, granted Neston Church to Chester Abbey, for the benefit of their souls, with the assent of his mother, on whose dowry lands it was founded, and of William his brother, who was Rector thereof. Matildis, his wife, is proved by the retrospective Inquisition 4 Edward I, respecting the dower of the Ladies of Hawarden. [12]

Burke describes Ralph de Montalt, fourth baron, sewer to Ranulph, Earl of Chester, who had two sons and a daughter, viz, Robert, his heir and Simon, living in 1160, who removed into the county of York, holding land in the second fee of Skipton, under the De Romilles. He was succeeded by his son Richard de Montalt, Lord of West Riddlesden, Morton, Potter Newton, Barnby on Don, etc, who, his son Simon, dying in his lifetime, and without male issue, gave all his Yorkshire esttes to Robert Montalt, son of his cousin, Andomar. [13] gives the following line of descent from Eustace de Monte Alto to Beatrix.

Burke describes Ralph as the son of Roger de Monte Alto, the third baron. [13]

Sources

  1. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward and H.A. Doubleday et. al eds. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. IX: Moels to Nuneham 2nd edition. (London, 1936). p. 11, footnote "f"
  2. ↑ Wikipedia William fitz Nigel Accessed Sept 9, 2018 jhd
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 George Ormerod. Miscellanea Palatina: Genealogical Essays Illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire Families. De Montalt: Hereditary Seneschal of Chester, Balatine Baron of Hawarden By the author, 1851, III. Robert, page 94. Accessed Sept 13. 2018 jhd
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Owen Gibbins Descendants of Eustace the Norman New Zealand, 5 November 2011. Accessed Sept 10. 2018 jhd
  5. ↑ Burke, 2:84 cited by Gibbins
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ann Whiting, Castle Rising Montalt page 2. Accessed Sept 14, 2018 jhd
  7. ↑ Tait, op.cit. p 287, cited by Gibbins
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 Bracton’s Note Book, Vol II, no. 260
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Geni. S Robert de Mohaut
  10. ↑ Ormerod, p. 1055
  11. ↑ Robert Glover (1544-1588); College of Arms (Great Britain); Flower, William, ca. 1498-1588; Fellows, William; Benolt, Thomas, d. 1534; Chaloner, Thomas, Sir, 1561-1615; Rylands, J. Paul (John Paul), b. 1846. The Visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 Antiqua Prosapia de Montealto Published London 1882; pages 181-182 Accessed Sept 12, 2018 jhd
  12. ↑ George Ormerod. Miscellanea Palatina: Genealogical Essays Illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire Families. De Montalt: Hereditary Seneschal of Chester, Balatine Baron of Hawarden By the author, 1851, IV. Ralph, Robert and Roger, page 95. Accessed Sept 13. 2018 jhd
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 John Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Volume 2,Henry Colburn, 1835. Volume 2, page 84. Accessed Sept 9, 2018 jhd

Acknowlegements

For deletion or recovery

  • Owen Gibbins Descendants of Eustace the Norman New Zealand, 5 November 2011. Accessed Sept 10. 2018 jhd
  • Geni. Robert de Mohaut Added by: James Frederick Pultz on November 17, 2007; Managed by: Ildiko Ilona Kecskes and 18 others; Curated by: Erin Spiceland. Accessed Sept 10, 2018 jhd

Leucha was the daughter of William FitzNigel and Agnes(?) de Widnes. *Geni. Leucha fitz Neel de Halton





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