She was known as Isabel de Gressenhall, or Gressinghall. (She is sometimes referred to as Isabel Fitz William, for example by Richardson once, although this would mean "son of" in this period?)
She married:
Richardson notes more recent sources not yet consulted for this article:
Isabel was the the eventual heiress of William Fitz Roger of Gressenhall and Castleacre and Æliva. There is a difference between the pedigree shown by Carthew, and the one later proposed by Farrer. Carthew (like Blomefield under Gressinghall) has more generations: Wimer, Roger, William, Roger, William, Isabel. Farrer later wrote:
In other words Farrer has Wimer, Roger, William, Isabel - less generations, with the younger Roger and Drew being her antecessors (predecessors), in fact brothers, but not literally ancestors in the modern sense. Keats-Rohan follows this approach in her Domesday People in the entry for Wimer where she calls Isabel Wimer's great grand daughter.
Some of the key charters Farrer and the others cite are in Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum V, p.52. Another involving Wendling is here.
Richardson has pointed out that Isabel was apparently a very close relative of the Fréville family, noting that Complete Peerage says "In Harl MS. 506 she appears as Isabel de Fréville and is stated to have died in 1209." Richardson wrote:
Married first to Osmund de Stuteville. He died circa 1192. They had sons John and William? Or William and Roger?
Married second to Sir William de Huntingfield sometime prior to 1194. They had son Sir Roger, and daughters Alice, Sarah, Isabel and Margery.
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