Alice (Rumilly) FitzGerold (abt. 1116 - 1187)

Born about 1116 in Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of William FitzDuncan (Dunkeld) Moray — married 1138 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 1187 at about age 71 in Athol, Perth, Scotland

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Biography

Alice de Rumilly was born the daughter of William le Meschin, Lord of Copeland, son of Rannulf, Vicomte of the Bessin, and Cicely de Rumilly, Lady of Skipton.^[1][2] "Alice used the patronymic de Rumilly of her mother Cecily from whom she inherited Skipton". ^[3]

She married 1st William FitzDuncan.^[1][2]

Children of Alice de Rumily and William FitzDuncan

• William of Egremont, d. after 1155.^[1][2][4]
• Cecily (FitzWilliam) le Gros, wife of William le Gros, Count of Aumale, lord of Holderness ^[1][2]
• Amabel (FitzWilliam) de Lucy, Lady of Copeland (Comitissa de Couplanda), m. Reynold de Lucy ^[1][2]
• Alice (de Rumilly) de Courtenay, Lady of Allerdale, who m. 1st, Gilbert Pipard, and 2nd, Robert de Courtenay ^[1][2]

She married 2nd, Alexander FitzGerold ^[1]

Wife of :-

• Alexander FitzGerald,
• Robert Curcy,
• Uilleam mac Donnchada
• William Pagenell

Mother of: -

• Henry (1140-1175) FitzGerald,
• Donald MacWilliam;
• Amice FitzGerold
• William FitzGerold^[5]

She was married a second time to Alexander FitzGerald and had a son Henry FitzGerald.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Cokayne, George Edward ed. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. I: Ab Adam - Basing, 2nd edition. (London,1910), citing, ”William le Meschin, Lord of Copeland, yr. s. of Rannulf, Vicomte of the Bessin, m. Cicely de Rumilly, Lady of Skipton, and had 2 daughters and coheirs, (i) Alice, Lady of Skipton, "who m. istly, William fitz Duncan, s. of Duncan, Earl of Moray (s. of Duncan, King of Scots), by Octreda, da. and h. of Alan, Lord of Allerdale. They had one s., William, " the Boy of Egremont, " who d. in the King's ward after 1 1 55, leaving his 3 sisters his coheirs : (i) Cicely, as in the text : (ii) Amabel, Lady of Copeland (called, in the Pipe Rolls and elsewhere, Comitissa de Couplanda), who m. Reynold de Lucy : (iii) Alice de Rumilly, Lady of Allerdale, who m., istly, Gilbert Pipard, and 2ndly, Robert de Courtenay, and d. s.p. (2) Avice, Lady of Harewood, who m., istly, William Paynell, of Drax, co. York, and 2ndly, Robert de Courcy, of Stoke, Somerset. Alice, Lady of Skipton, m., andly, Alexander fitz Ceroid.”P. 353.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume III, page 214 HARINGTON 3.
3. ↑ Sanders, English Baronies, p.115
4. ↑ Duncan, A. A. M. Duncan II Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2004), citing, “William had two sons, a Gospatric who is once mentioned and may have been a child of an earlier marriage, and William, 'the boy of Egremont', who succeeded to his father's English lands and died childless in or soon after 1163, so that the inheritance passed to his three sisters. William fitz Duncan made no known claim to the throne of Scotland, nor did his lawful heirs in 1291.” ODNB.
5. ↑ Entered by Jean Maunder.

See also:

• The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest, Jim Weber, rootsweb.com
• Legg, K: Bolton Abbey, page 5.
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/12577766/person/-227377001/facts

Acknowledgments

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