Warin FitzGerold (abt. 1167 - abt. 1216)

Born about 1167 in Kingston Lisle, Sparsholt, Berkshire, England

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Biography

Warin was the son of Henry FitzGerold and Matilda de Chesney.^[1][2] He was 18 in 1185,^[1][3] and came of age in 1189,^[1] pointing to a birth date of about 1167-8.

Marriage and Children

In about 1193 he married Alice de Courcy, widow of Henry de Cornhill.^[1][4] They had two known children:

• Margaret, who married Baldwin de Rivers and Fawkes de Breauté^[1][2][5]
• Henry, who is recorded as paying scutage in 1196/7^[2]

Alice died in about 1218.^[1]

Lands

Warin's inheritance included the manor of Sparsholt, Berkshire (now Kingston Lisle).^[6] Through his wife, Warin held lands in Oxfordshire, Somerset, and Yorkshire and elsewhere.^[1]

In 1194/5 Warin paid scutage for lands in Essex, Hertfordshire and Kent.^[7] In 1200 Warin claimed, through his wife, the right of presentation to the church of Harewood in Yorkshire.^[1][8] In 1204 he was granted the manor of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, which had previously been held by John de Preaux; and in 1205, he was given the manor of Middleton, Northamptonshire.^[9] The Red Book of the Exchequer refers to lands held by Warin in Wiltshire in about 1210-1212.^[2] In 1212 he is recorded as holding the barony of Stoke Courcy (now called Stogursey) in Somerset^[2][8] and lands in Essex, Hertfordshire, Somerset and Sussex.^[8] During the reign of King John Warin granted a knight's fee in Wiltshire to his brother Henry.^[10]

Reign of King John

Warin was a royal chamberlain under King John.^[1][10]

At the signing of the Magna Carta, Warin was one of the Illustrious Men, King John's counsellors listed in the Magna Carta.^[11] But later that year he joined rebel barons, and his lands at Stoke Courcy, Somerset were confiscated.^[1][8] In 1216 orders were given for the destruction of the Castle there.^[8][12] Land Warin held (through his wife) at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire was granted to John de Preaux before May 1216 and subsequently restored to Warin and his wife Alice.^[9]

Death

Warin's death date is uncertain. There is a mortgage deed by him and his wife of the period 1215-1218, relating to lands at Wootton, Somerset.^[8] The Victoria County History entry for Sparsholt, Berkshire gives his death date year as 1218,^[6] while that for Stogursey, Somerset has 1216.^[12] Douglas Richardson gives a death year of 1216.^[1] This has some support from two documents relating to Down Ampney, Gloucestershire: on 12 May 1216, King John ordered the restoration of Down Ampney to Warin, but on 2 September 1216 he ordered the manor and associated chattels, late of Warin, to be given to Warin's wife Alice for her maintenance.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, p. 413, DE LA MARE 8
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Charles Cawley, 'Medieval Lands', entry for Warin FitzGerold
3. ↑ Rotuli Dominabus, Rotulus IV, Bukinghamsire, p. 16, cited in Warin's entry in Cawley's Medieval Lands
4. ↑ Henry de Cornhill died in 1193, and Douglas Richardson states that Warin married Alice de Courcy before 1194 (Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 413).
5. ↑ G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. VIII, St Catherine Press, 1932, Lisle pedigree between pages 48 and 49
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} 'Parishes: Sparsholt', in A History of the County of Berkshire (Victoria County History), Vol. 4, ed. William Page and P H Ditchfield (London, 1924), pp. 311-319, British History Online, accessed 9 May 2020
7. ↑ The Red Book of the Exchequer, Part I, Anno VI regis Ricardi, ad redemptionem eius, scutagium ad XXs, pp. 79 and 94, cited in Cawley's Medieval Lands
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5} William Farrer. Honors and Knights' Fees, Vol. II, Manchester University Press, 1924, pp. 108-109, Google Books
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} The 'Lands of the Normans in England', 2006-2007 project of the University of Sheffield, search results for 'Warin FitzGerold', accessed 9 May 2020
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, England, ref. BCM/B/1/1/9, [National Archives catalogue entry], accessed 9 May 2020
11. ↑ Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr and William R Beall. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, 1999, p. xi
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} A P Baggs and M C Siraut, 'Stogursey: Castle', in A History of the County of Somerset (Victoria County History), Vol. 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), ed. R W Dunning and C R Elrington (London, 1992), pp. 136-137, British History Online, accessed 9 May 2020

• Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands.
  • Entry for Warin FitzGerold
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for ‘’Royal Ancestry’’. Vol. II, p. 413, DE LA MARE 8</ref
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