Aveline (Unknown) de St Hilary (abt. 1110)

Born about 1110 in Eure, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France

Wife of James (St Hilary) de Saint-Hilaire II — married about 1130 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Field Dalling, Norfolk, England

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Biography

Aveline was the wife of James de Saint Hilary and mother of Maud de Saint Hilary who married Roger de Clare. Maud was "daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary, of Field Dalling, Norfolk".^[1]

Research Notes

Unsourced information/information needing collaboration:

Name: Hesding, de Hesding Changed LNAB to "Unknown".^[2]

Father:

• Not Scotland's King Alexander^[3]
• Not Arnulf deHesdin (holder of Pais de Calais under Duke William)^[3] citing thepeerage.com.^[4][2]
• Ernulf de Hesdin, Count of Perche^[5][2]

Birth:

• Date:
  • 1102: no source, but seems reasonable for the mother of a woman who married the younger brother of a man born before 1115. (Roger, husband of Maud, is shown as second son, following Gilbert [born before 1115] in Richardson's Royal Ancestry, Vol II, pp 174-175.) ~ Noland-165 20:41, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
  • 1110 or 1112 might be better, based on husband James St Hilary's birth year of 1110 and daughter Maud's as 1132 (given in Lewis's database).^[6]
• Location:
  • Pais de Calais (Hesdin's probable birth location)^[3]
  • Eure, Loire, Rhone-Alpes, France

Died: Field Dalling, Norfolk, England (reasonable guess)

• Daughter Maud was heiress of James Saint Hilary, "of Field Dalling, Norfolk".^[1]

Geni profile for Avelina de Hesding:

Avelina de Hesding, domina Norton, also known as "Aveline de Hesding", "Adeliza de Hesdin", "Ada", "Adeline", "Avelina", "de Hestin", "Adeliza"

Born circa 1081 (45), Hesdin, Artois/Pas-de-Calais, France

Born about 1077 in Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Family:

• Daugher of Ernulf, seigneur de Hesdin and Emmeline (Normandie) de Normandy
• Wife of Alan FitzFlaad, Sheriff of Shropshire, married 1105 in Dol De Bretagne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
• Mother of
  • Adelina FitzAlan, of Oswestry
  • William FitzAlan, Lord of Oswestry, b. 1110 Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
  • Walter fitz Alan, 1st Great Steward of Scotland b. 1105, Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, West Midlands, England; d. c 1177
  • Jordan FitzAlan, Seneschal of Dol, of, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, England
  • Sibil (FitzAlan) de Freville
  • Simon Jordan FitzAlan, of Norfolk
  • Rhiwallon Fitzalan
• Sister of
  • Matilda de Hesdin
  • Arnoul de Hesdin, Sheriff of Shropshire
  • William DeGraegham
  • Warine (de Hesdin) Hesdin

Died

• circa 1126 (37-53), Shropshire, England
• about 1126 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England

Place of Burial: Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Miscellaneous:

• Adeliza de Hesding, a younger daughter of Aurnulf, Signor de Hesding in Picardy who held great estates in England at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086.
• 1100 Went to England with Princess Matilda of Scotland, who married King Henry I Misc 1102 Became Sheriff of Shropshire

Timeline:

• 1081, born in France
• 1095, birth of daughter Adelina
• 1105, birth of son William
• 1106, birth of son Walter
• 1107, birth of son Jordan
• 1109, birth of daughter Sibil (FitzAlan) de Freville, Dol, Normandie, France^[7]
• 1123, birth of son Simon Jordan FitzAlan, of Norfolk Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
• 1126, death of Avelina, Shropshire, England

Sources (for the Geni information):

• Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 11.
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p155.htm#i4656
• Adeliza DE HESDIN
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p511.htm#i5102
• www.genealogieonline.nl/en/holloway-family-tree/P8167.php (broken link not on archive.org 20 January 2024)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol II, p 176 CLARE #4. Roger de Clare
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} From G2G discussion, Aveline de Hesdin/Hesding was a different woman (probably Aveline; see also this soc-gen.medieval discussion and the Wikipedia articles for that Aveline's husband and father.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} See this G2G discussion.
4. ↑ See specifically this answer and this citation note
5. ↑ Linda Plummer's comment (in the same G2G discussion).
6. ↑ Aveline, "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" (website, compiled by Mr. Marlyn Lewis, Portland, OR; accessed 3 June 2018)
7. ↑ Sibil FitzAlan in the Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, born 1109, Dol, Normandie, France to Alan FitzFlaald Oswestry/ a Knight and Adeliza Warin de Hesdin

• Ancestry links: 1, 2, 3

See also:

• William Arundel, Matilda Saint Hilaire, entries in the database Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families by Charles Cawley © Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2000-2018.