Lleucu (ferch Gruffudd) de Camville (abt. 1190 - abt. 1239)

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Biography

Lleucu, granddaughter of William de Braose III, was daughter of Maud (de Braose) and Gruffudd ap Rhys, Prince of South Wales.^[1]

Parents

Many online trees show Lleucu's parents as William de Braose III and his wife Matilda de Saint Valery (and her birth about 1181, Bramber, Sussex),^[2] but a careful reading of Cawley's entries for the family and the latest information from Richardson (in his 2013 Royal Ancestry series) are clear: William de Braose is her grandfather. Cawley says her parents are unknown, but Richardson presents evidence that Leucu is the daughter of William's daughter Maud who married Gruffudd ap Rhys.^[3]

Family

Leuca's husband was Geoffrey de Camville of Llanstephan Castle, Carmarthenshire,^[4] son of William de Camville and his wife Albreda Marmion.^[5] Geoffrey, married "firstly (divorced on grounds of consanguinity) FELICE, daughter of PHILIP de Worcester", had a son Richard by her.^[6]

Leuca, Geoffrey's second wife, granddaughter of William de Brewes (or Brause) and Maud de Saint Valery, was the mother of William de Camville.^[4]

Lleucu's husband died in 1219,^[4] before 20 September:^[6]

"King Henry III, by charter dated 20 Sep 1219, granted to Lucy wife of the late Godfrey de Kanville of all the land in Ireland which William de Breouse her late grandfather gave with her in marriage to Godfrey and which the latter held when he died"^[6]

On 6 October, 1219, at Staffordshire and Warwickshire, the King [Henry III] sent word to the Justices that Albreda Marmium attorned before him John Ruffus versus Leuca de Canvill, in a plea of dower, and Walter de Arderne versus Walter (sic) de Canvill, in a plea of warranty of Charter.^[7]

Lleucu died in 1239.^[6]

Research Notes

Richardson notes that William (IV) and his wife, Maud de Clare, are often assigned a daughter, Lleucu, wife of Geoffrey de Camville (died 1219), of Llanstephan Castle, Carmarthenshire. This affliation is made due to the fact that Lleucu de Camville is known to have been a granddaughter of William de Brewes IV'’s father, William de Brewes III, who granted her property in Ireland in marriage (see Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of the Reign of Henry III 1 (1862): 60–61 [letter discussing lands in Ireland claimed by Lleucu as her maritagium]). ^[8]

Recent research, however, has located evidence which indicates Lleuca was the daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys (died 1201), Prince of South Wales, by his wife, Maud (died 1210), daughter of William de Brewes III (see Jones Brut y Tywysogyon (Board of Celtic Studies 6) (1941): 154; Dict. of Welsh Biog.(1959): 318–319 (biog. of Gruffydd ap Rhys); Bartrum Welsh Gens. 300–1400 (1980) [Rhys ap Tewdwr 6]).

As the daughter of Maud, who was the sister of William (IV), Lleuca was the niece of William (IV).

"Note: William and his wife, Maud de Clare, are often assigned a daughter, Lleucu, wife of Geoffrey de Camville (died 1219), of Llanstephan Castle, Carmarthenshire. This affliation is made due to the fact that Lleucu de Camville is known to have been a granddaughter of William de Brewes IV'’s father, William de Brewes III, who granted her property in Ireland in marriage (see Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of the Reign of Henry III 1 (1862): 60–61 [letter discussing lands in Ireland claimed by Lleucu as her maritagium]).

William de Brewes III and his wife, Maud de Saint Valéry, had a large family of children, many of whom married and raised families; Lleucu de Camville could conceivably be the child of any one of these couples.

Recent research has located evidence which indicates Lleuca was the daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys (died 1201), Prince of South Wales, by his wife, Maud (died 1210), daughter of William de Brewes III (see Jones Brut y Tywysogyon (Board of Celtic Studies 6) (1941): 154; Dict. of Welsh Biog.(1959): 318–319 (biog. of Gruffydd ap Rhys); Bartrum Welsh Gens. 300–1400 (1980) [Rhys ap Tewdwr 6]).

Specifically, in the period, 1293/1308, Lleucu’s grandson, Geoffrey de Camville, 1st Lord Camville, and his son, William, wrote the King and Council regarding the lands in Cardigan of Owain ap Gruffydd, “whose heirs they were” (see Rees Cal. of Ancient Petitions Rel. Wales (Board of Celtic Studies, Hist. & Law Ser. 28) (1975): 150–151). Owain ap Gruffydd of Cardiganshire was the eldest son of Gruffydd ap Rhys and Maud de Brewes (see Dict. of Welsh Biog.(1959): 689–690 (biog. of Owain ap Gruffydd).

At the date of the Camville letter, the lands of Owain ap Gruffydd had been permanently forfeited by his male heirs for rebellion against King Edward I of England. He was implicated in his father'’s rebellion. By the order of King John, he was starved to death with his mother in the dungeons of Windsor Castle in 1210. His wife, Maud, escaped when her husband was captured." ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ See Maud's bio at Braose-64 and also her husband's profile (Camville-10).
2. ↑ for example, Ancestry Family Trees, source citation for Leucu's profile as of June 20, 2017 (profile Braose-106, with input from Acrossthepond.ged, imported on 21 February 2011, and Sheppard_Duncan_Bickham_Stroud.ged, imported on 1 February 2011.
3. ↑ see details on the profiles for Maud and Gruffudd ap Rhys
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} 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 I, p 528, BREWES #6
5. ↑ Charles Cawley. William Camville, entry in "Medieval Lands" database (accessed 18 April 2019).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Cawley, Geoffrey Camville, database entry (accessed 18 April 2019).
7. ↑ Major-General Hon George Wrottesley, ed, "Plea Rolls of the Reign of Henry III," Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Ed, The William Salt Archaeological Society, (1883), IV:10, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/collectionsforhi04staf#page/n27  : accessed 14 September, 2018). Roll No 2, membrane 21.
8. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. By the author: Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013. Volume I. Maud de Clare is #6 on page 527.
9. ↑ (Ref: Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, publ. 2005)

• 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.