Hildeburgh (Baudemont) de Picquigny (bef. 1156 - aft. 1211)

Born before 1156 in Prob. near Rouen, Normandy, France

Ancestors

Wife of Osbert (Cailly) de Cailly — married [date unknown] in Normandy, France

Descendants

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Biography

She inherited the manor of Mutford, Suffolk, England from her father.^[1]

In 1211 her second husband Robert de Picquigny consented to a gift by her to the Abbey of St Ouen, Rouen, Normandy.^[2] In the charter she describes herself as formerly the wife of Osbern de Cailly and daughter of Goel de Baudemont;^[3] and there is also a charter on which her first husband Osbert de Cailly refers to Goel de Baudemont as his father-in-law and names Hildeburgh as Goel's daughter.^[4]

Research Notes

There have been some suggestions that Hildeburgh was the daughter of a Baldric/Baldwin de Bosco. See for instance: Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute vol xx, 1929: "Now to return to Baldric de Bosco, mentioned in Norman People, to whom land in the half hundred of of Mutford and Lothingland was confirmed in 1131 by Henry I. Mutford is situated about 12 miles east of South Elmham, now St. Cross Rectory. These lands descended to his only daughter Hildeburg, who married Osbert de Cailly and whose two daughters, Petronilla and Matilda divided the same between them, the former married 1st Stephen de Longchamp and 2nd Geoffrey de Bois, and Matilda married, 1st Henry de Vere and 2nd Reginald de Bois. To Petronilla was given Lothingland and to Matilda, Mutford. In 1205 we find that these two brothers and their wives had forfeited their estates and King John had given Mutford to the son of Henry de Vere."

However, her daughter Matilda clearly was able to secure a Baudemont inheritance for her (Matilda’s) son by her first marriage Henry de Vere. It is probable that Baldric de Bosco was Hildeburgh’s paternal grandfather, and this is the view taken by Lewis C Loyd.^[5]

Daniel Power, in his 2004 book on the Norman Frontier, clearly identifies Hildeburgh as daughter of Goel de Baudemont.^[6] The identification of her father as Goel de Baudemont is confirmed definitively by the 1211 charter recording her gift to the Abbey of St Ouen, where she names him as her father^[3] and by the charter in which her husband names her as daughter of Goel.^[4]

An 1899 pedigree in the Genealogical Magazine^[7] (which is an extension, with other errors, of a pedigree in the Nobiliaire Universel) shows Hildeburgh (with the Heudeberge form of her name) and her first husband Osbert de Cailly as ancestors of the Preaux family. There is strong evidence that this is incorrect. Osbert's and Hildeburgh’s lands passed down through their two daughters, implying they left no surviving sons; they lived too late to be ancestors of Preaux family members often believed to have descended from a Cailly - the Preaux line would appear to have separated out earlier; there is no evidence that either of them held lands at Preaux; and, contrary to what this pedigree shows, Osbert was still called Osbert de Cailly late in his life, not Osbert de Preaux. There were several Osberts or Osberns in the Cailly and Preaux families, and the mistake is probably due to confusion between them.

Sources

1. ↑ Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae Sub Regibus Angliae, Stapleton, vol.1 p. cxii-cxiii, pub. 1844
2. ↑ Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae Sub Regibus Angliae, Stapleton, vol.1 p. cxiii, pub. 1844
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Hyppolyte Lemarchand. L’Histoire de Cailly en Normandie, Librarire de la Société d'Histoire de Normandie, 1895, converted to plain text by J C Parenty in 2016, viewable here (accessed 4 March 2021): gives full text of the charter - search for "Heudebourg"
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Hyppolyte Lemarchand, L’Histoire de Cailly en Normandie: gives full text of charter - search for "Ildeburge"
5. ↑ The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis C Loyd, pub. Harleian Society 1951, p.12
6. ↑ The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries, Daniel Power, p.486 (Pedigree Chart from Baudry de Bus)
7. ↑ The Genealogical Magazine vol.2, 1899, p.83

• The Genealogical Magazine vol.2, 1899
• The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries, Daniel Power, p.486