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William (Fiennes) de Fiennes (abt. 1252 - 1302)

Sir William de Fiennes formerly Fiennes
Born about in Buckinghamshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 1269 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, Englandmap
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Died at about age 50 in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgiummap
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Biography

European Aristocracy
Sir William Fiennes was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Seigneur of Fiennes and Tingry (Pas-de-Calais), and, in England, of the Chokes (Chocques) fee including Gayton, Northamptonshire; Wendover, Buckinghamshire; Fyfield and Lambourne, Essex; etc.

He was slain at the Battle of Courtrai, aka Kortrijk, which was also known as the Battle of the Golden Spurs. You can read more about the battle here.

Son Robert isn't normally listed, but his existence is apparently attested at Ancestral File.

Sources

  • Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I p. 473
  • Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I p. 539
  • Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV p. 166-168
  • Sanders, English Baronies, p.142.
  • Magna Carta Ancestry by Douglas Richardson
  • Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700, 7th ed., Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992. Access online (search only) at GoogleBooks, Line 120, p.107.
  • https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/2886322/person/1758078267/facts
  • Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004; [database on-line] Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006: #467 p.385-6.




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Deathplace = Kortrijk (Courtrai)

What we have published live now appears to be mildly gibberishy?

posted by Isaac Taylor
edited by Isaac Taylor
Isaac,

What are you saying? Isn't Kortrijk the same as Courtrai? I had to look it up, as I'm not familiar with it, but I've located it one or the other or both ways on various websites such as Wikipedia, britannica.com, military-history,org, historyofwar.org ... I will change the spelling to Kortrijk, as that appears to be the spelling in Belgium.

Hello Darlene,

Thanks. Yes those two words are the same place. (In different languages.)

When I posted my comment yesterday, as I recall, the name of the town was trying to be Courtrai but typo'd, and then the hierarchy was something like this:

"Courtn, Wallonia, West, Belgium" or whatever, but in quasi-French.

Where somebody's GED manager had added a comma separating Occident etc.

posted by Isaac Taylor
OK, thanks. Any issues with how I have it now?
Source: Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume I, page 471 BOULOGNE 8.

Enguerrand (or Ingram) De Fiennes, born in or before 1204. He married (1st) [?Iabeau] De Conde, daughter of Nicholas de Conde. They had two sons, Guillaume (or William) and Giles. He married (2nd) before 1257 Isabel _____, kinswoman of Queen Eleanor of Provence, wife of King Henry III of England. They had one daughter, Beatrice (wife of William de Mohun, Knt.).

Thank you!

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