Hawise FitzHamon

Ancestors

Died before 1179 in Abbey of Wilton, Wiltshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Hawise FitzHamon was a member of the aristocracy in England.

According to one version of the foundation of Tewkesbury Monastery in Gloucestershire, Robert FitzHamon and his wife Sibil de Montgomery had four daughters, Mabilia, Hawise, Cecilia and Amice.^[1] Later in the same document it states that after the death of their father in 1107, Henry I appointed Hawise as Abbess of Winton (Wyntoniae), but this is a mistake for Wilton.^[1],^[2]

In a different abstract of the same foundation charter, Hawise is definitely named as Abbess of Wilton (Hawisia abbatissa de Wilton) and she appears second in the list of the four daughters of Robert FitzHamon.^[3] However this version is most likely based on the original document, viewed in the monastery, whereas Dugdale's was based on a copy.^[3]

Neither of these documents give any dates for Hawise, apart from being appointed as Abbess by Henry I, sometime after the death of her father in 1107.^[1] However she occurs as Abbess in documents dated to 1154 to 1179. ^[2]

She presumably died before 1179/80 as the Pipe Roll of 26 Henry II, states that the Abbey of Wilton was in the king's hand.^[4]

Apart from the Tewkesbury Monastery charter, no other document names Hawise as the daughter of Robert FitzHamon, and a modern prosopography of this period only states that she is possibly his daughter.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Dugdale, William, Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales, rev. edn, edited by John Caley, Henry Ellis & Bulkeley Bandinel; London: James Bohn, 1846. p. 60. Digital image, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/b30455832_0001 : accessed 26 October 2019.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Knowles, David, C.N.L. Brooke, and Vera C.M. London, eds. The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales. Vol. 1: 940-1216. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. pp. 222 & 297.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Leland, John, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 Parts VII and VIII, vol. 4, edited by Lucy Toulmin Smith; London: George Bell, 1909. pp. 150-153. Digital image, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/itineraryofjohnl04lelauoft : accessed 26 October 2019.
4. ↑ Pipe Roll Society, The Great Roll of the Pipe for he twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Henry the Second A.D. 1179-1180; London: Pipe Roll Society, 1908. p. 122. Digital image, Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/piperollsociety29pipeuoft : accessed 27 October 2019.
5. ↑ Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. Domesday Descendants, a Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol. 2: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. p. 903.