Matilda (Vaux) de Ros (abt. 1261 - aft. 1312)

Born about 1261 in Vaux, Allier, Auvergne, France

Ancestors

Wife of William (Ros) de Ros — married before 1287 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1312 after about age 51 in bur. Pentney Priory, Norfolk, England

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Biography

Maud or Matilda, born about 1261 (age 26 in 1287), was the daughter of John de Vaux^[1] by his second wife, Sibyl de Longchamps.^[2]

Matilda de Vaux, daughter of John de Vaux married William de Ros before 1287. Maud de Vaux was younger daughter and coheiress, in 1287, of John de Vaux, son of Sir Oliver de Vaux and his wife Petronilla de Craon.^[3]

Maud married William de Ros of Helmsley before 1287, and they had four sons (Sir William, Sir John, Thomas, and George) and three daughters (Agnes, Alice, and "possibly Margaret").^[1]

Maud was "living in Easter term, 1312."^[1] She died before 1316, predeceasing her husband.^[3] The body of Maud, wife of Sir William de Roos, 1st Lord Roos of Helmsley, was buried at Pentney Abbey, Norfolk, and her bowels ("viscera") in the chapel of St. Mary at Belvoir Priory, Leicestershire.^[4]

Research notes

There has been uncertainty about Maud's mother. Her father John de Vaux had at least two wives, Joan and Sybil.

Roger de Gisneia, lord of Haveringland in Norfolk in the 18th of Henry III (1233/34), was the first husband of Joan, who was sister and coheir of Sir Peter de Pelevile, and she remarried Sir John de Vaux. This Joan was the mother of Sir William de Gyney, Roger's son and heir.^[5]

Richardson's Royal Ancestry (Vol IV, p 491, ROOS #8) showed that John de Vaux and his wife Joan, sister of Sir Peter de Peleville, were Maud's parents. However, a 2017 post by Richardson to soc.gen.medieval^[2] notes new evidence and provides a detailed and interesting discussion, with the bottom line:

"Inasmuch as Joan de Peleville, 1st wife of Sir John de Vaux, must have died sometime between 1250 and 1254, she obviously can not be Sir John's wife who was the mother of his two daughters, Pernel and Maud, both of whom were born after 1254. That leaves Sir John's surviving wife, Sibyl, as the candidate to be the mother of the Vaux girls."

Further evidence against Joan being the mother of John de Vaux's daughters is the fact that Roger and Joan's heir William de Gynney was the first husband of one of them, Maud, as can be seen in the IPM of John de Vaux.^[6] If Joan were the mother of both, then this would be a marriage of half siblings.

Therefore, the profile of John's first wife, Joan (Pelevile) de Vaux, was replaced by the profile for his second wife, Sibyl (Longchamps) de Vaux, as Maud's mother.

Disputed Children

Additional children had been attached to this profile, but were detached due to insufficient evidence. Please let me know if you have evidence that William and Maud had daughters named Joan, Matilda, and Mary.

~ Liz Shifflett, 13 August 2015 (See her husband's profile for additional details.)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), page 448
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} post by Douglas Richardson on 13 Feb. 2017 to soc.gen.medieval, " C.P. Addition: Maud de Vaux, wife of William de Roos, 1st Lord Roos of Helmsley, & her sister, Pernel de Vaux, wife of Sir WIlliam de Nerford" (accessed 21 Jan. 2019)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Cawley's Medieval Lands database, Maud de Vaux, citing Dugdale Monasticon VI.1, Pentney Priory, Norfolk, III, p. 70.
4. ↑ 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 IV, p 492
5. ↑ Francis Blomefield, 'Eynford Hundred: Heverland', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 8 (London, 1808), pp. 226-234. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol8/pp226-234 [accessed 8 October 2022].
6. ↑ IPM of John de Vaux p.403.

• Rymer's Ftedera, vol. ii. p. 23 and 1087.
• XI ibid. p. 74, 190, 199 and 288.
• Dugdale's Baronage.
• Sphere of Gentry, by Silvanus Morgan, p. 64.
• Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. ii. p. 897.
• ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF VAUX, VANS, OR DE VALLIBUS. 1800
• Maud de Vaux, "thepeerage" (website, compiled by Darryl Lundy, Ngaio, Wellington, New Zealand; accessed 9 April 2018)

Acknowledgements

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