Sybil (Vescy) de Bolebec (abt. 1170 - aft. 1190)

Born about 1170 in Northumberland, England

Ancestors

Died after 1190 after about age 20 in Northumberland, England

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Sybil Vescy was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Keats-Rohan describes Sybil as Sybil de Vescy, without explaining sources. Probably her source is Hedley, Northumberland Families, cited by Keats-Rohan and maybe the basis of http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/bzmisc09.htm which looks consistent with differences between Keats-Rohan and other authors.

That the Bolebec family had a Vescy connection makes sense from later records. MEDLANDS notes one record which is difficult to connect with the others:^[1] A charter from Alnwick Abbey from the time of Edward II, describing the descendents of their founder records that Cecilia the sister of Eustace de Vescy (b. abt 1170, son of William) was given to “Hugoni de Bolbek seniori, qui genuit Walterum [Cawley says error for Hugoni] de Bolbek, qui Hugonem juniorem, qui Feliciam [Cawley presumes should be Phillipa] matrem domini Johannis de Lancastria”.^[2] The record seems to contain errors, but must contain a memory of real connections.

Also in 1262 when Hugh de Bolebec died, his IPM showed several manors held of the lord of Vescy, for castle guard and suit at the court of Alnwick.^[3]

Sybil was also apparently an important person for the family's history. Her son Walter consistently mentioned her in his charter, even calling her is lord and mother, and in legal disputes in 1207, her Hugh and the wife of her elder son Walter, mentioned her several times.^[4]

It seems from that evidence that Sybil had wardship over her son Walter, and arranged various things while he was a minor, which had to be confirmed again later.

Sources

1. ↑ Cawley, Hugh Bolebec and Margery Montfichet on MEDLANDS (Oct 2018 version)
2. ↑ MEDLANDS cites [Dugdale Monasticon VI.2, Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland IV, p. 868.]
3. ↑ 'Sharp and Stamp (1904 eds), Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume I, Henry III, 150-1, Abstract No 528 Hugh de Bolebek alias de Bolebech. Available online:Internet Archive or British History Online
4. ↑ Northumberland pleas from the Curia regis and assize rolls, 1198-1272 p.29

• Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday Descendants, pp.335
• Round, J.H (1913) Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de Donatione Regis in XII Comitatibus, 31 Henry II, 1185, Pipe Roll Society (1913), xxxix-xl. (available on Familysearch)
• Sanders, (1960) English Baronies, under Whitchurch (p.98), Styford (pp.84-5), Stansted Mountfichet (p.83)
• Weis, F. (2004). Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700. Genealogical Publishing Co. Google Books.[1]
• Weis, F. (2004). Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700. Genealogical Publishing Co. Google Books. [2]

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