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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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CHAPTER NINE
GILBERT
DE CORBEIL
Nineteenth
in Ancestry
Section 1, Gilbert de Corbeil-Section 2, History-Section 3, Genealogy of
Isabella de Lupus de Avranches-Section 4,
Robert de Corbeil surnamed Banister.
SECTION
1.
19.
GILBERT DE CORBEIL, surnamed Count of Corbeil
by courtesy, son of Regnault, Count of Corbeil by courtesy, Chapter 8, Section 1, married
Isabella Lupus, daughter of Richard de Goz, de Avranches, and his wife, Emma de Conteville,
half-sister by the same mother of William Duke of Normandy, surnamed the
Conqueror. Child
1.
*18. ROBERT FITZ-GILBERT de Corbeil, Chapter
10, Section 1. Gilbert de Corbeil was between
twelve and fifteen years of age at the time of the Conquest, and his wife
Isabella was about five years of age. Her grand-mother, Arletta de Failace, married
her second husband, Herlwin de Centerville,
grandfather of Isabella, in 1036, so that it was not possible for
Isabella to have been any older than as above stated. The association of
Gilbert, his children, and grandchildren for several generations with the
nobility of Northumberland, points quite clearly to the fact that Gilbert
was in Northumberland just before the Conquest, where he would not only
be with his relatives, and safe from the persecuting power of William,
Duke of Normandy, but where he could have the advantage of the best
schools in all Europe, specially those intended for Norse-men. The Avranches family came into Northumberland, England,
before the Conquest, and later, when their brother Hugh was made Earl of
Chester, Isabella came along with them. It was in this way that Gilbert
and Isabella came to cross each other's path, a fact so essential a
preliminary to marriage. They actually met each other when the
Northumbrian nobility, and their allied Norman families, migrated from
Northumberland to the vicinity of Stone Priory in Staffordshire, and to
the vicinity of Edgmond Church in Shropshire, sometime about 1075-1080.
In
the Peshall pedigree as given by Rev. John Pershall in Kimber and Johnson's
Baronetage, it is stated that Gilbert de Corbeil
is son of Richard, earl of Corbeil, a statement
which is an error, probably based upon the following deed which appears
in the chartulary of William Peshale of Suggenhill in
Staffordshire anno 1638:- Ranulphus comes Cestriae, Willelmo Constabulario, et Roberto Dapifero,
et omnibus baronibus suis,
et hominibus Francis et Anglicis
totius Angliae, salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse Gevae Riddel, filiae comitis Hughes, Draitunam, cum pertinentiis
in libero conjugio, sicut comes Hughes ci
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