_Arthwys AP MAR _____+
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_Cynfelin AP ARTHWYS _|
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|--Cynwyd CYNWYDION
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_Baudouin IV "Barbatus" DE FLANDERS _
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_Baudouin V DE LILLE _|
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| |_Otgive DE LUXEMBOURG _______________
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|--Matilda DE FLANDERS
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| _Robert II "The Pious" CAPET ________+
| | (0972 - 1031) m 1000
|_Aelis CAPET _________|
(1009 - 1079) |
|_Constance DE TOULOUSE ______________+
(0974 - 1032) m 1000
_Meyeul of DE NARBONNE _+
| (.... - 0911)
_Aubri of DE NARBONNE _|
| (.... - 0945) |
| |_Attelane DE MACON _____+
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|--Lietaud II DE MACON
| (0965 - ....)
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_William "Als Gernons" DE PERCY _+
| (1034 - 1096)
_Alan "The Great" DE PERCY _|
| (1069 - 1120) |
| |_Emma DE PORT ___________________
| (1030 - ....)
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|--Robert DE PERCY
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| _Gilbert I DE GANT ______________+
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|_Emma DE GANT ______________|
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|_Alice DE MONTFORT ______________+
_William I "The Conqueror" DE NORMANDY _+
| (1024 - 1087)
_William "The Elder" DE PEVEREL _|
| (1034 - 1113) |
| |_Concubine _____________________________+
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|--William "The younger" DE PEVEREL
| (1080 - 1155)
| ________________________________________
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|_Adeline ________________________|
(1054 - 1119) |
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The capture of GLOCESTER at Winchester, and the liberation of Stephen
from confinement, place PEVEREL once more in possession of his
Nottingham honors. When he saw the star of Stephen in the ascendant he
at once resolved to regain his lost inheritance; with a band of chosen
adherents he entered one of those subterranean passages, all of which
had been familiar to him from his boyhood; the garrison was vanquished,
and the banner of Ralph PAYNELL, or PAGANEL, to whom this important
military station had meanwhile been committed, speedily gave place to
that of the proud PEVEREL.
Prince Henry, who came from France to dispute the pretensions of
Stephen, besieged and took the castle, which was one of the earliest of
his victories, and which was reckoned one of moment , as the building
had been frequently selected as the residence of royalty during these
contests for the crown. And when the prince became Henry II., he
continued to hold Nottingham as a royal station, while many of the
finest fortresses in England were destroyed on the ground that they
only served as a refuge for those who troubled the state. One of his
earliest acts was to disinherit William PEVEREL, the staunch supporter
of his old rival Stephen, upon the opportune charge of his having
conspired with Maud, Countess of Chester, to poison her husband, Earl
Ranulph, surnamed GERNONS.
The death of the Earl of Chester in consequence is recorded to have
occurred in 1155. How are we to reconcile this with the fact that
Henry, before he ascended the throne, gave to the man whom PEVEREL is
accused of poisoning the castle and town of Nottingham, and the whole
fee of William PEVEREL, unless that individual could clear himself of
his wickedness and treason? This document is published at length by Sir
Peter LEYCESTER in his Prolegomena. Should we not be justified in
believing that PEVEREL was dispossessed of his estates, not for
assisting to poison the Earl of Chester - for to that very earl the
estates were given - but for "wickedness and treason" generally; in
plain words, for supporting Stephen manfully and faithfully against
Henry and his mother? "This happened," says DEERING, "the first of
Henry II.," and he goes on to state, from CAMDEN and THOROTON (the
original of both being Gervase of Dover), "that this William PEVEREL,
fearing the rigour of the king, betook himself first to the monastery
at Lenton, founded by the elder PEVEREL, and not thinking himself safe
there, as Henry was on his journey to York, he quitted the habit he had
newly taken upon him and fled. The king seized the major part of his
possessions, and amongst others of his castles that of Nottingham,
which he first granted to Ranulph, Earl of Chester (the dead man!), but
soon afterwards had that and the rest of PEVEREL's lands in his own
possession again, and kept them in his hands for a considerable number
of years."
One of the obnoxious chieftains whose estates were given to the Earl of
Chester, by Henry, at the same time with those of PEVEREL, was Robert
Fitz OOTH - the presumed historical original of the popular legendary
hero, Robin HOOD. CAMDEN makes the supposed murderer of Ranulph the
grandson of the first William PEVEREL. DEERING makes the first PEVEREL
fight at the battle of Lincoln, an interval of seventy-three years
having elapsed between his appointment to the custody of the castle and
that event; so that, were this true, he must have been a hundred years
old when he fought in the royalist ranks. It is remarkable that
DEERING's blunder should have led many succeeding writers astray. We
incline to the opinion that it was a grandson of the first PEVEREL who
rendered such signal service to Steph
_John WOODSON _______+
| (1632 - 1684)
_John WOODSON _______|
| (1655 - 1700) m 1677|
| |_Sarah TUCKER _______
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|
|--Joseph WOODSON
| (1680 - ....)
| _Captain TUCKER _____
| |
|_Mary TUCKER ________|
m 1677 |
|_Jane _______________