Baldwin de Boulers
Baldwin de Boulers came to England in 1105 when he was granted the Lordship of Montgomery, Powys in marriage with Sybil de Falaise. Sybil was referred to as the niece of Henry I of England but is commonly believed, probably incorrectly, to be one of his illegitimate children. [1] states she was his niece.
Baldwin was of a Flemish family from Boelare and his father was Stephen, Baron de Boelare. Boelare is now known as NederBoelare and is part of the town of Geraardsbergen, East Flanders, Belgium.
The de Boulers were based at Hen Domen, the original site for Montgomery Castle and it is from Baldwin that Montgomery gets its Welsh name, Trefaldwyn "The Town of Baldwin".
The de Boulers continued as a prominent Shropshire family, becoming the Bowdlers.
Marriage and family
[edit]Sibyl of Falaise married Baldwin de Boulers] 1st Lord of Montgomery (sometimes spelled Bullers), at the instigation of Henry I of England.[2] Baldwin held lands in Shropshire. [3]
Baldwin was married to Margaery de Limesey the daughter of Ralph de Limesi and Hawise de Pirton they had:
- Stephen de Boulers, 2nd Lord Montgomery who married Margaret
- Sybil de Boulers, who married Stephen de Stanton
To Sibyl of Falaise he had one daughter:
- Matilda Boulers, married Richard fitzUrse..[3]
Matilda was the mother of Reginald fitzUrse, one of the murderers of Thomas Becket. [4]
See Also
[edit]- John de Courcy
- Lords of Cemais
- Serlo de Burci
- Sibyl of Falaise
- Robert fitz Martin
- William Martin, 1st Baron Martin
- William de Falaise
References
[edit]- ^ LLyod 1876.
- ^ Keats-Rohan 2002.
- ^ a b Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 357
- ^ Barlow 1986.
Sources
[edit]- "Affairs of State: the illegitimate children of Henry I", Journal of Medieval History 29 (2003): 129-151 Kathleen Thompson
- Antiquities of Shropshire By Robert William Eyton Published 1860
- A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, Samuel Lewis, 1849, pages 223-238
- Hope Bowdler, A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 10: Munslow Hundred (part), The Liberty and Borough of Wenlock (1998), pp. 44–52
- LLyod, William Valentine (1876). The sheriffs of Montgomeryshire, with notices of their families, 1540 to 1639.
- Barlow, Frank (1986). Thomas Becket. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07175-1.
- Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series edited by W. Bruce Bannerman, published 2001, ISBN 1-4021-9405-6
- Plea Rolls for Staffordshire: 1225-6, Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 4 (1883), pp. 32–40
- Plea Rolls for Staffordshire: 1239-43, Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 4 (1883), pp. 90–102.
- Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (2002). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.