Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sir Robert De WELLES Death: Abt 24 Sep 1265
  2. Thomas De WELLES

Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 12-2, Tracton-Zz. London: St Catherine Press, 1959. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XII/2 [Ap][p0-9].*].
  2. Foss, Edward, Biographia Juridica, Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, London: John Murray, 1870. Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oBAAAAQAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Foss Judges p[0-9]*].
  3. Holloway, Naomi D, The Genealogy of Mary Wentworth, Who Became the Wife of William Brewster, Revised Edition, October 1969. LDS Film#1738313 item#5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p[0-9a]*].
  4. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
parents:
[Ref: CP XII/2 p437]
Sources for death Information
date:
1241-2 [Ref: CP XII/2 p438]
Jun 1261 [Ref: Foss Judges p716]
Sources with Information about marriage to Emma De GRAINSBY
date:
in or before 1207 [Ref: CP XII/2 p438],
child:
[Ref: CP XII/2 p438, Foss Judges p716]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
names:
William De WELLES & Isabel De VERSCI [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p27]
Research Notes:
heir of his father [Ref: CP XII/2 p437]

1212: held the land of his grandfather William [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p781]

held either part of the whole of a knight's fee in Grimsby, Lincolnshire [Ref: Foss Judges p715]

escheator of Lincolnshire [Ref: Foss Judges p715]

9 Hen III (1225): appointed justice itinerant [Ref: Foss Judges p716]



Pedigree of William De WELLES
                            /-----Ragemer
                   /-----Walter
          /-----William
 /-----Robert De WELLE
|        |                                    /-----Ralph De GANT
|        |                           /-----Ralph De GANT, Lord Of Aalst
|        |                  /-----Gilbert De GANT, Baron Of Folkingham
|        |                 |        |                           /-----Wigeric Count in Bidgau
|        |                 |        |                  /-----Siegfried Count Of Luxemburg
|        |                 |        |                 |         \-----Cunegunde
|        |                 |        |         /-----Frederick I Count Of Luxemburg
|        |                 |        |        |        |         /-----Ebergard Count In The Nordgau, Count Of Alsace
|        |                 |        |        |         \-----Hedwig Of Nordgau
|        |                 |        |        |                  \-----Bertha
|        |                 |         \-----Gisele Of Luxembourg
|        |                 |                 |                  /-----Udo Count In The Wetterau
|        |                 |                 |         /-----Herbert I Count In The Kinziggau
|        |                 |                 |        |         \-----Cunegundis Of Vermandois
|        |                 |                  \-----Ermentrude Of Kinziggau
|        |                 |                          |         /-----Megingoz Count Of The Avalgau
|        |                 |                           \-----Irmentrude
|        |                 |                                    \-----Gerberga
|        |         /-----Walter De GAUNT, Baron Of Folkingham
|        |        |        |                           /-----Thursten De Bastenburgh
|        |        |        |                  /-----Hugh With The Beard De Montfort
|        |        |        |         /-----Hugh De Montfort, Baron Of Haughley
|        |        |         \-----Alice De MONTFORT
|        |        |                 |         /-----Richard De Beaufour
|        |        |                  \-----Alice Of Beaufour
|        |        |                          |                  /-----Asperlang
|        |        |                          |         /-----Ralph Count Of Ivry
|        |        |                          |        |         \-----Espriota
|        |        |                           \-----(Dau)
|        |        |                                    \-----Albereda
|         \-----Matilda De GANT
|                 |                                             /-----Judhael Count Of Rennes
|                 |                                    /-----Conan I Duke Of Brittany
|                 |                                   |         \-----Gerberge
|                 |                           /-----Geoffrey Duke Of Brittany
|                 |                          |        |         /-----Geoffrey I Grisgonelle Count Of Anjou
|                 |                          |         \-----Ermengarde Of Anjou
|                 |                          |                  \-----Adele Of Troyes
|                 |                  /-----Eudes I Count Of Brittany
|                 |                 |        |                  /-----William Longspee Duke Of Normandy
|                 |                 |        |         /-----Richard I The Fearless Duke Of Normandy
|                 |                 |        |        |         \-----Espriota
|                 |                 |         \-----Hawise Of Normandy
|                 |                 |                 |         /-----(Unk) Forquelar Of Cirques
|                 |                 |                  \-----Gunnora
|                 |         /-----Stephen Count Of Brittany
|                 |        |        |                           /-----Budic Count Of Cornuaille
|                 |        |        |                  /-----Benoit Count Of Cornuaille
|                 |        |        |         /-----Alain Cagnairt Count Of Cornuaille
|                 |        |        |        |         \-----Guinodeon
|                 |        |         \-----Agnes Of Cornuaille
|                 |        |                 |                  /-----Hoel Count Of Nantes
|                 |        |                 |         /-----Judicael Count Of Nantes
|                 |        |                  \-----Judith Of Nantes
|                 |        |                           \-----Melisende
|                  \-----Maud Of Brittany
|                           \-----Hawise Of Guincamp
William De WELLES
 \-----Maud



Descendants of William De WELLES
1. William De WELLES m. Emma De GRAINSBY
m. Emma De GRAINSBY father: William De GRAINSBY

2nd generation

2. Sir Robert De WELLES m. Isabel De PERITON
m. Isabel De PERITON father: Adam De PERITON mother: Cecily

3rd generation

4. Cecily De WELLES m. Sir Thomas De STRICKLAND
m. Sir Thomas De STRICKLAND father: Sir Walter De STRICKLAND mother: Eleanor De GOLDINGTON
8. Adam De WELLES, Lord Welles m. Joan ENGAINE
m. Joan ENGAINE father: Sir John ENGAINE mother: Joan GREINVILLE

4th generation

9. Sir Walter De STRICKLAND m. Margaret De LATHOM
m. Margaret De LATHOM
11. Margaret WELLE m. Sir William DEINCOURT
m. Sir William DEINCOURT father: Sir William DEINCOURT, Lord Deincourt mother: Milicent La ZOUCHE
13. Adam De WELLES, Lord Welles m. Margaret BARDOLPH
m. Margaret BARDOLPH father: Sir Thomas BARDOLF, Lord Bardolf mother: Agnes De GRANDSON

5th generation

17. Sir Thomas De STRICKLAND m. Mabel De BEETHOM
m. Mabel De BEETHOM father: Sir John BEETHAM mother: Margaret TUNSTALL
19. Wiliam DEINCOURT, Lord Deincourt m. Alice NEVILLE
m. Alice NEVILLE father: John De NEVILL, K.G. Lord Neville Of Raby mother: Maud PERCY
20. Joan WELLE m. Sir William De CAUNTELO, Lord Cauntelo
m. Sir William De CAUNTELO, Lord Cauntelo father: Nicholas De CAUNTELO, Lord Cauntelo mother: Tiphaine
21. Elizabeth WELLES m. Roger La WARRE, Lord La Warre
m. Roger La WARRE, Lord La Warre father: Sir John La WARRE mother: Margaret DE HOLAND
22. John De WELLES, Lord Welles m. Maud De ROS
m. Maud De ROS father: William De ROS, Lord Ros Of Helmsley mother: Margery De BADLESMERE