Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 12-10-2023.

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 may be downloaded here.

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


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Alan De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe Birth: 1069 Death: Abt Feb 1135
  2. Richard De PERCY Birth: 2
  3. Walter De PERCY Birth: 3
  4. William De PERCY Birth: 4

Children:
  1. Emma De PERCY

Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages. London: Burkes, 1883. Reprinted: Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co, 1978. (1985 printing) M-LH H 929.7 BUR 1985, also NYPL AWN 95-9586. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/246217. Another (which claims to also be the 1883 edition but is earlier 1866 edition) at http://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke DormantPeerages p[0-9]*].
  2. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  3. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 10, Oakham-Richmond. London: St Catherine Press, 1945. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP X [Ap][p0-9].*].
  4. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 11, Ridley-Sinclair. London: St Catherine Press, 1949. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/27141 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XI [Ap][p0-9].*].
  5. Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Europaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europaischen Staaten, New Series. III.4 (#601-#820): Das Feudale Frankreich und sein Einfluss auf die Welt des Mittelalters. Marburg: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1989. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: ES III.4 #[0-9]*].
  6. Holford, Matthew L, Family, lineage and society - medieval pedigrees of the Percy family, in Nottingham Medieval Studies, 2008, pp165-190. Available (for a fee) at https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/epdf/10.1484/J.NMS.3.432. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holford PERCY p[0-9]*].
  7. 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]*].
  8. 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]*].
  9. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
  10. Moriarty, G Andrews, Origin of the Percies and the Percy Arms, TAG v23 (1946), pp39-44. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Moriarty Percy p[0-9]*].
  11. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p[0-9]*].
  12. Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sanders Baronies p[0-9]*].
  13. Watney, Vernon James, The Wallop Family and their Ancestry, Oxford:John Johnson, 1928. LDS Film#1696491 items 6-9. NYPL ARZ+ (Wallop) (Watney, V. J. Wallop family). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/213421. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Watney WALLOP #[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p21]
abt 1030 [Ref: Watney WALLOP #774],
brother:
Serlo [Ref: Burke Peerage p1510, Keats-Rohan DP p478]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
father:
Geoffrey Sire de PERCY [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p21]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1510, CP X p437, CP X p438, Holloway WENTWORTH p21, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p344, Watney WALLOP #774]
1099 [Ref: Holford PERCY p169]
abt 1096 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p148]
nimmt 1096 des Kreuz [Ref: ES III.4 #709],
place:
[Ref: CP X p438, Holloway WENTWORTH p21]
Holy Land [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p344, Watney WALLOP #774]
Mountjoy, near Jerusalem [Ref: Burke Peerage p1510]
Palestine [Ref: ES III.4 #709]
on first crusade [Ref: Sanders Baronies p148]
Sources for burial Information
place:
Mount Joy, near Jerusalem [Ref: CP X p437]
Sources with Information about marriage to Emma De PORT
names:
[Ref: CP XI p317(j), Keats-Rohan DD p645, Moriarty Percy p44],
child:
[Ref: Burke Peerage p1510, CP X p438, Holloway WENTWORTH p21, Keats-Rohan DD p629, Keats-Rohan DD p630, Keats-Rohan DD p631, Keats-Rohan DP p478, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p343, Watney WALLOP #774]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1020]
Research Notes:
Baron of Topcliffe [Ref: Sanders Baronies p148]
1st Lord Percy [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p21]

called "aux Gernone", or "with the Whiskers" [Ref: Moriarty Percy p44]
called "ove les gernouns" [Ref: Holford PERCY p169]

parentage unknown, but he had a brother Serlo, and possibly a brother Ernal who became ancestor of the Kildale Percies [Ref: Moriarty Percy p44]

from the village of Percy, near Villedjeau in Normandy [Ref: Burke Peerage p1510]

origin either Percy, Manche, arr Saint-Lo, or Percy-en-Auge, Eure, arr Lisieux, cant Mezidon [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478]

probably from Percy-en-Auge, arr Lisieux, cant Mezidon [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p343]

Crusader [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p21]

accompanied Hugh d'Avranches, afterwards Earl of Chester, from Normandy to England, and became an under tenant of the Earl in Whitby and its soke in Catton, East Riding, and in the city of York [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p343]

came with the Conqueror [Ref: Holford PERCY p169]

friend and companion of William the Conqueror [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p21]

"William with the Whiskers" [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p21]

distinguished from his contemporaries by the addition of "als Gernons" (William with the Whiskers), whence his postcrity have constantly borne the name of Algernon [Ref: Burke Peerage p1510]

surnamed Algernon (William with Whiskers) [Ref: Burke DormantPeerages p423]

family took name from the village of Percy, near Villedieu. The family sprang from Geoffrey (son of Mainfred a Danish chiefton) who assisted Rollo in 912 in subjugating that principality and acquired considerable possesions there [Ref: Burke DormantPeerages p423]

accompanied Hugh d'Avranches, afterwards Earl of Chester, from Normandy to England [Ref: CP X p435]

1070: associated with Yorkshire [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478]

1070: engaged in rebuilding York Castle after its desctuction by the Danes [Ref: CP X p435]

1072: fought in the Scottish campaigns [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478]

1072: took part in Conqueror's expedition to Scotland [Ref: CP X p435]

built a castle at Topclife, and refounded Whitby Abbey [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478]
1085: Domesday lord of Topcliffe [Ref: Sanders Baronies p148]

1086: Domesday tenant of Hugh of Avranches earl of Chester [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478]

Domesday tenant-in-chief, of three ridings of Yorkshire [Ref: Holloway WENTWORTH p21, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p343]

1096: joined the First Crusade [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p344]

became lord of part of the Jubal Sumaq in Syria before his death near Jerusalem [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478]

benefactor of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives (near Lisieux) [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p478]



Pedigree of William Algernon De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe
 /-----(Unk) De PERCY
William Algernon De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe



Descendants of William Algernon De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe
1. William Algernon De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe m1. Emma De PORT m2.
m. Emma De PORT father: Hugh De PORT, Baron Of Basing mother: Orence

2nd generation

2. Alan De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe m1. Emma De GANT m2.
m. Emma De GANT father: Gilbert De GANT, Baron Of Folkingham mother: Alice De MONTFORT
3. Richard De PERCY m. Alice
m. Alice
6. Emma De PERCY m. William MALEBISSE
m. William MALEBISSE father: Hugh MALEBISSE

3rd generation

7. William De PERCY, Baron Of Topcliffe m1. m2. Adeliza De TUNBRIDGE m3. Sibyl De VALOGNES
m. Adeliza De TUNBRIDGE father: Richard FITZ GILBERT De CLARE, Baron Of Clare mother: Adeliza Le MESCHIN
m. Sibyl De VALOGNES father: Thebaud De VALOGNES
17. Richard MALEBISSE m.

4th generation

21. Alice PERCY m1. Hugh Du Puiset, Bishop Of Durham, Earl Of Nor m2. Hugh BARDOLF m3. Richard De MORVILLE
m. Hugh Du Puiset, Bishop Of Durham, Earl Of Nor father: Hugh III Seigneur De Puiset, Vicount Chartres mother: Agnes
m. Hugh BARDOLF
m. Richard De MORVILLE father: Herbert De MORVILLE mother: Agnes
26. Alan De PERCY m.
28. Agnes De PERCY m. Jocelin LOUVAIN, Lord Of Petworth
m. Jocelin LOUVAIN, Lord Of Petworth father: Godfrey I The Bearded Duke Of Brabant
29. John MALEBISSE m. Matilda
m. Matilda

5th generation

32. Sir Henry De PERCY m. Isabel De BRUS
m. Isabel De BRUS father: Adam II De BRUS, Baron Of Skelton mother: Juetta De ARCHES
37. Maud De PERCY m. John De DAIVILLE
m. John De DAIVILLE father: Robert De DAIVILLE mother: Julian De MONTFORT
44. Emma MALEBISSE m1. Robert De MEINILL m2. Robert De STUTEVILLE
m. Robert De MEINILL father: Stephen De MEINILL mother: Joan De ROS
m. Robert De STUTEVILLE