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. Matilda Birth: Abt 1073

Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 03 Canonteigh-Cutts. London: St Catherine Press, 1913. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 3 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo03coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP III [Ap][p0-9].*].
  2. 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].*].
  3. Clutterbuck, Robert, History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford, London: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1815-27, v1-3. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/188626. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v[1-3]p[0-9]*].
  4. Ravilious, John, King Harold's Daughter. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 8/5/2012. Subject: King Harold's Daughter (HSJ 2008). Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/CbtFOWzBvN8/m/VvwHabZ5raoJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 8/5/2012-080536].
  5. 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]*].
  6. 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]*].
  7. Keats-Rohan, KSB, Domesday People Revisited. In Foundations for Medieval Genealogy, vol 4 (2012), pp3-20. Available at https://fmg.ac/publications/journal/vol-4/253-fnd-4-09 and at https://fmg.ac/images/foundations/volume4/DomesdayPeopleRevisited.pdf. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DPRevisited p[0-9]*].
  8. 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]*].
  9. 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]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
second son [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127],
parents:
[Ref: CP III p427 (with corr in XIV p207), CP X p780, CP X p783, Keats-Rohan DP p127, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p481],
father:
[Ref: Clutterbuck Hertford v2p84]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: CP X p780, CP X p785]
1089 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p140]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
1093 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]
Sources for burial Information
place:
Bury St Edmunds [Ref: CP X p785]
initially Bury St Edmund's, later transferred to St Mary's, York [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]
Sources with Information about marriage to Gunhild
date:
concubine [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128],
names:
dotted line to Count Alan Rufus & Gunhild [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 8/5/2012-080536],
child:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 8/5/2012-080536, Keats-Rohan DPRevisited p5]
Research Notes:
Count of Brittany [Ref: CP X p780, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p481]
Lord of Richmond [Ref: CP X p780, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p481]

called "Alan Rufus" to distinguish him from a younger brother, Alan Niger [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127]

called "the Red" [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p481]

status of Eudes entitled his legitimate sons to bear the honorific title 'comes' [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127]

c1050: first appears with his father and some of his brothers in an Angevin charter [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127]

before 1066: recruited into the service of his second cousin William of Normandy [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127]

1066: fought at Hastings [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p221]

1066 or 1067: William the Conqueror assented to the gift by Alan to Saint-Ouen de Rouen of the church of Saint-Sauveur without Rouen, and of the nearby church of Sainte-Crois des Pelletiers, which had been his gift to Alan [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127]

1066: plated an important role at Hastings [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127]

1069: after helping to defeat an attack on Exeter by the sons of Harold II, his brother Brien apparently returned to Brittany, leaving Alan as indisputably the most senior of the Bretons in England [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p127]

1075: his position in England was further enhanced by the fall of Ralph de Gael; Alan acquired much of his forfeited land in East Anglia [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

had a great deal of land in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and Norfolk, where he and two of his men, Aubrey de Vere and Harduin de Scales, dominated the region covered by the Inquisitio Eliensis and the Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

1070: received a grant of land in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, which formed the kernel of the vast honour of Richmond [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

1085: Domesday Lord of Richmond [Ref: Sanders Baronies p140]

one of the richest and most powerful men in England. He remained close to William I, accompanying him to Normandy and Maine on several occasions after 1066, and attested many of his charters. His importance is sometimes overlooked because his intense loyalty to William I and subsequently to William II meant that he was usually ignored by chroniclers, though he figures among those mentioned as helping William II keep his throne during 1087-88. [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

played an important role in the process against William bishop of Durham [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

founder of St Mary's, York, and of a priory at Swavesy, Cambs, a cell of SS Serge and Bacchus, Angers, and a benefactor of St Edmund's at Bury [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

d.s.p; heir was his brother Alan [Ref: Sanders Baronies p140]

succeeded by his brother Alan Niger [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

date of death has caused much confusion, but can be established by reconciling references in documents of St Mary's Abbey, York, with a letter written by Anselm archbishop of Canterbury. The letter reveals that both Alans had a physical liason with Gunhilda, daughter of the form king Harold II, then living in retirement at Wilton Abbey. Because Anselm regarded Gunhilda as a nun, we cannot know whether she was legally married to either brother, though clearly she willingly entered each relationship. [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]

Eadmer later alleged that Edith-Matilda, wife of Henry I, had been intended by her father Malcolm of Scotland as the wife of Alan Rufus [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p128]



Pedigree of Alan The Red Count Of Brittany
                                                       /-----Riroreth Count Of Nantes
                                              /-----Adam I The Great Count Of Nantes And Vannes, Duke Of Brit
                                     /-----Paskurtan Count Of Rennes
                                    |         \-----Oreguen
                            /-----Judhael Count Of Rennes
                           |        |                  /-----Gurivant Count Of Rennes
                           |        |         /-----Berenger Count Of Rennes
                           |        |        |        |         /-----Erispoe Duke Of Brittany
                           |        |        |         \-----(Unk Dau) Heiress Of Brittany
                           |         \-----(Unk Dau) Heiress Of Rennes
                   /-----Conan I Duke Of Brittany
                  |         \-----Gerberge
          /-----Geoffrey Duke Of Brittany
         |        |                                             /-----Tertellus Senmarchal Of The Gatinais
         |        |                                    /-----Ingelger Count Of Anjou
         |        |                                   |         \-----Petronel
         |        |                           /-----Fulk Le Roux Count Of Anjou
         |        |                          |        |         /-----Geoffrey Count Of The Gatinais
         |        |                          |         \-----Adela Of The Gatinais
         |        |                          |                  \-----(Unk)
         |        |                  /-----Fulk II The Good Count Of Anjou
         |        |                 |        |                  /-----Adalard Seigneur De Loches, Lahaye, Villentrois
         |        |                 |        |         /-----Werner Seigneur De Locher Villandry And La Stai
         |        |                 |         \-----Roscilla
         |        |                 |                  \-----Forcanda
         |        |         /-----Geoffrey I Grisgonelle Count Of Anjou
         |        |        |        |                           /-----Gausfred Count Of Maine
         |        |        |        |                  /-----Gausfred
         |        |        |        |                 |         \-----(Unk Dau) Of Orleans
         |        |        |        |         /-----Gausfred Count Of Nevers
         |        |        |         \-----Gerberga Of Nevers
         |        |        |                 |         /-----Hector Noble Of Arverne
         |        |        |                  \-----Aba
         |        |        |                          |         /-----Bernard Plantevalus Count Of Autun, Marquis Of Toulouse
         |        |        |                           \-----Aba Abbess Of Sauxillanges
         |        |        |                                    \-----Ermengard
         |         \-----Ermengarde Of Anjou
         |                 |                                    /-----Pepin Count Of Senlis, Peronne, & St. Quentin
         |                 |                           /-----Herbert I Count Of Vermandois
         |                 |                          |         \-----(Unk Dau) Of Vermandois
         |                 |                  /-----Herbert II Count Of Vermandois
         |                 |                 |        |         /-----Guerra I Count Of Morvois
         |                 |                 |         \-----Beatrice Of Morvois
         |                 |                 |                  \-----Eve Of Roussillon
         |                 |         /-----Robert Count Of Troyes
         |                 |        |        |                  /-----Rupert IV The Strong Count Of Tours
         |                 |        |        |         /-----Robert I King Of France
         |                 |        |        |        |         \-----Aelis Of Tours And Alsace
         |                 |        |         \-----Hildebrante/Liegarde/Adela
         |                 |        |                  \-----Aelis
         |                  \-----Adele Of Troyes
         |                          |                           /-----Thierry II Count In The Chamois
         |                          |                  /-----Manasses I Count Of Vergy, Duxin, And Chalons
         |                          |                 |         \-----(Unk Dau)
         |                          |         /-----Giselbert Duke Of Burgandy
         |                          |        |        |         /-----Boso Of Vienne, King Of Provence
         |                          |        |         \-----Ermengarde
         |                           \-----Adelaide Of Burgundy
         |                                    \-----Ermengarde Of Burgandy
 /-----Eudes I Count Of Brittany
|        |                                    /-----Ketil
|        |                           /-----Hrolfr (Rollo) Duke Of Normandy
|        |                  /-----William Longspee Duke Of Normandy
|        |                 |        |         /-----Berenger Count Of Bayeux
|        |                 |         \-----Poppa
|        |                 |                 |         /-----Gurivant Count Of Rennes
|        |                 |                  \-----(Unk Dau)
|        |                 |                          |         /-----Erispoe Duke Of Brittany
|        |                 |                           \-----(Unk Dau) Heiress Of Brittany
|        |         /-----Richard I The Fearless Duke Of Normandy
|        |        |         \-----Espriota
|         \-----Hawise Of Normandy
|                 |         /-----(Unk) Forquelar Of Cirques
|                  \-----Gunnora
Alan The Red Count Of Brittany
|                           /-----Budic Count Of Cornuaille
|                  /-----Benoit Count Of Cornuaille
|         /-----Alain Cagnairt Count Of Cornuaille
|        |         \-----Guinodeon
 \-----Agnes Of Cornuaille
         |                                    /-----Matuedoi Count Of Poher
         |                           /-----Alain II Barbe Torte Count Of Nantes
         |                          |        |                  /-----Riroreth Count Of Nantes
         |                          |        |         /-----Adam I The Great Count Of Nantes And Vannes, Duke Of Brit
         |                          |         \-----(Unk Dau)
         |                          |                  \-----Oreguen
         |                  /-----Hoel Count Of Nantes
         |         /-----Judicael Count Of Nantes
          \-----Judith Of Nantes
                   \-----Melisende



Descendants of Alan The Red Count Of Brittany
1. Alan The Red Count Of Brittany m. Gunhild
m. Gunhild father: Harold II Goodwinson, King Of England mother: Ealdgith Swansneck

2nd generation

2. Matilda m. Walter De AINCORT, Lord Of Blankney
m. Walter De AINCORT, Lord Of Blankney

3rd generation

4. Ralph DEINCOURT, Baron Of Blankney m1. Basilie m2. Matilda
m. Basilie
m. Matilda

4th generation

6. Walter DEINCOURT, Baron Of Blankney m. Agnes BASSET
m. Agnes BASSET
7. Ralph DEINCOURT m. Matilda
m. Matilda
8. Ada DEINCOURT m. Guy De RUSHDALL
m. Guy De RUSHDALL father: Turgis De BRUNDOS
12. Aline DEINCOURT m. Thomas DARCY, Baron Of Nocton
m. Thomas DARCY, Baron Of Nocton father: Robert DARCY, Baron Of Nocton mother: Alice De CALZ
13. Basilia DEINCOURT m. Gubert
m. Gubert

5th generation

15. John DEINCOURT, Baron Of Blankney m. Alice MURDAC
m. Alice MURDAC father: Ralph MURDAC mother: Beatrice De CHESNEY
19. Basilia DEINCOURT m. John Of Mere
m. John Of Mere
21. Thomas DARCY, Baron Of Nocton m. Joan
m. Joan
25. Aline m. Alfred Le WALUR
m. Alfred Le WALUR