Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 05-01-2023.

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:
Bibliography
  1. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 04 Dacre-Dysart. London: St Catherine Press, 1916. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 4 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo04byucoka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP IV [Ap][p0-9].*].
  2. Ravilious, John, Origins of the Despenser. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 1/13/2006. Subject: Origins of the Despenser: Geoffrey, father of Thomas. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/ruz92uBAhhk/m/sPzxTlksN4EJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/13/2006-084347].
  3. Ravilious, John, Ancestry of Sir Hugh le Despenser. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 1/16/2006. Subject: Ancestry of Sir Hugh le Despenser (d. 1238). Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/V1OQdMYA2K4/m/y55evpZOLJYJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/16/2006-112540].
  4. Ravilious, John, Origins of the Despensers (redux). Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 12/31/2003. Subject: Origins of the Despensers (redux). Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/k2x2qcVs5kE/m/x-V8oV0QHksJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/31/2003-174847].
  5. Ravilious, John, Early Despenser family. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 12/9/2007. Subject: #Geoffrey / Galfridus le Despenser Lord Marcheley. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/E4fQCP9woZ8/m/X2ZYFWq5_G0J. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/9/2007-191106].
  6. Watson, John, Origin of the Despensers. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 6/9/2014. Subject: Origin of the Despensers. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/Sy8623EOTPQ/m/Ct3nWMwEtR0J. Author address: watsonjohnm at gmail dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Watson SGM 6/9/2014-165509].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
first son [Ref: CP IV p259(c)],
parents:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/13/2006-084347, John Ravilious SGM 1/16/2006-112540, John Ravilious SGM 12/9/2007-191106],
father:
[Ref: CP IV p259(c), John Ravilious SGM 12/31/2003-174847, John Watson SGM 6/9/2014-165509]
Sources for death Information
date:
1218 [Ref: John Watson SGM 6/9/2014-165509]
before 1218 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/16/2006-112540]
before Oct 1218 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/31/2003-174847, John Ravilious SGM 12/9/2007-191106]
in or before Oct 1218 [Ref: CP IV p259(c)]
Sources with Information about marriage to Joan De L'ISLE
names:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/31/2003-174847, John Ravilious SGM 12/9/2007-191106]
Research Notes:
of Arnesby, co Leicester [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/31/2003-174847]
of Loughborough [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/16/2006-112540]

d.s.p [Ref: CP IV p259(c)]



Pedigree of Thomas Le DESPENSER
                            /-----Hugh De BERGES
                   /-----Ansketil De BERGES
                  |        |         /-----(Unk) De QUENIBOROUGH
                  |         \-----(Unk) De QUENIBOROUGH
          /-----Geoffrey Le DESPENSER
         |         \-----Rohese
 /-----Thomas Le DESPENSER
Thomas Le DESPENSER
 \-----Recuara



Descendants of Thomas Le DESPENSER
1. Thomas Le DESPENSER m. Joan De L'ISLE
m. Joan De L'ISLE