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. Eve De GURNAY

Marriage: Children:
  1. Henry De GHENT Death: After 10 Feb 1268
  2. Maurice De Ghent, Baron Of Beverstone Birth: Abt 1184 Death: 1230

Bibliography
  1. Bevan, Rosie, Corrections to K. S. B. Keats-Rohan's Domesday Series, Volume II: Domesday Descendants. Version 7, 25 Sep 2005. Available at http://www.fmg.ac/Projects/Domesday/ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bevan DD++ p[0-9]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 07 Hussee-Lincolnshire. London: St Catherine Press, 1929. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VII [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. 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]*].
  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]*].
  5. Lyte, Henry C Maxwell, A History of Dunster and the families of Mohun and Luttrell, 1909, Vol 1 available at http://archive.org/details/historyofdunster01lyte_0, vol 2 at http://archive.org/details/historyofdunster02lyte. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Lyte Dunster v1p[0-9]*].
  6. 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 v3p[0-9]*].
  7. 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]*].
  8. 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:
third son [Ref: Sanders Baronies p14]
younger son [Ref: Sanders Baronies p55],
parents:
[Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p905],
father:
[Ref: Lyte Dunster v1p63, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64, Sanders Baronies p14, Sanders Baronies p55]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64, Sanders Baronies p14]
1195 [Ref: Lyte Dunster v1p63]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hawise De GOURNEY
date:
first marriage of Robert [Ref: Bevan DD++ p472, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64, Sanders Baronies p14(6), Sanders Baronies p14]
third marriage of Hawise [Ref: Bevan DD++ p493],
child:
[Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p303 (with corr on proposon web site), Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64, Sanders Baronies p14(6)]
Sources with Information about marriage to Avice De GAUNT
date:
before 1182 [Ref: Lyte Dunster v1p63]
second marriage of Robert [Ref: Bevan DD++ p472, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p671, Sanders Baronies p14(6)],
names:
[Ref: CP VII p674(a)],
child:
[Ref: CP VII p673(b), Foss Judges p286, Keats-Rohan DD p303 (with corr on proposon web site), Keats-Rohan DD p472, Lyte Dunster v1p63, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p671, Sanders Baronies p14, Sanders Baronies p55]
Research Notes:
of Weare and Pawlett, Somerset, Beverstone, Elberton in Berkeley Herness, King's Weston, and Over, Redwick and Northwick, Gloucestershire [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p671]
of Weare and Pawlett, Somerset, Beverstone, Elberton in Berkeley Herness, King's Weston, Northwick, Over (in Almondbury), Purton (in Lidney), Redwick (in Henbury), Gloucestershire, and in right of his wife, of Barrow and Englishcombe, Somerset [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p64]

known as (a) Robert fitz Robert (fitz Harding), (b) Robert Lord of Were, from Smyth's Lives of the Berkeleys, and (c) Robert de Ghent, after marrying Avice and according to Sanders p14 [Ref: Bevan DD++ p472]

received an enormous number of properties, including Beverstone, such that Smyth says "this Robert lyved in great reputation litle inferior to his elder brother the lord Maurice, and was attended with knights and other servants, of eminent familyes and estimation." [Ref: Bevan DD++ p472]

given the town and castle of Malmesbury by Henry II [Ref: Bevan DD++ p472]

received Barony of Beverstone (manors of Beverstone, Elberton, and King's Weston) from father [Ref: Sanders Baronies p14]

took name "De Ghent" [Ref: CP VII p673(b), Sanders Baronies p14, Sanders Baronies p55]

proffered 60m to obtain lands of Avice [Ref: Sanders Baronies p55(4)]

1161: paid scutage on 15 knights' fees for Barony of Hooton Pagnell [Ref: Sanders Baronies p55(4)]

1166: said that he he owed the service of 12 1/2 knights, that 10 1/2 had been enfeoffed de veteri, 3 1/2 de novo, and 2 1/2 came from the domain; later scutage was paid on 12 1/2 knights' fees by the lords of this half of the barony [Ref: Sanders Baronies p55(4)]

This Robert fitz Robert's marriages get confused by Smyth, who thought he married but once to Hawise de Gurney and they had two children, Maurice de Gant and Eve de Gurnay. Smyth tried to account for Eve's name by saying she married a Gurnay. The correct account is in Sanders p14 note (6) [Ref: Bevan DD++ p472]



Pedigree of Robert De GHENT, Baron Of Beverstone
                   /-----Eadnoth The Constable
          /-----Harding
 /-----Robert FITZHARDING, Lord Of Berkeley
Robert De GHENT, Baron Of Beverstone
|         /-----Sir Estmond
 \-----Eve
          \-----Godiva



Descendants of Robert De GHENT, Baron Of Beverstone
1. Robert De GHENT, Baron Of Beverstone m1. Hawise De GOURNEY m2. Avice De GAUNT
m. Hawise De GOURNEY father: Nigel De GOURNEY
m. Avice De GAUNT father: Robert De GAUNT mother: Alice PAYNEL

2nd generation

2. Eve De GURNAY m1. Anselm De GURNAY m2. Roger De PEAUTON
m. Anselm De GURNAY
m. Roger De PEAUTON

3rd generation

5. Robert De GURNAY, Baron Of Beverstone m.

4th generation

6. Anselm De GURNAY, Baron Of Beverstone m.

5th generation

7. John De GURNAY, Baron Of Beverstone m. Olive De LOVEL
m. Olive De LOVEL father: Henry LOVEL, Baron Of Castle Cary mother: Eve