Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 06-30-2022.

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. Emelline De BALLON
  2. William De BALLON
  3. Matthew De BALLON
  4. (Unk) De BALLON

Bibliography
  1. Bevan, Rosie, Lost in TIme: The Other Daughter of Hamelin de Ballon, in Foundations for Medieval Genealogy, vol 3 no 3 (2010), pp179-215. Available at https://fmg.ac/fr/publications/journal/volume-3/file/275-ballon. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bevan Ballon p[0-9]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 01 A-Basing. London: St Catherine Press, 1910. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 1 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo01coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP I [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 06 Gordon-Huntley. London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VI [Ap][p0-9].*].
  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. 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]*].
  6. 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
place:
[Ref: CP I p19(c), Keats-Rohan DD p302],
father:
[Ref: CP I p20(a)],
brother:
Winebald De BALLON [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p302]
Sources for death Information
date:
after 1103 [Ref: Bevan Ballon p193]
after 1103-6 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p66]
d 5 Mar, living 1103 [Ref: CP I p20]
Sources with Information about marriage to Agnes
names:
[Ref: CP I p19],
child:
[Ref: CP I p20(a), CP I p20, Keats-Rohan DD p302]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
child:
Roger de BALLON (#198367) husb of Hawise de GURNAI [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p492, Keats-Rohan DP p302]
Research Notes:
Lord of Abergavenny [Ref: CP I p19]

recruited with his brother into the service of William II, who established him at Abergavenny [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p302]

received the lordship of Over Gwent, including the castle of Abergavenny, from William Rufus [Ref: CP I p19]

received the barony of Much Marcle by the early years of the reign of Henry I [Ref: Sanders Baronies p66]

early benefactors of Bermondsey priory [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p302]

in a charter of his brother Winebald for Bermondsey he attests with his wife Agnes, her brother Robert, and his daughter Emma [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p302]

founded a Priory at Abergavenny [Ref: CP I p19(c)]

In 1901 Round published a detailed history of the Ballon family correcting the longstanding errors perpetuated by the Historia Foundationis cum Fundatoris Genealogia of Abergavenny priory, published by Dugdale in his Monasticon Anglicanum, an account which gave that Hamelin de Ballon, baron of Abergavenny founded Abergavenny priory in the late 11th century, but that he had died without issue and his lands passed to Brien fitz Count, son of his sister Lucy. The fictional family account was repeated by Dugdale not only in his Monasticon Anglicanum but also in The Baronage of England, from which his extraordinary account of the family gained currency as fact.... [Ref: Bevan Ballon p179]

The 13th century account gives that Hamelin had three sisters, Emma, Lucy, Countess de Insula, and Beatrice, and on his death without issue his heir was his nephew, Brian "filio comitis de Insula" who held it during the reign of William Rufus. On taking the cross he went on crusade to Jerusalem and relinquished his estate to his cousin Walter the Constable (Walter de Gloucester, son of Roger de Pitres), from whence it passed to Philip de Braose by inheritance. It seems this piece of monastic fiction may have been designed to claim baronial tenure of Abergavenny by hereditary right [Ref: Bevan Ballon p179(4)]



Pedigree of Hamelin De BALLON, Lord Of Abergavenny
 /-----Dru De BALLON
Hamelin De BALLON, Lord Of Abergavenny



Descendants of Hamelin De BALLON, Lord Of Abergavenny
1. Hamelin De BALLON, Lord Of Abergavenny m. Agnes
m. Agnes

2nd generation

2. Emelline De BALLON m. Reginald De BRETEUIL
m. Reginald De BRETEUIL father: Roger De BRETEUIL, Earl Of Hereford
5. (Unk) De BALLON m. Hugh De GUNDEVILLE
m. Hugh De GUNDEVILLE

3rd generation

7. Reginald De BALLON m.
11. Hugh De GUNDEVILLE m. Agnes De FALAISE
m. Agnes De FALAISE father: Hugh De FALAISE
12. Robert De GUNDEVILLE m.

4th generation

14. John De BALLON, Baron Of Much Marcle m1. Maud m2. Margery
m. Maud
m. Margery
16. Denise De GUNDEVILLE m. Richard MURDAC
m. Richard MURDAC father: Ralph MURDAC mother: Beatrice De CHESNEY
17. Robert De GUNDEVILLE m.

5th generation

21. Reginald De BALLON, Baron Of Much Marcle m.
22. Richard De BALLON m.
24. Margaret MURDAC m. Nicholas De LIMSEY
m. Nicholas De LIMSEY
25. Denise MURDAC m. Richard De CROMHALL
m. Richard De CROMHALL
26. Florence MURDAC m. William De LONDON
m. William De LONDON
29. Hugh De GUNDEVILLE m.