Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

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.


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Bibliography
  1. Hansen, Charles M, Barons of Wodhull with observations on the ancestry of George Elkington, emigrant to New Jersey, The Genealogist 7-8,1 (1986), pp4-127. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p[0-9]*].
  2. 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:
abt 1190 [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p11]
came of age 1213 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p69],
father:
[Ref: Hansen Wodhull p11, Sanders Baronies p69]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Sanders Baronies p69]
Sources with Information about marriage to (Unk Dau) De MUNCHENSY
date:
before 1205 [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p12],
names:
John de WAHULL & dau Aveline Countess of Essex by first husband [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p12, Sanders Baronies p69(2)]
Sources with Information about marriage to Alice De MERLAY
date:
second marriage of John [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p12]
Research Notes:
inherited Barony of Odell from father [Ref: Sanders Baronies p69]

1196/7: Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, paid 500 marks (333 pounds 6s8d) for his wardship and marriage [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p11]

1205: on death of the Archbishop, his wardship was transferred on payment of 300 marks to Aveline, wife of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p11]

1210: took part in King John's pacification campaign in Ireland [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p11]

during his minority, his lands were in the hands of Walter de Wahull (his uncle), Hubert Walter (archbishop of Canterbury), and Geoffrey fitz Peter [Ref: Sanders Baronies p69(2)]

1212: Ellis de Beauchamp and his wife Counstance, a coheiress of Hugh de Bolebed, brought legal action claiming that John owed the services of two knights and a reasonable relief for the manors of Ravenstone and Maulden which he held of the barony of Bolebec. John declared that the manors had been given to his grandfather Walter in marriage with his grandmother Rohaise and they had descended to his father Simon and then to him [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p11]

1213: excused foreign service because of ill health; he was to supply 3 knights for service across the sea [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p11, Sanders Baronies p69(2)]

1214: one of the rebel barons [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p12]

d.s.p.s [Ref: Hansen Wodhull p12]

d.s.p; heir were his sisters Rose and Agnes [Ref: Sanders Baronies p69]



Pedigree of John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
                                              /-----(Unk)
                                     /-----Saher The Fleming
                            /-----Walter The Fleming
                   /-----Simon De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
          /-----Walter De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
         |         \-----Sibil
 /-----Simon De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
|        |         /-----Osbert MARTEL
|         \-----Rohaise
John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
|                                             /-----(Unk) De Estouteville
|                                    /-----Robert De Estouteville
|                           /-----Robert De Estouteville
|                          |         \-----Beatrix
|                  /-----Osmund De Estouteville
|                 |         \-----Erneburga
|         /-----Roger De STUTEVILLE
 \-----Gundrada De STUTEVILLE



Descendants of John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell
1. John De WAHULL, Baron Of Odell m1. (Unk Dau) De MUNCHENSY m2. Alice De MERLAY
m. (Unk Dau) De MUNCHENSY father: Sir William De MUNCHENSY, Baron Of Swanscombe mother: Aveline De CLARE
m. Alice De MERLAY