Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

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:
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. Douglas, David C, William The Conqueror, University of California Press: 1964. Morristown 942.021 DOU. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Douglas WmConqueror p[0-9]*].
  3. 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]*].
  4. 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
father:
[Ref: Douglas WmConqueror p267],
sister:
Gundred wife of William de Warenne [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p777]
Sources for death Information
date:
after (long period after) 1071 [Ref: CP III p164]
Research Notes:
1st Earl of Chester, of Earldom cr 1070 [Ref: CP III p164]
Earl of Chester [Ref: Douglas WmConqueror p267, Keats-Rohan DD p777]
Advocate of Saint-Bertin [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p777]

1070: obtained a large part of Mercia and the city of Chester, became first Earl of Chester [Ref: Sanders Baronies p32]

received, on the dismemberment of Mercia, early in 1070, a large portion of that district, together with the city of Chester, the said portion being formed into a County Palatine (under the name of Cheshire) whereby he became Earl of Chester. He returned, shortly afterwards, to his native country, where he was taken prisoner at the battle of Cassel, 1071, and kept captive for a long period, never coming back to England [Ref: CP III p164]

probably advocatus at the Abbey of Saint-Bertin [Ref: Douglas WmConqueror p267]

1071: his lands in Chester passed to Hugh d'Avranches [Ref: Sanders Baronies p32]



Pedigree of Gherbod Earl Of Chester
 /-----Gherbod The Fleming, Advocate Of St. Bertins
Gherbod Earl Of Chester



Descendants of Gherbod Earl Of Chester
1. Gherbod Earl Of Chester