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.


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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 10, Oakham-Richmond. London: St Catherine Press, 1945. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP X [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 11, Ridley-Sinclair. London: St Catherine Press, 1949. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/27141 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XI [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. 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]*].
  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 v4p[0-9]*].
  7. Round, J H, Families of St John and of Port, in The Genealogist vol 16, 1900. Journal available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/14199. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogist16lond. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Round StJohn p[0-9]*].
  8. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, David Faris, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1992. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Weis AR7 #[0-9][0-9]*[A-Z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
first son [Ref: CP XI p343, Keats-Rohan DD p691],
parents:
[Ref: CP XI p343, Keats-Rohan DD p691, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p12, Round StJohn p5],
father:
[Ref: CP XI p320(f)]
Sources for death Information
date:
before 1196 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]
between Mich 1201 and Mich 1202 [Ref: CP XI p344, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p12]
Sources with Information about marriage to Olive Of Brittany
date:
before 1162 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p12]
first marriage of William [Ref: Round StJohn p5]
first marriage of William, and second marriage of Olive [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]
in or after 1150 and before 1162 [Ref: CP XI p343]
second marriage of Olive [Ref: CP X p787(g), Keats-Rohan DD p244, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p482, Weis AR7 #214A]
Sources with Information about marriage to Godegeut
date:
before 1187 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p12]
second marriage of William [Ref: CP X p787(g), CP XI p344, Keats-Rohan DD p691, Round StJohn p5]
Sources with Inaccurate marriage information
child:
Robert de St JOHN [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]
Research Notes:
of Halnaket, Sussex [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p12, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p482]

heir of his father [Ref: CP XI p343, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p12]

Keats-Rohan DD p691 conflates two separate William de St Johns, a great uncle and a great nephew, into one individual [Ref: Bevan DD++ p691]

re-founded his maternal grandfather's priory of Boxgrove in Sussex, a cell of the abbey of Lessay [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]

farmed the vicomte of Coutances for over forty years, and was in frequent attendance upon Henry II during his visits to Normandy [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]

1154: as a vassal family of the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, he did homage to abbot Robert de Torigny [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]

1162: with wife Olive and brother Robert, made a benefaction to the abbey of Lucerne [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]

1170: one of the tutors of Henry the Young King [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]

1189: accompanied Richard I to England for his coronation [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p691]

d.s.p; heir was his great-nephew William [Ref: CP XI p344]



Pedigree of William De St JOHN
          /-----Ralph De St JOHN
 /-----Roger De St JOHN
William De St JOHN
|         /-----Robert De La HAY, Lord Of Hanlac
 \-----Cecily De La HAIE
         |                  /-----Colswein Of Lincoln, Baron Of Brattlesby
         |         /-----Picot Of Lincoln, Baron Of Brattlesby
          \-----Muriel Of Lincoln
                   \-----Beatrice



Descendants of William De St JOHN
1. William De St JOHN m1. Olive Of Brittany m2. Godegeut
m. Olive Of Brittany father: Stephen Count Of Brittany mother: Hawise Of Guincamp
m. Godegeut