Alice de Montfort

Sources for Alice de Montfort married to Robert Noel

[http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2006-10/11615...]

"The Noel pedigrees (8) indicate that Robert fitz Noel was married to Alice daughter of Hugh Montfort, and Thomas Noel his son was married to Margaret Strange. Thomas had a brother Phillip...to whom Thomas his brother granted lands in Cestiford (9), but we know that he was not Philip fitz Bishop, since both on occasion witnessed the same deeds (v.inf.) (10). When Thomas Noel died he left two daughters, of whom one, Alice Har(e)court, inherited the greater part of his estates."

The Alice who married Robert Noel may not have been Alice de Montfort

DD shows (page 1052) Robert Noel married Alice, the daughter of William fitz Ailbold of Bury St. Edmunds. If it is of interest, DD provides some background for William on page 862.

The full text for Robert is:

"Son of Noel, who may have been the younger son, or brother, of the Robert who held Handsacre, Staffordshire, of the bishop of Chester in 1086. Noel appears to have married Celeste, daughter of Robert de Limesy, bishop of Chester, with whom he acquired a holding of the bishop at Grandborough, Warwickshire (EEA xiv, pp.83-84). He also acquired Ronton by grant of Nicholas of Stafford. Robert held half a knight's fee of the bishop of Coventry in 1166 and a fee of Robert of Stafford; his brother Richard was also a tenant of Stafford. See Hist. Coll. Staffs iv, 264-67, i. Pt I, 155. Robert was founder (between 1135 and 1166) of Ronton priory, a cell of Haughmond; the foundation charter was attested by his sons Thomas and Philip, his brothers William the Clerk, Richard and John, and Hubert of Handsacre and his sons Robert and William (ibidem, iv, 267). His wife was Alice, daughter of William fitz Ailbold of Bury St Edmunds."