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8. Robert de Harcourt, Knight, Sheriff of the cos. of Warwick and Leicester in 1199-1201 and 1202, in which last year he died.

He married Isabel Camville, only surviving child and heir of Richard de Camville, by Milicent, his wife, cousin to Adeliza, King Henry's 2nd consort.

They had the following children:

• 1. William de Harcourt, his heir, Knight of Stanton-Harcourt, lord of the manor of Ellenhall, co. Stafford, jure uxoris, was called "The Englishman" to distinguish him from others of the same name. He married Alice, eldest daughter and co-heir of Thomas Noel, of Ronton, and Ellenhall, by Margaret his wife, eldest daughter and co-heir of Guy le Strange. By this lady William had two sons and a daughter as follows:
  • 1. Richard de Harcourt, his heir, Knight of Stanton-Harcourt, Elenhall, etc. married Arabella Quincy, daughter of Saier de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of Robert de Bellemont, and sister and co-heir of Robert de Belloment, Earl of Leicester. Richard died in 1258, and was succeeded by his son, William. By this lady, with whom he acquired the manor of Bosworth, etc. he had the following children:
    • 1. William de Harcourt. Knight, of Stanton-Harcourt, Ellenhall, and Bosworth, who married (1) Alice Zouche, daughter of Ralph la Zouche, and sister of Alan la Zouche, and by her had two daughters: Margaret Harcourt, who married John Cantilupe, who d.s.p.; and Arabella, married Fulke Pembrugge. William married (2) Hillaria (or Eleanor) Hastings, daughter of Henry Hastings, Lord Hastings, by Ada, his wife, daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon. See Burke, pg. 262.
    • 2. Sayer (Saier) de Harcourt.
    • 3. Maud Harcourt, married Giles Peneston, Knight.
  • 2. Henry de Harcourt, knighted in 1278, married Emma Mansel, daughter of William Mansel, of Erdington.
  • 3. Helen Harcourt, married Hugh Bigod, justiciary of England.
• 2. Oliver de Harcourt, who joined Louis, Prince of France, and his party, against King John, but was made prisoner at the battle of Lincoln, 1217.
• 3. John de Harcourt, seated at Rodeley, co. Leicester, married Hawise, daughter of William Burdet.
• 4. Robert de Harcourt, married Dionysia, daughter and co-heir of Henry Pipard, of Lapworth, co. Warwick.
• 5. Alice Harcourt. married (1) John de Lemesi, and (2) Waleran de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick.

See: Martin, Georges, Histoire et Généalogie de la Maison de Harcourt (St. Etienne: Arts Graphiques, 1974.), p. 221, Family History Library, 929.244 H215m

The English Harcourts were seated at Stanton-Harcourt in Oxfordshire, which was obtained through the heiress of the Camvilles, whose mother received it as a marriage gift from her cousin, Queen Adeliza of Louvain, the second wife of King Henry I.

"Falaise Rolls", p.14: Crispin and Macary