Sybil de Neufmarché

Sybil de Neufmarché was sole heiress of Bernard de Newmarch.

Sybil was our ancestor through three distinct descent lines--through her daughter Bertha, through her daughter Lucia, and through her daughter Margaret, each of whom was independently our ancestor.

See "My Lines"

( http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/p58.htm#i7135 )

from Compiler: R. B. Stewart, Evans, GA

( http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cousin/html/index.htm )

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Neufmarche

Geoffrey de Neufmarche b abt 1045. He md Ada de Heugleville abt 1066, daughter of Richard de Heugleville and Ada. She was b abt 1052.

Child of Geoffrey de Neufmarche and Ada de Heugleville was:

Bernard de Neufmarche, Lord of Brecon, b abt 1074, d 1125. He md Nesta abt 1095, daughter of Osborn Fitz Richard and Nesta verch Gruffydd.

Child of Bernard de Neufmarche and Nesta was:

Sibyl de Neufmarche b abt 1104, Aberhonwy, Wales, d aft 1143, Gloucestershire, England. She md Sir Miles Fitz Walter, Earl of Hereford, Constable, abt May 1121, son of Walter Fitz Roger of Gloucester, Constable of Gloucester Castle, and Berthe.

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Sole heiress of her father.

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Sole heiress of her father. First name aka 'Sybyl'.

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Sybile De Neufmarche was born c. 1100 in Brecon Castle, Brecon, Wales to Bernard De Neufmarche, Lord of Brecon and Nest ferch Osbern De Neufmarche. Sybile married Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Herford in the spring of 1121 and had 8 children: Margaret of Hereford; Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford; Walter de Hereford; Henry Fitzmiles; Mahel de Hereford; William de Hereford; Bertha of Hereford; and Lucy of Hereford. She passed away AFTER 1143 in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Glocester, England and is buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Glocester, England.

NOTE: See link:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibyl_de_Neufmarch%C3%A9]

Sybile de Neufmarche de Gloucester is my 29th great grandmother.

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Sibyl de Neufmarché, Countess of Hereford, suo jure Lady of Brecknock (c. 1100 – after 1143), was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, heiress to one of the most substantial fiefs in the Welsh Marches. The great-granddaughter of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, king of Wales, Sibyl was also connected to the nobility of England and Normandy. Sibyl inherited the titles and lands of her father, Bernard de Neufmarché, Lord of Brecon, after her mother, Nest ferch Osbern, had declared her brother Mahel to have been illegitimate. Most of these estates passed to Sibyl's husband, Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, as her dowry. Their marriage had been arranged personally by King Henry I of England in the spring of 1121

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By the time of his death around 1125, Bernard (Sibyl's father) had established a flourishing borough around his castle of Brecon. Henry I had married Bernard's daughter Sibyl to Miles Fitz Walter, the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire, in 1121 and passed a significant portion of Bernard's honour to him as a dowry, including Hay-on-Wye Castle.

According to Giraldus Cambrensis this was because Mahel de Neufmarché the son and heir of Bernard had mutilated the paramour of his mother. In vengeance his mother, Nesta, swore to King Henry I that her son was illegitimate. Henry was therefore able by law and custom to pass over Mahel and give the land to his friend and confident Miles Fitz Walter with Bernard's legal heiress in marriage.
www.findagrave.com

Sibyl Neufmarche Fitz Walter
BIRTH 1100
Brecon, Powys, Wales
DEATH unknown
Hempsted, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
BURIAL
Llanthony Secunda Priory
Hempsted, City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
MEMORIAL ID 69082056

Family Members
Parents
Bernard de Neufmarche
1050–1100
Nest verch Osborn
1081–1163

Spouse
Miles Fitz Walter
1100–1143

Children
Roger Fitzmiles
unknown–1155
Mahel de Hereford
unknown–1165
Margaret of Hereford
1122–1187
Henry FitzMiles
1128–1162
Bertha Hereford de Braose
1130 – unknown
Lucy of Hereford FitzHerbert
1136–1220