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HUGH LE CORBET, Sir

Male Abt 1030 - 1081  (~ 51 years)


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  • Name HUGH LE CORBET 
    Suffix Sir 
    Birth Abt 1030  Pays de Caux, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1081 
    Notes 
    • CORBET LE NORMAND:
      The family came from Pays de Caux, Normandy, and according to Blakely, ascended from a very remote antiquity, probably of Scandinavian origin. Corbet le Normand (a) had four sons Hugue, Roger, Reynaud (b) and Robert, the second and fourth sons, Roger and Robert, came to the conquest of England (c) with their father, while Hugue and Reynaud remained in Normandy, where the former is mentioned in charters of the abbey of Bec, and Reynaud with his sons Robert and Guy were in Palestine in 1096. Roger and Robert were known in Normandy before the conquest by the surname Moreton (d) and are so inscribed upon the Falaise tablet, wlthough after their arrival in England they were designated at FitzCorbet or Corbet. (1) With his two sons, Corbet settled in Shropshire where they assisted Roger de Montgomery in the government of his earldom of Shrewsbury and the former died before the compilation of Domesday. (2) Roger FitzCorbet at that time held twenty four lordships, while Robert possessed 14, all of which were in Shropshire. (e) In 1102 Roger FitzCorbet defended Bridgnorth for Robert de Belesme against the forces of king Henry (3) but three months later was compelled to surrender it to the king. (4) Roger built a castle at Alfreton, which was the head of his barony and name Caux (f) from Pays de Caux, his former home in Normandy. It was one of the border fortresses (g) which stood in a strong position commanding the pass of the valley of Rea. From him descended Peter Corbet of Caux castle, sumoned to parliament as a baron by Edward I, and hence the Corbets on Moreton Corbet. Robert (h) FitzCorbet his brother held Longden and Alcester in Warwickshire, but his male line died out in the following generation. From him descended through the female line, the Herberts, earls of Pembroke, Finches, earls of Winchelsea, and the earls of Huntingdon. Annors, (i) sister of Alice, coheir of Robert Corbet, who married William Botterill, was the mother of Reginald, earl of Cornwall, by Henry I. The name appears on the rolls of Worcester, Brompton, Holinshed. Duchesne, Scriven and Dives.
      Notes:
      1) 'L'Europe au MoyenAge', Henry Wallam, French translated by Dudoit and Borghers in 8vo. 1828, II, 67. Genealogie de la Maison Guiges de Moreton, de Chabrillon by Laine.
      2) Ord. Vit. For. ed. II, 48
      3) Ibid., III, 334
      Further Notes:
      a) Corbet le Normand was living in 1040 died c 1076.
      b) Reynaud (Reginald) was the ancestor of the Corbets of Artois and Flanders.
      c) The Ancient Roll of Battle Abbey probably compiled in the 12th Century names Corbet as a principal knightatarms at the Battle of Hastings.
      d) However the Visitation of Shropshire, 1623, says that Thomas Corbet's (of Wattlesborough) grandson Richard married Johanna (whose father was living in 1203), granddaughter of Petrus Turet of Moreton Turet, Salop. Moreton Turet was thus passed to the Corbets and then became known as Moreton Corbet. The Visitation at
      no time before this, mentions the name Moreton.
      e) On 22 July 1086 they witnessed the property endowment charters granted by that Earl at the consecration ceremony of St Mary Magdalene church at Quatford, Shropshire and in 1121 witnesed the charter of Henry I to the Abbey of Shrewsbury.
      f) Cause Castle was to the west of Shrewsbury.
      g) Robert and Roger were frontier barons in Shropshire as tenants of Roger de Montgomery, the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1086.
      h) Robert had three children:
      1) Robert, Lord of Alcester;
      i) 2) Sibylla was the ancestress of the earls of Pembroke. She married Herbert, the son of Herbert (Herbert FitzHerbert), who was the Chamberlain to Henry I. Her husband was seen circa 1114 and was dead by 1155. He was the son of Emma of Blois, illegitimate daughter of Stephen, Count of Blois, a leader of the first Crusade, d. 1101, and Herbert, the Chamberlain of William I and William II. (His ancestry has never been proved.) He died c 1155. Sibylla was also the msitress of Henry I and had children both by her husband and by Henry. Her son by Herbert was also Herbert. Herbert, her son was alive in 1156 and died June 1204. He married Lucy, Lady of Blaen Llynfi, who died before 18 July 1204, daughter of Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford and Sibyl de Neufmarche, greatgranddaughter of Griffith I ap Llewellyn, Prince of North Wales. Herbert and Lucy's son Piers FitzHerbert, who died before 1235, married three times. His third wife being Isabel de Ferrers, widow of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore. By Henry I she had Reginald, Earl of Cornwall.3) Alicia or Alice who married William Botreaux or Botterill, and was the Ancestress of the earls of Huntingdon. Her son was William Botreaux of Boscastle, Cornwall. SOURCE The Corbett Study Group
    Person ID I40588  Johnson & Hanson
    Last Modified 1 Sep 2007 

    Children 
     1. Hugues CORBET, Sir,   b. 1046, Pays de Caux, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Roger CORBET,   b. 1048, Pays de Caux, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1134, Caus Castle, Wattlesborough, Shropshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     3. Renaud CORBET,   b. 1049, Pays de Caux, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. ROBERT CORBET,   b. 1050, Pays de Caux, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1121, Alcester, Warwickshire Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
    Family ID F14476  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart