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Ancestors of Isabella Lupus

Generation No. 1

1. Isabella Lupus, born 1061. She was the daughter of 2. Richard de Goz de Avranches and 3. Emma De Conteville. She married (1) Gilbert de Corbeil. He was the son of Regnault de Corbeil.

Notes for Gilbert de Corbeil:
Gilbert de Corbeil married Isabella Lupus (descendant of Rognvald The Wolf and his son Hrollauf, son of the slave woman) ) She was the daughter of Richard de Goz, de Avranches, and his wife Emma de Conteville, half-sister by the same mother (by her second husband Herlwin) of William Duke of Normandy, surnamed the Conqueror. Gilbert probably abducted her as was the custom. Family tradition tells that her parents disapproved.

Gilbert was born in either 1049 or 1052. His wife was born in 1061. Their children were educated in Northumberland in "the best schools in Europe, those intended for Norsemen." (Ibid p. 152)

Isabella and Gilbert met at the time of the migration to the vicinity of Stone Priory. Isabella's father, Hugh became Earl of Chester.

Gilbert was about four or five years old when his grandfather Werlac was banished from Normandy and his estates of Corbeil and Mortaigne confiscated. Since his mother was a member of the Bernician nobility, she had lands in Bernicia from her dowry. Gilbert grew up there. It is ironic that the father of his future wife was one of the conspirators who dispossessed Werlac and thus took the great wealth enjoyed by the family to that time away from their descendants. Gilbert de Corbeil was the son of Regnault de Corbeil.

Child of Isabella Lupus and Gilbert de Corbeil is:

Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil.

Notes for Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil:
He was the first of our family to win the manor of Peshale. He married into one of the families who formed the colony of emigrants from Northumberland and who settled near Stone Priory in Staffordshire.

"At this time Staffordshire was almost an unbroken forest with only here and there clearings which had been made by the English prior to the Conquest. Among these clear and cultivated spots in the forest was that of Peshale which had been forfeited from its English owner and which was now included in the holdings of Robert de Toesni, de Stafford. The deed of confirmation discloses that his manor was purchased by Gilbert de Corbeil for his son Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil. Thither the young man journeyed with his bride to begin life in a country as undeveloped as was the great forest of New York and Pennsylvania at the close of the Revolutionary War. It is known in English History as a wilderness, and the whole country teemed with wild life from the great wild ox of Brittany and the terrible forest wolf to the smallest varmint, and there was game in abundance of all kinds for food for the successful hunter. Instead of the Indians of the American forest, there was the Welsh-man, who although a white man of good ancestry, [sic] had been forced to become a lurking savage." (Pearsalls v. 1 p.177)

"It was a principle of the English law down to the reign of Charles II that a feoffment of land need not be in writing and that its transfer might be effected by the symbolical delivery of a piece of turf or twig or a stone and by many other ways and this was the method followed by Robert de Stafford in granting the manor of Peshale to Robert Fitz Gilbert de Corbeil." (Ibid. p.179) The confirmatory deed was dated 1068 in this record, but in other sources, was more probably in 1168. (Ibid p.181) He may not have come to Staffordshire until as late as 1100. He was the son of Gilbert de Corbeil.

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