ORIGINS OF CONSTABLE OF HALSHAM

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David Hepworth

ORIGINS OF CONSTABLE OF HALSHAM

Legg inn av David Hepworth » 10 nov 2004 14:09:11

Dear John and all

Over the past months there have been posts there have been postings
involving this family, I thought that I would add some details about
the origins of this Halsham based family. This comes from Barbara
English, Lords of Holderness 1086-1260, Hull University Press, 1991,
pp 90-91.

The first Aumale constable in the records is ULBERT, a knight, who
occurs in Normandy in the time of Count Stephen (son of Adelaid,
sister of the Conqueror who died before 1090 and had Aumale as her
dower and Odo, count of Champagne (who held Aumal iure uxoris.
Stephen inherited Aumale and was step-brother to Judith of Lens who
married Waltheof, earl of Huntingdon) - between 1115 and 1130, as a
witness to a charter making Saint Martin d'Auchy at Aumale an abbey.
He was born not later than 1090-5, and lived till c. 1147 and perhaps
1153 (Rouen archives of Seine-Maritime, I H i No 3; Gallia Christiana
XI Instr. xvi, col. 20; Clay, 'Early Generations of Constable',
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, vol XL (1960), pp. 198-202. See
also DeLisle, Actes de Henri II, vol I, no 176 and vol. II, p. 210).
The vill, territory, church and tithes of 'Ulbert's wood' of the fee
of the count of Aumale (nemoris Ulberti) had been given to Foucarmont
abbey after 1130 and before 1161, a district not now identifiable
which may have been named after the constable. Ulbert's son Robert
gave Saint Martin d'Auchy a house in Auchy, between 1162 and 1182,
which suggests that the family originally came from that area.

Ulbert came to England and acquired an interst in Holderness lands, at
Halsham and burton (later Burton Constable) either in his own right or
more probably through marriage with the heiress Erneburga de Burton.
Both these holdings were part of the archbishop of York's fee in
Holderness, which the counts of Aumale held from the archbishop. He
also held land in Fraisthrope, just outside the northern boundary of
Holderness, part of his wife's inheritance.

Ulbert witness two charters of William le Gros, one at Burstwick and
one at Aumale. He evidently travelled with the count, and there is no
doubt that he was a constable, and that it was not merely a surname in
his day.

Ulbert was succeeeded by Robert Constable I, his eldest son, who
extended the family's lands by acquisitions in Tharlesthorpe (a
village now lost, covered by the Humber c. 1400). Going on crusade
with King Richard, Robert Constable died at the siege of Acre,
described as the count of Aumale's senschal. He had no surviving sons
and was succeeded by his brother William's son, Robert II.

Robert II increased the family lands and added holdings in West
Newton, Marton and Flinton. By his marriage to Fulk de Oyry's
daughter Ela, Robert's descendants became co-heirs of the Oyry lands
in Hodlerness and Lincolnshire. From these two, Robert Constable II
and Ela, descended in a direct line the Constables of Halsham and
Burton Constable until the death of William Constable 4th Viscount
Dunbar in 1718, when the succession passed to the families of
Tunstall, Sheldon, Clifford and Chichester, who representatives
successively took the name of Constable."

So we have

Ulbert the constable (c. 1090-1147) = Erneburga de Burton
I
_________________________I______________________
Robert Constable I = ? William Constable = ??
I
I
Robert Constable II =
Ela de Oyry

I will endeavour to complete the above within the next couple of days
and tie up the loose ends.

David

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