Parentage of Lucy, wife of William du Hommet, Constable of N

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Douglas Richardson

Parentage of Lucy, wife of William du Hommet, Constable of N

Legg inn av Douglas Richardson » 14 jul 2006 20:13:35

Dear J.C.B., MichaelAnne, et al.

Back in April of this year, there were a series of posts here on the
newsgroup regarding the maiden name of Lucy, wife of William du Hommet,
which Lucy is an ancestress to the baronial Wake family of England.
Since that time, I've had the opportunity to study the matter a bit
more fully. As stated in earlier posts in this thread, Lucy du Hommet
(who was born say 1145), was styled in a contemporary French record as
the "heiress of the goods of Adam de Brus her grandfather"
["héritière des biens d'Adam de Bruys, son aïeul"] in a charter
allegedly dated 1232 [Reference: "Mémoire sur les anciens châteaux du
département de la Manche, " in Mémoires de la Société des
antiquaires de Normandie (abbreviated as M.S.A.N.), 1 (1824): 242;
citation courtesy of J.C.B. Sharp]. A copy of this document is
available online at the following weblink:

http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?D ... UMM-200040

In the intervening time, I've had the opportunity to once again read
the well written article on the early de Brus family of England and
Scotland by Ruth Blakely entitled "The Bruses of Skelton and William of
Aumale," which appeared in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 73 (2001):
19-28.

As far as I can tell, the chronology of the de Brus family of France
which is ancestral to Lucy du Hommet does not match the known
chronology of the early de Brus family of England set forth by Ms.
Blakely. As such, I conclude that Lucy du Hommet's grandfather, Adam
de Brus of France, who was living in 1144, is a separate and distinct
individual from the person usually called Adam I de Brus, died 1143,
who was his contemporary in England. However, the connection between
the two families must have been close as I note that the given names,
Adam and Peter, occur in both families.

I also checked an older account of the English de Brus family found in
the series, Early Yorkshire Charters, which adds further details not
covered by Ms. Blakely's article. I didn't keep any notes, but, as I
recall, the author indicated that Adam I de Brus of England had a
probable brother or uncle who could well be the ancestor of the French
branch of the family. Since there was no clear indication, however,
that this was the case, I dropped the matter. My guess is that the
English and French families do have the same origin, but that they
divurged sometime before the time of Lucy du Hommet's grandfather, Adam
de Brus, who was living in 1144. Possibly further research into French
records would yield more exact answers. My guess is that this is a
case of a someone involved in the Norman conquest who left his French
estates to his eldest son and his English estates to his younger son.
Thus the split between the two families probably occured before 1100.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

Website: www. royalancestry. net

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