Stuteville

Stuteville was the name of an Anglo-Norman noble family.

The Stutevilles in Yorkshire

The progenitor of the family was the knight Robert de Stuteville I, who was named after the village of Etoutteville-sur-Mer near Yerville in Normandy . He received after the Norman conquest of England extensive property in Yorkshire and other parts of England, for which he was under the Domesday Book Hugh Son of Baldric feud. At the beginning of the 12th century he supported the vain rebellion of Robert Curthose against his brother Henry I , which is why he lost large parts of his property to Nigel d'Aubigny, the father of Roger de Mowbray , after the lost battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 . Robert's grandson Robert de Stuteville III. († 1183) , a son of Robert de mare Ville II., Succeeded in parts of possessions with Cottingham recover, and de in a dispute with Roger Mowbray he reached that he Mowbray ten fairy Knight's , including Kirkby Moorside , invested was . Together with his previous possessions, he owned over 18 Knight's fee. His son William de Stuteville succeeded in reaching a compromise with William de Mowbray through the favor of King John Ohneland in 1201 , through which he received another nine Knight's fee back. However, the main line of the family died out in 1233 with Nicholas de Stuteville II in the male line, whose daughter Joan , who became his only heir, married Hugh Wake .

Branch lines of the English Stutevilles

John de Stuteville , a younger son of Robert de Stuteville II , owned Warwickshire estates in the 12th and 13th centuries but died without male heirs. His daughter and heiress married Meldred , Lord of Raby . Osmund de Stuteville was probably another younger son of Robert de Stuteville II, his descendants owned estates in Weston Colville in Cambridgeshire and in Burton Agnes , but died out before 1199 with Anselm of Stuteville in the male line. Another Osmund de Stuteville was probably a younger son of Robert de Stuteville III. He owned estates in Cowesby near Birdforth in Yorkshire and Gressenhall in Norfolk . This line died out in 1275 with Robert de Stuteville in the male line, Robert's heir became his nephew Jordan Foliot .

The Estouteville house in Normandy

Nicholas d'Estouteville († 1177) was the founder of the Estouteville family in Normandy. He was a descendant of Robert de Stuteville I, presumably he was the eldest son of Robert de Stuteville II. The center of his possessions was Valmont . His son Robert acquired extensive estates in Nottinghamshire and Rames in Normandy through his marriage to Leonia, a daughter of Edward of Salisbury and Adeliz de Rames . The English possessions were lost after the Franco-English War in the 13th century, they were finally confiscated by the king. The French branch of the family existed in the male line until the 16th century, before it went out with Jean d'Estouteville. Jean's daughter and heir Adrienne d'Estouteville married François de Bourbon, Count of St. Pol, who was made Duke of Estouteville in 1534 .

More name bearers

• Nicholas de Stuteville , English baron and rebel

literature

• Charles Travis Clay; Diana E. Greenway: Early Yorkshire Families . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013. ISBN 978-1-108-05837-7 , pp. 85-86
• William Farrer; Charles Travis Clay; Edith Margaret Clay: Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. 9: The Stuteville Fee . Cambridge University Press, New York 2013. ISBN 978-1-108-05835-3