Turberville (noble families)

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The ruins of Coity Castle, the headquarters of the Turberville family of Coity

Turberville is the name of several Anglo-Norman or English families who named themselves after Thouberville in Normandy . A fighter of this name is already mentioned during the Norman conquest of England . The extent to which the families can be traced back to common ancestors has not been proven. The Turbervilles of Coity in Glamorgan , of Crickhowell in Brecknockshire , of Melcombe and of Bere Regis in Dorset were named after Thouberville .

Turberville from Coity

The Turberville von Coity family were vassals of the Lords of Glamorgan for over 250 years starting in the 1120s. In doing so, they not only managed to keep the family estates together until the 14th century, but also expanded it considerably through several marriages. The ruins of the headquarters of Coity Castle testify to the wealth and importance of the family . In addition to donations to various monasteries such as Ewenny Priory or Neath Abbey , the family also made it possible to build the parish churches of Coity and Coychurch in the 14th century .

During the Norman conquest of Wales , Payn I de Turberville, as a vassal of Robert Fitzhamon, probably acquired Coity in western Glamorgan as early as the beginning of the 12th century. He probably started building Coity Castle a little later. His eldest son Gilbert I de Turberville inherited several lands of the Londres family near Ogmore from his mother Sibyl de Londres . Gilbert II de Turberville , a grandson of Gilbert I, acquired possessions on Gower after 1219 through his marriage to a daughter of Morgan Gam , the Welsh Lord of Afan , and he received Newcastle Castle from King John . His great-grandson Payn III de Turberville was after the death of Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester from 1315 to 1316 administrator of Glamorgan before the rule fell to the Despenser family . Payn III divided the estates between his sons Gilbert IV and Richard II de Turberville . Richard II inherited the entire family estate after the childless death of his nephew Gilbert V in 1350. However, he died in 1366 or 1367 without any descendants of his own, so he bequeathed the estates to the younger sons of his five sisters. Coity Castle initially fell to Sir Lawrence Berkerolles . After he died in 1411 without male descendants, after an inheritance dispute with Edward Stradling, William II Gamage , a great-grandson of Richard de Turberville's youngest sister Sarah , inherited the rule and most of the estates.

Several branch lines of the family, some of which were established by illegitimate sons, existed until the 16th century, but none of these lines managed to acquire a larger property.

Funerary monument of Katherine Turberville and Roger Berkerolles in the Church of St Athan

Master list (extract)

  1. Payn I de Turberville (bl. 1126–1130)
    1. Gilbert I de Turberville († before 1183)
      1. Payn II de Turberville († before 1208)
        1. Gilbert II de Turberville († around 1238)
          1. Gilbert III de Turberville († between 1262 and 1281)
            1. Richard I de Turberville († before 1303)
              1. Payn III de Turberville († between 1319 and 1327)
                1. Gilbert IV de Turberville († before 1349)
                  1. Gilbert V de Turberville († 1350)
                2. Richard II de Turberville (around 1320 – around 1367)
                3. Katherine ⚭ Sir Roger Berkerolles († 1351)
                4. Sarah ⚭ William Gamage
    2. Simon de Turberville († before 1166)

Turberville from Crichhowell

A Turberville family owned the Crickhowell estate in Brecknockshire, Welsh, centered on Crickhowell Castle . However, the family cannot be traced as well as the Coity Turbervilles, with which or with other families of the same name in England it is often confused. A Robert Turberville is mentioned in 1121 as the leading vassal of Bernard de Neufmarché . In 1215 and 1220 Hugh Turberville and Richard Turberville attest documents in Brecon . In 1273 Hugh de Turberville was Lord of Crickhowell as vassal of Reginald Fitzherbert von Blaenllynfi . Thomas de Turberville , who was executed as a traitor in 1295, was believed to be his son. Through the marriage of Sybil, daughter of Hugh de Turberville, Crickhowell fell to the Paunceforte family .

Turbeville from Melcombe

Another family, called Turbeville or Trubleville , had probably not moved from Normandy to Dorset until the beginning of the 13th century, where they owned land near Melcombe. You probably belonged to the military Henry de Trubleville . He died in 1239 without any legitimate offspring, so that the family died out.

Coat of arms of the Turbervilles by Bere Regis

Turberville by Bere Regis

From Bere Regis in Dorset came Sir Richard Turberville and his son Sir Robert Turberville , who were members of the House of Commons in the fourteenth century . Even if no member of the family was elected to the House of Commons after Robert Turberville, the family belonged to the influential families of the gentry of Dorset until the end of the 16th century. James Turberville, of Bere Regis, was Bishop of Exeter from 1555 to 1559 .

The 1891 novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy refers to the Turberville family of Bere Regis.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry John Randall: Turberville family of Coity, Glam. (Dictionary of Welsh Biography). Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan : III - Part Ib: Medieval Secular Monuments - The Later Castles from 1217 to the present, HMSO, London 2000, ISBN 0-11-300035 -9 , p. 219
  3. ^ David Crouch: Turberville [de Turberville] family (per. C. 1125 – c. 1370). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
  4. ↑ Henry John Randall: Turberville family of Coity, Glam. (Dictionary of Welsh Biography). Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Henry John Randall: Turberville family of Crickhowell, Brecknock. (Dictionary of Welsh Biography). Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  6. ^ History of Parliament Online: TURBERVILLE, Sir Robert (1354-1420), of Bere Regis, Dorset. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  7. ^ History of Parliament Online: Corfe Castle. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
  8. ^ Christoph Schöneich: Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles . In: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon in 18 volumes , Vol. 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , p. 86