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Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford
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Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford (died 24 December 1143) (alias Miles of Gloucester) was a great magnate based in the west of England. He was hereditary Constable of England and Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
He inherited vast landholdings in Wales from his wife Sibyl de Neufmarché (whose father had conquered the independent kingdom of Brycheiniog (Brecknockshire, modern: Breconshire) in South Wales, which became the Lordship of Brecknock, and other lands in Gloucestershire from his father (the nucleus of which were the Domesday Book holdings of his great-uncle Durand of Gloucester) and acquired other large landholdings himself, including the extensive Lordship of Abergavennny in South Wales, and St Briavel's Castle and the Forest of Dean in the west of Gloucestershire. These combined lands became a feudal barony, now known as the "Barony of Miles of Gloucester".[1]
By his three daughters and eventual co-heiresses his barony was split between the families of de Bohun, which inherited the fiefdom of Durand of Gloucester (Miles's great-uncle), the hereditary Constabulary of England and was re-created Earl of Hereford in 1200; de Braose, which inherited the Lordships of Brecon and Abergavenny; and FitzHerbert, which inherited Blaen Llyfni.
In 1136 he founded Llanthony Secunda Priory half-a-mile south of Gloucester Castle, in the chapter house of which he and many of his de Bohun descendants were buried. John of Salisbury classed him with Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex and others as non-tam comites regni quam hostes publici ("not so much earls of the kingdom as public enemies"). The charge is justified by his public policy; but the materials for appraising his personal character do not exist.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
- ↑ MILES of Gloucester, son of WALTER of Gloucester & his wife Berthe --- (-24 Dec 1143, bur Lanthony Priory, Gloucester), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
- Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
Volume 1 page 20.
- Lanthony Abbey no. 2, in Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830)
Vol. 6, pt. 1, page 134.
Walterus constabularius praedictud, habuit unicum filium, nomine Milonem constabularium; quem Milonem rex Henricus praedictus fecit comitem Hereford; et ultra hoc, in augmentatione ipsius comitatus, dictus rex Henricus dedit sibi et haeredibus suis, totam forestam de Dene. Qui quidem Milo desponsavit Sibillam, haeredem de Brekenok, filiam domini Bernardi et Agetis de Nova-Marchia. De quibus Milone et Sibilla procreati fuerunt quinque filii et tres filiae; viz. Rogerus, Henricus, Walterus, Mathaeus, et Willielmus; Margeria, Berta, et Lucia.
Et dictus comes Milo fundavit domum sive prioratum Lanthoniae, juxta Gloucestriam, 25. die Maii anno Domini MCXXXVI. et regni regis Stephani primo. Et postea idem comes Milo moriebatur in vigilia natalis Domini, anno Domini MCXLIII. et jacet in capitulo dicti prioratus Lanthoniae juxta Gloucestriam.
- Lanthony Abbey no. 3, in Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830)
Vol. 6, pt. 1, page 134.
In the "Carta Milonis Constabularii Gloucestriae" given here, Mylo constabularius de Gloucestria refers to his "antecessores", Rogerus de Gloecestria and Walterus constabularius.
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