Person:Gilbert de Venables (1)

 
 
 
Facts and Events
Gender Male
Living[1][2] 1086
Marriage to Unknown
Reference Number 8WK9-XX (Ancestral File)
References
  1. Ormerod, George; William Smith; William Webb; and Peter Leycester. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819 (London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley))
    Volume 3, page 102, Volume 3 page 106.

    "Gilbert de Venables held at this time Eccleston, Alpraham, Tarporley, Wettenhall, Hartford, Lymme (one half), High Legh, Wincham, Mere, part of Over Peover, Rosthorne, and Hope (in Exestan hundred, now in North Wales). The same person, under the name of Gilbert Venator, held Newbold (Astbury), Brereton, Kinderton, Davenport, Witton, and Blakenhall; and appears also to be the same Gislebertus, who had joint possession of Sunderland and Baggiley, with Hamo and Ranulphus"
    "Gilbert de Venables is supposed to have been a younger brother of Stephen earl of Blois, and before the year 1093 gave to the abbey of St. Werburgh the church of Astbury, and a moiety of Newbold, which gift is recited in the charter of Hugh Lupus to that abbey."

  2. Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
    3:198.

    "Gilbert de Venables, [alias Venator,] supposed to be [of Venables in Normandy, and] younger brother of Stephen earl of Blois, [son of Eudo earl of Blois (according to a pedigree roll of Legh of Adlington)] living 1086."