
Miles FitzWalter of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford (died 24 December 1143) (''alias'' Miles of Gloucester
[Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.7]) was a great magnate based in the west of England. He was hereditary
Constable of England
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[In some sources Miles's name is not translated from the Latin Milo] and
Sheriff of Gloucestershire
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.
He inherited vast landholdings in Wales from his wife
Sibyl de Neufmarché
Sibyl de Neufmarché, Countess of Hereford, ''suo jure'' Lady of Brecknock ( c. 1100 – after 1143), was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, heiress to one of the most substantial fiefs in the Welsh Marches. The great-granddaughter of Gruffydd ap Llyw ...
(whose father had conquered the independent
kingdom of
Brycheiniog
Brycheiniog was an independent kingdom in South Wales in the Early Middle Ages. It often acted as a buffer state between England to the east and the south Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth to the west. It was conquered and pacified by the Normans ...
(Brecknockshire, modern: Breconshire) in South Wales, which became the
Lordship of Brecknock
The Lordship of Brecknock was an Anglo-Norman marcher lordship located in southern central Wales.
Beginnings
In the century before the Lordship was founded, Brycheiniog had been contested between its traditional dynasty, and that of Ferlix (a re ...
, and other lands in Gloucestershire from his father (the nucleus of which were the
Domesday Book
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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
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in the west of Gloucestershire. These combined lands became a
feudal barony
A feudal baron is a vassal holding a heritable fief called a ''barony'', comprising a specific portion of land, granted by an overlord in return for allegiance and service. Following the end of European feudalism, feudal baronies have largely bee ...
, now known as the "Barony of Miles of Gloucester".
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
Earl of Hereford is a title in the ancient feudal nobility of England, encompassing the region of Herefordshire, England. It was created six times.
The title is an ancient one. In 1042, Godwin, Earl of Wessex severed the territory of Herefordshir ...
in 1200;
de Braose, which inherited the Lordships of Brecon and Abergavenny; and
FitzHerbert
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The Massey University Manawatu Campus is west and northwest of Fitzherbert.
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, which inherited
Blaen Llyfni.
In 1136 he founded
Llanthony Secunda Priory half a mile south of Gloucester Castle, in the
chapter house
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of which he and many of his de Bohun descendants were buried.
John of Salisbury
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classed him with
Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex
Geoffrey de Mandeville II, 1st Earl of Essex (died September 1144) was a prominent figure during the reign of King Stephen of England. His biographer, the 19th-century historian J. H. Round, called him "the most perfect and typical presentment o ...
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.
Origins
He was the son and heir of
Walter of Gloucester (d. 1129), hereditary
Sheriff of Gloucestershire
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in 1097 and in 1105–1106, and
Castellan
A castellan, or constable, was the governor of a castle in medieval Europe. Its surrounding territory was referred to as the castellany. The word stems from . A castellan was almost always male, but could occasionally be female, as when, in 1 ...
of
Gloucester Castle
Gloucester Castle was a Norman-era royal castle situated in the city of Gloucester in Gloucestershire, England. It was demolished in 1787 and replaced by Gloucester Prison.
Early Norman motte and bailey castle
It was probably constructe ...
. Walter was also seemingly Constable of England under King
Henry I Henry I or Henri I may refer to:
:''In chronological order''
* Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany (876–936)
* Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (died 955)
* Henry I of Austria, Margrave of Austria (died 1018)
* Henry I of France (1008–1060)
* Henry ...
(1100-1135), as he is described in an annal of
Llanthony Secunda Priory (transcribed by
Dugdale) as ''Constabularius, princeps militiae domus regiae, vir magnus et potens et inter primos regni praecipue honoratus'' ("Constable, chief of the royal military household, a great and powerful man and amongst the first of the kingdom especially honoured"). Some sources, however, suggest that Walter was merely the Constable of Gloucester Castle. Walter's wife (and Miles's mother) was a certain Berta. Walter was in favour with King
Henry I Henry I or Henri I may refer to:
:''In chronological order''
* Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany (876–936)
* Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (died 955)
* Henry I of Austria, Margrave of Austria (died 1018)
* Henry I of France (1008–1060)
* Henry ...
(1100-1135), three of whose charters to him are extant.
[ cites ''Duchy of Lancaster: Royal Charters''.]
Walter's father was
Roger de Pitres
Roger de Pitres (also called Roger de Pistri) (d. bef. 1083), a Norman, was the Sheriff of Gloucester under William the Conqueror and constable of Gloucester Castle.
Life
Roger's origins are confirmed in his territorial appellation, de Pitres; he ...
, Sheriff of Gloucestershire from about 1071, who at some time before 1083 was succeeded by his brother
Durand of Gloucester (d. circa 1096), Sheriff of Gloucestershire at the time of the
Domesday Book
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of 1086, who made Walter his heir.
Career
Early in 1121 Miles married
Sibyl de Neufmarché
Sibyl de Neufmarché, Countess of Hereford, ''suo jure'' Lady of Brecknock ( c. 1100 – after 1143), was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, heiress to one of the most substantial fiefs in the Welsh Marches. The great-granddaughter of Gruffydd ap Llyw ...
, daughter and heiress of
Bernard de Neufmarché
Bernard de Neufmarché (), also Bernard of Newmarket or Bernard of Newmarch was the first of the Norman invasion of Wales, Norman conquerors of Wales. He was a minor Normans, Norman lord who rose to power in the Welsh Marches before successfully ...
, the conqueror of
Brycheiniog
Brycheiniog was an independent kingdom in South Wales in the Early Middle Ages. It often acted as a buffer state between England to the east and the south Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth to the west. It was conquered and pacified by the Normans ...
, which brought him her father's possessions (such as the new
Lordship of Brecknock
The Lordship of Brecknock was an Anglo-Norman marcher lordship located in southern central Wales.
Beginnings
In the century before the Lordship was founded, Brycheiniog had been contested between its traditional dynasty, and that of Ferlix (a re ...
).
[ In the ]Pipe Roll
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of 1130 Walter is found to have been succeeded by his son, having died in or around 1126.
Miles was (from 1128 at least) sheriff of Gloucestershire, a justice itinerant, and a justice of the forest, and by 1130 was sheriff of Staffordshire
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. He had also (though the fact has been doubted) been granted his father's office of constable by a special charter. In conjunction with Pain fitzJohn, sheriff of Herefordshire and Shropshire, he ruled the whole Welsh border "from the Severn to the sea".[ cites ''Gesta Stephani'', p. 17.]
On his accession, King Stephen
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set himself to secure the allegiance of these two lords-marchers, who at length, on receiving a safe conduct and obtaining all they asked for, did him homage.[ It was at Reading that they met the king early in 1136.][" his is knownfrom two charters there tested, one of which was printed by Madox (''History of the Exchequer'', p. 135), by which Stephen confirms to Miles, '' 'sicut baroni et justiciario meo','' the shrievalty of Gloucestershire, the constableship of Gloucester Castle, and the 'honour' of Brecknock" .] Miles is next found attending the Easter court at Westminster as one of the royal constables, and, shortly after, the Oxford council in the same capacity. He was then despatched to the aid of the widow of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare
Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare (died 15 April 1136) 3rd feudal baron of Clare in Suffolk, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. A marcher lord in Wales, he was also the founder of Tonbridge Priory in Kent.
Life
Richard was the eldest son of Gilbert F ...
, who was beleaguered in her castle by the Welsh and whom he rescued.
Meanwhile, Miles had married his son and heir, Roger, to Cecily, daughter of fitzJohn, who inherited the bulk of her father's possessions. In the same year 1136 Miles transferred the original house of Augustinian canons at Llanthony Priory
Llanthony Priory () is a partly ruined former Augustinians, Augustinian priory in the secluded Vale of Ewyas, a steep-sided once-glaciated valley within the Black Mountains, Wales, Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Mo ...
, Monmouthshire to a site on the south side of Gloucester, which they named Llanthony Secunda
Llanthony Secunda Priory was a house of Canons regular#Canons Regular of Saint Augustine, Augustinian canons in the parish of Hempsted, Gloucestershire, England, situated about south-west of Gloucester Castle in the City of Gloucester. It was fo ...
.
Two years later (1138) Miles received, in his official capacity, Stephen at Gloucester in May. He has been said to have renounced his allegiance a few weeks later, but he was with Stephen in August (1138) at the siege of Shrewsbury, and his defection did not take place till 1139.
In February 1139 Stephen gave Gloucester Abbey
Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity and formerly St Peter's Abbey, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated with the establishme ...
to Miles's kinsman Gilbert Foliot
Gilbert Foliot (Wiktionary:circa, c. 1110 – 18 February 1187) was a medieval English monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London. Born to an ecclesiastical family, he became a monk at C ...
at his request. In the summer of 1139, however, he joined his lord, Robert, Earl of Gloucester
Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c. 1090 – 31 October 1147 David Crouch, 'Robert, first earl of Gloucester (b. c. 1090, d. 1147)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 200Retrieved 1 ...
, in inviting Empress Matilda
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to England. On her arrival Miles met her at Bristol, welcomed her to Gloucester, recognised her as his rightful sovereign, and became thenceforth her ardent supporter. She at once gave him St. Briavels Castle and the Forest of Dean
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the Counties of England, county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangle, triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and no ...
.
Miles's first achievement on behalf of Matilda was to relieve Brian Fitz Count
Brian fitz Count (also Brian of Wallingford) was descended from the Breton ducal house, and became an Anglo-Norman noble, holding the lordships of Wallingford and Abergavenny. He was a loyal adherent of Henry I, King of England, and a staunch s ...
who was blockaded in Wallingford Castle
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. In November (1139) he again advanced from Gloucester and attacked and burnt Worcester
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. He also captured the castles of Winchcombe
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, Cerne, and Hereford
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.[ cites ''Gesta'', p. 60.] Meanwhile, he was deprived by Stephen of his office of constable. He took part in the victory at Lincoln (2 February 1141), and on the consequent triumph of the empress, he accompanied her in her progress, and was one of her three chief followers on her entry (2 March) into Winchester. He was with her at Reading when she advanced on London, and on reaching St. Albans
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Matilda bestowed on him a house at Westminster. He was among those who fled with her from London shortly after, and it was on his advice, when they reached Gloucester, that she ventured back to Oxford. There, on 25 July 1141, she bestowed on him the town and castle of Hereford and made him earl of that shire, as well as the forests of the Hay of Hereford and Trinela in avowed consideration of his faithful service. With singular unanimity, hostile chroniclers testify to his devotion to her cause. He even boasted that she had lived at his expense throughout her stay in England.
As "Earl Miles", he now accompanied her to Winchester, and on the rout of her forces on 14 September 1141 he escaped to Gloucester, where he arrived "exhausted, alone, and with scarcely a rag to his back". Towards the end of the year he was in Bristol making a grant to Llanthony Priory in the presence of the Empress Matilda and Robert, Earl of Gloucester. In 1142 he is proved by charters to have been with the Empress at Oxford and to have received her permission to hold Abergavenny Castle
Abergavenny Castle () is a ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, established by the Normans, Norman lord Hamelin de Balun . It was the site of a massacre of Welsh noblemen in 1175, and was attacked during the e ...
of Brian Fitz Count. It is probably to the summer of this year that he made a formal deed of alliance with the Earl of Gloucester, and as a hostage, he gave the Earl his son Mahel.
In 1143 Miles's pressing want of money to pay his troops led him to demand large sums from the church lands. Robert de Bethune, Bishop of Hereford
The Bishop of Hereford is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury. Until 1534, the Diocese of Hereford was in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church and two of its bishop ...
, withstood his demands, and, on the Earl invading his lands, excommunicated him and his followers, and laid the diocese under interdict. The Earl's kinsman, Gilbert Foliot (Abbot of Gloucester
The Abbot of Gloucester was the title of the head of Gloucester Abbey in Gloucester, England.
The Rule of St. Benedict, Benedictine abbey was founded about 1022 and was dedicated to Simon Peter, Saint Peter. It is recorded that the abbey lost ab ...
), appealed to the legate on his behalf against the bishop's severity.
Death and burial
On Christmas-eve of 1143 he was slain while hunting by a stray arrow shot at a deer. A dispute at once arose for possession of his body between the canons of Llanthony Secunda, his own foundation, and the monks of Gloucester. The case was heard before the bishops of Worcester, Hereford, and St. David's, and was terminated by a compromise on 28 December. The Earl was then buried in the chapter house at Llanthony.
Succession
Miles was succeeded by his eldest son and heir, Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford, who died without an heir twelve years later in 1155, when the Earldom of Hereford
Earl of Hereford is a title in the ancient feudal nobility of England, encompassing the region of Herefordshire, England. It was created six times.
The title is an ancient one. In 1042, Godwin, Earl of Wessex severed the territory of Herefordshire ...
became extinct. The shrievalty of Hereford and Gloucester passed to his younger brother Walter de Hereford. On the death of the latter and two other brothers with no children the family possessions passed to their sisters and their descendants, namely Bertha of Hereford
Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres (born c. 1130), was the daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, and a wealthy heiress, Sibyl de Neufmarché. She was the wife of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber to whom ...
who through her marriage brought Abergavenny to William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber
William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber (fl. 1135–1179) was a 12th-century Marcher lord who secured a foundation for the dominant position later held by the Braose family in the Welsh Marches. In addition to the family's English holdings in ...
, and Margaret of Hereford
Margaret of Hereford (also Margaret de Bohun née Margaret of Gloucester, 1122/1123 – 6 April 1197) was an English noblewoman and the eldest daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford by his wife, the wealthy Cambro-Norman heiress S ...
, the eldest sister, taking the bulk (''Liber Niger'') to Humphrey II de Bohun, later (1199) Earls of Hereford, and Constables of England, in recognition of their descent from Miles.
Marriage and children
In 1121 he married Sibyl de Neufmarché
Sibyl de Neufmarché, Countess of Hereford, ''suo jure'' Lady of Brecknock ( c. 1100 – after 1143), was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, heiress to one of the most substantial fiefs in the Welsh Marches. The great-granddaughter of Gruffydd ap Llyw ...
, daughter and heiress of Bernard de Neufmarché
Bernard de Neufmarché (), also Bernard of Newmarket or Bernard of Newmarch was the first of the Norman invasion of Wales, Norman conquerors of Wales. He was a minor Normans, Norman lord who rose to power in the Welsh Marches before successfully ...
(d.1125), Lord of Brecon
Brecon (; ; ), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town in Powys, mid Wales. In 1841, it had a population of 5,701. The population in 2001 was 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census. Historically it was the county town of Breck ...
, and Agnes or Nest, daughter of Osbern fitzRichard by his wife Nest, a daughter of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn
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, King of Wales. By Sibyl he had issue including:
Sons
* Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford (d.1155), eldest son and heir, hereditary Sheriff of Gloucestershire
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;
* Walter de Hereford (d.post-1159) heir to his elder brother Roger. He was hereditary Sheriff of Gloucestershire 1155–1157 and Sheriff of Herefordshire 1155–1159. He died after 1159 in the Holy Land
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.
* Henry of Hereford (d. 12 April 1165), who succeeded to the Lordship of Abergavenny in 1141/42.
* William de Hereford. He died before 1160 childless.
* Mahel de Hereford (d. October 1165), 4th son, who died at Bronllys Castle
Bronllys Castle () is a motte and bailey fortress standing south of Bronllys, towards Talgarth in Powys, Wales. The original castle, constructed of wood, was founded in or soon after 1100 by Richard Fitz Pons, the owner of the nearby Herefordshi ...
, Breconshire
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, Wales, mortally injured by a stone toppled from a tower during a fire. He died childless and was buried at Llanthony Secunda Priory.
Daughters and eventual co-heiresses
*Margaret of Hereford
Margaret of Hereford (also Margaret de Bohun née Margaret of Gloucester, 1122/1123 – 6 April 1197) was an English noblewoman and the eldest daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford by his wife, the wealthy Cambro-Norman heiress S ...
, co-heiress of the last of her brothers, whose 1/3rd moiety share of her fraternal inheritance of the barony of Miles of Gloucester appears to have comprised the fiefdom of Durand of Gloucester (Miles's great-uncle), namely 14 1/2 knights-fees centred on Haresfield
Haresfield is a village near Gloucester, Gloucestershire
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in Gloucestershire. She also inherited the patronage of Llanthony Secunda Priory, her father's foundation where many of her Bohun descendants were buried. She married Humphrey II de Bohun, 4th feudal baron of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, by whom her grandson was Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford
Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176 – 1 June 1220) of Pleshey Castle in Essex, was an Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman Nobility, nobleman who became Hereditary Constable of England from 1199.
Origins
Henry was the son and heir of Hum ...
(1176-1220), who in 1199 (following the extinction of the male line of Miles of Gloucester) was created by King John Earl of Hereford
Earl of Hereford is a title in the ancient feudal nobility of England, encompassing the region of Herefordshire, England. It was created six times.
The title is an ancient one. In 1042, Godwin, Earl of Wessex severed the territory of Herefordshir ...
and Constable of England.
*Bertha of Hereford
Bertha of Hereford, also known as Bertha de Pitres (born c. 1130), was the daughter of Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, and a wealthy heiress, Sibyl de Neufmarché. She was the wife of William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber to whom ...
, co-heiress of the last of her brothers, whose share of her fraternal inheritance was the Lordships of Brecon and Abergavenny. At some time before 1150 married William de Braose, feudal baron
A feudal baron is a vassal holding a heritable fief called a ''barony'', comprising a specific portion of land, granted by an overlord in return for allegiance and service. Following the end of European feudalism, feudal baronies have largely be ...
of Bramber
Bramber is a former Manorialism, manor, village and civil parish in the Horsham (district), Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It has a ruined mediaeval castle which was the ''caput'' of a large English feudal barony, feudal barony. B ...
in Sussex, by whom she had issue.
* Lucy of Gloucester, co-heiress of the last of her brothers, whose share of her fraternal inheritance was Blaen Llyfni and the Forest of Dean
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the Counties of England, county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangle, triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and no ...
.[George Roberts, ''Some account of Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire'', p.63] She married Herbert FitzHerbert, of Winchester, Lord Chamberlain
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, by whom she had issue Peter FitzHerbert
Peter FitzHerbert, also known as Piers FitzHerbert, (died 1235) Lord of Blenlevenny, was a 13th-century nobleman and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, Sheriff of Yorkshire. FitzHerbert was one of the Counsellors named in Magna Carta in 1215. He was the ...
. She was buried at Llanthony Priory
Llanthony Priory () is a partly ruined former Augustinians, Augustinian priory in the secluded Vale of Ewyas, a steep-sided once-glaciated valley within the Black Mountains, Wales, Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Mo ...
.
Further reading
*George Roberts, ''Some Account of Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire'', London, 1847, pp. 63 et seq, Appendix, "Genealogy of the Founder
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