Thank you for all the excellent help. Ed --- JF <gen9@cox.net> wrote: Ed, Ed Leaming wrote: >Does anyone here have the ancestors of Sybilla Corbet, mistress to Henry >I (with sources)? If you have a lot the male line would do nicely. Thanks > > I was hoping someone else here had more on her lineage. I only have three generations and that's all I've been able to find. Anyway, I hope this helps. Jim (1) Corbet the Norman[1],[2],[3],[4] ( - ca 1080) dd. ca 1080[3] (2) Robert Corbet , of Longdon & Alcester[1],[5],[6],[7],[8] (3) Sylbilla Corbet*[1],[9],[5],[6],[8] ( - ca 1157) dd. ca 1157[8] & Henry I "Beauclerc" , King of England[10],[11],[5],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16],[17],[18],[19],[20],[21],[22] (1068 - 1 Dec 1135) bd. 1068, Selby, Yorkshire, England[23],[24],[14] dd. 1 Dec 1135, St. Denis, France[23],[24],[14] (3) Sylbilla Corbet*[1],[9],[5],[6],[8] ( - ca 1157) dd. ca 1157[8] & Herbert FitzHerbert[8] ( - ca 1114) dd. ca 1114[8] 1. John Burke & Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, Edited by Peter Townsend, Burke's Peerage Ltd.,London, MCMLXIII (1963), p. 581. 2. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, Volume I Domesday Book, 1999, p. 400. 3. Janet Meisel, Barons of the Welsh Frontier: The Corbet, Pantulf, and Fitz Waren Families, 1066-1272, University of Nebraska Press, 1944, p. 5. 4. W.H. Turton, The Plantagenet Ancestry, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1968, p. 120 (herein called Corbeau). 5. George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, H. A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, Volume V, Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat, 1926, p. 683. 6. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, Volume I Domesday Book, 1999, p. 373. 7. Janet Meisel, Barons of the Welsh Frontier: The Corbet, Pantulf, and Fitz Waren Families, 1066-1272, University of Nebraska Press, 1944, p. 4. 8. W.H. Turton, The Plantagenet Ancestry, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1968, p. 120. 9. Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens, Carol & Graf Publishers, Inc., NY, 1999, p. 511. 10. Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens, Carol & Graf Publishers, Inc., NY, 1999, pp. 508-12. 11. Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Who Came To America before 1700, Additions and Corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Seventh Edition 1992, 1993, Line 33A, 121. 12. George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, & Lord Howard de Walden, The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, Volume X Oakham to Richmond, 1945, p. 780 chart: Brittany and Richmond. 13. George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant Extinct or Dormant, Geoffrey H. White, F.S.A., F.R. Hist.S., The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, Volume XI Rickerton to Sisonby, 1949, App. D 105-121. 14. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Band II: Die Ausserdeutschen Staaten Die Regierenden Häuser der Übrigen Staaten Europas, 1984, Tafel 81. 15. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Band III Teilband 4, Das Feudale Frankreich und Sien Einfluss auf des Mittelalters, 1989, Tafel 695. 16. The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Edinburgh: David Douglas, Volume I, 1904, p. 2, 3. 17. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, Volume I Domesday Book, 1999, pp. 152, 373. 18. Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., “An Hitherto Unnoted Descent From King Henry I,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 116, October 1962, pp. 278-280. 19. Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Band III Teilband 4, Das Feudale Frankreich und Sien Einfluss auf des Mittelalters, 1989, Tafel 687, 689. 20. The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Edinburgh: David Douglas, Volume IV, 1907, p. 136. 21. Charles Evans, et al., “Notes and Corrections,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 120, July 1966, pp. 229-231, p. 120. 22. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Family Trees and the Root of Politics; A Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1997, p. 302 Chart 'the House of Gouet'. 23. Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens, Carol & Graf Publishers, Inc., NY, 1999, p. 508. 24. Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Who Came To America before 1700, Additions and Corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Seventh Edition 1992, 1993, Line 1. ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 _____________________________________________________________ Get FREE email for life! ---> http://www.supereagles.com - Website of Nigeria's Soccer Champions