'Montfort1'
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Families covered: Montfort of Beaudesert, Montfort of Montfort

Thurstan de Bastenburgh
1. Hugh (I) de Montfort = 'Hugh with a Beard' (a 1066)
  A. Hugh (II) de Montfort
  m1. ?? according to a site visitor, TG, 25.09.04, this was a daughter of Richard Beaufour
  i. Robert de Montfort (dsp)
  ii. Hugh (III) de Montfort (dsp)
  m2. ??
  iii. Alice de Montfort possibly by the first marriage
Y
  m. Gilbert de Gaunt (Gant) (d c1095)
Y
  Their eldest son was Hugh (IV) de Montfort show below.
  iv. Ada de Montfort
  m. (?) Simon, Earl of Huntingdon, or William of Breteuil

 

 

Hugh de Gant, later Hugh (IV) de Montfort
Hugh was eldest son of Gilbert de Gaunt and Alice de Montfort who is shown above.
m. Adeline de Beaumont (dau of Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Leicester)
1. Thurstan de Montfort
  This Thurstan is not shown by BE1883 (which shows Robert, etc as Hugh's children rather than grandchildren) but is by TCP which is less certain on his ancestry and says only that he was "probably" father of ...
  A. Robert de Montfort (d by 1141)
  B. Thurstan de Montfort (d c1170)
  m. Juliane (dau of Geoffrey Murdac)
  i. Robert de Montfort (dsp before 12.1185)
  m. Alice de Harcourt (dau of William, Sire d' Harcourt)
ii. Henry de Montfort (b 1160, d 1199)
  m. Emma (dau of Peter Corbuceo)
  Emma's name was found in some web sites. TCP suggests (but is not sure) that Henry's wife was a daughter of William de Cauntelo (the elder, Steward) so it is possible that Cauntelo has been corrupted into Corbuceo.
  a. Thurstan de Montfort of Beaudesert (d 1216)
  (1) Peter (Piers) de Montfort of Beaudesert (d Evesham 04.08.1265)
  m. (by 1228) Alice de Audley (dau of Henry de Audley/Aldithley, Sheriff of Staffordshire)
  (A) Peter (Piers) de Montfort of Beaudesert (d before 04.03.1286/7)
  m. (c1260) Maud de la Mare (dau of Matthew de la Mare)
(i) John de Montfort of Beaudesert, 1st Lord (d before 11.05.1296)
  m. Alice de la Plaunche (dau of William de la Plaunche)
  (a) John de Montfort, 2nd Lord (d unm Bannockburn 24.06.1314)
  (b) Peter de Montfort, 3rd Lord (d 1367)
  m. Margaret de Furnivalle (b 1320, dau of Thomas de Furnivall, 2nd Lord)
  ((1)) Guy de Montfort (dvpsp)
  m. Margaret de Beauchamp (dau of Thomas de Beauchamp, 3rd Earl of Warwick)
partner unknown
  ((2)) Richard Montfort mentioned by TCP
  p. Lora (dau of Richard Astley of Ullenhale) mentioned by BE1883
  ((3)) Sir John Montfort ancestor of Montforts at Coleshill then Beacote
  partner unknown
  ((4)) Alice Montfort mentioned by BLG1952 (Giffard formerly of Rushall)
  m1. Fulk de Penebrugge
  m2. Richard de Nowers of Churchehull, Oxfordshire
  m3. Thomas de Langele
m4. (c1363) Sir John Giffard of Twyford (b 1299-1300, d c01.1368-9)
  m5. (c1369) William de Thymelby of Boston, Lincolnshire
  (c) Elizabeth de Montfort
  m. Sir Baldwin de Freville of Tamworth (b c1318, d c1376)
  (d) Maud de Montfort
  m. Bartholomew de Sudeley
  (ii) Alice de Montfort (d 1339)
  m1. Warin de Lisle of Campton (d before 07.12.1296)
  m2. (c1308, sp) Sir Robert FitzWalter, 1st Lord FitzWalter (b 1247, d 18.01.1325-6)
  (iii) Elizabeth de Montfort (d 08.1354)
Y
  m1. Sir William de Montacute, 2nd Lord (d 1319)
Y
  m2. (1322) Sir Thomas de Furnivalle, 1st Lord (d 1332)
  (B) William de Montfort of Uppingham
  (C) Robert de Montfort
  (2) Thurlestane de Charlecote (temp Richard I who r.1189-1199)
  iii. Johanna de Montfort possibly of this generation
  m. Robert Deinville of Egmanton (a 1200)
  C. Adeline de Montfort
  m. William de Britolio
  D. Ada de Montfort
  m. Richard (son of the Earl of Gloucester)

Main sources: TCP (Montfort), BE1883 (Barons Montfort)
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