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Families covered: Folvile of Ashby Folvile

                               
Nichols identifies the arms of this family as "Party per fess, Argent and Or, a cross moline Gules".
Fulk de Folvile of Esseby (a 1137)
1. Maroye de Folvile (a c1180)
  A. Eustace de Folvile
  i. Sir Walter Folvile 'of Ashby Folvile, Leicestershire' (a 1196)
  a. Sir William Folvile of Ashby Folvile (a 1217, 1236)
  (1) Sir Eustace Folvile (a 1267, d by 1269)
  m. Alice (a 1269)
  (A) Sir John Folvile of Ashby Folvile (d 1309)
Visitation (Buckinghamshire, 1634, 'Woodford of Brightwell in Burnham') starts with this John and supports some of the following, its data being first shown on a Temporary page on 04.02.09.
  (i) Eustace Folvile
  (a) Sir John Folvile of Ashby
  m. (1314) Mabell Delamare (dau of Sir Geoffrey Delamare)
((1)) Sir John Folvile (dsp)
  m. ?? (widow of Lord Marmions)
  ((2)) (Sir) Geoffrey Folvile of Ashby Folvile (d by 1375)
  Nichols idenrtifies Geoffrey's wife as sister/coheir of Sir John Tilney (by Felicia de Kirton) whereas Visitation (Buckinghamshire) identifies her dau of Sir John. Provisionally, we follow the latter and show her as ...
  m.(c1364) Isabel Tylney (dau of Sir John Tylney of Norfolk by Felicia de Kirton (dau/heir of Sir Robet de Kirton, relict of Sir Roger Bacon of Quanlode))
((A)) Maud or Mabell Folvile (a 1374)
  m. John Woodford (a 1369)
  ((B)) Alice Folvile
  m. Edmund Kinvile of Mershland
  ((3)) Sir Christopher Folvile
  m. Margaret (m2. Sir Lawrence Hawberk, m3. Sir John Calveley) @@ see here @@
  ((A)) Elizabeth Folvile
m. Sir John or Hugh Brow (a temp Richard II who r. 1377-1399)
  ((i)) John or Robert Brow
  ((ii)) (Anne) Brow
  m. John Helwell
  ((4)) Sir Matthew Folvile (a 1361)
  ((5)) (Mabel) Folvile
  m. Sir Geoffrey (Galfrid) Skeffington of Skeffington
  ((6)) daughter
  m. John Folvile of Reresby
  ((7)) daughter
  m. Sir William Marmion of Ryseby and/or Newton Marmion
  ((8)) daughter
  m. John Rampston of Rampston (Ramston of Ramston)
  (b) Margery Folvile
  m. Richard Flixthorpe
  ((1)) Sir Robert Flixthorpe (a 1357)
  ((A)) daughter (heir)
  m. Sir John Helwell
((i)) John Helwell of Gunby, Lincolnshire
  Nichols reports that a "fuller and somewhat different Pedigree of the Helwells" is given by Stapleford.
  (c) Amicia Folvile
  m. Geoffrey de Milton
  (d)+ other issue - Richard (parson of Tye), Kathrine
(ii) Margery Folvile possibly of this generation
  m. William de Flamvile of Stapleton
  (B) Sir William Folvile (d by 1282)
  m. Joan (a 1282)
  (i) Alice Folvile (dsp)
  (2) Fulk Folvile
  b. Maroye Folvile
  c. Emma Folvile probably of this generation
  m. Ralph de Beler of Eye Kettleby
  B. Sir John de Folvile (a c1190)

Main source(s): 'History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester' (John Nichols, vol 3, part 1, 1800, 'Pedigree of Folvile of Ashby Folvile', p23)
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