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| William I of England the Conqueror @Wikipedia |
Maude.
Daughter of: Ingelric, a Saxon nobleman.
"The name of Peverel is closely identified with the ancient history of this county. One of the most celebrated possessors of that name was the natural son of William the Conqueror, by Maude, the daughter of Ingelric, a Saxon nobleman, related to Edward the Confessor. This lady, who possessed great personal beauty, appears, according to some historians, to have been the wife of Ranulph Peverel, Elderman of the hundred of Dengy, in the county of Essex, and resident at Hatfield Peverel, in that county. It is probable she became the mistress of William of Normandy during his visit at the court of the Confessor, and that he gave her in marriage to his companion in arms, Ranulph Peverel, son of Payne Peverel, standard bearer to Robert, Duke of Normandy, the father of William I. The king's son by Maude, at the desire of his mother, assumed the name of his father-in-law, Peverel. According to the monk Vitalis, the newly built castle of Nottingham was committed to the custody of Peverel, in the second year of the reign of the Conqueror, but it is not stated which Peverel is meant; and we find that Castellane, one of the sons of Maude, was living in Dover, and that another, named Payne, was Lord of Brun, in the county of Cambridge. There is no difficulty in the supposition that William Peverel, the natural son of the Conqueror, was advanced nearly to the age of manhood, at the period of his father's successful enterprise, and we accordingly find that immense possessions were bestowed upon him immediately after the conquest. . . ." (Glover. The History of the County of Derby, Part 2: 197)
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| Stephen of England |
(1092-1154)
King of England
Duke of Normandy
1135-1154
Count of Boulogne & Lens 1125
Count of Mortain 1113.
Husband of: Mathilde de Boulogne (1105-1152), Comtesse de Boulogne 1125, mar 1125, daughter of Etienne III de Boulogne
& Matilda of Scotland.
His lover was:
Dameta (fl. 1115-1125)
"As has been said, King Henry was not much of an example of sexual morality to his courtiers. He had been involved with a series of mistresses since the mid-1080s, showing a particular liking for women from English landholding families of modest means, such as the mother of Robert of Gloucester. Stephen was happy to follow his example, and formed a long-term liaison with a woman known as 'Damette' (the 'Little Lady') with whom he had a son, Gervase, at some time in the mid- to late 1110s and possibly also a daughter. He acknowledged his son, arranged for his entry into a monastery and made him abbot of Westminster in 1138. Abbot Gervase used his good fortune to settle on his mother the perpetual lease of the abbey's manor of Chelsea at a preferential rent. The grant caused some little scandal, and may have been used later by King Henry II to oust Gervase from Westminster in 1157. Damette, the mistress of Count Stephen, seems (from what little we know about her) to have lived quietly with him and been decently put aside on or before his marriage in 1125. But she seems to have been left with some endowment, for she was able to produce foty shillings in case and a silk cloth worth 5li as a payment on entry into her lease on the manor of Chelsea." (Crouch. The Reign of King Stephen: 1135-1154: 18)
"Dameta was the mistress of Stephen of Blois, King of England (1135–1154) during his youth. She became the mother of his illegitimate son, Gervaise of Blois (c1118–1160), who became a monk and was later appointed abbot of Westminster, London by his royal father (1136). He was later deposed from office by Henry II (1157). Charter evidence reveals that Dameta had two other sons, Almaric and Ralph, who were called brothers of abbot Gervaise when they witnessed a charter, but whether they were fathered by Stephen, or by a prior or later husband, remains unknown. Dameta may also have been the mother of an unnamed natural daughter of King Stephen, who became the wife (before 1139) of Hervey, Vicomte of Leon, in Brittany." (Women of History - D)
Personal and Family Background:
" . . . Henry I's known mistresses included women of aristocratic birth such as Sybil Corbet. . . ." (Green. The Aristocracy of Norman England: 357).
" . . . His mistress Sybil Corbet...the daughter of Sir Robert Corbet, was probably the mother of at least five of the king's spurious blood. . . ." (Given-Wilson & Curteis. The Royal Bastards of Medieval England: 9)
Offspring: " . . . Herbert the Chamberlain's son and heir, Herbert FitzHerbert, married Sibyl (alias Adela of Lucy), daughter of Robert Corbet. She was one of Henry I's numerous mistresses, and she bore him no fewer than five illegitimate children. . . ." (Norton. St. William of York: 15)
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