Helias Giffard

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷³⁷
This Helias Giffard was like his father, a liberal benefactor to the church , having made grants to diverse religious houses, among which was the Abbey of St. Peter. His grandson was Helias Giffard.

~General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronatage of The British Empire, pg. 231

• Pedigree Differences. ^{141,722,779,903}
Boyer's The Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 121. lists the pedigree as follows:
Osbern Gifford, lord of Brimsfield, Gloucestershire, in 1086
Hellias Giffard I, d. 1211, m Ala, daughter of Edward d'Evreux of Boynton in Wiltshire
Hellias Giffard II, m. Berta de Clifford, daughter of Richard Fitz Pons
Hellias Giffard III, d. before Michaelmas 1190
Hellias Giffard IV, married first Joan Maltravers, who d. after 1221
Hellias Giffard V, Lord Brimsfield, married second before 1231, Alice Maltravers of Litchet Maltravers in Dorset.
Sir John Giffard

Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronatage of The British Empire, pg. 231 lists it this way:

Osbern Gifford, feudal lord who died 1096
Hellias Giffard I, married to Ala
Hellias Giffard II, benefactor of the Abbey of St. Peter, followed by his grandson
Son of above
Hellias Giffard III died in 1190 followed by son Thomas
Thomas Giffard, paid a fine in 6 Richard I, father of the next hellias
Hellias Giffard IV, died in 33 Henry III
John Giffard


Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Giffard),Vol. V. p.639. footnote (c), gives the pedigree this way with a mentioned that there must be a generation missing:

Osbern Giffard, the Domesday tenant of Brimpsfield, Stoke, Rockham, etc
Hellias Giffard I , married to Ala, succeed his father in 1096
Hellias Giffard II, rendered amount of 100 marks of silver in 1130, married Berta, living in 1167. sister of Walter de Clifford, and daughter of Richard fitz Ponce. This Hellias became a monk in Gloucester Abbey.
Hellias Giffard III, owed a fine of £100 in 1166, married to Maud de Berkeley
Hellias Giffard IV living in 1221, married to Alice Mautraver, father of John Giffard
John Giffard

he New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1921, Vol. 75, pps. 59-62, is basically like the pedigree given in the Complete Peerage, but has more information. I followed the Complete Peerage and NEHG Register, so there might be a missing generation

• Background Information. ⁹⁰³
Hellias or Elias Giffard of Brimsfield succed his father after 1130. He married Berta de Clifford. A is named a "the Boy" in records, likely to distinguished him from his father. He is named in such way with his wife Berta and his son Walter in the time of Abbot Hamelin, who was abbot from 1148 until 1179. He granted the church of boyton to the monks for the soul of his wife Berta, and his son Walter confrimed this grant. The children of Elia and Berta were:
Elias (Hellias)
Walter of Boyton, whose name, with that of his brother Gilbert, appears in records from 1177
Gilbert

~The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1921, Vol. 75, pps. 59-60

Helias married Berta Fitz Ponzs, daughter of Richard Fitz Ponce and Unknown.⁷²² (Berta Fitz Ponzs died after 1167.)