Mile de Pîtres 1st Earl of Hereford, and Constable of England

   Another name for Mile was Miles, Earl of Hereford.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 8th Edition , Miles of Gloucester, Earl of Hereford , Constable, son of Walter of Gloucester, son of Roger de Pîtres, 193:4, 237:4, 246D:28 ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition,(Abergavenny), Vol. I, p. 20, hereditary sheriff, King's Constable, son and heir of Walter Fitz Rogers de Pîtres, Earl of Hereford, 25 July 1141. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Dates & Events.
He received from King Henry I Sibyl, the daughter of Bernard de Neufmarche, in marriage with all the lands of her father and mother after their death or before is they so willed it, whence came the lordship of Brecknock in 1121

He succeeded his father as constable and sheriff of Gloucester circa 1126
He was created Earl of Hereford by the Empress Maud on 25 July 1141
3rd Earl of Hereford in England, between 25 July 1141 and 1143

He was Heriditary Constable of England before 24 December 1143

• Death : Milo died of a hunting accident. ¹⁷⁶

Mile married Sibyl de Neufmarché, daughter of Bernard de Neufmarché Lord of Brecon & Brecknock and Nesta verch Osborn, in 1121 in Gloucester Cathedral.¹⁴¹ (Sibyl de Neufmarché was born about 1096 in Aberhonwy, Breconshire, Wales, died after 1143 in Gloucestershire, England and was buried in the Chapterhouse of Llanthony Priory, Gloucester, England.)