Albreda de Harcourt

  General Notes:

~Collin's Peerage of Enlgnad, Vol. VI, p. 484, Aubreye de Harcourt was the daughter of Roysia, one of the daughters of Pain Peverell, standard-bearer to Robert Curthose, the Conqueror's eldest son, in the Holy Land. Her sisters died without heirs, therefore the Lords of Ros, also became the Barons of Trusbut. ⁹⁰⁰

~Collins's Peerage of England, IV, p. 431, Rollo de Harcourt, who settled in England, and by his wife, Rosia, sister and coheir to William son of Pain Peverall, Lord of Brunne, and Standard-gearer to Robert Curtois in the Holy Land, was father of an only child, Albreda, the wife of Sir William Tursbut, of Yorkshire. ⁹²⁷

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Albreda de Harcourt was the daughter of Ivo de Harcourt and his wife Rohese Peverl. She married William Trussebut. "A manuscript history of the foundation of Barwell Priory names "quatuor sorores…Pagani filias…primogenita Mathildis de Doure…Alicia…Roisia…Ascelina" as the heiresses of "Gul. Peverell filius Pagani", adding that Rohese was mother of "Albreda de Harecourt", mother of "Galfridus Trussebut…et tres sorores…Roysia, Hillaria et Agatha" [ Dugdale Monasticon VI, Barnwell Priory, Cambridgeshire, II, De Morte Pagani Peverell, pp. 86-7]. The Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle names "Roysia" as second of the three sisters of "Willelmi Peuerel" who inherited the share of their oldest sister Matilda, adding that "de illa processit Albreda de Harecurt" who was mother of "Galfridus Trussebut, Rogerus, Robertus, Willelmus et Ricardus Trussebut", all of whom died "sine herede", and three sisters "Roysia, Hyllaria et Agatha" [Clark, J. W. (ed.) (1907) Liber Memorandum Ecclesie de Bernewelle (Cambridge), I, 22, p. 47]. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records "Alberia de Harwecurt…L annorum…iv filios" and her land "in Branteston…maritagium suum" [Rotuli Dominabus, Rotuli III, Norhamtonsire, p. 14]."

Albreda married William Trussebut Lord of Warter. (William Trussebut Lord of Warter died about 1176.)