Herbert Fitz Herbert

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸⁰⁴
Herbert Fitz Herbert, son and heir of Herbert the Chamberlain and Emma de Blois, was called Herbert of Winchester, Chamberlain and Treasurer to King Henry I, and the first of his family born in England. He married Adela or Lucy [Sibyl] daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Corbet, knight, lord of Alcester in the county of Warwick. Their children were: Herbert, his heir; Stephen Fitz- Herbert; and William Fitz Herbert called St. William of York, having been canonized for his good and holy life. He was treasurer of the church, chaplain to King Stephen and Archbishop of York.

This Herbert Fitz Herbert, in 5 Stephen or 1140, along with his eldest son, gave £333 in silver, for livery of his father's lands in Hampshire, and Thomas Archbishop of York Conferred upon him and his son the lordships of Launsborough, Collerthorpe, Wyderthorpe, Holperthorpe and the two Lottum, besides one carucate of land in Turgisleby, three carucates in Schyneburne, three in Bridstall, five in Midlethorpe, five in Urkilthorpe, and all to be holden by the service of three knight's fees.

~Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV, 1838 edition, p. 728

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
~ Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 262:27, Herbert Fitz Herbert, and adult by 1127, son of Herbert of Winchester (Herbert the Chamberlain), succeeded to his father's lands in 1130. Herbert married Sibyl Corbert, daugther and coheir of Robert Corbet, sometimes mistress of Henry I, lady of Alcester, Warwickshire & of Pontesbury and Woodcote, Shropshire. They were the parents of Herbert Fitz Herbert who married Lucy of Hereford.

Herbert married Sibyl Corbet Lady of Alcester, daughter of Robert Corbet and Unknown. (Sibyl Corbet Lady of Alcester was born circa 1090 and died after 1157.)