Alice de Jarpenville

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Ralp Fitz Bernard, who died before June 1289, was the son and heir of Thomas Fitz Bernard, of Kingsdown, Marshal in fee of the Kings birds (who died before 11 Dec 1214), by Alice, daughter and heir of William de Jarpenville, by Aubrey de Rumenel, Lady of Llmer and Aston, heiress of the marshalsea of the King's birds. Thomas Fitz Bernard was the son of another Thomas Fitz Bernard by Eugene, younger daughter and coheir of Ralph Picot, of Tong.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, (Fitz Bernard), p. 400, footnote (b)

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁷⁹
Alice, who was likely born during the reign of Henry II. Alice married Thomas Fitz Bernard, to whom, at the request of her mother, the widowed Aubrea de Jarpenville, King John, in March 120, granted the office of Marshal of the king's birds. Before 1212, Thomas Fitz Bernard died leaving a son named Ralph. Both mother and daughter were now widows, and Aubrea nominated, in 1212, her grandson Ralph Fitz Bernard, and John Fitz Bernard, who was likely Ralph's son.

Aubrea de Japenville, heiress of de Romenel, survived until about 1226, when her daughter Alice, widow of Thomas Fitz Bernard paid King Henry III a fine of five marks, upon receiving seisin of all her mother's lands in Kent and Buckshire. Alice did not live much longer than her mother. She requested to be buried within the Abbey of St. Augustine's at Canterbury.

~ Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. XIII, p. 365

Alice married Thomas Fitz Bernard, son of Thomas Fitz Bernard and Eugenia de Picot. (Thomas Fitz Bernard was born in Kent, England and died before 11 Dec 1214 in Tonge, Milton, Kent, England ¹⁴¹.)