Alice de Rumilly

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 40:24-5, William Fitz Duncan, son of Duncan II, King of Scots and Athelreda of Dunbar, married Alice de Rumilly, daughter and coheir of William le Meschin by his wife, Cecily de Rumilly, daughter and coheir of Robert de Rumilly, lord of Skipton-in-Craven, Yorkshire. William and Alice were the parents of Amabel Fitz William, heiress of Copeland & Egremont, Cumberland who married Reynold de Lucy. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Alice de Rumilly Lady of Skipton.
William Fitz Duncan married Alice de Rumily Lady of Skipton, daughter of William "le Meschin" Lord of Copeland and his wife Cecily de Rumilly Lady of Skipton. A manuscript genealogy of William de Forz Comte d'Aumâle names "Aliciam de Rumeleya" as daughter of "Willielmus de Mechines primus hæres de Sciptun in Craven", adding that she married "Willielmo filio Duncan" and was buried "apud Fontes" [Dugdale Monasticon V, Melsa Abbey, Yorkshire, VII, Genealogia Fundatoris, p. 394]. "Willielmus filius Dunecani nepos regis Scotiæ…et Aeliz de Rumeili uxor mea" confirmed donations of property to Bolton Priory by undated charter [Dugdale Monasticon VI, Bolton Priory, Yorkshire, IV, p. 203]. "Aaliz de Rumelli" donated property to Pontefract Priory, with the consent of "Willielmi filii mei", for the soul of "domini mei Willielmi filii Dunecani", by undated charter [Dugdale Monasticon V, Pontefract Priory, Yorkshire, XIV, p. 125].

Alice married William Fitz Duncan, son of Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim and Æthelreda of Northumberland. (William Fitz Duncan died about 1157 ¹⁶⁰.)