Emma de Broy

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Walter de Pateshulle married Margery, daughter and heir of Richard de Argentom, by Emma, daughter and heir of Robert de Broy, of Bletsoe who brought him Bletsoe, Crawley and other property in Beds. Walter died before 20 Aug 1232 and his wife Margery survived him.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, p. 313

• Background Information. ¹²⁰⁰
Osbert de Broilg held Bletsoe Manor of Hugh de Beauchamp in 1086, and there is evidence that his descendants in the direct line continued to hold in Bletsoe for upwards of a hundred years. An undated document of the early 13th century records a grant by Robert de Broi son of Walter de Broi of land in Bletsoe to the Hospital of Holy Trinity, Northampton, and in 1219 Robert de Broy and Walter de Patishull (who had married Margery daughter of Robert) were disputing with the master of the same hospital about the advowson of Bletsoe Church.

Bletsoe Manor next passed to Simon de Patishull, son of Walter and Margery, who between 1247 and 1253 quitclaimed land in Bletsoe to John de Berdefeud and others. His grandson, also Simon de Patishull, died in 1295.

~A History of the County of Beford, Volume III, pp. 40-43

Emma married Richard de Argentein, son of Sir Reginald de Argentein Knight and Unknown. (Richard de Argentein was born about 1180 in Great Wymondley, Hertforshire, England and died in 1246 in Holy Land, Palestine ¹²¹³.)