Earl Reginald Fitzhenry De Dunstanville Of Cornwall 
Reginald was born in 1110 in DUNSTANVILLE,KENT,ENGLAND and his baptism took place in England - aka Re.1 2 Reginald's father was King Henry I (Beaucleric, Fine Scholar) De Normandy Of England and his mother was Isabel De Beaumont. His paternal grandparents were King William I (The Couqueror) De Normandy Of England and Matilda De Flanders; his maternal grandparents were Earl Robert I De Beaumont Of Leicester and Lady Isabelle Capet Of Vermandois. He had two sisters named Isabelle and Maud. He was the oldest of the three children. He had eleven half-brothers and thirteen half-sisters, named Richard, Fulk, Atheling, Richard, Henry, Robert, William, Gilbert, Fitzhenry, Robert, Strong Bow, Juliana, Elizabeth, Euphamia, Matilda, Elizabeth Joan, Eustacis, Sibylla Elizabeth, Emma, Gundrada, Rohese, Constance Maud, Matilda and Alice. He died at the age of 65 on July 1st, 1175 in CHERTSEY,SURREY,ENGLAND.3 General Notes
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Interred: Reading Abbey, Surrey
Jerry Chittenden:
Reginald de Dunstanville, 3rd of the fourteen illegitimate sons of King Henry I by the dau. of Robert Corbet, was made Earl of Cornwall by King Stephen, anno 1140. Notwithstanding which, he subsequently espoused the cause of the Empress Maud and was in rebellion until the fall of Stephen's power at the battle of Lincoln. From which period we find nothing remarkable of him until the 10th Henry II [1164], when he appears to have been an unsuccessful mediator between that monarch and the haughty prelate, Thomas à Becket. His lordship was afterward in arms on the side of the king against Robert, Earl of Leicester (who had reared the standard of revolt in favour of Prince Henry, the king's son), and joined Richard de Luci, justice of England, in the siege of Leicester; the town of which they carried, but no the castle. His lordship m. Beatrice, dau. of William FitzRichard, a potent man of Cornwall, and d. in 1175 when, leaving no legitimate male issue, the Earldom of Cornwall reverted to the crown and was retained by King Henry II for the use of John, his younger son, excepting a small proportion which devolved upon the deceased lord's daus., viz., Hawyse, m. to Richard de Redvers; Maud, m. to Robert, Earl of Mellent; Ursula, m. to Walter de Dunstanville; Sarah, m. to the Viscount of Limoges; and Reginald de Dunstanville, d. 1175. Besides his legitimate daus. above-mentioned, the earl left by Beatrice de Vaux, lady of Torre and Karswell, two bastard sons, Henry and William, whereof the elder, Henry, surnamed FitzCount, became a person of great celebrity. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 184, Dunstanvill, Earl of Cornwall]
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Rainald is well known as the Earl of Cornwall, called also Rainald de Dunstanville, perhaps indicating the place of his birth. He helped to foment trouble against Stephen in Normandy, then headed a successful rising in the West Country in support of Matilda and was rewarded by her with his earldom in 1141. Rainald had married a wealthy heiress, Beatrice, daughter of William FitzRichard, 'a man of large estates in Cornwall.' It was not Henry I's policy to establish his bastards on large estates belonging to the crown; rather he used his powers of wardship and marriage to marry them off well. Most of Robert of Gloucester's great domain came to him through his wife and, although Rainald did not marry until five years after Henry's death, he was following a pattern which was well established. Thanks to the conditions of the Anarchy and his support for Matilda and then Henry II, a precedent was set that Rainald had direct control of the country and did not account for it to the exchequer. Much as Henry II must have disliked the condition he no doubt felt it unwise to strip a firm ally of considerable powers, and it was not until Rainald died in 1175, without a male heir, that the king again gained control of the revenues of the county, the earldom reverting to the crown. [The Royal Bastards of Medieval England, C. Given-Wilson and A. Curteis, Barnes and Noble Books, 1984]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.28 AUG 933 in Faecamp,France d.20 NOV 996 in Faecamp,France
- b.0963 in Normandy,France d.28 Aug 1027 in Faecamp,Normandy,France
- b.0955 in Crepon d.1031 in France
- b.1008 in Normandy,France d.22 Jul 1035 in Nicea,Bithynia,Turkey
- b.~ 0960 in Rennes,BRITTANY d.27 JUN 992 in France ?(killed)
- b.0980 in Brittany d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy
- b.0962 in Anjou,France d.27 JUN 992 in Brittany - wife
- b.14 Oct 1028 in FALAISE,NORMANDY d.09 Sep 1087 in HERMANTRUBE,NEAR ROUEN,FRANCE
- b.~ 0970 in <Of,Falaise,Calvados,France>
- b.0970 in Falaise,France
- b.0934 in Crepon d.UNKNOWN
- b.1010 in FALAIS,NORMANDY d.1050 in France
- b.~ 0954 in ,,,Scotland d.25 Nov 1034 in Glamis,Tayside,Scotland
- b.0980 in FALAIS,NORMANDY
- b.~ 0962 in Ossory
- b.~Sep 1068 in Selby,Yorkshire,England d.01 Dec 1135 in Angers,Maine-et-Loire,France
- b.0941 in Flandres,France d.30 MAR 987 in Flanders,France
- b.0967 in Flandres,France d.30 May 1035 in Flandres,France
- b.0952 in di Italia d.26 JAN 1002/1003 in Gent,Flandres
- b.~ 1012 in Flandres d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille,France
- b.0945 in Moselgau,France d.06 Oct 1019
- b.0986 in Flanders,France d.21 FEB 1029/1030 in Flanders,France
- b.0960 in Gleiberg Castle,Germany (Lahn Va
- b.1032 in FLANDERS d.1083 in CAEN,CALVADOS,FRANCE
- b.0938 in Of,Paris,Seine,France d.24 OCT 996 in Paris,France
- b.27 MAR 972 in Orleans,France d.20 Jul 1031 in MELUN CASTLE,MELUN,AQUITAINE,FRANCE
- b.0945 in de Poitou,Aquataine d.15 Jun 1006 in France - wife of
- b.1009 in France d.8 JAN 1078/1079 in Monastaere de L'Ordre de St. Benoist,Messines,France
- b.0947 in Toulouse,France d.Sep 1037 in Avignon,France
- b.0978 in Arles? (France) d.1014 in France
- b.~ 0945 in Anjou,France d.1026
- b.1110 in DUNSTANVILLE,KENT,ENGLAND d.01 Jul 1175 in CHERTSEY,SURREY,ENGLAND
- b.0949 in NORMANDY d.1040
- b.0980 in Pontaudemer d.1044
- b.0942 in PORT AUDEMER,NORMANDY
- b.1022 d.29 Nov 1094 in PREAUX,NORMANDY
- b.0984 in PONT-AUDEMER,NORMANDY d.1045
- b.1046 in BEAUMONT,NORMANDY d.05 Jun 1118 in LEICESTER,ENGLAND
- b.0960 in Meulan,France d.25 Aug 1005
- b.0990 in NORMANDY d.08 Dec 1069
- b.0970 in MELLENT,NORMANDY
- b.1014 d.08 Apr 1081
- b.~ 0969 in Conteville,France
- b.0994 in NORMANDY
- b.1097 in Leicester,Leicestershire,England d.~ 1147
- b.27 MAR 972 in Orleans,France d.20 Jul 1031 in MELUN CASTLE,MELUN,AQUITAINE,FRANCE
- b.15 May 1008 in BOURGOGNE,FRANCE d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry-en-Brie,France
- b.0978 in Arles? (France) d.1014 in France
- b.1057 in France d.18 Oct 1102 in Tarsus,Cilicia,Asia Minor
- b.0978 in Kiev,Ukraine d.20 FEB 1053/1054 in Kiev,Ukraine
- b.1024 in KIEV,UKRAINE d.1066 in France
- b.1001 in UPPSALA,SWEDEN d.10 FEB 1049/1050 in KIEV,UKRAINE
- b.1081 in VERMANDOIS,NORMANDY d.13 FEB 1130/1131
- b.1000 d.25 May 1045
- b.1032 in Vermandois,France d.1096
- b.1000
- b.1062 in VALOIS,BRETAGNE,FRANCE d.23 Sep 1120 in MEULAN,FRANCE
- b.1008 in VEXIN,NORMANDY d.08 Sep 1074
- b.1032 in VALOIS,BRETAGNE,FRANCE d.1080
- b.1010 d.1053
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Reginald were married in a religious ceremony in 1135 in CORNWALL,ENGLAND.3
1 2Encyclopedia Britannia - www.britannia.com
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3 2Jerald " Jerry" Crittenden, My Ancestry by - Jerold Crittenden - JerryC490@aol.com
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2 {lamouje.FTW}
3 2Jerald " Jerry" Crittenden, My Ancestry by - Jerold Crittenden - JerryC490@aol.com
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