Isabel de Camville , Heiress of Stanton 
Isabel de was born about 1152 in Stanton (Harcourt), Oxfordshire, England. Isabel de's father was Richard de Camville , of Lilbourne and her mother was Millicent de Stanton de Rethel. She had three brothers named Gerald de, William de and Walter de. She was the youngest of the four children. She had a half-brother named Robert. She died after 1208.General Notes
Early in the 12th Century, Stanton was given by Henry I to his second wife, Queen Adeliza (or Adela). A large part of it she presented to a kinswomen, Millicent de Camville. From the latter it was inherited in 1191 by Isabel de Camville, and thus passed to her husband Richard de Harcourt, from whom it has come down through the Harcourt family to the present day and from which circumstance the Manor and the village itself became known as Stanton Harcourt. Queen Adeliza also gave land at Stanton to Reading Abbey, which remained patron of the parish church fill the Dissolution of the Monasteries. A close relationship with St Michaelís Church has been maintained by the Harcourts, and it contains the chapel under which members of the family have been buried since the 15th century.
Isabel de and Robert de were married in a religious ceremony about 1174. They had two sons and a daughter, named William de, Richard de and Alice de.
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Children
William de Harcourt , Sir Knight
William de was born about 1170 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. He died on April 6th, 1228.
Alice de Harcourt
Alice de was born about 1175 in Stanton-Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. She died after September 1212.
Richard de Harcourt , of Defford
Richard de was born about 1180 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. He died in Defford, Pershore, Worcestershire, England.
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