General Notes

Sir Robert de Harcourt, Knt., sheriff of the cos. of Warwick and Leicester in 1199-1201 and 1202, in which last year he died. He m. Isabel, only child and heir of Richard de Camville, by Milicent his wife, cousin to Adeliza, King Henry I's 2nd consort. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 261, Harcourt, Barons Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, co. Oxford]

NOTE: On p. 100 of the same book referenced above, Burke states that Isabella de Camville was the daughter of Richard [II], the son of Richard [I] who had four sons and a daughter, Gerald, Walter, Richard, William, and Matilda.

Robert de Harcourt, who was sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, in the years 1199, 1201, and 1202, in which latter year he departed this life. This Robert m. Isabel, only child and heir of Richard de Camville, of Stanton, in Oxfordshire, and acquired thereby that lordship, which subsequently bore the name of Stanton-Harcourt. He was s. by his eldest son, William de Harcourt, Lord of Stanton-Harcourt.

* Third son of Richard de Camville, who founded Combe Abbey, in Warwickshire, and was son and heir of Gerard de Camville, Lord or Lilbourne, near Creek, in Northamptonshire. Isabel's mother was Milicent, cousin to King Henry I's second consort, Adeliza, daughter to Godfrey I, Duke of Brabant, who gave to the said Millicent, on her marriage with the said Richard Camville, the lordship of Stanton, in the county of Oxford, which was confirmed to her and her heirs by Kings Stephen and Henry II. [John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II, R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 221, Harcourt, of Ankerwycke]