Maud Longespic of Normandy 
Maud Longespic of was born about 1118 in Normandy, France. Maud Longespic of's father was William Clito of Normandy , Count and her mother was Jeanne de Montferrat. Her paternal grandparents were Robert II "Curthose" Duke of Normandy and Sibylla de Conversano; her maternal grandparents were Rainer Marquis of Montferrat and Gisela of Burgundy. She was an only child.General Notes
I originally had Maud's birth year as "abt 1109" and her father's birth year as "1087", based on information that I got out of some lines in World Connect. I received the following Postem from World Connect:
Name: james wall
Email: jewall@@students.wisc.edu
John Cannon & Anne HARGREAVES "The Kings and Queens of Britain" Oxford University Press 2001. pg. 184.
"Though Robert Curthose was safe in custody, his late and unexpected marriage had produced a son (c. 1102), William Clito (Prince). As he grew up, ambitious neighbors in France took up his cause and promised him Normandy. Henry I defeated this opponents at Bremule in 1119, though the issue was not resolved until 1128 when William (Clito) was killed in a siege"
The birthdate of 1087 you use for William Clito cannot be correct therefore his daughter was not born when her father was 6 years old. Are you sure she is William Clito's daughter?
Longespic is fairly close to Longspee. Perhaps a transcription error?
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Following is my reply:
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James,
Sorry for the long time it took to respond. I spent several weeks in Ireland this summer, and it has taken me a couple of weeks to catch up on everything since I got back.
You are absolutely right about his birth year (Encyclopaedia Britannica has c 1101). This is one of those that I had not bothered to look up. William Clito is not in any of my standard genealogical source books. I have looked at some of the other people on World Connect and notice that some have his daughter b. 1118, which still makes it compatible. Without any published sources, there is certainly no "proof" that she even existed, but, perhaps merely because I am being stubborn, I will keep her with the new dates.
I will put your postem in my notes, with my response, so that her "iffy" status will be documented.
Jim Weber
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Following is added by Curt Hofemann, which at least adds some documentation
to the very questionable marriage, indicating where the original source was.
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Her marriage to Hugh de Montfort has been debated on Gen-Medieval & from memory (I have not yet found the specific messages to give you the url's) the marriage was found to be non-existant. One (excellent) ref that briefly discusses the purported marriage is The Dictionary of National Biography which indicates the source of the marriage is the "half mythical history of Wigmore Priory" in the Monasticon. DNB calls the account of the marriage "fabulous".
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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.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem)
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.14 Oct 1027 in Falais, Calvados, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.0978 in Falaise, Clavados, France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.0980 in France
- b.~ 1054 in Normandy, France d.02 Oct 1134 in Cardiff Castle, Glamorganshire, Wales
- b.~ 0980 in Flanders now Belgium d.30 May 1036 in Flanders now Belgium
- b.1012 in Flanders, France d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, Nord, France
- b.~ 0995 in Luxemburg d.21 FEB 1029/30 in Flanders, France
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.1009 in France d.8 JAN 1078/79 in Monastere de L'O, Messines, France
- b.~ 0986 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.25 Jul 1032 in Meulan, Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1101 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1128 in Siege of Alost, Flanders now Belgium
- b.1039 in Conversano, Bari, Apulia, Italy
- b.~ 1069 in Conversano, Bari, Apulia, Italy d.FEB 1102/03
- b.~ 1118 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 0990 in Montferrat, Italy d.BEF 29 JAN 1041/42
- b.~ 1020 in Montferrat, Italy
- b.~ 0995 in Italy
- b.~ 1050 in Montferrat, Italy d.~ 1120
- b.~ 1070 in Montferrat, Italy d.1133
- b.~ 1020 in Aglie, France
- b.~ 1050 in Aglie, France
- b.~ 1101 in Montferrat, Italy
- b.~ 0966 in Lombardy, Italy d.21 Sep 1026 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0990 in Bourgogne, France d.04 Sep 1057 in France
- b.~ 0953 in Rheims, Marne, France d.5 MAR 1004/05
- b.1024 in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087
- b.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.1003 in Normandy, France d.27 Jul 1037 in France
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.~ 1060 in Bourgogne, France d.1133
- b.~ 0985 in Lorraine, France
- b.~ 1012 in Longwy, Lorraine, France d.1048
- b.~ 0985 in Lorraine, France d.1045
- b.~ 1035 in Longwy, Duchy of Bar, Lorraine, France d.> 1088
- b.0971 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France d.1038
- b.~ 1015 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France
- b.~ 0977 in Bigorre, Spain
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They had a daughter named Maud de.
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