General Notes

Grace, daughter of William de Tracy (died c1136), illegitimate son of Henry I, late in whose reign he died.  [Burke's Peerage]

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GRACE DE TRACY, parentage unknown; m. by 1130, JOHN DE SUDELEY (235-23), of Sudeley Castle and Toddington, co. Gloucester, appears in the 1130 pipe roll.  (Atikins, 'Gloucestershire 369'; 'VCH Warwick' V 70; 'Hist. Mon. St. Peter, Clouc.', ii 180; Sanders, 85-86).
Note: Grace is given in all standard sources as the dau. & h. of William de Tracy of Devonshire.  However, recent research reveals that William de Tracy, d. ca. 1135, was succeeded in his lands by 1165 by another William de Tracy who was apparently his son.  This second William de Tracy was not Grace's son as commonly claimed even though she had a son with this name.  Grace's son William de Tracy was an adult by the 1140s, and he seems to have held only the manor of Toddington, co. Gloucester, of the honour of Sudeley.  Chronology suggests that Grace herself was likely of the same generation as King Henry's bastard son, William de Tracy.  In any event, she was probably not William's daughter and certainly not his heir.  [Ancestral Roots]

Note: Some posts to soc.genealogy.medieval state that Grace's father was Henry, lord of Barnstaple, Devon, by 1130.