General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> 7th Earl Of Angus
Gilbert de Umfreville succeeded to the barony of Prudhoe and doing homage 2nd Henry III, and paying £100 for his relief, had livery of his lands. In the 13th of the same reign he was one of the northern barons appointed by the king to be at Berwick-upon-Tweed upon Sunday before Mid-Lent to attend Alexander of Scotland thence to York, where the English monarch met the Scottish king, and to a charter between the two princes the name of Gilbert de Umfreville is affixed as a witness. He died in 29th Henry III [1245] according to Matthew Paris, "a famous baron, guardian and chief flower of the north," leaving a son and heir, Gilbert de Umfreville, then seven years old. [John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II, R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 191, Pickering, of Old Lodge]
Gilbert de Umfravill, Lord of Prudhoe, Redesdale, and Harbottle, Northumberland, according to Matthew Paris, "a famous baron, guardian and chief flower of the north," m. in 1243, Maud, Countess of Angus, and d. in 1245, leaving his son and heir "of tender years," which son and heir was committed to the guardianship of Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 544]