Eustace de Vesci (1169 – 1216) was lord of Alnwick Castle, and a Magna Carta surety. Alnwick Castle is a Castle and Stately home in Alnwick, Northumberland, England and the residence of the Duke of Northumberland Magna Carta ( Latin for Great Charter, literally " Great Paper " also called Magna Carta Libertatum ( Great Charter of Freedoms [1]
He was a leader in the First Barons' War, in 1215 marching south against John of England with Robert fitz Walter[2] He supported Louis, the French dauphin, who was claiming the English throne[3] He was killed at the siege of Barnard Castle. The First Barons' War ( 1215 &ndash 1217) was a combination of a Civil war in the Kingdom of England between on the one hand the forces of John (24 December 1167 &ndash 19 October 1216 reigned as a King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death Robert Fitzwalter (d 9 December, 1235) leader of the baronial opposition against King John of England, belonged to the official aristocracy created by Barnard Castle is a town in Teesdale, County Durham, England named after the castle around which it grew up
Family
His parents were William de Vescy and Burga de Stuteville, daughter of Robert III de Stuteville[4]
Eustace de Vesci married Margaret, an illegitimate daughter of William The Lion[5] by a daughter of Adam de Hythus. William I ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Uilliam mac Eanric; Modern Gaelic Uilleam mac Eanraig) known as the Lion or Garbh, "the Rough" [6] Their grandson, William de Vesci, was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland in 1291. With the death of Alexander III of Scotland in 1286 without a male heir the throne of Scotland had become the possession of the three-year old Margaret Maid [7][8]
Eustace has no known descendants past the fourth generation. [9]
Notes
- ^ Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltimore, Md. , 2005, p. xi, ISBN 0-8063-1759-0
- ^ [1], [2]
- ^ Jim Bradbury, Philip Augustus (1998), p. Jim Bradbury (born 1937 is a British Historian specialising in the military history of the Middle Ages. 318.
- ^ Eustace de Vescy
- ^ thePeerage.com - Person Page 10780
- ^ Dunbar, Sir Archibald H. , Bt. , Scottish Kings, Edinburgh, 1899, p. 84
- ^ Rymer, Thomas Foedera, London, 1704, vol. Not to be confused with Thomas the Rhymer, a 13th century Scots laird 1, part 2, p. 776
- ^ Dunbar, Sir Alexander (1899) p. 282-3: Pedigree Showing the Thirteen Competitors for the Scottish Crown &c.
- ^ Richardson, Douglas (2005) p. xi
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