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CANTELUP, DE CANTELU

GERALD DE ROUMAR had issue:

ROGER DE ROTOMAGUS b. Rouen-Rotomagus and Cantelu, Normandy. Had issue:

HENRY DE ROTOMAGUS b. Rouen, Normandy.

RALPH DE ROTOMAGUS b. Rouen, Normandy.

GERALD (GEROLD) DE ROTOMAGUS b. Rouen, Normandy, d. Chanteloup, La Marche Dist., Normandy, buried Church of Olive at Chanteloup, La Marche Dist., Normandy, m. Albereda. Issue:

• Roger de Roumare b. Normandy, France.
• Ralph de Rotomagus b. Normandy, France.
• Walter de Rotomagus b. Normandy, France.
• Warin de Rotomagus b. Notmandy, France.
• Robert de Cantelu b. St. Michaels, Chanteloup, La Manche, Normandy, France. Robert took the name of Cantelu and lived on the Chanteloup Estate. Issue:

1. Gilbert de Cantelu, Seneschal witnessed the Charter of Robert de Cantelu to the Abbey of Le Der.

Sir Henry de Cantelu b. Chantelou, I, Manche, Normondy, France. Issue:

1. John de Cantelu b. Trencastle, Wales.
2. William de Cantelu b. Trencantle, Wales, had issue:

   1. William de Cantelu b, Wales.
   2. Walter de Cantelupe b. ca 1125 Longueville, Channel Isles, Wales. In 1166 Walter de Cantilupo held two knights fees of the new feoffment of William de Roumare. A Charter of King Henry II (between 1166 and 1173) confirmed an agreement for the exchange of lands between William de Roumare and Robert le Calceis. William de Roumare conveyed all that he held in Le Bourg-Dun (Seine-Inf., are. Dieppe, Cant. Offranville), except the service rendered there by his knights, and in La Chapelle-Sur-Dun, except the service of Waiter de Cantelou and Richard de Dun. Cantelu was located 6 kil. of LeDourg-Dun. It seems that Walter took his name from this piece, as did Ralf de Kantilupe who held one fee of the new feoffment of William de Roumare in 1166. Issue:

   1. Maud de Cantelupe m. Henry de Longchamps;
   2. Hugh de Cantelupe;
   3. Nicholas de Centelupe m. Mabella Carew;
   4. Roger de Cantelupe d. 1225 (hanged) Lincoln and Essex, England;
   5. Robert de Cantelu;
   6. Simon de Cantelupe;
   7. Fulk de Cantelupe b. Longueville, Channel Isles, Wales;
   8. William de Cantelupe b. Pulverbatch Castle, Shropshire, England d. 4/12/1239 Reading, England, bur. Studley, England m. (1) Mascelin de Braci, dau. of Adolph de Braci and (2) Maud Doyley. (Issue by first wife:

      Walter de Cantelupe, Bishop of Worcester, was b. Herefordshire, England d. 2/5/1265/1266 Worcestershire, England;

      John (Fulk) de Cantelupe b. Longueville, Channel Isles, Herefordshire, England d. 1256/1258 England m. Margaret Cummin;

      Nicholas de Cantelupe b. Middle Claydon, Shropshire, England d. 9/24/1261/1266 England m. 1260 Eustachia de Greasley. d. Simon de Cantelupe b. Herefordshire, England. Rector;

      Simon de Cantelupe b. Herefordshire, England;

      Matthew de Cantelupe,Clerk of York diocese and Rector of Rebestein in 1239;

      Sybilia de Cantelupe m. Geoffrey de Pauncefote;

      Thomas de Cantelupe b. Herefordshire, England;

      William de Cantelupe chr. Abergavenny, Monmouth, England d. 2/22/1151 m. 1217 Monmouth, England, Millicent (Maud) de Cournay b. Ashby, Buckingham, England, dau. of Hugh Courney. Issue:

   1. Agnes de Cantelupe chr. 1201 Basing, Hampshire, England m. 1256 Robert de Port;
   2. Juliana de Cantelupe chr. 1202 Wiltshire, England m. Robert de Tregoz;

   Thomas de Cantelupe d. 8/25/1282 Orviere, France. d. Hugh de Cantelupe d. 1285;

   Hugh de Cantelupe d. 1285;

   Margery de Cantelupe;

   Alice de Cantelupe b. 1221;

   John de Cantelupe b. 1222 Hanibleden, Bucknight, England;

   William de Cantelupe, Abergavenny, Monmouth, Wales, d. 1255 m. in 1248 Eva de Braose (d. 7/1254 Abergavenny, Manmouth, Wales), dan. of William de Draose and his wife, Eve Marshall. Issue:

1. Joane de Cantilupe b. Monmouth, England m. 1258 Caine, Wiltshire, England, Lord Henry de Hastings;
2. Milicent de Cantilupe b. 1249 Monmouth, England m. (1) Roger (John) de Montalt (2) 1273 Eudo (Iva ) la Zouche;
3. John de Cantilupe m. Milicent;
4. George de Cantilupe b. 3/29/1252 Abergavenny, Monmouth, England m. Margaret de Lacy. George was fourth Baron de Cantelupe and Second Baron of Abergavenny. His son died in infancy and his title and estates passed to his nephew, John de Hastings, and succession to the lineage of de Hastings;
5. Thomas de Cantilupe b. Cantilow, Warwickshire, England.

Rouen, Normandy was founded by Viking invaders, who arrived in the region along the river Seine in the 9th century. Rouen's economy boomed in medieval times, and there were times when it was one of the biggest and most affluent cities in Europe.

Abergavenny, Wales. The castle is located near the mouth of the River Gavenny, 15 miles west of Monmouth.

Sources: Ewen of East Anglia and the Fenland; Romantic Cantelon History, Vol. 1; The Huntingdon Peerage by Henry Nugent Bell (1820); Romantic Cantelon History ; Anglo-Norman Families by Lewis C. Loyd.