Alice de Driby

Biography

Alice 1 was born 1223 in Wokefield, Berkshire, England. She married Simon de DRIBY on 1244 in Wokefield, Berkshire, England. He was born 1220 in Wokefield, Berkshire, England.

They had the following children:

• M i Hugh de DRIBY 1 was born 1245 in Wokefield, Berkshire, England.
• F ii Beatrix de DRIBY was born 1247.
• M iii Sir Robert de DRIBY Knight was born 1249 and died 1305.

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Alice was born in 1238.

Children: Robert Driby, Beatrice de Driby

Notes

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/mallory/2745/

Generation-5

Sir Simon de Driby, Sir Robert's successor, lived to a suitably old age, with records concerning him spanning from around 1248 to 1290. Assuming him to have not been born much before 1225 and a rough generation-length of 25 years for each generation before him, we can tentatively assign approximate years of birth to the preceding generations. He seems to have had a brother Robert de Driby who only appears once as a witness in 1254. Sir Simon's wife's name was Alice the daughter of Hugh the son of Ralph who held the Manor of Lavynton. They had three sons who can be identified, because family lands appear to have been distributed among them. They will be covered in the next section.

Generation-6

Hugh de Driby was given the Manors of Driby and Winthrop, thus he would have been the oldest. Hugh is dead by 1322 when his brother Robert's oldest surviving son Simon is possessed of his holdings.

Robert de Driby and Joan Tateshall were deeded property by Robert's father Simon, but Robert is already dead when his wife inherits various properties in Leicestershire in 1308 as her share of the Tateshall estate. Their children will be discussed under the succeeding generation.

Ralph de Driby must have been a third son. He was given the properties brought to the de Driby family by his mother, as well as land in Carleby which had already belonged to the de Dribys a generation before in his grandfather's time. By 1306 Ralph is shown as being 13 marks in debt, a serious sum of money for his time. He must be dead by 1318, by which time his son Hugh has succeeded him.

Possibly there was yet another brother who had a son or grandson Robert. This Robert appears in Lincolnshire records in 1359 and might be the same person who appears as Sir Robert de Driby in 1360 in the register of the Prince of Wales.

For reasons to be explained later, I do not think Anketin Mallory's wife Alice de Driby's grandfather Thomas can be affiliated here, even though it might look attractive to do so on a tentative basis.

Sources

1. Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013) Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol I, page 342, Robert de Driby (mentions his parents, Simon de Driby and Alice Hugh Fitz Ralph).
2. “A correction to Complete Peerage” (August 8, 2010). < SGM > Simon de Driby (died after 1286) married Alice FitzHugh, daughter of Hugh FitzRalph of Greasley, Notts and his second wife Idonea.