James fitzHasculf de St.-Hilaire, lord of Field Dalling

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/St_Hilary-6

His parents' names were Harscoit and Mathilde (or Maude) and according to Keats-Rohan (p.690), charters for the priory of Sacey make it clear that James and his brother Peter were born "after the foundation of the priory in 1090", while their two older brothers were born before that date.[1]

To identify themselves his father's family sometimes used the names of two of their Norman holdings Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët and Saint-James. Their use of the personal name Harscoit or Hasculf several times indicates probably Breton ancestry.

James and his brother Peter were both landholders in England by the time of the 1129/30 Pipe Roll in the time of Henry I.

By 1138, when he donated land at "Dallenges" to Savigny, with the consent of "Aveline uxoris sue, Petri fratris eius", he had the lordship of Field Dalling. His daughter and heiress brought this barony to the de Clare holdings with her marriage.

As he had older brothers born before 1090, and held land in his own right by 1129, it is likely he was born within a decade either way of 1100.

According to Sanders (p.44), James probably died before 1154.

Origins

The book "The Norman frontier in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries" by Power, Daniel, 1968- (Publication date 2004) has a chart for the family on page 516:

The book is in copyright, but may borrowed to view for an hour at https://archive.org/details/normanfrontierin0000powe/page/516/mode/1up, free ID needed to the internet archive.

27. Saint-Hilaire (Saint-James)

The chart begins with Eudo and gives no name for his wife.

It shows his children as:

• Hasculf I fitzEudo (de St.-James) d. 1121 x 29. nepos of Robert de Bodiaco vicecomes (late 11th C.). married Matilda fl. 1090.
  • Eudo fl. 1090
  • Philip fl. 1090
  • James de St.-Hilaire (de St. James) ld. of Dalling. fl. 1129-38. m. Avelina.
    • Matilda m. 1) Roger, earl of Clare d. 1173 2) William, earl of Arundel d. 1193 (English Lands)
  • Peter I. 1d. of St.-Hilaire. d. 1157 x 68. m. Assaillita
• Alan

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https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntps.htm#_Toc112738898

SAINT-HILAIRE

Loyd indicates that this family originated in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët in the present-day French département of Manche, arrondissement Mortain, canton Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët[1009].

[Two] brothers, parents not yet identified:

1. ASCULF de Saint-Hilaire (-1121 or after) ... m MATHILDE, daughter of ---. The primary source which confirms her marriage has not yet been identified.

Asculf & his wife had four children: ...

c) JAMES de Saint-Hilaire (-after 1138). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. “Jacobi de Sancto Hylario" donated land at Dallenges to Savigny, with the consent of "Aveline uxoris sue, Petri fratris eius", by charter dated 1138, witnessed by "…Georgius nepos Jacobi, et Oliverus, et Ricardus filius Adeline[1013].

m as her second husband, AVELINE, widow of ---, daughter of --- (-after 1138). “Jacobi de Sancto Hylario" donated land at Dallenges to Savigny, with the consent of "Aveline uxoris sue, Petri fratris eius", by charter dated 1138, witnessed by "…Georgius nepos Jacobi, et Oliverus, et Ricardus filius Adeline[1014].

James & his wife had one child:

i) MATILDA de Saint-Hilaire . Robert of Torigny records that "Willermus de Albineio…comitem d'Arundel…[filium] Guillermum de Albineio primogenito" and "relictam Rogerii comitis de Clara filiam Jacobi de Sancto Hilario"[1015]. Her name is confirmed by the undated charter which records that “Wilielmus comes Sussexiæ” confirmed donations to Boxgrove Priory by his predecessors “Rogerus de Albineio, et Willelmus Pincerna…et Willielmi patris mei filii reginæ Aeliz, et Matildis matris meæ”[1016]. m firstly ROGER de Clare Earl of Hertford, son of RICHARD FitzGilbert de Clare Lord of Clare & his wife Agnes [Alicia] of Chester (-1173). m secondly WILLIAM de Albini, son of WILLIAM Earl of Arundel & his wife Adelisa de Louvain (-24 Dec 1193, bur Wymondham Priory). He was restored as Earl of Arundel in 1190.

Sources

1. 1.[S280] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Clare1 (Reliability: 3
2. more on wikitree cites
   1. Keats-Rohan cites BN lat. 5441.2, p.166.
   2. Weir, Alison: See children of Adeliza of Louvain
   3. Sheppard_Duncan_Bickham_Stroud.ged on 01 Feb 2011. #S-2141108661 Ancestry Family Trees. Note: James de St. Hilary du Harcourt See also:
   4. Charles T Clay, Early Yorkshire Charters vol.5, pp.86-7 google books
   5. K.S.B Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, pp.689-690.
   6. Lewis C Loyd, 1999, The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, p.89.
   7. I.J. Sanders, English Baronies, p.44.
   8. Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, SAINT-HILAIRE link checked Nov 2020
   9. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650 Abbreviation: Ancestral Roots, 6th ed. Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1988 Note: RIN#10004
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcou%C3%ABt Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët (French pronunciation: is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.[3] On 1 January 2016, the former communes of Saint-Martin-de-Landelles and Virey were merged into Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët.[4]