Eustace de Vesci
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Eustace de Vesci (1169 – 1216) was lord of Alnwick Castle, and a Magna Carta surety.[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.
[edit] 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.[6] Their grandson, William de Vesci, was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland in 1291.[7][8]
Eustace has no known descendants past the fourth generation.[9]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.xi, ISBN 0-8063-1759-0
- ^ [1], [2]
- ^ Jim Bradbury, Philip Augustus (1998), p.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.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
