Christina de Valognes

Christina de Valognes
Baroness of Panmure and Benvie
Died 5 November 1215(1215-11-05)
Spouse Sir Peter Maule
Children William Maule
Sir Thomas Maule
Parents William de Valognes

Christina de Valognes was the daughter and heiress of William de Valognes, Baron of Panmure and Benvie, and High Chamberlain of Scotland.[1][2]

She married Sir Peter Maule of Fowlis around 1224, uniting the two Anglo-Norman families, and with him had two sons, William, the successor of the baronies of Panmure and Benvie, and Sir Thomas Maule, captain of Brechin Castle, who was killed in a siege led by Edward I in August 1303, during the First War of Scottish Independence.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Maule, Harry (1874), Stuart, John, ed., Registrum de Panmure. Records of the families of Maule, De Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, united in the line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure, Edinburgh: Fox Maule-Ramsay 
  2. ^ Royal Historical Society (1986), Handbook of British Chronology, Cambridge University Press, pp. 184–185, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC, retrieved October 27, 2010