UMFRAVILLE

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UMFRAVILLE , the name of an English baronial family, derived from Amfreville in Normandy. Members of this family obtained lands in Northumberland, including

Redesdale

REDESDALE, JOHN

and Prudhoe, from the Norman kings, and a later member, Gilbert de Umfraville (d. 1245), married Matilda, daughter of

Malcolm

MALCOLM
MALCOLM, SIR JOHN (1769-1833)

earl

EARL

of Angus, and obtained this Scottish earldom. Gilbert's son, Gilbert,

earl

EARL

of Angus (c. 12441307), took part in the fighting between

Henry

III. and his barons, and in the Scottish expeditions of Edward I. His son, Robert, earl of Angus (12771325), was taken prisoner by the Scots at Bannockburn, but was soon released, though he was deprived of the earldom of Angus and of his Scottish estates. His son and

heir

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

, Gilbert de Umfraville (13101381), claimed the earldom, which he hoped to gain by helping Edward

Baliol

BALIOL
BALIOL, JOHN DE (1249–1315)

to win the Scottish crown, but he failed, and on his death without issue the greater part of his English estates passed to his niece, Eleanor, the wife of Sir

Henry

Talboys (d. 1370), while others, including

Redesdale

REDESDALE, JOHN

, Harbottle and Otterbourne, came to his half-brother, Sir

Thomas

de Umfraville (d. 1386). Sir

Thomas

's son, another Sir Thomas de Umfraville (13621391), left a son, Gilbert de Umfraville (1390-1421), who fought on the Scottish border and in France under his warlike uncle, Sir Robert de Umfraville (d. 1436). Although not related in blood he appears to have inherited the estates in Lincolnshire of the Kyme family, and he was generally known as the earl of Kyme, though the title was never properly conferred upon him. In 1415 he fought at Agin-court; he was afterwards sent as an

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to Charles VI. of France, and arranged an alliance between the English and the Burgundians. He was killed at the battle of Bauge on the 22nd of March 1421. His

heir

HEIR (Lat. heres, from a root meaning to grasp, seen in heres or erus, master of a
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
, Gr. xeip, hand, Sans. hat ana, hand)

was his uncle Sir Robert, who died on the 29th of January 1436, when the male line of the Umfraville family became extinct. The chronicler John Hardyng was for many years in the service of Sir Robert, and in his Chronicle he eulogizes various members of the family.

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