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The Bluets 14 issue Henry, who after mans estate, died without issue. And Roger , Jordan and Ala [Alice] married to Ralph Bloet with whom her said father gave in marriage the ….Manor of Langstan 42, Support for this marriage may be found in the fact that 4 generations later the Manor of Langston was still held by the Bluet family 43 . All well and good, and then Karen‘s research brought to our attention a charter in the PRO at Kew, which mentions Williamus Bloet fra[ter] Comes Richard 44 The only Earl Richard at this period is Richard (Strongbow) de ClareThere are two possible marriages to would allow this. Firstly it might be that Ralph Bluet II married Isabel de Beaumont (the widow of Gilbert de Clare sometime after her husband‘s death in 1148 and that the William referred to is his son 45 . Or it might be that William himself married one of Isabel‘s daughters. Direct evidence of either is missing, but circumstantial evidence for Ralph marrying Isabel can be found. In the charters of Tintern Abbey (founded in 1131, by Walter de Clare 46 ) there is a list of benefactors of the abbey 47 . 42 Maclean, J (ed) (1883) ibid A footnote mentions that ―Two manors of Tickenham are mentioned in the Somerset Domesday. One was held by William d‘Eu in demesne and the other by Arnulph de HesdingThe first was afterwards held of Striguil, and the other was a parcel of the honour of Gloucester. One was purchased by Fitzharding and one was acquired by marriage with the co-heir of Guido son of Tecius This Guido was Roger FitzNicholas‘ maternal grandfather, so Tickenam passed to Roger through his mother, who was also called Ala 43 Sir John Bluet is shown holding Langston and Wytestone in 1315 [Inquisition Post Mortem vol V Edw II no 538 IPM of Gilbert de Clare earl of Gloucestershire and Hertford7 held at Monmouth 28 Sept 8 Edw II (1315), John held by service of two knights fees] 44 PRO E327 / 298 45 Richardson, D at http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/44 902731e8083f9f/acd4426c3ffb0d41?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=bluet#acd4426c3ffb0d41 May 11 2007 46 Notably the grandson of Walter FitzPatrick who was then Count of Eu 47 Dugdale, Sir W (1825) Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales Vol 5 p266 see Appendix I for transcription
The Bluets 15 Richardson notes that this … list of obits is for the founders ["fundatorum"] of the Abbey [that is, the Clare family], and their near kinsfolk ["genere propinquo eorum"]. Included among the people on this list is Walter FitzRichard founder of the Abbey, and many of his other well known Clare relations. Curiously, this list includes an obit for Ralph Bluetthe younger, whose obit was commemorated on the 13th of July, presumably the date of his death: "Radulfus Bloeth junior obiit xiij die Julii.". While the inclusion of Ralph Bluet's obit in this list of Clare kinsfolk is not concrete proof of an intermarriage between Isabel de Beaumontand the Bluet family, this is certainly good supporting evidence that the Bluet and Clare families were near related to one another. 48 It should be noted that not everyone on the list was a de Clare relative, the King and Queen of France for example, 49 but it is significant that every single one of those mentioned is either major aristocracy or a Marshal of England, with the exception of Ralph Bluet…… [See Appendix 1 for a transcription of this document, taken from Dugdale.] Even more telling is a charter, located by Douglas Richardson, which the Countess Isabel de Beaumont witnessed for her son, Earl Richard Strongbow, in about 1170. Immediately following Countess Isabel‘s name is that of her illegitimate daughter Isabel, followed by Ralph and Walter Bluet 50 . This can be seen as strongly suggestive that they were important, maybe even evidence that they were her sons by Ralph Bluet II. If so this would make Ralph Bluet III a half brother of Strongbow. From a timeline point of view there is enough time for Ralph to have married both Ala and Isabel, but whether he was married to one, or the other, or both is unclear. Isabel appears to have survived as late as 1172. 48 Richardson, D at http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread /44902731e8083f9f/acd4426c3ffb0d41?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=bluet#acd4426c3ff b0d41 ibid 49 MA-R at http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/4 4902731e8083f9f/acd4426c3ffb0d41?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=bluet#acd4426c3ff b0d41 May 11 2007 50 Richardson, D Pers. Comm May 2007
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The Bluets 133 Bibliography Allen B
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The Bluets 135 WRS Devizes vol XXVI
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