Individual Details

Sir Godfrey "Castellan of Eye" Louvain

(Abt 1175 - 26 Apr 1226)

[[Category: House of Reginar|House of Reginar]]
[[Category: Counts of Leuven|Counts of Leuven]]
[[Category: Landgraviate of Brabant|Landgraves of Brabant]]

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== Biography ==He went to England in 1196. John King of England granted "saisinam castri de Eya cum honore de Eya…q dux Lovan frater suus…dissaisit" to "Godofredo de Lovania" by order dated 26 Mar 1208. The Testa de Nevill lists knights who held land from in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, dated to [1208/10]: "Godefridus de Luvayn" held "x libratas de terre in Radeneham de dominico regis". The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Godefridus de Loveyn" holding 5 knights´ fees at "Eystane" in Essex circa 1210-12.
Godfrey, of Louvain, or in Anglo-Norman French "de Lovaine", custodian of his half-brother Duke Henry I of Brabant's lands in England (chiefly the Castle and Honour of Eye in Suffolk), which came to the latter (Henry) by his wife; joined the Baronial party opposed to King John; m. C. 1199 Alice, daughter of Robert de Hastings and widow of Ralph de Cornhill, and d. by 26 April 1226. [Burke's Peerage]
Mentioned in 1212 and 1221A. Verkooren, Inventaire des chartes et cartulaires des duchés de Brabant et de Limbourg et des pays Outre Meuse. Deuxième partie. Cartulaires. Tome I, 1961, p. 51, http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/obnb/#page=290&accessor=toc&source=3, nr. 939.

== Sources ==

* Medieval Lands, 2nd Edition* Phillips, Weber, Kirk and Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, by Jim Weber on rootsweb

Events

BirthAbt 1175Louvain, Brabant, Lorraine, France
Death26 Apr 1226Eye Castle, Suffolk, England
MarriageAlice Hastings
Alt namede Brabant de Louvain
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