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Birth:          ABT 1092 Longdon upon Tern, Wellington, Shropshire, England
Death:          AFT 1157 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_de_Dunstanville,_1st_Earl_of_Cornwall
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I03612
Sibyl (or Adela or Lucia) Corbet, living 1157, daughter and coheir of Robert Corbet, 
mistress of Henry I, lady of Alcester, co. Warwick and of Pontesbury and Woodcote, 
co. Salop (by Henry I she was mother of Reginald Fitz Roy, Earl of Cornwall). 
[Ancestral Roots]

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The following additional info was supplied by Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann AT 
yahoo.com:

no evidence to prove that Henry I married Sibyl [Ref: Sheppard Apr65 p96]

It is because of Henry I's personal propensities that we know something of two Corbet 
women who occur in the records of this period. Of his numerous mistresses Sibyl 
Corbet, elder daughter of Robert fitz Corbet of Longden, must have been a favourite 
since she bore four, possibly five, of Henry's illegitimate children. [Ref: CP XI 
Appendix D]

She had a younger sister Alice. Where, when and how the liaison began between 
Henry and Sibyl is a mystery. He had already had children by various mistresses: 
among the oldest must have been Juliane, who married Eustace de Pacy lord of 
Breteuil in 1103, and rebelled against her father; and Robert, born of an unknown 
woman of Caen, who was created earl of Gloucester by his father in 1122. [Ref Corbet 
citing: CP V:683: the suggestion that he was the son of Sibyl Corbet is probably 
correct]

The known children by Sibyl Corbet were Rainaud de Dunstanville, his brother William 
and sisters Gundred and Rohese; it is also possible, but not certain, that Sibyl was the 
mother of the king's illegitimate daughter Sibyl who was married to Alexander after he 
became king of the Scots in 1107. [Ref: Corbet citing: A.C. Lawrie, Early Scottish 
Charters, Glasgow 1905:charter XXXVI to Scone Priory, Alexander I, c. 1120, 
witnessed by Queen Sibyl and her brother William; she died 12 June 1122 on an island 
in Loch Tay to which Alexander granted charter XLVII, to canons of Scone]

Note 1: Sheppard = Walter Lee Sheppard, Royal Bye-Blows II: The Illegitimate Royal 
Offspring from Edward III To Queen Anne, NEHGR vol 21, 1967.

Note 2: Corbet = The Corbett Study Group, 
http://website.lineone.net/~corbett_group/First/people.htm
specifically: The Anglo Norman Corbets by Barbara Coulton.

Regards,
Curt

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The following material was excerpted from The Corbet Study Group, J.C. Nobel, online 
at
http://website.lineone.net/~corbett_group/First/people.htm:

The Anglo Norman Corbets by Barbara Coulton

Prominent at Matilda's 'court' were several connections of the Corbet family through 
Sibyl and her sister Alice. Sibyl had married Herbert fitz Herbert, a son of the 
chamberlain of Henry I; Alice married a kinsman of Brien fitz Count, of Wallingford, 
one of the empress's main supporters: he was William Boterel of Botreaux. Sibyl's son 
Herbert fitzHerbert married Lucy, daughter of Miles earl of Hereford. . . .

We do not know when or where Sibyl and her sister Alice died, but there is an odd 
footnote to their history in an old account of Asthall church in Oxfordshire. "On the 
north side of the church ... is the effigy of a female figure recumbent, on a stone 
coffin, situated within an elegantly Gothic arch. It is said to contain the remains of 
Alice Corbett, concubine to King Henry I., the daughter of Sir Robert Corbett of 
Warwickshire." So a memory lingered, though confused.

Note: Was this "confused" effigy of Sibyl rather than Alice? Or was Alice also a 
mistress of Henry I?

Parents
DE CORBET Robert (ABT 1070 - AFT 1135)

Siblings
DE CORBET Sibyl (ABT 1092 - AFT 1157)
DE CORBET Alice (ABT 1100 - BEF 1149)

Marriage To FITZ HERBERT Herbert (ABT 1087 - BEF 1155)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF WINCHESTER Herbert (ABT 1060 - )
OF BLOIS Emma ()

Children by FITZ HERBERT Herbert ABT 1087 - BEF 1155
FITZ HERBERT Herbert (ABT 1125 - BEF Jun 1204)

Marriage To ____ Henry I "Beauclerc" (1070 - 1 Dec 1135)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ William I "the Conqueror" (14 Oct 1024 - 9 Sep 1087)
OF FLANDERS Maud (Matilda) (1028 - 2 Nov 1083)

Children by ____ Henry I "Beauclerc" 1070 - 1 Dec 1135
DE DUNSTANVILLE Reginald (ABT 1110 - 1 Jul 1175)
FITZ HERBERT Rohese (ABT 1114 - )

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