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Birth:          ABT 1148 Stratford St Andrew, Plomesgate, Suffolk, England
Death:          1 Mar 1194 
Burial:         Swainby Abbey, moved to Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire, England

Notes
d 1 Mar 1194/5
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I04938
The following information was supplied in a post-em by Curt Hofemann, curt_hofemann 
AT yaho.com:

Helewise, mar. Robert fitz Ralph (d. 1184-5), lord of Middleham, Yorkshire, and had 3 
sons: Waleran (b. c.1170 [16]), Ralph, Ranulf. Helewise was said to have d. 1 Mar 
1194/5, bur. Swainby abbey, Yorks. (her foundation, later moved to Coverham, Yorks.) 
[Ref: Raymond Phair message to soc.genealogy.medieval 22 Feb 1999]

Helwisia de Glanville, the third daughter of Lord Ranulph de Glanville, married Lord 
Robert Fitz Randulfi, Baron of Middleham, from whom descended the family of Neville, 
Earls of Warwick...
At a distance of three miles from Jervaux, Yorkshire, lie the scattered remains of the 
Abbey of Coverham. This house was of Praemonstratensian Canons, first founded in 
Swainby, in the parish of Pickhill, by Helewisia de Glanville, upon the lands in the 
lordship of Coverham, which had belonged to her father.
In the year, 1214 Ralph Fitz Robert, her son, translated the Abbey from Swainby to 
Coverham, near to his manor-house at Middleham, where an abbey was built and 
flourished until 1538, the gross annual value then being £207 14s. 7d. Helwisia was 
buried at Coverham; the issue of this marriage was three sons, two of whom died 
without issue, but the third, Ralph Fitz Robert, married Mary, daughter of Roger Bigod, 
[fn 66] Earl of Norfolk, and by her had issue two sons, the elder, Ranulph Fitz 
Ranulph, Lord of Middleham, married Anastacia, daughter of William de Percy, and he 
dying in 1270, left Mary, an only daughter, and sole heiress, both to the Glanville and 
Middleham property. She married Ralph Neville, Lord of Raby, who, dying in the 55 of 
Henry III., was succeeded by his son, Ralph Neville, Baron of Raby, who now 
represented the Lords of Middleham and a branch of the House of Glanville. [Ref: 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jglanville/roanhg4.htm]

VHC Yorkshire North Riding, vol. i, ed. by William Page:
pp. 218-219: "At COVERHAM, where 4 carucates of land were at geld, the two 
'manors' held by Tor and Egbrand before the Conquest were in 1086 held by Count 
Alan in demesne. The count's younger brother Ribald was already tenant of 3 carcates 
of land in Scrafton, but Coverham, according to an 'old roll' transcribed by Dodsorth, 
was acquired by his descendant Robert, who married Helewise daughter and co-heir 
of Berta daughter of Theobald de Valoignes the elder by her husband Ranulph de 
Glanville, Chief Justice of England and lord of Coverham. Helewise died in 1195 and 
her son and heir Waleran gave the church of Coverham to the abbey founded by his 
mother at Swainby in the parish of Pickhill (q.v.). The abbey, however, was removed 
to the bank of the Cover by Ranulph, brother and heir of Waleran, in 1212. To this 
spot the bones of Helewise were removed, and here the subsequent lords of 
Middleham found burial."
p. 378. "The Premonstratensian abbey of Coverham was first founded at Swainby by 
Helewise the daughter of Ranulf de Glanvill, but was removed to Coverham by her son 
Ralph." [Ref: Alan B. Wilson message to soc.genealogy.medieval 2 May 1998]

Turton (following W U Glanville-Richards *Records of the House of Glanville* (1882) - 
not a work well thought of by the DNB) makes Helewise daughter of Ranulph de G 
rather than his sister [Ref: Richard Borthwick message to soc.genealogy.medieval 1 
Sep 1998]

Regards,
Curt

Note: Even though Richard Borthwick, seems to question whether Helewise was 
daughter or sister of Ranulph, the other sources, including the well-respected VHC 
(which is based on original documents), seem to concur with Turton.

Parents
DE GLANVILLE Ranulf (ABT 1120 - 1190)
DE VALOINES Bertha (ABT 1125 - AFT 1208)

Siblings
DE GLANVILLE Hervey (ABT 1145 - )
DE GLANVILLE Helewisa (ABT 1148 - 1 Mar 1194)

Marriage To FITZ RALPH Robert (ABT 1145 - 1185)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ RIBALD Ralph (ABT 1110 - 1168)
DE BRUS Agatha (ABT 1120 - )

Children by FITZ RALPH Robert ABT 1145 - 1185
FITZ ROBERT Ranulf (ABT 1180 - BEF 7 Dec 1251)

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