CP Correction: Burial Place of Sibyl de Valoignes

[John Watson]

Dear all,

About a year ago we had a discussion here concerning the parentage of
Sibyl de Valoignes. Complete Peerage has this to say about her:
"He [Robert de Ros] married Sibyl de Valognes, and died in 1162 or
1163. His widow married secondly, circa 1166, William de Percy, who
died probably in 1174 or 1175 and thirdly, in 1181 or 1182, Ralph
d'Aubigny (brother of William d'Aubigny of Belvoir), who died before
Michaelmas 1192. She was living in 1212, possibly in 1218, and was
buried at Nun Appleton Priory"
Complete Peerage, Vol. 11, p. 91. sub Ros

For the evidence that Sibyl de Valoignes was buried in Nun Appleton,
CP Vol. 11 refers to CP Vol. 10 p. 443, note f, sub Percy, which in
turn refers to Rotuli Chartarum p. 144. Rotuli Chartarum page 144 is a
confirmation charter in 1205, by king John to Nun Appleton of various
donations, including one by Sibyl de Percy, who gave 13 acres of land,
'cum corpore suo'. The same confirmation charter is also printed in
Monasticon Anglicanum, Vol. 5, pp. 653-4, Nun Appleton, Num. VI.

However, the lady who gave her body to Nun Appleton was not Sibyl de
Valoignes, but a completely different Sibyl de Percy - which is shown
by her charter available on the A2A website:

Notification MD335/3/1/7/2 c. 1205
Contents:
1. Sybil de Perci 2. The church of St. Mary and St. John of Apelton
Notification to all sons of Holy Mother Church by Sybil of her grant
to God and St. Mary and St. John of Apelton, and the nuns servong God
there, for the health of her soul and the souls of her father and
mother and all her predecessors, together with her body, which she has
given to God and the said house spontaneously and in her own power, of
all her land in Hoym which Alice de St. Quintin, her mother, had given
her, and Robert the steward and William the steward, her brothers, had
confirmed to her; namely, thirteen bovates of land with all their
appurtenances and with the capital messuage and all liberties and
easements belonging to the said bovates within the vill and without;
to hold in free and perpetual alms, doing only the forinsec service as
much as belonged to thirteen bovates of the same fee. Witnesses:
Geoffrey son of Peter, earl of Essex, Simon de Pateshille, James de
Poterne, justices of the Bench, Peter de Brus, Walter de Falconberge,
Eustace and Philip, his brothers, Robert Gualensis, sheriff of
Yorkshire, Walter de Bouingt[on], William de Perci, Robert his son,
Walter de Perci, Henry his brother, Alan de Kadherton, Philip and
John, canons of the chapel. Seal [Former ref: MD 335 Box 69 Misc No
24]

This Sibyl de Percy was the daughter of Robert fitz Fulk and Alice de
St. Quintin (daughter of Herbert de St. Quintin and Agnes de Arches
who founded Nun Appleton). She married (I believe) William de Percy of
Bolton Percy, whose donation to Nun Appleton is also included in king
John's confirmation charter.

Regards,

John