THE MONEYERS & CONSTABLES OF CHESTER

Deciphering the Moneyers & Constables: FitzEustace, Halton & Alnwick 

Tracing the 11th-century Norman moneyer network from Caen to the powerful Constables of Chester and Lords of Alnwick Castle.

The Deciphered Lineage & Transcription

Top Progenitors (The Caen Moneyer Network):

FitzEustace / De Burgh | Caen, Normandy & Halton, Cheshire

Ranulf de Caen ("The Moneyer" 1035, pur. mill at Vièvres)  Waleran Fitz Ranulf (1066, held mill at Vièvres & Essex lands).

John Fitz Richard de Burgh ("Monoculus" / The One-Eyed Baron, held Saxlingham, Norf.).

Middle Section (The Warlord Brothers & Constables of Chester):

Pain Fitz John de Burgh, Lord of Ewyas, slain in Welsh raid 1137 = Sybil de Lacy.

Eustace Fitz John, Constable of Chester, Baron of Halton, slain at Battle of Ewloe 1157

= 1 Beatrice de Vesci (heiress of Alnwick Castle, cross-ref 20083)

= 2 Agnes Fitz Nigel (d. & coh. of William Fitz Nigel, Baron of Halton).

Lower Section (The FitzEustace Line & Barons of Halton):

Richard FitzEustace, Constable of Chester d. 1163 = Albreda de Lisoures (heiress of De Lacy barony).

John "Constable of Chester" d. on Crusade at Tyre 1190 = Alice de Mandeville.

Roger de Lacy ("Hell-Hound" / "Roger the Fierce"), Constable of Chester, defender of Château Gaillard d. 1211.

Citations: Complete Peerage III ; Ormerod's Cheshire I 690 ; Dugdale's Monasticon.

If you are interested, see Saturday’s story:

Slain Warlords

Where we learn about the bloody deaths of two 12th-century brothers - Pain fitz John, struck down by an arrow in a Welsh ambush (1137), and Eustace fitz John, killed in full armor alongside his king at the Battle of Ewloe (1157)!