Lady Sybil's Choice: A Tale of the CrusadesHolt, Emily Sarah
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Lady Sybil's Choice: A Tale of the Crusades
Holt, Emily Sarah
Crusades -- Fiction; Historical fiction
1. GUILLAUME, surnamed _à la grande dent_, _died_ issueless before 1250.
_Married_—
UMBERGE, daughter of the Viscount de Limoges. [Character imaginary.]
2. GUILLAUME, Lord of Mairevant. _Married_—
[Unknown.]
3. GUILLAUME de Valence, _died_ 1170.
4. GUY, Count of Jaffa and Ascalon: _crowned_ King of Jerusalem, Sept.
1186; _died Sept._, 1193-6. [See the previous article.]
5. AMAURY, _died_ 1205. _Married_—
(A) ESCHINE, daughter of Beaudouin d’Ibellin, Lord of Rames; _died_
1193. [Character imaginary.]
(B) ISABEL I., Queen of Jerusalem. [See last article.]
6. RAOUL d’Issoudun, _d._ 1218-9. _Married_, before Aug. 31, 1199.
Alice, Countess of Eu: living Sept. 19, 1119.
_Issue of Guillaume Lord of Mairevant_:—
1. VALENCE, _mar._ Hugues, Lord of Parthenay.
2. Elise, or Aline, _mar._ Bartholomé, Lord de La Haye.
_Issue of Amaury and Eschine_:—
1. GUY, _died_ young.
2. Jean, _died_ young.
3. HUGUES, _died_ 1219. _Married_—
Alix I., Queen of Jerusalem. [See last article]
4. Bourgogne, _mar._ Gaultier de Montbelliard.
5. HÉLOÏSE, _mar._ (1) Eudes de Dampierre; (2) Rupin, Prince of Antioch.
[For issue of Amaury and Queen Isabel, see last article.]
*TITLES.*
Society was divided in the twelfth century into four ranks only,—nobles,
clergy, bourgeoisie, and villeins. Two of these,—nobles and
villeins—were kept as distinct as caste ever kept classes in India,
though of course with some differences of detail. All titled persons,
knights, and landed proprietors, belonged to the nobility. The clergy
were recruited from nobility and bourgeoisie—rarely from the villein
class. The bourgeoisie were free men, without land, and usually with
some trade or profession; and were despised by the nobles, as men who
had lifted themselves above their station, and presumed to vie with
their betters. The villeins were always serfs, saleable with the land
on which they lived, bound to the service of its owner, disposable at
his pleasure, and esteemed by him very little superior to cattle.
Education was restricted to clergy and noble women, with a few
exceptions among the male nobility; but as a rule, a lay gentleman who
could read a book, or write anything beyond his signature, was rarely to
be seen.
No kind of title was bestowed in addressing any but nobles and clergy.
The bourgeois was merely Richard Haberdasher, John the Clerk, or William
by the Brook—(whence come Clark and Brook as surnames)—the villein was
barely Hodge or Robin, without any further designation unless necessary,
when the master’s name was added. Such a term as Ralph Walter-Servant
(namely, Ralph, servant of Walter) is not uncommon on mediæval rolls.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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