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  • Name Hubert de Vaux 
    Suffix Gillesland 
    Nickname Lord of Vaux 
    Born 1105 
    Address:
    Irthington
    Irthington, England 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1164 
    Address:
    Gilsland
    Gilsland, England 
    Notes 
    • {geni:about_me} from [http://mauriceboddy.org.uk/Gilsland.htm GILSLAND (VAUX) FEUDAL LORDSHIP]
      * Hubert de Vallibus, commonly called Vaux, (elder son of Harold de Vallibus from Normandy). William the Conqueror dispossessed the Thane of Gilsland to reward a Norman henchman, Hubert de Vallibus, who took over the Thane's castlesteads (1070), and later handed them over to his son Robert, who founded the Priory at Lanercost (1166).
      * Hubert married into the Gracia family and was the 1st Feudal Lord of Gilsland.
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      From http://cybergata.com/roots/2595.htm
      * The Norman Castle of Vaux or De Vallibus is mentioned by Orderic Vitalis: and then Terra di Vallibus continued in the possession of the family to which it gave their name until the time of King John. Two brothers, Robert and Aitard de Vaux, appears in Domesday as mesne-lords in Norfolk. The former was probably the same Robert de Vals or de Vaux who, six years before, gave his Tithes to St. Evrault [orderic Vit. 576]. Both of them held of Roger Bigod. "Robert de Vallibus, who held Pentney of Bigod, founded a Priory there for the souls of Agnes his wife and their children."
      * Hubert de Vaux, the grandson of the founder of Pentney Priory, Robert Vaux, and '''son of the second Robert Vaux''', received from Henry II, a grant of the barony of Gilsland, one of the three great fiefs into which Ranulph de Meschines had divided the frontier district of Cumberland. Hubert earned his share of the reconquered territory by helping to drive out the Scots. Hubert died in 1164, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Robert. Robert died without issue and his brother Ralph succeeded him. The line terminated with Ralph's grandson, Hubert II, whose daughter Maud, Landy of Gilsland, carried the barony to the Multons; and her great-great-grand-daughter Margaret again transferred it to the Dacres.
      ~The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. I, pg. 295-296
      * '''Hubert de Vaux''' acquired the Barony of Gillesland by grants from Ranulph de Meschines, upon whom the Victorious Norman had conferred the whole county of Cumberland. This Hubert was succeeded by his son Robert de Vaux, or Vallibus. ~Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormand and Abeyance, pg. 532
      * In a Charter of henry II, Hubert de Vallibus "totam terram quam Gilbertus filus Boet tenuit," or all of Gill's land, know as Gilsland. There was and addition in the chater (de incremento) of Corby and Catterlen. All these lands, Hurbert de Vallibus was to hold to him and his heirs forever, per serviciam duorum militum, meaning due to his military service to the crown. ~Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, Vol. IV, p. 451

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      de Vaux

      Reconstruction drawing, by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, of the Château de Coucy, which probably influenced the design of Dirleton

      The Norman family of de Vaux originated in Rouen, northern France, and settled in England following the Norman Conquest of 1066. Two de Vaux brothers, or cousins, were among a number of Anglo-Norman knights invited to Scotland, and granted land, by King David I of Scotland in the 12th century. Hubert de Vaux was given the barony of Gilsland in Cumbria, at that time part of Scotland.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirleton_Castle

      Links
      * http://cybergata.com/roots/2595.htm
    • The de Vauxs (or de Vallibus) acquired the small but wealthy estate of Gullane and Dirleton in Malcolm IV's reign (1153-65). Mystery surrounds where their first castle was. Early charters are signed at Eldbotle ('old house'), a place-name long associated with the woods to the NW of Dirleton. But also mentioned in charters is Castle Tarbet on the island of Fidra, just off the coast. A safe, easily defended site, Tarbet is perhaps the more likely site for their first residence.
      Two brothers came north at about the same time. Hubert, the elder, was given the lands of Gilsland, in Cumbria, by the English King, and his motte-castles at Brampton and Irthington, near Carlisle, can still be seen. [Dirleton Castle, p. 18]

      During the Norman Conquest, Catterlen lands were in the possession of Hubert de Vallibus. It was said that the family of the de Vallibus or Vaulx, during the reigns of the Norman kings to the end of the reign of Henry III, possessed great power and influence, not only in the Cumberland area but also in other parts of England. Hubert de Vaux was probably the original grantee for Catterlen, c. 1154-67.
      Present-day Catterlen is a farmhouse. It began its days as a Border peel tower. George MacDonald Fraser in, "The Steel Bonnets", said, "The peel tower was built of stone, with walls of massive thickness, and ideally there were three or four stories to the structure. The only entrance was through a double door at ground level, one of the doors being an outer iron grating, and the other of oak reinforced with iron. The bottom story was used as a storeroom, and the floors above were reached by a narrow curving stair, called a turnpike, usually going up clockwise. The upper floors were the living quarters, and at the very top there would usually be a beacon, to summon help in attack or give warning of an impending foray."
      In 1874 the basement story of Catterlen's peel tower was used as a dairy. It had 4' thick walls. The first story and one room--the solar or king's chamber, and the coat of arms of the Vaulx family of Catterlen could be found in this room.
      Catterlen's peel tower dates to about the middle of the 15th century, with a hall and kitchen addition added in the 16th century. [Ray Montgomery

      Sources:

      1. Repository:
      Name: Cheryl Varner Library
      Title: Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees #1, CD#100
      Author: Automated Archives, Inc.
      Publication: Genealogical Research System, 1994
      2. Repository:
      Name: Cheryl Varner Library
      Title: Dirleton Castle
      Author: Richardson, J.S.; Tabraham, Christopher J.
      Publication: Historic Scotland, Edinburgh,
      Page: p. 18
      3. Title: The Steel Bonnets
      Author: Fraser, George MacDonald
      Publication: Colins Harvill, London, 1989
      4. Title: "The Parish of Newton Reigny" in Papers and Pedigrees Mainly Relating to Cumberland and Westmorland, Vol. 1
      Publication: Bembrose & Sons, Limited, London
      5. Title: "Catterlen Hall" in Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archaelogical Society, Vol. I
      Publication: Kendall: T. Wilson, Highgate, 1874

      cherylvarner
    • Hubert de Vallibus or Vaux; fl 1149; held extensive lands, notably the seigneurie from which he took his name near Falaise, Normandy, and various feudal Lordships in the North of England; ancestor of the Vaux's of Gilsland, an estate which passed through an heiress temp. Henry III to Thomas de Moulton, and the Vaux's of Tryermayne, Cumberland, the heiress of which temp. Edward I married William le Vaux of Catterlen, ancestor in the female line of the Barons Brougham and Vaux. [Burke's Peerage}
      1st Baron of Gillesland granted by Ranulph de Meschines, Earl of Chester.
    Person ID I4864722118540045168  Ancestors of Donald Ross
    Last Modified 22 Jan 2019 

    Father Harold de Vaux, Pentney,   b. Abt 1065, Vallibus Castle Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1110, Freebridge Lynn Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years) 
    Mother Beatrice de Munchensy,   b. Between 1065 and 1069,   d. 1109  (Age 44 years) 
    Married Abt 1086 
    Family ID F6000000003828567290  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Grecia de Cumberland,   b. 1110,   d. 1150  (Age 40 years) 
    Children 
     1. Beatrice de Vaux,   b. 21 Jul 1149, Stoke, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1217, Stoke, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2021 
    Family ID F4864722130350045175  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart