Sybil de Neufmarché ^{2 4}

  General Notes:

SIBYLLE de Neufmarché (-bur Lanthony Prior, Gloucester). A charter dated to [10 Apr/29 May] 1121 records the arrangements for the marriage of "Miloni de Gloec" and "Sibilia filia Beorndi de Novo Mercato", the dowry being all the possessions of her father and of her mother. A manuscript narrating the history of Brecknock priory records that the founder "Bernard de Nefmarche, Norman" married "Neste qe fut apele Agnes, la file Griffin le fiz Lewelin…cruel tyrant de Gales" by whom he fathered "Mael…noble chevalier" whom it was claimed was not his son and who was deprived of Brecknock in favour of "la file [de] Neste, Sibile" wife of "Miles…fiz Watir le conestable de Gloucestre e de Hereford". The Historia fundationis cum fundatoris genealogia of the priory of Abergavenny names "Sibillam, legitimam hæredem totius terræ Breconiæ…Bernardi et Agnetis de Novo-Mercato" as wife of "Milonem", son of "Waltero constabulatio totius Angliæ". "Mylo constabularius de Gloucestria" donated property to Lanthony abbey, naming "antecessores mei Rogerus de Gloecestria et Walterus constabularius", by charter dated 1137, supplemented by another later donation (undated) jointly with "uxor mea Sibilla et filii mei Rogerus et Walterus atque Henricus". A manuscript in Aske´s collections names "Milo…Erle of Herforde, Lord of Bricone and of all the Forest of Done, and also Constable of England…Sibbill wiff of the seid Milo…" among those buried at Lanthony Priory.

m ([Apr/May] 1121) MILES of Gloucester, son of WALTER of Gloucester & his wife Berthe --- (-24 Dec 1143, bur Lanthony Priory, Gloucester).

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He [Miles of Gloucester] married, as aforesaid, about April or May 1121, Sibyl, daughter of Bernard DE NEUFMARCHE, lord of Brecknock. He died 24 December 1143, and was buried in the chapter house of Llanthony Priory outside Gloucester, which he had founded. His widow, who is stated to have entered into religion after his death, was also buried at Llanthony.

[Complete Peerage VI:452-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

  Death Notes:

As a nun.

Sybil married Miles of Gloucester 1st Earl of Hereford, son of Walter of Gloucester High Sheriff of Gloucestershire and Berthe, between Apr and May 1121.^{1 2 3} (Miles of Gloucester 1st Earl of Hereford died on 24 Dec 1143 in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, GB ^{1 2 3} and was buried in Llanthony Secunda Priory, Priory Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL1 2RB, GB.). The cause of his death was Shot while hunting in Forest of Dean.