Isolda

  General Notes:

ISOLDA, daughter of --- (-after 1 Jul 1225). There are contrary indications concerning the parentage of Isolda. "Jord Foliot Isold de Gray et Rad Paynel" swore homage for the lands of "Robti Bardulf avunculi sui", and accepted security from "Robto Lupo loco Matild Bardulf matris sue que est una herederum predicti Roberti", dated 1 Jul 1225. This source suggests that Isolda de Grey was the daughter of the second sister of Robert Bardulf, and co-heir of her uncle. On the other hand, Thomas Stapleton, in his "Observations on the Great Rolls of the Exchequer of Normandy", records that Henry de Grey married "Ysolda...daughter of Hugh Bardolf, sister and one of the co-heirs of Robert Bardolf", that in 1235 she was "remarried to...Reginald de Meandre", and that in 1246 "Richard de Gray son and heir of Isolda de Gray" swore homage to King Henry III, although he does not cite the source reference. The birth date of Hugh [I] Bardolf (father of Robert Bardolf) is estimated to before 1135. Hugh's children would presumably therefore have been born in [1160/80]. If that date range is correct, the date of Isolda's second marriage, and also the chronology of the Grey family, suggest that Isolda was more probably Hugh's granddaughter than his daughter. Another possibility is that the wife of Henry de Grey was Robert's sister and that "Isold de Gray" who is named in the 1 Jul 1225 source was the couple's daughter. However, in that case, it is unclear why Isolda's son Richard would not have been named as the Grey representative of the heirs who are named in 1 Jul 1225. On balance, it appears more likely that Isolda was Robert Bardolf's niece, although if that is correct there is no indication of her father's family.

m firstly HENRY de Grey of Gray's Thurrock and Codnor, son of ---.

m secondly (before 1235) Reginald de Meaudre, son of ---. ¹

  Events

• Inquisition: Post mortem, 18 Jun 1246. ³ 58. Iseult de Grey.

Writ to the sheriff of Kent, 18 June, 30 Hen. III.

Inq. (undated.)

Richard de Gray, her son, is her heir.

Kent.

Hoo, a moiety of the manor held, by an exchange made with her four coparceners, by service of ½ knight's fee, but only ¹/5 of the manor came to her by inheritance.

C. Hen. III. File 3. (18.)

Isolda married Henry de Grey.¹ (Henry de Grey died in 1219 ¹.)

Isolda next married Reginald de Meaudre before 1235.¹