Umfraville
Sign in to saveThe Umfraville family were Anglo-Norman landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of England, where they held the strategic lordships of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northumberland. They held, for the English Crown, Tynedale to the Cumbrian Border up to the border with Scotland.
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- Umfraville family
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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18 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Principal members
- Robert I (died in or after 1145)
- Odinel I (died in or after 1166)
- Gilbert I (died in or after 1175)
- Odinel II (died 1182)
- Robert II (died in or before 1195)
- Richard (died 1226)
- Gilbert II, [[Earl of Angus]] (died 1245)
- Gilbert III [[Earl of Angus]] (died 1307 or 1308)
- Robert III [[Earl of Angus]] (died 1325)
- Gilbert IV (died 1381)
- Thomas I (died 1387)
- Thomas II (died 1391)
- Gilbert V (died 1421)
- Robert IV (died 1437)
- Arms
- References
The Umfraville family were Anglo-Norman landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of England, where they held the strategic lordships of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northumberland. They held, for the English Crown, Tynedale to the Cumbrian Border up to the border with Scotland.
It was in Scotland where the Umfravilles reached the pinnacle of their power. As a prominent border landowning family, it is likely that they were invited, along with dozens of other Anglo-Norman knights, administrators, and warlords to settle in Scotland by David I of Scotland as part of his policy of modernising Scotland by introducing feudalism, now known as the Davidian Revolution by historians. The Umfravilles, who were granted lands in Stirlingshire, were by the third generation established as members of Court and for three generations became Mormaer of Angus through marriage into the Scots-Gaelic aristocracy.
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