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‎6 Jun 1653 Grittleton, Wiltshire, England;

Nicholas Greene was recorded as " Summoned to Parliament as Knight of the Shire for co. of Wilts by Cromwell"

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man Robert de Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury‏‎ 1)
Died ‎after 1130 Robert last appears in a charter dated 1130.

Notes: Robert de Belleme succeeded his brother, Hugh Montgomery, as Earl of Shrewsbury, after Hugh was killed by King Magnus of Norway; in addition to succeeding to all his father's fiefdoms in Normandy.

Robert de Bellême was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror. He was a member of the powerful House of Bellême.

Robert became notorious for his alleged cruelty. The chronicler Orderic Vitalis calls him "Grasping and cruel, an implacable persecutor of the Church of God and the poor ... unequalled for his iniquity in the whole Christian era." The stories of his brutality may have inspired the legend of Robert the Devil.

Married/ Related
to:

woman Agnes of Ponthieu, Countess of Ponthieu‏‎ 1)


Child:

1.
man William 'Talvas' III of Ponthieu, Count of Ponthieu‏ 2) 3) 4) 5)
Died ‎1171 3)

Notes: William succeeded his father as count of Ponthieu some time between 1105 and 1111, when he alone as count made a gift to the abbey of Cluny. His father Robert de Bellême had turned against Henry I on several occasions, had escaped capture at the battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 commanding Duke Robert's rear guard and later, while serving as envoy for King Louis of France, he was arrested by Henry I and imprisoned for life. William was naturally driven by this to oppose King Henry. In June 1119, however, Henry I restored all his father's lands in Normandy. Sometime prior to 1126, William resigned the county of Ponthieu to his son Guy but retained the title of count. In 1135 Henry I again confiscated all his Norman lands to which William responded by joining count Geoffrey of Anjou in his invasion of Normandy after Henry I's death.

William and his sons can all be confirmed through charters at Perseigne Abbey. Perseigne Abbey was founded by William in 1145.

Sources

1) Source: The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy: Volume III "Robert de Belesme had married Agnes, daughter of Guy, count de Ponthieu, by whom he had William Talvas the heir of all his domain" (Data from secondary evidence)
2) Source: The Chronicle of Robert of Torigni "Willelmus Talavacius, comes Sagiensis, et filius ejus Johannes, et item Johannes, nepos ejus, filius Guidonis primogeniti sui comitis Pontivi, concesserunt reg Henrico castrum Alenceium et Rocam Mabirios, cum eis quae ad ipsa castella pertinent. Et forsitan ideo praedictas munitiones perdiderunt, quia malas consuetudines ipsi et eorum antecessores diu ibi tenuerant ; quas rex Henricus statim meliorari prascepit.". Reference: 1166 (Data from direct source)
3) Source: The Chronicle of Robert of Torigni "Obiit Guillelmus Talavacius, comes Pontivi, et sucessit ei Johannes, nepos suus, in comitatu Pontivi, Guidone primogenito suo. In terra vero quam count of tenebat de rege Anglorum in Normannia et in Cenomannensi pago, successit ei Johannes comes, Alius ejus. Iste duxit filiam comitis Heliae, fratris comitis Gaufridi Andeeavorum et ducis Normannorum.". Reference: 1171 (Data from direct source)
4) Source: The Chronicle of Robert of Torigni "Circa vero octavas Paschse, dolo Pictavensium occisus est comes Patricius, et sepultus est apud Sanctum Hylarium. Successit ei filius, natus ex filia Guillelmi comitis Pontivi, matre comitissas de Warenna.". Reference: 1168 (Data from direct source)
5) Source: Cartulaire De L'abbaye Cistercienne De Perseigne "Ego Johannes filius Willermi comitis Pontivii notum fieri volo presen tibus et futuris nos pro anime predecessorum atque successorum meorumsalute dedisse". Reference: III (Data from direct source)