Agnes de Cambray

   Other names for Agnes were Agnes Fitz Alfred and Agnes Fitz Alfred.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁵³
By the mid12th century the lord of this part of Shirburn manor appears to have been Roger Fitz Alfred, for he gave the mill and apparently also the church to Dorchester Abbey. [O.A.S. Rep. 1909, 13] He can be identified as the son of Alfred de Cumbray, lord of Lee Cumbray (Shrops.), who may himself have been in possession of Shirburn lands, since an Alfred of Shirburn, witnessed an Oxfordshire charter of Robert d'Oilly about 1139. [Sandford Cart. i. 50] The Cumbray family were prominent tenants in the 12th century of Chester honor in Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Oxfordshire. [Facsimiles of Early Cheshire Charters, pp. 15, 22; cf. Ormerod, Ches. i. 659, 662, 663; Chartulary of St. Werburgh's, Chester, ed. J. Tait, i (Chetham Soc. n.s. lxxix), 122\endash 4.] Roger Fitz Alfred's other Oxfordshire estate was at Pishill and he is probably the Roger Fitz Alfred of Shirburn who witnessed a local charter about 1158. [T. Madox, Formulare Anglicanum, no. 415., p. 156, n. 81] Alive about 1186 to 1194, [St. Werburgh's Chart. i, p. 24] he must have died in the next decade when his Oxfordshire property seems to have descended to one of his younger sons, Ralph Fitz Roger, who in 1204 gave dower in Pishill and Shirburn to Roger's second wife Maud de Frodsham. [Fines Oxon. 2] As at Pishill, the Fitz Alfred's land in Shirburn or rather a portion of it, for there were two tenants of the D'Oilly manor in the 13th century, went eventually to the Duttons, descendants of Roger Fitz Alfred's daughter Agnes, who married Adam de Dutton, Seneschal of the Constable of Chester and a prominent Cheshire landowner in the late 12th century.

~A History of the County of Oxford, Volume VIII, pp.179-198

• Background Information. ⁹⁵⁷
In 1190 Adam de Dutton gave the moiety of the vill of Warburton, which he had acquired with his wife Agnes, daughter of Roger, son of Alfred de Cumbray, to the church of St. Mary and St. Werburgh of Warburton and the Premonstratensian canons there. [Cockersand Chartulary, iv (Chetham Soc. N.S. xliii), 735-6]

~History of the County of Chester, Volume III, p. 180

Agnes married Adam de Dutton, son of Hugh de Dutton Lord of Dutton and Alice Prescott. (Adam de Dutton was born about 1160 in Dutton, Cheshire, England and died before 1216 in Dutton, Cheshire, England ⁹⁵⁷.)