Henry Fitz Gerald Chamberlain to Henry II

  Noted events in his life were:

• Family Background. ¹⁴¹
Alice, daughter of Henry Fitz Gerold (died circa 1231), by Ermentrude Talbot, and granddaughter of Henry Fitz Gerard (died 1174-75), Chamberlain to Henry II. In 1260 he and his wife conveyed to Gerard de Lisle, their younger son, her Mundford estate, and two years later Alice, as widow, confirmed the grant and released Gerard from payment of the rent of £10 which had been due to her late husband. She died in or before 1284.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, p. 70

• Background Information. ¹²¹⁶
Kingston Lisle remained in the possession of the Crown until the middle of the 12th century, when it was granted to the family of Fitz Gerold, hereditary chamberlains [Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 355\endash 6; Great R. of the Pipe, 2\endash 4 Hen. II (Rec. Com.), 34]. Warin Fitz Gerold, the original grantee, was succeeded in 1157 by his brother Henry, the tenant in 1166 [Great R. of the Pipe, 2\endash 4 Hen. II (Rec. Com.), 80, 123]. Henry married Maud de Cheney [Eynsham Cartul. (Oxf. Hist. Soc.), i, 422.], and held the manor till his death in 1173 [Pipe R. 5\endash 19 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.)], when he was succeeded by his son Warin [Ibid. 20 Hen. II, 112; Fines 9 Ric. I (Pipe R. Soc.), 56]. By his marriage with Alice de Courci this Warin inherited the manor of Harewood in Yorkshire [Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), ii, 222]. He lived until 1218 [Pipe R. 20 Hen. II\emdash 17 John; Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 363], when his lands in Sparsholt were inherited, not by his daughter Margery, but by his younger brother Henry [Pipe R. 2 Hen. III, m. 4].

'Parishes: Sparsholt', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page and P H Ditchfield (London, 1924), pp. 311-319.

Henry married Maud de Chesney, daughter of Hugh de Chesney and Unknown ¹¹⁸⁷.^,1216 (Maud de Chesney died By 1198 in Oxfordshire, England ¹¹⁸⁷.)