Richard Chamberlayne (1120 - 1180)

Born 1120 in Normandy, France

Descendants

Died 1180 at about age 60 in Oxfordshire, England

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Biography

Research

ALERT - False Tancarville Connection

Ongoing research into this family line is showing more and more that it does not connect to the Tancarvilles, as has been traditionally thought.

Documentary evidence relating to lands and estates shows that the Chamberlains descend from the chamberlains of Scotland (from Herbert of Winchester, chamberlain to Henry I) and his son Herbert FitzHerbert, chamberlain to David I and Malcolm IV, followed by his son, Stephen FitzHerbert. ^[1]

Paul A. Fox, (2020) in his 2020 published book on the history and heraldry of the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, states:

the Chamberlaine family provides

a good example of heraldic calumny. In the 1574 visitation of Oxfordshire Richard Lee, Portcullis Pursuivant, attached their descendants to the family of Tancarville, hereditary chamberlains of Normandy. This bogus connection must have been made by an earlier herald, because already by the 1520s, Sir Edward Chamberlaine of Shirburn (d. 1543) had adopted the ancient arms of Tancarville, gules an escutcheon argent in orle of spur rowles or....the Tancarvilles were long extinguished by 1400...(by which time) the Chamberlaines had not yet adopted their arms.

The visitation of 1566, carried out by William Harvey, Clarencieux, falsely connected the Chamberlaines of Shirburn to the Tancarvilles. ^[2] The Tancarville arms, attached to William Harvey's Chamberlaine Pedigree, can be seen here in Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica.

The following deeds reference a Richard the Chamberlain, but there is no evidence about his origins or issue.^{[3][4] [5] [4][6][7]}

Sources

1. ↑ Early Yorkshire Familes: Chamberlayne (of Acklam and Wickenby): Retrieved from Google books (Here;) Accessed 20 Mar 2022.
2. ↑ Harvey, Clarencieux, William., (1566)., The Visitations of the County of Oxford Taken in the Years 1566: Vol. 5., (p.235).,Taylor and Company, (printers)., (Jan 1871). Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 21 Jul 2023.
3. ↑ Somerset Record Society Vol 8. (1894). Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton and the Cluniac Priory of Montacute in the County of Somerset. Bruton Abbey (Jan 1894). Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 13 Feb 2022.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Baggs, A P. and Siraut, M C., (1999)., "Bruton," in A History of the County of Somerset: (Vol. 7, 18-42). Bruton, Horethorne and Norton Ferris Hundreds, Ed. C R J Currie and R W Dunning. London: Victoria County History. Retrieved from British History Online (pp18-42;) Accessed 13 February 2022.
5. ↑ Richard the Chamberlain in Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton and the Cluniac Priory of Montacute in the County of Somerset. Somerset Record Society Vol 8. (1894). Bruton Abbey (Jan 1894). Retrieved from Google e-Books (p.123, No.7;) Accessed 13 Feb 2022.
6. ↑ THE ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW NO. LV.—JULY 1899, Bernard, The King's Scribe (Here;) Accessed 14 Feb 2022.
7. ↑ Discovery: The National Archives. Reference: E 40/4216. Grant by Richard son of William son of Alvred, to the monks of St. Pancras, (Lewes). Retrieved from The National Archives (Here;) Accessed 15 Feb 2022.

• List of English Cartularies: Retrieved from DEEDS (Here;) Accessed 13 Feb 2022. and (Here;) Accessed 13 Feb 2022.

• Ed. John Bowyer Nichols and Son. (1836). Collectanea topographica et genealogica, Vol. 3. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son. Retrieved from Google Books (Here;) Accessed 7 Sept 2021.

• Hervey, William., (Norroy). (1866). The Chamberlain Pedigree. Retrieved from Google Books (Here;) Accessed 7 Sept 2021.

• The Charters of William II and Henry I. History from the writs and charters of two Norman kings. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 7 Sept 2021.

• The visitations of the county of Oxford : taken in the years 1566 by William Harvey, Clarencieux; 1574 by Richard Lee, Portcullis ; and in 1634 by John Philpott, Somerset, and William Ryley, Bluemantle. Together with The gatherings of Oxfordshire, collected by Richard Lee in 1574. College of Arms (Great Britain). Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 7 Sept 2021.

• Tout, T. F., (1920). Chapters in the administrative history of mediaeval England: the wardrobe, the chamber, and the small seals. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 11 Sept 2021.

• British History Online: Bruern Abbey in Eastleach Turville. "Eastleach Turville," in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7, Ed. Herbert, N. M. (1981) Oxford: Oxford University Press for Victoria County History, (pp.61-69). Retrieved from British History Online (Here;) Accessed 7 Dec 2021.

• White, Geoffrey H. “Financial Administration under Henry I.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 8 (1925): (pp. 56–78.) Retrieved from Jstor (See Tancarville Page 71) Accessed 3 Feb 2022.

• John le Chamberlenk in Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton and the Cluniac Priory of Montacute in the County of Somerset. Somerset Record Society Vol 8. (1894). Bruton Abbey (Jan 1894). Retrieved from Google e-Books (No.148, Fol. 67, here;) Accessed 13 Feb 2022.

• Ricardo de Tankervilla in Two Cartularies of the Augustinian Priory of Bruton and the Cluniac Priory of Montacute in the County of Somerset. Somerset Record Society Vol 8. (1894). Bruton Abbey (Jan 1894). Retrieved from Google e-Books (No.3, Fol. 16, here;) Accessed 13 Feb 2022.

• L'étude des dons de dîmes des chambellans de Tancarville à l'abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville, 1055-1316. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 13 Feb 2022.

• Richard the Chamberlain - 12th Century: Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Richard the Chamberlain (Kamberlengo) p.42) Accessed 22 Feb 2022

• Chamberlain Early Family Register extracted from various (not always reliable) sources. This document, no longer available in the internet, has now been uploaded to the Internet Archive and is available for download, as a Torrent or a PDF file (Here;) Accessed 13 Jan 2023.