Osbert (Tancarville) Clinton (1103)

Born 1103 in Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England

Descendants

Biography

Birth

He was born in 1103.^{[citation needed]} He is said by some popular genealogies to have been born in Kenilworth Castle, but Kenilworth Castle was built in the early 1120's by Geoffrey de Clinton, so it would not have been available for an 1103 birth. ^[1]

Parents

Bernard S Lavin suggests that his father was William de Simillie and that his brother Geoffrey inherited the manor of Glympton, Oxfordshire from said father.

I don't think there has been any proof linking the de Clinton's to the de Tancarvilles family. I am led to believe that the de Tancarville family were high society and the mere fact that Geoffrey is said to have been of low origin and raised from the dust by King Henry I kind of indicates that the de Tancarville connection may not be correct for Osbert. I have to date not been able to find any information on the de Simillie family either.

Sibling

The parents are unknown, but these two de Clintons are believed to be brothers:

• Geoffrey de Clinton, born Normandy 1085,or his son Geoffrey de Clinton, born1100
• Osbert de Clinton, born about 1103, Kenilworth Castle.

Issue

Osbert de Clinton, brother of Geffery, had four sons. ^[2]

1. Osbert, his successor, and ancestor to the present Duke of Newcastle;
2. Roger de Clinton, who died bishop of Coventry, A. D. 1148;
3. Hugh de Clinton;
4. Maurice de Clinton. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia: Kenilworth Castle
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Arthur Collins. Collins’s Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. Greatly Augmented and Continued to the Present Time, by Sir Egerton Brydges, K. J. in Nine Volumes. Pelham, Duke of Newcastle. London, 1812. Volume II. Pp. 181-183. Accessed March 17, 2018. jhd