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in our Database | |  | | |  | | Birth Date | 1105 | | Death Date | 1166 | | Father | Walter Pipard BARON | Born: 1040 Wooten-Basset, Wiltshire, England | | | Mother | | Born: | | | Aline Pipard
Notes: | Biography Aline was the daughter of Walter (de) Pipard, a wealthy landowner at Wooten-Basset in Wiltshire, England. She was born about 1105. Walter was a cousin and friend of John, "the Marshal," Fitz-Gilbert, who was Marshal of England from 1130 to his death in 1165. John married Aline shortly after his fathers death in 1130, indicating that the union may not have pleased his father, who had himself, been Marshal to King Henry I. Aline was a relative but the exact degree is not known (probably 2nd cousins). They had two sons before 1135: Gilbert and Walter.[1] Johns career as keeper of the royal household coincided with a dark 29-year period in Anglo-Norman history, called "The Anarchy" (1135-1164). It was an interregnum following Henry Is death with no clear male heir (his only legitimate son had been lost at sea). Henry Is nephew, Stephen, Count of Blois, seized the throne, opposed by Henrys daughter and named-heir, [Holy Roman] Empress Matilda, fighting for hers and her sons rights (Matildas son became King Henry II in 1164, after Stephens earlier death). The Anglo-Norman nobility nearly wrecked England by civil war during this 3-decade period.[2] Johns marriage to Aline Pipard was a casualty of this conflict. From 1135 to 1140 John loyally served King Stephen as Marshal of England, managing the Armys supplies and accompanying the King when he secured Normandy to his cause. John received three important castles in Wiltshire as his reward. He was bitterly opposed by Patrick of Salisbury (also in Wiltshire), who supported Empress Matilda.[3] In February 1141, Stephens army was defeated at Lincoln and the King taken prisoner temporarily. John, who may have opposed Stephens questionable military strategy, decided to change sides. Later that year, with great bravery, he helped the Empress escape an ambush in Wiltshire, loosing an eye and being left for dead in the process. At the same time he came to a political/family agreement with his enemy, Patrick of Salisbury, by arranging to annull his first marriage to his distant cousin Aline Pipard (for "cosanguinity" an often-used excuse by Medieval nobles at a time when divorce was impossible) and marry Patricks spinster sister, Sybil. Alines sons rights were maintained but they both died within a year of their father, leaving his lands and the "Marshal of England" title to Johns younger son, William, then a teenager living in Normandy as squire to his cousin, William de Tancarville, High Chamberlain of Normandy.[4]. However much she may have suffered from the indignity of having her marriage declared "null and void," Aline recovered quickly and married Stephen Gay, Esquire, the same year (1141). They lived in Wooten Basset until his death in 1154. David Crouch ("Historical Research," 1999), identifies him as a son of Rainald (de) Gay (ca. 1067) of Northbrook Gay in Oxfordshire. Rainald had known issue: Robert Gay of Hampton (died ca. 1138) and Stephen Gay of Northbrook (died ca. 1154) and several daughters. Both men had male-line issue surviving to 1240. Stephen and Alines son was named Philip (de) Gay.[5] It is interesting to note that King Henry Is oldest illegitimate son, Robert "1st Duke of Gloucester," was believed to have been by a daughter of Rainald (de) Gay (aka Gai).[6] Aline Pipard Gay died in 1166, outliving both her older sons and her two husbands.[7] Sources ↑ "John Fitz-Gilbert, the Marshal," by Catherine Armstrong.
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Walter Pipard
b.1040 Wooten-Basset, Wiltshire, England
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