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Persönliche Daten Giles de Argentein , of Melbourn & Wymondley 

• Auch bekannt als Giles d' /Argentine/, of Wymondley & Melbourn.
• Er wurde geboren im Jahr 1210 in Melbourn, Royston, Cambridgeshire, England.
• Er ist verstorben vor 24. November 1282 in Great Wymondley, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England.Quelle 2
• Ein Kind von Richard de Argentein und Cassandra de Insula
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 22. April 2023.

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The following information taken from Medieval English Genealogy websiteat:
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/arg/argoutl1.shtml

Giles de Argentein, Richard's son and successor, is first mentioned inSeptember 1230, as being overseas on the king's service, presumably inFrance, where Henry had launched a military expedition to regain Normandy(Close Roll). The following year, Giles was fighting against PrinceLlewellyn in Wales, where he and another unnamed son of Richard werecaptured by the Welsh (Dunstable Annals). In June 1242, he was againsummoned for military service against the French, in Henry III'sunsuccessful expedition to regain Poitou (Close Roll). As noted above,part of his father's estates seem to have been settled on him in the1230s and 1240s, the latter presumably during Richard's absence onCrusade.

He was married, by the late 1230s, to Margery, the daughter, and one offour coheirs, of Robert Aguillon. There is little doubt that she was themother of Giles's son and heir Reginald, but her inheritance seems not tohave been retained by the family. Perhaps for this reason, contradictorystatements have been made about her marriage and heir (see discussion).

Giles de Argentein came to political prominence late in life, as a resultof the baronial reform movement led by Simon de Montfort. When Giles'sfortunes over the next few years are examined, the close parallel withthose of de Montfort, as related by Maddicott (chapters 5-7), is striking.

We first hear of Giles holding high office when, in May 1258, Henry IIIagreed to the establishment of a council of 24 to reform the realm. Gileswas one of the 12 members of the committee nominated by the barons, andwas also a member of another committee of 24 appointed to negotiate anaid for the king (Burton Annals).

Soon afterwards, Giles de Argentein was appointed - as his father Richardhad been - a royal steward. In this capacity his name appears in manydocuments between September 1258 and February 1260 (Close Rolls). The endof this period coincides with an open break with the reform movement,made by the king when he forbade the holding of a Parliament atCandlemas. Later in 1260, de Montfort enjoyed a temporary restoration toinfluence, and again we find Giles holding office. In November, he wasappointed a member of two commissions to look into local difficulties atDunwich and Cambridge (Patent Roll), and in December he was appointed ajustice itinerant - as his grandfather Reginald had been - for theMidland counties (Close Roll).

In the following year, Henry III again asserted his authority against thebarons, and we hear no more of Giles's official career until the Summerof 1263, when de Montfort gained control of south-eastern England. InAugust, Giles was made constable of Windsor (Patent Roll), from whichforeign mercenaries under the king's son, Prince Edward, had just beenexpelled. The barons' success was short-lived: on 16 October, PrinceEdward seized Windsor Castle, and de Montfort's administration crumbled.(The following month, the Patent Roll euphemistically refers to Giles deArgentein's 'withdrawal' from the constableship.)

Open war broke out the following Spring between the royalists and thebarons. Giles de Argentein was among those to whom Henry III on 11 Mayaddressed a final appeal to return to fealty (Close Roll). The appealfailed, and on 14 May at Lewes, Simon de Montfort comprehensivelydefeated the royalists, and effectively captured the king and his son,Prince Edward. We do not know if Giles was personally present at thebattle, but he immediately benefited from the outcome. In June he wasmade Guardian of the Peace for Cambridgeshire (Rymer, vol.1, p.793) and,more importantly, he was appointed one of the Council of Nine by whichthe country was to be governed (Burton).

In the following months he remained with the captive king, as copiousdocumentary evidence shows. We can trace the progress of de Montfort'sparty into the Welsh Marches, as their fortunes worsened, and toHereford, where Prince Edward escaped from their custody on 28 May (CloseRolls). Finally Simon de Montfort and his supporters were trapped by theroyalists at Evesham, and annihilated there on 4 August 1265. Giles deArgentein is known to have fought at Evesham (InquisitionsMiscellaneous), and one contemporary source even includes him in the listof the leading Montfortians who were killed there (London Annals).Although he was not killed, the king's victory was - temporarily -disastrous for him and his family.

As a defeated rebel, Giles de Argentein immediately suffered the seizureof all his lands. In the Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous aredetails of eleven of the estates which were confiscated - at Weston,Wymondley, Lilley and Willian in Hertfordshire, Flitcham and Wilton inNorfolk, Halesworth, Newmarket and Burton in Suffolk, Bumpstead in Essexand Pidley in Huntingdonshire. In addition, the manor of Melbourn hadbeen seized by the royalist Warin de Bassingburn (VCH Cambridgeshire).

Few of the confiscated estates were lost permanently, except in caseswhere Giles had abused his influence during the period when the baronscontrolled the country. When Robert de Stuteville had been captured andimprisoned by Henry de Montfort, he had been forced to sell Giles themanor of Withersfield in Suffolk. This manor was now restored to itsformer owner (Patent Roll). Giles also seems to have taken theopportunity to seize the manors of Lilley and Willian in Hertfordshire,of which his father had been deprived in 1232, and which the family hadtried unsuccessfully to recover through the courts (Carpenter).

Giles received the king's pardon in February 1266 (Patent Roll), andsubsequently recovered his principal estates at Wymondley, Halesworth,Melbourn and Newmarket (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem).Unsurprisingly - for he would now have been an elderly man - we hearlittle more of Giles, although he survived for another 16 years, dyingshortly before 24 November 1282, when the sheriff of Hertford wasnotified of his death (Fine Roll).

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The children of Giles de Argentein

In addition to his son and heir Reginald, Giles had three younger sons:

Richard, living 1275

William, living 1275

Giles, who may be identical with the famous knight who was killed atBannockburn in 1314

(none of whom left any issue) and a daughter:

Cassandra, who married Ralph Pyrot.

I assume that all these were the children of Ralph by Margery, as Margeryseems to have been still living in 1267 (see discussion), while the threeyounger sons attested their father's charter in the mid-1270s; theearliest references linking the Argenteins and Ralph Pyrot are in themid-1260s.

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