Richard Fitz Pons

Richard Fitz Pons [ fitz Pontz, fitzPontz, fitz Poyntz, fitzPoyntz, fitzPonce.] (c. 1080-1129) [ [http://www.geneal.net/10438.htm Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Richard Fitz Pons CLIFFORD ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL Decendants ] ] was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, active as a marcher lord on the border with Wales. He is described as a follower of Bernard de Neufmarche, and probably first builder of Bronllys Castle. [ [http://www.castlewales.com/bronllys.html Bronllys Castle ] ] He started construction at Llandovery Castle [ [http://www.castlewales.com/llandov.html Llandovery Castle ] ] in 1116. [ [http://www.acadat.com/HLC/HLCTowy/area/area212.htm Archaeology in Wales - Archaeoleg CAMBRIA Archaeology ] ]

Family

His father was Pons fitz Pons. [ [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamesdow/s004/f010466.htm] .] [There is uncertainty. Another story would make him son of William of Talou, Count of Arques-la-Bataille, known as Guillaume d'Arques, William de Normandie. [http://www.thepeerage.com/p15846.htm#i158451] ]

He married Maud Fitz Walter, daughter of Walter Fitz Roger, sheriff of Gloucester, and Bertha de Ballun. [ [http://www.southfarm.plus.com/pl_tree/ps22/ps22_148.htm] ] Walter de Clifford was their son [ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10486.htm#i104860 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10486 ] ] .

Richard was the heir of Drogo fitz Pons and Walter fitz Pons, both mentioned in the Domesday Survey. He is now taken to be their nephew. [Keats-Rohan, "Domesday People" I:180-181, 455-456.] They had lands in Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Pinxton in Derbyshire, Glasshampton in Worcestershire [ [http://home.freeuk.net/whe/WorcestershirePast/villages/Astley.htm Worcestershire History Encyclopaedia: Astley ] ] [Drogo also in Wiltshire, large holdings in Devon. [http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/landownersd-f.html] .]

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