Richard de Camville

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• Background Information. ⁸²⁹
Richard, son and heir of Gerald, was the founder, during the reign of Stephen, of Combe-Abbey in Warwickshire. He was one of the witnesses in 12 Stephen to the convention between Stephen and Henry, Duke of Normandy, regarding the succession of the latter in the crown of England. Richard de Camville appears to have been a powerful lord during the reign of Henry II. He was one of the admirals in the expedition made by Richard I, King of England, into the Holy Land. He was subsequently the governor of Cyprus. He went, without permission from King Richard, to the siege of Acon, where he died.

Richard left four sons and a daughter:

Gerald, his son and heir
Walter, who left a son named Roger, whose children were: Matilda, who married Niegel de Moubray; Patronilla, married to Richard Curson; Matilda, married to Thomas de Astley and Alicia, married to Robert de Esseby.
Richard whose children were Richard and Isabella, heiress of her brother, and married in 4 Richard I, Richard de Harcourt of Bosworth in Leicester.
Matilda, married to William de Ros.

~ Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland: Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance, p. 107