Mabella Fitz Hugh of Malpas

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol II, pp. 598, 628, Mabelal, daughter and coheir of Robert fitz Hugh, baron of Malpas. She married William le Belward. 598, ⁷¹³

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ^{713,720,727,752}
Robert Fitz-Hugh, whose name appears as a witness to the foundation charter of St. Werburgh's Abbey at Chester in 1093, had two daughters, Letitia and Mabilla*, who in course of time, became his heirs, and the latter of whom afterwards married William le Belward, of Malpas, son of John le Belward, who was living in the time of William Rufus, and is believed to have been one of the five knights mentioned in the Domesday as holding their lands of the Norman baron. To this, the Lady Mabilla* conveyed her moiety of the Malpas barony, and from this marriage sprang the house of Egerton.

~County Families of Lancashire & Cheshire, pg. 119

* The name of William le Belward's wife is given as both Letitia and Mabilla in difference sources. This source refers to her as Mabilla. Collins's Peerage of England as well as The Baronetage of England, refers to her as Letititia, both using Sir William Dugdale and Mr. Erdeswicke as sources. She is called Mabel in George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol II, pg. 628

Mabella married William le Belward Baron of Malpas, son of John le Belward and Unknown ⁷²⁷.^,752 (William le Belward Baron of Malpas died after 4 Aug 1112 ⁷¹³.)