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Birth:          ABT 1036 Cristot, Normandy
Death:          1094 Kendal, Westmorland, England

Notes
records of ancestors must exist but I cannot find them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivo_Taillebois
Ivo Taillebois (d 1094) was a powerful Norman nobleman, sheriff and Tenant-in-chief 
in 11th century England.

Ivo Taillebois was a Norman most probably from Taillebois, now a small hamlet in 
Saint-Gervais de Briouze, Calvados.[1] He sold land at Villers to the Abbey of Saint-
Étienne, Caen and donated a church of Christot in Calvados.[1] The latter diploma 
was attested by his brother Robert. Another brother, Ralph Taillebois, was High Sheriff 
of Bedfordshire and Ivo succeeded him as sheriff after Ralph's death shortly before 
1086.[1]

In 1071 King William, with Taillebois leading his army, besieged the Isle of Ely where 
the rebel leader Hereward the Wake was based.[2] Hereward escaped capture during 
the siege but was caught and imprisoned; Taillebois dissuaded William from freeing 
him.[3]

His power base appears to have been in Lincolnshire, where he probably became High 
Sheriff of Lincolnshire before 1068.[4] He married Lucy, daughter of Turold, the Sheriff 
of Lincolnshire before the conquest,[5] later Countess of Chester, in whose name he 
held the extensive honor of Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire.[6] In the Domesday Book he 
appears as a tenant-in-chief also holding Bourne and many of its manors.[2] William 
Rufus further endowed him with the lands of Ribblesdale and Lonsdale in Cumbria on 
the border with Scotland, possibly for his service as a royal steward.[2] He was also 
granted the Barony of Kendal by William Rufus, consisting of a sizable portion of 
Westmorland.[7]

Ivo attested several charters for William the Conqueror before 1086, including the 
abbey of St. Armand and the abbey of St. Peter, Ghent, and several for William II 
Rufus including the abbey of St. Florent, Saumur and the abbey of St. Mary, La Sauve 
Majeure.[8]

Family[edit]

According to annalist Peter of Blois, Ivo's "only daughter, who had been nobly 
espoused, died before her father; for that evil shoots should not fix deep roots in the 
world, the accursed lineage of that wicked man perished by the axe of the Almighty, 
which cut off all his issue." Ivo's only known heiress was Beatrix. Her sons by Ribald 
of Middleham, used the Taillebois surname on occasion.

It is not certain whether Beatrix was a daughter of Lucy, and it is also not certain what 
connection Beatrix or any other relatives might have had to later Taillebois families or 
the family of William de Lancaster I, who was also associated with the Taillebois 
surname.

There has been much speculation and discussion about Lucy, and even whether she 
was one person, but the latest proposal is that of Keats-Rohan who describes as a 
daughter of the Anglo-Saxon sheriff of Lincolnshire, and a daughter of the Malet 
family.

Ivo's widow Lucy married Roger Fitz-Gerold, Baron of Kendal, by whom she was the 
mother of William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln.[9] Lucy married thirdly Ranulf le 
Meschin, 3rd Earl of Chester and was the mother of four children including Ranulf de 
Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester.[10]

In fiction[edit]
Ivo Taillebois appears as a character in Charles Kingsley's novel Hereward the Wake.
He is also a major character in Marcus Pitcaithly's Hereward trilogy.
He also appears as a character in the James Wilde novels Hereward and its sequel 
Hereward: The Devil's Army.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I01863

Parents
DE CHATEAU-LANDON Geoffrey II "Ferreol" (1000 - 1 Apr 1046)
DE ANJOU Ermengarde (ABT 1018 - 21 Mar 1076)

Siblings
DE TAILLEBOIS Ivo (ABT 1036 - 1094)
____ Fulk (Foulques) IV "Rechin" (1043 - 14 Apr 1109)

Marriage To OF BOULOGNE (OF LENS) Judith (1054 - AFT 1086)
    m. AFT 1076 

Notes

Parents
DE BOULOGNE (OF LENS) Lambert (ABT 1022 - 1054)
OF NORMANDY Adelaide (ABT 1027 - BEF 1090)

Children by OF BOULOGNE (OF LENS) Judith 1054 - AFT 1086
DE TAILLEBOIS William (ABT 1077 - )

Marriage To OF MERCIA Lucy (Lucia) (ABT 1071 - 1141)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Turold (ABT 1020 - BEF 1079)
MALET Alvarissa (ABT 1048 - )

Children by OF MERCIA Lucy (Lucia) ABT 1071 - 1141
DE TAILLEBOIS Christina (AFT 1086 - )
DE TAILLEBOIS Beatrix (1090 - 1112)

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