Sir Thomas de Mandeville

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     Thomas was born in County Essex, England, at the Manor of Black Notley. He was the son of John de Mandeville. Thomas married Ismamain de Rooss, daughter of Robert de Rooss. The Mandeville family was of Black Notely in the county of Essex. The county was well known promising military community from which to draw recruits. On 26 May 1315, Edward de Brus & his fleet of 6,000 men landed on the coast of Ireland. Sir Thomas de Mandeville led an army of vassels of the Earl of Ulster agaist Edward de Brus and was defeated. Robert de Brus and his son-in-law Walter Stewart were also fighting in Ireland at this time.1,2

Child of Sir Thomas de Mandeville and Ismamain de Rooss

Citations

  1. [S749] Andrew Ayton, Edward III and the English Aristocracy at the Beginning of the Hundred Years Wa - www.deremiltari.org/resources/articles/ayton2.htm.
  2. [S763] Harleian Society, Harliean MS, 1398, page 591 - Thomas Mandevil married Ismain filiam Rob'ti de Rooss Child: Waterus.