Ormunda de Lumley

F, b. circa 1178
FatherOsbert de Lumley de Stafford
     Ormunda de married Robert fitz Gilbert de Corbeil de Peshale, son of Gilbert de Corbeil and Isabella de Lupus d'Avranches, circa 1100 in Staffordshire, England. She was a descendant of all the Bernician - Northumberian Kings.1 Ormunda inherited, from her father. property in Wodeshende located within Lumley in county Durham. A deed was signed by Robert & Ormunda that granted their land in Lumley to their son, John.2 Ormunda de was born circa 1178 in Northumbria, England.

Citations

  1. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Chapter 11: page 197.
  2. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume I: Chapter 11, pages 197, 199

    …being Harlein Manuscript No. 1985, appears the following deed,… (Translation:…Robert de Peshale gave to John his son and heir all that land of Lumley which received through his marriage with Ormunda, daughter of Osbert de Lumley, mother of this same John, and also the hereditary rights. Witnessed by William de Lumley, Mathew de Lumley, Robert de Clifford, etc.)…
    Ormunda de Lumley de Stafford was descended from and of the blood of all the Bernician-Northumbrian kings. Osbert de Lumley de Strafford, father of Ormunda and her brother, another Osbert, were at one time secular priests at Silverton or Swynnerton Church, Pirehill Hundred, Staffordshire. This church was tributary to Stone Priory about which gathered the most of the Northumbrian emigrants to Stafford,…
    Osbert de Lumley de Stafford the elder of these two priests was the son of Ligulph who married Ealdgyth, daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Northumberland. Both Liguth and his wife Ealdgyth, who were cousin german, were descended from the kings of Bernicia and the Earls of Northumberland. When this kingdom of Bernicia-Northumberland was merged into the Saxon kingdom of England, the royal line of Bernicia became the earls of Northumberland. Lyguph and Ealdgth had four sons, -- namely, Uhtred, Morkere, Osbert, and Adam. Uhtred remained in Durham where he had two sons William and Mathew, who, becoming possessed of Lumley, called themselves of that manor. William thereby became the ancestor of the De Lumley family. Morkere became a Monk. Osbert and Adam emigrated to Staffordshire along with the other Northumbrians and settled in the parish of Stone where Osbert was known as de Stafford and Adam as de Audley. William and Mathew de Lumley were witnesses to the deed….