Family:Eustace (s1075-a1100)
Eustace, son of Turstin the Fleming and Agnes,[1] was born say 1075[2] and died after 1100.[3]
Nothing is known of his wife.
The following document records the deed of land by Eustace to St. Peter Monastery.[4] See the much later document referencing this deed on the page of Eustace de Whitney.
- Sciant praesentes et futuri, quod ego Eustachius Filius Turstini Flandrensis, ad petitionem Agnetis matris meae, dedi Sancto Petro et fratribus de Gloucestria unam hidam in Pencumba quae vocatur Suthenhale, solutam et quietam ab omni re; et per scriptum istud super altare Sancti Petri de Gloucestria posui.
- Hujus rei testes sunt, Turstinus Flandrensis frater meus, Willelmus presbiter ejusdem villae, Willelmus de Stabulo, Wymundus, Rogerius de Kaillewy, Rogerus Castel, etc.
- Know all men present and to come, that I, Eustace, son of Turstin the Fleming, at the request of my mother Agnes, have given to Saint Peter and the brothers of Gloucester a hide (120 acres) of land in Pencombe which is called Suthenhale, free and clear from every encumbrance; and, through this deed, I have placed it on the altar of Saint Peter of Gloucester.
- The witnesses of this thing are Turstin the Fleming my brother, William a priest of said Town, William de Stabulo, Wymund, Roger de Kaillewy, Roger Castel, etc.
Children of Eustace are not known.
His probable descendants include Robert de Whitney.[5]
References
1.^ "Eustachius filius Thurstini Flandrensis, ad petitionem Agnetis matris meae", Historia et cartularium monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, Vol. II, p. 120. English translation "I, Eustace, son of Turstin the Fleming, at the request of my mother Agnes", Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), pp. 13-14.
2.^ Source for birth information for Eustace.
3.^ Source for death information for Eustace.
4.^ Historia et cartularium monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestriae, Vol. II, p. 120. English translation from Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896), pp. 13-14.
5.^ Eustace de Whitney, probably the son of Robert de Whitney, reconfirmed the deed "which my ancestors heretofore gave to said holy men". Because of this, it is probably that Robert de Whitney was a descendant of this Eustace.
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