Dear Newsgroup ~ There is a nice chart (albeit with some minor errors and omissions) of the immediate family of Maud de Mandeville (died 1236), Countess of Essex and Hereford, wife of Earl Henry de Bohun and Sir Roger de Dauntsey, found in the book, Legal Origins and Legal Change, by Alan Watson, published in 1991, pg. 386. Interested parties can examine this chart at the following weblink

Dear Newsgroup ~ The authoritative Complete Peerage, 6 (1926): 457-459 (sub Hereford) has a good account of the history of the famous Magna Carta baron, Henry de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford, who died on crusade while in the Holy Land in 1220 [see Powell, Anatomy of a Crusade (1986): 228]. Earl Henry's marriage to Maud de Mandeville, daughter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Knt., Earl of Essex, is well

On Feb 15, 8:37 pm, Lyra wrote: Here is some background reading - this is ongoing research for me, as I started within the hour. ````````` (quote) River Avon Avon means "river" and is a cognate of the Brythonic afon, (pronounced /ˈavon/, or approximately "AH-von") in Welsh. Afon is the Welsh reflex of Proto-Celtic *abonā, "river" or Celtic.

Dear Newsgroup ~ In previous posts here on the newsgroup, I presented conclusive evidence which showed that Sir Richard Pole (died 1504), husband of the ill famed Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury, had married (1st) before 28 June 1483 a certain Alice Langford, widow of John Stradling (died 1471), of Dauntsey, Bremilham, and Marden, Wiltshire, and daughter of Edward Langford, of Bradfield

<news01@clupeid.demon.co.uk> wrote: Brian M. Scott wrote: On 29 Sep 2006 13:52:41 -0700, Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in <news:1159563161.480365.309790@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> in alt.usage.english,sci.lang: [...] Interesting thought; but I'd tend to drift along with a Celtic origin in England for the moment, as it really is