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William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle was born to William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and Aveline Montfichet.
Before 1234 William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Christiana Galloway were married. He the son of William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and Aveline Montfichet.
Apr 1236. About the same time, several nobles and powerful men from the various provinces of the West, namely from Galloway, the Isle of Man, and parts of Ireland, assembled at the instance of Hugh de Lacy (age 60), whose daughter had been married to [his father-in-law] Alan of Galloway, lately deceased, and they all united together for the purpose of restoring Galloway to the illegitimate son of the aforesaid Alan, and of annulling by force the just disposition made by the king of Scots (age 37), who had distributed the inheritance amongst the three daughters of Alan, to whom it belonged by hereditary right. In order, therefore, to revoke and annul his distribution, and to restore the territory to the aforesaid Thomas, or to the son of Thomas, Alan's brother, or at least to one of that family, these presumptuous chiefs flew to arms, and, bursting forth into insolence, endeavoured to free themselves from the authority of the king. And in order to bring their attempts to the desired result, they entered into a strange kind of treaty, by means of a certain mode of divination, yet according to an abominable custom of their ancestors. For all these barbarians and their chiefs and magistrates drew blood from a vein near the heart, and poured it into a large cup, they then stirred and mixed it up, and afterwards, drinking to one another, quaffed it off, as a token that they were from that time forth allied by an indissoluble and, as it were, kindred treaty, and indivisible both in prosperity and adversity, even at the risk of their heads. They therefore provoked the king and the kingdom to war, burning their own houses and those of their neighbours, that the king, when he arrived, might not find either shelter or food for his army, and indulged in rapine and incendiarism, heaping injury on injury. On hearing of this, the king of Scotland collected his forces from all quarters, and, marching to meet them, drew up his forces in order and engaged them in open battle; and the fortune of war turning against the Galwegians, they were put to flight, and the royal troops, pursuing them at the sword's point, slew many thousands of them, and those who were taken alive by the king and his soldiers were put to an ignominious death without any chance of ransoming themselves. Some threw themselves on the king's mercy, and were consigned to close imprisonment by him till he could consult as to what should be done with them, and all of them, together with their descendants, he, not without good reason, disinherited. Having gained this victory the king glorified God, the lord of armies, and listening to good counsel, he sent word to Roger de Quincy (age 41), earl of Winchester, John Baliol (age 28), and William, the son of the [his father] earl of Albemarle, that, as they had married the three sisters, the daughters of Alan of Galloway, they might now, as the disturbances were quelled, hold peaceable possession of the rights pertaining to them. This battle took place in the month of April, the fortune of war favouring the king of Scots.
In 1239 [his wife] Christiana Galloway died.
On 26 Mar 1242 [his father] William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle died. His son William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle succeeded 4th Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.
In 1248 William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle (age 10) were married. She by marriage Countess Albemarle. She the daughter of Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and Amice Clare Countess Devon (age 27). He the son of William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle and Aveline Montfichet. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
In 1255 William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland.
In 1257 [his brother-in-law] Baldwin Redvers 7th Earl Devon (age 20) and Margherita Savoy Countess Devon were married. She by marriage Countess Devon. She the daughter of Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy and Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy. He the son of Baldwin Redvers 6th Earl Devon and [his mother-in-law] Amice Clare Countess Devon (age 36). He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.
In 1260 William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle died at Amiens. His son [his son] Thomas Forz 5th Earl Albemarle succeeded 5th Earl Albemarle 1C 1127.
On 10 Nov 1293 [his former wife] Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle (age 56) died. Earl Devon extinct.
[his daughter] Cicely Vivonne Forz Baroness Beauchamp was born to William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle.
[his daughter] Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster was born to William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle.
[his son] Thomas Forz 5th Earl Albemarle was born to William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle.
Kings Wessex: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Alfred "The Great" of Wessex
Kings Scotland: Great x 5 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 13 Grand Son of Louis "Pious" King Aquitaine I King Franks
GrandFather: William Forz 2nd Earl Albemarle
Father: William Forz 3rd Earl Albemarle
Great x 4 Grandfather: Stephen Blois II Count Troyes and Meaux
Great x 3 Grandfather: Odo Blois Count Troyes, Champagne and Aumale and 1st Earl Holderness
Great x 4 Grandmother: Adele Unknown
Great x 2 Grandfather: Stephen Blois Count Aumale
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy
Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu
Great x 1 Grandfather: William of Blois 1st Earl Albemarle 1st Earl York
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ranulph Mortimer
Great x 2 Grandmother: Hawise Mortimer Countess Aumale
GrandMother: Hawise Blois 2nd Countess Albemarle and Essex
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Malcolm III of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: King Duncan II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ingibiorg Finnsdottir Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: William FitzDuncan
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gospatrick Earl Northumbria
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ethelreda of Northumbria
Great x 1 Grandmother: Cecily Skipton Countess Aumale and York
William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle
Great x 1 Grandfather: Gilbert Montfichet
GrandFather: Richard Montfichet
Mother: Aveline Montfichet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Lucy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Lucy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Adrian Lucy
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard "The Loyal" Lucy
GrandMother: Aveline Lucy
Great x 4 Grandfather: Eustace Flanders II Count Boulogne
Great x 3 Grandfather: Godfrey Flanders Lord Bouillon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ida Ardennes Countess Boulogne
Great x 2 Grandfather: Guillaume Flanders
Great x 1 Grandmother: Rohese Boulogne