Sibyl de Neufmarché (1100-1143)
1100--1143 (kvinna)
Sibyl de Neufmarché
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Sibyl de Neufmarché
Countess of Hereford
suo jure Lady of Brecknock
Spouse(s) Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford
Issue
Margaret of Hereford
Roger Fitzmiles, 2nd Earl of Hereford
Walter de Hereford
Henry Fitzmiles
Mahel de Hereford
William de Hereford
Bertha of Hereford
Lucy of Hereford
Noble family de Neufmarché
Father Bernard de Neufmarché, Lord of Brecon
Mother Nest ferch Osbern
Born c.1100
Brecon Castle, Brecon, Wales
Died after 1143
Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucester, England
Buried Llanthony Secunda Priory
Sibyl de Neufmarché, Countess of Hereford, suo jure Lady of Brecknock (c. 1100 – after 1143), was a Cambro-Norman noblewoman, heiress to one of the most substantial fiefs in the Welsh Marches. The great-granddaughter of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, king of Wales, Sibyl was also connected to the nobility of England and Normandy. Sibyl inherited the titles and lands of her father, Bernard de Neufmarché, Lord of Brecon, after her mother, Nest ferch Osbern, had declared her brother Mahel to have been illegitimate. Most of these estates passed to Sibyl's husband, Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford, as her dowry. Their marriage had been arranged personally by King Henry I of England in the spring of 1121. Sibyl, with her extensive lands, was central to the King's plans of consolidating Anglo-Norman power in south-east Wales by the merging of her estates with those of Miles, his loyal subject on whom he relied to implement Crown policy.
As an adult, Sibyl lived through King Stephen's turbulent reign, known to history as the Anarchy, in which her husband played a pivotal role. Following Miles' accidental death in 1143, Sibyl entered a religious life at Llanthony Secunda Priory, Gloucestershire, England, which she had endowed up to six years previously. Sibyl is buried at the priory, founded by Miles in 1136. | |
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