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Youlgrave (Giolgrave)4 was one of the manors belonging to Henry de Ferrars, when the Survey of Domesday was taken. In the reign of Edw. I. it was held under the Earl of Lancaster by Ralph de Shirley. It afterwards became the property of the family of Gilbert alias Kniveton, who had been settled at Youlgrave from a very early period, and had married the heiress of Rossington. (Magna Britannia:V5: Derbyshire 1817)
The Gilberts, of Youlgreave, seem to have for the most part adopted the arms of Rossington, as the more honourable family, after their alliance with that heiress.
(Notes on the churches of Derbyshire (1875-1879) vol 2 . Cox, J. Charles)
A mural monument, in Youlgrave church, (shown above right) has twenty-one small figures carved in relief in alabaster. In the centre is the Blessed Virgin crowned, with the Child in her arms. To her right kneels a man with his seven sons behind him, to her left kneels the wife with their ten daughters behind her. The marginal inscription is to Robert Gilbert and his wife Joan, who died in 1492.
In English Heraldry the husband of a heraldic heiress - a woman without any brothers - allows his wife to place her father's arms in an escutcheon of pretence in the centre of his own shield.
Gilbert showing the escutcheon of pretence for Rossington5
The tree on this page has been updated and has been created from three sources:
1 The pedigree given by J.Charles Cox in Notes on the churches of Derbyshire Vol 2 .
2 Gilbert of Youlgrave as published in the
visitations of 1569 and 1611 (published in "The Genealogist (New
Series)" Volumes 7 & 8)
3 Pedigree of the Kniveton alias Gilbert family, of Youlgreave, from the papers of Benjamin Bagshaw,
antiquarian. Sheffield Archives reference Bag C/3361B
Note: There are some discrepancies about the names of the earlier Gilberts. These are annotated accordingly.
Other references:
4 Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Giolgrave’, there have been over sixty different spellings of the name. Modern maps use "Youlgreave" but locals prefer "Yolgrave", which is how the name is pronounced.
5 The Old Halls, Manors And Families of Derbyshire: Joseph Tilley
Notes on some of those mentioned |
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| Gilbert Kniveton alias Gilbert of Takeburie, Cornwall Gent |
Also referred to as Turkbery or Tukebery This Gilbert does not exist in the Devon Visitation where it was stated that it was "William Gilbert who came out of the North" |
Gilbert of Youlgrave Visitations 1569 & 1611 Visitation of the County of Devon 1620. Harleian Society |
| William Gilbert married Joan, daughter of Richard Calliger, Gent, Devon |
Given as "the daughter of Caule" in the Devon visitation. I have, so far, been unable to find a "Calliger" family in Devon at that time and I am still inclined to think she was one of the 'Calle' family who lived in Bridgerule. Certainly there was a Richard Calle living in Bridgerule in 1536.
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Visitation of the County of Devon 1620. Harleian Society
The report of the Commissioners concerning charities; containing that part which relates to Devon [With] Appendix and index By Commissioners for inquiry into charities. Published 1830
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| John Gilbert married Elizabeth Harwell |
Alternative spelling Elizabeth daughter of Nicholas Horell of Boyton, County Cornwall |
Bagshaw's pedigree
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