Matilda de Caux
Matilda de Caux (a.k.a. Maud)
Hereditary Warden of the Forests of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire as the sole heir to Robert III de Caux. 1 She holds the office (and her hereditary estate, including Laxton ) with her husband, Ralph Fitzstephen.
Their rights to the office were confirmed in a charter issued by Count John when he was awarded Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire as part of a generous land grant by King Richard I in 1189.2
The couple have no children.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Matilda's father died in 1168 when she was a minor. For the next nine years the office of Warden was performed in her stead by Reynold de Lucy, a relative of Richard de Lucy, Chief Justiciar under King Henry II, while Matilda and her mother were wards of the Crown.3
When she came of age in 1177 her hand (and thus her inheritance) was offered to Ralph Fitzstephen, a royal justice and senior royal official two decades her senior, and her lands and the office of Warden passed to them both upon their marriage.
Relationships
1 Crook, David, The Early Keepers of Sherwood Forest (Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, vol 84, 1980).
2 Boulton, Helen E., The Sherwood Forest Book (Thoroton Society Record Series, Vol 23, 1964)
3 Crook, op. cit.
2 Boulton, Helen E., The Sherwood Forest Book (Thoroton Society Record Series, Vol 23, 1964)
3 Crook, op. cit.
Honorary & Occupational Titles
Warden of the Royal Forests of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire
Date of Death
1224
Year of Birth
1163 AD
29 Years old
Birthplace
Spouses
Ralph Fitzstephen
(husband)
Siblings
Children
Current Residence
Laxton
Ruled Locations
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