Baron Camville
barony in the Peerage of England
Baron Camville (or Canville) was a title created in the Peerage of England for Geoffrey de Camville II (died 1308), of Clifton Campville in Staffordshire, who having been summoned to Parliament on 24 June 1295 and subsequently, by writs directed to Galfrido de Caunvilla, Caumvilla, Canvilla or Camvilla, was deemed thereby to have been created Baron Camville (or Baron Canville).
de Camville family
From about 1200 the manor of Clifton in Staffordshire (which later took its distinguishing suffix from its lords) was held by the de Camville (or de Canville) family, at least until 1338, which originated probably at the Normandy manor of Canville-la-Rocque, in La Manche (not at Canville-les-Deux-Églises in the Pays de Caux). The arms of the de Camville family were: Azure, three lions passant argent. The descent in the de Camville family was as follows:
William de Camville I, younger brother of Richard de Camville who was Governor of Cyprus under Richard I 'Coeur de Lion' and died in 1191 at the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade. Their parents were Richard de Camville (died 1176) and Millicent de Rethel, daughter of Gervais, Count of Rethel and 2nd cousin to Adeliza of Louvain the second wife of King Henry I of England. William de Camville married Auberée Marmion (fl.1233), daughter and heiress of Geoffrey Marmion of Clifton and of Arrow, Warwickshire. (Dugdale and others erroneously state William and Auberée to have been the parents of the 1st Baron, rather than the great-grandparents, as noted in The Complete Peerage).
Geoffrey de Camville I (died 1219) of Clifton, who married twice: firstly to Felice de Worcester, a daughter of Philip de Worcester, from whom he was divorced due to consanguinity, having had a son Richard de Camville; Secondly he married Leuca de Braiose (died 1236), a granddaughter of William de Braiose, of the marcher lords family.
William de Camville II (died 1260), 2nd son and heir (by his father's second wife Leuca de Braiose), of Clifton and of Llansteffan in Carmarthen, Wales and of Fedamore, County Limerick and Caher, County Tipperary, both in Ireland. He was awarded possession of the manor of Clifton following a legal dispute with his elder half-brother Richard de Camville.
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