Birthca 1310
Death6 Jan 1381
General10th earl. dsps. In battle of Neville's Cross.
Spouses
2Maud de Lucy Baroness Lucy [60, Percy art, Vol X, p. 435 seq], [60, Northumberland article, Vol IX, p. 712], [60, Lucy article, p. 254]
Notes for Gilbert de Umfreville Earl of Angus
And 3rd baron Kyme. His heir was his neice Eleanor by his sister Elizabeth (Kyme: CP VII, 357-8)
DNB Main notes for Gilbert de Umfreville Earl of Angus
Co-subject: Umfraville, Gilbert de
Dates: 1310-1381
Active Date: 1350
Gender: Male
Gilbert de Umfraville 1310-1381, the son of Earl Robert and Lucy of Kyme, was summoned, like his father, to parliament as Earl of Angus. He made strenuous but unsuccessful attempts to win back his inheritance, and was prominent among the disinherited who followed Edward Balliol in his attempt on the Scots crown, fighting in the battles of Dupplin Moor, Halidon Hill, and Neville's Cross. He married Matilda de Lucy, who ultimately brought him the honour of Cockermouth and a share of Lucy estates in Cumberland, and who after his death became the second wife of Henry Percy, first earl of Northumberland [q.v.]. There was no surviving issue to the marriage, so that his heir by law was his niece Eleanor, wife of Sir Henry Talboys (d. 1370), and daughter and heiress of Earl Gilbert's only sister of the full blood, Elizabeth, and her husband, Sir Gilbert Barradon. The great mass of the Umfraville estates now passed to this lady. However, in 1378 Earl Gilbert had created a special entail which settled Redesdale, with Harbottle and Otterbourne, on his brothers of the half blood and their heirs male (Cal. Patent Rolls, 1377-81, p. 134).