Fulk Bertrand

Some records show him as Geoffrey I, Count of Arles, marrying a Stephanie Douce


Alexander de Freville

Sir Alexander Freville, husband of Jane Cromwell who was the niece of Joan Mortein and grand-daughter of Sir Philip. Sir Alexander and his wife assigned the castle to their son Baldwin in 1323 on the condition that they were to be allowed to live in it for the rest of their lives. In 1327 he performed the office of Royal Champion at the coronation of Edward III.


Baldwin I de Freville 1292-1375

Sir Baldwin Freville, son of Sir Alexander. He held the Warwickshire part of Tamworth by grant from Edward II from 1317 to 1319, when the King granted it to the burgesses.


Baldwin de Freville 1317-1375

Sir Baldwin Freville, son of the previous Sir Baldwin. In 1348 (?) he quarrelled with the burgesses, who besieged him in his castle and cut off all supplies of food for some time. He fought in wars with France, where he died, having spent his later years there.


Baldwin de Freville 1317-1375

Knight of Tamworth, Pinley, Wyken, Coventry, and Middleton, Warwickshire, Yatesbury, Wiltshire, Brianes Manne, Ferne and Maund Whitechurch in Bodemham, Herefordshire, seneschal of Xantonge, seneschal of Poitou, keeper and surveyor of Cheylesmmore Park. Son and heir of Baldwin de Freville, Knight of Tamworth by Elizabeth, daughter of John de Montfort, 1st Lord Montfort. he was born 15 August 1317, aged 26 in 1343. He married Ida de Clinton before 06 June 1346, the date of licence to settle property. They had one son, Baldwin, Knight.

He was continually employed in the French Wars of King Edward III, accompanied Price Edward the Black Prince in the expedition of 1365, was granted the advowson and rents of Harborough Magna by John Trillowe in 1366. He remarried a Joan in or before 1371.+-


Baldwin II Freville

Sir Baldwin Freville IV   b. 1368, d. 1401

m(1?) 1389, Joan Green, b. ca, 1350, issue unknown; GREAT DEBATE. Her line goes to Helen de Quincy, William de Cantelupe  and on.

m(2?) Maud _____, d. 1397, and had two daughters

Note: Gen. Mag. 21, No. 6, pp. 373-375 seems to indicate that Joyce 's mother was Joan Green and Elizabeth's mother was Maud.

He lost his claim to act as Royal Champion at the coronation of Richard II in 1377, when it was adjudged that the right was attached to the manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, an estate which had descended through the Marmion family.

Children:

Joyce, b. By 1387, d. By 1418, m. Sir Roger Aston

Elizabeth, b. ca. 1398, m. ca. 1438, Thomas Ferrers, Esq., d. 6 Jan1458/9

The marriage of Joyce Freville (daughter of Baldwin Freville III and his 2nd wife, Maud) to Sir Roger Aston, d. 1446/7, Tixall, co. Stafford......is outlined in "The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215", by Frederick Lewis Weis, 5th ed., Line 101A on pp. 134-135.

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Frosti, King of Finland

Killed in battle when the king of the Swedes, Agni Dagsson invaded Finland, taking Frosti's son and daughter with him. The daughter, married to Agni that evening, killed Agni in his drunken stupor and returned to Finland with her men.
Heimskringla, Ynglinga Saga, Section 22

Fornjót (Old Norse Fornjótr) is an ancient giant in Norse mythology, the father of Kári (a personification of wind), of Logi (a personification of fire), and of Hlér or Ægir (the ruler of the sea) and a king of Finland. The meaning of the name is not clear, It might possibly be from forn 'old' + jótr 'Jutlander' or more likely 'giant' (Finnish 'jätti', Norse 'jotunn' - giant) or might be from for 'early' + njótr 'destroyer'. Fornjót is also, following a particular legendary genealogical tradition, the first-known direct paternal ancestor of William I of England and also through other supposed descendants a terminal ancestor of ascending branches of many European noble families and modern Icelandic families.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornj%C3%B3t


Friedrich I

Frederick I (c. 942 – 978) was the count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine. He was a son of Wigeric, count of Bidgau and count palatine of Lorraine, and Cunigunda, and thus a sixth generation descendant of Charlemagne.In 954, he married Beatrice, daughter of Hugh the Great, count of Paris, and Hedwige of Saxony. He received in dowry the revenues of the abbey of Saint-Denis in Lorraine. He constructed a fortress at Fains, on the frontier between France and Germany, and exchanged fiefs with the bishop of Toul. Thus, he created his own feudal domain, the county of Bar.

The duchy of Lorraine was at that time governed by the archbishop of Cologne, Bruno, who was called the archduke on account of his dual title. In 959, he, in concert with his brother, the Emperor Otto I, divided the duchy, appointing as margraves (or vice-dukes) one Godfrey in Lower Lorraine and Frederick in Upper Lorraine. After Bruno's death, in 977, Frederick and Godfrey were styling themselves dukes. As duke, he favoured the reform of Saint-Dié and Moyenmoutier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_I%2C_Duke_of_Upper_Lorraine


Skjalf Frostasdottir

A great battle ensued which Agne won and many Finns were killed together with Frosti. Agne then subdued all of Finland with his army, and captured not only great booty but also Frosti's daughter Skjalf and her kinsman Logi (in the older Ynglingatal only her kinsman, but in Heimskringla he was her brother, which seems to be a mistake by Snorri Sturluson).

Agne returned to Sweden and they arrived at Stocksund (Stockholm) where they put up their tent on the side of the river where it is flat. Agne had a torc which had belonged to Agne's great-great-great-grandfather Visbur (who, interestingly, was the son of Skjalf's niece Drífa). Although, they were related, Agne married Skjalf who became pregnant with two sons, Erik and Alrik.

Skjalf asked Agne to honour her dead father Frosti with a great feast, which he granted. He invited a great many guests, who gladly arrived to the now even more famous Swedish king. They had a drinking competition in which Agne became very drunk. Skjalf saw her opportunity and asked Agne to take care of Visbur's torc which was around his neck. Agne bound it fast around his neck before he went to sleep.

The king's tent was next to the woods and was under the branches of a tall tree for shade. When Agne was fast asleep, Skjalf took a rope which she attached to the torc. Then she had her men remove the tent, and she threw the rope over a bough. Then she told her men to pull the rope and they hanged Agne avenging Skjalf's father. Skjalf and her men ran to the ships and escaped to Finland, leaving her sons behind.

Agne was buried at the place and it is presently called Agnafit, which is east of the Tauren (the Old Norse name for Södertörn) and west of Stocksund, i.e. in what is still to this day called Agnehögen (Agne's mound) in Lillhersby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agne


Queen Fredegonde

Fredegund, or Frédégonde, (d. 597) was the Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons.

Originally a servant, Fredegund became Chilperic's mistress after he had murdered his wife and queen, Galswintha (c. 568). But Galswintha's sister, Brunhilda, in revenge against Chilperic, began a feud which lasted more than 40 years.

Fredegund is said to be responsible for the assassination of Sigebert I in 575 and made attempts on the lives of Guntram (her brother-in-law and the king of Burgundy), Childebert II (Sigebert's son), and Brunhilda.

After the mysterious assassination of Chilperic (584), Fredegund seized his riches and took refuge in the cathedral at Paris. Both she and her surviving son, Clotaire II, were protected by Guntram until he died in 592.

Said to be ruthlessly murderous and sadistically cruel, Fredegund perhaps has few rivals in monstrousness. And although she did not live to see it, her son's execution of Brunhilda bore the mark of Fredegund's hatred: Clotaire had the old queen, now in her sixties, stretched in agony upon the rack for three entire days, then watched her meet her death chained between four horses that were goaded to the four points of the compass, tearing her body asunder.

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In 580, an epidemic of dysentery swept through Gaul and afflicted her father as well as killing all his remaining children, except Basina and her brother Clovis. The jealous third wife of their father, Fredegund, tried to remove the impediment to her children's succession by sending Clovis to Berny, where the epidemic was strong. This failed to kill him and she had him assassinated along with his mother, the repudiated Audovera. Basina was sent to a convent (Holy Cross) at Poitiers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basina%2C_daughter_of_Chilperic_I