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Name:
Reginald Fitzroy
 Relationship to Hugh XI Lusignan
Birth:
ABT 1100 Dunstanville, Kent, England
Father:
Henry I Beauclerc (King of England 1100-1135)
Mother:
Sybilla Corbet
Death:
1 JUL 1175 Chertsey, Sussex, England aged 75
Remarks:
Name Suffix: Earl Of Cornwall
1 NAME Reynold De /Dunstanville/
2 GIVNReynold De
2 SURN Dunstanville
2 NSFX Earl Of Cornwall


EARLDOM of CORNWALL (I)

Reynold de Dunstanville, one of the 14 illegitimate children of Henry I, was the son of Sybil, daughter of Sir Robert Corbet, of Alcester, co. Warwick, and having m. ?Mabel, daughter and (in her issue) heir of William Fitz Richard, a man of huge estates in Cornwall, was created about Apr 1141, Earl of Cornwall, probably by the Empress Maud, but the title was fully recognised subsequently by King Stephen. He was a witness to the compromise between Stephen and Henry, 1153. Sheriff of Devon, 1173-75. He was in command, ex parte Regis,Oct 1173, against the rebellious Barons. He d. spm legit, at Chertsey, Surrey, 1 July 1175, and was buried in the Abbey of Reading, when the Earldom reverted to the Crown. [Complete Peerage, III:429 as corrected by XIV:207]

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