Eustace fitz John
d. 1157
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Eustace fitz John was one of the great royal officers of Henry the First's reign, a justice and baron in the north; he is the documented head of this constable line.
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EUSTACE fitz JOHN (d.1157), baron and royal justice; father of Richard fitz Eustace (our line). RING 15 Oct 2026 (Complete Peerage XII/2 pp.268-274, VESCY): Eustace FitzJohn, 'br. and h. male' of Payn FitzJohn (I100697), son of John fitz Richard (I100770) - a Henry I charter for Cirencester (1133) is attested by 'Payn FitzJohn, Eustace and William his brothers', and a Rievaulx charter of 1133 by 'Eustace FitzJohn and Payn his brother'; he held his father's manor of Saxlingham. Constable of Bamburgh, keeper of Tickhill, justice itinerant in the north; fought for David of Scotland at the Standard 1138; Constable of Chester by 1139 in right of his 2nd wife; founder of Alnwick Abbey and of Watton and Malton; struck his own silver pennies; killed July 1157 in the ambush at Consyllt, N. Wales. m. (1) Beatrice de Vescy (not our line); (2) Agnes FitzNeel (I101087), mother of Richard FitzEustace. Standard well-documented Anglo-Norman baronial genealogy per Complete Peerage/standard authorities; contested/uncertain rungs note-only, not hardened.