Founder of Alnwick Abbey, Malton Priory and Watton Priory
Title
Lord of Alnwick, Malton and Watton Constable of Bamburgh and Knaresborough Castles
Spouse(s)
Beatrix de Vescy (died before 1130) Agnes FitzNigel
Children
William de Vescy (Beatrix) Richard fitz Eustace (Agnes of Halton)
Parent
John fitzRichard
Relatives
Pain fitzJohn (brother)
William fitzJohn (brother)
Agnes (sister)
Alice (sister)
Eustace fitz John (died 1157), Constable of Chester, was a powerful magnate in northern England during the reigns of Henry I, Stephen and Henry II. From a relatively humble background in South East England, Eustace made his career serving Henry I, and was elevated by the king through marriage and office into one of the most important figures in the north of England. Eustace acquired a great deal of property in the region, controlled Bamburgh Castle, and served jointly with Walter Espec as justiciar of the North.
After Henry I's death in 1135, Eustace became involved in the Anarchy, the warfare between the supporters of Stephen and his rival the Empress Matilda, the latter led by Matilda's uncle David, King of Scotland. He surrendered Alnwick Castle and Malton Castle temporarily to David, while Bamburgh was taken by Stephen. Eustace became a supporter of David, fighting and suffering defeat at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. He maintained most of his lands in the north, however, and from around 1144 became one of the main followers of Ranulf II, Earl of Chester, through whom he gained even more land. Eustace subsequently founded three religious houses and died on a campaign with Henry II in 1157.
EustacefitzJohn (died 1157), Constable of Chester, was a powerful magnate in northern England during the reigns of Henry I, Stephen and Henry II. From...
son of EustacefitzJohn (died 1157), hereditary Constable of Chester, by his second wife Agnes, daughter and eventual heiress of William fitz Nigel (died...
childless in Normandy. (1150–1157) EustacefitzJohn succeeded to Halton as husband of the elder sister of William fitz William. He had inherited the barony...
came from near Avranches in Normandy, owned a mill. Pain's brother, EustacefitzJohn, became a royal official who owned lands in the north of England. His...
Domesday landholder Johnfitz Richard was father of EustacefitzJohn, followed in successive generations by Richard fitzEustace and Johnfitz Richard. In certain...
Alnwick Abbey was founded as a Premonstratensian monastery in 1147 by EustacefitzJohn near Alnwick, England, as a daughter house of Newhouse Abbey in Lincolnshire...
heiresses of her time. She was the first wife of EustaceFitzJohn, also known as Eustacius fitzJohn de Burgo, Constable of Chestershire and Knaresborough...
founded as a monastery of the Gilbertine Order by EustacefitzJohn, the lord of Malton Castle. FitzJohn founded both Malton Priory and Watton Priory around...
feudal lord and Sheriff. Born William fitzEustace at Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, the son of EustaceFitzJohn and Beatrix de Vesci, he took his mother's...
Fouke le Fitz Waryn on the life of Fulk FitzWarin. This account is then supplemented from 1205 onwards by English government records. Eustace served as...
de Vescy, married the Constable of Chestershire and Knaresborough, EustacefitzJohn. By his marriage to Beatrix de Vesci he gained the baronies of Malton...
the years up to 1120, Espec controlled northern England, alongside EustacefitzJohn. He was the builder of Helmsley Castle; he built also Wark Castle...
ambushed by Owain's forces and defeated: the Constable of Chester, EustacefitzJohn, was killed, and Henry of Essex deserted the field leaving the king...
until his retirement in 2020. On 27 October 2000, Eustace, then a political neophyte, succeeded James Fitz-Allen Mitchell as the leader of the NDP, and on...
Carbrooke in Norfolk. John is known to have had the following issue: Pain fitzJohn (died 1137) EustacefitzJohn (died 1157) William fitzJohn Alice, abbess of...
for John Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci in 1884 until his death in 1903 when the title became extinct. Ivo de Vesci, 1st Baron Vesci. EustaceFitz-John, 2nd...
William le Gros (the Earl of York) and the Constable of Chester, EustacefitzJohn during a period of history known as The Anarchy. The site of the castle...
Roger fitz Richard, Lord of Warkworth and Clavering (died 1177), was a prominent 12th-century English noble. He was a son of Richard fitzEustace and Albreda...
like 16,000). EustacefitzJohn had declared for David and handed over to him Alnwick Castle in Northumberland. The garrison of Eustace's castle at Malton...
refer to him as "John, Constable of Chester". He died at Acre in the Holy Land. He was the eldest son and heir of Richard fitzEustace (d. 1163), hereditary...
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