The Umfraville family were Anglo-Norman landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of England, where they held the strategic lordships of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northumberland. They held, for the English Crown, Tynedale to the Cumbrian Border up to the border with Scotland.
It was in Scotland where the Umfravilles reached the pinnacle of their power. As a prominent border landowning family, it is likely that they were invited, along with dozens of other Anglo-Norman knights, administrators, and warlords to settle in Scotland by David I of Scotland as part of his policy of modernising Scotland by introducing feudalism, now known as the Davidian Revolution by historians. The Umfravilles, who were granted lands in Stirlingshire, were by the third generation established as members of Court and for three generations became Mormaer of Angus through marriage into the Scots-Gaelic aristocracy.
The split loyalties between the Kings of Scotland and the Kings of England meant the family frequently found itself as unsettled as the border and this came to a head during the Wars of Scottish Independence where they fought for both Scotland and England at various points of the conflict (as did the de Brus family).
The Umfraville family were Anglo-Norman landowners, administrators and soldiers who were prominent from about 1120 to 1437 on the northern border of England...
marriage of his daughter Matilda, to the line of the Norman Gilbert de Umfraville. The lands of Clan Ogilvy, in Angus, was ruled by a mormaer; one of the...
Sir Robert de Umfraville KG, Lord of Redesdale (c. 1363 – 1437) was a knight in late-medieval England who took part in the later stages of the Hundred...
Sir Thomas Umfraville (c1362-1391) was an English landowner, soldier, administrator, diplomat, and politician who sat in the Parliament of England as member...
Odinel de Umfraville (unknown date - 1166) - English aristocrat, son of Robert I de Umfraville. He owned lands in Northumberland (with Prado Castle) and...
resigned as joint guardian and was replaced by Ingram de Umfraville. In May 1301, de Umfraville, John Comyn and William Lamberton resigned as joint guardians...
Sir Ingram de Umfraville (fl. 1284–1320) was a Scottish noble who played a particularly chequered role in the Wars of Scottish Independence, changing sides...
Gilbert V de Umfraville (July 1390 – 22 March 1421), popularly styled the "Earl of Kyme", was an English noble who took part in the Hundred Years War....
with Robert Bruce (1298–1300) William Lamberton (1299–1301) Ingram de Umfraville (1300–1301) John de Soules (1301–1302) Preceded by William Wallace Succeeded...
Henry de Beaumont, David III Strathbogie, and Gilbert de Umfraville, son of Robert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus. In 1332 the disinherited and Balliol made...
William de Hameldone, who could, it has been argued, be descended from the Umfraville family of Northumberland or the Beaumont Earls of Leicester. Both assertions...
Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer Robert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus Sir Anthony de Luci Sir Ingram de Umfraville Sir John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers...
1408 115 Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh 1363–1425 c.1409 116 Robert Umfraville c. 1363–1437 1409–1413 117 John Cornwall c. 1364–1443 c.1409 118 Henry...
de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros Robert Umfraville I (d. 1145) Odinel Umfraville I Gilbert de Umfraville Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus Matilda, Countess...
Conqueror granted the lordship of Riddesdale in Northumberland to Robert de Umfraville on condition that he defend that land from enemies and wolves. There were...
been recently shown that the single cinquefoil was also borne by the Umfravilles of Northumberland, who appear to have owned a place called Hamilton in...
joint Guardian and was replaced by Sir Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus. In May 1301, Umfraville, Comyn, and Lamberton also resigned as joint Guardians...
the Bruce (1298–1300) John Comyn III (1298–1301) — William de Lamberton (1299–1301) Sir Ingram de Umfraville (1300–1301) Sir John de Soules (1301–1304)...
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1367–) (jointly) Gilbert de Umfraville (1369–) (jointly) Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester (1377) (jointly)...
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