The Avenel Family

Gervase Avenel

Father: Robert Avenel

Mother: Sybilla (_____) Avenel

Married: Sibilla

Children Occupation: In addition to his duties as dominus of Eskdale, Gervase was constable of Roxburgh castle, and was also a royal justice (justiciar).
Gervase is described as "Geruassio Auenel constabulario suo de Rokesb’" when he witnessed act #314 (transcribed at The acts of William I, King of Scots, 1165-1214 p326 #314 (G. W. S. Barrow, 1971) and act #367 (p365). He is described as "Geruasio Auenel . Justic" when he witnessed act #481 (p441)

Notes:
Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 pp30-3 #39 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 3/60/1
Robert Avenel, at the instance of his lord, William, king of Scots, with the consent of Gervase, his heir, has granted and given and established by this his charter to Melrose Abbey, his land of Eskdale, namely Tomleuchar (DMF) and Watcarrick (DMF), in pure and free and perpetual alms, for the soul of his lord King David, the same land which he (David) gave him (Robert) for his service, and for the souls of Earl Henry and King Malcolm, and for the soul of his lord King William, and for his own soul and that of his wife, Sybilla, and others, by stated bounds, noting the land of Robert Bruce. He gives the aforesaid to the monks in pure and perpetual alms, free from all service and secular exaction. It is known that the monks ought to pay him 5 marks annually since he first gave them the land, but he now remits and gives them the 5 marks in alms for the lighting of the altar of St Mary. After the death of his wife, Sybilla, by the assent and consent of Gervase, his heir, and the counsel of his friends, he remits, gives and quitclaims to Melrose in pure and perpetual alms 4 marks annually which they owe. He has made this charter in the time of his lord, King William, who at Robert’s petition has established his donation, just as his lord, King Malcolm, granted and established before. His previous donation and charter was made to them in the time of King Malcolm with named witnesses.

Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 p33 #40 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 4/20/3
[An agreement is formed, whereby] Robert Avenel and Gervase his heir have quitclaimed in perpetuity that 4 marks which the monks of Melrose were wont to render annually in rent for their lands of Eskdale (DMF). The abbot and convent have granted faithfully to Robert and Gervase his heir the aforesaid pittance in perpetuity owed four times a year, on these days: the day on which Robert himself relinquished the secular life, the day on which Sir Robert dies, the sixth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the soul of Lady Sybilla, Robert’s wife, and the day of Gervase’s death. On these days, there will be a commemoration and absolution of their souls in perpetuity.

Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 pp33-6 #41 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 3/60/3
Gervase Avenel son of Robert Avenel has granted and established to Melrose Abbey, the donation of his father of land in Eskdale (DMF), which his father donated in perpetual alms and established by his charter, at the instance of the most pious King Mael Coluim, first, as well as the illustrious King William, namely Tomleuchar (DMF) and Watcarrick (DMF), in pure and free and perpetual alms, for the soul of the glorious King David, who donated the same land to his father for his service, and for the souls of Earl Henry and King Mael Coluim and King William, his lord, and others. He has granted, given and established, and by this his charter, enchartered (incartaui), by stated bounds, noting the land of Robert Bruce. He gives the aforesaid to the monks in pure and perpetual alms, free from all service and secular exaction. It is known that his father accepted 5 marks from the monks which Robert and Gervase’s mother had quitclaimed before his death, which marks he also quitclaims and gives them in alms. At his petition, his lord, William, king of Scots, has granted, given and established by his charter these things.

The monastic annals of Teviotdale p274 (James Morton, 1832)
  ESKDALE. … His son, Gervas Avenel, confirmed his father’s grant, and gave the monks liberty to build huts wherever they pleased in the same territory; but Roger Avenel. the son of Gervase disputcd their right to the property, and sent his cattle into their grounds, and caused his servants to pull down their houses, and level their fences. Both parties met to settle their disputes, in the presence of the king, at Liston, in 1235, when it was agreed that the pasture belonged to the monks, but they were not to hunt there with packs of hounds, nor bring others to hunt; nor were they to set any traps, except for wolves; and they were not to cut down the trees whereon hawks and falcons built their nests.*
  * Chart. Mel. 53,

Caledonia vol 2 p514 (George Chalmers, 1887)
  Robert Avenel … married Sibilla, by whom he had a son, Gervase, and a daughter, …. Gervase succeeded his father, whose grants to the monks of Melrose he confirmed (x). He outlived the long life of William the Lion, and died in 1219, when he was buried with his father in Melrose Abbey (y). Gervase Avenel was succeeded by his son Roger, who flourished under Alexander II. (z). He disputed with the monks of Melrose about their several rights to their lands in Eskdale (a). He died in 1243, and was buried near his father in Melrose Abbey (b).
  (x) Chart. Melrose, No. 92.
  (y) Chron. Mel., 197. He witnessed many of William's Charters. Chart. Melrose, No. 4 ; Chart. Arbroath, No. 56 ; Chart. Cambuskenneth, No. 106.
  (z) He witnessed several charters of this king. Chart. Arbroath, No. 138 ; Chart. Newbotle, No. 150 and No. 21.
  (a) The king himself settled this suit in 1235, who found that the monks were entitled to the soil, but not to the game, which belonged to Avenel, the lord of the manor. Chart. Melrose, 97.
  (b) Chron. Melrose, 207.

Death: 1219
Chronica de Mailros p135 (ed. Joseph Stevenson, 1835)
  Anno domini M.cc.xix. … Obiit G. Auenel,r cujus corpus in eodem capitulo ſepelitur.
  r This was probably Gervas Avencl. See Monast. Annals, p. 274; compare Fordun, ii. 43.
This roughly translates as:
  1219 … G. Avenel died, whose body is buried in the same chapter [of the monks, at Melrose].

Burial: Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Sources:

Isabel (Avenel, de Brus) de Ros

Father: William I of Scotland
Isabel was born out of wedlock, but acknowledged as a daughter of the king.

Mother: _____ Avenel
Isabel's mother was the daughter of Robert Avenel.

Married (1st): Robert de Brus in 1183
Chronica de Mailros p92 (ed. Joseph Stevenson, 1835)
  Anno M.C.lxxxiij. Willelmus rex Scottorum filiam ſuam Iſabel, quam genuit ex filia Roberti Auenel, Roberto de Brus honorifice dedit.
 This roughly translates as:
In the year 1183, William, King of Scots, honorably gave his daughter Isabel, whom he had begotten from the daughter of Robert Avenel, to Robert de Brus.

Robert was the son of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale, and Euphemia, the niece of William, Earl of Albemarle. Robert died before his father, so he never succeeded to the title.
Dictionary of National Biography vol 7 p115 (Leslie Stephen, 1886)
  BRUCE, ROBERT DE IV (d. before 1191), son of Robert III, was married in 1183 to Isabel, daughter of William the Lion, by a daughter of Robert Avenel, when he was given the manor of Haltwhistle in Tyndale as her dowry. He must have survived his father, if at all, only a short time, as his widow married Robert de Ros in 1191, and the date of his father’s death being uncertain it may be doubted whether he succeeded to Annandale. He was succeeded by William de Bruce, his brother, in that fief, who was the only exception to the line of Roberts. William held Annandale along with the English manors of Hert and Haltwhistle till his death in 1215.
  [Dugdale's Baronage, i. 449 ; Graham’s Lochmaben, pp. 16 and 17.]     Æ. M.

Married (2nd): Robert de Ros early in 1191, in Haddington, Scotland.
Chronica de Mailros p99 (ed. Joseph Stevenson, 1835)
  Anno M.C.xcj.
  Rex Scottorum dedit filiam ſuam Yſembel, que fuit uxor Roberti de Brus, Roberto de Ros apud Haditun.
 This roughly translates as:
  1191.
  The king of the Scots gave his daughter Ysembel, who was the wife of Robert de Brus, to Robert de Ros at Haddington.

Children: Notes:
In November 1200 Robert was an escort to Isabel's father, the king of Scotland, on William's journey to pay homage to the new English king John.
Chronica magistri Rogeri de Houedene vol 4 p140 (ed. William Stubbs, 1871)
   Johannes vero rex Angliæ, statim post coronationem suam, misit Philippum Dunelmensem episcopum, et Rogerum Bigot comitem de [Northfole], et Henricum do Boum comitem Herefordiæ, nepotem3 Willelmi regis Scotiæ, et David comitem de Huntendun, fratrem ejusdem regis Scotiæ, et Rogerum de Lasci constabularium Cestriæ, et Willelmum de Vesci et Robertum de Ros, generos ejusdem regis Scotiæ, et Robertum filium Rogeri, vicecomitem de Northimbria, ad Willelmum regem Scottorum, cum litteris regiis patentibus de salvo conducto ad conducendum ipsum regem Scottorum ad regem Angliæ; et statuit illi diem veniendi ad eum apud Lincolniam in crastino Sancti Eadmundi.
   3 nepotem] nepoti, I. The earl of Hereford was the son of Margaret of Scotland, sister of William the Lion, who married, after the death of Conan of Brittany, Humphrey de Bohun. Eustace de Vesci married Margaret, and Robert de Ros Isabel, two of the king’s natural daughters.
This translates to:
The Annals of Roger de Hoveden vol 2 p502 (translated by Henry T. Riley, 1853)
  Immediately after his coronation, John, king of England, sent Philip, bishop of Durham, Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, Henry de Bohun, earl of Hereford, nephew of William, king of Scotland, David, earl of Huntingdon, brother of the said king of Scotland, Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester, William de Vesci and Robert de Ros, sons-in-law of the said king of Scotland, and Robert Fitz-Roger, sheriff of Northumberland, to William, king of the Scots, with letters patent from the king, giving a safe conduct for the purpose of bringing the said king of the Scots to the king of England, and naming the morrow of the feast of Saint Edmund as that of his appearance at Lincoln.

The Baronage of England vol 1 pp545-6 (William Dugdale, 1675)
  Ros or Roos of Hamlake.
  This is that Robert who Founded d the Caſtles of Helmeſley (alias Hamlake) in Yorkſhire, and of e Werke in Northumberland; and married f Iſabell Daughter of William, firnamed Leo King of Scotland; by whom he had Iſſue g two Sons, William and Robert
  d e f g Monaſt. Angl. Vol. 1. 728 a. n. 60.

The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple pp331-4 (Charles Greenstreet Addison, 1842)
  On the accession of king John to the throne, the Lord de Ros was in high favour at court, and received by grant from that monarch the barony of his ancestor, Walter 1’Espec. He was sent into Scotland with letters of safe conduct to the king of Scots, to enable that monarch to proceed to England to do homage, and during his stay in Scotland he fell in love with Isabella, the beautiful daughter of the Scottish king, and demanded and obtained her hand in marriage. He attended her royal father on his journey into England to do homage to king John, and was present at the interview between the two monarchs on the hill near Lincoln, when the king of Scotland swore fealty on the cross of Hubert archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of the nobility of both kingdoms, and a vast concourse of spectators.†
  † Hoveden apud rer. Anglicar. script, post Bedam, p. 811.

Monasticon Anglicanum vol 5 p280 (William Dugdale, 1846)
     NUM. III.
Successio Dominorum de Roos post Maritagium Petri Domini de Roos Adelinae sorori Walteri Especk.
      [Ibid.[Ex MS. in bibl. Cotton, sub effigie Vitellii F. 4]]
... Robertum de Roos, dictum Fursan; qui Robertus duxit in uxorem Isabellam, filiam Regis Scotiæ, et genuit ex ea Willielmum de Roos et Robertum.
This roughly translates as:
The succession of the Lords of Roos after the marriage of Peter Lord of Roos to Adeline, sister of Walter Especk.
... Robert de Roos, called Fursan; which Robert married Isabella, the daughter of the King of Scotland, and by her begat William de Roos and Robert.

The Complete Peerage vol 11 pp92-3 (George Edward Cokayne, enlarged by Geoffrey H. White, 1949)
      ROS or ROOS OF HELMSLEY
  ROBERT DE ROS ... m. at Haddington, early in 1191, Isabel, widow of Robert DE BRUS (d. v.p., s. of Robert DE BRUS II), illegitimate da. of WILLIAM THE LION, KING OF SCOTI.AND.(e)
  (e) Chron. of Mailros, p. 99; pedigree by Farrer, Early Yorks Charters, vol. 11, p. 15.

Sources:

Robert Avenel

Married: Sybilla

Children Occupation: In addition to his duties as dominus of Eskdale, Robert was a royal justice (justiciar), from about 1172.
The acts of William I, King of Scots, 1165-1214 p43 (G. W. S. Barrow, 1971)
  In the first hundred acts, down to c.1172, only David Olifard is named as justice. Earl Duncan’s long run of occurrences with title begins c.1172, and more or less simultaneously we find Robert Avenel (of Eskdale), Walter Olifard (of Bothwell and Smailholm) and Richard Cumin (of Bedrule and West Linton) making their appearance.

Robert is described as "Robert Auenel Justic’" when he witnessed acts #129 and #130 (pp206-7), and in Liber Cartarum Prioratus Sancti Andree in Scotia p221 witnessed by "Robto auenel Justic"

Notes:
Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 pp30-3 #39 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 3/60/1
Robert Avenel, at the instance of his lord, William, king of Scots, with the consent of Gervase, his heir, has granted and given and established by this his charter to Melrose Abbey, his land of Eskdale, namely Tomleuchar (DMF) and Watcarrick (DMF), in pure and free and perpetual alms, for the soul of his lord King David, the same land which he (David) gave him (Robert) for his service, and for the souls of Earl Henry and King Malcolm, and for the soul of his lord King William, and for his own soul and that of his wife, Sybilla, and others, by stated bounds, noting the land of Robert Bruce. He gives the aforesaid to the monks in pure and perpetual alms, free from all service and secular exaction. It is known that the monks ought to pay him 5 marks annually since he first gave them the land, but he now remits and gives them the 5 marks in alms for the lighting of the altar of St Mary. After the death of his wife, Sybilla, by the assent and consent of Gervase, his heir, and the counsel of his friends, he remits, gives and quitclaims to Melrose in pure and perpetual alms 4 marks annually which they owe. He has made this charter in the time of his lord, King William, who at Robert’s petition has established his donation, just as his lord, King Malcolm, granted and established before. His previous donation and charter was made to them in the time of King Malcolm with named witnesses.

Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 p33 #40 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 4/20/3
[An agreement is formed, whereby] Robert Avenel and Gervase his heir have quitclaimed in perpetuity that 4 marks which the monks of Melrose were wont to render annually in rent for their lands of Eskdale (DMF). The abbot and convent have granted faithfully to Robert and Gervase his heir the aforesaid pittance in perpetuity owed four times a year, on these days: the day on which Robert himself relinquished the secular life, the day on which Sir Robert dies, the sixth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the soul of Lady Sybilla, Robert’s wife, and the day of Gervase’s death. On these days, there will be a commemoration and absolution of their souls in perpetuity.

The monastic annals of Teviotdale pp273-4 (James Morton, 1832)
  ESKDALE. Robert de Avenel, in the reign of Malcolm IV, gave the monks his land in Eskdale, consisting of two parts, viz. Tumloher and Weidkerroc, between the Black and the White Eske, extending from their junction to the forest of Thimei and the mountains. He reserved to himself the right of hunting the wild boar, the deer, and the stag, with other manorial and feudal rights, which he afterwards partly resigned. He reserved also an annual rent of five marks, one of which he subsequently remitted for the maintenance of a light to burn perpetually before the altar of the blessed Virgin; and afterwards, upon the death of his wife Sibilla, he resigned the other four marks, which were to be expended upon four pittances for the monks, every year at appointed seasons. He retired into the monastery in his old age, and died there in 1185; “cujus beata anima,” says the writer of the Melros Chronicle, “semper vivat in gloria.”…* Robert I. gave them part of the barony of Westerker in Eskdale, forfeited by Lord Soulis.†
  * Chart. Mel. 53.
  † ROBERTSON'S Index of Charters.

Robert Avenel's daughter had a child, Isabel, fathered by William "the Lion", king of Scotland.
Chronica de Mailros p92 (ed. Joseph Stevenson, 1835)
  Anno M.C.lxxxiij. Willelmus rex Scottorum filiam ſuam Iſabel, quam genuit ex filia Roberti Auenel, Roberto de Brus honorifice dedit.
 This roughly translates as:
In the year 1183, William, King of Scots, honorably gave his daughter Isabel, whom he had begotten from the daughter of Robert Avenel, to Robert de Brus.

Caledonia vol 2 p513-4 (George Chalmers, 1887)
  Robert Avenel, an Englishman, was settled by David I, in the same vicinity with the Souleses in Upper-Eskdale (q). He flourished during the reigns of Malcolm IV. and William, whose charters he witnessed (r); and he officiated as justiciary of Lothian, for a short period, after the accession of William in 1165 (s). He married Sibilla, by whom he had a son, Gervase, and a daughter, whose illicit love with King William produced a daughter, Isabel, who was given by her father in marriage, to Robert Brus in 1183, and to Robert de Ros in 1191 (t). Robert Avenel retired from the turmoils of life into the monastery of Melrose, where he died in 1185 (u).
  (q) In his charter to the monks of Melrose (Chart. No. 4), he states his grant to have been made “pro anima domini mei regis David, qui eadem terram dedit mihi, servicio meo.” He witnessed a grant of David to the monks of Dryburgh.
  (r) Diplom. Scotiæ; Chart. Cupar, No. 1, 2; Chart. Paisley, No. 8.
  (s) Chart. St. Andrews; Chart. Cambuskenneth, No. 105.
  (t) Chart. Melrose, No. 94; Chron. Melrose, 175. W. Rex Scottorum filiam suam Isabel, quam genuit ex filia Roberti Avenel, Roberti de Brus honorifice dedit. Ib., 179.
  (u) Ib., 176. To this monastery he granted a large portion of his lands in Eskdale. Chart. Melrose, 91, 95.

Death: 8 March 1185
Chronica de Mailros p93 (ed. Joseph Stevenson, 1835)
  Anno m.c.lxxxv. … Obiit Robertus Auenel,r novicius, familiaris noſter, viij. idus Martii [Mar. 8]. Iſte dedit Deo et ſancte Marie et monachis de Melros terram ſuam de Heſkedale, ſicut carta ipſius teſtatur; cujus beata anima ſemper vivat in gloria.
  r Concerning this individual and his benefactions, see Morton’s Monast. Ann., p. 273, who cites the Chart. of Melrose, 53.
This roughly translates as:
  1185 … Robert Avenel, novice, our familiar, died on the 8th day before Ides of March [8 March]. He gave to God and to Saint Mary and to the monks of Melrose his land of Heskedale, as his charter testifies; may his blessed soul live forever in glory.

Burial: Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland

Sources:

Robert Avenel

Father: Robert Avenel

Mother: Sybilla (_____) Avenel

Occupation: Cleric.
Robert is described as "Robt' cleric' fili ipi' robti" when he witnessed his father's charter transcribed at Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 p33 #40

Sources:

Sybilla (_____) Avenel

Married: Robert Avenel

Children Notes:
Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 pp30-3 #39 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 3/60/1
Robert Avenel, at the instance of his lord, William, king of Scots, with the consent of Gervase, his heir, has granted and given and established by this his charter to Melrose Abbey, his land of Eskdale, namely Tomleuchar (DMF) and Watcarrick (DMF), in pure and free and perpetual alms, for the soul of his lord King David, the same land which he (David) gave him (Robert) for his service, and for the souls of Earl Henry and King Malcolm, and for the soul of his lord King William, and for his own soul and that of his wife, Sybilla, and others, by stated bounds, noting the land of Robert Bruce. He gives the aforesaid to the monks in pure and perpetual alms, free from all service and secular exaction. It is known that the monks ought to pay him 5 marks annually since he first gave them the land, but he now remits and gives them the 5 marks in alms for the lighting of the altar of St Mary. After the death of his wife, Sybilla, by the assent and consent of Gervase, his heir, and the counsel of his friends, he remits, gives and quitclaims to Melrose in pure and perpetual alms 4 marks annually which they owe. He has made this charter in the time of his lord, King William, who at Robert’s petition has established his donation, just as his lord, King Malcolm, granted and established before. His previous donation and charter was made to them in the time of King Malcolm with named witnesses.

Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 p33 #40 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 4/20/3
[An agreement is formed, whereby] Robert Avenel and Gervase his heir have quitclaimed in perpetuity that 4 marks which the monks of Melrose were wont to render annually in rent for their lands of Eskdale (DMF). The abbot and convent have granted faithfully to Robert and Gervase his heir the aforesaid pittance in perpetuity owed four times a year, on these days: the day on which Robert himself relinquished the secular life, the day on which Sir Robert dies, the sixth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the soul of Lady Sybilla, Robert’s wife, and the day of Gervase’s death. On these days, there will be a commemoration and absolution of their souls in perpetuity.

The monastic annals of Teviotdale pp273-4 (James Morton, 1832)
  ESKDALE. Robert de Avenel, in the reign of Malcolm IV, gave the monks his land in Eskdale, consisting of two parts, viz. Tumloher and Weidkerroc, between the Black and the White Eske, extending from their junction to the forest of Thimei and the mountains. He reserved to himself the right of hunting the wild boar, the deer, and the stag, with other manorial and feudal rights, which he afterwards partly resigned. He reserved also an annual rent of five marks, one of which he subsequently remitted for the maintenance of a light to burn perpetually before the altar of the blessed Virgin; and afterwards, upon the death of his wife Sibilla, he resigned the other four marks, which were to be expended upon four pittances for the monks, every year at appointed seasons. He retired into the monastery in his old age, and died there in 1185; “cujus beata anima,” says the writer of the Melros Chronicle, “semper vivat in gloria.”…*
  * Chart. Mel. 53,

Caledonia vol 2 p513-4 (George Chalmers, 1887)
  Robert Avenel … married Sibilla, by whom he had a son, Gervase, and a daughter, whose illicit love with King William produced a daughter, Isabel, who was given by her father in marriage, to Robert Brus in 1183, and to Robert de Ros in 1191 (t).
  (t) Chart. Melrose, No. 94; Chron. Melrose, 175. W. Rex Scottorum filiam suam Isabel, quam genuit ex filia Roberti Avenel, Roberti de Brus honorifice dedit. Ib., 179.

Death: 31 December 11??
Sybilla's husband made a donation to Melrose Abbey to commemorate certain days, one of which was "the sixth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the soul of Lady Sybilla", presumable the date of her death, although the year is not clear (Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 p33 #40 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 4/20/3).

Sources:

Vincent Avenel

Father: Robert Avenel

Mother: Sybilla (_____) Avenel

Notes:
Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 pp50-1 #61 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 3/268/1
William of Halkerston, Richard his brother, John son of Alan of Montgomery, Vincent son of Robert Avenel and Nicholas son of Roland, have given, granted and by this their present charter established, to Melrose Abbey, for the soul of Walter son of Alan (II, the steward), their lord, a certain land in the territory of Innerwick (ELO) as a ditch encircles the said land made by the brothers, in free, pure and perpetual alms, free and quit from all terrestrial service and secular exaction. Moreover, they have leased to the monks common pasture of the villa of Innerwick, by stated bounds, with easements, in peataries and turbaries, in heaths and in pastures, in perpetual feuferme.
 
Liber Sancte Marie de Melros vol 1 pp51-2 #62 summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 3/547/44
Walter son of Alan, steward the king of Scots, has granted and by this his charter established to Melrose Abbey the donation which Roger son of Glay, William of Halkerston, Richard of Halkerston, his brother, John son of Alan of Montgomery, Vincent son of Robert Avenel and Nicholas son of Roland made to them of a certain part of land in the territory of Innerwick (ELO), by stated bounds, which include the land of Kelso Abbey and the brewery of Melrose Abbey, in pure and perpetual alms, free and quit from all service, exaction and demand.

Liber S. Marie de Calchou pp210-1 #252 (1846) summarised at People of Medieval Scotland 3/60/5
Vincent son of Robert Avenel has given, granted at feuferme in perpetuity, and established by this his charter, to Kelso Abbey his land and wood and pasture which pertains to him, that is, a sixth part of the territory of Innerwick (ELO), by stated bounds, free and quit from all service, of ‘inware’ and ‘utware’ and other aids, customs and exactions, for an annual render in perpetuity of 40d on the feast of St James, and a pair of boots on the feast of St Andrew. He affirmed the agreement by an oath touching the sacred gospels.

Sources:

_____ Avenel

Father: Robert Avenel

Mother: Sybilla (_____) Avenel

Children Notes:
This daughter of Robert Avenel had a daughter, Isabel, fathered by William, king of Scotland.
Chronica de Mailros p92 (ed. Joseph Stevenson, 1835)
  Anno M.C.lxxxiij. Willelmus rex Scottorum filiam ſuam Iſabel, quam genuit ex filia Roberti Auenel, Roberto de Brus honorifice dedit.
 This roughly translates as:
In the year 1183, William, King of Scots, honorably gave his daughter Isabel, whom he had begotten from the daughter of Robert Avenel, to Robert de Brus.

Caledonia vol 2 p514 (George Chalmers, 1887)
  Robert Avenel ... married Sibilla, by whom he had a son, Gervase, and a daughter, whose illicit love with King William produced a daughter, Isabel, who was given by her father in marriage, to Robert Brus in 1183, and to Robert de Ros in 1191 (t).
  (t) Chart. Melrose, No. 94; Chron. Melrose, 175. W. Rex Scottorum filiam suam Isabel, quam genuit ex filia Roberti Avenel, Roberti de Brus honorifice dedit. Ib., 179.

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