Baldwin De Boulers

  General Notes:

Also known as "Lord of Montgomery"

Baldwin de Boelare came to England in 1105 when he was granted the Lordship of Montgomery, Wales in marriage with Sybil de Falaise. Sybil was the 'niece' of King Henry I. In this country he is recorded as Baldwin de Boulers, de Boullers, de Bollers or de Bullers. All Phonetic variations of de Boelare.
Montgomery Castle had been built in the 1070s (not long after the Norman conquest) by Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury who named it after his home in Normandy and had became the property of the crown in 1102 when Robert of Montgomery rebelled against the king. It was in an important location just east of the ford of Rhyd Whyman over the river Severn.
Montgomery was held by Baldwin de Boulers, his son Stephen (slain by Llywelyn ap Madog of Powys in 1152) and grandsons Robert and Baldwin who succeeded him. The de Boulers lost the Lordship after they were overrun by the Welsh in 1207. It is presumably from the first or second Baldwin that the Welsh name of Montgomery, Trefaldwyn (a mutation from Tre Baldwin) arose.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Sibyl De Falaise.

Baldwin married Sybila De Falaise, daughter of King Henry I De Falaise and Lady Sybil Corbet, in 1105 in Falaise, Calvados, France. (Sybila De Falaise was born in 1092 in Domfront, Falaise, France, died on 13 July 1122 in Eilean nam Ban, Loch Tay, Scotland and was buried in July 1122 in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland.)