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Name: | Richard of CAMVILLE |
Sex: | Male |
Father: | Richard + of CAMVILLE (1127-1176) |
Mother: | Milicent + STANTON (1127- ) |
Death | 1191 |
Richard de Camville (died 1191) was an English crusader knight, and one of Richard the Lionheart's senior commanders during the Third Crusade. In June 1190, at Chinon, he was, with 3 others, put in charge of King Richard's fleet sailing for the Holy Land.[1] In 1191 he was appointed governor of Cyprus, jointly with Robert of Thornham. He died later in the same year at the Siege of Acre.[1][2][3]
He was the son of another Richard de Camville (died 1176), an Anglo-Norman landowner, and Millicent, a kinswoman of Adeliza of Louvain, the second wife of King Henry I.[4] The family probably originated from Canville-les-Deux-Églises (Canvilla 1149, Camvilla 1153) in Normandy. He had at least one child, Gerard de Camville.
In England, his holdings included land at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire,[4] Blackland, Wiltshire,[3] and Speen (possibly posthumously)[5] and Avington,[6] both in Berkshire