Pudsey family

De Puisay, from Puisaz, or Puisay, in the Orleannois. This place gave its name to one of the "chief nobles of France," Ebrard de Puisay, whose daughter Adelais was the second wife of the famous Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury. Hugh de Puteaco, Pusaz, or De Pudsey, was elected Prince-Bishop of Durham in 1153. No author has told us of the place of his birth, or the name of his father: we only know that he was a nephew of King Stephen, and of the Bishop of Winchester, and at that time Treasurer of York. Nevertheless, as the Archbishop had not been consulted in the election, both he and the monks who had chosen him were forced to submit to a sound whipping, standing with bare backs in the church at Beverley. Pudsey proved a haughty, reserved, and intensely ambitious prelate, of whom one of his contemporaries affirmed that the world was not crucifixus to him, but infixus in him. ... more

  • A1. Pagan de Pudsey, Lord Of Pudsey, lvd:1087/1135;
    • B1. Hugh de Pudsey, Bishop of Durham, lvd:1153/1193;
    • B2. Geoffrey de Pudsey, lvd:1154;
      • C1. Henry de Pudsey;
        • D1. William de Pudsey, lvd:1268;
          • E1. Simon de Pudsey, lvd:1272, m. Catherine de Bolton;
            • F1. John de Pudsey;
              • G1. Henry de Pudsey of Bolton Hall, m. Elizabeth Layton;
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        • H1. Sir John Pudsey of Barforth, d:1433, m. Margaret Eure;  ==>  Eure family
          • I1. Sir Ralph Pudsey of Barforth, d:1433, m. Margaret Tunstal;
            • J1. Sir John Pudsey, Knight, lvd:1428/1492, m. Grace Hamerton;
              • K1. Sir Henry Pudsey of Barforth, d:1542, m. Margaret Conyers;
                • L1. Thomas Pudsey, m. Margaret Pilkinton;

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