Background
She was the daughter of Forn Sigulfson, Lord of Greystoke, Cumberland.
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Edith Forne
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Career
Edith had two children by King Henry:
Robert FitzEdith, Lord Okehampton, (1093–1172) who married Dame Maud d"Avranches du Sap. They had one daughter, Mary, who married Renaud, Sire of Courtenay (son of Miles, Sire of Courtenay and Ermengarde of Nevers). In 1120, Henry caused Edith to marry Robert Doctorate"Oyly the younger, second son of Nigel Doctorate"Oyly.
As a marriage portion, she was granted the Manor of Cleydon, Buckinghamshire.
Robert and Edith had at least two children: Henry, buried at Osney in 1163, and Gilbert. She told him that she had dreamt of the chattering of magpies, interpreted by a chaplain as souls in purgatory who needed a church founding to expiate their sins.
Edith was buried in Osney Abbey, in a religious habit, as John Leland describes upon seeing her tomb as it was on the eve of the dissolution: ‘Ther lyeth an image of Edith, of stone, in th" abbite of a vowess, holding a hart in her right hand, on the north side of the high altaire’. The legendary dream of magpies was painted near the tomb.
