William Fitz Osbert [SEP] place of birth
William Fitz Osbert
William Fitz Osbert or William with the long beard (died 1196) was a citizen of London who took up the role of "the advocate of the poor" in a popular uprising in the spring of 1196. Popular revolts by the poor and peasants in England were rare in the 12th century, and quickly and easily suppressed. The fullest known account of the revolt of 1196 comes from the contemporary English historian William of Newburgh in his "Historia rerum anglicarum" from a chapter entitled "Of a conspiracy
advowson of the church in Combs to the priory in c. 1275. In 1280, after petition, she granted the patronage of the priory to the Bishops of Norwich, then William de Middleton (1277-1288). She died about 1286, when the Combs lands, until then held in Bartholomew's name, passed to the third son, John de Creke. John lived only until 1289, leaving as heir his sister Sarra, wife of Roger fitz Peter fitz Osbert. 
Successive escheats necessitated the renewal of the priory