The Starr Family of America

Notes
The identity of her husband has been a matter of much speculation. Ontheir research trip of 1993, Gerard Lacy and his associates put forth amember of the Talbot family as the most likely candidate for Emma'shusband.
Per "The Roll of The House of Lacy", There is much evidence that
Baldwin de Meules (RIN 2864) was Emma's husband and the father of GILBERT(RIN 1952).
A third possibility is that A Hugh, the brother of Gilbert de Nogent
married Emma, fathered GILBERT, and took the de Lacy name for his own.

Cokayne's "Complete Peerage" (Munchensy, p.424, note at bottom of page):
"The Editors are indebted to M.W. Hughes for being able to suggest thatSibyl, wife of Payn Fitz John, was daughter of Geoffrey Talbot by[?Agnes] his wife, sister of Roger, Hugh, and Walter de Lacy."

The foregoing raises the question in my mind: Did a sister of Roger,Hugh, and Walter de Lacy named either Emma or Agnes marry Geoffrey Talbotand father both Gilbert deLacy and Sibyl, wife of Payn? Or were there twodistinct sisters, one marrying Geoffrey Talbot and bearing Sibyl to himand the other, whose husband was unknown, bearing Gilbert de Lacy?

The "Gesta Stephani" contains the following passage. The Geoffrey Talbotreferred to therin would be the son of the Geoffrey who was possibly thehusband of Emma/Agnes:
"Among the others came the famous Geoffrey Talbot. As was stated earlier,he had been banished from England, and he was preparing to breathe outeverywhere the poison of his furious hatred and to do every cruel deedthat a frenzied and unbalanced mind is wont to imagine. But by God'sjudgement his malice was turned against himself because while he wasplanning to slaughter some and injure others he himself was firstcaptured and very closely confined in chains and barely escaped a
sentence of condemnation. . . So Geoffrey Talbot and his relative,
GILBERT DE LACY [RIN 1952], a man of judgement and shrewd and painstakingin every operation of war, were chosen as scouts. . ." The note appendedto this passage reads as follows: "Apart from this reference therelationship between GILBERT DE LACY and Geoffrey Talbot is unknown. . ."