Just as someone can be described today as ‘Pete the carpenter’, in Norman times the sobriquet ‘dapifer’ hides true identity. What is known of the latter class is that they were almost invariably junior kinsmen of the lord they served. Thus, when considering the dapifers of William Meschin, it is necessary to commence with the premiss of Kinship.
These brief notes provide an example of kinship that fit the job description. They commence with an account of the Crispin (as Colville), and Malet connection, for all families of this period need to be understood in terms of their shared associations; as well as in terms of the dominant political/ethical ethos of their time, which decreed how land held by them as tenants was to be secured for family inheritance.
1. Gilbert Crispin, ‘who because of the shape of his hair was to be known as Crispin. For in his early youth he had hair that was brush-like and stiff and sticking out, and in a manner of speaking bristling like the needles of a pine tree. This gave him the name of Crispin, from ‘crispus pinus, ‘pine hair’. Gilbert Crispin I. was also noted by Milo Crispin as being ‘of renowned origin and nobility’ (Milo Crispin, How The Holy Virgin Appeared To William Crispin The Elder And On The Origin Of The Crispin Family, ed. Migne, cols. 735-744, 1856). Duke Robert I. established Gilbert Crispin at Tillières to defend this important border castle for him.
1.1. William Crispin. In the lists published of the Companions of Duke William, the brothers Gilbert and William are sometimes surnamed Crispin, sometimes Colleville, and sometimes appear under both surnames on the same list. He m. Eve de Montfort, sister of Simon I de Montfort L’Amaury. (W. Frolich, trsl., The Letters of Anselme of Canterbury, 1990-1994, nos. 22, 98, 118, and 147).
Borrowing from a typically grandiose account of the Norman hierarchy, as if they were vassals of a Roman Emperor: William Crispin was ‘of outstanding manners, the best known of all; with military fame he rose above almost all his contemporaries. His famous prowess made many envious. William, duke of the Normans, called William Crispin to the castle of Neaufles and gave him, and his son after him, the castle and the vicomte of the Vexin. There William established his home to ward off French invasions. He revisited, however, the land he held elsewhwere in Normandy in the district of Lisieux’. (Milo Crispin, ibid.). The military prowess of the Crispins was well esteemed: ‘And like the Fabii, or the Anicii or Manlii, carried the tokens of fame (insignia) among the Romans, so the Crispins knew even greater fame among the Normans and the French’ (ibid.). William became a monk at bec in 1076, see Chronicon Beccense. How art the mighty fallen?, or saved?
1.1.1. William Crispin, as de Colleville, held extensively in YorkshireL. Folio 322v Great Domesday Book: Alwinton. Cliftun. Wartre. Wheldrake. Pochetorp. Mersc. Scornesbi. Nadfartone. Ianulfestorp. Hildrewelle. Lachinfeld. Weslide. Climbicote. Haito. Grimeston. Gudmundham. Figclinge. Fodstone. Estorp. Domniton. Brunebi. Karletun. Most of these had been held by William Malet, his uncle.
1.2. Robert Crispin, the best-known Norman mercenary engaged in the battles of Argastro and Barbastro, in 1064.
1.3. Gilbert Crispin, commander of Tillières.
1.3.1. Gilbert Crispin, m. Hersende de Brezolles, kinswoman of Albert Ribaut, and became enfeoffed in Armentières.
1.3.2. Robert de d’Armentières, held Whatton of Gilbert de Gand. (Domesd. tom. i. fol. 56 b).
1.3.2.1. William de Whatton, pogenitor of the families of Newmarch and Wormley.
1.4. Hesilia Crispin, m. William Malet. The Malets possessed Colleville in Seine Inf. Gilbert de Colavilla in 1086 was an under-tenant in Suffolk of his cousin, Robert Malet (son of Hesilia and William), and Hesilia, his aunt.
William Malet was the Sheriff defending York in 1069 against attack by a combined force of Danes and English under Sweyn of Denmark. William Malet, his wife Hesilia, and two of their children, were captured, later freed by ransome. After William Malet’s death in 1071, some of his lands in Yorkshire were granted to William de Percy, who became the lord of Malet tenants in chief.
Thus, I suggest, three important points concerning tenurial association are introduced: (1) such tenants were primarily concerned with ongoing tenancy, whoever the landlord; (2) their original landlord may have had some kind of familial connection to them; (3) their subsequent landlord’s family were prime candidates for intermarriage. Such was a template for survival, and the basis of the ‘continuation of association’ that underpinned the feudal kinship system.
Yorkshire Domesday tenants-in-chief such as William de Percy enfeoffed a large number of sub-tenants. In Wheldrake, including William de Colleville; this holding originally being held by William Malet, his uncle (V.C.H. Yorks. ii. 167, 262, 293). William de Percy also held the castle of Tadcaster, which had also originally belonged to William Malet, whose son, Robert, succeeded to only a portion of his father’s lands, very likely the result of him joining the 1088 rebellion against William Rufus. Many of the Malet estates in Yorkshire and other counties passed by ducal confiscation to Robert de Stuteville (see D.B, i, 373a-374b, 320b-321a); a descendant of his married William de Colville, of Bytham.
The estates of Durand Malet also appear to have been confiscated. William Meschin held the land of Durand Malet (no. 44) and William Blund (no. 49). 48. Leic. Surv., p. 87.
The Percys had close links with Ranulf of Chester. Several brothers of William Percy II. pursued careers in Scotland, and one, Alan, fought with King David at the battle of the Standard. Another brother, Walter, married Avice Meschin, a daughter of the earl of Chester’s cousin, William Meschin , and a sister-in-law of William fitz Duncan nephew of King David (see EYC, xi, 2-3; EYC, vi, 33; EYC, vii, 4-8).
William de Colville’s son, Phillip, was also of the castelan class: William de Newburgh states: “But King Stephen, coming into the province of York, found a certain Philip de Colville, who it was supposed had burnt his fortress at Drax, or had delivered it up to be burnt, in rebellion, relying on the strength of the same fortress and on the mighty prowess of his comrades, and on a copious supply of food and arms; nevertheless, the king, having assembled an army from the nearest provinces, laid siege to the fortress, though almost inaccessible from the intervening rivers, forests, and marshes, and having bravely stormed it, in a short time won it”. Philip de Colville was the mesne-tenant of this Robert de Gaunt, and the treason committed by the vassal was avenged upon the lord by the forfeiture of the demesnes of Drax and Leeds ( Richard Vickerman Taylor, Biographia Leodiensis, p. 60, 1865).
Philip de Colleville’s son, Philip de Colville, accepted an invitation of King Malcolm IV of Scotland to settle in Scotland, and founded the baronies of Culross and Ochiltree. He was witness to a general confirmation by King Malcolm IV. of all donations made by his predecessors to the monastery of Dunfermline, before 1159.
Political judgement was paramount to life, as the consequence of falling out of favour was of mafia-like proportion; and in a pragmatic move , Robert Malet became a close counsellor of the King in 1100, and regained some Malet estates before his death, circa 1105. Robert’s cousin, Roger of Lacy, was Duke Robert’s magister in Normandy (see EYC, iii, nos. 1419, 1421-2; Regesta, ii, nos. 598, 559, 1030).
A ‘wrong choice’ was made by Robert de Stuteville, one of the rebels captured by the king at Tinchebrai, in 1106. His Yorkshire estates were given to Nigel d’Aubigny, a son of Roger d’Aubigny, of St. Martin d’Aubigny, a brother of William d’Aubigny, the royal pincerna. In addition to the Stuteville and Malet estates Nigel was granted the overlordship of former tenants-in-chief, such as William de Colville. Coxwold was granted to Thomas de Colville (Phillip’s brother) shortly after 1145.
1.Thomas de Colleville, the youngest son of this Anglo-Norman family, obtained, by gift of his father,Yearsley, also spelt Everley, Ifferley, and Yresley, a name deriving from Efor’s Leigh, meaning field of the wild boar, near York, where he granted lands to Byland Abbey: ‘In the reign of Stephen, Thomas de Colvyle gave pasture in the wood of Eversley [Yearsley] to Byland Abbey’. (Excerpt from The Yorkshire Archeological Journal, vol. xiv. See also Burton, Mon. Ebor., 72). He married Matilda d’Aubigny, who was third witness, after two canons, to a charter in which her husband granted lands to Newburgh Pryory, c.1150. She was probably a close relative of Roger de Mowbray, overlord of Thomas de Colville, the son of Nigel d’Aubigny, a successor to Malet estates and tenants.
1.1. Philip de Colville, who was ancestor of the Colvilles of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, and the Everlys of Yorkshire. He held land in Thimbleby and Sigston, Yorkshire. He was founder of the Nunnery of St. Stephens, Foukeholm, and of St. James Hospital, Northallerton. [William Page, History of the County of York, p. 116, 1974.] He married an heiress called Engelise Ingeram, of Ingleby Arncliffe, dau. and heir of Robert Ingram, a tenant of the Brus fee in Heslerton.
1.1.1. William de Colville, m. Maud d’Albini (Brito), dau. of Ralph d’Albini (Brito). William held one night’s fee of Robert de Gand in Lincs., husband of Gunnora d’Albini (Brito), Maud’s sister. Ralph d’Albini (Brito) was the uncle of William Albini I. (Brito), who m. Matilda, the dau. of Odonel de Umframville (grandfather of Gilbert de Umframville I.) whose family armorial was gules, 3 cinque foils or. (Hamilton).
1.1.1.1. William de Colville, m. Beatrice de Stuteville. Her sister, Alice de Stuteville, m. Roger de Merlay, son of Ralph de Merlay, Lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, and Juliana of Dunbar, dau. of Gospatric II. of Dunbar. Roger de Merlay and Alice de Stuteville had issue: Roger de Merlay, who m. Margery de Umframville, dau. of Richard Umframville, and sister of Gilbert de Umframville I.
1.1.2. Gilbert de Colville, as follows hereinafter.
MALET
1. … Malet.
1.1. William Malet.
1.1.1. Robert Malet, held the fief of Collavilla, near Harfleur, Seine-Inf. Domesday shows “Gilbert de Colavilla” as a considerable undertenant of Robert Malet at Rendlesham; he also held under Robert Malet’s mother, Hesilia Crispin (DB/Sf 6/19-21, 29-30, 34-37, etc.).
1.1.1.1. Robert Malet. Amongst the benefactions made to the abbey of St Taurin, Evreux, in the late eleventh century were grants of land in Pinterville (arr. Louviers, Eure) given by Robert Malet, and his wife, Emmelina, with the assent of William de Breteuil, whose wife was probably a sister of Robert’s wife, daughter of Hugh de Montfort II., with whose lands and tenants, English and Norman, the Malets were often involved. William de Breteuil and the Crispin family had strong associations, probably as the result of Gilbert Crispin I. marrying Gunnor d’Anet (not d’Annou); see previous notes.
1.1.1.2. William Mallet. In 1121, Henry I confirmed the gift of Conteville (Eure) to the abbey of Bec (in 1117), made by William Malet. In the same year, William granted the abbey: ‘pro filio suo qui factus est monachus Becci … pro salute anima suae et conjugis et liberorum suorum et pro anima patris et matris sui et fratris sui Roberti … in episcopatu Ebroicensis, juxta Carentonum fluvium, terra que vocatur Maisnillo Gosselini’. An earlier gift to Bec was that of Robert Malet, who gave ‘consensu ejusdem Gilberti Crispini sedem unius molendini in Maisnillo Goscelini et acram terram unam et uiam ad molendinum’. Immediately following this grant in the confirmation charter is the gift of Emma de Condé (Hesilia’s sister) in Tiliolo (Le Theil) of the church and tithe of the land of Ralph de Livet, and her son, Peter.
1.1.2. Lucy Malet, m. Turold the Sheriff.
1.1.2.1. Lucy Malet, m. Ranulph de Meschines, son of Ranulph, Viscount of Bayeux. ‘William de Colleville (brother of Thomas, supra), held Colleville from Ranulph, Viscount of Bayeux’ (MSAN VIII., p. 430). Keats-Rohan, Prosopon Newsletter, May 1995: Lucy was William Malet’s thrice-married granddaughter.
1.1.3. Durand Malet, a tenant in capita in Lincolnshire, holding several manors, among them Irby-upon-Humber, Rothwell, and Willingore. ‘His descendants continued at Irby for many generations’ (Burton’s Mon. Ebor. 75). Prestwold: “In 1086, Earl Hugh j. carucates and a meadow 120 perches long and 40 wide, and a wood 240 perches long. Durand Malet held 13 carucates belonging to Burton manor”. Burton. “In 1086 William held under Goisfrid de Wirce 5 carucates; 9 socmen had 4 ploughs, there were 40 acres of meadow.” Durand Malet held 5 carucates, 1 plough was in the demesne; 2 socmen, 2 villans and 1 bordar had 1 plough there were 40 acres of meadow.” Lewin held under Earl Hugh Lupus 1 hide, 1 plough was in the demesne, 1 villan and 2 bordars; and there were 20 acres of meadow. Godric held under Earl Hugh 2 carucates; 1 plough was in the demesne, and there were 20 acres of meadow … The Hospital of Burton Lazars, was founded in 1135 by Roger de Mowbray”. (John Curtis, A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, pp. 38, 143, 187, 1831). “Durand holds from Robert Malet” in Cransford, Plumesgate Hundred, Suffolk (Domesday Translation, folio 316, p. 1211).
1.1.3.1. Yvo Malet. (Cousin of William Meschine). Lionel Charlton, The history of Whitby, and of Whitby abbey, pp. 122-3, 1779: ‘In the year 1156, Hugh Malet (second-cousin of William Meschine) granted, and gave to God, and the: church of St. Peter and St. Hylda at Wyteby, and to the Monks performing divine service there, all his lordship in Rowelle, and particularly those two. oxgangs of land which before the making of this charter they held of him for three shillings per annum, with all the tithes of the said lordship after the death of Geoffrey, the Chaplain of Reginald, and also the pasture pertaining to that lordship, and the Chapel below the court-house or hall (infra curiam). Now all this he gave for a perpetual alms, free and clear from every secular custom or foreign service, for his own soul, and that of his wife, and for the souls of his father and mother, as his father Yvo Malet freely and fully possessed the same. Moreover he gave to the said church that toft which is before the gateway of the said lordship, a part of which he held of his mother, Margaret.
And with all these, he also by his charter granted and confirmed to the said Monks the service which he had been used to receive yearly from Croxeby, as well for plowers as reapers. Also at the same time his heir Ralph granted all these things as an alms to the aforesaid church, free and clear from every exaction or service.
At the same time this alms was confirmed to the Monastery of Whitby by Robert Bishop of Lincoln, as appears by the following charter: Robert, by the grace of God, Bishop of Lincoln, to all faithful sons of holy mother Church, greeting. Know ye, that Hugh Malet in my presence hath given as a perpetual alms to God, and to St. Peter the Apostle, and St. Hylda of Wyteby, and to the fraternity in that place, all his lordship of Rowelle, with all the tithes of that lordship; yet so that Geoffrey, Chaplain of Lincoln, the Canon, shall freely possess and receive all the tithes of the said lordship of Rowelle (Rouuelle), during the whole term of his natural life; and, after the death of Geoffrey, the Monastery of ‘Witeby shall perpetually and quietly possess the said tithes of the lordship of Rowelle, with the chapel and cimitery in that lordship. And it is hereby to be understood, that Hugh Malet is to keep in his own hand all the villains or tenants, with their whole tenure. Now this donation, made as is above said in our presence, we confirm and strengthen with the testimony of our seal’.
1.2.1.1. Hugh Malet (who can be taken to be Hugh de Prestwold), donated “dominium meum in Rouuelle”, held by “pater meus Ivo Malet … matre mea Margareta”, by charter, dated to circa 1147. (Surtees Society (1879) Cartularium abbathiæ de Whiteby, vol. I, XLVII, p. 50). In 1166, 8 knights’ fees held by Hugh Malet and one held by Philip de Chimes were included in the carta of William de Curcy III, relating to his mother’s inheritence: ‘Novo fefamento, quod pater suus feodavit de suo Dominio de eadem Baronia: Ricardus de Lond. I. mil. Robertus de Stane. I. mil. Walterus de Lillebone. I. milit. Hugo Pincerna dim. mil. Berengerus dim. mil. Goidlanus quintam partem. I. militis. Et de Baronia Willelmi Meschin, ex parte matris suae: Hugo Malet. VIII. mil. Philippus de Chimes. I. milit’. William de Curcy ‘s mother was Avice, dau. of William Meschin; Avice’s sister, Alice, was the mother of Cecily, countess of Aumale, of which family the Stutevilles were tenants, this being the reason for William de Colville’s enfeoffment at Bytham.
1.2.1.1.1. Ansketil (Malet). Ansketil son of Hugh de Prestwold gave the advowson of Prestwold to Bullington in Lincolnshire. Elias, Ansketil’s son, confirmed the gift. The Malet connection to Bullington was through their connection to the Percys.
Bullington was a Kyme foundation; Phillip de Kyme giving consent to Ansketil’s gift. Simon de Kyme, Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1195 to 1198, married Rohisia, “the Rose of Bullington”, daughter and heir of Robert the dapifer to Earl Percy and his wife (Rohese, dau. of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare and Adeliz, dau. of Ranulf, Earl of Chester – M.S); the relict of Gilbert de Gant. The Kymes held the steward’s fee of the Percy barony. (See Edward Trollope, Sleaford, and the wapentakes of Flaxwell and Aswardhurn, p. 250, 1872).
1.2.1.1.1.1. Ivo (Malet), constable of Coventry castle for Earl Ranulf of Chester.
1.2.1.1.1.2. Geoffrey (Malet) le Despenser (of William Meschin, son of Ranulf, Earl of Chester). Gaufrido dispensatore et Ivone fratre suo” witnesses to charter of the Earl of Chester, c. 1135-1153.
1.2.1.1.1.3. Hugh (Malet), m. a descendant of Willelmus de Queniborough, whose family were probably sub-tenants of Durand Malet, in Burton, as they seemed to possess Durand’s 5 carucates, which Hugh’s wife brought to him as maritagium. The family became tenants , as the Colvilles, of Roger de Mowbray, who gave Queniborough to Ralph de Queniborough and his heirs to hold for the service of one knight. Ralph de Queniborough succeeded his brother Herbert as a tenant of the honour of Mowbray before 1166. Herbert witnessed several charters by Robert de Mowbray, 1138 -1154; both Herbert and Ralph also made grants at Coxwold, Yorkshire (fellow tenants of Thomas de Colville), from which Ralph and Herbert made grants to Burton Lazars before 1165, and Ralph gave land at Burton on the Wolds to Garendon, before 1183, as a witness to a grant by Roger de Mowbray. (British Library. Durham Liber Vitae: Prosopographical commentary, pp. 553-4, 2007).
William de Queniborough, the Domesday tenant, held under Geoffrey de la Guerche (Wirce), whose wife was Aelfgifu, daughter of his predecessor, Leofwin of Newnham, ‘le prédécesseur anglais de Geoffroi. Elle figure dans une donation qu’il fait d’une terre dans le Warwickshire à Saint-Nicholas d’Angers’ (Monasticon Anglicanum, op. cit., note 35, vi. (2), 996. Société d’histoire et d’archéologie de Bretagne, 1996); while Osbern fitz Richard came into lands of Leofwine’s mother D.B. 1 f. 244r. It may have been the case that William Malet’s Saxon mother was related to Aelfgifu.
Calendar of the Charter Rolls, 1340, in which Edward III. confirms previous gifts to Garendon; an extract of the gifts of the Meschin Earls of Chester and their homines:
‘Concessionem insuper, donationem, & confirmationem, quas Ranulphus quondam comes Cestriæ per scriptum suum fecit eisúem abbati & monachis, de communa pasturæ ad omnimoda pecora cum pertinentiis in Barona, excepto parco de Barwe. çoncessionem etiam & confirmationem quas idem comes per idem scriptum fecit eisdem abbati & monachis, de donationibus quas Robertus de Torz, Willielmus de Torz, & Thomas Dispensarius, fecerunt prædicis monachis in feudo ipsius comitis de Haliwelhawe. Donationem verò & confirmationem quas Thomas filius Rogeri de Haltone per cartam suam fecit eisdem monachis de uno molendino cum pertinentiis in Thorp, &c. Concessionem insuper & confirmationem quas Asketillus de Berges per cartam fecit eisdem monachis, de donatione i Thomæ Dispenfatoris, de decem bovatis terræ cum pertinentiis, de feodo suo in Burton. Concessionem verò & confirmationem quas Hugo de Berges per cartam suam fecit eisdem monachis de omnibus terris, tenementis, & possessionibus, cum pertinentiis, quæ tenent & habent de feodo suo in eadem villa. Concessionem verò & confirmationem quas Rogerus de Molbray per cartam suam fecit eisdem monachis de donatione elemosinae de feodo suo in eadem villa ; ita quod prædicta elemosina sit soluta & libera ab omni forinseco servicio & omni seculari exactione, &c. Donationem verò & confirmationem quas Gilbertus de Colevilla per cartam suam fecit eisdem monachis de quatuor carucatis terræ & dimidia cum pertinentiis in eadem villa. Donationem etiam & confirmationem quas Hugo Difpensator per cartam fuam fecit eisdem monachis, de duobus messuagiis & tribus virgatis terræ cum pertinentiis in eadem villa, cum hominibus prædiéta messuagia & terram tenentibus, cum catallis & fequelis eorum’.
Garendon acquired four and a half carucates in Burton by gift of Gilbert de Coleville. The gift was confirmed by William, his son, as well as by Hugo Malet, lord of the fee of Burton (B.M. MS Lansdowne 415, folios 8, 18). This may have been Durand Malet’s: Duranaus Malet tenet de Rege in Burtone 5 carucatas terræ. (Colin Platt, the monastic grange in medieval England, p. 195, 1969)
The household dapifers of the Mescines were their kinsmen, the Malets.
1.2.1.1.2. Ralph Malet de Irby. In 1156, Hugh, son of Ivo Malet, with the consent of his mother Margaret and of Ralph his son and heir, gave land in Rothwell to Whitby abbey. (Burton’s Mon. Ebor. 75). Margareta uxor Hugonis Malet [debet] dimidiam marcam, ut’ scribatur im ‘ Magmo Rotulo, quòd praedicius vir suus, voluntate & assensu Radulfi filii & haeredi, sui, aedit & cartâ suâ confirmavit ei im dotem, medietatem totiu terrae fuae de Yrebi cum ommibus pertinentiis; supra, together with other Lands.
1.2.1.1.2.1. William (Malet). Quitclaim by William son of Randulf of Prestwold (Prestewadt), (Leicestershire], to Elias son of Anketil of Prestwold (Prestwalt), of all his rights in two bovates of land in Prestwold. Witnesses: Robert Putrel, Robert de Twyford, Elias de Diseworth, Hugh de Rempstone, William Mallard of Sutton, William son of Ivo, Hugh Berges, William son of Hugh, Richard son of Anketil, and many others. c. 1200-1210. WARD 2/41/146Q/56.
1.2.2. Geoffrey le Despenser (of William Meschin, son of Ranulf, Earl of Chester). Gaufrido dispensatore et Ivone fratre suo” witnesses to charter of the Earl of Chester, c. 1135-1153.
1.2.2.1. “Thomas Dispensator, filius Gaufridi Dispensatoris” (Nichols iii, 2: 815, 817). Dispensator of William Meschin, son of Ranulf, Earl of Chester. ‘Sciatis me dedisse, concessione & bona voluntate uxoris mee Recuare & heredum meorum & hac carta mea confirmasse, Deo et ecclesie Sanct Marie de Gerondonia, (to which the Colvilles were large benefactors) …. x bovatas terra cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in campo de Burton concesssu Asketilli de Berges domini mei de eadem terra, liberas et quitas ab omni terreno servicio et consuetudine mihi & heredibus meis pertinente, salvo forensi servicio; & excepto quod annuatim dabunt mihi & heredibus meis 2 solidus ad festum Sancte Crucis post Pascham’.
1. Ranulph ‘de Briquessart’ de Meschines, Vicomte de Bayeux and d’Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, d.1128, m. Lucy, dau of Thorold, Sheriff of Lincoln, and Lucy Malet.
1.1. Ranulph de Meschines, 2nd Earl of Chester, d. 1153. m. (1141) Maud FitzRobert dau. of Robert of Caen, 1st Earl of Gloucester.
1.1.1. Hugh de Meschines, 3rd Earl of Chester, d 1181 m. (1169) Bertrade de Montfort, dau of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, cousin of the Crispin family.
1.2. William de Meschin, m. Cecily de Rumilly, dau of Robert de Rumilly.
1.2.1. Avice de Meschines m. 1. William de Curcy, 2. William Paynel, of Drax,
1.2.2. Adeliza de Meschines m. Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, whose family were overlords of the Crispin family in Normandy.
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