If the families as follow are to be understood, it would be a simple matter of decoding those who, of the same family, sported different names, derived from the fiefs they inherited, the concept of surnames being alien to them.

FERRERS

i. Walchelin de Ferrers/Vauquelin de Ferrière, lord of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, cant. Bernay. His son, Henry de Ferrers, joint leader of a force at Hastings with Gilbert Crispin II., castellan of Tillières, received his Domesday holdings over a period of time, receiving lands in the Appletree Wapentake, circa 1071, on land formerly held by Hugh d’Avranches: “Gulielmus primus, anno 1070, Henrico Gualchelini de Ferrariis filio, castrum Stutesburiae, quod Hugo de Abrincis primus tenuerat, concessit” (Tutbury Cart.). The caput of the Crispin family, Livarot, is 20 miles west of Ferrières-Saint-Hilaire, and the Hastings association of Crispin and Ferrers was of a regional nature.
ii. Henry de Ferrers.
iii. Amicia de Ferrers, m. Nigel d’Aubigny. Mr. Loyd suggested that he was a son of William, lord of Saint-Martin-d’Aubigny, and thus a brother of Roger d’Aubigny, the father of William d’Aubigny II,* and Nigel d’Aubigny.*

TOSNY

1. Ralf de Tosny.
   ii. Roger ‘the Spaniard’ de Tosny, castelan of Tillières for Richard II., in 1013, a position given to Gilbert Crispin I. after Roger’s exile. Roger m. Godehildis, who m. (2) Richard, Count of Évreux. Their dau., Agnes d’Evreux, was the 2nd wife of Simon I de Montfort, br. of Eve, wife of William Crispin I. (See Elisabeth van Houts, The Normans in Europe, p. 215, 2000).
   iii. Robert de Tosny, Baron of Belvoir, m Adeliz …
   iv. Adeliz, m. Roger Bigod, d. 1107.
   v. Cecily Bigod, m. William Albini Brito, d. 1146.
   vi. Ralph d’Albini Brito.*
   vii. Matilda d’Albini Brito, m. William de Colville.
   v. Maud Bigod, m. *William d’Aubigny, d. 1139, pincerna of Henry I.; br. of *Nigel d’Aubigny, who m. Maud de L’Aigle, divorced wife of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, the son of Roger de Mowbray, the brother of Geoffrey, Bishop of Coutances. Nigel d’Aubigny m. (2) Gundred, dau. of Gerard de Gournay and Edith de Warenne. Their son, Roger, inherited the estates originally forfeited by Robert Mowbray, and adopted the name of Mowbray.

iii. Ralf de Tosny II., m. Isabel de Montfort l’Amaury (dau. of Simon de Montfort l’Amaury and his ist wife, Isabel de Broyes), and cousin of William Crispin II.
iv. Ralf de Tosny III., m. Alice, du. of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and Judith, dau. of Lambert II, count of Len, and Adelaide (dau. of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and Herleva), sister of Duke William.
v. Godehildis de Tosny, m. Robert de Neuborg, son of Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick.

i. Godehildis, m. (1) Roger de Tosny.
ii. Ralf de Tosny II., m. Isabel, dau. of Simon de Montfort l’Amaury, and cousin of William Crispin II.
iii. Ralf de Tosny III., m. Alice, great-granddau. of Robert I, Duke of Normandy.
i. Godehildis, m. (2) Richard, Count of Évreux.
ii. Agnes d’Evreux, 2nd wife of Simon I de Montfort l’Amaury, br. of Eve, wife of William Crispin I. (See Elisabeth van Houts, The Normans in Europe, p. 215, 2000).
iii. Bertrade de Montfort, m. (1) Fulk IV., Count of Anjou.
iv. “Fulk of Jerusalem”.
iii. Bertrade de Montfort, m. (2) Philip I of France.
iv. Philip of France, Count of Mantes, m. Elizabeth de Montlhéry.
iii. Amaury III de Montfort, When his maternal uncle, William, Count of Évreux, d. in 1118, he left no male heirs, and Henry I seized his lands. Louis VI of France then granted them to Amaury, leading to a bitter conflict, in which William Crispin III sided with Amaury. He m. (2) Agnès, dau. of Anseau de Garlande, Count de Rochefort.
iv. Simon III de Montfort.
v. Bertrade de Montfort, m Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester, son of Ranulf II, 4th Earl of Chester, and Maud, granddau. of Henry I.
iv. Agnes de Montfort, m. Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1st Earl of Worcester, son of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, the eldest son of Roger de Beaumont, son of son of Humphrey de Vieilles (reputedly a great-nephew of the Duchess Gunnor).

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ii. Gundred de Ferrers, m. Robert Le Blond.
iii. … de Ferrers, m. William de Aldeleia. In the hundred of Rugeberg are 96 hides and 3i virgates. William de Aldeleia retained the geld of 1 hide and a half which Robert Blond gave him from his demesne with his daughter. Robert de Albemarle retained the geld of 2 hides and a half which Robert Blond gave him from his demesne with his daughter. And the King’s villans retained the geld of 5 hides from the land of Tostig. Lechaude D’Anisy, ‘Recherches’, p. 101, 1842: Everything leads to a belief that this Guillaume Aldelée was the head of a family from Mesnil-Adelée, in the arrondissement of Mortain, canton of Juvigny, who took or gave his name to his manor (mesnil), and consequently to the parish in which it was located.

It was perhaps his dau., Anne de Mesnil-Adelée, who m. François de St-Marie, ca. 1090, whose mother was Marie Paynel, said to be of the powerful family of Paynel (Travers, Annuaire, p. 35, 1845). Despite the similarity of the names of Aldelée, or Adelée, with those of Audley or Aldithley, carried in England by a younger branch of the house of Verdun, we do not think that Lords descended Guillaume Aldelée, the subject of this notice.

The later family of Mesnil-Adelée are likely to be that of Avenel (des Biards), who were of the seigneurie of Mesnil-Adelée by the early 1200’s; from which descended: Guillaume de Mesnil-Adelée, recorded in Tours, in 1272; Geoffroy de Mesnil-Adelée, who agreed, in 1289, to pay the monks of Mont-St-Michel, fifteen livres for the purpose the acquittal of Robert Avenel, des Biards; Agnès du Mesnil-Adelée, by whose m. to Richard de Carbonel, Mesnil-Adelée passed fom her family’s ownership, and which afterwards came to the family of Poilvilain.

The Paynels were overlords of the family of Heriz, which establish themselves in Haye-Paynel, in a fief named la Rochelle (La Rochelle-le-Hericiere), and “la Rochelle-Ambleville” (D.N. vol. xi. p. 379, 1776; Revue de l’Avranchin et du pays de Granville, vols. 27-28, 1934), where Guillaume St. Jean’s tenant in 1162 was Roger Heriz (Dubosc Cart. 5-7). 1162: Charter l’abbaye de la Luserne Le seigneur de St-Jean combla ce monastère de ses bienfaits … Robert Heriz (as follows) et son fils Roger firent des dons considérables dans la paroisse de la Rochelle”. The lineage of the said Roger ended in a heir female, of the Poilvilain family.

In 1172, Fulk Paynel’s tenant held a messuage in La Hérissiere. (Déclaration des fiefs de fabbaye du Mont-Saint Michel). Heris/Heriz is a contraction of (Héris)sière, and their armorial of three hedgehogs was a pun of Hérissière, a fort with defensively angled wooden spikes that resembled the spines of a hedgehog; Fr. hérisson being an hedgehog. There is no documentation connecting the Heriz family to Herils, a name-is-the-same speculation.

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ii. Geoffrey de Ferrers?, of Fierville-au-Dézert, canton of St. Jean-de-Daye, 10 miles N.E. of Saint-Martin-d’Aubigny. Among the fiefdoms that came under the barony of Hommet was the fief of Fierville, in the parish of Dézert, the fief of Geoffroi de Fierville (Gaufridus de Ferevilla), who affixed his sign (signuñ crucis), at the first confirmation made by William the Conqueror of the founding of the abbey of Lessay, in 1080; after that of Guillaume du Hommet, his overlord. He also witnessed Gilbert de Broc’s donation to the abbey of Lessay, the church of Angoville. (Gallia Christiana, t. xi. Instrumenta, col. 228).

At a later date (ca. 1170), a Henri de Feravilla witnessed a charter of Richard du Hommet, who, with his son, William,* confirmed the gift of land given to them by Geoffroy, son of Robert de Villiers-Fossart, which was donated to the Abbey of Savigny. The other witnesses were: Raoul de Maisnil, Geoffroy de Subligny, Guillaume de Colleville (perhaps cousin of Fulk Paynel, husband of William de Hommet’s dau.), and Richard, br. of Raoul de Magneville (Carlulaire de Savigny, folio 55). (See MSAN, 25, pp. 158-159, 1863). The family of Feravilla bore the rare armorial of the Heriz.

“Willielmus de Humeth” donated property to Stanford Nunnery (1199-1205); m Lucie, who donated revenue from land at Bradecroft, near Stanford, to Southwick priory, Lincolnshire, for the souls of “domini mei Willelmi de Humetis et Ricardi filii mei”, by charter dated to ca. 1200, witnessed by “Jordano de Humetis, Ricardo de Humetis, Baudewino Wac.

These tenurial associations included a family of St.-Claire, of St.-Claire, arrondissement of St. Lo. (par M. de Gerville). William de Saint-Clair endowed the abbey of Savigny under Hen. I. In 1139, the priory of Villers-Fossard was founded by one of the same name. The English Sinclairs are reputed to be of this stock. A.L.P. Ricardus de Sent-Cler appears in Domesday, Introd. ii. 388.

WAKE

1. Geoffrey Wac.
   1.1. Hugh le Wake, d. 1176. m. Emma, dau of Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare, son of Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare, son of Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, overlord of the family of Crispin.
   1.1.1. Baldwin Wake, of Bourne, Lincolnshire, m. Agnes, dau of William du Hommet, Constable of Normandy.
   1.1.1.1. Baldwin Wake, d. 1213, m. Isabel, dau of William de Briwere.
   1.1.1.1.1. Hugh Wake, Sheriff of Yorkshire, d. Jerusalem, 1241, m. Joane de Stuteville, dau of Nicholas de Stuteville, Lord of Liddell.
   1.1.1.1.1.1. Baldwin Wake, d. 1282, m (2) Hawise, dau of Robert de Quincy.

There was a close kinship relationship between the Colvilles and the Wakes, both families havind intermarried with the Stutevilles and Quincys.

“Guillaume de Colleville” is likely to be William de Colville, who m. Maud d’Albini:

1. ‘Thomas de Colevilla’, received from his feudal lord, Roger Mowbray, the Yorkshire manors of Coxwold, Yearsley and Oulston, between 1154-1157, for the service of one knight’s fee. He was the son of William de Colville, evidenced in a charter of Henry I., ca. 1110 – “Et terra Guillelmi de Colleville in Collevilla”.
   1.1. Philip de Colville, defended Drax Castle in 1154 against King Stephen; perhaps as br.-in-law of Fulk Paynel*.

One blight of genealogical research is the need to conjure up pedigrees where no proof of them exists. So it was in the 19th century, when pedigree-makers gave their audience a seamless account of relationships between families. The Paynels are an examplar of such, with Ralph Paynel of Domesday Yorkshire being a named as a son of a William Paynel, of unknown origin, not of Moutiers Hubert and Hambye by any known evidence; fiefs that devolved, by some means, to Ralph’s son, William. As an alternative, Ralph Paynel may have been a son of William, lord of Saint-Martin-d’Aubigny, thus, uncle of William d’Aubigny, pincerna of Henry I.; and his br., Nigel d’Aubigny, explainining why they witnessed the confirmation of Ralph’s donations to Marmoutier, between 100-1108: Charter of Henry I. addressed to Gerard archbishop of York and Osbert the sheriff and all his barons. He grants to the monks of Marmoutier the endowment of Ralf Paynel Paganelli in lands, churches and tithes, namely the church of the Holy Trinity of York, a long list of endowments follow … Actum est hoc Eboraci videntibus istis et audientibus: Radulfo eodem Paganelli; Eudone dapifero; Willelmo de Albiniaco, et ejus fratre Nigello. (MSS. lat. 12,878, fo. 228).

1. Ralph Paynel.
   1.1. William Paynel of Les Moutiers-Hubert, Hambye and Drax (d. bef. 1148).
   1.1.1. William Paynel, m. a dau. of William d’Avranches (son of Wimund d’Avranches), and Mathilda, dau. of Baldwin FitzGilbert de Brionne, whose family were overlords of the Crispin family in such Norman strongholds as Tillieres and Damville. Mathilda m. (2) Ralf Avenel.
   1.1.2. Fulk Paynel, lord of Drax, m. Lescline, dau of Hasculf de Subligny, illigitimate son of Hugh d’Avranches, overlord of the Heriz and Paynels in the Avranchin.
   1.1.2.1. Fulk Paynel, m. Agatha, dau. of William de Hommet, Constable of Normandy.
   1.1.2.2. Ralph Paynel, m. Hawise de Ferrers.
   1.2. Beatrix Paynel, m. Jolland de Mundeville.
   1.2.1. William de Mundeville, Willelmo de Amundevilla, received Soredington from Gilbert de Gand, Earl of lincoln. He was the br. of Elias de Mundeville, a younger son of his probably being the Willelmo de Amundevilla, witness to a charter of William de Colville).

1.1.1. William de Colville, m. Maud d’Albini (Brito), whose sister, Gunnora, m. Robert de Gand, daus. of *Ralph de Albini Brito (English Baronies’, I. J. Sanders, OUP, 2nd ed, 1963).
1.1.1.1. William de Colville, m. Beatrice de Stuteville, sister of Alice de Stuteville, wife of Roger de Merlay; their issue being: Roger de Merlay, who m. Margery de Umframville, dau. of Richard Umframville, and sister of Gilbert de Umframville I.

“Ego Willelmus de Colevilla. pro salute anime mee et uxoris mee et heredum et antecessorum meorum dedi et concessi et presenti carta mea confirmavi deo et ecclesie Sancti Andree de Osolvestona … servicio et seculari exactione Reddendo annuatim unam marcam argenti Sanctimonialibus de Sancto Michaele de Stanford … quam marcam Willelmus de Colevilla pater meus concessit eisdem monialibus in eodem molendino … His testibus: Rogero de Alneto; Willelmo de Amundevilla. The Colvilles connection to Stanford stemmed from some connection to William de Hommet, Constable of Normandy.

Rogero de Alneto was also of a family connected to this kinship group: Carta Dominae Gundredae, uxoris Nigelli de Albini, de quatuor bovatis terrae in Baggabi (in favour of St. Leonard’s Hospital, York). Archiepiscopo Eboracensi, totique capitulo Sancti Petri Eboraci, et Rogero de Molbray filio suo, cunctisque sanctae matris ecclesiae filiis tam futuris quam praesentibus, domina Gundreda, uxor Nigelli de Albini, salutem. Notum sit vobis, me Deo et Sancto Leonardo, et pauperilous hospitalis Sancti Petri Eboracensis, dedisse quatuor bovatas terrae in Baggabi, plenariè, in campo, et bosco, et prato, et pasturâ, liberas et quietas et immunes ab omnibus geldis, et consuetudinibus, et auxiliis, et ab omni humano servido, sicut liberam et perpetuant elemosinam, et hoc pro animâ domini mei, et pro filio meo Rogero, et pro salute animae meae, et pro animabus omnium antecessorum meorum. Isti sunt testes. Aliz de Gant, et al.

“Byland Abbey was founded by Roger de Mowbray, at the instance of his mother Gundreda, in 1143. Gerold the abbot, with twelve monks from Fumes, in Lancashire, having been disturbed by the incursions of the Scots, fled to York, where they were graciously received by Archbishop Thurstan, who afterwards recommended them to Roger de Mowbray, son of Nigel d’Albini; but he being a minor in King Stephen’s custody, his mother Gundreda entertained them at her castle of Thirsk for a little time, and then sent them, 3d Steph. 1138, to Robert de Alneto, a native of Normandy, who was either her uncle or nephew”. Robert Alneto or de L’aunai. Laanai was a vill on the right bank of the Andelle, and a fief of the Lords of Gournay. A Robert de Alneto occurs repeatedly as a benefactor to the Abbey of Beaubec, in the foundation charter of Hugh de Gournay IV. which was probably given after the year 1147″. (Mr. Gurney, The record of the house of Gournay, vol. 1, p. 82, 1845).

iii. Robert de Heriz – the Robert of Domesday who was a tenant of Henry de Ferrers of the manor of Hilton (Appletree Wapentake), known also as Robert ‘de Dun’, who held Edensor of Henry de Ferrers, and Bourg-Dun in Offranville, Dieppe, of the same lord. Robert, held of William Peverel I. (who died in 1113) “in Stapleford 2 carucates”.
iv. Robert de Heriz. ob. ante. 1128, Sheriff of Nottingham, 1110-1122. (Judith A. Green, The Government of England under Henry I., p. 221, 1989). He was a King’s Commissioner who witnessed charters of Robert de Ferrers, 1st. Earl Derbys.*
v. Ivo de Heriz I, m. Emma de Bilborough, dau. of Herbert de Bilborough, who may have been synonomous with Herbert, “the king’s servant”, who held of Henry de Ferrers in Derbyshire.
vi. Robert de Heriz, m. Agnes, the dau. and co-heiress of Gilbert Alcher, who held land in Sudbury, Derbyshire: “Gilbert de Suberia”, who witnessed a grant of Robert de Ferrers to Tutbury in 1135-1139. (C.D.F. 580). In 1162, William de St. John confirmed to the abbey of Holy Trinity, Luzerne (founded by Hasculf de Subligny), the gift of 6 quarters of wheat by Robert de Heriz, with the consent of his sons, Robert and Andrew, “for the weal of his soul and that of Agnes his wife”. The Heriz, therefore, had some familial connection to the founder’s family, probably through the Paynels.
vii. Roger de Heriz. (“Rogeriis de Rochella”), donated to Holy Trinity, Luzerne, considerable lands in la Rochelle and in Crollon. Witnesses to this deed included “Ricardo de Haia“; “Rogero de Sancto Johanne“; “Willelmo de Filgeriis“. Crollon was a fief of *Hasculf de Subligny, whose dau., Lesceline, m. Fulk Paynel. She granted the Church of Crollon to Hambye, her husbands’ foundation.
iii. Geoffrey de Heriz donated to the said William Peverell’s foundation of Lenton (between 1103-1108), two-thirds of his tithes in Stapleford (Mon. Anglic. v. 111b), as one of his feudatories in Avranches. (Société d’archéologie et d’histoire de la Manche, p.56, 1992).

i. Robert 1.
ii. Godfrey.
iii. Gilbert de Brionne
iv. Richard FitzGilbert de Clare, overlord of the family of Crispin family.
v. Gilbert FitzRichard de Clare.
vi. Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare
vii. Emma de Clare, m. Hugh le Wake, d. 1176.
viii. Baldwin Wake, m. Agnes, dau of William du Hommet, Constable of Normandy.
ix. Agatha du Hommet, m. Fulk Paynel, son of Fulk Paynel, lord of Drax, who m. Lescline, dau of Hasculf de Subligny, illigitimate son of Hugh d’Avranches, overlord of the Heriz and Paynels in the Avranchin. The castelan of Fulk Paynel, lord of Drax, was Phillip de Colville, whose son, “Guillaume de Colleville”, witnessed a deed of the said William du Hommet, signing after Geoffrey de Subligny, nephew of Hasculf de Subligny. In 1172, Fulk Paynel’s tenant held a messuage in La Hérissiere. (Déclaration des fiefs de fabbaye du Mont-Saint Michel). Phillip de Colville may have m. a sister of Fulk Paynel, of Drax, or a sister of Hugh le Wake, or someone similarly associated.
x. Ralph Paynel, m. Hawise de Ferrers, probable dau. of *Robert Ferrers, 1st. Earl Derbys., and Hawise de Vitre (Keats-Rohan, p.459), who m. (2) Gilbert de Tillières.
vii. Mathilda, m. William d’Avranches
viii. … d’Avranches, m. Willima Paynel.
ix. Fulk Paynel, lord of Drax, m. Lescline, dau of Hasculf de Subligny.
x. Fulk Paynel, m. Agatha du Hommet.

Jean-Jacques Desroches Annales civiles militaires et généalogiques de Pays d’ Avranches, p. 157, 1856:

“Dans l’Avranchin, en l’année 1121, une charte du Mont-St.-Michel porte la souscription de Otsele de Sulligny; et Othoer de Sulligny et sa feinme Lesceline paraissent , l’an 1143, à la fondation de l’abbaye de la Luserne; ils descendaient de Alfred de Suleini qui souscrit à une charte de Hugues d’Avranches. Les trois enfants de Othoer furent très-célèbres; ils, se nommaient Richard, Hasculf et Raoul. Richard fut promu à l’épiscopat; l’an 1143, il prit possession du siége épiscopal d’Avranches; Hasculf, dont on trouve la souscription dans loutes les chartes royales de son temps, était un seigneur très-renommé et très-puissant; il avait épousé Denise d’Avranches; il n’eut qu’une fille appelée Lesceline de Subligny, dame du Grippon; Hasculf était seigneur de ces deux paroisses, et habitait un vieux castel à Subligny, situé auprès de l’église, vis-à-vis du rocher Boucan, lieu de débauche du temps des païens. Les chartes des seigneurs voisins, dans ce XII°. siècle, portent toutes la souscription de Hasculf de Sulligny. Une charte du Livre-Vert nous apprend qu’il donna au doyen Rolland deux gerbes de Toi, en présence de Rannulf de Praère, d’Alain de l’Ile , de Pierre de Verdun, et de Guillaume, fils d’Auger. Il donna à Savigny la terre de Véral pour l’âme de son frère Raoul, qui était inhumé à Savigny, pour son salut à lui-même, et pour celui de son épouse Denise; c’était du temps que son frère Richard n’était encore que doyen de la cathédrale d’Avranches, et il signe cette charte en cette qualité, et y signe aussi leur neveu Jean, nepotis; et les autres témoins sont Guillaume Hairon, et *Geoffroy de Soligny, année 1142; ce Geoffroy descendait sans doute de Raoul (Cartulaire de Savigny). Hasculf et son épouse Denise donnent encore à Savigoy le fief de Roger Queron à Martigny, en présence de Raoul de Pontalbauct (sic), Ruellon de Milly, Pierre de Verdun, Robert Heron, apud Abrincas ( Cart. de Savigny). Lesceline, fille de Hasculf, se qualifie, dans un titre, de dame de Marcé; elle fait présent de 40 sols, monnaie de Tours, sur son moulin du Ménil, au chapelain de la chapelle en la cathédrale où reposaient les corps de son père et de sa mère”.

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