William de Munchensy

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 1158, Gooderstone, Swaffham, Norfolk, England

William married Aveline de Clare before 1186. Aveline (daughter of Roger de Clare and Maud de St. Hilary) was born about 1172; died before 4 Jun 1225. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Warin de Munchensy was born in of Winfarthing, Norfolk, England; died about 20 Jul 1255.

Warin married Agnes Fitzjohn. Agnes (daughter of Payn fitz John and Sybil) was born about 1125; died before 29 Sep 1191. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Agnes FitzPayn.

Notes:

"Hubert de Munchensy, possibly the same Hubert, but more probably his successor, lord of Edwardstone, in 1115 gave its church and 2/3 of the tithes of Staverton and Stanstead to Abingdon Abbey, and it was probably this Hubert who gave to Castleacre Priory 2/3 of his tithes of Clay and Holkham. The feudal importance of the family was increased by a grant from Henry I of some of the fees of Godric dapifer. The donor of Edwardstone church became a monk at Abingdon, and married certainly twice, 1stly, possibly an heiress of Godric; later, Muriel, widow of the father of William de Bachetone, and daughter of Piers de Valoignes, sheriff of Essex and Herts in 1086, by Aubrey, sister of Eudo dapifer." [Complete Peerage]

Hubert married (Unknown daughter of Godric). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

King's justice. Killed, while pursuing Welsh marauders, by a javelin which pierced his head.

Payn married Sybil. Sybil (daughter of Geoffrey Talbot and Agnes de Lacy) died after 10 Jul 1137. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The Inquest as to Knights' Fees in 1212 found that Willelmus de Monte Caniso tenuit Gurtreston...et fruit quondam dominicum Regis, et data fuit antecessoribus predicti Willemi per Henricum Regem avum domini Regis [a not uncommon description of Henry I in official records of the time of King John]. This seems to purport rather that land, which had been Godric's, passed to the Munchensy family than that Hubert, son of Godric, who witnessed a lease to his brother Ralph, 1134-40, assumed the name of Munchensy as has been supposed. Godric dapifer -- ie. steward -- held in 1086 many lands in Norfolk and Suffolk both in fee of the Crown and as the King's steward, including Gooderstone (Gurreston), Wramplingham, Winfarthing and Rockland; Bergh and Appleton he held of the Bishop of Ely, and had a lease of Little Melton from the abbey of St Benet Hulme; in Essex he was in charge of Great Sampford for the King. He was a prominent figure in East Anglia already in 1080, and in 1087 and later was sheriff of Norfolk and (or) Suffolk. In many of his Domesday holdings his predecessor in 1066 had been Edwin, teinus dominicus regis Edwardi, who, with his wife Ingrid, had given Little Melton to St Benet. The fact of Godric's thus succeeding to the lands of Edwin, coupled with the name of his wife -- also Ingrid -- suggests that Godric had married the daughter of the pre-Conquest holder. Godric and his wife also gave Little Melton to St Benet; and Ralph, son of Godric, and his wife Letseline, and, after his death, his widow Basile, held leases of that manor from the abbey for their lives. The lease of Basile, interpreted in the terms of that to Ralph, proves that he must have d. s.p. The cartulary also records the names of Ralph's brother Eudo and nephew Lisewy." [Complete Peerage IX:411, note (h).]

Godric married Ingrid fitz Edwin. Ingrid (daughter of Edwin and Ingrid) was born in of Gooderstone, Swaffam, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Domesday tenant-in-chief in Saxlingham, Norfolk. Traditionally called "Monoculus", one-eyed, but that seems to have actually been a characteristic of his son Eustace, not John.

Geoffrey married Agnes de Lacy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]