Aguillon family
The Aguillon family, of French origin, were feudal landowners in England who held estates in several southern counties from before 1135 to 1312. Surviving records suggest various branches which all ended without male heirs, the lands going to daughters or sisters and their husbands. The family seems to have been initially associated, perhaps as under-tenants and maybe through marriage, with the Marmion family, witnessing charters alongside them in Normandy in 1106[4] and later occupying their land in England.
The English branches may spring from William Aguillon (died after 1147), a descendant of the
In England, family members can be found in four apparent groups but establishing definite connections between the four groups may be impossible.
Aguillons in West Sussex and Hampshire
Manser (died after 1172),
- Robert I inherited lands in West Sussex
- William I
- Richard I
Robert I (died before 1195), son of Manser, in 1180 paid 15 marks to have seisin of Nutbourne in West Sussex and for leave to come to an agreement with his unnamed brother,[8] who may have been William I.
William I (died before 1226),[12] possibly another son of Manser, in 1195 was claiming a knight's fee in Nutbourne against a later Manser and a Richard,[8] He married Mary, daughter of Eustace de Valle Pironis, an otherwise unknown family name, and their sons were:
- Reginald
- probably, John. It may be this John who in 1221 had land at Maltby in Lincolnshire,[13] or else it was his contemporary, the son of Richard I and Margery.
Reginald I (died before 1240), son of William I and Mary, from 1220 to 1226 was
- Mary, who married William Covert
- Cecily, who married Peter Gatesden and later gave her part to the Knights Hospitaller
- Godeheut, who married Ralph St Owen
- Alice, who married first William Russell and secondly Robert Hackett.[12]
Richard I (died after 1228), possibly another son of Manser and possibly the Richard who asserted his right to a knight's fee in Nutbourne in 1206,[8] married Margery, daughter of William Thorney, lord of Thorney, and his wife Mabel.[15] Their sons were;
- William II
- John, whose daughter and heiress Sarah married William Whateman.[12]
William II (died after 1242), son of Richard I and Margery, before 1215 acquired the manor of Warblington which, together with lands in Emsworth, was confirmed to him in 1230.[16] In 1242 he held three fees in Nutbourne, Up Marden, and Burpham[8] and one-third of West Thorney. His son was:
- Richard II.[15]
Richard II (died before 1308), son of William II, married Eleanor, who in 1308 held the three fees of Nutbourne, Up Marden and Burpham as his widow. She died before 1312, leaving them to her granddaughter Juliana, daughter of her deceased son Thomas, who herself died in 1312.[8][15]
William III (died before 1308), possibly a childless younger son of William II, in 1259 was made
Aguillons in Surrey and East Sussex
William IV (died before 3 October 1244)[7] may be the William who, in 1219, with his wife Joan, claimed the manor of Greatham in Hampshire.[17] He inherited the lands of his mother-in-law and of his wife's grandfather,[18] including the manor of Addington, which carried the duty of making a special dish to be served at the king's coronation[19] and entitled the holder to attend Parliament as a baron, with William said to have taken his seat in 1233 and his son to have followed him after 1244. Shortly before his death, he received a pardon for crimes of murder and robbery which he had committed in 1227, after which he had fled the country and been declared an outlaw.[20] In 1212 he married Joan, widow of Ralph Parminter and younger daughter of Peter fitz Henry, the son of Henry fitz Ailwin and the husband of Isabel Cheney, heiress of Addington.[21] Their son was:
- Robert II
Sir Robert II (died 15 February 1286),
- Isabel (born 25 March 1258 - died before 28 May 1323), who married Hugh, 1st Baron Bardolf.
Aguillons in Norfolk and Suffolk
Reginald II (died after 10 August 1224), who may have been the son of William I and Mary, had lands in Norfolk in 1224.[25]
Sir Robert III (died before 1249), around 1217, founded Flitcham Priory,[26] and before 1239 he and his wife confirmed a grant by her father to Sibton Abbey.[27] Before 1239 he was married to Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Fresnay, and then to Agatha, daughter and coheiress of Fulk Beaufoy, lord of Hockwold in Norfolk.[28] After his death his lands were divided among his four daughters:
- Ela or Isabel (died before November 1251), who before 1231 married Sir Thomas Poynings
- Margery, who before 1239 married Sir Buckhurst
- Joan (died after 15 February 1263), who married Sir Ralph FitzBernard (their grandson was Bartholomew Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere) and after 1239 was married to Imbert Pugeys
- Agatha, who married Sir Adam Cockfield.[28]
Aguillons in Warwickshire
Hugh (died 1284) held the manor of Upton and died without children, leaving a widow, Ellen. The manor went to descendants of his two sisters Joan and Maud.[29]
References
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- ^ Bernard Burke (1884), Burkes General Armoury (hardback), London: Burkes, p. 334
- ^ Panel 2 (Shield 87) in the Dering Roll
- ^ Thomas Stapleton (1844), Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normannias, London: Society of Antiquaries, p. xcvi
- ^ (in French) Favier, Jean (1993), Dictionnaire de la France médiévale, p. 927
- ^ (in German) Schwennicke, Detlev (1989), Europäische Stammtafeln, vol. III, pp. 645–648
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- ^ Charles Ferrers R. Palmer (1875), History of the Baronial Family of Marmion, Lords of the Castle of Tamworth, etc. (hardback), Tamworth: J. Thompson: 46
- ^ Hubert Hall (1896), The Red Book of the Exchequer, vol. II, London: HMSO, p. 642
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