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de Valognes (Valoignes, Valoines, Valoins, Valons, Valeynes, Valeignes, Valens, Valence, Valance, Valang, Valoniis) is a family name of two distinct powerful families with notable descendants in the centuries immediately following the
Norman Conquest
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conque ...
. Although a connection between them has been inferred by some authorities, this is not supported by positive evidence.
The family descending from the
Domesday
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
ancestor
Peter de Valognes
Peter de Valognes (1045-1110) was a Norman noble who became a great landowner in England following the Norman Conquest.
Land holdings
Between 1070 and 1076 Peter de Valognes was granted lands in the six counties of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshir ...
is believed to have originated in
Valognes
Valognes () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Geography
Valognes is situated in the Cotentin Peninsula, southeast of Cherbourg. Valognes station has rail connections to Caen, Paris and Cherbourg.
History ...
in the
Cotentin peninsula
The Cotentin Peninsula (, ; nrf, Cotentîn ), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France. It extends north-westward into the English Channel, towards Great Britain. To its w ...
in
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
. The family descending from Hamo de Valoines of Parham may have originated from Valaines in the region of
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
in
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...
.
Family of Peter de Valognes
Peter de Valognes
Peter de Valognes (1045-1110) was a Norman noble who became a great landowner in England following the Norman Conquest.
Land holdings
Between 1070 and 1076 Peter de Valognes was granted lands in the six counties of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshir ...
obtained lands in Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertford, Cambridge, and Lincoln and was high sheriff of Essex in 1087.
Philip de Valognes was granted by King
William the Lion
William the Lion, sometimes styled William I and also known by the nickname Garbh, "the Rough"''Uilleam Garbh''; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10. ( 1142 – 4 December 1214), reigned as King of Scots from 11 ...
of Scotland the manors of Panmure and Benvie in Angus and was appointed in around 1180 the
Chamberlain of Scotland
Holders of the office of Lord Chamberlain of Scotland are known from about 1124.
It was ranked by King Malcolm as the third great Officer of State, called ''Camerarius Domini Regis'', and had a salary of £200 per annum allotted to him. He ancien ...
. Philip died in 1215 and his only son
William
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
became the Chamberlain of Scotland until his death in 1219. William had no male issue and his titles and lands were split between his three heiresses.
The following is a list of castles known to have been in the ownership of the family:
;England
*
Benington Castle
Benington Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Benington, near Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England at . It has been protected since 1936 as a scheduled monument.
A motte-and-bailey castle was built in the late 11th or early 12th centur ...
, Hertfordshire
;Scotland
*
Panmure Castle
Panmure Castle was a castle that was located to the north-west of Muirdrum, Angus, Scotland.
The castle was owned by the de Valognes family, until the castle passed by marriage of Christina de Valognes to Peter Maule of Fowlis. The stone ca ...
, Angus
*Benvie manse, Angus
*
Kilbride Castle
Kilbride Castle, also known as Comyn's Castle, was a castle that was located to the north of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
The castle was owned by the de Valognes family, until the castle passed by marriage of Isabel de Valognes t ...
, South Lanarkshire
*Inchgall Castle
The heirs of
Hamo the Steward
Hamo the Steward, the Sheriff of Kent was a leading person during the 11th century, Norman Conquest of England.
He had extensive land holdings in Essex, Kent and Surrey.
He was a judge at Penenden in case between Lanfranc and Odo of Bayeux in ...
, Sheriff of Kent, had extensive lands in Essex, Kent and Surrey at the Domesday Survey. This family is traced through the descent of one of the manors of
Titsey
Titsey is a rural village and a civil parish on the North Downs almost wholly within the M25 London Orbital Motorway in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England.
In local government it forms the south-western part of the ward ''Tatsfield ...
in Surrey, which passed from Hamo to his niece Matilda. Geoffrey de Valognes, lord of Titsey, was father of Hamon de Valognes, who was prominent as the
Justiciar of Ireland
The chief governor was the senior official in the Dublin Castle administration, which maintained English and British rule in Ireland from the 1170s to 1922. The chief governor was the viceroy of the English monarch (and later the British monarch) ...
in 1196-1199 when it lay under the rule of
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Secon ...
, brother to
Richard I of England
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was ...
. Hamon was a tenant of the Honour of Gloucester, and became Sheriff of Cardiff in 1185. John entrusted
Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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to him in 1193. (At that time Theobald Walter was ''Pincerna'' (Butler) of Ireland, whose mother Matilda de Valoines was daughter of Theobald de Valoines the elder, Lord of Parham.) At John's accession in 1199 Hamon received lands in
Limerick
Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 ...
, and in 1200 became
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
This is an ''incomplete'' list of Sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in England from 1154 until the abolition of the office in 1965.
Exceptionally, the two counties shared a single sheriff. Sheriffs had a one-year term of office, bei ...
and bailiff of Glamorgan. His son and heir was Hamon de Valognes the younger.
Family of Hamo de Valoines of Parham
At the Survey, Hamo de Valenis held lands in
Parham in Suffolk from
Count Alan of Brittany
Alan Rufus, alternatively Alanus Rufus (Latin), Alan ar Rouz ( Breton), Alain le Roux ( French) or Alan the Red (c. 1040 – 1093), 1st Lord of Richmond, was a Breton nobleman, kinsman and companion of William the Conqueror (Duke William II o ...
, and the descent of the family is traced through their service to the
Honour of Richmond
The Honour of Richmond (or English feudal barony of Richmond) in north-west Yorkshire, England was granted to Count Alan Rufus (also known as Alain le Roux) by King William the Conqueror sometime during 1069 to 1071, although the date is uncertai ...
. Hamo appears to have had at least two sons, Theobald and Robert (fil. Hamo). Theobald de Valoines succeeded as Lord of Parham, which owed
castle-guard
Castle-guard was an arrangement under the feudal system, by which the duty of finding knights to guard royal castles was imposed on certain manors, knight's fees or baronies. The greater barons provided for the guard of their castles by exacting ...
service to
Richmond Castle
Richmond Castle in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England, stands in a commanding position above the River Swale, close to the centre of the town of Richmond. It was originally called Riche Mount, 'the strong hill'. The castle was constructed by Ala ...
, and he flourished c. 1130-1135. He married Helewise, and had two daughters, Bertha and Matilda, and a son or heir Robert de Valoines. Theobald's daughter Bertha married
Ranulf de Glanvill,
Chief Justiciar
Justiciar is the English form of the medieval Latin term ''justiciarius'' or ''justitiarius'' ("man of justice", i.e. judge). During the Middle Ages in England, the Chief Justiciar (later known simply as the Justiciar) was roughly equivalent ...
(founder of
Butley Priory
Butley Priory, sometimes called ''Butley Abbey'', was a religious house of Canons regular (Augustinians, Black canons) in Butley, Suffolk, dedicated to The Blessed Virgin Mary. It was founded in 1171 by Ranulf de Glanville (c. 1112-1190), Chief ...
(1171) and
Leiston Abbey
Leiston Abbey outside the town of Leiston, Suffolk, England, was a religious house of Canons Regular following the Premonstratensian rule (White canons), dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus, St Mary. Founded in c. 1183 by Ranulf de Glanville (c. 11 ...
(1183) in Suffolk), and his daughter Matilda was the wife of Hervey Walter, and mother of
Hubert Walter
Hubert Walter ( – 13 July 1205) was an influential royal adviser in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries in the positions of Chief Justiciar of England, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor. As chancellor, Walter b ...
,
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...
,
Theobald Walter and
Osbert fitzHervey.
Robert de Valoines was the heir, and is supposed the son, of Theobald the elder: he was the father of Theobald the younger, who owed his service to Richmond in 1178, and was the founder of
Hickling Priory
Hickling Priory was an Augustinian priory located in Norfolk, England.
The house was founded in 1185 by Theobald, grandson of Theobald de Valognes, Lord of Parham. By 1291 the Priory had possession of thirty two Norfolk parishes and held an annu ...
(1185) in Norfolk and
Campsey Priory
Campsey Priory, (''Campesse'', ''Kampessie'', etc.), was a religious house of Augustinian canonesses at Campsea Ashe, Suffolk, about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) south east of Wickham Market. It was founded shortly before 1195 on behalf of two of his ...
(before 1195) in Suffolk. Theobald's sisters Joan and Agnes de Valoines were prioresses at Campsey, c. 1195-1235, and were assisted by one Hamo de Valoines. Theobald the younger married Avice, and his heir was Thomas de Valoines. Thomas was succeeded by Robert de Valognes, whose mother was Isabel de Creke, sister of Bartholomew de Creke. Robert married Roesia, sister of William de Blund (of the patron family of
Ixworth Priory
Ixworth Priory was an Augustine priory at Ixworth in the English county of Suffolk. It was founded in the 12th century and dissolved in 1537. , who died at the
Battle of Lewes
The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, on 14 May 1264. It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made h ...
, 1264). Their son Robert the younger, born c. 1247, married Eva, widow of Nicholas Tregoz of
Tolleshunt D'Arcy in Essex, and died in 1281 leaving two infant daughters, Rohesia and Cecilia.
[''Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem'', II (HMSO 1906)]
p. 247 no. 432
(Internet Archive). Cecilia became the mother of
Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk, KG (9 August 1298 – 4 November 1369) was an English peer. He was created Earl of Suffolk in 1337.
Early life
Born 9 August 1298, Robert Ufford was the second but eldest surviving son of Robert Ufford, 1st B ...
and his brethren.
The custody of the royal
castle of Orford in Suffolk was in this family.
References
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