Guillaume Malet

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Guillaume Malet (also William Malet , † around 1071), Lord of Graville (now part of Le Havre ) and Eye ( Suffolk ), was an Anglo-Norm nobleman who was one of the 15 companions of William the Conqueror .

Life

His parentage is not known. His father is probably the previous lord of Graville, who held many fiefs of the Giffard family in the same region of the Pays de Caux . Following the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio , his mother of Anglo-Saxon descent and Guillaume Malet was related to King Harold Godwinson of England. Legends associating his son-in-law, Sheriff Turold, with Godiva of Mercia , Harald II's mother-in-law, point to a possible relationship between his mother and the Counts of Mercia or their wives. His properties in Normandy are in the Pays de Caux and Pays de Caen. His most important castle was in Graville.

He married Esilia, daughter of Gilbert Crespin , castellan of Tillières in the southeast of the Duchy of Normandy. In 1066 he was one of the companions of Wilhelm the Conqueror and fought in the Battle of Hastings . The burial of Harald II on the beach is attributed to him because he was believed to be one of his relatives. He was a loyal retainer of the new Norman king and probably held in high regard by him.

In 1068, during the Harrying of the North , he was made Castellan of York and Sheriff of Yorkshire . In September 1069, when York was besieged by a coalition of Danes and Anglo-Saxons and the Norman garrison decimated, William Malet was captured. However, he, his family and a few others managed to escape before Norman relief arrived. After that, he was engaged in quelling the revolt led by Hereward the Wake in the Fens . He most likely died during that campaign in 1071.

At his death he owned numerous English domains, most notably in Norfolk , Essex , Bedfordshire , Nottinghamshire and Suffolk . In particular, he is the owner of the Honor of Eye in Suffolk. His heir was his son Robert Malet

Family and offspring

He has numerous children from his wife Esilia, not all of whom are known:

  • Robert († 1107), Lord of Graville and Eye, High Chamberlain of England
  • Gilbert Malet, progenitor of the Malet of Cury Malet and the Malet of Enmore and the Baronets Malet
  • Beatrix, ∞ before 1086, Guillaume, Vicomte d'Arques , son of Geoffroy Giffard, Vicomte d'Arques ( Giffard )
  • Daughter ∞ Alfred of Lincoln / Alfred of Wareham
  • Daughter ∞ Turold, Sheriff of Lincolnshire - the parents of Lucy of Bolingbroke
  • Durand Malet mentioned in the Domesday Book as having possession in Lincolnshire , possibly his son or brother.

literature

  • Cyril Hart, William Malet and his Family , in: Anglo-Norman Studies XIX: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1996 , ed. by Christopher Harper-Bill, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1997, pp. 123-166. ISBN 0851157076 .
  • Charles Warren Hollister , Henry I and Robert Malet , in: Viator , Volume 4, 1973, pp. 115-122.
  • Elisabeth MC Van Houts (Ed.), The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges , Orderic Vitalis , and Robert of Torigni : Introduction , Oxford University Press, 1992, p. Xliii
  • PR Newman, The Yorkshire Domesday Clamores and the 'Lost Fee' of William Malet , in Anglo-Normans Studies XXII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1999 , ed. by Christopher Harper-Bill, Boydell & Brewer, 2000, pp. 216-218. ISBN 0851157963 .
  • KSB Keats-Rohan , Domesday Book and the Malets: patrimony and the private history of public lives , in: Nottingham Medieval Studies , Volume 41, 1997, pp. 13–56.
  • KSB Keats-Rohan, Malet, William (d. 1071?) , In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004. online, accessed May 30, 2019 .
  • CP Lewis, The King and Eye: A Study in Anglo-Norman Politics , in: The English Historical Review , Vol. 104, No. 412 (July 1989), pp. 569-589.

Web link

  • Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Malet ( online )

Remarks

  1. ↑ Keats-Rohan suspects that Guillaume Malet's father could have been one of the men who accompanied Emma from Normandy to England in 1002 for her marriage to King Æthelred II , and writes that these men owned goods in England until 1066 could have had.
  2. ^ Van Houts
  3. ↑ In De nobili genere Crispinorum Esilia is referred to as the mother of William Malet: Emmam, Petri de Condeto genetricem, atque Esiliam, matrem Willelmi Malet as daughters of Gislebertus ... Crispini cognomen ( De nobili genere Crispinorum , RHGF XIV, p. 268) Cawley thinks that Word matrem for an error
  4. ↑ Hard
  5. ↑ Richard Sharpe, Nicholas Karn, Charters of William II and Henry I Project, October 20, 2014 ( online pdf )
personal data
SURNAME Guillaume Malet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES William Malet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Norm nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH around 1071
Place of death England