Picot de Sai

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The ruins of the Clun Castle founded by Picot de Sai

Picot de Sai (11th century; † 1098 ), actually Robert de Sai or de Say , was a Norman nobleman and Lord of Clun . He came from Sai in Normandy , after which he was named, and came to England during or shortly after the Norman conquest . As a follower of Roger de Montgomerie , he built Clun Castle and Caus Castle in Shropshire in the Welsh Marches , which was named after Picot's homeland Pays de Caux . In the Domesday Book he is named as lord of 27 estates in Shropshire. Clun Castle became the center of a barony of the Welsh Marches.

With his wife Adeloia , the widow of William de Coimes , he had several children, including Henry, Robert and a daughter who married the Welsh prince Cadwgan ap Bleddyn . His name was later Anglicized to Robert de Say, his heir and successor as Lord of Clun was his son Henry de Say.

literature

  • Katherine SB Keats-Rohan: Domesday people: a prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 , Boydell, Woodbridge 2002, ISBN 978-0-85115-722-1 , p. 325

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frederick C. Soup: Castle guard and the castlery of Clun . In: Robert Liddiard: Anglo-Norman castles . Boydell, Woodbridge 2002. ISBN 978-0-85115-904-1 , p. 218
  2. ^ David Walker: Medieval Wales . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1990. ISBN 978-0-521-31153-3 , p. 24
  3. ^ Rees R. Davies: The Age of Conquest. Wales 1063-1415 . Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 1991. ISBN 0-19-820198-2 , p. 30
  4. ^ Adrian Pettifer: English Castles: A Guide by Counties. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995. ISBN 978-0-85115-782-5 , p. 211
  5. ↑ Frederick C. Soup: Castle guard and the castlery of Clun . In: Robert Liddiard: Anglo-Norman castles . Boydell, Woodbridge 2002. ISBN 978-0-85115-904-1 , p. 217
personal data
SURNAME Picot de Sai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robert de Sai; Robert de Say; Picot de Say
BRIEF DESCRIPTION norman nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Sai , Normandy
DATE OF DEATH 1098