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I'm
Rob Salzman of
4130 SW 117th Ave # 415 Beaverton, OR,
97005 USA.
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: William MaletMale Note
Born:
Married: 1044 1044-1-1
Died: 1072 1072-1-1
WIFE
Born:
Died:
Father: Gilbert Crispin
Mother: Gunmore Ainon
CHILDREN
Born:
Died:
Wife: Correole
NOTES
1). WILLIAM MALET The Conqueror and His Companions by J.R. Planché, Somerset Herald. London Tinsley Brot h e r s , 1874. Here again is a memorable personage of whose origin a n d f a m ily little is known. Wace mentions him as Guilla um e k i l e n dit Mallet, but why so called has not eve n b ee n guess e d at. Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, is popular ly s ai d to hav e r eceived his name of Martel from the ho rsema n s hammer , whic h is assumed to have been his favo urit e wea pon bu t this, l ike many such stories, is unsu pport ed b y any subs tantial ev idence, and is contested b y th e Frenc h antiquary , M. de l a Mairie, who asserts th at Ma rtel i s simply anoth er form o f Martin, and the wel l know n charg e in heraldry , Martlet, M artelette, or lit tle Mar tin, o r Swallow, appea rs to corrobo rate that ass ertion . Therefo re, although th e maillet, a t wo heade d hamme r, was as e arly known to the Normans as the martel de fer, L un tient une épée sans fourre, L autre une maillet, l autre line hache. Guiart, v. 6635. if, indeed, it were not the same weapon, I have no be l i e f i n such a derivation, the name being, moreover, bo r n e b y th e whole family. Whether the companion of the C on qu ero r wa s the first so called is unknown. Le Prevos t si mpl y sa ys h e was the source of a noble race still e xisti ng i n Fra nce , that of Malet de Graville. The author of Carmen de Bello tells us he was partl y N o r m an and partly English, and Compater Heraldi,wh ic h wo u l d seem to signify joint sponsor witli Harold, c omp ère , a s t he French have it vide Ducange in voce . It would be interesting to discover whose child the y s t o o d godfathers to, and why we find him in the rank s o f h i s fe llow gossip From the Saxon God syb, a rela tio n i n Go d. Th ere was formerly a spiritual kinship sup pose d t o exis t betw een a child and its sponsors express ed b y th e word g ossipre de. the knowledge of that fac t migh t reve al to u s many oth ers. Was it in England o r in Norm andy th at he st ood at th e font with Harold? I f in the la tter, i t must hav e been i n 1062, during th e enforced vis it of Go dwin s so n to Duke W illiam, the y ear in which Ad ela was b orn. Is i t possible th at Harol d and William Mal et were he r godfathe rs? Guy, of Am iens , Matilda s almone r, would ce rtainly b e cognizant of t h at fact. His name, however, is not met with, I believe, eith e r i n S a xon or Norman annals previous to the invasion , wh en w e he a r of his valour and his peril. Guillaume , who m the y cal l M allet, also threw himself boldly int o the m idst . With h is f laming sword he terrified the En glish. B ut th ey pierce d hi s shield and killed his horse , and h e woul d have bee n slai n himself, when the Sire d e Montfo rt an d William d e Vez Pon t Vieuxpontcame u p with a st rong f orce, and ga llantly re scued him, thoug h with the l oss o f many of thei r men, and m ounted him o n a fresh hor se R oman de Rou, l . 13,472 85 . We next hear of him as the person appointed by the Conq u e r o r to take charge of the body of Harold, which had b e e n di sc overed by the swan necked Eadgyth, and to bur y i t o n th e se a shore his selection for that purpose w oul d see m t o hav e some connection with the curious stat emen t of B isho p Guy , as from his previous knowledge o f the S axon Ki ng, a nd th e spiritual brotherhood which i s said t o have e xiste d betwe en them, he may have been c onsidere d by Willi am t o have th e best claim to the mela ncholy ho nour afte r the m other, t o whom it had sternl y refused. After this we find him mentioned as accompanying the ne w l y seated sovereign in his expedition to the North, a n d t h e re duction of Nottingham and York 1068 , in whi c h yea r M ale t was rewarded with the shrievalty of Yorks hi re, an d la rg e grants of land in the county. He was i n Yo rk th e follo win g year, and governor of the castle newl y buil t by th e Conq ueror when it was besieged by t he No rthumbr ians, le d by th e Saxon prince Edgar. The ci tizen s havin g joined th e insurg ents, William Malet, sor ely pr essed, s ent to the K ing for a ssistance, without w hich h e assure d him he shoul d be compel led to surrender . The K ing arriv ed with a power ful force i n time to rai se the s iege and t ake fearful veng eance on th e besieger s, as wel l as on th e city and its inh abitants. Ag ain, w ith Gilber t de Ghen t he was in command i n York when t h e Danes assa ulted it i n 1069 and in conjunct ion with th e E arls Walth eof and Gos patric burnt the city , slew thr ee thou sand No rmans, and t ook prisoners Gilber t de Ghen t and Willi am M alet, with hi s wife and two of the ir chi ldren. How long he remained in captivity does not appear, no r w h e r e or at what time or under what circumstances h e die d . Lu ci a, widow of Roger Fitz Gerald, and subseque ntly C ou ntes s o f Chester, is stated, in a grant of Kin g Henr y II , to h av e been niece of Robert Malet and of A lan o f Linco ln an d th is Robert is said to have been th e so n of a Wil liam Ma let , slain in 1069, the period a t whic h our Willia m Male t wa s taken prisoner at York. A nothe r William Malet , set d own a s the son of Hesilia Cr ispin , died an old ma n in th e Abbe y of Bec but there i s no i dentifying eithe r with th e compa nion of the Conqu eror, t hough each ha s a claim to t he disti nction, for o ur Willi am, the sherif f of Yorkshir e and compè re of Ha rold, cert ainly had a so n and heir name d Robert, a n d a sister of W illiam Crispin , named Hesilia , is vario usl y asserted t o have been the m other or wife o f the Wi lliam M alet wh o fought at Senlac. He was a witness to a charter of King William to the C h u r c h of St. Martin le Grand in London, and is therei n st yl e d Princeps. He also gave Conteville in Normand y t o th e A bbe y of Bec, De dono Gulielmi Malet maneriu m d e Cont evil le c um ecclesia et omnibus ejusdem ecclesi &ael ug e t maner ii pe rtinentiis suis Neustria Pia, p . 484 whic h indica tes so me connection with Herluin an d Herle ve. Ho w came h e possess ed of Conteville? We kno w that He rluin h ad been p reviousl y married, and had b y his firs t wife a s on named R alf. Wa s that first wif e an Englishw oman, and h ad she a se cond so n named Willi am, heir event ually to Con teville? Glo ver, i n his inval uable collectio ns, has jotte d down the su bscribi ng witn esses to a chart er by a Gilber t Malet, who s tyles hi mse lf Dapifer Begis , and we fin d amongst them Wi lliam Ma l et, his heir hæ rede meo, Robe rt, and Ralph, bro ther s of W illiam, and a nother William , grandson or nephe w o f the gran tor nepo te meo . Unfor tunately it is with o ut date bu t I am inc lined to conside r Gilbert a broth er o f the sherif f, an d the William he ca lls his nephew , the yo ungest of th e t wo sons of the sheri ff, who wer e taken pris oners with h i m at Yorkthe othe r being Rob ert, who succee ded him, o btai ned the honour o f Eye in S uffolk, and at th e compila tion o f Domesday wa s found t o possess two hundre d and si xty eigh t manors i n England , Eye being the chief . His fa ther was th en dead , and th at is all we at presen t know f or a certainty . I f not sl ain in 1069, he might wel l be t he old man who di e d in t he Abbey of Bec, to which h e wa s a benefactor, fo r w e h ave no means of guessing his a g e at the time of th e inv a sion. The smallest contributi o n to his history woul d b e gra tefully received.
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