Hugh d'Etwall

• Preferred Name: Hugh d'Etwall^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Alternate Birth Place: in Nottinghamshire, England with note: fabpedigree: Hugh de ETWALL
  
• Birth: ABT 1050 in Etwall, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.8824 LONG: E1.6022 with note: Modified | History 27 March 2012 by unknown4470317
  
• Death: Y
  
• FSID: LZKS-NH8
  
• Notes:

  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.25, 30;

1. Emma D'Etwall, b. ABT 1072 in Etwall, Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom     d. ABT 1120 in Cuckney, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

1. Title: fabpedigree: Hugh de ETWALL
   Publication: Name: https://fabpedigree.com/s040/f790181.htm;
   Note: Wife/Partner: ? Child: (NN) de ETWALL __________ __________ _________ _________ _________ ______ ______ _____ / -- Saswallo de ETWALL / - Hugh de ETWALL \ \ -- ?
   
2. Title: Shirley Family Association: Saswalo Castellan of Lisle
   Publication: Name: http://www.shirleyassociation.com/NewShirleySite/NonMembers/England/saswalo_lisle.html;
   Note: Notes on the Descendancy of the Family of Ensor By Peter Lee Nuneaton & North Warwickshire Family History Society - If you visit the village of Ettington in the south of the county of Warwickshire, you will find a nineteenth century mansion that was once the seat of the Shirley family. Indeed the manor and the previous house had been in their family for over 900 years. The building today is one of England's grandest hotels. Engraved on a stone wall is lettering which reads: "When good St. Edward wore the crown/ Saswallo here was thane: His male stem this manor own/ Now in Victoria's reign" There are other families who have claimed descendency from Saswal[l]o including the families of de Etwall, de Mungei, de Snitterton and Ible, De Pecco, de Alfreton, Ingleram, de Ireton and de Ednesour (from whom the current family of Ensor now under review are all descended) - but who was Saswalo? The Shirleys believe he was a Saxon nobleman who for some reason benefited under the largesse of William the Conqueror. I beg to differ and here is the reason. A book entitled 'The Norman People' published in London 1989 reads : "Shirley: This family descends from Sasualo, who held vast estates from Henry de Ferrers 1086. He had been supposed of Anglo-Saxon origin, but the name does not occur amongst the proprietor's t. Edward Confessor (Domesd.); nor is it probable that such vast estates (nine knight's fees) would have been given to an Anglo Saxon. The name is probably foreign. Sasualo or Saswalo was Castellan of Lisle (Keeper of the castle of L'Isle - or the island - now Lille in Northern France but then) - Flanders c.1000 and 1039 founded the Abbey of Palempin (Albert Miraeus, Op. Diplom. i. 54) His son, Robert, Castellan of Lisle, had 1. Roger, whose grandson went to the Crusade 1096, and from whose brother Hugh descended the powerful Castellans of Lisle. 2. Sasualo or Sigwalo, who witnessed a charter of Baldwin, Bishop of Tournay 1087 (ib. 60). He appears to be the ancestor of this family, who came to England 1066. From him descended the families of Edensor, Ireton, and Shirley, who bore respectively the arms of Ferrers and Ridel. Hence the Earls Ferrers. As Saswalo was a nobleman of Flanders I speculate if he was in any way related to the Counts of Flanders who were descended from Charlemagne and thus entitled to claim their descendency back to Ansigie of Austrasia who was alive in the year 620AD? That part we do not know for sure but by witnessing that charter of Baldwin, Bishop of Tournay in 1087 brings him in close proximity to someone who was so descended. The connection is partially strengthened from a book entitled "Continental Germanic personal names in England in old and middle English Times" by Thorvald Forssner. (Upsalla Press 1916). This lists the romance name "Saxwalo a rare but adequately recorded name" - which strengthens Saswalo's possible German or Carolingian ancestry. Another connection I find on the internet in a document written by Annette Hardie- Stoffelen entitled "The rise of the Flemish Families in Scotland" (www. amg1.net/flemfam.htm) - she talks of "Those Flemings who had followed Count Eustace II of Bolougne to England in 1066 and received their territories there from William of Normandy, were now being offered large tracts of Scotland because their Lady had become that country's king." This document goes on to talk about the family which took the name "Hay" The ancestor of the Scottish Hay family, William de la Haie, came to Scotland in the reign of King David I and became butler to both Malcolm IV and William the Lion. His place of origin was named La Haie, near Loos in west Flanders whose lords served the castellans of Lille…..the first castellans of Lille descended from the noble Fleming Saswalo of Phalempin. As you will see later the Ensors figure in the Scottish aristocracy and in one of the most dramatic episodes in Scottish family life that took place in exile in Devonshire-the story of Lorna Doone! However, why did Saswalo (?1025- 1115) turn up with nine manors granted to him by Henry Seigneur de Ferrers et Chambrey (1036-1088) and whose descendents - the Ensor family - adopted the crest of three horseshoes, when horseshoes were the predominant symbol of the Ferrers family (old French - ferreor - or farrier or man who shoes horses.)? (There may have been two more men by the name of Saswalo who also featured in the records of Domesday.) A Saswalo or Saxwalo (son of Peter Bouville) who held land in Suffolk, Finlesford, Haverhill, Creeting St. Peter and another Saswalo - Abbott of Peterborough's man - who held land at Bytham in Lincolnshire. Saswalo of Ettington also had manors in Rowbury, Berkshire; Fairstead, Essex; Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire; Kingham and Rycote, and Heighton in Sussex - this in addition to his nine manors in Derbyshire. Henry de Ferrers was at Hastings as he was listed in the church of Dives-sur- Mer, Normandy where the knights said mass before setting sail for England in 1066. His tenant Saswalo may not have sailed with him, we do not know for sure, but was sufficiently involved with the invading de Ferrers to hold a knight's fee for each of the nine manors granted to him after the Conquest. (Henry Ferrers was granted huge tracts of land in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, 210 manors in all, of which 114 were in Derbyshire alone.) We know that Saswalo had at least one son - Sewallis ( -1085?) - who in turn had two sons namely Henry fil Sewallis and Fulcher fil Sewallis. ( - 1105) Henry did not have any offspring but Fulcher had the following: 1. Jordan (heir to his uncle Henry) died without issue. 2. Henry who sold the manor of Ettington to Sewallis (his brother) in 1129. Henry had a son Fulcher who took the name de Ireton. A male descent which died out in 1711. (Henry Ireton in this line was the son in law of Oliver Cromwell and Lord Deputy of Ireland) 3. Sewallis II de Sayrle (of Sirelei, or Shirley a village in Derbyshire) whose descendents still live today in that village. Sewallis married Maud Ridel of Halaughton Co. Derby. He held the baronetcies: Earl Ferrers and Viscount or Baron Tamworth, this latter title still being held by his living descendents today. (Robert William Saswalo Shirley, Viscount Tamworth [1952- ]) 4. Robert, about whom we have no further information presently. 5. Fulcherus who married twice: (1) unknown (2) Margaret, died childless. Son nr, 3 Sewallis had five sons: 1. Henry Shirley ( -1165) who was a witness to the foundation of Merevale Abbey near Atherstone in 1148. He had a son Sewallis who married Isabel co. heir of Robert Meynell of Langley Meynell, and a daughter Joanna (heiress of John de Clinton of Essex) 2. Hugh, a priest. 3. Ralph 4. Richard 5. Dominus Fulcher de Ednesor of Ednsor and Chatsworth (in 1190). (He gave the church at Edensor to the Prior of Rocester). whose children were Thomas de Edensor, lord of the manor of Baddesley Ensor, Polesworth, Newton Regis and Seckington. Other children of Dominus were, Adam, Randolph, Henrie and Richard of Tissington. It is from these that we believe the extant male line of the Ensors descends.