Ernulf "Arnulph" de Hesdin

• Preferred Name: Ernulf "Arnulph" de Hesdin^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: G8KM-FLV
  
• Military: with note: Description: Crusader
  
• Title+(Nobility): with note: Description: Sir Knight
  
• Birth: ABT 1040 in Hesdin-l'Abbé, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France at LATI: N0.669 LONG: E0.68
  
• Death: 1098 in Antakya, Hatay, Türkiye at LATI: N6.203 LONG: E6.16
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Biography
  First name
  In this period, the two old Frankish names based on Arin-wald and Arin-wulf had been merged in practice.[1] Spelling variants of this merged name include Arnoul, Ernulf, Arnald, Arnulph etc. As usual these received grammatical endings when used in Latin (Arnulphus etc).
  
  Second name and origins
  Ernulf was referred to as being "de Hesding" or "Hesdink" etc, meaning from the place now spelled "Hesdin". The modern French postcode is 62140. Loyd, who is the authority still cited by more recent authors such as Keats-Rohan, explained:[2]
  
  At the Domesday survey Arnulf de Hesdin was a tenant-in-chief in several counties. The gifts which he made to the priory of St. George, Hesdin, of land in Hesdin and churches in England8 clearly show that it was from this Hesdin, where the priory was situate, that he took his name.
  The old town of Hesdin (not identical to the new one built close by) had a county, which was historically part of Picardy or Artois, near modern Belgium, in the contemporary departement of Pas de Calais.[3]
  
  Parents, siblings and ancestry
  As pointed out by Wikipedia (Sept 2018) the counts of Hesdin in this period are known, and they have no known connection to Ernulf.[3] As Charles Cawley's MEDLANDS website suggests, he may still be a relative.[4] (Ernulf appears in a charter with one of them, as shown below.)
  
  No reliable sources have been found for Ernulf's parents. His father is variously shown on websites as Gerard or Warin. The Heading website even gives him a Welsh mother and a grandfather called Ernicule.[5]
  
  Wikipedia (Sept 2018) states that "Little is known of Ernulf's family, except that he had a brother called Ilbod, who is listed in Domesday as an important landholder in Essex and Oxfordshire".[3]
  
  Keats-Rohan notes:[6]
  
  Apparently a brother or brother-in-law of Wacelin, provost of Beaurain, arr. Montreuil, cant. Campagne-lès-Hesdin, under Walter Tirel of Poix.
  Jim Weber's website adds a sister Adelaide who married a William, lord of Bournonville. One of the profiles in this family cites a 2001 SGM post by Todd Farmerie called "William, son of Eustace & Susanne". Can anyone find this post?[7]
  
  1085 Marriage to Emmeline
  Aveline de Hesdin was certainly the daughter of Arnulf, Seigneur de Hesdin and his wife Ameline or Emmeline. [8] MEDLANDS:
  
  The Historia sancti Petri Gloucestriæ records that "Robertus filius Walteri et Avelina uxor eius" donated "ecclesiam de Nortone", as previously donated by "Elmelina mater Avelinæ ante plures annos". [4]
  Emmeline was possibly the widow of Walter de Lacy, and possibly the daughter of Dreux de Baladon.
  
  MEDLANDS:
  
  "Emelina uxor Ernulfi de Hestink" donated "ecclesiam de Northona" to Gloucester St Peter by undated charter witnessed by "Rogerus filius Dodonis"[1693].
  The parentage of Emmeline, wife of Arnoul de Hesdin, has not been identified with certainty. However, two sources indicate that she was closely related to the Ballon family. If that is correct, the chronology suggests that she was the daughter of Dreux de Baladon. The first source is a charter dated 14 Sep 1100 under which [her grandson] "Patricius" donated "v hidas terræ de Westona" to Bath St Peter, for the souls of "…Hamelini et Winebaldi de Baalun…ac…Arnulfi de Hesding…et Warini clerici mei", witnessed by "Hamelinus et Winebaldus de Baalun…"[1694]. The second source is a donation to Gloucester St Peter made by [her grandson] "Patricius de Cadurcis" of land "apud Ameneye de feodo suo…[et] apud Ameneye Sancti Nicholai" to Gloucester St Peter, with the confirmation of "rege Henrico seniore"[1695], read together with the donation to the same abbey of land "in Ameneye" made by "Wynebaldus de Balon…et Rogerius filius meus"[1696]. It should also be noted that, if this is correct, her supposed brother Hamelin had a daughter who was also named Emmeline. [4]
  MEDLANDS:
  
  A charter of Stephen King of England dated 1138 confirmed donations to Gloucester St Peter including the donation by "Ernulfi de Hesding et Emelina uxoris eius" of “ecclesiam de Nortuna"[1698]. [There are indications that Emmeline, wife of Arnoul de Hesdin, was the widow of Walter de Lacy. Both families made numerous donations to Gloucester St Peter, although it has not yet proved possible to link any of the names of land donated to both families, but most significantly the Historia sancti Petri Gloucestriæ, in a list of holdings, records (in order) donations made by "Walterus de Lacy dedit Leden, Ernulfus de Hesding dedit Lyncoholt, Hermelina de Lacy dedit pro anima viri sui Duntesbourne…"[1699]. The interposition of Arnoul’s name between Walter de Lacy and his wife Emmeline is best explained if he was Emmeline’s second husband. From a chronological point of view, the two marriages would fit. It should be emphasised that this suggestion is speculative.] [4]
  
  Wealthy Merchant
  The fanciful Burkes (1853) reports a very old "family tradition"!
  
  The family tradition relates that Ernulph was a merchant, having ships of his own, and trading to every known nation; that he was richer than the king, and had assisted William the Conqueror with money and ships when he invaded England. [9]
  1086 Lands
  At the Domesday survey of England, 1086, Ernulf was a tenant-in-chief in ten counties.[10]
  
  Burke 1853:
  
  Ernulf or Ernulph de Hesding, and his brother Ilbodus de Hesding, had large possessions in co. Oxford, both living at the time of the Conquest.
  Ernulph de Hesding is mentioned in Doomsday Book as also holding vast possessions of the king, in Bedfordshire, at Dodintone, now called Toddington, near Ampthill, and at Opeforde, now called Offord, in co. Huntingdon. [9]
  MEDLANDS:
  
  Domesday Book records that “Ernulf de Hesdin” held Farningham, Axton Hundred, and Chelsfield, Helmestrei Hundred, and Cliff and Haven in Shamwell Hundred, in Kent of the bishop of Bayeux, Combe in Hurstbourne Hundred in Hampshire/Berkshire, Newbury in Thatcham Hundred in Berkshire, numerous land-holdings in Wiltshire, land in Dorset including Kington Magna and Melbury, Ruislip in Middlesex[1686]. [4]
  1091 Witness to Bath Abbey Charter
  MEDLANDS:
  
  "…Ernulfus de Hesding" witnessed the charter dated 27 Jan 1091 under which William II King of England confirmed the status of Bath abbey[1690]. [4]
  1094 charter
  Round:
  
  Dated to between 1094 and 1100, while travelling from Normandy to England with the King, Arnulf de Hesdin bestowed on [Hesdin priory of] St George, all that he held of count Engelram at Hesdin in fee, with the count's advise and consent. Then on Ascension day at his house at Norton, England, while his familia were assembled, he renewed his gift, with the assent of all, including his wife, sons, William, and daughter, Ava, which his chaplain Theodardus confirmed before witnesses the gift he made at Combe in the presence of Osmund bishop of Salisbury, ie, the churches of Norton and Weston and Eston, two chapels in the city of Bath, a curtilage at Nold yearly to the priory of St George until Arnulf's death when the monk's should have it all.[11]
  Donations to Churches
  MEDLANDS:
  
  "Ernulph de Hesding" donated the manor and church of Ruislip, Middlesex to the abbey of Bec[1687]. [4]
  MEDLANDS:
  
  The Historia sancti Petri Gloucestriæ records that "Ernulphus de Hesdyng" donated "ecclesiam de Heythrop, Lynkbolt…et ecclesiam de Kynemerforde", confirmed by "Patricius de Cadurcis et Matilda uxor eius", and by "hæredum suorum" in "quatuor cartæ", in the fourth of which "Paganus filius Patricii" donated "decimam domini sui de Kynermerforde", that "Johannes episcopus" confirmed and donated "quatuor marcas annuas in ecclesia de Kynermerforde", with the confirmation of "Rex Henricus senior…tempore Serlonis abbatis" [abbot from 1072 to 1104][1688]. [4]
  MEDLANDS:
  
  A charter of Stephen King of England dated 1138 confirmed donations to Gloucester St Peter including the donation by "Ernulfi de Hesding et Emelina uxoris eius" of “ecclesiam de Nortuna"[1689]. [4]
  Death
  MEDLANDS:
  
  The Chronicle of Hyde records that "Ernulfus de Hednith" was unjustly accused of treason but successfully defended himself by trial of battle (dated to [1096] from the context), and left on Crusade and died at Antioch[1691]. [4]
  1100 Donation to Bath on Behalf of his soul
  MEDLANDS:
  
  "Patricius" donated "v hidas terræ de Westona" to Bath St Peter, for the souls of "…Arnulfi de Hesding…", by charter dated 14 Sep 1100[1692]. [4]
  Patrick is thought to be Ernulf's son-in-law.
  
  Issue
  Cawley (MEDLANDS) reports that Arnoul & his wife had three children, Arnoul, Mathilde and Adeline. Wikipedia shows that there was also a son William, but his fate is unknown.
  
  Well sourced children
  Ernulf was the father of:[12]
  
  Arnald or Ernulph (II) de Hesdin, son and heir (executed 1138). Orderic Vitalis records that Ernulf de Hesdin was avunculus of "William fitz Alan castellan and vicecomes of Shrewsbury" and was hanged by King Stephen after the battle of Shrewsbury in 1138.[4] Before this he had apparently succeeded his father as lord of Keevil.[13] He also succeeded to the barony of Kempsford.
  William;[11]
  Ava (Avelina, Adelina), d. after 1126 [11] An eventual heiress who married Alan fitz Flaad. [4]
  Matilda or Maud who married Patrick de Chaworth (Caorces, Shaources, Cadurcis). Round in 1899 doubted that doubted that Matilda was a daughter, or even heiress. She and her husband had some of his lands, and they made a dedicated a gift to his soul. But is not referred to explicitly as her father in that document.[14] However Barkly found more evidence also in 1899, which he felt made the case certain.[13] See Bracton's Note Book.[15] Barkley's evidence at least seems to make it certain she was an heiress, and with that information there seem hardly any other possibilities.
  Other children?
  Keats-Rohan adds another possible son:[6]
  
  Reiner de Hesdin. Described by Keats-Rohan as "father of William, who assisted William sheriff of Kent in an inquest of 1127" citing Stenton, English Justice, no. i, pp166-22.
  From websites:
  
  Sibyl de

• m. ABT 1054 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK
• m. in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

1. Aveline de Hesdin., b. ABT 1075 in Vieil-Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France     d. 5 NOV 1126 in Shropshire, England
2. Ernulf de Hesdin, b. 1055 in Shropshire,England     d. 1138, hanged on the orders of King Stephen in Shropshire, England
3. Matilda de Hesdin, b. ABT 1065 in Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France     d. AFT 1133 in Toddington, Bedfordshire, England

1. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Author: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntdk.htm#ArnoulHesdindied1098;