Malet

• Preferred Name: Malet^[1]
  
• Gender: F
  
• FSID: GN38-YJ6
  
• Birth: ABT 1045
  
• Death: BEF 1085 in Lincolnshire, England
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Malet-1
  
  HER FIRST NAME IS UNKNOWN
  
  Keats-Rohan gives a detailed explanation about why Turold's wife must be a sister of Beatrix:
  
  Turning to the evidence for the extended Malet family brings us immediately to the question of Countess Lucy of Chester, who was claimed as a niece of Robert Malet and Alan of Lincoln in 1154. Her mother has been identified as Beatrice Malet, but this identification is impossible.56 Beatrice's husband William of Arques died c. 1090 and she survived him by several years. Both Turold and his wife were dead by the end of 1085. A lot of ink has flowed on the subject, but there can be no doubt that the 'mysterious' Countess Lucy of Chester was William Malet's thrice-married granddaughter, the daughter of Robert Malet's sister and Turold the Sheriff of Lincoln (dead by 1079).57 The suggestion was first made by R. Kirk in 1888.58 As N. Sumner has more recently observed: "This account has the merit of explaining why the lordship of Spalding and other places in Lincolnshire were held after Ivo's death not by Beatrice, his direct heir and the daughter of his marriage to Lucy,59 but by the later husbands of Lucy, Roger fitz Gerold and Ranulph Meschines.".60 It is clear from her charters that Lucy was an heiress; as was to be expected, her estates passed to the sons of her second and third marriages. Kirk's work was based upon conjecture, and contained a number of errors. The question of Lucy's parentage has therefore remained open. Nevertheless, there is proof that Kirk was right.
  A spurious charter of Crowland Abbey made Turold of Bucknall (the Sheriff) the founder of the priory of Spalding as a cell of Crowland. It also called Turold brother of Godiva countess of Mercia, but subsequently described Godiva's son Earl Algar as Turold's cognatus (cousin).61 A genealogia fundatoris of Coventry Abbey made Lucy a daughter of Earl Algar and sister and heiress of earls Edwin and Morcar.62 The Peterborough Chronicle and the Pseudo-Ingulf's Chronicle of Crowland both made Lucy the daughter of Algar and niece or great-niece of Turold.63 We know that William Malet was half-English, so these traditions probably boil down to a relationship between Countess Godiva and William's English mother.
  Turold is evidenced in Domesday Book as a benefactor of Crowland Abbey, to which he gave a parcel of land at Bucknall.64 The abbey also held land at Spalding that had probably been granted to it by Earl Algar and there is evidence to suggest that Turold the Sheriff gave further land there to the abbey of St Nicholas, Angers, before 1079.65 Lucy and her first husband Ivo Taillebois subsequently founded, or perhaps re-founded, a priory at Spalding subject to St Nicholas, Angers. A revealing phrase from the Register of Spalding Priory reads: 'mortuo quia dicto Thoraldo relicta sibi herede Lucia predicta' [at his death Turold left an heir, the aforesaid Lucy].66 The word heres, 'heir', was often used of the child who was to inherit his/her father's property. Lucy later confirmed the gifts of all three of her husbands: 'pro redempcione anime patris mei et matris mee et dominorum meorum et parentum meorum' [for the souls of my father and mother, my husbands and my (other) relatives].67 The association of the priory with such a small group of people and the description of Lucy as heres of Turold strongly hint at Lucy's parentage. But we can go further still.
  In their initial benefaction, given before the end of 1085, at a time when both Lucy's parents were dead, Ivo and Lucy acted 'pro animabus antecessorum suorum68, Turoldi scilicet uxorisque eius requie'.69 The reference to Turold's wife indicates that some part of his landholding had come to him through his wife, something also indicated by the occurrence of William Malet amongst those who had held the Domesday lands of Lucy's first husband Ivo Taillebois before him.70 The apparently vague Latin words antecessor and predecessor can both be used to mean something like 'predecessor'. Each of them conveys a range of very precise meanings in different circumstances. The description of Turold and his wife as antecessores of Ivo and Lucy may be compared to the usage in a charter in the cartulary of Mont-Saint-Michel by which the Angevins Hugh Chalibot and his wife confirmed the grants of her father, who was described as antecessor noster.71 Other examples of this phrase show clearly that it was used by a married man to describe the parent from whom his wife had inherited the property she brought to the marriage. Acting on her own account (normally after her husband's death), the heiress will often describe herself as the daughter of the parent her husband described as antecessor noster. More rarely, the phrase was used to indicate the couple's immediate predecessor, not her father but her brother.72 In Lucy and Ivo's case the plurality of their antecessores, Turold and his wife, puts the matter beyond doubt. Lucy's parents were indeed Turold the Sheriff and a daughter of William Malet.
  Sources
  
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I12069 - accessed 2 July 2017
  22 Oct 2004 posting of Therav3 on Gen-Medieval re: Descent from Richard III of Normandy to Jane Lowe (Grey of Sandiacre)
  http://washington.ancestryregister.com/COVENTRY100006.htm
  K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (May 1995) Antecessor Noster: "The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain", Prosopon Newsletter, 2 link
  K.S.B.Keats-Rohan (1996 pre-publication proof) of Nottingham Medieval Studies 41 (1997) 13-56 "Domesday Book and the Malets: patrimony and the private histories of public lives" on her website
  Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999.), p. 283, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.02 K25.
  Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 (Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press, 2002.), pp. 1137-8, Library of Congress, DA177 .K4 2002.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER 929.242 SO ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER 929.242 SO68) P.14;

1. Lucy of Bolingbroke, b. ABT 1074 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England     d. 1136 in Spalding, Lincolnshire

1. Title: Domesday Book and the Malets by K.S.B. Keats-Rohan
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/156705038;
   Note: Talks about the parentage of Lucy wife of Ivo Taillebois
   Page: Talks about her relationship to Lucy