William de Mohun 1st Feudal Baron of Dunster

• Preferred Name: William de Mohun 1st Feudal Baron of Dunster^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• MilitaryService: Battle of Hastings1066 in Hastings, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.8583 LONG: E0.5803
  
• Death: 1100 in Dunster, Somerset, England at LATI: N1.1828 LONG: E3.4453
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Seigneur of Moyon
  
• Birth: ABT 1045 in Mohun, St. Lo, Cotentin, Normandie, France at LATI: N9.5 LONG: E1.5
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Somerset1086 in Dunster, Somerset, England at LATI: N1.1828 LONG: E3.4453
  
• FSID: KFFD-FVJ
  
• Burial: 1110 in Bath Abbey, Somerset, England at LATI: N1.3815 LONG: E2.3587
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  William I de Moyon (d. post 1090)[1] (alias de Moion, also de Mohun), 1st feudal baron of Dunster in Somerset,[2] was seigneur of Moyon in Normandy and became Sheriff of Somerset in 1086. He founded the English de Mohun family in the Westcountry. Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a tenant-in-chief of William the Conqueror holding a number of manors in Somerset with caput at Dunster Castle.[3][4]
  
  Career
  Deriving from Moyon, near Saint-Lô, Normandy, William was called "one of the greatest Barons of the Cotentin" by Francis Palgrave, though he adds that William had only "five knights who held of him". Dugdale attributed "forty-seven stout Knights of name and note" to him. Participating in the Norman conquest of England, he was granted fifty-five manors in Somerset, one each in Wiltshire and Dorset. He built Dunster Castle on the site of a former West Saxon fortress.[5] The Norman chronicler Wace called him le Viel, (modern French: le Vieux), "the elder", to distinguish him from his son William II de Mohun (d. circa 1155).[6]
  
  He acquired sixty-eight manors in the west of England, one each in Devon, Wiltshire, eleven in Dorset, one of them Ham, which was inherited by his descendants, it was called Ham-Mohun, or Hammoon, and fifty-five in Somerset.[7]
  
  The estate connected to his caput at Dunster consisted of the ancient hundreds of Cutcombe and Minehead, land in Minehead, Cutcomb, and Dunster and some additions making a total 19,726 acres.
  
  He bred horses both at Cutcomb and at Nunney, near Frome, sub-infeudated ( through one oh his tenants ), where unbroken brood-mares were kept.[7]
  
  Sheriff of Somerset from 1083 to 1086,[8] his manor of Brompton-Ralph was called in contemporary records Brunetone Vicecomitis ("Brompton of the Viscount", i.e. Sheriff).
  
  Dunster Priory
  William de Moion is credited with founding Dunster Priory. Between 1090 and 1100 he granted the Church of St. George, at Dunster,( where part of the Norman building survives), land and tithes and a tenth of his mares, to the Abbey of St. Peter at Bath and to Bishop John de Villula (died 1122), to "build and exalt" the church.[7] Bath Abbey established at Dunster a cell of their own abbey under the rule of a prior. One of William's charters is recorded in a manuscript at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In this charter William declared his wish to be buried in Bath Abbey, not at Dunster.[7]
  
  Landholdings
  The manors he held included Minehead, West Quantoxhead and Combe Sydenham.[9]
  
  Marriage and children
  He married Adelisa, who bore him three sons, all surviving at the date of his grant to Bath Abbey:[7]
  
  William II de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset (d. circa 1155), eldest son and heir was made a life peer Earl of Somerset in 1141.[10]
  Geoffrey de Mohun;
  Robert de Mohun.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Moyon
  
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  === William de Moyon (Mohun, held 55 lordshi ===
  William de Moyon (Mohun, held 55 lordships in Somerset). Dunster Castle was his seat. His grandson, William would become the first Earl of Somerset. William was from Moion near St.Lo in Normandy. He brought many knights and men-at-arms to the Battle of Hastings. http://www.infokey.com/counties/Somerset.htm
  
  === He Obtained The Castle OF Dunster For Se ===
  He Obtained The Castle OF Dunster For Service In The BattleOfHastings From Moyonm La Manche. Head of Fief at Dunster, where he foundedthePriory, 1095. Holdings in Devonshire, Dorsetshire,Somersetshire andWiltshire. Held 55 Lordships om Somersetshire. Dunster Castle was his set.He Broughtmany knights and men-at-arms to the Battle ofHastings.
  
  === Sir William de Mohun was of a very anci ===
  Sir William de Mohun was of a very ancient and eminent family in Normandy, when the Conqueror had announced his intention of visiting England in arms, was one of the first of those gentry who engaged in the expedition, and all of his knights who came over with him were persons of distinction, both as to parentage and military enterprise. After the Battle of Hastings, and for good services rendered in that celebrated conflict, he obtained the Castle Dunster, with 55 manors in the County of Somerset, besides several other lordships in Wiltshire, Devonshire and Warwickshire.
  
  === !Aristocratic & Royal Ancestors GS 929.2 ===
  !Aristocratic & Royal Ancestors GS 929.242 H249t p. 535. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists GS 974 D2w p. 123. The Complete Peerage GS 942 D22 cok Vol 12 pp. 36-7. William I Sheriff of Somerset in 1084. William II may be the grandson of William I as the son of either Geoffrey or Robert, rather than being William's son. Complete Peerage avers that William I had a brother Wimund who may even have been the father or grandfather of William II. For this reason we have specified "do not seal" until better information is obtained.

• m. BEF 1060

1. William de Mohun Earl of Somerset, b. 1090 in Normandy, France     d. ABT 1155 in Dunster, Somerset, England

1. Title: Feudal barony of Dunster
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal_barony_of_Dunster;
   Note: 1 Descent 1.1 de Mohun 1.1.1 William de Moyon (died post 1090) 1.1.2 William de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset (died circa 1155) 1.1.3 William de Mohun (died 1176) 1.1.4 William de Mohun (died 1193) 1.1.5 Reginald I de Mohun (1185–1213) 1.1.6 Reginald II de Mohun (1206–1258) 1.1.7 John de Mohun (1248–1279) 1.1.8 John de Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun (1269–1330)
   
2. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: non cited
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p463.htm#i13912;
   Note: William de Moyon Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #17055, d. circa 1086 William de Moyon died circa 1086. Family Child Sir William I de Mohun, Lord Dunster, Sheriff of Somerset+ d. a 1190
   
3. Title: Wikisource - National Dictionary of Biography
   Author: [Lyte's Dunster and its Lords, reprinted for the most part from the Archaeological Journal of 1880, 1881, with an account of the castle, by G. T. Clark, pp. xiii, xiv, 1-5, 26, 27, contains nearly all that is known about W. de Moion. See also Wace's Roman de Rou, 1. 13620, ed. Pluquet; Leland's Collectanea, i. 202 ; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 497, and Monasticon, iv. 200 ; Ellis's Introduction to Domesday, i. 214, ii. 355; Eyton's Domesday Studies, Somerset, i. 45, 110, 129, ii. 19, and passim; Eyton's Key to Domesday, Dorset, p. 12; Planche's Conqueror and his Companions, ii. 120 sq. ; Somerset Archæol. Soc.'s Proc. 1856, vi. ii. 6, 1875, xix. ii. 96; Collinson's Hist, of Somerset, ii. 7 ; Hutchins's Hist, of Dorset, i. 273.] W. H.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Mohun,_William_de_(fl.1066);
   Note: MOHUN or MOION, WILLIAM de (fl. 1066), baron and sheriff of Somerset, took his designation from the lordship of Moyun, near St. Lo in Normandy, which remained in his family until 1204 In calling him 'le viel,' Wace merely distinguishes him from his son ; for as William de Moion the elder was alive in and perhaps after 1090 he can scarcely have been old in 1066. He received as many as sixty-eight manors in the west of England, one being in Devonshire, one in Wiltshire, eleven in Dorset, one of them Ham, which fell to a younger branch of his descendants, and was called Ham-Mohun, or as now Hammoon (Eyton, Key to Domesday, Dorset, p. 12), and fifty-five in Somerset. In the ' Domesday Survey ' it is noted that he himself held 'Torre, and there is his castle.' Torre is Dunster, where on the conical hill, or tor as it is still called, William no doubt found a fortress of older days, which he probably to some extent remodeled, though no remains of Norman work have been found on the tor (Clark ap. Lyte, Dunster, u.s. p. xiv). His home estate consisted of the ancient hundreds of Cutcomb and Minehead, in the parishes of Minehead, Cutcomb, and Dunster, with some additions, being in all 19,726 acres. He evidently paid some attention to the breeding of horses, for both at Cutcomb and Nunney, near Frome, where he had a tenant, there were kept large numbers of unbroken brood-mares (Eyton, Domesday Studies, Somerset, i. 129, ii. 19, 25). Either in his lifetime or shortly afterwards his estates were formed into an 'honour,' Dunstan being the 'caput honoris.' He was sheriff of Somerset, whence his estate at Brompton-Ralph is in a coeval index called 'Brunetone Vicecomitis' (ib. i. 110). William de Moion is usually spoken of as the founder of Dunster priory (Monasticon, iv. 200). What exactly he did in this matter was that at some date between 1090 and 1100 he granted the church of St. George, at Dunster, where some Norman work still remains (Somerset Archceological Society's Proceedings, vi. ii. 6), together with certain land and tithes and a tenth of his mares, to the abbey of St. Peter at Bath and John de Villula (d. 1122) [q. v.], the bishop, that they might ' build and exalt ' the said church. The convent of Bath accordingly made at Dunster a cell of their own abbey under the rule of a prior (Lyte, u. s. pp. 4 and 27, where William's charter is given from a manuscript at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). William in this charter declared his wish to be buried in Bath Abbey (he was therefore not buried at Dunster as Leland, u. s., records). His wife's name was Adelisa, and he had three sons, William de Mohun, earl of Somerset [q. v.], who succeeded him, Geoffrey, and Robert, all living at the date of his grant to Bath.
   
4. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3L-O.htm#_Toc21431086;
   Note: MOHUN According to Maxwell-Lyte, this family took its name from "Moyon near St Lo in Normandy"[219]. Richard III Duke of Normandy granted property including "…curtem…Moion…" to his wife Adela as her future dower by charter dated Jan 1027[220]. A. ORIGINS Two brothers, parents not known. 1. WILLIAM de Mohun (-after 1090). Leland quotes "Un Role de ceux queux veignont in Angleterre ovesque roy Wm le Conquereur" (without indicating its date) which names "monseir Willim de Moion"[221]. Domesday Book records “William de Moyon” holding Sutton Veny in Wiltshire, Todber, Spetisbury and Winterborne Houghton in Dorset, numerous holdings in Somerset[222]. He built the castle of Dunster. "William de Moione" donated the church of St George of Dunestore to the church of St Peter of Bath, by consent of "my wife Adelisa", by undated charter, dated to [1090/1100], witnessed by "…Geoffrey and Robert my sons and Wilmund my brother…"[223]. m ADELISE, daughter of --- (-after 1090). "William de Moione" donated the church of St George of Dunestore to the church of St Peter of Bath, by consent of "my wife Adelisa", by undated charter, dated to [1090/1100], witnessed by "…Geoffrey and Robert my sons and Wilmund my brother…"[224]. William & his wife had four children: a) GEOFFREY de Mohun (-after 1090). b) ROBERT de Mohun (-after 1090). c) WILLIAM de Mohun (-after [1150]). d) EUDES de Mohun (-after [1150]). " 2. WILMUND (-after 1090). "William de Moione" donated the church of St George of Dunestore to the church of St Peter of Bath, by consent of "my wife Adelisa", by undated charter, dated to [1090/1100], witnessed by "…Geoffrey and Robert my sons and Wilmund my brother…"[256].
   
5. Title: The Complete Peerage
   Author: George Cokayne Vol XII, part I page 36, 1825-1911
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/583084-the-complete-peerage-of-england-scotland-ireland-great-britain-and-the-united-kingdom-extant-extinct-or-dormant-vol-12-part-1?viewer=1&offset=0#page=46&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=de%20Mohun;
   
6. Title: Wikipedia - William I de Moyon (aka Mohun)
   Author: References[edit] ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.114 ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.114 ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.114 ^ Dunning, Robert (2001). Somerset Monasteries. Stroud: Tempus. p. 21. ISBN 0-7524-1941-2. ^ Cleveland, Duchess of (Catherine Powlett), The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages, 3 vols., London, 1889 [1] ^ Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.114 ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Hunt 1894. ^ Dunning, Robert (1983). A History of Somerset. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. pp. 109–117. ISBN 0-85033-461-6. ^ Domesday Book: A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 2003. ISBN 0-14-143994-7 p.262-6 ^ Sanders, p.114
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Moyon;
   Note: William I de Moyon (d. post 1090)[1] (alias de Moion, also de Mohun), 1st feudal baron of Dunster in Somerset,[2] was seigneur of Moyon in Normandy and became Sheriff of Somerset in 1086. He founded the English de Mohun family in the Westcountry. Recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a tenant-in-chief of William the Conqueror holding a number of manors in Somerset with caput at Dunster Castle.[3][4] Career Deriving from Moyon, near Saint-Lô, Normandy, William was called "one of the greatest Barons of the Cotentin" by Francis Palgrave, though he adds that William had only "five knights who held of him". Dugdale attributed "forty-seven stout Knights of name and note" to him. Participating in the Norman conquest of England, he was granted fifty-five manors in Somerset, one each in Wiltshire and Dorset. He built Dunster Castle on the site of a former West Saxon fortress.[5] The Norman chronicler Wace called him le Viel, (modern French: le Vieux), "the elder", to distinguish him from his son William II de Mohun (d. circa 1155).[6] He acquired sixty-eight manors in the west of England, one each in Devon, Wiltshire, eleven in Dorset, one of them Ham, which was inherited by his descendants, it was called Ham-Mohun, or Hammoon, and fifty-five in Somerset.[7] The estate connected to his caput at Dunster consisted of the ancient hundreds of Cutcombe and Minehead, land in Minehead, Cutcomb, and Dunster and some additions making a total 19,726 acres. He bred horses both at Cutcomb and at Nunney, near Frome, sub-infeudated ( through one oh his tenants ), where unbroken brood-mares were kept.[7] Sheriff of Somerset from 1083 to 1086,[8] his manor of Brompton-Ralph was called in contemporary records Brunetone Vicecomitis ("Brompton of the Viscount", i.e. Sheriff). Dunster Priory William de Moion is credited with founding Dunster Priory. Between 1090 and 1100 he granted the Church of St. George, at Dunster,( where part of the Norman building survives), land and tithes and a tenth of his mares, to the Abbey of St. Peter at Bath and to Bishop John de Villula (died 1122), to "build and exalt" the church.[7] Bath Abbey established at Dunster a cell of their own abbey under the rule of a prior. One of William's charters is recorded in a manuscript at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In this charter William declared his wish to be buried in Bath Abbey, not at Dunster.[7] Landholdings The manors he held included Minehead, West Quantoxhead and Combe Sydenham.[9] Marriage and children He married Adelisa, who bore him three sons, all surviving at the date of his grant to Bath Abbey:[7] William II de Mohun, 1st Earl of Somerset (d. circa 1155), eldest son and heir was made a life peer Earl of Somerset in 1141.[10] Geoffrey de Mohun; Robert de Mohun.