Theobald de Valoins Baron of Parham

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From: Raymond Phair<rphair@CapAccess.org >
Subject: Theobald de Valoignes
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 00:09:34 -0400

. . .about Theobald de Valeines I (or Valognes), father-in-law of Ranulf de Glanville, and his grandson Theobald de Valeines II.

Theobald I was probably a son of Hamo de Valenis; see my 21 Feb 1999 posting about Ranulf de Glanville. Very little is known about Theobald. He occured in the 1130 pipe roll and in 2 charters (about 1135) [1]. The Valognes fee is described by Clay in EYC vol.5, who noted that no connection has been discovered to the Domesday sheriff of Essex, Peter de Valognes, nor any other family using the name Valognes. Theobald's family name was usually spelled Valeines or Velaines.

His grandson, Theobald de Valeines II (son of Robert), founder of Hickling priory in co. Norfolk, justice, and sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, died before Michaelmas 1209 when his son Thomas had succeeded [2]. Thomas, according to Dugdale, was one of the barons who rebelled against king John [3]. Clay, Mortimer, and Brown, have discussed other relatives, as well as possible ones, of Theobald I [4].

[1] "Early Yorkshire Charters" (EYC), ed. W. Farrer and C.T. Clay, 1914-65, 4:nos. 10, 11
[2] EYC 5:235; P. Brown, "Sibton Abbey cartularies and charters", 1:104 (1985); W. Dugdale, "Monasticon Anglicanum", 1817-30, 6:476.
[3] W. Dugdale, "The baronage of England", repr. 1977, 1:441. Dugdale mistakenly thought Theobald II was the father-in-law of Ranulf de Glanville.
[4] EYC 5:234-7; R. Mortimer, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 54:7-9 (1981); Brown, 1:104-5.

Ray Phair