Petronilla de Craon

  General Notes:

~Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormand and Abeyance, p. 532 ⁸²⁹

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: ⁸⁰⁰
Hugh Fitz Baldric "held of the king," the manor of Sourth Warborough, at the time of the Domesday Survey. This manor was passed on to his daughter on her marriage to Guy de Craon, and was held in succession by his son, Alan, then grandson, Maurice and great-grandson, Guy de Croan. The manor then passed on his daughter Petronilla, was first married to William de Longchamp, secondly to Henry de Mara, and thirdly to Oliver de Vaux, and held the manor jointly with her respective husbands until her death in 1280. At the time of Petronilla's death, the manor passed on to the son of her first marriage, Henry de Longchamp.

~A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3, pgs. 378-382

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Petronilla de Craon was the daughter of Guy de Craon and Isabell Basset. She married three times, first to William de Longchamp, second to Henry de la Mare and thirdly to Oliver des Vaux. "A genealogy of the founders of Freston Priory names "dame Petronil de Croune" that she married firstly "baron monsieur William Longechaumpe" (by whom she had "monsieur Henre de Longechaumpe", and listing several generations of his descendants) and secondly "baron monsieur Oliver Vaux" [Dugdale Monasticon IV, Freston Priory, Lincolnshire, III, p. 126]."

Petronilla married Sir Oliver Vaux Knight, son of Robert de Vaux and Unknown. (Sir Oliver Vaux Knight was born about 1196 in Pentney, Norfolk, England and died before Mar 1241 in England.)