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VALOGNES

Valognes is a town in Lower Normandy

[VALO411] --- de Valognes m. [CONT322] Muriel de Conteville
. [VALO421] Peter de Valognes m. [RYES343] Albreda de Rye
. . [VALO431] Roger de Valognes m. [EUST383] Agnes FitzJohn
. . . [VALQ441] Theobald de Valognes m. ?
. . . . [VALQ452] Martha Valognes m. [GLAV451] Ranulfe de Glanville
. . . [VALO442] Sibyl de Valognes m. [ROOS451] Robert de Ros

31.  [VALO411] unknown, had a relationship with [CONT329] Muriel (half-sister of [NORK339] William the Conqueror and sister of [ODOB341] Bishop Odo of Bayeux, see CONTEVILLE). Afterwards Muriel married [CHAP401] Eudo FitzThurstan (see CHAPELLE-SAINT-SAUVEUR).

30.  [VAL0421] Piers/Peter (born c.1050, [presumed illegitimate child of [CONT329] Muriel (see CHAPELLE-SAINT-SAUVEUR), and nephew of William the Conqueror), Seigneur of Valognes, married [RYES343] Albreda de Rye (born at Rye, near Bayeux, c.1052, daughter of Hubert, see RYE).

At the Domesday Survey (1086) Peter de Valognes held land as tenant-in-chief to the king in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Norfolk (including Saxlingham-Nethergate).

Peter died c.1109.

29.  [VAL0431] Roger [aka Robert] de Valognes (born at Valognes, c.1080, son of [VALO421] Peter), Lord of Bennington, married [EUST383] Agnes FitzJohn (daughter of John of Saxlingham, see FITZEUSTACE). He died c.1141-42.

[VALO441] Philip (born c.1109, son of Robert), Chamberlain to [CANM469] King William the lion of Scotland, who gave him Panmure (Forfarshire), where he died May 1175.

[VALO451] William (born at Panmure, c.1135, son of Philip), Chamberlain of Scotland, married 1 ---; then 2. Loretta (born c.1176, daughter of [QUEN381] Saher II, see WINCHESTER (QUENCY) EARLDOM). He died 1219.