William Malet ¹

  General Notes:

WILLIAM Malet (-1169). According to Domesday Descendants, William was the son of Robert Malet. A close relationship is indicated by the Red Book of the Exchequer entry which indicates that William had succeeded Robert in landholdings, but they could have been brothers or father and son. Steward of Henry II King of England. The 1155 Pipe Roll records "Willo Malet" in Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. The 1156 Pipe Roll records "Willo Malet" in Kent. The 1157 Pipe Roll records "Will. Maled" in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire, and in Northamptonshire, both under "Nova Placita& Noue Conuentiones". The Red Book of the Exchequer refers to "Willelmo Malet viii l" in Somerset in [1161/62]. It is not certain that all these entries refer to the same person. Military fee certifications in the Red Book of the Exchequer, in 1166, record that "Robertus Malet" used to hold ten knights´ fees from the abbot of Glastonbury in Somerset "tempore Regis Henrici" (presumably indicating King Henry I) and that "Hubertus de Sancta Susanna" now held two of these and "Willelmus Malech" now held twelve, another section recording the knights´ fees held from "Willelmi Malech" in Somerset. "Roberto …Willelmo Malet dapifero…" subscribed the charter dated 1168 under which Henry II King of England confirmed the property "in manerio de Hinton" of "Roberto de Basoges" granted to him by "comes Conanus".

m firstly ---. The name of William´s first wife is not known. The fact of this first marriage is confirmed by the marriage of William´s son Gilbert with the sister of William´s own second wife.

m secondly (1165 or before) as her first husband, EUGENIA Picot, daughter of RALPH Picot & his wife --- ([1154/55]-after 1194). She married secondly Thomas FitzBernard. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records "Ewgenia Picot…filia Radulfi Picot de Kancia et uxor Thome filii Bernardi…xxx annorum", her property "in hundredo de Redefeld…de feodo Gileberti Malet" given to her by "Willelmus Malet…in dotem", adding that she had three sons, aged 10, 8 and 3, and one daughter, given by "Dominus Rex, filio Johannis de Bidun", by her second husband. The Red Book of the Exchequer refers to "Eugenia Picot x s" in Kent in [1186/87]. The 1194/95 Pipe Roll records "Eugenia Pikot…pro custodia Johannis f sue et terre sue" in Kent.

William & his first wife had [two] children: Gilbert and [Baldwin].

  Events

• Occupation: Baron of Curry Malet, High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. ²

William married.

William next married Eugenia Picot Heiress of Tong, daughter of Ralph Picot of Tong, Sheriff of Kent and Ethelreda de Port, before 1165. (Eugenia Picot Heiress of Tong was born about 1154-1155 and died after 1194.)