Malet

1. Hawise Malet: Born before 1200, of Curry Malet, Somersteshire, England; Died after 4 May 1287, Married before 23 March 1216, of Curry Malet, Somersteshire, England; Sir Hugh Poyntz: Died 4 April 1220. (See Newberry)

2. Sir William II Malet, Baron Curry Malet and Shepton Malet: Born about 1176, of Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England; Died about 1216; Married about 1204, of Bolington,Oxfordshire, England; Alice or Aliva Basset: Born about 1184, of Bolington, oxfordshire, England; (See Bassett #1) William was in Normandy with King Richard I in 1195. The next year he paid a fine of 100l. for the livery of his inheritance. In 1204 he paid to the King a hundred shillings for liberty to sue William de Evermue for the lordship of Swinton. In 1211 he was created the Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. In 1214 he served King John with ten knights and twenty soldiers in Poitou. The next year he joined the rising of the Barons against King John. He joined the confederacy of the Barons at Stamford in Easter week, 1215 and was one of the twenty five Magna Carta Sureties, chosen to guarantee the observation of the Great Charter. As a result of the part he played in the events of 1215 his lands in four counties were forfeit to the crown. They were given to his son-in-law and to his father-in-law, Thomas Basset. Because William was a Magna Carta Surety he was personally excommunicated by Pope Innocent, along with thirty other Barons. He appears to have died soon after his excommunication.

3. Gilbert Malet, Baron Curry Malet: Born before 1150, of Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England; Died about 1194, Malet, Somersetshire, England; Married about 1175, of Milton, Kent, England; Alice Picot: Born about 1154,of Milton, Kent, England. He was a Steward during the reign of King Henry II and witnessed a treaty between Henry II and William, King of Scotland.

Alice's Father--

• I. Ralph Picot.

Gilbert's Father--

4. William I Malet, Baron Curry Malet: Born about 1125, of Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England; Died 1169, Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England; Married about 1150, of Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England; Maud Mortimer: Born about 1129, of Curry Malet, Somersetshire, England. He was a favorite of King Henry II. He was a signer of the Constitutions of Clarendon in 1164.

5. Robert Malet, Baron Curry Malet and Eye, Great Chamberlain of England: Born about 1042 of Eye, Suffolk, England Died by 1153; Married Miss De Courcelles. The Barony had previously been in the De Courcelles family, so it is probable that his wife was a De Courcelles. Robert appears in Domesday as the owner of thirty two manors in Yorkshire, three in Essex, one in Hampshire, two in Nottinghamshire, eight in Lincolnshire and two hundred twenty one in Suffolk. At Eye Malet he built and endowed a monastery of Benedictine monks. From his position he enjoyed considerable influence in the eastern counties and he played a prominent role in repressing the rebellion of Ralph, Earl of Norfolk, in 1075-6, and in the subsequent capture Norwich Castle which followed. In King William's grant of the manor of Francenham to Archbishop Lanfranc, Robert was styled vice-comes or sheriff, and later on, at the beginning of Henry I's reign, he appears as great chamberlain of England. In the struggle between Henry and Duke Robert of Normandy, Robert Malet espoused Duke Robert's cause, and shortly after King Henry's accession was "banished and disinherited" along with the other adherents of Duke Robert. Malet's estates in England were confiscated and bestowed by Henry upon Steven, Count of Blois (later King Stephen.) Robert Malet retired to Normandy and is believed to have been killed at the battle of Tinchebrai in 1106. Other sources indicate that he may have been alive after this battle.

6. Mr. Malet.

7. William Malet, Lord of Eye: Born about 1014, of Alkborough, Lincolnshire, England and Granville St. Honorine, Normandy, France; Died 1071; Married Hesilia Crispin. William fought, and was one of the commanders, at the Battle of Hastings with William the Conqueror in 1066. After the battle William was entrusted by the Conqueror, with the task of burying King Harold's body. After the capture of York in 1068, he was made sheriff of Yorkshire and was appointed with two other Norman captains to the command of York Castle and later became Governor of the castle. In the months following the capture of York, with the help of the King, he repelled the attacks of the Saxons, but he shared in the defeat of the Norman Garrison in 1069, when a strong combined force Danes and English attacked and captured the city. As a result of this defeat he himself was carried off as a prisoner. Subsequently it seems that he recovered his freedom and re-entered the service of King William, although after this point he seems to have lost his sheriffdom and some of his lands. It is almost certain, from references to him in the second Domesday Book that William Malet died in the campaign against Hereward in 1071. William received large grants of land in England, chiefly in the eastern counties, and at his principal lordship of Eye in Suffolk he built a castle and established a market. Hesilia is a Great-Great-Granddaughter of Rollo, first Duke of Normandy (See The Kings of England).