Robert I Malet, seigneur de Graville, Baron of Eye

Medlands (10 Jun 2024): Untitled English Nobility: "Malet"

• ...Guillaume [I] & his wife had [five] children:
  • i) ROBERT [I] Malet of Eye (-after 13 Feb 1105).
    • The Testa de Nevill includes a writ of King John dated 1212 which records that King William I granted "honorem de Eya" to "Roberto Malet" but that King Henry I acquired the honour and held it for seven years before granting it to "comiti Stephano nepoti suo"[975].
    • “Robertus Malet” founded Eye priory, for the souls of “patris mei Willelmi Malet et matris meæ Hesiliæ” who became a nun there, by undated charter dated to the reign of William I King of England[976].
    • “…Roberti Malet…” witnessed the charter dated 1082 under which William I King of England granted land at Covenham to the church of St Calais[977].
    • Domesday Book records land held by “Robert Malet” in Sutton in Woking Hundred, Surrey; Bradmore and Ruddington in Nottinghamshire; numerous properties in Yorkshire, numerous properties in Norfolk, and in Suffolk[978].
    • “Beatrix soror Roberti Malet” donated property to Eye priory, for the souls of “fratrum meorum Roberti Maleth et Gilberti Malet”, by undated charter[979].
    • "…Robertus Maleth…Willielmus Malet…" subscribed a charter dated Sep 1101 under which Bishop Herbert donated property to Norwich priory[980]. "…Robert Malet camerarius…" witnessed the charter dated 13 Feb 1105 under which Henry I King of England confirmed donations to Cluny and Thetford made by Roger Bigod[981].
    • According to a charter of Henri Duke of Normandy (later Henry II King of England) issued in favour of her son Ranulf Earl of Chester dated 1153, Ctss Lucy was the niece of Robert Malet of Eye and of Alan of Lincoln, as well as kinswoman of Thorold "the Sheriff"[982].
    • 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[983].
    • "Hubertus de Sancta Susanna" has not been identified with certainty but the likelihood is that he was the son of Hubert de Beaumont, son of Hubert Vicomte de Maine and Ermengarde de Nevers, who is recorded as holding lands in England during the reign of King Henry I (see MAINE). The fact that Hubert held two of the knights’ fees previously held by Robert Malet may indicate a family relationship, possibly that Hubert was the husband or son (the latter being more likely from a chronological point of view) of Robert’s daughter. Henry II King of England confirmed the possessions of the abbey of Bec, including donations by "Roberti Malet", by charter dated to [1181/89][984].
  • m MATILDA, daughter of ---. Brown records that Robert’s wife Matilda is named in a charter under which Robert granted lands in Bulmer and Little Belstead to Hugh of Goldingham, although pointing out the document is a later copy in France and appears spurious in its surviving form although the substance of the charter appears genuine enough[985].
  • Robert [I] & his wife had [two children]:
    • a) [WILLIAM [II] Malet (-after [1117/21]). "…Robertus Maleth…Willielmus Malet…" subscribed a charter dated Sep 1101 under which Bishop Herbert donated property to Norwich priory[986]. Brown suggests that William [II] Malet was the brother of Robert [I] Malet and therefore the son of Guillaume [I] Malet[987]. Keats-Rohan says that "this idea must be firmly rejected" as "all the evidence for this William belongs to the period 1100 to [1121], whereas Robert [I] was of age by 1066"[988].] — see below.
    • (b) [ROBERT [III] Malet (-[before 1117]). Robert Malet donated a mill "in Maisnillo Goscelini" {Mesnil-Joscelin} to Bec, with the consent of Gilbert Crespin, by charter dated to before 1077, and William Malet donated "terram…Maisnillum Joscelini" to Bec for "filio suo Willelmo qui factus est monachus Becci", for the souls of "patris et matris suæ et fratris sui Roberti", by charter dated 1117[989]. The wording of this extract suggests that Robert [III] was deceased at the time.]

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Robert I Malet of Eye1,2

• Father: Willelm Malet, seigneur de Graville3 b. circa 1026, d. circa 1071
• Mother: Elise Crespin1 b. circa 1031
• BIO
  • Robert I Malet of Eye was the son of Willelm Malet, seigneur de Graville and Elise Crespin.3,1
  • Robert I Malet of Eye was the father of William II Malet, who forfeited Eye in 1110.4
  • He was the father of Robert Malet, ancestor of the Malets of Curry Malet, Somerset.4
  • He was the son of William Malet (d. c. 1071) of Graville-Sainte-Honorine.1
  • He was born before 1051 at Normandy.5
  • He succeeded his father in Normandy circa 1071.1
  • He succeeded his father to a large English fief centered upon Eye circa 1071 at Suffolk, England.1
  • He married N. N. de Montfort; Of two marriages.4
  • Robert I Malet of Eye received the king's permission to found a cell of the abbey of Bernay at Eye before 1087 at Suffolk, England.1
  • He departed England, at which Eye was controlled by Roger Pictaviensis, in 1087.1
  • He was back in England in possession of Eye in 1100.1
  • He probably did not begin construction of the abbey at Eye until the early years of King Henry's reign circa 1101.1
  • Royal Chamberlain circa 1101.1
  • He died after 1107 at Bec-de-Mortagne?, Seine-Maritime, Normandy. He may have died as a monk of Bec.4
  • He appeared in the records for the last time when he left England for Normandy with the king between August 1107 and September 1107.1
  • He was related to Lucy "the Countess" of Lincoln; identified in a charter of the future Henry II for Lucy's son Ranulf II of Chester, as, probably erroneously, the niece of Robert Malet and Alan of Lincoln, Alan the successor, and almost certainly the son, of Domesday's Alfred of Lincoln.6 Robert I Malet of Eye was per correction to a scribes error regarding Lucy as niece of Robert Malet and Alan of Lincoln, the uncle of Lucy (correct) and Alan of Lincoln (corrected).3
• Children:
  • Willelm II Malet b. c 10764
  • Robert II Dapifer, Lord of Curry-Malet+ b. c 1082, d. b 1156
• Sources
  • [1] K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, pg. 389.
  • [2] K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, pg. 1022-1023.
  • [3] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, "Parentage of Countess Lucy".
  • [4] K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, pg. 390.
  • [5] Robert B. Stewart, "My Theories".
  • [6] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, "Parentage of Countess Lucy", per RRAN, III, 180.

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