General Notes

Father of Robert Fitz Walter. [GRS 3.03, Automated Archives, CD#100]

NEWLIN LINE

May be father-in-law of Hervey, ancestor of the Butler family. Son of William Malet who accompanied the Conqueror and being half Saxon, was entrusted with the burial of King Harold after the Battle of Hastings. [Butler Family History, p. 5]

At the Domesday Survey he held:
*Badingham, Suffolk - with Robert Malet's mother (church, beehive, 60 goats, 32 pigs)
*Bing, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother
*Bredfield, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (church, 3 oxen)
*Chickering, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother
*Chippenhall, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (1-1/2 churches)
*Cransford, Suffolk - from Robert Malet
*Creeting, Suffolk - with Robert Malet; Robert Glanville from him
*Eye, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (church, market, fishery park, 2 mills, 60 pigs)
*Great Glemham, Suffolk - from Robert Malet
*Horham, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (church, 3 beehives, 30 goats, 24 pigs)
*Laxfield, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (church, 7 beehives, 392 sheep, 20 beasts, 37 pigs, 23 goats)
*Loudham, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (church, mill)
*Peasenhall, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother
*Sibton, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (2 churches, 5 beehives, 20 beasts, 60 pigs, 51 goats)
*Stanton, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (2 churches, 28 pigs, 30 goats)
*Sudbourne, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (2 churches, mill, fishpond, salt-pan, 30 pigs)
*Sutton, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother  (1-1/2 churches, mill)
*Weybread, Suffolk - from Robert Malet's mother (1/2 church, 4 mills, 4 beehives, 30 pigs)
[The Domesday Book, p. 254-263]