FitzJohn, Payn of Ewyas

Birth Name FitzJohn, Payn of Ewyas 1a 2a
Gramps ID I34068
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E45463]   of Ewyas, Hereford  
2b
Death [E45464] 1137    
2c
_FA1 [E45465]   Rose in the service of King Henry I due to efficiency & ability.  
2d
_FA2 [E45466]   King’s administrator in the West Midlands.  
2e
_FA3 [E45467]   Sheriff of Herefordshire & Shropshire by close of Henry I’s reign.  
2f
_FA4 [E45468]   Acceded: Ewyas, Hereford.  
2g
_FA5 [E45469]   Sheriff of Hereford, Salop.  
2h

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father FitzNigell, John Monoculus [I30108]1090
    Brother     Lord Alnwick & Malton, Eustace FitzJohn [I30107] 1110 1157
         FitzJohn, Payn of Ewyas [I34068] 1137

Families

    Family of FitzJohn, Payn of Ewyas and de Lacy, Sybil [F13587]
Unknown Partner de Lacy, Sybil [I34681] ( * + after 1137 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
FitzJohn, Agnes [I34067]1070

Narrative

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PAYN FITZ JOHN (son of JOHN 'MONOCULUS' Monoculus and (w of John Monoculus) --- died in 1137. "SYBIL de Lacy = Payn fitz John (ob. 1137)
--- W E Wightman, *The Lacy Family in England and Normandy, 1066-1194*,
genealogical chart following p 260.

From same, p 175, 177-178: "Payn fitz John and Sybil de Lacy were not allowed to inherit the whole of the honour. Henry I seems to have taken the
opportunity provided by the succession of an heiress to reduce in size a dangerously large barony, and to ensure that Payn, useful royal servant though he was, should not become too powerful by adding all the Lacy fee to his own not inconsiderable estates. During the latter half of Henry I's reign, Payn fitz John was a prominent figure in the West Midlands. It has long been thought that he was the sheriff of Herefordshire and Shropshire at the close of the reign. It is also well known that he appeared in company with Miles of Hereford in the Pipe Roll for 1129-30 in such a way as to imply that the two of them had been holding something very like a general eyre in Staffordshire, Bloucestershire, and Pembrokeshire. Payn's origins are not so well known. They afford a good illustration of the way in which a younger son of comparatuley obscure origins could rise to a position of considerable importance under Henry I. This obscurity was only comparative: all that can be said of his father John 'Monoculus' is that he was not an important member of the baronage. A measure of his respectability -- or rather acceptability in the eyes of the rest of his contemporaries -- is to be found in the marrige of his sons, Payn, a younger son, married the Lacy heiress.

Pedigree

  1. FitzNigell, John Monoculus [I30108]
    1. Lord Alnwick & Malton, Eustace FitzJohn [I30107]
    2. FitzJohn, Payn of Ewyas
      1. de Lacy, Sybil [I34681]
        1. FitzJohn, Agnes [I34067]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Garner, Lorraine Ann "Lori" [S76671]
      • Source text:

        Does not show his parents

  2. large-G675.FTW [S261374]
      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.

      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.

      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.

      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.

      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.

      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.

      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.

      • Citation:

        Penman "Here be Dragons" p. 285, makes him brother to Gwenllian verch Rhys who m Ednyfed Fychan. But, Online db (Univ. of Hull?) I had him son of Gwenwynwyn of Powys.