General Notes

# Birth: ABT 1180 in Maaman's Hall, Waldershare, Kent, England
# Death: 1219 in Headley, Epsom, Surrey, England 1

The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 27 Jan 2002, by Adrian Channing:

From: ADRIANCHANNING@cs.com (ADRIANCHANNING@cs.com)
Subject: Malemaine was Joan Knowght
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2002-01-27 16:19:17 PST

It does not appear that she [Eleanor de Vitre] had children by this last marriage; but Gilbert's son by a former wife, Thomas Malesmains, married one of her daughters by her second husband, Joanna de Tillieres. With her "he is recorded to have had, of the gift of King John, Hadlegh in Surrey, which same vill is entered as _terra Thome Mlilesmains_, in the _Rotulus de valore terrorum Normanoruln inceptis a regni Regis Johannis sexto_.* At the date of this seizure by the King of the lands of the Normans in England, Malesmains was absent in the Holy Land, having had leave, in contemplation of the journey, to mortgage his lands for two years. Upon his return he embraced the side of King John, and in 1206 obtained his precept to have such seizin of his land as he had on the day he took his journey. In 1209 he accompanied William Earl of Salisbury, the King's brother and the husband of Ela, his wife's half sister, into Germany on the King's service, and subsequently in the wars of the Barons we find him firmly adhering to the Royal party. By his Letters Patent, given at Corfe in 1216, King John makes known that he has retained in his service Thomas Malesmains, and that he will reckon him as one of his bachelors, and restores to him his rights, viz. "the land which Fulk de Cantelupe holds in Burton " (Northants), "and the land which Ralph Gernon holds in Cumtum" (Compton, in Berkshire).-Ibid.

Note: The only place that is close to "Hadlegh" in Surrey is Headley. There is a Hadleigh in Essex and in Suffolk.