General Notes

de Hispania, Hispaniensis.
Epaignes: Eure, arr. Pont-Audemer, cant. Cormeilles. (ie. Epaignes, Eure, Normandy)

In 1086 Alvredus de Hispania or Hispaniensis was tenant-in-chief in Herefordshire, Dorset, and other counties. Epaignes, occuring in the twelfth century and later as Hispania and Yspania, 5 1/2 kil. NE of Cormeilles, held by William FitzOsbern who founded the abbey there. . . . As Alveredus de Hispania he gave two thirds of the tithe of his manor called 'Forneguerde quod situm est juxta Guartiam in territorio comitatus Dorsaetai' to St. Stephen's, Caen, for the health of king William his lord and of the souls of his parents, a witness being 'filius Golberti de Ponte Aldomari'. Pont-Audemer is only 9 kil. N of Epaignes. 'Forneguerde' seems to be a scribal corruption of 'Torneworde', ie. Trunworth, Dorset, which was held by Alvred in chief in 1086. [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]

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(d) . . . Alvred de Hispania (probably Epaigne near Pont Audemer, or Epanay near Falaise), the Domesday lord of Nether Stowey. [Complete Peerage III:377 note (d)]