• General Notes

  A History of the villages of Aisthorpe and Thorpe in the
  Fallows by CW Foster MA, Canon of Lincoln, pub. JW Ruddock and Sons 1927.
  
      Page 39 William of Woodthorpe, also called William son of Simon, married a daughter of Alan of Craon, son of Guy of Craon, who was a tenant in chief in 1086. A charter of Henry II, in favour of Louth Park abbey, which has been preserved in a royal inspeximus dated 24 January 1313-14 confirms the gifts of lands which Alan de Creun (fn3 By an obvious mistake, the document has Ereun, which the Calendar has rendered Erenn, instead of Creun) and Muriel his wife, and Alan's son in law, William son of Simon, made to the monks,consisting of underwood (de terra bruscosa) in the fields of Wdetorp (fn4 Calendar of the Charter Rolls iii, 248). When Maurice of Craon (Crohom) in1166, made his return of the knight's fees which were held of him, William son of Simon was entered as the holder of half a knight's fee, and the tenement was declared to be a new feoffment, that is it had been created by Maurice or his father after the death of Henry I in 1135. William's marriage supplies a sufficient reason for the grant (fn5 Red Book of the Exchequer I, 385). Later documents show that the land lay in Thorestthorpe in the parish of Saleby, Strubby, Woodthorpe in the parish of Strubby, Wyham and Sloothby in the parish of Willoughby in the Marsh.
  
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  Date: 2002-04-21,S.B. Southerden 

Details of William's family with Craon