de Valognes (Valoignes, Valoines, Valoins, Valons, Valeynes, Valeignes, Valens, Valence, Valance, Valang, Valoniis) is a family name of two distinct powerful families with notable descendants in the centuries immediately following the

Norman Conquest The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conq ...

. Although a connection between them has been inferred by some authorities, this is not supported by positive evidence. The family descending from the

Domesday Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

ancestor

Peter de Valognes Peter de Valognes (1045-1110) was a Norman noble who became a great landowner in England following the Norman Conquest. Land holdings Between 1070 and 1076 Peter de Valognes was granted lands in the six counties of Hertfordshire, Cambridge ...

is believed to have originated in Valognes in the

Cotentin peninsula The Cotentin Peninsula (, ; nrf, Cotentîn ), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France. It extends north-westward into the English Channel, towards Great Britain. To its w ...

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

. The family descending from Hamo de Valoines of Parham may have originated from Valaines in the region of

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine departm ...

Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period o ...

Family of Peter de Valognes

obtained lands in Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertford, Cambridge, and Lincoln and was high sheriff of Essex in 1087. Philip de Valognes was granted by King

William the Lion William the Lion, sometimes styled William I and also known by the nickname Garbh, "the Rough"''Uilleam Garbh''; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10. ( 1142 – 4 December 1214), reigned as King of Scots from 11 ...

of Scotland the manors of Panmure and Benvie in Angus and was appointed in around 1180 the Chamberlain of Scotland. Philip died in 1215 and his only son

William William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conq ...

became the Chamberlain of Scotland until his death in 1219. William had no male issue and his titles and lands were split between his three heiresses. The following is a list of castles known to have been in the ownership of the family: ;England * Benington Castle, Hertfordshire ;Scotland * Panmure Castle, Angus *Benvie manse, Angus *

Kilbride Castle Kilbride Castle, also known as Comyn's Castle, was a castle that was located to the north of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The castle was owned by the de Valognes family, until the castle passed by marriage of Isabel de Valognes t ...

, South Lanarkshire *Inchgall Castle The heirs of

Hamo the Steward Hamo the Steward, the Sheriff of Kent was a leading person during the 11th century, Norman Conquest of England. He had extensive land holdings in Essex, Kent and Surrey. He was a judge at Penenden in case between Lanfranc and Odo of Bayeux i ...

, Sheriff of Kent, had extensive lands in Essex, Kent and Surrey at the Domesday Survey. This family is traced through the descent of one of the manors of

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in Surrey, which passed from Hamo to his niece Matilda. Geoffrey de Valognes, lord of Titsey, was father of Hamon de Valognes, who was prominent as the

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in 1196-1199 when it lay under the rule of John, brother to

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. Hamon was a tenant of the Honour of Gloucester, and became Sheriff of Cardiff in 1185. John entrusted

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to him in 1193. (At that time Theobald Walter was ''Pincerna'' (Butler) of Ireland, whose mother Matilda de Valoines was daughter of Theobald de Valoines the elder, Lord of Parham.) At John's accession in 1199 Hamon received lands in

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, and in 1200 became

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and bailiff of Glamorgan. His son and heir was Hamon de Valognes the younger.

Family of Hamo de Valoines of Parham

At the Survey, Hamo de Valenis held lands in Parham in Suffolk from Count Alan of Brittany, and the descent of the family is traced through their service to the

Honour of Richmond The Honour of Richmond (or English feudal barony of Richmond) in north-west Yorkshire, England was granted to Count Alan Rufus (also known as Alain le Roux) by King William the Conqueror sometime during 1069 to 1071, although the date is uncertai ...

. Hamo appears to have had at least two sons, Theobald and Robert (fil. Hamo). Theobald de Valoines succeeded as Lord of Parham, which owed

castle-guard Castle-guard was an arrangement under the feudal system, by which the duty of finding knights to guard royal castles was imposed on certain manors, knight's fees or baronies. The greater barons provided for the guard of their castles by exacti ...

service to Richmond Castle, and he flourished c. 1130-1135. He married Helewise, and had two daughters, Bertha and Matilda, and a son or heir Robert de Valoines. Theobald's daughter Bertha married

Ranulf de Glanvill Ranulf de Glanvill (''alias'' Glanvil, Glanville, Granville, etc., died 1190) was Chief Justiciar of England during the reign of King Henry II (1154–89) and was the probable author of '' Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie'' ...

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(founder of Butley Priory (1171) and Leiston Abbey (1183) in Suffolk), and his daughter Matilda was the wife of Hervey Walter, and mother of

Hubert Walter Hubert Walter ( – 13 July 1205) was an influential royal adviser in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries in the positions of Chief Justiciar of England, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor. As chancellor, Walter ...

, Archbishop of Canterbury,

Theobald Walter Theobald Walter (sometimes Theobald FitzWalter, Theobald Butler, or Theobald Walter le Boteler) was the first Chief Butler of Ireland. He also held the office of Chief Butler of England and was the High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1194. Theobald ...

and Osbert fitzHervey. Robert de Valoines was the heir, and is supposed the son, of Theobald the elder: he was the father of Theobald the younger, who owed his service to Richmond in 1178, and was the founder of Hickling Priory (1185) in Norfolk and Campsey Priory (before 1195) in Suffolk. Theobald's sisters Joan and Agnes de Valoines were prioresses at Campsey, c. 1195-1235, and were assisted by one Hamo de Valoines. Theobald the younger married Avice, and his heir was Thomas de Valoines. Thomas was succeeded by Robert de Valognes, whose mother was Isabel de Creke, sister of Bartholomew de Creke. Robert married Roesia, sister of William de Blund (of the patron family of Ixworth Priory, who died at the

Battle of Lewes The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, on 14 May 1264. It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made h ...

, 1264). Their son Robert the younger, born c. 1247, married Eva, widow of Nicholas Tregoz of Tolleshunt D'Arcy in Essex, and died in 1281 leaving two infant daughters, Rohesia and Cecilia.''Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem'', II (HMSO 1906)
p. 247 no. 432
(Internet Archive). Cecilia became the mother of Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk and his brethren. The custody of the royal castle of Orford in Suffolk was in this family.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valognes, de Medieval English families Scottish families Anglo-Norman families De Valognes family