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Birth:          ABT 1093 Peyton Hall, Boxford, Suffolk, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I07466
Note: Domesday book lists Suain (Swein) of Essex as holder of Peyton.

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The following is part of a post to SGM, 9 Sep 1999, by Harold Davey:

In 1963 Bernard Peyton Chamberlain published "Peyton Family Genealogy" which was 
included in a new edition of "The Adventures of My Grandfather" by John Lewis 
Peyton. Chamberlain noted the confusion among various researchers as to whether 
Walter Malet, Lord of Sibton and of Peyton in Stoke-by-Neyland, was the son or 
brother of William Malet, Companion of the Conqueror. Chamberlain tentatively 
concluded that Reginald de Peyton was the son of Walter Malet who was the son of 
William Malet.

William Malet was said to have received manors, including Sibton and Peyton Hall in 
Suffolk "as recorded in the Domesday Book (A.D. 1080)." Walter Malet was also said 
to have been Lord of Sibton and of Peyton in Stoke-by-Neyland, Co. Suffolk. Reginald 
de Peyton, Lord of Peyton Hall in Ramshold (Ramsholt) and of Peyton Hall in Boxford 
and Stoke-Neyland, was the first person in his line to adopt the name of Peyton.

NOTE: I believe that Walter de Caen was NOT a brother or a son of William Malet (as 
some think), but was a son of William's wife by a prior marriage, being an elder half-
brother of William Malet's children. See notes for Walter de Caen.

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The first of the family on record by the name of Peyton was Reginald de Peyton, 
second son of Walter, Lord of Sibton, younger brother of Mallet, sheriff of Yorkshire. 
This Reginald held the lordships of Peyton Hall, in Ramshold, and Boxford, in Suffolk, 
of Hugh de Bigod; he was stewerd to Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and gave lands to 
the monks of Thetford, to pray for the soul of Hugh Bigod. He had two sons, William, 
who held certain lands in Boxford, of the fee of the abbey of St. Edmundsbury, as 
appears by charter of his nephew John, and

John de Peyton, to whom King Stephen and his cousin-german, William de Cassineto, 
Lord of Horseford, granted all his lands in Peyton, to hold, as his ancestors before 
held the same. This John had four sons, viz.
I. John (Sir), the elder.
II Robert, who was lord justice of Ireland temp. Hen. IIII, and Edward I.

[A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of 
England, Ireland, and Scotland, John Burke & John Bernard Burke, 1844, p. 408, 
Peyton, of Isleham]

NOTE: The reigns of Hen III & Edward I were the times that Robert de Ufford, lord 
justice of Ireland lived, but he was obviously NOT a son of John, son of Reginald, son 
of Walter de Caen. There were more generations between Reginald & Robert de 
Ufford.

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The first of this family whom we find by the name of Peyton is REGINALD de PEYTON, 
second son to Walter, lord of Sibton, in Suffolk. This Reginald held the lordships of 
Peyton-Hall in Ramshold and Boxford, in Suffolk, of Hugh de Bigod; and had two sons, 
William and John.

John had issue four sons, John the elder, Robert, Peter, and John the younger. Robert 
was lord Justice of Ireland in the time of Henry III, and Edw. I and being lord of 
Ufford, assumed his surname from that place: whose son, Robert de Ufford, was 
created earl of Suffolk 11 Edw. III 1336, and made knight of the garter. [The 
Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, vol 1, William Betham, 
1801, p. 42]

NOTE: From the birth of Walter de Caen to the birth of Robert de Ufford, Earl of 
Suffolk, is c250 years, which the above spans in 5 generations. I guess it is physically 
possible, but extremely improbable.

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The following indicates a different descent for the Peyton family:

Manor of Knolton, Kent:

This family [Peyton] derived their descent from William de Mallet, a noble Norman, who 
came into England with the Conqueror, whose eldest son and heir John, was lord of 
the manor of Peyton-hall, in Suffolk, who left Robert de Ufford, his eldest son, so 
surnamed from his manor of Ufford, in that county, ancestor to the earls of Suffolk of 
that name, and other eminent persons in the several ages in which they lived. Peter 
de Peyton, his second son, so surnamed from his manor of Peyton-hall; and John de 
Peyton, his third son, so surnamed from the same manor likewise, whose son and heir 
was Sir John de Peyton, of Stoke Neyland, from whom, by direct descent, in the fifth 
degree, was John Peyton, esq. of Peyton hall and Wyken, who died in Henry VI.'s 
reign, having married Grace, daughter and heir of Langley, as above-mentioned.

['Parishes: Knolton', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: 
Volume 10 (1800), Edward Hasted, pp. 87-94. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk]

NOTE: William Mallet/Malet's oldest son & heir is generally accepted to be Robert 
Malet. Just as in the other sources, the number of generations until the Ufford name is 
used is reduced to a few (not nearly enough), and the above starts a generation 
earlier (with William Malet instead of Walter de Caen). I am sticking with 
Reginald/Ralph as the start of the Peyton line. See notes for grandson John d. >1216 
for the line I am following (with 1 additional generation added).

Parents
DE CAEN Walter (ABT 1044 - )
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Siblings
FITZ WALTER Robert (ABT 1090 - AFT 1130)
DE PEYTON Reginald (Ralph) (Nigel) (ABT 1093 - )

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DE PEYTON John (ABT 1135 - )

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