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Birth:          ABT 1042 

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Camden, in his "Britannia" (vol. 1, p. 559), after referring to this family as having 
flourished in a continued succession from the coming in of the Normans to the time of 
Henry VI and then to have failed for want of an heir male of William, 13th Lord 
d'Eyncourt, adds, "I was the more willing to take notice of this family that I might in 
some measure answer the desire of Edmund, Baron d'Eyncourt, who was so very 
earnest to preserve the memory of his name that, having no issue male, he petitioned 
King Edward II for liberty to make over his manors and arms to whomsoever he 
pleased; for he imagined that both his name and arms would go to the grave with him 
and was very solicitous to have them survive and be remembered. Yet this surname, 
for aught I can find, is now quite extinct and would have been forgotten for ever if the 
memory of it had not been preserved in books."

Camden does not quite correctly state the license. It is extant and may be found, 
printed at length, in Ryley's "Plac. Parl." (p. 547). It is dated 23 February 7th Edward 
II [1314], and enabled Edmund, Baron d'Eyncourt, as will be seen hereafter, to settle 
his lands upon his grandson William, 2nd son of his eldest son, John d'Eyncourt, in 
exclusion of Isabel, the female heir, she being the only child of Edmund, eldest son 
(then deceased) of the said John d'Eyncourt, which Isabel afterwards d. s. p.; and this 
leads us to trace the family of d'Eyncourt, who were formerly barons by tenure until 
summoned to parliament by writ, 22nd Edward I [1294].

Walter de Ayncourt, de Eyncourt, or d'Eyncourt, a noble Norman, one of the 
distinguished companions in arms of the Conqueror, was cousin to Remigius, bishop of 
Lincoln, who built the cathedral there, and obtained as his share of the spoil, sixty-
seven lordships in several counties, of which many were in Lincolnshire, where 
Blankney was his chief seat, and the head of his feudal barony. By his wife, Matilda, 
he had two sons, William and Ralph. William, probably the eldest, while receiving his 
education in the Court of King William Rufus, d. there, as appears by an inscription on 
a plate of lead, found in the churchyard near the west door of Lincoln Cathedral, 
before Dugdale published his baronage, which contains an engraving of the plate, still 
preserved in the library of that church. From this inscription it seems he was 
descended from the royal family, probably through his mother. The inscription runs as 
follows: -- "Hic jacet Wilhelmus filius Walteri Aiencuriensis, consanguinei Remigii 
Episcopi Lincolnensis, qui hanc ecclesiam fecit -- Prœfatus Wilhelmus, regid stirpe 
progenitus, dum in curia Wilhelmi filii magni Regis Wilhelmi qui Angliam conquisivit 
aleretur III. Kalend. Novemb. obiit." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited 
and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 170, 
d'Eyncourt, Barons d'Eyncourt]
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I08389
Walter d'Aincurt, the Domesday lord of Blankney. [Complete Peerage IV:118 note (c)]

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Aincourt, Deincourt, Eincuria, etc.
Ancourt: Seine-Inferieure, arr. Dieppe, cant. Offranville.

Walter de Aincourt was a substantial Domesday tenant-in-chief, notably in Lincolnshire 
and Northamptonshire. In the early thirteenth century the representative of the family 
was his descendant Oliver. In the feodary of 1212-1220 in the Registers of Philip 
Augustus under the rubric 'Ballivia domini Gaufridi de Capella' ie. the bailiwick of Caux 
in which Ancourt lay, is the entry 'Terra Oliveri de Eincuria unum feodum apud 
Eincuriam'. Oliver had remained in England and adhered to John; Ancourt would 
therefore be in the French King's hand. The epitaph of William son of Walter de 
Aincourt, the Domesday tenant-in-chief, preserved in Lincoln Cathedral, describes 
Walter as kinsman of Remigius bishop of Lincoln; it is to be noted that Remigius had 
been a monk and almoner of Fecamp and that the abbot of Fecamp was patron of the 
church of Ancourt. In 1870 the remains of the castle were to be seen near the church.

[The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis C Lloyd, p. 2]

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Camden, in his "Britannia" (vol. 1, p. 559), after referring to this family as having 
flourished in a continued succession from the coming in of the Normans to the time of 
Henry VI and then to have failed for want of an heir male of William, 13th Lord 
d'Eyncourt, adds, "I was the more willing to take notice of this family that I might in 
some measure answer the desire of Edmund, Baron d'Eyncourt, who was so very 
earnest to preserve the memory of his name that, having no issue male, he petitioned 
King Edward II for liberty to make over his manors and arms to whomsoever he 
pleased; for he imagined that both his name and arms would go to the grave with him 
and was very solicitous to have them survive and be remembered. Yet this surname, 
for aught I can find, is now quite extinct and would have been forgotten for ever if the 
memory of it had not been preserved in books."

Camden does not quite correctly state the license. It is extant and may be found, 
printed at length, in Ryley's "Plac. Parl." (p. 547). It is dated 23 February 7th Edward 
II [1314], and enabled Edmund, Baron d'Eyncourt, as will be seen hereafter, to settle 
his lands upon his grandson William, 2nd son of his eldest son, John d'Eyncourt, in 
exclusion of Isabel, the female heir, she being the only child of Edmund, eldest son 
(then deceased) of the said John d'Eyncourt, which Isabel afterwards d. s. p.; and this 
leads us to trace the family of d'Eyncourt, who were formerly barons by tenure until 
summoned to parliament by writ, 22nd Edward I [1294].

Walter de Ayncourt, de Eyncourt, or d'Eyncourt, a noble Norman, one of the 
distinguished companions in arms of the Conqueror, was cousin to Remigius, bishop of 
Lincoln, who built the cathedral there, and obtained as his share of the spoil, sixty-
seven lordships in several counties, of which many were in Lincolnshire, where 
Blankney was his chief seat, and the head of his feudal barony. By his wife, Matilda, 
he had two sons, William and Ralph. William, probably the eldest, while receiving his 
education in the Court of King William Rufus, d. there, as appears by an inscription on 
a plate of lead, found in the churchyard near the west door of Lincoln Cathedral, 
before Dugdale published his baronage, which contains an engraving of the plate, still 
preserved in the library of that church. From this inscription it seems he was 
descended from the royal family, probably through his mother. The inscription runs as 
follows: -- "Hic jacet Wilhelmus filius Walteri Aiencuriensis, consanguinei Remigii 
Episcopi Lincolnensis, qui hanc ecclesiam fecit -- Prœfatus Wilhelmus, regid stirpe 
progenitus, dum in curia Wilhelmi filii magni Regis Wilhelmi qui Angliam conquisivit 
aleretur III. Kalend. Novemb. obiit." [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited 
and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 170, 
d'Eyncourt, Barons d'Eyncourt]



Marriage To DE BRITTANY Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1043 - )
    m.  

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Parents
____ Eudo (Eudes) ( 999 - 7 Jan 1079)
____ Orguen (ABT 1000 - AFT 1056)

Children by DE BRITTANY Maud (Matilda) ABT 1043 - 
DEINCOURT [D'EYNCOURT] Ralph (ABT 1072 - BEF 1158)

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