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Birth:          1123 Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire, England
Death:          1198 

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I13299
The following information taken from Medieval English Genealogy website at:
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/arg/argoutl1.shtml

In the reign of King Stephen (1135-1154), a charter was granted to John, son of 
Reginald de Argentein, confirming to him and his heirs the land and 'ministerium' (the 
service of cup-bearing) which had been held by his father. Presumably on the basis of 
this charter, VCH Hertfordshire (vol.3, p.182) calls John an 'adherent' of Stephen, and 
suggests that a castle of the 'motte and bailey' type, whose remains lie to the east of 
the churchyard in Great Wymondley, may have been erected by John as a manorial 
stronghold during the anarchy of Stephen's reign.

Evidently the mills of Ickleford, which his father Reginald had held for life, were still 
the subject of contention between the Argenteins and Ramsey Abbey. But the dispute 
was settled in favour of the abbey by Stephen's successor Henry II, who issued a 
charter, dated to 1155-1162, commanding that the mills, which had been claimed by 
John, should be held by the abbey, as stipulated by Henry I's charter. At about the 
same time, John accounted in Hertfordshire for a crown debt (Pipe Roll, 1158-59).

In the feudal returns of 1166, John appears as the holder of one knight's fee of the 
barony of Robert Foliot, and two knights' fees of the fee of Skipton. The first of these 
represents the manor of Melbourn, in Cambridgeshire (VCH Cambridgeshire); the 
second, according to Farrer (vol.1, p.238), refers to Harlow in Essex, although there 
does not seem to be any later record of the family holding land there.

John's name occurs also as a witness to two charters for religious houses in the area: 
one for St Edmund's Abbey (Douglas) and the other for Dunstable Priory (Fowler). The 
latter charter is dated tentatively to between 1170 and 1177; if so, it must belong to 
the closing years of John's life.

Parents
DE ARGENTEIN Reginald (1098 - 1130)
DE MONTFORT Lora (1103 - )

Siblings
DE ARGENTEIN John (1123 - 1198)

Marriage To FITZ TECON Ellen (1126 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ TECON Gui (1097 - )
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Children by FITZ TECON Ellen 1126 - 
DE ARGENTEIN Reginald (1144 - BEF 1203)

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