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Birth:          1098 Croxton Manor, Cambridgeshire, England
Death:          1130 Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I13302
The following information taken from Medieval English Genealogy website at:
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/families/arg/argoutl1.shtml

Moving forward to the turn of the 11th century, we find a Reginald de Argentein, who 
held land in the north of Hertfordshire, near the Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire 
borders (and whose descendants later had possessions in all these counties). This 
Reginald seems certain to have been related in some way to the David de Argentein 
of Domesday Book, but there is no evidence for the exact relationship. Keats-Rohan 
suggests that they were probably father and son, which is plausible chronologically.

Whatever his relationship to David, Reginald's connections with the later Argenteins 
are clear. In later records he is named as the father of his successor John, and as the 
grandfather ('avus') of John's successor Reginald. (It is therefore probable, though not 
certain, that John was the father of the younger Reginald.)

From later evidence we know that Reginald was granted the manor of Great 
Wymondley, in Hertfordshire, by King William [I or II] after the estate had escheated to 
the Crown. The land was held 'by serjeanty', namely, by acting as cupbearer at the 
king's coronation (Round, pp.265-6). The Argenteins and their descendants continued 
to perform this service for more than 600 years, and as a result they bore arms 
showing three silver covered cups on a red field.

Together with the manor of Great Wymondley, Reginald was granted the advowson of 
the church there, and was said to have presented two priests to the church, the 
second a man named Osbert. (In the time of Reginald's grandson, the advowson was 
the subject of a legal dispute with the Abbess of Elstow, and it is from the evidence 
given then that we know the details of the grant.)

We are fortunate enough to have the text of a notification of Henry I, dating from the 
early years of his reign (perhaps from 1102), confirming an agreement between 
Reginald and the Abbot of Ramsey. This provided for Reginald to hold the mills at 
Ickleford (about 5 miles north-west of Great Wymondley), in return for a payment of 10 
shillings a year, after which the mills were to revert to the abbey. The agreement also 
provided for Reginald to be buried at Ramsey Abbey if he died in England. This 
provision may suggest that the family still held land in Normandy at this time.

Reginald was dead by 1130, when an entry on the Pipe Roll shows his widow Matilda 
accounting for £8:10s:8d, for her dower and marriage in Suffolk. Farrer (vol.1, p.238) 
suggests on this evidence that Matilda had brought as her marriage-portion the manor 
of Halesworth in Suffolk. If this is true, Matilda must have been the grandmother of the 
younger Reginald, as Halesworth remained in the family for centuries afterwards and 
became one of the family's favourite seats.

Parents
DE ARGENTEIN Roger (ABT 1080 - )
MALET Dionysia (ABT 1082 - )

Siblings
DE ARGENTEIN Reginald (1098 - 1130)

Marriage To DE MONTFORT Lora (1103 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE MONTFORT Robert (1072 - )
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Children by DE MONTFORT Lora 1103 - 
DE ARGENTEIN John (1123 - 1198)

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