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Birth:          ABT 1052 Enghien, Hainault
Death:          AFT 1086 Pytchley, Northamptonshire, England

Notes
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NOTE: VCH-Northampton (Abington) stated that the Domesday holder of Abington was 
Richard d'Engaine, grandfather of the Richard d'Engaine who was father of Viel/Vital 
who m. Alice de Lisures. Abington did not give the name of the individual who was in 
between the two Richards in the Engaine line. The following article on Pytchley, I 
believe, supplies that name (William), who was the Domesday holder of Pytchley, 
which descended henceforth with the Engaine line. This identification of William, 
probable father of Richard and grandfather of Viel/Vital, is confirmed by the article on 
Great Gidding (see notes for Richard d'Engaine, d. c1177).

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Engaynes Manor, Pytchley, Northamptonshire:

The first tenant recorded is the Saxon Alwin the huntsman, who held 2 hides in 
Pytchley under Edward the Confessor. He had been succeeded by William Engayne, 
who held 2 hides in Pytchley of the king. When the Northampton Survey was taken, 3 
hides 1 virgate were held by Richard Engayne, the Peterborough manor being 
diminished by an equivalent amount, and that it was from the Peterborough manor it 
was taken is clear from the fact that Engaynes was held eventually partly of the king 
by great serjeanty, and partly of the abbey of Peterborough. In 1210-12 Richard 
Engayne was holding Pytchley and Laxton by service of hunting the wolf. This was the 
portion of the Engayne manor which was held of the king in chief; the other portion of 
it was confirmed to the abbey of Peterborough in 1227 and 1332, as the fee of one 
knight in Pytchley, Thorpe, and Hargrave. Vital Engayne, brother of Richard, died in 
1249, when he was returned as holding lands in Laxton and Pytchley by serjeanty of 
hunting the wolf at the king's command in 3½ counties. He was succeeded by his son 
Henry, who at his death in 1271 held his lands in Laxton of the king in chief by the 
said serjeanty, and his lands in Pytchley, worth £10, by similar service. John Engayne 
succeeded his brother Henry at Pytchley, where he claimed view of frankpledge, &c, 
in 1275, and was returned as holding 20 librates of land in chief by the above 
serjeanty in 1284. In the same year Millicent de Monhaut complained that he and 
others had entered her park at Harringworth, cut her trees, stretched nets and caught 
a tame cat (catum domesticum). John replied that his serjeanty entitled him to chase 
vermin in the parks both of the king and of other persons, and that he had only cut 
hazels and rods with which to stretch the nets. He admitted taking a cat, but did not 
comment on its alleged tameness. John died in 1296 seised of Pytchley, consisting of 
a chief messuage, 120 acres of arable land, 3 acres of meadow, a water-mill, and £10 
yearly rents of bondmen, held of the king by serjeanty of hunting the wolf, the fox, and 
the badger; and 33s. yearly rents of villeins, held of the Abbot of Peterborough by 
service of 1/12 of a knight's fee. His son John Engayne settled lands on his wife 
Ellen, and died in 1322, holding Pytchley by grand serjeanty of finding coursing dogs 
for destroying wolves, foxes, cats, and other vermin, as well within parks as without, 
in the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Essex, Huntingdon, and 
Buckingham, with 33s. 6d. and 1 lb. of pepper rent held of Peterborough by knight 
service. Ellen died in 1339, when her third of the manor was delivered to John, the 
son of her husband's brother Nicholas. This Sir John Dengayne of Dillington (Hunts.) 
died in February 1358, seized of 14 virgates in Pytchley held of the king as parcel of 
the serjeanty of Laxton, with 10 virgates there held by free tenants of the Abbot of 
Peterborough for one-fourth of a knight's fee, and rendering for each virgate 2s. 4d. 
for ward of Rockingham Castle; Sir John, it was said, had received nothing therefrom 
except two attendances yearly from each tenant at his court at Pytchley, the profits of 
which were worth nothing. When his son Sir Thomas died s.p. in 1367 the lands 
passed to his three sisters and co-heirs: Joyce, the wife of John de Goldington; 
Elizabeth wife of Sir Lawrence de Pabenham; and Mary wife of William de Bernak. In 
1368 John de Goldington and his wife Joyce transferred their third to William Bernak 
and his wife Mary.

['Parishes: Pytchley', A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4 (1937), pp. 
208-213. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk]

Parents
D'ENGAINE Richard (ABT 1029 - AFT 1086)
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Siblings
D'ENGAINE William (ABT 1052 - AFT 1086)

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Children by ----- ----- 
D'ENGAINE Richard (ABT 1075 - ABT 1110)

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