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Birth:          ABT 1075 Coutances, Normandy
Death:          BEF 1135 Whorlton, Yorkshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I10581
ROBERT DE MEINILL (b), the first member of this family in England of whom there is 
record (c), held property in Yorkshire much of which formed part of the Mortain fee at 
the time of Domesday. He was probably the founder of the original castle at Whorlton 
in that county. He granted the vill of Myton-on-Swale to St. Mary's Abbey, York, circa 
1100-1106. With his wife Gertrude he granted the church of Great Ayton to Whitby 
Abbey in the time of Abbot William, circa 1109; this was confirmed by their son 
Stephen de Meinill circa 1130-50.

Robert married Gertrude, probably daughter of Nele FOSSARD and sister of Robert 
FOSSARD. He died before 1135. His widow m. Jordan PAYNEL. [Complete Peerage 
VIII:619-20, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

[b] The name was variously spelt Meinill, Meisnil, Mesnil, Meignil, Masnil, Mennelle, 
Menill, &c. . . There appears to be no documentary evidence that the Meinills of 
Langley Meinill, co. Derby, were similarly connected [to this family]. They were 
descended from Hugh de Meinill, living circa 1251, steward to William de Ferrers, Earl 
of Derby, and his descendant Sir Hugh de Meinill was summoned for military service to 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Apr 1327.

(c) He was probably of Norman extraction. William Brown gives reasons for supposing 
that he came from the arrondissement of Coutances in the department of Manche. It 
may, however, be noted that circa 1205 a Stephen de Meinnil, knight (his Christian 
name is possibly suggestive), was a juror relating to the rights belonging to the 
castelries of Evreux and Gaillon.


Marriage To FOSSARD Gertrude (ABT 1080 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FOSSARD Nigel (Nele) (Adam) (ABT 1047 - ABT 1120)
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Children by FOSSARD Gertrude ABT 1080 - 
DE MEINILL Stephen (BEF 1098 - AFT 1145)

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