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Birth:          ABT 1182 East Cowton, Yorkshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I37499
EAST COWTON,

EAST COWTON belonged in the time of the Confessor to Torchil, from whom it passed 
at the Conquest to Landric the man of Count Alan. It was ever afterwards held directly 
of the lords of Richmond, its owners doing suit at the court of Richmond every three 
weeks. From some time in the reign of Stephen to the end of the 12th century it was 
held as one fee (and must have included South Cowton, (q.v.) by Conan son of Elias, 
who, again, was son of Theophania daughter of Roald the Constable. Conan was 
probably seneschal of the lord of Richmond, and had, like other household officers a 
station at Richmond Castle, his being at the east, outside the wall and close to the 
court of the keep. Conan had no children, and his inheritance was divided between 
his aunts Beatrice, Parnel and Constance. William de Lascelles, son of Parnel, and 
Elias de Crakehall, son of Constance, granted their parts to their heir Sir Richard 
Fitton of Bollin in Cheshire; but the part of Beatrice, who married one of the family of 
Hornby, was retained by her descendants until her great grandson Thomas de Hornby 
in 1241 granted half of one third of the capital messuage and fish-pond to Sir Richard 
Fitton in exchange for a quitclaim in Smeaton. This Sir Richard was seneschal of the 
Earl of Richmond for eighteen years in the time of Ranulph Earl of Chester (1181-
1232). His descendants held East Cowton until his great grandson John gave it to 
William Clervaux of Croft for life...

From: 'Parishes: East Cowton', A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1 
(1914), pp. 160-162. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?
compid=64735&strquery=east cowton Date accessed: 03 June 2012.

NOTE: The only way that I can figure that Parnel & Constance, who m. 2 different 
husbands indicated above, had a common heir was if they had no issue, and left East 
Cowton to their sister Ellen's husband Richard Fitton. Either that, or the elder Richard 
Fitton m. their aunt (sister of Theophania or Elias FitzWigan).

Parents
FITZ WIGAN Elias (ABT 1140 - )
MUSARD Tiphaine (Theophania) (ABT 1142 - )

Siblings
FITZ ELIAS Beatrice (ABT 1182 - )

Marriage To DE HORNBY ----- (ABT 1175 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by DE HORNBY ----- ABT 1175 - 
DE HORNBY Robert (ABT 1205 - )

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