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Birth:          ABT 1035 Sai, Normandy
Death:          AFT 17 May 1086 Clun, Shropshire, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I02653
Say, Sai, of Shropshire.

Sai: Orne, arr. and cant. Argentan.

Picot, who was a substantial under-tenant of Earl Roger of Montgomery at Clun and 
elsewhere in Shropshire, is shown by the devolution of his lands to have been Picot 
de Say. Robert, Abbot of St-Martin de Sees granted the privilege of burial to Robert 
and Henry their sons; and in return Picot (as he is henceforth called) and his wife 
gave to the abbey "edificium matris Picot cum virgulto quod habebat juxta ecclesiam 
sancte Marie de Vrou" and confirmed a third of the church of Sai which Osmelinus de 
Sayo gave at the same time, giving also meadow land in the meadows "de Juvigneio"; 
the charter is subscribed by Earl Roger, Picot and his wife and two sons. "Vrou" is 
clearly Urou, the next parish to Sai, and Juvigni the parish immediately south of Sai. 
An agreement was made on 17 May 1086 in the court of Robert de Belleme between 
Picot de Saio and Droco de Coimis as to the dower which Droco's brother William had 
given to Adeloia his wife, who had been remarried to Picot. This is further evidence of 
Picot's tenure under the house of Montgomery-Belleme, and suggests that the charter 
to St-Martin de Sees was considerably later than 1060, the date to which it has been 
assigned. [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]

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King William sought aggressive types for the office of sheriff whose ambitions were 
consistent with his. Those willing to squeeze the peasants to their maximum were the 
best qualified in William's eyes. He instituted the practice of selling the office to the 
highest bidder. This brought forth evil men willing to pay exorbitant prices for the 
office and then willing to do whatever it took to recoup their investment. . . No one 
spoke out for the peasantry because their only representative to the king was the very 
sheriffs embezzling them. The most notorious was Picot, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire. . . . 
Monks describe him as:

"a hungry lion, a prowling wolf, a crafty fox, a filthy swine, a dog without shame, who 
stuffed his belly like an insatiable beast as though the whole country were a single 
corpse."

Note: I assume that the above quote refers to Picot, since he was in Cambridgeshire 
at the time of William the Conqueror.

Parents
DE SAYE Robert Fitz  Picot (ABT 1010 - )
----- ----- ()

Siblings
DE SAYE Picot (ABT 1035 - AFT 17 May 1086)

Marriage To ----- Adeloia (ABT 1035 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- Adeloia ABT 1035 - 
DE SAYE Robert Fitz Picot (ABT 1058 - BEF 1094)
DE SAY William (ABT 1060 - )

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