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Birth:          BEF 1145 Laxton, Northamptonshire, England
Death:          23 Apr 1209 Pytchley, Northamptonshire, England

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Dillington Manor, Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire:

The manor of DILLINGTON, Dellingtune, Dilincthon (xi cent.), Dylington (xiii cent.), 
was granted, with the manor of Great Staughton (q.v.), to the abbey of Ramsey, which 
retained the overlordship as late as 1518. The 6 hides there entered in the Domesday 
Survey among the lands of the abbot had fallen in value from £6 in 1066 to £4 in 
1086. Between 1091 and 1100 Ralph, 'dapifer regis,' brother of Ilger, received a grant 
from Abbot Aldwin and the abbey of the vill of Dillington for life at £3 rent. This manor, 
which pertained to the barony of the abbey, was for over two centuries and a half held 
of the abbey by the Engaynes, Dengaynes (Gaynes). The first member of the family 
whom we find holding Dillington was Richard de Engayne, who in 1166, as one of the 
knights of the abbey, was holding 6 hides there. He married Sarah, daughter of 
William de Chesney, and died in 1208. His elder son Richard died without issue and 
was succeeded by his brother, Vitalis or Viel, who in 1238 had licence to have a 
chapel in his manor of Dillington. He assarted his woods at Dillington, and gave leave 
for assarting his wood between St. Mary Way and Wepetes towards Grafham, and his 
wood of Dudenhey, and common of pasture in his foreign wood called Westwood as 
far as the road leading from the chapel of St. Mary to Perry. In 1244 he acknowledged 
the abbot's claim to the service of one knight and suit of court at Broughton from his 
lands at Dillington. He died in 1248, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son 
Henry, who died without issue in 1271, seised of the manor of Dillington and the parks 
called Littlehey and Est Park. He was succeeded by his brother John, who was 
returned in 1279 as holding 300 acres in demesne and a windmill. John was 
succeeded by his son John in 1296, who married Ellen, daughter of Robert FitzRoger, 
and in 1303 received a grant of free warren. He complained in 1316 that John de 
Littlebury and others had broken into his park and carried off his deer. In 1318 he 
settled the manor on his wife Ellen. After his death without issue in 1322, the manor 
was held as dower by his widow Ellen, who died in 1339. John's heir was his nephew 
John, son of his brother Nicholas, who married Joan, daughter of Robert Peverel, and 
died in 1358. His eldest son John, a minor, died in his father's lifetime; his widow, 
another Joan, married before 1358 William de Colville. Thomas, second son of John 
the elder, settled the manor on his wife Katherine, daughter of the Earl of Devon, and 
died without issue in 1367. He was succeeded by his three sisters and coheirs: Joyce, 
married to John de Goldington; Elizabeth, married to Laurence de Pabenham; and 
Mary, married to William de Bernak, who were also the heirs of John de Offord through 
their mother Joan.

['Parishes: Great Staughton', A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2 (1932), 
pp. 354-369. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk]

Parents
D'ENGAINE Richard (ABT 1121 - ABT 1177)
FITZ URSE Margaret (Margery) (ABT 1124 - AFT 21 May 1196)

Siblings
D'ENGAINE Richard (BEF 1145 - 23 Apr 1209)

Marriage To DE CHESNEY Sarah (ABT 1165 - BEF Apr 1222)
    m.  

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Parents
DE CHESNEY DE NORWICH William (ABT 1130 - BEF 29 Sep 1174)
DE POYNINGS Aubreye (ABT 1140 - )

Children by DE CHESNEY Sarah ABT 1165 - BEF Apr 1222
D'ENGAINE Viel (ABT 1195 - 22 Oct 1248)

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