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Birth:          ABT 1121 Pytchley, Northamptonshire, England
Death:          ABT 1177 Laxton, Northamptonshire, England

Notes
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Richard Engaine, of Laxton & Pytchley, pater of Richard Engaine, dead 1177. 
[Complete Peerage V:72 chart]

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Engaine Manor, Great Gidding, Huntingdonshire:

At the time of the Domesday Survey (1086) the land of Gidding seems to have 
consisted of two parts—(1) 10 hides, now comprising Great and Little Gidding, held by 
William Engaine (4˝ hides), Eustace the Sheriff (4˝ hides) and the Abbot of Ramsey 
(1 hide), and (2) 7˝ hides, now constituting Steeple Gidding (q.v.), held by the Abbot 
of Ramsey.

The 4˝ hides held by William Engaine had been held in the time of King Edward by 
Britheue. William Engaine also held, amongst other property, Laxton and Pytchley, in 
Northants, and a certain Richard Engaine held Abington and Benefield, Northants, 
and Stibbington, Hunts. It is generally supposed that William and Richard were 
brothers, but Viel son of Richard Engaine, always considered as the grandson of 
William, seems to have held all the above-named properties, which suggests that 
William and Richard may have been father and son. Viel married Alice, daughter and 
heir of William de Lisures, and had two sons, Richard Engaine and Fulk, who took the 
name of Lisures. He probably had a third son, Warner, to whom he appears to have 
given a part of the manor of Gidding, to be held in chief of the king. This portion 
became the separate manor and parish of Little Gidding (q.v.).

The remaining part, known as ENGAINE MANOR in GREAT GIDDING, went to his 
eldest son, Richard, who died about 1177, leaving by his wife Margery (daughter of 
Richard FitzUrse, and in 1185 wife of Geoffrey le Breton, who had married her without 
the king's leave a son, Richard, who in 1198 was holding Gidding by serjeanty of 
hunting wolves, and died in 1209. By his wife Sara, daughter and co-heir of William de 
Chesney, he had two sons, Richard and Viel. The former died unmarried and is said to 
have been buried in Huntingdon Priory. Viel married Rohesia, whose surname does not 
seem to be known, and had four sons: Viel, who died young; Henry, who succeeded 
his father; William, who died childless after 1244; and John, who succeeded his 
brother Henry. Viel himself died in October 1248, and in 1261 his son Henry was 
holding two carucates in Gidding by the serjeanty of hunting. Henry died childless in 
1272, when his brother John succeeded to the estates. John, who held Great Gidding 
by the service of taking the hare, fox, cat, wolf and badger in Huntingdonshire, 
Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Rutland, married Joan, daughter 
and heir of Gilbert de Greinville, of Hallaton, Leicestershire, and died in 1297. He was 
succeeded by his son John, who married Elena, daughter of Robert FitzRoger of 
Clavering. John, who had summons to Parliament as a baron from 1299 to 1322, died, 
without issue, on 28 September 1322, and his brother Nicholas died in December of 
the same year, before receiving livery of the estates, which passed to John the son of 
Nicholas. This John married Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Peverel of Castle Ashby, 
Northants; he had summons to Councils from 1324 to 1350, and to Parliament from 
1355 to 1357, and died in 1358. His elder son John had predeceased him, leaving a 
widow, Joan, daughter of Sir William de St. Quintin, who married secondly Sir William 
Colville; and he was succeeded by his second son Thomas, who married Katharine, 
daughter of Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon.

Thomas was summoned to a Council in 1358, and died without issue in 1367, when his 
estates passed to his three sisters: Joyce, wife of John de Goldington, Elizabeth, wife 
of Sir Laurence de Pabenham, and Mary, wife of Sir William Bernak. The manor was 
still held by the serjeanty of hunting 'vermin,' and the three co-heirs made provision 
among themselves for the performance of it.

Gidding fell to the pourparty of Elizabeth and Sir Laurence de Pabenham. Elizabeth 
died in 1377, and Sir Laurence in 1400, and Gidding passed to Elizabeth's daughter 
Katharine, wife firstly of Sir William Cheyne, of Fen Ditton, and secondly of Sir Thomas 
Aylesbury. Katharine, as widow of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, was still holding the manor in 
1428, but in May 1449 it was granted to trustees on the marriage of John, son of 
Laurence Cheyne, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Rempston. Sir Thomas 
Cheyne, the son of John and Elizabeth, had two wives: Elizabeth, daughter of Henry 
Huddleston, of Irthlingborough; and Anne Wanneford, daughter of William, Baron 
Parre of Kendal. He died in 1514, when his only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, was 
only nine years old, but had been married three years before to Thomas Vaux, son and 
heir of Nicholas, first Baron Vaux of Harrowden. The manor passed to their son 
William, third Baron Vaux of Harrowden, who, in 1587, with his sons Henry and 
George, sold it to Lewis Lord Mordaunt and Edward Watson.

['Parishes: Great Gidding', A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3 (1936), 
pp. 48-53. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk]

Parents
D'ENGAINE Viel (Vitalis) (ABT 1098 - AFT 1130)
----- ----- (dtr of Fulk the Sheriff) (ABT 1103 - BEF 1127)

Siblings
D'ENGAINE Richard (ABT 1121 - ABT 1177)

Marriage To FITZ URSE Margaret (Margery) (ABT 1124 - AFT 21 May 1196)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ URSE Richard (ABT 1100 - AFT 1141)
DE BOULERS Maud (ABT 1105 - )

Children by FITZ URSE Margaret (Margery) ABT 1124 - AFT 21 May 1196
D'ENGAINE Richard (BEF 1145 - 23 Apr 1209)

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