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Birth:          ABT 1125 
Death:          1171 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_I_FitzWarin
Fulk I FitzWarin (died 1170/1) (alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, 
etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of Warin") was a powerful marcher lord 
seated at Whittington Castle in Shropshire in England on the border with Wales, and 
also at Alveston in Gloucestershire. His grandson was Fulk III FitzWarin (c. 1160–
1258) the subject of the famous mediaeval legend or "ancestral romance" entitled 
Fouke le Fitz Waryn, himself the grandfather of Fulk V FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin 
(1251-1315).[2]
Origins[edit]

Fulk I Fitzwarin was the son of (i.e. in Norman French Fitz, in modern French fils de) 
"Warin of Metz", the family's earliest known ancestor, thus deemed the family 
patriarch.[3] Warin of Metz the patriarch is however a "shadowy or mythical figure",[4] 
about whom little is certain. The later mediaeval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn gives 
his name as "Warin de Metz". Whatever his true place of origin it is however generally 
believed that the head of the Warin family came to England during the reign of William 
the Conqueror (1066-1087). Neither Warin nor his son Fulk I were during that reign 
tenants-in-chief, that is to say important vassals or feudal barons, rather the family's 
grants of lands were obtained from later kings.[5]

Career[edit]

Fulk I FitzWarin was rewarded by King Henry II (1154-1189) for his support of his 
mother Empress Matilda in her civil war with King Stephen (1135-1154) and conferred 
to him in 1153 the royal manor of Alveston in Gloucestershire and in 1149 the manor of 
Whadborough in Leicestershire.

Marriage & progeny[edit]

Fulk I married a lady whose name is unknown and produced by her progeny including 
the following:
Fulk II FitzWarin (fl. 1194), son and heir who held his father's lands following his death 
in 1170/1.[6]

William de Brightley, younger son, who according to Sir William Pole (d.1635) was 
granted by his father "in King Henry 2 tyme" (i.e. between 1154 and 1189) the 
Devonshire manor of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, which he made his seat 
and where his descendants lived for many generations having adopted "de Brightley" 
as their surname in lieu of "FitzWarin".[8] They adopted a differenced, simpler, version 
of the paternal arms, namely Gules, a chief indented argent,[9] which were quartered 
by their ultimate heirs the Cobley and later Giffard families of Brightley. Surviving 
images of these de Brightley arms exist on the Giffard monuments in Chittlehampton 
Church and on the 17th-century escutcheon above the porch of Brightley Barton, and 
show in addition a mullet gules, a mark of cadency which denotes descent from a third 
son.

Parents
DE MEER (METZ) OF ADDERBURY Guarine (Warin) (ABT 1105 - 1195)
PEVERIL Mallet (ABT 1105 - )

Siblings
FITZ WARIN Fulk I "le Brun" (ABT 1125 - 1171)

Marriage To ----- Eva (ABT 1125 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- Eva ABT 1125 - 
FITZ WARIN Fulk II (ABT 1143 - 1198)

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