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Birth:          BEF 1088 Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire, England
Death:          Dornford Manor, Wooton, Oxfordshire, England

Notes
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Manor of Dornford, a hamlet near Wooton, Oxfordshire:

In 1109 Henry I confirmed a grant to Eynsham abbey of the tithes of Dornford, 
Weaveley, and Cornwell by Anketil de Gray's son Richard. The mesne tenancy of 
Dornford remained in the Gray family, passing presumably to Richard's son Anketil (II) 
and Anketil's son John; the Mabel de Gray who had dower of a third of Dornford in 
1195 was probably John's widow. The manor passed to John's daughter Eve de Gray, 
who held it in 1242. She was dead by 1246 and her heirs through her first husband, 
Ralph Murdac (d. by 1196), were Beatrice, widow of Robert Mauduit, and Alice, wife 
of Ralph Hareng; through her second husband, Andrew de Beauchamp (to whom she 
was married by 1198), her heirs were Joan, wife of Ernald de Boys, and Maud de 
Neville, represented in 1246 by her son Jolland. Unlike Eve de Gray's manor of 
Standlake, Dornford did not remain in quarters: by 1279 it was in moieties, of which 
both were held of the overlord by John Mauduit of Little Somerford (Wilts.), while 
under him one was held by Robert Mauduit and the other by John de Boys and under 
John by William Murdac.

Philip de Vernay, who was granted warren in Dornford in 1307, and Florence de 
Vernay, recorded as a landholder there in 1316, seem to have held life interests, for 
Florence was probably the Florence, wife of Ralph Bluet, who in 1325 was said to 
have been granted such an interest by a John Mauduit. In or after 1325 Mauduit 
granted the reversion of the manor to John de Molines and his wife Gillian, and in 
1336 John and Gillian sold the reversion of Dornford to William Shareshull and his wife 
Denise; at that time the manor was held for life by John de Cranle (or Craule). [Victoria 
County History, A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 11, Alan Crossley (editor), A 
P Baggs, Christina Colvin, H M Colvin, Janet Cooper, C J Day, Nesta Selwyn, A 
Tomkinson, 1983, Pages 259-85]

Parents
DE GREY Anschitel (ABT 1067 - )
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Siblings
DE GREY Richard (BEF 1088 - )

Marriage To ----- Mabilia (ABT 1092 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- Mabilia ABT 1092 - 
DE GREY Anschitel (ABT 1118 - )

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