Emma de Houghton

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁵⁸
"Arnold de Bois II (IV), who maried Emma younger daughter of Payn de Houghton, [Assize R. 619, m. 13 d.] belonged to a family connected with Bois-Arnault in France and Thorpe Arnold in Leicestershire. At the request of Emma he gave, with his body, half Little Houghton Church to his father's foundation of Biddlesden Abbey, Bucks., with land in Great Houghton, and, before 1166, their part in Little Houghton mill. [Harl. Chart. 84 F. 40, H. 47, 48, 50; Harl. MS. 4714, fols. 1 d, 4.]

~A History of the County of Northampton: Volume IV, pp. 266-270

Emma married Arnold du Bois, son of Arnold de Bois and Isabella de Watteville ¹⁰⁵⁸.^,1245 (Arnold du Bois was born in Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire, England and died before 1166 in England.)