Fulk Paynel

   Another name for Fulk was Fulke Pannell.

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 55:25, Falk Paynel or Pagnel, of Dudley, founder of the Tickford Priory near Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, was living in 1130 and married, possibly, Betrix, the daughter of William Fitz Ansulf from Picquingny, his Domesday tenancy-in-cheif, later known as the Baron of Dudley, Worcester. ¹⁶⁰

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p. 484, His father-in-law was Willelm filius Ansculf. ¹⁰²⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰¹
In Dugdale's Baronage, Vol. I, the beginning of the Paganel family starts with Ralph Paganel, who, Dugdale says help during the time of Domesday, ten lordshipes in Devonshire, five in somersetshire, fiften in Lincolnshire, and fiften in Yorkshire. His chief seat was at Drax, Yorkshire, and in 1089, he founded the Priory of Holy Trinity at York. "To him," Dugdale adds, "succeeded Fulke Paganel, who possessing a great part of the lands of William Fitz Ansculf, founded that Priory near Newport, as a cell to that great Abbey of marmoustier in France; which lordship of newport was part of the possessions of the said William Fitz Ansculf."

Fulke Paganel was the younger son of William Paganel, Lord of moutier Hubert in Normandy, who is mentioned by Ordericus, Vitalis as having died about the same time as William the Conqueror. Accord to Auguste le Prevost, as espressed in a note to his edition of Ordericus, William was the eldest brother of Ralph, the Domesday tenant in capite of Drax and other places in Yorkshire.

Fulke Paganel had issue Ralph, his heir, and it seems as younger son named William, whom by his marrieage to Juliana, daughter of Robert de Bahanton or Bampton, was father of two sons, Fulke and William, the former of whom was ancestor of the Paganels or Paynels of Bampton and Bridgewater.

~Extracts From the Plea rolls of the Reign of Edward II, A.D. 1307-1327, p. 7

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Fulk Paynel was the progeniter of the Paynels of Dudley. He was the successor to the estates of William son of Ansculf, the Domesday tenant of lands in several counties, which included Dudley, Worcester and Newport, Buckingham. It is most likely that Fulk acquired these lands by marring William's daughter. He also is very likely the brother of Ralph Payne.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Paynel), Vol. X, pp. 320-321

Fulk married Beatrix de Fitz Ansculf , Heiress of Dudley, daughter of Guillaume Fitz Ansculf de Picquigny and Unknown.¹⁶⁰ (Beatrix de Fitz Ansculf , Heiress of Dudley was born about 1075 in Anscough, Normandy, France.)