William Paynel

  General Notes:

~The Plantagenet Ancestry, William Henry Turton, 1968, p. 143 ⁴⁵⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁰²¹
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.

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

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Ralph Paynel was probably the son of William Paynel, who appears to have possessed Les Moutiers-Hubert in Normandy, and to have been given lands in the Côtentin by King Willian I in marriage as a tenancy of the Abbot of Le Mont St. Michel.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, p. 319

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands.
According to Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands this William Paynell of Moutiers-Hubert was the son of the William Paynell who had been at the Battle of Hastings along with his older brother. He also is given as the father of Hugh, Fulk, Thomas and Jean Paynell. This William's wife is given as a daughter of William Fitz Wimund d'Avranches.

William married Daughter of Robert d’Avranches, daughter of Robert d’Avranches and Matilda de Avenell.