Robert de Meinill

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Robert de Meinill is the first member of this family in England of whom there is record. Robert is probably of Norman extraction, and he was possibly from the Coutances in the département of Manche.

Robert de Meinill held property in Yorkshire, much of which formed part of the Moartain fee at the time of the Domesday Survey. He was probably the founder of the original castle at Whorlton in Yorkshire. He granted the vill of Myton-0n-Swale to St. Mary's Abbey, Yorkshire, circa 1100-1106. With his wife Gertrude, he granted the church of Great Ayton to Whitby Abbey in the time of Abbot William, circa 1109. This grant was confirmed by their son Stephen de Meinill later sometime between 1130-1150. Robert de Meinill married Gertrude, most likely the daughter of Nele Fossard and sister of Robert Fossard. Robert de Meinill died before 1135, and his widow married as her second husband, Jordan Paynel.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, (Meihill), pp. 623-624

Robert married Gertude Fossard, daughter of Nele Fossard Lord Mulgrave and Unknown.¹⁴¹