Ernulph de Hesding

   Another name for Ernulph was Arnulf de Hesdin Seigneur.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁵¹²
The pages of the Domesday, the official census of landholders in England after the Norman invasion of William the Conqueror, show that William granted the manor of Kempsford to Arnulph de Hesdin. Arnulph came from a family of rank and standing some where in Hesin in Artois or Picardy. In the Domeday book he is recorded as holding fifty lordships in a dozen Domesday southern English counties and he also was a tenant of the Bishop of Bayex in Normandy. Besides his holdings in Kempsford, he had lands in Hatherop, Ampney, Oldbury, Badminton, Acton Turville and Hanham near Bristol.

There is very little information on Arnulf, but he must have been important enough to have his charters executed in the presence King William. Despite this, he seems to disappear from any records henceforth. There are very few clues to the backgroud or family of Arnulf de Desin, and he, along why he was granted so much land from William is mystery.

A second Arnulf de Hesdin, most likely his son was executed by hanging in Shrewsbury in 1138. His three sisters, Aveline, Matilda and Sybil are left as the co- heiresses of Arnulps lands. Sybil married Walter de Salisbury, and a part of the barony of Kempsford was given to her son, Patrick Earl of Salisbury. The greater part of Arnulph's Domesday lands in the western counties is passed on to Patrick de Cadurics, or Chaworth when he married Matlida.

Arnulf de Hesdin was a benefactor to the church in England as well as in France. Notable was his support for the monks of St. Peter's abbey in gloucester.

~From the History of Kempsford

• Background Information. ⁹⁸⁶
Ernulf de Hesding held a Domesday fief, which had been divided between three principal and nearly equal participants. He was, living in 1066 to 1091, and was married to Emmelina, his second wife. They were the parents of Matilda de Hesding, who is presumed to be the coheir of her mother, Emmelina. Matilda is also presumed to be the third daughter of Ernulf de Hesding, and his wife. Matilda married Patrick de Cadurcis, who occurs 1100, and was deceased by 1130.

Ernulf and Emmelina had an older daughter by the name of Avelina, who occurs in 1126. She married, as her first husband, Alan Fitz Flaald, who occurs in 1101-1109, and died in 1114. Avelina married, as her second husband, Robert Fitz-Walter, who occurs in 1126.

~The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury in the County of Berks, pp. 76-77

Ernulph married Emmelina.