Arnulf de Hesdin Seigneur

   Another name for Arnulf was Ernulph de Hesding.

  Noted events in his life were:

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Arnulf, seigneur de Hesdin held great estates at the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 in England.

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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

Arnulf married Emmelina.