Hesilia de Crespin

  General Notes:

~Medieval Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 142, wife of William Malet of Granville, Normandy, and great-great-granddaughter of Rollow the Dane, progenitor of the Dukes of Normandy. She was living in 1086. ⁷²²

  Information about this person:

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: William Malet, d ca 1071, and Heslia Crispin . ¹⁹³
From: Terry Oehler <terryo@SFPL.LIB.CA.US>
Subject: Re: William Malet, d ca 1071, and Heslia Crispin
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 13:54:19 -0800

Hesilia Crispin was the daughter of Gilbert Crispin I, baron of Tillieres. See M. Jackson Crispin and Leonce Macary, *Falaise Roll* (Baltimore: Genealogical 1994), p. 43.

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: William Malet's wife . ¹⁹³
From: Alan B. Wilson<abwilson@uclink2.berkeley.edu >
Subject: William Malet's wife
Date: 1 Feb 1998 05:04:31 GMT

Cyril Hart in "William Malet and his family", Anglo-Norman Studies, xix, 1996, pp. 123-165, says William Malet's wife is Esilia, daughter of Gilbert Crispin I of Tillieres. This agrees with the information in M. Jackson Crispin and Leonce Macary, Falaise Roll, Table XIII and in several places in the text (e.g., pp. 28, 43, 128, 158).

• Background Information. ⁹⁵⁶
Hesilia, the widow of William Malet, appears to have been amply dowered. She is recorded in Domesday many times as holding property under the designation as "Mother of Robert Malet." Her son Robert made a charter to the Abbey at eye in which he stated that William Malet was his father and Hesilia his mother. Hesilia was the sister of the two Crispins who who fought at the Battle of Hastings.

~Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family, pp. 6, 16

Hesilia married Guillaume Malet Seigneur de Graville, Sheriff of York ^954,955.^,956 (Guillaume Malet Seigneur de Graville, Sheriff of York was born before 1040 in Granville St. Honorine, Normandy and died about 1071 in Yorkshire, England ⁷²².)