Guillaume Fitz Ansculf de Picquigny

   Another name for Guillaume was William Fitz Ansculph

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots . . ., 8th Edition, Ralph Paynel was of Dudley, Worcestershire, and heir of William Fitz Anscult. He joined the rebellion against King Stephen in 1138. Ralph de Paynel was living in 1141, and was dead by 1153. He most likely married a daughter of Robert de Ferrières and his wife Hawise de Vitré, daughter of Andre, Seigneur de Vitré en Bretagne by Agnes, daughter of Robert comté de Mortain. ¹⁶⁰

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Paynel), Vol. X, p. 230, Ansculf, a Domesday tenant of lands in serveral counties, which included Dudley, Worcestershire, and Newport, Buchinghamshire, had a son named William Fitz Anscult, whose daughter married Fulk Paynel. ¹⁴¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰¹
At the time of the Domesday Survey, the lordship of Dudley was held by William Fitz Ansculph, as written in Domesday, "ibi est Castellum ejus." William was a great landowner who besides possessing twenty manors in Staffordshire, fourteen in Worcestershire and seven in Warwickshire, all lying within a few miles of his Castle, also held forty-five in other counties. Nothing more is known about William Fitz Ansculph except that his entire Barony subsequently came into the possession of Fulke Paganel. It is possibly that Paganel acquired his this by marriage with Fitz Ansculph's daughter and heiress.

In Dugdale's Baronage, Vol. I, p. 431, it says that in some places in Domesday, Fitz Ansculf is also called "Ansculf de Pinchengi" in which he referenced Bucks, who wrote that Ansulf de Pinchengi held "Essenberge." Baker in his Histroy of Northamptonshire, Vol. II, p. 107, considers that William fil' Ansulfi was son of Anculf de Pinchengi, and he deduces the family of Pinkeney from one Gilo, a brother of Ansculf, who is mentioned in Domesday as Lord of Wedon, Morton, etc.

~Extracts From the Plea rolls of the Reign of Edward II, A.D. 1307-1327, pp. 6-7

• Web Reference: .
William Fitz Ansculf, also called William of Pinkeni, was from Picquigny, Somme. He was the son of Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. Castle at Dudley, Worcs. Holdings in 12 midland and western counties.

• Castle:

Photo taken by Elvis Payne

• Web Reference: Dudley Castle .
"Dudo, an Anglo-Saxon, is said to have built and bestowed his name upon it, in A.D.700.

"From the name of the founder of this castle, is derived the present appellation of Dudley, whose orthography has been much varied by writers at different periods.

"At the time of the Norman conquest, as appears from Doomsday Book, this castle was granted to a Norman Baron, by the name of William Fitz Ausculph, who possessed, besides, twenty-five manors in the same county; but it remained not long in the possession of his family, for the daughter of William Fitz Ausculph, marrying Fulk Paganel, brought with her the inheritance of Dudley castle, which descended to her son, Ralph Paganel, who took up arms for the Empress Maud, and fortified it for her, when she contended with King Stephen for the crown of England.

"In the reign of Henry, upon assessment for the marriage of the king's daughter, Paganel appointed his knight's fees de veteri feoffmento, to be fifty in number, and de novo, six and a third part."