Guy de Craon
- Born: Abt 1158, /of Freiston, Lincolnshire, England
- Marriage: Isabel Basset
- Died: 1208, Freiston, Lincolnshire, England about age 50
General Notes:
~Burke's A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormand and Abeyance, p. 532 829
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information: 800 Hugh Fitz Baldric "held of the king," the manor of Sourth Warborough, at the time of the Domesday Survey. This manor was passed on to his daughter on her marriage to Guy de Craon, and was held in succession by his son, Alan, then grandson, Maurice and great-grandson, Guy de Croan. The manor then passed on his daughter Petronilla, was first married to William de Longchamp, secondly to Henry de Mara, and thirdly to Oliver de Vaux, and held the manor jointly with her respective husbands until her death in 1280. At the time of Petronilla's death, the manor passed on to the son of her first marriage, Henry de Longchamp.
~A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3, pp. 378-382
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Guy de Craon was the son of Maurice de Craon and his wife Clarice. "A genealogy of the founders of Freston Priory names "monsieur Wythe de Croune" as the son of "monsieur Maurice de Croune" and his wife "Clarice" [Dugdale Monasticon IV, Freston Priory, Lincolnshire, III, p. 126]." Guy de Craon married Isabel Basset, the widow of Albert de Gresley and possible daughter of Thomas Basset of Headington, Oxforshire and his wife, Alice de Dunstanville. Guy and Isabel had a daughter named Petronilla.
Guy married Isabel Basset, daughter of Thomas Basset Sheriff of Oxford and Adeliza de Dunstainville.
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