Rualo d' Avranches

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• Name	Rualo d' Avranches
  Gender	Male
  Died	?
  Notes	Footnote from Planche Page 42 The Ruellinus de Abrincis named in this document* has never appeared in any pedigree of the family of D'Avranches. From the other interesting record to which we have just alluded, we infer that he was the brother of Simon d'Avranche, plaintiff or appellant, in a trial by wager of battle with Baldwin, Comte de Guisnes, 10th February, 1201, respecting the right to some lands in Newington; for there can be no doubt that the hiatus in the MS. should be filled up thus:-" Inter Simonem de AvAvranches petentem per Roelland. fratrem suum."(Archaeol. Cant. . vol. ii. p. 265.) This name, which was that of his grandfather, who married Maud de Muneville, heiress of Folkestone, being most capriciously spelt, not only Roellandus, Ruellinus, Roelent, Rualo, and Ruallon, but also Graalandus and Graelent, as it will be found in the families of Tany, Valoigne's , St. Ledger, and others, beside that of D'Avranches. In a document of the date 1127, printed by Mr. Boys in his 11 Collections for the History of Sandwich," pp. 551-3, the name of the grandfather is corrupted into Ruerent de Aurences, and in the " Rot. Curiae Regis," 9th & 10th of Richard I., that of the grandson is indifferently given as Grelent, Rohelandus, and Rolandus. It has subsided into the more familiar form of Roland. *A legal document called the final concorde of the eigth year of the reign of Richard 1 AD 1197 between Elias de Beauchamp and Constance de Bolbec, his wife, plaintiffs, on one part and Ruellinus de Abrincis (Avranches) tenant, on the other... [1]
  Oldest Known Ancestors	Paternal Line: Egil b. Abt 530
  Person ID	I2991	Roy~Royes | Hougham
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2010

  
  

  Father	William d' Avranches, Lord of Folkestone           b. Abt 1125, Folkestone, Kent, England           d. Bef 1190, Folkestone, Kent, England  (Age ~ 64 years)
  Family ID	F823	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S251] Hougham/Huffam Family Tree, Robin Young.