William de Mohun

Abt 1156 - 1193  (~ 37 years)

• Name	William de Mohun
  Born	Abt 1156	of Dunster, Somerset, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	Oct 1193
  Person ID	I7663	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Father	William de Mohun,   b. of Dunster, Somerset, England ,   d. 1176
  Mother	Godehilde de Tony,   d. Bef 1186
  Married	Bef 1160
  Family ID	F3007	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy,   d. Aft 1201
  Children	1. William de Mohun   2. Reynold de Mohun,   b. Abt 1183, of Dunster, Somerset, England ,   d. 1213  (Age ~ 30 years)
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F3359	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “WILLIAM DE MOHUN, Knt., of Dunster, Somerset, son and heir, born about 1156 (adult in 1177). He married LUCY ___. They had two sons, William and Reynold, Knt. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He was a benefactor of Bruton Priory. In 1186 he granted the abbey of Holy Trinity of Luzerne the tithes of his mills at Moion near St. Lo in Normandy and elsewhere for the appointment of a canon bound to offer prayers for the soul of his mother Godeheut. SIR WILLIAM DE MOHUN died in October 1193, perhaps abroad. His widow, Lucy, received dower in 1193. She was living in 1201, when she accounted for seven fees in Cambridgeshire in dower. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 12 (1856): 312-322. St. George & Lennard Vis. of Devon 1620 (H.S.P. 6) (1872): 185-187 (Mohun ped.: "Walter Mohun als. Meschines Baron of Dunster = Alice d. & h. of Wm Brewer"). Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (H.S.P. 9) (1874): 143-146 (Mohun ped.: "Wilms de Mohun vocatus Meschines = [left bionic.'"). Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 174, 282-283 (charter dated 1186 of William de Moion names his mother, Godeheut; charter witnessed by Geoffrey, John, and Robert de Moion). Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 11-15. C.P. 9 (1936): 19 (sub Mohun). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 114. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-141. TG 8 (1988): 3-38.” 2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “GODEHILDE (or GODEHEUT, GODEHOLD) DE TONY, married before 1160 WILLIAM DE MOHUN (or MOYON), of Dunster, Somerset, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir of William de Mohun, Earl of Somerset, by Agnes, daughter of Walter de Gant, of Folkingham, Lincolnshire [see GANT 2.iv for his ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Brinkley, Cambridgeshire. They had five sons, William, Geoffrey, John, Thomas (clerk), and Robert, and two daughters, Yolande and Agnes (wife of William de Windsor). He witnessed his father's charter to Bruton c.1142. About 1160 he granted to Bruton the tithe of his cuttlefish and waters at Lyon. He was a benefactor to his father's foundation at Bruton, and confirmed the gifts of his father and grandfather to Bath. WILLIAM DE MOHUN died in 1176. His widow, Godeheut, was apparently dead in 1186 (date of her son, William's charter). Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 60. Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (H.S.P. 9) (1874): 143-146 (Mohun ped.: "Willms de Mohun vocatus Comes Som's. = [left blank]"). Arch. Jour. 37 (1880): 57-93. Round Cal. Docs. Preserved in France 1 (1899): 174 (charter dated c.1160 of William de Moyon; charter witnessed by God[eholda] his wife and William his son), 282-283 (charter dated 1186 of William de Moion names his mother Godeheut; charter witnessed by Geoffrey, John, and Robert de Moion). Maxwell-Lyte: Hist. of Dunster 1 (1909): 9-11. C.R.R 5 (1931): 207, 229. C.P. 9 (1936): 18 (sub Mohun). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 114. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 136-141. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 206, 207, 217, 218. TG 8 (1988): 3-38. Bienvenu Grand Cartulaire de Fontevraud 2 (2005): 602-603 (list of children of Roger de Toeni). Children of Godehilde de Tony, by William de Mohun: i. WILLIAM DE MOHUN [see next]. ii. YOLANDE DE MOHUN, married RALPH FITZ WILLIAM, Knt., of Brompton Ralph and Withycombe, Somerset. In the period, 1192-1205, he witnessed a charter of Savary, Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury. In 1210 he was fined 20 marks because his wife, Yolande, and his reeve, Walter, caused some Flemish merchants to be arrested at Watchet, Somerset. He witnessed an undated charter of Sibyl de Aura, widow of William de Saint Stephen. RALPH FITZ WILLIAM died in or before 1212, when his estate at Timsbury was in the hands of the Crown. MSS of the Marquess of Abergavenny (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1887): 72-73. Maxwell-Lyte Hist. Notes on some Somerset Manors (1931). C.P. 8 (1932): 534. Tremlett Stogursey Charters (Somerset Rec. Soc. 61) (1949): xxvii (Fitzurse ped.), 11-12. Wedlake Hist. of Watchet (1973): 35. TG 8 (1988): 3-38.”