William de Mohun

• Name	William de Mohun
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I7676	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Father	William de Mohun,   b. Abt 1156, of Dunster, Somerset, England ,   d. Oct 1193  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Mother	Lucy,   d. Aft 1201
  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.”