Lord William De Graville MALET

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• Name	Lord William De Graville MALET  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1072	Gidestan, Suffolk, , ENG
  Person ID	I12546	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Earl Leofric OF MERCIA
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Odiva "Lady Godiva" OF MERCIA   d. Aft 1040
  Relationship	natural
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F1169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Esilia D.Of GILBERT CRISPIN I, I
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Gilbert MALET  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3713	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Lord Mallet is noted in English history as "one of the most imposing figures at the conquest of England in 1066 in Hastings." He was almost killed at Hastings but thanks to Sire de Montford and William de Vieuxpont, he was rescued and gie duty of guarding the defeated King Harold's body since he was the first cousin of Alditha, wife of King Harold. He and Gilbert deGand received large grants/ransom in Yorkshire for their duties. He was descended from Gerard, a Scandinavia Prince. His companion Rollo the Dane, 1st Duke of Normandy, gave his name Gerardville or Graville to their fief near Havre. He supposedly died while in the King's service in Gidestan, County Suffolk. Called the "Grandson of Godiva", he is maternally descended from Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Godiva who was famous for her ride through Coventry in the nude on a white horse. She rode through the streets nude to get her husband to drop his oppressive taxes of the townspeople. She had forewarned the townspeople to close their shutters and avert their eyes during her ride. She was a descendant of King Alfred.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2429] Coats, As the Tree Grows (unpublished). [S2430] John S. Wurtz, Magna Charta Pedigrees of Barons. [S202] Robert Jesse Harry, The Ancestors and Descendants of Hugh Harry and Elizabeth Brinton.