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Name: Guy De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston
Sex: M
Birth: 4 ^b
Death: Before 1114 ^d

Parents:

Father:
Robert I Princeps Of Vitre Death: Before 1106

Mother:

Bertha Dame De Craon Death: After 1076

Family:
Marriage:

Children:

Alan De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston Death: Before 1156
Lisouis De CRAON
Emma De CRAON
Alice De CRAON

Bibliography

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
Sanders, I. J., English Baronies, A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086-1327. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sanders Baronies p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: younger son [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p464],
parents:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p464]

Sources for death Information

date:: before 1114 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p464]; before 1118 [Ref: Sanders Baronies p47]

Sources with Information about marriage to Isabella Fitz HUGH

names:: Guy of Craon & dau Hugh fitz Baldric [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p268],
child:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p417, Keats-Rohan DP p464, Sanders Baronies p47]

Research Notes:
formerly held some of his land under Ralph I de Gael, Earl of East Anglia [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p464]

after 1075: after the revolt and fall of Ralph II de Gail, Guy acquired some of the lands then forfeited by Ralph and his supporters [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p464]

1086: Domesday tenant-in-chief in Lincolnshire; later known as the barony of Freiston [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p464]

Domesday Lord of Freiston [Ref: Sanders Baronies p47]

family name is taken from Craon in Anjou; English house was a branch of the Angevin family of this name [Ref: Sanders Baronies p47(4)]

1090s: attested grants to Spalding Priory [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p464]

Pedigree of Guy De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston
                   /-----Rivallon The Vicaire
          /-----Triscan
         |         \-----Guenergant Vicountess Of Rennes
/-----Robert I Princeps Of Vitre
|         \-----Enoguen
Guy De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston
|                  /-----Suthardus Vetulus De CREDONE
|         /-----Guerin I De CRAON
\-----Bertha Dame De Craon

Descendants of Guy De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston

1. Guy De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston m. Isabella Fitz HUGH

m. Isabella Fitz HUGH father: Hugh Fitz Baldric

2+ Alan De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston m. Muriel De BEAUCHAMP

3 Lisouis De CRAON

4+ Emma De CRAON m. Roger De HUNTINGFIELD

5 Alice De CRAON

2nd generation

2. Alan De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston m. Muriel De BEAUCHAMP

m. Muriel De BEAUCHAMP

6+ Maurice De CRAON, Baron Of Freiston m. Clarice

7+ Cecilia De CRAON m. William Fitz SIMON

4. Emma De CRAON m. Roger De HUNTINGFIELD