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Alved Lord of Barnstable and Totnes
(Abt 1015-)
Johel de Totenais
(Abt 1049-After 1123)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. < > de Pecguigny

Johel de Totenais 1 2 3

  • Born: Abt 1049, Barnstaple, Devonshire, England
  • Marriage (1): < > de Pecguigny
  • Died: After 1123

   Other names for Johel were Juhel of Totnes, Judhael de Toteneis of Totnes & Barnstable, co. Devon and Juhel de Toteneis.

  Research Notes:

From Wikipedia - Juhel of Totnes :

Juhel of Totnes[1] was a Breton nobleman and supporter of William I of England of the eleventh century.


Life
He was in 1069 one of the leaders of Breton forces on the Norman side, fighting against the remaining forces that had been loyal to Harold II of England [2] He was Lord of Totnes , and holder of many manors in south-west England, at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086)[3]. He was however dispossessed or pushed out of Totnes shortly afterward. According to Frank Barlow [4] William II of England

replaced the Breton Judhel, whom he expelled from Totnes at the beginning of his reign for an unknown reason, with his favourite, Roger (I) of Nonant.


Family
His daughter Aenor married Philip de Braose [5], son of William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber .

  Noted events in his life were:

• Living, 1123.


Johel married < > de Pecguigny. (< > de Pecguigny was born about 1054 in <Barnstaple, Devonshire>, England.)


Sources


1 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 177-5 (Bertha of Hereford).

2 <i>http://www.familysearch.org</i>, Cit. Date: 18 Jul 2009.

3 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Juhel of Totnes. Cit. Date: 4 Sep 2009.


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