Eugenia Picot (abt. 1155 - aft. 1194)

Born about 1155 in Milton, Kent, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 1194 after about age 39 in England [uncertain]

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Ron Lamoreaux [send private message]

Biography

Eugenia Picot was born circa 1155 [she was 30 years old in 1185^[1]].

Eugenia was the daughter and co-heir of Ralf Picot of Milton, Kent,^[1] Sheriff of Kent from Christmas, 1154, to Christmas, 1160.^[2]

She had two sisters:^[3]

1. Adelisa Picot, older sister; and
2. Agnes Picot;

Eugenia was married twice:

1. William Malet, died 1170,^[1] steward of King Henry II of England;^[2] by 1165 William had succeeded her father to Crown lands in Dartford, and was presumably married to Eugenia;^[4] and
2. Thomas fitz Bernard, died 1184, the king's chief forester,^[1] Eugenia was married to Thomas in 1174-5,^[4] with whom she had:
   1. John fitz Bernard,^[5] 10 years old and already married to a five year-old who with her land was in the custody of her mother-in-law, Eugenia, in 1185;^[1]
   2. a son, 8 years of in 1185;^[1]
   3. a son, 3 years of in 1185;^[1]
   4. Maud, 10 years old and a widow in 1185 in the custody of her mother, the king having given her in marriage to John Bidun, the infant heir (died before 1185) of John Bidun; she died in 1255, aged 80,^[1] known as Maud de Rochford,^[2] having subsequently married John de Rochford.^[6]

John Horace Round in his "Introduction" to Rotuli de Dominabus says Gilbert Malet, who in 1176 was a steward like his father and paying off half of a £200 debt of Eugenia's father, was the son of Eugenia and her first husband.^[2] Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands says Gilbert must have been the son of William Malet and an unknown first wife, because Gilbert married Eugenia's older sister, Alice,^[7] however, in the entry for Adelisa Picot, Ralf Picot's oldest daughter, Cawley queries whether she was "same person as...?" Alice Picot married to Gilbert Malet.^[8]

In 1185, King Henry II of England ordered a survey, by a company of judges, of the "ladies, boys and girls" whose wardship should be in his hands, which was used to compile a catalogue of widows, heirs and heiresses, describing their attributes of interest to a prospective husband or custodian, such as age, pedigree, value of ward's holding and stock. The extant survey returns are published in the Rotuli de Dominabus.^[1] Eugnia Picot appears in this roll in Alild' Hundred, Cambridgeshire, where she is described as the daughter of Ralf Picot of Kent, and the wife of Thomas fitz Bernard, in the gift of the Lord King [a widow], and 30 years old. She has in Redfield Hundred a manor worth 25 l annually in the fee of Gilbert Malet, given to her in dower by her husband William. She had three sons of Thomas fitz Bernard and one daughter; the eldest son is ten years, the middle eight, and the third three. The daughter the Lord King gave to the son of John de Bidun.^[4]

In 1187, Eugenia Picot paid scutage on half a knight's fee in Kent.^[2]

In 1189, Eugenia Pikot accounted £44 for custody of her son John Fitz Bernard and his lands.^[4]

In 1194, Eugenia Pikot in Kent paid 40 s 4 d for the custody of her son John and his lands.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Stenton, Doris Mary, The English Woman in History, (London: Allen & Unwin; New York: Macmillan, 1957), 38-40, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/englishwomaninhi0000sten/page/38/mode/1up accessed 20 March, 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [1185], Part II, The Pipe Roll Society, XXXV (London: 1913), xxxvi-xxxvii, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/piperollsociety35pipeuoft/page/xxxvi/mode/2up accessed 21 March, 2022).
3. ↑ Charles Cawley, "UNTITLED ENGLISH NOBILITY P - S: Picot", V4.2, 22 February, 2021, Medieval Lands, (https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntps.htm#AlicePicotMGilbertMalet accessed 21 March, 2022).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [1185], Part II, The Pipe Roll Society, XXXV (London: 1913), 87. e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/piperollsociety35pipeuoft/page/87/mode/1up accessed 21 March, 2022).
5. ↑ Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [1185], Part II, The Pipe Roll Society, XXXV (London: 1913), 77. e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/piperollsociety35pipeuoft/page/77/mode/1up accessed 21 March, 2022).
6. ↑ Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [1185], Part II, The Pipe Roll Society, XXXV (London: 1913), 55. e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/piperollsociety35pipeuoft/page/55/mode/1up accessed 21 March, 2022).
7. ↑ Cawley, Charles, "UNTITLED ENGLISH NOBILITY L - O: Malet", V4.5, 18 June, 2021, Medieval Lands, (https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntlo.htm#WilliamMaletdied1169B accessed 20 March, 2022).
8. ↑ Charles Cawley, "UNTITLED ENGLISH NOBILITY P - S: Picot", V4.2, 22 February, 2021, Medieval Lands, (https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntps.htm#AlicePicotMGilbertMalet accessed 21 March, 2022).
9. ↑ "The Great Roll of the Pipe for the 6th Year of the Reign of Richard I, Michaelmas, 1193-1194 - Page 249", Kent Archaeological Society, (https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/05/1193/249.htm accessed 21 March, 2022). E 372/40 1193 Mich-1194 Mich (printed in Pipe Roll Society 43, New Series 5, pp 1-3, 242-251)

See also:

• Weber, Jim, "Eugene (Eugenia) Picot", The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs Families of the Pacific Northwest, 4 March, 2019, RootsWeb (https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/162642/I11074/eugeneeugenia-picot/individual accessed 20 March, 2022).