"Ralph Picot, of Milton and Tong, Kent, had two daughters and co-heiresses, Alice and Eugenia, who are ancestral to the Malet and Fitz Bernard families respectively." [1]
Matilda, daughter of Thomas FitzBernard & his wife Eugenia Picot. The Rotuli de Dominabus of 1185 records " the wife of John Bidun Junior, Matilda....10 years old.... dau. of Thomas fitz Bernard.... and Eugenia Picot.... dau. of Ralph Picot de Kent ...." (“uxor que fuit Johannis de Bidune junioris, Matillis…x annorum…filia Thome filii Bernardi”.... and "Ewgenia Picot…filia Radulfi Picot de Kancia....")[2]
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Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 104th ed. (London: Burke's Peerage, Ltd., 1967.), p. 1830, p. 1628.
Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910.), 5:400b,
[Regesta V3, page xxiv, index] Introduction – Ralph Picot recorded as sheriff of Leicester 1136-1140. Index – Ralph Pocot recorded as constable of Archbishop Theobald, and sheriff of Kent in 1153 and 1155-6.
[Regesta V3, page 53] No. 142. Dated 1136 Oxford. Canterbury Cathedral and See. Grant of the tenement and service which Geoffrey Ros held in chief. Stephanus rex Anglorum ---------------------. Testibus: ----------------------------; et Radulpho Picot. Apud Oxinefordam.
[Regesta V3, page 54] No. 145. Dated 1139-1154 London. Canterbury Cathedral and See. The prior and convent to hold their land freely. Stephanus rex Anglorum, Willelmo de Ipra et Radulph Picot et ministris suis de Chent [and officers of Kent], salutem. ---------------.
[CSP France page 63] No. 185. Dated 1155-1164. Charter of William, brother of Henry king of England, addressed generally. He grants to St. John of Foucarmont and the monks there serving God a house in the town of Dieppe (Deppa) given by RALPH PICHOT AND AMFRIA his wife, free from all lay service, specially from tolls ut infra.
“Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum,” Volume III, 1135-1154. Edited by H.A. Crone, R.H.C. Davis in continuation of the work of the late H.W.C. Davis. Published 1968. Accessed State Library Victoria.
Calendar of State Papers France A.D. 918-1206 - VOLUME I [Title on the binder] Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury under the direction of the Master of the Rolls. Forward by J. H. Round. Edited by J. H. Round. Published 1899. Accessed at the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne.