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Humphrey (Lisle) de Lisle (abt. 1032 - 1086)

Humphrey "Hunfridus" de Lisle formerly Lisle aka de Insula
Born about in Francemap
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Died at about age 54 in Castle Combe, Wiltshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Humphrey de Insula, Domesday lord of Castle Combe, was followed possibly by his daughter ADELIZE. [1]
ADELIZE m. Reinald de Dunstanville d. ante 1110 leaving Robert d.s.p. 1167.
Walter I, nephew and h. of Robert, d. 1190 leaving Walter II d. 1194.
  • "In the Domesday Survey a certain Hunfridus de Insula, or Humphrey de l'lsle, is represented as holding of the king in Capite or honour, a Seignory consisting of twenty-seven vills or manors in Wiltshire. He was, no doubt, one of the Norman followers of the Conqueror, probably the Liele of the Battle Abbey Roll, and rewarded for his aid in subduing the Saxon, by this portion of the booty. Of these twenty-seven manors, Hunfridus himself held of the king, in Capite or in his own hand, ten..." [2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Sanders, English Baronies, p. 28.
  2. ↑ The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (Devizes, Wiltshire, England, 1855) Vol.2, Page 261.
  • Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p. 275 (cites Sanders)




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Mackinnon-507 C. Mackinnon
Deinsula delisle-2 and Lisle-100 appear to represent the same person because: Looks same, but there's nothing to lose anyway.
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