William II Malet Baron of Curry Malet
Magna Charta Surety, 1215, descendant of William Malet, Lord Malet,
general and companion of William the Conqueror, Baron of Curry, and High
Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset.
William II Malet, the Surety of the Magna Charta, was mentioned in 1194
as a minor, in connection with an expedition made that year into
Normandy. His principal estate was Curry-Malet. From 1210 to 1214 he was
Sheriff of the counties of Somerset and Dorset. When he joined with the
baronsagainst King John and became one of the twenty-five Sureties his
lands in four counties were confiscated and given to his son-in-law, Hugh
de Vivonia, and to his father-in-law, Thomas Basset, and Malet was
excommunicated by the Pope in 1216. He was also fined 2,000 marks, but
this remained unpaid until after his death, and at that time 1,000 marks
were remitted, being found due himfor military service to King John at
Poitou. It is interesting to note thatthere were five contemporary
relatives named William Malet, and they all heldlands in England or in
Jersey. He died about 1217, having married Mabel (Alice) (Alicia) Basset,
daughter of Thomas Basset, of Headington. She survived him and married
(2) John Biset. William and his wife had two sons who died intheir
father's lifetime and three daughters.
Hawise (Helewise) Malet, whose inheritance of one-third of the barony
increased to one-half, married before March 23, 1217, (1) Hugh I de
Poyntz, who died1220: They had a son, Nicholas de Poyntz, who died in
1272. She married (2)Robert de Muscegros, of Brewham (Berwain) and
Norton and Cherlton, Somerset,who died in January 29, 1253 or 1254. The
following record is from the Harleian Society's "Knights of Edward I."
"Keeper of Savernake Forest May 4, 1252. His Inq. January 29, 1254. He
held Manors of Brynham, Cherlton, and Norton, Somersetshire, as 1
Knight's fee, Finebergh, Suffolk, 1 fee, moiety of Kenemerton 1 fee, and
Botinton one-quarter fee, with lands at Hetherle, Norteclive, and
Killicot, Gloucester one-half fee, and left his son and heir, John, 21."
William I Malet Baron of Curry Malet
William Malet, baron of Curry Malet, had other estates as well, in
Sussex, Surrey, Kent, and Suffolk. He was Steward to King Henry II. and
died in 1169 or1170.
Was in an expedition against France in the 3rd year of Richard II. John
deBeauchamp is little mentioned, save his founding a chantry in the
parish church of Alcester, in the time of Edward III, for one priest to
celebrate divineservice daily at the altar of All Saints, and his being
in the expedition against France in the 3rd year of King Richard II This
John de Beauchamp married Elizabeth St. John, who died in 1411