KILPEC William

Abt 1070 - 1127  (57 years)

• Name	KILPEC William
  Birth	Abt 1070
  Gender	Male
  Death	1127
  Notes	According to Keats-Rohan, who calls him Willelm Filius Nomanni his successor was his son Hugh fitz William, also known as Hugh of Kilpeck, because the family's chief holding had become Kilpeck. According to Round and Keats-Rohan, he is possibly the William son of Norman who appears in a grant in France.[1] Keats-Rohan says his son Hugh succeeded him about 1127. Domesday William the son of Norman was a tenant-in-chief in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire in 1086, as recorded in Domesday Book. These counties were in confrontation with Wales. He also had some tenancies in Steyning in Sussex near the English channel. PASE website profile: http://domesday.pase.ac.uk/Domesday?op=5&personkey=42075 Opendomesday website profile: https://opendomesday.org/name/william-son-of-norman/ Mitcheldean Manor Held in 1086 by William son of Norman.[2] William's estate seems to have passed to his son Hugh and later to Miles of Gloucester (d. 1143) and his son Roger, earl of Hereford, from whom William of Dean held an estate and an office in the Forest for 20s. rent.[3] That estate became known as the manor of DEAN or MITCHELDEAN[4] and the office was probably the woodwardship of the later bailiwick of Mitcheldean. Bicknor Manor According to "The History of the Manors of Dean Magna and Abenhall", before 1133, the Manor of Bicknor, which had been held in 1086 by William Fitz Norman, was in the kings hands and was granted to Milo de Gloucester. The charter for this action showing; "that it had previously been held by Ulric de Dene". Sources ↑ 'Anjou: Part 2', in Calendar of Documents Preserved in France 918-1206, ed. J Horace Round (London, 1899), pp. 395-420. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/france/918-1206/pp395-420 [accessed 11 October 2019]. See footnoted places 6, and 26. ↑ Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. 167v; ct. Taylor, Dom. Glos. 25-6 ↑ Trans B.G.A.S. vi. 124-6, 199; Pipe R 1130 (H.M.S.O. facsimile), 77. ↑ Cal. Inq. p.m. vi, p. 97; Cal. Chart. R. 1327-41, 84. a detailed account of the man. is given in J. Maclean, 'Hist of Manors of Dene Magna and Abenhall', Trans B.G.A.S. vi. 123-209. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.487. Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p.976. British History Online - Mitcheldean Manor Other websites http://kilpeckchurch.org.uk/a-history-of-the-pye-family The History of the Manors of Dean Magna and Abenhall http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I23450
  Person ID	I60163	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. KILPEC Hugh FitzWilliam,   b. Herefordshire, England d. 1168  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F347626	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026