Fulk FitzWarin, I

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• Name	Fulk FitzWarin
  Suffix	I
  Gender	Male
  Died	1170
  Notes	Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulk_I_FitzWarin Fulk I FitzWarin (died 1170/1) also called Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc. was a powerful marcher lord seated at Whittington Castle in Shropshire in England on the border with Wales, and also at Alveston in Gloucestershire. Fulk I Fitzwarin was the son of (i.e. in Norman French Fitz, in modern French fils de) "Warin of Metz", the family's earliest known ancestor, thus deemed the family patriarch. Warin of Metz the patriarch is however a "shadowy or mythical figure," about whom little is certain. The later mediaeval romance Fouke le Fitz Waryn gives his name as "Warin de Metz." Whatever his true place of origin it is however generally believed that the head of the Warin family came to England during the reign of William the Conqueror (1066-1087). Neither Warin nor his son Fulk I were during that reign tenants-in-chief, that is to say important vassals or feudal barons, rather the family's grants of lands were obtained from later kings. Fulk I FitzWarin was rewarded by King Henry II (1154-1189) for his support of his mother Empress Matilda in her civil war with King Stephen (1135-1154) and conferred to him in 1153 the royal manor of Alveston in Gloucestershire and in 1149 the manor of Whadborough in Leicestershire. Fulk I married a lady whose name is unknown and produced by her progeny including the following: Fulk II FitzWarin, son and heir who held his father's lands following his death in 1170/1. William de Brightley, younger son, who according to Sir William Pole (d.1635) was granted by his father "in King Henry 2 tyme" (i.e. between 1154 and 1189) the Devonshire manor of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, which he made his seat and where his descendants lived for many generations having adopted "de Brightley" as their surname in lieu of "FitzWarin."
  Person ID	I36022	Master File
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2016

  
  

  Children	1. Fulk FitzWarin, II,   d. 1197
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2016
  Family ID	F14842	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart