William Tracy (abt. 1040 - aft. 1110)

Born about 1040 in Normandy [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1110 after about age 70 in France [uncertain]

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Biography

Keats-Rohan gives his name as "William de Tracy", and his wife, "Roesia". They were Normans, and she notes that they "granted woodland at Lucerne and the mill of Champrépus to Mont-Saint-Michel in 1110".^[1]

Historian Nicholas Vincent (p.236) explains that William gave himself up to the religious life at Mont Saint-Michel in 1110, making an endowment of gifts "scattered across much of the moder département of Le Manche. He was "almost certainly a kinsman, perhaps the son, of the Turgis de Tracy who was serving as Norman seneschal of Maine in the 1070s. His son Henry appears to be the one who acquired the barony of Barnstable in England. The famous William de Tracy of Bradninch who helped murder St Thomas A Beckett was probably a son of one of the two sons in 1110, Turgis and Henry.^[2]

His two sons were named Turgis and Henry.

Sources

1. ↑ Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p. 743
2. ↑ Vincent, Nicholas, "The Murderers of Thomas Becket", in: Fryde and Reitz eds, Bischofsmord im Mittelalter, p.236.

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