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Peter Cotgreave notes: "One of the many tantalizing documents in understanding the early barony of Malpas is a deed by which a woman called Agnes de Malpas gave lands in Kegworth to Calke Abbey in Derbyshire. The deed descried her as a daughter of a man called Richard FitzNigel." [1]
Cotgreave notes: "The fact that Agnes de Malpas' father was called Richard makes it tempting to suggest that she may have been a daughter of Letitia Malpas and her husband Richard, but there is no other hint to support such a claim." [1]
Her presumed mother Letitia's birth year having been estimated as 1080, estimated Agnes' birth year as 1110.
Her husband was Nigel de Puis, [1]
Agnes and her husband Nigel de Puis had adult sons called Robert, Richard and William." [1]
"It seems probable that Agnes' eldest son, Robert, was the man known as Robert FitzNigel. Since his motheer was called "de Malpas" and certainly owned lands in Kegworth, this relationship would eplain how fitzNigel came to bein possession of lands in both places.
The known beneficiaries of fitzNigel's lands in Cheshire were David the Clerk and his apparent brother Robert fizWilliam. One possible reasson could be that they were fitzNigel's nephews. William Belward may have been the same man as Agnes de Malpas' son William and thus Robert fitzNigel's brother. Robert fitzNigel apparently had no direct descendants, so it is perfectly possbile that his brother's sons were his heirs. Some seventeenth century material records that Belward's family came into possession of some of their Malpas lands in 1187 or 1188, immediately after fitzNigel's death.
If Agnes was born in 1110, estimate her sons' birth years in the 1140's.
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