William (Mohun) de Mohun (abt. 1090 - bef. 1155)

Born about 1090 in St Lo, Cotentin, Normandy, France [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 1155 before about age 65 in Dunster, Somerset, England

William II Mohun was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

He married Agnes, daughter of Walter of Ghent, and they had four known sons:

• William III.
• Ivain.
• Richard, a clerk.
• Peter.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB):

William founded a house of Augustinian canons at Bruton, in Somerset (in August 1142 according to the priory's lost annals, though Henry I issued a charter in favour of a foundation there between 1127 and 1135), and was a benefactor of the monks whom he, or his father, established at Dunster as a cell of Bath Abbey. He married, in or before 1130, Agnes, daughter of Walter de Gant. Her marriage portion comprised the manor of Whichford, Warwickshire, the church of which William and his wife had granted to Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire, by 1133. He died in obscurity, certainly before 1155 and probably well before 1147, and was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son, William; the earldom lapsed. Other sons were Ralph, who predeceased him, Iwerne, Henry, Peter, and Richard, described together on one occasion as clerks. (Ref: ODNB)

Sources

• Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p.587.
• Sanders, English Baronies, p.114.
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)
• Frederick Lewis Weiss, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 (2004), p. 137.
• William Henry Hamilton Rogers, The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon (1877), pp. 106-107.
• Lyte, Henry. A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell (The St. Catherine Press Ltd., London, 1909) Page 5-9

Acknowledgements

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