Unknown Lincolnshire (965)

Born 0965 in England

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in England

Biography

This profile is for the unknown father of Thorold the Sheriff, covering the uncertain proposal that he and Lady Godiva were brother and sister.

Keats-Rohan explains her understanding of the evidence and its strength as follows. (Versions of the following paragraph appear in both "Antecessor Noster" and the Malets article, this one is from "Antecessor Noster", broken into its sourced components):

• "A spurious charter of Crowland Abbey made Turold of Bucknall (the Sheriff) the founder of the priory of Spalding as a cell of Crowland. It also called Turold brother of Godiva countess of Mercia, but subsequently described Godiva’s son Earl Algar as Turold’s cognatus (cousin)." [Monasticon Anglicanum ii, 118-19.]
• "A genealogia fundatoris of Coventry Abbey made Lucy a daughter of Earl Algar and sister and heiress of earls Edwin and Morcar. [Ibid., ii, 192.] The Peterborough Chronicle and the Pseudo-Ingulf’s Chronicle of Crowland both made Lucy the daughter of Algar and niece or great-niece of Turold." [See Complete Peerage, vii, App. J, 743-6, here 745 and note.]
• "We know that William Malet was half-English, so these traditions probably boil down to a relationship between Countess Godiva and William’s English mother."

Sources

• K. S. B. Keats-Rohan (May 1995) Antecessor Noster: "The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain", Prosopon Newsletter, 2 link
• K.S.B.Keats-Rohan (1996 pre-publication proof) of Nottingham Medieval Studies 41 (1997) 13-56 "Domesday Book and the Malets: patrimony and the private histories of public lives" on her website
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I12069 - accessed 2 July 2017
• 22 Oct 2004 posting of Therav3 on Gen-Medieval re: Descent from Richard III of Normandy to Jane Lowe (Grey of Sandiacre)
• http://washington.ancestryregister.com/COVENTRY100006.htm