Re: Eyton/Pantulf Arms/Attn. J. Cochoit
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In reply to:
Eyton/Pantulf Arms/Attn. J. Cochoit
5/27/01
Do we all have times, having researched so aggresively for so long, that we have senses of things, as opposed to having absolute (or otherewise published facts) to back them up?
I have such senses all the time and my sense tells me now, Don, that you are probably very right about this.
because there were so few people in the Middle marches at the times were are discussing and they were all part of what Alan Garner, half in jest, I think, calls the Norman mafia (meaning the families were very tight), I think it is very, very likely that Robert de Eyton inherited holdings that may very well have come as a result of marriage (not his).
Pantulph was a "big man" in his day, but nowhere so big a man as the capo di tuti capos like Warrene and others.
Somewhere (I should have saved this, but I was not smart enough to do so then), I read that Robert "came into" his holdings when he cam of age. At what age that was we cannot, at the moment, say. I suppose it could have been in his teens, even. Nover-the-less, that may well mean that his inheritence was held by someone else until he reached majority, whatever age that was.
barbara FitzSenry wrote to me about this more than a year ago, I think. I'll look through old e-mails. perhaps I can find a more specific reference.
Barbara, if you can speak to this, please do.
Rick