Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameWilliam [III] Malet Lord of Curry Malet 
[119, Willelm Malet III Dapifer, p. 1023], [119, Father-in-law, Radulfus Picot, p. 1070]
[119, Willelm Malet III Dapifer, p. 1023], [119, Father-in-law, Radulfus Picot, p. 1070]Death1169
GeneralSteward of Henry II.
FatherRobert Malet (-<1156)
Notes for William [III] Malet Lord of Curry Malet
Keats-Rohan, DD, p. 1023: "Doubtless son of the steward Robert Malet, whose barony of Curry Malet he acquired sometime before 1156. He died in 1169, leaving a son Gilbert (d. 1194) by his wife Eugenia Picot, daughter of Ralph Picot of Kent."
The problem with the Malets is that the line is fairly clear from William the Companion of the Conqueror (d. c. 1071) to this William III who had Curry Malet and a son Gilbert; then there is, to my knowledge, a gap to the William Malet, Magna Carta surety and also of Curry Malet, but whose parentage is unclear. It is one of the stronger bets that Gilbert was the father of the surety, certainly the surety has to be descended from the earlier Malets, but I have not been able to find his precise line. (DNB gets it wrong, by comparison with K-R.) Possibly a clearer answer will be found in the next edition of "The Ancestors of Dorothea Poyntz", in preparation for the Owsley Society by Ronny Bodine and Thomas Spalding.
The problem with the Malets is that the line is fairly clear from William the Companion of the Conqueror (d. c. 1071) to this William III who had Curry Malet and a son Gilbert; then there is, to my knowledge, a gap to the William Malet, Magna Carta surety and also of Curry Malet, but whose parentage is unclear. It is one of the stronger bets that Gilbert was the father of the surety, certainly the surety has to be descended from the earlier Malets, but I have not been able to find his precise line. (DNB gets it wrong, by comparison with K-R.) Possibly a clearer answer will be found in the next edition of "The Ancestors of Dorothea Poyntz", in preparation for the Owsley Society by Ronny Bodine and Thomas Spalding.