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Biography
John fitzRichard was an Anglo-Norman nobleman who became a landowner in England following the Norman Conquest.
Biography
John was a son of Richard fitzRanulf. John seized the mill of Vains, Normandy in 1076 and had to defend his actions in the King's Court of William I of England, which ruled against the seizure, ruling that the mill belonged to the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. Lands held as shown in the 1086 Domesday survey as Lord are: Carbrooke,Hunstanton, Ringstead, Rushford,Saxlingham, Thurton, Walpole (St Andrew and St Peter) in Norfolk andElsenham in Essex. He also held as tenant in chief: Brettenham, Griston and West Carbrooke in Norfolk.
He is known as the nephew of Waleran fitzRanulf, moneyer of Viem (now Vains) and heir of Serlo de Burgh.
Marriage and issue
John is known to have had the following issue.
- Pain fitzJohn (died 1137)
- Eustace fitzJohn (died 1157)
- William fitzJohn
- Alice, abbess of Barking Abbey
- Agnes, married Roger de Valognes