I just published a book dedicated to S.V. Mallory Smith, a lady I admire greatly for her pioneering work on medieval Mallory history. It covers the first three generations of Mallorys after the Norman Conquest, as well as uncovering a connection with England's Anglo-Saxon past and providing an outline of the history of the Novomercato family of Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, and Warwickshire, a family whose properties were inherited by the Mallorys in the 12th century by virtue of direct descent. The book in entitled "Post Norman Conquest Mallorys" and subtitled "The First Three Generations". It's URL is:
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It is 213 pages and probably too densely written for the average reader. Nevertheless, for those (probably almost all) who are interested in Mallory family history, but uninterested in reading through a closely argued academic work that depends on largely Latin documents, I would like to summarize my conclusions here. The first Mallory in England was a Geoffrey, who seems to have had his origin in Bessin in Normandy, and possessed property in Dorset, Somerset, and Warwick. He would have been old enough to have participated in the conquest, though whether he did or not must remain an open question. He seems to have lived to perhaps around 1120, give or take perhaps five years. Before he died he seem to have assigned Botley, a Warwickshire property of his to his grandson Anketil, the younger son of his younger son Robert. Robert, himself, was most likely born in the mid-1080s. This Robert would have entered into the service of the first Beaumont earl of Leicester by around 1110, at the latest, would seem to have been granted Kyrkby Mallory by the first earl, was married to the heiress of the family of an Englishman by the name of Leofric, and had a first son Richard around 1110 and a second son Anketil around 1114. Richard married Agnes de Novomercato around 1130 and had at least two and possibly three or four sons (William, Simon, and, probably, Ralph, but with less certainty Luke) in the 1130s. Anketil seems to have married in the mid-1130s with his oldest son Robert being born within this time frame. Anketil's second surviving son was a Henry who would have been born as much as 12 years after his older brother Robert. Another substantially well off Mallory from the time period dating to the second half of the 12th century was a certain Laurence Mallory of Bristol who seems to have been an adherent of the earl of Gloucester. Laurence would surely have been a descendant of Geoffrey by an older son, but his exact affiliation with the other Mallorys of his era will probably never be known. Another finding of importance is the the Mallory descendants of Anketil obtained their properties independently from those of Richard and, consequently, never owed homage to the descendants of Richard for the right to hold property.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/hikaru-kitabayashi/post-norman-conquest-mallorys/hardcover/product-21231781.html
It is 213 pages and probably too densely written for the average reader. Nevertheless, for those (probably almost all) who are interested in Mallory family history, but uninterested in reading through a closely argued academic work that depends on largely Latin documents, I would like to summarize my conclusions here. The first Mallory in England was a Geoffrey, who seems to have had his origin in Bessin in Normandy, and possessed property in Dorset, Somerset, and Warwick. He would have been old enough to have participated in the conquest, though whether he did or not must remain an open question. He seems to have lived to perhaps around 1120, give or take perhaps five years. Before he died he seem to have assigned Botley, a Warwickshire property of his to his grandson Anketil, the younger son of his younger son Robert. Robert, himself, was most likely born in the mid-1080s. This Robert would have entered into the service of the first Beaumont earl of Leicester by around 1110, at the latest, would seem to have been granted Kyrkby Mallory by the first earl, was married to the heiress of the family of an Englishman by the name of Leofric, and had a first son Richard around 1110 and a second son Anketil around 1114. Richard married Agnes de Novomercato around 1130 and had at least two and possibly three or four sons (William, Simon, and, probably, Ralph, but with less certainty Luke) in the 1130s. Anketil seems to have married in the mid-1130s with his oldest son Robert being born within this time frame. Anketil's second surviving son was a Henry who would have been born as much as 12 years after his older brother Robert. Another substantially well off Mallory from the time period dating to the second half of the 12th century was a certain Laurence Mallory of Bristol who seems to have been an adherent of the earl of Gloucester. Laurence would surely have been a descendant of Geoffrey by an older son, but his exact affiliation with the other Mallorys of his era will probably never be known. Another finding of importance is the the Mallory descendants of Anketil obtained their properties independently from those of Richard and, consequently, never owed homage to the descendants of Richard for the right to hold property.
