This is to introduce a book I published in November of last year with lulu.com, a book called "Disambiguating Leuric" and also to alert potential readers of "Post Norman Conquest Mallorys" to the fact that research done for "Disambiguating Leuric" proved to me that certain matters were not properly addressed in "Post Norman Conquest Mallorys", something which means that a revised edition will be issued later this year.
I started "Disambiguating Leuric" on the assumption that a daughter or granddaughter of that man had married Robert Mallory, the first lord of Kirkby Mallory and had brought with her to the descendants of this marriage a certain property existing that lay partly in Welton and partly in what is now called Thrupp Grounds, two small neighboring hamlets in Northamptonshire. Further research eventually convinced me that I had misinterpreted available evidence and that the property, if an inheritance, as I still believe it is, would have come by marriage to a female relative of Leuric's neighbor, Vlmar (Woolmer in modern English). Unlike Leuric, extensive research has so far failed to uncover further certain information on his family background, though I have managed to turn up a certain amount of information likely to apply to him personally.
I also have uncovered further information about the Novomercato family, which will necessitate a rewriting of that chapter of "Post Norman Conquest Mallorys". It would seem that the second William de Novomercato would have been the brother and not the father of Richard Mallorys wife. More information that would seem to apply to this woman's two sisters has also been uncovered.
As for Leuric, my new book identifies certain relationships and supplements previous work done by British scholars whose work I admire greatly. Briefly summarizing the extensive evidence presented in my new book, it would seem that Leuric was the son of Leuuin (an abbot and later a bishop) who was the brother of Alwin, the father of Turchil, who was William the Conqueror's sheriff of Warwickshire and the ancestor the Arden family, from which William Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden was descended. Leuric and his family will be more carefully examined in another book I am planning for publication perhaps next year.
In addition to the above-mentioned publication plans, I am currently working on a book about how to better interpret the available tax surveys covering Northamptonshire. This will look at the Northamptonshire Geld Roll, the Domesday Book chapter dealing with Northamptonshire, and the 12th century Northamptonshire Survey. A fairly useful result I have found an elegant proof for is that the "hide", the basic land unit used in medieval England from the Anglo-Saxon period onward was originally, at least with regard for Northamptonshire, 200 medieval English acres. This is different from other estimates of 100 and 120 acres. Due to the fairly complicated nature of the research being undertaken, I cannot put a precise date on publication, but hope it might be sometime this year, because the research would have value in many different fields.
When the above works are finished, I plan to write the next volume dealing with the prosopography of the Mallory family, carrying it at least through the reign of Henry III and, if space allows, through that of Edward I.
I started "Disambiguating Leuric" on the assumption that a daughter or granddaughter of that man had married Robert Mallory, the first lord of Kirkby Mallory and had brought with her to the descendants of this marriage a certain property existing that lay partly in Welton and partly in what is now called Thrupp Grounds, two small neighboring hamlets in Northamptonshire. Further research eventually convinced me that I had misinterpreted available evidence and that the property, if an inheritance, as I still believe it is, would have come by marriage to a female relative of Leuric's neighbor, Vlmar (Woolmer in modern English). Unlike Leuric, extensive research has so far failed to uncover further certain information on his family background, though I have managed to turn up a certain amount of information likely to apply to him personally.
I also have uncovered further information about the Novomercato family, which will necessitate a rewriting of that chapter of "Post Norman Conquest Mallorys". It would seem that the second William de Novomercato would have been the brother and not the father of Richard Mallorys wife. More information that would seem to apply to this woman's two sisters has also been uncovered.
As for Leuric, my new book identifies certain relationships and supplements previous work done by British scholars whose work I admire greatly. Briefly summarizing the extensive evidence presented in my new book, it would seem that Leuric was the son of Leuuin (an abbot and later a bishop) who was the brother of Alwin, the father of Turchil, who was William the Conqueror's sheriff of Warwickshire and the ancestor the Arden family, from which William Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden was descended. Leuric and his family will be more carefully examined in another book I am planning for publication perhaps next year.
In addition to the above-mentioned publication plans, I am currently working on a book about how to better interpret the available tax surveys covering Northamptonshire. This will look at the Northamptonshire Geld Roll, the Domesday Book chapter dealing with Northamptonshire, and the 12th century Northamptonshire Survey. A fairly useful result I have found an elegant proof for is that the "hide", the basic land unit used in medieval England from the Anglo-Saxon period onward was originally, at least with regard for Northamptonshire, 200 medieval English acres. This is different from other estimates of 100 and 120 acres. Due to the fairly complicated nature of the research being undertaken, I cannot put a precise date on publication, but hope it might be sometime this year, because the research would have value in many different fields.
When the above works are finished, I plan to write the next volume dealing with the prosopography of the Mallory family, carrying it at least through the reign of Henry III and, if space allows, through that of Edward I.
