First hypothesis regarding Mallory Anglo-Saxon pre-history

This is a much simplified abstract of ongoing research on the possible Anglo-Saxon antecedents of the presumed second wife of Robert Mallory, the presumed first Mallory lord of Kirkby Mallory. There is no way to reconstruct the name of this woman, but one can assume that she was the heiress of a small enclave inside Welton in Northamptonshire held directly of the king and that, passing away no later than the early 1140s, this land, and perhaps other property, was inherited by her son and possessed by him while her husband was still alive. As a working hypothesis, one can now assume that she was the daughter (or, less likely, a sister) of a Richard who was the son of a certain Ralph and a woman who would have been the daughter of Vlmar (Woolmer), a minor English aristocrat, who held the small, approximately, 20-acre enclave in Welton, not only in 1086 at the time of the Domesday Book but also in 1066 at the time of the Norman Conquest. Domesday Book data would indicate close relations with the important native English Arden family. (The family name is used here for convenience only. It came into actual use much later.) This family was one of the extremely few native English families to have actually benefited in terms of increased lands, power, and prestige, as a result of the Norman Conquest. Because of the close connection that is indicated between Vlmar and those most closely associated with him with Arden family related land transfers, a family relationship is indicated and, as a working hypothesis, it will be assumed that Vlmar was possibly nephew by marriage, of the two powerful Arden brothers Aluuin (Alwin, a sheriff of Warwickshire for William I and the direct male-line ancestor of William Shakespeare's mother) and Leuuin (Lewin, Bishop of Litchfield at the time of the Norman Conquest and later abbot of Coventry, Warwickshire's most important town at the time of the Conquest).

The actual argument is, of course, quite complicated, being based on an analysis of many pages of data taken from the Domesday Book and analyzed for underlying patterns. This research is, of course, not new, being based on that of previous scholars. However, it is quite a bit more focused and, as such, goes deeper, covering more comprehensively a smaller number of individuals than previous research was able to do. It is to be hoped this will take shape in a book form sooner rather than later.