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Notes under Reginald de Peyton son of Walter:
The first of the family on record by the name of Peyton was Reginald dePeyton, second son of Walter, Lord of Sibton, younger brother of Mallet,sheriff of Yorkshire. This Reginald held the lordships of Peyton Hall, inRamshold, and Boxford, in Suffolk, of Hugh de Bigod; he was stewerd toRoger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, and gave lands to the monks of Thetford, topray for the soul of Hugh Bigod. He had two sons, William, who heldcertain lands in Boxford, of the fee of the abbey of St. Edmundsbury, asappears by charter of his nephew John, and John de Peyton. [John Burke &John Bernard Burke, Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland,and Scotland, Second Edition, Scott, Webster, & Geary, London, 1841, p.408, Peyton, of Isleham]
The Domesday book states that Walter de Caen was Lord of Sibton, given tohim by Robert Malet's mother (William Malet's widow).
The giving of Sibton to Walter de Caen by William Malet's widow impliessome relationship, possibly brother (but most likeley bastard son--seebelow). See Domesday Book for history of Sibton.
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The following quotation from the "Butler Family History" indicates thatWalter is son of William Malet, which would explain the age differencebetween Walter & William (ie. they weren't brothers as indicated above.}:
Theobald Blake Butler, a leading authority on the history of the family,who died only this year [1965] and whose works are now available toscholars in the National Library, Dublin, the British Museum and theIrish Genealogical Research Society, laboriously traced back to Domesdaythe lands which this family subsequently held in East Anglia andLancashire and discovered that at least nine of the sixteen or moreholdings which our Hervey was believed to have owned in Norfolk andSuffolk were entered in Domesday Book under the ownership of Walter deCaen. The discovery led him to surmise that the paternal ancestor of theButlers was Walter de Caen (son of William Malet who accompanied theConqueror and, being half Saxon, was entrusted with the burial of KingHarold after the Battle of Hastings).
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Based on the "Butler Family History" and the approximate birth dates, Iam making Walter de Caen son of William Malet. I think, however, thatthe name may imply an illegitmate birth (or he was simply born in Caen),so he may not be the son of Walter's wife, even though her giving himSibton would imply blood relationship. Perhap he was son of her, but notWilliam Malet?