The Earliest Mallorys, an update
Previously, the earliest known Mallory was identified as Anschetil, born around 1075. This information came from Hikaru Kitabayashi in a post written in 2007 . A blog written in 2011 and 2013 by the same author (a professor of linguistics and author of Post Norman Conquest Mallorys* ) now identifies the first Mallory in England as Geoffrey Mallore (pronounced Mallory, spelled in a variety of ways). Geoffrey, aka Goisfrid Malloret, “seems to have had his origin in Bessin in Normandy” but it is not known if he participated in the Norman conquest of 1066. According to Kitabayashi’s 2011 post, Geoffrey was listed in the earlier Exeter Doomsday of 1086 “as the lord of Todber in co. Dorset, as tenant of William de Moyon” and possessed “the manor of Steepleton Iwerne (Werne), also of William de Moyon.” He likely possessed other properties that cannot be identified with certainty because they were recorded only as belonging to “Geoffrey” with no last na...