Clairenay, Lord of Hopton Ketelborn

According to The Battle Abbey Roll, by the Duchess of Cleveland (1889), Vol I, p. 271: "Clerenay, or Clarvays, as it is more correctly spelt in Duchesne's copy, from Clerfai, Clarefay, or Clairfait, near Avesnes. Godric de Clairfait, supposed to be the son of Ketelbern or Chetelber mentioned in Domesday, who was living in Yorkshire during the reign of Henry I., was the ancestor of the Fitz-williams." See also The Roll of the Battle Abbey, by John Bernard Burke, Esq., July 10, 1818, mentioning Clarenay as a participant on the Norman side at the Battle of Hastings. URL: http://www.redhill.net.nz/mke%20p/HISTORY/Books/Rolls/battleroll.htm. Clarenay is also mentioned by Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, Vol. III, p. 3 (1807) as a participant at Hastings.

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