Lady Agnes de Trussell

LADY AGNES DE TRUSSELL (FITZODO DE LOXLEY)

One of three daughters born to Robert FitzOdo of Loxley (Warwickshire) and an unidentified wife. While Robert FitzOdo is a credible prototype for the legendary "Robin Hood", it does not necessarily follow that this unidentified wife was "Maid Marian"!!!

Lady Agnes Trussell, Her Descendants, and Latter History of Loxley Manor

Robert FitzOdo was dead by 1196 and left as his heirs three daughters -- Basilia, married to Peter de Mora; Agnes, married to William Trussell of Billesley; and Margery, married to William Bagot.......The Trussell estate appears to have descended to Agne's son and heir Richard, but afterwards to a younger branch of the Billesley line, represented in the reign of Edward III by William Trussell of Floore (Northants) and Nuthurst, Admiral of the King's Fleet in the West and escheator south of the Trent. In 1351 Gilbert Chasteleyn declared that he had acquired in see a messuage, 2 carucates, 12 acres of meadows, and 8 pounds rent in Loxley of the inheritance of William Trussell and petitioned to be discharged from all demands that might be made on the premises on the grounds of Trussell having been a minister of the King. Trussell's great grandson, William Trussell of Nuthurst, and Baldwin Freville, husband of his half - sister Elizabeth, jointly accounted for half a knight's fee in Loxley in 1428.

Source -- "A History of the County of Warwick, Volume 3 / London, 1945 -- Victoria County History

www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol3/pp129-134