Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage: Volume 1: Argentine

ARGENTINE

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Volume 1, page 196, note b:
The family took its name from Argenton in Poitou, and not from Argenton in Berry, nor from Argentan in Normandy.

K.S.B. Keats-Rohan [Domesday People I, p.177 (1999)] says that the Domesday tenant Dauid De Argentomo was "Norman, from Argentan, dépt. Orne". This is perhaps based on his likely identity with David latimer, a tenant of William de Braose in Dorset, who originated from Briouse-Saint-Gervais, Orne, arr. Argentan [p.471].

Page 196:
Laura, [wife of Reynold d'Argentine (d.1307/8),] da. of Hugh (DE VERE), 4th EARL OF OXFORD ... d. in 1292, and was bur. in the Church of the White Friars at Norwich.

This statement is probably copied from Blomefield's History of Norfolk [vol.4, p.417]. But Blomefield's account seems to be a miscopying of the account of the church of the Carmelites in Norwich in Weever's Ancient Funerall Monuments, which begins "Sir Oliuer Ingham Knight, obijt 1292. Dame Lo... Argentein. Dame Eleanor Boteler ..." Blomefield seems to have transferred the year of death from Sir Oliver Ingham to Dame Lo[ra] Argentein. (There is also some doubt as to whether Lora was buried in Norwich at all, as her husband Reynold's gravestone survives in Baldock church, Hertfordshire, and there is a drawing of it, together with a matching gravestone for Lora, in British Library, Sloane MS 1301, fo.146b.)