Medieval English families on the internet: M

Malet

• Antecessor Noster: The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain (Katharine Keats-Rohan; in Prosopon, issue 2) (Prosopon, Journal of the Prosopography Centre, University of Oxford)
  Identification of Lucy, the wife successively of Ivo Taillebois, Roger fitz Gerold and Ranulph Meschines, as a granddaughter of William Malet; PDF format
• Malet Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 11th-13th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• William Malet (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
• Mallett Family History (Bob Mallett)
  Includes a section, "1066 and all that", on the early Malets - this should be treated with caution, as the source is Burke's Landed Gentry.

Mandeville

• Geoffrey de Mandeville (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Manningham

• Notes on the Manningham family (David Blackwell) [not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  15th century, various counties; includes an abstract of the will of Oliver Manyngham, 1499

Marbury

• Marbury (David Blackwell) [not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Brief notes; Lincolnshire, 16th century and later; extract from The American Ancestors of Oratio Dyer Clark and of his wife Laura Ann King by J.E. Salisbury and G.C. Martin (1917)

Marfleet

• An Index of MARFLEETs pre 1500 (John K. Marfleet)
  Extensive list of extracts from records for the surname Marfleet and variants, also available in book form.

Marmion

• Robert Marmion (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Marshal

• Three illustrated articles by Catherine Armstrong, with linked bibliographies, on the Castles of Wales web site (see also Clare):
  • John fitz Gilbert; the Marshal (William's father)
  • William Marshal: Earl of Pembroke
  • The Children of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare
• William the Marshal [formerly at http://www.rit.edu/~pef4539/papers/william.html; not available, 27/07/2001; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from June 2001] (Philip Frigm)
  Biographical account of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke (c.1146-1219)
• William Marshal: Events in life and historical context (Richard Abels, this site)
  Chronological outline of the career of William Marshal, earl of Pembroke (d. 1219). I am grateful to the author for permission to include a copy of his notes on this site
• Marshal Line (Earls of Pembroke) (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 12th-13th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution

Massy

• Dunham-Massy (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hcdumham.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned narrative from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882); "includes Fittons of Bollin and Dunham, Venables of Bollin and Dunham"
• Tatton (Matthew Ortiz, Ortiz-Cowger Genealogy Database) [formerly at http://members.nbci.com/ocgenealogy/hctatton.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
  Scanned narrative from Ormerod's History of Cheshire (2nd edn, 1882); "includes Massy, Brereton and Stanley"

Mead

• History and genealogy of the Mead family (Vance Mead)
  Includes articles on Meads from Somerset, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, and data from wills, public records, heraldic visitations and other sources.

Merrill

• An account of the descendants of Nathaniel Merrill, an early settler of Newbury, Massachusetts (John Harold Merrill)
  Text of a book by Samuel Merrill (1928), including transcripts and some discussion of three 16th century Suffolk wills

Meschines

• Antecessor Noster: The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain (Katharine Keats-Rohan; in Prosopon, issue 2) (Prosopon, Journal of the Prosopography Centre, University of Oxford)
  Identification of Lucy, the wife successively of Ivo Taillebois, Roger fitz Gerold and Ranulph Meschines, as a granddaughter of William Malet; PDF format
• Meschines-Keveliok Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 11th-13th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution

Messenger

• Messenger (N.E. Messenger) [formerly at http://www.walterhow.co.uk/armsincol.htm; not available, 6 April 2002; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from February 2002]
  Some notes on the coat of arms and early occurrences of the surname; 13th-16th centuries

Meverell

• Meverell Family of Staffordshire and Derbyshire 1400-1700 (David Blackwell) [not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
  Miscellaneous notes

Mohun

• William de Mohun (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
• The Mohuns of Tavistock [Devon] and The Mohuns of Hall and Boconnoc in Cornwall (Pat Patterson)
  Extracts from Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell, Part II (1909)

Montague

• Montagues in Great Britain and Montague Research & History (Larry Montague)
  The first, a narrative, covers the 11th-16th centuries (the earlier parts should be treated with caution); the second is an index to a wide range of Montague information

Montfichet

• Gilbert de Montfichet (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Montfort

• Montfort Line to Simon de Montfort (Earl of Leicester) (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 12th-13th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• Hugh de Montfort (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Montgomery

• Robert de Torigny and the family of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy (Todd A. Farmerie)
  Includes discussion of the 11th-century genealogy of the Montgomerys, and their relationship to Gunnor
• Roger de Montgomeri (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Montmorency

• John Horace Round, The Montomorency Imposture, in Feudal England (1895) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  Paper debunking the alleged descent of the Irish Morres family from Hervey de Montmorency in the 12th century. Feudal England is available as a PDF file (17.6 MB)

Morres

• John Horace Round, The Montomorency Imposture, in Feudal England (1895) (McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought)
  Paper debunking the alleged descent of the Irish Morres family from Hervey de Montmorency in the 12th century. Feudal England is available as a PDF file (17.6 MB)

Mortagne

• Geoffrey, son of Rotrou, Seigneur de Mortagne, Comte de Perche (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Mortain

• Robert, Comte de Mortain and Earl of Cornwall (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Mortimer

• The Mortimers in the Middle March: 1136-1277 (Jon Crump) [not available, 12 October 2009; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from May 2008]
  A paper on the role of the Mortimers in Wales
• Wigmore Castle and Narberth (Richard Williams, Castles of Wales)
  11th to 15th centuries
• Mortimer Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 11th-15th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• Hugh, Roger and Raoul de Mortemer (Pat Patterson)
  Biographies, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Moulins

• William de Moulins (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Mowbray

• The Mowbray Family (Dave Berkeley)
  Some notes on the Mowbray family of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 12th-15th centuries
• Mowbray family history (David Mowbray)
  Includes a page on the Origins of the name Mowbray and biographical notes on the Mediaeval Mowbrays, 11th-15th centuries
• Mowbray Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 12th-15th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution
• Geoffrey de Mowbray, Bishop of Coutances (Pat Patterson)
  Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber
• Douglas Hickling, Which John de Mowbray was the Brother of Christiana de Plumpton? (2005) (this site)
  Article setting out the evidence about Christiana and her three husbands, John Scot, Richard de Emeldon and Sir William de Plumpton, and discussing in detail the identification of her brother, John de Mowbray.
• The Mowbray Legacy (Marilyn Roberts, Queens-Haven Publications)
  Web pages giving information about Marilyn Roberts's recent book, The Mowbray Legacy (2004), which examines the history of the Mowbrays from the Conquest to 1481. The pages include the index in full and a selection of photographs.

Mulcaster

• The Family of de Mulcaster (Eric and Sharon Mulcaster)
  Cumberland and other counties, 13th century and later; text of a paper by T. H. B. Graham (1917).

Muschamp

• Excerpt from They came with the Conqueror by L.G. Pine (Michael Muschamp) [not available, 9 June 2011]
  A brief account of Muschamps in England in the 11th and 12th centuries.

Musegros

• Basset-Malet-Musegros-Bures-Beauchamp-Lygon Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
  Narrative pedigree, 13th-14th centuries; this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution