Michael Linton's Bayeux Tapestry: 1066 - A Medieval Mosaic and Puzzles

Andeuile :

or Ansleville. This, according to the Recherches sur le Domesday, was a noble and puissant Norman family, that either gave its name, or received it, from a parish in the Val-de-Saire, that has been at different times called Ansleville, Ansneville, Asneville, Aundevyle (in England), and is now Anneville. It is, or was, still represented by M. Paul d'Anneville at Valogues. The first mentioned of this house, Samson d'Asneville, was sent (before 1050) by Duke William to free the people of Guernsey from some Biscayan pirates, of whom they had made complaint. Samson destroyed the pirates' forts, and drove them from the island, and for this service received a grant of the fourth part of Guernsey, to be held by the service of squire of the body to the Duke and his successors. At the time of the Conquest another Sire d'Asneville (probably his brother) was governor of Val-de-Saire. William and Humphrey d'Asneville are both subtenants in Domesday; William held under Earl Roger in Hampshire; Humphrey of Eudo Dapifer at Hertford. They are supposed to have been both the sons of Samson; and in that case the extreme parsimony of the King towards them is difficult to explain, unless, indeed, we accept the conjecture that their father came to England with them, and was the Equarius quidam regis (Bedfordshire, f. 218) or the "Samson" (Staffordshire, f. 247b), inscribed as holding directly of the King. The Annevilles may be traced in Hampshire, Bedfordshire, Somersetshire, &c, to the end of the reign of Henry II. At that time Alured d'Anneville was assassinated in the latter county. In the reign of King John, we find Jordan d'Anneville, whose wife, Beatrice de Lacy, granted ten acres of land at Elmedon to the Knights Templars. A branch remained in Guernsey, pronounced to be one of the oldest families in the island by some commissioners that Queen Elizabeth had appointed to enquire into the nature of the feudal tenures there.—Recherches sur le Domesday.

In the parish of Waltham, Kent, "is the hamlet and green of Hanville, so called after the family of Handville or Handfield, whose habitation was close to it. Several of them lie buried in this church; they afterwards removed to Ullcombe, Ashford, and Canterbury; at the former place, a descendant of them still remains" (in 1800). "They bore for their arms Argent, a lion rampant within an orb of nine crosses formee Sable. There is a pedigree of them in Vistn. co. Kent, anno 1619."—Hasted. The arms of the French D'Annevilles were entirely different. D'Anneville, Sieur de Chifrevast, Tamerville, and Le Vast, had D'hermine a la fasce de gueules; and the Sieur de Merville D'hermine au sautoir de gueules.