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Doiuille :

for Doynell, the corresponding name in Leland's lists: and one of those that M. de Magny has added to the Dives Roll. The Doynels or Doisnels have been, he tells us, known in Normandy from the eleventh century, and no less distinguished for their military services than for their alliances with the noblest houses of France. They had great possessions in the province, where one of their manors was named from them De la Doynelliere; and Rene Francois Doynell received in 1695 the Marquisate of Montecot. There are still representatives in the male line, and their coat of arms bears Argent a chevron Gules between three martlets Sable.

I cannot meet with the name in Domesday, but it is found in Essex forty or fifty years after the Conquest. Little Maplesford, in that county, "about the reign of King Henry I. or Stephen, was vested in Robert Doisnel. His daughter Juliana, a very great heiress, was married to William son of Audelin, Aldelin, or Fitz-Aldelm de Burgo, Sewer, Steward, or Mareschal to King Henry II. one of the great Offices in the King's Court, which was hereditary. Under that King, he was constituted Governor of Ireland in 1177, and was also Governor of Wexford. Hubert de Burgh, the great Earl of Kent, and Chief Justice of Ireland, was descended from him.

"The said Juliana, with her husband's consent, gave this whole parish, and all its appurtenances, to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem."—Morant.

Robert Doisnel, temp. Hen. I., likewise held in Hampshire and Wiltshire (Rotulus Magnus Pipae), and was Domini Regis Dapifer, or Marshal to the King;, for, according to the Liber Niger, his son-in-law Fitz-Adelm obtained this office by his marriage with Juliana, together with a barony of two knight's fees in Essex and Hants.

There were other representatives of the name: Walter Doisnel, of Notts and' Derby, mentioned in 1201 (Rotuli Cancellarii). William Doynel gave some land at West Retford to Matherley Priory; and Thomas Doynel occurs in Nottinghamshire in the reign of Edward I. (Rotuli Hundred). At the same date, Silvester Doynel held in capite in Wiltshire.—Ibid. Peter Doignel was Commissioner of Array for that county in 1325, and in the following year was commanded to bring his detachment to Portsmouth. Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs. He was Joint Sheriff for Wilts with Gilbert de Berewice in 1337.

Another branch of the family migrated into the far West. Lysons includes the Doynells in his list of Cornish families, long since passed away, "of whom,' generally speaking, we know nothing but the name and the arms. Many of them became extinct at an early period; of the greater part, even the residence is unknown." William Trelawny, in the time of Edward III., married Joan, sole sister to John, and daughter to Richard Doyngnell, who brought him Folemore, Weston Penhanger, and a third part of Tregrill. Another "heiress of Doyngell" married the brother of the ancestor of Bere of St. Neots. They bore Par pale dancette Argent and Azure, a fesse.