The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. I.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Clinels : or Cliville, from a place so named, mentioned in the Norman Exchequer Rolls. "Hugh, the second son of Hugh Talebot, Castellan of Plessis in 1119 (Ord. Vitalis, 815) was Baron of Cliville in Normandy, by marriage with the daughter of Hugh de Cliville, before 1130 (Rot. Pip. 31 Henry I.)"—The Norman People. In England^[1] Robert de Cliville occurs in the time of Henry I. (Rotul. Magn. Pip.) William de Cleville, in the following century, held lands at Stanes, with William Blackston, of the Honour of Wallingford (Testa de Nevill). Robert and Roger de Clivell or Clinel occur in Oxfordshire c. 1272.—Rotuli Hundredorum. Alan de Clivell witnesses Henry Fitz-Aker's charter to Marrick Priory, York.

1. ↑ There was an ancient Essex family, the Cloviles of Clovile's Hall, seated in the county from the time of Hen. II., whose name is very similar, and I at first thought might be the same. But I have sometimes found it spelt Clouville, and the allusive golden nails (clous) they bore on their chevronels prove this to have been the true version.