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

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Comiuile : Walter de Conovill witnesses the foundation charter of Robert Malet to Eye Priory (Mon. Angl.) I think this is the same name as "De Canouville," which is entered on the Dives Roll. It belongs to a Norman house ennobled in 1668, who were Sires de Grosmenil, and Marquises of Raffetot, and bore Gules, three mullets Or. John de Kenouill, of Gloucestershire, occurs in the Rotuli Curiae Regis of 1200: Gilbert de Conovile, in the time of Edward I. in Devonshire (Rot. Hundred). "Radulfo de Keneuvile," at about the same date, or a little earlier, is a witness to a charter of Ralph de Rosei, a tenant of Earl Warrenne's in Norfolk. "Willielmus de Kenovilla" (about 1191) witnesses Robert de Ros's (surnamed Furfan) grant to the Abbey of St. Georges de Bocherville in Normandy.