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

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Manteuenant : for Maucovenaunt, according to Leland's more correct reading; though the true spelling is Mauconvenant. This family is entered in the Nobiliaire de Normandie, and gave as their arms Gules nine roses Argent. Their seigneurie of Sainte Suzanne was in the district of Argentan; and Charles Adolphe de Mauconvenant, Marquis de Sainte Suzanne, sat among the nobles of the Cotentin in the Assembly convoked in 1789, for the Election of the States General.

The first mention of them in England is in 1156, when Mauger Malevenant served as Sheriff of Sussex and Surrey. Nicolas de Maucovenant held of William Fitz Alan in Shropshire in 1165 (Liber Niger). William Malcuvenant was a tenant of Patric Earl of Sarum in Wiltshire (Ibid.), and witnessed the foundation charter of his Priory at Bradstock (Mon. Angl.). Geoffrey de Maucovenant held half a knight's fee at Easington in Cleveland of Margaret Lady Ros of Werke, one of the co-heiresses of Peter de Brus, Lord of Skelton (Kirkby's Inquest). In 1314 he was one of the Commissioners of Array in the Wapentake, and summoned for service against the Scots (Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs). Robert Maucovenant is found in Lincolnshire temp. Ed. I. (Rot. Hundred.), where both he and Laurence Maucuvenant held in Carleton of the Percy fee (Testa de Nevill).