{{short description|11th-century Norman nobleman}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use British English|date=November 2019}} '''Peter de Valognes'''{{efn|Also Piers de Valognes, or Valoignes.}} (1045–1110) was a [[Normans|Norman]] noble who became a great landowner in [[England]] following his part as a commander in the 1066 [[Norman conquest of England]].<ref name="Douglas Valoniis">{{cite book |last=Douglas |first=Robert |authorlink=Sir Robert Douglas, 6th Baronet |title=The peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, ... collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, ... Illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Douglas, Esq;. |date=1764 |url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004896980.0001.000 |section= Valoniis Lord of Panmure |section-url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecco;idno=004896980.0001.000;rgn=div1;view=text;cc=ecco;node=004896980.0001.000:199 |pages=637–638 |access-date=7 April 2025 }}</ref>
==Land holdings== Between 1070 and 1076, Peter de Valognes was granted lands in the six counties of [[Hertfordshire]], [[Cambridgeshire]], [[Norfolk]], [[Suffolk]], [[Essex]] and [[Lincolnshire]]. In 1086, when the Domesday book was completed, Peter was sheriff of the counties of [[High Sheriff of Essex|Essex]] and Hertfordshire and he farmed the boroughs of [[Havering]] and [[Hertford]]. Peter de Valognes made his [[caput]] in [[Benington, Hertfordshire|Benington]] in Hertfordshire where a motte-and-bailey castle was built in the late 11th or early 12th century. Peter's most valuable lands however, were in Norfolk, the latter being a later grant at the forfeiture of [[Ralph de Guader]] after the [[revolt of the Earls]] in 1075.
==Binham Priory== Peter de Valognes was the founder of [[Binham Priory]] in North Norfolk in 1091,<ref>The King’s England series, NORFOLK, by Arthur Mee, Pub: Hodder and Stoughton,1972, page 32 Binham, {{ISBN|0-340-15061-0}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Parkin|1809|p=26}}</ref> which was built on land given to him by William the Conqueror. The land on which the priory stands was, according to the Domesday Book, originally the property of a freeman named Esket.
==Marriage and issue== Peter de Valognes married Albreda de Rie, the sister of [[Eudo Dapifer|Eudo the Dapifer]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=q2gJAQAAIAAJ&dq=petrus+valoniensis&pg=PA347 ''Annales monasterii S. Albani'', Johannes Amundesham, St. Albans Abbey, 1870] ''... quod ego, Petrus Valoniensis, et Alberethea, uxor mea, concedentibus filiis meis, Wilelmo et Rogero, consilio etiam nepotis mei, Walteri...''</ref> and are known to have had the following known children: *[[Roger de Valognes]], Lord of Benington, married Agnes, daughter of [[John fitzRichard|John FitzRichard]], had issue. *Robert, married Agnes de Clavering, daughter of John fitz Nigel, had issue. *Peter, married Aubrey, daughter of William FitzNeel, [[Barony of Halton|Lord of Halton]], and Agnes de Widness, had issue. *William, died without legitimate heirs. *Muriel, married firstly William de Bachetone and secondly Hubert de Munchensy, had issue. *daughter, married Alfred of Attleborough, had issue.
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==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite book|title=An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk|first=Charles|last=Parkin|author-link=Charles Parkin|publisher=Oxford University|year=1809|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAYVAAAAQAAJ&q=Pattesley+roger&pg=PA27|volume=3}}
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