LE SIRE D'ANISY.

Wace (1. 13551) records "la j ovente d'Anisie," which young men came from Anisy near Caen. About 1042 Turstan de Anisy granted certain lands to the monastery of Saint-Vigor, Cherisy, with the consent of Eudo, Ralph and Ranulph his sons. There appears in acts existing in the Norman archives Godefroy d'Anisy, living in 1066 and in 1096. Jean d'Anisy, knight, without doubt his brother or son, accompanied duke Robert Courteheuse to the Crusade in 1096.Ranulph d'Anisy his son who, following an inquiry made by the order of Henry I, held a knight's fee, which was part of the seven held by Roger, viscount of Saint-Sauveur, in the same inquiry Turstain d'Anisy under-held from Ranulph, viscount of Bayeux, the parishes of Saint-Manvieux and de Marcellet. We also find members of this family among the benefactors of the abbey of Longues in 1166 and 1189. In most of these acts, they are designated as seigneurs d'Anisy, de Ver, de Brecy, de Villons and de Feuguerolles. They figure as knights to the court of Caen, and in the exchequer of Normandy.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll).