GUILLAUME DE BOURNEVILLE.

There is a Bourneville in the arrondissement of Pont-Audemer, canton of Quilleboeuf, and a Bournainville in the arrondissement of Bernay, canton of Thiberville, which have been variously called Bornanville, Bromevile, Burnenville, Bernwell, Burneville, Berneville, Bornenille and Burnaville. Delisle and Passy in their Memories and Notes of Auguste Le Prevost point out that the diversified spelling of these names and places in the middle ages caused great difficulty in classifying them under the proper commune. The one here intended is the former, as the seigniory of Bournainville belonged to the Crispin, family from a very early date. William Crispin II made a donation of property from Bournainville to the abbey of Bec before 1070 which was confirmed by his grandson Joscelyn in 1158 and in the first years of the 13th century it passed into the possession of Roger of Essarts, near Damville. a The participant at Hastings was William de Bournaville who held in Norfolk and Suffolk in 1086 (Domesday), and settled in the latter county. "This most ancient family of Burnaville," says the Jermyn Mss. for Suffolk, "was seated in Livingston, in Colens hundred, and was very early extinct, for sir William Burnaville died without male issue in the reign of Edward I and left Margaret his sole daughter and heir married to Jo Weyland." Robert and William de Bernwell occur in 1165 and the former in the time of Stephan witnessed a charter of Briset abbey, Suffolk. The presence of members of this family at Senlac has been subscribed to by Holinshed, Duchesne, Leland, Brompton, and Delisle carries the subject of this paragraph.

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