GILBERT DE COLLEVILLE.

From Colleville near Bayeux. Gilbert and William de Colleville came to England at the conquest; the former held lands in Suffolk in 1086 (Domesday), and the English barons of Colville descended from him. William held lands in Yorkshire (Domesday), and his son, William, in the time of Henry I, was lord of Colleville in Normandy. It was held from Ranulph the vicomte and from the church of Bayeux. From Philip, his eldest son, descended the lords of Colville of Scotland. Mackenzie remarks "they were the most ancient possessors of land that are recorded at Ancroft, in Northumberland." Renouf de Colleville occurs in the acts of Robert de Torigny in 1158 and Guimond in 1186. The name appears on the rolls of Holinshed, Duchesne, Scriven, Worcester, and Delisle records both Gilbert and Guillaume de Colleville on the Dives roll. M. de Zeppeler has published a study in Danish on the English and French Collevilles to establish their Scandinavian origin.

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