LE SIRE DE LITHAIRE.

The family of Lithaire came from a town of that name, commune of La Haie du Puits, in the Cotentin, on the coast opposite Jersey. Eudo al Chapel, sire de la Haie, was seignior of it in 1066 from whom it passed to Robert de Haie, who married Muriel, his only daughter and heir. He might have held it under Eudo at that time and have been the personage referred to by Wace (l. 13554) as "sire de Litehare," since this individual has not otherwise been identified. Rainaldus de Orivallo was contemporary with Robert Courteheuse and Henry I and founded a cell in 1115 at Orval in the church of St-Helen. His son, William, held Lithaire and Orval in 1172, whose daughter, Mabilia, became the wife of Adam de Port. Their son, William de Portu, held the honour of Lithaire in the second year of the reign of king John.

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