LE SIRE DE SAINT-MARTIN.

Probably from the commune of Saint-Martin in Caux or Brai, Normandy. The sire de Saint-Martin of Wace (l. 13565) was undoubtedly descended from Walter de Saint-Martin and a niece of the duchess Gonnor, from whom were derived the family of Saint-Martin in England and Normandy, but the personage at the conquest has not been identified. Tailleur in the Norman Chronicle also lists the seigneur de Saint-Martin. Geoffry, son of Rainauld, lord of Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard in the arrondissement of Dieppe, is mentioned in a charter of Treport. Roger de Saint-Martin was lord of Hempton, Norfolk, in the reign of Henry I, and founded a priory for Black canons of the order of St-Augustin, dedicated to St-Stephen. He was enfeoffed by his kinsman, earl Warren, and appears in the monasticon in 1119. Alured de Saint-Martin held of the earl of Eu in Sussex and William de Saint-Martin of the abbess of Winton in Wiltshire, as entered in the Liber Niger. The former appears in a number of charters and acts of the period, and married the widowed countess Alice, eldest daughter of William d'Albini, earl of Arundel, and the former queen Adeliza. In 1176, with his brother Robert, he founded the monastery of St-Mary's near Salehurst.

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