GUILLAUME DE MOYON.

Moion, near St-Lo, Normandy, was the seat of "Le viel Williame de Moion" of Wace (l.13620). In 1026 it belonged to the ducal domain and in that year was granted by duke Richard III to his countess. It was afterwards conveyed to an ancestor of the Moyon family, one of whom, William, accompanied duke William to the conquest of England. Leland records a list of the companions he had with him in his train, which staggers belief and which is apparently an error. William obtained a great barony of fifty-five lordships in Somersetshire (Domesday), with the lordship of Clehangre in Devonshire and Sutton in Wiltshire. Dunster castle was his principal seat and caput baroniae. He was burried in the priory of Bath and his grandson William, son of his son William, became the first earl of Somerset. From this family descended also the earls of Dorset in the time of Stephen and a branch of the barons of Okehampton.

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