KIRIELL

Robert, Duke of Normandy, the Conqueror's father, in order to keep in check the people of the Pays de Dol, built in the year 1030 a castle at Cazel or Cheruel upon the Coesnon, a river which then divided the provinces of Normandy and Brittany. This place gave name to a family, which became highly distinguished in succeeding generations, and of which was the Norman knight, Kiriel, who appears on the Battle Abbey Roll. Among the more celebrated personages of the name, we may mention Hue Kyriel, Admiral of the French, and Nicholas Kiriel, Admiral of the English Fleet, in the 14th century; Yvon Cheruel, the brother in arms of Bertrand du Guesclin, and Sir Thomas Kyriel, K.G., a gallant military Commander, and a devoted adherent of the house of York, who was beheaded by Queen Margaret, after the second battle of St. Albans. The only family of eminence bearing a similar name and similar arms now existing in this country, is that of KYNLE, of Much Marcle , Co. Hereford, represented by WILLIAM MONEY-KYRLE, Esq. of Hom House, one of whose collateral ancestors, JOHN KYRLE,has acquired from Pope, as the MAN of ROSS, a claim to immortality more deserving of the world's esteem, than could be derived from all the honours of war. The family of Stansfeld, of Stansfeld, and of the Island of Jersey, deriving from Wyon Maryon, of a noble house in Brittany, to whom the extensive township in the West Riding of Yorkshire, whence he adopted his surname, was granted by the Conqueror, claims a common origin with the Kyriels and Kyrles, from the Kiriell of the Bathe Abbey Roll. Claude Marion, Seigneur de Kerhouel, had confirmation, in 1669, of the noble descent of the family of Marion, and of their ancient arms, the charges of which - the three fleurs-de-lis - are the same as those now used by the representatives of the MAN OF ROSS.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll).