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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3D-K.htm The e xploits of the early generations of this family are recorded in the hi ghly romanticised ''Legend of Fulk Fitz Warin'', whose early passage s are clearly legendary. Many of the later genealogical details in th e ''Legend'' are corroborated by charter evidence as noted below, alth ough the ''Legend'' conflates Fulk FitzWarin [I] and Fulk FitzWarin [I I] into one person. The FitzWarin family’s extensive landholding int erests in Shropshire are reviewed by Eyton in different parts of his ' 'History of Shropshire'', as shown below. 1. WARIN [de Metz] (-afte r [1115], before [1145]). Eyton refers to the compositions known as th e ''Fitz-Warin Chronicles'', compiled from the songs of Trouvères, wh ich purport to give an account of "Warin de Metz" and his descendant s the FitzWarin families of Whittington and Alberbury in Shropshire [1 ]. The ''Legend of Fulk Fitz Warin'' names "Guaryn de Meez, le vaylaun t" as "cosyn" of “Johun duc de la Petite Bretaigne” in a passage w hich is clearly anachronistic and legendary [2]. "Hamo Peverel" and "W arinus" are named among the 14 lay witnesses to the record of an Archi diaconal Chapter which sat at Castle Holgate in [1115] under the presi dency of Richard Bishop of London, enquiring into the parochial jurisd iction of Wenlock Priory [3]. Warin was presumably deceased when his t wo sons witnessed the charter dated to [1145] quoted below. m ---. Th e name of Warin’s wife is not known. The charter of Henry II King o f England, dated 1154, which confirmed the gift by "Willelmus Peverel " of one Knight’s Fee in Tadlow, Cambridgeshire to "Fulconi filio Wa rini" suggests that Warin’s wife may have been related to the Pevere l family [4]. The ''Legend of Fulk Fitz Warin'' records the marriage o f "Guaryn" and "Melette de la Blanche tour", niece of “Willam Pevere l”, in a passage which appears just as legendary as the one quoted a bove in which Warin is first named [5]. Warin & his wife had [three] c hildren [1] Eyton, R. W. (1855) ''Antiquities of Shropshire'' (London ), Vol. II, p. 3. [2] Stevenson, J. (1875) Radulphi de Coggeshall Chr onicon Anglicanum (London), ''The Legend of Fulk Fitz Warin'', p. 290 . [3] Eyton (1855), Vol. II, p. 4, citing “Rot. Pat. 22 Edw. III, p . 3, memb 34, Inspeximus” (cited in full in Eyton (1854), Vol. I, pp . 217, 223). [4] Eyton (1858), Vol. VII, p. 68, quoting Sloane MS. 13 01, fo. 68, b. [5] ''The Legend of Fulk Fitz Warin'', p. 293.