Maino Brito

“A Breton, there is no firm indication as to Maino’s origin. He was identified, plausibly enough, with Maino Brito of Rougé from Ercé-en-Lamée (Ille-et-Vilaine) by C. Bouvet, ‘A propos des premiers seigneurs de Châteaubriant’, Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de Nantes et de Loire-Atlantique 122 (1986) 77-105; this argument has in its favour the fact that Maino’s son and successor was named Mainfelin, a name found in the Nantais in the eleventh century.” (Keats-Rohan 1999, p. 293).

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: by 1129.

Place of Death: unknown.

Keats-Rohan (p. 293) notes that Maino’s son Mainfelin had succeeded him by this date.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Keats-Rohan (p. 293) states: “He was married more than once, one of his wives probably a relative of William de Warenne (Round, Rot. de Dom. 38-9), another (possibly the same) probably related to William’s tenant Brien, since his youngest son Wigan is described as nepos Brientii.”

Children:

Mainfelin married Béatrice de Armentières.

Wigan.

Evidence

Maino’s lands in Buckinghamshire are given in the Buckinghamshire VCH (1:269-271).

from Open Domesday: Mainou the Breton, Mainou the Breton, Mainou the Breton, Mainou the Breton.

References

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).

The Victoria History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 1, ed. William Page (Haymarket, 1095).

“Wicken” in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 5, the Hundred of Cleley, ed. Philip Riden and Charles Insley (Victoria County History, 2002).