Sheriff of Yorkshire.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: probably 1071.
The date is given by Keats-Rohan (2002, p. 1022). William died while suppressing the fenland revolt led by Hereward the Wake.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Keats-Rohan (1997) notes that the mother was an Englishwoman and conjectures that the father was "one of the men who accompanied Emma of Normandy to England in 1002 for her marriage with Aethelred."
Spouse: Esilia, daughter of Gilbert I Crispin, castellan of Tillières.
This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (2002, p. 1022) and by Hart (p. 162).
Children:
(The children are given by Keats-Rohan (2002, p. 1022).)
Gilbert Malet.
Beatrice married William d’Arques.
A daughter married Alfred of Lincoln.
A daughter married Turold the Sheriff.
(probably) Durand Malet.
others
References
Hart, Cyril. “William Malet and his Family” in Anglo-Norman Studies XIX (1996), pp. 123-165.
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. "Domesday Book and the Malets: Patrimony and the Private Histories of Public Lives" in Nottingham Medieval Studies 41 (1997) pp. 13-56.
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).