'Pinkeney1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney, Pinkeney of Siresham, Pinkeney of Steane, Pinkeney of Sulgrave, Pinkeney (Pinkeny) of Wedon

                               
TCP reports that Ansculf (shown just below) was described in the Domesday Book as "Ansculf de Pinchegni. This surname, as J.H. Round pointed out ..., is derived from Picquigny, near Amiens. There is no evidence at present known to connect him with the territorial lords of Picquigny." Both Baker and TCP start with 2 brothers who we show as sons of ...
?? de Picquigny
1. Ansculf de Picquigny or Pinkeni of 'Esenbergei', Buckinghamshire (a c1086)
  A. William of Barnack
2. Ghilo or Gilo of Wedon in Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Buckingamshire & Oxfordshire (a 1086)
  A. Ghilo de Pinkeney of Wedon (d by 1130)
  i. Sir Ralph de Pinkeney of Wedon (a 1140, d by 1158)
  m. ?? (widow of Simon de Chenduit of Middleton Chenduit)
  a. Sir Gilbert de Pinkeney of Wedon, Sheriff of Berkshire (d c1178-9)
  m. Eustachia
  (1) Sir Henry de Pinkeney of Wedon (d c1209)
  m. Lettice de Lucy (a 1233, dau/coheir of Robert de Lucy)
  (A) Sir Robert de Pinkeney of Wedon (d 1232)
m. (1199) Egeline de Sifrewast (dau/heir of Richard de Sifrewast)
  (i) Sir Henry de Pinkeney of Wedon (d 1253)
  Baker shows that Henry m. a dau of Henry de Hastings and his son Henry as m. (1248) Alice, sister/heir of Sir Gerard de Lindesei and coheir of the barony of Limesi. TCP shows that this was the Henry who married ...
  m. Alice de Lindsay (dau of John de Lindsay (by Margaret, "said to be an illegit. da. of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon, s. of David I and father of Malcolm IV and William the Lion, Kings of Scotland"), sister/heir of Sir Gerard of Lindesei of Limesi)
  (a) Sir Henry de Pinkeney of Wedon (d 1277)
  m. Mary as shown by TCP, see note just above
  ((1)) Sir Robert de Pinkeney of Wedon (dspl 1295)
partner(s) unknown
  ((A)) Robert de Pinkeney of Earls Barton (a 1329)
  m. Isabella
  ((B)) Sir Edmund de Pinkeney of Brockhole (d 1332)
  m. Margery de Lisle (dau of Sir Warine de Lisle of Stow, widow of Sir Philip Lucien of Brockhole) ## see here ##
  ((i)) Alice de Pinkeney (b c1312, a 1332)
  ((2)) Sir Henry de Pinkeney of Wedon, Baron Pinkeney (b 1255-6, d before 24.04.1315)
m. Margaret
  ((3)) Agnes de Pinkeney (d 1295)
  m. John de Wahull
  (b) Alice de Pinkeney (d 1289-90)
  m. Sir Ralph de Thorp of Harpole (d 1263-4)
  (ii) Philippa de Pinkeney
  (iii) Isabella de Pinkeney, heiress of Tingrith
  m. Sir Walter Fitz-Simon of Daventry
  (B) Henry de Pinkeney
  (C) Eustachia de Pinkeney
  m1. John Poher of Preston Capes
  m2. Elias de Chenduit
  (2) Gilbert de Pinkeney of Steane
  (A) ?? de Pinkeney of Steane
(i) Robert de Pinkeney of Steane (a 1237, 1246)
  (a) Henry de Pinkeney of Steane (d c1274)
  ((1)) Robert de Pinkeney of Steane (a 1285)
  ((A)) Sir John de Pinkeney of Steane (d 1293)
  (3) Philippa de Pinkeney
  m. Sir Halenald de Alneto
  (4) Eustachia de Pinkeney
  m1. Savaric de Malleone
  m2. Thomas de Arden of Spratton (a temp Henry 3 who r. 1216-1272)
  b. Ghilo de Pinkeney of Siresham (d by 1197)
  m. Matilda de la Mare
  (1) Ralph de Pinkeney of Siresham (d by 1220)
  m. Ida
  (A) Ralph de Pinkeney of Siresham (dsp)
c.+ other issue - Hugh, Anscher, Ralph, Peter
  ii. Robert de Pinkeney of Sulgrave
  a. Henry de Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney & Sulgrave (a temp Henry 2 who r. 1154-1189)
  (1) Simon de Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney (a 1215)
  (A) Simon de Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney, Sulgrave, Siresham & Astwell (a 1241)
  m. Helewise de Alneto (dau of Henry de Alneto of Maidford, m2. John de Schelford)
  (i) William de Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney (a 1295)
  (a) Sir Robert de Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney (d 1321)
  ((1)) William de Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney (a 1346)
  m. Juliana
  ((A)) Robert de Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney (a 1337)
  ((2)) Alice de Pinkeney
  (2)+ other issue (a 1218) - Felicia, Isabel

Main source(s): 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton' (George Baker, vol 2, 1841, 'Pinkeney, Baron Pinkeney of Wedon; Pinkeney of Morton Pinkeney, Steane, &c.', p107+) with some input/support from TCP ('Pinkeny')
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