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From: "Jean E. Smythe" <>
Subject: Re: de la Aigle
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:32:14 -0800


I'm delighted to discover this name here, though I don't think I can give
you the information you are looking for. Here's what I do have, copied from
information about the "Odiham Hundred" in Hampshire:
Gilbert de Laigle (Aquila) is known to have been son of Richer by Edeline,
while Juliana (daughter of Geoffrey, Count of Perche) was the wife of
another and earlier Gilbert (son of Richer) who held Witley (Surrey) as a
young man in 1086, and mother by him of two sons, Richer and Gilbert, the
elder of whom, Richer, paid one mark into the king's treasury for Greywell
in 1167. He it was who married Edeline and became father of Gilbert de
Laigle (Aquila)...[who] went to Normandy shortly before 1200 ..."

Aquila is a name which has been used for centuries in my family, and I am
keen to discover if we are therefore descendants of the (de)(la)Aigle
family. (By the way, "de la" looks a little unusual here, as normally it
would be "de l'Aigle" in French.

Jean Smythe
Nanaimo, B.C.

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