Note 11 — PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES (continued 2)

Stapleton, Mr Waters has justly observed, was 'facile princeps of Anglo-Norman genealogists'.11 Yet I venture to think that, as he here mistook a brother of the first Earl Ranulf for a son, so he confused William Meschin, another and better known brother, with William de Roumare, the Earl's stepson, afterwards Earl of Lincoln. William Meschin was not merely a considerable landowner in Lindsey, but had also estates in Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, as our survey of those counties show.12 Stephen, according to Stapleton, created him Earl of Cambridge.