William Picot de Say, I, Baron d'Aunay

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The website, 1066: A Medieval Mosaic describes the following for the Lascelles family as thus: "We probably have a brother of Picot in William de Loceles, who occurs in the Survey of the fiefs of Lincolnshire, made about the year 1108 as holding Strailley, in Bedfordshire, of Hugo de Belcamp."—A. S. Ellis. They were Barons of Messie in Normandy, and "derived their name from La Selle, near Falaise, which, with its church, belonged in 1154 to the Abbey of St. Sauveur, Evreux (Gall. Christ. IX.). There are some people who may refer to him as "William de Say", yet the usage of surnames were in the infancy stages at this time. William was probably born in Saye France, but later in his life research indicates that he had accumulated a multitude of manors in various different places. The surname Lascelles is locational, from the place called 'La Selle' also in Orne, in northern France, and derives from the Olde French 'la', the , and 'Selle', in French meaning "the seat", as in "the Lascelles family seat"