First Generation

1. GUILLAUME PECHE , LORD OF CLOPTUNNA AND DALHAM¹ died after 1088 in WICKHAMBROOK, COUNTY SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.² He was born in NORMANDY. Of Clopton Hall in Wickhambrook temp. Hen. I. Henry I. reigned 1100-35.

"William Peccatum (which surname in French is Pe'che') who held lands in
Cloptunna (according to Doomesday) in the 20th year of William the First"
(1086). The first Clopton was William, a gentleman living inthe hamlet of
Cloptuna within the town of Wickhambrook in the Hundred of Resbridge,
County Suffolk. He assumed the name William De (of) Cloptunne and was
likely the William Peccatum (De Cloptunne) mentioned above. Peccatum's
father was doubtless the knight Gislebrt (pronounced Zhees-lay-bair) who
was granted the lands in Cloptuna by William the Conqueror, presumably for
service in the Battle of Hastings ( took place October 14, 1066).

William Peccatum was born in Normandy, possibly, and died Aft. 1088 in Wickhambrook, County Suffolk, possibly, 10 miles southwest of Bury St. Edmunds, or at Dalham, about 4 miles north of Wickhambrook2. He married Alfwen3. She died Abt. 1088.

The Clopton Family is constantly changing, a product of human history, its evolutions and revolutions. Very little is known about these first Cloptons. There is no record of their hopes and dreams, their fears and wishes, only the niggardly scraps of information contained in a few tattered and shattered legal documents remain to mark their lives.

GUILLAUME PECHE , LORD OF CLOPTUNNA AND DALHAM and ALFWEN were married. ALFWEN³ died about 1088.

GUILLAUME PECHE , LORD OF CLOPTUNNA AND DALHAM and ALFWEN had the following children:

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WILLIAM CLOPTON , GENTLEMAN.