Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Paganell, Gervase
PAGANELL or PAINEL, GERVASE (fl. 1189), baron and lord of Dudley Castle, was the son of Ralph Paganell, who defended Dudley Castle against Stephen in 1138 (Rog. Hov. i. 193), and in 1140 was governor of Nottingham Castle under the Empress Maud. His grandfather was Fulk Paganell, whose ancestry is unknown, but who succeeded to the lands of William Fitzansculf before 1100, and founded the priory of Tickford, near Newport Pagnell. Gervase appears in the pipe rolls of Bedfordshire 1162–3, and of Northamptonshire 1166–8. In 1166 he certified his knights' fees as fifty of the old enfeoffment, six and one-third of the new (Lib. Nig. ed. Hearne, i. 139). He joined with the younger Henry in his rebellion, April 1173 (Eyton, Court and Itin. p. 172). In 1175 his castle was demolished (Ralph de Diceto, i. 404), and he paid five hundred marks for his pardon (Pipe Roll Soc. 22 Hen. II, Stafford). About 1180 he founded a Cluniac priory at Dudley in pursuance of his father's intention, and made it subject to Wenlock (Eyton, Shropshire, ii. 52, n. 16). In 1181 he witnessed the king's charter to Marmoutier at Chinon (Mon. Angl. vii. 1097). In 1187 he confirmed his father's grants to Tykeford (ib. v. 202), and in 1189 was at Richard I's coronation (Benedict, ii. 80). He also made gifts to the nunnery at Nuneaton (Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 753). He married the Countess Isabella, widow of Simon de Senlis, earl of Northampton [q. v.], and daughter of Robert, earl of Leicester. His son Robert died under age, and his lands passed to his sister (not his daughter, as she is sometimes called; Mon. Angl. v. 202), who married John de Somery, baron of Dudley, and secondly, Roger de Berkley [see Dudley, John (Sutton) de]. His seal is shown in ‘Monasticon Anglicanum,’ v. 203. Nichols (Leicestershire, iv. 220, ii. 10, iii. 116) gives the arms of the Paganell family.
[Dugdale's Baronage; Stapleton's Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ; Eyton's Court and Itinerary of Henry II.]