Fulk Paynel

Fulk Paynel (sometimes Fulk Paganel died 1182) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and landowner.

Background Fulk Paynel was the son of William Paynel and his wife, a daughter of William fitzWimund. Fulk had three full brothers, including Hugh Paynel, and a half-sister. (There may have been another full sister also.) who Stephen had just named as his successor after the death of Stephen's heir. In this settlement William's lands were divided between Hugh, Fulk, and Robert de Gant. Fulk received Drax in England and Hambye in Normandy in this settlement. Paynel died around 1182 or 1183, and his heir was his eldest son William.