De Birmingham family

The de Birmingham family held the lordship of Birmingham in England for four hundred years and managed its growth from a small village into a thriving market town. They also helped invade Ireland and were rewarded with the Barony of Athenry. They were stripped of most of their lands in England by the notorious John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who held sway over Edward VI during the early 16th century.

A Norman baron called Ansculf de Picquigny (Ausculph de Penchengi) was granted many manors in the county of Warwickshire, and elsewhere, at the time of the Norman Conquest. They were centred upon Dudley Castle. Ansculf was observed by Sir William Dugdale (who mistakenly confused him with his son William) to have been a great man in the time of the conquest as evidenced by the extent of the lands granted to him, i.e., ten lordships in Berkshire, one in Middlesex, one in Oxfordshire, one in Huntingdonshire, one in Cambridgeshire, seven in Surrey, four in Northamptonshire, seven in Warwickshire, twenty in Buckinghamshire, twenty-five in Staffordshire and fourteen in Worcestershire.

By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 Ansculf's lands had passed onto his son, William Fitz Ansculf (or Ausculph).

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