Paon de Roet

Born about 1310 in Hainaut, he was "probably christened as Gilles",[3] in English 'Giles' and in Latin 'Egidius', a name used in each generation of the knightly family who were feudal lords of the town of Le Roeulx.

[5] The traditional argument has been that Paon de Roet bore arms that were similar to those borne by the Hainault Lords of Roeulx, recorded by Rietstap as gu., a trios roués d'arg (while those of the modern town of Le Roeulx are a lion passant holding a single silver wheel [granted in 1822]).

Thus while Paon himself may well have borne a coat of arms consisting of one or three silver wheels on a field of gules, it remains uncertain whether this was done to distinguish his family as a collateral branch from the Lords of Roeulx or, perhaps more likely, to simply match with the family name and denote that he was from the same general area, where wheels were often featured on the heraldic flags.

Fastre was a younger brother of Eustace VI, last lord of Le Roeulx and a descendant of the Counts of Hainault.

[8] Froissart's account of the history of English monarchs includes a genealogical tree, the relevant part of which begins with Paon's name.

Paon had three daughters, Katherine, Philippa and Isabel (also called Elizabeth) de Roet, and a son, Walter.

In 1631 the antiquary John Weever reported that "upon a faire marble stone, inlaid all over with brasse, (of all which, nothing but the heads of a few brazen nailes are at this day visible) and engraven with the representation and cote-Armes of the party defunct.

The inscription (as recorded by Weever, although lost by his day) began: Alison Weir argues that Katherine herself likely had the tomb made for her father during her lifetime, which would place its construction between 1396 and 1403.