CP states that he was the son and heir of Sir Adam de Creting,
"probably by his first wife Nicole".
As we have seen, VCH Hunts vol 2, sub Great Staughton, tells us that
Nicola de Creting was the daughter of Nicholas de Crioll and his
[first?] wife, Maud de Eynesford, and was one of the three coheiresses
of her mother.
MA-R