William Son of William la Zouche of Harringworth and Avice de Bellers his wife

Complete Peerage, has a detailed biography of William, son of Eon la Zouche of Harringworth and Bulwick, Northamptonshire and Totnes, Devon, who was born in December 1276 at Harringworth. He married before February 1296, Maud, daughter of John Lovel, first Lord Lovel of Titchmarsh, by his first wife, Isabel sister and (in her issue) heir of William de Bois of Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire and Weston-in-Arden, Warwickshire, daughter of Arnold de Bois. She, who was said to be aged 30 and more in 1310 and by whom he had at least 10 children, died before 1346. He died on 11 or 12 March 1352, aged 75. [1]

His son and heir apparent was Eon la Zouche, born about 1297-8. In January 1326, Eon was indicted for the murder of Roger Bellers, of Kirby Bellars, Leicestershire. He fled abroad to France and died in Paris on 24 April 1326, aged about 28.

As well as his son and heir, Eon, William la Zouche had nine other children who are named in a royal licence dated 26 March 1326, for him to grant the castle of Totnes and the manor of Cornworthy, Devon, the manor of Calstone and the hundred of Calne, Wiltshire, the manor of Meole Brace, Shropshire, and the manor of Haygrove and two parts of the manor of Bridgwater, Somerset, to Ralph Cosyn with successive remainders in fee tail to his sons William, John, Roger, Thomas, John and Edmund, William Deincourt and Millicent his wife, daughter of the said William la Zouche, Isabel her sister, and Thomasina her sister. [2]

It has been claimed that William la Zouche, second son of William la Zouche of Harringworth, was the same person as William la Zouche, Archbishop of York who died on 19 July 1352, but there is ample evidence from contemporary documents, mainly feet of fines, given below, to show that that this claim is completely unfounded. The ODNB entry for Archbishop la Zouche states that he was most likely a son of the Roger la Zouche who died in 1302 holding the manor of Lubbesthorpe in Leicestershire. [3]

William, son of William la Zouche of Harringworth was probably born about 1300. He first appears in contemporary documents in a fine dated 24 April 1317, when William, John and Roger, sons of William la Zouche of Harringworth, all under age, were granted the manor of Thorpe Arnold, Leicestershire by their father. [4]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_124_50.shtml#141

In a fine dated 20 January 1325, by royal licence, his father granted William the manors of Eaton Bray, Houghton Regis, Thornbury (in Houghton Regis), and Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. [5]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_4_49.shtml#20

By a fine dated 21 April 1325, his father granted him the reversions of the manors of Ham (in Waddesdon), Buckinghamshire and Claybrooke, Leicestershire. [6]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_286_32.shtml#246

By a fine dated 9 June 1325, his father granted William son of William la Zouche and Avice his wife and their heirs, the reversion of the manor of Harringworth, Northamptonshire after the death of William the father. [7]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_176_71.shtml#463

By a fine dated 12 November 1325, William la Zouche of Harringworth granted the manors of Bulwick, Ferrels Wood, Henwick (both in Bulwick), and the reversion of rents in Rothwell, Northamptonshire to William son of William la Zouche of Harringworth and Avice his wife and the heirs of their bodies.  [8]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_176_71.shtml#479.

On 23 July 1331, William son of William la Zouche, knight, as patron, presented Master Roger la Zouche, acolyte to the church of Bulwick, Northamtonshire. [9]

By a fine dated 3 May 1332, William son of William la Zouche, knight, quitclaimed the manors of Eaton Bray, Houghton Regis, and Thornbury (in Houghton Regis), Bedfordshire to his father. [10]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_4_53.shtml#15

This is the last record that I can find for William, son of William la Zouche of Harringworth. He was dead before 24 April 1338, when Ralph de Cromwell knight, son of Ralph de Cromwell knight instituted John de Cromwell acolyte to the church of Bulwick, vacant by the death of Master Roger la Zouche. [11]

On 20 March 1344, Thomasia de Verdon had licence surrender the manor of Basford, Nottinghamshire, said to be held in chief, which she held for life of the inheritance of William la Zouche of Harringworth, and for the said William to enfeoff Ralph de Cromwell and Avice, his wife, of the manor. [12] Was Thomasia the daughter of William la Zouche?

On 13 October 1344, William la Zouche of Harringworth came to an agreement with Ralph de Cromwell and Avice, concerning the manor of Harringworth and land in Bulwick. [13]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_177_77.shtml#279

By a fine dated 6 October 1344, Ralph de Cromwell and Avice granted the manor of Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire to Alexander de Gonalston and Alice his wife, with reversion to Ulkerus (don’t ask me) son of Ralph and Avice. [14]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_185_30.shtml#249

By a fine dated 20 January 1351, Ralph de Cromwell and Avice his wife granted land and rent in Basford, Nottinghamshire to Ralph, son of Ralph de Cromwell and Maud [Bernake] his wife. [15]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_185_31.shtml#297

In October 1351, William la Zouche of Harringworth granted the manors of Harringworth, Bulwick, Fairhill, and rent in Rothwell Northamptonshire and the manor of Clipsham, Rutland, to trustees, with reversion to William son of Eon la Zouche (his grandson). The manor of Bulwick and the rent in Rothwell were held for life by Avice, wife of Ralph de Cromwell, doubtless as dower from her first husband. [16]

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_177_79.shtml#380

Ralph de Cromwell died before 14 July 1356, when a commission of oyer and terminer was ordered on complaint by John son of Thomas Elys of Lambley that Avice late the wife of Ralph de Cromwell, knight, and others, assaulted him at Lambley, Nottinghamshire, and carried away his goods. [17]

Avice was living on 28 October 1364 when Ralph de Neville, keeper of the king’s forest beyond Trent was ordered to replevy to Avice (Amice) who was wife of Ralph de Cromwell land in Lambley, Nottinghamshire which had been taken into the king’s hand for forest trespasses. [18]

The identity of Avice is confirmed by an entry in the Fine Rolls dated 12 May 1382, when it was reported that an inquisition found that Ralph de Cromwell, knight was the son of Avice the sister of Roger Bellers. [19] This Roger Bellers who died on 8 October 1380 was the son of Roger Bellers who was murdered on 19 January 1326 by Eon, the son and heir apparent of William la Zouche of Harringworth. Was this murder the result of a family feud?

In conclusion, I believe I have shown that Avice, daughter of Roger de Bellers (died 1326) and his wife Alice, married firstly before 9 June 1325, Sir William son of William la Zouche of Harringworth who was living on 3 May 1332. She married secondly, before 24 April 1338, Sir Ralph de Cromwell of West Hallam, Derbyshire who died before 14 July 1356.

It appears that Avice and William la Zouche had no children.

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[1] Complete Peerage, vol. 12, part 2 (London, 1959), 938-940.

[2] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 5: 1324-1327 (1904), 254.

[3] Nicholas Bennett, ‘Zouche, William (d. 1352)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

[4] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/124/50, number 141.

[5] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/4/49, number 20.

[6] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/286/32, number 246.

[7] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/176/71, number 463.

[8] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/176/71, number 479.

[9] Nicholas H. Bennett, The Beneficed Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln during the Episcopate of Henry Burghersh: 1320-1340, PhD. Thesis, University of York (1989), 156.

[10] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/4/53, number 15.

[11] Nicholas H. Bennett, The Benificed Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln during the Episcopate of Henry Burghersh: 1320-1340, PhD. Thesis, University of York (1989), 175.

[12] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 6: 1343-1345 (1902), 223.

[13] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/177/77, number 279.

[14] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/185/30, number 249.

[15] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/185/31, number 297.

[16] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/177/79, number 380.

[17] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 10: 1354-1358 (1909), 449.

[18] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 12: 1364-1369 (1910), 37.

[19] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 9, Richard II: 1377-1383 (1926), 295.[

Margaret Wife of Sir John Conyers of Hornby

Some time ago, I discovered the identity of Margaret, wife of the first Sir John Conyers of Hornby, Yorkshire who died in 1412. I thought that I would put down all the evidence here for anyone researching the family.

In Flower’s visitation of Yorkshire of 1563-4, John Conyers is said to have married “Margaret filia et heres Antony Saint Quyntyn.”  The editor of the volume says that she was “Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Anthony St. Quintin (by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Swynho, widow of Sir Thomas Mountford of Hackforth).” [1] There is some truth in this identification, her father was from the family of Saint Quintin and her mother was from the family of Swinhoe, but the details are incorrect.

The Saint Quintin Family

So, who was the wife of John Conyers? The first clue is a fine of May 1378, whereby Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin and Margaret his wife conveyed the manor of East Brompton, Yorkshire to John, son of Thomas de Saint Quintin, knight and Elizabeth, his wife. [2] This family of Saint Quintin occur nowhere in the pedigrees of the family, so it’s difficult to say exactly who they were, but my guess is that Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin was a younger son of Sir Geoffrey de Saint Quintin of Harpham Yorkshire (died in 1330) and his first wife Alice de Ros who died in September 1314. [3] Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin married before October 1330, Margaret de Hornby, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Hornby, of Hornby Yorkshire, and his wife Christiana. [4] In November 1332, Thomas de Saint Quintin, Margaret his wife, and Christiana late the wife of Robert de Hornby had licence for the alienation in mortmain of a messuage, three tofts, six bovates of land and 3 acres of meadow, in Hornby and North Otterington, to a chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in the church of St. Mary, Hornby, for the souls of the grantors and of their ancestors. [5] Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin died in or before 1381, when bishop Hatfield of Durham granted to William Playce, his esquire, the wardship and marriage of successive heirs of Thomas de Saint Quintin, knight until one shall attain full age. [6] Since we know from the fine of May 1378, that Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin had a son named John, it must be assumed that John died between May 1378 and 1381, probably before his father. The heir of Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin was Margaret, daughter of his son John who was under age in 1381 and to whom we will return shortly.

The Swinhoe Family

The editor of Flower’s pedigree of The Conyers of Hornby family states that Margaret’s mother was “daughter and heiress of Swynho.” It took me some time to work out that she was from the family of Swinhoe of Northumberland, for whom there are no satisfactory pedigrees in print. The pedigree given by Surtees is defective. [7] Elizabeth was the daughter of William de Swinhoe of Scremerston, Northumberland and his wife Elizabeth. Her brother William de Swinhoe was born about 1364 [8] and as Elizabeth was married to John de Saint Quintin before May 1378, she was probably born a year or two earlier.

After the death of John de Saint Quintin, Elizabeth de Swinhoe married secondly, about 1380, Sir Thomas de Mountforth son and heir of Lawrence de Mountford of Hackforth in Hornby, Yorkshire. Sir Thomas de Mountford died before 4 February 1392, when a commission was ordered to enquire what evildoers had abducted Alexander, son and heir of Thomas de Mountford, knight, a minor, the custody of whose lands and whose marriage belong to queen Anne, because the said Thomas held of her as of the honor of Richmond by knight service; the said queen having by her letters patent granted the marriage to Richard le Scrope. [9] Elizabeth married thirdly, on 1 May 1392, William Bishopdale, formerly mayor of Newcastle, who in his will dated in February 1398 mentions her surviving sons Thomas and John Mountforth and William and Robert Swinhoe; her brother William and cousin Robert. [10] Elizabeth married fourthly before March 1399, Richard Clitheroe of Lincolnshire, king's esquire. In Easter Term, 1399, Richard Clitheroe and Elizabeth, his wife, sued Richard Tempest, knight, for a messuage in Newcastle, which John de Holy Island, vicar of the church of Berwick on Tweed, John de Hasylrigge and John de Werk gave to William de Swinhoe and Elizabeth his wife, and their heirs. William son and heir of William de Swinhoe and Elizabeth died without heirs of his body. Elizabeth, sister, and heir of William, married to Richard Clitheroe was the plaintiff in this case. [11] Elizabeth died before 2 February 1412, when Richard Clitheroe was married to Margery Sulney, widow of Sir Nicholas Longford of Derbyshire. [12] Richard Clitheroe died before 11 June 1431. [13]

Margaret de Saint Quintin

Margaret, only daughter and heiress of John de Saint Quintin by Elizabeth de Swinhoe was probably born about 1379. In 1381, Bishop Hatfield of Durham granted her wardship and marriage to William Playce his esquire. [14] As we have seen from the fine of 1378, her father John de Saint Quintin was holding the manor of East Brompton which was part of the bishop’s liberty of Northallertonshire. Whether William Playce sold the wardship we don’t know, but in 1391, Margaret’s wardship was in the hands of Sir Richard le Scrope of Bolton. By an indenture dated 13 August 1391, Sir Richard le Scrope of Bolton sold to John Conyers the wardship of the person and lands of Margaret, cousin and heir to Thomas Saint Quintin, knight, of Hornby, in Richmondshire, which pertains to him because of the minority of Margaret. John paid 200 marks to Richard for the wardship, so that he could hold her lands during her minority. He agreed that when she comes of age at fourteen years old he will do homage to Richard for the lands according to the right of the lord of Thornton Steward and if Margaret has issue with John or fails to have issue, John will do fealty to Richard. John will perform scutage for the lands and forinsec service. [15]

John Conyers and Margaret were married some time before 22 January 1398, when John Conyers, nobleman, and Margaret his wife, noble woman, of the diocese of York had a papal indulgence to have a portable altar. [16] John Conyers died before 25 April 1412, the date of his inquisition post mortem for Durham. [17] In 1412, Margaret, relict of John Conyers, was holding diverse lands in the liberty of Richmond. [18] Margaret was still living on 4 May 1435 when Thomas de Keleby, parson of the church of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire was pardoned for not appearing before the justices to answer Margaret Conyers, lady of Hornby, Richmondshire, and Christopher Conyers, esquire, of Hornby, touching a plea of debt of £17 14s. 10d. [19]

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[1] Charles Best Norcliffe, ed., The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 Made by William Flower Esquire, Norroy King of Arms, Harleian Society 16 (London, 1881), 74.

[2] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/277/140, number 7.
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_277_140.shtml#7

[3] Thomas Duffus Hardy, ed., Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense. The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatinate and Bishop of Durham, 1311-1316, vol. 1, Rolls Series (London, 1873), 605.

[4] Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/272/105, number 49. (YASRS, xlii, 30).

[5] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 2: 1330-1334 (London, 1893), 370.

[6] Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1871), Appendix I, 294.

[7] James Raine, The History and Antiquities of North Durham (London, 1852), 237.

[8] Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1885), Appendix 2, 263.

[9] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II, vol 5: 1391-1396 (London, 1905), 82.

[10] Richard Welford, History of Newcastle and Gateshead, vol. 1, (Newcastle, 1884), 222.

[11] Court of Common Pleas, Easter, 22 Richard II, CP 40/553, m. 419d.

http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT4/R2/CP40no553/bCP40no553dorses/IMG_1794.htm.

[12] Isaac Herbert Jeayes, Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters (London, 1906), 234, No. 1870.

[13] Durham University Library Special Collections, Durham Cathedral Muniments: Specialia, 1.1.Spec.71

[14] Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1871), Appendix I, 294.

[15] Brigette Vale, The Scropes of Bolton and Masham, c.1300-c.1450: A Study of a Northern Noble Family with a Calendar of the Scrope of Bolton Cartulary. PhD Thesis, vol. 2 (University of York: 1987), 105, No. 229.

[16] Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 5: 1398-1404 (London, 1904), 137.

[17] Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1885), 177.

[18] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Inquisitions and Assessments Relating to Feudal Aids, vol. 6 (London, 1920), 551.

[19] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI, vol. 2: 1429-1436 (London, 1907), 436.

Roger fitz Reinfrid: His Family and Connections

Origins

Roger son of Reinfrid and his brother magister Walter de Coutances first appear in the household of king Henry II around 1170. Roger as a royal servant and later justiciar and Walter as a king’s clerk, later bishop of Lincoln and archbishop of Rouen. Most sources state that they were from Cornwall, based on a statement of Gerald of Wales that Walter de Coutances was born in Cornwall, of a noble British house, a descendant of Corineus, the fabulous Trojan immigrant. [1] However, Gallia Christiana contains an account that Walter stated at the Council of Rouen (1191?) that he was born at “Pommerayus” in Normandy (probably Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye in Bas Normandie, about 10 miles south of Coutances) of a Breton family, the son of Reinfrid and his wife Gonilla. [2] This seems a more likely origin for the family than that given by Gerald of Wales.

As well as his brother Walter de Coutances, Roger also had brothers named Joscelin and Edward. Roger, Joscelin and Edward witnessed a grant to Lewes priory in Sussex. [3] Edward witnessed a charter of Reading abbey together with Roger. [4] He also had a sister who married Baldwin son of Gervase. Their son Robert between 1174 and 1184, returned to Tavistock abbey land in Passeford which had been extorted from the abbey through the power and pressure of his uncles Roger fitz Reinfrid and Walter de Coutances, keeper of the royal seal. [5]

Career

Roger fitz Reinfrid is said to have been a protégé of Richard de Lucy and may have entered his service in the 1160’s. He was probably in royal service before Michaelmas 1169. [6] He was employed from 1170 to 1174 with Richard de Lucy in the administration of Windsor. [7] In July 1175, Henry II confirmed to Roger fitz Reinfrid a soke in London given to him by Earl Simon (de St. Liz, III) of Huntingdon. [8] A case in the Curia Regis in 1204, shows that Roger exchanged land in Toft and Menthorpe, Lincolnshire with Earl Simon and Alice de Gant his wife in exchange for three parts of a knight’s fee in Sutton and Beckingham, Lincolnshire and that Roger also held land in Holme, Lincolnshire granted to him by Robert de Gant. [9]

Roger was sheriff of Sussex from Michaelmas 1176 to March 1187 and sheriff of Berkshire in 1188. [10] In January 1176, he was appointed as a justice itinerant in Kent, Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. [11]  By 1181, he was one of the regular justices sitting at Westminster. In March 1182, he was one of the witnesses to the will of Henry II, together with his brother Walter de Coutances, archdeacon of Oxford. [12] He continued to be a justice in eyre throughout the reign of Henry II and into the reign of Richard I. [13] Roger died before Michaelmas 1196 when Reinfrid son of Roger occurs as his father’s heir. [14]

Family

Dugdale [15] says that Roger fitz Reinfrid married Rohese, daughter of William de Roumare and widow of Gilbert de Gant who died in 1256, [16] based solely on the fact that Roger fitz Reinfrid confirmed Gilbert de Gant’s gift of land in Menthorpe, Lincolnshire to Vaudey Abbey. [17] Dugdale was wrong in every respect, since Rohese was the daughter of Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare and after the death of Gilbert de Gant she married Robert fitz Robert fitz Fulk, the ‘sewer’ of William de Percy. [18] As shown above, Roger fitz Reinfrid was a tenant of Gant land in Menthorpe and it was probably in this capacity that he confirmed the land to Vaudey.

Between 1175 and 1186, Roger son of Reinfrid granted to the church of St. Mary Clerkenwell and the nuns serving there, the land which he held of the fee of Roger de Munchesney in Dunmow, Essex, in pure alms for his soul and for Alice his wife, his ancestors and descendants, for the service of one twelfth of a knight's fee. His wife Alice and Margaret her mother were to be received as nuns, if they wish, and are to be buried in the nunnery. After his death, service is to be made for them and him as if for the nuns. [19]

The identity of Robert fitz Reinfrid’s wife Alice is revealed in a case in the Curia Regis in 1211, concerning land in Ramsden, Essex, between Richard de Clare and his wife Alina, widow of Reinfrid fitz Roger fitz Reinfrid and Richard de Bellhus. Richard called Ralph de Bruer to warrant the dower of Alina as brother and heir of Reinfrid. Ralph said that the land was the maritagium of Alice his mother given to her by Ralph Britone, his uncle, and after the death of her husband Roger, she had given it to Reinfrid her son. [20]

From this statement is can be reasoned that the mother of Reinfrid fitz Roger fitz Reinfrid and his brother Ralph was Alice and that she had a brother, or brother-in-law, named Ralph Britone, the uncle of Reinfrid and Ralph.

This Ralph Britone is normally known as Ralph Brito, a king’s justiciar who died early in 1186. [21] Ralph Brito married firstly Maud, daughter of Jordan de Bricett and his wife Muriel de Mounteny, and great-granddaughter of Richard de Lucy [22] and, secondly a sister of Gilbert Foliot, bishop of Herford and later of London. [23] It appears that Alice wife of Roger fitz Reinfrid was also a sister of the bishop. However, the bishop’s mother was Agnes de Chesney, and Alice’s mother was named Margaret. This means that Robert Foliot I, (died about 1155) father of bishop Gilbert Foliot had second wife named Margaret. Between December 1148 and 1150, Robert Foliot and his wife Margaret granted to St. Peter of Westminster and the monks, the manor of Sulby, Northamtonshire, to hold for the service of one knight, as they rendered to the grantors' predecessors, in the reign of Henry I. [24] The editors of Westminster Abbey Charters considered that Robert Foliot II and his wife Margery de Raimbeaucourt made this deed, but according to Dugdale, they did not marry until about 1168.

Through his marriage to Gilbert Foliot’s sister, Roger fitz Reinfrid became linked to several influential families, including that of Ralph Brito, another protégé of Richard de Lucy. Roger witnessed several charters of a kinsman of the bishop, Henry Foliot, and Lecia de Bricett his wife to St. Mary Clerkenwell. [25] According to testimony given in the Curia Regis in 1211, Roger was granted land in Ramsden, Essex by Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London. [26] The land which Roger held in Holme, Beckingham and Sutton, Lincolnshire also appears to have been granted to him by Gilbert Foliot’s brother Elias. [27] His son Ralph quitclaimed it in 1229 to Christian Ledet, whose mother was Margery daughter of Richard Foliot, son of the bishop’s brother Robert (II). [28]

Roger fitz Reinfrid and his wife Alice Foliot had at least four sons: -

(i) Reinfrid, son and heir, known as Reinfrid de Bruer (or de la Bruer). He married Alina, daughter of Geoffrey fitz Baldwin. He died s.p. about 1208. His widow married secondly Richard de Clare and thirdly Hugh de Clayhill who died in 1221. [29]

(ii) Ralph, known as Ralph de Bruer, heir of his brother Reinfrid. In 1227, he granted his demesne lands in the manor of Edenham, Lincolnshire to the abbey of Vaudey. [30] He was living in April 1229 when he quitclaimed to Henry de Braybrook and Christian Ledet his wife, land in Holme, Beckingham and Sutton, Lincolnshire, and the advowson of Beckingham. [31]

(iii) Gilbert fitz Roger, also known as Gilbert fitz Reinfrid, who married between 1185 and 1189, Helewise, daughter of William de Lancaster and became lord of Kentdale in Westmorland. [32] He died shortly before 6 May 1220.[33]

(iv) William fitz Roger, canon of Lincoln and archdeacon of Rouen, also known as William de Coutances. After 1196, William son of Roger, archdeacon of Rouen and Gilbert his brother witnessed a charter by their brother Reinfrid to St. Mary, Clerkenwell. [34]

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[1] J. S. Brewer, et al, ed., Giraldi Cambrensis Opera, vol. 7: Vita S. Remigii, et Vita S. Hugonis (1877), 38: "Walterus, de Constanciis dictus, sed revera de Cornei domo Cornubiage natus, et nobili Britonum gente ac Trojana stirpe originaliter proagatus."

[2] Gallia Christiana, vol. 11 (Paris, 1759), 51: "Walterius (de Coutances): Patre Rainfredo natus Walterius, et matre Gonilla, quam ex regio genti suae genere prognatum ferunt, ait Pommerayus Concil. Rotomag., natione Britannus erat, ex eodem Pommerayo ibidem et Sammarthanis, quanquam Constancia, cujus agnomen habuit, urbs est non Britanniae, sed Normanniae."

[3] G. F. Ducket, "Additional Materials Towards the History of St Pancras at Lewes," Sussex Archaeological Collections, 35 (1887), 119.

[4] Patricia M. Barnes and C. F. Slade, eds., A Medieval Miscellany for Doris Mary Stenton, Pipe Roll Society, New Series, vol. 36 (1960), 242.

[5] William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum, vol. 2 (1846), 499, Tavistock Monastery, Num. XI.

[6] R. W. Eyton, Court, Household, and Itinerary of King Henry II (1878), 130.

[7] Pipe Rolls, 18 Henry II, 17; 20 Henry II, 9, 116, 117.

[8] G. F. Warner and H. J. Ellis, eds., Facsimiles of Royal and Other Charters in the British Museum, vol. 1 (1903), 54.

[9] Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbreviatio, Record Commission (1811), 48b.

[10] Thirty-First Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1870), 263, 347.

[11] R. W. Eyton, Court, Household, and Itinerary of King Henry II (1878), 199.

[12] William Stubbs, ed., The Chronicle of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II, and Richard I by Gervase the Monk of Canterbury, vol. 1 (1879), 298.

[13] J. Horace Round, ed., Calendar of Documents Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899), 150, no. 444.

[14] D. M. Stenton, ed., The Chancellors's Roll for the eighth year of the Reign of King Richard the First, Pipe Roll Society, vol. 45, New Series, 7 (1930), 7.

[15] William Dugdale, The Baronage of England, vol. 1 (1675), 400.

[16] Thomas Stapleton, ed., Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normaniae sub Regibus Angliae, vol. 2, Society of Antiquaries of London (1844), Observations, clvi.

[17] William Dugdale, Monsasticon Anglicanum, vol. 5 (1846), 490, Num. III.

[18] Complete Peerage, vol. 7 (1929), 673.

[19] W. O. Hassall, ed., Cartulary of St. Mary Clerkenwell, Camden Third Series, 71 (1949), 70, no. 105.

[20] Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbreviatio, Record Commission (1811), 82b.

[21] The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Thirty-Third Year of King Henry the Second: 1186-1187, Pipe Roll Society, 37 (1915), xxxiv.

[22] R. Bevan and P. Dale, "A Rose by Any Other Name: Another Daughter of Richard de Lucy," Foundations, vol. 6 (2014), 28.

[23] Adrian Morey and C. N. L. Brooke, eds, Gilbert Foliot and his Letters (1965), 33.

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