Geoffrey de Mandeville: A study of the AnarchyRound, John Horace
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Geoffrey de Mandeville: A study of the Anarchy
Round, John Horace
Great Britain -- History -- Stephen, 1135-1154; Mandeville, Geoffrey de, earl of Essex, -1144
Here Earl "Alberic" was uncle both to the grantor and the grantee; Simon
de Beauchamp was their uterine brother; Geoffrey de Say their first
cousin. William de Boville would be related to Otuel de Boville, the
chief tenant of Mandeville in 1166.[720] "Sewalus de Osevill" then
(1166) held four fees (_de veteri_) of the earl. Richard "de Rochellâ"
held three-quarters of a fee (_de novo_). Osbert fitz Richard was
probably a son of Richard fitz Osbert, who held four fees (_de veteri_)
in 1166. Wiscard Ledet was a tenant _in capite_ in Oxfordshire (_Testa_,
p. 103).[721]
The third charter transfers the fee from the grantee himself to his son:—
"Notum sit ... quod ego Arnulfus de Mandeuilla concessi et dedi Radulfo
de Mandeuilla filio meo pro suo servicio et homagio villam de
Chaingeham ... et hospitium meum Oxenfordie ad prædictam villam
pertinens[722] ... T. Henrico Danuers," etc.[723]
From another quarter we are enabled to continue the chain of evidence.
We have first a charter to Osney:—
"Ego Gaufridus de Mandeuile ... confirmavi mercatam terre quam Aaliz
mater mea eis diuisit in Hugato, sic[?ut] Ernulfus de Mandeuile pater
meus eis assignavit."[724]
Then we have a charter which thus carries us a step further:—
"Ego Galfridus de Mandeuilla filius Galfridi de Mandeuillâ concessi
Domino Galfrido patri meo, filio Arnulfi de Mandeuillâ," etc., etc.[725]
Among the witnesses to this last charter are Robert de Mandeville, and
Ralph his brother, and Hugh de Mandeville. Lastly, we have a charter of
Ralph de Mandeville, to which the first witness is "Galfridus de
Mandauilla frater meus."[726]
We have now established this pedigree:—
GEOFFREY, = Roese
EARL OF ESSEX, | de Vere.
d. 1144. |
+--------+
|
Ernulf = Aaliz.
de Mandeville, |
son and heir |
(disinherited). |
|
+-------------+---------+
| |
Geoffrey Ralph
de Mandeville. de Mandeville.
|
Geoffrey
de Mandeville.
A further charter (_Harl. Cart._, 54, I. 44) can now be fitted into this
pedigree. It is a notification by Adam de Port, to the Bishop of
Lincoln, etc., of his grant of the church of "Hattele." The witnesses
are: "Hernaldo de Mandeville et domina Alicia uxore sua, domina
Matiltide uxore dicti Adæ de Port, Henrico de Port, fratre ejusdem,
Galfrido de Mandeville," etc.[727] Here we have a clue to the parentage
of Ernulf's wife.
Passing to the reign of Henry III., we find Kingham then still in
possession of the family.[728] In Wiltshire they are found yet later,
Worth being still held by them in 1292-93 (21 Edw. I).[729]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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