for the variation in payments which were collected for the benefit of the king. W.F.R. THE PATRONS William Rufus, upon his conquest of Carlisle, gave over to Ivo de Tailbois all these parts as a fief. After Ivo a confusion of tenure and administration prevails, into which it is useless to enter. The line of patrons of Grasmere may perhaps be begun safely with Gilbert fitz Reinfred, who married Helwise, daughter and heiress of William de Lancaster II., because it was he who first held the Barony of Kendal in chief from Richard I., by charter dated 1190.[59] [59] _Lancashire Pipe Rolls_, Mr. W. Farrer. His son William, called de Lancaster III., died in 1246 without a direct heir; and the children of his sisters, Helwise and Alice, shared the fief between them. It is Alice's line that we have to follow. She married William de Lindesey, and her son Walter took that portion of the barony which was later known as the Richmond Fee, and which included the advowson of our church. Sir William de Lindesey, his son, was the next inheritor. After his death, in 1283, a jury of true and tried men declared that he had died possessed of "A certain chapel there (Gresmer) taxed yearly at 66s 8d."[60] The chapel of Windermere, set down at a like sum, belonged to the same lordship. [60] _Lancashire Inquests_, _etc._, ed. by Mr. Farrer. Christiana, William's heiress, was then only 16. She was married to a Frenchman, Ingelram de Gynes, lord of Coucy. There is evidence that they spent a considerable part of their time in these parts, their seat being at Mourholm, near Carnforth. Ingelram indeed fought in the Scottish wars, as did his son William. Christiana survived her husband some ten years. They had at least four sons, William, Ingelram, Baldwin, and Robert. It was William who inherited the chief part of Christiana's property in the barony of Kendal, which was declared (1334) to include the manor of Wynandermere, and the advowsons of the chapels of Wynandermere, Marieholm, and Gressemere.[61] [61] _Calendar Patent Rolls_, 8 Edw. III. and 14 Edw. III., pt. 3, mem. 11. The new tenant at once incurred King Edward III.'s displeasure. His interests lay apparently in France, where he resided, being styled lord of Coucy[62]; and without waiting to do homage for his mother's English lands and receiving them formally from the king's hands (as was the feudal custom), he passed them over to his young son William. The king pardoned the offence, and ratified the grant,[63] but he kept the youth, still a minor in 1339, about his person,[64] and William's short life seems to have been spent in service under the English banner.[65] [62] _Calendar Patent Rolls_, 8 Edw. III. There was a question of a marriage between his daughter Mary and the king's brother. [63] _Calendar Patent Rolls_, 8 Edw. III. [64] _Calendar Patent Rolls_, 13 Edw. III. [65] _Calendar Patent Rolls._