87 See note 46

Geoffrey de la Wirce derived his name from his seigneury of La Guerche, a town near Repnes, on the borders of Brittany. He was the son and heir of Silvester, lord of La Guerche and Pouencé, chancellor of Brittany, and Bishop of Rennes from 1075 to 1096. His wife's name was Alueve, but by her he had no issue. He died about 1093–4, and was succeeded by his brother (?) Walter, surnamed Hay.

Geoffrey obtained Melton-Moubray, and 26 other manors in Leicestershire, 12 in Warwickshire, and the Isle of Axholme, with the manors of Gainsbrough, Somerby and Blyborough in Lincolnshire (Yorks. Arch. and Top. Journal, iv., 223-226).

89 “ The boat-floating creek of the Atheling, or, perhaps, of the

son of Adla” (Ibid., p. 224n.).

90 Ses pote 6.

91 The parentage and birthplace of Geoffrey Alselin have not, I believe, been ascertained. We learn from the Survey that he got the lands of the tbane Tochi, son of Otta (see vol. xiii., page 327), in the counties of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham. The date of his death is not known. He left a daughter and heiress, married to Robert de Caux, by whom she had a son and heir, Robert.

The above-pamed Geoffrey Alselin bad a nephew, Ralph Alselin, whose son Geoffrey, living in 1108, had a son, Ralph, who was alive in 1131 and 1168. Rosa Alselin, granddaughter and heiress of the last-mentioned Ralph, married Thomas, Lord Bardolf, by whom she had a son and heir, Doun, or Dodo, Bardolf (of full age in 1198), whose widow, Beatrix, daughter and heiress of William de Warenne, married, secondly, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.

Manor. In Hailaga (Healaugh) and two Wicheles (Wighill and Wighill Park), Tochi had eighteen carucates of land for geld. The land is to nine ploughs. Now, Goisfrid has two ploughs there, and eighteen villanes and one bordar with seven ploughs. Wood, pasturable, two leugæ in length and two in breadth. The whole manor, two leugæ in length and two in breadth. T. R. E., it was worth eight pounds; now, sixty shillings.

XX. LAND 93 OF WALTER DE AINCURT.94

Westreding (WEST RIDING).

T. R. E.,

) is soke

Manor. In Wanbella (Wombwell), Tori had three carucates and a half of land for geld. The land is to four ploughs. Walter de Aincurt has [it], and it is waste. Four acres of meadow there. Wood, pasturable, five quarenteens and a half in length and as much in breadth. it was worth sixty shillings; now, ten shillings and eight pence. Soke. In Medeltone (West Melton) and Toftes ( of this manor, six bovates for geld. Land to half a plough. Manor. In Rodemesc (Rawmarsh), Stori 96 had four carucates of land for geld. Land to two ploughs. Now, Walter has one plough there, and four villanes and one bordar and two sokemen having two ploughs. Twelve acres of meadow there, and one mill of ten shillings [annual value]. Wood, pasturable, one leuga in length and half [a leuga] in breadth. The whole manor, one leuga and a half in length and one leuga in breadth. shillings.

T. R. E., it was worth sixty shillings; now, thirty

92 This carucate is not accounted for in the Recapitulation.

93 Orig., fo. 326a, col. 2.-Facsimile Edit., page lviib.

94 A native, probably, of Aincourt, near Mantes, in the Norman Vexin. He obtained also several manors in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. Blankney, near Sleaford, appears to have been his principal residence, as it was the head of the barony of his descendants.

Walter de Aincourt was succeeded by his son, Ralph, who, by Basilea, his wife,

had a son and heir, Walter de Aincourt, "a liberal benefactor to St. Mary's abbey, York, as was, also, Matilda, his wife' (Yorks. Arch. and Top. Journal, iv., 228).

95 Doubtless Tor, a king's thane, who had a manor in Wombwell and West Melton before the date of the Survey, and at the time it was taken. Pos-ibly he was the king's tenant of that name in Branton Green, Harewood, and East Kes wick (see Land of the King, antea).

96 Refer to the previous note.

97 See note 93.

buried in the abbey church at Bardney, 99 A younger son, it is probable, of Ralph in Lincolnshire, which he had refounded de Gand, Lord of Alost, a town near the and endowed. His wife was Alice, daughcity of Ghent, in Flanders. The name ter of Hugh de Montfort, lord of Montof his mother appears to have been Gisle, fort sur Risle, and eventually heiress of and she had a son, Ralph de Gand, cham- her brother. By her he had issue : 1. berlain of Flanders, another of the Gilbert, who died s.p. in his father's lifeyounger sons of Ralph, whose eldest son time; 2. Hugh, who inherited the fief of and heir was Baldwin, Lord of Alost, his mother's family, and assumed the who married Maud, a sister of the Con- name of Montfort; 3. Walter de Gand, queror, and died in 1081.

heir to all his father's estates in England, Mr. Ellis considers it pot unlikely that and the founder of Bridlington priory, Gilbert was descended from Alfred the married Matilda, daughter of Earl SteGreat, through his daughter Elftrude, phen, of Richmond, and was ancestor of wife of Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and the Earls of Lincoln. Robert de Gand, her granddaughter Leutgarde, who was Dean of York from 1148 to 1153, may married to Wichman, Count of the castle have been another son. Of the daughters of Gand, from whom Gilbert (the tenant of this tenant in capite, Emma became in capite) was sixth in descent male the wife of Alan de Perci, who had with (Yorks. Arch. and Top. Journal, iv., her Hunmanby in frank marriage. 230).

Gilbert de Alost, one of the vassals of When York surrendered to the Con- the above-mentioned Walter de Gand, queror in 1068, Gilbert de Gand was left married Erneburgha, heiress of Burton, in in command of the city, conjointly with Holderness, widow of Ulbert the ConWilliam Malet and Robert fitz Richard. stable, and mother of Robert le ConOn Sept. 21st, 1069, when it was retaken stable, from whom the Constables of by the Danes, he was one of the few who Burton Constable derive their descent. were spared as prisoners of war for ex. 99 A name of frequent occurrence in change or ransom (Ibid., p. 231).

the East Riding. Under the heading Gilbert de Gand obtained valuable “ Land of the King,” we find it at Burestates in Lincolnshire, Notts, Rutland ton Fleming, Caythorpe, Wold-Newton, and elsewhere, which had belonged to and Thwing. At Cowlam, Chilbert and Ulf the Constable, whose mansion in the his brother held two manors ; and in city of Lincoln was also given to him. Nunkeeling “duo Chilvert” had held According to the testimony of the men two manors which were given to Drogo of Barkston wapentake, Gislebert de de Beuvre, Chilbert, a king's thane, Gand held one carucate of the land of who still possessed one carucate in Ulf in Berchine (see The Claims, postca). Wharram-Percy, may have been the same This Ulf may have been the same person person as Clibert the thane, who con. as the above-mentioned Ulf the Con- tinued to hold the manors of Flambrough, stable.

Hilderthorpe, Marton and Sewerby. Gilbert died about 1094, and was

Estreding (EAST RIDING).

[Hase Hundret.]

Three manors. In Aluengi3 (Kirk Ella), Aluuin, Chetel [and] Cnud had twenty-three carucates of land for geld. The land is to twelve ploughs. Now, Gislebert Tison has three ploughs there, and twenty-nine villanes and sixteen bordars having six ploughs. A church'

100 Scloftone," in the Recapitulation.

1 Orig., fo. 326b, col. 1.-Facsimile Edit., page lviii.

2 The birthplace and parentage of this tenant in capite, is, I believe, unknown. By an undated charter (1066-9), witnessed by Aldred, archbishop of York, "dom. Gilbertus Tison, dom. regis Angliæ summus vexillator,-ad instantiam nobilis reginæ Angliæ, Matildis nomine, pro animabus regis S. Edwardi et Willelmi Bastardi, concessit ecclesiæ de Seleby, et monachis ibidem," lands in Bubwith, Foggathorpe and Lund. In a subsequent deed, witnessed by Archbishop Thomas (1070-1100), his son, Adam Tison, and others, he omits his official rank, but adds the consent of his wife and sons. By it he gave to the same monks "Gundeby" (Gunby, co. York), "et decimam in Aigruna (Eakring, Notts) et in Alvelay (Kirk Ella, co. York), ut in eadem ecclesia esset plenarius frater." He also gave lands in Runthorpe (?) and Helmeley (? Helueley -Kirk Ella) to St. Mary's Abbey, York, circa 1088-9.

In the register of Alnwick priory, Gilbert Tison is called Lord of Malton and Alnwick, the castle at the last-named place being probably the "caput" of his barony. About 1095 his estates were escheated, and divided between Nigel de Albini and Ivo de Vesci. The date of his death has not been ascertained, but, in 1131, his son Adam rendered an account of his debts. The latter suc

ceeded his father, and, with the consent of Emma, his wife, and William, his son, gave Aton-croft, in Holme-on-Spalding Moor, to the monks of Selby. He was also a benefactor to the Knights Hospitallers, and to the priories of Rufford and Thurgarton.

Richard Tison, the other son of Gilbert, founded the chapel of St. Wilfrid at Guyzance, and witnessed the charter of Eustace fitz John, founding Alnwick priory. He left a son William, whose son German Tison (living in 1213) had a daughter and heiress, Bona, who (about 1198) became the wife of William de Hilton. Their son and heir, Sir Alexander de Hilton (under age in 1208) was a Crusader in 1241, and died before 1243, leaving issue (see "The Lords of Alnwick," by Geo. Tate and W. H. D. Longstaffe).

3 Aluengi" is, doubtless, an error for "Aluenbi," the home of Aluuin, who, as stated in the text, once held a manor here. Ella, the brave king of Deira, who invaded his new kingdom by entering the Humber, may have selected this spot (which commands an extensive view of the river) for a residence, near to which a church would soon be erected. His name would be remembered long after that of Alwin was forgotten, and the place be thenceforward known as Kirk Ella.

4 The church was given to the monks of Selby by Gilbert Tison.

To the same manor belongs other [soke]:-in Wilgetot (Willitoft), seven bovates, and Gripetorp (Gribthorpe), two carucates, and Ladon (Laytham), eleven bovates. Together, for geld, four carucates and two bovates of land for geld (sic). The land is to three ploughs. Gislebert has four villanes and one bordar there with one plough and a half. In Nortdufelt (North Duffield) one carucate of land which belongs to Weresa (Wressel).

Manor. In Bonnebi (Gunby), Aluuin had one carucate and three bovates of land for geld. The land is to one plough. Now, Gislebert has one plough there, and one sokeman and two villanes with one plough. One leuga in length and four quarenteens in breadth. T. R. E., it was worth twenty shillings; now, sixty shillings.

5 The church of All Saints was given to the priory of Gisburn. "It was originally the mother church to Trinity, Hull" (Archbishop Sharp's MSS.).

In the Recapitulation, under "Hase Hundret," 14 carucates are assigned to G. Tison in "Weresa," and "Siuuarbi" is omitted there. In "Siuuardbi," in "Huntou Hundret " (Sewerby, near Bridlington), the Count of Mortain held 6 carucates, which quantity added to the 8 carucates mentioned in the text, nearly agrees with the Recapitulation. This is a curious coincidence (unless it be an error), and it is also singular that

the 6 carucates, soke in Spaldington, which are stated in the text to belong to "Weresa," are omitted in the Recapitulation.

7 The church at Wressel, which was dedicated to St. John of Beverley, was given to the priory of Drax by one of the Percies.

8 See note 6, supra.

In addition to the 1 car. 3 bov. which G. Tison held in "Bonnebi," the Recapitulation has: "Ibid. co. Mor' 5 bo." These five bovates are not accounted for in the detailed survey of the Count of Mortain's land, antea.