For Stephen of Longchamp's share see Testa, 300b, Rot. On the public career of Stephen of Longchamp see Stubbs, Osbert of Cailly (1)= Hildeburgh=(2) Robert of Picquigny CHESTER, the Earl of: The earl owed the service of 10 knights for his honour, of which the chief seats were Briquessart, a few miles south-west of Bayeux, and SaintSever near Vire (Calvados). He had in his service 511 knights (R.B., ii, 626). After the conquest Philip Augustus laid hold of his lands (H. de F., 706f,j, 707a,d, 709b). He gave Saint-Sever to André of Vitré and his brother (Actes no. 1000). For other references see C. N., no. 536, and Jugements, no. 232. The earl of Chester was hereditary viscount of the Bessin, the Avranchin and the Vau de Vire. His scattered fiefs in Normandy deserve elaborate study. A great deal of material has been collected by Stapleton and Round. A description of his fiefs in 1220 in H. de F., 611е, 612е, 620g, 633h, 636g,h. See Fougères. CLARE, fiefs of Richard, earl of Clare or Hertford: Philip Augustus confiscated these in 1204 (C.N., no. 113). They consisted apparently of those Norman lands which had come to him in 1191 when the honour of the Earl Giffard was divided (see Longueville, and Stapleton II, cxxxix). A list of fiefs of the honour of the earl is contained in the feodary drawn up shortly after the conquest (H. de F., 708, cf. 641 passim). Stapleton thinks that the terra Comitis Ricardi,' which was situated in Saint-Saens and the neigh bouring Omonville, and was in 1180 farmed by ducal agents, belonged to this earl of Hertford (Rot. Scacc., i, 59; Stapleton, II, cxxxvii). But Richard had succeeded to the earldom in 1173, and no reason has been alleged for the confiscation of his Norman lands by Henry II. It is more probable that the lands at Saint-Saens had belonged to his cousin, Richard, earl of Pembroke, who had been involved in the civil war in the middle of the century. See Montfort. CLEVILLE. In 1172 Jordan du Hommet owed the service of 3 knights for Clivilla, and had the service of 13 knights. After 1204 this fief became ducal demesne (R.B., ii, 630; H. de F., 707a, 621a). Cleville is in Auge (Calvados, arr. Caen). Jordan, who was constable of Séez, died in Palestine in 1192 (Estoire de la Guerre Sainte, 11. 4714-5, 10994). In 1198 John, son of Jordan du Hommet, was an accomptant in the bailiwick of Lieuvin (Rot. Scacc., ii, 374). Again, in 1203 the king ordered the bailiff of the Lieuvin to allow John du Hommet the tallage of his men in the bailiwick (R.N., 82). Jordan, the brother of the constable William, is identified by Stapleton with the baron of 1172. In 1204 John du Hommet had land at Sherringham in Norfolk (Rot. Claus., i, 7); at this time it was apparently in the king's hands (5 September 1204), but he had fined for his lands before the following June, (Ibid, 38b; Rot. Fin., 259). Though they were certainly in royal hands in 1207 (Rot. Claus., 79b) John appears again in possession later (Rot. Fin., 503, 586; R.B., ii, 533, 539, 552). COLOMBIERES, fief of Philip of: In June 1204, Philip Augustus gave Gérard du Marche the land of Philip of Colombières up to the annual value of £100 of Anjou (C.N., no. 88; Actes, no. 832). For this baron see above, p. 245 п. His Norman lands were situated near Roumare, and were probably part of the fief of William of Roumare (Stapleton, II, clx). Delisle notes that members of this family, bearing the same name, held lands in Normandy in the thirteenth century (C.N., no. 88 note; cf. H. de F., 736e). For the English barony of Philip, see the Testa (passim) and cf. G.E.C. (1889), ii, 333. As an opponent of John in 1215 he for a time lost his lands (Rot. Claus., i, 231b, 237, 277, 308). COURCI. The Norman honour of Courci was centred in the valley of the Dive (Calvados) at Courci and Ecajeul-surDive. In 1172 William of Courci owed the service of 5 knights for the former and of 3 knights for the latter. In his own service he had fifty knights (R.B., ii, 627). In 1204 the honour was held by Robert of Courci, who stayed in Normandy (H. de F., 706d). He appears in various inquisitions and charters between 1205 and 1226 (C.N., nos. 124, 326, 1140). On the Norman lands see the charters in Round, Calendar, pp. 430-3, from the chartulary of Marmoutier, mostly in favour of the priory of Saint Vigor at Perrières, near Courci. Robert's English lands were situated at Bilsington in Kent (R.N., 140), and at Warblington and Emsworth in Hampshire. Bilsington was granted in 1207 to the earl of Arundel; Warblington and Emsworth to William Aguillun (Stapleton, De antiquis legibus, pp. xxxix-xl and notes). In the reign of Edward I, the latter fiefs came in touch again (through the Aguillun family) with the great English honour of Courci (Ibid). In his Introduction to the acts of Henry II (p. 440) Delisle distinguishes the Robert of Courci, who attests so many of Henry's charters, from the subject of this note. CREULLY. This place, on the river Seule to the east of Bayeux (Calvados), was the seat of the honour which was held in 1172 by Richard, son of the earl of Gloucester (cf. above, p. 272 n). The return of his service was omitted from the roll included in the Red Book, but is preserved by the Register A of Philip Augustus. He owed the service of 3 knights and had that of II. His heir, Philip of Creully, died between 1198 and 1202. Geoffrey des Roches had the custody of his heir until he deserted John in 1202 (R.N., 62; Rot. Pat., 23, 24, 25). John gave the office to Richard of Reviers, but after the loss of Normandy, Geoffrey des Roches regained possession (H. de F., 694h). In 1219 the lord of Tillières, once ward of Philip of Creully, had the honour, probably as the brother of Philip's wife. (See V.C.H., Surrey, iii, 291.) In 1220, Philip's younger brother Richard held Monthuchon (Manche), which was part of the honour, of the lord of Tillières (Stapleton II, 1. Perhaps the place which gave the name to the old pagus Corilisus (Stapleton, I, xlii). xlv note, lv, clxxvi). In 1272 Ralph of Creully held the fief (H. de F., 755c). For the antecedents and extent of the honour see the charters in Round, Calendar, pp. 164, 336-8, 521, 535. See Tillières. ESNEVAL. In 1172 Robert of Esneval (Seine-Inferieure) owed the service of 3 knights and had that of 124 (R.B., ii, 630). In 1204 his son, Robert, was one of the Norman barons who signed the capitulation of Rouen and afterwards joined Philip Augustus (above, p. 384; C.N., no. 124; H. de F., 643d, 707h). EU. The history of the county of Eu and of its count, Ralph of Exoudun, has frequently detained us (cf. above, p. 218 n). Ralph held the honour in right of his wife Alice, and was a Poitevin who did not long remain loyal to Philip, in spite of the precautions taken by the king (Actes, nos. 966, 1182, edited pp. 510, 515). He died in 1219, when his widow received the greater part of her honour of Eu from Philip (C.N., no. 276, p. 304). Owing no doubt to the services rendered to John and Henry III by Ralph of Exoudun, the countess of Eu retained possession of the vast English possessions of the honour until 1242, a few years before her death (see the valuable discussion in Stapleton II, ccxxxii— ccxxxvi).1 Alfonse of Brienne, the husband of her grand-daughter, and his son John, made the well-known claim to possess Hastings and Tickhill in the years 1259 and 1290 (see above, p. 422). FERRIERES. The Norman family of Ferrières, which must be distinguished from the English family which had the earldom of Derby, had its seats at Ferrières-St. Hilaire and Chambrais (Broglie), both upon the river Charentonne in the department of Eure. In 1172 Walchelin of Ferrières owed the service of 5 knights and had 423 in his service (R.B., ii, 630). He was with Richard during his captivity in January 1194, at Speyer (Round, Calendar, p. 469), having been sent with treasure from Normandy (Rot. Scacc. i, 249). He died in 1201 and was succeeded by his son 1. She died in 1245 according to the chronicle of the Counts of Eu, H. de F., 442. Henry (Rot. de Fin., 178; Stapleton II, lxix). Henry joined Philip (C.N., no. 124; H. de F., 684e, 710c). The English lands of this house included the manors of Oakham in Rutland and of Lechlade in Gloucestershire. Walchelin of Ferrières had given the latter to his other son Hugh. His daughter, Isabella, wife of Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, was after 1204 allowed a life interest in both manors (Testa, 39, 77; Rot. Claus., i, 390 b; Stapleton II, cxxii-v, and the authorities there quoted). After her death they escheated to the crown as terrae Normannorum. See Banks, Dormant and Extinct Baronage, i, 75. FONTENAI. Fontenai-le-Marmion (Calvados) is situated above the valley of the Laize, south of Caen, and was apparently held of the honour of Beaumont-le-Roger by Robert Marmion (H. de F., 710h). After 1204 Robert Marmion stayed in England, but his eldest son Robert, remained in Normandy (see his charters quoted by Delisle, C.N., no. 273 note, and no. 378 note, and Stapleton II, civ). The latter's son, Philip, left Normandy for England, and in 1256 Joan, daughter of Ralph Tesson, had the disposition of the Norman fief in virtue of some relationship (Stapleton II, cvii). The circumstances under which Philip Marmion came to England are significant. Robert Marmion the elder died in 1218 leaving, in addition to Robert of Fontenai, another son Robert, by a second wife. In May 1218, after his father's death, this second son Robert, made an elaborate fine with Henry III, whereby he was to hold the extensive English lands of his father' until the lands of the English and Normans should be common to both' again. On his elder brother's return, he would retire to the lands already granted to him by his father. Robert, the eldest son, availed himself of this arrangement in 1220 and, in spite 1. Excerpta e rotulis finium, i, 9, 10. "Robertus Marmiun junior finem fecit cum domino Rege per quingentas libras pro habenda custodia castri de Tameworth et terrarum que fuerunt Roberti patris sui, unde fuit saisitus die quo obiit quousque terre Anglie et Normannie sint communes, ita quod Anglici habeant terram suam in Normannia et Normanni terras suas in Anglia,, et si forte antequam terre predicte sint communes supradicto modu, Robertus frater ejus senior veniat ad pacem domini Regis," etc. |