d. 1233

TOURNEBU. In 1172 Thomas of Tournebu (Eure, arr. Louviers) owed the service of 3 knights for his 17. His successor appears to have been Amauri, whose fief at SaintSulpice, near Bayeux, was farmed by the duke in 1198 (Rot. Scacc., ii, 376). In 1204 Robert of Harcourt and his son Richard had possession of the Tournebu lands in England and Normandy (H. de F., 695c; R. N., 140; Stapleton II, ccv-ccvi). In 1220 the lord of Tournebu was John, who said that he held 16 fees by the service of 2 (H. de F., 619a; cf. 684f, 772h). The English manor at Charborough in Dorset was granted to Richard of Tournebu in 1215 (Rot. Claus., i, 186b). In 1212 Richard was in Normandy (Testa, 163b); and a baron of this name had half a fee of the honour of Evreux (H. de F., 636a).

On the family see also Tardif, Coutumiers, I, i, 104-5.

TOSNY. Roger of Tosny (Eure, arr. Louviers) held lands on either side of the Seine near Andeli, and also in the honour of Bellencombre (Rot. Scacc., ii, 431). Tosny was given to Cadoc (C.N., nos. 118, 119, 363; Actes, no. 1790); the lands on the right bank of the river, at Heuqueville and elsewhere went in 1218 to Walter the young, the chamberlain (Ibid, no. 271).

For the hostility of Philip Augustus towards Roger, and for other references, see above, pp. 199 note, 431.

Roger is mentioned in the English records as in possession of some English lands, but the head of the English family was Ralph, whose ancestors had held their Worcestershire honour since the 11th century (Testa, 40, 41, etc.).

TRACY. Three distinct fiefs are mentioned in the list of 1172, those, namely, of Oliver, William and Turgil of Tracy.

Turgil of Tracy (Tracy-sur-Mer, arr. Bayeux) owed in 1172 the service of 2 knights, and had the service of 8 (R.B., ii, 628). He was succeeded by a William of Tracy who died before 1200. In that year William of Pirou fined with John for his lands (R.N., 38; H. de F., 694j; Stapleton II, cxxxviii). From the marginal reference in the Norman rolls and from the later lists of knights and knights' fees (see H. de F., 619e, 707f, 736h) it appears that the fief of Turgil had been held partly of the castle of Vire, and lay

1. So the Index, H. de F. There is a Tracy between Vire and Caen.

in part in the Cotentin (cf. Stapleton I, clxxx; Rot. Scacc., ii, 536). William of Pirou and his descendants continued to hold the fief.

Oliver of Tracy in 1172 owed the service of 1 knight to the count of Mortain (R.B., ii, 635). He is said to have died in 1178 and to have been succeeded by his son Oliver (V.C.H., Devon, i, 557; but see Stapleton II, ccxl, to the contrary). In England he held a moiety of the honour of Barnstaple, which was also claimed by William of Briouze (Stapleton II, clxxxvi, ccxl). After his or his son Oliver's death in 1210, Henry of Tracy got his Englisk lands (Rot. Pat., 101; cf. Testa, 175), and, in 1213, he was granted the entire Barnstaple honour, Tavistock, etc. (Rot. Claus., i, 137). The Norman fief is not mentioned in the lists subsequent to 1204.

William of Tracy in 1172 owed the services of a knight in the bailiwick of le Passeis (R.B., ii, 639). He appears to have died about the same time as his namesake mentioned above (Rot. de Finibus, 15). He was succeeded by his son Henry who united the English lands of the Tracy family (cf. for Henry, son of William, R.B., i, 121, 160; Rot. Chart., 79b; Stapleton II, ccxl note).

According to the V.C.H., Devon, i, 557, Henry Tracy was the son of Oliver Tracy. If so, there were two Henries in Devonshire.

TROISGOTS. The fief of Troisgots (Manche, arr. Saint-Lô) was held in 1172 by William of Tresgoz (R.B., ii, 633). In 1220 it was an escheat in the king's hands (H. de F., 612d), although by a grant of 1218 Milo of Lévis had the usufruct of the land which William's successor Robert had held at Troisgots and the neighbouring Fevarches and SaintRomphaire (C.N., no. 265). In 1231 St. Louis gave these lands to Andrew of Vitré (C.N., no. 1147). This Robert of Troisgots or Tresgoz was an important bailiff and official in the reigns of Richard and John (Stapleton I, clxxiv). In England he was lord of Ewyas Harold in Herefordshire (Testa, 66b, 275; R.B., i, 129; ii, 496). For his descendants see G.E.C., vii, 424.

VASSY. Vassy (Vaaceium) is in Calvados (arr. Vire) between Condé and Vire. In 1172 Juliana of Vassy held the honour by the service of 4 knights (R.B., ii, 629). In 1220 Philip

of Vassy held by the service of 2 knights (H. de F., 619a). He had succeeded to his lands in 1198 (Rot. Scacc., ii, 471, see also H. de F., 695c, 707c).

See Fontenai.

VIEUXPONT. On the roll of 1172 two families of Vieuxpont are mentioned.

1. William of Vieuxpont is stated to owe the service of 2 knights and to have 11 in his service (R.B., ii, 631). Register A adds the words "in ballia Sagieusi (H. de F., 695h), and this fief would therefore seem to be identical with that mentioned in the Feoda Normanniae and the register of 1220 as in the bailiwick of Exmes (Ibid, 706e, 636e). There is a Vieuxpont south of Ecouché near Argentan. Now fees of William of Vieuxpont are mentioned at Ecouché (C.N., no. 283) and at Nonant, in the same district, south of Exmes (H. de F., 636e). This William, who was alive in 1224 (C.N., no. 326, in connection with an inquiry concerning Domfront), was probably the grandson of the William of Vieuxpont who was alive in 1172; in 1198, the land of Robert of Vieuxpont at Chaioullé, north of Séez, was in the king's hand (Rot. Scacc., ii, 389), and it is reasonable to suppose that this land belonged to the same fief and that the lord was recently deceased.

2. The relationship, if any, between William of Vieuxpont and Fulk of Vieuxpont is obscure. In 1172 Fulk owed the service of 2 knights and had that of 10 (R.B., ii, 629). He was alive in 1198 (Rot. Scacc., ii, 402, 407). In John's reign the lord of Vieuxpont (Vieuxpont-en-Auge, Calvados, arr. Lisieux) was Robert of Vieuxpont, who was lord of Courville in France (Eure-et-Loir). In 1202, after the outbreak of war between Philip and John, he went into France, and his lands at Vieuxpont were granted to his brother William and afterwards to his nephew Robert (R.N., 49, 55, 91). This Robert last-mentioned was very active in John's service during 1203; he was bailiff in the Roumois, with charge of the king's interest at Rouen, and also in Caen. After the separation he was equally active, as lord of Westmoreland, in England. His father, William, apparently died between the 13th July 1202, when Vieuxpont was granted to him (R.N., 55) and the 6th May 1203, when it was granted to Robert (Ibid, 91). William's eldest son, Ivo, succeeded to his English lands, Hurdinstone in

Northamptonshire, and Alston in Tyndale (Stapleton II, cclxv-vii). But in the civil war Ivo took sides against the king, and Robert was, as John's adherent, granted Hurdinstone in 1217 (cf. Farrer, Lancashire Pipe Rolls, p. 258).

In the meantime Vieuxpont was held by the widow of Robert the elder. She brought up the heir in France (H. de F., 619j; cf. the reference, 684h). See Stapleton II, cclxvi.

1. For a time, unless the addition in Register A is misleading, William of Vieuxpont had the honour after 1204 (H. de F., p. 695b). This could not be the English baron, the brother of Robert, who was dead; he was perhaps the baron mentioned in the early part of this discussion, who lived in the bailiwick of Séez.