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).
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 101 (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, 6841). 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.
Abbas. See l'Abbé, Labbe L'Abbé (Ralph)
Abbeville (Abbatisvilla, Abbevilla, Somme), Mercadier at the fair of, 183, 343
Abbeys, Philip Augustus's grants to Norman, 214 n.
Abbo of Fleury, on Gascony, 30-1 Abrincatinum. See Avranchin accidentia, 344. See revenue Achard (Geoffrey, Hugh) Acquigny (Akenny, Aquiniacum, arr. Louviers), part of the châtellenie of Vaudreuil, 161 and n., 250-2, 255 Acre, King Richard at, 345 n.
Ademar of Beynac, lands of, granted to Mercadier, 341
Ademar v, viscount of Limoges, in- trigues with Philip Augustus (1199), 187 and n.
Adolf, archbishop of Köln, a pensioner of Richard, 141
Agen, bishopric of, 235 n.
Agenais, the, ceded by Richard to Raymond of Toulouse, 130; how held of Aquitaine, ibid.
Agnes, d. of Conrad, count Palatine, niece of the Emperor Henry vi, 139 Aguillun (William)
Aguillun, Family of, and the English family of Courci, 493
Adam the Englishman, first mayor of Aibri, 260 and n.; See Aubri
Evreux, 147
Adam de Gravella, 110
Adam of Port, lord of Basing, marries Mabiria of Orval, heiress of Orval and niece of William of Saint-Jean, 502, 513; his son, William of Saint- Jean (2), 513
Adelmodis of Angoulême, 10 n. Ademar Taillefer, count of Angoulême, father-in-law of King John, captured by seneschal of Poitou (1193) and released, 148; does homage to Philip Augustus, 148 and n.; subdued by Richard, 153-4; regards Angoulême as independent of Poitou, 44 and n.; forms an alliance with John, 44, 208 and n.; claims to la Marche of, 44 n., 209 and n., 212, 213 n.; death of (1202), 44. See Isabella
Aid, the Norman, see auxilium; the viscount's, see auxilium vicecomitis Aids, 238, 346-7
L'Aigle (Gilbert, Richer) L'Aigle (Aquila, Orne, arr. Mortagne), 155 n., 292 and n., 372; honour of, in England and Normandy, 482, 485; history of English lands of, 485; Jews of, 355 n.
Aimeri, viscount of Thouars, supports Eleanor and John in 1199, 197, 199; made seneschal of Anjou and Touraine, 206; alienated by John, ibid.; reconciled to John by Eleanor, 41 n., 211 n., 212; deserts John (1202), 227; other references to, 223, 226 Aire (Area, Pas-de-Calais, arr. Saint- Omer), 135
Akenny, see Acquigny
Alain Barbetorte, count of Brittany,
and serfdom, 66 n.
Alan FitzCount, 231 n., 498
Alençon (continued).
other references to, 236, 243 n., 260, 261, 262, 263, 273, 372 Alethum, 166 n.; see Saint-Malo Alexander, called the Abbot, 296 n. Alfonse iii (viii), king of Castile, 131, 203
Alan of Ronci, captured by Richard at Alfonse of Brienne, count of Eu, 494; Gisors, 182
Alan the Welshman, 359 n.
Alban of Vire, bailiff of Vau de Vire, 112
Albert, bishop of Liège, murder of (1192), 139; see Henry, duke of
Albeterra, 341 n.
Albret (Amadieu)
Albret, house of, 10 n.
Albrincensis episcopatus, 396 n.; see Avranches
Alençon (Ella, John)
Alençon (Alenceum, Alenchon, Alenco, etc., Orne), counts of, 61; see John, Robert; and honour of, 51, 485; heirs to honour of, after the death of count Robert, 485, 498; town, castle, and bailiwick of, 111, 485; castle of, 93; construction of castle and keep of, 274, 275 and n.; ducal and count's control in, 269, 270; administration of, 73; viscounty and prepositura of, 74 n., 111, 117-8; exempted from pay- ment of fouage, 48 n.; town and castle acquired by Philip Augustus (1221), 485. See also, Châtellerault, Ella of Alençon, Robert Malet, Fulk Paynell, Ralph L'Abbé
conference of Norman barons at (1193), 143; surrendered to Philip (1203), 233 and n.; besieged by John, 237, 243, 244, 247 and n., 356 n.; refugees from, in Rouen (1204), 384, 386
Alfonse of Poitiers, son of Louis viii,
count of Poitou, 43 n., 284; inquests and accounts of, 34, 41-2 and n. Alfred, king, 100 n. Algais (Martin)
Alice, sister of Philip Augustus, de- manded by Philip (1192) 126; the treaty of Messina and, 127, 129; promised to John (1193), 143; restored to Philip and married to William, count of Ponthieu (1195-6), 159; dowry of, 159, 165, 177, 178 Alice, countess of Eu, wife of Ralph of Exoudun, 225 n., 494 Alienation, law of, 57, 60 Alienor, see Eleanor
Aliens, development of law of, in England, 422-3 Alihermont (Alacer Mons, Aliermons, arr. Dieppe), forest of, granted to the archbishop of Rouen, in exchange for Andeli (1197), 173, 174 n.; corn-rents of, 174 n.
Alnwick (Northumberland), 300, 301 Alphonso, see Alfonso Alsace-Lorraine, 417 Alston, in Tyndale (Cumberland), 520 Alvered of Saint-Martin, 72 n., 104, 279 Amadieu vii of Albret, 10 n. Amanvilla, see Osmanville Amauri iii, count of Evreux, 147 Amauri iv, count of Evreux, earl of Gloucester, son of Amauri iii, grand- son of William of Gloucester, 247, 258, 260, 430 n.; English lands of,
260; acquires Gloucester fiefs Normandy, 497; loses last of his Norman fiefs (1204), 498; his wife, d. of Hugh of Gournai, 498
Amauri, lord of Gacé in 1227, 497
Amauri of Sablé, lord of Gacé, knight
service of (1172), 497
Amauri of Tournebu, 517
Amboise (Ambaziacum, Ambasia, arr. Tours), 36; lord of, 229; ceded to Philip by John (1194), 148 Ambrières (Ambreriae, Mayenne, arr. Mayenne), 196, 217; added to Nor- mandy, 275 n.; keep of, built, 275; castle of, 111; possibly a bailiwick in 1180, 112; ceded by Arthur of Brittany to Juhel of Mayenne (1199),
Amiens (Ambiani, Somme), added to France (1185), 134; fiefs of Gournai in diocese of, 163, 498 Andecavensis regio, 283 n.; see Anjou Andegavia, 228 n. ; wide use of the term, 36 n.; see Anjou Andele, insula de, 292 n.; villa de, 305 and n.; see Andeli Andeli (Andele, Andeliacum), deanery of, 171; archiepiscopal manor of, 170; fouage of, 402 n.; rivalry between Richard and Philip for the possession of, 170 seqq; in the treaty of Louviers (1196), 170-1; seized by Philip, 171; fortified by Richard, 166, 172 n., 173, 281-3, 285 seqq; ceded to Richard by Walter, archbishop of Rouen, 173-4, 282; how administered, 263, 283: strategic importance of, 282; expendi. ture upon, 345; Richard at (1196-8), 166 n., 179, 181; retained by John by treaty of le Goulet (1200), 202; cap- tured by Philip Augustus, 375-6; grants by Philip in, 371; other refer-
ences to, 168, 185, 213, 219, 242 n., 263, 331, 359, 371, 387, 478, 517
old town of (le Grand Andelys), 286; financial independence of, 305 n. ; privileges of burgesses of, 314
new town of (le Petit Andelys), 286, 303, 305 n.; creation of, 283
isle of, 202, 216 n., 358 n. ; favourite residence of Richard, 288; buildings and work upon, 285-7, 303, 305 and n. ; treaty between Richard and the counts of Flanders and Boulogne concluded at (1197) 179 n.; captured by Philip, 242, 243
Rock of, 286; Château-Gaillard built upon, 174 and n.; see Château- Gaillard
forest of, 202 Andeliacum, see Andeli Andelle, river, 128, 221, 242 and n., 282, 371; Norman frontier restricted to, 273 n., 274
Les Andelys (Eure), see Andeli Andrew of Chauvigni, 199 n., 223; John cedes fiefs of, 203 and n. Andrew of Coutances, the satirist, 440 Andrew of Vitré, 404; becomes lord of Montbrai, 504; and Saint-Sever, 491; receives fiefs of Troisgots from Saint Louis, 518; brother of, 491 Anescy, 259
Anet (Anetum, arr. Dreux), 270 Angers (Andegavi, Maine-et-Loire),
additions to diocese of, in consequence of Angevin conquests, 30 n. ; prebend of, 288; abbey of Saint-Nicholas at, 192; strategic importance of, 11 seqq; John at (1200), 207 n.; occupied by John (1202), 228; by William des Roches, 229; in French hands (1203), 228; attacked by the seneschal of Poitou, 234 and n.; Philip's castle at,
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