Hugh de Falaise, ancestor of (certain) Aguillons

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John P. Ravilious

Hugh de Falaise, ancestor of (certain) Aguillons

Legg inn av John P. Ravilious » 08 okt 2007 04:01:40

Sunday, 7 October, 2007


Hello All,

The Aguillon family(-ies) continue to generate more
recyclable paper than results, for which there is ample
evidence in the SGM archives. Meanwhile, there is some
advance concerning their ancestry (that of Sir Robert
Aguillon and the Bardolfs, anyway) through William de
Thorney. An interesting item from Rev. Bandinel's early
work on the Plea Rolls gives the following from 1229:

' [Fo. 24b.] Anno xiiij'to H. 3.

Sussex. 9. Gilb'tus Marescall et Cecilia uxor ejus,
Will'm's Aguillun, Ricard' Grenested, petunt v'
Ric'm de Cromhall' et alios ij partes feodi unius
mil' in Strathampton.

Emma de Falesby.
I
Will'm's.
____________________I__________________________
I I I I
Ric'us Emma mater Ric'i Margeria mater Cecilia
obiit de Grenested. W'i Aguillun. uxor
sine. Gilb'ti. '[1]


'Strathampton' is Strettington, in Boxgrove, Sussex,
which fortunately has been dealt with in detail in the VCH
County history series. As a result, we find that 'Emma de
Falesby' was actually Emma de Falaise, daughter of Hugh de
Falaise of Strettington, Sussex, a tenant of the honor of
Arundel in 1135. The detailed account is given below [2].

Presuming that Rosie will not mind my modifying her
previously submitted pedigree of the Thorney family,
following is what I have to date for Hugh de Falaise and
his descendants, down to William Aguillon (one of the
parties in the above plea of 1229).


1. Hugh de Falaise, of Strettington, Sussex, fl. 1135
(evidently also held North Marden, Sussex ca. 1135)
2. Emma de Falaise
+ Gilbert de Sartilli
+ NN de Thorney
3. William de Thorney
+ Mabilia
4. Richard de Thorney d.s.p. bef 1222
+ Matilda
4. Emma de Thorney
+ NN de Grenested
5. Richard de Grenested
4. Margery de Thorney d bef 1222
+ Richard Aguillon
5. William Aguillon
+ Joan filia Peter fitz Ailwin
4. Cecilia de Thorney
+ William Gardin
+ Gilbert Marshall
2. Agnes de Falaise
+ Hugh de Gundevill d. 1181
3. Agnes de Gundevill
+ Geoffrey son of Azo
4. NN de Gundevill
+ Richard Murdac
5. Margaret Murdac
+ Nicholas de Limesy
6. Walter de Limesy
5. Denise Murdac
+ Richard de Cromhall
5. Florence Murdac
+ William de London


Any and all additional documentation, comment and
criticism is welcome.

Cheers,

John *




NOTES

[1] Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls,
Collectanea topographica et genealogica (1834) I:264.

[2] A History of the County of Sussex, Volume 4: The Rape
of Chichester (1953), pp. 140-150 ['Boxgrove']. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report ... mpid=41725

' STRETTINGTON (fn. 110)
STRETTINGTON appears in Domesday as three estates; the largest,
rated at 10 hides, with 3 haws in Chichester, had been held of King
Edward by four free men and was held in 1086 by William; the second,
rated at 3 hides, with 1 haw, had been held by Godwin, a free man, and
was then held by Austin; the third, of 2 hides, had also belonged to
Godwin and was then held by Arnald, (fn. 111) who was probably the
Ernald who held at Up-Waltham, Graffham, and South Stoke. William's
estate seems to have been united to his chief manor of Halnaker and
only appears as 'the manor of Stretehampton' in 1506, (fn. 112) 1536,
(fn. 113) and 1566, (fn. 114) being elsewhere referred to only as
tenements or lands. William de St. John in about 1187 gave to Boxgrove
Priory the tithes of his rents in Strettington, amounting to 8s., and
pasturage rights there. (fn. 115)

Tithes in Graffham and Strettington were given in about 1100 to
the abbey of Troarn, (fn. 116) presumably by Ernald or his successor.
Strettington seems to have come to Hugh de Falaise, who held 5
knights' fees of the honor of Arundel c. 1135. (fn. 117) Hugh left two
daughters, Emma and Agnes, of whom the latter married Hugh de
Gundevill and also had two daughters, Agnes who married Geoffrey son
of Azo, and another who married Richard Murdac. (fn. 118) Hugh de
Gundevill died in 1181, (fn. 119) holding land in Strettington, (fn.
120) and Henry II gave this land to Henry Turpin, who was his
chamberlain. When Richard I went to the Holy Land Henry went with him,
and in his absence Geoffrey son of Azo and Agnes brought a suit
against him and obtained possession. Henry seems meanwhile to have
died, as his son William Turpin sent to King Richard at Messina and
recovered Strettington and held it until William, Earl of Arundel,
'knowing the ill will which King Richard had to the said William',
disseised him. (fn. 121) Eventually, in 1207, William Turpin sold his
claim to this knight's fee to Agnes de Gundevill. (fn. 122) In 1229
the Strettington fee was in dispute between the representatives of the
two daughters of Hugh de Falaise, (fn. 123) and in 1235 the whole fee
was assigned by William Aguillon, Richard de Grensted, and Gilbert
Marshal and Cecily his wife, descendants of Emma de Falaise, to
Margaret widow of Nicholas de Limesy, granddaughter of Agnes, and
Walter de Limesy her son. (fn. 124) At about this time Margaret de
Limesy and Walter made arrangements with the Prior of Boxgrove and the
Vicar of Westhampnett by which they were allowed to have a chapel in
their manor of 'Westrethampton', provided that their chaplain did not
celebrate any offices but the mass and the blessing of bread and
water, and that only for members of the household, not admitting
parishioners. (fn. 125) On the partition of the Arundel fees after the
death of Hugh d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel, in 1243 John FitzAlan
received 1? fee in Strettington, and ½ fee which Walter de Cherleton
held in the same vill, (fn. 126) but neither these fees nor this manor
of (West) Strettington can be traced later.'


footnotes [to VCH text]:

110 Occurs frequently in medieval records as Strethampton.
111 V.C.H. Suss. i, 434.
112 Suss. Rec. Soc. xxiii, 3380.
113 Ibid. xix, 195.
114 Ibid. 9.
115 Cott. MS. Claud. A. VI, fol. 16; Cal. Doc. France, 331.
116 Ibid. 167, 171. They were later acquired, with other
Troarn property in Sussex, by Bruton Priory: Cal. Pat.
1385-9, p. 373.
117 Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees, iii, 41.
118 Suss. Arch. Coll. lxxix, 49, and pedigree.
119 Farrer, op. cit. 42.
120 Pipe R. 35 Hen. II.
121 Curia Regis R. 23, m. 3.
122 Suss. Rec. Soc. ii, 103.
123 Suss. Arch. Coll. lxxix, 49.
124 Ibid.; Suss. Rec. Soc. ii, 298. Nicholas had given the
tithes of his demesne here to Troarn Abbey: ibid. xlvi,
234.
125 Cott. MS. Claud. A. VI, fols. 118, 119.
126 Cal. Close, 1242-7, p. 250.


* John P. Ravilious

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