304 Erlestoke and its Manor Lords. 
was another son named Ralph, who did homage for Bratton and 
Estrop on the death of his father in 1246, and who died in 1280. 
At his death one Thomas was found to be his nearest heir, and at 
this period also Robert de Mandeville held land in Bratton of the 
King in chief, but in 1299 William Maundeville held Bratton “as 
of his inheritance after the death of Ralph Maundeville his father,” 
and it is to be presumed that Thomas had died and had been 
succeeded by a brother named Ralph, the father of William, for 
when, in 1333, William died he was succeeded by a brother named 
John, who was born in 7295. John survived his brother two years 
only, and left a widow, Benedicta, who gave her manor of Bratton 
and Estrop to Edington Monastery in 1361. The grant was con- 
firmed by the next heir, Joan, the cousin of Benedicta and the wife 
of Nicholas atte Hoke. 
To return now to the West of England family: contemporary 
with William de Mandeville, father of the first Earl of Essex, 
were Geoffrey and Roger de Mandeville, described as brothers in 
a charter of the Abbey of St. Sauveur? to which they are witnesses, 
with Eudo, Viscount of the Cotentin who succeeded his brother 
Nigel, baron of St. Sauveur, in this office in 1092.3 Their names 
appear together again as witnesses to two charters of Richard de 
Redvers, who died 1107, recorded in the cartulary of the Abbey 
of Montebourg, one granting Lodres, Exmouth, and land in the 
Isle of Wight to that abbey,’ and the other establishing canons at 
Néhou,® near St. Sauveur. 
These brothers are heard of in England for the first time in the 
reign of Henry IL, and they no doubt followed that prince from 
Normandy on his accession to the throne, for Rover is known to 


1 Wilts Notes and Queries, vols. 2 and 3 Records of Parishes: Bratton. 
? France, Bibl. Nat., MS., Latin, 17187, fol. 24. 
3 Stapleton, I., lxxxvi. 
* Ord. Vit., Bohn, III., 418. 
°> France, MS., Latin, 10087, Nos. 141, 143. 
® Ibid, No. 144. 

