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have been one of the leaders of his party in the Cotentin during the 
struggle between the two sons of the Conqueror.t 
It was no doubt as a reward for these services of the past, that 
the brothers received grants of land in the West of England from 
Henry I. In Devonshire Geoffrey had the manor of Wonford, in 
Heavitree,? and in Dorsetshire the important barony of Marshwood,* 
and in Wiltshire the manor of Sutton, while Roger is known to 
have had the manor of Woodbury,‘ Devon, and probably received 
other manors at this time which are found to have been in the 
possession of his family at a later period.® In Normandy Roger is 
found joining in the grant of the Churches of St. Martin and St. 
Medard, of Gouey, to the Abbey of St. Sauveur,® and as Gouey is 
_ close to Olonde it may be presumed that this fief was already in the 
family’s possession. Roger was succeeded by his son, Stephen, who 
followed his father’s example in his fidelity to the family of Henry 
L, and was a strenuous supporter of the Empress Maud. He is first 
heard of as joining with Baldwin de Redvers in the raid made on 
the Cotentin by Raymond de Dunstanville in 1138.7 

' Memoires de la Société des Antiquaires de Normandie, I., 266. 
2 Pole’s Devon, p. 233. 
’ Batten, Historical Notes, South Somerset, p. 116. 
4 Pole, Devon, p. 155. 
_ 5 The connection between the Marshwood and Erlestoke families is further 
indicated by the Montebourg and Montacute cartularies. Before 1174 
William Avenel confirmed to the Abbey of Montebourg the grant of the 
land of ‘‘ Buscherville,’ which was of the fee of Robert de Mandeville, and 
which Margaret, his (Robert’s) wife, and Geoffrey, his son, had given with 
the consent of Earl Baldwin and Stephen de Mandeville, for the soul of the 
same Robert and of his daughter, the wife of William Avenel (MS. Latin, 
10087, No. 272). Geoffrey, the son of Robert, also confirmed this grant of 
his father’s, and the same Geoffrey has a charter in the Montacute cartulary 
to which Roger de Mandeville is a witness with, among others, Herbert de 
Pinu and Herbert de Monasteriis, two of the witnesses to the Erlestoke mill 
eharter (Som. Record Society, vol. 8, p. 138). In 1305 Sir John de Mandeville 
confirmed to Montacute Priory the grant of Erlestoke mill made by his 
“ancestor,” Roger de Mandeville. The term ‘ ancestor” is not to be taken 
iterally, but the descent of Sir John from Geoffrey I., of Marshwood, the 
Notes on South Somerset (p. 114). 
: 6 MS., Latin, 17137, fols. 4, 15. 
7 Ord. Vit., IV., 196. 
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