306 Erlestoke and its Manor Lords. 
He had no doubt been one of the “flower of the youth of 
England” who under the leadership of Baldwin had lately been 
compelled to surrender the castle of Exeter to King Stephen * after 
a siege of three months. From Exeter he probably fled with 
Baldwin to the Isle of Wight, and thence, when threatened by 
King Stephen from Southampton, to the court of the Count of 
Anjou.” 


In 1139 Baldwin returned to England “ with a bold and spirited 
band of soldiers,” and landed at Wareham with the main army of 
the Empress Maud,? and Stephen de Mandeville no doubt came 
over with his friend, for in 1142 he is found actively fomenting 
the civil war in the west and “ busily employed in undermining 
the King’s power.”* From this time until he made his journey to 
Jerusalem we have no information as to his movements, but it 
seems doubtful if such a “persevering soldier” and consistently 
loyal adherent to the Angevin cause would have abandoned his 
efforts on behalf of the Empress and her son until success had 
been achieved. For this reason, and for others given above, it 
seems probable that the journey to Jerusalem occurred after the 
Treaty of Wallingford (1153) had secured the succession of Henry 
of Anjou to the English throne, and that Stephen de Mandeville 
died in 1154. 
The cartularies of St. Sauveur and Montebourg supply several cs 
details of his family and of his possessions in Normandy. His gift — 
of four quarters of corn from his mill at Olonde is confirmed to the © 
former by Roger de Argentiis* one of the family to whom Olonde 
was granted by Philip Augustus in 1205,° and his gift of a sixth — 
part of the corn of his mill at Barneville by his son Roger,’ who 



1 Gesta Stephani, Bohn, p. 337. 
2 Thid, p. 344. Roger de Wendover, I., 485. 
3 Gesta Stephani, p. 364. 
4 Tbid, p. 417. 
°> MS., Latin, 17137, No. 208. 
5 Stapleton, II., exe. 
7MS., Latin, 17157, No. 311. 
