
308 Erlestoke and its Manor Lords. 
original grant was made by Henry I. to an ancestor of Roger de 
Mandeville. At the same time it is worthy of note that the 
defendant gained the day on the technical plea that, though he 
alone was cited, he was not the sole owner. 
In Normandy Roger (III.) had extensive landed interests, as 
appears from his many grants to the Abbey of Montebourg. In 
Goesberville (canton, St. Mére-Eglise) he gave all his land and what 
interest he had in its church)! in “ Cerhaus” all the land he had 
in his domain,? in Gratot (near Coutances) his interest in the 
Church of the Blessed Mary* and the tithes appertaining to his 
fee ; and in Otheville, near Cherbourg, the advowson of the Church.* 
He also gave to the Priory of Monroc (near Néhou) ten acres 
in “Escorchepore” and twelve quarters of corn from his mill of 
“ Roca,” and to the abbey the reversion of the advowsons of 
Puteville (St. Maurice, near Barneville) and “Stoches,” with all 
its appurtenances, both of which were then in the possession of 
Julian Malesarz.° 
In one of the charters, referred to above, Roger’s wife, A. de 
Nonant, is a witness, and in several of them his brother William 
de Mandeville is a consenting party. 
Roger died in 1198 and was succeeded by this brother,® whose wife 
was the Mabilia Patric referred to above. William de Mandeville 
died soon after his brother, leaving his wife surviving him, and an 
only daughter, Joan, who succeeded to his property in England 
and Normandy and conveyed it to her husband, Theodore Teutonicus, 
in 1200.7 In 1202 this husband was dead and she was married a 


1 MS., Latin, 10087, Nos. 256, 257. 
> Ibid, No. 259. 
3 [bid, No. 267. 
* [bid, No. 280. 
5 [bid, No. 266. 
6 Pipe Roll, 9 Ric. 1. 
7 Rotuli de Oblatis, Hardy, p. 87. 
