46 Erlestoke and its 3Ianor Lords. 



Herbert seems to have fallen into disfavour during the reign of 

 King Stephen, and to have lost his lands and his office of chamber- 

 lain, and certainly his position must have been a difficult one, for 

 on the one hand if not related to the King he was closely identified 

 with the house of Blois, while on the other hand one of his sons 

 was married to a daughter of Milo of Gloucester, the foremost 

 champion of the Angevin cause. By Sybil Corbet he seems to 

 have had at least two sons, Eobert and Herbert, and about the 

 year 1154 he must have died leaving his wife and sons surviving 

 him, for in February or March of 1155 Henry II. granted a charter 

 to Eobert Fitz-Herbert, by which he restored to him the land and 

 office of his father to be held as his father or his grandfather held 

 them in the time of Henry I. or other ancestors of the King,^ but 

 Alice Corbet was still living in 1157, in which year the Sheriff of 

 Sussex paid her £10 in respect of two years' allowance from the 

 King out of the issues of Mienesr 



Of Robert very little is known, but we have proof of his identity 

 in the grant by Matilda, the Empress, to St. Mary Abbey, Reading, 

 where the name of Reginald Fitz-Roy, which occurs among the 

 witnesses, is followed by that of Rodbert, his brother.^ Between 

 1160 and 1162 he is recorded in the Red Book and the Pipe Rolls 

 as paying scutage on two and a half knights' fees in Wiltshire, 

 and in 1164-5 he pays eleven marks in Hampshire, but after that 

 his name disappears, and it is to be presumed that he had died 

 and had been succeeded by his brother Herbert, who is the only 

 one of this family found in the Inquest of Knights made in 1166.* 



Herbert Fitz-Herbert (II.) is thus the sole representative of the 

 family whose descendants can be traced with certainty. He has 

 already been referred to as the successor of his father and grand- 

 father of the same name to two fees, held under the Bishop of 

 Winchester in Hampshire, and in the same county he had one fee 



' CartcB Antiquce, E. 33. 

 - Pipe Roll, Sussex, 3 Hen. II. 

 » B. M. Add. Ch., 19576. 

 '' Henry Fitz-Herbert occurs in the Red Book with the same holding in 

 Wiltshire as Robert and for the same period only. In 1171 the name re- 

 appears, but is there certainly a mistake for Herbert. 



