By John Watson- Taylor. 53 



her grandson/ a part of her father's Wiltshire property of which 

 her sister, Margaret de Bohun also held a share. At a later date 

 Lucia, " who was the wife of Herbert Fitz-Herbert," held with her 

 grand-nephew, Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, the manors of 

 Southani and Brockhampton, in Gloucestershire, under the Bishop 

 of Worcester,^ but in 1217 she was dead (in fata concessit), for in 

 tliat year, the son Peter being in disgrace with King John, the 

 Sheriff of Berkshire was ordered to let the Abbot of Abingdon have 

 seisin of the manor of Leckhampstead, which " Lucy de Hereford, 

 the mother of Peter Fitzherbert," had held.^ 



The survivors of the family were now the brothers Peter and 

 Matthew, of whom Peter, as the elder, succeeded to all the estates 

 that his father had held, leaving Matthew without any inheritance 

 in land, so that whereas in Wiltshire Peter had property in Stanton, 

 Manningford, Chirton, Widhill, and Seagry,* Matthew had only 

 Erlestoke, and its small appurtenance in Yatesbury, and perhaps 

 another small holding in Haxton.^ 



The first appearance of Matthew's name in the records, apart 

 from his presence as a witness to the grant to Waverley Abbey, 

 which must have passed before 1192, is in 1197, when he and his 

 brother Peter were apparently serving with King Eichard against 

 Philip of France, for they were present as witnesses to an order 

 issued from the Isle of Andely directing that all kettle nets and 

 wears were to be removed from the Thames on account of the detri- 

 ment they caused to the citizens of London.*^ After the death of 

 Kichard the brothers transferred their allegiance to King John, and 

 Matthew continued faithful to him throughout his troubled reign. 

 Itniust havebeen in the first year of this reign that Matthew married 

 Joan de Mandeville, the heiress of Erlestoke, and widow of Theodore 

 Teutonicus, though some records make it appear to have been later, 



' T. de N., pp. 136, 139, 150, 153i. 



- T. de N., p. 42J. ; cf. Fosbrooke, Gloucester ski re, sub Cleeve Hundred. 



^ Rot. Litt. Claus., p. 296 ; cf. Coll. Toj). et Geneal., i., 169. 



' R. B., pp. 483, 484, 489 ; T. de N., pp. 141, 150, 155. 



^ R. B., p. 483 ; T. de N., pp. 142, 150. 

 , ^ Rymer's Fnpdera, i., 67. 



