282 ; Broughton Gifford. 
generally, whether the suzerain were a King or a mesne lord; 
which last was a vassal to the Crown, but a lord to vassals of his own. 
Several early documents! show that a certain Adeliza de Insula, 
daughter and heir of Hunfridus, conveyed the string of manors, 
belonging to the barony of Castle Combe, by marriage, to her hus- 
band, Reginald de Dunstanville, in the reign of Henry I. He, or 
one of his immediate successors, built a castle at Combe, which 
henceforth became Caput honoris sive baronic, the head seat of 
the barony.? Two knights’ fees were the Broughton allotment. 
In 1201 Broctone is taxed as late the land of Walter de Dun- 
stanville.? This Walter died 1240, and must have been the third 
in descent* from Adeliza. He attended King John in his inglorious 
campaign in Poitou; but returning he joined the Barons’ confe- 
deracy against the King, and terminated this glorious campaign in 
England at Runnymede. Another Walter de Dunstanville, his 
son, held in “ Brokton” two knights’ fees and two hides of the 
King in chief.° He joined the popular party under Leicester 
against Henry III., reduced that good man and bad King to in- 
significance by the “mise of Lewes,” and was rewarded by the 
governorship of Sarum castle. He died 1269. 
Castle Combe barony was sold, 1309, to Bartholomew Lord 
Badlesmere, and we find Broughton among the fees of his son 
Giles in Wilts;° and this, notwithstanding the richly deserved at- 
tainder of the father. Bartholomew Badlesmere had been the 
servant of the Crown, whose secrets he had betrayed to Thomas 
Earl of Lancaster and the confederate barons. That party had 
procured him the King’s pardon for his offences, and the custody 
of the royal castle of Ledes in Kent. His want of loyalty in that 
1 These belong rather to the History of Castle Combe by Mr. Poulett Scrope, 
where they may be seen. 
2 History of Wilts Manors subordinate to Castle Combe, by Mr, Poulett 
Scrope. Wilts Arch. Mag. ii, 263. See also Madox on tenures in capite. 
5 Rot. Cart. 3 John, quoted in History of Wilts Manors. 
4 J say the third on the authority of Courthope’s edition of Sir Harris Nicolas’ 
‘Historic Peerage.’ Dugdale makes the son of Adeliza to be Robert, and her 
grandson to be Reginald. Harris Nicolas omits Robert. 
5 Testa de Nevill, p. 137. 
6 Inguisitiones post mortem. 
