STONE HUNDRED 



Walter also held 2 hides of land in Hart well, which 

 may perhaps have later become part of the parish of 

 Great Kimble." They were granted to the same 

 sub-tenant, Hugh de Bolebec, so that such a trans- 

 ference seems possible, since no land in Hartwell 

 appears to have belonged to Walter Giffard's descen- 

 dants." The 2 hides had not, however, been added 

 to Great Kimble in 1254, when it was said to con- 

 tain 20 hide;," the same assessment having been made 

 in the Domesday Survey." 



Walter Giffard was made Earl of Buckingham," 

 and his lands formed the honour of Giffard, of which 

 Crendon, in the hundred of Ashendon, was the head 

 in England." On the death of the second earl, Walter 

 Giffard, in 1 164," the honour came into the hands of 

 the Crown." It was not divided amongst the de- 

 scendants of Rohais, daughter of the first earl, until 

 the reign of Richard I." Her heirs were William 

 Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and Richard de Clare, 

 Earl of Hertford." Crendon went to the Clares, but 

 Great Kimble formed part of the Marshals' moiety." 

 In 1254 the overlordship of the three knights' fees in 

 Kimble was held by Simon de Montfort, Earl of 

 Leicester," in dower, together with his wife Eleanor, 

 the widow of the second William Marshal, Earl of Pem- 

 broke." On the death of the last Earl Marshal with- 

 out children, Great Kimble was assigned to Eva de 

 Braose, one of his sisters and co-heiresses.** Eleanor 

 outlived Eva, but in 1275 the escheator was ordered 

 to deliver her purparty to the heirs of Eva, who were 

 Roger Mortimer and his wife Maud, Eudo la Zouche 

 and his wife Milicent, John de Hastings and Humphrey 

 de Bohun. 14 None of these heirs, however, seem to 

 have obtained the overlordship of the fees in Kimble, 

 and in 1284-6 it was held in chief by Gilbert de 

 Clare, Earl of Gloucester," inheriting them from 

 Isabel, another sister of the Earl of Pembroke." Thus 

 Great Kimble was united with the other moiety of 

 the honour of Giffard, of which Crendon was the 

 head. 



In the 1 4th century these fees seem to have been 

 claimed by Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke." 

 He had inherited the lands of the Munchesney family," 

 and Warine de Munchesney had married Joan, one of 

 the five sisters of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke." 

 Aymer had thus a claim equal to that of Eva de 

 Braose and the Earl of Gloucester to the three fees in 

 Kimble, but they do not seem to have been divided, 

 since in 1403 Edmund Earl of Stafford is said defi- 

 nitely to hold three knights' fees.* In spite of this 

 Aymer de Valence," his co-heiress Elizabeth Comyn, 

 and her husband Richard Talbot," and their son 

 Gilbert, are all said to have held knights' fees in 

 Kimble.** 



GREAT KIMBLE 



Walter Giffard sub-infeoffed Hugh de Bolebec of 

 his land in Great Kimble " Hugh was succeeded by 

 his son, another Hugh, who confirmed various grants 

 made by sub-tenants to the abbey of Missenden,** and 

 in 1 166 he held twenty knights' fees of the honour of 

 Giffard." He was succeeded by Walter de Bolebec." 

 The latter died before 1 190-1, leaving only daughters. 

 One of these, Isabella, was in the wardship of Aubrey 

 de Vere, Earl of Oxford.** She married his eldest 

 son Robert, and became Countess of Oxford in his 

 right. 1 * Early in the I3th century she held the 

 mesne overlordship of three knights' fees in Great 

 Kimble, 4 * which was inherited by her son, 4 ' and was- 

 held by the de Veres until the 

 abolition of feudal tenures." 

 In 1631 Robert de Vere, Earl 

 of Oxford, died seised as over- 

 lord of three knights' fees, his 

 lands passing to his son and 

 heir Aubrey." 



The chief sub-tenant in 

 Great Kimble under Hugh de 

 Bolebec early in the I zth cen- 

 tury appears to have been 

 Giffard Palefridus of Kimble. 

 He granted the church of 

 Great Kimble 44 to the abbey 

 of Missenden shortly after 

 its foundation in 1133," with a virgate of land 

 and meadow. His son, William Giffard, or William 

 son of Giffard de Kimble, confirmed this grant, 46 

 and his grandson Richard Giffard made additional 

 grants." Hugh de Kimble, presumably the son. 

 of Richard Giffard, died about 1205-6, when a re- 

 grant of the wardship of his heir was made to Adam 

 de Essex. 48 John son of Hugh de Kimble made large 

 grants in the parish to the abbey and to various 

 members of his family. 4 * His mother Amice married 

 Geoffrey Crok, and they obtained from John a grant 

 in fee for the yearly rent of *</. of one-third of one 

 knight's fee, and one ' yoke ' of land " in Kimble. This 

 must have been the land that hitherto Amice had held 

 in dower for life, and since she would be entitled to 

 dower in one-third of her husband's whole estate, he 

 must have held one knight's fee in demesne during 

 his life. John de Kimble seems to have left no sons 

 at his death, since shortly after the grant to Geoffrey 

 Crok, the tenants of the three fees were Emma and 

 Maud, who may have been his daughters and heiresses." 



From this time the land was held by tenants in 

 demesne in three knights' fees. The Abbot of Mis- 

 senden held one of these," obtained mainly from 

 alienations made by Giffard Palefridus and his suc- 

 cessors and tenants. The other two were in the 



Vitt, Earl of Olford. 

 Quarterly gu'fi and or 

 with a motet argent in the 

 quarter. 



> V .C.H. ButkM. i, 147*. 



"Ibid. 



>> Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, ji. 



V.C.H. Bucki. i, 247*- 



14 G.E.C. Comflett Peerage. 



" Cart. Antiq. (P.R.O.), S. 19. 



" G.E.C. Comflett Peerage. 



V Red Bk. ofExck. (Roll. Ser.), 37. 



u G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



Cart. Antiq. (P.R.O.), S. 19. 



Ibid. 



Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 31. 



Cal. if Clou, 1271-9, p. 190. 



Ibid. " Ibid. 



FcuJ. A'sdi, i, 75. 



G.E.C. Comflett Pierage. 

 17 Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. II, no. 7;. 



Cf. Dinton. 



De Banco R. 434, m. 308. 



w Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 41. 



u Ibid. 17 Edw. II, no. 7$. 



n Cal. of Clou, 1323-7, pp. 173-4 1 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 Ric. II, no. 51. 



u Ibid. 7 Hen. V, no. 68. 



* y.CM. Buck,, i, 247*. 



u HarL MS. 3688. 



Red Bk. ofExtk. (Roll. Ser.), 311. 



*! Ibid. 54, 71. 



Ibid. 71. 



" Ibid. 138 | Bxctrfttt t Rot. Fin. (Rec. 

 Com.), i, 75. 



Teita dt Nevill (Rec. Com.), 247. 



41 Cal. of Chit, 1271-9, p. 190 ; Feud. 

 Aid,, i, 75. 



299 



41 Ibid, i, ill; Chan. Inq. p.m. 10 

 Ric. II, no. 38 ; ibid. 38 & 39 Hen. VI,. 

 no. 39 ; Ezch. Inq. p.m. bdle. 15, no. 1 1 ; 

 Feet of F. Bucki. Eait. 26 Eliz. 



a Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccUiiii 

 no. 15. 



44 HarL MS. 3688. 



y.C.H. Buck,, i, 369*. 



"Harl. MS. 3688. 



V Ibid. 



41 Rat. dt Fin. tt Oklat. (Rec. Com.), 

 318. 



HarL MS. 3688. 



* Feet of F. Buck*. 12 Hen. Ill, no. 

 26. 



*Hund.R. (Rec. Com.), i, 31. 



* Feud. Aid,, i, 75. 



