A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



de Bussey. 11 He died about 1185, leaving two 

 daughters, Matilda the wife of Hugh Wake and 

 Cecilia the wife of John de Builly. Buckland was 

 divided between them, each holding the fee of one 

 knight." 



Matilda's moiety passed to her daughter Joan, the 

 James Wake 13 who was the son and heir of her 

 husband being presumably the son of a second wife. 

 Joan first married Alan de Mumby, and secondly 

 Thomas de Gravenel. 14 The latter obtained seisin 

 in 1 2 1 8 " of all the lands that his wife claimed by 

 right of inheritance from Matilda de Bussey her 

 mother. 



Joan died about 1247, when her son and heir John 

 de Gravenel 16 did homage for lands that he held in 

 chief, and he probably obtained her moiety of Buck- 

 land at the same time from the Bishop of Lincoln. 

 He made an agreement with the holder of the other 

 moiety of Buckland in 1257," by which he granted 

 his moiety of the manor to Robert de Vipont and his 

 heirs for ever, while Robert then granted to him the 

 whole manor, 18 presumably to hold for life only, since 

 it afterwards passed to the Viponts. 



The moiety of Buckland which was held by 

 Cecilia and her husband John de Builly passed to 

 their only daughter and heiress Idonea, the wife of 

 Robert de Vipont. She appa- 

 rently died about 1 24 1 , 19 when 

 her lands were seized into the 

 king's hands, and her son and 

 heir John de Vipont ** died 

 very shortly afterwards. He 

 was succeeded by his son 

 Robert de Vipont, who was 

 a minor at the time. 81 Robert 

 made the agreement with 

 John de Gravenel mentioned 

 before, and the whole manor 

 of Buckland finally descended 

 to his two daughters and heiresses, Isabel and 

 Idonea." Isabel married Roger de Clifford, who 

 died seised of a moiety of one messuage and a 

 garden, and 1 1 o acres of arable land and 2 acres of 

 pasture in Buckland.' 3 For this land he paid ^os. 

 scutage, when it was levied, to the Bishop of Lincoln. 

 At the time of his death, however, the fees of knights 

 and free tenants and the advowsons of churches that 

 formed Isabel's inheritance had not been divided be- 

 tween her and her sister Idonea. Isabel held a 

 moiety of the township of Buckland in 1285," pre- 

 sumably half of the manor also, since Idonea's husband 

 Roger de Leyburn died seised about 1283" of the 

 other moiety. The manor does not appear, however, to 

 have been permanently divided, since Isabel's moiety 



VlPONT. Or six rings 



gules. 



did not pass to her son and heir Robert de Clifford, but 

 Idonea, by some settlement of their inheritance, 

 obtained the whole manor. Her second husband, 

 John de Cromwell, 26 paid the feudal dues from the 

 whole in 1302-3 and 1316. A few years later, how- 

 ever, they seem to have sold the reversion of the 

 manor " after their deaths to Hugh le Despenser. It 

 was seized by King Edward II in I326,' 8 because 

 John de Cromwell stayed out of England without 

 licence, but being the inheritance of his wife, she 

 was allowed to receive the issues and profits' 9 of the 

 manor, and also to retain her own ' robes, beds and 

 jewels and other things pertaining to her chamber.' 

 The king meanwhile seized John's horses, destriers, 

 armour, falcons, vessels and jewels for himself. 3 * 

 Idonea recovered the manor before her death, since 

 she was in seisin 31 at that 

 time, the reversion then be- 

 longing to Edward le De- 

 spenser, the second son of Hugh 

 le Despenser the younger. The 

 manor was afterwards settled 

 on Edward " and his wife 

 Anne, by fine with the over- 

 lord, the Bishop of Lincoln. 

 Edward died in I342, 33 and 

 Anne held the manor in 

 1 346." She surrendered it 

 during her lifetime 34 to her 

 son and heir Sir Edward le 

 Despenser, lord of Glamorgan. 



He made various grants of the manor and rent 

 issuing from it, which led to a long lawsuit after 

 his death. In 1 37 2 s6 he granted a pension of 

 20 marks a year for life to Nicholas Bernak his 

 esquire, and previously a rent to one Henry Ham- 

 wode. 3 ' The manor itself he granted for life to his 

 brother Thomas le Despenser, 58 who died seised in 

 I38o. 39 It then passed to Thomas, Lord Despenser r 

 the son and heir of Sir Edward le Despenser, and he 

 granted Buckland in 1398' to Thomas Percy, Earl 

 of Worcester, Hugh le Despenser, and other feoffees. 

 Probably this was a grant to the use of his daughter 

 and heiress Isabel," since she afterwards inherited the 

 manor. She married as her second husband Richard 

 Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick." The manor was granted 

 to John Mangan, or Nanston, esq., for life," and he 

 held it at the time of the countess's death in 1439.** 

 He also outlived her son and heir Henry Beauchamp, 4 * 

 Earl of Warwick, and the manor, when the reversion 

 fell in, presumably passed to Anne, the sister of the 

 earl and the wife of Richard Nevill, 46 who was. 

 afterwards created Earl of Warwick, and became 

 famous as the ' Kingmaker.' After his defeat and 



DISPENSER. Argent 

 quartered ivitk gules 

 fretty or and a bend sable 

 over all. 



11 Rat. de Domtn. (ed. Grimaldi), 6. 



13 Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), ii, 

 99-201 ; Rot. de Domin. 6. The wife of 

 William de Bussey was Roesia daughter 

 of Baldwin son of Gilbert, and Buckland 

 may have belonged to her inheritance ; cf. 

 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 245*. 



18 Excerfta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 18, 21 ; Cal. of Inq. Htn. Ill, no. 858. 



14 Excerfta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i; 

 18, 21. 



" Ibid. Ibid, ii, 7. 



V Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 42 

 Hen. III. 



18 HunJ. R. (Rec. Com. ), i, 44. 



19 Excerfta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 357- 



80 Ibid, i, 171, 389. 



81 Ibid. ; De Banco R. 39, m. 67. 

 w Ibid. 



28 Cal. of Inq. Edw. I, m. 478. 



24 Feud. Aids, (,85. 



24 Cal. of Inq. Ed-w. I, no. 525. 



26 Feud. Aids, i, 98, 112. 



V Feet of F. Div. Col. Mich. 14 

 Edw. II ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Ric. II, no. 

 1 66. 



28 Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 299 ; Cal. Close, 1323-7, p. 603. 



29 Ibid. Ibid. 



81 Chan. Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 66. 



82 Ibid. 16 Edw. Ill (lit nos.), no. 

 49" 



328 



88 Ibid. ; G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



84 Feud. Aids, i, 123. 



85 Chan. Inq. p.m. 49 Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), pt. ii, no. 46, pt. 8;. 



86 Cal. Pat. 1381-5, p. 181. 



8 " Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Ric. II, no. 166 j 

 ibid. 9 Ric. II, no. 131. 

 " Ibid. 

 8 Ibid. 4 Ric. II, no. 21. 



40 Cal. Pat. 1399-1401, p. 417. 



41 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



42 Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Hen. VI, no. 3. 

 4S Ibid. 



Ibid. 



45 Ibid. 24 Hen. VI, 00.43. 



46 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



