A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



held of this honour by the service of one knight's 

 fee. 5 



After the death of Walter Giffard his lands re- 

 mained for some time in the king's hands, but in 1191 

 they were restored by Richard I to his two nearest 

 heirs, who were descended from Rohais, sister of 

 Walter Giffard, first Earl of Buckingham. Rohais 

 had married Richard Fitz Gilbert, from whose elder 

 grandson Richard was descended the first claimant in 

 1191, Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford. From 

 the younger grandson, Gilbert de Clare first Earl ot 

 Pembroke, was descended Isabella de Clare, whose 

 husband William Marshal was the second claimant in 

 1191, on his wife's behalf. 6 The Giffard estates in 



CLARE. Or threi 

 cheverons gules. 



MARSHAL. Party vert 

 and or a lion gules* 



England seem to have been assigned to William Mar- 

 shal, for the honour is later found in the possession 

 of his son Walter, Earl of Pembroke, 7 one of the 

 five brothers who in turn succeeded to the earldom. 

 At the death of the last of the five without issue in 

 1245 the Marshal estates were divided between his 

 sisters, 8 the honour of Giffard or part of it appar- 

 ently being apportioned to Isabella the wife of Gil- 

 bert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, and 

 son of the Richard de Clare who claimed the honour 

 in 1191. The honour, including the overlordship of 

 Great Missenden, descended with the Earldom of 

 Gloucester, 9 and passed upon the death of Gilbert de 

 Clare in 1 3 1 4 to his daughter Margaret, who married 

 firstly Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, and secondly 

 Hugh Audley, who became Earl of Gloucester. 10 

 Upon the death of Hugh Audley in 1347 the over- 

 lordship of Great Missenden passed to his daughter 

 M rgaret, who was the wife of Ralph Earl of Staf- 

 ford," and descended with that earldom " until its 



forfeiture in 1521, when it came into the possession 

 of the Crown. 



The sub-tenant of Great Missenden in 1086 was 

 Turstin, son of Rolf, 13 of whose descendants nothing 

 is known. The manor seems 

 to have been granted early in 

 the 1 2th century to William 

 de Missenden, who founded 

 the abbey of Missenden in 

 1133." He had a son Hugh, 

 who took the surname of de 

 Noers, which had perhaps been 

 assumed by his father also. 15 

 Hugh de Noers became lord 



Of the manor before 1141 16 STAFFORD. Or a che- 



and was still living in 1 1 66," veron gulei. 

 but was succeeded soon after 



by his son William de Noers, 18 who died before 

 1185, for in that year his son William was a minor 

 in the custody of Henry de Pinkeni. 19 William de 

 Noers the younger died, however, about 1189, and 

 his lands passed to his brother Hugh, 10 whose daughter 

 and heir Joan married Hugh de Sanford, 11 and was 

 holding Missenden together with her husband in 

 1233." Hugh seems to have died in 1233 or I2 34>" 

 and Joan about 1252. She left two daughters, 

 Christiana, who married first William de Sideham," 

 and secondly John de Plessy, afterwards Earl of 

 Warwick," and Agnes, the wife of Matthew Husee.' 6 

 The manor of Great Missenden was divided between 

 these two heiresses, the moieties being known at a 

 later date as Overbury and Netherbury. 



The moiety of the manor of Great Missenden 

 subsequently known as O7ERBURT was assigned to 

 Agnes and Matthew Husee. Matthew died before 

 1254, at which time the wardship of his son Henry 

 was purchased by John Maunsell, whose niece, Joan 

 Fleming, Henry was to marry. 87 Henry Husee lived 

 until 1 290,* when his lands passed to his son Henry, 

 who was succeeded about 1332 by a third Henry, to 

 whose mother Isabella one-third of the manor was 

 assigned in dower.* 9 In 1 348 the manor was con- 

 veyed to Thomas de Mussenden, 30 the king's groom, 

 who seems to have settled it on himself in that year, 

 although Henry Husee did not finally quitclaim his 

 right in the manor until 1356." Certainly Thomas de 

 Mussenden was in occupation before that date. He 

 was still living in 1367, and his wife Isabella, widow 



Red Sk. Excb. (Rollt Ser.) i, 3 12 ; Gt. 

 R. of the Pipe (Rec. Com.), 1189-90, p. 

 37 ; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 247, 

 258 ; Rit. Hund. (Rec. Com.), i, 20. 



6 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



^ Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 247 ; 

 G.E.C. (Complete Peerage) says that the 

 English estates were granted to Richard, 

 Earl of Hertford, but it seems that they 

 only came into this family by a later 

 marriage. 



8 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



Plac. de Quo. War. (Rec. Com.), 95 5 

 Feud. Aids, i, 85-98 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 

 1 8 Edw. I, no. 36 ; ibid. 20 Edw. I, 

 no. 156 ; ibid. 29 Edw. I, no. 54 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 8 Edw. II, no. 68. 



Ibid. 1 1 Edw. II, no. 74 ; G.E.C. 

 Complete Peerage ; Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 

 Edw. Ill (ist. nos.), no. 66 ; Feud. Aids, 

 i, 123 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. II Edw. Ill (ist 

 nos.), no. 38. 



11 Chan. Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. Ill (lit 

 nos.), no. 59. 



18 Ibid, i Hen. IV, pt. i, no. 73, and 

 pt. ii, no. 20 ; ibid* 8 Hen. IV, no. 19 ; 

 ibid. 8 Hen. V, no. 87 ; ibid. 2 Edw. IV, 

 no. 10 ; ibid. 2 Ric. II, no. 20 ; ibid. 3 Ric. 

 II, no. 43 ; Inq. a.q.d. file 401, no. 10 ; 

 G.E.C. Complete Peerage. 



V.C.H. Buck:, i, 247*. 



14 Chan. Inq. p.m. 3 1 Edw. Ill, no. 2, 5 ; 

 Harl. 3688. According to another docu- 

 ment (Lansd. 257 A) William de Missen- 

 den founded the abbey in 1336. Possibly 

 this it a confusion with another man of 

 the same name, who, perhaps, gave it ex- 

 tensive endowments. 



15 Ibid. fol. i8a and b. 

 " Ibid. fol. 1 8*. 



1? Red Bk. ofExch. (Rolls Sen), i, 312. 



18 Harl. 3688, fol. i8i. 



19 S. Grimaldi, Rot. de Dominabus, 20. 

 80 Gt. R. of the Pipe (Rec. Com.), 1 189- 



90, p. 37. 



M Harl. 3688, fol. 20 ; Testa de Nevill 

 (Rec. Com.), 259-61. 



*> Cal. Close, 1231-4, p. 330. 



348 



88 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 253 ; ibid, ii, 147; Chan. Inq. p.m. 37 

 Hen. Ill, no. 8. 



84 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 



253- 



25 G.E .C. Complete Peerage. 



88 Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 

 253 ; Close, 37 Hen. Ill ; MSS. Cardig. 

 quoted by Lipscomb, Hist, of Bucks, ii, 

 361. 



*7 Dugdale, Baronage, i, 623, quoting 

 Pat. 37 Hen. Ill, m. 20; Rot. Hund. 

 (Rec. Corn.),!, 33. 



88 Ibid, i, 44 ; Plac. de Quo War. 

 (Rec. Com.), 95 ; Feud. Aids, i, 85 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. 1 8 Edw. I, no. 36 ; ibid. 6 

 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 66 j Feud. Aids, 

 i, 123. 



29 Cal. Close, 1330-3, p. 469. 



80 Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. 22 Edw. 

 Ill ; Chart. R. 28 Edw. Ill, m. 3, no. 

 12. 



81 Feet of F. Bucks. Trin. 20 Edw. Ill ; 

 Chart. R. 41 Edw. Ill, m. 3, no. 13. 



