A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Essex, by Alice his wife, sister of Aubrey de Vere, earl of Oxford, 1 and died 

 at Tyre in the Holy Land during a crusade in the year 1190.* Roger, his 

 son, having succeeded him as constable of Chester, was in 1191 appointed 

 by the chancellor, during the king's absence, governor of the castles of Not- 

 tingham and Tickhill. During the struggle between John, count of Mortain, 

 and the chancellor, about Midsummer, 1191, two of the constable's knights 

 whom he had left in charge of these castles treacherously surrendered them 

 to John.* For this act the constable proposed to hang them, but being 

 unable to find them he hanged two of their associates instead. In revenge 

 John laid his lands waste as far as lay in his power.* Upon the death 

 of Robert de Lacy, the last of his line in direct descent, in 1193, the 

 Lacy fee, including the honour of Clitheroe with the liberty of Rochdale, in 

 this county, and the honour of Pontefract with the liberty of Bowland, in 

 Yorkshire, descended by his will to Albreda de Lisours, his cousin. 6 The 

 year following, by fine made at Winchester (21 April), Albreda settled the 

 whole estate which had been Robert de Lacy's upon her grandson, Roger, 

 the constable, who thereupon assumed the name of Lacy and became possessed 

 of the honours of Clitheroe and Pontefract, in addition to his own patrimony 

 of Halton and Widnes. The year following he paid a fine of 2,000 marks 

 for the king's confirmation of this settlement, and had livery of Robert de 

 Lacy's possessions which had been in the king's hand during part of the 

 year 1 194 except the castle of Pontefract. 8 



The lordship of Sprotborough, a member of the honour of Tickhill and 

 the inheritance of Albreda de Lisours, appears to have been delivered to her 

 son John, the constable, in 1 166, and to have descended to Roger, his son and 

 heir, but by force of the fine of H94, 7 it was settled upon Albreda for life, 



1 Rot. tie dominabus, ed. Grimaldi, 1 5 ; Round, Geof. de Mandevllle, 393 1 . According to the Coucher of 

 Whalley he had in addition to his eldest son Roger, four sons, Eustace, Richard, Geoffrey, and Peter, and a 

 daughter Alice. Some, if not all, of these five children were bastards. Coucher if Whalley, Chetham Soc. z; 

 Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. (edit. Helsby), i. 694 . 



William de Mandevill == Aubrey de Vere, cr. = Alice de Clare, dau. 



Rog. de Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 88 ; Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 148. 



3 Rog. de Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 134, 172. 



4 Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 232-4. 



6 Daughter of Robert de Lisours, lord of Sprotborough, by Albreda his wife, sister of Henry, father of 

 Robert de Lacy (Whitaker, Hist, of Whalley, edit. Nichols, i. 239). Pipe R. 7 Ric. I. Ebor. 



7 Duchy of Lane. Great Coucher, ii. 1 10 ; Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. (ed. Helsby), i. 695 ; Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

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