FEUDAL BARONAGE 



Adam de Montbegon are to be noted the grant, with his wife's consent, of 

 Kirkandreas to the monks of Wetherhal 1 ; their confirmation of the gifts 

 made by Adam son of Swain to the priory of Monkbretton 2 ; the feoffment 

 of Geoffrey de Valoignes in the vills of Farleton and Cantsfield, members 

 of Hornby 3 ; the foundation of the priory of Premonstratensian canons at 

 Hornby, a filiation of Croxton Abbey ; and the grant of his lands of Kelsey, 

 Thornton, and ' Biestorp ' to Gilbert Hansard. 4 



Roger de Montbegon III., son of Adam, was probably a minor at his 

 father's death in 11712. In 1187 he had acquittance of the scutage of 

 Galwey upon six of his knights' fees outside this county. 6 In the spring of 

 1 194 he took part in the rebellion of his chief lord, John, count of Mortain," 

 being one of the defenders of Nottingham Castle against the bishop of 

 Durham, vicegerent during the king's absence. 7 Whereupon some part of 

 his lands were seized and committed to William de Albini of Belvoir. 8 On 

 27 March he submitted himself to the king's clemency 9 by joining in the 

 surrender of Nottingham Castle, and was afterwards pardoned, compounding 

 for his adherence to the king's rebellious brother by the payment of a fine of 

 500 marks. 10 In the year 1200 he was with the king in the expedition to 

 Normandy, and had acquittance of scutage upon his eight knights' fees. 11 

 About this time he gave the Holmes in Tarleton, adjoining Martin Mere, 

 with lands in Tarleton and Little Hoole, parcel of his lordship of Croston, 

 and in Cawood, parcel of his lordship of Hornby, to the Cluniac monks of 

 Thetford, who subsequently gave the Holmes to Cockersand Abbey, during 

 the abbacy of Abbot Roger (i 199-1 205). 13 He also released to the church 

 of St. Martin of Sees and to Lancaster Priory his right in the chapel of 

 Gressingham, and secured to the church of Lancaster for altar lights a yearly 

 rent of two shillings out of the issues of the church of Melling, for the wel- 

 fare of his own and his ancestors' souls. 13 To the priory of Monkbretton he 

 gave the wood of Holcombe and common rights in Tottington. 14 He married, 

 in 1 199," Olive, formerly the wife of Robert de St. John, daughter and heir 

 of Alan son of Jordan, lord of Broughton Brant, co. Lincoln, and Tuxford, 

 co. Notts, 16 for whose marriage he gave 500 marks. 17 From 1201 to 1204 he 

 was mostly engaged in the king's service in Normandy, having acquittance 



1 Prescott, Reg. of Wetherhal, 368. Mm. Angl. v. 138. 



3 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.) 406^. * Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 23. * Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 64. 



6 Perhaps his adherence was purchased by a grant of lands in Legherton, Stretton, Littlebury, and Cotes, 

 co. Notts, to be held by the service of one knight's fee, the service of William de Tatham, in Tatham and 

 Ireby, co. Lane. Close R. i. 2 1 ^b and the manor of Oswaldbec, co. Notts, for the service of one knight, 

 which latter John confirmed when king in 1199 (Cartae Antiqua;, G. 8; Pipe R. I John, Ebor. m. 10). 

 Perhaps he also had at this time the manor of ' Waverton,' co. Sussex, Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 241. 



7 Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 240. 



8 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 93, 95, 99, 101. Also cf. Rot. de Oblatis (Rec. Com.), 123. 



9 Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 240. 10 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 99. n Ibid. 114, 134. 



13 Cockersand Chartul. (Chetham Soc.), 466, 469. Dugdale erroneously attributes this gift to Roger de 

 Montbegon II, Baronage, 6 1 86. 



13 Rtgiit. of Lane. Priory (Chetham Soc.), 20. 



i* Lansd. MS. No. 405, 43*; Whitaker, Hist. ofWkalley, edit. 1876, i. 325-5. 



16 Possibly he had married as his first wife the eldest daughter of Thomas D'Arcy, of co. Lincoln ; 

 Grimaldi, Rot. de Dominabus, 8. 



i See Round, Peerage Studies, pp. vii, 1 1 5 et seqq. The Genealogist, xviii. i et seqq. Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. 

 xlviii. 8 1. William de St. John was suing Roger in a plea of land in this county in Easter term, 1206, 

 Cur. Reg. R. No. 42, m. \\d. 



!7 Rot. de Oblatis (Rec. Com.), 41. Roger held Broughton Brant and the soke in demesne and Tuxford 

 with the soke in 1 2 1 2 of the honour of Richmond. Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 22 , 343 b. 



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