A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



THE BARONY OF BUTLER OF AMOUNDERNESS 1 



Hervey * Walter, the first of this family upon record, was the tenant in 

 the time of Henry I. of a small fee which he held of the honour of Lancaster, 

 comprising the chief manor of Weeton (or Witheton, as it was formerly and 

 more correctly written) in Amounderness, held by the service of half a knight, 

 and the manor of Boxstede, co. Suffolk, held by the same service, 8 and 

 Newton, co. Suffolk, for one seventh of a knight's fee. He also held lands in 

 Belaugh and ' Hulmested,' co. Norfolk. 4 He or his son may possibly be 

 identified as Hervey son of Hervey who in 1130 rendered account in co. 

 Suffolk of 10 marks for his land which he had recovered from, or held of, 

 Hamon Peche. 6 In the great inquest of service taken for this county in 1212, 

 he is specifically named as the father of Hervey Walter, and also as having 

 enfeoffed Orm son of Magnus in marriage with his daughter Aliz of 4 caru- 

 cates of land in Rawcliffe, Thistleton, and Greenhalgh, members of his fee of 

 Weeton.' The issue of this marriage was Roger son of Orm, lord of Hutton 

 in Leyland hundred, father of Elias de Hutton, who gave his manor of Hutton 

 to the canons of Cockersand between the years 1201 and I2io. 7 Hervey 

 Walter II., son and heir of the above Hervey, advanced the fortunes of the 

 family by his marriage with Maud, daughter of Theobald de Valoignes, lord 

 of Parham, co. Suffolk, and sister of Bertha, wife of Ranulf de Glanvill, the 

 justiciar under Henry II. 8 To this kinship with the house of Glanvill was 

 undoubtedly due the great advancement obtained by the sons of Hervey 

 Walter under Henry II. and Richard. Upon the foundation of Butley Priory 

 by Ranulf de Glanvill in 1171, Hervey gave to that foundation all the land 

 he had in the vill of Wingfield and elsewhere, doubtless of his wife's inherit- 

 ance. 9 In this county he gave, with the consent of Theobald his son, land 

 in Medlar to Roger de Heaton, of Heaton, near Lancaster. 10 William son of 



1 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 633. This barony consisted of the following townships and hamlets, situate within 

 the hundred of Amounderness : Weeton, half of Marton, Greenhalgh with Thistleton, Wesham, Treales, 

 Wharles, and Roseacre, Out Rawclifte including Middle Rawcliffe. These vills were rated at 1 6 carucates of 

 land and were held by the service of half a knight. To the barony originally belonged Boxstede, co. Suffolk, 

 held by the service of half a knight, and Old Newton, in the same county, held by the service of one-seventh 

 part of a knight. 



3 Mr. Round has called attention in his Peerage and Family History (122 note) to the ' Herveus pincerna' 

 and ' Herveus botellarius,' who attests, with other officers and tenants of the castle of Dol in Brittany, two 

 charters to the abbey of St. Florent, one bearing the date 1086 (Cal. of Docs. France, 416), as the possible 

 ancestor of the Butlers of Ireland. This Hervey may perhaps be identified as the Hervey, son of Hubert, who 

 with his father attested a charter ofBaderon to the nunnery of St. George at Rennes circa 1080-90 (Genealogist 

 (New Ser.), xviii. l). It is also to be noted that Edmund Butler, styled earl of Carrick, held in 1298 of 

 Richard Fitz John, his uncle, part of the manor of Skelbrook, co. York (forks. Inq. p.m. (Rec. Soc.), xxxi. 86), 

 which had formed part of the Domesday fief of Hervey de Campels, the bishop of Bayeux's vassal. There is, 

 however, nothing to show that the Butlers of Ireland descended from either of these Herveys. Nor is there 

 anything to show that the Butlers had any interest in Skelbrook before the marriage of Theobald IV. to Joan, 

 sister of Richard Fitz John. Mr. Glanville-Richards has collected much information relative to the bearers of 

 the name of Hervey in the twelfth century, and suggests as the possible ancestor of Hervey Walter a certain 

 Hervey of Gisors, eldest son of Theobald Pain, whose family held the hereditary office of castellan of Gisors, 

 and were Bretons by race (House of Glanville, xviii.). Hervey appears to have been a common name amongst 

 the Bretons. 



8 Testa de Nevilt (Rec. Com.), i-jb, 403^ ; Pipe R. Soc. xvii. 20. * Ibid. 



6 Pipe R. 31 Hen. I. (Rec. Com.), 98. For the connexion between Glanvill and Peche see Glanville- 

 Richards, Ho. of Glanville, 18. 



8 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 403^ ; Lanes. Inq. Rec. Soc. xlviii. 37. 



7 Chartul. of Cockersand, Chetham Soc. (New Ser ), xliii. 408. 



8 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 633^ ; Mm. Angl. vi. 1 128. Mm 4ngl. vi. 380. 

 lOFarrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 437. 



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