FEUDAL BARONAGE 



In 1 1 80 he became in respect of the barony of Kendal the tenant of Theobald 

 de Valoignes, who had received the barony of Westmorland from the crown 

 through the influence of his son-in-law, Ranulf de Glanvill. 1 He died in 

 1 1 84, and was buried in the presbytery at Furness. Robert of Torigni 

 describes him as ' magnas honestatis et possessionis vir.' 3 He married 

 Helewise, said to be daughter of Robert de Stutevill, of Lazenby, co. Cumber- 

 land, 3 by whom he had an only daughter Helewise,* afterwards in the charge 

 of William Marshall, to whom Henry II. gave her with her inheritance. 6 

 Not being, however, a great enough lady to become the wife of the king's 

 marshal, although his dear friend, 6 she was given to Gilbert, son of Roger 

 fitz Reinfred, 7 an elder brother of the half-blood to Reinfred fitz Roger and 

 Ralph de la Bruere. 8 She was of tender age at her father's death, for the 

 marriage was not .consummated until after the accession of Richard, who 

 confirmed the grant of her marriage at Rouen on 20 July, 1189.' William 

 de Lancaster's widow married secondly, Hugh de Morevill of Burgh-upon- 

 Sands, who died 3 John. 10 From the issue of this marriage descended the 

 family of Multon, one of whom, Lambert de Multon, held Upper Rawcliffe 

 in 1 242-3 of the baron of Kendal." Helewise afterwards fined with John 

 not to marry against her will. Between 1216 and 1222 she held lands in 

 this county and in Cumberland worth 30 per annum. 13 She was living in 

 September, I226. 13 



Gilbert fitz Reinfred, who succeeded to the barony jure uxoris, was 

 steward to Henry II. 14 and Richard I. He was constantly in the retinue of 

 Henry whilst in France between 1180 and nSg. 15 In 1185 he acted as a 



1 Hodgson Hinde, Cumb. and Westmld. Pipe R. xlvi-ii. 



2 Cbron. ofSlepb. Hen. 11. and Rich. I. (Rolls Ser.), iv. 309. 



3 Dodsworth's MS. ii. 8 (?) ; Cockersand Chartul. Chatham Soc. (New Ser.), xxxix. 279, 305. 



* He had at least one bastard son, Gilbert de Lancaster, who attested a number of his father's charters 

 (Coucber of Fatness, 346 ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 402, 440-3), was living in 1208 (Lane. Fines, \. 33), and was 

 probably father of Gilbert de Lancaster, constable of Kendal in 1246 (Coucher of Furness, 350), .who held 

 Hartsop in Patterdale of Roger de Lancaster by knight's service (Lanes. Inf. i. 167, Westmld. Feet of F. file 4, 

 No. 21). He was ancestor of the Lancasters of Sockbridge and father of Roger, whose name stands near the 

 head of the pedigree of this family in the Visitation of Cumb. and Westmld. (Foster, 75). Gilbert de Lancaster 

 was of Sockbridge in 1318 (Cal. Pat. R. 1317-21, 291), in which year the manors of Sockbridge and 

 Hartsop, a messuage, I carucate of land, and 3,000 acres of pasture in Strickland Kettle were settled upon 

 Gilbert and Alice his wife and their issue, with remainder to John, son of Gilbert de Lancaster (Cal. Pat. R. 

 1476-85, 286). 6 Meyer, Guillaume le Marechal, ii. p. 264. 6 Ibid. i. v. 7317. 



7 Ibid. ii. 338 ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 395. One of his charters with an equestrian seal appendant is 

 preserved at Lowther Castle. 



8 Cockersand Chartul. (Chetham Soc.), 976-7 in notis ; Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 153. Roger fitz 

 Reinfred, father of Gilbert, witnessed a feoffment executed in 1 1 69 before the barons of the Exchequer 

 (Eyton, Itin. of Hen. III. 130), and is mentioned in 1176 as a justice itinerant (ibid. 199), in which capacity 

 he acted regularly in the king's court during Henry's reign (ibid. pass.). Fines were levied before him as late 

 as 1198. He was a witness to the king's will (Foss, Judges of England, 1870, 267). He served the office of 

 sheriff of Sussex from Michaelmas, 1 176, to Easter, 1 187, and of Berks from Michaelmas, 1 186, to Michael- 

 mas, 1187 (Dep. Keeper's ^ist Rep. 263, 347). He is said to have married (first) Rohaise (or Hawise), 

 daughter and heir of William de Romare and widow of Gilbert de Gant, who died in 1156 (Foss, 267 ; 

 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 400), by whom he had issue Gilbert. He married (secondly) Alice, sister of Ralph le 

 Breton, and by her had Reinfred and Ralph, usually styled 'de la Bruere,' who was heir to his brother 

 Reinfred. Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 48^, 82^. 



9 Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 7 ; Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 73. 



10 Rot. de Otlat. (Rec. Com.), 54, 88, 184. " Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 398. 



12 Ibid. 401. 1S Close R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 155^. u Dugdale, Baronage, \%\b. 



16 He attested Henry's charters to Holy Trinity of Caen, dated at Caen in 1180 ; to Walter the Usher, 

 dated at Chinon in 1 181 ; to Henry de Marreys, dated at Gorron in Maine circa 1183; to Croxden Abbey, 

 dated at Lyons-la-Foret circa 1184; to Witham Priory, dated at Marlborough in 1186; to the abbey of 

 St. Peter at Preaux, dated at Caen in 1187 ; and as ' Dapifer' he attested the same king's charter to Swainby 

 Abbey in Lincolnshire, dated at Chinon in 1189, a day or two before the king's death. Eyton, Itin. of 

 Hen. II., pass.; Round, Cal. of Docs. France, pass. 



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