FEUDAL BARONAGE 



spared, was committed with his companions to Corfe Castle. 1 A few days 

 later the king sent a messenger to confer with Gilbert touching his sub- 

 mission and his son's redemption, 2 and on 4 January, 1216, Gilbert had letters 

 of safe-conduct, the king being then in the north parts. 8 On 22 January he 

 obtained the king's pardon for his confederacy with the rebel barons, and 

 secured the redemption of his son and his knights, Ralph de Aincurt and 

 Lambert de Bussey, by finding ten hostages from among the young sons and 

 daughters representing the heirs of his principal vassals, by delivering up his 

 castles of Morhull in Warton and Kirkby Kendal, and by consenting to pay 

 a fine of 1 2,000 marks, 4 binding himself to observe these conditions by a 

 remarkable charter in which he also pledged himself to faithfully serve the 

 king and his heirs by Queen Isabella all the days of his life. 6 The following 

 June he had letters of safe-conduct to negotiate about his son's pardon and 

 release, similar letters being granted to his bailiffs to gather the money 

 required for this purpose, 8 his son's release being shortly afterwards effected 

 at the instance of the earl of Chester 7 by a ransom of 1,850. 8 Upon Henry's 

 accession* he made his peace with the young sovereign and was com- 

 missioned in 1217 to escort the king of Man to do homage to Henry at 

 Solway, Carlisle, or Lancaster; 10 a commission which was renewed the year 

 following. 11 He died early in 1220, when his son William de Lancaster III., 12 

 giving 100 for relief of his barony, had livery of his possessions on 

 1 6 June. 13 Gilbert's debts to the crown at his death included 12,000 marks 

 for his pardon, and 436 arrears of old accounts belonging to the time when 

 he was sheriff or receiver of the king's moneys. 1 * Immediately after suc- 

 ceeding to his barony, William paid 1,950 to Peter de Mauley in payment 

 of the sum due for his redemption and towards his father's debts." During 

 his lifetime these debts were only reduced to 6,228, the repayment being 

 made by agreement at the rate of only 40 per annum. 18 He appears to 

 have been engaged in the king's service early in life, having attended John 

 in his expedition to Picardy in 1214." On 3 February, 1221, he was sum- 

 moned to the siege of Cockermouth Castle with other north county magnates. 18 

 In 1225 he received a peremptory command to observe the terms of the 

 forest charter by disafforesting the lands which his predecessors had put into 

 the forest since the coronation of Henry II., and so to act towards his 



1 Matth. Paris (Rolls Ser.), ii. 165-6 ; Flora Historiarum (Rolls Ser.), iii. 335 ; Dugdale, Baronage, i. 422. 



Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), i. i6oi. 3 Ibid. 162^. 



Roe. de Finibus (Rec. Com.), 570-1. 5 Chart. R. (Rec. Com.), 22 1. 



Pat. R. (Rec. Com.), i. 187*. 



Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 335^ ; Rymer, Fotdera, N. Ed. i. (i), 146. 



Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 48 1. On 19 May, 1222, three of Gilbert's hostages Norman son of 

 Henry de Redman, Richard son of Roger de Kirkby, and the son of William de Windsore were still 

 detained by Philip Mark in Nottingham Castle, who had wrongfully seized them whilst on their way home 

 Ibid. 497*. 



Close R. (Rec. Com.), i. 373^. w Close R. 1216-25, 1 5- u Ibid. 166. 



15 William de Lancaster's arms were : ' D'argent a deux barre de goules ung quartier de goules, et ting 

 leopard en la quartier d'or.' Armytage, Glover's Rolle of Armes, No. 49. 



18 Pipe. R. 5 Hen. III. Lane. m. d. Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i. 47-8. His relief as a knight 

 would have amounted to no more than 15, as a baron he made the best terms he could. See Hist, of 

 English Law, i. 260. 



" Pipe R. 6 Hen. III. Lane. m. 5 d. 



16 Pipe R. 5 Hen. III. Somers. and Dors. See Dugdale, Baronage, i. 422$. 



16 Pipe R. 20 Hen. III. Lane. m. 7 d. W Close R. 1227-31, 175. 



18 Close R. (Rec Com.), i. 474*. He was with the king at Bedford, 18 Aug. 1224. Pat R 

 1216-25,465. 



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