274 NOTE ON ROHESIA DE LA POMEEAI. 



and wife of Henry Do la Pomerai the father, whilst the other, 

 the sister of Doun Bardolf, was wife of Henry De la Pomerai 

 the son of the first Henry and Rohesia. I find likewise that the 

 name of the mother of Earl Reginald and his sister was Sibilla 

 and not Adela.* 



The first Henry De la Pomerai was living in 1124, 25 

 Henry I, when he assented to the gift by Joscelin De la Pomerai, 

 his father, to the Abbey of St. Marie Du Val, in the parish of 

 St. Omer in Normandy, of the churches at Stockleigh Pomeroy, 

 Berry Pomeroy, "Braordinand Olisson" in Devonshire, together 

 with other lands and tenements in that county and in Normandy. 

 He was a witness to a deed in Normandy in 1137.f In 2 Henry 

 II, he was charged for Danegeld in Devonshire, and in 11 Henry 

 II, 1164, he paid £7 12 6 for the scutage of Wales. He probably 

 died very soon after this, for in 12 Henry II, Henry De la Pomerai, 

 no doubt his son, owed £80 6s. 8d., for a fine of his lands, which 

 we should now call '' succession duty." The first Pohesia De la 

 Pomerai, " mater predicti Henrici," survived her husband and 

 presented to the church of Stockleigh Pomeroy in right of her 

 dower.;!^ In 22 Henry II she owed three marks "pro foresta,"§ 

 Joscelen De la Pomerai, who is described as nephew of Herbert 

 and William Pitz Herbert, and of Reginald Earl of Cornwall, || 

 was her second son. Whether this Rohesia was a daughter of the 

 King or of his Chamberlain by Sibilla Corbet, there is no evidence 

 to show, but it is noteworthy that Hoveden speaks of " Jollanus 

 frater Regis Henrici, Dela Pomerai, appellatus " as having been 

 implicated in the treasonable seizure of St. Michael's Mount, in 

 Earl John's rebellion against his brother King Richard I. 

 The Chronicler is certainly in error in speaking of Joscelin De 

 la Pomerai as brother of King Henry II, for even supposing 

 Rohesia his mother to have been a daughter of King Henry I, 

 her son could only have been first cousin of King Henry II. 

 The passage, however, seems to indicate an impression that there 

 was some blood relationship between the King and his subject. 



* Plac : Coram Eege. Pasch, 7 and 8 Jolin. 



f Archives de Calvados. 



X Placita, 15 John, Trin., rot. 17. 



§ Pipe Roll, Devon. 



11 Hoveden. 



