292 CORNISH LANDOWNERS, 1256. 



1 . Thomas de Tracy heads tlie list, whose lands in Cornwall 

 are set down as worth 40 librates and more. The ancient family 

 of Tracy can boast of descent from Saxon ancestors, being 

 descended from the blood-royal of the Sazon kings of England, 

 and possessing at the present day the same property as their 

 Saxon ancestors did before the Conquest, viz. : Toddington, in 

 the county of Grloucester, — a rare instance of William the 

 Conqueror's forbearance. 



Lineage of Tracy. 



King Edgar, by his second wife, Elfrida, dau. of Ordgar, 

 Earl of Devonshire, was father of 



Ethelred II, surnamed The Un-ready, who, by his first wife, 

 Elgifa, dau. of the Ealdorman Thored, had six sons and four 

 daughters. The youngest daughter, Goda, married Dreux, 

 Count of the Vexin, a nobleman descended from Charlemagne, 

 by his mother, Alice or Adele, daughter of Herbert, Comte de 

 Senlis. By this marriage with Goda, the Count became Lord of 

 Sudeley and Toddington, county of Gloucester, and left issue 



Ralph, created Earl of Hereford, whose son, 



Harold, possessed at the General Survey, numerous lordships 

 in England, amongst which were Sudeley and Toddington, with 

 the Castle of Ewyas and other lands in Herefordshire, secured, 

 doubtless, by his intermarriage with Maud, daughter of Hugh 

 Lupus, Earl of Chester. This Harold had two sons, John, his 

 heir, and Eobert, who had the castle of Ewyas, and assumed 

 therefrom the surname of Ewyas. The elder son, assuming his 

 surname from Sudeley, the chief seat which he inherited, 

 became 



John de Sudeley, and Lord of Sudeley and Toddington, A.D. 

 1140. He married Grace, daughter and heir of Henry de Traci, 

 feudal lord of Barnstaple, and had issue 



Ralph de Sudeley, founder of the priory of Erdburie. 



William, who adopted his mother's name of De Traci. This 

 William is (almost beyond doubt) the same Sir William Tracy 

 who was concerned in the assassination of Thomas d Becket. He 

 died circa 1224. By Hawise de Born, his wife, he left a son and 

 successor. 



