A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Essex, by Alice his wife, sister of Aubrey de Vere, earl of Oxford,^ and died 

 at Tyre in the Holy Land during a crusade in the year 1190.' Roger, his 

 son, having succeeded him as constable of Chester, was in 1191 appointed 

 by the chancellor, during the king's absence, governor of the castles of Not- 

 tingham and Tickhill. During the struggle between John, count of Mortain, 

 and the chancellor, about Midsummer, 1191, two of the constable's knights 

 whom he had left in charge of these castles treacherously surrendered them 

 to John.' For this act the constable proposed to hang them, but being 

 unable to find them he hanged two of their associates instead. In revenge 

 John laid his lands waste as far as lay in his power.* Upon the death 

 of Robert de Lacy, the last of his line in direct descent, in 1193, the 

 Lacy fee, including the honour of Clitheroe with the liberty of Rochdale, in 

 this county, and the honour of Pontefract with the liberty of Bowland, in 

 Yorkshire, descended by his will to Albreda de Lisours, his cousin.' The 

 year following, by fine made at Winchester (21 April), Albreda settled the 

 whole estate which had been Robert de Lacy's upon her grandson, Roger, 

 the constable, who thereupon assumed the name of Lacy and became possessed 

 of the honours of Clitheroe and Pontefract, in addition to his own patrimony 

 of Halton and Widnes. The year following he paid a fine of 2,000 marks 

 for the king's confirmation of this settlement, and had livery of Robert de 

 Lacy's possessions — which had been in the king's hand during part of the 

 year 1 1 94 — except the castle of Pontefract.' 



The lordship of Sprotborough, a member of the honour of Tickhill and 

 the inheritance of Albreda de Lisours, appears to have been delivered to her 

 son John, the constable, in 1 1 66, and to have descended to Roger, his son and 

 heir, but by force of the fine of 1 1 94,^ it was settled upon Albreda for life, 



1 Rot. de dominabus, ed. Grimaldi, 15 ; Round, Geof. dc Mandeville, 393 ». According to the Coucher of 

 Whalley he had in addition to his eldest son Roger, four sons, Eustace, Richard, Geoffrey, and Peter, and a 

 daughter Alice. Some, if not all, of these five children were bastards. Coucher of Whalley, Chetham Soc. 2 ; 

 Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. (edit. Helsby), i. 694 i. 



William de Mandevill == Aubrey dc Vere, cr. ==» Alice de Clare, dau. 



Great Chamber- 

 lain 1 1 33, died 

 1141. 



of Gilbert de Clare, 

 died c 1131, 



William de 

 Say. 



^Beatrice. {i)GeofFre)r^Rohesc de 



dc Mande- Vere, died 

 Till, I8t 1207 (?). 



earl of Es- 

 sex, died 

 1144. 



William de 

 Say, ancestor 

 of Fitz Piers, 

 earls of Es- 

 sex. Arms: 

 'Quarterly, or 

 atid guUs* 



1 



Geoffrey de 

 Say. 



(z) Payn de 

 Beauchamp, 

 of Bedford. 



(i) Robert =^AlicedeVere,=j=(2) Roger fitz Aubrey de 



de Essex. 



aged 60 in 

 1 1 84-5. 



Richard of Verc, 1st 



Warkworth, earl of Ox- 

 ford. 



1 ^1 I 



Geoffrey de William de Simon de John fitz Richard =Alice Robert fitz 



Mandevill, Mandevill, Beauchamp, fitz Eustace, con- Roger of 



znd earl of 3rd earl of Aimf.'Quar- stable of Chester, Clavering 



Essex, died Essex, died terfy or and died 11 90. and Wark- 



1166. 1189. guUi,2i\>tni.' Aimt: 'Quarterly worth. 



or and gulei, a Arms : 



bend sable, over 'Quarterly, 



all a label argent.' or and guler, 



abend 

 sable.' 



Aubrey de 

 Vere, znd 

 earl of Ox- 

 ford. Anns: 

 'Quarterly, 

 gulet and or, 

 a mullet ar- 

 gent in the 

 first quar- 

 ter.' 



2 Rog. de Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 88 ; Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 148. 



8 Rog. de Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 134, 172. 



* Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 232-4. 



^ Daughter of Robert de Lisours, lord of Sprotborough, by Albreda his wife, sister of Henry, father of 

 Robert de Lacy (Whitaker, Hist. ofWhdky, edit. Nichols, i. 239). « Pipe R. 7 Ric. L Ebor. 



7 Duchy of Lane. Great Coucher, ii. 1 10 ; Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. (ed. Helsby), i. 695 ; Rec. Soc. Lanes, 

 and Ches. vol. 39, p- i. 



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