FEUDAL BARONAGE 



perhaps early in the reign of Rufus. The original fee then received was 

 the honour of Clitheroe, consisting of the hundred of Blackburn, to which 

 it is probable that Henry I. added the parish of Rochdale in the hundred 

 of Salford, part of the parishes of Ribchester and Chipping in the hundred 

 of Amounderness, and the vill of Little Mitton, all of which were afterwards 

 held by the service of five knights. After the termination of the original 

 line in 1193 by the death of Robert de Lacy, the honour of Clitheroe 

 passed to Roger, constable of Chester,^ and augmented the constable's fief 

 within the county to nine knights' fees. In 1 205 this fief was further in- 

 creased by Roger de Lacy's purchase from the Bussels of the barony of 

 Penwortham.' A further augmentation took place in 1235, when John de 

 Lacy, earl of Lincoln, acquired the fee of Tottington from Henry de 

 Monewden.' From this time the Lacy fee within the county consisted of 

 1 4 J, out of a total of less than 26 knights' fees, or rather more than half. 



Ilberl de Lacy, the first of his line, received a large fief from the Con- 

 queror in the counties of York, Lincoln, and Nottingham.* He seems to 

 have belonged to a family which held two knights' fees of the bishop of 

 Bayeux at Lassy, and Campeaux in La Calvados.^ He was the founder of 

 the castle of Pontefract, the ' caput ' of his Yorkshire fief, in which he 

 founded the church of St. Clement during the reign of the Conqueror.* To 

 Selby Abbey he gave the manor of Hamilton,'' and to St. Mary of York lands 

 at Stretton and Garforth with the church there, which Rufus confirmed in 

 1088—9.* He survived until early in the reign of Rufus, from whom he had a 

 charter confirming to him the custom from the castellary of his castle (of 

 Pontefract), as he had it in the time of the king's father and in the time of 

 the bishop of Bayeaux.® After his death his son, Robert de Lacy, was con- 

 firmed by King Rufus in the possession of all the land which his father had 

 held and of which he had died possessed, both within his castellary of Ponte- 

 fract and outside of it.^" An exchange which Robert made with Urse 

 d'Abetot of the manor of Ingoldmells for that of 'Witchona' was confirmed 

 by the king, probably in 1095." 



The circumstances in which the honour of Clitheroe and hundred of 

 Blackburn were apparently conferred upon Robert de Lacy in the time of 

 Rufus have been touched upon in the chapter of the Domesday survey,^" and 

 will also be referred to in the account of the barony of Grelley of Manchester. 

 During the reign of Rufus he also received from Roger of Poitou the manors 

 of Great Mitton and Slaidburn with the region of Bowland, in the district 

 of Yorkshire known as Craven, a gift subsequently confirmed by Henry I., 

 in or about the year 1102, to be held of the king, as it had been held of 

 Count Roger.^* This region was conterminous with Blackburn hundred on the 



I See p. 300 above. ^ See p. 336 below. ^ ggg p. 325 below. 



* He was also tenant of many manors in counties Oxon., Bucks, and Lincoln, under the bishop of Bayeux, 

 Dom. Bk. i. 14s, \^(,b-6b, 342-3. 



5 Red Book of the Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 646. In 1146 Robert, earl of Gloucester, released to Philip, bishop 

 of Bayeux, the fiefi of Ilbert and of Gilbert de Lacy, which they held of the church and bishop of Bayeux 

 at Lassy and Campeaux, or elsewhere ; Stapleton, R. Scacc. Noman. ii. p. Ixx. 



* Torks. Arch. Joiirn. xiv. 155, where, however, many of the gifts to this church attributed to him were 

 given by his grandson Ilbert. See Dodsworth's MSS. cxviii. 76. 



7 Chartul. of Selby (Yorks Rec. Soc), i. 282-3. * Mon. Angl. iii. 547. 



« Duchy of Lane. Misc. Ptf. i. No. 36, m. 6. 10 Ibid. 



II Pipe R. Soc. X. I ; Duchy of Lane. Royal Charters, i. ^^ See p. 282. 

 13 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 382. 



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