FEUDAL BARONAGE 



cate of land in BrierclifFe and 30 acres of wood in Rowley.^ To Adam de 

 Blackburn, his clerk, he gave the moiety of the church of Blackburn, which 

 Adam's ancestor Richard had held, and the benefice which the said Richard 

 held in the church of Whalley.'' To Robert son of Henry he gave half the 

 vill of Ribchester in thegnage for 7 shillings yearly, reserving the advowson of 

 the church.* His wife's name was Isabella,* in one place named Sabina,' of 

 unknown parentage, by whom he had no issue. She afterwards married 

 Gilbert de L'Aigle.* Robert died on 21 August, 1193, shortly before the 

 commencement of John's rebellion, and was buried in the abbey of Kirkstall.^ 

 With his death terminated the old line of Lacy. His two honours of 

 Clitheroe and Pontefract passed at his death to the daughter of his aunt, 

 Albreda, wife of Robert de Lisours, named after her mother who died in 

 1 166. The younger Albreda had married before 1 142 Richard fitz Eustace, 

 constable of Chester in right of his mother, who died before 1 163,° leaving 

 issue John, constable of Chester, who predeceased his mother. In the account 

 of the barony of the constable of Chester it has already been shown that 

 Albreda, the relict of Richard fitz Eustace, after the death of Robert de Lacy, 

 released to her grandson, Roger, constable of Chester, the honours and estates 

 which had descended to her upon the death of her kinsman in 1 193, the fee 

 of Sprotborough being reserved to her for life with remainder to her son 

 William fitz William, to hold of Roger and his heirs by the ancient service 

 of eight knights' fees.' Under this settlement the honours of Pontefract and 

 Chtheroe passed to the line of the constables of Chester, who assumed the 

 surname of Lacy, and eventually became earls of Lincoln of that line. 



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There is ample evidence of the creation of this fee soon after the Con- 

 quest in the references in Domesday to manors held by Roger, the man of 



1 Towneley MSS. Chetham Lib. C 8, 8. « Qoucher of Whalk-j (Chetham Soc), 76. 



s Duchy of Lane. Misc. Ptf. I, No. 36, m. 7. 



* Coucher (fKirhtall (Thoresby Soc), 196. ^ Mon. Angl. v. 5 1 t,b. 



6 In 1 209, Roger, constable of Chester, was demanding against them lands held by her in dower 

 which she was considered to have forfeited by her second marriage. Abbrev. Placit. (Rec. Com.) 65^ ; 

 Chartul of Pontefract QiotV.i. Rec. Soc), xxii. In 11 94 John de Birchin brought a plea of land against 

 Isabella de Lasci, /Js/. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.) i. 127. Isabella survived until 1234. Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. 

 Com.), i. 269. 



1 Mon. Angl. v. 533* ; Duchy of Lane, formerly CI. xxv. A.A. 8 (7). 



* See the barony of Widnes, p. 299. 



^Lane. Fines, Lane, and Ches. Rec. Soc. xxxix. i. See above, p. 300. 



10 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 61 83. In this county the lands belonging to this barony included — 

 Hornby cum membris :— Arkholme with Cawood, Tunstall, Cantsfield, Melling with Wrayton, Wenning- 

 ton, Hornby with Farleton, Wray with Botton, Roeburndale ; containing 28 J carucates of land and 



originally held in demesne. . . n j j 



Croston cum membris :— Croston, Mawdesley, Bispham, Tarleton ; contaming lof carucates of land and 



held in demesne until circa 1 200. t. , , , , ,t7 1 1 



Tottington cum membris :— Tottington Higher End, Tottmgton Lower End, Musbury, Walmersley cum 

 Shuttleworth, Bury, Elton, Birtle cum Bamford, Ainsworth, Great Lever, Heap, Pilsworth, Hopwood, 

 Thornham, Middleton, Tonge, Alkringtony Chadderton ; containing approximately 12 carucates of land, and 



held by the service of 2 knights. , , . , »t , n t 



In Lincolnshire lands lying in the following townships belonged to this barony :— Northorpe, Southorpe, 

 Thonock, Dunstall, Laughton, Scotton, Yawthorpe, Tealby, Walesby, Otby Market Rasen, South Kelsey, 

 Waddingham, Stainton, Thornton le Moor, Holton le Moor, Nettleton, Elsham, Clixby, Howsham, Cux- 

 wold, Blyton, Tydd Gote, Sutton, Fleet ; these lands were held by the service of 5 knights. 

 In Suffolk :— Monewden ; held by the service of i knight. 

 Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 400, 405, 411; Lanes. Inq., Rec. Soc. Lane, and Ches. vol. 48, pp. 59-60. 



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