A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



Roger of Poitou, in South Kelsey, Thornton-le-Moor, Holton-le-Moor, 

 Tealby and elsewhere in Lincolnshire.' Between Ribble and Mersey, 

 Roger, the knight of Roger of Poitou, held lands in three out of the six hun- 

 dreds into which that district was divided.' In 1094 his chief lord confirmed 

 to the abbey of St. Martin of Sees, inter alia, the tithe of the land of Roger de 

 Montbegon' at South Kelsey, Tealby, and Tydd Gote, and of all his demesne 

 between Ribble and Mersey, which Roger and Sezilia his wife had previously 

 granted by their charter, with tithes also of their demesne beyond the river 

 called ' Ripa' (Ribble)." Roger did not participate in the forfeitures of 1 102 

 and 1 106, but upon the creation of the honour of Lancaster by Henry be- 

 came tenant of lands held of that honour by the service of eight knights, 

 which service his descendant owed to the honour in the time of Henry II. 

 At the date of the Lindsey survey (11 15-8) Roger held under Stephen, 

 count of Mortain, lands in Waddingham, Laughton, Thorpe, Thonock, 

 Dunstall, Scotton, Yawthorpe, Blyton, Tealby, South Kelsey, Thornton-le- 

 Moor, Holton-le-Moor, Walesby, Market Rasen, Nettleton, Elsham, Clixby, 

 and Howsham,' which his descendants afterwards held.* 



Roger de Montbegon, probably son of the last-named Roger, was 

 amerced 30 marks in 1129-30 by Richard Basset and William de Albini, 

 justices in eyre in co. Lincoln,^ When Stephen, circa 1149, temporarily 

 resigned to the earl of Chester his land between Ribble and Mersey, and, the 

 honour of Lancaster beyond the Lyme, the lands of Roger de Montbegon 

 in Lincolnshire were expressly excepted from the grant, a reservation which 

 points to the king's desire to retain the service of a favourite and powerful 

 baron.* Roger de Montbegon II. was succeeded by his son Adam about the 

 commencement of the reign of Henry II.' A few years later Adam attested 

 the confirmation by William, count of Boulogne, of an agreement made 

 between the monks of Furness and Michael le Fleming, lord of one half of 

 Furness." Between 1160 and 1170 he pledged Crofton, in Yorkshire, to 

 Henry de Lacy, of Pontefract, who subsequently obtained the king's charter 

 ratifying the transfer." He married Maud, younger daughter and co-heir of 

 Adam fitz Swain, lord of Silkstone, co. York,^^ and of Kirkandreas, Melmerby, 

 and Ainstable, co. Cumberland." Perhaps in connexion with his wife's in- 

 heritance in this county, consisting of the manor of Croston with its members 

 and one moiety of the region formerly known as Kaskenmoor, which 

 embraced the townships of Crompton and Oldham with their hamlets, a 

 debt of 75 marks is recorded in 1 170 as due from Adam de Montbegon from 

 the time of the shrievalty of Geoffrey de Valoignes {circa 1 1 60-64) ." This 

 debt was pardoned in 1172, after Adam's death, by the king to John 

 Malherbe, who had married Adam's widow." Amongst the various acts of 



'^ Dom. Bk. \. 352. 2 lb; J, 269^-270. 



* The name was perhaps derived from the village of Montbizot on the Sarthe. 



* Round, Cal. of Docs. France, 236-7. 



6 Lindsey Survey, edit. Greenstreet,/iSj;f. * Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), co. Line. 



7 Pipe R. 3 1 Hen. I. (Rec. Com.), 116. 8 Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 368. 



8 To Roger de Montbegon II. may be attributed the feofiinent of the ancestor of Gilbert de Notion in 

 the viU of Chadderton, in this county. Testa de Nevi// (Rec. Com.), 405. 



1" Coucher of Furness, Chetham Soc. (Nevir Ser.), xi. 456 ; Duchy of Lane. Anct. D., L. 342 ; Farrer, 

 Lanes. Pipe R. 307. 



11 Duchy of Lane. Misc. Ptf. i. No. 36, m. 2. i^ Chartul. of Pontefract, Yorks. Rec. Soc. m. pass. 



^* Prescott, Reg. ofWetherhal, 40 s. 1* Farrer, Lanes. PipeR. 15. 



" Ibid. 23 ; Reg. ofWetherhal, 312. 



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