BROADWATER HUNDRED great munden 



iupporter of King John 



who had been an ardent ; 

 against the barons, 'for ht 

 support in our castle of Lin- 

 coln, for as long as it pleases 

 us.' 9 Later in the same reign 

 Munden was again in the 

 possession of the Furnivalls, 

 and in 1242 Christiana, 

 widow of another Gerard de 

 Furnivall, was granted the 

 custody of his heir. 10 Chris- 

 tiana's son Gerard lived until 

 almost the end of the century, 

 dying some time between 

 1290 and 1302." He had 

 two daughters, Christiana de Aylesford and Lora 1 



had the title of Lord Furnivall and was descended 

 from Thomas de Furnivall, brother of Gerard de 

 Furnivall and uncle of Lora and Christiana." In 

 1461 it was held by John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury 

 and Lord Furnivall, 16 who had married the heiress of 

 the Furnivalls, and the manor continued to be held 

 of his heirs, in socage, for the rent of a pair of gloves." 

 In 1285 Gerard de Furnivall had created a further 

 sub-tenancy by conveying the manor to John de 

 Kirkeby, Bishop of Ely, for the yearly rent of a pair 

 of gilt spurs or 61/.'" John died in 1190, and was 

 succeeded by his brother William de Kirkeby," who 

 lived until 1302. At this time a third of the manor 

 was in the hands of Mathania, the second wife of 

 John de Cobham, 10 but the remainder passed on the 

 division of William's inheritance between his sisters 



Great Munden ; Old Farm 



Loretta, widow of John de Ulvesflete," the manor of 

 Munden Furnivall being apportioned to the younger." 

 Both Lora and Christiana had descendant!, Gerard 

 de Ulvesflete descendant of the former, and John de 

 Aylesford, a minor, descendant of the latter, both 

 being alive about 1362." During the hundred years 

 following, however, both lines apparently died out, 

 for by 14.61 this mesne lordship of Great Munden 

 had passed to another branch of the family, who 



to Margaret, wife of Walter de Oscvill," with the 

 reversion of Mathania's third and the third held in 

 dower by Christine de Kirkeby, William's widow." 

 In 1304 Walter and Margaret de Osevill settled 

 Munden Furnivall upon their sons John and Henry 

 and the heirs of Henry." Henry de Osevill died 

 before 1334," when his widow Alice held one third 

 and his brother John, who survived him until 133;, 

 held the other two thirds." Eventually the whole 



bbrrv. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 



13 Ibid. ; Wrotteilev, Fed. from tht Pita 



