A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



Geoffrey bishop of Coutances, with additions and exceptions, went to form 

 the honour of Barnstaple ; those of Baldwin the sheriff the honour of Oke- 

 hampton ; those of Juhel of Totnes the honours of Hurberton and Totton ; 

 Ralf de Pomeray's the honour of Berry ; those of William his brother, better 

 known as William Capra, the honour of Braneys or Bradninch. Walter 

 de Dowai's were divided between the honours of Bampton and Marsh wood. 

 William de Faleise's constituted the honour of Dartington; those of Odo 

 son of Gamelin, together with his father-in-law Tetbald's, the honour of 

 Torington, whilst Goscelin's and Clavil's and Queen Matilda's went to the 

 honour of Gloucester. The rest, with the exception of a few which went to 

 out-county honours or were held of the king in chief, constituted the great 

 honour of Plympton.^ As to those tenants whose Devonshire estates were 

 subsequently held of honours of which the seats were in other counties, the 

 following notes will not be out of place. 



Among the count of Mortain's under-tenants who became tenants in 

 chief when that honour fell into the hands of the crown was Richard son of 

 Torolf or Turold, who, besides being an under-tenant of the count of Mortain, 

 and an under-tenant of Baldwin the sheriff (at Martin, fol. 205), was also a 

 tenant in chief of the crown in respect of four manors assessed at 4 hides, 

 and with a cultivated area of roughly 2,000 acres.** These four, together 

 with the manors which he held as under-tenant, constituted the Cornish 

 honour of Cardinan.* 



William de Moione or de Mohun was another tenant in chief who 

 held Clayhanger, assessed at i hide, with about 400 acres essarted from the 

 forest, as part of his own Somersetshire honour of Dunster.* A third was 

 Alvred ' de Ispania,' of Spain, or, as Dr. Round surmises, of iSpaignes,' who 

 held in chief the estates of the dispossessed Alwi Bannesons," King Edward's 

 reeve, viz., Arlington and Orway, assessed at if hides with rather less than 

 2,000 acres under cultivation, as part of his own honour of Stowey. Alvred's 

 line vanished in an heiress, Isabel, the wife of Robert de Chandos, who died 

 in 1120 ; and Chandos's heiress, Maud, brought them before 11 66 to her 

 husband, Philip de Columbers.'^ 



A fourth tenant in chief whose Devonshire estates went to a distant 

 honour was Torstin the son of Rolf, whose manor of Churchstanton, assessed 

 at 3 hides, with approximately 2,000 acres essarted from the forest, was after- 

 wards held of the honour of Kerlihun.* This Torstin is probably the Turstin 

 who bore the Conqueror's standard at the battle of Hastings.' Before 1095 his 

 land had passed by gift of William Rufus to Wynebald de Ballon, whom 

 Rufus brought over with him.^° Wynebald had two sons, who succeeded him, 

 and a daughter, his eventual heiress, who married Newmarch. His grandson, 

 Henry de Newmarch, in Henry IPs reign confirmed his grandfather's grants 

 to religious houses." Towards the close of John's reign the two co-heiresses 



' Feud. Aids, 235. ' Exch. Domesday, fol. 113. ' See Feudal Baronage. 



* Liber Niger, p. 9. ' Round in V. C. H. Somen. 



^ Exeter Domesday, fols. 162 and 371^. 



' Liber Niger, p. 97. After the death of King Henry one Icnight was enfeoffed on the demesne of Arlington 

 (Alurington), viz. Hugh de Ralege. 



' Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 1833. 



° Eyton, Key to Domesday, Dorset, 76. Round, Peerage Studies, 189. 



" Round, Peerage Studies, p. 190. His name de Ballon is taken from his home near Le Mans in Maine. 



" Dugdaie, Mon. ii, 73. 



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