FEUDAL BARONAGE 



Torbryan^ and Dodbrook,* and Saulf's Little Dunsford or Sowton;' in all 

 921 fees ; * and it was held by the service of three knights/ 



Baldwin was twice married, (i) to Albreda the Conqueror's niece" or 

 cousin/ and (2) to Emma,^ and had issue three sons, William, Robert, and 

 Richard,' and a daughter AdeHza, and possibly another, Emma. Mr. Round 

 gives the three sons to Emma, though he is doubtful about William.^" 

 Planche gives her only the two daughters." William succeeded his father as 

 sheriff^'' in 1090," and was succeeded by his brother Richard, who held that 

 office together with the honour of Okehampton in 1129.^* Richard died 

 without issue on 25 June 11 37," when the sisters became his heirs. The 

 elder one Adeliza was married to William, son of Wimund,^" and died in 

 1 142 after founding Ford Abbey." The exact descent of the honour now 

 becomes involved in considerable doubt, but it appears to have passed through 

 the Avenel family to Maud dAvranches, whose second husband, Robert, a 

 natural son of Henry I, was in possession of it in 1 166.^* Upon the death of 

 Robert in 1172 and that of his widow in the following year" the honour 

 came into the hands of Reginald de Courteney, who appears to have availed 

 himself of a grant of the wardship of the two daughters to marry his son 

 William to Hawise, daughter of Maud dAvranches by her first husband, 

 and to himself marry Maud's namesake and daughter by her second husband, 

 Robert the king's son.^" The honour of Okehampton thus came to the Cour- 

 teney family, in which it continued until Thomas Courteney was attainted 

 in the first year of Edward IV. 



As we glance through the list of the Okehampton retainers in the Black 

 Book^^ the feature to attract attention is their number rather than the size of 

 their holdings. The Domesday Rogo is represented by Simon son of Rogo, 

 who held five fees, which continued in his family for many generations.^^ 

 Hugh of Rennes has given place to Guy de Brionna or Bryan, who held five 

 fees which the Bryans continued to possess up to the end of the thirteenth 

 century.''' Otley has been succeeded by Hidon the holder of 6j fees, which 

 after several generations passed to the Dinhams." Ralf de Brueria is repre- 

 sented by Antony de Bruiera the holder of five fees, and the latter by William 

 de la Bruere in 1241,^^ after whom they passed by co-heiresses to Gras and 



' Feud. Aids, 317. " Ibid. 332. 



' Ibid. 314. * Red Bk. ofExch. (Rolls Ser.), p. 558 ; Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxvii, 99 seq. 



' Authority quoted by Whale in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxii, 542. 



.' Oliver, Mon. 338. Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxx, 506. 



' Planch^, The Conqueror and his Companions, ii, 43. * Feud. Engl. 473. Exeter Domesday, fol. 307. 



' Cal. of Doe. France, 524. '° Feud. Engl. 473. 



" Planch6, The Conqueror and his Companions, ii, 44. 



" Charters in Oliver, Mon. 117, 153 ; Round, Feud. Engl. 330, «. 37. 



" Planch6, loc. cit. 43. " Round, Feud. Engl. 473. 



" Oliver, Mon. 338. "' Exeter Domesday, fol. 295. " Oliver, Mon. 342. 



'^ Round, fi?ai^. Engl. z66 ; Lii. Niger, 119. " Dugdale, Mon. v, 381. 



*" Close 8 Hen. Ill, m. 8. There appears to be some doubt as to the identity of Maud's first husband. 

 He is usually supposed to have been Robert d'Avranches (Courthope, Historic Peerage, 128), but is called in 

 Bracton's Notebook (ed. Maitland, case 170) 'Geoffrey de Crimes' and (case 1,569) ' William de Curcy.' 



" Lib. Niger, 119. Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 251-4. Compare therewith a list given by Mr. Whale 

 in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxii, 543, and the Testa de Nevill. 



" Whale in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxii, 543. 



''In 1286 Guy Bryan held Melhuish and Teign Harvey {Jeud. Aids, 313). 



" Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxii, 543. 



" Feud. Aids, 318. Ralf de Brueria must not be confounded with the family of Briwere, to which the 

 famous judge belonged, the founder of Tor Abbey. 



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