FEUDAL BARONAGE 



to her husband, William son of John.^ On the death of William son of 

 John in 1194 it was claimed by Geoffrey de Mandevil of Coker, descended 

 from Geoffrey's elder son,* notwithstanding which William's son Henry de 

 Tilli obtained it by the king's writ in 1200.* On Henry de Tilli's death, 

 however, in 1208, the claim to it of Robert de Mandevil of the Coker line 

 was successfully asserted.* The Devonshire section consisted of eleven fees.^ 



THE HONOUR OF DARTINGTON 



To William de Faleise's share fell, when the spoils of the Conquest were 

 divided, nineteen manors within the county of Devon, assessed at i6i hides 

 and comprising some 12,000 acres under cultivation. Of these manors 

 Cockington, North Harbournford, and Little Ingleborn had belonged to the 

 Saxon Alric ; Holne, Dean, Rattery, and Dartington had been Alwin's ; 

 Combe Martin had belonged to two thanes, Bristric and Edwy ; whilst the 

 rest had been the property each of some individual freeman in Saxon times. 

 All William's estates are found in aftertimes held of the honour of Dartington, 

 sometimes called the honour of ' Blakedon ' * from Blagdon in Somersetshire, 

 which at the time of the survey was held by Serlo de Burcei,^ William de 

 Faleise's father-in-law.' In 1 1 6 1 this honour, which included also Walter 

 de Dowai's estate of East Haggington,* was held by Robert son of Martin,^" 

 the first of that name to hold lands in Devon," but Dartington and Holne 

 were Alice de Nonant's in 1 1 76," and were seized into the king's hands 

 because she had married without leave.^' On Robert's death in 1 207, his 

 son William son of Martin" succeeded, who died in 1208, leaving by Avice 

 his wife " a son also called William son of Martin, who died in 1 2 1 6. The 

 latter William left two sons, Nicholas and Robert, the custody of whom during 

 minority was committed first to Fulk de Breaute " and afterwards to Henry 

 de Trubevil." Nicholas Martin was succeeded by his grandson, William, Lord 

 Martin,^' who by his wife Elinora, widow of Lord John Mohun," had issue a 

 son William, second Lord Martin, and two daughters, Eleanor wife of Philip 

 de Columbers ^° and Joan wife of Nicholas de Audelegh.''^ On the death of 



' Ca/. Rot. Cart. p. 75 ; LiL Niger, 84. ' Charter of John, in Batten, op. cit. 120. 



' In 1200, Trans. Devon. Jssoc. xxxvi, 427. 



* Batten, South Somerset, 1 1 7. This Robert was a grandson of Robert the eldest son of Geoffrey the 

 original grantee. His father, Geoffrey, in 1 1 94, 'fined in 100 marks to have the judgment of the King's 

 Court touching his inheritance in England and Normandy, whereof he had been deforced by Henry de TiUi,' 

 Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxvii, 427. Dugdale, Bar. i, 206. 



' Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 188a. Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 501. 



* Feud. Aids, 415 : Combe Martin held of the honour of Blakedon. Inq. p. m. igEdw. II, No. 100. 

 ' Exeter Domesday, fol. 452. * Ibid. fol. 369^. 



' Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), p. 178/z. 



'° Pipe R 8 Hen. II. in Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxix, 478, 481. Dugdale, Bar. i, 729. 



" He was the son of Robert son of Martin, who witnessed a charter of the Empress Maud in 1142 

 {Pipe R. Soc. X, p. 43, No. 26) and died before 1158, when his Somerset estates were in the king's hand 

 {Pipe R. Soc. I, 21, 22 ; ii, 19, 41, 58), and the grandson of Robert son of Martin (Risdon, Notebook, 65), 

 who was grandson of Martin of Tours. 



" Pipe R. 22 Hen. II ; 23, 28 Hen. II. " Ibid. 33 Hen. II. 



" Rot. Fin. 9 John, m. 13. Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxiii, 365. 



" Rot. Lit. Claus. 17 John, pt. i, m. 4. '° Close Rolls, 17 John, pt. i, m. 10. 



" Rot. Fin. 8 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



^ He was son of Nicholas Martin the younger, who died before his father, after marrying Maud, 

 daughter and heiress of Guy de Bryan, by Eva, daughter and heiress of Henry de Tracy, lord of Barnstaple. 

 Rot. Fin. 10 Edw. I, m. 16 and 15. 



" Oliver, Mon. 304. " Inq. p. m. i Edw. Ill, No. 82. *' Risdon, Notebook, p. 66. 



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