FEUDAL BARONAGE 



1 1 66 they were held by Jordan de Champernown,^ but were most of them 

 entered in the name of his under-tenant as ' 9 fees held of the same by 

 William the son of Baldwin,' * i.e. by William de Lomene whom the Red 

 Book calls William de Lovayne.* Goscelin's under-tenant Baldwin was, there- 

 fore, ancestor of the Loman family. The heiress of Champernown carried 

 them to Wellington,* from whom they passed to Beaumont and Basset.^ Walter 

 of Burgundy is represented in 1303 by Henry de Tracy's heir at Dodscot 

 and Newton Tracy,' at Villavin by Nicolas Burnell.^ Osmund was succeeded 

 by Lamprey,* Ludo, Walter de Dowai's squire,' by Fleming, and then by 

 Mohun.^" 



Of the three French knights whose estates went to the honour of 

 Gloucester Ansger de Montacute or de Senarpont (de ponte Senardi) had 

 seven manors assessed at 3 hides and J virgate with 2,000 acres essarted from 

 the forest. Aiulf, probably the sheriff of Dorset and brother of Humfrey, 

 Queen Matilda's chamberlain," had two assessed at i hide and J virgate with 

 about 300 acres under cultivation, and Morey [Morinus) of Caen had one 

 assessed at I hide with some 250 acres under cultivation. Of the 

 estates of all three it is stated that they did not belong to but had been 

 grouped with Brictric's lands, and in 7esta de Nevill, like Brictric's lands, 

 they are described as ' belonging to Earl Richard's share ' of the honour of 

 Gloucester." 



THE MORTAIN FEES 



Excepting Baldwin the sheriff and the bishop of Exeter, Robert count 

 of Mortain, son of Herlwin and Herleva, the Conqueror's half-brother, held 

 the largest fief in Devon. Already possessed of the comte of Mortain, he 

 received after the Conquest lands in this country in no fewer than twenty 

 counties. In the four counties of Wilts, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall he 

 possessed '623 manors assessed at 833 hides all but 2 J virgates,' with 'arable 

 land for 1,480 ploughs,' of a 'value of >^i,409 all but 6 shillings and 

 10 pence.' Of these hides 'he had 200 all but 2 in demesne,' 'worth to 

 him jC4°° ^^^ ^ mark of silver' ; and his 'liegemen had 655 hides all but 

 J virgate, worth to them ^1,000 all but 6 shillings and 10 pence.'" His 

 Devonshire estates included eighty-one manors assessed at 79 J hides with 

 something like 40,000 acres under cultivation, including the honours of the 

 Saxons Ordulf (excepting Broad Clyst), Edmeratorius,'* and Alward the 



^Ltb. Niger, pp. 161, 164 : 'Jordan de Champernown {Capnun) for Umberleigh and Betinton z fees ; 

 and his other knights have been already set dovra in the aforesaid roll.' The Red Book, p. 559, in 121 2 gives 

 to Roes de Campo Emulfi only one fee in Devon, but sets down nine as William de Lomene's. Trans. Devon. 

 Assoc. XXXV, 285. 



'Lib. Niger, 161. Baldwin was under-tenant of Goscelin in Domesday times at Buckland Toutsaints 

 and Luperidge in North Huish. 



' Trans. Devon. Assoc, xxxv, 285. *Lysons, ii, 18. ^ Feud. Aids, 371. 



^Feud. Aids, 371. ' Ibid. 359, 41 1. 



' Ibid. 370, 369, at Nicols Nimet and Fenacre. ' Exeter Domesday, fol. 500. 



"At Farway {Feud. Aids, 330) and also at Holditch {Testa de Nevii/ {Rec. Com.), 1973; Trans. Devon. 

 Assoc, xxxvii, 437). 



" Freeman, Norman Conquest, iv, 163. " Testa de NeviU (Rec. Com.), 177^. 



"The figures are quoted as given in the Exeter Book, fol. 531, without attempting to harmonize them. 



" His name is variously written Edmer, Edmaer, Edmer Atre, Edmeratorius, Elmeratorius, 

 Almeratorius, and he was possibly identified with Edmer ' Atule,' a pre-Conquest tenant in Herts, 

 V.Cn. Herts,!, 281. 



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