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de Vernon, Baron of Nehou, his over-lord, the lord of Sark, 

 who had given the church of St. Magloire and various tithes 

 and lands to the said abbey. (n The de Barnevilles also held 

 the fief of Jerbourg, now Sausmarez Manor, St. Martin's, 

 early in the 13th century, and they became extinct in an 

 heiress, Nicholaa de Barneville, who married Maurice de 

 Lucy, a relative of Geoffrey de Lucy, Warden of the Isles, 

 1206-7, and again from 1224 to 1226. He was killed during 

 one of the invasions of Guernsey in the reign of King John, 

 and on the 29th January, 1230, (2) Henry III. ordered that 

 Jordan de Lucy (styled Jordan de Barneville in another letter 

 of the 12th June, 1231 ) (3) son of Maurice de Lucy and 

 Nicholaa de Barneville, be given possession of his father and 

 mother's land at Jerbourg (Gerebourg), which had been in 

 the King's custody during his minority. 



Espiart the legat (legato) of the transcript, should read 

 Espiart Legat, the name of a fief in the parish of St. Sampson, 

 of which he was probably the owner. This fief was escheated 

 to the Crown as land of the Normans by King John. It 

 seems that a portion of it was granted by Henry III. to Ralph 

 Burnelfor his services,^ which now forms the fief of Bruniaux 

 de Nermont, and it still owes suit of court at the Court of 

 Chief Pleas. 



Gilbert Rossel, or de Rosel, was probably the owner of 

 the fief Rozel, St. Pete-Port, which we learn by the Extente 

 of 1274 had been forfeited after the loss of Normandy by a 

 Norman of that name.' 5 ' These de Rosels, Sires de Rosel, 

 near Caen, held other lands in Guernsey, for in 1172 Philipoa 

 de Rosel and her husband. Robert Patry, Sire de la Lande 

 Patry, gave to Mont Saint Michel that land in Guernsey 

 which had belonged to Hugh de Rosel, Sire de Rosel, her 

 father.< 6 > 



Master Marcherius, or Master Mark, was one of the 

 witnesses to the charter of Jordan de Barneville, Sire de 

 Barneville, in the Cotentin, giving a caracute of land at Crapo- 

 doit in Jersey to the Abbot of St. Helier's shortlv before 

 1179.W 



Hugh de Grenteis, as his surname should be spelt, and 

 not de Grencesiis as it is incorrectly transcribed, was of an 



(1) Cal. Doc. in France, p. 317, No. 889. 

 • (2) Cal. Close Rolls, II, Hen. III., No. 17, p. 289. 



(3) Ibid, 15, Hen. III., p. 514. 



(4) Extente 1271. Pub. Societe Jersiaise, p. 32, Cf. Lettres Close, p. 42, 18 July, 



(5) Extente, 1274, p. 31. 



(6) Wiffins. History of tbe House of Russell, p. 75. 



(7) Cal, Doc. in France, p. 339, No. 953. 



