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Erlestoke and its Manor Lords. 



was another son named Ralph, who did homage for Bratton and 

 Estrop on the death of his father in 1246, and who died in 1280. 

 At his death one Thomas was found to be his nearest heir, and at 

 this period also Robert de Mandeville held land in Bratton of the 

 King in chief, but in 1299 William Maundeville held Bratton " as 

 of his inheritance after the death of Ralph Maundeville his father," 

 and it is to be presumed that Thomas had died and had been 

 succeeded by a brother named Ralph, the father of William, for 

 when, in 1333, William died he was succeeded by a brother named 

 John, who was born in 1298. John survived his brother two years 

 only, and left a widow, Benedicta, who gave her manor of Bratton 

 and Estrop to Edington Monastery in 1361. The grant was con- 

 firmed by the next heir, Joan, the cousin of Benedicta and the wife 

 of Nicholas atte Hoke. 1 



To return now to the West of England family : contemporary 

 with William de Mandeville, father of the first Earl of Essex, 

 were Geoffrey and Roger de Mandeville, described as brothers in 

 a charter of the Abbey of St. Sauveur 2 to which they are witnesses, 

 with Eudo, Viscount of the Cotentin who succeeded his brother 

 Nigel, baron of St. Sauveur, in this office in 10 92. 3 Their names 

 appear together again as witnesses to two charters of Richard de 

 Red vers, who died 1107, 4 recorded in the cartulary of the Abbey 

 of Montebourg, one granting Lodres, Exmouth, and land in the 

 Isle of Wight to that abbey, 5 and the other establishing canons at 

 Nehou, 6 near St. Sauveur. 



These brothers are heard of in England for the first time in the 

 reign of Henry I., and they no doubt followed that prince from 

 Normandy on his accession to the throne, for Roger is known to 



1 Wilts Notes and Queries, vols. 2 and 3 Kecords of Parishes : Bratton. 

 2 France, Bibl. Nat., MS., Latin, 17137, fol. 24. 

 3 Stapleton, L, lxxxvi. 

 4 Ord. Vit,, Bohn, III., 418. 

 5 France, MS., Latin, 10087, Nos. 141, 143. 

 6 Ibid, No. 144. 



