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have been one of the leaders of his party in the Cotentin during the 

 struggle between the two sons of the Conqueror. 1 



It was no doubt as a reward for these services of the past, that 

 the brothers received grants of land in the West of England from 

 Henry I. In Devonshire Geoffrey had the manor of Wonford, in 

 Heavitree, 2 and in Dorsetshire the important barony of Marshwood, 3 

 and in Wiltshire the manor of Sutton, while Eoger is known to 

 have had the manor of Woodbury, 4 Devon, and probably received 

 other manors at this time which are found to have been in the 

 possession of his family at a later period. 5 In Normandy Eoger is 

 found joining in the grant of the Churches of St. Martin and St. 

 Medard, of Gouey, to the Abbey of St. Sauveur, 0 and as Gouey is 

 close to Olonde it may be presumed that this fief was already in the 

 family's possession. Eoger was succeeded by his son, Stephen, who 

 followed his father's example in his fidelity to the family of Henry 

 I., and was a strenuous supporter of the Empress Maud. He is first 

 heard of as joining with Baldwin de Eedvers in the raid made on 

 the Cotentin by Eaymond de Dunstanville in 1138. 7 



1 Memoires de la Societe des Antiquaires de Normandie, I., 266. 



2 Pole's Devon, p. 233. 

 3 Batten, Historical Notes, South Somerset, p. 116. 



4 Pole, Devon, p. 155. 

 5 The connection between the Marshwood and Erlestoke families is further 

 indicated by the Montebourg and Montacute cartularies. Before 1174 

 William Avenel confirmed to the Abbey of Montebourg the grant of the 

 land of " Buscherville," which was of the fee of Robert de Mandeville, and 

 which Margaret, his (Robert's) wife, and Geoffrey, his son, had given with 

 the consent of Earl Baldwin and Stephen de Mandeville, for the soul of the 

 same Robert and of his daughter, the wife of William Avenel (MS. Latin, 

 10087, No. 272). Geoffrey, the son of Robert, also confirmed this grant of 

 his father's, and the same Geoffrey has a charter in the Montacute cartulary 

 to which Roger de Mandeville is a witness with, among others, Herbert de 

 Pinu and Herbert de Monasteriis, two of the witnesses to the Erlestoke mill 

 charter (Som. Record Society, vol. 8, p. 138). In 1305 Sir John de Mandeville 

 confirmed to Montacute Priory the grant of Erlestoke mill made by his 

 " ancestor," Roger de Mandeville. The term " ancestor " is not to be taken 

 literally, but the descent of Sir John from Geoffrey I., of Marshwood, the 

 grand-uncle of Roger of Erlestoke, is shown by Mr. Batten in his Historical 

 Notes on South Somerset (p. 114). 



6 MS., Latin, 17137, fols. 4, 15. 



7 Ord. Vit., IV., 196. 

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