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Erlestohe and its Manor Lords. 



original grant was made by Henry I. to an ancestor of Eoger de 

 Mandeville. At the same time it is worthy of note that the 

 defendant gained the day on the technical plea that, though he 

 alone was cited, he was not the sole owner. 



In Normandy Eoger (III.) had extensive landed interests, as 

 appears from his many grants to the Abbey of Montebourg. In 

 Goesberville (canton, St. Mere-Eglise) he gave all his land and what 

 interest he had in its church, 1 in " Cerhaus " all the land he had 

 in his domain, 2 in Gratot (near Coutances) his interest in the 

 Church of the Blessed Mary 3 and the tithes appertaining to his 

 fee ; and in Otheville, near Cherbourg, the advowson of the Church. 4 



He also gave to the Priory of Monroe (near Nehou) ten acres 

 in " Escorcheporc " and twelve quarters of corn from his mill of 

 " Eoca," and to the abbey the reversion of the advowsons of 

 Puteville (St. Maurice, near Barneville) and " Stoches," with all 

 its appurtenances, both of which were then in the possession of 

 Julian Malesarz. 5 



In one of the charters, referred to above, Eoger's wife, A. de 

 Nonant, is a witness, and in several of them his brother William 

 de Mandeville is a consenting party. 



Eoger died in 1198 and was succeeded by this brother, 6 whose wife 

 was the Mabilia Patric referred to above. William de Mandeville 

 died soon after his brother, leaving his wife surviving him, and an 

 only daughter, Joan, who succeeded to his property in England 

 and Normandy and conveyed it to her husband, Theodore Teutonicus, 

 in 1200. 7 In 1202 this husband was dead and she was married a 



1 MS., Latin, 10087, Nos. 256, 257. 



2 Ibid, No. 259. 



3 Ibid, No. 267. 



4 Ibid, No. 280. 



5 Ibid, No. 266. 



6 Pipe Roll, 9 Ric. 1. 

 7 Botudi de Qblatis, Hardy, p. 87. 



