PROCEEDINGS COTTE5WOLD CLUB 
1918 
Hasculf Musard’s heirs sold land in Siddington Langley held 
by service of the eighth of a fee and worth 20s. and a mill 
worth 5s. 
Whether from fire or from neglect (more probably the 
former), the Castle of Miserden went to ruin upon its steep 
mound, and in 1289 it was held by jurors to be of no 
value and entirely waste. “ There is a garden there with 
Ditches.” Probably its masonry became used for the later 
house on another site. The lord at this time had been John 
Musard (son of Ralph and Christiana), 1 who, having been a 
minor in the King’s custody, came of age in 1287. An I.P.M. 
shows him to have been bom at Miserden Castle on the Feast 
of S. Wulfstan, January 19th, 1266-67, and baptised in the 
Church. His reign was brief, for he was dead in 1289, and 
succeeded by his uncle Nicholas Musard, and the manor was 
valued at £8 15s. 3d. He presently, being without issue, 
alienated the manor to Hugh Dispenser. 
In 1300 we find Malcolm Musard, John Musard’s uncle 
(and brother of the preceding Nicholas) holding the Manor of 
Seynesbuw, °f which Aston (Somerville) was a member ; but 
the King’s Escheator came upon inquiry and found that he had 
entered upon possession without a royal license. Consequently 
that manor is valued at /16, and Aston Somerville (which was a 
member of Saintsbury) at £30. Malcolm desired to enfeoff the 
Abbot of Evesham as to Saintsbury, but the jurors said this 
would be to the damage of the king of the value of the marriage 
of the heir to the estate. In 1302 Miserden was no longer a 
Musard possession. In 1303-04 the village Advowson, and 
Manor of Miserden are all entered as the property of Hugh le 
Dispenser of Tewkesbury, holding from the King in Chief, 2 
and the Musard family has disappeared from the county. 3 
1 Note that Isabel de la Musarder married Helias de Giffard of Brimpsfield as his first .wife 
and Alice Maltravers as his second. Isabel has two sons and one daughter. (See p. 215 I.P.M.* 
vol. 2). 
Sir Geoff, de Brockeshale (I.P.M. 1288) said he was at Brimpsfield with Sir John Giffard in 
the year following the Battle of Evesham, and he there saw the said John Musard an infant 
running with his mother (Christiana M.). William Clement savs he carried the said John from the 
baptismal font in the Church of Musardem. 
2 Charta a. 28 Edwd. I., Inq. Ad. Q.D., a. 12 Edwd. II., No. 38. 
3 We find Malcolm Musard, however, serving as King’s Forester beyond Trent for the Forest 
of Feckenham, 1313 (Fine Roll, p. 30L Also in the same year the lands there beyond Trent 
belonging to Margaret Musard deceased, escheated to the Crown (ibid., p. 353). 
