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A36794	The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities / by William Dugdale ...	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1675 (1675)	Wing D2480; ESTC R16723	3,454,491	1,220

in Normandy and to their Successors in pure Alms. To the Abbey of Grestein in Normandy Founded by H●rlwine de Contevill his Father he was a great Benefactor for he gave thereunto the Lordships of Gratings and ●ro●eham in Suffolk and the Tithe of Can●b●s as also his Lands at Saisinton in Cambridgshire Which place of Grat●ngs now Cretings was a Cell to that Foreign Monastery He likewise gave thereto the Mannor of Wilminton in Sussex where also there was a Cell for Monks of that Religious House and in Ferlis Five Hides of Lands In Pevensel he gave them the House of one Engeler and in his Forest of Pevensel granted to them Paunage and Herbage with Timber for repair of their Churches and Houses as also Fewel for Fire He gave moreover to that Abbey of Grestein half the Fishing of Langener and the whole Tithe of that Fishing as also the Churches of E●d●ne Wesdene and Fer●es and one Hide of Land at Heetone But whereas he found that the greatest part of the Possessions which belonged to the Priory of S. Petroc at Bodmin in Cornwal Founded by King Aethelstan had been taken from the same and enjoyed by Canons Secular he therefore seised upon the Remainder and converted them to his own use When he departed this World I do not find but if he lived after K. William Rufus so fatally lost his life by the glance of an Arrow in New Forest from the Bow of Walter Tirell then was it unto him that this strange apparition hapned which I shall here speak of otherwise it must be to his Son and Successor Earl William the story whereof is as followeth In that very hour that the King received that fatal stroke the Earl of Cornwal being Hunting in a Wood distant from that place about two ... and left alone by his Attendants was accidently met by a very great black Goat bearing the King all black and naked and wounded through the midst of his Brest And adjuring the Goat by the Holy Trinity to tell what that was he so carried he answered I am carrying your King to Iudgment yea that Tyrant William Rufus for I am an evil spirit and the Revenger of his malice which he bore to the Church of God and it was I that did cause this his slaughter the Protomartyr of England S. Alban commanding me so to do who complained to God of him for his grievous oppressions in this Isle of Britain which he first ●allowed All which the Earl related soon after to his followers This Earl Robert took to Wife Maud Daughter to Roger de Montgomery Earl of Shrewsbury which Maud was also a great Benefactress to the Monks of Gresline in Normandy by the gift of Conoc consisting of ten Hides and two Hides in Bedingham with the Church of that place as also of one House in London with all Customs thereto belonging Moreover she gave unto them Two and twenty Hides of Land which she had of Roger de Montgomery her Father viz. At Harinton Eight at Merse Eleven at Hiteford Six at Langeberge Two at Tavistone Three and an half and at Clavendon Three yards Land By this Maud he had Issue William who succeeded him in these Earldoms of Moreton and Cornwal and three Daughters whose Christian Names are not exprest whereof the first was Wife to Andrew de Vitrei the second to Guy de la Val the third to the Earl of Tholouse Brother to Raymond Count of S. Giles who behaved himself so valiantly in the Ierusalem Expedition The Lands whereof he was possest at the time of the Conquerors Survey were in Sussex Fifty four Mannors besides the Borough of Pevensel in Devonshire Seventy five besides a Church and a House in Exeter in Yorkshire an Hundred ninety six in Wiltshire Five in Dorsetshire Forty nine in Suffolk Ten in Hantshire One in Middlesex Five in Oxfordshire One in Cambridgshire Five in Hertfordshire Thirteen in Buckinghamshire Twenty nine in Glocestershire One in Northamptonshire Ninety nine in Nottinghamshire Six and in Cornwal Two hundred forty eight having two Castles one at Dunhevet the other at Tremeton ¶ William succeeding Earl Robert his Father in the Earldom of Moreton in Normandy and this of Cornwal being a person of a malicious and arrogant spirit from his Childhood envied the glory of King Henry the First And not content with those two Earldoms demanded from King Henry the Earldom of Kent as his Right which Earldom his Uncle Odo the Bishop formerly had giving out privately That he would not put on his Robe unless that Inheritance which he chalenged by descent from his Vncle might be restored to him Unto which demand the King at first considering his own unsetled condition gave a subtile and dilatory answer But when he discerned that those Clouds from whence he doubted a storm were over he not onely denied his request but began to question him for whatsoever he possest unrightfully yet that he might not seem to oppose what was just modestly yeilding that he should have a lawful tryal for the same But with that judicial Sentence which thereupon ensued this Earl being highly displeased in a great rage got over into Normandy and there besides some fruitless attempts which he made against the Kings Castles having an evil eye towards Richard Earl of Chester Son of Hugh made no little spoil upon his Lands though he was then but a Child and in the Kings Tutelage From which time together with Robert de Belesme Earl of Shrewsbury he ceased not to foment a Rebellion in those parts The King therefore discerning these his practises seised upon all his possessions here in England razed his Castles to the Ground and banished him this Realm And not long after passing over into Normandy to quench those flames which these two Earls had made by joyning with Robert Curthose who thought himself injured that his younger Brother Henry had made himself King subdued all that power which there appeared against him and at length laid siege to 〈◊〉 a Town belonging to this Earl For the raising whereof Duke Robert with this William and Robert de Belesme and many other came with a great Army where a short fight ensued this Earl leading the Van and Robert de Belesme the Rear and of the Kings Army Ranulf de Bajorsis an eminent Baron the Van and Robert Earl of Mellent the Rear The Armies thus disposed our Earl William made the Onset upon Ranulf with extraordinary courage but could not break through his Troops they stood so stoutly to it The Front on bothsides thus maintaining their ground Helias Earl of Maine on the Kings part fell upon the Flank of the Enemies Foot who being not well armed were soon shattered which disorder being observed by Robert de

Conway Castle and Office of Governour of that Town And about the end of August won the Castle of Harlow by assault it being one of the strongest Forts throughout all Wales Shortly after which he was made choice of for one of the Knights Companions of the most noble Order of the Garter Whereunto I shall add what I find farther memorable of him from a certain Manuscript Book in the Custody of Edward now Lord Herbert of Chirbury viz. Vpon the advancing of William Herbert to be Earl of Pembroke and his Instalment at Windsore King Edward the Fourth commanded the said Earl and Sir Richard his Brother to take their surnames after their first Progenitor Herbert Fits Roy and to forgo the Brittish manner whose usage is to call every man by Father Grandfather's and Great-Grandfather's name And in regard the English Heralds were ignorant of the Welch Descents the King was pleased under his great Seal unto Yvan ap Kytherch ap Evan Llhoyd of Cardiganshire Esq to summon before him at the Castle of Pembroke the eldest Heralds and Bards in South-Wales to certifie the Linage and stock of the said Earl and his Brother which was accordingly done the twelfth day of August An. 1462. by Howel ap David ap Evan ap Rice Evan Brecva Evan Deuliun and Howell Swerdwall the chief men of skill in Pedegrees in all South-Wales Who being led by warrant of old D●ctors-Books Records of Court Barons Histories and Wars of Princes Books of Remembrances found in the antient Abbies of Strata Florida Books of Pedegrees of Howell Morthey of Castle Dolwyn Esq the Roll of Morgan the Abbot and several other Books and Warrants of Authority as also by the Evidences of this Earl they presented to his Majesty their Certificate in four several languages Brittish Latine English and French viz. The said Honourable Earl is named William Herbert a Noble Knight Son of Sir William Son of Thomas Son of Guillim Son of Jenkyn Son of Adam Son of Reginald Son of Peter Son of Herbert the Son of Herbert a Noble Lord descended of the Royal blood of the Crown of England for he was Son natural to King Henry the first Son of William commonly called the Conquerour But in Iuly the next ensuing year 9 E. 4. upon that Insurrection in the North on the behalf of the Lancastrians made by Sir Iohn Coniers Knight Robert Hillyard who call'd himself Robin of Riddesdale and others to the numbe● of twenty thousand he was sent by the King with eighteen thousand Welchmen Humphrey Stafford Earl of Devonshire having also six thousand good Archers to assist who meeting at Banbury in Com. Oxon. in order to an encounter with the Enemy at that time not many miles distant and there falling at difference for lodging Devonshire forsook him in discontent so that this Earl adventuring Battel with those Northern Men at a place called Danes-moor● near Edgcote in Northamptonshire about three miles from Banbury upon the 26. of Iuly was there utterly vanquisht and taken prisoner five hundred of his Men being slain upon the place Whence being carried to Northampton with Richard his Brother he was there together with Richard Widvile Lord Rivers and Iohn his Son beheaded by the command of George Duke of Clarence and Nevill Earl of Warwick who both of them not long before had revolted from King Edward to the other side But others varying this relation in some circumstances do say that this Earl did the more readily obey the Kings command in marching against these Northern Men thus risen on the behalf of the Earl of Warwick to revenge himself against that Earl in regard he had been his only hindrance in obteining the wardship of the Lord Bonvile's Daughter and Heir for his eldest Son and that being accompanied with his Brother Sir Richard Herbert a valiant Knight and above six or seven thousand Welchmen well furnish'd he advanced forwards to encounter with them Also that to assist him with Archers Humphrey Lord Stafford of Southwike then named but not created Earl of Devonshire by King Edward was sent in hope that he would serve valiantly in that quarel who had with him eight hundred Archers Likewise that when these two Lords were met on Co●swould and heard that those Northern-Men were on their way to Northampton the Lord Stafford and Sir Richard Herbert with two thousand Welchmen well horsed rode forth before the main Army to see the order of the Enemy and at length under a wood side espying them passing forward suddainly fell on their Reer but that the Northern Men turning about put the Welch to a total rout and took many of them prisoners and thereupon retreated towards Warwick to look for aid of the Earl who being then newly come from Calais with his Son in Law the Duke of Clarence was raising Men in aid of his Friends and Kindred Moreover that at that time also King Edward was busy in raising Men to the aid of this Earl of Pembroke but that before either partie receiv'd succour from their friends or Partakers both these Armies met by chance in a fair plain by Edgcote where there are three Hills not of equal bigness lying almost in a triangle Of which the Welch got that towards the West hoping to have recovered the East-Hill also the Northern Men encamping on the South-Hill But the difference which hapned betwixt this Earl and the Lord Stafford at Banbury as hath been noted causing the Lord Stafford with his Men to forsake him he lost the day and being taken suffered death at Northampton as before is observed Nevertheless before he suffered death with his own hand-writing he made his Testament bearing date the very day following that Battel 27 Julii out of which I have thought fit here to exhibite some part as I find it on record In nomine Iesu. Item I to be buried in the Priory of Bergavenny undre charge bytwene my Faders Toumbe and the Chancell And the cost that should h●ve be at Tynterne to be sett upon the Chancell as my Confessor c. shall say and you my Wife and Brother Thomas Herbert c. And Wyfe that ye remember your promise to me to take the ordre of Wydowhood as ye may be the better Mayster of your owne to performe my wylle and to helpe my Children as I love and trust you c. And that C. Tonne of ... be yeven to make the Cloyster of Tynterne c. and xxl. to the Grayfreres where my Body shall lygh and that my Body be sent for home in alle hast secretely by Mr. Leisone and certain Freres with him c. To Dr. Leisone ten marks a yere to singe for my soule during his life c. Item to two Prestes to be found to syng afore the Trinitie at Lanteliowe for my soule and for all there soules slayn in the felde for two yere c. Item that my Alm●shouse have as much livelode

Belesme he began to flie with the Rear whereupon the King soon obtained an absolute Victory the Duke himself being made prisoner and all his principal adherents Amongst which this Earl being taken by the Britains from whose hands the King and his Friends had much ado to get him was sent prisoner into England there to be secured during his life After which the King causing his Eyes to be put out bes●owed his Earldom of Moreton upon Stephen of Blois Son of Stephen Earl of Champaine whom he then honored with Knighthood who was after King of England This Earl William built the Castle of Mountacute in Somersetshire and called it by that name from the sharpness of the Hill on which he did set it And likewise Founded a Priory near thereto which he amply endowed annexing it as a Cell to the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy He also gave to the Abbey of Bec in Normandy his Lordship of Preston in the Rape of Pevensel in Sussex and was buried in the Abbey of Bermondsey in Southwark But when he died I find no mention nor of either Wife or Issue that he had Earls of Arundel and Shrewsbury IT was not long after King William the First commonly called the Conqueror had setled himself here in the Royal Throne but he conferred these Earldoms upon Roger de Montgomery Son to Hugh de Montgomery and Ioscelline his Wife Daughter to Turolf of ●ont-Audomare by Weva Sister to Gunnora Dutchess of Normandy Great Grand-Mother to the Conqueror which still doth manifest the sense he had as well of his Interest as his Affections towards those who were of his Alliance The first account I have of this Roger is That he was Oximensum Vicecomes And after that when Geffrey Mertel Earl of Anjou being a person of an haughty spirit and prosperous in his Military attempts upon his Neighbors had gotten the Castle of ●lencon belonging to William Duke of Normandy which so irritated the Duke that he forthwith laid siege to the Castle of Danfro●● in Anjou Geffrey marching with no small power to raise the same the Duke sent this Roger de Montgomery and William Fitz-Osberne then both gallant young men to discover his strength who meeting with the Earl and representing to him the courage and resolutions of their Duke he furiously threatned that within a day or two he would manifest to the World that the valor of an Anjovin should far surpass that of a Norman arrogantly vaunting what coloured Horse he would ride on and what Ensigns of Arms he would then bear But they with as much disdain magnified Duke William and told him the like of his Horse and Arms and so returning encouraged their party to fight This Roger was with other the cheif Men of Normandy of Counsel with Duke William in order to his Invasion of this Realm and attending him in that signal expedition led the middle part of his Army in that memorable Battle wherein he became Victor and thenceforth King of England After his Coronation he went with him again into Normandy viz. In Lent following and though he was designed Governor there when the King should be absent yet being advertised of some disturbances like to be in England from the Danes and discontented spirits there he brought him back upon his return which was in December following and first advanced him to the Earldom of ●●●chester Arundel and soon after to that of Shrewebury Chichester and Arundel being really that of Sussex though the Earls of that Territory are usually denominated of those places in regard of their Residences thereat And to these he also added the Honor of Eye in Suffolk The Character which Ordericus Vitalis gives of him is That he was a very prudent and moderate Man a great lover of Equity and of discreet and modest Persons He had three Clergimen by whose counsels he was always prosperously guided viz. Godebald Odeler and Herbert The Governorship of Shrewsbury he committed to Warine the Bald a Man of small stature but of a great spirit and gave him in marriage his Neice Aimeri● By the valor and skilful Conduct of whom he kept the Welsh in aw and that whole Province in Peace The other principal Persons who were under him trusted and employed in his County of Salop were William Pantolf Picold de Sai Corbet and two of his own Sons viz. Roger and Robert by whose wisdom and courage being freely assisted he was as glorious amongst the greatest Nobles as any of them all Upon that great and dangerous breach betwixt the King and his eldest Son Robert Curth●se when both of them were in Arms and no small fear by most Men of the consequence thereof this Earl with some few others so far wrought upon the King then at 〈◊〉 by their mild and moderate counsels that he was content to remit the offences of his Son and receive him to his grace and favor Nor did his affections to Robert Curthose any whit abate when the Conqueror died for no sooner had William Rufus assumed the Crown here but he joyned with Odo Earl of Kent ●obert Earl of Moreton and the rest of those Noblemen with purpose to have raised the said Curthose to the Royal Throne and in order thereto marched from Shrewsbury with a great power of the Welsh and others unto the City of Worcester and made great spoil there but by the courage and resolution of the venerable Wolstan then Bishop who was at that time in the Castle a Sally was made cheifly by those of the Bishops retinue which routed this Earl with all the power he had at that time there But so many and so potent were those of the Nobility who then were against the King that he seeing his danger gave out that he would ease them of Taxes alleviate the Laws and give them free liberty of Hunting And riding with this Earl ●oger subtilly told him That he would most willingly quit the Government if he and those others whom the late King had assigned to be his Curators should think it best Adding That they should do what they pleased so that it were not Treason with many other smooth expressions wherewith this Earl was so much captivated that he thenceforth fell off from the rest of his own party Whereupon the King so expeditiously prevailed against Odo and the rest of his then adherents that all of them soon after submitted or fled as in my discourse of the said Odo Earl of Kent will appear The Possessions which this great Earl had in England were of a vast extent as appeareth by the Conquerors Survey by whose bounty he enjoyed them viz. In Wiltshire Three Lordships in Surrey Four