INQ. P.M. OF HUGO COURTENAY, EARL OF DEVON, 10 Hen. V, 29b, 66. (Mention is made of divers manors, etc., in the county of Devon, under the county of Somerset.) Devon £18. 6s. 8d. from the issue (3rd penny) of the county. Extent of manors and hundreds-Plimpton honour, castle and burg'; Tyverton, and burg'; Exminster; Topsham manor; Weneford and Harygge hundreds; Exe, free fishery; Wodeleghe and Stokdamerle-lands and advowsons of churches. Advowsons-Bokeland Abbey; Exon', priory of St. James. Trowelegh, Milton Damerle, St. Leonard juxta Exon'— advowsons of churches. Bottesford, messuages, lands, etc. Holbogheton, rents. Okhampton-manor, honour, burg', etc.-extent, Brightlegh, advowson of chantry. Sampford Courtney, manor (extent), and advowson of church. Stykelpath, advowson of chantry. Churebeare, manor. Duwelton, manor, and advowson of church. Chulmelegh, manor, burg', and advowsons of church and prebends there. Chaluelegh, manor, burgh', and advowson of church. Nywenham, manor juxta Chitel hamholt. Exclond, manor. Ken, manor, and advowson of chantry there. Keneford, burgh'. Whympell and Aylesbeare, manors. Neweton Popelford, hamlet, and advowson of chantry there. Hontebeare, manor. Colyford, burg'. Musberye, manor, and advowson of church. Brokelond-Frill and Smalecombe, messuages, and lands there. Pontesford juxta Colompton, messuages, mill, etc. Alsyngton vel Alfyngton, land there, and advowson of church. Seilake juxta Halberton, messuages, land, etc. Advowsons-Forde Abbey, Cowyk Priory. Heighys, Cutton, and Ken-prebends in the chapel of the castle of Exon. Crulledych, half of the market. Budlegh, hundred. Stuttecomb, Milham, and Loueclyff-messuages, lands, etc., as parcel of the honour of Okehampton. Manors of-Godrington, Stancombe Dawny, Southalington, Slapton. Didisham and Poleantony, as of the honour of Plympton. Whitewill. Coleford, and Blackeworth in hundred of Whiteriggemessuages, lands, mill, etc. Mill called Habrigemille. Columpe John, manor extent, as of the Duchy of Lancaster. Exilond, tenement there. Paddskesbroke juxta Colympton, messuages, lands, etc. Cornwode, manor. Norton, manor, as of the manor of Marshwodvale. Northpole, manor, as of the manor of Burlescomb. Farewaye, manor, and advowson as of the manor of Limeland. Manors of-Toutz Seinston, Twykebeare, Holdham. Exon'-land there, glebe of the church of All Saints, Goldsmith Street-tenements called Londesyn and Lytelbrian. Rents in Legh Durant and Lopethorne. Land in Radestan. Rent of a messuage, etc., in Hurneford. Wodhaye alias Wodecort, rent of a messuage as of manor of Dertington. Washburn Durant, rent. Bayllisford, 4 messuages, 1 cottage, mill, etc. Burdisheale, rent. Sandwell, messuages, etc. Thorlegh Durant, 2 messuages. Yealborne, rent. Knytheton, messuages, land, etc. Maneton, rent. Ford juxta Alington, land. Kingesbrigge and Dodebrok, 2 messuages in each. Coldashe and Kekehill, rents. Burye, messuage and land. Vielyston, rent. Estekleworthy, messuage and land. Westekleworthy, Gallisore, Suwelond, Thornwygger, Coldiscote, Bokelond Chalowe, Lokkysore, rents. Middelton, messuage and land. Churibeare, 2 messuages, etc. Cotteford, rent. Prestecote, messuage and land. Exon', tenement, Lancaster Duchy member. Bradeninch manor member, Barnstaple castle member. Colecombe, manor. Colyton manor, hundred. Whyteford, manor. THE EARLY DESCENT OF THE DEVONSHIRE ESTATES BELONGING TO THE HONOURS OF BY THE REV. OSWALD J. REICHEL, B.C.L. & M.A., F.S.A. I. The Honour of Mortain and the Earldom of Cornwall. THE portion of the honour of Mortain to which the following observations are intended to apply is not the original comté of Mortain in the diocese of Avranches which gives its name to the honour, a Norman barony which, on the forfeiture of William the Warling (Warlenc) in 1051, was conferred on Robert, the Conqueror's halfbrother (Planché, "The Conqueror's Companions," I, 108; II, 55); nor yet the whole of that very much larger estate in twenty counties in England which on the division of the spoils was assigned to the count of Mortain; not even indeed the whole of that portion of it in the shires of Wilts, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall which, according to the summary in the Exeter "Domesday" (fol. 531),1 consisted of "623 manors assessed at 833 hides all but 21 virgates," with arable land for 1480 ploughs, "of a value of £1409 ali but 6 shillings and 10 pence," and of which we are told "the count had 200 hides all but 2 [virgates] in lordship, worth to him £400 and a mark of silver," and "his liegemen had 655 hides all but virgate worth to them £1000 all but 6 shillings and 10 pence"; but only the Devonshire estates belonging to this section, a comparatively small number, 81 manors assessed at 79 hides with a cultivated area of 1 These figures will not tally. It is suggested that in the lordship we should read "200 hides all but 2 virgates," and that either 833 hides should be changed into 855, or 655 into 633. Also how can £1409-6/10 = £400+ £1000 - 6/10+13/4? Perhaps instead of 1409 we ought to read 1404-IV easily becomes IX if carelessly written; and instead of a mark we should read 6 marks-VI instead of 1-£4 being=6 marks. some 40,000 acres. The count had besides 263 manors in Cornwall (Exeter "Domesday," fol. 224-65), besides 17 which he had filched from the bishop of Exeter, St. Petrock, or some other Church holder.2 The holder of this great fief, Robert, count of Mortain (Comes Moritonensis or Moritanius, or de Moritonio, or de Moritolio, or de Moriteleio, for it is written in all these ways), was by extraction a younger son (Odo, bishop of Bayeux, being his elder brother) of Herlwin de Conteville and his wife Herleva, the Conqueror's mother. He was therefore the Conqueror's half-brother. Born about 1031 (Planché, I, 108), he must have been some thirty-five years of age at the time when he received his English estate, the western section of which now occupies our attention. By his first wife Matilda (Oliver, "Mon.," p. 32), daughter of Roger de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury (Round," Feudal England," 154), who is spoken of as deceased in documents dating between 1087 and 1091 ("Cal. of Documents in France," 257, 433, 435), he had a son, William, afterwards count of Mortain, and four daughters, viz. Emma, married to William, count of Toulouse, great-grandmother to Eleanor, Henry II's queen; Agnes, married to André de Vitre, mother of Hawise, wife of Robert de Ferrers, earl of Derby; Denise or Agatha, married to Sieur de Laval; and Barbe, married to Baudouin de Bose (Mrs. Vade-Walpole in "Notes and Queries," 9 ser., VIII, 526, 28 December, 1901). After Matilda's death in 1083 ("Cal. Documents in France," p. 435) he married secondly Almodis (ibid. p. 256, 436), by whom he had another son, Robert. On the Conqueror's death he joined in the rebellion against William Rufus in 1088 (“Political History of England," II, 75). The insurrection was soon put down, but sharing in the general amnesty he never lost his earldom, and died some time before 1100 (Planché, I, 113, "Cal. of Docts. in France," 436). His eldest son, William, who succeeded him as count of Mortain and earl of Cornwall ("Cal. of Docts. in France," 285), married Adelidis de Ou or de Eu (ibid. 436) between 1100 and 1106, and founded the priory of Montacute in Somersetshire ("Trans." XXIX, 257, n. 40). Offended with The 17 are Pennadelwan (fol. 101b) taken from a king's manor, Boietona (fol. 181b) taken from Tavistock Abbey, Matela market (fol. 199) and St. German's market (fol. 200) taken from the bishop of Exeter, Elhil, Calestoc, Trelloi, Hecglosemuda, Botcinnu, Tremail, Polroda, Hecglostudic (fol. 202b, 203, 203b, 204b) all taken from St. Petrock, Langorroc (fol. 206) taken from St. Carentoch, Landscauetona (fol. 206b) taken from St. Stephen, Nietestou (fol. 207) taken from St. Niet, and Treiwal (fol. 179) taken from St. Michael. |