The Golden Falcon

Chapter II/5 - Bow

The seat of the de Somerys in Glamorgan was Dinas Powis near Cardiff (founded by the Welsh princes of Glamorgan), the ruins of which are perched on a small knoll of limestone rock rising from the centre of the mouth of a small gorge descending from the west.  They consist of a small rectangular oblong court, enclosed within a plain curtain wall just outside which is the ruined keep.  They held the chapelry and manor of Cogan.

The name of Adam does not appear in the main pedigree but Roger and John do frequently.

A co-heiress married Sir Walter de Sully whose castle stood near Dinas Powis in the parish of St. Andrews.  Walter de Sully was sheriff of Glamorgan in 1262 and held 2 fees in Sully and Wenvoe - he was a descendant of one of Robert fitzHamon's companions.  William Sully, lord of St. Nicholas, Glamorgan sued earl de Clare for the wardship and marriage of Adam de Somery as his tenant in 1278.

There are 3 documents regarding Walter de Sully - one dated 13.10.1196 was a suit between him and Pagan de Turberville concerning the land of Coyty and Vetus Villa to await the king's presence in England [ccxxix, p.235], the second concerned his suit against Pagan de "Trublevilla" (Turberville) in 1200 [ccxlvii p.249] and the third his suit concerning the king's mill at Leckwith in 1207 [ccciii, p.306].  His heir was Reimund de Sully who is mentioned in later charters.  Both Walter (who married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger de Somery by Nicola d'Aubigny) and his son Reinold are mentioned in connection with the manor of Olney in Buckinghamshire.

Adam de Sumeri made a grant to Margam of 20 shillings annuity out of his mill of Mora [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, clxii, p. 162, Harl.. Charter 75, d. 71] witnessed by Rodberto de Sumeri & William de Regni..  The seal on these charters is described as "a round, seal, 2 & 1/8th" in diameter in brown wax with a device of knight in mail hauberk, helmet, broad sword and kite-shaped shield on a horse pacing to the proper left. with the inscription "sigillum Adam de Summeri - Carta Ade de Sumeri de xx solidis".  The charter was written in a fine bold hand and in fine ornamental handwriting.

Adam de Sumeri and his sons John and Roger made a further grant to Margam of the rent out of the mill as in the preceding deed witnessed by Johanne de Sumeri, Roger de Sumeri and Rodberto de Sumeri [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, 1180-1208 p.163, clxiv, Harl. Charter 75. D.B].

A confirmation was made by Adam de Sumeri junior, son of Roger de Sumeri, of his wife Millicent's gifts to Margam abbey [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, 1185-1191, Harl. Charter 75 d.10].  The seal on this was a "round, bright red wax, 22" in diameter, with a knight in hauberk of mail, coif, conical helmet with nose-piece, sword, convex shield with border, radiated ornament and central spike, on a horse galloping to the right endorsed "Sigil. Ade Sumer - Carta Ade de Sumeri junioris de terra apud Sanctum Nicholaum".

A third document concerned the instituton of R. de Sumeri to the Chapel of Cogan to Alan, abbot and monk of Tewkesbury [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, 1185-119, Cotton, MS Cleop. A. viiii 69b].

A letter from Ralph de Sumeri to Henry, Bishop of Llandaff concerned a rent granted to Margam witnessed by William Painel [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia,1196-1218 ccxviii, p. 224, Harl. charter 75, d.9].

There was a mandate dated 27.3.1258 from Henry III to Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester to prevent Llywelyn ap Griffith from carrying out a marriage for Margaret, his sister, which is likely to damage the King [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, dxcviii].  On 15.3.1267 there was a Royal Commission to Roger de Somery and Hugh de Turberville to collect evidence in the suit between Lewelin, son of Griffin (Llywelyn ap Griffith), Prince of Wales and Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester for the arbitrator Prince Edward [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, dciii p. 686].

The manor of Dinas Powis seems to have been inherited by the family of Walter de Reigny.

Dinas Powis was held by the de Somerys of the de Clares.  After earl Roger de Clare died in 1173, his widow Maud conveyed the remainder of the St. Hillary barony to her second husband (or son-in-law) William d'Aubigny (d. 1193), earl of Arundel [Red Book of the Exchequer I. 406/7 - English baronies p. 44].  When William d'Aubigny died in 1193 the Honour reverted to his widow Maud (Roger de Clare's daughter who took her mother's surname of St. Lis) and escheated to the crown.  In 1195 Maud senior's son by de Clare obtained the Honour of St. Hillary on the death of his mother.  Earl Richard de Clare offered £360 and it was absorbed into the Honour of Clare which included lands in Norfolk and Northampton [Pipe Roll 7 R.I. ed., D.M. Stenton, Pipe Roll Soc., vol. xkiv new ser vi 1929 p.225, Sanders English Baronies p.44].

The St. Hillary family were connected with Glamorgan - there was a suit between Herbert de St. Quinton and Stephen de St. Hillary in 1205 [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, ccxci p.295] and on 8.6.1272 a grant of land in the fee of Landough on the high road to Pennard by Stephen de St. Hillary to Mylo de Reigny [Carta et alia Munimenta, Dominium de Glamorgancia, dcci, p.179].

The Somerys of Dinas Powis also held the Worcester barony of Dudley in chief of the crown.  When Roger de Somery died in 1273, the crown seized the estates appurtenant to the barony of Dudley but Dinas Powis was controlled by earl Richard de Clare's widow Maud as one of the fees assigned as part of her dower.  She was daughter of James St. Hillary or St. Lis (St. Hilaire du Harcouet), a Norfolk baron and married secondly William d'Aubigny, earl of Arundel or perhaps d'Aubigny's wife was her daughter Maud de Clare who took her mother's surname of St. Lis.  According to the "Gesta" of the nun of Delapre Abbey, Maud St. Lis was daughter of Simon Senlis, earl of Northampton.

John de Somery [Dugdale, Mons. Angl. vol v,. pp..203-4, Harl MSS 2188 f. 125, Pipe Rolls 10 John p.132, 8 Rich I. p. 108] was heir to his mother's lands only.

Hawise, daughter of Ralph Paynel [Dugdale Mons. Angl vol. v, p.204, BM Harl., MS 2188, f. 125] inherited the barony of William fitzAnsculf [Bed. & Bucks Pipe Roll Ric I, Beds Hist Rec. Soc pp 199-200].  John de Somery gave Tickford Priory virgates of land in Little Crawley, which grant was confirmed in 1187 by Gervase Paynel [Dugdale Mons. Angl. vol. v, p.203] and again by his sister Hawise, John's wife [ditto -p 204, BM Harleian MS 2188, f. 125].  John died before Gervase when his son Ralph de Somery claimed the lands on Gervase's death and paid scutage [Pipe Roll 6 Rich. I, pp.74. 130], Hawise surviving him married secondly Roger de Berkeley of Dursley, Gloucestershire [Mons. Angl. v. 204, Dugdale Baronage 1.612].

In 1194 Dudley passed to their son Ralph I de Somery [Pipe Rolls, Staffs, Will. Salt Arch. Coll ii  (1), 33, 58, 66, 67].  Ralph offered 300 marks to have seisin of the barony and was returned as owing £50 scutage for the king's ransom [Pipe Roll 6 Rich. I p.74, 9 Rich, I p. 142] Richard I being imprisoned in 1192 in castle of Durnstein, Germany by the emperor Leopold of Austria.  In September 1193 Ralph was at Speyer with Richard who was taken there to answer charges made against him [Itin. Rich I PRS p. 80] and 1199-1200 he was on the king's service overseas [Palgrave, Rot. C Regis vol ii p. 31] and in 1202-2 he paid a fine 100 marks for 50 knights for not crossing the seas. [Pipe Roll 3 John p.52].

In 1202 he was directed to take £50 from the Jews of Domfront to pay soldiers [Rot, Norm. p. 79] and by a charter dated 23.8.1204 the king granted him the manor of Mere in exchange for Wolverhampton [Cartae Antiquae PRS No. 219] in which year he held half a knight's fee at Rouilli in the Passais, Normandy [Stapleton Mag. Rot. Scacc, Norm vol i, p. lxxix] which was the Paynel fee, being probably that held by Geoffrey de Ruilli (Rouilli) in Gervase Paynel's charter of 1116 [Red Book p. 270].  Richard de Roylly (Rouilli) was Roger de Somery's attorney in 1269 [Cat. Anc. Deeds No. D. 214].

Ralph I de Somery married Margaret [Pipe Roll 12 John m 10], sister of William Marshall, earl of Pembroke, daughter of John fitzGilbert Marshall by his 2nd wife, Sibyl, sister of Patrick de Evreux of Salisbury, 1st earl of Wiltshire [Eyre Roll, 5 Henry III, vol., lix No. 301].

Ralph I died between Michaelmas 1210 and Michaelmas 1211 [Pipe Roll 1 John m. 10] when his widow made application for her dower.  His widow married secondly Maurice de Gant [Close Rolls 1227-31, pp. 504-5, 1231-4 p.59] and was still alive in 1242-3 [Bk of Fees, pp 850, 863].

Ralph de Somery I's son and heir was another Ralph de Somery [PRO Assize Roll 1174 Staffordshire pleas, 1240, Dugdale, Warwickshire p. 608 m.4] when the lands in dispute:

"Descendit de Gervasio Paenel cuidam Hawisie ut sorori et heredit.  Et de Hawise cuidam Radulphus ut filio et heredi.  Et de Radulpho cuidam alii Radulpho ut filio et heredi.  Et de isto Radulpho cuidam Willelmo ut fratris et heredi.  Et de Willelmo cuidam Nicholao ut filio et heredi.  Et de Nicholao isti Rogero ut avunculo quia non habuit heredem de corpore suo"

The lands descended from Gervase Paynel to his sister Hawisia, then to her son Ralph and his son Ralph then to Ralph's junior's brother William, the latter's son Nicholas and from Nicholas to his uncle Roger.

Ralph II married Ida or Idonea, daughter of William Longespee, earl of Salisbury.  In Hilary term 1220 a fine was levied on the manor of Belchamp, Essex when Ida, daughter of William Longespee, earl of Salisbury is referred to as former wife of Ralph de Somery (d. c.1220) and now wife of William de Beauchamp, earl of Bedford (Essex Fines vol i p. 58).  In 1212 the earl of Salisbury had been granted custody of the lands and heir of Ralph de Somery [Bk of Fees pp 140, 142].  The earl was not married until 1198 and his wife Ela was only 8 years of age so Ida must have been married to Ralph de Somery in infancy.

Ralph's heir was his brother William Perceval de Somery [PRO Assize Roll 1174 m 4] known as William Perceval "le Waleis" (the Welshman) alias de Somery probably because his family held Dinas Powis in Glamorgan [Exc.e Rot. Fin. vol vi, p. 185, Rot, Lit claus vol ii, p. 171b Bk of Fees pp 376, 384., Close Rolls, 1227-31 p. 190 Patent Rolls 1225-32, p. 124, Hist. Coll. Staffs vol ix, pt..2, p..23, Cal. Close Rolls 1279-88 PP 195, 238 & 1296-1302, p.404, Cal. Patent Rolls 1307, 13, p. 145].

William owed a sum "pro patre suo" at Michaelmas 1220 [Pipe Roll 4 Henry III m. 15].  He was granted scutage of Biham on 19.2.1220/1 [Rot. Lit. Claus, vol i, p.475] and had was involved in a suit regarding land in Staffordshire in 1222 [Pipe Roll 5 Henry III m 9d, Hist. Coll. Staffs, vol iv, pt i, p.222].  He was dead before 20.6.1222 when Ranulf, earl of Chester & Lincoln was granted the custody of his land and his heir Nicholas, with the heir's marriage [Rot. Lit. Claus vol i, pp 505b, 531, Bk Fees pp. 376, 384, Patent Rolls 1225-32 p. 124].  His wife is unknown.

William Perceval de Somery "le Waleis" died in 1222 and his son Nicholas de Somery [Close Rolls, 1227-31, p. 190] was made a ward of Ranulf, earl of Chester [Patent Rolls, 1225-32, p.124, Rot. Lit, Claus. vol I, p.500b, Pipe Rolls 8 Henry III m.2d] and possibly Roger himself.  Nicholas died a minor before 4.7.1229 [Close Rolls Exc e Rot. Fin vol i, p. 185].

Nicholas's heir was his uncle Roger I de Somery [PRO Assize Roll 1174 m 4] who did homage for his lands on 10.7.1229 [Close Roll 1227-31 p 190].  In 1229 he made an agreement with Maurice de Gant, granting the latter Dudley and Sedgley for 7 years with an undertaking not to marry within the term without Maurice's consent [Cal. Charter Rolls vol i. p.97].

On 20.4.1230 Roger was granted protection [Close Rolls 1231-34 p.360] and in 1233 his lands were seized because he had not come to be knighted [Hist. Coll. Staffs, vol ix pt. 2k, p.17, Madox Hist. Sch. p.354].  The 17-year-old Roger I de Somery was abroad on the king's service when he was summoned to court by Henry III in 1233 and his lands were seized because he did not come to the king "at the feast of Pentecost girt with his belt of knighthood".  Newport Paganell was given to William Beauchamp, baron of Bedford and his wife Ida Longespee, the king's close relative and Roger's former sister-in-law.  Beauchamp died in 1260, Roger I de Somery was reconciled to the king and regained Newport Paganell.

In January 1233-4 he was appointed to remain at Shrewsbury to maintain order [Close Rolls 1231-34 p.547] and on 11.7.1245 he was summoned to be at Chester with arms and horses [Cal. Patent Rolls].

On 30.7.1245 he had a grant of free warren (the right to hunt hare) at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and Sedgley, Staffordshire [Cal. Charter Rolls vol.i.p.325].

In 1251 he was in commission; in May 1253 he was on his way to Gascony, in December 1253 and January 1253-4 he was with the king [Cal. Patent Rolls 1247-58 pp.259, 263].

On 3.11.1253 he was granted free warren at Clent [Cal. Charter Rolls 1247-58 pp 115, 233, 253].

In July 1257 he was summoned to Chester to go to Wales with the king [Cal. Patent Rolls 1247-58 p.272, Lords' Report, Close Rolls 1256-59, pp.140, 143, 156] and the summons was repeated in March [p.295; Lords' Report].

In 1258 he was one of 12 elected to treat with the king's council and one of the 24 appointed by the barons [Ann. Mon, Rolls Ser, vol.i.pp, pp.449, 450].  In 1259 he was one of the "juratores ex parte communitatis regni" [Close Rolls 1256-59 p.474].

In 1260 he was summoned to London, later to Shrewsbury and on 11.9.1261 to St. Albans [Close. Rolls 1256-59, pp. 158, 192, Lords' Report].

He had letters of protection to go to Gascony in and started building a castle in 1261/2 but was not allowed to finish it.  On 23.12.1262 he was summoned to be at Worcester.

In 1262 he warned for building a castle at Dudley without licence [Close Rolls 1261-64, pp.129-130] but on 16.3.1263-4 he obtained a licence to enclose his manor houses of Dudley, Staffordshire and Weobley, Worcestershire with a ditch and a stone wall and to fortify and crenellate them [Cal. Patent Rolls 1258-66, p.307].

On 24.5.1263 he weas summoned to be at Hereford [Close Rolls 1261-64, pp. 272, 303, Lords' Report] and on 17.10.12.1263 was summoned to Windsor [Cal. Patent Rolls, 1258-66, pp.274, 290].

On 10.8.1263 he was directed to deliver the counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire to Hamon le Strange.

In 1264 for helping the king in the Baron's War he was allowed to inclose the manor with a ditch, fortfy and crenellate it.

On 30.1.1265-6 he was granted protection to go to the Marches on the king's service [Cal. Patent Rolls 1258-66, p. 541].

In 1267 he was commissioned with others to hear complaints and to carry out the terms of the "dictum" of Kenilworth and to complete the peace with Llywelyn [Close Rolls 1264-68, p.361, Cal. Patent Rolls 1266-72, pp. 1670, 113, Ann. Mon. vol ii. p.372].

In 1268, with Philip Basset and others, he was elected by the Counties of Hereford, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire to act with the council of the earls and barons and was appointed as a commoner to ordain the aid for a number of counties [Close Rolls, 1264-68, pp.557, 559].

In 1268 he was again appointed to settle the affairs in the Marches [Cal. Patent Rolls, 1266-72, pp. 205, 486] and on 28.4.1269 to hear contentions in Wales [Close Rolls 1268-72, p. 115].

On 12.2.1269/70 (56 Henry III) he had a grant of a weekly market on Saturdays and a yearly fair for 8 days commencing on the Vigil of St. Luke at his manor of Newport Paganell, Bucks [Cal. Charter Rolls vol. ii, p. 131].

On 16.10.1270 he was sent as envoy to Llywelyn [Close Rolls 1268-72, p.235].  In June 1271 he excommunicated an official at Canterbury, subsequently cancelled by the Chancellor [Close Rolls 1268-72, p. 418].

He married first Nicola, daughter and one of the co-heireses of William d'Aubigny, earl of Arundel by Mabel, sister and heiress of Ranulf, earl of Chester [Chron. Edw I & II Rolls Ser, vol i p. 126, Cal. Inq. pm vol. ii Nos. 16, 454; Close Rolls 1242-47, p.251, 1253-54 p.293, Cal. Charter Rolls vol i. p.292. Cal. Fine Rolls vol i. p.67].

He married secondly about 1254 Amabil, widow of Gilbert de Segrave, daughter and co-heiress of Robert de Chaucomb of Chalcombe, Hunts. [Cal. Patent Rolls, 1258-66, p. 468, Cal. Inq. pm vol. ii, No. 16].  He died about 26.8.1273 [Cal. Inq., pm vol ii, No. 16, Cal. Fine Rolls vol i, p.10, Cal. Patent Rolls 1272-81, pp. 39, 53] and was buried in Dudley Priory.  She survived him but may have died by in 1278 [Cal. Close Rolls 1272-79, p. 516].

In 1231 Robert de Chaucomb settled half the manor of Apsley, Ullenhall in the Barlichway Hundred of Warwickshire on his elder daughter Mabel and her husband Gilbert de Segrave and the other half on his daughter Millicent and Ralph Basset.  Millicent died before 1242 without issue and the whole inheritance came to Mabel who married secondly Roger de Somery who held it in 1265 [Cal. Pat. 1258-66].  After his death she granted it to her son John de Somery to hold of her son Nicholas de Segrave [Dugdale 817, cit. in MS of John Hales].

Roger had three sons, Ralph, John and Roger and 4 daughters - Joan, wife of John, Lord Strange of Knockin, Margaret, wife of Ralph Bassett and then of Ralph Cromwell, Elizabeth, wife of Walter Sully and Maud, wife of Henry de Erdington, all of whom inherited the manor of Olney, Bucks.

His son and heir Ralph de Somery by his first wife [Chron. Edw. I & II, vol i. p.126, Cal, Inq. pm vol i, No. 779, vol ii, No. 16, Hist. Collns. Staffs vol iv, pt.1, p.193, Closed Rolls 1259-61, p.427] died without heirs about 1253 [Exc. e Rot, Finium, vol ii, p.173].  His 4 sisters were his heiresses as regards their mother Nichola née d'Aubigny's properties but his father's lands were inherited by his half-brothers John and Roger.

Roger campaigned against the Welsh and died in 1292.  His widow Agnes survived him but died in 1308 [Fine R. 2 Edw II].

His brother John was aged 12 at his father's death.  He took part in the war against the Scots in 1303 and 1310 and was knighted.  John de Somery was in Parliament on 10.3.1307 and 1308 and again on 14.3.1321/2, three months before he died.  He was contracted to serve the king with John Cromwell, Keeper of the Tower and John Gifford on a commission to reform the Royal Household.  Somery had an indenture dated 10.6.1317 for service with 30 men-at-arms at a fee of 200 marks per annum.  He was told by the earl of Hereford that he would not come to the king whilst Despencer was in power.  He was sent on a mission to "mitigate" Lancaster with Ralph Basset on 20.7.1317 and 1.8.1317.  Somery was witness to the Treaty of Leak on 9.8.13--.

John de Somery, the last male heir, died on 29.12.1321 without descendants, leaving a widow Lucy who had had to pay £500 to Edward II [E.101/624/24 17.11.1323].

As John de Somery's brother Roger had predeceased him, his heirs were his 2 sisters Margaret, wife of John de Sutton, constable of Hereford under Aymer de Valence, earl of Pembroke and Joan, widow of Thomas de Botetourt [Cal. Inq. pm 10, 20 Edw II 255].  The inheritance was divided, Joan getting Newport Paganell and Margaret the Castle of Dudley.

John de Sutton was imprisoned by the Despencers until he gave up 12 properties including Dudley Castle [C.Cl.R 1323-7 p.510, C. Cl R. 1327-30 p.65, CIM II No. 965, p.240, No.1000 pp.248-9, E.142-33 mm.7, 9, E.142/62/3].

In 1321 Nicholas, son of Robert de Somery broke into the castle of Dudley and carried away £1,000 of money and £200 in goods.  Robert is not identified, perhaps he was a member of the Dinas Powis branch

John de Suttons's descendants were the Dudleys, earls of Leicester.

Fig. 33 - Woodville & Sutton de Dudley, earls of Leicester

Richard Woodville of Grafton Regis = Jacquetta of Luxembourg de Pol, widow of John Plantagenet, duke of Bedford > Elizabeth Woodville (Edward IV's Queen) = (1) Sir John Gray of Astley, Warwickshire > Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset > Cecily Grey = John Sutton de Dudley >:

(a) Henry Dudley

(b) Edmund Sutton, 4th baron Dudley, tax gatherer of Henry VII = (1) Anne, d. of

     Sir Anthony Windsor = (2) Elizabeth Grey (grand daughter of John Talbot, Viscount &

     baron Lisle, 4th son of the 1st earl of Shrewsbury) = (2) Arthur Plantagenet, Lord Lisle,

     (illegitimate son of Edward IV by Elizabeth Lucy) = (2) Honor, d. of Thomas Grenville by

     Isabella, daughter of Oates Gilbert.  She was 3rd wife and widow of John Basset.

     Edmund Sutton had by (2) Elizabeth Grey >:

    (i) Andrew Dudley.

    (ii) Jerome Dudley.

    (iii) John Dudley, Lord Lisle, duke of Northumberland, Lord High Admiral = Jane Guildford,

         d. of Sir Edward Guildford, marshall of Calais by Lord de la Warr's sister >:

         (iii.a) Henry Dudley  = Margaret Audley = Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk.

         (iii.b) John Dudley.

         (iii.c) Guildford Dudley = Jane Grey (both executed).

         (iii.d) Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester = (1) Amy Robsart = (2) Lettice Knollys >:

                 Robert Dudley = Alice Leigh,d. of the mayor of London (bur. with her daughter at

                 Stoneleigh, Warwickshire) by whom he had 4 daughters.  He deserted her and ran

                 away with Elizabeth Southwell, the Queen's lady-in-waiting.

On Arthur Plantagenet's death, his stepson, John Dudley became lord Lisle and the title then passed to the Bassets.

The Red Book of the Exchequer lists the following which show relationships between the various families who were linked by marriage or by feudal service:

Jocelyn de Louvain with Adam and Robert de Brus in Yorkshire (1167-8), in Yorkshire Joscelyn de Louvain (1171).

Godfrey de Louvain with d. & heiress of Robert de Hastings in Essex & Hertfordshire (1202-12).

Nigel de Mowbray (Nigel d'Aubigny who took the name of Mowbray) in Yorkshire (1190-1)

Ralph d'Aubigny in Lincolnhire (1190-1).

Robert d'Aubigny in Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire (1167-8, 1194-5 & 1201-12); Nigel de Merston of Carta of Robert d'Aubigny in Bedfordshire (1166).

Picot de Bavent enfeoffed of Carta William d'Aubigny Pincerna "Corbuchun" Norfolk (1166).

William d'Aubigny "Pincerna" (butler) in Norfolk & Suffolk (1167-8), in Warkwickshire & Leicestershire (1190-1) with Ralph de Somery (1196-7), Essex & Hertfordshire (?) Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire.

William d'Aubigny & Robert de Turnham in York (1202-12).

William d'Aubigny held Hulesby, (Ulcesby) in Lincolnshire, ditto with Adam Paynell (1199-1200), Oasking (Ossington) in Nottinghamshire, Wiberstone (Wilberton), Sokemannis de Stoke in Northamptonshire of the Peverell Honour, (1210-12(1211-12), Barbeville, in Normandy (1211-12), Hundred of "Fremelhunte" (Framland Hundred) "feodum Grimoud de Plasseiz cum terrra de Bugeio et de Daimou (Bougy & Damvou) "quam Grimoud dederal William de Albany cum sorore sua in maritagium " (which Grimald du Plessis gave William d'Aubigny with his sister in marriage).

Adam Paynell in Lincolnshire (1194-5).

William Paynell in Yorkshire with Fulk Paynell (1190-1 & 1194-5, 1196-7), with William d'Aubigny paid £7 (1199-1200), in Yorkshire (1161-2, 1167-8, 1171-2, 1186, 1194-5, 1196-7, 1199-1200 & 1202-12), in Yorkshire Fulk Paynell, Jordan Paynell "de novo feffamento" (new enfeoffment) in Carta William Paynell (1166), Watlington in Honour of Wallingford (1186, 1194-5, 1201-12 & 1210-12), in Devon (1210-12)

Fulk Paynell for Bynham (Bingham) in Nottinghamshire & Derby as "Normanni valet" (1194-5).

Carta Gervase Paynell (1166) - knights were Peter Bermingham, Henry de Mohun, Richard Engayne & William Paynell, Gervase Paynell in Staffordshire (1167-8, 1190-1 & 1210-12); in Chislehampton, Oxford (1194-5 & 1199-1200), in Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire (1194-5), Bailly de Basseis (Le Passeis), Normandy Gervase Paynell & Richard de Lucy.

Geoffrey de Marisco held land in Gloucestershire of Henry Newmarch (1166).

Adam de Somery held land in Huntingdonshire (1156), in Gloucester of the Carta of William, earl of Gloucester and in Essex of the Carta Geoffrey Mandeville, earl of Essex (1166).  This land must have passed to Helias de Somery who held land in Essex (1166), Miles and Ralph de Somery who held Elmdon castle (VCH).

Miles de Somery held lands in Norfolk & Suffolk in Gloucester Honour (1201-12), Gloucestershire (1202-12), Essex & Hertfordshire (1201-12), Essex & Hertfordshire of Bononiae (Boulogne) Honour (1210-12) in Elmdene, (Elmdon which belonged to Ralph de Somery), Ongar in Mimmes of the Honour of Gloucestershire (1210-12), Ongar of Honour Boulogne, Naselingfende (Haslingford) in Kent & Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire of Gloucester Honour (1211-12).

Ralph de Somery held Frankelega (Frankley), Wormlega (Warley), Belwe (Beoley), Pesewmore (Pedmore) Swinfords, Hagele (Hagley) & Credlega (Crudley) in Worcestershire (1194-4, (1196-7, 1199-1200 & 1210-12), Chislehampton in Oxfordshire (1196-7), a 3rd of a knight's fee in Rutland (1196-7), lands in Warwickshire & Leicestershire (1196-7); with William d'Aubigny (1199-1200), in Leicestershire of Tickhill Honour (1210-12), in Warwickshire (1210-12), in Buckinghamshire & Berkshire of the Honour of Peverell (1196-7 & 1201-12), infeudated to Gervase Paynel, in Buckinghamshire of Newport Honour (1210-12), in Berkshire (1194-5, 1196-7 & 1199-1200), in Staffordshire (1166, 1196, 1199-1200) where he had gift of the manors of Mere Sunford (Kingswinford) & Clentes from King John, added in reign of Edward II.

Hugh de Somery in Nottinghamshire of Carta of Hubert fitzRalph (1166)

Somerset Carta William de Courcy - Hugh Golafre (1166)

Suffolk - Carta Honor de Eye -Philip Golafre

Abbas de Sancto Ebrulfo (St. Evreul), Normandy - ij milies et praetor hoc feodum Rogeri Golafre quod William Paganensis (Paynell) habet Rogero in vadio unde de fora servitium abbatis.

Hereford Carta de Hugonis de Lascy - Nicholas de Hungerford & William Upton (1166)

Lincs Honour Richmond Ralph de Trihampton (1210-12).

Matilda de Dive de Lafford apud Corby also Glos Errington (Arington) of Lincoln bishopric, Glos Honour Hunts/Cambs, Kingston, Haltly, Trumpington of Peverell Honour. (1210-12)

Madilda de Dive Cants/.Hunt, Hon. Glos (1211-12)

Honour of Brecon (1211-12) Walter Tirel

Honour de Radnor, Ralph de Penebruge (Pembroke?) (1211-12)

Rogeri Beaumont - Bayeux Abber. in Hispani 11 knights. (1211-12)

Harsculf St. Hillary of the Viscount Conteville in Morton & Abrincasino (Avranches).

Alicia de Rumilly in Cumberland (1166).

Gilbert de Knoville, "militis" (knight) appears as a witness to documents relating to Isabella de Fortibus (Fors or Forz), countess of Albemarle & the Isle of Wight and her was her executor.  One was a petition heard by the king at Lambeth & Stockwell.

The Winters were descended from the Earls of Chester and Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester who briefly held the earldom of Chester in 1265 prior to his death.  It was subsequently given to the king.

The earldom or palatinate of Chester held Halton, Montalt or Mold, Nantwich, Shipbrook, Malpas, Dunham, Kinderton and Rhuddlan as baronies and the earl was given the right to hold the palatinate as the king.  There was an exchequer where the earl held parliament with a chancery and courts of pleas separate from the rest of the kingdom.  The castle at Chester had a great eastern hall called Hugh Lupus Hall.

Chester was originally given to Gerbod the Fleming who returned to Flanders, dying in imprisonment in 1068.  He was probably son of Matilda of Flanders (William the Conqueror's queen) who married Gerbod the Fleming senior before her marriage to William I (who outlived his wife).  Matilda was either Gerbod's widow or the marriage was annulled.

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