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THE FAMILIES OF LACY, GENEVA, JOINVILLE, AND LA M.ARCHE.

BY G. w. WATSON.

LACY. WALTER DE LACY, Lord of Ewyas [Longtown] and Weohley in

Herefordshire, of Ludlow in Shropshire, and of Meath in Ireland, died in 1241,1 before 24 Feb., at which date the Sheriffs of Herefordshire- and Shropshire were commanded to take his lands into the King's hand (Rot. Fin., 25 Hen. III, m. 13). His wife, Margaret, daughter of William de Ih-iouze, de Braoea, the third of that name, Lord of Bramber, Brecknock, and Gower, whom he had married before 19 Nov. 1200 (Rot. Cart., 2 Joh., m. 20), survived him, and, 25 June 1245, obtained from Peter of Geneva and Matilda his wife (and her grand-daughter) 40 libratcs of land in England and Ireland as her dower (Pedes Eiu, div. com., Hen. HJ, no. 204).

GILBERT DE LACY was. his son and heir. He died v.p. in 1230.2 His widow, Isabella, daughter of Ralph Bigot, was remarried to ,John sou of Geoffrey before 11 Apr. 1234, at which date the castle and manor of Ewyas were assigned to her as dower (Rot. Pat., 18 Hen. III, m. 15 ). He left three children :-

1. WALTER DE LACY was living 15 May 1238, when the King notified that ·w alter de Lascy came before the King in his Court. at Westminster, and acknowledged that Walter, son of Gilbert de Lasey, his eldest son, was the heir to all his inheritance in

1 "1241. Walterus de Lascy vir inter ornnes nobiles Hybcrnio mninentissirnus post visus sui jn-ivat.ionem et multas alias eorporis sni afflictiones ex lrnjus secnli transiit incolat.u " (M. Paris, Ohron. MaJora, edit. H. It. Luard, 1872-84, iv, 93). " 1241. Walt.erus de Lacy dominus M idio doccssit in A ng-li11, relinqnens post se duns filias [ sic J s1111s hercclcs, qunrnm prim nm mru-ituvit dominus 'I'heobaldus de Verdon, secundam desponsavit Galfridus de Go11e­ vile" (Annuls of Irel anti 1162-1370, edit. J. T. Gilbert, 1884-85, ii, 315). 1 • .A.bout 123_3 (Eyton, Shropshlre, v, 269). Rut it was between 12 Ang. and

25 Deo. 1230. On the cnrlier of these dates the King, 11t Mirebean, gnve to Gilbert de Lasey his own portion of the trensnre which had lately been found at Bordeaux (Rot. Pai., 14 Hei1. lII, m. 4). On tho later dato the Sheriffs of Herefordshire and Shropshire were commanded to give to Walter de Lasey full seisin of all the lands in these counties which Gilbert de l.ascy his son had held of the bail of Waltot- to support himself, which lauds were taken into the King's hand on the death of Gilbert, becnuse it was believed that Walter had diveaterl himself of the whole of them (Rot. Cloue., Iii Hen. III, m. J!)). Tle probably died when in uttondnuoo 011 the King In France, in t.!10 cxpndit.ion which hlstcd l'rom May to October.

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England and Ireland : mandate accordingly that these letters should be publicly read (Hot. r,«, 22 Hen. Ill, m. G). He died shortly afterwards, before his grandfather, s.p.," having married, it is said, a daughter of Theobald the Butler, by Rohesia de Verdun.4

2. MARGRRY DE LACY wits mru-ried in 1244 to John de Verdun. She died before her husband, leaving three sons, Nicholas, ,John, and. Theobald, the first two of whom died s.p. (Chronicle of J.'intern), being slain by the Irish 28 June 1271.0 The writ of diem clausi! crtrcmuin. issued on the death of Nicholas de Verdun bears date 5 Aug., 55 Hen. III. By inquisitions taken in Herefordshire and Shropshire, 16, 17, and 19 Aug., 1271, it was found that he had held the castle of Ewyas with a moiety of the manor, and a moiety of the boroughs of Weobley and Ludlow,6 the whole forming his part of the barony of "\Veobley, by the service of 7 ! knights' fees; and that his brother Theobald, aged 23 and more, was his heir ( Inq. P. u., Hen. III, file 39, no. 20). l 8 Sep.

3 "Gilbertus de Lacy desponsavit Isabellarn Bygot sororem Johannis Bigot. Do quibus Waltorus · do Lacy qui obiit juvcnis sine exitu et due filie et hercdes videlicet Mnrgcria et Mntildis" ( 0/l?"onicle of Tintern, in New J.fona.sficon, v, 270).

4 " Gilbert us [ de Lacy) hnbuit filinm nomine W alterum et duns filias Margaretam et Mat.ildem. Qui Walterus desponsnv it filiam domino Royse de Verdon, procreata.m a domino 'I'eobnldo Pincer-un , et idem ·w ulterus decessit sine prole. Propter hoe tota Midia dovoluta fuit ad dictns duas sorores, quarum seniorem desponsavit · doruinus Johnnncs de Verdon, qui fuit filius 'I'eobaldi Pincerne et Rosee de Verclon. Et jnniorem dospousnvit Petrus de Goncyville [ Geneve ], quo def'uncto, posten dosponsnta fuit. domino Galfr-ido de Genevyle" (R.egiste,· of the Abbey nf St. 1'/io,nas, J),iblin, edit. J. 'I', Gilbert, 1889, 420).

• " Mcclxix. Dom inns Nicholaus de Verdun et clominns J. frater ejus facti sunt nrilit.es. Mcclxxi. Dominus Nicholnus de Verdun et dominus J. Frater ejus cum multis nliis interfecti snut in die Sancti Leonis pspe " (28 June not 19 Apr.] (An1111la nf M11ltife1·1urn, edit. A. Smith, in Irish

. Arclueol, Soc., Tracts, ii, 1842, 15). "MCC!,XXI. Intorflcitur Nicholaus de Verdon et .J ohaunes frater ejus " (Annals of Irclnnd, ii, 3 L 7). ' 1271. The son of John de Verdon was killed by Walter do Bnrgh' (Annnls of Ulster, in Irish Record Pubi.; ii, 1893, 345). '1271. Nicholus, son of John Verdun, lord of Oirghiall [i.e., the counties of Louth, Armagh, and Monaghau ], was slain hy Jeffrr-y O'I•'erglrnil [O'Fcrrall ] and hy the people of the Anghaile [Annaly, co. Longford] bosidos ' (Annals nf Loeb. 01', edit, W. M. Hennessy, 1871, i, •UiH; An1111/.s of Ol01111111cnni.se, orlib. D. Mnrphy, 189(;, 2•1!)). Among the charges foruiulated, 19 Aug. 1284, against the Archbishop of Armagh, was one that he Imel received his relations and others, felons, who had been present at the doatha of Nicholns de Verdun and of John his brother, and of other knights with them, all faithful to the King (K.R., frish Eochequer, 530, J~.B. 25"1,3).

6 It should be noticed that the statement in the baronages, that the Verdun family inherited the castle of Ludlow, is erroneous. The castle was acquired hy the younger Lacy coheir, Mnti lda, Roger Mortimer, second Earl of March, obtained that moiety of the manor and viii of Ludlow which had belonged to the Vcrduus, from William de Ferrers of Groby, the son of Isabel, one of the daughters and coheirs of 'I'heobald, second Lord Verdun, in exchange for Crendon [Long Crendon ], co. Bucks (royal license 14 May) by deeds elated 15, 16, and 18 May, 32 Ed w, III [ 1358] ( Oartnlary of the Earls of Jia,·ch, Addit. MSS., 6041, f. 35 d, cf. Rut. Claue., 32 Edw. III, m. 18).

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1271, the King took the homage of Theobald for his late brother's lands, and commanded that he should have seisin of them (Rot. Fit&., 55 Hen. III, m. 3) At Michaelmas 1277, Basilia, who had been the wife of Nicholas de Verdun, demanded before the Justices of the Common Pleas, Dublin, her dower from Theobald, claiming one-third of all the tenements of John de Verdun [ now deceased], namely, of the manors of Lochsyeuedy,7 I'nchelefyre, Kells, Coulok, la Roche, Duukul, new and old Dundalk, Stath­ menaveran, Clonmore, Rath, and .Rodebank, whereof Nicholas late he1• husband, son and heir of John de Verdun, had endowed her, with his father's assent, at the church door of Lochsyeuedy when he married her. Theobald produced an agreement between the said John and John de Cogan, father of Basilia, whereby the former endowed her with 100 librates of land in the manor of Loehsyeuedy, and it was provided that, when Nicholas had reached his age and had recovered the residue of his inheritance, John de Verdun should be quit of the 100 librates : and Theobald asserted that Basilia ought not to · be endowed further of John de Verdun's lands. Her plaint was heard in the King's Court at West­ minster, Hilary term 1280, when the ,J ustioiary of Ireland was ordered to obtain further evidence (Coram Reye, Edw. I, no. 51, rot. 9). and it was still undecided at Easter 1282 (Idem, no. 67, rot. 4 d). John de Verdun, husband of Margery de Lacy, married secondly, Eleanor. He is said to have died 21 Oct. 127 4,8 but the writ of diem clausit extremum bears date 17 Oct., 2 Edw. Inquisitions were made ;Jl Oct., 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, and 12 Nov. It was found that he had held, in chief, a moiety of Ewyas, Weobley, and Ludlow, by the service of 7 ~ knights' fees; Alton, co. Stafford, Cottesbach, New bold, etc., co. Leicester, by the service of 1 ~ knights' fees; Hethe, co. Oxford, by the service of half a knight's fee; Stoke [Stoke-Verdun 1 and Wiuelesford [Wilsford ], co. Wilts : also Brandon and Bretford, co. ,v urwick, held of the Earl of w· arwick by the service of 4! knights' fees, Lutterworth, of John son of Alan, and Bittesby, co. Leicester [l fee], of the Earl of Win­ chester. The heir to all was his son Theobald, 26 years of age (lnq. P.A{, Edw. I, file 7, no. 1). In 1275, Theobald agreed to grant to Eleanor, his father's widow, as <lower, the manors of Brandon, Bretford, and Flecknoe, co. Wnrwick, Cottesbach, Loges, and Lutterworth, co. Leicester, with a third part of the knighta' fees

7 A charter of Edward lII, dated 25 April 1330, narrating the descent of the honour of Meath since the grant to Hugh de Lacy (in March 1172], 1tates that the castle of Lok.seued-y (Loughsewdy J with one moiety of the honour was the inhcritauce ·Of Margery, wife of John do Verdun, and the castle of 'l'rim with the other moiety wail that of Mnt.ilda, wife of Geoffrey de Joinville (I,ibe,· Nige1· de lViguwre, Harl. MSS., 12.tO, f. 274).

8 ":Mcclxxiiij, xij kl. Noucmhr." (Annals of Orokesden. Abbey, Cotton MSS., Fe.ust. B. VI, f. 76), misprinted 1278 in both the Monasticous; 11 mistake which was pointed out in Ooll. 'I'op: et Oen., ii, 200. The date ,ciJ kl. No11:emb,·. is interlined, but, it agrees with that given in the Ewyas and Weohley inquisition of 8 Nov.:-" Die1111t quod dominus Johannes de Verd1111 ohiit die dominion proximn post fostu m snnetl Luce owaugcliat.c uuuo prcdieto " (21 Oct. 1274). "1275 (sic]. .John <le Verdon and Ja knights were poysoucd logot,hcr In Engle.ml" (Annals of Olunniacuoise, 2Gl).

TABLE I.

ALLIANCES OF THE FAMILIES OF SAVOY, GENEVA, AND JoINVILLE.

William I, Count of Geneva; d.= Humbert III, Count of Savoy; d.=;= 25 July 1195. I 4 March 1189. /

r , (2) L T t T 1 I

Aimon II, Sire,= Beatrice, da, of Stephen III,=;=Simon,Sire de Humbert, Couuv= Agnes. William II, Beatrice-,=Thomas; Count de Faucigny , se-1 Count of Burgundy and Aux-1 Joinville; d. of Geneva; d. , C. ount of Ge- Margaret , I of Savoy; d. parated from his onne , d. 20 March 1260. March-May before 10 May neva , d. 25 d. 8 Apr. 1 March 1233. witi J:;t d. I i 1233. 1225. I Nov.f 252. 125i.

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Agnes,Damede Geoffrey de=;=Matilda=Peter of Ebles of Rodolph, Amedee Beatricej-=Raymond- Peter, Count of Faucign.y; d. 11 Joinville, Sire I de Lacy; Geneva; Geneva; Count of IV, Count m. c. 5 I Berenger, Savoy;d.-l\Iay (or16)Aug.1268; de Vaucou- d.llApr. d.1249, d. 1259, Geneva; of Savoy; June Count of 1268;m.Agnes, m.Peter,Count leurs; d. 21 1304. s.p. s.p. cl.29(or tl.llJune 1219; cl.,Provence; Dame de Fau- of Savoy. Oct. 1314. I 24) May 1253. 1266. cl. 19 Aug.

A\ 1265. 1245.

(1)

cigny.

T ..J Sanctia; m. c. Ii July=Richard, Earl of 1242. Cornwall.

r Eleanor.=Henry IlI, King of

England.

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in Brandon, Lutterworth, and Cottesbach ; also reasonable dower in Weobley, Ewyas, and Ludlow, which John her husband had of tbe gift of Theobald his son, and in the manor of Duleek in Ireland; and in return she granted him out of her dower in Uryel [Oirghialla], Ireland, the value of her dower in Weobley, Ewyas; Ludlow, and Duleek: both to have seisin 2 Feb. 1276. Dated the Wednesday after St. Katherine, 4 Edw. (27 Nov. 12751 (Rot. Claus., 4 Edw. I, m. 18 d). Theobald de Verdun was summoned to Parliament, among the barons, 2-! June 12!)5, and his descendants are set forth in the baronages.

3. MATILDA DE LACY was married firstly, in 12-!4 or earlier, to Peter of Geneva, who died s.p. in 124!); and secondly, in 1252, to Geoffrey de Joinville, who died 21 Oct. 1314 She died 11 Apr. 1304.

GENEVA.

WILLIAM I, Count of two sons, Humbert and married Thomas, 'Count

Geneva, who William, and of Savoy.!?

<lied 25 July 1195,11 had a d1Lughter, Beatrice, who The elder son, Humbert,

9 "viii Kalendas Augusti" (Obilitaire de l'eglise cat/1edrale de St. Pierre de Ge1ie11e, 'edit. A. Sarusin, 167, in .Memoil'es et Docmnents de la Soc. d' Histoive et d'Archeologie de Gen/we, xxi, 1882).

10 According to the ancient chronicles of Savoy (llfonmnenl<t Hist. P11lri11c, Scnptores, ii, 131-138, 603) Count 'I'homas had only one wife, Beatrtco of Geneva. Alberic, in his Chronicle ( Hietorieu« de Fm-nce, xxi, 616), says tliat Margareta filin domini de Fuscenei» de 11wtre G-uillel,11 i Ji/ii Humbcrti coniiti» Gebennensis comiii Thome de Sabtmdia. nnpsit, and was the mother of 't'homas's children, Guichenon (Hist. gene<Ll. de la Maison de S,woye, 1660) interprets this corrupt passage to mean that Margaret was daughter of William de Fancigny, and considers that Beatrice of Geneva was another wife, and was childless. But this statement led him into inconsistencies o.nd is erroneous. William II, Count of Geneva, in a letter, dated 6 Nov. 1252, to Amedee (eldest son of Count Thomas) addresses him as suo karissimo domino et. "6p0ti (Memoires et Docnments, as in note 9, vii, 1849, p. 309, no. 19; J. L. Wnrstomberger, Peter tler Zweile, (Ira] von Savoyen, 1866-58, iv, no. 309), and this William is styled a,m ncufo.s [ i.e. grand-uncle] by Beatrice, Countess of Vienno and Albon, daughter of Peter of Savoy, 22 April 1253 (Wurstem­ berger, iv, no. 324a). Beairi» comitissa, pa1·ens co111itmn, Sabtnuiiae comitissa., was buried at Hautecombe uccxxx sexto . idus Ap,·ilis, according to the Chronicle of that Abbey (Mon. Hist. Puiriae, Scriptores, ii, 673), but a charter, dated 1232, commencing "[Ileatrix] vxor comitis Thome, Amedeus primogenitus et Aymo, tilii ejus, confirmant etc.," had a seal appended with the legend STGIL. BEATRICIS COMJTISSE SARAVDIE (Wurstemberger, iv, no. 83), and Count Thomas's widow appears in fact in various documents from 1236 to 'T June 1256 (L. Cibrario, O,·igine e Prog1·essi deUa M01ui1·chia di Savoia, 1869, table, note 9), but not with any christian name. The notice above is therefore no doubt an incorrect version of her epitaph at Haute­ eombe, which is recorded thus by Pingon in his chronicle, f. 354 d :­ " Dlnetrissima et veuerandissima domina Ilcatrix de Gebennis comitissa Babandie et domina de Narembors pnrens comitum Snbaudie hinc inde dormientinm hie dormit. Obiit sexto idus aprilis anno MCCLVII" (Wnrstem­ berger, iv, no. 448). But sho was certainly also called Margaret. A charter to Hantoco:nbc, dated "MCCXXXI quarto kuloudus uurrcii " mudo known ",prnd ego Margaritha comitissa Sabaudie et marchisa in Italia, et nos Amedens, Aymo, Villelmus electus V.alcntinus, Thomas, Petrus, Bonifacius et Philippus, fllii Thome comitis Sabaudie et marohionis in Italia, etc." (C. Blanchard,

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succeeded, and governed alone for many years. But in 1219, 10 Oct., the younger son, William TT, made up it long standing quarrel which he had with the Bishop of Geneva, Aimon de Grundson, swore fidelity to him, and was invested by him with tl1e fief of the comtc." In a cluutcr of 1220 the brothers occur together as Counts of Umieva.12 Boforo lO May 1225 Humbert was dead/' leaving by his wife, Agnes, daughter of Humbert III, Count of Savoy," two sons, Peter and Ebles,"' and a <laughter, .Alice, mari-iod tu Hodolph de Fuuciguy-Grcsy," ancestor of the still existing Princes of Faucigny-Luciuge. What. next happened is not precisely known. The orthodox account is that William II assumed the ent.ire rule, ousting his nephews, who thereupon took refuge at the English Cotn-t." It seems, however, more probable· that they were befriended by their uncle, Thomas, Count of Savoy, and that they came to Euglan<l in 1240-'11, 18 with Peter of Savoy, who was their first cousin, and uncle to the English Queen.

PETim OF GENEVA 19 first appeitrs in connection with English affairs in 12-12, 21 Dec., when Henry III, being at Bordeaux, gave

Hisi oire de l"Auuayc de Hu utccombe, in Memoi,·cs de /.'A,:ad. des Science» et Bell.cs-Ectt rc» de Sunoic, III, i, 1875, no. 1~1·, p. GfJU), aurl an earlier charter, of date 27 Dec. 1221, commoueos "Tho1nas comes _l\laurienn. et in Ita lia marchio et dom ina Margarita. cornitissa et vxor ojus, 1iliique corum Amedeus et Vmber­ tus" (Wurstcmborgcr, iv, 110. 53). It should be added that the Chronicle of Hnutecornbe is a. very innccurnto compilat.ion. For example, Amedee IV is there said to have been bu r iod in 1253, "iii idus apr-ilis," instead of "iii idus julii," the date on his epitaph as reported by Guichcnon. 'l'hc last codicil to his will bears date 8 J'uno 1253 (Wurstemhcrger, iv, no. 332), and he died 11 J'uno, according to the Obituary of the Cathedral of Aosta (D. Carutti, Reges/a Com it.n.m. 811ba11fl.iac, 1881!, no. IJ34).

11 "Sane Willehnus hominium ligiurn fccit episcopo et fldelitatern cum juramcnto promisit, opiscopus vero ipsurn Willelmum de f'eurlo comitatus cum anulo investivit. MCCXIX, vi idus octoLris." (J. Spon, Hist oire de Gencve, 1730, ii, p. 50, prenves, 110. 20}.

12 "Ego Humbertus et \Villchnus fratres et comites Gebennen. . Hujus rei testes sunt, Humhcrtus comes et Willclmus frater cjus comes similiter. MCCXX" (.Memoires et Docnmcnis, as in note !), iv, 1845, 2e pnrt.ic, p. 28, no. 22).

13 "MC.:CXXV scxto iclus maii" (,Jiemoircs et Docu1nents, as in note 9, vii, 1849, p. 294, no. 6).

14 According to Guichenon, the wife of Humbert., Count of Geneva, was daughter of Amedee III or II, Count of Savoy, who died 1 Apr. 1148. This statement appeared to subsequent genealogists to be impossible, and they altered it to another, still more absurd, viz. that she was daughter of Amedee IV or III, who died 11 June 1253. It is by following this later version that Delaborde (Les Seigneurs de Joinville, 22,1) calls Peter of Geneva grandnephew of Peter of Savoy (as grandson of Amedee IV or III, l'eter's eldest brother), when he should have said first cousin.

15 See below, note 28, for evidence of this statement. lG She appears as his wife in a charter printed in Memoii-es et Docurnents; as

in note 9, xv, 1865, 2e part.ie, p. 7, no. 9. CJ. Le Comte de Loche, Histoire de G1·e11y-s1ir-Aix, 1874, p. 22, and table, p. 63.

17 A. J. Levricr, Chronol. hist. des Comfcs de Gencroi.s, 1787, i, 13_2, and subsequent writers.

18 Peter of Savoy came to IDuglmHl between Nov. 12•10 (Wurstemborger, iv, no. 135) and 28 Feb. 1241 (!lot. rt«, 25 Hen. III, m. 13).

19 " 1249. Obiit Petrus de Genevre, uatione Proviucialis, et domino regi, licet humili prosapia oriundus, amicissitnus, Quod et ipse rex opere

JOINVILLE, AND LA MARCHE. 7 Petro de Oeneve the custody of the land and of the heir of William M Albiniaco (Rot. Pat. et Cwrt. Vascon.., 27 Hen. III, m. 22). 20 Next year, 2!) May, also at Bordeaux, the King made known that he had given P . .filio comitis Gebennen:;is the mari-iage of Isabel, Countess of Arundel, late the wife of H., Eal'l of Arundel, and that in the event of her paying a fine to the King for leave to marry whom she would, the same P. should have the fine for his own use (Idem, m. 0). In 12H, 1 !) Feb., the Sheriff of Hereford­ ehire was ordered to value the property of the late Walter de Lacy and divide it into two equal parta, of which the part belonging to Matilda, wife of Peter of Geneva, graud-duughter and one of the heirs of Walter, was to be delivered to Peter and Matilda; and the other part, belonging to the sister of Mut.ilda, was to be retained in the King's hand till further orders ( Not. ri«, 28 Hen. III, m. 8). The same yeat·, 15 March, the King commanded the Justice of Chester to deliver to Poter of Geneva the castle of Ludlow, the property of Petei·'s wife (Rot. r.a., 28 Hen. III, m, 7). On 14 May following, the King restored to J olm de Verdun and Margery, his wife, gm11d-daughte1· am! one of the heirs of Walter de Lacy, and to Peter of Geneva and Matilda, his wife, grand-daughter and the other of Walter's heirs, all the lands in Meath whereof Walter was seised at his death, to hold without partition and to receive the issues of the lands in common till further orders: mandate to give them seisin to Walter de Godm·ville, who nevertheless was to retain the castle of Trim in the King's hand till partition had been made (Rut. Illaus., 28 Hen. III, m. 10). The marriage of the elder coheir, Margery, with John de Verdun, will therefore have taken place between 19 Feb. and 14 May 1244. Peter of Geneva had been granted £100 per annum at the exchequer till the dower lands of the inheritance of his wife should be delivered to him, and 8 Apr. and 16 June 1245, the manor of Dilun [Dilwyn in Here­ fordshire] and the custody of the land which had belonged to Richard de Raynes were given him to hold in the meantime in payment of the same (Rot. Pat., 2!) Hen. III, m. 7; Rot. Fin., m. 8). Walter de· Lacy having died owing debts to the Jews amounting to £955 13s. 4d., in 1245, 19 Dec., the King pardoned Peter of Geneva and Matilda his wife their portion of these debts,

eomprobavit , coutulerat enim eidem P. nobilem puellam Matildem [elcgantem] filiam [sic] Walteri de Lascy in Hybernia cum universa hereditate et honore ipsam contingente; filium vero et filiam ex ipsa susceperat" (M. Paris, edit. Luard, v, 90): This passage is the source of the contemptuous language used by genealogists, such as, "A Provencal of mean birth" (Eyton), "A low Provencal." (R. E. Chester-Waters, in a letter dated Feb. 1898 to the Editor of The Complete Peemge). If the two children mentioned ever eziated, they must have died young.

ll On the same roll, rn. 4, 22 Aug. 1243, there. is a mandate to provide for Amadevo filio comitis Gebenensis et Aymonny fratri ejus, de beneficiis ecclesiasticis in the King's gift. These were probably Amedee and Airnon, two sons of William II, the former of whom was subsequently Bishop of Die (died 21 Jan. 1275), and the latter Bishop of Viviers (died 1 March 1263). The Amade11,s [rater comitis Gcbe11e11sis mentioned for a similar purpose in the roll, m, 5, 8 Aug. 1243, is perhaps the same .Amedee.

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but John de Verdun and Margery his wife were nevertheless to account for their own (Hut. Fi11., 30 Hen. II.T, Ill. 18). In 1248, 31 Oct., the King granted to Peter of Geneva the custody of the castle of Windsor ( Rot. Pat., 33 Hc11. III, m. !J). 011 5 Nov., the J usticiury of Lreland was commundod to cause to be observed in favour of Peter of Geneva, who had marr-iod one of the heirs of Walter <le Lacy, all the liberties which Wulter had formerly enjoyed (Rot. Ulasc«; 3;3 Heu. III, 111. I G), and the same day letters of protection were directed to the King'i; subjects in Ireland for Peter of Geneva about to proceed to foreig11 parts (Rot Pat., 33 Hen. III, m. !J). Before 21 Sep. 124!) Peter was dead s.p. 21 ( Not. m«, 33 Hen. III, m. 2), and 011 :1 Oct. I 249 the King granted to Mat.ildu de Lacy, g1w j1iit n:1:01· Petri de Geneua, the custody of the cai;tle of \Viudsor (Rot. Pat, 33 Hen. Ill, m. l j.

Enr.ss OJ<' GENEVA. Ju 12-17, 28 Fob., the King granted to Ebles of Geneva custody of tlte lamli; iu Ireland aud of the marriage of the heir of Hubert de M arais, de Jforisco, which the King had previously given to Fulk de Cnateluuu, de Castro Novo 22 ( Rot. Ulaue., 31 Heu. III, 111. 10). At an unknown date, an extent had been made of some land in the vale of Dublin which had belonged tu Walter de RideleHford, and which ought to have come to Robert de Marais by reason of his wife, who was one of the two daughters and heirs of the imid \V alter and died before her fatheI". It was found that Walter had held certain lands for the service of one knight tu the King: that Hobert de Ma.rais had hclrl no land of the King in the vale of Dublin, and that Christiana daughter of Robert wux his heir and was between six and seven years of age (Ing. 1'.11[., incert, temp. Hen. 111, file 46, no. 18). In 12!8, 11 .Iuuo, the King lmving been informed that lauds held in chief by \Valter de Ridelesford at his death had been occupied by other persons during the King's custody of them, the ,J usticiary of Ireland was ordered to inquire into the truth of the allegn.tiona, uud to cause all the lauds alienated from \Valter'H i11heritaHcc to be restored to Steplien Longespee and

2l 'I'ho nrms of Poter of Geneva, nccor<li11g- to l\L Paris, were Sa. a lion rampant Arg-., diffcri11g from those of Rodolph, Count of Geneva, which were (1252) Arg. a bend between two lions rampant Az. 'l'his Couut's sec,-et1L1n (1252) exhibits a sort of chcquy coat, which was afterwards (before 1288) reduced to 5 points Or eq11ipo/les to 4 points Az. (Or, a cross Az. voided of tho field), and taken as the arms. (!f emoii·es et Docnments, as in note 9, vii, 1849, 95-100).

2z In 1243, 15 Dec., the King gave to Fulk do Castelnau custody of the lands and of the marriage of Christiana, <laughter and heir of Robert de Marais, as it was the King's will that ho should marry her (Rot. Olaue.; 28 Hen. III, m. 17). This Fulk, consangnineus Regis, had died deeply in debt before 9 Feb. 1247 (Idem, 31 Hen. III, m. 11). According to M. Paris (edit. Luard, iv, 604), who calls him "miles eximius, domini regis consobrinus," he died in London 3 Feb. 1247, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. He was a Gascon, and no doubt related to Henry III through one of the Gascon alliances of the Counts of Angouli\me. Dilcctn.s consang11 ineu.s et fidelis noster Bequru» de Cash-a Novo occurs 11 Dec. 1253 (Rot. Pat. in Vascon., 38 Hen. III, m. 13), and a Bernard and a Segur de Castro Novn in the Rot. de Libemte etc. in Vascon., 27 Hen. IH, m. 13 and 7 [l March and 6 Sep. 1243].

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Emelina his wife,23 one of Walter's heirs, and to Ebles of Geneva and Christiana his wife, the other of Walter's heirs ( Rut. Claus., 32 Hen. JU, m. 8 d). Christiana was still under age 4 Nov. 1248 (Rot. m«, 33 Hen. Ill, m. D). In 1253, 2U Jan., letters of protection in Ireland were issued for Ebles of Geneva, and acquittance for himself and Christiana his wife from all pleas, the letters to last as loug as Ebles should be on the King's service in England (Rot. Pat., 37 Hen. III, m. 18). Jn August 1255 he was in Gascony with Prince Edward.21 By his will, dated at London 12 May 125(), he constituted as his universal heir his cousin and benefactor, Peter of Savoy, Lord of the honour of Richmond in Yorkshire.

In Doi nomiuc amen, Anno eiusdcm Mil leaimo ducontosimo quinquajresimo­ nono Pon tificatus Domiui Aloxundi-i Pape l I I I a.11110 yto I udiet.ioue socundu IIIIto Idus Maji in preseut.ia mei Galfri<li do Verni' publiei noturii et test.ium subecriptorum ad hoe specialiter vocatoru m et rogutorum. Nohilis vir Rhalus de Gebenuis filins Tllustr!s viri JI umbcrt.i quoudaru comitis Gehm111cnsis sua propria voluntato spout.a.11011 propter g-ralia. an accopta soruitia ofi cornn1oda qne olim uh 11h11-1tri viro domino Pct.ro do 8abaudia cousungu iuco suo rocopit ac sperat dantc domino reciperc in f ut.uru m ea douatione que dicitur inter viuos pure Iibere et absolute tradidit et donauit et douando cessit et couccseit domino Petro prodicto et snis heredibus oume ins et uctionem realem et per­ sonalom tacitam et exprcssarn quod vel quam habot vel hubcro dobct iure hereditario vel alio modo uliquo t.itulo sine iuro in com itatu Gcbenuousi cum euis iurilms et ipsius pertiueutiis vniuersis. Pretcrcn dictus Ehulua f'ecit constituit et ord inn.uit uc ct.imu iust.it.uit eumdcm dom inmu Pot.rum in d ictam rem sibi suum hercdem leg itimuin et procunu.orom siuo actorem it.a quod suo nomino tamquam in suruu rem possit agcrc pctcre et dcfcudero dispouero et ordinnre siout ipsemct faccrc possot corum qnibnscumque pcrsouis et eontra quascumquo personas. Insnpcr clictus Ebalua stipulatiouo solouipui promisit sub pena et hipotlieca omnium bonorum suorurn que uuuc habot sou habere poterit in fnturnm per heredcs vel succesaorcs snos vcl alias sibi subm issas personae domino Petro prcfnto eiusquo herediuus et succossoribua contra dictum donationcm vel aliquod cle predictis do cctero non venire vol etiam nliquid in posterum attemptarc ad hec in verbo Doi et voritatis pure et firmiter bona fide omni frande et dolo remotis promisit eadem stipnl:ttioue in perpetuum predicts omnia et singnla fideliter et elficaciter obseruaro et pena soluta vel non soluta Iustrumentum presens in sui robore semper manoat firmitatis. Actnm Londone preseutibus istis testibus vocatis et rogatis specialiter ad hoe. Ebalo de Montibus et Petro Chanuenz militibus. Girardo de Granzone canonico Lug­ dnnensi. llfagistro Grassino. Guidone de Montaguiaco et Aymone de Vcrcerio clericis. Petro l\lontum de Foschio et Hngone do Ferteyns. Et ego Galfridns de Verni' auctoritate sancte Romane ecclcsio pub liens N otarius predict is interfui rogatua hanc Cartam scripsi publicaui et signum feci. (Monogram, seal lost, I11vent. Genevois, fasc. 1, no. 16; Invent. Sobaudiae, fasc. 1, con vol. 4, Ch. no. 99.25-edit. Wurstemberger, iv, no. 507, and in part in l,Iemoires et Documents, as in note 9, vii, 1849, p. 312, no. 26.)

,a She was daughter of Walter de ltidelcsforcl, and had formerly been wifo of Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster.

2"' "MCCLV monsis augusti nostrc souhor n' Audoard fi lh prcn1cy nn.t heretey de nostro senhor Audrie per la grace do Din rey cl' Anglatcrra" con­ firmed the municipal institntions of La lteolc, by tho counsel and advice of his barons, "So es assn.vcr : en Juhnn lo Iilh G,111fre [ust.iciey cl'Irlanda adonques, Gaufre de Gonbila, Hobles de M ontz, Uebles de Gene be, etc." (.Archives hist. de lei Gironde, ii, 1860, 251). • Two other much shorter versions of this testament exist. One given

by Guichenon, p1·euves, p. 74, from the Archives of 'I'urin, contains a clause

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Ebles of Geneva must huve <lied soon after, s.p. Aud Peter of Savoy, who lmd carriod on with varying success a life-long feud with the Counts of Ue1wva/"' lost no time in putting to the test the pretensions which luul been given him hy this document. His various claims upon Rodolph, or Raoul, Count of Gouevu, eldest sou of William IT (who had died 25 Nov. 1252),27 were submitted to urbibrat.ion. The urbit.ratoi-s, Thomas Sire de Menthou and Geoffrey de Grandmont chevalier, pronounced sentence l!) May l 2GO. Rodolph had to give up to Peter the castle of Chnrrosse, to pay him 2,000 lioree vicnnoise.•, and to give as security the fiefs of Chatillon­ de-Michaille and Arlod, and all his possessions beyond the Rhone from Seyssel to near Lausanne. As to Petcr's pretensions to his .mother's inheritance or to the 1·ight.s conferred 011 him by the will of Ebles, the urbit rutors evaded givi11g any dccisiou."

Christiana de Murais, widow of Ebles, survived her husband for many years. On going beyond seas i11 at.tcudauee on the Queen Mother, her attorneys were nominated 7 .Tan. 1275 for 3 years,

that the donation extended" snper horcditntc et sncccssione patcrna et fraterua in comitntu Gcbouuonsi tarn contra Rodulphum de Gebennis [hero not styled Count.] quam Iratros suos, etc." 'I'hc other (hwe11/. Ucnerois, fuse. 1, no. 17, edit. ,vnrstcmhergor, 110. 508, am! in Memoires et Documents, no. 27) is again different, and omits the word [ruternu..

26 The account ;('ivcu of Peter of Savoy in the Com plcte Peerage, vi, 351, should be supplomentcd by stating that his will and two codicils were elated 7, 11 and 14 May l2H8. lie died rt few days after, not at Chillon, but nt Picrro-Cbatol on the It honr-, not in June, as Guichenou states without any authority, but 17 May (01,i/. of (l cneru, as in note H, 11!!), or he was buried (at llautecombo) 16 May (Chron. of ll autcconibe, in .llJon. ll ist, Patrice, Scripiores, ii, 6i4). His wife, Agnes de Fuucigny, whom be Imel married in Feb. 1233/4, nuulo her will !J Ang. J2G8, mu] ,lio,J I l Aug. (Obit. of Genera, 178) or 16 Ang. (Cihrario, as in note 10, tuble, note 15, citing a :r.tS. Genealogy of the Princes of Faucigny in the Bibl, dcl Re) following.

27 " vii Ka.londns llecembris" ( Obit. of Geneva, 272; Obit. of the Abbey of Abondance, in .llfon. Hist. Patriue, Scriptores, iii, 423).

28 "Messirc Pierre de Sauoyc. demandoit cnquorcs [al Raouz conte clc Gcueuc] sn pnrt.io qui Ii nforoit de Curnillon et clc la val des Clees Jes qucs choses auoiont cste assignees a sa mere en son mariage. Demandoit enquores tcl droit et tcl rcson qo mossire P. et mcssire ELies fil et hoir ea en arriers le conto Humbert de Geuoue auoient en leritage ledit conte lequel droit et laquele roson ii Ii auoient clone e ontroie . . . Enqnores diaons e ordeuons qe mcssirc Piorros ou scs hoirs et assignez se suffire des dema.ndes qi! fet a Raout clou mariago sa mere o <lei heritage des auant diz mon­ seignour P. e monseignour Eble cle Geueue si qolos aunt deans plus clerement elites taut qe Ii cliz Raonz on ses hoirs vveille reembre de! auant <lit monseignour P. on de so, hoir ou de son assigne lauant elite gagiere en tel maniere qe Ji droits al diz monseignour Pierre et cle son hoir on de son assigne e Jes defenses d ou <lit Haout et do son hoir soieut toziors sauues jusque adouques si qnclcs s1111t ores ... E cc fn feit a Geneue le mercresdi dauant la pantecoste Ian de !incarnation nostre Seignour mi! e doucenz e sissante" (Archivio genera le del Regno, Faucigny, iv, Charrosse e Paasier, no. !.-printed in .llfeinoires cl Docu.mcnt s, as in noto 9, vii, 1849, p. 313, no. 28, and by Wurstcmhergcr, iv, no. 538). This important document is unique in enunciating the two sous of Count Humbert, Peter and Ebles. The seal of Peter of Savoy appended to the deed of compromiso of the same date (Wurstemberger, iv, no. 539, from l'ingon's chronicle, f. 365) bore a lion rampant, s. PETRI DE SABAVDIA l'OMITIS, confirming the statement of M:. Paris, that his arms were Or, a lion rampant Gu., armed Az.

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12 Apr. 1278 for 2 years, and 26 Feb. 1280 for 1 year ( s«. r«; 3 Edw. I, m. 34, 6 Edw. I, m. lfl, 8 Edw. I, m. 22). 22 Feb. 1281, she was appointed to hold in tenuncy the manor of Bansteud co. Surrey (Idem, 9 Edw. I, m, 25). Two 111011ths before, 12 Dee. 1280, she had agreed to surrender to the King and Queen all her castles, lands, ad vowsons, knights' fees, homages, and services, in Ireland," in exchange for lands of the same value in England for her life and . for three years after her death (Hot. Claue., 9 Edw. I, m. 10 d ; Libe1· A, Chapter ll ouse, ff. 416, 416 d). 8 March 1281, an extent was ordered, and by inquisitions dated 7 June, 19 Oct.iand ... 1281, it was found that her lauds in \Vexford, Connaught, and elsewhere, were worth £157 6s. 4d. pet· a1111um, and were held of the heirs of the Eal'l Marshal, namely of Si1· Roger de Mortimer, by the service of 4 knightH' foes when the King's service was proclaimed (luq. J>.1'!., 9 Edw. T, no. 88). In pursuance of her agreement, she was granted, 15 Nov. 1282, for the period agreed upou, the manors of Langley [Langley­ Marish) and Wrayabury, co. Bucks, in place of lunds worth .£100, and that of Overstone, co. Northampton, in place of lands worth £50, per annum, in exchange for all her lands in Ireland (Not. Pat., 10 Edw. I, m. 2). A fresh extent was ordered, 14 Nov. 1282, of the knights' fees and ad vowsons in Ireland, late her property (lnq. P.H., 11 Edw. 1, 110. 77). The new valuation of them was £181 l ls. 8Jd. per annum ( K. R., lri.,h E:rcheqner, 5:30, E.B. 2300, 2543) and they were grnnted for life, 16 Dec. 128-l, to Eleanor, Queen Consort (Rot. Pat., 13 Edw. I, m. :ll). 1G Feb. 1286, the eschaetor this side of Trent was ordered to assign to Christiana £30 yearly in laud for 10 yeai·s, or its equivalent (Rot. Clans., 14 Edw. I, rn. 7; cf, Not. ru., rn. 22, 20 Feb.). She accordingly was granted the custody of the 111ano1· of Westborough, co. Lincoln, valued at .£50 per annum, for 6 years (Hot. Ufons., 18 Edw. I, rn. 18): ratification of appointment 28 May 1290 (Not. Pat., 18 Edw. I, rn. 29). The Irish property which she had demised to the King and Queen was, after the death of the latter in 1290, restored to her, by special' grace, 5 June 1293 (Idem, 21 Edw. I, m. 13). 8 Aug. 1299, she had a fresh grant that her executors might hold her three English manors for three years after her death (Idem, 27 Edw. I, 111. 16). She died in the spring of 1312, and 23 May following the eschaetor was ordered to deliver these manors to her executors (Hot. Claue., 5 Edw. II, m. 4); who, at Michaelmas, six mouths after her decease, surrendered Langley and Wraysbury to the King, and were granted, 7 Nov. 1312, the manor of Overs tone for 71 years in compensation ( Not. Pat., 6 Edw. II, pars 1, m. 11 ; et'. 10 Edw. IT, pal'S l, m. 8 sehed.).

:19 This included the manors of Bray, Knocker, Killiney, Curton in Kine­ lahun co. Wexford, Bore, Balimach iuun , Cuoctalufincyn, Cnocro, Done, Nach­ brok, Kylleymen, Kilmatheh, Balicul lau, Little 'I'attom, Brun, aud llalimolys, and the moieties of Garnonugh, Kilkca and 'l'risteldermot [ Castlcdermot] co. Kildare.

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JOINVILLE.

GrnoFI•'UisY 1m .I orxvrr.r.s," Sil'e de Vuueoulours, was the second husband of Mat.ildu de Lacy."t He was a younger son of Simon, Sire de J oinvillo in Cl111111pa.gne, by his second wife, Beatrice, d:wghtet· of Stephen 11 I, Count of Hurgnn<ly and Auxonne. He was born in or after 1226,"2 und first appears in July 1241, being already Sire de Vaucouleurs (Deluborde, no. 302). He was still in France in March 1251 (Idem, no. 336). In 1212, 8 Aug., the King gave to Geoffrey de Join ville and Matilda de Lacy his wife all the Iibert.ies and free customs in Meut.h, which Walter de Lacy, grandfather of lvfatilda, had enjoyed (Rot. Cart., 36 Hen. III, m. 6; Liber Niycr de IViymorn, f. 277). Two days before, G Aug., he had been summoned to he at \Vestmiuster 13 Oct. for the expedi­ tion to Gascony (Rut. Clans., 36 Hen. III., m. \J <l), and he was in Gascony with hiH brother Simon :,:i on the King's service in 1254 (Rut. Cfons. in Va.scan., 38 Heu. III, rn. 12 and 7 [Feb., May)). 18 Sf'p. 12G+, the King granter! that he and his wife should enjoy their liberties by their own writs in all the lunds of Meath, according to the law and custom of I'relund, as \Valtei· de Lacy, formerly lord of these lands, was wont to enjoy them, and, 21 Sep., the King restored to him the castle of Trim as the 1·ight and inheritance of Matilda de Lacy his wife, with a moiety of 40 ma.rcates of land which had been retained for the custody of that castle : mandate to give him seisin to ,J 0!111 :;011 of Geoffrey, J ust.iciury of Ireland (Rut. Pat. et Cart. Vu.<con., 38 Hen. IIT, pars 2, m. 5) : on 18 Sep., Prince Edward had issued a similar mandate to Richard <le la Rochelle, his sencschul in Ireland ( Rut. Pat., 38 Hen. III, pars 2, m. 2). He was in Gascony with Prince Edward in August 1255.2' Was summoned, 1-! March 1258, to be at Chester 17 June, and, 1 Aug. 12GO, to he at Shrewsbury 8 Sep., against Llewellyn (Rut. cu:«, 42 Hen. 111, m. 11 d, H Hen. III, m. \J d); each of these expeditious was stopped by a truce. By charter dated la. vcille sent Ilariuibe, H Hen. III [ l O June 1260 J, he

30 'I'he best account of this family is in Jeo.n. de Joinville et Les Seiqneurs de .Join!'ille, by H. 1~. Dclabor.lc, J 89,1.

31 A chn.rtcr to the Alil,ey of Dore uppcucs to be the only l<>llglish doon­ mcnt in which he is styled Sire cle Va.ucoulours :-" Galfridns de Gonevilla. clominus de Vaucolour miles et Matildis do Lacy filia Gileberti de Lacy uxor ejus, etc." (New ll[onasticon, v, 554, ex autog. in off. arm.; Liber Niger ~ lVigmore, f. 277). This Liber Niger contains transcripts of many charters re­ lating to the property of the J oinvillcs in Ireland, tit. Hibernia. 'I'he . portion relating to Ludlow is missing, but the table of contents thereto still remains.

32 His noxt elder brother John, Sire de Joinville, the friend and biographer. of St. Louis, was born in 1225, before or on 1 May (Dclaborde, pp. 69.72),

33 '!'his was Simon, Sire do Gex, who died 3 June 1277 (Regeste Gene.vois, edit. P. Lullin et C. le Fort, 18GG, no. 1143). One of his sons, Peter, Sire de Marnay, is mentioned from 2 Aug. 1297 to 20 Apr. 1298, in the New Foederu; r, ii, 870, 888, 892. Another brother of Geoffrey, William, was archdeacou of Satins in March 1258 (Jiemoires et Docurnente, as in note 9, vii, p. 311, no. 24), of Besancon, 30 Jan. 1260 (Rot. Pat., 44 Hen. III, m. 3), rector of Arthimurohir in Ireland, 1260 (lliem. L.T.R., 44 Hen. III, pt. ii, rot. 6 d, Hilary term), end dean of Besaucon, Oct. 1261 (Delaborde, no. 395).

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pa1-titioned his fiefs with John de Verdun." Had letters of safe conduct for himself and retinue in order that he might come and confer with the King on the disturbed state of Ireland, 6 May 1262, and, 10 June 1265, was, with others, warned not to give aid to the rebels in that country, partisans of Prince Edward (Rot. Pat., 46 Hen. III, pars 1, m. 5 sched., 19 Hen. III, m. 13). Was at Vaucouleurs with his wife in 1266 (Delaborde, nos. 450, 451 ). Commissioned with Robert Wale rand to swear to the peace with Llewellyn, 21 Sep. 1267 (Rot. Pat., 51 Hen. III, m. 6). Again at Vaueouleurs in July 1270, and in Apr. 1270 (1270 or 1271] (Delaborde, nos. 480, 181 ; Afem. de la Soc. a'ArcMol. Lorraine, m, ii, 1881, 242). Summoned by the French Xing early in 1272 among the milites banerii of the King of Navarre (Count of Champagne) against Roger-Bernard III, Count of Foix (llist01·iens de France, xxiii, 768). Was in the Holy Land with Prince Edward, hut returned before him, and took up the office of -Iusticiary of Ireland in Oct. 127:1,:u, in Lim place of Maurice son of Maurice, lately capt.nred hy the Irish. He was succeeded in this post hy Robert d' lJ Ilord i11 1276. 12 Dec. l 276, he was summoned to be at Worcester I July 1277 against the Welsh (Rot. Clous., 5 Edw. I, m. 12 cl), for the campaign which terminated in a decisive triumph for the English King. Jn 1280, 28 Feb., he and his wife, going to Lorrnino, had their attorneys nominated for three years (Rot. Pat., 8 Edw. I, m. 22), mid he was in Champagne or Lorraine 28 Apr. 1280 and Dec. 1281 (Delaborde, nos, 536, 544). In 1280, 3 36 and 5 -Iuly, with Maurice de Oraon and John de Grailly, he reported t.o Edward I from Paris on the subject of the truce between France and Aragon (New Foedera, 1, ii, 583). On the outbreak in March 1282 of the last great struggle for Welsh independence, he was summoned 6 Apr. to be at Worcester 17 May, and, the King being already on the march, from Hartlehury on 24 May, to he at Rhuddlun 2 Aug. (Rot. Wall., 10 Edw. I, m. 10d and 7 <l). On this occasion his service from Herefordshire was returner! at 2k knight;;' fees for the inheritance of Matilda his wife, performed by himself, one knight, and one serviens (Palgrave, Part. Writs, i, 233, 236). At the close of the war he was at Acton Burnell with the King, and by charters dated at that place, I I Oct. 1283, he and his wife made over the whole of their English possessions to their eldest surviving son, Peter. On going to Ireland with his wife, he received letters of . protection 27 March 128.! (Rot. Pat., 12 Edw. I, m. 14). In 1290, 3 Feb., the King mentioned in

SI Addit. MSS., 60·11, f. 37 cl. 'I'lris MS. contains a more. clei.nile,l ucoouut of the series of charters which once existed in the Liber Niger de lVigmoi·e than that in the table of contents of the latter.

:ir, "Mcclxxiij. Dumiuns Gnlfridus do Geuovile vcnit usquc lliheruiam de terra saneta, parum ante festum hcati Fruncisci, et fnctus est justiciarius Hibernia post octavns bont.i Prrmcisci (Annals of Mnltij'cr11an, Hi).

116 "Au tres haut et trcs noble prince, a ]or chier senhor le roi d'Ang lutcrra, Morices sires de Croon et Gicfroi de Giemhvile sin cluwolier, honor et reverence, etc." (J. J. Chnrnpollion-Figcac, Lettre» de Rois, 183!), i, no. 273). In the New Foedem, the name is misprinted Greiw1•ile and Gremnla,

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letters to the Card innls that he was sending Geoffrey de Joinville to the Pope to arrange certain matters for the aid of the Holy Land (Rot. Claue., 18 Edw. I., m. 14<1; cf. Ne10 Foedera, I, ii, 746). 18 June 1294, the liberty of 'I'rirn, which had been taken into the King's hand, wits restored to him during the King's pleasure ( Rot. Claus., 22 Edw. I, m. 8). He was summoned for Gascony, 2G ,J unc 1294, to be at Portsmouth 1 Sep. (Rot. Vascon., 2~ Edw. I, m. 9 d), but the expedition was postponed when on the point of embarcation owing to the revolt of the Welsh about Michaelmas, and 15 Oct. he was summoned to be at Worcester 21 Nov. for the muster at, Chester 28 Nov. (Rot. Wnll., 22 Edw. I, m. 1 d), and he was with the King in \Vales G Dec. (Rot. Chins., 23 Edw. I, m. 11). For his services in this campaign the liberty of Trim-which had again been taken into the King's hand, on account of his transgressing the King's mandate with regard to Nicholas Bacun, lately taken and detained prisoner at Trim-was restored to him, 2 May 1295 (Rot. Pat., 23 Edw. I, rn. 14; Liber Niger de Wigmore, f. 275 d). Ordered, 18 Oct. 1295, with other fideles of Ireland, to be in readiness to go over sea, 1111d summoned, 3 Jan. 1296, to be at Whitehaven 1 March (Rot. Claue., 23 Edw. I, m, 2 d, 24 Edw. I, m. 12 d ; Rot. Pat., 24 Edw. T, rn. 19). Ordered, as from Ireland, to be in readiness, 4 May 1297, and summoned, 17 May, to be in London 1 Aug., against the French King (Rot. Clcue., 25 Edw. I, m. 17 d, l:'i d}; his summons, as from Shropshire, for the same purpose, was dated 24 May, for 7 July (Harl. MSS., 1192, f. 52). Being about· to go over sea, he had, ] 3 July, a respite for his debts, and, JG July, his especial powers in Meath were confirmed (Rot. Clans., 25 Edw. I, rn. 12 d and 9). He was a commissioner on the King's part, 12 Aug. 1297, to settle the difficulties with the Constable and Marshal (Rot. Pat., 25 Edw. I, pars 2, m. 7), which resulted in the King appointing him marshal and Thomas de Berkeley constable (W. Rishanger, Chron., edit. H. T. Riley, 173), and he is styled the King's Marshal 5 Oct. 1297 ('l'owm· Privy Seals, 25 Edw. I, no. 2). He occurs as engaged in treating with the envoys of the French King concerning the truces, 12 March 1297, 15 Jan., 3 Apr., and 9 Nov., 1298, and as one of the plenipoten­ tiaries to make peace with France, 12 May 129\J, representing, with Amedee, Count of Savoy, and ,Tohn of Bar, the English King at the treaty of Montreuil, 19 June 1299 (Rot. Alemau., 26 Edw. I, m. 12, 27 Edw. I, m. 11; New Foedera, I, ii, 861, 884, 890, 906). Being on this account retained in Flanders on the King's service, he had, 27 Apr. 1298, letters of protection for his lands in Ireland for a year from Midsummer, and again, as retained over sea, 2G June 1299 till 1 Nov. following (Rot. Pat., 2G Edw. I, m. ] 7; Touier Privy Seals, 27 Edw. I, no. 2), and 3 Aug. 1300, he was allowed £1:30 18s. 4!d. for his stipend and expenses when in Flanders (Rot. de Liberate, 28 Edw. I, m. 3). He had letters of protection, on going to Rome on the King's affairs, 11 Apr. 1300 for a year and 28 Feb. 1301 till Michaelmas (Rot. Pat., 28 Edw. I, m. 18, 29 Edw. I, m. 24), and his name

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occurs as one of the King's representatives in this missron 15 Apr. and 26 Sep. 1300 ( Hot. Aleman., 28 Edw. I, m. 8). 19 Apr. 1801, he was allowed £ 124 5s. for the expeuses of his voyage and sojourn in Rome, and the same clay was ordered, as one of the grea.ter barons of Ireland, to confer with John Wogan, the J usticiary, and Richard, Earl of Ulster, with a view to obtain the help of the Irish magnates in the Scotch war ( Rot. Claus., 29 Edw. I, m. 9; Rot. Pat., m. 16). 12 Nov. 1302, the liberty of Trim, which had been taken into the King's hand for contempt, was restored for a term to Geoffrey and his wife Mat.ilda (Rot. Claue., 30 Edw. I, m. 3). Matilda de Lacy died 11 Apr. 1304 .3; A yearly fee of twenty-five marks, in compensation for the castles of Blatluujh' and Drogheda and the vill of Drogheda ~x parte Midie, which Matilda, late wife of Geoffrey, should have received, had been unpaid since Michaelmas 1276, and it was commanded, 16 Oct. 1306, that Geoffrey should receive compensa.tion (Idem, 34 Edw. I, m. 3). 4 Dec. 1306, he obtained a rebate of £279 16s. lOJd. on his dohts for advances made when he was Justiciary of Ireland (Idem, :If> Edw. I, m. Hi). Next year, 24 Dec., he obtained license to surrender to H.oge1· de Mortimer and Jane his wife the lands and tenements in Ireland which he held by the law of England of the inheritance of Matilda, his late wife (Rot. Pat., 1 Edw. II, pars 1, m. 2; Liber Niger. de Wiynw1'fi, f. 273). In 1308, Roger and Jane took seisin of Meath, and, 17 Nov., Geoffrey entered the House of the friars preachers at Trim,as where he died in the habit of the Order 21 Oct .

. 1314.39 He had been summoned to Purl iaruent., among the barons, 6 Feh., l O Apr., 29 Dec, 129G, 12 Nov. 130~, and 3 Nov. 1306 (Rot. (llaus., 27 Rdw. I, m. 18d, 16d, 28 Edw. I, m. 17 d, 32 Edw. I, m. 2 d, :H Edw. T, m. 2 d). His children by Matilda de Lacy were as follows : -

1. GEOFFR!sY DE .J crxvn.r.s was <lead s p. and v.p. before 11 Oct. 128:1."'

~ "MCCCIV. Obiit dorniria Mut.i ldia Lacy, uxor domini Galfrirll Geuevile, tercio idus api-ilis " (Annuls of lrclmui; 33:l). An entry under 1:10:l, that Margaret, wife of John Wogan the Juaticiary, diet! tercio ulu» aprili«, and that Matilda de Lacy died the next week, is erroneous.

as "MCCCVIII. In vigilia Apostolorum Simonis et Jude, rlominus llogcrus de Mortuomari applicuit in Hiberniam, cum sua cousorto recto herede .l\lidic .filia domini Petri filii d omi ni Ga.lfridi Gcncvillc; et seisinam ceperunt de Midie., domino Galfrido de Geneville codento eisdcm, et iutranto or<linem fratrnm prodicatorum upud 'l'rym, in crustino Snucti Edwu.rdi [J<!<ln111ndi] a.rchiepiscopi" [17 Nov.] ([dem, 337). In the Ann.ale., de Wiyornia (edit. H. R. Luard, 180!1, 5(\0) it is stated that Geoffrey became a monk on the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle [30 Nov.] 1308.

19 "MCCCXIV. Dominns ac frater Galfridns de Geueville ohiit decirno secnndo kal, novembris , scpult.ns in suo ordine f'rnt.rum prcdica torum de Trym, qni fnit doruinus libertatis Mi.lic " ( A 11n11ls of Irclnsul; 34:l).

"° Delabordc omits Geoffrey ult.ogot.hci-, hut he certainly existed. "Me.tildis La.cy nupta fuit Gnuf'rido <le Gonyvy lo. lDt de ipsn Mat.ilde de­ ecendebat jus cuidum Gauf'i-id» Genevyle ut filio sno et hercdi, cpti ohiit siuc

16 LACY, GENEVA, JOINVILLE, AND LA MARCHE.

2. PETim rm JoINVILLE, of whom hereafter.

3. W ALTElt DE J OINVILLE was the eldest SUl'Vl vmg son in 12!)4," and probably then, but certainly Lefore Sep. 1298, received the seigneurie of V uucouleurs." As one of the twel ve vassals of the Count of Champagne, he was summoned Ly the French King against the Flemings, l O July 1302, to Le at Arms 15 Aug. (llistoriens de Frunce, xxiii, 7 88), and he was among the French envoys sent to confer with the roprcscntativos of the King of Aragon at Narbonne, about Feb. 1:\03 (Vaissete, Hiet. de Laaujuedoc, edit. 1840-46, vi, 292). He <lied s.p., shortly after 18 April 1303, at the Flemish wars, in an ut.tack upon La 13assee.0" Isaboau <le Cirey, whom he had mn rr-ied before Sep. l 291',42 occurs its " Dame de Vuucouleurs et cl'Anlrmy-le-Chfttcl" in Dee. 1317 and 2G Aug. 132G (Delaborde, nos. 7 GH, 8-l- l ).

('l'o be contimied.)

hcr<><1o de so, et t n n o jns clc~cornlclm.t Petro do Gunyvilc ut f'rat.rc suo, qui dcsponsnvit .Iolunmn.m fi limn com it.is Maroh io do part.ibu« transmarinia, et hauunru nt cxitum .lohn.nnn m , Mnt.ildom et, Bcat.i-iccm, quo dimiscrunt, se in ordi nom moriin lium a pud Acornhnry, in quo ord ino profcsso f'ucro, etc. Jus part.ibus illarum dcsccndit .Iohn.nnc- nt sorori et hororl i " ( Chron. nf 'l'intern). Ucolircy is also mcntionod ns the eldor In-other of Poter and ns ,lying s.p. in a su it, of date 132fi ( Coram, Reye, Trinity term, 2 Ed w, III, rot. 128,­ Col l , '/'op. et <len., i , 27!3, Oen., N.R., xiii, 24,1). A fn.ntn.sf.ic pf;digrec in Harl. MSR., 142G, f. 1~7, wh ich d(\dllCPR tho fn m ily t.ln·o11g-l1 a spricR of imaginary pt\l'S011R f'roni Count Ji:ustacn of Boulog-1ie, Rn.ys t.lm t ho mnr-riod a daughter of .Iohn, Lord Montfort. This stn tcmon], is probably dcrivod from the Annals of fre/111111, (p. 32!!) :-" MCCCI. Domin us de Gcnevi lo dcspunsnvit, filiam rlomini .lohnn uis clr, Mont.f'orbe. Et, dorn i n us J'ohn.nucs [ltogerns] do Mort.uornari despons,i,·it, filiam et horcdcm do m ini Petri do Gcnevilo."

·ll 111 12fl-1, (;eoffrny do .Ioinvill« gnvc to \Valt.Pr his oldest son his portion, with the eonsm1t of Mnt.i lrlu his wifn, ruul of his ot hr-r chi l.lrou, Simon, Nicholn«, Peter, \Villi:un, n.nr] Juno, Count.osa of Sah11. (U. du Cange, (Icueal: de In Maison de Loinrill.c, in llistoire de SI. Louu«, 1GG8, ii, 30).

42 "NonR Gaut.icrs do .l oi n villo sires de Vauquclour, et, nous Ysabiaus de Ccroix, dam» de Vauquolour, Rn. f'omo, fa.sous snvoir h toulz proscns et fi venir qnc par I'n co rf <le nost.ro Rigno11r et p(ffc 111011 Rignonr J'off'roy do Joinville, jn-ornir-r signonr do Vnuquclonr ... Coste ohn.rt.ro fnt f'a.itc et dounee l'an de gr:tcc mi\ dons cens quat ro vinz dcix et huyt. ans, on mois de aoptcmbro " (Arcl,ires de l'Rmpire, K, 1155, edit. N. de Wailly, 1/eweil des" Chartc« de .loi-nvillc, in Bibl. de I'Ecole des Charles, xxvii i, 18G7, p. 594, piece W).

4:i Anciennes Chroni quee de Fl aiulre in Hiet oricn» de Prance, xxii, 386. Of. G. Guiart, La Bmnche des Roy<111s Lingnages, I. 17!!72, who calls him "Li: d roiz siros do V nuconlour, Qui n'icrt vilnin ni boba n cior " ( Idem, xxii, 267): sue also Oonti-n. Ohrou. Cl. de Nanqi» (Idem, xx, 5/'l8) for the elate, "die Jovis post octal ms Ilesnrrcutionis domiuico [ 18 Apr. J 1303," of n.n event immediately' preceding his den.t.h. Du Cange, ii, 14, says that ho was summoned againsf the FlP111ings, 5 A11g-. 130~, hut this Rnmn1011s wn.s to "Le seignor de Vaucou .. _ lour," wif.hout nny nn.mo l)ci11g ment.ioned i l d en», x xi ii, 7Bl).

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THE FAMILIES OF LACY, GENEVA, JOINVILLE, AND LA MARCHE.

BY G. w. w ATSON. (Continued from p. 16.)

4. J'onx DE JQINVILLE is probably the Johannes de Genville who was one of the hostages given by the King of England to the King of Aragon as security for the conventions made between them at Canfranc in Aragon, 28 Oct. 1288 (New Foedera, 1, ii, 6!)0). He was the eldest surviving son and Sire de Vaucouleurs in July 1315, the date of the division of the property of his late father (Delaborde, no. i51). His son John, who succeeded him before 2 Sep. 1331 (Idem, no. 857), exchanged Vaucouleurs with the French King for the town of l\fory-sur-Seine and the seigneuries of Lachy and Le Pare du Bois, by deeds dated 15 Aug 1335 and 4 Oct. 1337 (Idem, nos. 875, 886). His descendants are :given in Table II on p. U-44

5. SIMON D~J J OINVIr,LE 41 first occurs ' in 1294.~• He was among the magnates of. Ireland to whom letters were addressed by the King on various matters, 5 Aug. and 7 N0v 1302, 12 Aug. 1314, 14 March 1315, 18 Aug. 1324, 13 Feb. !327 and 27 Feb. 1331 (Rot. Claus, 30 Edw. I, m. 8dand ld, 8 Edw. II, m. 34d and 14d, 18 Edw. TI, m. 38 d, 1 Edw. II r, pars 1, m. 16 d, 5 Edw. III, pars l, m. 22 d). Summoned 11 Nov. 1309 awLinst the Scots, to be at Newcastle­ on-Are 24 June 1310 (Rot. Scot., :3 Edw. II, m. 4 d). One of the Irish lords who were thunked for their services against the Scotch and Irish rebels, l Sep. 1315, and commanded to continue their exertions for the defence of Ireland, 28 Apr. 1:n 7 (Rot Scot., 9 Edw. II, m. 6 d ; Rot. Claus, 10 Edw. II, m. !) d) Summoned against the Scots 3 Apr. 1322, to be at Carlisle 13 June, put off to 24 July; again summoned 8 Dec. 1322, to be at. Carlisle l June 1323, but was not required on account of the truce (Rot. (llascs., 15 Edw. II, m. 15 sohed, and 8 d, 16 Edw. II, m. 18 d and 4 d). Among those ordered to attack and pursue Roger de Mortimer if he took refuge in Ireland, 28 Aug. 1323 (Idem, 17 Edw. IT, m. 40 d). Summoned 30 Oct. 1324 for Aquitaine on 2 Feb. 1325 ( Rot. Va8con., 18 Edw. II, m. 25 d), and finally 8 May 1335, to be in Scotland on 24 June

" This table is principally derived from Anselme, vi, 697, and Delaborde, nos. 797-106\l. There were perhaps two Ames between 1365 and 1398.

<5 Before the Justices of the Common Pleas, Dublin, 2 May 1294, Geoffrey de Joinville and Matilda his wife wore summoned to warrant to Simon de Joinvillo cort.ain lands and rents in Molinestone, Ba.limaccarmecan, l:lalirlrym, Balunackerni, Dovcnnuchkorny, Kenlis, Athgan, Tullen, Rathbethyn, and Kynat.heston, which he held of them, and whereof he had a charter. And Geoff'rey and Matilda acknowledged these tenements to Le the right of Simon as of their gift to hold of the King- in chief, and warranted them to him and his heirs. And for the warranty etc., Simon granted them the tenements aforesaid for life, they paying- him £40 a year, with reversion to him uf'ter their deaths (foq. 1'.l\f., 22 Edw. I, no. 145).

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next (Rot. Scot., 9 Edw. III, m. 36 d). By his wife Jane, daughter of John Leon' or fitz Leon', heiress of Culmullen," who died in 1347,4; he had two sons, Nicholas, who died in 1324,'8 and Geoffrey," and three daughte1·s, Matilda, wife of Baldwin le Fleming of Slane, Jane, wife of John Cusack of Beauparc, and Elizabeth, wife of William de Loundres of Athbov." Matilda's son Simon inherited Culmullen. •

6. NICHOLAS rrn JornvILLE 41 was presented by the King to the Church of Trim ll Apr. 1283 (Rot. Pas., 11 Edw. I, m. 21). Canon of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and Rector of Trim, in 1293 (Exchequer of Pleas Placita, Trinity term, 21 Edw. I, m. 42). Described as son of Geoffrey de Joinville and Canon of St. Patrick's, Easter 1294 Urfem. Rolls, K.R., 22 Edw. I, m. 72). Canon of St. Mary's, Salisbury, and of St. Ethelbert's, Hereford, 18 Oct. 1294 (Rot. Pat., 22 Edw. I, m. 5 d). Received from the King the prebend of Castle Knock in St. Patrick's, Dublin, 22 March 1295 (Idem, 28 Edw. I, m. 15). Had letters, on his going beyond seas, nominating his attorney for a year, 5 Apr. 1295 (Idem, 23 Edw. J, m. 18). Obtained 61 the castles of Miglionico, Grottole, and Pietra, in Apulia, from Charles II, King of Naples, 17 Dec. 1300 (Delaborde, no. 663). In July 1315, as Sire de Miglionico, he participated with John, Sire de Vaucouleurs, his eldest surviving brother, in the division of their late father's property, receiving as his portion Moranccurt, La Neuville-a-Mathone, Mussey,

16 By assize of novel dissoisin it was found that at twilight hour, the evening of Saturday the feast of St. Peter ad Catlw,tra.m, anno ,·egni 15 (22 Feb. 1286/7 not 18 Jan. 1287/8], 'I'homas, son of Thomas Leon', his life despaired of, gavo to his uncle Geoffrey son of Thomas Leon' his manor of Culmulleu, which he held in chief of Geoffrey de Joinville: and that he died that night between midnight and cock-crow. That Geoffrey de Joinville disseised Geoffrey Leon' the following Wednesday, and gavo seisin to Jane, daughter of John Leon', who claimed as next heir. Judgment that Geoffrey Leon' should have seisin. But, Micbaolm11a term 1289, the King in his Council reversed this judgmont, and Geoffrey do Joinville was commanded to cause Jane, daughter of John Leon', to have seisin (Contm Reqe, Edw. I, no. 115, rot. 44 a; no. 122, rot. 37). According to the genealogists, the wife of Simon was daughter of Richard FitzLeon.

<7 "MCCCXLVII. Obiib domina Joh,,nna FitzLeonca, quondam uxor domini Simonis Genevile, sepulta in convcntu frabrum predicatorum apud Trim secundo idua Aprilis" (Annals of Ireland, 390).

48 "M:cccxxnrr. Obiit Nicholaus de Genevile, films et heres domini Simonis de Genevile et sepultus apud predicutores de Trym" (Idem, 362).

~9 Among; the charters in the Gormanston Registe1' (Roy<tl Commission Hist. MSS., 4th Report, appendix, 583), is one of grnnts by Simon de Joinville, Jane his wife, and Geoffrey their son, in connection with the manors of Kenlis and Douenathkerny, and another of a license to Simon to transfer the latter manor and that of llfarinerston to Nicholas de Eyton.

00 These are tho three coheirs, as givon by Burke (Extinct Peerage) • . Dugdale, citing a Bodleian IIIS., adds three more, married to John Husce of Galtrim, to Walter de la Hyde, and to John Cruwys, respectively. But he makes the wife of John Cusack daughter of Nicholas. The Harl. MS. 1425, f. 12'7, gives all the first five as daughters of Nicholas, and omits the sixth.

61 There is no proof that the Sire de Miglionico was the same person as the Canon of St. Patrick's. Two sons of Geoffrey de .Toinville were named Peter, and perhaps there were two named Nicholas.

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Magneux, and Montigny-aux-Ormes (Idem, no. 751). He was living 29 Apr, 1322 (Idem, no. 792), but, 31 March 1336, Jane de Lautrec," widow of Nicholas, Sire de Miglionico and Moran­ court, and aunt of John de Joinville, Sire de Vaucouleurs, treated with Nicholas I, Count of Salm, on the subject of her claims to her late husband's property, the date of the partaqe, where she is styled Vicomtesse de Paulin, being 19 June 1338 (Idem, nos. 8i8, 890). She had been married before Feb. 1320, and was living 12 Aug. 1339 (Idem, ncs. i81, 899).

7. PE'l'ER DE J OINVILLE. He was living in 1294.41 8. WILLIAM DE JoINVILLE.41 As son of Geoffrey de Gyenville,

he received a grant, 24 .Iune 1299, on account 'of his father's services and his own, of the marriage of Matilda, youngest daughter of John Giffard of Brimslield deceased by Matilda Longespee sometime his wife also deceased, and one of the heirs of the lands which the said John held in chief by the law of England of the inheritance of tile second-named Matilda, to have the same if the lady were willing, if not, her marriage was to remain with the King (Rot. Pat., 27 Edw. I, m. 22). He was summoned 12 March 1301 (Cambridge and Huntingdon) against the Scots, to be at Berwick-upon-Tweed 24 June (Rot. Claue., 29 Edw. I, in. 13 and 12 d). Among the seigneurs of Champagne (ehatellenie of Troyes) who were summoned by Philip le Bel for the Flemish campaign in 1304, to be at Lagny 19 Apr. t Historiens de France, xxiii, 797). Styled himself Sire de Beauregard and nephew of John, Sire de Joinville, 2 Dec. 1306 (Delaborde, no. 706). He died s.p. before Feb. 1309, and in 1322, 29 Apr., his house at Beauregard was possessed by his brother Nicholas (Idem, nos, 715, 792).

9. JANE DE Jorsvn.r.s 41 married, firstly, Gerald son of Maurice son of Gemld,53 who was a minor in 1285 (Coram Reye, Edw. I, no. 90, rot. 32 d, Trinity term). She was his widow 6 May 1292 (K.R., Irixh Exchequer, 531, no. 26, m. 6-8). She married secondly, by 1294,41 John I, Count of Ober-Salm.I+ who was living the Wednesday before Letare 1326 [26 Feb. 1325/6].

62 According to Dclabordo she was daughter of Sicard do Lautrec, Vicomte, or Seignenr, de Paulin [ who lived in 1302-Anselme, ii, 354, in his account of the Vicorntes cle Lautrec in Langnedoc}; but 110 evidence is adduced for the tiliation. She is not mentioned in the pedigree of tho Vicomtes de Laubree in Vaissotc's Hist. de Lamquedoc, vi, pp. 361-366, note 22.

53 16 Dec. 1283, Geoffrey do J oinvillo, Matilda bis wife, and Peter their eldest son, acknowledged a debt of £1200 to William de Valence, for tho commission of cerbain lands in Iroland that had belonged to Maurice son of Gerald deceased, who had held of the King in chief, and for the marriage of Gerald son and heir of Maurice, nuder ago and in the wardship of William de Valence, by reason of the death of 'I'homas de Claro, to whom· the King had granted that wardship and marriage (Rot, Claue., 12 Edw. I, rn, 10 d). 10 Nov. Ul88, they had acquittance for the whole of their debt (Chancery Files, J<Mw. I, 110. 51).

54 A deed of this John, Count of Salm, dated l July 1297, was given "de consensu domine Johanne uxoris nostrc." The seals bear the legends

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(1) 10. CATHERINE DE JoINVILLE occurs as Prioress of Acornbury, Thursday the feast of the Circumcision 1_315 [l Jan. 1315/GJ.55

PETER DE J°OINVIU.1~. By charter dated at Acton Burnell, 11 Oct. 1283, Geoffrey de J oinville and Matilda de Lacy, his wife, granted to Peter, their son, and Jane, his wife, sister of the Count of La Marche, the manors of Staunton-Lacy, JI.Ialmesbulle [Mansel­ Lacy ), and \Volferlowe, with remainder to the heirs of the body of the said Peter, failing whom to the said Matilda or her heirs. They also gave him, by charter without date, their castle of Ludlow and the whole of their moiety of the town of Ludlow and of their land of Ewyas, and all their fees in England and Wales to him and the heirs of his body (Addit. :MSS. 6041, f. 37 d ; Liber Niger de Wigmore, table of contents, f. 19 d). On 4 May 1285 Peter received from the King a grant of murage for his town of Ludlow for five years from 3 1\fay, and, 18 Feb. 1290, he had a similar gmnt for three years (Rot. Pat., 13 Edw. I, m. 23, 18 Edw. I, m, 35). 27 March U84, on going to Ireland, he and his wife had letters of protection for two years, and, 27 July 1287, staying in Ireland, their attorneys were nominated fur three yearn, and, 10 Nov. 1287, on going beyond seas, for two years (Idem, 12 Edw. I, m. 14, 15 Edw. I, m. 6 and 2). He executed two deeds at Toul in Lorraine, 22 Jan. and 4 Feb. 1287/8 (Delaborde, nos. 567, 568). 17 May 1289, going beyond seas, his attorney was nominated for a year, and, staying in Ireland, he had letters of protection 9 Nov. 1291 till 6 April following, and 10 May 1292 for two yeat's (Rot. Pat., 17 Edw. I, m. 18, 19 Edw. I, m. 2, 20 J~dw. T, m. 12). Less than a month after, 8 June 20 Edw., the King's writ of diem ciaw,it extremum, tested at Berwick-upon-Tweed, issued on the death of Peter de Joinville. By inquisition taken 13 July at Ewyas­ Lacy in Wallia it was found that he had held the manor of Walter­ ston in the liberty of Ewyas: by another, at Ludlow 17 July, that he had held Staunton-Lacy and a moiety of Ludlow : and by a third, at Hereford 21 July, that ho had held Malmeshulle, and that bis heirs were, Jane, his eldest daughter, aged six on 2 Feb. 1292, Beatrice, his second daughter, aged five the same year, and Matilda, his third daughter, who would be one year old on 4 Aug. 1292. All the afore­ said manors had been held by him of Geoffrey de Joinvillc, his father, and Matilda, his mother, who themselves held of the King in chief (Inq. r.u., 20 Edw. I, no. 132). Of his children, Jane, who afterwards married Roger de Mortimer, was eventually the sole heir to her parents, the two younger daughters being nuns at Acornbury.w Their mother, Jane, daughter of Hugh XII, Count of La Marche and Angouleme, survived her husband. 24 Aug.

B. DO!,flNI lOHANNlS COMITIS DJs SALMIS and [)AMF. ll!HAXE DE Il!NVILLJ!. CONTF.sSE DE SAMES. 'I'he effigy on the latter seul holds a shield boaring the arms of Joinville, 3 brays in pale and a chief charged with a demi-lion rampant (Orig., Pro1,'inz·ial Arch-iv at Coblenz-edit. A. Fahne, Gesch. der Gr,den Z" Sal_m-Reifferscheid, 1858-66, ii, p,·euves, p. 66, no. 105: cf. p. 08, no. 150).

63 Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds i-n the Recorrl Office, i, 1800, B 532. Delaborde places her among the children of Geoffrey de Joinville, but there is nothing known of her parentage.

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1292, the escheator South of Trent was ordered not to intermeddle further with the lands that Peter de Joinville had held, nor with the issues thereof, as the King had learnt by inquisition taken by the escheator that Peter at his death had held nothing by virtue whereof the custody of his lands should pertain to the King (Rot. Claus., 20 Edw. I, m. 2).

LA MARCHE.

Huou XI, le Brim, Count of La Marche and Angouleme, Sire de Lusignan,50 was the eldest of the five sons of Hugh X, Count of La Marche, by Isabel, Countess of Angouleme, widow of King John. Born not earlier than 1221,07 he succeeded his mother in June 1246/S and his father, who was mortally wounded at the capture of Damietta, in 1249.'•\> His agreement with Alphonso, Count of Poitiers, to serve the latter in the Crusade for a year, was dated 24 June 1249.oo He died in Egypt in 1250, most probably at the battle of Mansurah, 8 Feb., or else during the retreat to Damietta, 6 Apr.61 He married, in 1236, Yolande, daughter of Peter Mauclcrc, Duke of Bretagne. Her dot was the comte of

S6 A valuable article by M. Delisle (BibL. de l'Ecole des Chortes, xvii, 1856, 537-553) makes many important corrections in the accepted genealogies of the House of Lusignan; but subsequent writers have not given this nrticle the attention it deserves.

~; His parents' marriage took place between 10 March and 22 May 1220 (Rot. Cl.m,.s., 4 Hem. III, m. 14 d , New Eoedcr«, 1, i, 160) .

ss On 2 .Tune 1246, she petitioned Louis IX to receive the homage of her sons,-" Illustrissimo et excclluutiasimo domino suo sibi reverentissimo Ludovico divina provideucia l<'rancorum regi, Hysabellis ojusdern permissione regina Anglie Engolisme et Marchio comibissa salutom . . rogans et supplicans attante et hurniliter quantum possum quatcnus filios cornit.is Marchio et meos de terra mea ad hominos vcst.ros rocipere rlignemini ... Datum apud Fontern Ebraudi anuo Domini millesimo ducenteslmo quadrazesimo sexto, sabato infra octnbas Pentecostcs " [2 June) (Orig., 'l'l'llsor des Chm·tes, J 270, no, 16, edit. J, n. A. 'l'. 'l'eulet et J, do Laborde, Lauettee ,lu Tn'•vt des Chartes, 1863-75, no. 3;523). 'l'here is i, ·i:icl~J1W,a, dated 1246, mense ju.n·io, by Hugh Bruni, Count of Augouleme, Guy rlc Lusignan, and Geoffrey de Lusignan, of the letters "karissimi patris noHtri Jlngouis de Leizcigniaco comitis Marchio et karisaime mat.ris nosbro Y subclhs hone memorie quoudam roginc Anglic" (O,·il(., 'l'n'•or <lcs Ctvirte«. J l!l2, no. 15, edit. Ten let, Ho. 3ii26). 'l'ho day of her decease wus 3 Juue uecording to the Necrology. of tho A bhey of St. J<~vroul, or 4 June 1u:conliug to those of the Abbeys of Jumieges, Lire, and l\font St. Michel (11-i,t-0riens de France, xxiii, 487, 420, 472, 578). The tl••to usually given for her death is 1245. 1,1, Paris says 1246, stating also that in 1254 Henry III had her remains removed from the cemetery into the church of Fontevranlt (edit, Luard, iv, 5H3, v, 47:'i).

o9 In the letter of an eye-witness, describing the out.ry of the Chri stiana into Damietta [6 June 124\J), it is said that "nullo ctiam vuluorato graviter de i ntrant ibus preter com itern do Marchia Hugunern Brunum, qui eliquato sanguine de vulneribus uon potest nt credimus mortem ovadere " (M, Paris, edit. Luard, vi, ,1,.PJ,l., 159, cf. v, 89).

60 Bibl, Nai.; C(J,rtnlctirc des Cvmtes de lo: Jforc.he ( Collect-ion, des Bl(J,ncs- Manleau.:v, 84c), no. 1:1,

61 "1250 [obiit] Hugo Brunus comes do Marchia, cujus pater paulo ante obiit apud Damiatam " (M. Paris, edit. Luard, v , 158). In a charter dated at Acre, July 1250, Alphonso, Count of Poitiers, mentions the services

JO!NVILLE, AND LA MARCtlE. 79 Penthievre.s'' and the seigneuries of Fere en Tardenois, Chilli, and Longjumeau.63 She died at Bouteville in Angoumois 16 Oct. 1272, and was buried in the Abbey of Villeneuve, near Nantes.'14 They had six children:-

1. HUGH XII, of whom subsequently. 2. Guv DE LusIGNAN or DE LA MARCHE,65 Seigneur de Couhe

in Poitou and de Peyrat-le-Ohateau in Limousin. In 1271/2, 10 J'an., he made a donation to the Priory of St. Martin at Couhe. 06 His will, in which he styles himself Guido de Leziniaco, dominus de Cohiec et de Peyraco et de Frontanaio,61 was dated 1..June 1309.68

3. IsADEL DE LUSIGNAN 09 married, firstly, Geoffrey VI de Rancon, Seigneur de Taillebourg, who died s.p. in Sep. 1263; and secondly,

rendered him by Hugh, Count of La Marche, who died in Egypt, and his brother, Guy, Seigneur do Cognac (Cart,,!. ,les Comtes de 1,a Marche, no. 11). The statement (F. de Corlieu, Recueit des Comtes d'Angoulesme, 1631, 87; Anselmo; L'A,·t ·de Ve,·. les Dates} that Hugh XI died in 1260 is erroneous.

62 " 1236. Data et atournata fuit Penthcvria, oxcepto Jugonio, tilio comitis de Marchia cum filia Petri comitis totius Britannic" Britannicum, in Lobiucau, Hist. de Breiaqne, 1707, ii, preuves, 361). is a charter, dated July 1247, of "Hugo Brunus comes Engolismo et domina Hiolendis uxor ejus hares et domina Pouthevrie" (Idem, ii, 388; Morice, Preuves de l'Hist. de Bretagne, 1742, i, 931).

63 A. du Chesne, Hist. ,le la Maison de Dreu», 1631, 203. 64 " Die dominica post festum beati Dyouisii [ 16 Oct. not 10 Oct.] obiit

domina Iolendis comitissa de Marchia et Engolismcnsis anno Domini MCCLxxn" (Epitaph at Villeneuve, in Morice, Hist. de B,·etagne, 1750-56, i, 149).

i;.; He and the rest of tho family called themselves de Lusignan and de la Marche indifferently.

ti6 Bibl. de Poitiers, MSS. Dom Fonteneau, xxii, 319. 67 In May 1298 Philip le Bel confirmed the exchange by which Gaucher V,

Sire de Chil.tillon, gave to Guyon de la Marche the castle and town of Frontenay in tbo diocese of Saintes for tho castlo and town of Fero en Tardonois (A. du Chesne, Maison de ChastiUon, 1621, preuves, 201). Genealogists have confused this Guy with his nephew, Guy, Ja.at Count of La Marche, assigning this transaction, as well as the possession of the scigneuries of Couhe and Peyrat, to the latter.

68 " MCCC nono, quarta die rnensis junii videlicet die mcrcurii ante festum bcati Barnabe apostoli" (Orig., 1're.Jior de Charies, J 407, no. 14. Confirmation by Philip lo Bel, Oct. 1309, Archives Nat., JJ 41, no. 123, f. 74 d, and JJ 42 B, no. 122, f. 62 d-edit. Archives hist. du Poito,., xi, 1881, no. 29). In it he says "Sepulturam meam eligo in ecclesia Fratruru l'redicatorum de Pictavis, scilicet ante majus altare ipsius ecclesio, cum simili sepultura et tunba que facta fuit pro fra.trc meo in abbacia de Valencia."

69 Genealogists (Anselmo, Delisle, eto.) confuse her with her aunt Isabel, daughter of Hugh X, by stating that the latter was mnrr'ied firstly to Geoffrey do Itanccn. In 1267, "in festo sancti Barnahe apostoli" (11 June], " Mauricius do Bellavilla dominus Gauaspie et Moutisaeuti " did homage to the Bishop of Angoulcme for the fief of Maroillac "nomine Hisi>bollis de Marchia uxoris nostro, quod fcodum spectat ad dictam uxorem nostra.m ex causa donacionis propter nupcias eidom facto a domino Gauffrido de Ranconio quondam marito suo nunc deffuncto" (Bulletin de la Soc. archeol. d~ la Charente, rn, ii, 1860, p. 307, no. 1, from the Departmental Archives, G, Fonds de !'Eveche, 25). Isabel, daughter of Hugh X, married Maurice IV, Sire de Craon in Anjou, who was buried in the Abbey of Bellebranche "die vcueris post octabas Pentecosten (27 May] MCC quinquagesimo r " she <lied bis widow 14 Jan. 1299/1300, and was buried in the Chapel of Craon in the Church of the Cordeliers at Angers (A. Bertrand de Broussillon, La Mai,on de Craon, 1893, i, 171, 185, 229).

Hugoni (Chron. There

80 THE FAMILIES 0~' LACY, GENEVA,

Maurice de Belleville, Seigneur de Montaigu and la Garnache, who died in 1277. She is mentioned as living, in the will of her brother· Guy,70 in 1309, and in that of her niece Yolande, Dame de Pons, i2 Aug. 1314. She died s.p.

4. MARY J>R LUSIGNAN married Robert de Ferrers, who succeeded his father as Earl of Derby, 24 March 1253/4 (M. Paris, edit. Luard, ,., 431). In 124-9, 25 Oct., the King gave to Robert de Ferrariis, eldest son of William, Earl de Ferrariis, in frank marriage with Mary, the King's niece, .£100 per annum to he received at the exchequer by Robert and Mary and the heirs of their bodies (Rot. Ch(l,rt., 33 Hen. III, m. 1). 8 Aug. 1254, the King made known that he had given Huyoni de Lezlqnano .filio Huqoni« quondam comitis Jfarchic fratris nostri the residue of a fee of 400 marks-from which 150 marks had been taken for the marriage of Robert, son and heir of Wilham, late Earl of Derby, to whom the King had married Mary, sister of Hugh ·--namely 250 marks per annum at the exchequer, in the same manner as the said Count, his father, was wont to receive this fee entire, until the King should have provided Hugh with 250 marks of land from his lands or cscheats, And if Mary should die without heir of her body, then Hugh should receive the whole fee of 400 marks (Rot. Pat. et Cart. Vnscon., 38 Hen. III, pars 2, m. 9). Mary de Lusignan <lied s.p.

5. .AI.lCF. DE LuswNAN 71 married Gilbert de Clare, who succeeded his father as Earl of Gloucester and Het'tford l 4 July 1262 (Chronicle of 'l'wJkt;~bnry, in New Monasticon; ii, 61 ). Ry an agreement made in 1252, the Saturday after St. Hilary [18 Jan. 1252/3], between A. elect of Winchester and Sir William de Valence, his brnther, on the one part, and Si1· Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, on the other part, the Eal'I granted to A. and \V. the marriage of Gilbert de Clare, his son and heir, HO that Gilbert should contract matrimony with Alice, their niece, daughter of Hugh le Brun, sometime Count of La Marche and Angoulerne, their brother; and for this marriage A. and \V. owed the Earl 5,000 marks: the espousals to take place immediately afte1· the arrival of the damsel on the demand of A. and \V. at the Easter next after the making of

ro Ho made "sororon, rneam domiuatn Hysabellim de Leziniaco, clominam de Bclvorio supra mare et do Qucrniquiors " one of his executors. Hcauvnir­ su r-Mer and Cnm moquicrs were her dowry from her second marriage (llon.uchot­ Filleau, Fnmille» d,1, Poit.ou., i, 1891, 427). She occurs in the Ol.im, i, f. 187 d (edit. Beugnob, 1839-42, i, 872) in 1271 as " uxor domiui Ma.nricii ,le Bella­ Villa fllia primugenita cornitis et comit.isso Marchio,"

11 Genealogists, both English and French, all make the erroneous statement that she was daughter of Guy do Lusignan, Seigneur de Cognac, Merpins, and Archiac, second son of Hngh X, the nuthorlty, either expressed or understood, being !II. Paris. '.l'his writer (edit. Luard, v, 364) states that Henry III proposed to :p;arl Richard as wife for Gilbert, his S01l, "fili:1.m Guidonis cornitis Engolistni fratris moi uterini," where the only mistake is the, perhaps accidental, substitution of G,iirlom:., for II1i,wnis. In a collection of genealogies drawn up between the yoars l 278 and 1284 it is correctly stated that one of the daughters of Hugh XI "fut mariee an seigneur de Belleville, et I'autrc print a· femme Ii queus de Clocestre" ( Chron, attribuieti to Baldw.in d'Avesnes, in Monmneuta Germ. Hist., Scripiores, xxv, 436).

JOINYILLE, AND LA .MARCHE. 81

this deed. And if by default of Alice or her friends the marriage should remain uncelebrated at Michadmas 1255, none the less the sum of 5,000 marks was to he paid. If Gilbert on attaining the age of fourteen or under should in his father's lifetime by himself or hi,; friends refuse to celebrate the marriage, then all sums hitherto received together with 2,000 marks by way of damages and interest were to be repaid to A. and W., and to the lady Hyulenda, Countess of La Marche and Angouleme. But if Gilbert should refuse the maI'!'iage after his father's death, Alice was to have £200 of L11I1d to be held by her during her life for bet· dower and support, by grant of the said Earl ; and A. and W. and the Countess of La Mareh« and Angouleme were to have £300 of land to be held by them for their lives in recompense for the said payment of 5,000 marks (lnspeximu.s and coufu-ma­ tion thereof, elated 5 Feb. 1255, entered on Rot. (lart., 39 Hen. III, m. 8). Alice de Lusignan died s.p.

6. YoLA:Sl>E Dis Lusroxxx, married before Feb, 127 4-/5,i2 Peter, Seigneur de Pr1~11ux in Normandy, She died 10 Nov. 1306, and he 30 Sep. 1311, according to their epitaphs in the Priory of Beaulieu, near Rouen."" Huon XII, Count of La Marcho and Angouleme, Sire de Lusignan.

In 1257, 22 Sep., he made known by his charter that Alphonso, son of the King of France, and Count of Poitiers and Toulouse, had received him in -liege homage, qiuniquam. noudum. ad etatem. leyitimam per­ oeniseemncs : sureties, his mother, Yolande, Countess of La Marche and Angouleme, and his uncle, Guy de Lusignan, Seigneur de Cognac.7t He died in the expedition to Tunis, about the same time as Louis IX, that is, in Aug. 1270.75 He married, at Fuugeres in Bretagne, 29 Jan. 12.5:3/4, Jane, only <laughter and heir of Ralph, Seigneur de Fougere1,,76 by Isabel, daughter of Arnaury I, Sire de Craon. Her will was dated 20 May 1269.77 She survived her

;z 0/.im, ii, f. 26 d (orlit. Bcugnot, ii, 55). ;a tuu. Nat., MSS. Dupuy, 805, f. 132; G. A. do la Roque, Mui~on de

Harcourt; 1662, ii, 1693. il "MCt:LVII die sabbati post fcstum Beati Mathei a.postoli et euvungulistc "

(22 Sep.) (Orig., Treso,· des Charles, J 192, no. 2\l, edit. Laborde, no. 4372). rs Ohron. attribntccl to Baldnoin. cl'Awsnes (llfon11.menta Germ. Ilist., Scriptores,

¥XV, 46a); Ormul Chron. of Limoges iHietoriene d<l Prance, xxi, 776); Ohron. of the ]lfoyors and Sheriffs of J,o.,,don ( Camden Soc.), 133.

;r, " }!(;CT,!IT, iv kalondas Fubruarii, Hugues conics Marchie desponsavit Johannam un icam filiam Radulfi du mini F'ulguriururn , in clicto cast.ro " ( Chron. of the Abbey of Savigny in Historien« de Ertznco, xxii i, 585). n "Lo lundi empres Jes vitieves de la Pauthccoste ou mois do mai (20 May

not 28 May] Ian cle nostre segnor MCC c aessantc et nuef " (Orig., 'l'reso,· des Cbartee, J 400, no. 3, copy penes me). In it she mentions her place of sepulturo, "laquele je eslis en laba.hie de Savigue en lnvesquo d' Avranches en Iaquele mis liguage gist." She had made this selection when yet unmarried:­ " Urrivcrais presoutes littoras inspect.uris Johanna. unica fi:ia nobiliurn parentum Radulfi doruin i ~'ulgeriarurn et Ysahelle uxoris cjus, sulutcm in Domino ... Volo igitur et desideranti animo precipio quod ubicuruquo contingerit me vita.m ti nire, amici mei facia.nt corpn8 meum Savigneimn cfferi et ibidem inter nobiles de cognatione mea sepeliri. Actum anno Domini Meer. tercio, die Sa.ncti Thome archiepiscopi et martyris" (29 Dec.] (Orig., 1frchives de la Manche, Fonds Savigny-edit. Bertrand de Broussillcn, as iu note 69, i, p. 197, no. 286 bis).

82 LACY, GENEVA, JOINVILLE, AND LA MARCHE.

husband.I" by whom she had six children :-

1. 2.

HUGH XIII, }of whom subsequently. Guy or GurARD,

3. YOLANDE DE LUSIGNAN, born 24 March 1257 ;79 married, firstly (papal dispensation 8 June 1267),so Helie-Rudel I, Sire de Pons in Saintonge. His wills were dated 31 Dec. 1283 and 20 Aug. 1290,Sl in which year he died. She married secondly, by contract dated the Tuesday after St. Hilary 1295 (17 Jan. 1295/6], Robert, Seigneur de Matha in Saintonge. His will was dated the Saturday after St. Nicholas [II May] 12!J7, and he died about 1303.(SO) Her wills were dated 1 Dec. 1289 s2 and 12 Aug. 1314,SJ with a codicil 29 Aug. 1314; 82 in the last two documents she styles herself Hyolendis de Lezinqhiaco, comitissa Jfarchie et Enyol-i.mie, dominaque Fulyeria1'nm et de Poutesio, She died the Monday befoi·e the Nativity of the Virgin (2 Sep.] UH4 (Anselme, iii, 80). Her second marriage was childless.

4. MARY DE LusIGNAN, married, in 1288, Stephen II, Count of Sancerre, who died the Monday before Pentecost [16 May] 1306. She obtained as dower, 23 May 1306, the seigneuries of Meillaut, Charenton, and Le Poudy, in Berry, from her husband's brother and successor, John II. She died s.p. (Anselmo, ii, 850-851).

;), JANE DE LUSIGNAN, of whom subsequently.

6. Isxnet, D~: Lusroxxr., a nun at Fontevrault, to w horn her aunt Isabel, widow of Maurice do Belleville, made a donation the Monday after Jubilate (29 Apr.] 1303 (Anselme, iii, 80).

(To be contin.•icd.)

•" 1t is stated in the Olim, i, f. 185 (edit. Beugnot., i, 8fi4), that, "Mortu.o domino rcgo Ludovico et cornite Engolisrnonsi similiter mortuo in partibua trans­ muriuis, scncscaltus Petragoriceusia saisivit castrurn BngDlismense et recepit jnrameutu hominum civit.atis J<;n~olismensis," and that the relict of the said Count obtained the revocation of these acts, for herself and her children, in the Parliament hclrl at Pentecost ] 2i l. The year 1282 is given Ly Corlieu, and repeated hy Anselmo and others, for the death of Hugh XII, hut this statement is certainly crroucous.

i\1 " MCCJ,VJI [ 0Ji11.s VI) i11 vig ilin dorninioe Annuntiationia [24 March} uata est Ynlcut filin pri rnogcuitu Hug-onis comitis Marchio et Engolisme de uxore sua Jolmnna" (01mm. of S,wiyng, as in note 76, 586). 'I'ho feast of the A ununcia tion was on Sunday in 1257.

"" J. B. P. J11llien <le Courcelles, Hist .. tles Pair» de France, 1822-33, iv, De Pons, 26, and v, De Mn/has, 1.2. "' "In vigilia. nutivltatis virginis Marie [31 Dcc.] Mccr,x:xx torcio " and

"<lie dominiea ante fcstum beati Bartholornci [20 Aug.] MCC nonagesimo" ( Orig., Cart"lary of Puns in the archives of the due des Cars-edit. A1·chit·c~ hisi, de ia Saint.onge, xxi, 1892, nos. 11 and 16, the latter in a vidcmus of 5 Jan. 1291). His earliest will, dated 26 May 1281, is lost .

..-i "Die jovis ante festum boati Nicholay hycmalis [L Dec.) ~ICC octogosimo nano" and "<lie jovis post festurn beati Bartholomei npostoli [29 Aug.} MCCC quartodecimo " (Orig., Cartul-ro·y of Pons as above, nos, 14 and 32).

83 Bibl, Nat., MSS. Dupuy, 805, f. 93; Bibi. de Poitiers, MSS. Dom Fonteneau, i, f. 331. In it she gave directions that she should be buried in the Church of the Dominicans at Pons.

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THE FAMILIES OF LACY, GENEVA, JOINVILLE, AND LA MARCHE.

BY G. w. WATSOI",.

(Continued from p. 82)

Hunn XIII, le Brun, Count of La Marche and Angouleme, Sire de Lusignan and Fougeres, was born 25 June 1259. 84 He married, before 8 July 1276, BeiLtrice,8:i daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy. Being childless, in his will dated 24 May 1283,86 he made liis brother Guiard his heir, si il avenoit que nos murrons sanz her descendant de nostre cors de . nostre femme. Subsequeutly the brothers quarrelled on the subject of the division of their parents' property. Hugh was successful in the litigation which followed.s/ By another will, 12 June 1297, he disinherited

a., "MCCLIX in crastino Nativitatis sancti Johannis Baptiste (25 June] natus est ll ugues fllius vrimogcnitus H agues comitis Murchie et Johanne uxoria sue, et obiit MCCC:lll in mcuse Novembris" (Chi-on. of Savigny, as in note 76, 586).

ss In his will, elated "die lune ante festum beati Michaelis" [26 Sep.) 1272, hor father directed that she should have £20,000 tou.,.,w·is "in dotem seu marit11giu11,, qnus solver quicumquo fuerit Dux Hurgundie." Ily charter, "le rnecredy en pros Jes octcvos Jes Apostres Seinot Pere et Scinct Pol" [8 July] 1276, Tlugh lo Br nu ,wd Beatrice his wife a.greed to accept, in lieu of the £20,000, £6,000 from her half-brother Duke Hobert, and £9,000 from her mother Beatrice and her brother Hugh, together with £500 of rent a tornois. In 1292/3, "le dimencho empres la feate do !11 Chandelour" (8 FcL.), Duke Robert, had ,1cqnitta11cc for tlm £6,000 (Planuhur, Hist. de Hcmrgogne, .1739-81, ii, p,·eu,,es, nos. 78, se, iat , cf. nos. S5, 109, 138, 161,167,184). According to the Chronicle of St. Mart.ial at Limoges (edit. H. Duplcs-Agier, 1874, 174; Historiene de b'rance, xxi, 803), ")!CCLXX\'£ mcnse august.i, Hugo Bruni comes Marchio filia.m ducis Burgundio ducit in uxorem Pnriaius et eam securn adducit in Marchi»m."

"" " Le Iuudi avant la feste de lasccnssion [24 May] Lan de grace mil dons cenz quatrs vinz e trays" ( Orig., Tresor des Charte«, J407, no. 5. Copy penes me).

s; "Cum mota esset discordia in tor dilectos noatros comitem Marchio ex una parte et Guiardum fratrem suum ex altera, super eo quod dictus Guiarclns petebat aaisinam rnedietatia seu tulis portionis pront ratio dictat terrarurn et heredi­ tagiorum que sibi dcscen<lerunt per mortem domini Hugonis le Brun quondam comitis Marchie ot Engolismi et <lomine Johanne uxoris sue patris et matris predictorum cumitis et Guiardi, ratione frcragii tanquam filio et heredi. Comes aaserebat in coutrarium quod debebat absolvi ot Iiborari a dicta petitione pro eo quod puter dicti comitis et dicti Guiardi in sua ultima voluntate fecit et ordinavit dicto Guiardo filio suo certam portionem seu nvisium seu appanarrium rnt ione succcssionis tcrrarum et hereditagiorum patria sui filio contingentis, scilicet mille libras annui rodditus pro toto jure suo quod habebat et habern potorat in dicta successione." The Parliament, held at All Saints 1298, pronounced that Guiard should be content with the £1,000 per annum, saving his right "in bonis materrris seu successione materna " (Bibl. Nat., Fonds Latin, 10010, f. 43 d, and 11826, f. 38 d-edit. E. Boutaric, Actes du. Parlement de Paris, 186a.67, i, p. 463, no. 928).

164 THE FAMILIES OF LACY, GENEVA,

Guiard in the most complete manner, heir Geoffrey de Lusignan.t" in default Renaud de Pons,t•o and lastly Amaury

naming as his universal Aimar de Valence, so then de Craon.v'

En norn <l011 pere c dou Jll e dou saint esperit amen. Nos Hugue le brun conte de la. rnarohc e dcngoksme e segnor de h'augieres sains de oors o do saine ponsec e de bone momoire regardans a Ja, saiu de nostre arnc foysons e ordencms nostre testumcnt ou clerreayne voloritc en ceste maniere. Oest aasavoi r quo pnnniere1no1tt on upres sil avenolt que nos morissone sanz hnyr deccudunt <le nostrc char de leal ma.riage la quele chose [a deu no playse ::-r os fuisons e esta.blissons nostre heritier de toute nostre terre en quecumque Jou e en quecumque pays que clc soit nostre chier cousin Geffroy de Leziguen sauvo " cxceptez nos conquez des queus nos ordenons ci dcssouz en eestui nostre testament on derrene volonte. E sil avenoit q ue por droit escrit ou par usage on par costume de pays Ji devaut diz Geffroy nostre cousin no poust estre nostre heritiers en touz nos biens ensit cum est

SS Geoffrey de Lusignan I, Seigneur de Jarnac in Snintonge, Chil.teauncuf in Angomnois, Chit.eau-Larcher and Le llois-Ponvrcau in Poitou, and Ste. Hermine in the vicorntf of 'I'houurs, was third son of Hugh X, Count of La. Marche. Henry III had given him .t:500 of land in 'Ireland. Hut after Ireland had been conferred on Prince Edward, tbo latter by charter dated 6 ~ov. 1256 gave to Geoffrey, in exchange, Wighton, co. Norfolk, Panton, co. Lincoln, and Laught,on-en-le-:-.-Torthen, co. York, valued at £160 per annum, the manor of Louth and Oa,trwn Fro·11.-nc in Ireland, valued at £140 per annum, and also £200 per annum to he pa.i<l >tt the New Temple, London (In11pe-ximus and eonfirmation thereof, 8 Nov. 12(;6, entered on Rut. Cort., 4l Hen. UI, m. 13). Geoffrey I died between June 1272 and March 1274/5, leaving by his wife Jn.nc, daughter of Aimery II, Vicomte de Chil.tcllernult in Poiton (an<l heiress of her In-othor John, who dierl s.p, hetwi,en 1287 and 1290) two children, (1) Gooffrny ll, the person mentioned in the toxt, who married Perrounellc, claug;hter of Hen ry IV, Sire de Sully {she mat-rind secondly John JI, Count of Drcux), n.nd died s.p., vitf, matris, betweP.n 1G Oct. 1305 and l ~ov. 130G (Rot. 1'11t., :33 ~dw. I, pars 2, m. 8, :H Edw. I, m. 3), and (2) Eustache (di,•<l 1330), heiress of },er brother, who married Drcnx de Mollo, Scignnur dB l'Orme and ,le Ubittca.u-Chino11 (died ll3 Apr. 131.0), and was mother of another Drenx de Mello, who died in 1318 (wrtt of diem do.11,.s-it emtr"1n-nm dated 15 Apr.-Inq. P.llI., 11 F,dw. II, no. 45), leaving two daughters, J1H1e and Margaret, l,alf-sist••rs, the former of whom married Ralph de Brlanne, Count of Eu, whose Rnglish ostntcs were taken into the King's hand before 20 July 1.337, on account of his udberence to t.he l'rench King; Wight,on anri Laughton beirur granted, 3 Oct .. following, to Henry of Laucastcr (Bot. Pat., 11 F,,lw. Ill, pars ll, rn, 23, pars 3, m. 26). Neither Geoffrey I nor Geoffrey II was ever Vicombe de Ch1ltellnrn.ult, and those who fall into the error of so styling them, such us Dn Chesne, La Roque, Ansclme, etc., n.nd also Mr. Chester Waters in his Oownts uf J<J,;, confuse them with another Gentfrey de Lusignu.n, Seigneur de Vouvent and Mervenb in Poitou, somet ime (1224-1238) Vicomt.e de Ch1ltellerault in right of his wife Clemence. Jn,ne (died 25 or 26 May 1312·), widow of Geoffrey I, married John, Sire d'Harcourb, who died 21 Dec. 1302, and her unly son by this marriage inherited the vicomte of Uhiltellcrault (Bcanchet-Fillean, as in note 70, ii, :n9, Y.:cumtes de Ohl!.te/l.era:11.lt.).

89 Aimar, afterwards Earl of Pembroke, gmndson of Hugh X. so Renaud, son and heir of Yolande de Lusignan, Dame de Pons. 91 Amaury IH, Sire de Craou, son of Maurice V (who died 10 or 11 Feb.

1292/3), son of Maurice IV, by Isabel <le Lusignan, daughter of Hugh X. Re was hereditary seneschal of Anjou, Touraine, a ntl Maine, and also scneschal of Aquitaino for the F.nglish King from 131a to 1322 (Rot. Ya.,con., 6 Eilw. II, m. 3 [5 July], and Rut. Hom, et Framc., 15 Edw. II, m. 10 (14 .Apr.)). He died 26 Jan. 1332/3 (Bertrand de Broussillon, as in note 6H, i, 229, 230).

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desus <lit Nos volons comandons e ordenons qne ii hait le - tierz de toute nostre ten·c come heribiers ou come donatayres en la mauiere que il chosiru que ii voudru e qui plus li playra e qui plus Ji porru vuloir por le quel tier, ~ os li assignons e ballous e li vrons e volon s qne li diz Geffroy hait touto uostre Conte deugolesme e Jes chastenus et Jes ohustclenies <le Compuac e de Merpins e de Leziguen ou tuuz Jes droiz oub toutes les rentcs c lea apartincuees de la dite Conte e des diz chasteaus lea queus chasteaus nos ne volons mie que Ii soient conte en rente excepts totes voies e retenn nostre Lois dou detleus de colombier le quel nos volons e oornandons r1uo soit venduz por la men de nos executors por fere e por aoomplir lexecucion de nostra tcst.a-meut. Ji] si ensit est-oit que Jes choses desns dites ne sottisoient au tierz <le nostre tcrrc Nos volons e comandons que ce qui eu deffaudra Ji soit a,ssis au pins pres des leucs dasus <liz. E volons e ccmandons e crdenon s que rncritenan t enprcs nostre deces Ii diz Geffroy entre en la foy e ous Lomma.ges qui sunt deuz por rayson de la conte e des chasteaus e des chastelenies dcsus elites excepts sauve e retcnu les rentes les profiz les parchaiz Ies cssnes queue queles seront ou estre porront les queles choses nos volons e eomandons que soient levees prises e receues par la men de nos executors on par cenus quil mctront en !or leu checone annee enterinemeut tant qnH uost.ro prosenz testament soit acompli e enterinez. Eucures volons comandons e ordouons qoe nostre fomo Bietriz ha.it son doayre enterinement en la forme e en la maniere qui fu parlc e orde no quant li ma-riage fu porparlo rle rnoi c d1J Ii sauve ratcnu e excepto Ies chasteaus qui furent exceptuz e Jes autres chcscs qui en furent exceptees si cum ii est contenu en letrcs certanes faites sur lea covenances don dit mariage. E volons e comandons que ele soit oonterite dou dit doayre ni ne puyssc plus riens demander en coutc nostre torre. Dereohief volons comandons e ordenons que Guyart de la mare-he HO tiene por paez de tout sanz ricns pins avoir de toute nostre terre e de tout-c nostro succession de mil Ji vres de rente les qneles nostro sires uostre J><>re de cuy dex hayt lame Ii Iaysa en son tcstamont en sa terre e de la porveance que ii doit havoir en la- torre qui fu do nostro darno de mere solonc lasage e la costume de la contc ou duche de Bretagne o segont lassise le conte Geffroy de Bretagnc. E volons co­ ma-ndons o ordcnons qne en touz nos bicns e en toutc la- succession de nos bieus mobles on non moblcs Ji diz Guyart no pnysso riens demander ne havoir anz len metons fora don tot fors <JUB Ies choses desus dites E maemement come ii so soit maloment e muuvexement, touz [ors portez enver nos e ha-it porchaico e encore porchaice a tout son poer e plusors foiz le darnache do nostre oors e de 110s biens e bait cate aidablcs e consentauz non denement o mauvayscrneut a nus enemis mortcus e onpitcus cont.re 110s publiaument c notoyrcmcnt o en autres manieres. Encores volons comaudons e ordenons que Ji diz Geffroy de Lezignen hayt e preue sexante mile livres de torucis une foiz paees os autres biens nostres non moubles ail avenoit que Ii diz Gnya-rt Jes deust havoir ou les eust par acune maniere cen que nos ne creons mie ne no volons por Jes raysoue desna elites des queles sexante mile livres nos volons comandons e ordenons qne Ji diz Gcffroy de Lczignen paheit o bauge Ji. maite a nos execut.ors por acomplir noatre testament, por la salu de nost.re ame e lautre maite nos donons au dit Geffroy. E oestes la-yses e dons nos f'aisons au <lit Geffroy por Jes granz bicns e por les gra.us honors e por Jes grans services quc Ii pore don dit Gcffroy nostre cousin oest assavoir mon sour G-effroy de de Lozignen fit a uostre segnor nostrc pore jadis son nevouf dunt nos nos tenons por obligez au dit Gcffroy nostre cousin hcretier dou dit mon sour Geffroy e por la norroture e por les gram: Liens que celny mon sour Gefl'roy nos fit dunt nos Ii estions mult t,enu e au siens e por les granz biens e por Jes gr:tnz honers e por lea granz services qao celuy mosrne Geffroy ha fait a nos e por cause de mort. De Rcchief nos volons cornaudons e ordenons quo se li diz Guyart Jiar raison poust riens havoir <le nostre terre outres Jes dosus dites mile livros quc nostre sire nost-re pere Ii laysa. e la proveance quo ii doit havoir en la t-Orre qui fn de nostre dame de mere la quele chose nos ne creons pas no nc volons Nos no volons 11as que Ii diz Guiart en prene riens ne nait ni ne se joysse de la dite terre ne des

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chasteaus ne des rentes ne des profiz ne des essues quauconques que eles soient ou puyssenb ou doivent osbre ne "" face hornmages ne ne recoyve ne nayt riens en Ja. dite torre ne de nostre domayne devant que au <lit Gcffroy nostre cousin soit fait plcnicrs paemenz c enterins des dites sexante milu Iivres en Ju, muniere desus dito p;.r les meus de nos au moniers Jes queus nos volons que ticngnent c cxplectent e liovent touto nostre terrc e domayuo rentes profiz e essues quccouqucs que oles soyent ne en que­ conque Ieu ne en queconquo segnorie que eles soyent devanz que les dites sexante mile livres suiout paces c qne uostre testament suit acompliz e paoz enterinoment sanz rious lnyser. Ji~ :.1 cc fore cnt.eriner o acoruplir- nos volons que li diz Guyart soit contrenz e 1,:u·forcez par uostrc segnor le Roy do france on par son co mandemaut si Ii autros sognors des queus nos tenons nostro tcrre estoient ueglige1u de Ii' purforcer a lenteriner e acomptir sil avenuit quo ii deust avoir ou oust riens de nostre terre par ray sou excepte les mil livres desus dites cc quo uos no croons pas no nu volons. Kc ne volous pas qua por la donoyson des sexunte mile livres desus dites riens amenuyse des autres dons e layses que nos havons fait ou f'erons on cestuy nostrc testament. l~ costcs institucion Nos faisons au <lit Gcffroy e a son heyr descendant de su char de leal mariago por cause de rnort. E sil avenuit que Ii diz Geffruy uiorust sanz heyr do sa char de leal mariage Nos volons comandons e ordenons 11ue lavaut elite institucion d011s e layscs vengent en mcsme maniere a nostrc clricr cousin Ay rnar de Valence e a ses hoyrs desecudanz de sa char do lonl maringe. }1 sil avenoit quo Ii diz Aymar morust sauz heyr do sa char de, Ieul nw.ri.-,_ge Nos volons comaudons e ordcuons que toutcs Jes choses dcvuut <.lit,Ps en mcsrno maniere vingcnt a noscre chier ncvuuf Hcnant do Ponz e a, ses lwvrs <loscondanz de si,. char de Ieal mariage, E ail avonoit 11ue li devunt d iz Jlc,11u,11t rnorust sanz heyr de sa char de leal mariage Nos volons ordenous u cotnandons IJUO toutes les choses devant dites en mcsmc maniere vengout a, nustre cousin Arnauri de Crcon e a, ses heyrs <leconda.nz tie sa char <le Ical mariagc. B volons ordeuons e comn.ndons si forrneme nt cum nos poonR que lcs devant dites instibucions ou subst.ituclous dons e layses Ii devanz diz Geffroy Aymar Renaut o Amaurr-i e chescons ,le ccaus huyent en la ma.niere desus dite por droit de layse ou por dunoison Iaitc por cause do mort ou por donoisun fnitc entro vis si l pnet valoir en costo ruanicre ou pa.r celc voye ou par cele maniere que porra. valoir por droic P~eript ou non escr ipt civil ou canon ou par constume ou par usage do te rru ou de pa .. y8. Ji: so il ne vaut en tout 11ue ii vallc en cole partie quc vuloir porr.L 1J duvra de droit ,le costume e dusnge. l~ncOl'CS volons comandous e orrlonous quo Kil avonoit que nos morissons sanz heyr do nostre char de li,al rnariag-" quu nostres ohiures scrors dame Johanuc fume [adis de mon sour Pierru de Gcnvile e dame Mario Contesxe de Ba.nCf.!lltTc hn.yent en Icritage de nostrc chicr pero e de noatro chierc mere duut <lox hrtit Jes armes tcl druit e tclo part.ie come droit o costume de terrc lor donra 11011 cnnstrestunt, pa.rtie 011 appanumcnt friit de pore o do mere ou autr cs covcunuces faytE~s eutrc nos o efo~ quelcs 11uo eles soieut ou de sayrouront 1111 d,u1t.re.s al iauces sauvo Iinstitucion do uostre heriticr si cum ii nst dcsus di t la. •tuelo nos volons comandons e ortlenons que demore en sa force. Eucorc~ nos clunons e laysons a uostre chiero niece ma. damn Hyolent de Penz fume mon sour F'ouqnes de Mnstaz cine milu livres en acresscrneut de son muriace los quclos nos volons que Ii soient puces par la men do nos executors 8i oles ncstoiont paces avant nostre decea par nos ou par nostre com andemarrt. Encores nus douons et laysons qni nos dolt avcnir de nostru chierc unto ma dame Hysabeau jadis dame de bole Vile l<1ncores 110~ d<mons c Jaysous a uostro chicre seror Hys»beau. nunen de fout ebrn.ut Encores nos laysons por la salu de nostro arum a fabbayo ,le \T:Llcnce en laquc!e nos eslyons nostre scpoult,nrc qnant n. uostre curs soukmllnt ,p1inze livres de rcnte on nouf viuz e qninzc livres en deniers uu Jun uu !ant.re lequel plus voudront nostre executors por achntor la 1lite reute en Nos fie, por fore cheseon an uostre anuivllrsayre e pur estahlir un frere qui celobrera por la salu de nostre a.me e de nos ancossu1·s. E a.11s freros 1nenors dcngolesme E ans freres precheora de oeluy mesrue lcu eu liglieso d0sqneus Nos volons

JOINVILLE, AND LA MARCHE. 167 que uostre cuers soit enterrez honoreement davant le maistre auter don quel leu nos volons cstre fondeor e patrons cine ceuz livres .de t~rnuis une foiz 1»wes lcsquelos nos vulons ,pie soieut por fere le premier civoyre de lour yg-liese ou Ies uutres ovres uecessaires e que Ji freres nus soicnt tenuz . . . Encorus nos laisons a nostre chier cousin Geffroy de Lczigneu desns nnme cine mile livres por alcr por noa 0 por la salu de nostre arne en la sainte tcrro doutremer au premier passage qui sera en tele maniere que nos volona que des ditcs cine mile livres il hayt cine cenz livres por soy e des quatre mile livres e cine cenz qui remanent que il mayne an soy quinzo chevaliers por demorer am li An la dite sainte terre un an. E ai ensi eatoit que Ii diz Gcffroy ni vousist ou ni poust aler nos laysons Jes dites cine mile Jivres en cele mesme maniere e en colo mesmo condicion a mon sour Fouques de Mataz nostre nevouf. E si ensi estoit cine li diz mon sour Fouquea ni vousist ou ni poust aler nos laysons les ditcs cine mile livres en oele mesme maniere a nostre ame chevalier 111011 sour Aymori darcbiuc. E si ensi estoit que Ii diz mon sour Aymeri 11i vousist on n i poust aler nos laysons Jes dites cine mile livres [en ccle mes me maniere J a mon sour Jordayn de lobort nostre chevalier. E si ansi estoit que Ii d iz mon sour Jordayn ni vousist ou ni poust aler nos laysons Jes dites cine rn ile Iivrns eu cele mesme maniere a nostre chevalier mon sour Guillaume de Gunetinea. E si ensi estoit que li diz mon sour Guillaume ni vonsist ou ni poust aler Nos laysons Jes dites cine mile livres en cele mesme manicro a nostre chcvnlier mon sour Pierre Costantin. E si ensi estoit que l i cliz mon sour Pierre Costanbin ni vouaist, ou ni poust aler nos lay sons les dite s cine mile Iivres en cele mesrne maniere a nostre chevalier mon sour Bochart de Cornaf'ou. E si ensi estoit que Ji diz mon sour Bochart ni vousist ou ni poust alcr Nos volons comandons e ordenons que nos executors ci desouz nomez ou li quatro ou Ii trois ou Ii dons deaus on cil que ii laysoront en lour Iouc so ii avenoit que aucons deaus morust puyssent eslyere un chevalier seuffisant por fore Jc voyage en la maniere e en la condicion desus d ite, Encores nos sopplions a I» Real auteco nostre segnor le Roy de france quu il soit garderres c doffenderres o parfuysierres e acomplissierrcs de cestui nostro testament ordenanco ou dcrrierc volonte J,; que ii face gardor e ten ir en passiblc possession nos executors desouz nnmez de touz nos Liens mouhles e non rnoublcs queus q. ii soient e en queuconque leuc que il soiont jnsque a tant qun cestui nostre testament soit aeompli o entcrine en la forme e on la maniere desus nomee. J<J so il avenoit <jUO aucons de nos horetiers moist empechement qne costui nostre testament ou derriere volunte ne fnst. acomplie astivement cnsi corn est deans ordeno Nus donons au dit nostre seg-nor le ltoy do fruneo a pcrpctuautcs nost.re chastal de Challi oh toutes SAS apnrbinences si cnsi cstoit qun nos murussons sanz heyr de nostre char de leal mariagc c autremont non E so ii fait acompli r sanz delay e sa.nz dernoree ccstui nostre toata.mont on derrinre volonte e se ii fait tenir nos executors dcsonz nomoz en paisible possession de touz nos Liens mobles e non moliles cnsi cum est desns dit c autrcrnent non. Dorechief nos volons cornnudona e ordeucns que touz 110s couquestz q uou quc part quo il soient ou en queuconquo leu c en quouconque scjznor'iu quc il suicnt soient venduz tautoat enpres nostre mort por In men de nos executors e lo pria que il en huuront soienf mis pur acorn plir cestui nostre testament ou derriere volonte . . . . J,; de ccstui nostro testament on derriere volorite faisons e establissons nos executors Jes honorahles peres en den les evesques dengolesme de Renes e de Xainctes e nos a.me:-. e f'caus le Raiccor 011 le prior des freres prcscheours dengolcsme e le gardicn des f'rores menors dcngolosrne quicouques soienf par · celuy tens e ·1e N oblo home, rnon sour Guy do la marcho segnor de coyer Nost.re chier uncle o mon sour Pierro Faure nossre chappelen e maistre Gnillanme l<'aure e ma,istre Pierre Rouleau nostres clercs e freres Bos clclille de lordro dos proschcors e mon sour Aymeri darchiac chevalier.

Done e fait ou moys de juyn le rnecredl cmpres la f'este de saint Barnabe Iapostre Lan de grace mi] e dous cenz e quatre vinz e diz e sept.

( Orig., sealed, Treeor des Chartce, J 407, no. 6. Copy penes me).

By a codicil dated 23 Aug. 1302, Hugh XIII further ordained que dame Yolerit dame de Pont nostre suer ait en leretaqe de

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nostre pere e de nostre mere telle partie come droit e costume de pays li porra doner non constrastamt. aucumes covenances feite« entre nous e ly; he also altered the order of his heirs, placing Aimar de Valence fourth instead of second.!" He died s.p. in Nov. 1303.9a His wife Beatrice survived him, and died between July 1328 and 31 May 1329.94

GUIARD DE LusIGN"AN, younge1· son of Hugh XII, was Seigneur d' Archiac in Saintonge, and de Gometz-le-Chatel near Limours, in his brother's lifetime.P" He succeeded as Count of La Marche and Angouleme, and in spite of the claims of the Count of Sancerre in the name of his wife, and those of Geoffrey de Lusignan under the will of Hugh XIII, it was adjudged by the Parliament that

•~ "Le juedi enpres Jes oyctives do fa nosbre dame daoust (23 Aug.] Ian de grace mil tres cenz e dons." Vidirnns thereof, under the seal of the Bishop of Angouleme, dated "le jucdi en la festc de lanonciacion nostre dame 111.n de grace mi! brcs cenz e quutrc " [25 March 1304/5] (Orig., Tresor des Chartes, J407, no. 8. Copy penes me).

9" See notes 84 and 97; 130,} (Conlin. Chron. 0. de 'l,'angis: Oh,·on. of St. Deni.~: Oontin. Chi-on. G. de Erachei : i11 .Historiens de France, xx, 589, 675, xxi, 22).

94 Confirmation by Philip lo Bo! of an agreement between her and Yo1ande de Lusignan, each styling herself Countess of La Marche and Angouleme, by which Yolande engaged to pay her £3,000 per annum for life, Oct. 1311 (Archives Nat.: JJ46, no. 7, f. 6 cl). Vidirnus by Philip VI, dated July 1328, of nine charters, ranging from 6 June l326 to 14 Dec. IB'n, concerning her dowry (Idem, JJ65, no. 258, f. 166-edit. Ai-chi-ves hiet, du, Poitou, xi , no. 138). Royal mandate for the payment of tho arrears duo to her from her dowry in Brctagno at the time of her death, da.t.od 31 l\Iay 1329 (Orig., Tresor de, Churtes, J374, no. 23). In 1322, Philip [af'terwards Philip V 1), son of the Count of Valois, had made known by his charter that as Charles, King of France, before he was King, had taken to farm all the dowry which Beatrice of Burgundy, Countess of La Marche and Angouleme, had in Porhoot, Chfiteau-Josselin, Bazonges, St. Didier, and other places in Bretagne, late tlio property of Hugh le Brun, her husband, at n price of ,£300 a year, lie had taken the same farm at the same price from the said King (,'.1,lorice, Prcuces de l'Hist. de Brettunie, i, 1328).

Yi> Letters of Beatrice, Countess of Drcux and Montfort, and of John II, Count uf Dreux, her son, concerning the d isoord between them and Gniart de Lesiqnam; Seigneur de Erchuu: ef. de G-o-me• le cha . stel., on the one part, and the Prior and Convent of St. ~fortin des Champs on the other, dated Aug. 1295 (Du Chesne, Mnison de Dreu.r,, 1>re·1n•es, 283, from the Archives of St. Martin). In Apr. 1309, Philip le Bel gave to Aimcry, Seigneur d' Arohiac, all that Guy, late Count of La 11Iarcho and AngoultJme, had possessed in the castle and cbfltellenie of Arehiac, ant.equ,am Ma.rchie e.sset co-mes (Archives Nat., JJ4J, no. 13, f. 23 d , J.142 B, no. 13, f. 12 d-edit. A,·chi~•e.1 hist, de la. Saintonge, xii, 1884, p. 3f3, no. Hi). The Purriatuent, Leid at All Saints 1288, had decided t,hat Hugh XIII should be admitted to homage for Cognac, Merpins, and Archiac, in succession to Guy de Lusignan [second son of Hugh X), conforruably to tho gift of Guy and to the will of Hugh X and Quoen Isabel (dated lrla.rcl, 1242/3-~0rig., TniHor des Cha,·tes, J374, nos. 2 and 2 bis, edit. Toulet, no. 3049) and in spite of the opposition of Amaury de Montfort, clerk [younger son of Simon, F,arl of Leicescer ] (Oli,n, ii, f. 81- edit. Beugnot, ii, 283), 'l'he will of Guy de Lusignan, in which he instituted his [grand) nephew Hugh Xlll as his heir and successor in omnib1,s terris castris et casteUmi·iis meis, was dated "m"cco octogesimo octavo die mercurii post assumpcionem virgiuis gloriosc" [18 Aug.) (Orig., Tresor des Chartes, J270 B, no. 23. Copy penes -me).

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Guiard, although disinherited by his brother, should nevertheless be admitted to homage for the two comtcs, which, at Hugh XIII's death, had been taken into the King's hand, ex cerla causa.96 It is clear that he had not yet incurred the displeasure of the French King, who indeed preferred his claim to that of Geoffrey de Lusignan.97 Probably the idea of taking advantage of the situation to annex two great fiefs to the Crown had not yet occurred to Philip le Bel. In his will, dated at Lille, 22 Sep. 1304, Guiard made his sister Yolande sole heir in omnibus boni.~ meis.98 By another, at Teluere, 13 Apr. 1308, he substituted her grandson, Helias Riidelli dominus Bragerias filiiis Reginaldi dr, Ponte nepotis mei P-tiam domini Bragerias.9Y He died the same year, and 28 Nov. 1308, the priest-chatelain of Chauvigny attempted to take seisin of the castle and chatellenie of Lusignan in the name of the Bishop of Angouleme, by reason of the death of the Count of La ::\la1·che.100

Previous to this event, Guiard's possessions had been taken into the King's hand, on account of his crime of lese-majeste and for other legitimate reasons. Those who had any claim to succeed him were his three sisters and the persons appointed by the will of Hugh XIII. Of the latter, Geoffrey de Lusignan was already dead, s.p. Aimar de Valence, who in Guiard's lifetime had laid claim to the whole, or failing that, to the third part, of Hugh XIII's comtos and baronies, was bought off by the French King. This

,ic, An·et d-11. Parlemenb dated "Morcurii in octabis >lativitat,is bea.ti Johanuis Baptiste (l July] a,11,0 trecentosimo quarto" (Olim, iv, f. 64 cl-edit. Beugnot, iii, 134).

97 " 1303. Cir-ea f'cstu m onrninm Sauctorum decessit comes Marchio, qui decedans sine liberis toto conatu sr.uduit Guidonem f'rat.rom sun m herodito.te sua scilioet oouritatibus Murchie et Eugolismc privare. Volobatquo ot verbis et litteris usserebat se vullo do111iJ1111n Guufridurn de Lezi niaco cognn.tnm suum fore suum horedem et. in diet.is comitatibus succcssorcrn. Sud post ejus obitum lite coram rege exorta regi~ ipsius dirfinitiva santentia tuta bereditas dictl comitts ad fratrom suum Guidonern ut [ns dictabat devcnit. l<Jt ob hoe dictus Gaufriclus iram magnam concnpit crga regem" (liist. of Jean de St. Victor, in ffistnriens de France, xxi, 6!2).

"" "Die martis ante festum beut.i michaelis [22 Sep. J in quasbris ante Insulam ... mvccc" quarto " (Orig., Tresor de« Chrtrtes, J407, no. 10. Copy penes me).

911 "Die sabbati in mane auto fost.nm dom inicum [18 Apr.] anno <lommini millesimo [tro]contesimo octavo" (Vidimns of 2 Oct. HHli, Oa.rl11.l.ary of Pons as in note 81, nu. 22).

me The custodians of the castle refused to give up bho keys, because the land was then in tho King's hand. 'I'ho deed is <l1,to<l "1308, indictioua 7, pontificatua sanetissimi in Christo patris ae domini Clament is divina providencia pape V anno quarto, mcnso novemhri, uxeuntis die njusl1en1 tert.io, soilicet die [ovis ante festurn bua.ti Andree apostoli " (Bibi .. de Poiiiers, MSS. Dom Fonteneau, iii, f. 507; TJ,:bl. Nut; MSS. Dupuy, 805, ff. 60 aTHI 107-with a false date, 1208, which hus given rise to much confusion). Subsequently, by letters dated "die ponnlt.ima, l'ebt-nm-ii mvcccv octavo " (i7 Feb. 1308/9] Philip le Bel ga.vo to Hugh do la. Celle "custodi11m oasbri do Lizeguen prope Pictavis, ad vadia quinquc solidorum turononsium per diem, tcacndam ex parte nostra ac nomine nosbro " (.,frchives Nat., JJ40, no. 151, f. 78-edit . .Archives hist. du Poitou, xi, no. 27).

170 THE FAMILIES OF LACY, GENEVA,

transaction, which took place about the time of Guiard's death, was concluded by the following charters :-

Jn nominc domiui noscri .Thesu Christi Amen. Noverin t Universi quod Noa Halyas doi g-rat.ia Epiaoopus J<J<lnonsis vice proonratorioque nomine uohilis et potentis viri dornini Aclemari de Valoncia Comitis de pembrol Et Guillermus de Noguareto rlomiui lfogis Praneornm )filos vice norninequo domini Regis ipsius inivimns fucimus et firmavimua conveuciones i n Frasct-iptas Prom isimus­ que nobis adinvicum sollenrriter stipulaut.ibus videlicet nos dictus 1-:piscu1ws quod convenciones casdern upprobari ratbifioar-i ronovurique faciemua per dictum dominum Ademar uin quodqus Idem doruiuua Adcmurus <le approba­ cione ratbificacione renovnciuneque convencionurn ipsarum litter~s pat.cntes sigillo suo magnu sigilhtas dabit et conoadet cum obligacione soleuui sui hnredum et suocessorum auorum et orunium bonorum snorum ac hererlum et ancceasorum ipsornm Eg-o,p1e rlictus Gnillermus quod convenciones easdem sub forma simili prout est ta men a domino Rcge in talibus consuctum Approbari rat.tiflcnri renovarique faciam pnr dominum Regom prefaturn quodque domiuus Rex ipso littcras suas do hiis conceder patentcs. Oonvanoionea vero sunt quo sequntur. Cum cnim diotua dominus Adomarus ad sc pertinerc iuteudat Comitatus Marchio et Engolisrni ac terram do Fnlgeriis iu Britannia omnes­ quc Casbra et terras quondam rlornini H ugonis Bruni Comitis Comitatuum eorumdem proximo defuncti acquest is ojus dmntaxab exeeptis ex testamonto ejusdem defuncti vel saltim terciaru pnrtcm ipsorum Comibatuurn et terrarum dicti defuncti si dicti Comit.atus et terro nun debercmt arl eum in solidum pertincro ac speeialitcr Civitatcm F.ngulismensem Castraque de f,ezigniaco <le Coygnaco et de Merpins Ccrt.isquo Casr.ris cum eornm Castellaniis pro ipsa tercia parte ipsi domino Ademaru r,•lioiis cum supplemento valoris et estimaciouis <licte tercie parbis in locis et tcrris proximiorihus dicti defuneti prout hoe in dicto tostarnento plenius exprirnuntur Curnque Idem dorni nus Adnma.rus super premlssis exper-iri intendat iu cm-ia Hklgia contra Guiardum de Marohia, detentorern dictorum Comitntuum et ter raru m Ipso doruiuus Aclcmarus jus suurn super prernissis nt mclius diligencius et cum magno consilio prosequetur contra dictum Guiarrlurn et quem libot alium detentorern Nequo cum co vol quolibst alio composicionem transaccioncm vol ucordum Iuciet dictus domin us Ademn.rus de prr-missjs scd pocius [us suum efficncit.cr totis viribus proscquetur usqne ad fincm quod si dictus domin us Admnarus dictos Comitatus et terms in solidn m consoquat.ur judicio vel alias ipso cumitatus eosdern cum eorum perbinenciis orn nusquo terms d ict.i Comit.is Terra de ~.,ulgeriis in Britannia cum pcrtinencii s suis solnm ~illi rnteuta transfcret pleno jure in dominum Regem pmfatarn sou ojus hercrlum et Successorern in Reg110 pro recompensa­ ciono in pecunia nurnera.ta ipsi domino Ademaro ab ipso domino ltege vel hcrede suo vcl successoro prostauda videlicet pro singulis Cuutum [ibr is reddituum Mille Iibras in pocunia pro denar io videlicet redd itus dcccrn dcnurros computando iu pecuuia nu merata Nee ediflcia fortalicia foruste non cedue et food» in csbimneionom rodditus venient nisi quatenus foreste stantes in arboribus redditu m posaunt aunulem afferre sod premissa que in eatimaeionem rcdditua non venicnt, voluntati ltcagie rescr vu.lm nt.u r ut pro eis magestas Rcgia disponat et ordim,t prout ei placebit Quod si Forsan dictus dominus Adcmarue dictos Com itatus et terras in solid um ohtincrc non possit sect solum pro tercia parta vel dicta corta loca pro ea ut <lict11111 est vei pro alia parte non in solidum co casu dominus Rex ant hercs suus predictus asaidere tenebitur l\Iille libras Turonensium in rcdd itibus anuuis domino Aclemaro supradicto in locis congr-uis in lfog-no F'rancio cum honore et alta jnsbicia Pro resirluo vero dictc tercic purcis vel locorurn <1110 dictus dominns Adema rus pro ipsa tercia p,srtn vel parto alia cousequotu r quutenus pars hujusmodi vol tona ipsa in redditus vulore modo predicto estimando cxcedct domi nus Rox dabit in pecunia uumerata dicto domino Ademaro recomponsacionern pro quolihet denario reclditus annui videlicet decern deuarios in pecunia computanrlo Nee alias quam supra i,tcturn est in al io casu venicnt in astimaoionern reddit.us e<lificia fortalicia fuoda vcl foreste stantes predicte. Et sic dictus dominus A<lemarns quicqu id ex prediotis conscquet ur pro recompensacioue predicta trr.msferet in dorninum Regcm prefatum. Actumque est inter noa quad con-

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veuciones hujusmodi et earum effectus transcant ad haredos et aucceasores q~oscumqu" dornini Ademari supradicti Ex parte vero ~lomini. Regis ad hcre~e~ CJUS et succcssoros in Regno Cum eonvenciones hujnsmodi ex parte dicti domini Adornari interponantnr contemplacione sccuritatis honoris Regis et Regni Francorum eo quod dicti Comitatus et terre vuldo esaout ntileR pm securitato defenaion is et pacis totius patrie illius ad unitatern Regui atque obcdienciam confr.veurlum ~t sic dictus dominus Adomnrns et nos dictus Epi scopus ej us nomine pro utilitate et securitate publioa Regni Fraucorum ad convenciones hujusrnodi movemur. Nos ergo diotns Episcopus nos fucturos promittimus et curaturos quod dictus clominus Ademarus predieta eomplebit custcdiet et servabit Egoque Guillermus me incturum promitto et euraturui_n quod dietus dominus Rex predicta complebit eustodiet et servabit. Hee nobis adinvicem solcnniter promittimns. In quorum testimonium Nos dieti Episcopue et Guiilcrrnus sigilla nostra duximus presentibus apponenda, Acturn apud Longnrnpou tam [uxta Montern Letherici Vicesirna quarta die Septembris Anno dumini M" CCC0 Octavo. {Orig., seals destroyed, 'l're,or des Chartes, J 270 B, no. 26. Ratification hy Airnar de Valence, dated ttt London 24 Nov. 1308, Orig., sealed, J ::!74, no. 4. Copies pcnea me).

Univorsis prese11tcs lit.tern.s iuspccburis Nos Aclcmarus de Valencia Comes Pombroehie dorniuns Wnisefordic et de Moutinhiacn salutcm. Notum facimus quod cum inter nos ot Gentes Excellenbtssnni Pr'incipis <lomini nostri cariesimi domini Philippi clei /!r.tti,t Francorum Regis verteretur muteria questionis super Comitar.ibus Marchi» et 1£11g-oli;imi term. 1<'augeri1.rum casbria villis ac terris orn ni hus et sirurulis quas hone memorie Hugo Bruni Comes Marchio et Engoli~-nni possidobab tempera mor-tis sue que ornnia 110s intendehamus ex plur ibus cert is et diversis causis legitimis et, specialiter ex sucoessione testa­ montari.r dicti H. Bruni Com it.is ad nos in solidum pertinere debere Et si non in solitlum saltim pro pnrte vel cert.is rebus ex eis Ex adverse vero Gm,tes domini llAgis predicti iutendebant prerl ict.a oiunia pertiuere dehere ad dorninum Regem prerlictum ex causis corbis uobis per gentes ipaas oxprossis 'I'andem nos c,,usis ipsis ex <J11ib11H dict.e gcutes clornini Regis predicbi rnovehant.u r di lijzentor atkut.is rlr-li bcrat.iuno habit.a pleniori ac ut.ilitate inspectn nost ra traus<•g-i1nns et composui mus mudo qni sequitur ae trunsigendo et com pouondo couvnuiuius cum gcntilrn!{ dict i doruini Regis prcdietis Ex cnusn u.unquo r.rn.nsuct.iou is et courpuaitiou is hujusmodi Nos atteutis et considorat.ia c..t1ud:-1 omuibus ex qu ibus iuteud.ibamua habere in predict.is et spudalitcr v iso tcstnmento dicti Com it.is Hugonis Bruni et diligeutcr inspccto et Iecto dicto domino H.cgi dnd irnnx oonoessimus et quittavirnus im porpi-tuurn et. in cum cjus hcredes et sueeessorvs t runst.nlirnua dictos Cornitnt.us et tcrras et quicquid juris proprlotaus et possossionis ex teatauicnto dicti B. Bruni Comitis et ex causis aliis quibuslibct habebamus vel huburo quornodolibct potoramus sivc insolidum sivo in parto al iqna vo] cert.is lucis et rebus tsrrurum aut Comitatuum prcdiccorurn pront. melius potnst, iutelligi et lacius pro domino Heg-H predict» codcntes i psi domino Regi omues act.icnes et jurn quomorlolibet competentes nobis i11 prcmissis vel pro eis vel rebus aliqnibus premissorum cont.ra. qnascumque pcrsonas nostrumque [us quod uohis anten. compc,t.eh,\t ad voluritatem et utilitatem ipslus domini Regis et suorum et vro cis licct nosl.ro nomine IPgitiurn prosoquernur pro­ bationesqne omnes quas sibi minisbrn.ro poteri mus sihi ministrabimua ad SLHtS tamen expensas per qua-s idem dominus Rex et sui herecles et succcssorcs dictos Comibutus et terrus in totu m valuan t obtiuere ex causa donutiouis et ceasionis jm-is nostr-i in prC'clictis vol ox eausa alia quacu ruqne dictus vero dominus Hex ex causn. tra11sact,ionis et cornpos itionis hujuamodi nobis J-LC hererlibus nosteis ,Jc nostro corpore ex matrimonio lcgitimo procreatis aut procreandis dedit et conccssit in foodum ad hornn.gium Jigiuut tnille Iibras turonensium an nui reclclit.us et perpccui in locis coni:,,..·uis assidcndas in terris predictis vcl earum aliquibus quas dictus Cumcs posaidobat tompore mortis sue ant ir,illc et sexcontas libras turoucnsium aunui et perpetui redditus alibi in loeis congruis assidanrlas extra Comitatus cl, terms prodictas quod si con­ tingeret nobis deeedere sine liberis et heredibus ex noscro corpore ut dictum est predicta nobis ex dicta causa per dictum dominum Uegem data et concessa

172 DUGDALE'S VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE.

ad ipsum dominum Regem aut heredes vel successoree suos libere revertentnr. Convenimus insuper nos et dicti domini Regis gentes quod si per probationes veras et legitimas qnas nos sibi ministrabimns dictus dominus Rex vel sui ex jure per nos siLi cesso vel ex alio jure consequantur dictos Comitatus et torras insolidum ultra dictas m ille Iibratas terre asaidcudas iu Comitatihus vel terris predictis vel ultra dictas mille et sexcentas Iibratas terre alibi ut dictum est asaidendas dictus dominus Rex in eurn casum augehit nobis et nostris herediLus a nobis ut supra expressum est procreatis vel proereandis dictam assisiarn terre feodalis de quadringcntis libris turonensium anuui ot perpetui redditus dicbas vero millo et sexceutas l ibras turonensrum annui rerlditus dictus dominus Rex nobis dat nunc pure ex oausa premissa et nobis assidere tenetur de preseuti vel quamdiu commode fieri poterit set cum in dictis ter ris seu Comitatibue quos dictus Comes possidebat tempore murtis sue dominus Rex ipse commode potcrit et voluerit nobis assidere iuille libratas tcrre annui redclitus nt est dictum dicto mille et scxcente libre turonensinm annui et perpetui rcd<litus sive fuerint nobis assise vel non assise ad ipsum dominum Rogcm libcrc revertontnr vro quibus nobis datis a dicto Rege ipso et concesais Nos homagium ligium fccimns domino Regi prefato. In quorum tcstimonium et mnnimcn 1 itteras uostraa paten tes sigillo nostro sigillatas dadimus domino R.cgi predicto. Datum Parlsius die xvii feLrnarii anno domini Millesimo 'I'receutosimo Octavo. (Orig., sealed with the 8ecret11.m of Aimar de Valence, Tre,;or ,l,•s Chartes, J 374, no. 6. Duplicate, with bis great seal, J 374, no. 6 bia. Vich·,w•rn, under the seal of the 1werof<l of Paris, dated Easter Sunday [19 Apr.] 1310, Orig., J374, no. 6 ter. Copies ])('nes me).

(To be conthwed.)

ffinghale' s lli.sitation of tork.sbirt, WI'I'H ADDITIONS.

( Continn~d [rom p. 99.)

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I. JOJIN (RTCIIARD) iJ11CJ,LE1'H W'A Y1', yeoman, of Ing­ birchworth, Penistone. win 19 Feb. 1545-6, pr. at York 30 Mar, 1546 (vol. xiii, 128); mar. Jennett . . . . They had issue-

234

THE FAi\IILIES OF AND

LACY, GENEVA, JOIN VILLE, LA l\IARCHE.

BY G. w. WATSON.

( C<>ntinned [rom p. 172.)

Philip le Bel now asserted that he was entitled to confiscate La Ma1·che and Angouleme, Lusignan and. Fougeres, But the three sisters of Ouiard nevertheless advanced their respective claims. And it appears to have been found advisable to compromise with them, and to give them adequate compensation. Mary, Countess of Sancerre, the second sister, was the first to be dealt with. She claimed the entire estate, though it is not evident on what grounds she could have been entitled to more than one-third of it at the most .

. . . Philippus dei gratia Franeorum Rex. Notum fucimus universis tarn presen­ tibus quam futuris quod cum Nobilis Muller Maria de Marchia Corrritissa de Sanccro a nobis peteret se admitci in solidum et ut heres legitima ad Comi­ tatus Marchie et l,ngolismi quos ad so pertinere clicebat una cum terra de Fnngcriis et aljis tcrris omnibus cum portinenciis eorumdem et juribus qui­ buscuinque ad predicta spectantibus que Gniardus diet.us comes Murchie proxims dcfunctus posaidebat tcmpore mort is sue tarn jnre suo quarn jure successionis bone mernorie hugonis hruni fratris sui olim comitis Marchie et Engolismi et donrini ]<'a,ugeriarum et secuudum petitionem alias editam ut diccbat in judieio coram nobis contra. dictum Guiardum do Marehia cjus fratrcm nunc defunctum ex succesaione insuper ejusdem Guiardi Offerretque uobis pro predietis comitatibns et terris a nobis movcntibus fldcm et homag-ium facere et rachobum et serviciurn solvere consuetum Gentibus nostrf s pro nobis proponcntibus cam ad predicta admitt.i non dehere et aseererrtibus multis de causis comitutus predictos tcrram de Fuuger-iis et alias torras pre­ dictas per-tincucias et om nia jura earumdem ad nos jure commissi sen c011- fiscationis pertinere pro eo videlicet quod dictus Guiardua in nostris homagio et fidelitate existens quemdam Codioillum a dieto hugone Bruni in sua u1tima voluntnto conditnm in quo plura legata nobis relicta a clicto hugone contine­ bautur in fra.nd('ln juris uostr i recelavit ae combussit nos predictls legatis defrandendo contra fidehtubem qua nobis tenebatur tcmere veniendo Quia insuper idem Guiardus conspirationem proditionnliter inivit, tempore ,~uo vivobat contra nos et honorem Regui nost ri ao contra nostram regiam magestatem et quantum in eo fuit sceleratam fo.ctionem hujusmodi ad effectum pcrduxit super quibua sou corum aliquibus jam eo vivente mota fuit questio cont.ra eum quod insuper plura racheta nobis debebantur pro tcrris predictis quod etia m dicti Comes hugo Bruni et dictus Guiardus ·Q_obis ex causis diversis teuebantur tompore quo vivebant ad magnas et g?~es emendas que ra.cheta et crnende ad Sex Viginti Millia Iibrarurn tnronensium asceudcbant et ultra ad quas jam ipso Guiardo vivente processus cepti\ fuerant contra cum Addentos in super Gentes nostre Civitatem Jfogolis­ mum I ac castra de Ounhat et de Marpin cu rn Cnstellaniis et pertinenciis suis ad nos ex ult.irna dispositione profati hugonis Comitis Marchie si premlssa non sufficerent pcrbiuere debere de qnibus omnibus Gentes nostre diceha nt liquere ant statim in promptu posse liquere supfll' quihus et aliis predicta tnngentibus parati arumus dicte Marie fucere celeris just.icie complementum. 'I'andem dicta :Maria videns et at.tendens suum periculum in predictis et de predictis per arnicos auos aliquuliter informata deliberatione habitu diligenti destinavit acl nostram preseneiam gentiumquo nostrurum Nobilern Virum

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Mngistrum Theobaldum de Sancero Archidiaconum Bituricensem qui nos et gentes nostras requisivit instanter ut supra promissis ad aliquam amicabilem concordiam declinare vellemus, Noe e.utem memores fidelitatis qnam dictus hugo Brumi (sic) comes defunctus frater dicte Marie ad nos habuit et servavit et ejus grata aervicia cornpacientesque viduitati fragilitatiqne sexus necnon nohilitati dicte Marie riguorem per mansuetudinem ternperantes ad tractandum super hiis procuratorem ipsum ad gentes nostras remisimns qui procurator nomine et vice dicte Marie mandatum ostendens sufficiens hoe peragendi compositionom ac transactionem inivit super premissia omnibus cum gentibus nostris predictis ut sequitur Promittens nichilominus _ quod Maria predicta compositiouem et transactiouem hujusmodi ratiflcabit ex­ presse ac etiam renovabit. Ex causa igitur compositionis et transactionis hujusmodi dictus procurator dedit et conoessit nobis heredibus et auccessorl­ bus nostris et in nos perpetuo transtulit quicquid juris posseasionia vel pro­ prietatis dicta Maria habet hahere potest vel debet nuno vel infuturum in dictis com itatibua castris terris et pertinenciis eorumdem terra de Faugeriis oastro de Lesinhauo aliisque castris et terria qnibuscnmque quas dicti Comes hugo aut dictus Guiardus possederunt tempore mortis sue ex quaoumque causa cadern Maria jus habeat in predictis sive ex testamentia de quibus idem procurator asseruit ipsarn mariam plene cercioratam aive ab intestate sive ex se sive ex successione paterna vel materna vel frabrum auorum vel alterius eorurn. Dedit eciam nobis et concessit ut supra sescentaa Iibras n.unui redditus quas ipsa maria supra nostrum Thesaurum et redditus senescalcie Pictavensis recipiebat singulis annis ac ducentaa lihras annui redditus quas recipiebat supra redditus Comitatuum predictorum et tenentes eosdem Cedens nobis et in nos transferens procurator predictua omnes actlones et jura dicte Marie ex quacumque cause. competentes quomodolibet pro premissis vel eorum rat ione vel causa. Gentes vero nostre ex causa compositionis et transactionis hujusmodi dicte Marie et prefato procuratori ejus nomine promiserunt nos daturos eidem Marie pro se et ejua heredibus et euccessoribus et causam habituris ab ea et eidem in loco vel locis sibi et nobis congruis assidere Mille libras annui et perpetui redditus ad usum et consuetudinem patrie ussideudas cum uno castro seu domo forti ediflciis non conpntatis in oxtimutione redditus eum omni justicia alta et bassa quam terram dicta Maria ejusque successores a nobis tenebunt in foodum quod si forsan terra quam sibi nssidebirnus ab alio quam a nobis movet in feodum tra. demus earn libero sibi ab omni Onere racheti primi et alia ohligatione preter homagium et si forte in terra ipsa ussidenda essent nemora vel foreste volumus quod extirnentur in redditu quantum valere possunt fundus una cum superficie in redditn perpetuo superficie staute vel ad silvam ceduam redigenda non qucd superficies per se extimetur in pecunia et de pecunia quantum posset emi redditus prout aliqui voluut subtiliter extimare. Item habebit dicta Maria a nobis cum prediccis decem Milia Iibrarum turonensium parvorum semel eidem solvendorum , It-em habebit jure hereditario sibi beredibus vel sue­ cessoribus suis vel ao ipsa causam habenbibus vel habituris domum que site. est apud sanctum Marcellum que fuit olim dicti hugonis Comitis Ma-rchie et Eugolismi cum pertinenciis ejusdcrn scilicet in casu in qua dicta domus ad nos devcniret jure confiscationis transactiorris compositionia vel alias quoquo­ modo Et facicmus quantum honeste poterimus quod jns in dicta domo aliis sororibus cornpetens si quod forsan competat ad nos deveniet et statim per nos ad dictam Comit.issarn Si autem per judicium vel sentenciam sit de­ claraturn aliis sororibus jus competcro in dicta domo in isto casu non poterit dicta Comitissa a nobis aliquid petere ratione dicte domus. Item habebit dicta Maria supra nostrum Thesaurum parisiense mille Iibras annui redditus ad vitam ejus solvendas sibi in festo ascencionis domini videlicet dimidiam et in festo omnium Sanctorum aliam dirnidiam. Promisit eciam bona fide dictus procurator sub obligationo omnium bonorum suorurn so curaturum et facturum quod dicta Cornitissa omnia et singula prout auperius sunt contenta laudabit rat-ificabit et approbabit et omnia bona sua presencia et future. obligabit ad observanciam singulorum et omnium predictorum. Quibus sic actis procurator predictus nobis hurniliter supplicavit ut omnibus et singnlia predictis nostrum prebere vellemus assensum. Noa antem supplioationi

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ejusdem anunentes et diete viduo causis pramissis pio compacientes affectu consideratisque favore et <lilectione qunm ad Stophanum olim Comitem de Sancero Maritum ipsius quondam in nostro servitio mortuum habebamus qui orat de propinquo gonere nostrorum liberorum moti causis omnibus antedictis et pluri bus aliis nos na mansuetudinern et Iavorem dicte Ma.rie moventibus predicte Compositioni et ordinationi et omnibus ot singulis in eis contentis nostrum prebcmus assensum onmia et singula in eis conterita laudantes racificantes et eciam approbantes «bligantes nos bona nostra hercdes et sucoessores nostros qucscumque ad observanciam omniurn et singulorum pre­ dictorum damns autcm 'I'hesaurariis nostris prosentibus in mandatis quad sine expcctatione altcrius tnanduti dicta deeem Milia librarum pecunie numerate de presenti dicte Marica persolvant ac dictum reclditnm ad vitam terminis antedictis necnon Mille libras turonensiurn quas assidere tenemur dicte Marie eidem solvant interim quousque assisia ipsa sit ei cornpleta quam inf'ra annum sibi vel ejus heredi bus et successoribus vel ab ea causam habituris facsre et complere debernus. Et ut premissa rata et stabilia perseverent nostrum pre­ sentibns littcris fceimua apponi sigillnm. Actum Pariaius in die festi Cir­ cuucisionis domini Anno ejusdem Milhistmo 'I'recontesimo Octavo. (Otlicia,I ·vidi11ms, dated 8 Jan. 1aOS/9, Orig., sealed, T,·esor ,les Churtes, J 407, no. 11. Acceptation by Thibaut do Sancerre, proxy of Mary de la Marche, dated 8 J0,n. 1308/9, Orig., seal destroyed, J:J74, no. 5. Ratiflcation by Mary de la Marche, dated " Die sabbati ante festum beati Vincencii anno domini Millesimo treccntcsimo octavo" [18 Jan. 1308j9], Orig., scaled, J 270ll, no. 27. Copies pe-nes me).

Yolande de la Marche, Da.me de Pons, the eldest siater, claimed seisin of the corntes of La Ma1·che and Angouleme, and the barony of Lusignan, as Guiard's legitimate heir by reason of primogeniture. The King's procurator opposed the claim, 8aying that Yolande had no right to the aforesaid lands, which ought to remain in the King's hand, having been pledged to the King pro nobis et eciarn. pro eubsidio et neyocio terre sancte in the lifetime of Hugh le Brun for £300,000 tournois or thereabouts, and that therefore the King's hand had been laid on tl1e said property during the life of Guiard and at his death. And that the castles and eha tellenies of Cognac and Merpins 101 and the· city of Angoulerne ought to belong to the King, as they had been left to him by Hugh le Brun in a codicil to his will : also that all Guiard's goods were forfeited on account of his fraud in burning or destroying the said codicil, to the obscuration and immense damage of the King's rights, for which offence an action had been brought against him, which was not yet decided, and also on account of his crime of lese-majeste, by· reason of which the said property had been acquired by the King in dominio et senhoria in the lifetime of the said Guiard. Subsequently, Yolande having quitclaimed to the King all that Hugh and Guiard, late Counts, had possessed, except the land in Bretagne, he, by charter dated March 1308 (1308/9] conceded that Yolande, tanquam. aliis sororibus eui« maJ01· · et antiquior, should have, during her life, the usufruct of La Marche, Angouleme, Lusignun, and Gometz, and the rest of the said property, except Cognac and M:erpin~, and that after her

101 It is nowhere alleged in any of these charters that Guiard had given up Cognac and Mcrpins to the Engli~h. This statemeut may be traced back to P. Dupuy, Truiiez touchant lee Droitn du Roy, 1655, 82:3, and though often repeated by subsequent writers, is probably due to a careless misreading of Engoli.sm,im in the original documents,

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death the usufruct should revert to the King, as proprietor, Archiae was to be given to Aimery, Seigneur d' Archiae. As to the land which her mother had had in Bretagne, it was to go to Yolande and the heirs of her body : and if her children by her first m:m·iage (de Brajairaco) should die without legitimate offspring, it should devolve on the King, except 2,000 Iibrates of land of which Yolande might dispose as she pleased. Saving the King's rights in the event of Ouiard being found guilty of lese-majeste. Further, the King gave to Yolande, by special grace, int·uitu pietatis, the sum of £6,800 turonensiumi parvorum for the expenses which she had incurred.l'"

Yolande de la Marehe died 2 Sep. 1314, and the comtes and baronies of which she had obtained the usufruct became the absolute property of the French King. 12 Oct. 1314, Philip IV commanded Hugh de Ja Celle to take into the King's hand Fougeres and Chateuu-Josselin, which the Duke of Bretagne had seized on the death of Yolande.l'" La Marche was given in appanage to Charles of France (afterwards Charles IV), and raised en pairie in his favour in March. 1316/7.LO.J. Angouleme (togetl1er with l\fortain) was given en pairie by Philip le Long to .Jane of France, his niece, by settlement dated 27 March 1317 /8,105 on the occasion of her marriage to Philip, eldest son of the Count of Evreux.

In 1309 /10, 22 Feb. [ not 18 Jan.], Jane de la Marc he, third sister of Guiard, and then the widow of Peter de J oinville, agreed to receive, in satisfaction of her claim on her brother's estates, the reversion of the seigr;euries of Couhe and Peyrat, after the death of her uncle, Guy de la Marche.

Universis presentes Iitteras iuspecturis Otficialis curie Parisiensis salutem in domino. Notum facimus quod in prcsencia Petri de Rivia et Johannis de Bonis clcricorum Curie Parisicnsis prcdicte Notar iornm jnratorum ad infrascripta a nohis specialiber dcsi.inn.torum qnibus in hiis et in majoribus fidem plenar'iam adhibemus ut quibus quo ad hcc commisimus et tenore presencium committimus vices nostras propter hoe personaliter constit.uta Nobilis dumina domina .Ioharma de Marchia sorer quondam def'unct i Guiardi olim cornitis de Marchia vidua Asseruit coram juratis cisdern quud cum post ipsius Gniardi frat.ris sui obitum mota questionis scu petitionis mataria extit.isseb inter procuratorem Excellentissimi l'rincipis domini Philippi dei gr11,ti11 Regis fra.ncie illuatris nomine procuratorio ipsius Regis et pro ipso ex una parte Necnon et eamdem dominam Johannam de Marchia suo nomine

1112 Archives Nat., JJ 40, no. 166, f. 86; Orig., sealed, Treso,· des Chartee, J 407, no. 12; officia.l vidimus, dated the Tuesday after the Translation of St. Nicholas (16 May] 1313, Orig., J 407, no. 13-edit. A,·chives hist. de la Saintonge, xii, p. 29, no. 14.

10a Morice, P.re,wes de i'Hist. de Bretagne, i, 1261. Fougerea and Porhoet were, soon afterwards, given to Charles of France (Idem, 1263).

10, Archives Nai., JJ 1;3, no. I 18, f. 53--edit. Archii-es hist, d,i Poitou, xiii, 1883, no. 218, an·d Auselrne, iii, 66. La Marchc, together with Lusignan, Cognac, Merpins, Creoy, Becoiseau, and Crevecoeur, estimated at £12,000 per annum, had been assigned to Charles in the testament, dated at Fontaiuebleau the 'l'hursday before St. Andrew [28 Nov.] 1314, by which Philip le Bel divided his property among his sons. (Orig., Tresor des Cha.rfes, J 403, no. 19. Copy penes me).

in; Edit. P. 1,e Brasse"r, Hist. du Comte d'Evreux, 1722, preuves, 34, and .Anselme, iii, 104.

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et pro se ex altera Super eo videlicet quod dicta domi na Johanna tamquam heres pro parte tercia ipsius Gniardi frat.ris sui per ipsum dominum Regem ob fidelitatnm et homagium postulabut admitti sibique tradi et deliberari possessionem omnimodam et saisinam 'I'crcie partis Oomibatuum do Marchia et de ~ngolismo Necuon et Baronie de Lezigniaco ac omnium perbinenci­ arum Comitatuum et Baronio predictar um ccterarumque omnium torrarum et bonorum quibus prefat.us Guiardus ejus frater snisitua erat tempore qao vivebat et di" qua decessit Et dicebat- eadem domina qnod tarn de jure quam de consuetndine et usu patrie ipsa dehebat admitti ad fidolitatem et homagiurn rerum et bonorum predictomm sibique tradi debere possessionem et saisinam dictarurn Comitntuum Bnronie et terrurum quantum ad 'l'erciam partem earumdem. Eo<lem procuratoro dict.i domini Regis francie se in contrarium opponente ac pluros eansas et rationes contra memoratam domiuam Johannam proponcnto per quas ipsa non debebat ad res et bona predicta admitti ut dicebat quorique nullum jus in eisdem habebat lmmo eidem domino Regi de [ure sno et ad manum Regiam dobebant commorari Ex eo et pro. eo quod secnndum quod idem procurator proponebat dicte Comitatus et Baroniu alirn1ue torro et bona profato domino Regi pro ipso Rege ot pro terre sanoto subsidio tempom qu, defunctus dominus Hugo Le Brun Comes quondam dictarum Comitatunm ot terrarnm fratcr dicti defuncti Guiardi vivobat et pro aliis certis decausis obligabantur in summa Trecentorum Milium librarum turoncusium vcl circiter Et quod proptcr hoe mauus regia viventc dicto Guiardo erat poaita iu Comitatibus Burouia terris et bonis supradict.is quodque Casti:>1 et Castellanio de Copniaco et de . Mcrpis ac civitas do Flngolismo cum nniversis suis pertinenciis dicto domino Rcgi pertinobant et ad ipsum Regem spectare debebant pleno jure et ex causa Icgati ac <loni facti oidom domino Regi a dicto defnneto domino Tlagone fra.tro ipsius (l uiardi in quodam Codicillo ub oodcm domino Hngone facto antequam decedoret. post suum Testarnentum Et quod ornn ia bona que idem Guinrdus possidebat tom pero quo vivehat quocumque norniue censeantnr erant prefato domino regi cornmisaa et forefaota tarn ob cri men lose majestatis factnm contra oumdem dominum Regem et ejus rognum per dictum Guiardnm quarn etiam ex co quad idem Guiardu« roeolaverat legntum et dona predicta cadernque rctinucrat et appropriaverat sibi ipsi dictumquo Codicillurn Iegatum et donum predictum continentcm occultaverat et ipsum combustioni tradidcrat sou tradi feeerat iu prejudicium juris regalia Super (]UO quidem malefioio ipsius Codicilli pctitio fuit edita per gentes domini Regis ex parte ipsius Regis contra mcrnorutum Guiardum tempore quo vivebat Et super boc lis fuerat oontestata cum eodcm Guiardo nonnullique testes super hoe producti fuerant ex parte dicti regis et quod occasionc criminis Iese mujestatis per ipsu m Gniardum facti contra dictum domiuum Regom doscendent.is ex primo capito et pro aliis rebus canais et malefactis predicte Comitatns Baronia terre et universa alia bona supradicta de eodem facto eraut in vita ipsius Guiardi dicto domino Rcgi commissa et in rnajestate atque dominio ucquisita tarn pro causis et rat.ionibus prelibatis quam etiam pro pluribus aliis malefaotia inobediencils commissis et f'aot.is a dicto Guiardo contra Jtegem dictusque procurator super dictis criminibus protervitatibus et malefactis commissis contra. regcm et ejus regnnm ut diccbat plnres testes produxisset corarn commisseriis a curia dicti domini Regis super hoe deputatis. Tandem predicta domina Johanna sua mera et spontanea voluntate do consilio et nssensu qnorumdam amicorum suorum Nolcns expectare finem litis et causo predictarum rationurn et causnrum contra ipsam ex parto Regis propositururn Immo mallens amicabiliter converrire et concorduro cum dicto domino Rego per modurn compositionis transuctionia et coneordie Recognovit et coufessa fuit coram jurabis nostris prcdictis se cessisse rernisisse quittavisse at ex nunc perpetuo Iibcrasse sepedicto domino Regi francie et ojus successcribus pcrpotuis futuris temporibus totalo jus totam eausam et omnimodam acbionern rcalem et pcrsonalcm mixtam et dircctum quad et quas ha.bet potast, et debct habcre tarn do jure quam de consuetudine quacumquo ant posset et dehoret habere futuris ternporibus tarn ex causa successiorris sive caduci quam occasionc altcrius cause tituli juris sou etiam rationis cujuscumque in omnibus et singulis Comitatibus Barnnia terris et

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bonis aupradictis que et quaa idem Guiardus possidebat tompore quo vivebat Et in illis quc obvenerant dicto Guiardo et dsbebaut aut poterant qnomodolibet obvcnire rationo succesaionis seu caduci dicti domini Hugonis Le Brun quondam fratris sui tarn in terra Britannie qnam in aliis locis quibuscumque "'-C in omnibus bonis que tenet die hodiorna vir nobilis dominus Guido de Marchia absquc co quod eadern domina Johanna ejuaque heredes et successores seu ab eadem Johanna et ejus heredibus 8,() auccessoribus causam habentes vel etiam babituri possint aliqnid petere ve] reclnmare in Comitatibns Baronia terris et locis supradictis et in bonis mobilibus dicti Guiardi per se vel per alium in futurum. Asseruit insuper dicta domiua Johanna quod idem duminus Rex solita pietate motus ex eo qnod dicta dornina Johanna soror erat germana dicti defunct! Guiardi Licet idem dominus Rex cerciorat.us extitisset de jure sibi compebenti in bonis et rebus predict.is tarn raticne maleficii supradicti quam etiam pretextn plnrium aliarum ration um et causarum j ustarurn et laudabilium ex speciali gratia donaverat cesserat et quittaverat perpetno eidem Johanne ejusque heredibus et successoribue causamque ab eadem habentibus seu etiam in posterum habituris Castra et Castellanins de Cohee et de Peyrat cum totali dominio alto et basso feudis r,·dditibus homagiia et resortis Villis et omnibus aliis porfinentibus et dependonbiuus ab eisdem Castris et .Castelianiis et Villis quecumque sint et quocttrnriue nomine censcantnr eodem modo quo dorninus Guido do Marchia eadcm possidet et ipsa possidera consucvit. Que quidem Castra Castellnnias ot Villas cum omnibus snis pcrtinenciis supradictis prefatus dominus Rex promiserat pro se et suis successoribus garantizare eidem .Johanne ojusque hcredibus et successoribus perpetno erga omnes ac eidcm Johanne delibera.re dicta Castra et Castellaniaa cum omnibus suis pertiuenciis supradictis integre et absquo aliqua dilatione immediate post obitnm dict,i domini Guidonis de Marchia militis qui dicta Castra Castellanias et Villas debet possidere quamdiu vitam dnxcrit in humauis, };t cum hoe etiam eidern domino Johanne conccssoran dominus Rex mille libras turo­ nensium scla vice dnmtaxat solvcndas eidcm Joham1c. Et tenebunt oadom Johanna et ejus successoros ab oodern domino Rege et a suis succossoribus predicta Castra, Caatcllanias et Villas ad unarn fidelitatem et unicum homagium dnmtaxnt, prout heo omnia asscrcbat dornina Johanna snpradicta. Et sic memorata domina Johanna rebus prcdictis contenta quittavit donavit et transtulit coram prefat is juratis nostris ut prefertur domino Regi predicto ejusque herodibus et succosscribue totum [ns sibi competens et competcre debens quoquo modo in Comitatibus Barouia terris et bonis predictis et ratione eorumdem Exceptis dumtaxat rebus supradictis ex gratia speeiali et occasione premissorum sic eidem domino Regi cesaorum remissorum quitta­ torum et ab eadem domina Johanna ut premittitur donatorum a prefato domino Rege eidem Johanne et ejus succcssoribns donatis pcuitus et dimissis. Hoe etiam inter ipsam et dominum Rcg,,m specialiter concordato nt diocbat quod si fortasais processu temporis accirleret dictam Johannam vendero res predictas in toto vel in parte dictus dominus RPx eusdem pro sufficienti precio habere poterit et debcbit. Pro quibus omnihns et aingulis firmiter tencnctis et inviolahiliter observandis dicta domi na Johanna fide prestita et per suum juramontum tactis sacrosanctis Evangeliis corporaliter ab eadem obligavit predicto domino Regi et ejus successoribus ac juridictioni Parisiensia Curie supposuit se heredesque euos et omnia sua horedurnque suorum bona mobilia et immobilia prescncia et futura ubicumque existancia et quocumque etiam nomine censcantur Renuucians in hoe facto coram juratis noatr is pre­ dictis sub fide et juramento prerlictis omnibus doli mali vis metus fraudis lesionis deceptionis circunvcntionis in factum actioni et rei sic non geste Exceptionibus omnique juris auxilio canonici et civilis ae omnibus aliis Exceptionibus et allegationibus tarn [uris quam facti que contra presuntis mstrurnenti tenorem seu aliquod de contentis in eodem possent obici modo quolibet vel opponi Et speclaliter juri gencrali renunciationi deroganti bene­ ficioque et auxilio in favorem mulierurn super hoe a jure iutroduotis. Hee autem acta fuerunt corarn olericis nosbris mernoratia in Revestiario Monaster'ii fratrum sancti augustini parisius prout ipsi nobis vive vocis oraculo con­ corditer retulerunt. Ad quorum Relacionem et in testimonium premissorum

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Sigillum predicte Po.risiensis Curie una cum Sigillo dicte domine Johanne presentibus duximus apponendum. Datum anno domini Millesimo 'I'receu­ tesimo Nono Die dominica in festo sancti Petri ad Cathedram circiter horarn prime. J. de Bonis, (Orig., scaled, Tresor des Chartes, J 407, no. 15. Copy penes me).

In August 1310, the King made known by his charter roe that as he had conceded to Jane de la Marche the castles and chatel­ lenies of Couhe and Peyrat, by reason of the 1·ights which she had in succession to Guy, late Count of La Marche and Angouleme, her brother, and to Guy de la Marche, her uncle, for the same reason, wishing to make fuller recompense than the aforesaid, he further gave her· the towns of St. Hilaire and Pontarion, after the death of the said Guy, her uncle, who now held them.

Voleutcs quod dicta Johanna. beredes vcl succesaores sui auctoritate propria possint eapcre et apprehendere dictas villas cum earum pertinenciis predictis et possesslonem ipsarum dicto Guidone patruo suo viam universe carnis ingresso. Prernissa vuro tenebunt a nobis et successoribus nostris dicta Johauna horedcs et successores sui et causam habcnies ab ipso. una cum dictis castris et castellaniis de Cohee et do Pairab ad u1HLm fidem et ad unum homa.gium tantum.

There were still two claims to be disposed of. In 1317, 12 July, Amaury, Sire de Craon, and Helie-Rudel, Sire de Pons and Bergerac, agreed as to the di vision of anything which they might be able to obtain of the estates of Hugh XIII and his brother Guy.107 By charter, dated at Asnieres, 19 May 1322, the Sire de Pons-R()y·incild'li8 de Ponte alias dictue Helia« R-udelli dominu» Pontis et Brayarriaci--submitted to whatever it might please Charles, King of France, to decide de omni [wre et deoerio which he had on the comtes of La Marche and Angouleme, the land of Fougeres, the barony of Lusignan, and the rest of the property held successively by Hugh le Brun and Guiard de la Marche, bis

106 Archives Nut.. JJ 45, no. 168, f. 107--edit. A,·chives hist. d1~ Poiiou, xiii, no. 210, and by A. Leroux, Docmnents hist. conccrnant la Mflrche et le Limmuin, 1883-SG, i, p. 205, uo. 85.

rn; "UniversiR prcsontes litteras inspecturis Almoricus dotninus de Credonio [et] Helyas Rudclli dominus Bragerici salutem. Cum inter nos alias fuerit ordiuatum quod super declaracione juris quod uterque nostrum sibi compctere asserobat in comitatibus marchie et Hngol ime et terra Fulgernrum et a.his tcrris que quondam fuerunt domiui Hugonis Bruni et Guidonis fratris sui cornitum defunctornrn starcmus ordinacioni amicorum nostrorum prout in Iitteris inter nos super hoe confcctis plonius continetnr ad univeraam uotitiam volumus pervoniro quod super prcmissis inter nos per arnicos nostros fuit in modum qui sequ itur orclinatum." {i). Of that which we can acquire per via,n pacis ~,el judicii co11junctim, to H. t to A. t. (ii). Of that which H. shall obtain by virtue of the former agreement between his friends and the King's officials, to H. k, to A. }. (iii). 'l'hat which A. shall obtain to be divided commnniter. (iv). If the comte of La Marche or any other be restored to us, the suzcrainty--,it·ilita.s nominis et s11perio,.itatis---to H. with i of the revenues, A. to be his vassal with t, and to owe to H. fidem. simpliceni et bomaqium, " Dat. Pary sius clie xij" julii anno domini milesimo trescentesimo decimo septimo" (Orig., Tresor des Cnartes, J 270B, no. 28. Copy penes me).

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[grnat) uncles, and by Yolande, their sister and his grandmothe_r, and made to the King veram et p1iram dmuicumem. of his said riglits.108 The two claimants were ultimately allotted no more than mille libratas terre annui et perpetmi redditus turonensiurn. ad »alorem terre ciim omnimoda alta et basso. .fusticia, namely £750 to Helie-Rudel and £250 to Amaury.lw The quittance by the latter was dated 7 Nov. 1326.uo In 1327, 29 Dec., the King's commissioners were ordered to assign to Helie-Rudel £750 per annum charged on the grand fief of Aunis, of which sum, however, Helie had already hypothecated £450 per annum to John Cherchernonj, Dean of Poitiers, the King's Ohancellor.l'" The charter of assignment was dated the Thursday after the Octaves of the Purification of the Virgin 1327 (11 Feb. 1327 /8), that of the confirmation thereof by Philip VJ, June 1328.10g And from that time forward the French Crown continued in undisputed possession of the vast domains of the House of Lusignan.

JANE oi,: Lusroxax, daughter of Hugh XII, married, firstly, Bemard-Ezy J, Sire d' A lbret in Gascony. His will was dated the Monday before -Christmus (23 Dec.] 1280, and he died soon after, leaving two daughters by her, (1) Mathe, his heiress, who died s.p. about 12\):j; and (2) Isabel, who was first wife of Bernard VI, Count of Armagnac, and died, also s.p., before 1298.111 Jane de Lusignan married, secondly, Peter de J oinville,

10" "Actnm apud Asiueras <lie mercnrii ante fesium ascenciou is domini ( 19 May], anno ejusdem millesimo treceutcsimo vigusimo secnudo " (Orig., sealed, Tnfoor des Oh(/.,·tc.i, J374, 110. 22. Copy 1•enes me).

lO<J Archives Nat., JJ 65A, no. l l7, f. 83cl-cdit. Architoes hist. d,i Poitou; xiii, no, 235, . "0 "Amauri sire de Cr016n ... come ii avecques Renaut de l'onz sires de

Bragerac demnndassent chascun pour s11 partie et portion au dit nostre seigneur le Roy Jes Contcz de la Marcho et dengolesrno et Jes autrcs torres qui jadis furent a monacigneur Hugues le Brun con te de la Marche et dengolesme et eussent acorde les diz sires de Craun et le seigneur de Bragerac entre eus que de tout ce ,iue il en auroient, par composition ou autrement conjoinctement et divisement le dit sire de Bragcrac auroit, Jes trois pars ~t Ju dit sire le Craon la quatre partie:" and since the King had agreed to give them £1,000 tow·nois per annum, of which £250, charged on the chittellenie of Go·mmes, was to go to Amaury, and this chatellenie had been valued at £163 13s. 9d. pa,·isis per annum, and £36 6s. 3d, pari,is per annum were therefore still owing to him, he quitclaimed to the King, on condition that he received a further assignment of £36 6s, 3d. 11a.risis per annum, all his rights on the said comtes and lands. Dated 1326, "vendredi upros la 'l'oussaint " [7 Nov.] (Orig., seal destroyed, '.l.'nisol' des Ch,,,.tes, J 374, no. 24. Copy pencs me). 'I'his charter has escaped the notice of M, Berbrand de Broussillon, who (3fo.-ison de Craon, i, 291, 292) mentions two others:-(i), A mandate for an extent to be made of the lands of Guy de Lusignan in order to fix the share of Amaury, 8 Feb. 1325/6; (ii), Aasigrnneub of this share by Charles le Bel, Jan. 1326/7: both in the Archfres de la Tremoille, Leiires rtnjales, i.

111 Anselme, iii, 80, vi, 208; L',frt de Vfr. lcs Dates, ii, 262. The French genealogists erroneously make Peter de Joiuville the first husband, and the Sire .d' Albret the second husband, of Jane de Lusignan. According ·to Du Chesne (Maison de Dreux, 204) she was married to Peter de Joinville and also to a Vicomte de Fronaao. Raymond III, Yicomte de F'ronsac, who

242 THE FAMILIES OF LACY, GENEVA,

who left her a. widow in 1292. In I ~96, 11 Oct., .since Edmund, late brother to the King -of England, and Almario de la Bret, 112 had testified to the King by their letters that -Jane, late the wife of Peter de .Ioinville, then dwelling in Gascony, had hitherto borne herself well and faithfully to the King, the sheriffs of Hereford­ shire and Shropshire were ordered to deliver to her her lands in their bailiwicks, which they had taken into the King's hand by his orcler as lands of an alien dwelling in parts beyond seas (Rot. Clau,_q,, 24 Edw. I, m. 3). 24 May 1297, she was summoned from these counties for the muster at Loudon on 7 July, against the French King (Harl. MSS., 1192, f. 52 d). 17 Feb. 1299, letters of protection for three years were issued for Jane, late the wife of Peter de Joinville, going beyond seas, and, 4 Apr. 1304, staying beyond seas, her attorneys were nominated for two years (Rot. I'at., 27 Edw. I, m. 36, ,}2 Rdw. I, m. 22). On the death of her uncle, Guy de Lusignan, at some date subsequent to Aug. UHO, she came into possession of Couhe, Peyrat, St. Hilaire, and Pontarion, the scigneuries of which she had obtained the reversion in compensation for her claims on the succession to her brother Guiard, last Count of La Marche, In 1313, 1 June, styling herself Jane de la Marche, Dame de Peyrat, de Pontarion and de St­ Hrlaire-le-Chateau, she expedited a charter to the b01,1,rw:oi11 of. Peyrat, 113 and, 25 Aug. following, Hirn con finned and added to the gifts which her uncle, Guy de Lusignan, had made, 10 Jan. 1271/2, to the Priory of St. Martin at Cuuhc.114 She was living in Aug. 1322, hut died in this or the following year, for her grandson, Geoffrey de Mortimer,m in a deed dated 14 Sep. 1323, styled himself Seigneul' de Couhe and de Peyrat,

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

Pag-e 4, for 1189, read 11E8/9; for 1 March 1233, 1·ead l March 1232/3; Beatrice of Burgundy died "xiii Kalcnclas Aprilis 1260" [l260jl] (Obituary of the Abbey of La Chnrite, near Besancon, in P. J<'. Chiffiet, Lettre iouchasu. Bcatri» Comtesse de Cholon, 1656, 93). Page 8, lino 11, place s.p, after the reference to Rot. ~'in.; line 18 and note, de Castro Novo is improperly translated de Casteluau, the place indicated being Chateauneuf in Augoumois. There is a charter of " Securus de Castro K ova senior," elated "in fcsto Beati Hylurii MCCL1m> septimo," and another of earlier date, of "Segurus filius Fulconis Barbosta de Castro Novo," both to the Abbey of La Couronne (J. 1". K Castaigne, Chron. de 1/Abbuye de la Cournnne, 1864, 131). Page 11,

occurs 5 April 1312 and :!O April 1315 (Rot. Clu1ts., 5 Edw. II, m. 7d, R-Ot. Vnscon., 8 Edw. II, m. 6), is elsewhere (Conrcelles, Pairs de Prance, v, De Fron.me, 5) said to have married "Jeanne de la Marque," of whom nothing further is known.

uz Amanicu, Siro d'Albret, her first husband's younger brother. 113 Edit. Archives hist. dI, Limo-us-in, iv, 1892, 274, from a translation into

French. ll• Bibl, do Poiiier», MSS. Dom Fonteneau, xxii, 441. 11.1 Younger son of Roger de Mortimer, by Jane de Joiuville. Roger de

Mort.irner was created an Ear] in 1328, and it seems not unreasonable to suppose that his title, C01nes de Marchi<l ( Walie), was chosen as being identical with that of his wife's ancestors, the Counts of La Marohe.

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line 27, for eschaetor this side, read escheator South. Page 12, line 8, [or M~rch 1251, otc., read 9 March 1250/1 (Tdsor _des Chartes, J 681., no. 10, edit. Laborde, no. 3922). Pago 13 line I for his fiefs, read. the barony of Weobley; line 4 from end, .fur tl;e whole ... possessions, read three ... manors. Page 14, line 13 from end, after Bar, udd and six other magnates. Pa;re 15, note 38, [or recte, 1-e,1,d recta. Page 16, note 42, for do 1'}<]111piro, re"d Nationales. Page 76, note 52, add. nor by Anselme. Page 78, note 60, afte,· 84c add now Fonds latm , 17 HH. Page 79, note 6-t, ndd and PrenPe~. i, 1680. Page 80, line 7, 'l'he settlements by William, Earl of Derby, ou his son's future wife, are given by Dugdale, Baronage, i, 262. Page 81, lino lll, after Hugh XII, add le Brun ; note 77, the editor interprets iho day of St. Thomae the Archbishop as 7 July; but this is giV'en in contemporary oalends.rs as The Tramlation, the 29 Dec. as "the day"-or, more precisely, as The Pu.ssion. Page 82, line 4 and note 79, for 12::i7, read 1256/7; line 6 and note 81, for 31 Dec., read 7 Sep.; the 1•.:dirn11., is dated "in festo nativitatis beate Marie die Vcneris MGC nonacesimo " [Priday 8 Sep. 1290, not 5 Jan. 1291, as incorrectly inter­ preted by the editor; there was at one time a feast of the Nutivlty of the Virgin on 1 .fan., hut this is not the date indicated here]. Note 80, add Contract of marriage between Rubert de Matha and Yolande de Lusi~nan dated "le jcurii avant la Madeleine" [19 July) 12HH, in which they engaged to observe the conventions marle between them "le mardi apres la saint Hylaire" 1295 [ L7 Jan. 12!)a,/6]. Testament of Robert de Mat.ha, dated "Le samedi apres la saint Nicolas de rnai " [ 11 May] 1297 ('l'ranHcripts collated 22 and 23 NoV'. 1667, Bibl. s-«, MSS. Doat, 17(i, ff. l2;i.130, 41, ff. 238-248. Copies pene_s rne). Note 83, the exact date of the will is "le lundi avant I'assomption " [12 Aug.] 1,314. Page 164, note 88, line 15, for Henry IV, read Henry III; the date of the death of John d' Harcourt is taken from his epitaph "i\l serncl I hina fort auuus C quoquo trina In Didymi fosto" [21 Dec. 1302] (La. Roque, j)foi.rm- de Harcourt; iii, preu.ves, 230), and that of his wife also from La Hoque, il,id., 213, 226. It may be further observed that tlrn "lnq. P.M.," 33 Edw. I, no. 249, cited hy Mr. Chester/Waters as his authority for the death of Geoffrey de Lusignan iu 1305, is merely an Inq. a.d quod dmnnmn (new numbering, file 56, no. 3) dated 14 March 1305, relating to Geoffrey's letting to farm certain lands at Wighton to Richard de Walsingham (Cf. Rot, Pat.; 33 Edw. I, pat·s 2, 111. 8). Page 165, line 12 from end, oni·it de.

SOME NOTES ON HARSHAl\t: JUXTA BECCLES, CO. SUFFOLK.

( 0(mtinued [rom. p. 142)

From a careful comparison of the Chancery Proceedings which were printed in 1'hP, Genealoqie: for October last, with the Echingham pedigree contained in Mr. Ha.ll's work, to which reference has already been made, it appears certain that the testator under whose will the manors of Barsharn, Blanchardes and Kessinglancl and the advowson of the church of Barsham were settled;' was

1 See an.f.e, p. 136. Among the trustees appointed to the use of tho testator's will wore=-Sir Reynold (or Reginald) Cobham, de j,we Lord Cobham of Sterborough, his mother's half-brother (being son of Eleanor Malt.ravera, hy her second husband Reginald Lurd Cobham), who died 1446- Sir Thomas Lowknor, who had married his sister }<]Jizabeth Echingham, widow of 'I'ho mas Hoo-Richard ,Yakeburst, husband of his kinswoman Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Ec1iingham (see m,f.e, p. 137, note l) and 'l'homas Knyvet.t, of Stanway, co. Essex, his wife's kinsman, whose will, dated 4 Oct. 1458, was proved P.C.C., 21 July 1459 (17 Stokton).