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- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES
- PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
- NORMANS UNDER EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
- MR. FREEMAN AND THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
- MASTER WACE
- NOTE ON THE PSEUDO-INGULF
- REGENBALD, PRIEST AND CHANCELLOR
- THE CONQUEROR AT EXETER
- THE ALLEGED DESTRUCTION OF LEICESTER (1068)
- ELY AND HER DESPOILERS (1072–75)
- THE LORDS OF ARDRES
- EARLY IRISH TRADE WITH CHESTER AND ROUEN
- WALTER TIREL AND HIS WIFE
- WALDRIC, WARRIOR AND CHANCELLOR
- A CHARTER OF HENRY I. (1123)
- THE ORIGIN OF THE NEVILLES
- THE ALLEGED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1147
- THE ALLEGED DEBATE ON DANEGELD (1163)
- A GLIMPSE OF THE YOUNG KING'S COURT (1170)
- THE FIRST KNOWN FINE (1175)
- THE MONTMORENCY IMPOSTURE
- THE OXFORD DEBATE ON FOREIGN SERVICE (1197)
- RICHARD THE FIRSTS CHANGE OF SEAL (1198)
- COMMUNAL HOUSE DEMOLITION
- THE CINQUE PORT CHARTERS
- ADDENDA
- INDEX
THE LORDS OF ARDRES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- PART I TERRITORIAL STUDIES
- PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
- NORMANS UNDER EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
- MR. FREEMAN AND THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS
- MASTER WACE
- NOTE ON THE PSEUDO-INGULF
- REGENBALD, PRIEST AND CHANCELLOR
- THE CONQUEROR AT EXETER
- THE ALLEGED DESTRUCTION OF LEICESTER (1068)
- ELY AND HER DESPOILERS (1072–75)
- THE LORDS OF ARDRES
- EARLY IRISH TRADE WITH CHESTER AND ROUEN
- WALTER TIREL AND HIS WIFE
- WALDRIC, WARRIOR AND CHANCELLOR
- A CHARTER OF HENRY I. (1123)
- THE ORIGIN OF THE NEVILLES
- THE ALLEGED INVASION OF ENGLAND IN 1147
- THE ALLEGED DEBATE ON DANEGELD (1163)
- A GLIMPSE OF THE YOUNG KING'S COURT (1170)
- THE FIRST KNOWN FINE (1175)
- THE MONTMORENCY IMPOSTURE
- THE OXFORD DEBATE ON FOREIGN SERVICE (1197)
- RICHARD THE FIRSTS CHANGE OF SEAL (1198)
- COMMUNAL HOUSE DEMOLITION
- THE CINQUE PORT CHARTERS
- ADDENDA
- INDEX
Summary
IN the History of the Norman Conquest (2nd Ed.) we read of Eustace of Boulogne:–
An incidental notice of one of his followers throws some light on the class of men who flocked to William's banners, and on the rewards which they received. One Geoffrey, an officer of the Abbey of Saint Bertin at Saint Omer, who had the charge of its possessions in the County of Guines, sent his sons, Arnold and Geoffrey, to the war … and in the end they received a grant of lands both in Essex and in the border shires of Mercia and East-Anglia, under the superiority of their patron Count Eustace (iii. 314).
In an Appendix on “Arnold of Ardres,” which Mr. Freeman devoted to this subject (iii. 725-26), he gave the “Historia Comitum Ardensium” (of Lambert of Ardres) for his authority, and he verified, by Domesday, the Manors which Lambert assigns to “these adventurers,” holding that a Bedfordshire estate was omitted, while “Stebintonia,” which he identified with Stibbington, Hunts, was wrongly included, as it was “held of Count Eustace by Lunen.”
The first point to be noticed here is that “these adventurers” were the sons (as Lambert explains) not of any “Geoffrey,” a mere Abbey officer, but of a local magnate, Arnold, Lord of Ardres. The next is that Lambert was quite correct in his list of Manors.
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- Feudal EnglandHistorical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries, pp. 462 - 464Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1895