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^{page 260 note 7} The case of Roger Bigod is an example of the delay between acquisition of wealth and acceptance by one's economic peers. The Bigods had been vassals of Odo, bishop of Bayeux, both before and after the Conquest, but until circa 1075, their cross-Channel holdings were only of moderate size: Loyd, L.C., The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (Leeds, 1951), pp. 14–15.Google Scholar After the rebellion of Ralph earl of Norfolk and Suffolk, Roger received a large portion of the earl's honor from William I (The Complete Peerage, ed. G.E. Cokayne. 13 vols. [London, 1910-1959], 9:575). In terms of English wealth, Roger was now on a par with most magnates, but his wealth was new and English, not old and Norman or Continental. Roger was apparently not accepted until William Rufus's reign. He married the sister of the lord of Belvoir, scion of the Tosny family (Sanders, I.J., English Baronies [Oxford, 1960], p. 12Google Scholar; Complete Peerage, 9:575Google Scholar).

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^{page 261 note 10} Nigel d'Aubigny, “the landless younger son of a minor Norman baron,” gained prestige and a significant estate by his marriage to Matilda de Laigle, divorced wife of Robert de Mowbray. The importance of the Mowbray connection, even though extremely tenuous in this case, is apparent in the patronymic of his son by a second marriage, Roger de Mowbray (Greenway, D.E., The Charters of the Honour of Mowbray [London, 1972], pp. xvii–xviiiGoogle Scholar). Orderic Vitalis credits the marriage of Nigel and Gundreda, his second wife and the sister of Hugh of Gournay, to the suggestion of Henry I (Vitalis, Orderic, Historia Ecclesiastica, 6:192Google Scholar).

^{page 261 note 11} Corbett, William J. in the Cambridge Medieval History, (1926), 5:511.Google Scholar Corbett's classifications of wealth recorded in the Domesday survey are as follows: Class A - over £750 per annum (8 men); Class B - £400 to £650 per annum (10); Class C - £200 to £400 per annum (24); Class D - £100 to £200 per annum (36); Class E - less than £100 per annum (90-100).

^{page 261 note 12} The family came from a village on the river Vire in the Cotentin, about twenty-five miles southeast of Coutances. Aubrey I held lands in 1086 from the bishop of Coutances in Middlesex and Northamptonshire; he (or his father) attested a charter of Count Conan of Brittany dated 1056-66 (Round, J.H., ed., Calendar of Documents Preserved in France [London, 1899], #1168Google Scholar). The bulk of his lands were held of the king in 1086.

^{page 261 note 13} Domesday Book, 2, folio 101.

^{page 261 note 14} It has been suggested that Aubrey I served as a royal chamberlain and sheriff. Le Patourel, John, Normandy and England, (Reading, 1971), 30Google Scholar; Davis, H.W.C., et al., eds., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1913–1968), 2: #576, 651, 695, 707, 929, 996.Google Scholar I have not been convinced that the Aubreys mentioned in the sources holding these offices are, in fact, Aubrey de Vere.

^{page 262 note 15} The Clares held vast estates in both Normandy and England. For the importance of the Clare family in this period, see Altschul, Michael, A Baronial Family in Medieval England: The Clares 1217-1314 (Baltimore, 1965), pp. 17–28.Google Scholar For Henry I's patronage of the Clare family, see Hollister, , “Henry I and the Anglo-Norman Magnates,” in Brown, R. Allen, ed., Proceedings of the Battle Abbey Conference II 1979 (Totowa, NJ, 1980), p. 100.Google Scholar For Aubrey II's marriage, see the Complete Peerage, 10:198.

^{page 262 note 16} Le Patourel, , Normandy and England, p. 30.Google Scholar

^{page 262 note 17} Regesta, 2, #1777.

^{page 262 note 18} Lambert d'Ardres reports that Emma countess of Guisnes herself selected Aubrey III as her granddaughter's husband. Stapleton, , “Observations Upon the Succession to the Barony of William of Arques” Archaelogia 31 (1846): 228–9.Google Scholar

^{page 262 note 19} Regesta, 3, #634. Her young son Henry confirmed the offer with his own charter, Regesta, 3, #535. Robert and Geoffrey, Aubrey III's brothers, never actually received their promised baronies.

^{page 262 note 20} Round, J.H., Geoffrey de Mandeville (London, 1892), p. 392Google Scholar; Hollister, “Misfortunes of the Mandevilles,” passim.

^{page 262 note 21} The de Veres retained the title of earl of Oxford until 1703.

^{page 263 note 22} Painter, Sidney, “The Family and the Feudal System in Twelfth Century England,” Speculum 35 (January 1960): 7–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

^{page 263 note 23} Dictionary of National Biography, 2: 770.Google Scholar For another example of “coat-tail” social mobility, see Painter, Sidney, William Marshal: Knight-Errant, Baron & Regent of England (Baltimore, 1933), pp. 3–9Google Scholar, for the marriage of John Marshal to Sibyl, sister of upwardly-moving Patrick of Salisbury.

^{page 263 note 24} Regesta, 2, #1389. Perhaps Geoffrey was worthier of Geva's hand than one might think. He has been identified as a former vassal of Roger the Great, Norman count of Sicily, who disappears from Sicilian records after 1077 and arrived in England before 1086 (Chalandon, F., Histoire de la Domination normande en Italié et en Sicilé, 2 vols. [Paris, 1907], 2:62).Google Scholar

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^{page 264 note 28} The bishop of Lincoln, for example, knew what it was like to have royal favor withdrawn. His court cases were lost, his taxes were raised—although nothing major was suffered, such as being imprisoned, it was damaging to the pocketbook and the ego (Southern, , Medieval Humanism, 224–5Google Scholar; Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, ed. T. Arnold [Roll Series, 1879], pp. 299-300).

^{page 264 note 29} Amieria successively married two sheriffs of the shire. Tait, J., “Introduction to the Shropshire Domesday Book,” Victoria County History of Sropshire (London, 1908), 1:296.Google Scholar

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^{page 265 note 31} Painter, , “The Family and the Feudal System,” p. 8.Google Scholar See also the coronation charter of Henry I, English Historical Documents, 2:400.Google Scholar

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^{page 265 note 33} Cronne, H.A., Reign of Stephen, p. 168.Google Scholar

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^{page 267 note 1} This list is based on Table 4 in Hollister, and Baldwin, , “The Rise of Administrative Kingship: Henry I and Philip Augustus,” American Historical Review 83 (Oct. 1978): 888.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

^{page 267 note 2} Geoffrey Ridel attested only 12 charters before his death in 1120, but his great importance in the royal administration qualified him for inclusion here (see ibid., p. 880).

^{page 267 note 3} Constance was co-heiress to her father and conveyed his office of chamberlain of the treasury to William upon their marriage. Mason, Emma, The Beauchamp Cartulary Charters 1100-1268, xxvi–xxvii.Google Scholar Nevertheless, this was a union between two curial families.