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UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA

The

Coucher Book of Whalley Abbey.

TITULUS PRIMUS DE STANLAWE, STANEYA, ET ASTON.

I. Carta de fundatione Loci Benedicti de Stanlawe per Johannem Constabularium Cestrie.

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NIUERSIS sancte matris ecclesie filijs tam presētibz quam futuris, Johës costabularius Cestrie salutē. Sciatis me dedisse et hac presenti carta mea cōfirmasse Deo et sancte Marie et Abbati atq. monachis de Stanlawe ad cōstruendă Abbathia ordinis Cisterciensis, ipsum locu Stanlawe, que mutato

* John, the pious founder of the abbey of Stanlawe, was the fourth in descent from Nigel, the first constable of Cheshire, and baron of Halton. The descents are, I. Nigel, who was Constable of Cheshire in fee, "as it were after the manner of Lord High Constables of England, so was he to the Earl of Chester. We now call the like office Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire." He bore gules, a pale, fusille, or. He left issue,

1. William, his successor.

2. Richard.

II. William, son of Nigel, constable to Randle le Gernons, fourth earl of Chester, founded a priory at Runcorn, A.D. 1133, 33 Henry I. He left issue,

1. William, his successor.

2. Agnes, married Eustace Fitz-John.

3. Maud, married Aubert de Grellei.

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nomine Benedictu Locu vocari volumus, et villam una que vocatur Staneyā, et alteram villa que vocatur Mauricas Eston, cũ omib3 ptinētijs earu, in bosco, in plano, in pratis, in pascuis, in vijs, in semitis, in aquis, in piscarijs, in mariscis, in molēdinis, et in omnibz alijs aisiamētis suis, liberas et quietas ab omi terreno seruicio et seculari

III. William, the son of William, removed the canons of Runcorn to Norton, temp. Stephen, and dying in Normandy s.p., was succeeded by his brotherin-law,

IV. Eustace Fitz-John, fourth baron of Halton, and constable of Cheshire in right of Agnes his wife. Randle le Gernons, earl of Chester, restored to him, temp. Stephen, "totum honorem qui fuit Willielmi filij Nigelli constabularij Cestrie in rebus et dignitatibus omnibus, et ipsum Eustachium constituisse hereditarie constabularium et supremum consiliarium post me super omnes optimates et barones totius terre mee." He was slain in battle against the Welsh, A.D. 1157, 3 Henry II., and was succeeded by his son, V. Richard, fifth baron of Halton, and constable of Cheshire. He married Albreda, daughter and heir of Robert de Lizores, and uterine sister (or cousin, see p. 75) to Robert de Lascy, baron of Pontefract, who made her his heir; unde illa, post Roberti de Lascy mortem, utramq. hereditatem, fraternam, (consisting of sixty knights' fees) de Lascy, et paternam de Lizores occupavit. Richard, baron of Halton, had issue by Albreda his wife,

1. John, his successor.

2. Robert, of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

3. Mary, married Robert de Aldford.

4. Aubry, married Henry Byset.

Richard, baron of Halton, ob. ante 24 Henry II., and was succeeded by his son,

VI. John, sixth baron of Halton and constable of Cheshire, "fundator loci benedicti," A.D. 1178, 24 Henry II. He married Alice, sister of William de Mandeville, and had issue,

1. Roger, his successor.

2. Eustace de Cestria.

3. Richard de Cestria.

4. Geffrey.

5. Peter.

6. Alice.

He died at Tyre, A.D. 1190, 2 Richard I., and was succeded by his son, VII. Roger, seventh baron of Halton, and constable of Cheshire, vir magnificus et bellicosus, surnamed by the Welsh, "Hell." On the death of his kinsman, Robert de Lascy, A.D. 1194, he assumed the surname of

exactione, p salute anime mei, et patris mei, et matris mee, et uxoris mee, et omiū antecessoru et heredū meorū in purā et ppetua elemosyna. Cocessi quoq. eis in ppetua elemosyna quietātiam thelonei in

Lascy; and 5 Richard I., A.D. 1195, a fine was levied between himself and his grandmother, Albreda de Lizores, “de tota terra que fuit Roberti de Lasci," viz. of the fees of Pontefract and Clithero. He purchased from Robert Bussel the barony of Penwortham, to hold of John, king of England, and his heirs, in capite; for which he acquitted the said Robert Bussel of three hundred and ten marks before the king. He married Maud de Clare, by whom he had a daughter, married to Geoffrey, dean of Whalley, and a son, Robert, a quo, Constables of Flamborough; and, dying in the feast of St. Remigius, 1st October, 13 John, A.D. 1211, was succeeded by his son and heir, VIII. John de Lascy, eighth baron of Halton, and constable of Cheshire. He married Margaret, daughter and coheir of the eldest son of Saher de Quincy, earl of Winchester, Robert de Quincy, and Hawise, sister and coheir of Randal Blundeville, earl of Chester and Lincoln, who granted the latter earldom to his sister Hawise; and on her death without issue, Henry III., by patent dated November 23, 1232, regni sui 17, granted the earldom of Lincoln to John de Lascy and the heirs of his body by the said Margaret his wife.

John de Lascy, earl of Lincoln, ob. 22d July, 24 Henry III., A.D. 1240, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Edmund. He also had a daughter, Maude, who married Richard de Clare, earl of Gloucester, whose descendants became the representatives of the family. His widow, Margaret, married William Marshall, earl of Pembroke, and survived him. See post, p. 131.

IX. Edmund de Lascy, baron of Halton, and constable of Cheshire, who, dying before his mother, was probably never styled earl of Lincoln. He married Alice, daughter of Marquis Saluces in Italy, and dying June 5, 1258, 42 Henry III., was succeeded by his son and heir,

X. Henry de Lascy, the "great and good" earl of Lincoln, and constable of Cheshire, vir illustris in concilio, strenuus in omni prælio, et in omni regno ornatissimus. He is thus described in the "Siege of Carlaverock,"

Henri le bon Comte de Nichole
De prowesse embrasse et a cole
E en son coer le a souveraine,
Menans le eschiele primeraine.

Henry the good earl of Lincoln, burning with valour, and, which is the chief feeling of his heart, leading the first squadron.

And after naming William le Marshall, Hugh Bardolph, Henry de Grey

emptione et veditione omiū reru suarū p totā terrā meā, necnō et quietatia thelonei de pprio blado suo in moledinis meis. Dedi etiā eis mesuag. unū in villa Cestrie cu omib3 edificijs suis quod habui iuxta ecclesiam sancti Michaelis similiter in pura et ppetua elemosyna, cũ omib3 libertatib3 et liberis consuetudinib; suis. Et quando ego et heredes mei voluerimus in domo prenominata placita nostra tenebimus et ad expensas nostras hospitabimur. Hec vero omia prenominata ego Johes et heredes mei erga Rege et comite Cestrie de omi terreno et foresi seruicio quod ad predictas terras ptinet warat et

Robert de Montalt, Thomas de Multon, William le Vavasour, and John de Hodleston, the poet proceeds:

Se estoient du retenement

Au bou Comte, et au bien ame.

These were the retinue of the good and well beloved earl.

He received from King Edward the town of Denbigh, and took in consequence the title, dominus de Ros et Roweynok. He married, A.D. 1256 Margaret, daughter and heir of William Longespee, and had issue,

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4. Margaret, who died young.

The earl died at his house at Lincoln's Inn, at cock-crowing, 5th February, 1310, 4 Edward II., and was succeeded by his sole surviving daughter, XI. Alice, who had married, æt. 9, in her father's life, the king's nephew, Thomas Plantagenet, earl of Lancaster, Leycester, and Derby, seneschal of England, the eldest son and heir of Edmund Plantagenet, surnamed Crookback, the son of Henry III. On her marriage, the Lascy estates were settled, in default of heirs of their bodies, on the said Edmund Plantagenet and the heirs of his body. Thomas, earl of Lancaster, was beheaded at Pontefract, March 22, 1321, 14 Edward II., and died without issue. On his attainder, the estates were seised, 15 Edward II., into the hands of the king, but were granted by Edward III. to the heir under the entail, viz. to Henry, earl of Lancaster, the eldest son and heir of Henry, the second son of Edmund Plantagenet.

After the death of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, his widow, Alice, married first, Eubulo le Strange, and secondly, Hugh le Frenes, and died at Bolyngbroke A.D. 1348, æt. 68, without issue by any of her husbands.

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