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Piers de Ludgershall

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  • Name Piers de Ludgershall 
    Born of Cherhill, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 1165  Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7247  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Maud,   d. Aft 1185 
    Children 
     1. Robert Fitz Piers,   b. Abt 1143, of Cherhill, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1185  (Age ~ 42 years)
     2. Geoffrey Fitz Piers,   b. Bef 1145, of Wellsworth, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Oct 1213  (Age > 68 years)
     3. Juliane Fitz Piers
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3207  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “PETER DE LUDGERSHALL, of Cherhill and Linley Tisbury), Wiltshire, and Gussage Saint Andrew (in Sixpenny Handley), Dorset. He married MAUD ___. They had two sons, Robert and Geoffrey, Knt. [Earl of Essex], and one daughter, Juliane. PETER DE LUDGERSHALL died as a lay monk at Winchester, Hampshire sometime before 1165. His widow, Maud, married (2nd) HUGH DE BUCKLAND (or BOCLANDE), of Buckland, Berkshire, Datchworth, Hertfordshire, etc., Sheriff of Berkshire, 1170-76, itinerant justice, 1173-4, son and heir of William de Buckland, living c.1145, of Cippenham (in Burnham), Buckinghamshire. They had three sons, William, Knt., Hugh, and Geoffrey [Archdeacon of Norwich], and one daughter, Hawise. He was pardoned two marks by the king in 1158-9. In 1166 he certfied that he held 2-1/2 knights' fees in Berkshire. Sometime in the period, c.1166-90, he witnessed a charter of Elias de Studley to his step-son, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, regarding lands in Heytesbury and Cherhill, Wiltshire. HUGH DE BUCKLAND died about 1176. Sometime before c.1185 his widow, Maud, and her son and heir, Robert Fitz Peter, granted the chapel of Wellsworth (in Chalton), Hampshire "so far as it belongs to them," together with a messuage with its croft, as well as five acres of land which the chapel used to have, to Southwick Priory, Hampshire; this gift made for the salvation of their souls and those of Peter de Ludgershall, Hugh de Buckland, Pernel wife of the said Robert, etc. Sometime before c.1185, Maud and her son and heir, Robert Fitz Peter, gave one messuage and one hide of land in Costow (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to the canons of Bradenstoke at the instance of Roger Fitz Geoffrey. In 1198 Geoffrey Fitz Peter removed the body of his father to Winchester.
      Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 339-340. Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 67 (Annals of Winchester sub A.D. 1198: "Gaufridus filius Petri, vir ingenus et specialis amator Wintoniensis ecclesiæ, fecit transfeni patrem suum, qui fuerat ejusdem loci monachus conversus, ad succurrendum, de cmiterio monachorum in ecclesiam, et ibi honorifice recondi in præsentia abbatis de Theokesbiria, et abbatis de Hida, et aliorum plurimorum virorum nobilium viij. idus Maii."). Foss Biog. Dict. of the Judges of England (1870): 103 (biog. of Hugh de Bocland). Great Roll of the Pipe, AD. 1158-1159 (Pipe Roll Soc. 1) (1884): 37. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 452-453. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 6. C.P.R. 1343-1345 (1902): 391. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 78-81. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 218-219. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 164-184. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85,165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 190 (charter of Elias de Studley to Geoffrey Fitz Peter dated c.1166-90). Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 9) (1988): 68 (charter of Maud de Bochland' and her son and heir, Robert Fitz Peter; charter witnessed by William de Bocland and Hugh his brother). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 107. Brown Anglo-Norman Studies VIII (1986): 218, 220. VCH Wiltshire 13 (1987): 195-248. Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 37, App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). Stacy Cheaters & Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): 66, 69, 86.
      Children of Peter de Ludgershall, by Maud ___:
      i. ROBERT FITZ PETER, of Cherhill and Linley (in Tisbury), Wiltshire, Gussage St. Andrew (in Handley), Dorset, etc., son and heir, adult before 1161. He married PERNEL ___. They had no issue. Sometime before 1161 he and his wife, Pernel, granted Savigny Abbey a bushel of wheat and the tenement of Gilbert de Londa at Criselon [Christon?]. In 1180 his heir owed upon accompt for the old ferm of Gorron. ROBERT FITZ PETER died c.1185. His widow, Pernel, married (2nd) in 1190 (date of payment for license to remarry) (as his 2nd wife) EUSTACE DE BALLIOL, of Bywell, Northumberland. In 1198 Eustace and his wife, Pernel, quitclaimed their tight to lands in Salthrop (in Wroughton), Wiltshire to Geoffrey Fitz Peter, in return for 30 marks silver. His wife, Pernel, was living 17 October 1198. In 1199 he paid 200 marks fine for neglecting the king's precept to go to the wars in France. EUSTACE DE BALLIOL died in 1200. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 3 (1827): 17 (Balliol ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 339-340. Wiffen Hist. Memoirs of the House of Russell 1 (1833): 43. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ 1(1840): clix. Fordyce Hist. & Antiqs. of Durham 2 (1857): 5. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 452-453. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1198 to A.D. 1199 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 24) (1900): 15. VCH Dorset 2 (1908): 75. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 25. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 85, 165-168. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 190 ("An estate worth 22l. blanch was held in Cherhill [Wiltshire], in terris datis by John Marshall between 1556 and Michaelmas 1164 (Red Book of the Exchequer (Rolls ser., 3 vols., 1896), II, 664; P.R.S. VII, 14), Robert Fitz Peter held it between Michaelmas 1165 and Michaelmas 1185 (P.R.S. VIII, 56; P.R.S. XXXV, 189). At Michaelmas 1187 it was held in terris datis by Geoffrey Fitz Peter (P.R.S. XXX VII, 173)"). Stringer Essay on the Nobility of Scotland (1985): 153 (Balliol ped.). Brown Anglo-Norman Studies VIII (1986): 218, 220. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 9) (1988): 68 (charter of Maud de Bochland' and her son and heir, Robert Fitz Peter). Turner Men Raised from the Dust (1988): 37, 166, App. Chart A (Fitz Peter ped.). White Restoration & Reform, 11 5 3-1165 (2004): 115-116. Stacy Charters & Custumals of Sheesbury Abbey, 1089-1216 (2006): 71.
      ii. GEOFFREY FITZ PETER, Knt., Earl of Essex [see next].
      iii. JULIANE FITZ PETER, married STEPHEN DE BENDEGES, of Winchfield, Hampshire. Her maritagium included one-third of the vill of Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. They had one son, Maurice. In 1198 he sold one hide of land in Wike, Surrey to Simon de Berkes. Maitland Bracton's Note Book 2 (1887): 193-194. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 78-80. Genealogist 6 (1889): 5; n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 79-81.
      Child of Maud ___, by Hugh de Buckland:
      i. WILLIAM DE BUCKLAND, of Buckland, Berkshire, Westoning, Bedfordshire, Aldbury and Pendley (in Tring), Hertfordshire, etc., son and heir. He married MAUD DE SAY, daughter and co-heiress of William de Say, of Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, and Saham, Norfolk [see SAY 4.i for her ancestry]. They had three daughters, Maud, Hawise, and Joan. In the period, 1186-89, he and his brother, Hugh, and their half-brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, 1186-90, he and his brother, Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of their half-brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter. In 1188 he and his brother, Hugh de Buckland, witnessed a charter of their mother, Maud, to Southwick Priory. In 1189 he paid £100 for seisin of the viii of Westoning, Bedfordshire, and was still in possession in 1210. Sometime in the period, 1199-1213, he granted the church of Aldbury, Hertfordshire to Missenden Abbey. In the same period, he granted 1-1/2 virgates of land in Aldbury, Hertfordshire to Missenden Abbey In 1206 William de Buckland was summoned to warrant the charter of his brother, Hugh, who gave Robert de Marsh two hides of land in Windrush, Gloucestershire. At an unknown date, he granted the advowson of the church of Aldbury, Hertfordshire to the Priory of Missenden, together with a virgate and a half of land. At an unknown date, he granted Richard son of Alexander de Stanwei nine acres of land in his vill of Elsenham, Hertfordshire. WILLIAM DE BUCKLAND died 15 April 1216. In 1218 his widow, Maud, sued her nephew, William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, for a moiety share of various manors of the Mandeville inheritance, including Pleshey, Essex, Streatley, Berkshire, Arnersham and Quarrendon, Buckinghamshire, Enfield, Middlesex, Compton, Warwickshire, etc. In 1219 she sued Richard Mauduit and his wife, Isabel, for her right of dower in the manor of Barcote (in Bucldand), Berkshire. At an unknown date, she granted Thomas de Helsenham eleven acres of land in her woods of Elsenharn, Hertfordshire. Maud died 28 March 1222. Baker History & Antiquities of the County of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 544-545 (Mandeville-Fitz Peter-Bohun ped.). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Henford 3 (1827): 190-194 (Mandeville-Say ped.). Palgrave Rotuli Curia Regis 1 (1835): 261, 305, 435-436. Lee Hist., Desc. & Antiqs. of - Thame (1883): 332 (Mandeville ped.). Round Ancient Charters Royal and Private Prior to A.D. 1200 (Pipe Roll Soc. 10) (1888): 108-110 (confirmation dated 1198 by King Richard I of the division of their inheritance made by Beatrice and Maud, daughters and co-heirs of William de Say, in the time of his father, King Henry II). Moore Cartalarium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria 2 (1897): 373-374 (undated charter of Maud de Say), 375, 377 (undated charter of William de Boclande), 377 (charter of Maud de Say), 377-378. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 143-148, 281-294. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 451-455. Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189. Fowler & Hughes Cal. of the Pipe Rolls of the Reign of Richard I for Buckinghamshire & Bedfordshire, 1189-1199 (Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7) (1923): 218-219. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 511-516; 4(1924): 453-460. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 141-155, 164-184. C.P. 5 (1926): chart foll. 116. C.R.R. 4 (1929): 226; 8 (1938): 56-57, 351. Jenkins Cartulary of Missenden 3 (Bucks Rec. Soc. 12) (1962): 174 (charter of William de Buckland dated 1199-1213; charter witnessed by Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and Geoffrey de Buckland), 174-175 (notification of William de Buckland to Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln), 175 (charter of William de Buckland dated 1199-1213; charter granted for the souls of himself, his wife, his children, his mother, Maud de Buckland, and Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and Geoffrey de Buckland; charter witnessed by Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, and Geoffrey de Buckland), 219-220. VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 250-263. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 195-196 (charter of William, Earl of Ferrers dated 1186-89), 196-197 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter dated 1186-90). Stevenson Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 42) (1987): 134-136, 139, 141-142. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 9) (1988): 68. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 160-175. Haskins Soc. Jour. 1 (1989): 147-172. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 100-101. Greenway Book of the Foundation of Walden Monastery (1999): xxviii-xxx.
      Children of William de Buckland, by Maud de Say:
      a. MAUD DE BUCKLAND, daughter and co-heiress. She married before 1219 WILLIAM D'AVRANCHES, of Folkestone, Kent. They had one son, William, and one daughter, Maud (wife of Hamo de Crevequer). WILLIAM D'AVRANCHES died in 1230. Hasted Hist. & Top. Survey of Kent 5 (1798): 311-322; 8 (1789): 152-188. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 453-460. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 165-184. C.P. 5 (1926): chart foll. 116. VCH Kent 2 (1926): 172-175. C.R.R. 8 (1938): 56-57. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 31,45.
      b. HAWISE DE BUCKLAND. She married before 1219 JOHN DE BOVILLE. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 453-460. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 165-184. C.P. 5 (1926): chart foll. 116. CRR. 8 (1938): 56-57.
      c. JOAN DE BUCKLAND, daughter and co-heiress. She married (1st) before 1212 WILLIAM MUSARD, of Iping, Sussex and of Bulkington (in Keevil), Wiltshire, son and heir of Richard Musard, of Iping, Sussex. He was living in 1212. In 1217 his lands in Wiltshire were restored to him which he had forfeited for joining the rebels against King John. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) before 1219 ROBERT DE FERRERS, of Cippenham (in Burnham), Buckinghamshire, younger son of William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, by Sibyl, daughter of William de Briouze (or Brewes). They had no issue. He confirmed a gift of his father, William de Ferrers, Earl of Ferrers to the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell. In 1225, as Joan de Buckland, she gave the king half a mark for having a writ to attaint the twelve jurors of an assize of novel disseisin between Adam de Cheverell and William Musard, formerly her husband, concerning a tenement in Bulkington (in Keevil), Wiltshire. ROBERT DE FERRERS died testate shortly before 18 Jan. 1225/6. His widow, Joan, married (3rd) SIMON D'AVRANCHES. They had one son, John. As "Joan de Ferrers," she presented to the chapel of Cippenham (in Burnham), Buckinghamshire in 1249. In 1250 Joan came to an arrangement with the Abbot of Westminster regarding the manor of Cippenham (in Burnham), Buckinghamshire, by which she acquired the right to hold a view of frankpledge. In 1252 she transferred her rights in Cippenham (in Burnham), Buckinghamshire to Richard, Earl of Cornwall for £200; he was to hold the manor for life at a rent of £6 0s. 8d., and after her death he was to render to her heirs a pair of gilt spurs at Easter. Joan died in 1252. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(2) (1830): 807 (charter of Robert de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers; charter witnessed by William de Ferrers, son of William, Earl of Ferrers). Shaw Hist. & Antiqs. of Staffordshire 1 (1798): 39 (Ferrers ped.). Roberts Excerpta e Rotulis Finium 1 (1835): 133-134. C.P.R. 1338-1340 (1898): 310. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 5 (1906): 104,151. Grosseteste Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 378-379. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 453-460. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 164-184. C.P. 5 (1926): chart foll. 116. C.R.R. 8 (1938): 56-57. VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 63-65. VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 250-263. Dryburgh Cal. of the Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 35, 44, 54, 69, 82, 163. HUGH DE BUCKLAND, of Datchworth, Hertfordshire. In the period, 1186-89, he and his brother, William, and their half-brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, witnessed a charter of William, Earl of Ferrers, to Ralph Fitz Stephen. In the period, 1186-90, he and his brother, William de Buckland, witnessed a charter of their half-brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter. In 1188 he and his brother, William de Buckland, witnessed a charter of their mother, Maud, to Southwick Priory. In 1192 Abbot William and the convent of Westminster quitclaimed the advowson of Datchworth, Hertfordshire to him; which quitclaim was made with the consent of his brother, William de Buckland. In 1206 William de Buckland was summoned to warrant the charter of his brother, Hugh, who gave Robert de Marsh two hides of land in Windrush, Gloucestershire. C.R.R. 4 (1929): 226. Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 195-196 (charter of William, Earl of Fetters dated 1186-89), 196-197 (charter of Geoffrey Fitz Peter dated 1186-90). Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 1 (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 9) (1988): 68. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (London Rec. Soc. 25) (1988): 160-175.
      iii. GEOFFREY DE BUCKLAND, Archdeacon of Norfolk, 1198, Dean of St Martin le Grand, London; Justice in Eyre. He held the prebendary of Grantham before 1219. In the period, 1190-1213, he witnessed a charter of his half-brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex, to Geoffrey's son, William de Mandeville. In the period, 1203-13, he witnessed a charter of Maud de Cauz, widow of Ralph Fitz Stephen, to his half-brother, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex. GEOFFREY DE BUCKLAND shortly before 14 Sept. 1225. Palgrave Rotuli Curia Regis 1 (1835): 156. Foss Biog. Dict. of the Judges of England (1870): 103 (biog. of Geoffrey de Bocland). Select Civil Pleas 1 (Selden Soc. 3) (1890): 16. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 93. Moore Cartulatium Monasterii Saudi Johannis Baptiste de Colecestria (1897): 201-202. Feet of Fines of King Richard I A.D. 1197 to A.D. 1198 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. 23) (1898): 78-80. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 208, 271, 550. Salter Eynsham Cartulary 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 49) (1907): 59-60; 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 51) (1908): 224-225. Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 9) (1914): 149. Speculum 28 (1953): 808-813 ("[Geoffrey de Buckland's] brother, William [de Buckland], was the brother-in-law of the justiciar, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, and his sister, was the wife of William II de Lanvalay. He was in addition to a brief tenure as archdeacon of Norwich, dean of St. Martin's in London, canon of Salisbury, and rector of at least five churches, three by the king's gift and one each from his brother, William de Buckland, and his brother-in-law, William de Lanvalay. He served King John as a justice and as a baron of the exchequer. In the early years of John's reign, when Geoffrey fitz Peter was ruling England during the king's absence in Normandy, Geoffrey de Buckland was the justiciar's representative in the exchequer. He seems to have retired from the royal service about 1203 and in 1216 was in rebellion. He died in 1225."). Mason Beauchamp Cartulary Charters (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 43) (1980): 191, 196-7. Mason Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214 (1988): 308-309. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-13004 (1991): 68-70. Hobbs Cartulary of Fords Abbey (Somerset Rec. Soc. 85) (1998): 20.
      iv. HAWISE DE BUCKLAND, married WILLIAM DE LANVALLAY, of Walkern, Hertfordshire [see LANVALLAY 2].”