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436. Notification by Geoffrey de Mandeville [I], that for his soul and that of his [first] wife, Alice, who is buried in the cloister, where he is to be buried, and for the souls of his sons and daughters, he has granted, in perpetual inheritance, to St Peter of Westminster his little manor of Ebury next to the abbey. His wife Lesceline and his son and designated heir, William, are associated with this grant, made in presence of Abbot Gilbert and the monks, and many of their respective knights. Ralph de Hairun has delivered seisin. [1085 x 1100]
Ego Goffridus de Magna Villa, pro anima mea et pro anima coniugis mee Athelais in claustro Sancti Petri sepulte, que etiam iuxta eam sepeliendus sum, pro animabus quoque filiorum filiarumque mearum, dedi Sancto Petro Westmonasterii maneriolum quod iuxta ecclesiam eius habebam, scilicet Eye, in perpetuam hereditatem sicut illud umquam melius tenui. Et hoc donum Deo et Sancto Petro, cum uxore mea Lecselina, concessione filii mei Willelmi, quem mihi heredem facere disposui, quos etiam huius elemosine participes fieri per omnia volo, super altare predicti Apostoli Petri presentavi, in presentia Gisleberti abbatis et monachorum et multorum militum meorum et suorum, et continuo per Radulfum de Hairun de predicto manerio Sanctum Petrum saisiri feci. Huius igitur concessionis testes sunt: Hugo Maskereal; Rogerius frater eius; Willelmus filius Martelli; Richerius; Radulfus de Hairun; Goiffridus nepos eius; Willelmus nepos Turaldi; Goffridus miles eius; Leuricus Cnivet; Goffridus, et multi alii.
MSS: (1) WAD, f. 100.
Rubric: Carta Gaufridi de Magna Villa.
Marginalia: (a) Pro animabus Domini G. de Magna Villa, comitis Essex' et Domine Athelaidis, consortis sue ac liberorum suorum. (b) Mandeuile dedit Eye.
F, ff. 281v-282.
LN, f. v verso.
CAY, f. 5 verso.
Pd: Gilbert Crispin, 139, no. 15, from WAD, F and LN, Mon. Ang. I, 309, no. LVIII, from F (attestations omitted).
Date: Geoffrey de Mandeville [I] d. c. 1100 (Hollister, `Mandevilles', 19). Alice d. before WI (Gilbert Crispin, 32-3). Cal: Bentley, 4, no. 15, from CAY.
Note: See Harvey, WA, 350. King W II's confirmation of this grant is 52. The cloister was completed by Abbot Gilbert, ante 1100 (Gilbert Crispin, 37). |