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he lost his English fief and departed the realm. The chronicles throw no light upon the causes of his banishment, although his supposed attitude on the occasion of duke Robert's rebellion in 1102 suggests that his sympathies lay with the duke against his sovereign. Perhaps the events which passed in Normandy between the seizure and imprisonment of Robert of Belesme in November, 1112, and the insurrection of Villerai and other lords of Belesme and Ponthieu, which terminated with the fall of the castle of Belesme in May, 1114, may account for de Lacy's fall. Whatever the causes it is certain that this event happened shortly before the date of the Lindsey survey, which was made between 1115 and 1118, for in that record we find Hugh de Laval in possession of the extensive estates which Ilbert de Lacy had held under Odo, bishop of Bayeux, or in chief, at the compilation of Domesday.[1] The date of Robert's death is unknown. By Maud his wife, who survived until after 1150,[2] he had issue Ilbert, Henry, a third son who was slain at the battle of the Standard, and a daughter Albreda, married in or before 1130 to Robert de Lisours,[3] from which marriage descended the later line of Lacy. In or before the year 1120 Hugh de Laval made great gifts of lands and churches in his honour of Pontefract to the priory founded there by his predecessors, adding thereto the church of Slaidburn in Bowland, and in 'Cheshire' the church of Whalley, the chapel of his castle of Clitheroe with tithes of the demesne of the castle, the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Clitheroe, and the churches of Colne and Burnley.[4] His bestowal upon the canons of Nostell[5] of many churches and much land within his honour of Pontefract was effected about the same time as the gifts to Pontefract, being confirmed by Henry I., together with the earlier gifts of Robert de Lacy and many of his chief feudatories,[6] by a charter said to have been dated on 4th of the Ides of January (10) 1121.[7] Hugh de Laval died shortly before Michaelmas, 1130, at which time Richard Guiz owed two war-horses for confirmation of land in Yorkshire given to him by the said Hugh,[8] and William Maltravers a thousand marks for Hugh's lands for fifteen years, and one hundred pounds for the marriage of his widow and her dower after the lapse of the said term.[9] Maltravers appears to have withheld the church of Whalley from the monks of Pontefract and to have stayed their action to recover the same by the grant of a mark yearly, so long as he might hold the honour of Pontefract.[10] This was for no long time, for as soon as the death of Henry I. was known, Maltravers was mortally wounded by the hand of one of his own knights, Pain by name, and having taken the monastic habit died three days later.[11]
- ↑ Lindsey Survey, edit. Greenstreet, passim.
- ↑ Chartul. of Pontefract (Yorks. Rec. Soc.), 469.
- ↑ Pipe R. 31 Hen. I. (Rec. Com.), 8. The reference to Albreda as the sister of Ilbert de Lacy points to the death of Robert de Lacy having occurred previously.
- ↑ Chartul. of Pontefract (Yorks Rec. Soc), i. 21. The position of Richard, bishop of Hereford (consecrated 16 January, 1120), last amongst the witnesses, suggests that this charter via expedited at a date very near the bishop's consecration.
- ↑ Mon. Angl. vi. 92b.
- ↑ Ibid. 92.
- ↑ Ibid. 90. The possessions of the canons of Nostell were also confirmed by Pope Calixtus II. in the first year of his pontificate (1119-20). The charter attributed to Robert de Lacy I. by the editors of the Monasticon, and by them described as the charter of foundation, belongs to Robert, the la«t of the old line of de Lacy, who died in 1193. Many writers of histories (cf Hunter, Doncaster, ii. 201-2) and compilers of chartularies have wrought great confusion by mistaking the charters of the later Ilbert and Robert for those of the Ilbert of Domesday and of his son.
- ↑ Pipe R. 31 Hen. I. (Rec. Com.), 34.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Chartul. of Pontefract (Yorks. Rec. Soc), 535.
- ↑ Chron. of Stephen, Ric. of Hexham (Rolls Ser.), 140.
