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 s SAINT AM AND. SAINT AMAND. Barony by 1. Almaric de St. AMAND,( a ) of Wodehay, Ilerks, yr. Writ. B 0 { Almaric db St. Amand, (b) of the same, was b. in mid Lent 1207 I 1°99 or 126 S( C ) at Millbrook, Beds, sue. his cider br, Guy de St. Amand, ' shortly after 1286 ;( J ) was in the French and Scotch wars and was .'" sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD SAINT AMAND) from 29 Dec. (1299), 28 Ed. I., to 1(3 June (1311). 4 Ed. 1 1. His name as " flominm de Wydehay" is attached to the letter to the Pope in 1301 .(•) He was Gov. of Bordeaux, 1304. and was sum- in 130" to the Coronation of Ed. II. He IK. Mary. He rf. a p. between 1 May and 20 Oct 1310, when the Barawi became txlinct. Esch., 4 Ed. II. His widow had dower assigned to her, 20 Oct. 1310, and d. shortly before May 1333. II. 1312/3. 1. John de St. Amand, br. and h. of l>p. above, anil aged 32 athis death (1310), was then a Professor of the Civil or Canon Law. He did homage for his brother's lauds, 28 Oct. 1310. and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD SAINT AMAND) from 22 March (1312/31,22 Ed. II., to 10 Oct. (1325), 19 Ed. II. He is sometimes said to have m. a da. (called Joaue) of Hugh (LB Dbspksceb), Earl of Wincbkstbr, but her existence seems problematical. He d. before 30 Jan. 1329/30. III. 1329 3 2. Almahic (de St. Am and), Lord Saint Amand, s. and h., aged 15 at his father's death. He was sum. to Pari, from 8 Jan. (1370/1), 44 Ed. III., to 22 Aug. (13S1), 5 Kic IL( r ) He served in the Scotch and French ware ; was Cuirf Gov. of Ihelano (as L. Justice), 1 357-59 ; Steward of the forest of Rockingham, 1373. He d. (1381-82), G Kic. 1 1. IV. 1382, J. Almaric (de St. Amand), Loud Saint Amand, b. to and h., aged 40 at his father's death ; Berved in the Scotch wars ; 1402. was sum. to Pari, from 9 Aug. (1382), 6 Rie. EL, to 2 Dec. (1401), 3 Hen. IV.('l) KB. on the eve of the Coronation of Hcu. IV., 1 7 March 1400. Hem. firstly Ida, who was bur. in the church of the Friars Preachers, Oxford. He hi. secondly Aliauore, said to be heiress of the family of St. Elen.(S) He (/. s.p.ni. 13 June 1402, aud was bur. at the Friars Preachers afad. Will pr. 8 July 1402. Each., 4 Hen. IV. Admon. (at Lambeth) 2 June 1 103. At his death the Barony (») The name (according to Lower's " Pat. Brit.") is "from St. Amand-des-hautes- terres, near Louviers, or St. Amand-les-Valettes, near St. Lo, in Normandy. The Baronial family traced to Almaric de St. Amand, Lord of Liskeard, co. Cornwall, temp. Hen. III." J. H. Round Writes, " this family was descended from Almaric de St. Amand who received from Henry III. (to whose Bon, Edward, he had been sponsor), a grant of Gormanston (as the laud of " Ua-gonnan " [i.e., O'Gorman, Bee ' Lynch," p. 159]), Ireland, 1 June 1229. His descendant sold it to Lord Gortuan- Bton's ancestor." ( b ) This Almaric was " amerced in the Court of King's Bench at a Baron " (1279-80), 8 Ed. I. [Maddox'f Bar. Aug!., p. 104.] («) He waB aged 21 (1288-8D), 17 Ed. I. See Cal. Gen«tlogicum. m Guy, Almaric, and John, were sons of Ralph de Saint Amand, by Asceline, da. and coheir of Robert de Albiui, of Caynho, Beds, which alliance brought very con- siderable estates to thiB family. (o) See " Nicolas," pp. 761-809, for a full account of this letter. C) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (S) " Eleanor, Lady St. Amand, heiress of the St. Elen family " was one of the benefactors to "the Brethren of the Holy CroBs" at Abingdon [Lysons's " Beds," p. 228.]