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 A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE Essex, by Alice his wife, sister of Aubrey de Vere, earl of Oxford,^ and died at Tyre in the Holy Land during a crusade in the year 1190.' Roger, his son, having succeeded him as constable of Chester, was in 1191 appointed by the chancellor, during the king's absence, governor of the castles of Not- tingham and Tickhill. During the struggle between John, count of Mortain, and the chancellor, about Midsummer, 1191, two of the constable's knights whom he had left in charge of these castles treacherously surrendered them to John.' For this act the constable proposed to hang them, but being unable to find them he hanged two of their associates instead. In revenge John laid his lands waste as far as lay in his power.* Upon the death of Robert de Lacy, the last of his line in direct descent, in 1193, the Lacy fee, including the honour of Clitheroe with the liberty of Rochdale, in this county, and the honour of Pontefract with the liberty of Bowland, in Yorkshire, descended by his will to Albreda de Lisours, his cousin.' The year following, by fine made at Winchester (21 April), Albreda settled the whole estate which had been Robert de Lacy's upon her grandson, Roger, the constable, who thereupon assumed the name of Lacy and became possessed of the honours of Clitheroe and Pontefract, in addition to his own patrimony of Halton and Widnes. The year following he paid a fine of 2,000 marks for the king's confirmation of this settlement, and had livery of Robert de Lacy's possessions — which had been in the king's hand during part of the year 1 1 94 — except the castle of Pontefract.' The lordship of Sprotborough, a member of the honour of Tickhill and the inheritance of Albreda de Lisours, appears to have been delivered to her son John, the constable, in 1 1 66, and to have descended to Roger, his son and heir, but by force of the fine of 1 1 94,^ it was settled upon Albreda for life, 1 Rot. de dominabus, ed. Grimaldi, 15 ; Round, Geof. dc Mandeville, 393 ». According to the Coucher of Whalley he had in addition to his eldest son Roger, four sons, Eustace, Richard, Geoffrey, and Peter, and a daughter Alice. Some, if not all, of these five children were bastards. Coucher of Whalley, Chetham Soc. 2 ; Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. (edit. Helsby), i. 694 i. William de Mandevill == Aubrey dc Vere, cr. ==» Alice de Clare, dau. Great Chamber- lain 1 1 33, died 1141. of Gilbert de Clare, died c 1131, William de Say. ^Beatrice. {i)GeofFre)r^Rohesc de dc Mande- Vere, died Till, I8t 1207 (?). earl of Es- sex, died 1144. William de Say, ancestor of Fitz Piers, earls of Es- sex. Arms: 'Quarterly, or atid guUs* 1 Geoffrey de Say. (z) Payn de Beauchamp, of Bedford. (i) Robert =^AlicedeVere,=j=(2) Roger fitz Aubrey de de Essex. aged 60 in 1 1 84-5. Richard of Verc, 1st Warkworth, earl of Ox- ford. 1 ^1 I Geoffrey de William de Simon de John fitz Richard =Alice Robert fitz Mandevill, Mandevill, Beauchamp, fitz Eustace, con- Roger of znd earl of 3rd earl of Aimf.'Quar- stable of Chester, Clavering Essex, died Essex, died terfy or and died 11 90. and Wark- 1166. 1189. guUi,2i>tni.' Aimt: 'Quarterly worth. or and gulei, a Arms : bend sable, over 'Quarterly, all a label argent.' or and guler, abend sable.' Aubrey de Vere, znd earl of Ox- ford. Anns: 'Quarterly, gulet and or, a mullet ar- gent in the first quar- ter.' 2 Rog. de Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 88 ; Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 148. 8 Rog. de Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 134, 172. ^ Daughter of Robert de Lisours, lord of Sprotborough, by Albreda his wife, sister of Henry, father of Robert de Lacy (Whitaker, Hist. ofWhdky, edit. Nichols, i. 239). « Pipe R. 7 Ric. L Ebor. 7 Duchy of Lane. Great Coucher, ii. 1 10 ; Ormerod, Hist. ofChes. (ed. Helsby), i. 695 ; Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches. vol. 39, p- i. 300
 * Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 232-4.