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A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE King Stephen immediately restored the honours of Pontefract and Clitheroe to Ilbert de Lacy, son of Robert, and pardoned his men all forfeitures committed after the death of King Henry until the king's coronation, and especially of the forfeiture for the murder of Maltravers. Ilbert was a staunch supporter of King Stephen, and is found in frequent attendance upon him. At Easter, in 1136, he attested at Westminster a royal charter confirming the bishopric of Bath to Robert, bishop elect, and the same year he attested the royal charter to Winchester and the second charter of liberties granted by the king at Oxford, and another to Cluny Abbey dated at Winchester. He was one of the leaders of the English at the battle of the Standard, fought near Northallerton on 22 August, 1138, where his younger brother was slain, the only life lost amongst the English knights. He fought for his sovereign at the battle of Lincoln in February, 1141, where it would seem that he was either slain or taken captive and died in captivity, for there is no further chronicle of his acts. He married Alice, daughter of Walter de Gaunt, the founder of Bridlington Abbey, by whom he had no issue. She married, secondly, Roger de Mowbray, and gave to Pontefract Priory a carucate of land in Ingoldmells, with which she had been endowed by her first husband. Ilbert's next heir was his brother Henry, but the latter did not at once succeed to his brother's fief. Possibly he was under age at the time of Ilbert's death. The honour of Pontefract is said to have been conferred by Stephen upon William de Roumare, who had then recently been created earl of Lincoln; but the statement must be entirely discredited, and is probably due to confusion with Gilbert de Gaunt—created earl of Lincoln by King Stephen in 1147, apparently during the lifetime of the other earl—who laid claim to the honour of Pontefract against Henry de Lacy, who, however, seems to have been then old enough and powerful enough to resort to force for the recovery or defence of his inheritance. The contention between the two claimants was waged without apparent interference by the king, and eventually ended in favour of de Lacy, but not until the priory of Pontefract had been laid in ruins. Possibly de Lacy at this time obtained 316