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FEUDAL BARONAGE Adam de Montbegon are to be noted the grant, with his wife's consent, of Kirkandreas to the monks of Wetherhal ; their confirmation of the gifts made by Adam son of Swain to the priory of Monkbretton ; the feoffment of Geoffrey de Valoignes in the vills of Farleton and Cantsfield, members of Hornby ; the foundation of the priory of Premonstratensian canons at Hornby, a filiation of Croxton Abbey; and the grant of his lands of Kelsey, Thornton, and 'Biestorp' to Gilbert Hansard.

Roger de Montbegon III., son of Adam, was probably a minor at his father's death in 1171-2. In 1187 he had acquittance of the scutage of Galwey upon six of his knights' fees outside this county. In the spring of 1194 he took part in the rebellion of his chief lord, John, count of Mortain, being one of the defenders of Nottingham Castle against the bishop of Durham, vicegerent during the king's absence. Whereupon some part of his lands were seized and committed to William de Albini of Belvoir. On 27 March he submitted himself to the king's clemency by joining in the surrender of Nottingham Castle, and was afterwards pardoned, compounding for his adherence to the king's rebellious brother by the payment of a fine of 500 marks. In the year 1200 he was with the king in the expedition to Normandy, and had acquittance of scutage upon his eight knights' fees. About this time he gave the Holmes in Tarleton, adjoining Martin Mere, with lands in Tarleton and Little Hoole, parcel of his lordship of Croston, and in Cawood, parcel of his lordship of Hornby, to the Cluniac monks of Thetford, who subsequently gave the Holmes to Cockersand Abbey, during the abbacy of Abbot Roger (1199-1205). He also released to the church of St. Martin of Sées and to Lancaster Priory his right in the chapel of Gressingham, and secured to the church of Lancaster for altar lights a yearly rent of two shillings out of the issues of the church of Melling, for the welfare of his own and his ancestors' souls. To the priory of Monkbretton he gave the wood of Holcombe and common rights in Tottington. He married, in 1199, Olive, formerly the wife of Robert de St. John, daughter and heir of Alan son of Jordan, lord of Broughton Brant, co. Lincoln, and Tuxford, co. Notts, for whose marriage he gave 500 marks. From 1201 to 1204 he was mostly engaged in the king's service in Normandy, having acquittance 321