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 FEUDAL BARONAGE In 1 1 80 he became in respect of the barony of Kendal the tenant of Theobald de Valoignes, who had received the barony of Westmorland from the crown through the influence of his son-in-law, Ranulf de Glanvill.^ He died in 1 1 84, and was buried in the presbytery at Furness. Robert of Torigni describes him as ' magnas honestatis et possessionis vir.' ^ He married Helewise, said to be daughter of Robert de Stutevill, of Lazenby, co. Cumber- land/ by whom he had an only daughter Helewise,* afterwards in the charge of William Marshall, to whom Henry II. gave her with her inheritance/ Not being, however, a great enough lady to become the wife of the king's marshal, although his dear friend,' she was given to Gilbert, son of Roger fitz Reinfred,^ an elder brother of the half-blood to Reinfred fitz Roger and Ralph de la Bruere/ She was of tender age at her father's death, for the marriage was not consummated until after the accession of Richard, who confirmed the grant of her marriage at Rouen on 20 July, 11 89.' William de Lancaster's widow married secondly, Hugh de Morevill of Burgh-upon- Sands, who died 3 John.^" From the issue of this marriage descended the family of Multon, one of whom, Lambert de Multon, held Upper RawclifFe in 1242-3 of the baron of Kendal." Helewise afterwards fined with John not to marry against her will. Between 1216 and 1222 she held lands in this county and in Cumberland worth £2'^ P^"" annum. ^^ She was living in September, 1226.^* Gilbert fitz Reinfred, who succeeded to the barony Jure uxoris, was steward to Henry 11,'* and Richard I. He was constantly in the retinue of Henry whilst in France between 1180 and 1189." In 1185 he acted as a 1 Hodgson Hinde, Cumb. and Westmld. Pipe R. xlvi-ii. 2 Ciron. ofSteph. Ken. 11. and Rich. 1. (Rolls Ser.), iv. 309. 3 Dodsworth's MS. ii. 8 (?) ; Cockersand Ckartul. Chetham Soc. (New Ser.), xxxix. 279, 305. {Coucher of Furness, 346 ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 402, 440-3), was living in 1208 {Lane. Fines, i. 33), and was probably father of Gilbert de Lancaster, constable of Kendal in 1246 {Coucher of Furness, 350), who held Hartsop in Patterdale of Roger de Lancaster by knight's service {Lanes. Inq. i. 167, Westmld. Feet of F. file 4, No. 21). He was ancestor of the Lancasters of Sockbridge and father of Roger, whose name stands near the head of the pedigree of this family in the Visitation of Cumb. and Westmld. (Foster, 75). Gilbert de Lancaster was of Sockbridge in 13 18 {Cal. Pat. R. 1 3 17-21, 291), in which year the manors of Sockbridge and Hartsop, a messuage, i carucate of land, and 3,000 acres of pasture in Strickland Kettle were settled upon Gilbert and Alice his wife and their issue, with remainder to John, son of Gilbert de Lancaster {Cal. Pat. R. 1476-85, 286). 5 Meyer, Guillaume le Marechal, ii. p. 264. ^ Ibid. i. v. 7317. 7 Ibid. ii. 338 ; Farrer, Lanes. Pipe R. 395. One of his charters with an equestrian seal appendant is preserved at Lowther Castle. 8 Cockersand Chartul. (Chetham Soc), 976-7 in notis ; Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 153. Roger fitz Reinfred, father of Gilbert, witnessed a feoffment executed in 1 1 69 before the barons of the Exchequer (Eyton, Itin. of Hen. 111. 130), and is mentioned in 1176 as a justice itinerant (ibid. 199), in which capacity he acted regularly in the king's court during Henry's reign (ibid. pass.). Fines were levied before him as late as 1 198. He was a witness to the king's will (Foss, Judges of England, 1870, 267). He served the office of sheriff of Sussex from Michaelmas, 1 176, to Easter, 1187, and of Berks from Michaelmas, 11 86, to Michael- mas, 1 1 87 {Dep. Keeper's $ist Rep. 263, 347). He is said to have married (first) Rohaise (or Hawise), daughter and heir of William de Romare and widow of Gilbert de Gant, who died in 1 156 (Foss, 267 ; Dugdale, Baronage, i. 400), by whom he had issue Gilbert. He married (secondly) Alice, sister of Ralph le Breton, and by her had Reinfred and Ralph, usually styled ' de la Bruere,' who was heir to his brother Reinfred. Mirev. Plae. (Rec. Com.), U, izb. 9 Hoveden (Rolls Ser.), iii. 7 ; Benedict (Rolls Ser.), ii. 73. 10 Rot. de Oblat. (Rec. Com.), 54, 88, 184. " Testa de Nevill{Rtc. Com.), 398. 12 Ibid. 401. 18 Close R. (Rec. Com.), ii. 155*. " Dugdale, Baronage, 4.2 ib. 16 He attested Henry's charters to Holy Trinity of Caen, dated at Caen in 1 1 80 ; to Walter the Usher, dated at Chinon in 1 181 ; to Henry de Marreys, dated at Gorron in Maine circa 1 183 ; to Croxden Abbey, dated at Lyons-la-Foret circa 11 84; to Witham Priory, dated at Marlborough in 11 86; to the abbey of St. Peter at Preaux, dated at Caen in 1187 ; and as ' Dapifer' he attested the same king's charter to Swainby Abbey in Lincolnshire, dated at Chinon in 1 1 89, a day or two before the king's death. Eyton, Itin. of Hen. 11., pass. ; Round, Cal. of Does. France, pass. 1 361 46
 * He had at least one bastard son, Gilbert de Lancaster, who attested a number of his father's charters