Notes on Wentwood, Castle Troggy and Llanvair castle, by O. Morgan and T. Wakeman, Volume 6Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association, 1863 - 49 pages |
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anticessores ap Adam Armorica Bluet Bristol Britain Caerleon Caerwent Cæsar Caldicot called Celtic chartam Chepstow Chepstow alias conquest conquestum Court daughter death debet habere housbote Denband Denford document domum suam apud Earl of Gloucester English copies estates F. J. Mitchell Fitz Pain Forest G. T. Clark Gwent H. P. Edwards Hawkins heir Henrew Henry Henry III heybote ad domum heybote apud housbote and heybote housbote et heybote Iltyd Nicholl John Martel jury Kemeys King lands Lanvihangel Latin copy LLANVAIR CASTLE Lord of Chepstow Magor manor Marshal Monmouth Rev Monmouthshire Newport Octavius Morgan origin Pain Fitz John Penhow Pontypool probably Ralph de Monthermer Ranger record reign Roger Bigod Romans Sclavonic seems similiter Sir Richard Sir Thomas Southbrook Strogul SURVEY OF WENTWOOD tenants tenement Tintern tract of country Tredegar tribe Troggy Upton-on-Severn Veneti Venta Wakeman wall Welsh Welsh language Wends Wentwood wife Wilcrick Willielmus Wondye wood
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Page 30 - Clare, the family whose honours he temporarily enjoyed, though he was attired in his own arms which were yellow with a green eagle. The six yellow martlets are the device of Emlam Touches, " a knight of good fame." The blue " with crescents of brilliant gold," was the banner of William de Rider, otherwise William de Rithre, banneret.
Page 30 - A fortunate private gentleman was also in the royal host, who is thus noticed : — "He by whom they [the royal youths] were well supported acquired, after great doubts and fears until it pleased God he should be delivered, the love of the countess of Gloucester, for whom he a long time endured great sufferings.
Page 8 - ... find a new region without any name, and it is much more likely that the district of which they took possession, and where they settled, would go by their name, than that they should invent a new name for it, and abandoning the original name by which their tribe was known, call themselves after it. Mr. "Wakeman suggests that the earliest settlers in this part of the country were a tribe of Celtic "Wends, who gave their name to the land which they occupied, and which it has retained to the present...
Page 29 - III. and in 3, 7 Hen. VII." We shall close this Catalogue with a still more decided instance in Ralphe de Montheriner, who, having married Joan of Acres, (daughter of King Edward I. and widow of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, possessing lands of great extent in her own right, which belonged to those earldoms,) had summons to parliament from the 28th to the 35th of Edward I. by the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. But after her death, (an. 1 Edw. II.) he never had those...
Page 13 - Iscoed, her guardian still keeping hold of the bristles, wherever she wandered by land or sea. At Wheatfield, in Gwent, she laid three grains of wheat and three bees; hence Gwent is famous to this day for producing the best wheat and honey. From Gwent she proceeded to Dyved, and in...
Page 29 - Carlaverock," a cotemporary poem in which he is mentioned, states " that it is singular that nothing should be known of the origin "of an individual, who became son-in-law of the King of Eng" land, and possessed, in right of his wife, the powerful " Earldoms of Gloucester and Hertford." It certainly is very extraordinary that no cotemporary writer should have thought it worth while to say who he was, and the fact does not bespeak any high origin. Dugdale tells us that he was a plain esquire, and...
Page 40 - This is the Agreement made at Leicester on the day of St. Vincent the Martyr, in the 31st year of the reign of king Henry, the son of king John (before sir Roger de Turkilby, master Simon de Walton, sir Gilbert de Preston, and sir John de Cobham, justices then there itinerant), between Roger de Quincy, earl of Winton, and Roger Somery : To wit : that the aforesaid Roger de Somery hath granted for him and his heirs, that the aforesaid...
Page 30 - He by whom they [the royal youths] were well supported acquired, after great doubts and fears until it pleased God he should be delivered, the love of the countess of Gloucester, for whom he a long time endured great sufferings. He had only a banner of fine gold with three red chevrons k.
Page 29 - It is singular that nothing should be known of the origin of an individual who became the son-in-law of the King of England, and possessed in right of his wife the powerful earldoms of Gloucester and Hertford.