Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Bluets</strong> 4<br />
and west of country. In Wiltshire he held 15 manors 4 , and in<br />
Gloucestershire 5 10 as tenant in chief.<br />
Fig. 2 Bluet family tree - first two generations *<br />
After the d’Eu family lost their English lands the Bluet family continued to<br />
hold former d’Eu manors but they probably had more than one overlord,<br />
which wasn’t that unusual. William d‘Eu‘s honour 6 of Striguil 7 was given by<br />
Henry I to a younger branch of the de Clares 8 and the rest of his land in<br />
Gloucestershire and Wiltshire was given to Gilbert de Clare Marshal of the<br />
King‘s Household 9<br />
<strong>The</strong> earliest member of the line shown in Fig. 2, Walter, has been<br />
identified as theViking but he is somewhat doubtful, as he is said to have<br />
4<br />
Thorn, C and Thorn, F (1979) Domesday Book : 6 Wiltshire Phillimore sections 31,<br />
32<br />
5<br />
Taylor, Rev CS (1889) Analysis of the Domesday survey of Gloucestershire<br />
Bristol & Glos, Arch. Soc. pp260, 276, 280, 288, 292, 320, 324 and 325<br />
6<br />
By convention, the term Honour is used to describe all the manors held by a<br />
tenant-in-chief. It is, however, a conventional, not a technical term and is<br />
sometimes used interchangeably with fief, itself more commonly used to describe<br />
those manors held by a tenant-in-chief in a single county<br />
7<br />
the medieval name for Chepstow, Gwent, and its surrounding area. <strong>The</strong> honor<br />
included manors in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Hampshire<br />
8<br />
Barkly, Sir Henry (1888) Additional notes on the Manor of Daglingworth in<br />
Bazeley, WM (1888) Notes on the Manor and Church of Daglingworth Trans. Brist.<br />
& Glos. Arch. Soc <strong>Vol</strong> 12 p57<br />
9<br />
Barkly, Sir Henry (1888) ibid p56