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The Bluets 112 in 1315 482 . Gilbert de Fynamore appears in many grants and charters in the northern Wiltshire area in the period between 1280 and 1320 483 . A Gilbert de Finemor witnessed a charter of Ela, abbess of Lacock between 1239 and 1257 484 , which may have been the Gilbert under discussion, it is not clear. There are three other charters 485 in the Lacock cartulary also witnessed by Gilbert de Finemor, but they are undated. Gilbert was a member of the local de Finemor family who lived at Whethan Hall, near Calne, and who came into possession of the manor of Comerford or Quemerford in the reign of Henry VII in the year 1504 486 This wasn‘t the only land that Gilbert had in the Forest; in the same year the constable of the castle of Devizes, William de Rameshulle 487 , acknowledged he had received 8s 3d from Gilbert Fynamour for 33 acres in the forest of Chippenham 488 . de Rameshulle was the local receiver of the moneys of Lady Isabella 489 , Queen of England , from 482 Calendar Close Rolls Edw II vol 2 1307 -1319 p236 dated March 1st 1315. However, in Rot. Orig. in Curia Scacarii (1805) vol 1 p217 the acreage is 145, and it cost John 36 sol and 3 dinarii a year – “R dedit & concessit Johi Bluet de vastis R in foresta R de Pewesham in com' Wiltes centum et qdraginta et quinq acra p pictam viginti pedum apud Horslaperithe etc tened' eidem Johi & hedibud suis imppm reddo inde p ann' triginta et sex solidose et tres denar‘ 483 See Close Rolls of Edw I and Edw II 484 Rogers KH (1979) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS p32 number 92 485 Rogers KH (1979) ibid numbers 247, 344 and 353 486 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quemerford Early history of Quemerford and the Quemerford family, extract as of article in Dec 2007 487 Six years later he was constable of Marlborough castle [A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds: Volume 1 (1890), pp. 395-405 Deed C192. at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64230] 488 W&SHC 1720. 109 489 Isabella of France was the wife of Edward II, the king until 1327. She married Edward in Bologne sur Mer cathedral on January 25th 1308 when she was 12 (they had been betrothed since he was 8, not uncommon at the time). For a useful, short biography see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_France the works by
The Bluets 113 the enclosures of the forests of Melkshamand Chippenham. Records in Hampshire show John Bluet being a witness for Sir Thomas de Coudrein 1297 490 , 1307 491 and 1315 492 . de Coudre is another knight who was in Scotland with the the King, his arms appear in both the Galloway and Stirling rolls, alongside Sir John‘s. John died between December 20 th 1316 and January 17 th 1317, when a patent was issued to set William de North in the place of John Bluet, who died at Loughborough after the commencement of the proceedings 493 Fig. 21 Arms of Thomas de Coudre 494 * These proceedings, although John didn‘t see the end of the investigation, concerned a complaint by queen Margaret touching the persons who entered her free chase at Asshedoune, her park at Maresfeld and her free warrens at Maresfeld and Wylingdon, co. Sussex, hunted McKisack, M (1959). The Fourteenth Century 1307-1399 and Weir, A (2005) Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England are also good. 490 Hampshire Record Office 44769/C312 dated 1297 491 Hampshire Record Office 44769/C307 dated September 2 1307 492 Hampshire Record Office 44769/C31252 dated February 2 1315 493 Calendar Patent Roll Edw II vol 2 1313 – 1317 494 http://perso.numericable.fr/briantimms/rolls/stirlingST1.htm Gules billety or a label of three points azure by permission of Brian Timms
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The Bluets 33 Margery in 1377 118 .
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The Bluets 59 Gilbert Marshal, Earl
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