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136 THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
circa 1200, and her great-grandson, Sir William de Aton, circa 1350, succeeded
to Malton Castle in right of his ancestor, Lord de Vesci. His granddaughter,
Catherine, as co-heir with her sister, carried it
eventually to the family of
the Eures by her marrying with Sir Ralph Eure, circa 1400, of which more
anon. For his second wife Eustace Fitzjohn married
Agnes, sister and co-heir to AVilliam FitzNigel, and
their grandson, Roger FitzRichard, was made Baron of
Warkworth, Northumberland, by Henry II.
His elder
brother, John, succeeded to the barony of Laci, Halton,
and Pontefract, by right of his mother, Albreda de
Lisours, daughter and heiress of Albreda de Laci. John
of course retained the family coat, and Roger, therefore,
when made a baron, differenced his with a bend sable.
Roger married Adeliza, daughter and co-heir of Henry de Essex and
;
his son Robert, second Baron of Warkworth, received the lordship of
Clavering from Henry II., and of Eure from Richard I. His son John, the
third baron, married Ada, sister of John de Baliol, the founder of Baliol
College, Oxford, and aunt to John de Baliol, King of Scotland.
The barony of Stokesley had been granted to the Baliols by
William II., and we find that John Baliol, afterwards King of Scotland,
held the signorial rights as lord paramount in 1286. In 1290 they were,
however, granted to Hugh de Eure; and in 1315 Sir John de Eure is
certified as lord of the township of Stokesley, Ingelby, Easeby, Battersby,
and Kirby.
As they had three sons, the property was divided
amongst them, and the arms differenced again. The
eldest, Roger, became fourth Baron of Warkworth and
Clavering, and retained the family coat. The second
son, Sir Hugh, took the estate and title of Eure, with
Stokesley and Ingelby in Yorkshire, and differenced his
bend with three escallops. The motive for so doing
can, of course, be only a matter of conjecture. The
escallop was generally the badge of having been to
the Holy Land ; as the last crusade, under Richard L,
took place in 1
191, he must have gone there as a pilgrim.
His younger brother, Robert, took three fleurs-de-lis,
probably in consequence of being engaged in some of
the wars with France which raged towards the close
of the thirteenth century. Perhaps he was amongst
the 7,000 men who (under the command of the Earl of
Lancaster) defeated the French at Bordeaux, 1296, in
attempting to
recover Guienne.