General Notes

Name Suffix:<NSFX> Lord Of Prudhoe
Richard de Umfreville, baron of Prudhoe (son of Gilbert de Umfreville). This feudal lord appears, in the 7th Richard I [1196], to have pledged his lands of Turney to Aaron, a Jew, for the sum of £22 6s which he then owed the Israelite. In the 5th King John [1204], his lordship obtained the right of preventing all persons from grazing, hunting, or cutting down timber in the forest of Riddesdale; and in nine years afterwards, the times being then turbulent, he delivered up his four sons in hostage, with his castle of Prudhoe, as guarantee for his loyalty upon the condition that, if he transgressed, the said castle became forfeited and that he should himself be dealt with as a traitor; notwithstanding which, so soon as the barons took up arms, he appeared amongst them, when he lands were seized and granted to Hugh de Baliol. In the reign of Henry III, however, he made his peace and had restitution of the castle of Prudhoe, &c., but was nevertheless far from enjoying the confidence of that monarch, as we find the king soon after issuing a precept to the sheriff of Northumberland, directing a jury of twelve knights to be empaneled to inspect certain buildings of the castle of Herbotil, which this Richard de Umfravill was then erecting, and to demolish all that bore the appearance of fortifications. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 544, Umfravill, Barons Umfravill, Earls of Angus and John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II, R. Bentley, London, 1834-1838, p. 191, Pickering, of Old Lodge]