• General Notes

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  Custom Field:<_FA#> Built large estates in the south half of the West Riding, Y orkshire.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-117living in 1031
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Held estates as tenant-in-chief direct of the king.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-117livi ng in 1031
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Military importance of this stretch of territor y was enormous.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-117living in 1031
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Participation at the battle of Hastings can not be proved.@@S005967@@line 132A p p 116-117living in 1031
  Custom Field:<_FA#> Enfeoffed as a tenant of Bishop Od o (William's brother) soon after 1066.@@S005967@@line 132A pp 116-117living in 10 31
  REFN: 5499
  [G675.ged]
  W E Wightman, *The Lacy Family in England and Norma ndy, 1066-1194*,
  genealogical chart following p 260.
  From same, p 17, 19:  "T he honour of Pontefract is the name later given
  to the
  estates built up by t he Lacy family, mainly by Ilbert I under the first
  two Norman kings.  In 1086 the bulk of these estates were already to be
  found in
  the south half of the West Riding of Yorkshire, held by Ilbert I as
  tenant-in-chief direct of the king, though there was also an appreciable
  quantity of land scattered over th e counties of Lincoln, Nottingham,
  Buckingham, Oxford, counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Buckingham, Oxford,
  Berkshire, and Surrey.  .....  The military i mportance of this stretch of
  territory was enormous."
  From same, p 55:  "The first holder of the honour of Pontefract was
  Ilbert I
  de Lacy, brother of t he first lord of the honour of Weobley, Walter I.
  Proof of their relationship comes from their estate in NOrmandy.  This
  single holding was held jointly b y the descendants of Ilbert I and Walter
  I by the Norman tenure of parage, un der which land was divided amongst
  the sons and daughters whilst at the same time remaining a single fee.
  Had it not been originally a family holding this tenure would not have
  applied, and the details of the dissolution of the joi nt fee show that
  the family link must have been via Ilbert and Walter as sons of the same
  father.  The senior branch of the family was probably that of Il bert of
  Pontefract.  He followed
  his Norman overlord into England, whereas W alter arrived in the train of
  William fitz Osbern, much as a younger son might do.  In all probability
  the
  younger brother would have no obligation to fol low his liege lord outside
  Normandy and thus might choose to attach himself to the most convenient
  leader he could find.  An additional piece of evidence co mes from the
  grant
  of twenty- two acres of land at Montmain to the nunnery o f St. Amand by
  Emma, the mother of Ilbert de Lacy.  She was categorically desc ribed as
  Ilbert's mother, to distinguish her from the abbess of St. Amand, who se
  name
  was also Emma.  This implies either that Ilbert was the more import ant of
  the two brothers in Normandy, and under the rules of tenure by parage
  therefore the elder, or else that Walter was not Emma's son, but a cousin.
  As this would have been impossible, in view of the later descent of the
  fee,
  it is most likely that Ilbert was the elder.  Little is known about either
  of th e brothers.  They were not, for example, amongst the favoured few
  whose
  part icipation at the battle of Hastings can be proved.  Ilbert I was
  probably born not later than 1045, though this is little more than a guess
  based on the lik ely assumption that he came over in 1066, and was
  enfeoffed
  as a tenant of B ishop Odo soon afterward.  He was still alive shortly
  after
  Odo's banishment on 14 November 1088.  It is possible that he was alive in
  or soon after 1091, but he was undoubtedly dead by the end of the reign of
  Rufus, for by that tim e he had been succeeded by his son Robert I.  Little
  more is known about his f amily.  His wife's name was Hawise, and that is
  the
  total extent of informat ion about her."
  From same, p 58:  "It has been frequently stated that the abbo t of Selby
  from
  1096/7 to 1122/3 was Hugh de L

Details of Ilbert de Lacy's family with Hawise (de Lacy)