General Notes

The following is Excerpted from a post to SGM, 30 Sep 2002, by John Ravilious:

From: John Ravilious (Therav3@@aol.com)
Subject: Re: Reginald de St. Valery and His Descendants
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2002-09-30 09:39:35 PST 
Monday, 30 September, 2002

Beckley was one of the St. Valery lands that passed into the hands of Thomas de St. Valery, noted in my post as the son and heir of Bernard de St. Valery by his (evidently) 2nd wife Aenor or Eleanor de Dommart.  Concerning the subsequent history of Beckley, I find the following details:

He [Bernard IV de St. Valery] seems to have died shortly after 1191, and was succeeded by his second son Thomas, who paid a relief in 1191--2. Not long afterwards, Beckley and Horton, along with his other lands, were seized by the king, and in 1196-7 they appear among the escheats, no doubt as a consequence of Thomas's support of Philip Augustus in Normandy. Between 1198 and 1215 Thomas changed sides at least three times, alternately regaining and forfeiting his English lands. He finally made his peace with King John in 1215 and died early in 1219 leaving as his heiress his only daughter Annora.

Note: Rosie Bevan, in her post to SGM, quoting Keats-Rohan, gives Maud the first wife as mother of Thomas, so there is some doubt as to who is Thomas's mother.