General Notes

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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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"At an inquisition take by Nicholas Jordan, and others, by virtue of a writ tested at Canterbury, 10 Mardh, 36 Henry III (1252), it was stated upon oath that the land of Tryenestone (Trehanston) (in Romcey Marsh, in the county of Kent), which the brethren of the King's Hospital of Ospring have of the king's bailiwick, was, immediately after the Conquest of England, given to a certain knight name Tryan. Afterwards Alberic de Marinis held it at the pleasure of 'our lord, the King Henry that now is' (Henry III).  And...because the said Alberic ill-treated the tenants, the king took away from him the said land, and conferred it on Walter de Burgo; and, after Walter de Burgo, our lord the king gave it to Thomas de Normanvill, to hold during pleasure, and after the said Thomas, Nicholas de Chandeler helt it, of the gift of our lord the king, during pleasure, and afterwards our lord the king conferred it upon Jordan de Mont Martini, to hold during pleasure; and after the said Jordan our lord the conferred it on the brethren of his hospital of Ospreing, who still hold it.  The said land is work yearly, in rents and other issues of land, 100 shillings.

"Nicholas de [le] Chandeler, notwithstanding the regrant of Trehanston, remained in favour with the crown.  Perhaps the king rewarded him with other lands on the borders of Wiltshire and Goucestershire.  At any rate we afterwards find him in this neighborhood.  It seems probable that he as with Prince Edward at the battle of Evesham, at which Simon de Montfort was signally defeated, for 25 Apr, 1 Edward I (1271-72), there is an order to the Treasurer of the Exchequier to pay this Nicholas Le Chaundeler, for faithful services, an annuity for life by the hands of the Sheriff of Gloucester (Close Roll, 1 Edward I)."

"The ancestry of Nicholas le Chaundeler, who, as we have seen, removed from the county of Kent, where the family appears to have first settled, is obscure.  He was of Noman descent, and probably the first of his line to live permanently in England.  The anme occurs frequiently in Normandy; but no important genealogical data can be gathered from the scattered and disconnected references.  The only definite information at hand comes from the Rolls of France, from which it is ascertained that Hamo le Chandler, who appears from other circumstances to be of the Wilts family, had safe conduct from England to or through the lordship of l'Aigle, 1418-19, and that Peter Chaundeler, doubtless a knsman, had safe conduct to travel to Normandy, 1451-2 (Norman Roll, 6 Hen. V, pt. II; Roll of France, 30 Hen. VI).  We may therfore assume that the family came from l'Aigle. The name was originally le Chaundeler, not de Chaundeler, which is mere mistake of the scribe who so recorded it.  Chaudeler (afterwards contracted to Chandler) as a durname, has nothing to do with the trade of 'Chandler,' as sometimes stated.  It appears to be drived from the court office of light-bearer, and arose in the same was as the surnames of le Marshall, le Chancellor, &c.  In very ancient times this officer had, no doubt, been simply candle-bearer to the sovereign; but in the tenth or eleventh centuries had become a recognized officeial of the Royal, or Ducal, household.  Thus the lawas of the Welsh, in the thenth century, mention, among the twenty-four servants of the Court, the Kanuylyt of the KIng and Queen. In this was several families of le Chaundeler might (and doubtless did ) arise, not in the least related to each other.  No connection, for instance, can be established between the le Chaundelers of Wilts, and thos of Norfolk, Suffolk, and the northern counties. Moreover, the arms borne by these families are totally different.  The arms attributed to Chaundler of Wilts are:  Chequy argent and gules, on a bend engrailed sable three lions passant or.  The Candeler, or Chaundler, family of Hyde Barton Hants, a branch of the Wiltshire family, bore: Chequy or and gules, on a bend engrailed sable three lions passant guardant of the first."