• General Notes

  Note: Lord Stephen de Cameis: Baron by tenure of Flockthorpe Manor,Norfolk, unquestionably inherited, with the lands and advowsonof Hardinghom and the Manor of Cemeis, from his father, asprobably also the lands in Tansour, Northants and Toppesfield,Essex, already referred to. Probably granted by Richard I theManor of Wood Ditton, (10) Cambridgeshire, held in chief as halfa Knight's fee and by annual payment of 2s to the Sheriffscourt; appears to have been granted by David, Earl of Huntingdona Manor in Stukeley Magna, (11) Hunts, which he held as aquarter of a Knight's fee from the said Earl; also held lands inSuffolk. Died before 1198 in which year the King sold thewardship of his children to the Earl of Huntingdon, as appearsfrom the following account in the Pipe Roll among the newpayments due during that year under counties Cambridge andHuntingdon, "Earl David owes 200 marks for having the wardshipof the land and the "heir" of Stephen de Cameis in the whole ofhis property, saving thereout his service to the King (i.e. forthose lands held in chief), and because the Earl may not dividethat Estate (baronies were not divisible) he also returns an account in Northamptonshire." Consequently the same year under Northamptonshire there is and entry that "Earl David returns anaccount as to 200 marks for having wardship of the estate and ofthe "heirs" of Shephen de Cameis."
  
  The following year the Earl still owed 50 marks under the same head in Northants. Married Matilda, daughter of Gilbert de laLeghe, of la Leghe, Effingham and Polesden, Surrey, whose family bore "or, on a chevron sable 3 lions rampant argent, armed and langued gules"; she held in her own right a Manor in North Denchworth, Berks (12) as two parts of a Knight's fee held ofthe Honor of Giffard, which Honor was then possessed by Walter Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, and also lands in Wiseley, Surrey; It seems evident that she held in addition as her dower the Manor of Wotton (13), Surrey, on Knight's fee held of the Honorof Clare and worth yearly œ15. 13s. 0d. In the reign of King John, the Abbot of Chertsey claimed (12) the wardship of he rheir because, as he stated, her father had held from him a freetenement in Effingham (adjoining Wotton), whereupon Matilda replied that being dowered she was free from his claims. On 29th October 1214, the King commanded Simon de Patishull and his companions to bring Matilda de Cameis and (? her son) Nicholasde Ainesti to Court (14), evidently fearing her influence overher eldest son Ralph de Cameis, as two years later it is stated that "Matilda de Cames had her son with the Barons, "i.e. in arms against King John. She married secondly prior to 1206 Hughde Anestie.

Details of Stephen's family with Matilda de la Leghe