In the 12th year of Henry II [1166], Gilbert de Segrave, Lord of Segrave, co. Leicester (whence he assumed his surname), held the fourth part of one knight's fee of William de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, and in the 4th Richard I [1193], he was joint sheriff with Reginald Basset, for the cos. Warwick and Leicester under Hugh de Novant, bishop of Coventry, in which office he continued two whole years. He subsequently, 10th Richard I [1199], gave 400 marks to the king towards the support of his wars. This Gilbert was s. by his son, Stephen. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p