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She married Peter Fitz Herbert 28 Nov 1203.

Lucy was the widow of Thomas Gernon, before marrying John de Stokes. Lucy Gernon, however, was not necessarily the biological mother of the Stokes sons. She had been married to Thomas Gernon in 1345.

By 1361 Lucy Gernon was said to be one of the lords of whom the manor of Gaynes Park (see below) was held. (Footnote 15) About this time the manor of Theydon Garnon was evidently acquired by John Stokes, who presented to the rectory in 1367 and 1368 and was described as lord of the 'town'. (Footnote 16) He was probably identical with John de Stokesby who with his wife was holding 2 fees in Theydon and elsewhere when the honor of Lisle was given to the king in 1368. (Footnote 17) He was still alive and living at Theydon Garnon in 1371. (Footnote 18) It is possible that he had married Lucy Gernon and held the manor in her right. By 1375, however, Lucy had married Thomas Lampet, for in that year Sir Thomas Colepepir released to Thomas and Lucy all his interest in the manor for the term of her life. (Footnote 19) Lucy died soon after this, leaving her son Thomas Gernon still under age. (Footnote 20)

From: British History Online
Source: Theydon Garnon: Manors. A History of the County of Essex: Volume IV, W. R. Powell (Editor) (1956).
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15704#n43
Date: 02/07/2004
© Copyright 2003 University of London & History of Parliament Trust.

He was styled William de Norwich. He was Baron of Horsford and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk.

According to Sanders, English Baronies, "The manor of Blythborough, which was part of the crown lands in 1086, was granted to William fitz Walter for the service of 1 knight's fee in Mich[aelmas] 1157-58. William, who took the name de Chesney from his mother, d. 1174 leaving his daughter and heir Margaret." p. 16 Likewise, "William fitz Walter was called William de Norwich when he was charged scutage on 1 knight's fee in 1168 and 1172. . . . .William held approximately 27 knights' fees in mesne." p. 16 note 3.

Accourding to J. H. Round, William was sheriff from Easter 1157 to Michaelmas 1163. William was "an under-tenant on a very large scale. Of Robert de Stafford he held one fee, of Earl de Ferrers one, of Hascuil Musard a half, of the Abbot of St. Edmund's one, of the Earl of Hertford one, of Hubert de Rye one, and of Roger de "Cheneteswelle (as William de Chesney 'of Norwich') one. But he was also known (from his office as sheriff) as William 'de Norwich' tout court. It was under this name that he was entered on the rolls of 1168 and 1172 as paying scutage on the one fee that he held as tenant in capite, and was also returned as holding, in 1166, one fee of the Bishop of Ely. He is also proved by the Colchester Cartulary to have held the valuable manor of Ling in Norfolk, which was Count Alan's in Domesday. This eventually passed to his eldest daughter, and was included in the 2 3/4 fees which her second husband Robert Fitz Roger was returned as holding (in her right, of course) of the Honour of Brittany in Norfolk and Suffolk.

But all these holdings are insignificant as compared with the seven fees that he held of the Honour of Boulogne, six of them in Norfolk, and one in Essex. All these passed, with his eldest daughter Margaret, to her second husband, Robert Fitz Roger, the Lord of Clavering, Essex. But this again gives us the clue by which to identify his even greater holding under the Honour of Eye. The second entry on the list of its knights, among the Cartae in the Liber Rubeus is "Robertus filius Rogeri x milites," and these ten knights' fees must have been inherited by Robert from his father-in-law William 'de Norwich.'

I have no traced William de Chesney as the hodler of no fewer than twenty-seven fees or thereabouts, under sundry "honours' and barons, a fact which will explain the devolution of a goodly number of manors." pp. 4-6.

Eustace gave 100 pounds to marry the widow of Robert FitzPiers. Eustace gave the church of Bywell to the monastery of Durham.

Clay has his death circa 1215, Sanders 1200.

He was lord of Longpre-Fontaine.

2nd Baron of Halton, Constable of Chester see Clay 20 & 53 Richard was an only son.

She is also known as Albreda de Lizures.

Aubrey was Lord of Great Abbington and Drayton, sheriff of London and Middlesex, Justice and Master Chamberlain of England 1133. He was slain in London.

According to Burke, "Aubrey de Vere II, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h., b. probably before 1090, assented to his parents' gift of the church of Kensington to Abingdon, and as their heir approved of the foundation of Colne Priory. Before the death of Gunter, Abbot of Thorney, in 1112 he acknowledged by charter, as Aubrey the King's Chamerblain, the he held Twywell (Northants) of Thorney. He also held Great Addington and Drayton, in chief, and other small properties in Northants. On the death of his youngest brother William, he gave two ploughlands to Abingdon Abbey. As Aubrey de Vere, the King's Chamberlain, he confirmed the gifts of his father and mother and of his men, and his father's gifts of certain tithes, to Colne Priory. He begins to attest royal charters in 1121. He was sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1121 or 1122 and joint sheriff in 1125; and sheriff of Essex in various years. He was joint sheriff, with Richard Basset, of Surrey, Cambridge, Hunts, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bucks, and Beds from Michaelmas 1129, and of Essex, Herts, Leicester, and Northants from Easter 1130. He was at the Council of Northampton in 1131.

He was a justice in Norfolk, at one time with Robert FitzWalter, at another with Richard Basset. In July 1133, at Fareham, the King granted to Aubrey de Vere and his heirs his (the King's) Master Chamberlainship of all England, in fee and inheritance. Aubrey was with the King at Westbourne, when Henry left England for the last time on 2 Aug 1133, and probably crossed the Channel with him; for he attested 2 writs issued at Dieppe and 3 other acts at Falaise. He was with Stephen in 1136 at Westminster (Easter) and at Winchester; in 1136 or early in 1137 at Clarendon; in 1137 at Westminster, and at Portsmouth when Stephen was about to cross the Channel in Mar., and after his return in Dec. at Marlborough. He also attested various royal acts of doubtful date, and other charters. At the end of Aug., 1139, when the Synod at Winchester summoned Stephen to account for his arrest of the Bishops in June, the King sent Aubrey, as a man practised in legal cases, to give them his answer; and Aubrey spoke up boldly for his royal client. According to his son, he was Chief Justiciar of England. He founded a priory at Hatfield Boradoak, Essex, as a cell of St. Melaine of Rennes, and was benefactor to Colne Priory and Colchester Abbey. he m. Alice, da. of Gilbert FitzRichard, Lord of Clare and Tunbridge, sister of Richard FitzGilbert and of Gilbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and aunt of Gilbert and Roger, 1st and 2nd Earls of Hertford. He was slain in a riot in London, 15 May 1141, and was bur. in Colne Priory. His wife survived him 22 years, and became a nun at St. Osyth's Priory." CP X 195-99.