. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Adam Fitz Hubert of the Bishop of The lands of Adam Fitz Hubert, brother of Eudo Dapifcr, went in other Hertfordshire cases to the Valognes family, but there is nothing to show what happened to them here. The Gernon lands forming the manor of Little Wymondley came to the Montfitchet family (see Letch- worth), and were divided about 1258 between the three sisters and heirs of Richard de Montfitchet, to the second of whom, Aveline, Little Wymondley was apportioned. This Aveline married William
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Adam Fitz Hubert of the Bishop of The lands of Adam Fitz Hubert, brother of Eudo Dapifcr, went in other Hertfordshire cases to the Valognes family, but there is nothing to show what happened to them here. The Gernon lands forming the manor of Little Wymondley came to the Montfitchet family (see Letch- worth), and were divided about 1258 between the three sisters and heirs of Richard de Montfitchet, to the second of whom, Aveline, Little Wymondley was apportioned. This Aveline married William de Fortibus Earl of Albemarle,6 who was starved to death in the Levant in 1241, and who was succeeded by his son William. The latter died in 1256 and his two children died during the lifetime of their mother.' The earldom of Albemarle being thus ex:inct, Little Wymondley was thenceforward held of the king in chief of the honour of Albemarle for 20*. rent yearly to be rendered at the ward of Craven ; By 1419 the service was reduced to 6s. Sd.* with the reversion of all the lands belonging to the priory, was granted to James Necdham, 'accountant, surveyor-general and clerk of the king's works,"* to be held of the king in chief by the service of a tenth part of a knight's ; James obtained a licence to entail the manor on his son John," who suc- ceeded his father in George Needham, son of John, settled the manor on his son Eustace on his marriage N in 1615, and in 1623 it was g jJJâ¢*⢠settled on George the son of ^ta⢠rwo h Eustace. table. George Needham the first died in George the younger died i ;eded by another George,17 his s 1669 who. Liitle Wymondley Priory: North Front Before the end of the ijth century the manor of Litdc Wymondley was held in sub-tenancy by the Argentein family ; it is first mentioned in the pos- of that family upon the delivery of the lands of Giles to his son and heir Reginald in 12
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