. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED great munden iupporter of King John who had been an ardent ; against the barons, 'for ht support in our castle of Lin- coln, for as long as it pleases us.'9 Later in the same reign Munden was again in the possession of the Furnivalls, and in 1242 Christiana, widow of another Gerard de Furnivall, was granted the custody of his Chris- tiana's son Gerard lived until almost the end of the century, dying some time between 1290 and ; He had two daughters, Christiana de Aylesford and Lora 1 had the


. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. BROADWATER HUNDRED great munden iupporter of King John who had been an ardent ; against the barons, 'for ht support in our castle of Lin- coln, for as long as it pleases us.'9 Later in the same reign Munden was again in the possession of the Furnivalls, and in 1242 Christiana, widow of another Gerard de Furnivall, was granted the custody of his Chris- tiana's son Gerard lived until almost the end of the century, dying some time between 1290 and ; He had two daughters, Christiana de Aylesford and Lora 1 had the title of Lord Furnivall and was descended from Thomas de Furnivall, brother of Gerard de Furnivall and uncle of Lora and ; In 1461 it was held by John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury and Lord Furnivall,16 who had married the heiress of the Furnivalls, and the manor continued to be held of his heirs, in socage, for the rent of a pair of ; In 1285 Gerard de Furnivall had created a further sub-tenancy by conveying the manor to John de Kirkeby, Bishop of Ely, for the yearly rent of a pair of gilt spurs or 61/.'" John died in 1190, and was succeeded by his brother William de Kirkeby," who lived until 1302. At this time a third of the manor was in the hands of Mathania, the second wife of John de Cobham,10 but the remainder passed on the division of William's inheritance between his sisters. Great Munden ; Old Farm Loretta, widow of John de Ulvesflete," the manor of Munden Furnivall being apportioned to the ; Both Lora and Christiana had descendant!, Gerard de Ulvesflete descendant of the former, and John de Aylesford, a minor, descendant of the latter, both being alive about ; During the hundred years following, however, both lines apparently died out, for by this mesne lordship of Great Munden had passed to another branch of the family, who 9 Close, 3 Hen. Ill, m. 9 ; Dugdale, » Wrotlwley, the Pica R. 84.


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