. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Staller, in the time of Edward the Confessor.*' In 1086 it had become part of the large possessions of Count Eustace of Boulogne, and was held of him by Rumold.*' Count Eustace appears to have granted this fee with other lands either to his illegitimate son Geoffrey or to Geoffrey's son William of Boulogne,*' who appears as overlord of Beauchamps shortly before his death in 1130.^ He was succeeded by his son Faramus of Boulogne,*^ whose daughter and heir Sybil married Ingelram de Fiennes.^^ Ingelram d
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE Staller, in the time of Edward the Confessor.*' In 1086 it had become part of the large possessions of Count Eustace of Boulogne, and was held of him by Rumold.*' Count Eustace appears to have granted this fee with other lands either to his illegitimate son Geoffrey or to Geoffrey's son William of Boulogne,*' who appears as overlord of Beauchamps shortly before his death in 1130.^ He was succeeded by his son Faramus of Boulogne,*^ whose daughter and heir Sybil married Ingelram de Fiennes.^^ Ingelram de Fiennes was killed in battle in 1189. His son William de Fiennes was his heir *^ and appears as overlord of Beauchamps early in the 13 th century.^ After this date there is no further record of this family holding any rights in Beauchamps. They had appa- rently granted the services from this fee to one of the Vere family," for Aubrey de Vere Earl of Oxford was returned as holding a fee in Alfladewick of the honour of Boulogne in 1210^° and his successors are found as overlords of the ; In 1129 Alfladewick was held in demesne by Rumold, either the Rumold of 1086 or his son.'* This Rumold had two sons, Payn and Bernard, one of whom, apparently Bernard," married the sister of Hugh son of Wulfgar, and half Alfladewick and half the mill with the land attached to it were granted to Hugh by Rumold and his sons as his sister's dower.''" The manor appears to have remained in Rumold's family for some time, though the descent is difficult to In 1191 Robert Rumold was holding one knight's fee in Alfladewick,'' and in the 13 th century reference is made to the mill of Rumold,"^ but there is no evidence to show if this family ^' was then hold- ing the manor, the history of which cannot be traced until the end of the i 3th century, when it was held by the family of Beauchamp. Henry de Beauchamp styled of Alfladewick was living in 1278,** and in 1303 t
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