. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. BIGGLESWADE HUNDRED At the date of the Domesday Survey MANORS Eudo son of Hubert (also known as Eudo Dapifer) held a manor of 16 hides i vir- gate in Sandy, which, like others held by him, had belonged to Ulmar of ; On Eudo's death in 1120 his lands escheated to the crown, and were granted to one of the house of Beauchamp," and this family continued to hold the manor of the king in chief till the middle of the fourteenth century. In 1201 Hugh de Beauchamp's claim to Sandy was dis- puted by William de Lanvaley, wh
. The Victoria history of the county of Bedford. Natural history. BIGGLESWADE HUNDRED At the date of the Domesday Survey MANORS Eudo son of Hubert (also known as Eudo Dapifer) held a manor of 16 hides i vir- gate in Sandy, which, like others held by him, had belonged to Ulmar of ; On Eudo's death in 1120 his lands escheated to the crown, and were granted to one of the house of Beauchamp," and this family continued to hold the manor of the king in chief till the middle of the fourteenth century. In 1201 Hugh de Beauchamp's claim to Sandy was dis- puted by William de Lanvaley, who claimed its revenues in right of his mother Gunnora, who held it by gift of Henry ; Hugh appears to have been in debt to the king who had seized upon this manor as security and granted it to Gunnora, and some years later the dowry of Maud, wife of Roger de Beau- champ, was declared to be in the king's hands on account of the unpaid ; In 1241 William de Beauchamp held property here," and in 1276 one of the same name justified his right to free warren in ; Ralph de Beau- champ, son of William, rendered feudal service in 1284 for one and a half knight's fees in Sandy held of the king in chief," and was followed by Roger de Beauchamp, who held the manor in ; Roger de Beauchamp, by alienating the manor in 1347 to John d'Engayne, severed the connexion of the Beauchamps with Sandy. The fine sets forth that the manor, worth ten marks per annum, is to remain to Roger for his life with reversion to the d'; John held the manor at his death in 13 54,™ and was followed by a son Thomas, wTio died in 1367 seised of Sandy manor, the value of which was at this time vvv Engayne. Gules a Jesse dancetty between six crosslets BabnackEi Argent a horse'harnacle sable. j^^io per ; Thomas left three sisters as co- heiresses : Joyce wife of John de Goldington, Eliza- beth wife of Laurence de Pabenham, and Mary wife of Wi
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