Agnes de la Mare

Citations

1. [S1407] Transaactions of the Shropshire Archaelogical and Natrural History Society, This appears in Domesday under the name of Stantune, but it was then held by the Baron from whom it derived its present name. Helgot, the Norman, was a follower of Roger de Montomery, and held 19 Shopshire Manors under him. He died soon after Doomesday, and was suceeded by his son Herbert, one of the Assessors to Henry I [1100-1135]. In 1109, the King was his guest at Castle Holgate, and c. 1115, a Great Court was held there by the King's Viceroy. Herbert fitz Helgot gave the Church of his Maanor to Shrewsbury Abbey, to which jis father had already given Norton in Hales and Monkmoor. Herbert was succeeded by his son Herbert, called de Castello, who married Emma, in her own right Baroness of Pulverbatch. Herbert and Emma left no children, and Castle Holgate passed to a distant relative, Robert de la Mare. Robert died in 1193, at Benevento, on his way home from the Crusades, on his death bed making a grant of Uffington to the Abbey of Haughmond. He was succeeded by his daughter Agnes, widow of Robert Mauduit, Sheriff of Wiltshire, who took as her second husband Ralph de Arderene, sometimes Sherriff of Herefordshire. In 1199, Agnes was dead, and her son Thomas Mauduit, the inheriter of Holgate, was under the guardianship of Hugh de Bosco.
   
   Thomas Mauduit came of age about 1204; ten years later he served personally in Poitou, and in 1216, he took the side of the Barons against King John. The King, in return, granted castle Holgate to Hugh de Mortimer of Wigmore, but Thomas returned his allegiance in 1217, and was reinstated in all his possessions, both in Shropshire and Hampshire. In 1222, he had licence to hold a weekly market on Thursdays at Holgate, till the King (HenryIII) [1216-1272] should be of age; for this he paid 5 marks and a palfrey. In 1230, he was over seas with the King, but in 1242, he excused himself from accompanying him to France, purchasing his absence by a fine of £80. Thomas Mauduit died 1244, and was succeeded by his son William. He was probably buried at Haughmoud, to which Abbey he left by will , "Together with his body, " 20s. arising out of his mill of Castle Holgate. William Mauduit granted the whole of his Mill to the Canons in 1248. In 1253, the King, being in Gascony, granted William Mauduit permission to hold a yearly fair at Warminster, and a weekly market at Castle Holgate. The Baron of Holgate at this time possessed his own Court where all causes within his Liberty were tried, and his own Gallows. About 1258, William Mauduit alienated all his Shropshire Barony to Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, "King of the Romans," who conveyed Castle Holgate to the Knights Templer, . . .
2. [S1016] Robert William Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, Volume 4: page 59.
3. [S1380] Many Mini Biographies: Thomas Mauduit - 1185, Thomas Mauduit s/o 243397376. Robert Mauduit & 243397377. Agnes de la Mar. - www.teachergenealogist007.com.
4. [S936] British History Online - Victoria County History: Warminister Manor, Wiltshire - www.british-history.ac.uk.
5. [S1406] Arthur Ponsonby, THE PRIORY AND MANOR OF LYNCHMERE AND SHULBREDE, page 58 - On Amabilia's death Ralph married Agnes de la Mare,
   heiress of the barony of Castle Holgate in Shropshire and
   widow of Robert Mauduit of Warminster. In 1193 Ralph
   de Arderne was present in the King's Court at Westminster.