The de Busli Landholdings
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Roger de Busli of Tickhill, Yorkshire
This is a record of the de Busli/de Builli land
holdings from their arrival in England in 1066 until the last direct
heir of the line, Idonea de Builli Vipont, died in 1241 upon which the
family land was divided between her two daughter's husbands.
Roger de Busli's Capital Holdings
For Roger's support in 1066, King William I
(the Conqueror) granted him a vast area in the north covering
considerable portions of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire,
Lincolnshire and Leicestershire which would become the Honour of
Tickhill. The Domesday Book
records that Roger held
land in Nottinghamshire (all or part of 110 manors) and South Yorkshire
(58 manors) and in some adjacent parts of Lincolnshire (3 manors),
Leicestershire (5 manors) and Derbyshire (7 manors)
directly from the King in 1086. After Roger's death in 1101 the
King took the land back, after a brief time when it was in Robert de
Belesme's hands along with the wardship of Roger's heir, the 4 year old Roger II, until the boy's death 3 years later
followed by Belesme's rebellion against the king and his banishment from the kingdom. So the
vast holding of the Honour of Tickhill did not remain in the family other than the
few manors which Roger had sub-enfoeffed to his brother, Ernold de Builli, and
which Ernold continued to hold under the King.
Bannerman
lists Ernold's manors as the large manors of Maltby and Kimberworth just to
the west of Tickhill as well as the manors of Sandby, Scausby, Faldham
and Brodesworth in Yorkshire and the manors of Stanford-upon-Sore,
Peverelthorpe and Torlakeston in Nottinghamshire.
Roger de Busli's Acquired Holdings
Roger had also acquired several holdings in his own
right which did not get seized by the King on his death and were passed to his young son and heir, Roger II, who died
three years after his father. Roger II's heir was his cousin Jordan de
Builli. With the end of the de Busli senior line, Ernold de
Builli's junior line became the new senior line.
These holdings included Sampford Peverell in
Devonshire which had been given to Roger de Bully 'with his wife' by Queen
Mathilda; the manors of Hallam, Attercliffe and Sheffield in
Yorkshire which King William's niece Judith had sub-enfoeffed to Roger
and a half share in the manors of Blackburn, Whalley, Huncoat,
Walton-le-Dale and Pendleton in South Lancashire which Roger de Poitou
had granted jointly to Roger and Albert de Grelley.
John de Builli's Acquisitions in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire
Jordan de Builli's grandson, John de Builli,
married Cecily de Bussey, the daughter and co-heir of William de Bussey
and Rohese FitzGilbert. Cecily had inherited the manor of Essendine in
Rutland; a half-share in the manor of Old Wardon, Bedfordshire; a half
share in the manor of Buckland, Buckinghamshire; Prescote and Bourton in
Oxfordshire and Morton, Lincolnshire from her mother and so these became
John's possessions.
The Last de Builli Holdings
When John de Builli died in 1213 his heir was
his daughter Idonea de Builli who had married Robert Vipond sometime in
the 1190's. We can reconstruct the holdings which John passed to
his daughter as the land was passed from Idonea in 1241 to her son John
whose heir was Robert II whose heirs when he died in
1263 were his two daughters, Isabel and Idonea II, which resulted in the
last of the de Builli property which had been passed to the Viponds
being taken to the Clifford and Leybourn families by their marriages.
The inquisitions post mortem for both Isabel and Idonea II's husbands
have survived and contain records of the holdings which they held by
right of their wives, which can be matched with former de Builli land
which John de Builli had held. The only land missing from the
ipm's is the manor of Sandbec which Idonea had granted to
Roche Abbey
along with her body in 1241.
In December 1282 a on the decease of Roger de Clifford his IPM listed his
property holdings, all held under his wife Isabel’s right to:
co. Bedford: Eyeworth
co. York: A moiety (half share)
of Maltby with Lord Roger de Layborne in right of their wives, the coheirs
of Robert de Veteri-Ponte; pertinent to the Manor of Maltby were 6 ½
knight’s fees (the estates as given above as Kymberworth, Scausby, Faldam,
Stanford-on-Sore, Pevelthorp, Brodesworth and Torlakeston (Ernuld de Busli’s
original holding just less Sandbec now)); total yearly value of Maltby 19£ 0s 4 3/4d
co. Rutland: Essenden; total yearly value 29£ 5s 6d so this was a big area with many
sub-tenants
co. Bucks: a moiety of Bocland
co. Lincoln: Morton
In 1284 the IPM of Roger de Leybourn listed the following property held
under his wife Idonea II’s right:
Co. York: the Manor of Kimberworth and the manor of Maltby (he had
originally held only a moiety but acquired the other moiety after Roger de
Clifford’s decease in 1282 above); Austerfield and Bawtry
Co. Northants: Parva Brynton and Neubotle
Co. Notts.: Perlthorpe
Co. Beds.: Eyeworth
Co. Bucks: the other moiety of the manor of Bockland