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Aenora Bardolf (Malbank)

Also Known As: "Aenora de Maubanc", "Eleanor"
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Birthplace: Wich Malbank, Cheshire, England
Death: after 1218
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Daughter of William de Malbank, 3rd Baron of Wich Malbank and Andilicia de Beauchamp
Wife of Robert Bardolf
Sister of Phillipa Basset; William de Malbank and Auda de Malbank, heiress

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About Aenora Bardolf

Died unmarried or married and her husband declared allegiance to France, depending on the source as what is clear is that the lands she inherited from her father ended up with Henry de Audley.


Little else is recorded of Baron William's life. His wife Andilicia probably died early in the reign of Henry II. They had no male heirs and, on his death, his lands and the privileges of the Nantwich barony were divided between his three daughters.[1] ... The second daughter, Eleanor, did not marry; her lands were granted to Henry de Audley.[1]
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[1] Hall J. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester (2nd edn) (E.J. Morten; 1972) (ISBN 0-901598-24-0)

William Malbank, 3rd Baron of Wich Malbank, Wikipedia


Aenora de Maubanc, also known as Eleanor Malbank, born c. 1172 in Norman England (Cheshire)[7]
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[7] Geoffrey Barraclough, The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, C. 1071–1237, Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire vol. 126 (1988), pp. 342, 393.

Aenor, Wikipedia


In 1086 Alstonefield was held of the earl of Shrewsbury by William Malbank, who may have been enfeoffed by the earl of Chester. He was one of that earl's principal tenants in Cheshire in 1086 and held the barony of Wich Malbank (later Nantwich). He was still living in 1093, but by 1119 he had been succeeded by his son Hugh. When Hugh founded Combermere abbey (Ches.) in 1133, he included half the vill of Alstonefield among its endowments, perhaps the estate which became Gateham grange. He died in 1135 and was succeeded by his son William, on whose death in 1176 Alstonefield passed into the king's hands for three years. William left three daughters and coheirs, Philippa, Aenora, and Alda. The three shares of the manor, one of them subdivided into six parts, were reunited in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Aenora Malbank's share.===

Aenora married Robert Bardolf, who transferred his allegiance to the king of France in 1204 but sent his wife to England. King John thereupon granted Aenora's share of Alstonefield to Thomas Basset, the husband of her sister Philippa. Aenora, a widow by 1210, seems to have secured its return c. 1218 and to have granted it to Henry de Audley; the grant, however, was described as made by Ranulph, earl of Chester, in a royal confirmation to Audley in 1227.

Alstonefield, in A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 7, Leek and the Moorlands


From a certain William, sub-tenant of the Earl of Chester in 1086, or from his heirs the manor of Great Brickhill came to the family of Malbank. It appears to have descended towards the close of the 12th century to the daughters and co-heirs of William, Baron of Nantwich, possibly the William de Malbank who held in Buckinghamshire or Bedfordshire from 1176 to 1184. The number of these ladies is given variously as three and four. Eleanor, described as the second and said to have died unmarried, is by the same authority identified with Aenor Malbank, grantor of part of a Cheshire manor. She is probably the Anor or Annora Malbank who had rights in Great Brickhill in 1205, and who is supposed to have been the wife of Robert Bardolf. The possessions of Robert, a landowner here in 1197 or 1198, were granted as forfeited lands of the Normans to his overlord Randolph Earl of Chester in 1205, but the Malbanks were still in possession of their estate after this date. Ada Malbank, sister of Eleanor or Annora, settled her land in Brickhill on her second son Matthew, and afterwards with her husband Warren d Vernon relinquished her share of the manor to her eldest sister Philippa and her husband Thomas Basset of Headington, Oxfordshire.

Advowson ===

The church of Great Brickhill has generally followed the descent of the main manor. Annora Malbank gave a moiety of the church to Dunstable Priory in 1205, (fn. 151) but if this grant took effect it can only have been for a short time, Thomas Bassett, who disputed her right (fn. 152) and obtained from her sister Ada and her husband Warren de Vernon a renunciation of their claim to a third of the presentation, (fn. 153) being acknowledged patron in 1214.

Parishes : Great Brickhill, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4.

References

  • “Bromley: Midlands family history, and the search for the Leicestershire Origins.” By Ian Bromley. Page 31. GoogleBooks
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Aenora Bardolf's Timeline

1171
1171
Wich Malbank, Cheshire, England
1218
1218
Age 47