Cecily de Beville

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From The History of Ellington Thorpe Manor

The overlordship of ELLINGTON THORPE or SIBTHORPE or GRYMES MANOR belonged to Ramsey Abbey as a member of the barony of Broughton. Eustace de Sibthorpe held lands in Alconbury about 1200. Walter de Sibthorpe granted lands in Sibthorpe to Hugh, abbot of Ramsey (1216-31), and his son Robert conveyed a virgate of land in Sibthorpe to William de Beville and Isolda, his wife, in 1240. Robert married Cecily, daughter and co-heir of Richard de Beville of Upton.

From 'Parishes: Upton', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1936), pp. 113-116 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol3/pp113-116 [accessed 27 December 2015]. 

The undertenant in 1086 was Fulk [de Beville, Bainvilla], and his descendant Richard de Beville [Beyville], who held a knight's fee in Upton, (fn. 7) died before 1238 leaving three daughters and co-heirs— namely, Alice the wife of David de Malpas otherwise the Bastard, Cecily the wife of Robert de Sibthorpe, and Margery the wife of Geoffrey de Raund. (fn. 8)

The pourparty of Robert de Sibthorpe and Cecily passed to James 'the heir of Robert' whose wardship was granted to Geoffrey de Mortimer. (fn. 11) Robert and James seem to have had the alternative name of Grim or Gryme, and in 1279 James, as James Grim, and his mother, as Cecily de Beville, were holding in Upton and Sibthorpe (in Ellington q.v.). (fn. 12) James was succeeded by Robert Grim, who died in 1298, leaving a brother and heir Ralph. (fn. 13)

• 7. V.C.H. Hunts, i, 347a; Farrer, loc. cit.
• 8. Excerpta é Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 316–7.
• 11. Cartul. Mon. de Rames. (Rolls Ser.), i, 107.
• 12. Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii, 632b.
• 13. Cal. Inq. iii, no. 465.