Hamo de Longford

'Part Two: The parish of Church Eaton: Introduction', Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 4 (1883), pp. 1-20. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52405 Date accessed: 14 May 2013.

I take this to have been the first Robert de Toeni or de Stafford, the Domesday tenant in capite, who survived till the reign of Henry I. (fn. 4) His gift was probably a confirmation, as chief lord, of a previous grant by the said Edelina. Who this Edelina was I am not able to say, but she may very possibly have been a daughter of Godric, the Domesday tenant, by a wife who was related to the Baron of Stafford, of whom he held this manor. If so, she will probably have married Gripp, or one of his sons, and had by him a son Hamo de Longford, who succeeded to the Lordship of Longford in Shropshire, which he held of the King in capite, as also to this manor of Eaton in Staffordshire.
Hamo de Longford married Sibil or Basilia fitz Odo, who was possessed of an estate at East Wall, in the fee of Rushbury, in Shropshire. Both Hamo and Sibil his wife were deceased in 1165. They had an elder daughter Eva, and at least one other daughter Agnes, who became the wife of . . . . . de Stockton.
Eva, the eldest daughter, was given in marriage by King Henry II. to Robert de Brinton, Lord of Brinton, Brimpton, or Brumpton in Berkshire, (fn. 5) who had with her the greater part of her father's lands by the express direction and gift of the King. She also inherited her mother's lands at Rushbury. (fn. 6)
Among the muniments at Longford is the transcript of a deed, whereby King John, in the first year of his reign, confirms to Eva, niece of John, son of Gripp, and her heirs, the manor of Longford, with the right of free warren, &c., as it had been held by her uncle John, son of Gripp, and Eva's ancestors in the time of King Henry I. and King Henry II. (fn. 7)

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'The parish of Church Eaton: Orslow', in Staffordshire Historical Collections, Vol. 4, ed. George Wrottesley (London, 1883), pp. 39-51. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/staffs-hist-collection/vol4/pp39-51 [accessed 18 December 2020].

Orslow, though often spoken of as a manor, is not mentioned in Domesday. It was then included in the manor of Eaton, where it is required to make up the three hides which were reckoned to it as a knight's fee. It became, as has been shown in speaking of Church Eaton, the subject of litigation between Eva de Longford and her sister Agnes; and by fine levied at Westminster on 20th January, 1203, Eva and her then husband, Walter de Witefeld, conceded, amongst other lands, to her sister Agnes de Stockton half a hide in Horselowe (Orslow), saving to themselves the vivary and mill there, to be held by Agnes and her heirs under Walter and Eva and the heirs of Eva. And in Easter Term, 1208, Robert de Wodecote and Milisant his wife and Agnes wife of Robert (otherwise called Agnes de Stockton), acknowledged at Westminster Hall that, in regard of their villain tenants they owed suit to the mill of Horselawe, as required by Walter de Witefeld and his wife Eva on the strength of a previous fine.
Milisent, the wife of Robert de Wodecote, was probably another daughter of Hamo de Longford and sister of Eva, for Robert de Wodecote was in litigation with the said Eva concerning certain lands in Cheswell, near Longford, at least as early as the year 1193. (fn. 1)

References

• “History of the Parish of Tatenhill in the County of Stafford, Volume 1.” By Sir Reginald Hardy (2d bart.) Page 43. GoogleBooks
• [S144] William Salt Archaeological Society, Staffordshire Historical Collections, Vol. 4 Part II. p. 39. Parish of Church Eaton.
• http://www.sewellgenealogy.com/p305.htm#i18449
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestors...