Matilda de Lovetot, Heiress of Sheffield and Hallamshire

Maud de Luvetot was the heiress of Sheffield and Worksop.

"The second William de Lovetot’s early death led to a great change in the fortunes of his inheritance, for, by his wife Matilda, daughter of Walter Fitz Robert, (and through her mother nearly related to the great house of Clare) he left an only daughter, then seven years of age.
She was committed to the charge of Ralph Murdac, the sheriff of the county; and in due time the youthful heiress was given in marriage, by Richard I., to Gerard, son of Gerard de Furnival, one of his distinguished crusading followers, who was present at the siege of Acre."

"Molde, or Matilda, de Furnival was during the early part of her widowhood engaged in disputes with the canons of the Priory, and especially with Prior Walter, so that she only gave them a mark from her mill at Worksop, yearly, for a pittance, on the anniversary of her husband’s death; but in 1249 she had received back the offending Walter into her favour, and then confirmed all the grants of her family, to which she added fresh gifts, viz., a wood in Worksop, of the extraordinary name of Staddeburgchaoed, all the land she had in Wellum (Welham), and other property in Gringley, &c. She is consequently highly praised by the Priory metrical chronicler, Pigot, who says of her—
'Goode Molde was beryed most principall
Above Sr Thomas Nevill afore the hye autere,
For a goode doer most worthie of all
That indued this place; and her husband in fere
To reherse what she did, dyvers things sere
As expressed afore, it wolde tahe long space,
Bot in Heven therfore we trust is there place.'"
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