Robert de Gresley

References

• Archaeologia cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society. cn Publication date 1923 Publisher [London] Kent Archaeological Society Volume 36. Page 16. “Longchamp Pedigree.” Archive.Org
• Alfred Suckling, 'Weston ', in The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 (Ipswich, 1846), pp. 97-101. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/suffolk-history-antiquit... [accessed 16 August 2020]. Weston. William the Conqueror held an estate in Weston which had formed part of the possessions of Archbishop Stigand, valued at two shillings; with a church and twenty acres of glebe, worth three shillings. (fn. 1) Hugo de Montford, Roger Bigot, and Goisfridus de Mandeville, had also small estates here. (fn. 2). Henry I. granted a manor which extended over this parish, and part of Beccles, to William de Luvell, from whom it was called Soka Luvelli. William de Luvell sold it to William de Longo Campo, at that time Chancellor of England, who gave it to Henry his son, who bestowed it, as a marriage portion, on his daughter, the wife of Robert Gresle, who held it when the Record called Testa de Nevill was compiled. (fn. 3) By what tenure this 'Soke,' or power of administering justice and executing the laws of the land within its limits, was held, is not recorded.

Farrer (VCH Lancs Vol. 1, 1906): https://archive.org/details/victoriahistoryo01farruoft/page/329/