THE FOUR FAMILIES OF HERVEY

Was there a common ancestor, in Herveus, tenant of Odo, King William I's brother? Were any, all, or none 

a. Descendants of Herveus 'The Commissioner' 

or

b. His successors?

Butler of Skelbrooke and Armthorpe Line. Herveus de Campeaux Line. Campellis Line, honour of Pontefract. Scalebroc of Skelbrooke and Oxon. Line.
  Herveus. 'The Commissioner ' b. ~1040 Tenant of Odo de Bayeaux in Little Haseley etc. Oxon. Hervey I.  1086 held in Skelbrooke. ~ 1090 witnessed 2 grants. d. aft 1112.4  
1086 - Armthorpe was held by Earnwine of Roger de Busli. Hervey II  (Walter) b. Clare, Suffolk. b. 1085/1097, d. 1145. Held lands in Lancashire. Married Helwise. Hervey II. Held in Skelbrooke, Fryston and Hillam, Cridling Stubbs.  
  Hervey /Henry III (Walter). Held in Suffolk,  West Dereham, Norfolk and Weeton, Lancs. b ~ 1130, d. 1189/1192 or >1206.7 Married Maud de Valoignes 1. Hervey/Henricus. Liv 1144x 1160, ~ 1154. Held in 'Friston' and Hillam and possibly Darrington.6 Helped to kill William Maltravers, lord of Pontefract. Possibly married Cecily de Colton, their son was a Thomas.5

2. William.

3. Robert of Cridling Stubbs.

  
Thomas de Armthorpe.*

b~ 1125 - d. aft ~1195.

 1. Theobald I Walter le Butler,* butler to King Henry II in Ireland.  

 b. 1160/1170, d. 1206.

2. Hubert* archbishop of Canterbury b. ~ 1160, d. 1205.

Robert. Son of Henry/Hervey.1 (Farrer) 'Friston' and Hillam.2 Liv 1135, ~1170.  Helped to kill William Maltravers, lord of Pontefract.3

 A Thomas de Scalebroc witnessed William FitzHenry's charter for Oseney abt 1195.10
1. Alan.

b. ~1150 d. by 1202.

2. Robert de Armthorpe. d. by 1202.

 *Assisted by Ralulph de Glanville, brother-in-law to Maud de Valoignes.    
Hugh le Boteler son of Alan. Of Skelbrooke and Armthorpe, Kirk Sandal and Scawsby.

b~ 1175, d. by 1246.

1211 - 1216 butler to John II de Lacy, lord of Pontefract and afterwards to 'Lady of Bradford' [Margaret de Quincy].

1215 - lost Armthorpe to King John's son, by 1315 the abbot of Roche was lord of Armthorpe.8

     Heiress of Skelbrooke and Little Haseley etc. Oxon. Liv 1160s Daughter of Hervey or Hervey's son Robert (Farrer). Married Oliver Haget, div. 1200, who d. 1208.
      Olive Haget [FitzOliver ] married  William I de Brugges of Little Haseley etc.
Richard le Boteler of Kirk Sandal.     < 1200 - William II de Brugge (William I de Scalebroc) of Little Haseley etc.  d. >1247.
Robert I le Boteler. d. > 1269.     Sir Wiliam II de Scalebroc
Robert II le Boteler of Skelbrooke. d. < 1296.     John de Scalebroc Lord of Little Haseley etc. by 1322/1323.
Edmund le Boteler of Skelbrooke. d. 1330. In this year Henry de Armthorpe quit- claimed in Armthorpe.9     William III de Scalebroc until 1340's.

References:

1. EYC., iii, pp. 228-229, 183 (Farrer).

2. EYC., iii, p. 228.

3. Possibly assisting Pain son of Buchard of Hillam and Pontefract. EYC, iii, p. 314, No. 1658; Feet of Fines. 42, n. 34.

4. Pont. Chart. i, pp. 25-26, No.7.

5. Mon. Angl., vi, 830b; EYC., iii, pp. 228-229.

6. EYC., iii, p. 356.

7. Theobald I Butler. Dictionary of National Biography vol VIII (1886).

8. Nomina Villarum.

9. Hunter, J.. South Yorks., i, p. 87.

10. Oseney Chart. vol. II, p. 23.

From the above chart it might be suggested that the un-named Scalebroc heiress of Skelbrooke lost or granted Skelbrooke to Hugh le Boteler while retaining her four Oxfordshire manors.

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