Robert Bastard
Robert Bastard (fl.1086) (also known as Robert le Bastard,
The last 5 of Robert's holdings in-chief listed in the Domesday Book had all been held by the Saxon Alwin before the Norman Conquest. Soon after 1086 Robert's overlord became Richard I de Redvers, feudal baron of Plympton,[5] the king having granted him large estates in Devon and elsewhere, thus Robert Bastard was in effect demoted from the high status of a tenant-in-chief.
His origins are unknown but he is assumed to have been a Norman. His one tenancy from William of Poilley, a Norman tenant-in-chief from
Holdings in-chief
His holdings in-chief were as follows, in order of listing in the Domesday Book:
- Backstone, in Rackenford parish, Witheridge hundred; held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Aelfric;
- Hazard, Harberton parish, Stanborough hundred (later Coleridge hundred); held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Aelfric;
- Combe Royal, Churchstow parish, Stanborough hundred; Robert's tenant was Osbern; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Aelfric;
- Dunstone, Ermington hundred, later in Yealmpton parish, Plympton hundred; Robert's tenant was Ranulf; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Alwy;
- Blachford, Cornwood parish, Ermington hundred; held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Alwin;
- Efford, Eggbuckland parish, Roborough hundred; held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Alwin;
- Stonehouse, St Andrew's parish, Plympton, Roborough hundred; held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Alwin;
- Bickford, Plympton St Mary parish, Plympton hundred; held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Alwin;
- Meavy, Roborough hundred; held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Alwin;
- Land of St Peter's Church in Plympton, Plympton hundred; the land contained 2 villeins returning an income of 5 shillings;[6][7][8][9][10] held in demesne; before the Norman Conquest held by the Saxon Alwin.
Holding as mesne tenant
- Goosewell, Plymstock parish, Plympton hundred, held from William of Poilley, a Norman tenant-in-chief from Poilley in Normandy, whose lands were later granted to Richard I de Redvers, feudal baron of Plympton.[11]
Succession
Robert Bastard is extremely unusual not only in having founded an English family which is said
References
- ^ Genitive case: Roberti Bastardi
- ^ Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen.ed.) Vol. 9, Devon, Parts 1 & 2, Phillimore Press, Chichester, 1985, Part 2 (Notes), Chapter 29
- ^ Where he is named merely as "Robert", but identified as Robert Bastard due to the known subsequent descent of the estate concerned, namely Goosewell (Thorn)
- ^ Thorn, Part 2, Notes, Chapter 21
- ^ Thorn, Part 2, Notes, Chapter 21
- ISBN 978-9004163010.
- ^ "Parishes: Plympton St Maurice - Pyworthy | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ^ "Plympton - An Ancient Town Somewhere In Devon - History". www.plympton.info. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ^ "A history of the borough of Plympton Erle: the castle and manor of Plympton ..." J. G. Commin. 1906. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ^ Lysons, Daniel (1822). Magna Britannia: Devonshire. T. Cadell and W. Davies. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
- ^ Thorn, Part 2, Notes, Chapter 21
- ^ As claimed by the present Bastard family and as recorded in Burke's Landed Gentry
- ^ Vivian, p.49
- ^ Thorn, Part 2, Notes, Chapter 29 "his estates continue in his family"
- regnal date19 Edward III
- ^ Thorn, Part 2, Notes, Chapter 29:6
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.49
- ^ Vivian, p.49
- ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp.115-6, pedigree of Bastard of Kitley
Further reading
- Henri Bruno de Bastard d'Estang, Généalogie de la Maison de Bastard, Originaire du Comté Nantais, Existant Encore en Guienne, au Maine, en Bretagne et en Devonshire, Paris, 1847, Chapters 15 & 16, Seigneurs d'Elforde et de Gerston en Devonshire et de Kitley, etc[1]