GERNON, William - ESSEX RESIDENT  - I.P.M. for Ralph, his father, ob.1274, and for Grandfather and
Great Grandfather, ob. 1247 & 1258. Personal I.P.M. extant  but defective, ob. 1327.
Probable Estates. Date Acreage Value Rents Fees Reference
Easthorpe 1274 181        I.P.M. C.133.5.3
Birch. 1247    686s  458s  I.P.M. C .132.44.3 
Theydon Gernon.  1247   379s  196s  1 I.P.M. C .132.44.3
Legh (sic) 1247   196 92  1/2 I.P.M. C .132.44.3
La Gerunere (sic)  1247   224s  37s 1/2 I.P.M. C .132.44.3
  1274  157       I.P.M. C.133.5.3.
Lexden Hundred  1247          C.I.P.M. i, 850
  1258          C.I.P.M. i, 440
  1274         C.I.P.M. ii, 63
Wormingford  1258          C.I.P.M. i, 440
  1327   140 7s    C.I.P.M. VI, 758
Derbyshire:-            
Bakewell 1228          C.C.R. 1228.p.46
  1264   800s      Misc. i, 645
1303         1 F.A. i. 250
             
Possible Total   488 +  1485 790s 4+  
Probable Total   500+        

 
Disposals:
1309 Reversion of manor of Theydon Gernon, with advowson, held by William of inheritance of Hugh Gernon. Sold for 200. FF.i.126.106.
1325 1 fee in Little Leghes, with advowson of priory, sold for 100. FF.ii.220.1044
  Settlements:  
1319 Reversion of advowson of church of Theydon Gernon, sold to William son of William Gernonfor nominal service and cons, of 100 marks.  FF.ii.194.791 
  Antecedents:  
  Gernons held in Essex in 1166, serving King John and Henry III, by whom they were rewarded with the manors of Bakewell in Derbyshire, and Easthorpe and Birch in Essex. Ralph the Elder, father of William, (Farrer. Honours, iii pp.203-5)
married first to a daugher of the Earl of Oxford, (J.I.1. 229.m.16d) and later to Hawisia Tregoz. (C.C.R.1228, 46.)

 
 

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