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Birth:          ABT 1040 Normandy
Death:          1120 Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire, England

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Manor of Upton Scudamore, Wiltshire:

A certain Ralph was tenant of this holding under Alfred of Marlborough in 1086, but 
nothing is known of him. He may, however, have been ancestor of the Scudamore 
family. It has been said that a Walter Scudamore was lord of Upton in the reign of 
Stephen, and in the mid-12th century Robert de Ewyas, lord of the honor, granted the 
whole vill of Upton Scudamore to Godfrey Scudamore; the use of the suffix in the 
grant implies that the family had some previous interest there. By it Godfrey was bound 
to do the service of one knight at the castle guard of Ewyas Harold. In 1166 he held 
five fees of the honor of Ewyas in Wiltshire. He was probably dead by 1190, and was 
succeeded by a Peter Scudamore who held the five fees in the early 13th century. He 
forfeited all his possessions in 1216, but regained them in the following year. By 1222 
he had been succeeded by Godfrey Scudamore, who held the property until at least 
1262. By 1267 his son Peter Scudamore had succeeded him. He died c. 1293, leaving 
a daughter Alice, wife of Adam Bavant. Shortly before his death, however, he had 
granted Upton to his nephew Walter, who died in 1318 and was succeeded by his 
son, another Peter. In 1338 Roger Bavant, grandson of Alice, brought an action 
against Peter Scudamore to recover the manor. The suit seems to have lasted for 
many years, and was not finally ended until 1358, when John, son of Roger Bavant, 
released his claim to Sir Walter Scudamore, son of Peter.

Peter was still living in 1339, but his son Walter had succeeded by 1347, and was 
alive in 1360. He had a son Peter, who settled the manor on himself and his wife in 
1368, and died c. 1382. His widow, Joan, remarried Sir Robert Corbet, who still held 
Upton in 1412. Peter's heir was his only daughter Katharine, who married Sir John 
Reynes and had a son Thomas.

['Upton Scudamore', A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, 
Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds (1965), Elizabeth Critall (editor), pp. 78-89. 
URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/


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DE SCUDAMORE Reginald (ABT 1075 - )
SCUDAMORE Petronilla (ABT 1077 - )

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