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Birth:          ABT 1040 Edgefield, Norfolk, England
Death:          Walcott, Norfolk, England

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Manor of WALCOTE.

Ralph, brother of Ilger, had a grant of this town, on the deprivation of Edric, a thane, 
or one of the lords of the Confessor, and Humphrey held it at the survey of Ralph, 
when there belonged to it 4 carucates, and 6 acres of land, 8 villains, and 16 
borderers, with 2 carucates in demean, and 2 among the tenants, with 8 acres of 
meadow, one mill, 3 cows, &c. 4 swine, &c. 30 sheep, &c. and 4 skeps of bees; a 
church endowed with 20 acres, valued at 20d. and 7 freemen, with the moiety of 
another who were only under commendation, had 70 acres, and 2 carucates, &c. there 
were also 4 freemen added to this lordship, in the Conqueror's time by Ralph, and 
Humphrey had them; they held 90 acres, formerly 3 carucates, and now 2 and an half 
valued at 15s. of two of these his predecessor had only the commendation, and the 
predecessor of Robert Malet the commendation of one, the King and the Earl had the 
soc, valued then at 40s. at the survey at 60s. and it was one leuca long, and half a 
one broad, and paid 15d. gelt, whoever was lord.

This Ralph had also a grant of Edesfield and Stody, in Holt hundred; of Erpingham, in 
South Erpingham hundred; of Honing in Tunstede hundred, with Ridlington.

East Hall.

Humphrey, who held it of Ralph, at the survey, was nephew, or a near relation to 
Ralph, who enfeoffed him of this and other lordships, and assumed his name from the 
town of Edesfeld, or Edgefield, of which he was also lord.

William de Edesfeld, and his mother Maud de Walcote, by deed, sans date, granted to 
the monks of Bromholm, two parts of the tithe of his demeans here, and confirmed the 
gifts of Peter his father, and Humphrey his grandfather, to that priory which Humphrey 
was probably the lord above mentioned. William de Edesfeld was living, and lord, in 
the reign of Henry II. Peter de Edesfeld, by Hawise his wife, had a daughter and heir, 
Letitia, married to Sir William de Rosceline, and brought it into that family, as may be 
seen at large in Edgfield, in Holt hundred.

In the 51st of Edward I. the lete was in the King, and the lord paid 2s. per ann. for it. 
Peter de Rosceline, in 14th of Edward I. claimed wreck at sea, frank pledge, &c. he 
and Mabel his wife, living in the 9th of Edward II. Sir Thomas his son, inherited it, and 
dyings. p. his six sisters and coheirs inherited it, as in Edgfield; Joan, the fourth sister 
and coheir, married John Lord Willoughby of Eresby, who purchasing their rights 
herein, died seized of it, held of the manor of Horseford.

From: 'Happing Hundred: Walcote', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the 
County of Norfolk: volume 9 (1808), pp. 349-352. URL: http://www.british-
history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78560&strquery=walcote norfolk Date accessed: 25 
August 2013.


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DE EDESFIELD Peter (ABT 1100 - )

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