who bore the local surname; and it was only at a period subsequent to the raising of a fair mound in the valley for the site of the castle, that another epithet derived from this structure attached to its locality, as in the name of Bel Encombre we have the literal translation of Bellus Cumulus. Bellencombre is now the cheflieu of a canton in the arrondissement of Dieppe, departement of La Seine Inferieure, with a population of 927 inhabitants. The cartulary of the monastery of the Holy Trinity of the Mont de Rouen, subsequently designated the abbey of Sainte Catherine after the acquisition of her relics, a manuscript of the eleventh century, furnishes the earliest notice of the first baron of this name in Normandy. From it we learn that Rodulf de Warren was a sharer and coheir with Roger, son of the bishop, in an extensive fief in the vicinity of Rouen, and that they had also several vills in the pays de Caux, and hence he was doubtless identical with Radulf, son of the bishop, whose name occurs in the following instrument, inserted in the cartulary of the cathedral church of Rouen, which regards the two communes of Douvrend and Bailly la riviere, near Dieppe.
Hoc scriptum est quomodo villa de Duuerent a dominicatu Archiepiscopatus exiit et quomodo postea rediit. Duerent fuit in dominico Sancte Marie. Hugo Archiepiscopus tulit de dominicatu et dedit cuidam militi, Odoni, in matrimonio sororis sue. Mortuo Odone dedit iterum Hugo sororem suam cuidam Henrico cum eadem terra. Postea defuncto Henrico clamat eam Walterus, comes de Medanta, propter hoc quod Henricus suus consanguineus erat, et ita ei dedit Robertus Archiepiscopus. Postea redemit eam Robertus Archiepiscopus, qui eam sibi dederat, pleno pilleo de denariis, et ita redacta est terra de Duerent in dominicatu sancte Marie. In quo Robertus Archiepiscopus dominicatu triginta annis et plus quiete tenuit; sed postea amore captus filiorum Ricardo filio suo injuste tradidit.
Membra ipsius terre sunt hec; Putham, Duuerendel, Puteolis, Airumesnil Hagenonmesnil, Hugonismesnil, Rainulfivallis, Le Coldret, Hupei, Cornepit; et partes de Baslei, scilicet Montane, Muntut et Extriemontem, quas adquisivit Robertus Archiepiscopus judicio Ricardi Comitis et principum ejus in appendiciis Duuerent; ad quarum divisionem et saisionem misit Ricardus Comes Goscelinum filium Hecdonis, Ricardum vicecomitem filium Tescelini, et Radulfum filium Episcopi, et Osbertum de Augia. Hi manducaverunt ipse die cum archiepiscopo in silva, que dicitur Blanca, et flagellaverunt ibi plures puerulos atque eos bene refocillaverunt in recordatione et memoria hujus facti. Fuerunt etiam quamplures conpatriote, scilicet, Walterus et Wacelinus frater ejus de Euermo, Hagenon de Hubovilla, Ricardus de Sancto