A comparison of the Domesday description of the soke with the following entry in Testa de Nevill leaves no doubt in my mind of the identification of Guldelsmere with Ingoldmells.
P. 334, Wapentake of Candleshoe:
‘Lady Matilda de Lacy holds in Ingoldemoles, and in Schekenesse, and in Steping, and in Burg, and in Partenay 3 carucates less half a bovate.’ Here, three places (Steeping, Burgh and Partney) are certainly the same as in D.B., so that it seems fair to conclude that Tric is the same as Skegness and Guldelsmere as Ingoldmells, and this conclusion is much strengthened by a charter I am able to produce, which accounts for the possession of the manor by the Lacy family.
Duchy of Lancaster, Royal Charters, No. 1:
‘William king of England to Robert bishop of Lincoln, Os[bert] sheriff of Lincoln, and his barons and faithful men, French and English, greeting. Know ye that I grant the exchange which Ur[so] Abet[ot] and Robert de Laceio made of Ingolnesmera and of Witchona. Witnesses: Robert bishop of Lincoln, and R. fitz Hamon, at Brigstock.’
Robert Bloet became bishop of Lincoln in 1093, William Rufus died in 1100, so we may date the charter between those years. And we find that Urso de Abitot, the hereditary sheriff of Worcestershire, had become possessed of the manor of Ingoldmells before that date, and had exchanged it with Robert de Lacy. Now we know that Urso was brother to Robert Le Despenser, and his possession of the manor of Ingoldmells can be accounted for, if we conclude that he was his brother's heir. The Marmions succeeded to the rest of Robert Le Despenser's lands in Lincolnshire, and this charter shows why they did not succeed also to his lands in Candleshoe Wapentake.
Robert Le Despenser has been supposed to be the same person as Robert Marmion, the father of Roger Marmion of the Lindsey Survey, but the fact that the Beauchamps obtained the larger share of Robert Le Despenser’s[1] possessions in Leicestershire and Worcestershire points rather, as Mr, Round suggests, to descent on the part of both the Beauchamps and Marmions through his brother Urso.
When the Lindsey Survey was taken c. 1115 the Lacy lands, having been forfeited, were in the hands of Hugh de la Val
- ↑ Round, Feudal England, p. 176.
