Aguillon family
The Aguillon (aka Agillon or Agilmo[2]) Barony was created when Manser Aguillon was granted the lordship of Perching (now a lost village) high on the South Downs in West Sussex.
Ancestry
The Aguillons are assumed to have originated in France. They seem to have been associated[a] with the Marmion family, witnessing charters alongside them in Normandy in 1106[3] and later occupying their land in England. Manser Aguillon settled in England in the 12th Century and acquired land in Sussex. Upon the death of Sir Robert Aguillon he was holding lands in London, Middlesex, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Norfolk and Hertfordshire.[1]
Baron Aguillon of Perching
By Tenure
- Manser Aguillon[4] d.bef.1194.[4] Awarded two Knights Fees in the honor of Arundel[5] and held a knights fee off Robert Marmion, 2nd Baron Marmion of Tamworth in 1167.[6]: 46 Knight service to guard Falaise Castle in 1172.[7]
- Sir Robert Aguillon[4] d.15 Feb 1286.[1] Sheriff of Surrey & Sussex. Keeper of Guildford Castle in 1267 and of Arundel during the minority of its heir in 1272. Granted Berwick, East Sussex after it had been taken from the Rebel Baron William Marmion. Held Addington by service of making bastias in the king's kitchen on the day of his coronation, or of finding a person who would make for him a certain pottage called the "Mess of Gyron".[8] Founded Flitcham Priory.[9] Married Margaret, Countess of the Isle of Wight and daughter of Margaret of Geneva. Isabel his daughter and heir married Hugh, 1st Baron Bardolf.
Notes
- ^ perhaps as under-tenants of the Marmions in first Normandy and then England
References
- ^ a b c The Knights of Edward I (hardback), London: Harleian Society, 1929
- ^ a b Bernard Burke (1884), Burkes General Armoury (hardback), London: Burkes, p. 334
- ^ Thomas Stapleton (1844), Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normannias, London: Society of Antiquaries, p. xcvi
- ^ a b c d e Nicholas Harris Nicolas; William Courthope (1857), Historic Peerage of England (hardback), London: John Murray
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- ^ Charles Ferrers R. Palmer (1875), History of the Baronial Family of Marmion, Lords of the Castle of Tamworth, etc. (hardback), Tamworth: J. Thompson
- ^ Hubert Hall (1896), The Red Book of the Exchequer, vol. II, London: HMSO, p. 642
- ^ "London". British History Online. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ^ "East". British History Online. Retrieved 7 February 2015.