Gregory Fiennes's Coat of Arms:
[Source: EuropeanHeraldry: House of Dacre, annotated by PB.]
Gregory Fiennes's Coat of Arms:
[Source: EuropeanHeraldry: House of Dacre, annotated by PB.]
1. Azure, three lions or (Fiennes).
2. Quartering gules, three escallops argent (Dacre).
3. Or three bars gules a label azure (Moulton).
4. Cheeky or and gules (Vaux).
5. Azure seme de lys and fretty or (MORVILLE).
6. Azure a chief or, three chevronels in base interlaced (FITZHUGH).
7. Barry of eight argent and gules a fleur de lis sable (Staveley).
8. Azure, a bend between six crosslets or (Furneaux).
9. Barry of six argent and azure, on a bend gules three martlets or (Grey).
10. Vaire a fess gules (Marmion).
11. Or, three chevrons gules, a chief vaire (ST QUENTIN).
12. Barry of ten or and azure, an eagle displayed gules (GERNIGAN)...
See also the Victoria County History:
CLAPHAM
Faramus of Boulogne, grandson of Geoffrey son of Count Eustace, the immediate tenant ..., confirmed to the abbey of Bec a grant of land in Balham which had belonged to Clapham Manor.
His daughter and heiress Sibyl de Tingria (fn. 27) married Ingram de Fiennes, who in 1189 went to the siege of Acre, where he was killed. After his death his widow confirmed her father's charter to the abbey as 'lady of Clapham.' (fn. 28) She was succeeded elsewhere, and evidently at Clapham also, by William de Fiennes, (fn. 29) who temporarily exchanged Carshalton and some part of Clapham with William de Gyrund in 1239. (fn. 30)
William's son Ingram (fn. 31) and his direct descendants seem to have preferred their Norman to their English fief. Ingram's Surrey lands were seized as terrae Normannorum under Henry III, but were restored. (fn. 32) His son William spent many years beyond the seas, (fn. 33) and having remained there in time of war was yet restored to his English lands during the truce of 1299, while he acted as a hostage in the negotiations between France and England. (fn. 34)
It was doubtless his insecure tenure of his English lands, in addition to considerable debts, (fn. 35) which brought him to part with his Surrey manors.
Clapham was conveyed in fee to Thomas Romayn, a citizen of London and a pepperer by trade. He held it jointly with his wife Juliana, (fn. 36) and with her obtained a grant of free warren in February 1309-10. (fn. 37) He had been Sheriff of London 1290-1, and was mayor 1309-10.
A chantry was founded under his will in Clapham Church, the advowson of which belonged to the bishop. (fn. 38) He died early in the year 1313, (fn. 39) and his widow retained Clapham till her death circa 1326, (fn. 40) after which the manor was assigned to her daughter Margery wife of William Weston of Albury and widow of Robert de Upton, a portion only of the wood being assigned to Margery's sister Rose wife of John de Burford. (fn. 41)
27. Round, Faramus of Boulogne; Gen (new ser.), xii, 145.
28. See Cart. Antiq. A 36.
29. Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 575-6.
30. Feet of F. Surr. 23 Hen. III.
31. Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 277.
32. Hunter, Select Rolls (Rec. Com.), 265; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 229.
33. Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 59.
34. Cal. Close, 1296-1302, p. 254; Mins. Accts. bdle. 1127, no. 16.
35. Cal. Close, 1288-96, p. 382.
36. Chan. Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. I, no. 33. A fee-farm rent out of Carshalton Manor was reserved, but apparently not out of Clapham; yet in 1473 the manor of Clapham was said to be held of the heirs of Robert (sic) Fiennes and in 1575 of the lords of the manor of Carshalton (Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Edw. IV, no. 47; [Ser. 2], clxxii, 133).
37. Chart. R. 3 Edw. II, m. 7.
38. Sharpe, Cal. of Wills in Ct. of Husting, i, 238.
39. Ibid.
40. Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. II, no. 85.
41. Cal. Close, 1323-7, p. 583.
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Another source says:
"The St. Quintins' estate [Woodhall] later descended... to the FitzHughs (fn. 29) and their successors, the Fienneses.
Anne (d. 1595), widow of Gregory Fiennes, Lord Dacre, made George Goring her executor, and he sold the estate, of just over 1,000 a., in lots. "
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Wikipedia:
The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household. It was traditionally taken to be 120 acres (49 hectares), but was in fact a measure of value and tax assessment, including obligations for food-rent (feorm), maintenance and repair of bridges and fortifications, manpower for the army (fyrd), and (eventually) the geld land tax.
The hide's method of calculation is now obscure: different properties with the same hidage could vary greatly in extent even in the same county.
Following the Norman Conquest of England, the hidage assessments were recorded in the Domesday Book and there was a tendency for land producing £1 of income per year to be assessed at 1 hide. The Norman kings continued to use the unit for their tax assessments until the end of the 12th century.
The hide was divided into 4 yardlands or virgates. It was hence nominally equivalent in area to a carucate,[1] a unit used in the Danelaw...
[Wikipedia: Hide (unit).]