Almaric (St Amand) de St Amand (1314 - 1381)

Ancestors

Descendants

Biography

Almaric/Aumary de St. Amand, Lord Gormanston was Justiciar of Ireland 1357–1359 ^[1]

Father: John St Amand

Mother: Margaret Despenser

Grandfather: Almaric St Amand

Sir Aylmar de St. Amand fought at the battle of Crécy, Ponthieu, on 26 August, 1346. He was a Banneret in the first division which was under the nominal command of Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales, then sixteen years old.^[2]

Gormanston

Originally granted in 1230 to Aumary, or Almaricus de St. Amand; the manor had previously belonged to Ua Gorman and was described as four carucates of land, called le Ryn; the manor of Gormanston was on the borders of Counties Meath and Dublin, within easy reach of the city of Dubln. Faced with threatened measures against absentee owners in Ireland, at the end of his term as Justiciar of Ireland in 1359, Almeric de St. Amand retired to England and sold the manor of Gormanston to Sir Robert Preston In 1363. ^[3]

Milbrook Manor

"Almaric de St. Amand was succeeded by his brother John in 1311, (fn. 14) who, besides enjoying the privileges already mentioned, had the tolls of a fair which was held on St. Mary Magdalene's Day, 22 July. (fn. 15) His son Almaric, then aged sixteen years, succeeded him in 1330, and in 1343 he obtained licence from the king to increase his property in this parish by the exchange of half of the manor of Warden with the Abbot of Warden for the abbot's property in Millbrook. (fn. 16) In 1377 a further exchange was made between Almaric de St. Amand, grandson of the earlier Almaric, and Warden. This time the abbot exchanged land at Millbrook for land in Lower Winchendon in Buckinghamshire. (fn. 17) Almaric de St. Amand died in 1381, (fn. 18) being succeeded by his son Almaric, during whose tenure of the manor a grant was made to Sir Robert de Shottesbroke, probably as feoffee in trust. (fn. 19) With the death of this Almaric in 1403 the family of St. Amand came to an end in the male line, and Millbrook Manor passed to Gerard de Braybrook, whose father Gerard had married Eleanor daughter of Lord St. Amand. (fn. 20)" ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia : Governors of Ireland
2. ↑ Major-General The Hon. George Wrottesley, "Crecy and Calais", Collections for a History of Staffordshire Volume XVIII, The William Salt Archaeological Society, (1897), 31. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/collectionsforhi18stafuoft/page/31/mode/1up : accessed 30 June, 2022).
3. ↑ Manor of Gormanston in the counties of Dublin and Meath was sold by Almeric de St. Amand to Sir Robert Preston Gormanston Papers National Library of Ireland Collection List No.132 - MSS 42,021; 44,346 - 44,462 & MSL 128
4. ↑ "Parishes: Millbrook," in A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London: Victoria County History, 1912), 316-320. British History Online, accessed April 24, 2017, [1].