Category: Early Barony of Bradninch
Categories: Early English Feudal Baronies | Bradninch, Devon
Sometimes called Braneys, or similar, in old records. In Domesday Book (1086) this barony and the barony of Bery Pomeray were held by two brothers. This is a difficult barony to trace, but it was apparently held for a while by Sir William de Tracy who was one of the murderers of St Thomas A Beckett. This Tracy family, which is apparently connected to the Tracy family who held the barony of Barnstaple, but NOT the family who held Toddington, is itself a tricky topic.
After the Tracys the barony became one of the lordships around England which tended to be given to members of the royal family or people that they favoured. It first went to Henry fitz Count, who rebelled and then died on crusade. Sanders reports that it then passed through the hands of two royal officials, Henry de Trublevill and William de la Lund. It eventually came to be seen as part of the Duchy of Cornwall, which came to be a title of the crown prince.
Query: could it be that some of the individuals mentioned by Sanders only held the manor of Brandninch, or manors under the Duchy, and not the barony as a tenant in chief?
- The reference for this feudal barony in Sanders, English Baronies, is p.20, but it is not very complete or certain.
- See also VCH Devon vol. 1, p.560ff.
- Vincent, Nicholas, "The Murderers of Thomas Becket", in: Fryde and Reitz eds, Bischofsmord im Mittelalter, https://books.google.be/books?id=btg-_IyygYoC
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