Warin FitzGerold

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Biography

Warin FitzGerold d. 1158, son of Robert FitzGerold and his wife Alice.

A charter dated to 1150/51 at Rouen, regarding Stanley Abbey (Drownfont), in which the Empress Mathilda and Duke Henry granted the meadow of the forest of Chippenham, and 20s. of land next to the bridge of Laycock, Wiltshire ... witnessed by "Warin FitzGerold" ("Warino filio Geraldi,")

In January 1154 Warin Fitz Gerold attested a charter of Stephen's as chamberlain. (Regesta Regum)

Manor of Kingston Lisle

Ten hides in Sparsholt, afterwards called KINGSTON LISLE, (Kyngeston Gerard), formed part of the royal demesne both in the reign of the Confessor and in 1086.^[1] This land, which was worth £20 and included 200 acres of meadow, remained in the possession of the Crown till the middle of the 12th century, when it was granted to the family of Fitz Gerold, hereditary chamberlains.^[2] Warin Fitz Gerold, the original grantee, was succeeded in 1157 by his brother Henry, the tenant in 1166.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ V.C.H. Berks. i, 332. They are there entered under 'Hilleslau' Hundred, which afterwards formed part of Shrivenham Hundred. Henry de Ferrers was holding a virgate in this manor and a dairy yielding 6 weys of cheese, though the shiremote testified that it belonged to the king.
2. ↑ Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 355–6; Great R. of the Pipe, 2–4 Hen. II (Rec. Com.), 34.
3. ↑ Great R. of the Pipe, 2–4 Hen. II (Rec. Com.), 80, 123; Red Bk. of Exch. loc. cit. At that date two other members of the family, Alexander and Hugh Fitz Gerold, were enfeoffed in Sparsholt (Red Bk. of Exch. loc. cit.). Their land probably escheated to Henry.

• Medieval Lands - WARIN FitzGerold

• Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, Vol. III, p. 308 - Vol III - #127

• 'Parishes: Sparsholt', in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page and P H Ditchfield (London, 1924), pp. 311-319. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp311-319 [accessed 12 May 2017].