Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameHamon MASSEY, 27G Grandfather
Web Notes notes for Hamon MASSEY
Sites of the estates obtained by Hamon I in addition to a house in Chester and land on the Wirral peninsula were Ullerton (Owlarton). It is about two miles south-southeast from the town of Knutsford. This probably marks the area of the greatest holdings of the Barons De Mascy in Cheshire. Within these lands Hamon De Mascy had lesser Lords who held portions thereof for him or under his 'right'.
In 1092 King William Rufus was a guest at the court of Hugh Lupus in Chester. At least two of his barons attended the King, Hamon De Mascy and William Venables. They along with their entourage of adherents and servants of Hamon, accompanied the King on a hunting expedition in the Wirrall Peninsula. This probably took place on lands which had been set aside as a hunting preserve of the King and treated as his possession which had not been the subject of a grant, not even to Earl Hugh Lupus.
No doubt it was as a consequence of some occurrence on this hunting expedition that a new estate was give to Hamon I, in fee of Hugh Lupus. The estate, Pontington (today called the area around the village of Puddington), was on such occasion granted by the King himself, so that thereafter the De Mascy Cheshire Barons held it in fee of the King rather than in fee of the Earl. As soon as the hunting party returned to Hugh Lupus' castle at Chester, Hamon sought out a scrivener, no doubt a monk whose duties were appropriate to the purpose recorded as follows:
"I, William King of England do give unto Massy all my right, interest and title to the hop and hopland (valley l and) from me and mine to thee and thine with bond (boundry) and limit from heaven above to hell below, to hold of me and mine with bow and arrow when I shoot upen yerrow ( the place), and in witness to the sooth (action or statement) I seal with my wang tooth." Inscribed as witness was William Venables "fratre suo". Hamon Massey, the first baron of Dunham-Massy, held the towns of Dunham, Bowden, Hale, Ashley, and half of Owlerton, in Bucklow hundred, under Hugh Lupus, Earl of Cheshire, in the reign of William the Conqueror; all of which one Edward held formerly, as appears by Domesday Book
In 1092 King William Rufus was a guest at the court of Hugh Lupus in Chester. At least two of his barons attended the King, Hamon De Mascy and William Venables. They along with their entourage of adherents and servants of Hamon, accompanied the King on a hunting expedition in the Wirrall Peninsula. This probably took place on lands which had been set aside as a hunting preserve of the King and treated as his possession which had not been the subject of a grant, not even to Earl Hugh Lupus.
No doubt it was as a consequence of some occurrence on this hunting expedition that a new estate was give to Hamon I, in fee of Hugh Lupus. The estate, Pontington (today called the area around the village of Puddington), was on such occasion granted by the King himself, so that thereafter the De Mascy Cheshire Barons held it in fee of the King rather than in fee of the Earl. As soon as the hunting party returned to Hugh Lupus' castle at Chester, Hamon sought out a scrivener, no doubt a monk whose duties were appropriate to the purpose recorded as follows:
"I, William King of England do give unto Massy all my right, interest and title to the hop and hopland (valley l and) from me and mine to thee and thine with bond (boundry) and limit from heaven above to hell below, to hold of me and mine with bow and arrow when I shoot upen yerrow ( the place), and in witness to the sooth (action or statement) I seal with my wang tooth." Inscribed as witness was William Venables "fratre suo". Hamon Massey, the first baron of Dunham-Massy, held the towns of Dunham, Bowden, Hale, Ashley, and half of Owlerton, in Bucklow hundred, under Hugh Lupus, Earl of Cheshire, in the reign of William the Conqueror; all of which one Edward held formerly, as appears by Domesday Book