Henry of Eatington, Warwickshire ¹

  General Notes:

And now, having anticipated in some degree, by tracing the descent of these lordships from Sasuualo their first recorded owner, we come to Henry and Fulcher his sons. Of these, the eldest, Henry, whose name, says Dugdale, occurs in the Great Rolls of the Pipe as being taxed at seven marks of silver, was witness to the foundation charter of Merevale Abbey, made by Robert de Eerrers (grandson of Henry de Ferrers, who came over from Normandy with William the Conqueror). This event took place in the year 1148 (the 13th of September). He was also a devout benefactor to the Canons of Kenilworth, which priory had been founded about the year 1122 by Geoffrey de Clinton, Chamberlain and Treasurer to King Henry I. For, by the consent of Robert Earl Ferrers (his Lord), and for the good estate of him the said Earl, his wife, and sons, as also for the remission of his own sins, and the souls' healths of his ancestors, successors, parents, and friends, he gaye them the church of Eatendon, with all the glebe and tithes thereunto belonging (App. IX.); which grant of his was confirmed by the said Earl; as was also his gift of one carucate of land, called Newton, to the monks of Tutbury, as well as a meadow of marsh land and three acres of arable ground, which Jordan, the nephew of Henry, had added to his uncle's grant. (App. X.) It seems that this Henry died without issue, "for plain it is," says Dugdale, "that Henry, son to his brother Fulcher, succeeded him in the inheritance." ¹