Maud ¹

  General Notes:

... Maud widow of Adam son of Osbert in 1207 paid 4 marks to the king that she might be at liberty not to marry; ibid. 216; Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 118. ¹

  Events

• Manorial Estate, 1206, Bare Manor, Morecombe, Lancashire, LA4, GB. ² BARE was included in Count Roger of Poitou's demesne in 1094. (fn. 27) Later it was divided. One moiety or half a plough-land was in 1212 held by Gilbert de Kellet in thegnage, and his ancestor Bernulf son of Orm had granted it to Adam de Yealand at a free rent of 8s. (fn. 28) The other half plough-land was held by Maud de Kellet. (fn. 29) In 1226 this part of the township paid 16s. in all to the king. (fn. 30) Half an oxgang of land was about 1262 granted to Lancaster Priory by Thomas de Coupmanwra...

Footnotes:
27. \endash 8 Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 290.
28. Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 90. In 1297 Gilbert de Walton and Agnes his wife, together with Emma sister of Agnes, held half a plough-land in Bare of the Earl of Lancaster and paid 8s. rent; ibid. 295.
29. Ibid. 91. Maud's right was acknowledged in 1206; Final Conc. i, 25. See further in the account of Over Kellet. In 1276 Alice widow of Thomas de Coupmanwra claimed dower in 3½ oxgangs of land in Bare against Robert de Coupmanwra; De Banco R. 14, m. 9d. For the other half oxgang see below.
30. Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 141.

• Manorial Estate, 1219, Over Kellet Manor, Over Kellet, Carnforth, Lancashire, LA6, GB. ¹ The manor of OVER KELLET, although in Domesday Book surveyed with Nether Kellet, (fn. 8) was perhaps even then separate from it, for the survey of 1212, when it had become divided into moieties, shows that it was held by a different tenure, viz. in thegnage by a rent of 15s. It was assessed as three plough-lands. (fn. 9)

In a rental of 1226 the thegnage rent of Adam son of Osbert and William son of Orm, both then deceased, was given as 15s. (fn. 10) Adam son of Osbert in 1194 made peace with Richard I, after the rebellion of John Count of Mortain, by a fine of 10 marks (fn. 11); he died about 1206. (fn. 12) He appears to have held a moiety of Kellet in right of his wife Maud daughter of Uctred, for in the last-named year Henry de Kellet, lord of the other moiety, released to her all his right in a plough-land and a half in Kellet and half a plough-land in Bare. (fn. 13) Maud was undisputed tenant of this moiety of Over Kellet in 1212, holding in thegnage by a rent of 7s. 6d. (fn. 14) She died about 1219, for in that year her son, as Adam son of Adam de Kellet, paid 31s. as relief on succeeding to the lands of Maud de Kellet his mother. (fn. 15)

The younger Adam was also known as Adam de Coupmanwra or Capernwray, having probably fixed his principal dwelling-place in that part of the township. He was a benefactor of the abbeys of Cockersand (fn. 16) and Furness, (fn. 17) and in 1228 was one of the perambulators of the forest bounds. (fn. 18) He had a brother William. (fn. 19)

Thomas son and heir of Adam de Capernwray had livery of his father's lands in 1236, paying 15s. 6d. as relief. (fn. 20) He was escheator for the county about 1249 and later, (fn. 21) and in 1252 held the bailiwick of the forest. (fn. 22) He was a benefactor of Cockersand Abbey (fn. 23) and Lancaster Priory, (fn. 24) and in 1269 gave an oxgang of land in Kellet and various privileges to Furness Abbey. (fn. 25) He died not long afterwards, his heir being William son of Richard de Burgh, a minor, in ward to William le Boteler of Warrington. (fn. 26)

Footnotes:
8. V.C.H. Lancs. i, 288b.
9. Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 90, 91. The extent of the Over Kellet tenement is gathered from a comparison of this record with others quoted below.
10. Ibid. 141.
11. Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 77. He was living in 1202; ibid. 152.
12. Maud widow of Adam son of Osbert in 1207 paid 4 marks to the king that she might be at liberty not to marry; ibid. 216; Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 118.
13. Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 25.
14. Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 91; she is called Maud de Kellet. She had one moiety of Over Kellet and Bare and Gilbert de Kellet had the other moiety, pointing to a division between co-heirs. As Gilbert's grandfather had part of Kellet the division must have been made long before 1212. The rents for Kellet and for Bare were 15s. and 16s., so that each tenant paid 15s;. 6d.
15. Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 31.
16. As Adam son of Adam de Kellet he gave to Cockersand Abbey, with the assent of his mother Maud, land in Kellet between the road to Cawood and the crosses on the Hospitallers' land; Cockersand Chartul. (Chet. Soc.), iii, 904. As Adam son of Adam son of Osbert de Kellet he made a further gift; ibid. 906.
17. He gave the monks of Furness the right to take millstones in Kellet; they were in return to pray for the souls of Adam his father and Maud his mother; Add. MS. 33244, fol. 44. It must be noted that here he is called Adam son of Adam son of Orm de Kellet.
18. Farrer, op. cit. 422. He is called Adam de Capernwray.
19. Lanc. Ch. (Chet. Soc.), i, 32.
20. Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), i, 308. Thomas de Capernwray paid 3s. 9d. rent for some land unnamed in 1246\endash 8 and 10s. for a house in Lancaster; ibid. 169.
21. Close, 33 Hen. III, no. 175; Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 204, 228.
22. Close, 36 Hen. III, no. 217.
23. Cockersand Chartul. iii, 907\endash 9. His grants included land at the eastern head of Yerleskelde on both sides of the road, all his land and meadow in Helks and Birkland Wray, and land on the Southcoteflat, outside the Summerlidyate, with various easements.
24. For his own soul and that of Alice his wife he gave land in Bolton to the priory; Lanc. Ch. (Chet. Soc.), i, 180, 253. He made some other gifts; ibid. 156, 160.
25. Add. MS. 33244, fol. 45. The monks might take ten oaks a year, also millstones and dead wood. These grants were afterwards disputed by Randle de Dacre, and an agreement was made in 1286; ibid. fol. 46. The original charters granting the oxgang of land are in Duchy of Lanc. Anct. D. (P.R.O.), L 407\endash 8. The witnesses included Richard le Boteler, then Sheriff of Lancaster, John de Cansfield, Richard his son, William de Heaton, the king's coroner, and others. The seal has the legend: + s' THOME DE COVPMANWRA.
26. Thomas had a son Robert de Capernwray, who must have been illegitimate; Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 320. In 1276 Alice widow of Thomas de Capernwray sued Robert de Capernwray for her dower in lands in Over Kellet, and he called William son of Richard to warrant. She made a similar claim against William son of Richard de Burgh and recovered; De Banco R. 14, m. 9; 15, m. 22. For William de Burgh see the account of Nether Burrow. It appears from later suits that the guardian made various feoffments of his ward's lands in Over Kellet and elsewhere.

Maud married Adam de Kellet, son of Osbert de Kellet and Unknown.¹ (Adam de Kellet died about 1206 ¹.)