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From: Reedpcgen< >
Subject: Re: Gilbert de Malpas (Isabella Patrick)
Date: 5 Jul 1998 23:59:36 GMT


For what it's worth, Ormerod 2:598 gives Robert Patric (who is stated to be
lord of a moiety of Malpas) as granting a moiety of Malpas to David de Malpas
ca. 1230-40 (seal three pheons). Ormerod shows this Robert to be somehow
descended from Letitia, daughter and coheir of Robert FitzHugh, Domesday lord
of Malpas. Robert's son William Patric, is given as marrying Beatrix, daughter
and coheir of David the Bastard, alias le Clerc, illegitimate son and intruder
into the moity of Malpas held by his father William de Malpas, who died without
legitimate issue. Beatrix is stated to have received, on partition, a fourth
of the barony of Maplas in 44 Henry III. She, by William Patric, had one
daughter and sole heir, Isabella (living 1281) who married (1) Sir Philip
Burnell, d. s. p. (without issue), and (2) Richard de Sutton. They had issue
at least one son and heir, John de Sutton, who was alive during the reign of
Edward III (1327-77). William de Malpas is shown as the direct male descendant
of William le Belward, who is given as marrying Mabella, the other daughter and
coheir of Robert FitzHugh.

There was apparently a suit concerning John son of John de Sutton, chevaler,
over a moiety of a fourth of the barony recorded in the Plea Rolls11 & 12, and
12 & 13 Rich. II. Quotations from suits in the Chester Plea Rolls concerning
the bastardry of David, his daughters Idonea and Beatrix, and John de Sutton,
etc., are found on pp. 600-1, and the patrons of the rectors of the moieties of
Malpas are on pp. 605-14. The full title of this work, should you want to
check it, is _The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester..._ by
George Ormerod, 2nd. ed., by Thomas Helsby (London, 1882). It is also
available on microfilm through the Family History Library Branch Library
system.

pcr

P. S. Ormerod makes no mention of any Gilbert de Malpas, but does state that
there was a grant of "the moiety of Malpas, & c., formerly belonging to Gilbert
le Clerc, from Robert Patric to David Malpas." But this moiety would only be
part of the barony which came down by way of descent from a daughter and
coheir, not a son who succeeded the Domesday Robert FitzHugh at Malpas (or he
would have held more than the moiety). Ormerod is very sketchy about the
earliest years of the barony. David le Clerc was said to have been son-in-law
of Robert FitzHugh and succeeded at Malpas (CP).

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