Lords of Manors
Fiefs and their Seigneurs. From Guerin's Almanack, 1890, in the Library's News Cuttings on Guernsey IV, p. 79, Staff.
Her Majesty | *L'Evêque de Winchester | |
do. | *L'Abbé de Mont St Michel | |
do. | *L'Abbé de Noir Moutier | |
Bertram Gosselin-Lefebvre | *L'Abbé de Blanchelande | St Martin |
Her Majesty | *L'Abbé de la Rue Frairie | |
do. | *L'Abbé de la Croix St Geffroy | |
do. | *L'Abesse de Caen | |
Amias Charles Andros | *Anneville de Fauville | St Sampson |
George De Saumarez | *Saumarez, St Martin | St Martin |
Peter De Baugy | *Bruniaux de St Martin | St Martin |
Amias Charles Andros | *Mauxmarquis | St Andrew |
Heirs Mary Messurier Allez | *Bruniaux de Noirmont | Vale |
Daniel Henry¹ | *Vaugrat | |
Jean Lenfestey (Frie)² | *Philippes | |
Rev. George De C. Guille | *Cannelly | St Sampson |
do. | *Fantôme | St Sampson |
Reginald Bainbrigge | *Rohais | St Andrew |
Her Majesty | Le Roy | |
do. | Lihou | |
do. | Pomare | St Peter-in-the Wood |
do. | Halia (two-thirds) | |
do. | Suard | |
do. | Des Trois Bouvées de l'Erée | |
do. | Huit Bouvées | |
do. | Couture | |
do. | Jean du Gaillard | |
do. | Quarante Quartiers | |
do. | Dix Quartiers Blondel | |
do. | Liven | |
do. | La Haule | |
do. | Rozel (SPP) | |
do. | Corvée | |
do. | Veilleresse de la Fallaize | St Martin |
do. | Veilleresse de Fermains | St Martin |
do. | Franc Fief St Martin | |
do. | Sotuas | |
do. | Franc Fief Gallicien | |
do. | Nannage | |
Heirs of Mrs Hutchesson | Le Comte, with dependencies³ | |
George De Saumarez | Halia (one-third) | |
T Corbin | Beuval | |
Marie Le Messurier | Robert De Verre | |
Marthe Le Messurier | Janin Besnard | |
do. | Reveaux | St Peter-in-the-Wood |
Heirs Marie Le M. Allez | Quantraine | |
Heirs John Carey | Ste Hélène | St Andrew |
P Robilliard (Pleinmont) | Thomas Blondel | Torteval |
T Robilliard (Pleinmont) | Bouvée Duquemin | Torteval |
do. | Guillot Justice | Torteval |
do. | Courriqua | Torteval |
Rev. George De C. Guille | Domaine Dom Hue | Câtel |
Chapelle St George | Câtel | |
A C Andros | Beauvoir | St Peter Port |
J F T Dobrée | Carteret | Câtel |
Hon. James Saumarez | Saumarez, Câtel | |
do. | Coltons | |
do. | Gohiers, Dieu le voye, Bouvée Marquand, Bouvée du Fief aux Roux, Fief Herne | Câtel |
William Carrington4 | Videclin | Câtel |
Rev. F J Jeremie | Groignet | Câtel |
John R Tardif5 | Au Merchand | |
John T Ross De Havilland | D'Anjohan Le Moigne, Prêtre, alias du Castel; formerly known as the Fief Lucas Hernault | Câtel |
W P Cohu | Au Cocq | Câtel |
Rev. F J Jeremie | Massy Gros | Câtel |
John Rougier | Eperons | St Andrew |
Mary Carey & heirs of Mary Le Messurier (Catel) | La Rivière | |
William Le Messurier | Saint | St Martin |
Frederick Le Messurier | Fief Fortée | |
Marked thus (*) owe suit and service to the Court of Chief Pleas | ||
See Fiefs 1680 | ||
¹ In right ofMartha Hocart his wife | A list of the Livres de Perchages of many of these fiefs held digitally in the Library. | |
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² In right of Rachel Le Messurier his wife | ||
³ see below | ||
4 In right of Betsy Marquand his wife | ||
5 In right of Sophie De Putron his wife |
³ Viz: Pomare (St-Pierre-du-Bois); Rozel (Vale); La Court (Câtel); Grantée (Câtel); Longue & dependencies (St Saviour); Fouqués (SPdB); Bequepée; Au Crochon (SPdB); Au Mière (SPdB); Huchon (SPdB); Gouïe (St Saviour); Des Cherfs; Cobois; Bellenzère; Grangiers; Besognes; A l'Ecachier; Effards; Au Saunier; Des Feuvres; De la Landelle; Des Queux; Des Forgiers; Moullinets; Canvière; Au Breton (Câtel); Clerc de l'Erée; Mauxconvenants; Hillaire; Trois Vattiaux (St Saviour); Damellaines; De la Vingtunième Boissellée; Du Quartier Du Camp Rouf; Au Carpentier; Robert Gosselin; Richard De Nermont; Du Quartier des Goubies; Du Camp des Hais; Richard de la Folie; Dame Alianor (Vale).
See Ewen, A H, 'The fiefs of the island of Guernsey,' Report & Transactions of the Soc. Guernesiaise, 1961, pp. 173-209, with a Schedule of Fiefs by Parishes;T F Priaulx, 'Fief des Mauxmarquis,' in Quarterly Rev. of the Guernsey Soc., XX (4), Winter 1964, pp. 85 ff.; 'Fief de Beuval', Quarterly Review of the Guernsey Society, XII (1) 1956, pp. 16-17, by T. F. Priaulx; Selected House pedigrees; Fiefs and hunting, 1680. T F Priaulx also translated into English the findings from a 14th century inquiry into the Rights and Privileges of the Seigneur d'Anneville (actually Fief Le Comte) and the Services and Dues owed to him (translated into French from the Latin in 1406), and published it in the Report and Transactions of the Société Guernesiaise, 1962, p. 279.