Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- PART I NARRATIVE
- PART II ANALYSIS
- 4 THE HONORIAL BARONAGE
- 5 ADMINISTRATION
- 6 REVENUES
- 7 THE BEAUMONTS, THE CHURCH AND THE WIDER WORLD
- 8 CONCLUSION
- Appendix I A new source for the death of Robert of Meulan, A. D. 1118
- Appendix II Genealogical tables: I. Tourville, II. Harcourt, III. Hereditary stewards of Meulan
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- PART I NARRATIVE
- PART II ANALYSIS
- 4 THE HONORIAL BARONAGE
- 5 ADMINISTRATION
- 6 REVENUES
- 7 THE BEAUMONTS, THE CHURCH AND THE WIDER WORLD
- 8 CONCLUSION
- Appendix I A new source for the death of Robert of Meulan, A. D. 1118
- Appendix II Genealogical tables: I. Tourville, II. Harcourt, III. Hereditary stewards of Meulan
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
LAY HOUSEHOLD OFFICERS
Although sources are sparse at so early a time, there is sufficient evidence to believe that in 1118 Count Robert I possessed a lay household containing the conventional range of officers. The Beaumont stewardship first appears with a certain William dapifer de Formovilla, in a charter of Roger de Beaumont datable to 1088 × 1090. It is certain that the steward in 1118 was Morin du Pin: Orderic says that Morin was Count Waleran's steward when the count emerged from his minority in 1120; we know in addition that Morin had administered the Beaumont estates with Ralph the butler during the twins' minority. Furthermore, Morin makes an attestation to a later charter of Robert I in a leading position not consistent with his obscure birth. The sum of the evidence points to Morin having reached his eminent position in the Meulan administration before Count Robert's death. The career of Ralph the butler has already been described in detail above; we know in his case that he had been the count's butler in his later years, and that he was deeply involved with the count's English affairs. Count Robert had a second butler called Anschetil. Anschetil first appears as butler to Roger de Beaumont; references in the cartulary of the hospital of Pont Audemer tell us that he was a landowner in the area of the town, and that his daughter and heir, Felicia, married a local baron, Walter Bigot.
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- The Beaumont TwinsThe Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century, pp. 139 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986