The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

ADDITIONAL NAMES GIVEN BY LELAND.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Eustacy : "Fitz Eustace et Eustacy";—presumably Eustace. Two great Barons of this name are entered in Domesday; Eustachius Comes, the Count of Boulogne (see Abbeville), and Eustachius Vicecomes, the Sheriff of Huntingdon, whose "evil deeds," according to Freeman, "stand out clearly in the Survey. In the entries of Eustace's own lands, we find English owners, and also the Countess Judith, complaining of his seizures." This Eustace, who founded a small Priory at Huntingdon, is called by Camden Eustace de Lovetoft, though he does not appear in the pedigree given by Hunter of the Hallamshire Lovetots. "Successor to Eustachius was Roger de Luvethot, Baron of Sontho, to whom Turold abbot of Burgh, kinsman to the Conqueror, gave his freehold of Clapton both in demesne and in fee, except one large virgate named Hone ware, which the said Roger and his successor held in paragio of the abbot and his successors. With the barony of Burgh, Roger de Luvethot was seized with one hide of the barony of Sontho; and endowed the priory of Huntingdon with two sheaves of the tithes of his own demesnes * * * * In course of descent, these fees devolved on William de Luvethot, to whom succeeded Richard de Luvethot his son, who was seized of this estate in the reign of Richard I. This Richard de Luvethot had two sons, William and Nigel, a beneficed clergyman, and three daughters, Amicia, Rosia, and Margery. The two brothers dying without issue, this inheritance fell to their sisters, the eldest of whom married Ralph de Mundevill, and had issue by him two sons, Nigel and Elias; the second married Hubert de Bromford, by whom she had one son Richard, who assumed his mother's name of Lovetot: and the youngest sister became the wife of Richard Patrick."—Bridge's Northamptonshire.