Subj : Re: C.P. Addition: Isabel de Gressenhall, wife of William de
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From : Andrew Lancaster
Date : Wed Sep 05 2018 03:37 pm

From: Andrew Lancaster <lancaster.boon@gmail.com>

Douglas

I thought it worth checking for those Suffolk charters on Ancestry because =
as has been noted many times Ancestry.com searching sometimes seems almost =
deliberately awkward. I found the pages you refer to. With scanned books I =
have found that searches often fail, and browsing is awkward. If you browse=
 in the Sibton charters Volume 1, the main body of that volume seems to be =
called "Introduction", so you have to navigate to browse that. On page 22, =
Hugh Crecy is being discussed and then it says:

"He had at least one brother, Berengar, who was presumably the younger. The=
 two occur together in the Castle Acre cartulary and on occasion Berengar c=
alled himself the brother of Hugh de Cressy."

Footnote (128) to this: B.L. [British Library], Harley 2110, fo. 8r and Sal=
zman (ed.), The Chartulary, 60-1, as Berengar brother of Hugh de Cressy; B.=
L., Harley 2110, fo. 35, the two occur together.

[continuing] "This cartulary shows that Berengar was the first husband of I=
sabella de Gressenhall, Norfolk, who subsequently married first Osmund de S=
tuteville and then William of Huntingfield."

Footnote (129) to this: B.L., Harley 2110, fo. 35. For an account of her fa=
mily and their lands see Farrer, Honors, III. 395-7.

[continuing] "Her family made extensive grants to Castle Acre and Hugh de C=
ressy confirmed the grants of Wimar the sewer, her predecessor, and Wimar's=
 successors,"

Footnote (130) to this: B.L., Harley 2110, fo. 8r.

[continuing] "while Berengar on her account made the priory a grant of Weas=
enham in Norfolk."

Footnote (131) to this: B.L., Harley 2110, fo. 35.

Harley NS 2110 is described here, and clearly this is referring to the Cast=
le Acre charters: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/recor=
d.asp?MSID
3607&CollID
8&NStart
2110

Best Regards
Andrew
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