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 Abt 1128 - Abt 1160 (~ 32 years)
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| Name |
William DE GORRAM |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Born |
Abt 1128 |
Pays de Loire, France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Abt 1160 |
| Person ID |
I13567 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
6 Nov 2016 |
| Family |
Matilda |
| Children |
| | 1. Damietta DE GORRAM, b. Abt 1145, Berwick, Shropshire, England , d. 1204/1205, Angmering, Sussex, England (Age ~ 60 years) |
| | 2. Giles DE GORRAM, d. Abt 1180 |
| | 3. John DE GORRAM, d. Abt 1162 |
| | 4. Ralph DE GORRAM, b. liv 1164 |
| | 5. Ive DE GORRAM, b. liv 1164 |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F4070 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Collectanea topographica et genealogica
By Collectanea topographica et genealogica, Chapter XVII. pp 182-
On the descent of the manor of Gorhambury in Hertfordshire, and of the Anglo-Breton family from whom that estate derived its name.
The manor of which it is proposed to give an account in the course of the following pages, was known by the name of Westwick from the earliest record till Century xiv, by that of Westwick-Gorham during Century xv, and by that of Gorhambury from about the period of the dissolution of monasteries to the present day. The family from whom its existing name was derived, became its possessors about the close of the reign of Henry I.; they came into England, from Britanny, shortly before that period, being descended from distinguished ancestors settled in the province of Maine, France.
De Gorram, of la Tanniere, in the Maine
The de Gorrams can be traced, in Britanny, to the beginning of Century xii. Their castle was situated on a small rivulet called the Futaye, at la Tanniere, seven miles west from the town of Gorram[5] (from which place doubtless the family name originated) and twenty miles n.w. from Mayenne. The name is variously spelt Gorram (the most ancient mode), Goram, Gorran, Goran, Gorren and Goron; its English orthography has, almost without exception, been Gorham from the earliest records. Many original grants by the de Gorrams of la Tanniere to the neighbouring Abbey of the Holy Trinity at Savigny still exist, and were examined by the writer of this article, on a tour in Normandy, in the autumn of 1836; of these, and of other ancient records (which will be referred to in tracing the descent and personal history of this family), a short abstract is given in the note below. [I have abstracted only those relating to William de Gorram]
William de Gorram is the first of this name who occurs in Britanny. His castle at la Tanniere, being on the frontiers of Normandy, appears to have been destroyed, or at least to have been greatly dilapidated, in the early part of the 12th Century, by the ravages attendant on the contests between Henry I and Fulk County of Anjou, during the successful attempt of the English monarch to wrest that Duchy from his nephew William Fitz-Robert. Peace having been restored, a new castle was built at la Tanniere, the chapel of which was given by William de Gorram, in 1128, to the monastery of Mount St. Michael near Avranches; together with a plot of ground for the cells of the monks, an adjoining orchard, the tithe of the men of his castle, the tithe of his market, of his mills, of his ovens, and of his fish. This grant, which is preserved in the College Library at Avranches in the beautifulcartulary of Mont St. Michael, is subjoined (A):
"Ego Guido, scae Caenomanensis Ecclesiae Episcopus, notum facio tam presentibus quem futuris, quod Ecclesia beati Archangeli Michaelis de Normannia sita in Periculo Maris, tempore nostro et praefatae ecclesiae Ricardi Abbatis, recuperavit in diocesi nostra ecclesiam beati Bertivini, in pago Erneiae videlicet. quae tempore longo deserta fuerat per desolationem malorum ipsius patriae, cum cemeterio, et demimis ipsius parochiae, et aliis beneficiis ad ipsum pertinentibus. Capellam quoque cujusdam Castri novi quod Taonaria vacatur, in praefatae ecclesiae parochia, a Gulielmo de Gorram instaurati, (jam dicto Gulielmo coram me apud Coenobium Savigniense annuente et donante, cum terra ad faciendas domus Monachorum, et cum viridario...
pedigree attached to the chapter
William de Gorram built a castle at la Tanniere about 1128, wife named Matilda
had a brother Henry living 1128
had a presumed brother Geoffrey abbot of St. Albans 1120, died 1146
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Source <http://lanvallayhistoire.eklablog.com/dinan-et-son-etymologie-a5197036>:
---> A very long discussion about the Gorron family ...
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Source Par Collectanea topographica et genealogica:
"It is uncertain whether we must refer to the family of Gorram of the Maine, William De Goram who, in the reign of Henry II. was possessed of half a knight's fee in Staplehurtt [Kent?], and who was Lord of the manor of frelteri, in the county of Southampton. His daughter Damata De Goram married Ralph de Broc of Agenet Castle; she died before 1205. (Close Rolls, 6 John, in. 19.) An undated grant by William de Goram, to Ralph de Broc and Damata his wife, of half a fee in Staplehurst to be held from Earl William, was among the Records of the late Earls of Peterborough, and is printed in that rare volume, Halated's Genealogies ..."
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Source Par Paul Piolin:
"Le prieuré de Saint-Berthevin de la Tannière, autrefois considérable, avait beaucoup souffert. En 1128, Guillaume de Gorram le rétablit dans son premier état, et le rendit à l'abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel. La piété et les travaux des moines réveillèrent l'ancienne sympathie qu'ils avaient rencontrée plusieurs siècles auparavant chez les habitants du Bas-Maine et chez nos évêques; Guy d'Étampes(1135), Odon de Montigny (1139), Robert (1216), puis Philippe de Landivy, Robert de la Chapelle (1225), Robert de Gorram (1236), ..."
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Source Par Thomas Cauvin:
"La famille de Gorram est très-ancienne ; elle posséda les terres de S.-Bertevin , de la Dorée, de Levaré et de la Tannière. En 1128, Guillaume de Gorram donne au monastère de S.Michel l'église de S.\emdash Bertevin et la chapelle de la Tannière. ..."
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Source Par Sir Bernard Burke:
"Gorham: The Gorhams came into England immediately after the Conquest; for "W. Filius Gorham," occurs in 1086, in Doomsday Survey (II. 441.), at Cippenhall, near Fresingfield, Suffolk.
Their foreign settlement was at, or in the vicinity of, the town of Gorram (now Goron), in Maine, 15 miles N.W. of Mayenne; a fortified place attached to the fief of Normandy by Duke William, shortly before his invasion of England.
Geoffrey De Gorram occurs as early as 922, as witness to a grant to the Monks of Notre Dame de Mars-sur-la-Futaye, at Villarenton (or Villa-Arunton), afterwards called L'Abbeyette (La Bayette, by error, in Cassini's map of France); a small Priory, of which a trace still remains, between Goron and Savigny: but Menage (Histoire de Sable) considers the charter as doubtful.
Another Geoffrey De Gorram (probably the father of Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Alban's, of whom more hereafter) occurs in a grant of undoubted authenticity, at the end of Century XI., or early in Century XII., as being father of
Euello or Rollo or Ralph De Gorram, who, before 1112, gave the perpetual advowson of Brece, four miles from Gorram, to the Priory of Fountain-Gehard, near Mayenne, a Cell to Marmontier Abbey, at Tours. He married Hersendis, daughter of Walter, Lord of Mayenne. He was a benefactor to Savigny Abbey, and was living in 1120. He was probably the father of Robert, Abbot of St. Alban's. His eldest son,
William De Gorram, shortly before, or in 1128, built a new castle on his demesne at La Tanniere (10 miles W. of Gorram), in the parish of St. Berthevin. He gave both his parish Church, and the Chapel of his Castle, to the Monastery of Mount St.Michael, near Avranches, with a plot of ground for the settlement of some monks, one of whom was to perform divine offices at La Tanniere. He married Matilda, by whom he inherited Livare, La Doree, and (probably) La Tanniere. He and his wife granted lands in Livare to the Abbot and Monks of Savigny. He died about 1155; and was succeeded by his son, Giles De Gorram, Lord of La Tanniere, who occurs 1162. ..."
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Source :
"... Gilles de Gorram, chevalier, seigneur de la Tannière, de Saint-Berthevin, de Levaré et de la Dorée, nommé Juhel dans quelques chartes, était le fils aîné de Guillaume de Gorram, seigneur des mêmes terres et le petit-fils de Paiellon de Gorram et de Hersende de Mayenne, sœur de Juhel II. Son père Guillaume, bâtit en ll'iS, le château de la Tannière, d'où Gilles partit pour la croisade avec son frère Jean de Gorram, qui ne revint pas. Gilles eut le bonheur de revoir ses foyers où il s'adonna aux bonnes œuvres : peu de noms reviennent aussi souvent que le sien dans le cartulaire de Savigny. ..."
Guillaume married Matilda [4124], daughter of Unknown and Unknown. (Matilda [4124] was born in , , France.)
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Family of de Gorrom was previously settled in La Tanniere, Maine, France before arriving in England.
p. 213-214
William de Gorram appears to have been the person who had Chetton and Berwick in Shropshire, by gift of Henry I., and Eudon by gift of Alan fitz Flaald or his son. That this William de Gorram was father of Damietta, the wife of Ranulph de Broc, is quite clear from documntary evidence; - for instance, "William de Gorram gives his land of Staplehurst,(1) which he held under Earl William,(2) to Ranulph de Broc and to his (William de Gorram's) daughter, Damata, and to their heirs; to hold under Earl William."(3)
Ranulph de Broc died, as we have seen, about 1187, holding half a knight's fee in the Honour of Arundel, and probably at Staplehurst above mentioned. His wife Damietta, known to have been heiress of Berwick, Chetton, and Eudon, survived till about 1204. Ranulph de Broc apparently had a son, Robert, by his wife, Damietta, which son survived him. Hence we have a Deed whereby "Damata, formerly wife of Sir Ranulph de Broc, and Robert de Broc, her son, testify that they were presents when the said Ranulph gave his land of Combdena to one Fulco de Bollard; and they confirm the donation." (3)
AGain, Robert de Broc married Margaret, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, and had by her a son, Laurence. Hence a Deed whereby "Robert de Broc, for the (souls') health of Margaret his wife, of Sir Ranulph de Broc his father, of Laurence his son, and of Sir Richard de Beauchamp, Margaret's father, makes a grant to the Church of St. Paul of Newnham and to the Canons of Ravensden. Witnesses, Sir Stephen de Turnham, Sir Thomas Basset."(3) However, the male line of Ranulph de Broc must have expired on the deaths of the above Robert and Laurence, and before the death of Damietta de Gorram. On the last event taking place in 1204, Stephen de Turnham, as husband of Edelina (Damietta's eldest daughter and alleged heir), obtained livery of Frelbury (Southants), and of Berwick, Chetton, and Eudon (Shropshire). The litigation which ensued between Edelina and her sisters, or the heirs and representatives of herself and her sisters, has been given already in most of its details. I now turn back a few years to add something to what has been said under Idsall, (4) about Stephen de Turnham. -
In 1198 (10 Ric. I.) Stephen de Turnham had a grant of the wardship of the ands and heir of Robert de Leeburn, and of the benefit of the marriage of the said heir. He gave the King 300 merks for the said wardship (5). There can be little doubt that the
(1) Staplehurst in Kent, probably.
(2) Probably William d'Albini (I), Earl of Sussex or Arundel (1139-1176)
(3) Halstead Genealogies, p. 27.
(4) Supra, Vol. II. p. 286.
(5) Rot. Pipe, 10 Ric. I., Kent
p. 215
said heir was Roger de Leybourn, afterwards married to Alianore, one of the daughters and eventual coheirs of Stephen de Turnham. In 1211 we have Stephen de Turnham, as a Tenant-in-capite of Shropshire, holding 100 solidates of land by services unknown at the moment. (1) The land in question was Berwick; but Chetton was possibly included in the estimate. A Quitclaim to Shrewsbury Abbey, in which Stephen de Turnham was joined by Godelina (sic) his wife, has been given under Albrighton,(2) but refers to their interests at Berwick. In March 1214, Stephen de Turnham was dead, and it was then, doubtless, or soon after, that "Eodelina, formerly wife of Sir Stephen de Turneham, gave to Lilleshall Abbey the Church of Chetinton (Chetton), the Chapel of Berewick, and all her right in Haremore." (3) Within a year after Stephen de Turnham's death, and between May and December 1214, a Fine appears on the Rolls, which was originally supposed to related to land in Shropshire; but the marginal affix Salop has been cancelled and Kent substituted. Such a confusion was natural."Roger de Leiburn gives the King 20 merks that he may have such seizin of the Manor of Berwig as he had on the day when he was disseized thereof on pretext of the death of Stphen de Thorneham." (4) It would see that Roger de Leybourn had had seizin of some Berwig during Stephen de Turnhams' life, and that on that Baron's death the Escheators had seized it as part of his estate as yet to be divided. What Berwig is alluded to, I have no inquired.
Before Michaelmas 1214, Edelina, widow of Stephen de Turnham, gave King John 60 merks and a palfrey for liberty to remarry with whom she pleased. (5) She was living in Trininty Term 1220, but decesed before November 1221. (6)
In January 1219, the five dauthers and coheirs of Stephen de Turnham were Mabel, wife of Thomas de Bavelingham; Alice, wife of Adam de Bending, Alienore, wife of Roger de Leybourn, and Alienore, wife of Ralph fitz Bernard, and Beatrix, wife of Ralph de
)1_ Testa de Nevill, p. 55
(2) Supra, page 108
(3) Lilleshall Chartulary, fo. 62.
(4) Rot. Finium, p. 542.
(5) Rot. Pipe, 16 John, Surrey.
*6) Halstaed * Genealogies, p. 27) affects to quote a Placita Roll of June 24, 27 Henry. 222 (i.e. 1243) wherein Edelina de Broc appoints an Attorney against Sibil de Brc in a plea the object of which was to oblige Sibil to observe a fine, levied at Winchester, concerning the whole inheritance of Damata de Goram, mother of Edelina and Sibil.
This extract is genealogically useful, and the Fine and Suit were doubtless those already alluded to (Vol. I. pp. 171,. 172) but Halstead's date for the above Placita-Roll must, I imagine, be wrong by more than 20 years.
[Source: Antiquities of Shropshire, Volume 10, By Robert William Eyton]
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A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen ..., Volume 2
By Sir Bernard Burke, pp. 20-
GORHAM: The Goprhams came into England immediately after the Conquest; for "W. Filius Gorham" occurs in 1086, in Doomsday Survey (II. 441.) at Cippenhall near fresinfield, Suffolk.
Their foreign settlement was at , or in the vicinity of, the town of Gorram (now Goron), in Maine, 15 miles northwest of Mayenne; a fortified place attached to the fief of Normandy by Duke William shortly before his invasion of England.
Geoffrey de Gorram occurs as early as 922, as witness to a grant to the Monks of Notre Dame de Mars sur la Futaye, at Villarenton (or Villa- Arunton), afterwards called L'Abbeyette (La Bayette, by error, in Cassini's map of France); a small Priory of which a trace still remains, between Goron and Savigny: but Menage (Histoire de Sable) considers the charter as doubtful.
Another Geoffrey de Gorram (*probably the father of Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Alban's, of whom more hereafter) occurs in a grant of undoubted authenticity, at the end of Century XI., or early in Century XII., as being father of Ruello or Rollo or Ralph de Gorram.
Ruello or Rollo or Ralph de Gorram, who, before 1112, gave the perpetual advowson of Brece, four miles from Gorram, to the Priory of Fountain-Gehard, near Mayenne, a Cell to Marmontier Abbey, at Tours. He married Hersendis, daughter of Walter, Lord of Mayenne. He was a benefactor to Savigny Abbey, and was living in 1120. He was probably the father of Robert, Abbot of St. Alban's. His eldest son was William De Gorrom noted above.
William de Gorram, shortly before, or in 1128, built a new castle on his demesne at La Tanniere 10 miles west of Gorram in Maine, France, in the parish of St. Berthevin. He gave both his parish Church and the Chapel of his Castle, to the Monastery of Mount St. Michael, near Avranches, with a plot of ground for the settlement of some monks, one of whom was to perform devinie offices at La Tanniere. He married Matilda, by whom he inherited Livare, La Doree, and (probably) La Tanniere. He and his wife grants lands in Livare to the Abbot and Monks of Savigny. He died about 1155; and was succeeded by his son, Giles de Gorram.
The history of the Chatellenie of Gorram, on the frontiers of Maine and Normandy, being little known, and being closely connected with English history, may be briefly noticed here, from matireals supplied by the Norman Roll and other records. It was held by the great family of Mayenne, from the Counts of Maine, as their Suserain. In 1054, after the victory of Mortimer, William, Duke of Normandy seized this and the neighbouring possessions of Geoffrey Martel the invader of Maine, and annexed them to the fief of Normandy. In 1082 Gorram Castle belonged to Robert, County of Mortain. Henry I. possessed himself of this Chatellenie on the Colmont, and of the neighbouring Castle of Ambrieres, on the Mayenne, by granting in exchange Black Torrington and Nimet, in Devonshire, to Geoffrey III., Duke of Mayenne. In 1135 it belonged to Geoffrey Plantanet, whoc restored it to Juhel II., Duke of Mayenne, on condition that he would assist him in obtaining possession of the dower of his wife, Matilda. In 1162 Geoffrey IV., Duke of Mayenne, restored it to King Henry II. [see remainder of this footnote in capture file]
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