Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Barony of Gilsland, Cumberland


	Barony of Gilsland, Cumberland
	Barony of Gilsland

county:-	Cumbria (Cumberland)
locality type:-	barony

evidence:-	old text:- Pennant 1773 placename:- Barony of Gillesland
source data:-	Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801. goto source Pennant's Tour 1773, page 172 "This town [Brampton] was the capital of the great barony of Gillesland, a tract before the Conquest possessed by one Bueth, and which took its name from Gilles Bueth, i.e. the son of Bueth. Randle de Meschines earl of Chester, after his subjection of this county, bestowed it on Hubert Vaulx, or de Vallibus, a Norman adventurer of those days. By the marriage of Maud, daughter of another Hubert, one of his descendants, cotemporary with Henry III. it fell to her spouse Thomas de Multon. Margaret, daughter to another Thomas de Multon, who died in 1313, married, and conveyed the barony to Ranulph de Dacre, of Dacre-castle, in this county. On the death of the last male heir, George lord Dacre, this part of the estate fell to Lord William Howard, by marriage with Elizabeth, youngest sister of that Nobleman, who was killed in his childhood by a fall, as before related."

evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 placename:- Gillesland item:- placename, Gilsland; coat of arms
source data:-	Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 176:- "..." "More to the south and west inland lies the barony of Gillesland, a small tract, so full of rivulets, called Gilles, that I should suppose it to have taken its name from them, had I not read in the register of Lanercost church, that one Gill, son of Bueth, who in a charter of Henry II. is also called Gilbert, antiently held it, and probably left his name to it. ..." "..." goto source Page 177:- "..." "The first lord of Gillesland that I have met with is William Meschines, brother of Radulphus lord of Cumberland (not that William who was brother of Ranulph earl of Chester, from whom descended Ranulph de Ruelent, but brother of Radulphus) who could not however wrest it from the Scots. For Gill son of Bueth held the greatest part of it by force of arms. After his death king Henry II. bestowed it on Hubert de Vaux, whose arms are chequèArg. and G. ... But after a few years the estate was transferred by marriage to the Moltons, and from them by a daughter to Ranulph lord Dacre, whose posterity have continued to flourish to the present time."

evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Barony of Gillesland
source data:-	Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto source Page 201:- "Gillesland might also take its name from Hubert de Vallibus or Vaux, since de Vallibus and Gills mean the same, or from the river Gelt which runs through the middle of it. The bottom wherein the brook runs is the Gill. Its boundary may be seen in Burn, II. p.479." "The barony of Gillesland which before the Conquest belonged to Bueth, was granted by Ranulphus de Meschines in the time of the Conqueror to one Hubert a Norman, who took his name from it. Gill in this country dialect signifies a dale or valley, and hence he was styled Hubert Vaux or de Vallibus. His son Robert is said to have basely murdered Gills Bueth, the son of Bueth the antient possessor, in atonement for which he founded Lanercost abbey; but see hereafter. The heiress of Vaux married Thomas de Multon, and brought the barony into his family t. Henry III. and their great great grand daughter conveyed it in the same manner t. Edward II. to Ranulphus de Dacre of Dacre castle. In this family it continued till the death of the last male heir George lord Dacre of Gillesland, Graystock, and Wemm, who left three sisters coheiresses. In the partition of the estate this fell to the share of Elizabeth married to lord William Howard, third son of Thomas Howard duke of Norfolk, in whose posterity it still continues." "The chief residence of the lords of this great barony [Gilsland] (ever since the building of Naworth castle at least) was in Brampton parish. ..."

hearsay:-	Created by Ranulph de Meschines in the Land of Carlisle, to be a defence against Scotland

	Ferguson, Richard S: 1890 &1970 (reprinted): History of Cumberland

also see:-	Gilsland

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