Liulf the Sheriff
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Grandfather: Wulfric.
This relationship is recorded in a confirmation cited by Ormerod (3:210).
Father: uncertain.
Ormerod (3:210) notes that later pedigrees call him Walthew, Walther, William, and Orme.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Richard de Croxton.
Robert married Mabel.
Evidence
from the St Werburgh Chartulary:
Liulf de Twamlow is a witness in 1192-1208 (no. 541) and 1215-16 (no. 60).
no. 553.
Grant by William Boydell to Liulf de Twemlow of a moiety of the vill of Winnington, to hold by the service of a sixth part of a knight's fee. c. 1199-1216.
Ego Willelmus de Boidele concessi, etc., Lidulpho de Twamlawe pro homagio et seruicio suo, medietatem de Wynington, illam, scilicet, que est de feodo meo, illi et heredibus suis, habendum de me et heredibus meis in feodo et hereditate, libere et quiete, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in bosco, in piano, in pratis, in pascuis, in aquis, in viis, in semitis, et in omnibus locis et libertatibus, faciendo mihi seruicium quod ante fieri consueuit pro omnibus seruiciis et exact ionibus quibuscunque, videlicet sextam partem unius feodi militis, etc. Testibus: Adamo de Dutton, Hugone fratre suo, Willelmo de Tabelle, Thoma filio Willelmi, Adamo de Aistun, Ricardo de Vernune, Hamone clerico, Henrico de Aistun, Ricardo de Rodestorn, clerico, et aliis.
no. 555.
Grant by Sir John Boydell to Sir Richard de Massey, kt. (of Tatton), of the homage and services belonging to him from the moiety of Winnington which William de Boydell gave to Liulf de Twemlow (No. 553). c. 1272-1300.
Johannes Boydel, miles, dedit Ricardo de Mascy, militi, homagium et omnimoda seruicia sibi pertinencia de medietate de Winintone quam W[illelmus] de Boydel dedit Lidulpho de Tomlowe.
no. 554.
Grant by Liulf de Twemlow to his (second) son Robert of the moiety of Winnington acquired by No. 553, rendering two barbed arrows yearly, in addition to external service. c. 1210-20.
Sciant, etc., [quod] ego Liulfus, dominus de Thamlowe, dedi, etc., Roberto filio meo et sponse mee totam terram meam quam habui in villa de Wynintona, scilicet medietatem de Wynentona, tenendam, etc., de me et heredibus meis, reddendo mihi annuatim, etc., duas sagittas barbatas pro omnibus seruiciis, saluo forinseco seruicio, etc. Testibus, Ricardo de Sonbach, Petro de Swetenham, Thoma, persona de Sonbach, Johanne fratre suo, Johanne de Aculuiston, Henrico de Craunach, Ricardo fratre suo.
no. 752.
Grant by Gralam, son of Richard de Runchamp, to Liulf de Twemlow of all Lees, paying yearly to him 5s. and a sore (reddish) hawk. 1208-29.
Sciant, etc., quod ego Gralanus filius Ricardi de Runchamp dedi, etc. Lidulfo de Twamlowe pro homagio et servicio suo totam terrain de Leyes cum omnibus pertinentiis, etc., reddendo annuatim mihi et heredibus meis unum nisum sorum et 5s. pro omnibus serviciis, scilicet nisum sorum ad Nativitatem sancti Johannis Baptiste et 5s. ad festum sancti Martini, etc. Hiis testibus : Philippo de Orreby tunc iusticiario Cestrie, Petro clerico comitis Cestrie, Warino de Vernon, Willelmo de Venables, Roberto . . . ., Ada de Button, Hugone de Button, Roberto de Maynwarham (sic), Hamone clerico, et aliis.
no. 756. Grant by Pulton abbey to Liulf de Twemlow of Derneleygreue in Lees
no. 766a.
Charter of Liulf and Gilbert de Twemlow referred to in No. 766. c. 1190-1220.
Sciant omnes presentes et futuri presentem cartam inspecturi et audituri quod ego Lydulfus de Twamelowe et ego Gilbertus de Twamelawe dedimus et concessimus et hac presenti carta nostra confirmauimus Rogero filio Radulfi Palmeri de Gostre, pro homagio et seruicio suo, totam dimidietatem tocius terre de Bernulisah' cum omnibus pertinenciis, que continetur infra has diuisas incipiendo, scilicet, ad tres quercus stantes inter capitale mesuagium predicti Rogeri et Wulfrici de Lache, et sic descendendo doetum et sicut sepes et fossa circuit in longitudine, et in latitudine usque ad predictas tres quercus, et totam dimidietatem tocius terre que vocatur Bernulisah' croft cum pertinenciis, scilicet in duas partes, quatuor landas et dimidiam in medio campo, in longitudine et latitudine, et superiorem partem predicti campi cum pertinenciis sicut sepes et fossa includit in longitudine et latitudine ex vna parte, et vnum croftum cum pertinenciis quod vocatur Syddenale in longitudine et latitudine sicut sepis et fossa circuunt et includunt, et totam dimidietatem vnius campi cum pertinenciis quod vocatur Sercroft, scilicet superiorem partem in longitudine et latitudine sicut sepis dictum campum includit. Tenenda et habenda de nobis et heredibus nostris illi et heredibus suis uel suis assignatis in feodo et hereditate inperpetuum, libere, quiete, bene et pacifice, in bosco, in piano, in pratis, in pascuis, in viis, in semitis, in aquis, in moscis et turbariis et marleris, et in omnibus aliis locis, esiamentis, et liberis communis vbique terre predicte et ville de Gostre pertinentibus, et cum acquietancia de pannagio omnibus porcis eorum in omnibus boscis de Gostre et husbold et haybold in omnibus boscis de Gostre. Reddendo inde annuatim nobis et heredibus nostris de illo et heredibus suis uel de suis assign' duos solidos argenti ad duos terminos scilicet ad Natiuitatem sancti lohannis Baptiste xii den. et ad festum sancti Martini xii den. pro omnibus seruitiis et demandis secularibus vniuersis, saluo forinseco seruicio. Pro hac autem nostra donacione et concessione dedit nobis predictus Rogerus tres marcas et duas bacones de precio octo solidorum. Et nos et heredes nostri totam terram predict am cum omnibus pertinenciis predicto Rogero et heredibus suis uel suis assingnatis [sic) contra omnes homines et feminas warantizabimus inperpetuum. Et vt hec carta nostra perpetue firmitatis robur semper optineat cam sigillorum nostrorum apposicione confirmauimus. Hiis testibus, Roberto capellano de Gostre, Alexandro persona de Esteburi, Ran[ulfo] fratre suo, Ricardo clerico de Esteburi, Willelmo domino de Somerford, Petro de Suetenham, Willelmo de Ermitage, lohanne filio Hugonis, Dear' fratre eius, Simone clerico, et multis aliis.
no. 766.
Grant by Roger de Barnshaw to abbot Thomas (II.), in exchange for land in Bystousnabbe and Rogeresway, etc., of a moiety of Barnshaw which Liulf and Gilbert de Twemlow gave to Roger, son of Ralph Palmer, Roger's grandfather (No. 766a), with the liberty of the vill of Goostrey, quittance of pannage in all the woods of Goostrey and housebote and haybote, paying 2s. yearly. 1291-1305.
Nouerint vniuersi quod Rogerus de Bernesschawe dedit, concessit, et hac presenti carta sua confirmauit Thome abbati sancte Werburge Cestrie et eiusdem loci conuentui et eorum successoribus totam terram suam cum pertinenciis in Bernesschawe que est de feodo de Gostre, quam quidem terram Lidulphus de Twomlowe et Gilbertus de eadem dederunt Rogero filio Radulphi le Palmer auo suo per metas et diuisas, prout in carta de feoffamento eorum plenius continetur, nichil sibi vel heredibus suis commoditatis dominii vel feodi in predictis tenementis nee in eorum pertinenciis retinendo. Tenenda et habenda Deo et ecclesie sancte Werburge et monachis ibidem Deo seruientibus libere, quiete, bene et in pace imperpetuum in boscis, planis, pascuis, pasturis, viis, semitis, moris, moscis, mariscis, turbariis, vastis, liberis communis et in omnibus aliis locis, et cum omnibus libertatibus et eysiamentis, prout in carta de feoffamento predictorum Radulphi et Gilberti continetur. Pro hac autem donacione, concessione predictus Thomas abbas Cestrie assensu et voluntate tocius capituli sui dedit et concessit predicto Rogero et heredibus suis nomine escambii pro predictis tenementis totam illam terram quam lohannes Dedishay et Robertus filius predicti Rogeri quondam depredicto abbate tenuerunt in quodam loco qui vocatur Bystousnabbe et Rogereswey cum edificiis in predicta terra constructis, cumduabus insulis quas Thomas filius Michaelis de Gostre quondam tenuit cum housbote et heybote ad vnum solum astrum per visum balliuorum predictorum abbatis et conuentus qui pro tempore fuerint et cum libero pannagio tempore pessone cum propriis porcis in bosco del Ewode, cum communa pasture propriis animalibus suis et cum aysiamentis in bruera de Gostre et in Gostreschawe versus met as de Craunache, prout homines dominici dicti abbatis communicant, faciendo inde homagium et reddendo inde annuatim predictis abbati, etc., duos solidos argenti videlicet medietatem ad festum sancti Martini et aliam medietatem in festo sancti Johannis Baptiste. Preterea idem abbas assensu tocius capituli sui concessit eidem Rogero ad terminum vite sue quod libere possit turbam in moscis de Gostre quantum sufhcit ad aliud solum astrum pro voluntate sua capere fodiendo et predictus Rogerus et heredes sui et predicti abbas, etc., predicta tenement a alternatim warantizabunt, acquietabunt et contra omnes homines imperpetuum defendent. In cuius rei testimonium utraque pars sigilla sua huic scripto in modum cyrographi indent ato vna cum sigillo conuentus apposuerunt. Hiis testibus, dominis Hamone de Mascy, Ricardo de Mascy, militibus, Willelmo de Meynwaring', Ricardo de Lostok', lohanne de Holt, Rogero de Daneport, Thoma filio eius, et aliis.
no. 767.
Quitclaim by Warin de Croxton to abbot Walter, etc., of the moiety of Goostrey formerly held by (his grandfather) Liulf the sheriff. 1233-39.
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Warinus de Croxton' filius Ricardi de Croxton' concessi et remisi et quietum clamaui de me et heredibus meis Deo et sancte Werburge et domino Waltero abbati Cestrie et monachis ibidem Deo ministrantibus, in puram et perpetuam elemosinam, pro salute animarum antecessorum meorum, et pro participatione orationum monachorum, totum ius et clamium quod habui uel habere potui in medietate ville de Goristre cum pertinenciis quam Lidulphus vicecomes aliquando tenuit, tarn in homagiis et releuiis quam in omnibus aliis seruiciis et exaccionibus. Ita quidem quod nee ego nee heredes mei nee aliquis occasione mei vel heredum meorum in dicta medietate de Goristre cum pertinenciis aliquid iuris aut clamii habere poterimus de cetero uel exigere. In cuius rei testimonium presenti scripto sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus, domino Willelmo de Malo Passu, Ricardo de Wybenbury tunc vicecomite Cestrisyr', Ricardo de Kingesleg', Ada de Hellesby, Simone de Neutona, Ricardo Walensi, Ricardo de Calueleg', Ricardo Bernard' et aliis.
from Leycester (p. 178)
A catalogue of the Sheriffs of Cheshire.
Sub Henrico Tertio
Ricardus Filius Lidulfi, tempore Philipp Orreby Justiciarii, as appears by a Deed in possession of Edmund Swetenham of Sommerford in Cheshire, Anno 1664.
[Philip Orreby was justice of Cheshire from about 1207 to 1229.]
from Ormerod/Helsby 3: 210:
…and under Orme, and his son Matthew, the said manor was held by Wulfric, the patriarch of a variety of considerable Cheshire families, who assumed severally a local name. This is proved by the following confirmation to Liulph, representative of Wulfric.
“Sciant, &c. quod Matheus filius Ormi Citharistae reddidit Liulfo de Crocstona totam terram de Crocstona in bosco et in plano, &c. tenendam de predicto Matheo filio Ormi Citharistae, et de heredibus suis tam libere et quiete, quam Wulfricus avus suus tenuit melius et liberius de Matheo Tuschet vel de Ormo Citharista. Hiis test. Ada. de Aldithleia, Henr. fr’e suo, &c.” [Harl. MSS. 2074. 188. The original in possession of Michael Oldfield of Croxton, esq. 1624.]
In an elaborate pedigree of the ramifications of the Croxton family by John Booth of Twemlowe [Harl. MSS. 2119], which has been printed in an earlier part of this work, Liulph de Croxton, or Twemlowe, as he has been variously called, is made son of Wulfric; whereas it appears from the preceding charter that he was grandson, but no positive authority occurs for the name ofthe intervening generation. An interpolation in a different hand in the pedigree calls him Walthew, and in other pedigrees inthe same volume he is called Orme and William. If, however, it can be proved that Liulph de Croxton and Twemlowe were two successive proprietors, and not one generation as the genealogists have uniformly made them, Wulfric, the grandfather of the first, will be thrown back to the Conquest or to the time of the Confessor, and there will then be no difficulty in point of time in crediting the interpolation before mentioned, which, after calling the second generation Walthew, makes Wulfric the grandfather of “Margeria, filia Waltheri, filia Wulfrici,” which Margery (so named in a charter) undoubtedly brought Marton in marriage to the grandson of the Norman baron of Kinderton. [H: The male ancestor of the Croxtons was most probably also ancestor of the Hattons of Hatton, and one of the “five brethren” who came in at the Conquest, referred to in the account of Halton. These, from their large estates, it is most reasonable to suppose, were brothers of the first baron of Halton. See also Hatton near Daresbury, vol. 1.]
This point will easily established by referring to a charter printed in the notes to Halton barony (vol. 1 p. 507[now 690], to which sir Peter Leycester assigns the time of Hen. I (ibid. p. 643), executed by William Fitz-Nigel, second baron of Halton, and witnessed by “Ledolf de Crocstun.” After proving this point it will be clear that “Lidulfus vicecomes,” surnamed of Croxton and Twemlowe, whose shrievalty extended to the end of the reign of John, must be a distinct person, and that there were at least two, if not three Lidulfs successively, in the time which has been hitherto supposed to have been occupied by one.
IV. This last Lidulph, sheriff of Cheshire in the reign of Ric. I and John, and surviving temp. H. III. lord of Twemlowe, Croxton, Goosetrey, Cranage, and half of Winnington, had a second brother, Randle, to whom he gave a fourth of Cranage, and from whom the families of Cranage, Ermitage, Twemlowe, and Le Brun descended. He had issue Richard, Robert, and Michael. From the two sons last named descended severally the families of Winnington and Goosetrey, as noticed in the accounts of those townships.
V. Richard de Croxton, son and heir of Lidulph, had a grant from his father of all his lands in Cheshire, excepting a moiety of “Wyneton” settled on Robert his son, and a moiety of his lands in “Gorestree” settled on his son Michael…[Harl. MSS. 2074, 188, and 2119, b.]
from Ormerod/Helsby 2, pp. 200:
William le Boidele of Doddleston, fourth in descent from Osbern Fitz Tezzon, conferred his share of this manor, by the charter annexed, on Lidulph de Twemlowe, son of Wulfric de Croxton, which Wulfric was lord of Croxton and Lache in the time of king Henry the Second, and common ancestor of numerous Cheshire families, who varied their names according tot heir estates, to an extent equalled only in this county by the descendants of the house of Malpas. [corrected to grandson in Vol. III]
“Ego Willelmus le Boidele concessi, &c. Lidulpho de Twamlawe pro homagio et servitio suo, medietatem de Wyninton, illam scilicet quae est de feodo meo, illi et haeredibus suis, habendum de me et heredibus meis in feodo et hereditate, libere et quiete, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis in bosco, in plano, &c. faciendo mihi servitium quod ante fieri consueverit pro omnibus servitiis et exactionibus quibuscunq. videlicet sextae partis unius feodi militis, &c. Testibus, Adamo de Dutton, Hugone fratre suo, Willielmo de Tabelle, &c.”
From a very elaborate pedigree, drawn up by John Booth of Twemlowe, and illustrated with a profusion of charters, it appears that this Lidulph, surnamed of Twemlowe, and grantee of Winnington from William Boidele, inherited from his father Twemlowe, Croxton, Cranach, and Goosetrey. He alienated one fourth of Cranach to his younger brother Ranulph, who assumed his name therefrom, and was male ancestor of the families of le Brun, Twemlowe, Cranach, and Hermitage. This Lidulph was sheriff of Cheshire in the time of Richard the First and king John, and had issue, besides his second son Robert, Warin son and heir, surnamed of Croxton, and Nicholas, third son, who assumed the name of his town of Goosetrey. [Harl. MSS. 2119. 157]
References
The Chartulary or Register of The Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester (ed. James Tait) Part I (Chetham Society, 1920), Part II (Chetham Society, 1923).
Leycester, Peter, Sir. Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record. (1673)
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).