Serlo de Mountjoy

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Statham states that Serlo died before 1254.

Relationships

Father: Ralph de Mountjoy.

This relationship is given by Statham. See the Evidence section below.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Illaria.

This relationship is given by Statham, citing a 1254 writ.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Ralph de Mountjoy married (1) Elizabeth; married (2) Isolda de Meverel.

Robert de Mountjoy married Margaret.

Evidence

from the Book of Fees:

[1242-3]

Feoda Militum que tenentur in comitatibus Not’ et Derb’ qui non habent brevia de habendo scutagio.

De Serlone de Munchoye xl.s. pro uno feodo militis in Yhildirleg’ quod tenet de eodem comite [Comes Derb’] Derby.

De Serlone de Munchoye j.m. pro terci parte feodi militis in Spondon’. Derby

Other evidence:

Copy (fourteenth century) of a grant from Ralph de Monioye to Serlo de Monioye his son of a moiety of the vills of Parva Longesdon, Mornesale, and Brittrichisfield [Brushfield], to hold to him and his heirs in tail. Witn. Dom. William de Menyll, Henry de Kneveton, milites, Peter de Roland, Laurence de Acouere, etc. Early thirteenth century. (Foljambe.) [Jeayes, no. 1608]

Grant from Serlo de Grendon to Serlo fil. Radulfi de Moungay of all the land with the wood which lies between the grantor's fish-pond of Bradeley and the vill of Tilderesseg and the spring at the head of the said fish-pond near the road to Ashbourne, "per quercus mercatas usque ad viam Domini Regis," with four acres beyond Le Brademers, measured by the perch of 20 feet, near the boundaries of Tilderessleye towards Rucroft, and common in all his land of Bradele and Stureston. Rent, a pair of white gloves. Witn. Henry fil. Sewalli, Robert Britton, Leodegarius de Bure, Walter de Montegomeri, etc. Early thirteenth cent. (Woll. vi. 43.) [Jeayes, no. 2717]

Grant from Nicholas, Prior of Tutesbire [Tutbury], to Serlo de Mungay, of 10 acres of land in Thyldreslege and right to essart 10 acres in Littilhalyn, etc., for certain privileges, namely, that they may make a ditch between Ethnadeston wood and another wood which the Priory gave him, from Bradelegbroc to Wyttelegsiche, and may essart the land lying between Ethnadeston field and the high road from Derby to Ashbourne, and may construct a fish-pond and mill in Rauenesdal'. Witn. Dom. Robert de Esseburne, tunc senescallus,Geoffrey de Greselege, William de Mungumbry, Engonulf de Braylesford, Geoffrey de Bee, Oliver le Foun, etc. Circ. 1230. (Woll. ix. 76.) [Jeayes, no. 2718]

Grant from Serlo de Muniaie fil. Radulfi de Muniaye to Matthew fil. Thome de Bauqwell, of four bovates of land in Parua Longisdon and Breitreichfeld. Witn. Walter de Estewet', tunc vice-comes, Robert de Dun, Jordan de Sneterton, Robert de Muniaie, etc. Early Henry III. (Add. 19284.) [Jeayes, no. 1609]

“Serlo de Munge” is a witness to a grant made tempo H. III [Jeayes, no. 398]

Covenant whereby Serlo de Munjoye grants to Roger de Hordem and Matilda his wife a place of land in Yhildirsley called Hadeleye croft, to hold during the life of the said Matilda, at a rent of (6 ¼d., and after her death to the said Roger, at a rent of 2s. 2 ½d. Witn. Henry de Horderne, Richard de Horderne, William fil. Willelmi de Aula de Wyardestone, etc. Temp. Hen. III. (Woll. ix. 9.) [Jeayes, no. 2719]

Wright, p. 317-8

1230. Grant from Nicholas Prior, of Tutbury, to Serlo de Munjoy of ten acres land and wood in Yeldersly, for which Serlo made a ditch six feet broad between the woods of Ethediston and Bradly Brock, in Wyllelesich

Statham (p. 259):

He was deceased in 1254 for in that year Illaria, widow of Serlo de Munjay, gave 20 sh. for a writ in Derbyshire. (Ex. II, 192)

from the Derbyshire Record Office catalogue:

D3580/T/5

Gift with warranty by Serlo de Mungay [Mountjoy] of Ihildrisleye [Yeldersley] to Mathew son of Thomas of Bauquell [Bakewell] for homage and service, of half a toft which Mathew son of ?Hyzilia of Little Longstone once held in the vill of Little Longstone, adjoining the toft of Mathew of Bakewell on the east, to hold in fee and free inheritance at a yearly rent of 6 pence payable at the Feast of St Martin in Winter [11 Nov] for all services. Witnesses: Sir Richard of Harthill, Luke of Beeley,Adam of Edensor, Robert of Harthill, William of Wormhill, John the clerk and others. Undated. [mid-13th cent]

D3580/T/6

Gift and quitclaim with warranty by Serlo son of Ralph de Mountjoy lord of Yeldersley]to Mathew of Little Longstone and his heirs of all manner of ingress and egress between a certain furlong called Coc [The Cock] and a certain toft which belonged to Matilda daughter of Agnes of Little Longstone, which she used, wrongfully having regard to inheritance but with the leave and sufferance of neighbours, and especially of all passages, ways, paths and strayings at the head of the eastern side of Coc furlong, so that they should not be used at any time of the year in the way in which it is common to walk in the fields, meadows and other places where it is necessary to cross and return. The gift and quitclaim are made for the ending of contention and strife and for avoiding doubts that could arise, after the consideration of upright and worthy men making their statement on oath, lest Mathew and his heirs should be damaged by calumny; so that neither Serlo nor his heirs not his men nor any other should claim way, path, or right of way at any time of year; because there is no highway of common ingress into the vill of Little Longstone, or egress by the south over meadows and fields for wagons and carriages for men except the road stretching to the hill by the house of Robert Loterel of Little Longstone

Witnesses: Richard of Edensor, Adam of Harthill, Robert of Stanton, William Daniel of Tideswell, Henry Peverel of Hassop, Robert of Calver, Eustace of Mornissale [Monsal Dale] and others. Undated. [mid-13th cent]

References

Jeayres, I. H., and Henry Howe Bemrose. Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters in Public and Private Libraries and Muniment Rooms. (1906).

Liber feodorum. The book of fees, commonly called Testa de Nevill, reformed from the earliest MSS. v. 2 (1923).

Statham, S.P.H. “Later Descendants of Domesday Holders of Land in Derbyshire” Part 3 in Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, vol. 49 (1927). pp. 233ff.

Wright, George Thomas. Longstone Records, Derbyshire. (1906).