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Roger de Busli of Tickhill, Yorkshire,
The de Boelles of Bedfordshire
or The de Busli Descendants Under the
Vipond Line
under construction
Roger de Busli of Tickhill, Yorkshire held the
Honour of Tickhill from shortly after 1066 until his death in 1099.
His brother, Ernold de Builli, or Ernold's son Jordan de Builli held
Kimberworth and two other manors in Yorkshire from Roger (or possibly
from Roger's young son Roger II who died in 1101) which their line held
until 1213.
Meanwhile to the south in Bedfordshire, by about
1166 a Henry de Bueles (or de Boelles), steward to William de
Beauchamp, married into the Beauchamp of Eaton Socon family around 1187
by which marriage he acquired Roxton Manor in the Honour of Wardon.
Also in Bedfordshire a Simon de Bueles, believed to be Henry's brother,
acquired Gravenhurst Manor, which he held from Hugh de Beauchamp,
through his marriage into the Brien family around 1170. There was
also brothers Hugh de Boeles (Boelles, Buelles, Boweles, even Buholes in
one charter) and William de Boeles who served the king in his wars in
Wales and in Gascony from about 1230 to the 1250's. For his
service William was granted land in Suffolk in 1241 for his lifetime
which ended with his death in battle in Gascony for the king by 1252.
Hugh served the king in Wales in 1241-43, in Bordeaux in 1243, in
Gascony in 1253 and was holding land at Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire in
1262.
I believe that these families were connected although I cannot say
if they were actually related. In this period there
was very little attention paid to the spelling of surnames, a wide range
of name spellings on legal documents was quite normal. Even the
nobility could seldom read or write, employing clerks to do that for
them. However, despite the spelling, the sound of the name would be consistent.
Both Roger de Busli and his brother Ernold de Builli's (using their most
common spellings) surnames would have been pronounced something like
'booly'. The other knights mentioned above had a wide variation of
spellings but their surnames would all have generally sounded like 'bools'
or 'boals'.
Some time before 1164 Ernold de Builli's
great-grandson, John de Builli, the last direct male heir of the line,
married
Cecily de Bussey (which was also written de Busci), the co-heir to her
father. Through Cecily John de Builli acquired significant
holdings in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The
most significant of those holdings were her half shares in the Manors of
Wardon and Eyworth in Bedfordshire. Cecily's sister Maud married
Hugh Wake and took the other half share of Wardon and Eyworth Manors to
the Wake family. John and Cecily's heir in 1213 was their daughter
Idonea de Builli who had married Robert Vipond (also written de Vipond,
(de) Vipont, de Vieuxpont and de Veteri-Ponte) and so the last of Roger
de Busli's land, the small portion which Ernold had held, passed to the
Vipond family along with the half shares in Bedfordshire.
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