1083-1094 Roger de Montgomery made a grant from his own lands to the monastery of St. Evroult and confirmed the grants previously made by others. Reginald de Bailleul, one of the witnesses, was married to Roger's niece Amera when Roger made the grant. [1]
I, Roger, by the grace of God, earl of Shrewsbury, desiring to honour the monastery of the holy father St. Evroult, hereby give thereto, for the repose of my own soul and those of my ancestors, as follows: ... and the land which Reginald de Baliol, and Aimeria his wife, my niece, gave to the monks. ... Moreover, I confirm whatever Warin my viscount, and William Pantulf, and Hugh de Medavi, and my other mesne-tenants have before given to St. Evroult, in England or Normandy. All this, with the consent of my sons Robert de Belesme, Hugh, and Philip, I thus grant, before God, for the repose of my soul, and of those of Mabel and Adeliza my wives, and those of my ancestors, and my future heirs, and ratify this instrument with the sign of the cross, and whosoever shall diminish, annul, or abstract, the premises, let him be anathema.
Earl Robert granted this charter, and ratified it with his signature; and after him it was subscribed at Alençon by his sons, Robert and Hugh, and Philip the Scholar, and by
others, his chief officers, Robert, son of Theobald, and Hugh his son, Gislebert, the constable, Hugh the son of Turgis, Fulk du Pin, Engelbert, the master of the household, Reginald de Baliol, William Pantulf, Odo de Pire, and several others.
Research Notes:
The following confirmation of a grant indicates that Reginald de Bailleul had two sons, Reginald and William. Since Reginald was married to Amera, niece of Roger of Montgomery, by 1194, it seems plausible that it was the younger Reginald who defied Henry I in 1119, as described in the notes of Reginald de Bailleul's son Reginald de Bailleul.
About 1144-1150, Duke Geoffrey of Anjou confirmed grants made by Reginald de Bailleul for the souls of himself, his father Reginald, his mother Amera, and his brother William. [2]
407. Hospitallers (1144-50)
Duke Geoffrey confirms the grants made by Reginald de Bailleul for the commandery of Villedieu les Bailleil (Orne)
G(aufridus) dux Normannorum et comes Andegavorum omnibus baronibus archiepiscopo et episcopis et justiciis et baronibus suis Normannie salutem et dilectionem. Sciatis me concessisse salvis consuetudinibus meis Sancto Hospitali Jerusalem dona que fecerunt Raiginaudus de Baillol et alii multi con (sic) eo, scilicet hec dona:
1. Raiginaudus donavit deo et Sancto Hospitali Jerusalem pro se et pro Raiginaudo patre ejus, et Amera matre ejus, et Willelmo fratre ejus, et pro amicis suis tam vivis quam defunctis, landam quietam et solutam de omnibus hominibus [Footnote: recte honeribus?] imperpetuum que est inter Tornai et Baillol, et illam que est inter Trum et Baillol, et v solidos Cenomanensium imperpetuum in suum censum, quem reddunt homines sui ad festivitatem Sancti Remigii, quos ipse attribuit pro sua fraternitate Sancto Hospitali Jerusalem, et stannum ad vadum terri (sic) ad faciendum molendinum imperpetuum. Et Willelmus Porcel de sua terra quantum opus erit ad faciendum molendinum et esclusagium tenendum domino Raiginaudo concedente donavit. Teste Willelmo comite de Pontivio, et Johanne filio ejus, et Hugone de Merlaio, et Willelmo de Montepinchon. Et omnia quecumque habet in sua terra ita nobis concessit habere in nostra terra, scilicet latronem et latrocinium omnium rerum, et bella et sanguinem et apes, et liberatam esse de omni graveria, et omnia nostra possidere sicuti possidet sua, et omnia communia pastura terre sue animalibus Sancti Hospitalis Jerusalem in hominibus et in pasturis de Colonchelis et de Tornaio. [Footnote: There follow 16 more items in the form of an abbreviated cartulary. There is apparently no final or dating clause to Duke Geoffrey's charter, the sole reference to which is in the first of the two paragraphs given here. (The second is given as a sample of the others.)]
MSS.: Paris, Archives Nationales, M. 15, no. 1 (12th-cent. copy), no. 2 (French trans, 17th cent.), and no. 3 (17th-cent. copy).
Printed: *J. Delaville le Roulx, Carlulaire general de I'ordre des Hospitallers de St Jean de Jerusalem (1100-1310), (Paris, 1894-1906), i. 125, no. 156.
Keats-Rohan states, [3]
Reginald de Balgiole
Norman, from Bailleul-en-Gouffern, Orne, cant. Trun (Lloyd, 11). Tenant of Earl Roger of in [sic] Shropshire. In 1086 he was Roger's sheriff, in succussion to Warin the Bald, whose widow Amiera, kinswoman ('nepta', possibly niece) of Earl Roger, he married (Ord. Vit. iii, 140). He seems to have been the guardian of Warin's son Hugh, who held his father's land and office for a short time after 1102. He returned to Normandy upon the fall of the Montgomerys in 1102. He defied Henry I there in 1119 and at some time fought in the Spanish crusades (Ord. Vit. vi, 214-16, 402). He was dead by 1144, when Geoffrey of Anjou confirmed his son Rainald's grant for his soul, his wife's and that of another son, William (RRAN iiim 407).
[1] Ordericus Vitalis, Thomas Forester, translator, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Vol. 2 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854), 196-197, [InternetArchive].
[2] H. A. Cronne and R. H. C. Davis, ed., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, Vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), 156, [InternetArchive].
[3] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999), 348, [GoogleBooks].