1086 "Hascoit Musard. Breton, Domesday tenant-in-chief. Received a glowing commendation in Liber Eliensis (p. 277), which relates that he became a monk of Ely. They claimed that he had brought with him the manor of Estune (probably Aston Somerville, Gloucestershire), with the assent of his son Robert, but a writ of William II (ibid. 207-8) shows that Harscoit had first granted it to fellow Breton, Bishop Hervey of Ely, ten years before the bishop was connected with the abbey. His son Robert succeeded him in the early twelfth century (a generation is omitted in Sanders, 83)." [1]
Ascuit Musard held lands in Barleie [Barley?] and Stavelie [Staveley?], among other holdings. [2]
At the Norman conquest, Spersholt contained the manor of Terra Hascoit in Wanetiz Hund. "Hascoit tenet Spersolt. Brictric unus liber homo tenuit tempore Regis Edwardi. Tunc et modo pro 2 hidis. Terra est 4 car. In dominio est una car. et 8 villani et 5 cotarii cum 2 car. Ibi 2 servi. Valet et valuit 8 libras." [3]
Research Notes:
1086 "In 1066 one hide of land at Greenhampstead was held by Ernesi; it had passed into the possession of Hasculf Musard by 1086 when it had increased in value. [Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. 169v][4]
During the Middle Ages the manor [land at Greenhampstead, noted at date 1806] was variously described as being held of the barony of Staveley [5]
Referring to the land at Greenhampstead, noted at date 1086, "Senesbyri and La Musardyr manors, held of the king in chief of the barony of Stavelegh." [6] "Gloucester ... Oversodyngton and Musarder. The manors held of the barony of Staneleye in chief by knight's service." [7]
Referring to the land at Greenhampstead, noted at date 1086, "which was the caput of the Musards' lands in Derbyshire" [8]
17 Edw I "Gloucester ... La Musardere. The manor (extent given) held of the king in chief for ½ knight's fee." [9]
26 Edward III "Gloucester, ... Musarder. The Manor. All held in fee tail, to him and the heirs of his body, of the king in chief by knight's service." [10]
"At the time of the Domesday Survey the 5 hides in Newbold which had formerly been held by Alvred were in the hands of Hasculf Musard, of whom they were held by Humphrey." [11] [12]
[1] K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, A Prosopography of persons occurring in English documents, 1066-1166 (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999), 246, citing many items, [GoogleBooks].
[2] John Pym Yeatman, Sir Geo. R. Sitwell, and Cecil J. S. Foljambe, The Feudal History of the County of Derby: (chiefly during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries), Vol. 1 (London: Remrose & Sons, 1886), 60, [HathiTrust].
[3] William Nelson Clarke, Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting (Oxford: 1824), 163, [GoogleBooks].
[4] N. M. Herbert, R. B. Pugh, eds., A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11: Bisley and Longtree Hundreds (1976), 49-52, [GoogleBooks].
[5] N. M. Herbert, R. B. Pugh, eds., A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 11: Bisley and Longtree Hundreds (1976), 49-52, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 1, Henry III (London: HMSO, 1904), 191, IPM 601 for Ralph Musard, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[7] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 10, Edward III (London: HMSO, 1921), 42, [HathiTrust].
[8] Alfred S Ellis, "On the Landholders of Gloucestershire named in Domesday Book," Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol. 4 (1879-80), 86-198, at 184, [InternetArchive].
[9] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 2, Edward I (London: HMSO, 1906), 437, IPM 707 for John Musard, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[10] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Vol. 10, Edward III (London: HMSO, 1921), 60, IPM 49 for Edmund, son and heir of Edmund, late Earl of Kent, [HathiTrust].
[11] Arthur Doubleday and William Page, The Victoria History of the Counties of England Warwickshire, Vol. 1 (London: Archibald Constable, 1904), 339, The Land of Hasculf.
[12] Louis F. Salzman, A History of the County of Warwick: Kington hundred, Vol. 5 (Oxford University Press, 1949), 122, of 122-124, [GoogleBooks].