Lambert, Baldwin & Radulf de Rosei or de Rosey - Seal example

 

14.8 EXAMPLES OP MEDLEY AL SEALS.

Rosei or Rosey is mentioned as holding lands in Norfolk and elsewhere. This record furnishes no certain date, hut it was compiled from inquisitions taken tempp. Hen. HI. and Edw. I. A Radulf de Rosei appears in the Great Roll of the Pipe 4th Hen. II [1158], under Cambridgeshire, in connection with the Earl of Warenne. This was probably Radulf the father named in the deed. Two of the names appear as witnesses with William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, to a confirmation by Galfrid de Say to Walden Abbey. (Mon. Ang.) These may have been the father and son, though one is called de Rosey and the other de Roseto; for in the deed itself their names also differ. A Radulf de Rosey witnessed a confirmatory grant by Matilda de Say, after the death of her husband William de Bocland, to the monks of Walden, of a church, which her grandmother Beatrix de Say had given them. (Mon. Aug.) Beatrix died in 1207; but when William de Bocland died has not been ascertained. He was Matilda's husband in 30 Hen. II [1174]. (See Mad. Form. Angl., p. 217.) Probably he died about the same time as Beatrix. However that may be, the grant by Matilda could hardly be earlier than 1207, and it is not improbable that was this Radulf de Rosei the son named in the deed; for the Earls of Warenne had lands both in Essex and Cambridgeshire, at no great distance from Walden. A Lambert de Rosei is mentioned as a benefactor to the monks in the first two grants by the second Earl of Warenne to Castle Acre Priory (Mon. Aug.) That Earl died in 1135, and therefore this could not be the Lamberd named in the above deed, though he may have been one of Baldwin's ancestors whose benefactions were confirmed by him. A Lamberd de Ros, probably for Rosei, appears as a witness to the grant by Drogo, son of William Dapifer de Gressinghall, to the same Priory (Mon. Ang.), but there is nothing to fix its date. The churches of Lechesham are mentioned in the Earl's grants above referred to, most likely East and West Lexham, Norfolk ; and a William de Lechesham is among the witnesses to a grant by Godfrid de Lisewis to the monks of Castle Acre at Rainham (Mon. Ang.), which is addressed to John Bp. of Norwich, and witnessed also by William Prior of Lewis, whereby the date is ascertained to be between 1175 and 1180. This William de Lechesham may possibly have been the witness to the above deed; but if so, he must have been advanced in years. A witness of the same name occurs to another grant by the same Godfrid, but there is nothing to indicate when it was made.  In determining the date of the document above given, the peculiar form of it is not to be disregarded. Such a deed might be referred to the twelfth century, and can hardly be much later than the commencement of the reign of Henry III.