Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens [3 Sept 1028 - 1054]

 

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens [3 Sept 1028 - 1054]

Brothers:

Comte Eustace [ii] "aux Gernons" de Lens de Boulogne de Burgundy II [c. 1015-1093]

Bishop Godfrey de Boulogne de Bouillon

Lambert [Lambertus] II, Count of Lens was uncle of: Duke Geoffrey de Bouillon FitzEustace de Boulogne, King Baldwin de Jerusalem FitzEustace de Boulogne I and Lord Eustace Eustache [iii] FitzEustace de Boulogne de Burgundy III [who married Princess Mary MacCrinan d'Ecosse of the Scots]

 

Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054) was a French nobleman. He was likely born circa 1030. This would put his death age at about 24 years of age.

He was the son of Eustace I, Count of Bologne and of Maud of Louvain (daughter of Lambert I of Louvain). c. 1053 he married Adelaide of Normandy, Countess of Aumale, daughter of Robert I, Duke of Normandy and sister of William the Conqueror. Adelaide was also the widow of Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu who died in 1053. c. 1054 Lambert and Adelaide had a daughter, Judith of Lens, although Lambert would scarcely have seen her father.

 

He was killed at the battle of Lille in 1054. Lambert was supporting Baldwin V, Count of Flanders against Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor when he was killed in battle. His widow, Adelaide, married thirdly, Odo, Count of Champagne.

 

Lambertus de Roseto from Rosay, Dieppe ref: "Domesday People: Domesday book':

Tenent of Rowdham Westaker Manor, Norfolk [Hundred of Shropham] under the lordship of the Earl of Warren via the Bardophs, and then to the Roseis or Rosets, and Lambert of Rosei gave his whole land at Rodeham [Norfolk], which William his priest held of him there, with the consent of Walcheline [Wakelin], his son, and of William Earl Warren and Surrey, the chief lord of the fee of whom it was held by the service of one knight's fee, to the Priory of West-Acre ; and the Earl released to that house the service of that fee; and in 1345, the prior had a quarter of a fee in Roudham, which formerly belonged to the Munchensies after to Robert de Lyle, and was held of the King, as Duke of Lancaster; and from this time the manor, impropriate rectory, and the advowson of the vicarage belonged to the priory till its dissolution, and fell to the Crown; and in 1546 the King granted it to Thomas Woodhouse, who the same year sold it to Francis Lovell, and his heirs; and from that time it hath passed with East-Herling, (see p. 323,) with which it was sold to the Wrights, Mr. John Wright, son of Thomas Wright, Esq. being now [1737] lord, impropriator, and patron.

 

From Blomefield's "County of Norfolk" published 1805, p433

Rudham, Rudeham, Roodham, or Rowdham, takes its name from a remarkable rose or cross that stood in it, upon the great road leading from Thetford to Norwich; (fn. 1) the remaining stones of it were carried thence to Herling, about five or six years agone, by Mr. Wright, who was then lord here. In the Confessor's survey it was held by a freeman of Herold, at one carucate, but at the Conquest it was divided into three parts; besides 30 acres that belonged to the manor of Bridgham; the three first was in the Conqueror's hands, (fn. 2) he second belonged to William Earl Warren, (fn. 3) and these two constituted the capital manor, called Rowdham Westaker's. The third was held by Ralph, of Eudo the Sewer, (fn. 4) and the whole soke or superior jurisdiction belonged to Buckenham castle, as part of the hundred, Lisius, the old owner, (as I take him to be,) continuing his claim at this time against Eudo, who had got it from him by force, or by the Conqueror's gift. This was afterwards called Trusbutt's or Newhall manor.

 

"Rowdham Westaker Manor. Was all in the Earl of Warren, the King having given him his part, but was divided again., and that part which was the King's was held of them Earl, by a family surnamed from the town, till William, son of Simon de Rowdham, gave it to the Priory of West-Acre., the other part , with the advowson, came from the Earl of Warren to the Bardophs, and then to the Roseis or Rosets, and Lambert of Rosei gave his whole land at Rodeham, which William his priest held of him there, with the consent of Walcheline [Wakelin], his son, and of William Earl Warren and Surrey, the chief lord of the fee of whom it was held by the service of one knight's fee, to the Priory of West-Acre.

 

Castleacre-Priory Manor.

William Earl Warren, the second of that name, by his deed, sans date, confirmed, as capital lord, in the reign of King William II [26 September 1087 – 2 August 1100]. the land which William, the priest of Rudham, held of Lambert de Rosei [de Rosseto], and one knight's fee of the grant of the said Lambert, and remitted the service of the said fee; this was, no doubt, the same Lambert who was lord at the survey, and had been enfeoffed of the same by the first Earl Warren. William, the third Earl Warren, gave Alwin, in Rudham, with all his substance, and Godwin, the smith, with his wife and children.

John de Querceto, or Cheyney, released the homage of Jeffery, brother of Mathew, to the prior of Coxford.

 

Eustace, seneschal of Acre, granted the reversion of all his lands in Rudham, after his death, on condition of being admitted a monk, if he should desire it.

 

William, son of Roger de Gressenhale, gave two of his men, or villains.

 

Geffrey, son of Ordiner, gave also lands here, and Ralph de Necton confirmed to them 42 acres in pure alms.

It was agreed by deed, sans date, that the small tithes of this lordship should belong to the priory of Castleacre, but the tithes of the corn, lamb, and wool, and cheese, should belong to Coxford priory, with the weif and stray, and the assise of bread and beer:—Witnesses Sir Hervey de Stanho, Sir Henry de Ferrariis, which shows it was in or about the end of the reign of Henry III. and for this one mark was to be paid per ann. to Castleacre priory. Robert, prior of Castleacre, remitted to William, prior of Coxford, their right in the manor of East Rudham.

 

In the 18th of Edward I. Ralph de Dunton gave a messuage and 47 acres of land, in West Rudham.

 

In the 20th of Edward III. the prior held here half a fee in pure alms, and in the 3d of Henry IV. here, and in Bagthorp, of the Earl of Arundel.

 

At the Dissolution, Thomas, the prior of Castleacre, conveyed it to King Henry VIII. in his 29th year; who, soon after, December 22d in the said year, conveyed it to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk; and Phillip Earl of Arundel, in the 21st of Elizabeth, had license to alienate it to Sir Roger Townsend, whose direct heir and successour, the Right Honourable Charles Lord Viscount Townsend, was lord, and now George Lord Viscount, his son

  

Eustace II who came to England with William the Conqueror is identified by Peter Western as Eustace de Roucester of Rivenhall. He had a brother Lambert de Boulogne. This Lambert had a daughter Judith & also Walcheline [Wakelin].