Given by the hand of Simon, archdeacon of Wells, at Canterbury, 28th day of March, second year of our reign." (1201.) (13) Witnesses, Hubert, archbishop of Canterbury, William, bishop of London, Geoffrey Fitz-Piers, earl of Essex, William Marshall, earl of Pembroke, William riwerre, Hugh Bardolf, Robert de Turnham. Know ye that we have granted and by our present charter confirmed to GeoflSrey Luterel the reasonable donation, which Gerbod de Scaud made to him of fifteen bovates of land in Gamston and in Normanton, and the reasonable donation, which Gerard de Rodes made to him of all his demesne in Bridgeford and of sixteen bovates of land in Bridgeford and in Keyworth, with the meadow of Willies, to have and to hold to him and his heirs of them and their heirs freely and quit and entirely, as the charters of the donors reasonably testify. In the following year (1200/1201) a charter of Geoffrey Luterel is entered on the roll of charters to this effect " John, by the grace of God king of England, &c. Geoffrey Luterel was resident in the county of Nottingham, and on the Pipe roll of Nottingham and Derby of the sixth year of King Richard the First (1194/95), William Briwerre, the sheriff^, renders accompt of thirty-four shillings of the lands of the same Geoffrey and on the roll of the first year of King John (1199/1200), Geoffrey Luterel renders accompt of fifteen marks to have seisin of land in the soke of Clifton, of which he had been disseised by reason of his adherence to John, when count of Mortain. Whatever faults King John had he rarely forgot service loyally given. Thereafter they disappear they were quietly dropped. There were a few remaining on the Pipe Roll when John became king in 1199. These fines were slowly paid during the rest of Richard’s reign. Under the titles of “Fines made for the knights and men of Count John” and “Chattels and lands of the king’s enemies seised in the king’s hand by the sheriff”, the Pipe Rolls record the names of some of the men from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire so fined at Winchester on 20th April. and each one of them brought pledges of 100 marks if they should not return to the king’s court”. “The king of England separated the wealthier men from the others who were taken in the castles of Nottingham and Tickhill and the other castles of Count John and put in prison for ransom the others he allowed to go away to find pledges. Those prisoners, supporters of Prince John, who had been taken in the castles of Nottingham, Tickhill, Marlborough and Lancaster, and in Mont St Michel, were brought to the King at Winchester on the day after the close of Easter. Philip also, with the King’s blessing, acquires all of the estates belonging to Sir Geoffrey Luttrell in Ireland. Upon the death of Geoffrey Luttrell in 1216, Philip is awarded by the King, the guardianship of Geoffrey’s English son and daughter and their marriages to his own son and daughter. Nevertheless, he does retain his position and relationship with King John and John’s successor in 1216, King Henry III. Like the other men of Touraine, Philip Marc is so detested by the noblemen of England that he is specifically named in Magna Carta, in June 1215, as one who should never be allowed to hold office in England again. He becomes known as one of the King’s most ruthless and evil Sheriffs. In 1209, Philip Marc is given the significant position, in the important midlands of England, of Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the King’s Forests. These men of Touraine are employed by John in England as enforcers of his will and protectors from his own people. Philip Marc, one of several men of Touraine, France, supporters of King John in his war with King Philip II of France, comes to England after John’s defeat by Philip.
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