Hardwin de Scarlaris

• Preferred Name: Hardwin de Scarlaris^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Hardwin Scales
  
• Alternate Name: Hardwin de Scales
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1086 in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, England at LATI: N2.114 LONG: E0.0325
  
• Birth: ABT 1030 in Normandy,France at LATI: N9.06 LONG: E0.11
  
• FSID: L7TT-JWG
  
• inheritance for sons: with note: the following copied from "The Genealogy of the Scales Family" found on line.... The Sons of Hardwin de Scalers On Hardwin’s death, his lands were split between his sons Hugh and Richard, though not in a simple way. For some reason, both brothers were given lands in the same village on a number of occasions, with one of them being the dominant partner. Hugh had the upper hand in Hertfordshire and Richard in Cambridgeshire. This lead to inevitable lawsuits between cousins down the generations, the outcome of which tended to reinforce this particular division.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Hardwin de Scales or de Scalariis came over with the Conqueror and obtained for him various grants of land in Cambridgeshhire and Hertfordshire. He had two sons Richard and Hugh. From the former descended Stephen, whose wife Juliana was a
  benefactress to the Priory of St Rhadegund in Cambridge (now Jesus College, and whose descendants William and Richard, continued the benefactions. Lucia the dau of the last mentioned Richard, married Baldwin Freville.
  From "History of Bottisham" : Posted by Barabara Watkins on GEN-MEDIEVAL-L 2 Oct 2002.
  From Holly Tamer
  
  === origins of scalers family ===
  Origin of the de Scalers Family
  
  The Duchy of Normandy emerged around 1000. William II, Duke of Normandy, laid claim to the English throne when his cousin Edward the Confessor died without heir. The claim was disputed by Harold, leading to the Norman Conquest of England. English nobles were initially permitted to keep their land, but rebellions over the next four years led William to grant much of it to his own followers, and the native English aristocracy was essentially wiped out. One of the Norman nobles who had come over with William was a certain Hardouin d’Escaliers, who became Hardwin de Scalers when he settled in England. He and his descendants, mostly associated with the counties of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, constituted the Scales nobility of the first 450 years following the Norman Conquest.
  
  Hardwin de Scalers received a large number of domains in Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire from a grateful William I following unsuccessful rebellions of the native English aristocracy over the four years following the conquest. He and his descendants established themselves initially as Lords of Newselles in Hertfordshire a name to be attached intermittently to the family for many generations.
  
  By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Hardwin held a considerable amount of land around the Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire border. In Hertfordshire, these possessions lay to the south and west of Royston connected with the villages of Reed, Therfield, Kelshaw, Hinxworth, Ashwell, Wallington, Clothall, Rushden, Sacombe and others. He also had land about 1 mile north of Cottered at Broadfield, a village that is now extinct, and a more southerly domain at Little Berkhamstead about 5 miles south-west of Hertford. Reed was to become an important family seat.
  
  In Cambridgeshire, most of Hardwin’s territory lay in a triangle between Royston, Cambridge and St. Neot’s connected with the villages of Caxton, Croxton, Caldecote, Longstowe, Kingston, Great Eversden, Little Eversden, Orwell, Whaddon, Wimpole, Shepreth, Little Shelford and others. Caxton, Whaddon and Little Shelford were to become further important family seats.
  
  Hardwin’s son Richard de Scalers was Lord of the Manor of Shelford. Despite Richard’s adopted title, the major seat of this branch of the family was at Caxton. In fact, Richard was both born in Caxton, so presumably Hardwin had moved there before about 1070. All of Richard’s descendants were also born there. The manor house at Shelford was probably not much used by the family. It may have been occupied by a bailiff for the estate. The reason for locating here may well have been that the Roman Road Ermine Street passes through Caxton, connecting the estate with the other de Scalers domains to the south at Whaddon and Reed, and with London.
  The line proceeded uneventfully up to the last male bearer of the name in this line, Richard de Scalers (c.1172-1231). His heiress was his daughter Lucy de Scalers (c.1205-1256).
  
  In 1230 Lucy de Scalers, heiress of the Scalers of Shelford and Caxton, married Sir Baldwin de Freville (d.c.1257) from a prominent Cambridgeshire family, who had a short time before paid 200 marks for her marriage and the custody of her land. Lucy's death in 1256 marked 7 generations and some 200 years of this branch of the Scalers family.

• m. ABT 1059

1. Richard de Scales I, b. ABT 1070 in Caxton, Cambridgeshire, England     d. 1140 in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, England

1. Title: British History online
   Note: Harlewin (Hardwin) Sales 1086 - held - Little Berkhampsted,Herefordshire