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William de Glanville Lord of Bromholm


Preferred Parents:
Father: Ranulph de Glanville Sire de Glanville, b. ABT 1045 in France   d. 1086 in Eye, Suffolk, England
Mother: Flandrina , b. 1045 in Eye Castle, Antley, Suffolk, England   d. 1089 in Yorkshire, England

Family 1: Beatrice de Sauqueville,    b. ABT 1095 in Bures-ad-Montem, Sudbury, Essex, England    d. 1195 in England
  1. Bartholomew de Glanville Lord of Bromholm, b. ABT 1130 in Bromholm, Bacton, Norfolk, England     d. 1175 in Bacton, Smallburgh, Norfolk, England
  2. Beatrice Glanville, b. ABT 1128 in Bromholm, Bacton, Norfolk, England    
Sources:
  1. Title: Pedigree of the Glanville Family [See document in the memories section]
    Author: Pedigree of the Glanville Family
    Note: Pedigree of the Glanville Family [See document in the memories section]
    Page: Pedigree of the Glanville Family [See document in the memories section]
  2. Title: British History Online > Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Bromholm
    Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/norf/vol2/pp359-363;
    Note: Pages 359-363 A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1906. Citation: 'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Bromholm', in A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1906), pp. 359-363. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/norf/vol2/pp359-363 [accessed 18 December 2018]. In this section 18. THE PRIORY OF BROMHOLM Priors Of Bromholm Footnotes 18. THE PRIORY OF BROMHOLM The priory of Bromholm, dedicated to the honour of St. Andrew, was founded in 1113 by William de Glanvill, and was made subordinate to the Cluniac house of Castle Acre. Bartholomew de Glanvill, son of the founder, confirmed and increased his father's endowments. The charter enumerates the lands of Stanard, the priest of Keswick together with the church, the churches of Bromholm, Dilham, and Paston, with the tithes of many neighbouring estates. He also bequeathed to the priory, after his death, Gristcombe and all he possessed in the fields there, with his villeins. Henry III granted the priory, in 1229, a fair on Holy Cross Day and two days after, and a Monday market. The same king in 1234 granted them rights of tumbrel and pillory, and relieved them of various tolls and duties. An indult was granted to the prior and convent of Bromholm in 1239 to hold to their uses the church of Haninges, value under 20 marks, the patronage of which they already possessed. This grant was to take effect on the next voidance of the rectory, and a vicar's portion was to be reserved. The taxation of 1291 shows that this priory was then valued at £109 15s. 11d., and owned property in fifty-six Norfolk and sixteen Suffolk parishes. Pope Celestine in 1295 confirmed to the priory the appropriated churches of Bacton, Keswick, Paston, Witton, and Dilham. The Valor of 1535 estimated the clear annual value at £100 5s. 3¼d. The endowment at that time comprised the impropriation of seven Norfolk and two Suffolk churches, and the manors, pensions, lands or interests in fifty-eight parishes. The offerings at the cross of Bromholm amounted that year to £5 12s. 9d. As early as 1195 Bromholm was relieved by Pope Celestine of most of its subjection to Castle Acre. In 1225 a dispute arose between the priories of Bromholm and Castle Acre as to the right of the latter to impose a prior on the former, and next year Pope Honorius III issued his mandate to commissioners with power to summon both parties and to adjudicate in the dispute between the two priories. Castle Acre asserted that Bromholm was subject to them, and that they had in the past obtained papal letters with regard to the election of a prior of Bromholm, when it was decided that the prior of Acre should nominate three monks of Acre, one of whom was to be chosen prior. The convent of Bromholm had, however, petitioned the pope to allow them on the death of their present prior to have a free election notwithstanding the previous composition. The dispute now became further complicated by the interference of the prior of Lewes, of which house Castle Acre was in its turn a cell. In 1229 Gregory IX referred the matter to the judgement of the abbot of Olveston and the deans of Stamford and Rutland, with the result that the prior of Castle Acre was for the future, on a vacancy arising, to nominate six monks, three of Acre and three of Bromholm, out of whom the convent of Bromholm should elect one for their prior. During these four years the office of prior had been in abeyance, but on an election being held on the basis of the compromise of 1229, Vincent was chosen prior. All grievances were not, however, healed at once; for ten years later Prior Vincent was writing to the abbot of Cluni on the differences between himself and the priors of Lewes and Castle Acre. In 1275-6, Yves de Chassant, twenty-eighth abbot of Cluni, ordered a visitation of the English houses, and appointed for that duty John, prior of Wenlock, and Arnulph, the lord abbot's equerry. The visitors reached Bromholm on 12 March, 1276. They reported that the number of the brethren was sixteen, who lived sufficiently well and regularly. The debts amounted to £120. The same orders were issued by the visitors as are detailed under Castle Acre. In February, 1285, Roger, prior of Bromholm, wrote to, the abbot of Cluni excusing himself from personal attendance at the chaptergeneral at Cluni in consequence of his having legal business to attend to before the justices on circuit in Norfolk. In 1293 the same prior again excused himself from attendance at the chapter-general on the ground of his serious ill-health. In May, 1313, a royal grant was made to the monks of Bromholm to put them in the same position which they had held during previous voidances. Upon the voidance of their house by the death of their late prior, William de Tutingdon, the king, believing that the temporalities belonged to him during such voidance, caused the priory to be taken into his hands and placed in the custody of John de Norton, king's clerk, and John Pike. Afterwards it was found, by inquisition, that William de Glanvill, the first founder of the priory, and his heirs, and also Ralph and Edmund, earls of Cornwall, to whom the advowson of the priory successively fell, did not during voidance receive anything out of the issues of the priory, but that on each voidance there had been a porter appointed, who was accustomed to have his sustenance out of the goods of the priory during voidance as a sign of dominion. Whereupon the king commanded John de Norton and John Pike not to interfere with the custody of the priory, and to deliver without diminution to the sub-prior and convent all the issues they had levied or received. Adam Lumbard, who had long served the king and his father, was sent to the priory in 1319 to receive life sustenance in the place of Adam Pullehare, deceased. In 1350, John de Karleton, monk of St. Andrew's, Bromholm, obtained an indult to choose a confessor for plenary remission at the hour of death. Early in the reign of Richard II, the priory was in much distress. They paid 50 marks to the king, in 1385, to secure the appropriation of the church of Berdwell, of their own advowson, valued at 26 marks yearly; it is stated in the licence that the priory lands had been much wasted by the sea, and their house recently burned, and that if not relieved they would shortly have to cease divine service. The brethren of.Bromholm in 1298 numbered twenty-five, but they were reduced to eighteen by the time of a visitation held in 1390. At the latter date the house is described as directly subordinate to the mother house of Cluni. There were five masses celebrated daily, three were sung and two were said throughout. The visitors found that all statutes and monastic duties were well and thoroughly observed. On 15 April, 1418, John Paston was collated to the priory of Bromholm, vacant by the resignation of Clement Chandellier. This was apparently a papal appointment, and meanwhile Nicholas had been elected by his own convent. Prior Nicholas is the first witness to the will of Clement Paston, dated June, 1419. An undated letter, probably somewhat later than this, from Prior Nicholas to William Paston, states that John Paston had posted letters on Christchurch gates summoning the writer to Rome. There can be no doubt that Nicholas, after a brief rule, was deposed in favour of the papal nominee. This prior was of some notoriety because of his connexion with the celebrated judge William Paston. Paston Hall was about a mile from the priory, and the Paston family regarded it with special interest. This John Paston claimed to be a kinsman of the lawyer, but the claim was never admitted, William Paston always maintaining that his true name was Wortes. He was originally a monk of Bromholm, and Prior Chandellier took action against him as an apostate, engaging William Paston as his counsel in the prosecution. John retaliated by bringing the matter before the Roman court, and proceeded against both the prior and William Paston, with the result that the former was called upon to resign his office, and the latter condemned in the heavy penalty of £205. Contrary to the advice of his friends William Paston contested the validity of the sentence, but only with the result of being for a time excommuni cated. In 1426 John Paston or Wortes, who seems to have had great influence at Rome, was appointed, by papal provision, bishop of Cork; but a private letter of William Paston of that year, writing of him as ' this cursed bysshop for Bromholm,' states that there were two other persons ' provided to the same bysshopricke yet lyvyng,' and that Prior John being still apostate would be unable to hold it. When the bishopric did become vacant, in 1430, Jordan chancellor of Limerick obtained the see; Prior John and others in vain endeavoured to oust him. In 1430 John Paston resigned Bromholm; it seems that he had not resided there for many years. In that year Judge Paston wrote to the English vicar-general of the abbot of Cluni, who alone had power over the profession of Cluniac monks in this country, stating that there were divers virtuous young men in the garb of monks but unprofessed at the priory of Bromholm, some of whom had been there for nine or ten years, and praying that the prior of Thetford might be empowered to receive their profession. John Tyteshall succeeded as prior in 1460. Among the Paston Letters are two from this prior, one of the year 1461, and one circa 1480. The great event during his rule was the burial at the priory, of John Paston, the son of Judge Paston. He died in London on 21 or 22 May, 1466, and everything connected with his obsequies was carried out on a sumptuous scale. The interment at Bromholm took place on 29 May. £5 13s. 4d. was spent as a dole, and immense quantities of food and drink were supplied. A London chandler received £5 19s....
  3. Title: Ranulph de Glanville in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 424 [See document in the Memories section]
    Author: Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 424
    Note: Ranulph de Glanville in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 424 [See document in the Memories section]
    Page: Ranulph de Glanville in Dugdale’s The Baronage of England, pg. 424 [See document in the Memories section]
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