Warin Bussel "The Bald" 1St Baron Of Penwortham

• Preferred Name: Warin Bussel "The Bald" 1St Baron Of Penwortham^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Warin the Bald
  
• Alternate Name: Warin de Bussell
  
• Alternate Name: Warin de Busshell
  
• Gender: M
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of the Manor of Standish
  
• FSID: G6GV-31L
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Baron of Penwortham
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Lord of the Manor of Langtree
  
• Birth: 1043 in Tickhill, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.4334 LONG: E1.1094 with note: Tickhill Castle
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sheriff
  
• Death: BET 1083 AND 1086 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England at LATI: N1.6712 LONG: E1.7757
  
• Occupation: Sheriff
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Shrewsbury
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Warin the Bald Also known as Guerin le Chauve
  1st Baron of Penwortham
  
  Was described by Orderic Vitalis as "a man small in body but great in spirit, he was granted "praesidatum Scrobesburiae" by Roger de Montgomery after marrying his neice Amieria de Montgomery.
  Earl Roger made Warin the Bald the Sheriff of Salop (Shropshire).
  
  1081
  Warin is in Winchester in 1081 when as Guarinus Vicecomes de Scrobeswburia he is one of the witnesses to a charter of William the Conqueror to the Abbey of St. Evroult of Uticum (Ouche) in Normandy. Warin makes specific grants to the Abbey, which are enumerated.
  
  1085 Death
  Warin the Sheriff was dead before 1085, leaving his wife Aimeria surviving and a son and heir Hugh then a minor.
  
  === Notes ===
  History of the Abbey of Evesham:
  
  p136-8
  Warin Bussel gave to the church of Evesham the church of Penwortham [Lancs.], and a third of the tithes of the demesne of Leyland, Moels and Farington [all Lancs.], with their appurtenances.
  The reason why Warin Bussel chose to favour the abbey of Evesham appears to have been that his wife Matilda, had property in Evesham; her gift of two bovates of land in Evesham is recorded in a charter of her son, Albert Bussel..
  
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  History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster
  Page 442-3
  
  Warin Bussel, one of the barons under Roger de Poictou, in the reign of Wm. I. seated at Penwortham)? held among his ample demesnes the parish of Leland, and was a considerable benefactor of the abbey of Evesham in Worcester, to which he gave the priory of Penwortham. A memorandum, entered in the chartulary of the former convent, supposed to be coeval with Henry III., enumerates in the following manner the donations made to that house by the barons of Penwortham :? Warin Bussel gave to the church of Evesham, the church of Penwortham, and the church of Lailand, the chapel of Meols with their appendancies. The same Warin gave the town of Farinton with its appurtenances, and Richard Bussel [his son] gave to the church of Evesham six bovates of land in Longeton ;?the entire church of Leiland which returns two marks, and the chapel of Meols, which returns 3s. Albert [brother of Richard] gave two bovates in Leiland, and the assart of Blackesawe. Also the aforesaid Richard gave the fourth part of his fishery.?1'
  
  By another charter, Richard Bussel, the son of Warin, confirms his father?s grant, and gives two bovates of land in Leiland. Albert, the brother of Richard, by another charter, confirms the preceding donations, and the two bovates given to the church by his mother, Matilda, as well as others in Leiland, which had been given by his wife Lelia out of her dowry. All the preceding charters are confirmed by Albert's son, Hugh Bussel,? who, in 6 Richard I. paid 40 marks for his relief; and who, on being dispossessed by John earl of Moreton, had a suit with him for his inheritance, which he recovered; but when John came to the crown, he was constrained to give him 20 marks for a confirmation of his title, and to hold it of him by the service of three knight?s fees.T Hugh subsequently resigned his claim, and the barony was granted to Roger de Lacy.
  
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  Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 1:
  
  P411
  Warin Bussel, seated at Penwortham, one of the barons under Roger de Poictou, in the time of the Conqueror, held, among his ample demesnes, the parish of Leyland, and was a considerable benefactor to the Abbey of Evesham, in Worcestershire, to which he gave the priory of Penwortham.
  His son Warin Bussel was father of Robert Bussel...
  
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  The Lancashire Pipe Rolls:
  Page 261
  
  The barony of Penwortham was probably created by Henry 1., or Stephen, Count of Mortain, but it is evident that Warine Bussel I. had been enfeoffed of lands in the Wapentakes of Leyland and Amounderness between 1088 and 1100, for a portion of the estate which he had previously held, lying in Chippendale, Aighton, and Dutton, was given by Henry I. in 1102, to Eobert de Lacy, as appears by the abstract of a charter printed among the early Lancashire Charters in the latter part of this volume. As there is no mention of Warine elsewhere, nor of his name as a witness to any of Koger the Poictevin's charters between 1088-1102 ? although Geoffrey and Albert Bussel attest one in 1094 ? it seems probable that he died soon after the accession of William Kufus.
  
  Page 320-24
  SERIES V. CHARTER No. III.
  a.d. circa 1140-1149. 14 Stephen.
  
  Confirmation by Warine Bussel to Robert, Abbot of Evesham, of the churches of Penwortham, Leyland, and Northmeols, and the town of Farrington, together with the grant in frankalmoign of a teamland and a half in Martin.
  Evesham Chartulary, Karl MS. 3763, fol 89.
  
  NOTES
  The date of this charter has been variously and erroneously given by different authorities as of the reign of William the Conqueror, or of William Rufus. Some writers who ought to have known better, have declared the belief that Warine Bussel was the son of Roger de Busli, the Domesday tenant in chief, whose only son died (naturally or- otherwise) two years after his father, circa 1100-1102, as a ward of Robert de Belesme.
  
  In support of the statement that the date hitherto attributed to Warine's grant is incompatible with the facts, it is to be noted that in his charter, Warine refers to his son " Warine," and also to " his children." Now it is certain that he had at least three other sons, viz., Richard, Albert, and Geoffrey, and the Testa de Nevill names six daughters. Of the sons, both Albert and Geoffrev survived until the time when the Honor of Lan caster was in the hands of Count John of Mortain (1189-1194), during which period Geoffrey was a suitor in the County Court at Lancaster {Fine Boll, temp. John, p. 49) and Hugh, his brother, was fining for his relief after his father's death, as appeal's by an entry in the Pipe Roll of 6 Richard. "Hugo Buissel reddit compotum de xl marcis de fine Relevii sui, quam fecit cum Comite Johanne." Albert died in or very shortly before the year 1194, or surely some portion of the tine would have been collected by Count John's sheriff. It is obviously improbable that those who were living as late as 1189-1194, could have been described as children by the father, at a date much earlier than 1140. From entries in the Testa de Nevill (II, f. 816), and from No. IV of this Series, we see evidence that three of Warine's daughters were unmarried at his death, and afterwards at their respective marriagen were endowed by their eldest brother Ricliard, who had succeeded to the Barony. Again, when the monks of Evesham obtained from Ranulf Gernons a confirmation of their estate in Howick, and letters of protection, no mention whatever was made of Penwortham Church or of any other estates as having been at that- time bestowed upon them. From this it might appear that. Warine's gifts were made at a subsequent date.
  
  Further evidence in support of a later date is the occurrence among the names of the witnesses of ?Constantine, the Abbot's Chamberlain," who also appears as a witness to the grant of Loynton, co. Staff, by Abbot Reginald to Robert Dunham (Staffordshire Historical Collections, Chartulary, Series 1, No. III). It is known that he held five houses in Evesham of the Abbey. These are the grounds upon which it seems advisable to associate this document with the abbacy of Reginald, and to a date after the year 1140.
  
  The agreement was, in fact, a confirmation by Warine Bussel, with the consent of his wife and children, of a former grant to the Abbey, viz.? of the church of Penwortham, together with those of LeyLand and Northmeols and all their belongings and acquisitions ; and of the whole town of Fairington. In addition to the former gift hereby ton firmed, Warine bestowed upon the abbey for the health of his soul, and the souls of his wife and children, one teamland and a half of land in the town called Martin, with the moiety of his stock there, viz. four cows, four oxen and three 9Core sheep. He also bequeathed a second maniple, and his body for burial, with his own third part of his chattels, upon condition that three brethren and a chaplain should henceforth minister in the church of Penwortham, rendering the first year to the Abbot and monks of Evesham ten shillings in charity, and in subsequent years two marks of silver, and further that they should receive into the brotherhood his son Warine, if he wished to become a monk. In this manner Warino confirmed the covenant quit of all exaction and claim, so far as pertained to him and his children, and laid it upon the altar.
  
  The witnesses on the part of the Abbot were ? Ranulf, the clerk, Constantine, the Abbot's Cliamberlain, and Rernaiil the Cook. On the part of Warine ? Walter, his knight, the said Walter's nephew, the son of Acard, and William. Apparently none of his own children were old enough to attend with him and attest the agreement.
  
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  The Lancashire Pipe Rolls:
  Page 322-5
  
  SERIES V. CHARTER No. IV.
  AD. 1153-1160. 18 Stepheh-6 Henry II.
  
  Confirmation by Richard Btssel to the Abbey of Evesham of his father's grants, with the addition of the church of Leyland, land in longton and pen worth am, the fourth fish of his fishery, and the chapel of Northmoels.
  
  On the witness list:
  Sibilla and Matilda, sisters of Richard Bussel, were probably unmarried at the date of this charter. They were most likely the two sisters who were afterwards married by their brother to Robert Hikeling and Richard Spileman. (Testa de Neuill, H., fol. 816).
  
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  The Families of Standish
  
  p. 3
  Daughter of Warine Bussell who married Richard Spileman, who received Standish and Langtree from his brother-in-law, richard Bussell, Lord of Penwortham. he had two daughters and coheirs who husbands received the manors of Standish and Langtree and evidently took the names of the plough-lands which Richard Spileman gave them, and founded two eminent Lancashire families.
  
  Children:
  Daughter, who married Lesing, who died before 1206. Lesing took the name of Standish from the property received from his father-in-law.
  Edith, m. Siward of Langtree

1. Maud de Bussel, b. 1116 in Hoghton, Lancashire, England     d. 1150

1. Title: Fredrick Lewis Weis, The Families of Standish of Standish, Lancashire, England and Standish of Duxbury, Arles, Ormskirk, Gathurst, Croston Park Brook and Wantage, Published 1959, Dublin, New Hampshire
   Author: page 64 for Robert de Standish, page 6-8 for John de Standish the father of Robert, page 6 for William his father. On page 5 gives his father Jordan. Page 4 gives Ralph, the father of Jordan, and his father Alexander. Page 3-4 gives Alexanders father as Ralph de Standish. Page 3 talks about Leising, and wife the daughter of Richard Spileman. Page 2-3 is the first generation known of Warine Bussel and his daughter that married Spileman.
   Publication: Name: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89080461494;view=1up;seq=80;
   Note: Gives detailed history of the Standish line back for many centuries...