Benedict de Gernet

• Preferred Name: Benedict de Gernet^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Forester of Lancashire in Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.8185 LONG: E2.6257
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: in Speke, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.3431 LONG: E2.8517 with note: Description: Lord of Speke
  
• FSID: LCY4-7RW
  
• Death: AFT 25 JAN 1205 in Speke, Liverpool district, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
  
• Birth: 1136 in Warrington, Warrington district, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N3.4167 LONG: E2.5167
  
• Nickname:
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Speke in Speke, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.3431 LONG: E2.8517
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Benedict I Gernet, Lord of speke, Forester of Lancashire 1170
  s/o Adam Gernet
  m-1- Mabel FitzUrse
  m-2- Cecily d/o Roger Hulton (his widow 1205)
  d- shortly after 25 Jan 1205 -
  
  1154-89 - He obtained the privedge of being sued for any tenement held in demense only before the King or Chief Justice
  (This was confirmed by King John)
  1184-85 - he had to pay 5 marks for an agreement unlawfully made
  1193-94 - he was involves in the rebellion of John, Ct of Mortain (later King), he paid 20pds for the King's good will, so that he might
  retain the lands & Forests he held by inheritance
  1194-95 - Deputy Sheriff
  1199 - he proffered 40marks fpr having the serjeancy of the Forest of the whole conty with the King's Favoer
  1200- Lancashire - grant from BENEDICT s/o Adam Gernet -to- the Abbey of Monks of St Mary's of Furness
  4 acres of Meadow in Nithingou, given by his father to said Monks
  
  === Sources and info for Benedict... ===
  • Background Information. 729
  The derivation of Speke Lordship by Norres from Gernet, through the intermediate Houses of Molynex and Erneys, there can be no doubt. Records prove decisively that the Norman family of Gernet held Speke in capite from the Honor of Lancaster, of which Domesday proves "SPEC" to have been a complonent part under the grand of land between Ribble and Mersey made to Roger Pictavensis. Such tenure is recognized in the Inquisition taken after the eath of Sir Roger Gernet (male heir of this family), 36 Henry III, with regard to the paramount interest of continuing, by feudal usage, in the heirs of the grantor.
  
  The estate he held Speke, Whiston, Parr and Skelmersdale in Derby Hundred, Fishwick in Amounderness, and Halton and Heyseysham in Lonsdale, in fee, by forester's service, as guardian of vert and venison in Lancashire Forests, from William Earl of Ferrers; and that William Molyneux held Speke under him by frank marriage, the said Roger Gernet receiving nothing therefrom. [Inq. p.m. 36 Henry III, Tower Records]
  
  ~Ormerod, "Memoir of the Lancashire House of Le Noreis or Norres, and of it Speke Branch in Particular," Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, ser.1 v.2 1849-1850, 152-153
  
  • Background Information. 1045
  Benedict Gernet held the serjeanty of the forest for all of Lancashire in the first year of King John. For this he was given an annual payment of £26 13s 4d.
  
  ~The Royal Forests of England, p. 99
  
  • Records and Notes. 1046
  Between 1189 and 1206, a grant was made by Benedict, son of Adam Gernet, to the abbey and monks of St. Mary of Furness, of four acres of meadow in Nithinghou given by his father to the said monks, paying one pound of wax on Easter day to the church of Halton.
  
  ~Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records, p. 167
  
  Benedict married Mabel Fitz Urse, daughter of Richard Fitz Urse and Maud de Boulers.141
  
  === [[Category: Warrington, Lancashire]] ===
  [[Category: Warrington, Lancashire]]
  {{Unsourced|Lancashire}}
  == Biography ==''Uncertain where the head forester of Lancashire, Roger Garnet, fits into this line. Bennet's son is named Roger, but he is b. 1173, so could not be the one listed below:''
  "When the Lancashire forest was formed, Speke became part of the fee attached to the chief forestership held by the Gernet family and their descendants the Dacres. (fn. 5) The interest of the master foresters in Speke was, however, merely that of superior lord after Roger Gernet,living in 1170, had granted the manor to Richard de Molyneux of Sefton in free marriage. (fn. 6)".'Townships: Speke', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1907), pp. 131-140 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp131-140 [accessed 9 March 2015].
  
  ''Perhaps this is the right Roger. '' "In 1212 Roger Gernet was master forester; and at the inquest taken after his death it was found that 'in the vill of Speke he held 2 plough-lands of William earl of Ferrers'; Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc.Lancs. and Ches.), 43, 188. In 1324 William de Dacre, who married Joan the daughter and heir of Benedict Gernet, held Speke; Dods. MSS. cxxxi, fol. 33b. In the feodary of 1484 Lord Dacre, as 'next of kin and heir of Roger Gernet,' is called the chief lord; Duchy of Lanc. Misc. cxxx."http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp131-140#fnn5
  
  == Sources ==
  

• m. BEF 1173 in Speke, Liverpool district, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
• m. ABT 1190

1. William de Gernet, b. 1176 in Speke, Liverpool district, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1212 in Lydiate, Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
2. Roger de Gernet I, b. 1173 in Speke, Liverpool district, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom     d. BEF 8 MAY 1252 in Halton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom

1. Title: Book - Lancashire Pipe rolls
   
2. Title: British History Online
   
3. Title: Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland
   Author: page 360
   Publication: Name: http://interactive.ancestry.com/48498/BurkeBaronetcies-001808-360/366638?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dFLHG-BurkeBaronetcies%26gss%3dsfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsln%3dgarnet%26gsln_x%3d0%26MSAV%3d0%26uidh%3dqup&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&rc=1011,422,1094,438;
   Note: Discusses the extinct line of Molyneux and Benedict le Garnet etc...