196 COMPLETE PEERAGE argentine ARDS see ARDES ARDSALLAGH or ARDSALLA i.e. "Ludlow of Ardsallagh, co. Meath, " Barony [I.] (Ludlow)^ cr. ilSSi see " Ludlow, " Earldom [1.], cr. 1760, extinct 1842. i.e. " Preston of Ardsallagh, co. Meath, " Viscountcy [I.] (Ludlow), cr. 1760, with the Earldom of Ludlow [L], which see ; extinct 1842. i.e. " Amberley of Amberley, co. Gloucester, and of Ardsalla, co. Meath, " Viscountcy (Russell), cr. 1861, with the Earldom of Russell of Kingston Russell, which see. ARGENTINE f) BARONY I. Reynold d'Argentine,^) of Melbourn, co. Cam- BY WRIT. bridge, and Great Wymondley, Herts, s. and h. of . _ Giles d'A., of the same, by Margery, da. of Sir Robert ^' Aiguillon, j«c. his father in 1282, (°) before 24 Nov., being then aged 40 and more, and, 20 Dec. 1282, he had livery of his inheritance. (**) He was sum. to attend the King at Shrewsbury, (^) 28 June (1283) II Edw. I, and also at Salisbury, Q 26 Jan. (1296/7) 25 Edw. I, by writs directed Reginaldo de Argenteyn and de Argenteyme. He m. Laura, da. of Hugh (de Vere), 4th Earl of Oxford, by Hawise, da. of Saher (de Quincy), Earl of Winchester. She d. in 1292, and (*) The re-writing of this article has been kindly undertaken by G.W.Watson. () This family took its name from Argenton in Poitou, and not from Argenton in Berry, nor from Argentan in Normandy. The French branch of the family existed til! the 1 6th century. Their pedigree is given by A.Du Chesne, Maiion de Chastdlon, 1 62 1, p. 494-499, and by Beauchet-Filleau, Dictionnaire da Families du Poitou, vol. i, 1 89 1, p. 100-103. They bore for arms, Or, semd of cross crosslets Az. and 3 roundlets Gu, (Gilles le Bouvier, dit Berry, y^rw^jna/ (compiled about 1455), ed. Vallet de Viriville, 1866, no. 1094). The English branch bore, Gu., 3 covered cups Arg., in allusion to the tenure of Great Wymondley, for which see under Alington, p. 106, note " d. " Giles d'Argentine, who was slain at Bannockburn, bore the latter arms, the field being sem6 with cross crosslets Arg., as his difference. C) Writ of diem cl. ext. 24 Nov. 1 1 Edw. I {Fine Roll, 1 1 Edw. I, m. 26). Inq., cos. Cambridge, Herts, and Suffolk, undated. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. I, file 33, no. 16). (") Fine Roll, II Edw. I, m. 25. (°) As to this supposed Pari., see Preface : and as to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. (') Concerning the validity of a writ of this date as a regular writ of summons to Pari., see Preface. V.G.
