ii8 DEINCOURT DEINCOURTC) BARONY BY i. Sir Edmund DeincourTjC-) of Blankney and Bran- WRIT. ston, CO. Lincoln, Holmesfield and Elmton, co. Derby, , Granby, Notts, Duddington, Northants, &c., s. and h. of 1299. gj^ j^j^^ Deincourt, of Blankney, ^c. (who iJ. before 14 Oct. i2 57),('^) by Agnes, da. of Sir Geoffrey de Neville, of Raby, co. Durham. ('^) The King took his homage, though he was still a minor, on or before 8 Jan. 1 268/9. (*') He was in the Army of Wales in 1277, 1282, and 1294, and in the Army of Scotland in 1299.0 He was sum. for Military Service(e) from 16 Apr. (1291) 19 Edw. I to i May (1325) 18 Edw. II, to attend the King wherever he might be, 8 June (1294) 22 Edw. I.C") to attend the Coronation, 18 Jan. (1307/8) i Edw. II, to Councils from 8 Jan. (1308/9) 2 Edw. II to 20 Feb. (1324/5) 18 Edw. 1 1,0 and to Pari, from 6 Feb. (1298/9) 27 Edw. I to 3 Dec. O This article is by G. W. Watson. V.G. () The arms of this family were, Azure, billetty and a fesse dancette Or. Aincourt is a village in the Vexin normand. ("=) Patent Roll, 41 Hen. Ill, m. I. This John had livery of his lands, 19 Sep. 1246, and was s. and h. of Oliver (who had livery in 1 21 7), by Nichole, to whom Nichole (ist da. and coh. of Richard de la Haye, and wife of Gerard de Caunvillc) gave Duddington in free marriage: which Oliver was s. and h. of Oliver (aged 24 in 1 186, m. Amabel, and a", in or before 1 201), s. and h. of John (who had livery in 1 167-8, znA d. 6 Nov. 1 1 83), by Alice, sister of Ralph Murdac. John was s. and h. of Walter, s. and h. of Ralph (who m. Basilic), s. and h. of Walter d'Aincurt, the Domesday lord of Blankney. [Cartulary of Thurgarton, transcript in Lansdowne MSS., no. 207e, fF. 22-68, and Cartulary of Kirhtall, Cotton MSS., Vesp., E 18 — passim: Cartulary of St. Marys at York, Harl. MSS., no. 236, f. 8 or xx: Pipe Rolls, 14 Hen. II, pp. 64, 75; 29 Hen. II, p. 66: Addit. Charter, no. 20738: Rot. de Dom.,'^. 10: Oblate Rolls, 2 Job., mm. 16, 5; 3 Job., m. 7: Fine Rolls, 6 Job., w. 13; I Hen. Ill, w. I ; 30 Hen. Ill, m. 3: Bracton, Note Book, no. 503: Curia Regis, roll no. 152, m. 6 d: Ch. Misc. Inq., file 53, no. 24). C^) This Agnes was widow of Richard de Percy, of TopclifFe, co. York, who d. shortly before 18 Aug. 1244. [Fine Roll, 28 Hen. Ill, m. 3). She was his 2nd wife. The Lady Agnes de Percy gave the manor of Steeping, co. Lincoln, to Edmund d'Eyncourt her s. and h., and his heirs, by deed dated 20 Edw. I. (Harl. MSS., no. 245, by Glover, f. 92 v). She d. before 20 July 1293. [Close Roll, 21 Edw. I, m. 5). The effigy on her seal (Harl. Charter, 54, G 12) wears a dress charged with billets and a fesse dancette [Deincourt), and holds up two shields, the dexter charged with 5 fusils conjoined in fesse [Percy), the sinister with a saltire [Neville of Raby). Patent Roll, 53 Hen. Ill, m. 26. (') Patent Rolls, 5 Edw. I, m. ID; 27 Edw. I, m. 2: Close Roll, 25 Edw. I, m. 10: Scutage Roll, no. 9, w. 3: JVelsh Roll, 14-23 Edw. I, m. 3 d. (e) When so sum., 12 Apr. 1 30 1, he had leave to send his sons in his stead, cum decenti comitiva. [Close Roll, 29 Edw. 1, m. 11 d). C") It was accordingly ordered, 14 June following, that he should not be sum. for Gascony: he was however sum. therefor, 16 July. (') The Sheriff of Lincoln, having been ordered, 9 May 1324, to summon him for a Council, returned that "debilis est et fere etatis Ixxx annorum." [Pari. JFrits, vol. ii, part ii, p. 644).
