Patrixourne
Feudal Barony of Patrixbourne
Barony of Patrixbourne
in the parish of Patrixbourne
in the county of Kent.
PATRIXBORNE
IS situated the next parish southward from Bekesborne last-described. It is called in Domesday, Borne, which name it took from the bourn or stream which runs through it; and it was afterwards called Patrixborne, to distinguish it from the neighbouring parishes of Borne, situated on the same stream. There are two boroughs in this parish, viz. of Marten, alias Cheney, and of Patrixborne.
AT THE TIME of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1084, this parish was chiefly owned by Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the general title of whose lands it is thus described in that survey;
In Brige hundred, Richard, son of William, holds of the bishop, Borne. It was taxed at six sulings. The arable land is eight carucates. In demesne there are three carucates, and forty-four villeins, with three borderers having ten carucates. There is a church, and one servant, and four mills of sixteen shillings and eight pence. A fishery of six-pence. Pasiure, of which the foreign tenants have plougbed six acres of land. Wood for the pannage of four hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth eighteen pounds, when be received it ten pounds, now nineteen pounds.
The previous holders of this feudal barony were
Ingelran Patric - 1190
Richard (Patric) fitz William 1060 - 1110
William Patric - 1174
William Patric - 1174
William Patric 1090 - 1155
Jean (Preaux) de Prattelis abt 1150 France - 1215
Geoffrey (Say) de Say abt 1180 West Greenwich, Kent, England - 19 Aug 1230
Geoffrey (Say) de Say abt 1281 England - bef 03 Mar 1322
Geoffrey (Say) de Say 30 Apr 1305 England - 26 Jun 1359
William (Say) de Say bef 1209 England - bef 12 Feb 1272
William (Say) de Say 20 Nov 1253 England - bef 16 Sep 1295
We have researched this title in-depth. There is a huge record of historical manuscripts on every holder of this title.
The reference authority is Sanders, English Baronies, p135. It seems that the family of the 1086 lord Richard fitz William used the name Patrick as a surname, and not only is their English lordship named this way, but also they came from a place in France called Lande-Patry. Based upon the latest edition of the 1166 cartae baronum, despite what Sanders says this barony was not included.
After Ingram's two son died without issue the barony was divided between two sisters who married French loyalists, went to Geoffrey II de Say.
Scholars such as Sanders and Keats-Rohan have pointed to the presence of William Patric in Norman charters. These show that, presuming there was only one man of this name, his wife was Gisla and he had a son, who was probably his heir, name William.
· [1066-1083] Grant by King William and his wife to the abbey of the Trinity in Caen. Willelmus Patricius witnessed next to Radulfus de Rovrecestre (Rochester).
· 1082. Another grant by King William and his wife to the abbey of the Trinity in Caen. Willelmus Patric is named as a tenant of the king in lands near Caen.
· [1080-1083] "Gisla uxor Willelmi Patrici et filius eius Willelm(us)" are involved in one of a group of transactions enacted by the abbey of Saint-Étienne in Caen. (This one was noted by Keats-Rohan DD p.1062.)
· 24 June 1082. Grant by Robert Count of Mortain and his wife to the abbey of Marmoutier. (This one was noted by Sanders p.135 n. 5.)
· [1156-1161] A confirmation of the older grant of William and Gisla and their son William. Mentioned by Sanders as showing the ancestry of William Patrick - or one of them.
It is considered likely, for example by Sanders and Keats-Rohan, that William is the father, or at least a close relative, of his near contemporary the English Domesday baron of Patrixbourne Richard the son of William, whose father was evidently named William, and whose successors (relationship unknown) used the surname Patric.
Sources of research
· Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p. 365.
· Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, pp. 1065-1063.
· Loyd, Anglo-Norman Families, p. 76.
· Sanders, English Baronies, p.135.
1. ↑ Wikipedia:fr: La Lande-Patry, accessed 17 September, 2018, citing Auguste Surville : La Baronnie de la Lande-Patry.
2. ↑ The French is from Frère ed. (1827) Le Roman de Rou et des ducs de Normandie, p.261-2. The English has been adapted from Edgar Taylor's 1837 translation, p.237-8.
3. ↑
· « Acte 6474 », dans SCRIPTA. Base des actes normands médiévaux, dir. Pierre Bauduin, Caen, CRAHAM-MRSH, 2010-2019. [En ligne]
4. ↑
· « Acte 6472 », dans SCRIPTA. Base des actes normands médiévaux, dir. Pierre Bauduin, Caen, CRAHAM-MRSH, 2010-2019. [En ligne]
English short version:
· Henry William Carles Davis, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, vol.1, Regesta Willelmi Conquestoris et Willelmi Rufi, 1066-1100, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913, n° 150.
5. ↑
· « Acte 6466 », dans SCRIPTA. Base des actes normands médiévaux, dir. Pierre Bauduin, Caen, CRAHAM-MRSH, 2010-2019. [En ligne]
English short version:
· Davis Henry William Carles, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, vol.1, Regesta Willelmi Conquestoris et Willelmi Rufi, 1066-1100, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913, n° 170.
6. ↑
· « Acte 6531 », dans SCRIPTA. Base des actes normands médiévaux, dir. Pierre Bauduin, Caen, CRAHAM-MRSH, 2010-2019. [En ligne]
English short versions:
· John-Horace Round (1899) Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, Illustrative of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 918-1206, n° 1201, n° 1203.
· Henry William Carles Davis, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, 1066-1154, vol.1, Regesta Willelmi Conquestoris et Willelmi Rufi, 1066-1100, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913, n° 145.
7. ↑
· « Acte 6839 », dans SCRIPTA. Base des actes normands médiévaux, dir. Pierre Bauduin, Caen, CRAHAM-MRSH, 2010-2019. [En ligne]
English version:
· John-Horace Round (1899) Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, Illustrative of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, 918-1206, n° 453.
The full history is too long to detail here. However, we can confirm that the title is currently held to this day by:
Andreas Stephan Wagner II
The exclusive hereditary rights derived from the title:
Feudal Baron of Patrixbourne in the county of Kent have been assigned to Andreas Stephan Wagner II of Germany on the 20th June 2024.
It should be noted that the right to the title has been created by legal process, not through a re-grant or re-establishment by the Crown.
The assignment was completed by solicitors based in the UK who are certified in manorial law by the Law Society.
The legal process for the acquisition and assignment of this feudal title began in February 2023.
Andreas Stephan Wagner II holds best title to this incorporeal hereditament title.
This title and its current holder are listed with the Manorial Documents Register and on our register of legal holders of manorial and feudal titles.