Individual Details
Gilbert Lancaster
(Abt 1150 - 1220)
== Biography ==Gilbert de Lancaster (approx 1150-1220). The founder of the Lancasters of Sockbridge was an illegitimate son of William de Lancaster II (died 1184).
Married Sapience.
Gilbert appears on many charters of his father named clearly as his son. He is certainly not a son-in-law as Ragg had previously thought.
Surviving charters show that late in his father's life Gilbert was enfeoffed of the main moiety of the manor of Sockbridge and Tirrell, the manor in Patterdale which came to be called Hartsop, and Slegill.
Gilbert was apparently older than Hawise de Stuteville, who was the mother of William de Lancaster's legitimate heir, Gilbert's half sister, Hawise de Lancaster, who married Gilbert Fitz Reinfrid, and passed the Lancaster name on to her son William de Lancaster III.
For Ragg the clinching evidence which made him realize his error in his Charter III, found in his 1910 article. Helewise, the legitimate daughter of William II, confirms her father's grants to Gilbert who she names as her brother.
Apart from Sockbridge, as mentioned above, in 1180–1200 "Uchtred son of Ketel granted to Gilbert de Lancastre a 4th part of the land in Stirkeland which William de Lancastre had given to Ketel the grantor's father, to hold for 6d. yearly."
According to Ragg's interpretation, Gilbert FitzReinfrid also gave Gilbert de Lancaster possession of Hawkshead (though by 1196 Fitz Reinfrid's claims on this area had been overcome by Furness Abbey), according to a charter found by Ragg (his Charter IV).
Gilbert's widow was Sapience as shown by Ragg in an un-dated charter made after the death of her husband (Ragg's Charter V). In the charter, Sapience, as a free widow says she leases her own third portion of Staynerhead to "Sir Gilbert de Lancaster". (There is some doubt about who that might be. Might it be her son-in-law?)
==Possible confusion==Apparently some historians have assumed that “Gilbert de Lancaster�� mentioned in many other records during all these years was in fact Gilbert Fitz Reinfrid, using the name which his son and father-in-law certainly used.
It is not clear that Gilbert fitz Renfrid was ever referred to this way.
But in any case the two Gilberts often appear together in these charters. In 1208 Gilbert de Lancaster even represented Gilbert Fitz Reinfrid and his wife in a legal case. In Ragg's charter IV, Fitz Reinfrid grants to Gilbert the husband of Sapience.
== Sources ==
*F. W. Ragg (1910), "[http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1910/vol10/tcwaas_002_1910_vol10_0024.pdf De Lancaster]", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society: 395–493) *The [http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancasters%20of%20Sockbridge.html website] of [[Lancaster-1279|Andrew Lancaster]] about this family.
* http://www.thepeerage.com/p41221.htm#i412202
Married Sapience.
Gilbert appears on many charters of his father named clearly as his son. He is certainly not a son-in-law as Ragg had previously thought.
Surviving charters show that late in his father's life Gilbert was enfeoffed of the main moiety of the manor of Sockbridge and Tirrell, the manor in Patterdale which came to be called Hartsop, and Slegill.
Gilbert was apparently older than Hawise de Stuteville, who was the mother of William de Lancaster's legitimate heir, Gilbert's half sister, Hawise de Lancaster, who married Gilbert Fitz Reinfrid, and passed the Lancaster name on to her son William de Lancaster III.
For Ragg the clinching evidence which made him realize his error in his Charter III, found in his 1910 article. Helewise, the legitimate daughter of William II, confirms her father's grants to Gilbert who she names as her brother.
Apart from Sockbridge, as mentioned above, in 1180–1200 "Uchtred son of Ketel granted to Gilbert de Lancastre a 4th part of the land in Stirkeland which William de Lancastre had given to Ketel the grantor's father, to hold for 6d. yearly."
According to Ragg's interpretation, Gilbert FitzReinfrid also gave Gilbert de Lancaster possession of Hawkshead (though by 1196 Fitz Reinfrid's claims on this area had been overcome by Furness Abbey), according to a charter found by Ragg (his Charter IV).
Gilbert's widow was Sapience as shown by Ragg in an un-dated charter made after the death of her husband (Ragg's Charter V). In the charter, Sapience, as a free widow says she leases her own third portion of Staynerhead to "Sir Gilbert de Lancaster". (There is some doubt about who that might be. Might it be her son-in-law?)
==Possible confusion==Apparently some historians have assumed that “Gilbert de Lancaster�� mentioned in many other records during all these years was in fact Gilbert Fitz Reinfrid, using the name which his son and father-in-law certainly used.
It is not clear that Gilbert fitz Renfrid was ever referred to this way.
But in any case the two Gilberts often appear together in these charters. In 1208 Gilbert de Lancaster even represented Gilbert Fitz Reinfrid and his wife in a legal case. In Ragg's charter IV, Fitz Reinfrid grants to Gilbert the husband of Sapience.
== Sources ==
*F. W. Ragg (1910), "[http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1910/vol10/tcwaas_002_1910_vol10_0024.pdf De Lancaster]", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society: 395–493) *The [http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/Lancasters%20of%20Sockbridge.html website] of [[Lancaster-1279|Andrew Lancaster]] about this family.
* http://www.thepeerage.com/p41221.htm#i412202
Events
| Birth | Abt 1150 | Kendal England | |||
| Death | 1220 | Sockbridge, Westmorland England | |||
| Reference No | 13204796 | ||||
| Reference No | 14107543 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | William Lancaster (1130 - 1184) |