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had an interest in at least part of Ilbert's
Yorkshire fief, though it is not clear whether it was during one or both of Odo's periods of royal favour (1066–83 or 1087–88). Carpenter argues that it was likely during the latter period and that Odo may have been appointed tenant-in-chief of the Yorkshire fief, with Ilbert being restored as tenant-in-chief after Odo's rebellion in 1088.
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Pontefract) as he had held it during the reign of William I and during the time of Odo, bishop of Bayeux. This grant took place between 1087 and 1100, most likely in 1088; it implies that Odo of Bayeux previously
190:". The honour, which spanned approximately sixty parishes, six wapentakes and over 500 square miles, was deliberately created as a territorially compact unit: it was created primarily to serve a strategic function as a defensive bulwark in an important border zone. Lacy established
301:, who took the surname de Lacy. Five years later, Roger offered 500 marks to take possession of the Laval share of the honour of Pontefract, which was held by another Guy de Laval, though he did not recover possession immediately. In 1205, after Guy had taken up arms against him,
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Henry de Lacy's heir was his son Robert de Lacy, who died childless in 1193. Robert bequeathed his lands to his cousin Aubrey de
Lisours. In 1194, she settled the honour of Pontefract on her grandson,
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Pontefract to the king in 1292. The king regranted them to him and the heirs of his body with remainder to the king's brother
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Sanders (1960), p. 138, and Round and Barron (1906), p. 301. For more discussion of this portion, see Farrer (1916), pp. 199–200.
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right of her, but Henry de Lacy successfully disputed this inheritance. However, according to the historians J. Horace Round and Oswald Barron, this "statement must be entirely discredited".
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162:'s words, the fief "formed a compact block stretching from
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198:(in the former royal manor of Tanshelf), which became the
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1125:and John Brownhill (eds.),
987:"Ilbert and Robert de Lacy"
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848:La Patourel (1957), p. xxi.
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1030:, 1954), pp. 222–258.
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