The Essex Sackvilles
1907; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 64; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00665983.1907.10853055
ISSN2373-2288
Autores ResumoJust outside the borough boundary of Colchester, the boundary of its ancient liberty, there lies the village of West Bergholt, otherwise named in former times Bergholt Sackville, which is thus distinguished from East Bergholt, Constable's Bergholt, lying in the valley of the Stour.West Bergholt, with Mount Bures, which is divided from it by Fordham parish, formed, in the twelfth century, the estate of the Sackvilles, and I hold therefore that the mount, or motte, from which this Bures is named, and which still adjoins its Norman church, a frequent and significant conjunction, represents the castle of the Sackvilles.These two manors, Mount Bures and Bergholt, were held at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086), by Roger of Poitou, the lord of the honour of Lancaster, and thus it came about that in 1212 Geofiiy de " Sakeville" was returned as holding them as Wo knights' fees of the honour of Lancaster. 2Unlike the majority of Norman houses, the Sackvilles were destined to a long continuance, and eventually attained the highest rank, in the peerage of this country.We would seek, therefore, to know from what part they came when they settled in the neighbourhood of Colchester.It is not always easy to trace the origin of a Norman house ; even when we are sure of the right form of its name, that name may belong to more than one Norman village.Now in Normandy we have a Sacquenville (Eure), near Evreux, a Garcelles-Secqueville, S.W. of Caen, a Secqueville-en-Bessin (Calvados), E.S.E. of Bayeux, and a Sauqueville in the Seine Inferieure.The author of that mischievous book, The Norman People, which deals specially with these matters, ignored all four, and derived
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