Person:Gilbert Talbot (16)

Gilbert Talbot; knighted by Feb 1207/8; died by 13 Feb 1230/1. [Burke's Peerage]Gilbert Talbot; knighted by Feb 1207/8; died by 13 Feb 1230/1. [Burke's Peerage]

GILBERT TALBOT, son and heir, obtained a new charter of Linton from Richard I, dated at Gisors, 30 March 1190; and in 1190-91 began to account for 200 marks to have the manor thereof, being allowed in his account certain sums for work on the bailey of Skinfrith, co. Monmouth, and for payments to knights and foot and horse soldiers. He appears in the scutages of King John as holding one knight's fee, being elsewhere described as a knight in February 1207/8; and in 1219 and 1221 was in commissions for Herefordshire. The name of his wife is not known. He died before 13 February 1230/1. [Complete Peerage XII/1:607, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

The site of Eccleswall Court lies within the parish of Linton, near the villages of Bromsash and Weston-under-Penyard, and south-west of the core of the centre of the Roman settlement of Ariconium. Linton is recorded in the Domesday Survey as property of King William. It consisted of five hides and paid the fourth part of ‘one night’s revenue’ (a night’s revenue supported the king and his household for one night). Linton was inhabited by ten villagers and five smallholders with twelve ploughs (Thorn & Thorn 1983). The place-name Linton is thought to have meant ‘flax enclosure’ (Copleston Crowe 1989). The place-name ‘Eccleswall’ is indicative of first millennium Christian settlement. The name recorded for Eccleswall in 1274 is ‘Egleswalle’, or ‘Spring at a Celtic Christian centre’ (Copleston Crowe 1989). King Henry II granted lordship of the Manor of Eccleswall to Richard De Talbot, who is thought to have built Eccleswall castle. Talbot’s descendant, also named Richard, signed himself “Dominus de Eccleswall” in a letter to the Pope in which the Barons asserted the right of King Edward to superior power over Scotland. The Talbots remained at Eccleswall until 1342, when the family seat transferred to the larger and grander castle of Goodrich. Eccleswall Court was owned by the Talbots until 1616, when Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, died without a male heir and the estate passed to his second daughter Lady Elizabeth, wife of Henry Grey the 8th Earl of Kent. In 1718 the estates of the earl of Kent were sold to George Bonner. Joseph Waite (Burton) purchased the land from Bonner in 1823 (Robinson 1869).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 (12)
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2. ↑ Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000.
4. ↑ Gilbert Talbot, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.