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Facts and Events
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Gweno De Alsop |
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Male |
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About the time Richard the Lion-Hearted returned from the Crusades, Gweno was given control of the township of Alsop, which was recorded in the records of the Wapentake of Wirksworth. The established the family holdings in Alsop-En-Le-Dale in Derby. They also gained additional property in Lilwell, co. York, which Ranulph de Alsop gave his son Richard.
If Robin Hood and his merry men were history rather than legend, the residents of Alsop would have been quite familiar with them, Nottingham being only a few miles to the east. The shires of Derby and Nottingham were under the same sheriff.
In the days of feudalism in England, a fief was an estate granted by a lord to a person of lower rank in return for a promise of military service. The best fighters received the fiefs and were called vassals. The ceremony by which a knight or other deserving person became a lord's vassal and received an estate was called homage.
Twendo de Alsop became, about 1200, a vassal of William, Earl Ferrers, receiving the fief of Alsop-En-Le-Dale. He did not own the property, but could keep possession as long as he fulfilled his military duties and other services as required by the Earl. Gweno kept what the land produced, set up a court, passed judgement, and used the several peasant families living there for farm labor, building, construction or repair and road work.
Gweno had a grant of the township of Alsop from William, Lord Ferrers.
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