Orm de Kellet

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁵
From The History of Lancashire, Vol. 8, Pgs 1-3:

Adam de Kellet, son of Orm de Kellet, was granted Lonsdale Hundred in 1199. The descent of the office is the same as the manor of Nether Kellet, and was held by the Holand and Lovel families and then by the Earls of Derby.

• Background Information. ⁷⁷¹

The descent of the family who held the thanlands of one moiety of Over Kellet, rate at one and one half carucate for 7s 6d, one moiety of Bare (1/2 car.) for 8s, and Claugton in Lonsdale (1 car.) for 4s, yearly service, begins with Orm, the ancestor. He was most likely living as early as the time of Henry I (1100-1135).

Orm had a son and heir named, Bernulf, and another son named Adam, who is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls, p.12, in 1169. Bernulf, son of Orm, had a son, also named Orm, who "attested the agreement, made between 1157-63, before Henry II, between the monks of Furness and William Lancaster I [Pipe Rolls, p. 12]." This Orm*, also had a brother named Adam [Pipe Rolls, p. 409]. Orm was also the father of William de Kellet [Pipe Rolls, p.107], who took part in the rebellion of John, count of Martain, in 1194, and later recieved a pardon from the King and fined 20 marks [Pipe Rolls, p.78].

William's oldest son was likely Henry de Kellet whose name appears from 1204-1207 in the Pipe Rolls, but died without issue before 1211, at the time when Gilbert, the second son of William proffered 20 marks and a palfrey for livery of his inheritance [Pipe Rolls, p.78]. Gilbert died in 1236, leaving issue, William, his son and heir, who died in 1242; Alice, who married Henry de Croft, and Godith who married first Vivian Gernet, and secondly John de Biggings [Fine Roll Excerpts, I. pgs. 311, 389].
~Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids, A. D. 1205 - A. D. 1307, pg. 91

*By the dates indicated in the Pipe Rolls, this may have been the Orm who was the father of Adam whose daughter married Thurston de Holand.