Sir Waleran de Monceaux Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁸⁹
The manor of Compton Monceux (Cumtune, xi cent.; Cumpton, xii cent.; Compton Monceus, xiv cent.; Compton Broke, xv cent.; Compton Mountseux alias Munday on the Hill, xvi cent.; Compton Moncieux, xvii cent.; Compton Mountreux, xviii cent, alias BROOK) was held in 1086 by William the Archer, and had been held in the time of King Edward the Confessor by five thegns. [V.C.H. Hants, i. 499a] It was subsequently held of the king in chief by the serjeanty of being the king's marshal. [Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 234, 235, 237; Red Bk. of Exch. (Rec. Com.), i, 209; ii, 460.] Who the immediate successor of William the Archer was is uncertain, but in 1195 William Fitz Aldelin, the king's marshal, was lord of Compton, [Add. Chart. 20246.] and it is probable that this manor was granted to him by Henry II on the occasion of his marriage with Juliane daughter of Robert Dorsnelli. [Red Bk. of Exch. i, 209] Juliane survived her husband and died seised of the manors of Sherfield upon Loddon and Compton c. 1199, leaving as her heirs William Warblington and Ingram Monceux, [Rot. de Oblatis et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 19] possibly her grandsons. In 1199 William and Ingram gave the king 500 marks for licence to succeed to their inheritance, [Rot. de Oblatis et Fin. (Rec. Com.), 19] but within the next few years Ingram died, and William taking advantage of this paid a further sum of 400 marks for permission to take possession of all the property of which Juliane had been seised. [Ibid. 217] However, Waleran Monceux, probably brother and heir of Ingram, put forward his claim, and in 1205 paid 100 marks to have his share of the inheritance. [Ibid. 310] A partition of the property was made, Sherfield upon Loddon (q.v.) falling to the share of William and Compton to Waleran, [Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 235] and from later documents it seems clear that Compton was burdened by a rent of £10 to William Warblington and his successors and suit at their manor of Sherfield upon Loddon. [Ibid. 237; Inq. p.m. 27 Hen. III, pt. ii, no. 25; 34 Edw. III (1st nos.), no. 77; 2 Ric. II, no. 22] Waleran died before 1217, in which year his son and heir William had such seisin of his lands granted to him by the sheriff of Hampshire 'as he had on the day that he receded from the fealty and service of King John.' [Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), ii, 310] This William died in 1243 and was followed by his son Waleran, [Inq. p.m. 27 Hen. III, pt. ii, no. 25; Feet of F. Hants, 40 Hen. III, file 9, no. 58] who took part in the barons' war on the side of Simon de Montfort against Henry III. [Suss. Arch. Coll. iv, 134-5.] On the death of Waleran the manor passed to his son John, [Ibid] who died in 1301, leaving a son and heir John. [Inq. p.m. 30 Edw. I, no. 47; Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), i, 123.] This John in 1303 settled the manor in default of his own issue on his brother Waleran in fee-tail, with contingent remainder to his sister Margaret, [Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 32 Edw. I] and died in 1316, when all his possessions passed to his son and namesake. [Inq. p.m. 10 Edw. II, no. 36] John Monceux died young without issue, and his sister Maud, who inherited his estates, carried them into the family of Fiennes by her marriage with Sir John de Fiennes. [Suss. Arch. Coll. iv, 135] In 1331 the manor was granted by Sir John de Fiennes and Maud his wife to Maud Ferrers for life, [Feet of F. Div. Co. Mich. 5 Edw. III] and was held by her until her death in 1336, when it reverted to Sir John de Fiennes, [Inq. p.m. 10 Edw. III (1st nos.), no. 34; Feet of F. Div. Co. Hil. 11 Edw. III] who died in 1351, [Inq. p.m. 25 Edw. III, no. 35] William de Fiennes succeeded his father and died seised of the manor eight years later, leaving an infant son and heir John. [bid. 34 Edw. III (1st nos.), no. 77i] One-third of the manor was assigned in dower to Joan widow of William in 1360, [Ibid. no. 3] while the other two-thirds were granted by Edward III in 1370 to Walter Haywode, to hold during the minority of John at a rent of 12 marks. [Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 311] John died, however, in 1375 before he attained his majority, his heir to his estates being his brother William, who came of age in 1378. [Inq. p.m. 2 Ric. II, no. 22; Pat. 6 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 3] On the death of Sir William Fiennes in 1405 Compton Monceux passed to his son Sir Roger Fiennes, who died between 1444 and 1455, [Suss. Arch. Coll. iv, 148-9. Vide Close, 8 Hen. VI, m. 3 d., 12 d] and was succeeded by his son Sir Richard Fiennes, [Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 55, no. 226] who married Joan the granddaughter and heir of Thomas Lord Dacre of Gillesland, and was in her right summoned to Parliament and declared Lord Dacre in 1458. [G.E.C. Complete Peerage, iii, 2]

~A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume IV, pp. 469-480