Research Notes:

Of Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire, Fingrith, Margaretting, and Woolverston (in Chigwell), Essex, and Great Hormead and Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire.

Hereditary Chamberlain to Queen Eleanor ^{1 2}

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Gilbert de Sanford granted land and springs to the city of London in 1237 for the construction of the Great Conduit, but, according to the London annals, work on the conduit did not begin until 1245; the date of its completion remains unknown. ³

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Gilbert de Saunford to Godfrey son of Bartholomew de Firstlinge.

All that purparty appertaining to the grantor's land, of the whole river running between his land and the land of his tenants, which river [Wid in Margaretting] with its several fishings Bartholomew, grandfather of said Godfrey acquired from the said Gilbert's ancestors

Witnesses: Sir Nicholas de Samford, Sir Andrew le Blunt, Sir William de Clovile, Sir William de Lambourn, Andrew de Walkfare, John le Rus, William de Alneto, Bartholomew fili Fulk, Thomas Tirel, William le Blunt, Henry del Fen, Ralph clerk. ⁴

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Gilbert de Saunford was one of the witnesses to a grant by Robert de Ghynes, knt., to Sir Fulk Basset, bishop of Loudon, for £460, of his manors of Toleshunteand Hoyland [in Essex]. ⁵

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23 Oct 1231

Gilbert de Sampford has made fine with the king by 40 m. for his relief of the lands formerly of John de Sampford, his father, whose heir he is, which fall to him by inheritance. Order to the sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire that, having accepted security from Gilbert for rendering the aforesaid 40 m. to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all aforesaid lands in his bailiwick.

Calendar of Fine Rolls, 15 Hen. III, 341

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22 Jun 1233, Windsor

Gilbert, son and heir of John de Sampford’ , has made fine with the king by three palfreys for having the king’s grace and for having respite from being made a knight, until Michaelmas in the seventeenth year. Order to the sheriff of Essex to cause Gilbert to have full seisin of his lands in his bailiwick, which he took into the king’s hand by the king’s order, because he was not a knight at Pentecost, having accepted security from him for rendering the aforesaid palfreys to the king.

Calendar of Fine Rolls, 17 Hen. III, 234

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22 Jan 1243

The king has pardoned to Gilbert de Sanford 10 m. of the 20 m. that the king caused him to have as a prest towards coming to the king in Gascony. Order to the barons of the Exchequer to cause him to be quit from the aforesaid 10 m.

Calendar of Fine Rolls, 27 Hen. III, 119

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5 Apr 1249

De execucione testamenti Gilberti de Saunford'.—Rex Henrico de Wengham, salutem. Mandamus vobis quod permittatis executores testamenti Gilberti de Sanford' liberam habere amministracionem de omnibus bonis et catallis que fuerunt predicti Gilberti, ad execucionem testamenti sui faciendam, accepta ab eis securitate quod de primus bonis nobis satisfacient de debitis, si que nobis debuit idem Gilbertus. ..

Calendar of Close Rolls, 33 Hen. III, p. 151

5 Apr 1249, Westminster

Grant to F. bishop of London, for a fine, of the wardship of the heirs of the land and heirs of Gilbert de Samford, with the marriage of the heir.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. III, vol. 4, p. 39

13 Jul 1249, Westminster

The king has granted to the bishop of London that Hugh de Vere, earl of Oxford, may answer for him at the Exchequer for the 1000 m. by which the same bishop made fine with the king for having the custody of the land and heir of Gilbert de Saunford’, at the same terms at which the bishop was bound to pay the aforesaid 1000 m. to the king, namely 200 m. per annum, and that, if the earl will wish he is similarly to pay queen’s gold at the Exchequer for the bishop.

Calendar of Fine Rolls, 33 Hen. III, 332