“William de Tracy" donated property to Mont Saint-Michel on becoming a monk there by charter dated 1110, signed by "…Guillelmi de Traceio, Rohes[ie] uxoris sue, Turgisi filii sui, Henrici filii sui, Gieve sororis sue”. “Henricus de Traci…cum filio meo Olivero” donated property to Barnstaple Priory by charter 1146. The 1164/65 Pipe Roll records "Oliverus de Traci" owing ".D. m p parte sua de Honore de Barnestapl" in Devonshire, maybe indicating the recent death of his father. 1
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Henry de Tracy, second husband of Cecily de Rumilly, whom he married not earlier than 1135, can probably be identified as Henry de Tracy, the Devon baron, who fought with success in the west on king Stephen's behalf in 1139 and 1143, being defeated in 1147. In 1146 he issued a charter confirming to Barnstaple priory the gifts made by Johel [de Totnes]; and before Michaelmas 1165 he had been succeeded by Oliver de Tracy, evidently a son by an earlier wife.* With Cecily his wife he issued two confirmation charters to Embsay priory.
* It seems reasonably certain that his first wife was a dau. of Johel de Totnes, with whom he acquired a moiety of the honour of Barnstaple, the other moiety passing to the family of Briouze, William de Briouze referring to Johel as his grandfather (Mon. Ang., v, 198). 2
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