22±3). PETER EVIDENTLY HAD A ROLE IN ANGEVIN ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF T...
20, 22±3). Peter evidently had a role in Angevin royal government of the
city of Le Mans (Cart. St-Pierre de la Couture, pp. 87, 93, 99, 114±6, 124, 187)
under Henry II and his sons, attesting one charter of Henry II styled
`custodus turris Cenomannensis',
c. 1161 (Actes d'Henri II, no.
cxcix). At
some time during Henry II's reign, Peter presided over a determination of
the
banlieu
of Le Mans (Cart. St-Pierre de la Couture, p. 187). A charter of
Peter's, dated 13 May 1190, shows him exercising jurisdiction in Le Mans,
but not apparently as royal seneschal of Le Mans, this of®ce being held by
Geoffrey Mauchien (Cart. St-Pierre de la Couture, pp. 124, 126±7, 130).
Between 1200 and 1203, at Le Mans, Peter attested a charter of Queen
Isabella (A. CheÂdeville (ed.),
Liber controversiarum Sancti Vincenti Cenomanensis,
Paris, 1968, pp. 150±1). In addition to his role at the comital/royal
curia
in
Le Mans, Peter ®tzGuy also attested a large number of Henry II's charters,
both in England and on the Continent, with no of®cial title (Actes d'Henri II,
passim). The charter of Queen Isabella (1200 x 1203) is the latest record of
Peter.
Peter's colleague in the administration of Nantes, Robert
de Doniol
(above, p. 81), may be identi®ed with Robert Doisnel, whose daughter
married William ®tzAldelin, another of Henry II's seneschals/`dapifers' (Actes
d'Henri II, `Introduction', p. 478; Everard, `Justiciarship', pp. 91±2),
suggesting an
esprit de corps
among these professional royal administrators. A
John Doisnel was a priest in Le Mans
c. 1200±1208 (Cart. de St-Victeur au
Mans, pp. 33±5, 38, 43±6, 48, 51, 60), which may indicate a Le Mans
connection between Robert Doisnel and Peter ®tzGuy.
Eudo ®tzErneis (1185)There is only one record of Eudo ®tzErneis in the capacity of seneschal of
Nantes. Eudo was a
curialis
of Henry II. He was with the king in Brittany and
Normandy in mid-1171 (Itinerary, pp. 158±9) and attested several of the
king's charters in Normandy before 1173 (Actes d'Henri II, nos.
ccxcvi,
ccccxxxiii,
cccccxlvii). He held lands in Normandy (at Croixmare and
`Tubervilla') by marriage to the daughter of Nicholas de
Londa
(Actes d'Henri
II, `Introduction', p. 367). Although he joined the rebels in 1173, Eudo was
reconciled with the king and witnessed the treaty of Falaise in October 1174
(Actes d'Henri II, no.cccclxviii). There does not seem to be any record of
Eudo between 1174 and 1185.
Roger of Howden's list of the rebels of 1173 contains several ®tzErneis',
possibly Eudo's brothers. He was probably the brother of Oliver ®tzErneis, a
tenant-in-chief at Maldon (Essex). Oliver died in 1183, having the same year
been attacked by Duke Geoffrey's men at Limoges, possibly in the context of
Geoffrey's claims to the county of Nantes (see above, pp. 135±6)
royal seneschals of rennesWilliam de Lanvallay (1166±c. 1172)One of the numerous descendants of Aimeric, an illegitimate son of Geoffrey
Boterel I, lord of PenthieÁvre (K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, `Two studies in North
French prosopography',
Journal of Medieval History, 20 (1994), 3±37 at 35).
William's forebears had assumed the toponym from their landholdings at
Lanvallay, near Dinan, and William was probably a younger son who sought
to make his fortune in royal service, his elder brother Ralph succeeding to
the family's Breton lands (see
Preuves, col. 845). The only lands William
possessed (other than by royal grant) were one knight's fee in Abington
(Cambs.) held of Aubrey de Vere and possibly other land in Abington held
of the honour of Richmond (W. Farrer,
Feudal Cambridgeshire, Cambridge,