Roaldus Musard, Norman military leader

concerns

Stirnet's "MZmisc07" page does not mention this Roaldus.

brief biography

Viscount of Nantes?

links

• http://www.richmondancestry.org/richmond_family.shtml

content to clean up

Although this is no proof that he was indeed at the Battle of Hastings, Ruaud is listed third on the Battle Abbey Rolls, indicating that he was one of the commanders in the defeat of Harold and the Norman Conquest of England. Ruaud's role in the battle has not yet been found by the compiler of this family tree.

From the Early Richmonds webpage: http://www.richmondancestry.org/richmond_family.shtml

A powerful leader who accompanied William the Conqueror into England. Roaldus (Ruaud) is listed as the founder of the English Richmonds in records complied by Francis Thackeray, uncle of the famed British author William Makepeace Thackeray. The Thackerays were like many American Richmonds, descended from the Wiltshire Richmonds.

Roaldus Musard was a Breton noble who was granted lands in Yorkshire by the Crown and may or may not have been a relative of Alan Rufus. Hasculfus VI, Count of Nates, son of Roald Musard, had four sons who accompanied the Conqueror: Hasculfus Musard, Hughe, Enisan, and Rould d'Adoube (a dubbed knight). Enisan Musard, a vassel of Alan Rufus, was given 21 manors previously held by Tor the Saxon. The Richmond castle site occupied a place called Neutone, which was then held by Enisan Musard, Lord of Cleasby, therefore Enisan became the first Heredity Constable of Richmond Castle. Enisan Musard's heirs were two daughters, Garsiana and Adeline.

http://www.richmondancestry.org/richmond_family.shtml

One of the Lords of William the Conqueror (1066)

http://archive.org/stream/battleabbeyrollw01battuoft/battleabbeyrol...

Muscard listed on the Battle Abbey Roll

From information collected by Trevor Lilley:

Whether the other Musards are directly related is anyones guess this early on in English History they tended to have big familys and it is not uncommon for two family's to have the same second name but im sure you will agree its rather tantalizing evidence that 2 Musards men were granted powerful wealthy lands post 1066 and by doomsday had established family's.

Roaldus Musard was a Breton noble who was granted lands in Yorkshire by the Crown and may or may not have been a relative of Alan Rufus.

Hasculfus VI, Count of Nates, son of Roald Musard, had four sons who accompanied the Conqueror: Hasculfus Musard, Hughe, Enisan, and Rould d'Adoube (a dubbed knight).

and

Hascuit de Musard was awarded the Manor of Staveley (chesterfield) after the Norman Conquest

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Musard

Roald d'Adoube Musard - accompanied William the Conqueror into England. 1066.

(Husculfus would have been an infant whomever his parents were-see below).

(Godfrey de Foleschamp and Henry de Ferras were contemporary; they may all have been at the Battle of Hastings. 1066)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~havens5/p50480.htm

Contemporaries

• 1. GODFREY DE FOLESCHAMP, came to England with William The Conquerer. = ....daughter of Uchtred, Saxon Lord of Elton. [They had a son] (post 1066)
• 2. Sir RAPHE DE FOLESCHAMP, Knt., Lord of Tideswell = GUNDRED, daughter of Henry de Ferrars.[They had a son] (prior to 1093-1100 death of Henry de Ferras)Henry de Ferras is a famous contemporary.
• 3. GEFFREY DE FOLESCHAMP, Lord of Tideswell, 5 Steph., ob. 30 Hen. 2.= MATILDA, daughter and heiress of Hasculfus Musard. (15 circa 1080).

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Hasculfus Musard of Staveley ( b. before 1065, d. circa 1133).

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~havens5/p50479.htm

(There is a Staveley in Cumbria/Westmoorland and in North Derbyshire)

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From Wikipedia. Musard:

Miserden is a village and civil parish in Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England, 4 miles north east of Stroud. The parish includes Whiteway Colony and the hamlets of Sudgrove and The Camp. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 420.

The village lies in the Cotswolds at an elevation of over 800 ft, above the valley of the River Frome.

Until the Middle Ages, Miserden was known as Greenhampstead, and was mentioned by that name in the Domesday Book.[2] The name Miserden derives from Musardera, "Musard's manor" - Musard was the name of the family which held the manor at the time of the Domesday Book (1086). Robert Musard built Miserden Castle in the 12th century.

Miserden Castle was a castle near the village of Miserden in Gloucestershire, England.

The castle is a large motte and bailey Norman castle, built before 1146 by Robert Musard, after whose family the local village is named.[1] The castle overlooks the River Frome and included a 60-foot (18 m) wide shell keep, protected by a stone wall and a moat.[2] The castle is positioned on a rocky spur, and the north side of the castle was probably flooded from the river to produce a wet moat, further strengthening the considerable defences.[2] Musard was killed by forces loyal to King Stephen during the years of the Anarchy (1135-1154) and the castle seized by Philip of Gloucester, but the castle survived into at least the 13th century.[3] Some earthworks and masonry structures remain.[1]

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Chesterfield/Staveley Musard’s.

Hascuit de Musard was awarded the Manor of Staveley after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Domesday Book of 1086 records the fact that the Saxon Lord of the Manor had been Hacon (a Viking name).

In 1306 the Musard family died out - not because the last Lord of the Manor - Nicholas Musard did not have any children but because he took holy orders and became Rector of Staveley. (Church is next door) This resulted in his line being bastardised and his inheritance passed to his sister Amicia Musard.

Slogan: Virtue, not lineage, is the mark of nobility.

Amicia Musard married Anker de Frecheville and so their son Ralph de Frecheville became the new Lord; was summoned to parliament as a Baron (Edw1st 1306/7) but none of his immediate descendants received a like summons. The Frechevilles lived in the Hall until they died out in 1682.

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Staveley Hall:

Nothing remains above ground of the house they built in the Middle Ages and little is known of this building, apart from its contents in 1550. In some early records the manor house is referred to as the castle so it is believed there was a building in the time of the Musard family was probably a fortified manor house originally built of wood. (*) Staveley Hall sat in the centre of grounds which stretched for miles of moor, marsh and woodland. The importance of Staveley will be appreciated for the fact that of 270 entries and 335 separate place names mentioned in the Domesday Book, only 12 (including Derby itself) were more valuable holdings; and there are references to only five larger areas of meadow and those wholly in the South Derbyshire.

• (More is being learned as a result of the archelogical digs ‘Stairways to Nowhere’ and 'Hall or Nothing')

?????The landscaped park in which it sat is long gone but it is possible to trace the boundaries which were defined by farms and lodges; such as The Hagg, some 1.5 miles away.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m26821x26822.htm

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Name Origin and meaning:

HouseofNames.com

alternative spellings: Mostart, Mustard, Mussard, Moussard, Moussart, and others.

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4crests.com

This English surname of MUSTARD is of two-fold origin. It was a nickname for someone with a sharp, keen and biting tongue. Nicknames usually originated as a by-name for someone by describing their appearance, personal disposition or character but which became handed down through the ages and did not apply to their descendants. It was also a name applied to a maker and dealer of mustard or spices, which was an important occupation in the Middle Ages. The nobles and wealthy churchmen spent considerable money on mustard, aniseed, cinnamon, caraway, coriander and pepper to enable the cooks to spice meat which tended to spoil quickly in the absence of modern refrigeration. The name is also spelt MUSTERMAKER, MUSTARDER, MUSTARDMAN, MUSTARDMAKER and MUSTER. The surname is not uncommon in Fife and Perthshire, Scotland. The earliest of the name on record appears to be Jordan MUSTARD, who was recorded in County Huntingdonshire in the year 1273, and David le MUSTARDER was recorded in the year 1305. Margaret MUSTARD was documented in the same year. Robertus MUSTARDMAN and Alicia MUSTERMAKER of Yorkshire, were both listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. William MUSTARDER was the rector of Baldeswell, County Norfolk in the year 1467. Alexander MUSTARD held land in Arbroath in the year 1521. Many of the modern family names throughout Europe reflect the profession or occupation of their forbears in the Middle Ages and derive from the position held by their ancestors in the village, noble household or religious community in which they lived and worked. The addition of their profession to their birth name made it easier to identify individual tradesmen and craftsmen. As generations passed and families moved around, so the original identifying names developed into the corrupted but simpler versions that we recognise today. Over the centuries, most people in Europe have accepted their surname as a fact of life, as irrevocable as an act of God. However much the individual may have liked or disliked the surname, they were stuck with it, and people rarely changed them by personal choice. A more common form of variation was in fact involuntary, when an official change was made, in other words, a clerical error.

Saint-James (French pronunciation: ​[s%C9%9B%CC%83%CA%92%C9%91m]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.

Saint-James is on the border between Normandy and Brittany

Saint-James is on the border between Normandy and Brittany

http://www.1066.co.nz/library/battle_abbey_roll2/subchap172.htm

THE BATTLE ABBEY ROLL. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES. IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. II

Musard :

Ascuit, Hascoit, or Hasculphus Musard, holds a great barony in Domesday. Enisand Musard and Hugh Musard also appear there, the latter holding of the Countess Judith. There is a difference of opinion as to their origin. If, as M. de Ste Marie (Recherches sur le Domesday) conjectures, they belonged to the Musards who were lords of Sauxelles and Issondun-sur-Creuse, in La Marche, up to the seventeenth century, they probably came to England under the banner of Roger de Poitou, who had married the daughter of their feudal suzerain, Audebert, Count de la Marche.

The author of the 'Norman People' (quoting Lobineau, Hist. Bret. ii. 117) says they were the sons of Hasculph, Viscount of Nantes in Brittany, and this opinion is supported by the fact that Enisand Musard had vast grants in Yorkshire from Alan le Roux of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, with the feudal dignity of Constable of Richmond.

Although this is no proof that he was indeed at the Battle of Hastings, Ruaud is listed third on the Battle Abbey Rolls, indicating that he was one of the commanders in the defeat of Harold and the Norman Conquest of England. Ruaud's role in the battle has not yet been found by the compiler of this family tree.

From the Early Richmonds webpage: http://www.richmondancestry.org/richmond_family.shtml

A powerful leader who accompanied William the Conqueror into England. Roaldus (Ruaud) is listed as the founder of the English Richmonds in records complied by Francis Thackeray, uncle of the famed British author William Makepeace Thackeray. The Thackerays were like many American Richmonds, descended from the Wiltshire Richmonds.

Roaldus Musard was a Breton noble who was granted lands in Yorkshire by the Crown and may or may not have been a relative of Alan Rufus. Hasculfus VI, Count of Nates, son of Roald Musard, had four sons who accompanied the Conqueror: Hasculfus Musard, Hughe, Enisan, and Rould d'Adoube (a dubbed knight). Enisan Musard, a vassel of Alan Rufus, was given 21 manors previously held by Tor the Saxon. The Richmond castle site occupied a place called Neutone, which was then held by Enisan Musard, Lord of Cleasby, therefore Enisan became the first Heredity Constable of Richmond Castle. Enisan Musard's heirs were two daughters, Garsiana and Adeline.

http://www.richmondancestry.org/richmond_family.shtml

One of the Lords of William the Conqueror (1066)

http://archive.org/stream/battleabbeyrollw01battuoft/battleabbeyrol...

Muscard listed on the Battle Abbey Roll

From information collected by Trevor Lilley:

Whether the other Musards are directly related is anyones guess this early on in English History they tended to have big familys and it is not uncommon for two family's to have the same second name but im sure you will agree its rather tantalizing evidence that 2 Musards men were granted powerful wealthy lands post 1066 and by doomsday had established family's.

Roaldus Musard was a Breton noble who was granted lands in Yorkshire by the Crown and may or may not have been a relative of Alan Rufus.

Hasculfus VI, Count of Nates, son of Roald Musard, had four sons who accompanied the Conqueror: Hasculfus Musard, Hughe, Enisan, and Rould d'Adoube (a dubbed knight).

and

Hascuit de Musard was awarded the Manor of Staveley (chesterfield) after the Norman Conquest

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Musard

Roald d'Adoube Musard - accompanied William the Conqueror into England. 1066.

(Husculfus would have been an infant whomever his parents were-see below).

(Godfrey de Foleschamp and Henry de Ferras were contemporary; they may all have been at the Battle of Hastings. 1066)

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~havens5/p50480.htm

Contemporaries

1. GODFREY DE FOLESCHAMP, came to England with William The Conquerer. = ....daughter of Uchtred, Saxon Lord of Elton. [They had a son] (post 1066) 2. Sir RAPHE DE FOLESCHAMP, Knt., Lord of Tideswell = GUNDRED, daughter of Henry de Ferrars.[They had a son] (prior to 1093-1100 death of Henry de Ferras)Henry de Ferras is a famous contemporary. 3. GEFFREY DE FOLESCHAMP, Lord of Tideswell, 5 Steph., ob. 30 Hen. 2.= MATILDA, daughter and heiress of Hasculfus Musard. (15 circa 1080).
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Hasculfus Musard of Staveley ( b. before 1065, d. circa 1133).

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~havens5/p50479.htm

(There is a Staveley in Cumbria/Westmoorland and in North Derbyshire)

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From Wikipedia. Musard:

Miserden is a village and civil parish in Stroud District, Gloucestershire, England, 4 miles north east of Stroud. The parish includes Whiteway Colony and the hamlets of Sudgrove and The Camp. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 420.

The village lies in the Cotswolds at an elevation of over 800 ft, above the valley of the River Frome.

Until the Middle Ages, Miserden was known as Greenhampstead, and was mentioned by that name in the Domesday Book.[2] The name Miserden derives from Musardera, "Musard's manor" - Musard was the name of the family which held the manor at the time of the Domesday Book (1086). Robert Musard built Miserden Castle in the 12th century.

Miserden Castle was a castle near the village of Miserden in Gloucestershire, England.

The castle is a large motte and bailey Norman castle, built before 1146 by Robert Musard, after whose family the local village is named.[1] The castle overlooks the River Frome and included a 60-foot (18 m) wide shell keep, protected by a stone wall and a moat.[2] The castle is positioned on a rocky spur, and the north side of the castle was probably flooded from the river to produce a wet moat, further strengthening the considerable defences.[2] Musard was killed by forces loyal to King Stephen during the years of the Anarchy (1135-1154) and the castle seized by Philip of Gloucester, but the castle survived into at least the 13th century.[3] Some earthworks and masonry structures remain.[1]

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Chesterfield/Staveley Musard’s.

Hascuit de Musard was awarded the Manor of Staveley after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Domesday Book of 1086 records the fact that the Saxon Lord of the Manor had been Hacon (a Viking name).

In 1306 the Musard family died out - not because the last Lord of the Manor - Nicholas Musard did not have any children but because he took holy orders and became Rector of Staveley. (Church is next door) This resulted in his line being bastardised and his inheritance passed to his sister Amicia Musard.

Slogan: Virtue, not lineage, is the mark of nobility.

Amicia Musard married Anker de Frecheville and so their son Ralph de Frecheville became the new Lord; was summoned to parliament as a Baron (Edw1st 1306/7) but none of his immediate descendants received a like summons. The Frechevilles lived in the Hall until they died out in 1682.

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Staveley Hall:

Nothing remains above ground of the house they built in the Middle Ages and little is known of this building, apart from its contents in 1550. In some early records the manor house is referred to as the castle so it is believed there was a building in the time of the Musard family was probably a fortified manor house originally built of wood. (*) Staveley Hall sat in the centre of grounds which stretched for miles of moor, marsh and woodland. The importance of Staveley will be appreciated for the fact that of 270 entries and 335 separate place names mentioned in the Domesday Book, only 12 (including Derby itself) were more valuable holdings; and there are references to only five larger areas of meadow and those wholly in the South Derbyshire.

(More is being learned as a result of the archelogical digs ‘Stairways to Nowhere’ and 'Hall or Nothing') ?????The landscaped park in which it sat is long gone but it is possible to trace the boundaries which were defined by farms and lodges; such as The Hagg, some 1.5 miles away.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m26821x26822.htm

---

Name Origin and meaning:

HouseofNames.com

alternative spellings: Mostart, Mustard, Mussard, Moussard, Moussart, and others.

---

4crests.com

This English surname of MUSTARD is of two-fold origin. It was a nickname for someone with a sharp, keen and biting tongue. Nicknames usually originated as a by-name for someone by describing their appearance, personal disposition or character but which became handed down through the ages and did not apply to their descendants. It was also a name applied to a maker and dealer of mustard or spices, which was an important occupation in the Middle Ages. The nobles and wealthy churchmen spent considerable money on mustard, aniseed, cinnamon, caraway, coriander and pepper to enable the cooks to spice meat which tended to spoil quickly in the absence of modern refrigeration. The name is also spelt MUSTERMAKER, MUSTARDER, MUSTARDMAN, MUSTARDMAKER and MUSTER. The surname is not uncommon in Fife and Perthshire, Scotland. The earliest of the name on record appears to be Jordan MUSTARD, who was recorded in County Huntingdonshire in the year 1273, and David le MUSTARDER was recorded in the year 1305. Margaret MUSTARD was documented in the same year. Robertus MUSTARDMAN and Alicia MUSTERMAKER of Yorkshire, were both listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. William MUSTARDER was the rector of Baldeswell, County Norfolk in the year 1467. Alexander MUSTARD held land in Arbroath in the year 1521. Many of the modern family names throughout Europe reflect the profession or occupation of their forbears in the Middle Ages and derive from the position held by their ancestors in the village, noble household or religious community in which they lived and worked. The addition of their profession to their birth name made it easier to identify individual tradesmen and craftsmen. As generations passed and families moved around, so the original identifying names developed into the corrupted but simpler versions that we recognise today. Over the centuries, most people in Europe have accepted their surname as a fact of life, as irrevocable as an act of God. However much the individual may have liked or disliked the surname, they were stuck with it, and people rarely changed them by personal choice. A more common form of variation was in fact involuntary, when an official change was made, in other words, a clerical error.

Saint-James (French pronunciation: ​[s%C9%9B%CC%83%CA%92%C9%91m]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.

Saint-James is on the border between Normandy and Brittany

de st james???? Saint-James is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Saint-James is on the border between Normandy and Brittany

http://www.1066.co.nz/library/battle_abbey_roll2/subchap172.htm

THE BATTLE ABBEY ROLL. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES. IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. II

Musard :

Ascuit, Hascoit, or Hasculphus Musard, holds a great barony in Domesday. Enisand Musard and Hugh Musard also appear there, the latter holding of the Countess Judith. There is a difference of opinion as to their origin. If, as M. de Ste Marie (Recherches sur le Domesday) conjectures, they belonged to the Musards who were lords of Sauxelles and Issondun-sur-Creuse, in La Marche, up to the seventeenth century, they probably came to England under the banner of Roger de Poitou, who had married the daughter of their feudal suzerain, Audebert, Count de la Marche.

The author of the 'Norman People' (quoting Lobineau, Hist. Bret. ii. 117) says they were the sons of Hasculph, Viscount of Nantes in Brittany, and this opinion is supported by the fact that Enisand Musard had vast grants in Yorkshire from Alan le Roux of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, with the feudal dignity of Constable of Richmond.