Category: Early Barony of Eye
Categories: Eye, Suffolk | Early English Feudal Baronies
Sanders in his English Baronies covers Eye pp.43-44. It did not have much continuity but instead reverted several times to the crown, to be granted to royal favorites. After Robert Malet the first baron was banished, it was given to Stephen of Blois before he became king. His family then lost the crown but not Eye. However his son William of Blois died without any heir at which point no one owned the barony, reverting to the crown. The royal family then granted it to the Duke of Brabant (in modern Belgium) who had married a daughter of a sister of William of Blois. But somehow the king granted it also to his half brother William the Earl of Salisbury, while the Duke still had a claim on it. Eventually it went to King John's son Richard of Cornwall, but the line once again ended when his son Edmund's widow died in possession. The next grant was to the widow of the famous royal favourite Piers Gaveston, a sister of King Edward II, and also a niece of the previous holder. From her it came to her second husband Hugh de Audley. It ended up in the Queen's hands still in the time of Edward II and then remained with the crown.
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