Dolfin Fitz Gospatric, Lord of Cumbria, Appletreewick Hartlington & Rilston

Earl Dolfin Fitz Gospatric, Lord of Cumbria, Appletreewick Hartlington & Rilston

• Son of Earl Gospatric fitz Arkill and N.N. Fitz Dolfin
• The elder Arkil, son of Uchtred, Earl of Northumbria, is not to be confused with a contemporary Arkil of Ripley, who Ellis identifies as the son of Ulf (Ellis, 4:390). Gospatric Fitz Arkil had another son named Dolfin, which name does not appear in the family of Gospatric before his supposed marriage with the daughter of Dolfin, son of Thorfin. Gospatric also had a son named Thorfin, presumably named for Thorfin, the son of Sigurd, who later became the Earl of Caithness (cf. CP II: 473).
• Dolfin has also been identified with Dolfin de Bradeley and is believed to be the progenitor of the Bradley, Staveley, De Hebden, and Thoresby families.
• Dolfin (fl. 1092) was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon magnate in Northumbria. His father was Gospatric, one of the most powerful regional figures in the mid-11th century having been earl of Northumbria in the early years of William the Conqueror's reign. Dolfin was the eldest of Gospatric's three sons, his younger brothers being , Uchtred Fitz Gospatric, lord of Allerdale, and Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian.
• Simon son of UHTRED FitzDolfin de Cungeston, who is the son of Dolfin. He was ancestor of the Hebden family.
• Dolfin, son of Thorfin, held the manor of Appletreewick. Dolfin, son of Gospatric later held three manors: Appletreewick, Hartlington, and Rilleston. "Ilbert de Laci acquired Dolfin's manor in Bradley" (Ellis, 4:392). This Dolfin also became the ancestor of the family of 'de Hebden', benefactors to Fountains Abbey, as well as the Brodelegh/Bradley family of Bingley & Halifax.
• Gospatrie's property was, it seems, divided among his sons, who sunk to be under-tenants of what chey retained. They were Gospatric, only mentioned by Simeon of Durham, but perhaps the father of Thurstan named above; Uchtred of Allerston and Kaston, and Dolfin of Staveley (?). Source - Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, Volume 4.

Children

• Uchtred FITZ DOLFIN, was born 1099 in Bingley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. He died 1146 in Bingley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.
• Torfin FITZ DOLFIN was born 1102.
• Swain FITZ DOLFIN was born 1104.
• Dolfin FITZ DOLFIN was born 1107

The evidence for the existence of a son Dolfin is found in several secondary sources

among which are these three:

• Ellis, Alfred S., "Biographical Notes on the Yorkshire Tenants Named in Domesday Book," The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 4:385 states, "Gospatric [son of Arkill] took to wife a daughter of Dolfin, son of Thorfin, and had a son, Gospatric, who "of late ought to have fought with" (his cousin) Waltheof, son of Eilsi of Tees, perhaps about some of those lands of the see of Durham, which bishop Aldun had given his daughter, from whom both were descended." He does cite Ordericus IV.iv and IV.v in this general section, but I do not have access to this and do not know if there is relevant info relating to Dolfin. Turner, Joseph Horsfall, "Ancient Bingley or Bingley, Its History and Scenery"(Bingley: Thomas Harrison, 1897.), p. 62 states, "Gospatric fitz Arkill married a daughter of Dolfin son of Thorfin..."
• Speight, Harry, "Chronicles and Stories of Old Bingley"(London: Elliot Stock, 1898., p. 73 states, "Archil, the father of Gospatric, who lived in the reign of Edward the Confessor, also rebelled against the Conqueror, and was like wise dispossessed. Gospatric took to wife a daughter of Dolphin, son of Thorfin, and ones of his sons was named after him. Gospatric, the elder, was the only Englishman in Yorkshire permitted to keep any of his estates after the survey of England completed by the Conqueror in 1086. Gospatric forfeited the manor of Bingley, but retained many others, including the manor of Holden-in-Craven, which he continued to hold as the king's thane. He must not be confounded with Gospatric, ancestor of the Earls of Dunbar...". On page 74 of Speight's book is a pedigree chart showing the relationship between Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar and Gospatric, son of Arkil. In addition to Gospatric, Arkil is the father of another Arkil who was the father of Alwyn, ancestor to the Earls of Lennox as noted in "Complete Peerage" VII, p. 586. This chart fills in the early part of the pedigree suggested in CP.
• The elder Arkil, son of Uchtred, Earl of Northumbria, is not to be confused with a contemporary Arkil of Ripley, who Ellis identifies as the son of Ulf (Ellis, 4:390). Gospatric Fitz Arkil had another son named Dolfin, which name does not appear in the family of Gospatric before his supposed marriage with the daughter of Dolfin, son of Thorfin. Gospatric also had a son named Thorfin, presumably named for Thorfin, the son of Sigurd, who later became the Earl of Caithness (cf. CP II: 473).

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Tainty that the Bradley in question was not the place of that name in Stainland, which was the cradle of a distinguished branch of the family of Savile. The following notes can, however, be regarded with reasonableprobability as referring to Bradley in Hudders- field. A Laising de Bradeleia witnessed the original grant of Ralph son of Nicholas. 1 John son of Richard son of Dolhn de Bradley occurs in a Fixby deed of the first half of the thirteenth century. 2 William son of John Fleming of Bradley, who married Joan, one of the daughters of Thomas de Totehill,** granted land in Hartshead to his son Thomas in 1343 4 ; he may be identical with William de Bradley who occurs in 1346. 5 John de Bradley, son and heir of William de Bradley, occurs in 1395-6. 6

The Fountains Chartulary has preserved the names of several inhabitants of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Thus, we find mention of Henry Dolhn, Gilbert Dolhn, Alan Dolhn, and Richard Dolhn, bearing a name reminiscent of one of the pre- Conquest owners ; of William and Elias, sons of Raunkil ; of Ailsi, Springald, Quenilda, and Duna ; of Thomas Chancellor and Huctred the carpenter. 7

The earliest testamentary reference to Bradley appears to be in the will of Ralph Snaith, dated March 11, 1472-3, in which occurs the passage, “ And as for the farme hald of Bradlay, that I have takyn be indentur undir the seale of the abbott of Funtance, I will my wife have reule and gidyng ther of, duryng the terme.” 8

But all these references are somewhat fragmentary. Of greater interest is the connection which existed from the latter part of the fifteenth century between Bradley and the family of Pilkington.

On July 1, 1478, Thomas Swynton, abbot of Fountains, granted to Sir John Pilkington the manor, grange, and vill of Bradlay, and all other lands, meadows, woods, pastures, rents, and services, belonging thereto, under condition that if at any time the abbot and convent lost possession of the parish church of Thorneton in Craven by legal process at the instance of the heirs of Thomas, late Lord de Roos, or by authority of parliament, or in any other way they should re-enter the said manor of Bradlay. 9 The reason for this arrangement lay in the fact that Sir John Pilkington, to whom the manor of Thornton-in-Craven was granted by King Edward IV, had granted the advowson to Fountains in 1476; and the monks

Sources for above THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL

• Fountains Chartulary , i, 122.
• 2 Yorks. Deeds, iv, 5 in.
• 3 Ibid., No. 201.
• 4 Kirklees Muniments, No. 57.
• 6 Yorks. Deeds, iv, No. 273. 8 Ibid., iii, No. 281.
• 7 pp. 121-124.
• 8 Test. Ebor., iii, 205.

BRADLEY, A GRANGE OF FOUNTAINS, By C. T. Clay, F.S.A.

The Bradley to which these notes refer is a hamlet in the borough of Huddersfield, lying three miles north-east of that town; it is bounded on the north and east by the river Calder, which is there joined by the river Colne; on the north-west and south-west are Rastrick and Fixby; Kirklees lies across the Calder on the north east, and across the Colne, on the south-east, lies Kirkheaton, where, as in Fixby and Bradley itself, land was granted to the abbot and convent of Fountains. From the river levels and the village the ground rises to a height of over six hundred feet, and the slopes of the hill are still covered with a large area of woodland, in which, as these notes will show, the monks of Fountains worked for iron in the twelfth century.

In the Domesday Survey it is recorded that there were two manors in Bradley. " Goduin and Delfin had two carucates of land for geld, and two ploughs may be there. Now, Chetel has [it] of Ilbert, but it is waste. T.R.E., it was worth three pounds. Wood, pasturable, one leuga and a half in length and one in breadth/’ 1 And in the Recapitulation it is stated that Ilbert held two carucates in Bradley.

Bradley thus formed part of the fee of Ilbert de Lascy, who had granted it to Chetel by the process of subinfeudation prior to 1086. Of Chetel Mr. A. S. Ellis noted that “ he is possibly the same Chetel who, with Sweyn, had held conjointly the manor of Almondbury, and, if his brother, was therefore a son of Alric of Cawthorne.” 3 It seems not unreasonable to suppose that Chetel was the ancestor, possibly the grandfather, of Ralph son of Nicholas, who held Bradley in the third quarter of the twelfth century. This Ralph was steward to Henry de Lascy, one of whose confirmation charters to the Templars he witnessed in that capacity in 1155. 4 In 1166 he was holding one knight’s fee of Henry de Lascy 5 ; and doubtless Bradley formed a portion of this, its forinsec service being as much as be-
longed to two carucates, equivalent to one seventh part of a knight’s

Source for above information

• 1 Y.A.J ., xiv, 32. 4 Farrer, Early Yorkshire Charters, No.
• 2 Ibid., xiv, 356. 1769, where the date is assigned as 1155.
• 3 Ibid., v, 296. 5 Red Book, p. 424. VOL. XXIX.
• Delfin (Domesday), 97

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