Notes on the will of Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester
Below is a list of the people mentioned in the will of Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester,
dated at Kempsey by Worcester, 13 September 1301.
Godfrey was a son of Hugh Giffard of Boyton, Wiltshire, and Sibyl his wife,
daughter and coheir of Walter de Cormeilles. His brother Walter
was Archbishop of York [Complete Peerage, vol.9, p.483, note j].
The text is taken from William Thomas's A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Worcester,
Appendix, pp.77-81 (1736) [from Register Geynsb., f.17].
A full translation can be found in J. W. Willis Bund's edition of the Register of Bishop William Ginsborough, 1303 to 1307, pages 54-60 (Worcestershire Historical Society, 1907), which is available online on Mel Lockie's website.
Those mentioned in the body of the will:
- domine Mabille Giffard, abbatisse de Schaftebure, sororis mee
- fratri N. sacriste Wygorn.
- domino J. de Wylinton
- Willelmo Giffard, meo germano ... eidem domino Willelmo, fratri meo
- archiepiscopus Eborum, meus germanus
- domino Petro de Chauvent
- domine Agneti Giffard, nepti mee, mon. de Wilton
- Margarete Aucher, nepti mee, de Schaftebure
- magistro J. de Ebroyc, nep[o]ti meo
- domino Henrico Aucher, militi, nepoti meo
- domino Hugoni de Escote
- Alexandro de Frivill
- Johanni Giffard, nepoti meo
- Richardo Aucher, nepos meus
- Ricardus de Babintone
- domine Margarete de Neuville, uxori quondam domini Johannis Giffard, nepti mee
- Isabelle domicelle sue
- domine Agnete de Chavente
- domine Johanne de Wellinton
- domine Sibille de Acton, nepti mee
- domine Katerine, uxori domini W. fratris mei
- uxori domini Simonis de Crombe,nepti mee
- Sibille de Bodaringham, nepti mee ... et viro suo
- domine Johanne, uxori domini Hugonis de Escote
- domine Johanni, uxori domini Alexandri Friville
- domino Thome de Wycheford
- Simon Savage, pincerna meus
- Galfrido de Hembure, balivo meo
- Nicholao, camerario meo
- Roberto Cissori, camerario meo
- Roberto, braciatori
- Andree hostiario aule
- Thome vigili
- fratribus minoribus Wygorn ... fratri Edmundo de Mandevile ejusdem ordinis
Executors:
- dominum Walterum de Berton, rectorem ecclesie de Bredon
- magistrum Johannem Rodeberge, rectorem ecclesie de Hertlebure
- dominum Bartholomeum de Devyses
- Johannem de Staneway, rectorem ecclesie de Rippil
- Galfridum de Hembure
Witnesses:
- Alexandro de Bourlyngham
- dominis Thoma de Pershora ...
- [domino] Johanne de Haveke
- [domino] Willelmo de eadem
- Johannes de Acton non fuit presens
- Willelmo de Burton, clerico, elemosinario meo
- magistro Roberto de Sutton, clerico