Normanville, canton Fauville-en Caux, between Le Havre and Dieppe. Héricourt-en-Caux (cant. Ourville-en-Caux), within 8 km of Normanville.

Robert de Clipanville, younger br. of John de Normanville, used an armorial seal incorporating three martlets, which is almost identical with the seals of John and another brother, Waleran,  attached to acts of Melrose Abbey; Melrose Liber, i., no. 92, 137, 244.

John de Normanville, benefactor of Valmont and Fecamp (cart. MS 1207) conveyed interests in Héricourt-en-Caux; Clipponville, Fauville-en-Caux, 6 ml s/w of Normanville. Witnesses associated with John de Normanville – William de Boseville, Simom Mauleverer. John de Normanville’s sister m. Richard des Maillots, who became patron of Normanville church in right of his wife “the daughter of the lord of Normanville“.

Hugh de Normanville dec. by 1214 when John his son succeeded him (Melrose Liber, i., no. 252).

Hugh’s charters were witnessed by William de Gauville, Gauville being 12 mls s/e of Normanville; dated bef. 1189 (Receuil des Actes, ii. no. 725).

Hugh de Normanville and Alicia, his wife, were in possession of the manor of Mackiston, which had previously belonged to Robert de Berkeley. Alicia was probably the da. of Robert de Berkeley, and by her marriage, transferred the possession of Mackiston to her husband. In 1200, Hugh de Normanville, and Alicia, his wife, gave to the monks of Melrose the lands of Kelvessete, and Fawlawe, in exchange for the land, which Robert de Berkeley, and Cecilia, his wife, granted to the same monks, in the manor of Mackiiton.

Hugh de Normanville had four sons; John, Walran, Guydo, and Thomas. John, as heir, inherited the manor of Mackiston. Before the year 1232, he confirmed to the monks of Melrose all the lands, common of pasturage, and other easements, which they claimed, within the manor of Mackiston, under his father Hugh. He granted to his brother, Waleran, a carucate of land in Mackiston. Waleran conveyed this carucate of land to his brother Guydo, and he transferred it to his brother Thomas, in exchange for the lands which he had obtained from the gift of Matildis, the Countess of Angus. Thomas de Normanville was one of the Scotish party, who acted with the Cumyns; and was removed from the councils of Alexander III, in 1255, by the influence of the English king.

The lands of Muirhouselaw, probably, as above stated, those given by Hugh de Normanville to the monks of Melrose, appear about 1480 in the hands of the Rutherfords.

Maccus died c. 1150, after which charters were then witnessed by “Liolf, son of Maccus” (c. 1153-1170s), and/or Robert his brother (Melrose, p.p 6/7, 75-81). He seemingly left his name to the Barony and village of Maccus’toun, or Maxton.

This Liolf was presumably the eldest son of Maccus, as he makes the earliest and most numerous appearances in Malcolm IV/William the Lion and Religious charters, and the lands of Maxton obviously passed through him to his daughter and heiress, Cecily. In the charter mentioned above, Cecily “dau. of Liolf, son of Maccus” & her husband, Robert de Berkeley (brother of Walter, William the Lion’s Chamberlain) are granting a ‘ploughgate’ (104 acres) in Maxton (at Muirhouselaw) and other rights to Melrose Abbey, particularly the right to quarry stone for the building of the Abbey. Liulf was presumably dead by the time of the charter (c.1189), leaving no son.

Liulf’s daughter Cecily and her husband Robert de Berkeley (who continues to appear in many charters up to  1199) are said to have had a daughter and heiress, Alicia, who married Hugo de Normanville, who first appears amongst charter witnesses in c. 1193 and granted rights to Rutherford in Maxton to Melrose Abbey (Melrose, 92). The witnesses to this undated charter included Adam, parsona de Maxton, Philip de Maxton, Robert, ‘tictore’ of Roxburgh and William, canon of Glasgow; William became Bishop of Glasgow c. 1202, so likely c. 1200, but definitely before 1214.

Certainly during the time of Alexander II (1214-1249), John de Normanville de Maxtoun is in charge of the lands (Melrose, p. 219); witnesses including Lindsay, Ross, Baliol, John de Maxwell (d. 1241), Walter Olifard (d. 1242). They are later in the hands of the de Soulis family, until forfeit after their conspiracy against Robert the Bruce in 1320. (RMS I, app 2, 221).

Robert de Chippenville witnessed a charter c. 1175 conc. Balliol estates in Northants.

See Norman Expansion: Connections, Continuities and Contrasts , Andrew Jotischky, 2016:

The Normanvilles held lordship in:

Riville
Hericourt-en-Caux
Normanville
Cliponville
Le Hattentot
Thibermont
Fauville-en-Caux
Enronville
Ricarville – passed to Nicholas de Soules

They held land in:
Yvetot
Berquetot
Bolbec.
Gauville

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