Eudo Martel

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁷⁸
Eudo Martell possessed land at Glen Magna about 1220, [Rot. Hugonis de Welles, ed. W. P. W. Phillimore, i. 265] and in 1265 William Martell, who had inherited land at Glen from his father Ivo, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 295] was said to possess 7 virgates in demesne and 14 in villeinage there. [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 295] Robert Martell was still holding land at Glen in 1279, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 296] but subsequently the male line of the Martell family seems to have died out. In 1314 Glen was being held by John and Peter, sons of one Reynold. (fn. 46) Nothing further is known about the share of Glen obtained by John, but Peter certainly held his portion in right of his wife Ela, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 296] who may have been an heiress of the Martell family. From Peter and Ela the holding descended to their son Roger, who was known as Roger Martel; his holding at Glen was referred to as a manor in 1333. [Cal. Fine R. iv. 365] Roger's son Henry in turn inherited the manor, [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 299] and at his death in 1352 was holding it from Robert de Holand. [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 299] Henry's two elder sons Alan and Thomas each inherited the manor in turn, but both died without issue [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 300] and the manor passed to their brother John, and after his death to his daughter Elizabeth, wife of John Bonville. [Farnham, Leics. Notes, ii. 301]

~A History of the County of Leicestershire, Vol. V., pp. 102-112