Simon de Hebden

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• Background Information. ⁴²⁶
Simon de Hebden succeeded his father Uchtred de Hebdon as the Lord of Hebden. Simon had four son, the eldest was named William.

~ The Hebden Family

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Simon Fitz Uchtred . ¹⁹³
From: "R Phair" <rwphair@myfastmail.com>
Subject: Simon fitz Uchtred
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 16:24:07 +0000

Doug Smith asked what was the link between Simon son of Uctred and the Hebden family?

The following is from Clay's accounts of the family [1] -- Simon son of Uctred (living 1200-1) was succeeded by his son William de Hebden (sometimes called William de Conistone). William occurs in records (as an adult) possibly as early as the reign of king John, was constable of Skipton and steward of the count of Aumale, and died 1231-4. His heir was his daughter Helen who had married by 1234 Robert the chamberlain (living 1235), and later married Nicholas of York (brother of William of York, bishop of Salisbury, 1247-56). Her heir was a younger son, William of York, who was an adult in 1268, and died 1281-2. He left a widow Cecily and a minor son William of York (b. c1264). The son, later known as William de Hebden, had succeeded by 1286, and was living in 1316. Besides land in Hebden, he held lands in Burnsall, Conistone, Eske in Holderness, and Ilton, all in Yorkshire. His descendants continued in the male line to the 15th c., when the lands passed by marriage to the Tempest and Dymoke families.

Clay has also traced Simon's ancestry. His father Uctred son of Dolfin, also known as Uctred de Ilton or Uctred de Conistone, was granted the manor of Hebden (after 1137), as well as his grandfather Gospatric's land in Ilton (1138-?1145), by Roger de Mowbray [2,1]. Uctred was a tenant of the honor of Skipton (including Burnsall) in 1166, and still living in 1179 [3,1]. His grandfather Gospatric was a tenant in Ilton of count Alan in the Domesday survey, and a tenant-in-chief elsewhere in Yorkshire [4]. Gospatric's father Archil (son of Ecgfrith) had held some of these lands before the Conquest [4,5,1]. Through his mother Sigrid, Gospatric was a descendant of Ealdun, bishop of Chester-le-Street and Durham 990-1018 [5].

[1] "Early Yorkshire charters", v.7 (1947), ed. C.T. Clay, pp.248-251, and nos.92-3, etc.; C. Clay, "Early Yorkshire families", 1973, pp.42-3, 87-8, and no.13.
[2] "Mowbray charters", ed. D.E. Greenway, 1972, nos.392-5.
[3] "The red book of the exchequer", ed. H. Hall, 1896, 1:431.
[4] "Domesday Book", v.30, ed. M.L. Faull and M. Stinson, 2v, 1986, 5.117, and section 39.
[5] C.J. Morris, "Marriage and murder in eleventh-century Northumbria: a study of 'De Obsessione Dunelmi'", 1992; see my 18 Aug 2001 posting.

Ray Phair