Henry II granted the whole county of Cornwall to Henry Fitzcount who granted Tintagel (the traditional birthplace of King Arthur) and Hornicote to Gervas who left them in 1208 to Robert Tintagel. King John who had confirmed all the Fitzcount grants in fee in 1215/6 in 1220 ordered their resumption into the King's hands except the lands of Robert De Tintagel.
In 1198 Gervas was fined in Cornwall for a breach of the Forest Laws.(1) The next year he gave 100/ to be excluded from going beyond the seas with the King and also paid 41/8 scutage for 2 1/2 fees for the King's coronation.(2) In 1204 he paid scutage for five knights(3) and the following year he paid a fine of twenty marks for the fees of five knights(4) and in 1208 he gave two marks for a plea of forest.(5) In this year he died for the sheriff accounted for 40 marks received from Robert Tintaioel to have the whole of the inheritance which was his father's.(6)
Issue-
Ref:
(1) Rot. Pip. 10 Richard I
(2) Ibid 1 John
(3) Ibid 5 John
(4) Ibid 6 John
(5) Ibid 9 John
(6) Ibid
"Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor"- p.147
d. before 31 March 1224
In 1211 Robert paid the scutage of Scotland for four fees which had belonged to Roger De Mandeville. In the same year he paid eight marks of the scutage of Wales and was released from paying 60/ of the Queen's gold. In 1214 Robert paid scutage of 100/ for four fees.(1) In 1223 Robert paid 25/ for four fees for the scutage of Byham.
He died before 31 March 1224 as appears from a writ directed to the sheriff of Somerset, tested at Westminster, in which W. Briwer Jr. is described as the son and heir of Robert Tintajel,(2) although in the Cornish Roll for this year the sheriff collected 5 marks from Robert Tintaioel for 4 fees of the scutage of Montgomery and also for 25/ from Gervas De Tintaioel of the scutage of Byham, while the same Gervas had his discharge from the scutage of Bedford.(3) It would seem as though Gervas was Robert's successor in the Cornish fees, but what about W. Briwere? It is possible that Gervas De Hornicote was a Cadet of the Baronial family of Briwere. William De Briwere was sheriff of Devon from 1179 to 1189, of Cornwall in 1202 and 1203, and of Dorset and Somerset in 1209 and 1210. He was a nobleman of great power and influence with King John and had possessions in Cornwall. In an undated charter John, son of Anthony De La Briwere, grants to Ranulphus Giffard land in Donethly with Roger Carminow, Richard Peverel, Odo St. Winnow and others as witnesses.
Issue-
Ref:
(1) Rot. Pip. 16 John
(2) Rot. Claus. 8 Henry III
(3) Rot. Pip. 8 Henry III
"Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor"- pp. 147-8
3I. GERVAS (GERVAS 1, ROBERT 2)
In 1235 when a grant was given to the King on the marriage of his sister Isabella to the Roman Emperor, Gervas held five small fees in Hornicote and Tintagel(1) and at the same time he held in Merthin, Winianton and in Thamarton the 20th part of one small fee of the new feoffement of Richard, Earl of Cornwall.(2)
Issue-
Ref:
(1) Testa De Nevil- pp.187,201
(2) Ibid p.187
"Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor"- p.148
"An Historical Survey of the County of Cornwall"- C. Gilbert, 1817
"The Coffin Family"- Louis Coffin