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The 'Honour of Richmond' was an honour created by Alain Le Roux, son of Eudes, Count of Penthièvre, grandson of Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany.[1]

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Constitution

Tenants

Features

References

Constitution

According to the 'Honoris Registrum de Richmond': ''"I, William, surnamed the Bastard, do give and grant to thee, Alan, my nephew, Earl of Bretagne, and thy heirs for ever, all the towns and lands which lately belonged to Earl Edwin, in Yorkshire, with the knights' fees, churches, and other privileges and customs, in as free and honourable a manner as the same Edwin held them. Given at the siege before York."''[2]

Tenants

After the Conquest of 1066, Breton Richmond in the Province of York was an important mediaeval hub, of comparable scope to Norman London in the Province of Canterbury. Breton people moved to the honour in a very large migration, after having expelled its locals to the Scottish Marches. The honour originally composed of 440 manors, with over 1,000 soldiers in retinue and comprising about 20% of England owned when the Domesday Book was compiled. Richmondshire became the residence of Gallo speakers while Breton speakers (such as Ralph the Staller, Ralph de Guader and the House of Rohan's Baron Zouche) were their lieutenancy in East Anglia, with the Cornish people also initially included. Onomastics reveal that choice Breton birth names in the honour were ''Alured, Gurwant, Guihomar, Harscoet, Herve, Hoel, Roald'' and ''Rualent''. The East Anglian surname ''Brett'' is from Brittany.[3] Richmond preserved its nascent Breton nationalism throughout the English Reformation, featured in Jesuit movements such as the Pilgrimage of Grace, Rising of the North, Ridolfi plot and Babington Plot.

Features

★ lords, earls and dukes of Richmond
:Earl of Richmond
:Duke of Richmond

★ Richmond Castle
:Richmond Palace

★ Richmond, Yorkshire
:Richmond, Surrey

★ Richmondshire
:Archdeaconry of Richmond

★ Richmond Fee and Shilling

★ Richmond Herald
:White Greyhound of Richmond

References

★ http://www.richmond.org.uk/arts/authors/d_morris/index.html
:'The Honour of Richmond by David Morris'
:A history of the Lords, Earls & Dukes of Richmond
:'Publisher': Sessions of York
:'ISBN': 1 85072 240 4