Bertram# Haget

  Notes:

of Wighill, Bainton, and Healaugh, co. York

From a review of 'Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England' by Richard Fletcher;
Fletcher takes us to Wighill, the place where he begins it, and follows the Haget family, tenants of the Anglo-Norman magnate family of Mowbray. The Hagets come into possession of Wighill around 1140. Fletcher traces their fortunes into the twelfth century, by which time England is united under Henry II, Richard I and John. The Hagets were literate, educated provincial gentry who helped the kings to rule Northumbria. By the time John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, Northumbria was successfully integrated into England and the great feuding families were no longer there. They had destroyed themselves in the blood feud.


From: 'Houses of Austin canons: Priory of Healaugh Park', A History of the County of York:
The priory of Healaugh Park originated in a hermitage in the wood of Healaugh. Bertram Haget granted to Gilbert, a monk of Marmoutier, and his successors, the hermitage land in the wood of Healaugh and other cleared spaces of ground there, as defined by certain bounds set out in his charter. Geoffrey Haget, his son, confirmed to God, St. Mary, and the church of St. John de Parco, and to the monk Gilbert and his successors dwelling there, the lands and woods as his father's charter had defined them. Among the witnesses to this charter was Abbot Clement [of St. Mary's, York], who succeeded in 1161 and died in 1184. The date, therefore, must be between those limits, which makes the original foundation of the hermitage considerably earlier than has usually been supposed.
In 1203 Henry, Prior of Marton, and the convent of that house, quitclaimed any right they might have over the hermitage in the park of Healaugh. Bertram Haget had four daughters, one of whom, Alice, inherited Healaugh. She married John de Friston, and their daughter Alice married Jordan de Santa Maria, and with him, circa 1218, definitely established the Augustinian Priory at the place where the earlier hermitage had existed. By their charter they granted to God, St. John the Evangelist of Healaugh Park, and William, prior, and canons there, the site of the monastery and other lands and rights. William, the first prior, was installed on the feast of St. Lucy (13 December) 1218. He was prior for thirteen and a half years, and died in 1233. Very soon after its foundation the priory received from Alan de Wilton a grant of the hospital of St. Nicholas juxta Yarm, (fn. 9) of which, probably, he was the founder. The hospital remained in possession of the priory till the Dissolution, the convent sending one of its canons to take charge of it.

Bertram# married.