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Title: History and genealogy of the Stackpole family
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, 1850-1927
Subjects: Stackpole family
Publisher: (Lewiston, Me : Journal Printshop and Bindery)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ngs of Welsh histo-rians and in the public records of England. Goeffrey ofMonmouth names Elidyr the Pious as one of the ancientmythical kings of Britain. There is a mountain in Walescalled Elidyr Fawr. Here, then, is a man with a Welshname, in possession of a Norman-built stronghold, with onlyNormans and Flemings as neighbors for many miles. NoWelshman owned a castle in southern Pembrokeshire in histime. The Welsh then dwelt in the mountainous regionsand were in almost continual conflict with the Norman set-tlers. I can account for his Welsh name only on the sup-position that someone of the first Norman adventurers mar-ried a Welsh woman and perhaps in this way, as well asby conquest, obtained possession of Stakepol. We knowhistorically that some possessions in Wales were thusgained. There is need of a generation earlier than Elidyrto account for the possession of this estate, which was oneof the largest held by the barons under the Earl of Pem- *See Baring-Goulds Lives of the Saints.
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K* O oEh o Wo ORIGIN 21 broke. The land must have been all taken as early as theyear 1100, and then Elidyr was not old enough to have takenoriginal possession, since his son Robert is known to havebeen living in the year 1216. The prevalence of the nameRichard in the family suggests that this might have beenthe name of the Norman knight who was father of Elidyrby a Welsh wife. No records have been discovered tosolve the question. Elidyr de Stakepol had a castle, sublet small farms tovillani, or tenants, held Court-Baron three times a year,and paid homage and taxes to the Earl of Pembroke. Hehad a mill on the pool east of his castle. He must havebeen often in military conflict with the Welsh, and traditionsays that he went on a crusade and that his effigy is seen atCheriton, on the altar-tomb in the church of Stackpole-Elidyr. This tradition is disputed by some. Elidur livedin the earlier part of the twelfth century but this effigy atCheriton is clad in armor worn in the early fifteent

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