Hasculf de Tany

Based upon his name, and that of his son Graelen, Hasculf's family may have had ancestry in Brittany. However they came to England from Tanis, in the Avranchin in Normandy, close to Mont Saint-Michel and the frontier with Brittany.Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 730 It has been proposed that he was a close relative, perhaps even son, of Otuel fitzCount, whose father Hugh d'Avranches was viscount of that region,Keats-Rohan "Four case studies" p. 25 and that they were both related to the Suligny family, who were also from there. He had contemporaries in England with the same second name who were probably related, named Picot de Tanis, and Juliana de Tanis.

Hasculf married Matilda (or Maud), whose parentage is the subject of different speculations, and she was the mother of Hasculf's son and heir Graelen. Charles Travis Clay demonstrated that Matilda was almost certainly also the mother, apparently from an earlier husband, of Edward of Salisbury the younger, who was noted to be the elder brother of Graelen de Tanys in a 1202 legal case concerning claims by Edward's descendants to be heirs to lands in the barony of Crich. On this basis Clay believed she was a co-heiress of Ralph fitz Hubert, the lord of the feudal barony of Crich in the Domesday Book of 1086.Farrer and Clay (eds) Early Yorkshire Charters, vol. 9, pp. 49–51 Because of his name, her earlier husband is often believed to be Edward of Salisbury the elder, an older man of the same name as her son.Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants pp. 700–701

Further indications of family connections might be implied by the grant, after his death, made by Hasculf de Tany's widow Matilda and son Graelan of the church of Fyfield in Essex to Bermondsey Priory. They also confirmed the gift of Roger the knight of John fitzWaleran who had given the tithes of Fyfield to that monastery.See Carpenter "Bermondsey Priory" Charters of William II and Henry I Project p. 20. Based on these acts, Katharine Keats-Rohan has written that Matilda was the daughter of Roger and her father's heiress for lands he had held of John fitzWaleran in Essex. However, when Keats-Rohan separately considered the same Matilda as mother of Edward of Salisbury the younger, she accepted the proposal of Clay. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 939 under “Filius Radulfi, Hubert”; and Keats-Rohan “Additions and Corrections to Sanders’s Baronies” Prosopon Newsletter under “Crick”. In contrast to Katherine Keats-Rohan, but based upon the same grant, I.J. Sanders thought Matilda was possibly the daughter of the Domesday baron John fitzWaleran, and perhaps Hasculf was the son of the knight Roger who held Fyfield from John fitzWaleran. Sanders, unlike Keats-Rohan, understood Hasculf and Matilda to have held John fitzWaleran's barony themselves, which had its caput at Aveley in Essex (Sanders English Baronies p. 4).

In about 1115–1117, "Asciulus de Taneyo" was a witness together with Otuel fitzCount in a concord involving Gilbert, abbot of Westminster.

A man named Aschuill and described as the successor of Otuel fitzCount as custodian of the tower, is believed to have been Hasculf de Tany. This would mean he became castellan of the Tower of London after the death of Otuel in 1120. In late 1136 or early 1137 this Aschuill was tried before King Stephen of England and the Lord Chancellor Roger le Poer, accused by the Holy Trinity Priory in London of confiscating land belonging to the priory. In the end, the priory regained custody of their land.Hollister "Misfortunes of the Mandevilles" History p. 23 footnote 26

In the 1129/30 Pipe Roll, Hasculf appears several times. He was pardoned from paying Danegeld in Essex and Middlesex. This record also indicates that before 1130 Hasculf was involved in a dispute with Rualon d'Avranches over some lands in Essex, which was resolved after a court case in which was levied a fine of 60 marks and a warhorse on Rualon.Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility p. 72

Also around 1130 Hasculf de Tany was a witness on London's first royal charter of liberties, granted by Henry I.Hollister "Misfortunes of the Mandevilles" History p. 25 footnote 33Hollister "London's first charter of liberties" Journal of Medieval History

After Hasculf's death, the castellany of the Tower went to Geoffrey de Mandeville, the 1st Earl of Essex, and was held to be hereditary.King King Stephen pp. 68–69

Hasculf was dead sometime between 1136/7, when he was involved in the legal case against Holy Trinity Priory, and 1141 when the empress Maud granted Geoffrey de Mandeville, the fief and serjeantry lands which Hasculf de Tani held in England on the day when he had died, which Graelan and his mother were then said to be holding.Round Geoffrey de Mandeville p. 91 and footnotes

Graelan thus became a tenant lord under Mandeville holding seven and a half knights' fees, but by 1166 he once again held these lands directly from the king as a feudal baron.Round Geoffrey de Mandeville p. 142 As noted by Stacy, the most recent editor of the 1166 baronial charters, the Tany barony, "with its caput at Aveley (Essex), comprised lands in Essex and Cambridgeshire" and its subordination under Mandeville by King Stephen and Empress Matilda "is unlikely to have survived the earl's revolt in 1143-4".Stacy Cartae Baronum p. 186

Graelen was succeeded by his son Hasculf and then his grandson Gilbert, who died in 1221 with no male heir. The barony was subsequently divided.Buttle "de Tanys of Stapleford Tawney" Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society pp. 154–156

Hasculf also appears to have had a second son, Gilbert de Tanis, who was father to a younger Graelen in subsequent generations.

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