House of Busli

The De Busli family hail from the village of Busli, near Rouen in Normandy.
Roger de Busli (1038-1098), fought in the Battle of Hastings, and was awarded the Honour of Blyth (later known as the Honour of Tickhill), which made him tenant-in-chief of 86 manors in Nottinghamshire (holding part of 24 others), 58 manors in the southern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 7 manors in Derbyshire, 5 in Leicestershire and 3 in Lincolnshire. He donated his ancestral manor of Busli to the Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Rouen.
Roger married Muriel c. 1070-74, whith whom he has a daughter, Beatrix (born c. 1075) and eventually had a son and heir, Roger II, born c. 1095.
Shortly after the Domesday Survey, Roger de Busli granted several manors, amounting to 6.5 knights fees, to his younger brother, Ernulf (born c. 1040), to hold from the Honour. These were the manors of Maltby and Kimberworth just to the west of Tickhill as well as the manors of Sandby, Scausby, Faldham and Brodesworth in Yorkshire and the manors of Stanford-upon-Sore, Peverelthorpe and Torlakeston in Nottinghamshire.
In 1088 he founded Blyth Priory, awarding it the town and church of Blyth to support it. He probably had Tickhill Castle built shortly before this; it became the new caput of his honour.
When Roger died in 1098 his heir, Roger II was but two or three years old. King William II granted wardship of Roger II to the notorious baron Robert de Bellême. Roger II died in 1101, just five or six years years old. De Bellême attempted to hold onto the Honour of Tickhill himself, but was stripped of it (and the rest of his lands) after rebelling against King Henry I in 1102. The Honour of Tickhill entered royal hands.
The De Busli line did not end, however. Ernulf died c. 1097, and his manors were inherited by his son Jordan (born c. 1070). Jordan does not seem to have been considered as heir to the Honour of Tickhill; inheritance rules at the time were unclear about the rights of nephews to inherit lands when their own fathers had died before the main landholder. Nevertheless, he retained the 6.5 knights' fees after the Honour passed into royal hands, and continued to serve castle-guard at Tickhill. Jordan's son Richard (c. 1100 to c. 1179) inherited them in turn.
ARound 1130, Richard married an Oxfordshire heiress, Emma, and had several children with her: their first son, Richard II (c. 1135-1169) died before his father, leaving two sons; on Richard's retirement in 1169 his lands went to their second son, John de Busli, who was still living in 1208 when he was replaced as constable of Tickhill Castle by his son-in-law Robert Vipond.
Richard retired to Roche Abey, the Cistercian monastery, which he founded in 1147 as a daughter-house of Newminster in Northumberland. It grew rapidly, and at its height in the early 13th century it had more than 50 choir monks and 100 lay brothers.
John de Busli married Bedfordshire heiress Cecily de Bussey before 1164, gaining several manors in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire on her father's death in 1180. Their daughter Idonea (died 1241) married Robert Vipond, Baron of Appleby, between 1189 and 1198; on her father's death the 6.5 knight's fees her father held of the Honour of Tickhill passed to her husband and into the Vipond family.

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