Thurston de Montfort

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Robert and Thurstan de Montfort were probably sons of Thurstan de Mundford, who, as one of the barons of Henry, Earl of Warwick, attested the Earl's charter to Abingdon in the days of Abbot Reynold, who d. 1097. This Thurstan was very possibly of the house of Montfort of Montfort-sur-Risle, but the connection has not been proved. Robert's brother Thurstan held land in Berks in 1130, and property there was held by his descendants till the death of the last heir male. That there was a Thurstan preceding Robert at Preston, and ancestor of Piers, who d. 1287, was proved to the satisfaction of the jury of the Hundred in 1275, who found that Preston used to be the demesne of William the Conqueror, who gave it to the Earl who was at Warwick, whose name they did not know, to hold by the service of 1 ½ knight's fee, and the said Earl gave it to one Thurstan, ancestor of Piers de Montfort who was killed at Evesham, who held, and his widow held, by the same service of the Earl of Warwick.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, (Montfort), p. 120, footnote (c)