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Dene of I>ee»e De~:ne of Sa.ltanst«ll el, •. 13QNl"OW '~ .. :Deo.ne- of Dea.nela.n_~~ . .a. Tuwe'l"S'<~. THE BOOK OF DENE, DEANE, ADEANE. B Genealogical 1bistot\?. BY MARY DEANE. LOt~DON: ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. I 899. Elliot Stqclt, 62, Pa!enwsfer Ro'w, Lo,r..ion, " Deane, than which none other name Is of better or more fame." Old Epitapk by Gomersall. The Badge of Dene. ACH branch of the Dene family bas from time to time changed or altered its armorial bear ings, but there is a badge peculiar to the name that has belonged to it from first to last. This is the raven which sits on the summit of Peter de Dene's window in York Cathedral; marked the resting-place of Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury, until rude hands pillaged the brass ; and was conspicuous on the state hearse of the General at-Sea. The raven of heraldry is the famous ra:fan of the Danes, and " Ralph" the familiar name of the bird of constancy, ·and " Hugh '' ( '' H ugin ") the appellation of one of Odin's sacred ravens, have always been favourite names among the Deanes. It may have been chosen as a punning device, for even now " Deane" in Berkshire is called " Dane ''; or supposing the two roots of the name to have really but one origin, it may well be that, proud of their descent from the ancient Kings of Denmark, as they must have been, they adopted the Scan... dinavian bird as their totem, even before they were known by the name of Den, or Dene. There is a small unclaimed banner in the Bayeux tapestry, a black raven on red ground, with a gold dancette border, which it would be very agreeable to suppose was the clan banner of those Danish chiefs of royal blood who had become Norman barons. It may be so. Preface. c-r-'HIS genealogical history owes £ts ex£stence to long years 1 of patient research on the part of Mr. J. Bathurst Deane, but the loss of his sight precluded his making his volttminous notes £nto a complete book. My only substitute for the finished scholarship and the preslige of a well-known antiquary has been diligence, which would have attained to snzall result had z"t not been for the generosity of Mr. Willianz Dean (of the Holdenhztrst family), who placed at my disposal the whole of his large collection of extracts froni wills & State Papers, & I desire to record here my great obligation to hinz. I offer my thanks also to 1ny kinsfolk both near & distant, whose cordial concurrence has enabled 1ne to save my father's work fr~;n the oblivion of faded manuscript, & beg their £ndulgence for the unavoidable £,npeifeclions-& even for any avoidable ones-they nzay discover. There £s yet scope for sonie future genealog£st of our wide clan in a search after those l£nks whz"ch are lost in the years succeeding the dissolution of nionasteries-the dark age of the archceologist-& I hope tlzat one 'lo-ill arise zuho ntay pro,,1e • • • Vlll Preface. exactly where each flourishing branch diverged from the parent stock, &, possibly, the unity of the two stocks of Dene. As one of a family representing both those stocks, I have the pleasure & advantage of a claim of kindred, back even to a shadowy past, with all who are derived f ro11i the1n, & thzs has added pleasantness to the work I have now finished, & beg to ded£cate to nzy subscribe1/'s. MARY DEANE. Cheney Court, Box, Wilts, December 3, 1898. Contents. PAGE ROBERTO DE DENA I DENE OF DEVON 8 DENE OF DEENE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE - IO DENE OF CODSHALL, YORKS 15 DEANE OF ODIHAM AND DEANELANDS - 18 DEANE OF FREEFOLKE - 24 SIR JAMES DEANE, OF BASINGSTOKE 27 DEANE OF SOPLEY IN AVERN (AVON) - 30 DEANE OF TOWERSEY AND TETSWORTH - 32 DEANE OF THE HOW, HAMBLEDON 39 DEANE OF WOLVERTON, BUCKS - 41 DEANE OF STOKENCHURCH 42 ARCHBISHOP DENE 44 RICHARD DEANE, ADMIRAL AND GENERAL 47 DEANES OF GUYTING POER 51 DEANE OF TORRINURE AND BERKELEY FOREST 53 SIR ANTHONY DEANE, KNIGHT - 59 CHESHIRE 62 AMERICA 64 ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS CONCERNING DEANE, OR DEAN, OF CHRIST CHURCH AND RYNGWODE - DENE OF THE FOREST OF DENE X Contents. PAGE PETER DE DENE 77 DEANE OF DROMORE AND THE LORDS MUSKERRY 80 DENNY OF TRALEE 89 DEANE OF DUFTON AND APPLEBY 90 DENE OF WALLINGFORD AND HIGH WYCOMBE - 91 CRONDALL, HAMPSHIRE - - 103 DEANES OF LONDON - 105 ADEANE OF CHALGROVE AND BABRAHAM - III DEANE OF DYNE'S HALL, GREAT MAPLESTEAD, ESSEX - - 117 DEANE OF STUKELEY NETHERCOTE AND WOKINGHAM - - 123 POSSIBLE IDENTITY OF THE TWO STOCKS - 132 THE BADGE OF DENE - • 143 SUBSCRIBE RS. The Right Hon. Sir James Charles Adeane, Esq., J.P. The Lord Muskerry. Parker Deane. Admiral Adeane. Miss Charlotte Deane. Rcilph Hawtrey Deane, Esq. Miss Adeane. W. H. Deane, Esq., J.P. Captain St. George Berke H. R. Grenfell, Esq. G. Onslow Deane, Esq., ley Deane, R.N. Mrs. Robert Smith. J.P. Major Egbert Cooper, late Mrs. Hugh Colin Smith. Arthur Eliot Deane, Esq., Black Watch Regiment. Hon. Mrs. Bernard J.P. Mrs. Tyndall. Mallett. Major G. W. Deane. H. Hargrave Deane, Esq., Reginald Abel Smith, Major Hugh Pollexfen Q.C. Esq. Deane. Lieut. - General R. Owen Wilfred Robert Smith, Walter Meredith Deane, Jones, R.A. Esq. Esq., C.M.G. Mrs. N orreys Russell. Eustace Robert Smith, Mrs. John Wilder. Mrs. Dawson Thomas. Esq. Horace Drummond Miss Emily Deane. Deane, Esq. William Dean, Esq. Mrs. Malcolm Thompson. J. Bargrave Deane, Esq., Mrs. Edgar Matthews. Scots Guards. Mrs. A. H. B. Bradshaw. Miss Bathurst Deane. Roberto de Dena. ~~~~~MONG the Norman nobles of the Court of Edward the Confessor holding official ap pointments was Roberto de Dena, pincerna, that is to say, cupbearer, or butler, to the King. The origin of his name is unkno,vn, but it is highly improbable that it was a British territorial surname, as such \Vere not in use at that date, and, moreover, it v1as frequently spelt Den, or Dyn. An explanation suggested by the learned antiquary, ?v1r. G. T. Clark's, history of the " Land of Morgan," is in accordance with the custom of the day in such matters, and I venture to offer it in case it should te1npt some genealogist. claiming this ancient descent to a systematic 1n vest1gat1on. " It is singular," says l\1r. Clark, " that of so notable a man as FitzHamon so little should be known. His father, 'Hamo Dentatus,' seems to have received favours from Duke \Villiam. In the battle ( of Val e Dunes), amongst the leaders was 'Haimonem agnomine Dentatun1,' who led the first line of six thousand men, and much distinguished himself fighting hand to hand with the King of France, by whose attendants he ,vas slain. He was known as De Thorigny, de Bersy, et de Creully, and his ,var-cry, according to the Roman de Rose, was ' St. Amant !'- " Et Han-a-dens va reclamant 'St. Amant,' 'sire St. Amant.'" I 2 Dene, Deane, Adeane, Hamo a Dens had two sons-Hamo " Dapifer," a Court official, and Robert FitzHamon, mentioned by "\Villiam of Jumieges. Hamo Dapifer, though omitted in the index to the folio Domesday, appears as tenant-in-chief in the record, holding in Essex fourteen parishes, and, as " H aimo Vice comes," possessing others in Kent and Surrey. Hasted says he was also called "Crevecquer." He was one of the judges in the great cause between Archbishop Lancfranc and Odo, and died childless in the reign of Henry I. Mabyle, the great heiress of the day, was Hamo's niece, and her demand for a " to-name " and hereditary title as the condition of her marriage with Henry's illegitimate son Robert is well known. " It did not become the daughter of FitzHamon to marry a nameless man." These two were the ancestors of the great Clare family. FitzHamon, the friend and follower of Rufus, was lord of the Honour of Gloucester, the magnificent heritage of Brictric, who is said to have refused the hand of Matilda FitzHamon was the most noted of the early conquerors of Wales, first in conjunction with Jestyn, Prince of Glamor• gan, and afterwards in the political scheme that was accom plished in crushing that unfortunate chief. The surname "Dens" or "Den," taken in connection with the fesse dan cettee, or toothed band, of the oldest shield of Dene-that borne by the descendants of Robert the cupbearer-is too suggestive a derivation to be overlooked. The dancettee has already been conjectured by heraldic authorities to be a play on the name, or '' canting heraldry." If Robert de Dena "1"as one of this family, the tradition of a descent from the Clares is accounted for. Roberto de Dena left a son Robert, ,vho was succeeded by his son Ralph, or Ranulphus, and also a son Radulphus, who was the ancestor of various families in l(ent and other counties, including, we may suppose, Northamptonshire. The younger Ralph had two children, a son and a daughter; but the son, \vho was the third Ralph of the line, dying young, his sister, Ela de Dene, became sole heir to the immense estates of her father. In I 189, in conjunction with her father, she founded the Roberto de Dena. 3 abbey of Odyham, or Ottiham, Kent, and also of Begeham, or Bayham, where Ralph was buried. In I I 70 he had been sent on a royal commission into eight counties to inquire into all fines, in company with ·sundry earls and abbots.