Note 1039 — Chapter V · THE YOUNG KING 1223–1227
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R. Coggeshall, p. 204. It is at this time, in 1215, that Nicolas, Colin, Gilbert, and John de Bréauté first appear (see above, footnote 1018). Nicolas and Colin were clerks. William, “vadlettus noster”—i.e. a page or young squire of the king—had received in July, 1212, a grant of land in Leicestershire previously held by “his uncle, William de Oville,” “ad se sustentandum in servicio nostro quamdiu nobis placuerit,” Close Rolls, vol. i. p. 120.