Cheshire

Who holds it

Name

Lidulph de Twemlow

Title

Sheriff of Cheshire (the earl's officer)

Since

Named for 1199 and 1200 in the county list (Wikipedia, from Ormerod)

Confidence

low

Overlord

Ranulf III, earl of Chester

How things stand that morning

Held for the earl. Mold, just outside the county, fell to Llywelyn in 1199.

Sheriff in 1200

Lidulph de Twemlow. Named for 1199 and 1200 in the county list (Wikipedia, from Ormerod)

Answers for

The farm of the county and the profits of the county court to the earl; the forests and the salt wiches are administered by the earl's foresters and officers.

Hundreds

• Wirral
• Broxton
• Eddisbury
• Northwich
• Bucklow
• Macclesfield
• Nantwich
• Atiscros (west of the Dee; mostly lost)

Forests

• Wirral
• Delamere (Mara and Mondrem)
• Macclesfield

Castles

• Comital: Chester, Shotwick, Frodsham
• Baronial: Halton, Dunham, Malpas, Shipbrook, Nantwich, Aldford, Dodleston, Pulford, Stockport; Hawarden west of the Dee

Liberties

The baronies of the earl's tenants; St Werburgh's Abbey; the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield's manors.

Places of note

• Shire town and castle: Seat of the sheriff and the county court

Where the sources disagree

• The Cheshire sheriff list is antiquarian (Ormerod) and thin for this date.

Evidence: The office is certain; the holder thin.

On the map: Historic county east of the Dee; Hawarden is drawn in the Montalt record.

Primary sources for Chester

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Charter Rolls of King John (1199 to 1216, at the royal chancery). The enrolled charters of John's first years, beginning with his accession in 1199: confirmations to towns, bishoprics and abbeys, grants of land and office, and the great grants to men like William Marshal and the king's new allies in Poitou. Read online
• The Great Rolls of the Pipe for 1199 and Michaelmas 1200 (1199 and 1200, at the Exchequer). The audited accounts of every sheriff and farmer for the Exchequer year ending Michaelmas 1200: county farms, the scutage of 1199, the carucage of 1200, debts of magnates and towns, wardships, and the fines offered to the new king.