D'EIVILL

The first mention we meet with regarding the descendants of this knight is in the reign of henry I. when Nigel de Albini, being enfeoffed by the crown of the manor of Egmanton, Notts, conferred it upon ROBERT D'EIVILL, who appears to have been ancestor of JOHN D'EIVILL, Governor of York Castle, a potent Baron of the time of Henry III., and one of the most active against the Royal Cause. After the battle of Evesham, his Lordship returned not to his allegiance, but, joining Robert Lord Ferrers, made head again at Chesterfield, where, after the capture of Ferrers, he was unhorsed by Sir Gilbert Haunsard; he effected his escape, however, to the Isle of Harholme in Lincolnshire, and under the "Dictum of Kenilworth," eventually made his peace, and redeemed his lands by a pecuniary fine.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey roll)