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Ingebald's Castle 1100s
"...... As William the Conqueror advanced through England, he built motte-and-bailey castles to fortify key positions to secure the land he had taken."
...... it’s thought that around 1000 motte and bailey castles were built in England during this period of history.
https://www.castlesworld.com/tools/motte-and-bailey-castles.php
I have recently come across two references suggesting that Ingebald was the builder and occupier of a Motte & Bailey type castle in Applegarth in Annandale:
http://www.castlestudiesgroup.org.uk/CSGJournal2017-18-rev6-131-340...
......The lands of Applegarth were granted by Bruce to one Ingebald, and it is likely that he was the builder of the motte in the 12th century.
https://thecastleguide.co.uk/castle/applegarth-motte/
....Applegarth Motte is a substantial round earthwork at the top of a steep bank overlooking the river Annan. Its proximity to the parish church make it seem likely this was the seat for a planned lordship during the twelfth century as part of the establishment of the Lordship of Annandale by the Bruce family. ......It is only in the 1360s that one Humphrey de Jardine is referred to as lord of Applegarth ........The Jardines were knights who held land under the Bruces from the 12th century, the earliest references being to their witnessing Bruce documents from this period. However, there was a family known as “de Applegarth” in the 12th century as well, and one Ingebald was granted the land for a knight’s fee in the late 12th century, confirmed to his son Hugh about 1215. It may be the case that Hugh’s daughter then married William de Jardine who held the property afterwards.....
Ingebald would obviously need accommodation appropriate to his status as a local Lord in Annandale and this seems as likely a place as any.
Best regards
Russell Lynn Drysdale
From Monastery at Applegarth ...'' This alone is justification for the tradition. Brus held Annandale of the crown for the service of l0 knights. This knight’s fee of Hugh, son of Ingebald, must have been considerably larger than the present parish of Dryfesdale, if the whole of Annandale was divided into 10 knight’s fees. The unusual reference to a monastery in what was the stereotyped formula of a charter, is significant. It implies that somewhere within the area covered by the grant was a site that was, or had been, a monastic establishment at one time. It is also significant that a witness to the grant Was William de Gardino, the first known member of the Jardine family, whose association with Applegarth was only severed within recent years and whose burial mausoleum stands in Applegarth kirkyard. We may never know the boundaries of the lands gifted by Brus to Hugh, son of Ingebald, but it is suggested here that they covered both Dryfesdale and Applegarth''...
Jan 29
Russell Lynn Drysdale
http://www.castlestudiesgroup.org.uk/CSGJournal2017-18-rev6-131-340...
...''Another of these castles was at Applegarth, on the banks of the river Annan and just some 2 miles NE of the
Bruce's’ castle at Lochmaben. It is not known for certain who built Applegarth, but it was not until 1476 that a Jardine is first found using the designation ‘of Applegarth’, by which time they had presumably already moved into Spedlins.
It is, incidentally, of interest to note that the arms of the Jardines of Applegarth – like those of the Kirkpatricks, Johnstons, Torthorwalds, Griersons, Moffats and Drysdales – were all a simple variant of the arms of the Bruces
themselves, their overlords''...
Feb 23
Russell Lynn Drysdale
Clan Jardine's page on Electric Scotland says
https://electricscotland.com/webclans/htol/jardine2.html
...''As far as can be ascertained there was no one with the surname of Gardine or Jardine in the first half of the eleventh century (before the Norman invasion) - in fact very few people had surnames at all at that time. The first mention of the name Jardine is contained in Hollingshead's Chronicles of England as one of the knights that fought at the Battle of Hastings (AD 1066). There is also evidence that may suggest that the Jardines were of Norse extraction that migrated to Normandy with a warrior named Ganger Rolf prior to 1066. From then till records were kept and accounted for and enclosed, the family was known as de Gardine de Applegirth. In 1304 a William du Gerdyne is recorded as owning land around Kendal which accounts for the name spreading through England. The spelling variated from de Gardino, Gardyne, Jardin, Jardyne, Gardyne''...
The bit about Ingebald being Scandinavian may very well be true Ganger Rolf was Rollo if I recall correctly.
Feb 25