History
Lordship of Hallamshire
By the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, Waltheof, Prior of Kirkham Abbey, Earl of Northumbria had been executed for his part in an uprising against William I and his lands had passed to his wife, Judith of Normandy, niece to William the Conqueror. The lands were held on her behalf by Roger de Busli who died around the end of the 11th century, and was succeeded by a son, who died without issue. The family's lands passed to William de Lovetot ,the son of a Norman baron who had come over with the Conqueror, and who had succeeded the powerful Roger de Busli He built his castle here and made Sheffield Manor his home. Three generations of the de Lovetots were lords of Hallamshire covering about one hundred years.
In 1181, the estates of the de Lovetots passed to an only daughter, Maud aged seven who was made ward of King Henry II. About 1190 King Richard I gave the sixteen-year-old girl in marriage to Gerard de Furnival, the son of a Norman knight.
Hallamshire was a wapentake, and consisted of the area surrounding the town of Sheffield.It contained the parishes of
Hunter's"Hallamshire" - The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield 1st Edition (1819), goes into detail.
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