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~~The earliest lords of Stackpole of whom we find any mention came of a Norman family who had styled them- selves de Stackpole, but the records are so scanty that it is not possible to say with any certainty what relationship they bore to each other. The first of whom we hear is Elidor de Stackpole, who had for his seneschal, according to Gerald, ‘an evil spirit who spent his nights in the pool at Stackpole mill.’ Elidor founded the church of Stack-pole Elidor or Cheriton (so-called to distinguish it from Stackpole Bosher or Bosherston), and, like other founders, was afterwards held to be the patron saint; there is no authority for Fenton's statement that he went on Arch-Bishop Baldwin's crusade, or that the tomb in Stackpole church is his;'' he lived in the earlier part of the 12th century. The successor of Elidor was his son Robert, who, between 1180 and 1190, gave to Slebech two messuages and two bovates of land in Stackpole,' and to St. Davids, for the repose of his own soul and that of Milo de Cogan, the church of Trefduant (St. Edryn's).