In þære Middelyldan wæs Moretoin hēafodstōl ofer important eorldōme (Frencisc: comté), in þæm handum þæs cynecynnes Normandiges and of þæm hūs wæron his eorlas. Ymbe 1027 wæs þes eorldom gestaþoled for Roðbeart, se wæs aliefþ man Ricardes Eorles bastard. Æfter Roðbeartes ierfa wæs Willelm Warlenc, Roðbeartes sunu. In 1049 oððe ymbe þæm geare anām Willelm Normandiges Eorl þone eorldom of Willelm Warlenc and geaf hine his healfbrēder, Roðbeart, se wæs þæræfter ""Eorl of Moretoine,"" and his micel agnunge on Englum æfter þæm Gehiersumunge in 1066 geaf naman ""þæm lytlum tūnum Moretoines,"" þā ahtedon læss þegnunge his hlāforde þonne oþru.