Hugh de Port

Hugh de Port (c. 1015 – 1096) was an 11th-century French-English Norman aristocrat. He was believed to have arrived in England from Port-en-Bressin, leaving behind his son who owned land of the bishop of Bayeux in 1133. It is possible that was the first Norman sheriff of Kent.[1] De Port accumulated a great number of properties, believed to have been no less than 53 at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086,[2] when he held the manor of Bramshill (Bromeselle); his family were in possession of it for nine generations.[3] He is closely associated with the history of Portsmouth, and most of his estates were based in Hampshire.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Green, Judith A. (15 August 2002). The Aristocracy of Norman England. Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-521-33509-6.
  2. ↑ "De Port". History.inportsmouth.co.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Bramshill". Hampshire Gazetteer – JandMN: 2001. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Fantosme, Jordan (1840). Chronicle of the War Between the English and the Scots in 1173 and 1174. J. B. Nichols and son. p. 132.