Roger Devereux of Norfolk

Roger Devereux
Noble family House of Normandy
Father William d'Évreux

Roger Devereux was the son of William d'Évreux.[1][2] There are indications he fought at Hastings as he was rewarded with lands in Norfolk that he held on the Domesday Survey in 1086.[3] A noble's Tenant-in-Chief in England often reflects the area of Normandy from which they originated. Roger was a follower of William de Ecouis, and Ecouis is in the region of Normandy near to Évreux and Rouen which were the main holdings of the Counts of Évreux.

Family

He probably had a son as the Devereux line was still evident in Norfolk around 1214. The Bipod family transferred two fees of Forcnet Manor in Norfolk to Bartholomew Devereux[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2] who is stylized as Lord of Hardwick. These Devereux's held Startson-Hall Manor in Earsham Hundred. Bartholomew was succeeded by a Roger Devereux, and then Ralf Devereux who married a woman named Dionise. Ralf Devereux sold his property in 1308 to James Herwardstoke,[4] and no further record of this family has been found.

He may have had a daughter or grand-daughter that married into the Picot family as part of the Norfolk lands passed to Roger Picot who later granted them in 1196 to Deodate, Prior of St. Faith at Horsham, and the convent there.[5]

Domesday landholdings

According to the Domesday Book, Roger Devereux held the following lands valued at about £4 in 1086 under the Tenant-in-chief William de Ecouis:[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lewis C. Loyd. The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (Baltimore; Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975), page 41
  2. ↑ M. Jackson Crispin and Leonce Macary. Falaise Roll. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1985). page 41
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday, accessed March 18 2012, Roger of Evreux
  4. ↑ Francis Blomefield. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (London; W. Bulmer & Company, 1806), volume 5, page 345.
  5. ↑ Francis Blomefield. An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (London; W. Bulmer & Company, 1806). Volume 5, page 6.
  6. ↑ Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday, accessed March 18 2012, Buckenham
  7. ↑ John Morris (editor). Domesday Books (Phillimore Editions). (Chichester: 1975-1992). Norfolk: William of Ecouis, fief 19, entry 12.
  8. ↑ Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday, accessed March 18 2012, Tasburgh
  9. ↑ John Morris (editor). Domesday Books (Phillimore Editions). (Chichester: 1975-1992). Norfolk: William of Ecoius, fief 19, entry 31.
  10. ↑ Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday, accessed March 18 2012, Great Bircham
  11. ↑ John Morris (editor). Domesday Books (Phillimore Editions). (Chichester: 1975-1992). Norfolk: William of Ecoius, fief 19, entry 9.
  12. ↑ Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday, accessed March 18 2012, Holme next the Sea
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 John Morris (editor). Domesday Books (Phillimore Editions). (Chichester: 1975-1992). Norfolk: William of Ecoius, fief 19, entry 10.
  14. ↑ Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday, accessed March 18 2012, Ringstead

Notes

  1. ↑ The Curia Regis Roll 112 for Michaelmas Term, 16 John (1214) on Membrane 1, page 260 for Suffolk shows: Robert de Colevill, Adam de Bedingefeld, Walter de Valoines, Andrew Malherbe, 4 knights who were summoned to make a choice. Twelve to do the great assize between Matilda daughter of Salerne, petitioner, and Henry son of Ade, tenant, of 1 carrucate of land with appurtenances in Frecheton, whence the same Henry, who is holding it, he laid himself on the great assize of the Lord of the King and seeks greater recognition to be made whether he should have right in that land, and that if she, Matilda, and if the ancestor Siredus was seised of the same land as Maud in the time of the father of King Henry. They came and chose there: Robert de Runhal, Michael de Bavent, Roger de Ho, Walter de Soterie, Bartholomew De Evreux, Roger de Kesnet, Richard de Wikelowe, Ralph de Weston, Hubert de Randeston, Ives de Kesnet, Edmund de Tudeham, Hugh de Gosebec, Henry de Hes, Peter de Poit, William de Bremford, Hubert de Gernagen. A day is given them in the morrow of All Souls, and then come twelve.
  2. ↑ The Curia Regis Roll for the Michaelmas Term, 16 John (1214) on Membrane 2, page 265 for Suffolk shows: Osbert de Baudresheia gives half a mark for license to agree with Bartholomew De Evreux of a plea of land, etc. The same Bartholomew gives half a mark for the same. And know that Mathew Jord and Petronilla, his wife, Bartholomew had summoned to warranty in the very county because without them the concord could not stand as they held the land. They also come in the morrow of All Souls.