Roger de Port
Roger de Port was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Baron of Kington.
Roger was the son of Adam de Port, who died around 1133.[1] Through his possession of the manor of Kington in Herefordshire, he was considered by I. J. Sanders to have been the baron of Kington.[2]
Roger gave to the abbeys of Tiron and Saint-Vigor-de-Cerisy in Normandy,[1] and to Andwell Priory in England.[3]
Roger was married to Sybil d'Aubigny,[4] by whom he had three sons – Adam, Henry, and Hugh. Roger died before 1161.[1] Roger was buried at Tiron.[5]
Citations
[edit]References
[edit]- Cownie, Emma (2004). "Port, Adam de". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53947. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.
- Loyd, Lewis Christopher (1975) [1951]. The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (Reprint ed.). Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8063-0649-1.
- Round, J. H. (1900). "The Families of St John and of Port". Genealogist. xvi: 1–13.
- Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.
Further reading
[edit]- Cokayne, George E. (1982). "St John of Basing". The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. XI (Microprint ed.). Gloucester, UK: A. Sutton. ISBN 0-904387-82-8.