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

^ ^a ^b ^c Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 646
^ Sanders English Baronies p. 57
^ Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families pp. 79–80
^ Cownie "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ Round "Families of St John and of Port" Genealogist p. 10

References

Cownie, Emma (2004). "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53947. Retrieved 10 February 2016. {{cite encyclopedia}}: External link in |format= (help)
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.

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