Roger Fitz William de Huntingfield

Bef 1140 - 1204  (> 64 years)

• Name	Roger Fitz William de Huntingfield
  Born	Bef 1140	of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1204	of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England
  Person ID	I6043	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	27 May 2021

  
  

  Father	William Fitz Roger de Huntingfield
  Mother	Sibyl de Gigny
  Family ID	F2592	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Alice de Senlis,   b. of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England ,   d. 1204, of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England
  Children	1. William de Huntingfield,   b. Abt 1160, of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England ,   d. Bef 25/25 Jan 1220/1, Palestine  (Age ~ 61 years)   2. Thomas de Huntingfield   3. Roger de Huntingfield   4. John de Huntingfield
  Last Modified	28 May 2021
  Family ID	F2480	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “ALICE DE SENLIS, married ROGER [FITZ WILLIAM] DE HUNTINGFIELD, of Huntingfield, Linstead, and Mendham, Suffolk, Frampton, Huttoft, and Southorpe, Lincolnshire, East Bradenham, Norfolk, etc., son and heir of William Fitz Roger de Huntingfield, by Sibyl, daughter of Roger de Gigny. He was born before 1145. They had four sons, William, Roger, Thomas, and John. About 1180-83, by permission of her husband, Roger, Alice gave land and pasture which she held in Tytton (in Wyberton), Lincolnshire to Stixwould Priory. In 1183 Maurice de Craon acknowledged his rights to various manors in Lincolnshire, in exchange for the manor of Warneborne. In 1189 he had a dispute with the Prior of Longeville concerning the advowson of Harleton, Cambridgeshire. He subsequently took the case to the king's court, and a decision reached at Westminster in 1196 in the presence of Hubert Walter. In 1196 the Longeville monks agreed that the lord. of the manor shall nominate to the rectory, in return for a pension from the church; he in turn promised that if the Bishop will not increase the pension of the monks from 20s. to 40s., he will himself pay the money. In the period, 1198-1204, he gave Mendham Priory a pasture in Mendham, Suffolk and a water mill called `Kingesholme.' In 1199 he gave 200 marks for 15 librates of land of the honour of Lancaster in Norfolk and Suffolk. In 1200 Roger de Huntingfield was present when William the Lion, King of Scots, paid homage to King John at Lincoln. At an unknown date, he witnessed a charter of his wife's brother, Saher de Quincy, to Sibton Abbey. At an unknown date, he confirmed a gift of Thomas de Multon to Spalding Abbey. ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD died in 1204. His wife, Alice, died the same year. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 5 (1806): 375. Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Hovedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51(4)) (1871): 141-142. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #45. Foster Final Concords of the County of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244-1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 307-308. Salter Newington Longeville Charters (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 3) (1921): xxxiv-xxxvii, 75-76 (charter of Roger Fitz William de Huntingfield). CP. 6 (1926): 671 footnote a. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 194-195, 200-201 (charter of Roger Fitz William dated 1198-1204). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 299:1. Hallam Settlement & Society (1965): 51. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 216. Franklin Cartulary of Daventry Priory (Pubs. of Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1988): xx-xxi, 2-4. Wilkinson Women in 13th-Cent. Lincolnshire (2007): 174-175. [Note: Evidence of the maiden name of Alice de Senlis (died 1204), mother of William de Huntingfield, the Magna Carta baron, is provided by her own charter to Stixwould Priory dated c.1180-3 [see Hallam Settlement & Society (1965): 51; Wilkinson Women in 13th Cent. Lincolnshire (2007): 174-175]. Alice has been identified by one recent historian as "perhaps" the daughter of Maud de Senlis, wife successively of Robert Fitz Richard (de Clare) (died 1136) and Saber de Quincy I [see Wilkinson Women in 13th Cent. Lincolnshire (2007): 175; Franklin Cartulary of Darentry Priory (Pubs. of Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1988): xx-xxi, 2-4]. Another historian states Alice "was probably related to the [Senlis] earls of Northampton" [see Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 201]. Surviving charters indicate that Alice de Senlis' husband, Roger de Huntingfield, witnessed charters for both of Maud de Senlis' sons, Walter Fitz Robert and Saber de Quincy II [see Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 194, 201]. Roger de Huntingfield likewise held property at East Bradenham, Norfolk, the chief manor of which was previously held by Maud de Senlis, who gave the church there sometime before 1176 to Norwich Cathedral [see Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 6 (1807): 134-138; Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 56, 58; Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 148-149; Dodwell Charters of the Norwich Cathedral Priory 1 (Pubs. Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 40) (1974): 180-183; Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 49-50]. In 1200 Roger de Huntingfield was present when William the Lion, King of Scots, paid homage to King John at Lincoln [see Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Honedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51(4)) (1871): 141-142]. Also present on this occasion were Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Saber de Quincy IV, William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, Robert de Roos, and William de Vescy, all of whom were near kinsfolk or related by marriage to King William the Lion. If Alice de Senlis, wife of Roger de Huntingfield, was the daughter of Maud de Senlis, it would make Alice a first cousin of King William the Lion. Given the chronology, passage of lands, naming patterns, etc., it seems virtually certain that Alice de Senlis was the daughter of Maud de Senlis and her 2nd husband, Saber de Quincy I, and that Alice's maritagium included Senlis family property at East Bradenham, Norfolk].”