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Roger de Huntingfield

Male Bef 1200 - 1257  (> 57 years)


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  • Name Roger de Huntingfield 
    Born Bef 1200  of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 19 Jun 1257 
    Person ID I6046  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William de Huntingfield,   b. Abt 1160, of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 25/25 Jan 1220/1, Palestine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Mother Isabel Fitz William de Gressenhall,   d. 1207 
    Family ID F2588  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Lucy 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2594  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Joan de Howbridge or Hobrugg,   d. Abt 7 Sep 1297 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2595  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD, Knt., of Huntingfield, Byng Hall (in Pettistree), and Mendham, Suffolk, Fishtoft, Frampton, and Southorpe, Lincolnshire, etc., and, in right of his wife, of Huntingfields (in Boxworth) and Huntingfields (in Litlington), Cambridgeshire, son and heir, born before 1200. He had livery of his father's lands 25 Jan. 1221. He married (1st) LUCY ___. They had no issue. He had letters of protection on going with the King on foreign service in 1229 and 1230. He married (2nd) JOAN DE HOWBRIDGE (or HOBRUGG), daughter and co-heiress of William de Howbridge, of Howbridge (in Witham), Essex, itinerant justice, by Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Robert Picot, of Quy, Waterbeach, and Huntingfields (in Boxworth), Cambridgeshire. They had three sons, William, Knt., Walter, and Roger, Kilt., and one daughter, Isabel. About 1234 he had a dispute with Longeville Priory regarding the advowson of Harlton, Cambridgeshire. In 1236 they came to agreement, by which he granted 8s. rent in Harlton, Cambridgeshire to the priory. In 1242 he paid a fine of 200 marks to be exempted from the expedition then being prepared for service in Gascony. In 1253 he had a grant of free warren for all his demesne lands in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. The same year he was also granted a weekly market and yearly fair at his manor of Pettistree, Suffolk. Sometime in the period, 1221-57, he granted free drovage and passage of roads and paths in the district of Huntingfield and Linstead, Suffolk to Sibton Abbey, Suffolk. Sometime in the period, c.1225-40, he confirmed to Sibton Abbey the gift made by Richard son of Nicholas de Benhall of lands in the vill of Huntingfield, Suffolk. Sometime in the 1230s or 1240s, he confirmed the grant made by John Lenveise of 27-1/2 acres of arable land in Linstead, Suffolk to Sibton Abbey. He was also a benefactor of Bungay and Kirkstead Abbeys. SIR ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD died 19 June 1257. In 1274-5 Gilbert de Colchester arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Jban, and others touching a tenement in Hatfield-Peverel and Ulting, Essex. In the same period John de Oding' arraigned a jury against her touching a tenement in Hatfield-Peverel, Essex, in the same period she arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against William de Huntingfield and Benedict le Marchant touching a tenement in Boston, Lincolnshire. In 1276-7 she arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Margery widow of Peter Danesy and others touching common of pasture in Litlington, Cambridgeshire. In 1277 she presented Thomas de Huntingfield, subdeacon, as rector of Frampton, Lincolnshire, with consent of her son, William. In 1288 she presented Master Michael de Boyton to the church of Frampton, Lincolnshire. At some uncertain date, Roger the goldsmith of Boston, Lincolnshire conveyed to her all the lands he held of Roger her former husband and Pernel de Vaux on the west side of the river. Joan died on or before 7 Sept. 1297.
      Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Notfolk 6 (1807): 134-138. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 368 (biog. William de Houbrug). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 35, 128, 129; 46 (1886); 215. Mason Hist. of Norfolk 5 (1885): 123. Quaritch Short Sketch of Liturgical Hist. & Literature (1887): 58. Quaritch Cat. of Bibles Liturgies Church Hist. & Theology (1891): 107-108. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 41, 60. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 56, 91. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 86. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 2 (1908): 100-103; 4 (1909): 66-67, 84. Rye Norfolk Fams. (1911): 386-387. Turner Cal. Feet of Fines Rel. Huntingdon (Cambridge Antiq. Soc. 8e Ser. 37) (1913): 18. Salter Newington Longeville Charters (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 3) (1921): xxxvi-xxxvii, 77-79 (charters of Roger de Huntingfield). Davis Rotuli Ricardi Gravesend Episcopi Lincolniensis (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 20) (1925): 75. C.P. 6 (1926): 664, 671 footnote a (sub Huntingfield). TAG 14 (1937-38): 10-12. Hill Rolls & Reg. of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 39) (1948): 114. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 299: 1-5 (sub Huntingfield). Sutherland, Quo Warrants Procs. in the Reign of Edward I, 1278-1294 (1963) 139. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 217, 223; 8 (1982): 57; 9(1989): 243-244, 272-273. Brown Sibton Abbey Cartularies 1 (Suffolk Charters 7) (1985): 26, 32, 64; 2 (Suffolk Charters 8) (1985): 35-38, 136-137, 137 (charter of Roger de Huntingfield dated c.1225-40), 138 (charter of Roger de Huntingfield dated 1221-57), 144, 145 (charter of Roger de Huntingfield dated 1230s or 1240s). Caviness Visualizng Women in the Middle Ages (2001): 69. Suffolk Rec. Office, Ipswich Branch: iveagh (Phillipps) Suffolk MSS, HD 1538/301/2 (feoffment made by Roger son and heir of William de Huntingfeld to Roger, son of Wlryc Pryc for homage and service and 20s. fine tenement which grantee's father Wlryc and William Pryc held of grantor's father William in Mendham, Suffolk; to hold of grantor and heirs, paying 25s. annually for all services and demands except king's service); HD 1538/345/1/27 (grant in free alms from Roger de Huntingfeld to the Church and nuns of Holy Cross of Bungay in pure and perpetual alms, Walter Wdard' of Metfield, Suffolk, grantor's man, with his homage, tenement and all his family, and his service of 15s. of sterlings to be paid annually to grantee at 4 terms (3s. 9d. at feasts of St Andrew, St Mary in Marcio, St John the Baptist and St Michael); saving king's service of 10d. in 20s. scutage, and 5d. towards casdeguard of Lancaster) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). Lincolnshire Archives: Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Huntingfield Cartulary, 3ANC2/1 (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Children of Roger de Huntingfield, Knt., by Joan de Howbridge:
      i. WILLIAM DE HUNTINGFIELD, Knt. [see next].
      ii. WALTER DE HUNTINGFIELD. In 1281 the manor of Huntingfields (in Litlington), Cambridgeshire was settled on him by his mother. He was living in 1302, but dead before 1316, when his heir was his brother William's great-grandson, Roger de Huntingfield, then a minor. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rd. Cambridge (1891): 60. VCH Cambridge 8 (1982): 57.
      iii. ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD, Knt., styled "the elder." He was pardoned 18 July 1267, having been in arms with the Barons against King Henry III. In 1275-6 John Aunsel arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against him and others touching a tenement in Bacton, Norfolk. In the same period he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against Radulph le Peyntur and others touching a tenement in Edingthorpe, Norfolk. He married before 1276-7 NICHOLE LE BRETON, widow of Robert de Amundeville, Knt., of Badingham, Suffolk, and daughter and co-heiress of William le Breton, of Okenhill (in Badingham) and Thorney, Suffolk. In 1276-7 he and Nichole his wife arraigned an assize of mort d’ancestor against Thomas Leuebaud touching land in Okenhill (in Badingham), Suffolk. In 1279-80 he arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against John Fitz Osbert and others touching a tenement in Bicker, Lincolnshire. In 1287-8 his mother settled the manor of Thorney, Suffolk on Roger and his wife, Nichole. In 1289-90 he and his wife, Nichole, were deforciants in a fine regarding the manor of Sternfield, Suffolk. In 1296-7 they were deforciants in a fine regarding the advowson of Gislingham, Suffolk. In 1305 Richard de Amundavile owed him a debt of £15. SIR ROGER DE HUNTINGFIELD died in 1309. Dugdale Manasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 56. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 45 (1885): 82, 161; 46 (1886): 151, 195; 47 (1886): 151; 49 (1888): 20. Rye Cal. Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 91, 94, 101. Copinger Manors of Suffolk 4 (1909): 8-9. Year Books of Edward II 11 (Selden Soc. 31) (1915): 56. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 299: 1-5 (sub Huntingfield). Brown Eye Priory Cartulary & Charters 2 (Suffolk Charters 13) (1994): 58-60. National Archives, C241/50/230. (available at www.cataloguemationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      iv. ISABEL DE HUNTINGFIELD, married JAMES DE PAUNTON (or PANTON), of Glaston, Rutlandshire, son and heir of Baldwin de Paunton, of Glaston, Rutlandshire, justice in eyre for pleas of the Forest of Rutland, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire. They had no issue. Her maritagium included the manor and advowson of Harlton, Cambridgeshire. In 1254 he sued the Priory of La Launde as to the advowson of Glaston, Rutlandshire. In 1258 he was one of four knights of Rutland appointed to enquire touching excesses in that county in pursuance of the Provisions of Oxford. In 1263 he leased a message and land to Simon de Glaston. He was one of the commissioner for Rutland to survey the lands of the revels after the Battle of Evesham. SIR JAMES DE PAUNTON died before 1279. In 1280 Milicent la Zouche recovered the service of half a knight's fee in North Luffenham, Rutlandshire against his widow, Isabel. In 1311 and 1312 Isabel's claim to the advowson of Harlton, Cambridgeshire was confirmed. She was living in 1312. Salter Newington Longeville Charters (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 3) (1921): xxxvi-xxxvii. VCH Rutland 2 (1935): 169, 183, 197. VCH Cambridge 5 (1973): 217-219, 223, 244. Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 3 (Selden Soc. 122) (2005): 223-224.”