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

1. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 646
2. Sanders English Baronies p. 57
3. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families pp. 79–80
4. Cownie "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
5. 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.
• 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

• 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. XI (Microprint ed.). Gloucester, UK: A. Sutton. ISBN 0-904387-82-8.