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PIERREPONT Robert |
| Birth |
Abt 1040 |
France  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
England |
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- 1066 Commander in the army of William The Conqueror
1086 Residence: Wrentham, Suffolk, England
First Lord of the Manor of Hurst Pierrepont under William Earl Warren
CHIEF SEATS OF THE ENGLISH BRANCH: Holme-Pierrepont, the ancient seat and burial place of the family, 3 miles SE from Nottingham, and 98 miles north of London. Thoresby Park in the forest of Sherwood in County Nottingham, 16 miles to the north of Nottingham.
First "Lord of the Manor" [=a job, not a title] of Hurst/Herst Pierrepont (Pierpoint) which lay near Lewes, north of Brighton, in Sussex. Accompanied William the Conquerer to England, unknown whether or not he took part in the Battle of Hastings 1066. Ancestor of English Pierrepont line. Name appears in Doomsday Book (1086 as RODBERTUS DE PETRO PONTE, along with [brother ?] Godefridus de Petro ponte, and they hold tracts of land in at least Sussex and Suffolk.
In Marks (1881) source: "Sir Robert de Pierrepont, Knight, came over from France to England as a commander in the army of William the Conqueror, 1066, from whom he received greate estates in the counties of Suffolk and Sussex, among which was the lordship of Hurst Pierrepont. He was at the battle of hastings with the conqueror, and by him ennobled for his conduct at that battle."
Sir Robert de Pierrepont relinquished all claim to the Normandy estate and settled definitely in England, and it appears that, besides those lordships in Suffolk and Hurst in Sussex, which now retains the name of Hurst-Pierrepont, he held other lands of great extent in said county, amounting to ten knights’ fees. As generation succeeded generation, the Pierreponts intermarried with the high nobility of England and Anglicized.
Sources
Sussex Archaeological Society. Sussex Archaeological Collections (Sussex Archaeological Society, H.Wolff, 64 High Street, Lewes, England, 1859) Vol. 11, Page 50-4 & Page 86: Pedigree Chart
Marks, Edward J. A genealogical abstract of descent of the family of Pierrepont, 1881. Section 1 The Family in France and England
Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River (1913)], Page 340
Sir Robert accompanied William the Conqueror to England, took part in the battle of Hastings, 1066 AD, and was the founder of the English branch. That he stood high with the Conqueror is attested by the fact that many honors and estates were bestowed upon him by the King. He possessed, according to the Domesday Book, a memorial of the possessors of the lands in England, of Henestede and Wrethem in Suffolk, and he held them of the famous William, Duke of Normandy, afterward King of England.
Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913, Page 20-22
The Domesday Book (England, 1086)
Robert PIerrepont in Wrentham, Blything, Suffolk
Head of manor: Blythburgh.
Taxable units: Taxable value 9.4 geld units.
Value: Value to lord in 1066 £9.
Value to lord in 1086 £9.
Value to lord c. 1070 £9.
Households: 15 villagers.
35 smallholders.
3 slaves.
20 free men.
Ploughland: 9 lord's plough teams.
3 lord's plough teams possible.
4 men's plough teams.
Other resources: Meadow 6 acres.
Woodland 60 pigs.
2 churches.
0.4 church lands.
Livestock in 1086: 2 cobs.
13 cattle.
12 pigs.
113 sheep.
20 goats.
5 beehives.
Lords in 1086: Count Alan of Brittany; Robert of Pierrepont, but not in 1066
Tenant-in-chief in 1086: William of Warenne.
Phillimore reference: 26,12a
Round, John Horace Calendar of Documents Preserved in France (H.M. Stationery Office, 1899) Page 80
Year 1059: "Robert de Petroponte and Godfrey his son gave the tithe of Cuvervilla which they held of Oylard[1] its lord, by consent of the said Oylard and his sons Geoffrey and Richard, etc."
See the attached image (PDF) for the Latin: "Roberti de Petreponte et Godefridi fratris ejus decimam de Cuvervilla quam tenebant de Oylardo domino ejusdem ville, et hoc fecerunt de consensu ejusdem domini "
Cartulaire de l'abbaye Saint-Michel du Treport (Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1880) Says the attached document is from the year 1036.[2]
Page 1:
Latin: In nomine sancte et individue Trinitatis, Patris et Fillii et Spiritus sancti. Amen. Anno ab Incarnatione Domini M. tricesimo sexto
English: In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, Father and the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. The 1000, thirty and sixth year of the year from the Incarnation of the Lord.
Also:
Latin: do dono Roberti de Petreponte et Godefridi fratris ejus decimam de Cuvervilla quam tenebant de Oylardo domino ejusdem ville, et hoc fecerunt de consensu ejusdem domini
English: Robert Petreponte and his brother Godfrey give the gift of a tenth of Cuverville than held from the Oilard[1] the owner of the same town, and this they have done with the consent of our said lord
Powlett, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina. The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages (London: John Murray, 1889) Vol.1, Page xxxiv, Vol. 2, Page 381-2
Nichols, John Gough. The Herald and Genealogist (Nichols and Nichols, Printer to the Society of Antquaries, London, 1863-1874) Vol. 1, Page 204
Burke, John & Burke, Bernard. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland (Henry Colburn, 1846) Page 419
"...was of the retinue of William, Earl of Warren, and at the time of the general survey, held lands in Suffolk and Sussex, amounting to ten knights' fees, under that nobleman."
Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Company, 1913) Page 20
Publications of the Pipe Roll Society (The Pipe Roll Society, London, 18--) Page 6-7
The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London: J. Hinton, Nov. 1767) Page 249
Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. Domesday People: Domesday book (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999)
Page 72: "Robert de Petraponte, Pierrepont, arr. Neufchatel" (perhaps Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne, a municipality in Picardy, France)
Page 217: "Robert de Peteroponte and his brother Godfrey were early benefactors of the abbey of Treport, to which they gave the tithe of Cuverville(sur-Yere), held from Oilard."
Ellis, William Smith. A History of Hurstperpoint (J. Phillips, Birghton, 1837) Page 16
"Robert de Pierrepoint who held (as recorded in Doomsday) Herst of Will. de Warren, also held the lordship of Henestede and Wretham in Suffolk of the same nobleman, and is believed to have been a lieutenant general in the Conqueror's army."
Ellis, William Smith. Hurstpierpoint: Its Lords and Families, Ancient and Modern (1866) Page 2: description of his entry in the Domesday Book.
Ellis, William Smith. The Parks and Forests of Sussex, Ancient and Modern, Historical, Antiquarian and Descriptive ( H. Wolff, Lewes, 1885) Page 79: References S.A.C. Vol. 11.
Tilley, Joseph. Old Halls, Manors, and Families of Derbyshire (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Ltd., London, 1899) Vol. 3 "The Scarsdale Hundred", Page 19.
Dugdale, William. The Baronage of England, or, An historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of our English Nobility (London, 1675-1676) Page 457.
Footnotes
↑ 1.0 1.1 See: Lambert of Ardres. The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) Page 85: "How Oilard founded the "Field of the Saints," which is also called Saint-Ingelvert."
↑ The year 1036 is the year that the Abbey of St. Michel at Tréport was established.
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