Roger FitzReinfrid

• Preferred Name: Roger FitzReinfrid^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• alt.birth: um 1240
  
• Death: AFT 1198 in Whiteby Abbey, Lancashire at LATI: N3.8185 LONG: E2.6257 with note: standard selected.
  
• Birth: 1114 in Cumberland at LATI: N4.5307 LONG: E3.0762
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sheriff
  
• FSID: G6FV-D1R
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Family was probably of knightly rank. In 1161, Roger paid scutage on property in Dorset, which was probably his inheritance.[5] Roger's brother Walter was put in charge of England while Henry's son Richard I was away on Crusade from 1191 to 1193. Roger profited from his brother's rise to power. Roger's son Gilbert fitzReinfrey became a royal administrator.[1] It appears, however, that Gilbert was illegitimate, as he did not inherit his father's lands.[13]
  Per Wikipedia.org--ROGER FITZREINFRID.
  
  Roger Fritz Reinfred b. 1114-d.1198
  Died after 1198 at Whiteby Abbey after a timber fell on his head. He was a steward to King Henry II. Soldier, monk of Eversham at Whiteby Abbey given by William Percy
  
  === Weis 88-27 witness to King's will 1176, ===
  Weis 88-27 witness to King's will 1176, 1198, Sheriff 1176 and of Berks 1186-1187
  
  === Additional data ===
  Filius Rainfridi, Roger
  Brother of Walter de Coutances, archbishop of Rouen. Member of Richard de Lucy's household from c.1168-78. Royal justice. Granted land in the parish of St Peter 'de Bradestrete', next the land of the Hospitallers, in perpetual alms to Launceston priory, for the souls of himself and his wife Alice, in exchange for the moiety of the mill of Goodmansleigh (Cart. Launceston, 247-50). He was enfeoffed with half a fee at Ramsden Bellhouse by Gilbert Foliot, bishop of London (EEA xv, 140), of which he later gave the church to Lessness abbey (Mon. Ang. vi, p.457).
  So his wife was named Alice, and she was presumably the mother of Roger's legitimate son William. Concerning Roger's son Gilbert, he is sometimes thought to be illegitimate, although this is apparently only because he was not heir, as discussed by John M. Watson.[2]
  
  Wikipedia mentions that:
  
  "Another relative was John of Coutances, who was either the brother of Walter and Roger, or their nephew. John went on to become Bishop of Worcester from 1196 to 1198. Possibly another brother of Roger's was Odo of Coutances, a canon at Rouen Cathedral."[3]
  The article for Walter de Coutances, Wikipedia:Walter de Coutances confirms this relationship, and notes that:
  
  "Coutances was born in Cornwall, to Reinfrid and Gonilla. His brother was Roger fitzReinfrid, a layman and royal justice during the reign of King Henry II of England."
  However as John M Watson writes:
  
  Most sources state that they were from Cornwall, based on a statement of Gerald of Wales that Walter de Coutances was born in Cornwall, of a noble British house, a descendant of Corineus, the fabulous Trojan immigrant. [1] However, Gallia Christiana contains an account that Walter stated at the Council of Rouen (1191?) that he was born at “Pommerayus” in Normandy (probably Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye in Bas Normandie, about 10 miles south of Coutances) of a Breton family, the son of Reinfrid and his wife Gonilla. [2] This seems a more likely origin for the family than that given by Gerald of Wales.[2]
  Putting all these records together they are not necessarily in conflict as long as we assume that the family moved in stages, from Brittany, to Normandy, to England.
  
  === !Brown book 5, P C 363. Sheriff of Susse ===
  !Brown book 5, P C 363. Sheriff of Sussex & Berkshire. A witness to the King's will.

1. Agneta de Lancaster, b. 1195 in Kendal, Westmorland, England    

1. Title: Wikipedia artilce fo Roger fitzReinfrid
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_fitzReinfrid;
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Roger de Kirkby deAssheton x - Published information: male
   Note: Published information: male Published information: birth-name: Roger De Kirby Published information: birth: about 1117; England, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2386360679