Hubertus Hugh Del La Feld

• Preferred Name: Hubertus Hugh Del La Feld^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1092 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1030 in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France at LATI: N8.05 LONG: E0.25 with note: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Del_Feld-9 and GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: G78W-B1R
  
• Notes:

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  HUBERTUS DE LA FELD
  The ancestor of the Field family, the first of whom there is any record, is Hubertus de la Feld, who went to England from near Colmar in Alsace, on the German border of France. He was one of the family of Counts de la Feld, who trace back to the darkest period of the middle ages, about the sixth century. Colmar, or Kolmar, Germany, formerly in France was the capital of the Imperial German district Ober-Elass, situated on the Launch River, and not far from the Ill River. It is an old town with narrow and winding streets. The ancient fortifications have been made into beautiful promenades. William, Duke of Normandy, commonly called the Conqueror, landed in England Sept 29, 1066, and on Oct 14, 1066, fought the battle of Hastings, where Harold the King of England was defeated and slain. As early as the third year of William the Conqueror, 1068, Hubertus de la Feld held lands in the County of Lancaster, near Chester, granted him for military services. The prefix "de la" was dropped by many families in the fourteenth century on account of the wars with France having made it unpopular. The first without the prefix is found in Halifax and Sowerby as early as 1360, and about 1445 it entirely disappears. It thereafter appears as Feld, Felde, Feild, Fielde, and Field. Modified 15 February 2014 by rwright2744253 (See Notes section attached to this profile.)
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  The oldest known ancestor of the Field Family, Hubertus, from the Chateau de la Feld near Colmar in Alsace went to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 and received large grants of land from William for military service. His name appears as an owner of lands in the County of Lancaster in 1069. Sir Hubertus settled in Lancaster near the city of Chester. Sources: Field Genealogy by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Chicago 1901 also Genealogy of the Fields of Providence, Rhode Island by Harriet A. Brownell 1878; FHL film 1017042 item 10 Hubertus is not listed in "My Ancestors Came with the Conqueror" by Anthony J. Camp; FHL book 942 D4ca nor is he listed in "The Roll of Battle Abbey" by John Burke 1848 or "The Battle Abbey Roll" by the Duchess of Cleveland 1889. Modified 15 February 2014 by Charles H. Field, Jr. (See Notes section attached to this profile)
  
  A printed account, prepared by Mr. Osgood Field, says, that the ancestors of this Hubertus de la Feld — "the progenitor of the English DE la Felds" had been seated at the Chateau de la Feld, near Colmar, in Alsatia, for centuries before, and so early as the darkest period which followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Here, one of them entertained, in the 11th century, Pope Leo IX. and his Court, on his way to consecrate the Cathedral of Strasburg. The edifice received many benefactions at their hands, and several of them are interred here in the chantries they founded.
  
  Early as the third year of William the Conqueror, 1068, Hubertus de la Feld held Lands in the county of Lancaster, probably granted to him for military services. In the twelfth year of Henry I., John de la Feld appears as the owner of lands in the same county. Rochdale is in Lancashire, in which county Hubertus de la Feld held lands in 1069, and others of the name (his descendants) had similar possessions there in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. From official records in the various counties of Gloucester, Hereford, Herts, Lancaster, Middlesex, Suffolk, Surry, Yorkshire, and other parts of England, the name of De la Fell, De la Feld, De la Felde, is found changed to Feld, Felde, Feild, Fielde and Field are found down to the present time. Therefore, the derivation of the family name of Field is self-evident. The substantive from which it is taken is feld, or as it was written in old English, field, and is so written by all the old English authors.
  
  The city of Chester Coat of Arms has three garbs of wheat like that of the Field family. Sir Hubertus De la Feld resided near that city and it may be that part of the Chester arms was copied from those he bore. He died at Chester in Lancaster County in 1092.
  
  Field Genealogy: Being the Record of All the Field Family in ..., Volume 1 By Frederick Clifton Pierce
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  As stated previously the ancestor of the Field family the first of whom there is any record was Hubertus de la Feld who went to England with William the Conqueror in the year 1o66 from ne
  
  History of de la Feld
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  The name of Field is an ancient and honorable one in England and can be traced far back to the Norman Conquest. The family name Fiel
  
  Sir Hubertus De La Feld
  HUBERTUS DE LA FELD
  The ancestor of the Field family, the first of whom there is any record, is Hubertus de la Feld, who went to England from near Colmar in Alsace, on the German border of France. He
  
  === The ancestor of the Field family, the fi ===
  The ancestor of the Field family, the first of whom there is any record, is Hubertus de la Feld, who went to England from near Colmar in Alsace, on the German border of France. He was one of the family of Counts de la Feld, who trace back to the darkest period of the Middle Ages, about the sixth century. Colmar, or Kolmar, Germany, formerly in France was the capital of the Imperial German district Ober-Elass, situated on the Launch River, and not far from the Ill River. It is an old town with narrow and winding streets. The ancient fortifications have been made into beautiful promenades. William, Duke of Normandy, commonly called the Conqueror, landed in England Sept 29, 1066, and on Oct 14, 1066, fought the battle of Hastings, where Harold the King of England was defeated and slain. As early as the third year of William the Conqueror, 1068, Hubertus de la Feld held lands in the County of Lancaster, near Chester, granted him for military services. The prefix "de la" was dropped by many families in the fourteenth century on account of the wars with France having made it unpopular. The first without the prefix is found in Halifax and Sowerby as early as 1360, and about 1445 it entirely disappears. It thereafter appears as Feld, Felde, Feild, Fielde, and Field.
  
  === The oldest known ancestor of the Field F ===
  The oldest known ancestor of the Field Family, Hubertus, from the Chateau de la Feld near Colmar in Alsace went to England with William the Conqueror in 1066 and received large grants of land from William for military service. His name appears as an owner of lands in the County of Lancaster in 1069. Sir Hubertus settled in Lancaster near the city of Chester. Sources: Field Genealogy by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Chicago 1901 also Genealogy of the Fields of Providence, Rhode Island by Harriet A. Brownell 1878; FHL film 1017042 item 10 Hubertus is not listed in "My Ancestors Came with the Conqueror" by Anthony J. Camp; FHL book 942 D4ca nor is he listed in "The Roll of Battle Abbey" by John Burke 1848 or "The Battle Abbey Roll" by the Duchess of Cleveland 1889.
  
  === About Roger (Rodgar) de la Feld (Father of Hubertus) | Interesting Extended Narrative of Beginnings of Field Family [Primary source(s) yet to be established] ===
  Roger de la FeldRoger de la Feld (b. Abt. 1000, d. date unknown)
  
  Roger de la Feld was born Abt. 1000 in Alsace, Lorraine, France, and died date unknown.
  
  The Family of De La Field, still indissolubly identified with this locality, notwithstanding their total estrangement from its possession, were originally derived from Alsace, and long resided in the chateau that bears their name, situated in a pass of the Vosges mountains, about three days' journey from Colmar. They were also lords of considerable possessions in Lorraine. The ruins of their castle and its chapel yet remain, and afford a picturesque but melancholy memoriai of "the splendour of the Counts of la Field, as styled by du Chesne, who records the tributes they claimed, the retinue and hospitality they maintained, as well as the difficulties they encountered in the early wars of Germany and France, notwithstanding the assistance they received [397] from the Earls of Flanders, and the House of Hapsburg, to both of which they were allied by marriage:
  
  "La croix d'or de la Feld luisant parmi les,
  
  En courageux defi lances des armées de la France."
  
  A cadet of this noble line came over to England about the time of the Conqueror, and, accordingly, Hubert de la Field is recorded as a tenant in capite in Buckinghamshire, in the third year of the reign of that monarch, as is also John de la Field in 1109. King John early in his reign granted a considerable estate at Streatham in Surrey, which had been the property of Peter "Feald," to William de Rivers, Earl of Devonshire, and in 1253 John de la Feld intermarried with Elizabeth Fitzwarine, from which marriage descended the de la Felds of Field Place in Sussex, as also the de la Felds of the above locality of Fieldstown, and in right of which marriage, the head of this sept now claims the title of Fitzwarine as a barony in fee. About the year 1270 Ralph de Feld granted six acres in Botlowe (Gloucestershire), to the abbey of Flaxley, while other members of the family were, at the same. time, settled in Hertfordshire and Kent. In 1299 Adam de la Field was one of the king's valets on service in the castle of Loughmaban and in the king's army, for which he received for himself and his "mailed" horse, an allowance of 12 pence per day. About the same period, Reginald de la Field was a landed proprietor in the palatinate of Meath. In 1315 Robert de la Feld was keeper of the tallies under the Earl of Warwick.
  
  In 1344 John, the son of John de la Field, was seised of the manor of Skidow in the county of Dublin, and in 1359, was one of the three appointed to assess and collect a subsidy over that county. In 1373 the sheriff thereof was directed to summon this John de la Field amongst others, the chief men of the county, to a great council. In 1385 the king, in consideration of the great expense which Alexander, Bishop of Ossory, had, while Treasurer of Ireland, incurred in Munster and elsewhere, granted to him the custody of the estates of John, the son of John de la Field, deceased, to hold same during the minority of said John's brother and heir, Richard de la Field. In 1389 Michael de la Felde was Vicar of St. Mary's church of Callan, and Dean of St. Canice's [398] cathedral, Kilkenny; and in 1390 Richard Field was installed one of the canons of the free chapel in Windsor.
  
  In 1402 Thomas Felde, merchant of Salisbury, petitioned the English parliament, stating that he had been plundered of various goods and merchandise by the French on the high sea, and praying, therefore, letters of marque and reprisal. In the same year in Ireland, Walter de la Felde was appointed one of four collectors of a subsidy, granted by the commonalty of the county of Dublin, while Thomas de Ia Feld had a similar commission in the barony of Duleek; John de la Feld was at this time seised of Fieldstown, which his daughter and heiress Catherine having inherited, passed with her on her marriage with Richard, the son of John Barnewall of Trimlestown, as above-mentioned.
  
  In 1416 John Felde was one of the knights who served under the Duke of Gloucester, at the battle of Agincourt. In 1454 another of the same name was sheriff of London, became subsequently an alderman thereof, and merchant of the staple of Calais. He died in 1474, and has a fine monument erected to his memory in the cathedral of Hereford. In 1479 Doctor Field, Warden of Winchester, was a considerable benefactor to King's College, Cambridge; and in 1480 one of this family was Master of Fotheringay College, the windows of which he considerably beautified, as recorded by Camden.
  
  In the commencement of the 16th century, Patrick de la Field of Painstown intermarried with Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Cusack of Geraldstown, and granddaughter of the 16th baron of Howth. A branch of the Fields was about the same time settled at Corduff in the County of Dublin. In 1534 Captain James de la Field, chief of the sept, was one of the adherents of the unfortunate Thomas Fitz-Gerald, and in his cause besieged the castle of Dublin; but the citizens having closed their gates, and thus cut off his party from communicating with their friends, some of Field's detachment were fain to escape by swimming over the river, but the greater number were taken prisoners.
  
  About the same time a branch of the Fields was planted at Shipley in Yorkshire; and at the close of this century flourished Mr. Field the Puritan, notices of whose writings are preserved in [399] Collier's Poetical Decameron, as are some of his letters in the Cottonian Manuscripts. In the celebrated conference of 1603, between the Presbyterians and the members of the Established Church, held at Hampton Court before King James, as moderator; Doctor Field was one of the deputed divines of the latter side. In consequence of this meeting, which lasted three days, a new translation of the Bible was ordered, and some alterations made in the liturgy. In 1616 died Richard Field, Canon of Windsor and Dean of Gloucester, he was buried at the former place. In 1620 Dr. Field was Bishop of Landaff.
  
  In the 17th century James de la Field was possessed of considerable estates in the County of Monaghan, while members of the family flourished at Stanstedbury in Hertfordshire, at Ardestow in Yorkshire, at Madley in Herefordshire, at Pagan Hall in Gloucestershire, at Ashford in Middlesex, as likewise in Hampshire.
  
  In 1664 John de la Field was one of those who petitioned for a remuneration to Sir Robert Talbot and others, who had been agents for the Roman Catholic nobility and gentry of Ireland, such remuneration to be levied off the estates of the restored Roman Catholics. A branch of the Field family was then settled in Cork, two of whose descendants, John and Richard Field, were amongst those attainted in King James's parliament of 1689, while another member established himself in Armagh, of which town John Field was sovereign in 1715,1720, 1724, 1725, and 1728.
  
  In 1697 John de la Feld, a descendant of the marriage mentioned at 1253, who had entered the imperial service, acquitted himself with distinguished gallantry at the battle of Zenta in Hungary, fought by Prince Eugene against the Turks, and was thereupon created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. In the records of the ensuing period, various members of the family are traced at Islington, at Woodford in Essex, at Kingston-upon-Hull, at Camden Hill, Kensington, and in Lancashire.
  
  From Fieldstown the course of this excursion enters the parish of [400]
  
  Ch. 16. Killossery. Home.
  
  From Randy Regan's homepage:
  
  The family home was originally located in a pass of the Vosges Mountains in Alsace, France near a little village called Colmar. It was called the Chateau de la Feld.
  
  Children of Roger de la Feld are:
  
  +Huburtus de la Feld, b. Abt. 1030, d. 1092. (Source: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/w/a/l/Paula-J-Waldowski-MO/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0383.html)

• m. 1060 in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France

1. John De La Feld, b. ABT 1090 in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France     d. 1120 in Chester, Cheshire, England

1. Title: Hubertus De La Feld Biography (Expanded version)
   Author: WikiTree, Profile of Hubertus De La Feld managed by Bob Fields, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Del_Feld-9
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   Note: Per Wikitree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Del_Feld-9 loginWikiTree: Where genealogists collaborate First Name del Feld SEARCH Hubertus (del Feld) de la Feld Hubertus (del Feld) de la Feld (abt. 1040 - abt. 1092) Privacy Level: Open (White) Sir Hubertus (del Feld) de la Feld's Profile Images Family Tree & Genealogy Tools Sir Hubertus (Sir Hubertus) "Herbtus" de la Feld formerly del Feld aka del la Field Born about 1040 in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, Francemap Son of Count (del Feld) del la Felde and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown] [spouse(s) unknown] Father of John (del Feld) de la Feld Died about 1092 in Englandmap Profile manager: Bob Fields private message [send private message] Del_Feld-9 created 11 Nov 2012 This page has been accessed 5,118 times. Biography Born between 1020 and 1040. Hubertus de la Feld went to England with William the Conqueror in the year 1066 from near Colmar in Alsace, on The German Nord of France. Colmar, an imperial city during the middle ages, near Strasburg, in Alsatia, on the German border of France. He was of the Counts De la Feld, who resided at Colmar as early as the sixth cen­tury. The name of Field is an ancient and honorable one in England, and can be traced far back of the Conquest. Probably not a dozen families in England can prove so high an antiquity. The family name of Field is one of several, such as Wood, Hill, etc.. derived from locality. Persons with corresponding patronymics may be found in every civilized country. The word originally signified land on which the timber had been felled, as distinguished from woodland. It is evident from the nature of its origin that there are many families of that name, related to each other, from having two common ancestors. It was anciently written De la Feld, or De la Felde, as was also the noun from which the name was derived; but about the middle of the fourteenth century the spelling of both was changed to Field, or, in some cases, Feild. We find, for instance, in the early editions of the Bible the well known words printed thus, "consider the lilies of the feld:' The fact of the name being hereditary in the family to which this book relates as early as'the middle of the tenth century, and probably at a still more remote period, indicates a so-called Norman origin. Freeman says in his history of the Norman Conquest that there is no well ascertained case of a strictly hereditary surname in England before the Conquest, and that they were a novelty at that time in Normandy, where the custom was taking root. After the Conquest there were instances of hereditary names in England, among the Norman families especially, if not confined to them. With these few exceptions, hereditary surnames did not come into use here till about the middle of the fourteenth century. Burke states in one edition of his "Landed Gentry," under the head of De la Field, that this family was originally in Alsace, near the Vosges Mountains, where it was seated at the Chateau de la Feld, near Colmar, from the darkest period of the middle ages; that the Counts de la Feld were the once powerful proprietors of the demesnes and castles near Colmar, of which the latter still bears their name. These Lords had large possessions in Alsace and Lorraine, and are frequently mentioned in the wars of those countries. The Croix d'Or of La Feld, their ancient badge, is still the coat armor of the Delafields. Hubertus de la Feld was the first of his race that emigrated to England. He went over with the crowd of foreigners who attended the Conqueror hither, his name appearing enrolled as the owner of lands in the County of Lancaster in 1069, the 3rd of William I. Burke also states that others of the name were proprietors of land in the same county in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and were descendants of Sir Hurbertus. We have no authentic record of the companions of the Conqueror, and it is generally admitted by competent genealogists that the "roll of Battle Abbey" is imperfect, and has been tampered with. It does not therefore help us in this matter. Burke is not always reliable, and when the writer wrote to him for his authority for the statements in his book, he replied that he had forgotten where he found them, or from whom he had received them. The writer has not often met with the name in England prior to the middle of the thirteenth century. In the great roll of the Pipe there is mention of a Hugo de la Felde under the head of the. Another account says the names of the Knights who came over with William to England are engraved on a tablet in a church at Falaise in France, the birthplace of William. A printed account, prepared by Mr. Osgood Field, says, that the ancestors of this Hubertus de la Feld — "the progenitor of the English DE la Felds" had been seated at the Chateau de la Feld, near Colmar, in Alsatia, for centuries before, and so early as the darkest period which followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Here, one of them entertained, in the 11th century, Pope Leo IX. and his Court, on his way to consecrate the Cathedral of Strasburg. The edifice received many benefactions at their hands, and several of them are interred here in the chantries they founded. Early as the third year of William the Conqueror, 1068, Hubertus de la Feld held Lands in the county of Lancaster, probably granted to him for military services. In the twelfth year of Henry I., John de la Feld appears as the owner of lands in the same county. Rochdale is in Lancashire, in which county Hubertus de la Feld held lands in 1069, and others of the name (his descendants) had similar possessions there in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. From official records in the various counties of Gloucester, Hereford, Herts, Lancaster, Middlesex, Suffolk, Surry, Yorkshire, and other parts of England, the name of De la Fell, De la Feld, De la Felde, is found changed to Feld, Felde, Feild, Fielde and Field are found down to the present time. Therefore, the derivation of the family name of Field is self-evident. The substantive from which it is taken is feld, or as it was written in old English, field, and is so written by all the old English authors. The city of Chester Coat of Arms has three garbs of wheat like that of the Field family. Sir Hubertus De la Feld resided near that city and it may be that part of the Chester arms was copied from those he bore. He died at Chester in Lancaster County in 1092. Sources http://www.geni.com/people/Herbtus-Del-Feld/6000000011414439867 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2640299&id=I545378618 http://www.archive.org/stream/fieldsinenglanda00fiel/fieldsinenglanda00fiel_djvu.txt http://susanlutjens.blogspot.com/2010_09_03_archive.html http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtwindha/nfc/nfc155_176.htm MORE: FAMILY TREE & GENEALOGY TOOLS Sponsored by MyHeritage Search Searching for someone else? First: Hubertus Last: de la Feld GO Do you have a GEDCOM? Login to have every name in your tree searched. It's free (like everything on WikiTree). Sponsored by MyHeritage DNA No known carriers of Sir Hubertus's Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA have taken yDNA or mtDNA tests. Have you taken a DNA test for genealogy? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Family Tree DNA. 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