Hervey FitzAkaris

• Preferred Name: Hervey FitzAkaris^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Find A Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86013095/hervey-of_ravensworth
  
• Occupation: Forester of the New Forest
  
• Death: ABT 1182 in Jervaulx Abbey, Ripon, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.1363 LONG: E1.5233 with note: - Removed reference to the UK prior to 1801.
  
• FSID: GWL6-5DH
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Hervey-Fitz-Akarius/6000000010320715539?through=6000000001660431323
  
• Birth: ABT 1120 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.4667 LONG: E1.7833
  
• Burial: 1182 in East Witton, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.2667 LONG: E1.7667
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Hervey of Ravensworth
  BIRTH 1120
  Ravensworth, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England
  DEATH 1184 (aged 63–64)
  Ravensworth, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England
  BURIAL
  Jervaulx Abbey
  East Witton, Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England
  MEMORIAL ID 86013095 · View Source
  
  MEMORIAL
  PHOTOS 1
  FLOWERS 14
  Hervey was the son of Akaris of Ravensworth.
  Hervey was a noble and good knight and much esteemed in his country, gave consent that Conan, then Earl of Richmond and Brittany, should translate the Abbey of Charity into the fields at East Wilton, and there place it on the verge of the river Jore, from which it was thenceforward called Jorevaulx.
  Hervey was also known as Hervey FitzAkaris
  
  Family Members
  Parents
  Photo
  Akaris of Ravensworth
  1080–1161
  
  Children
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  Henry FitzHervey
  1167–1212
  
  === Notes and sources for Henry FitzAkaris ===
  Another name for Hervey was Hervey Fitz Akaris.
  
  bullet General Notes:
  
  ~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 226:26, Hervey Fitz Akaris, of Ravensworth, forester of the New Forest Ravensworth, married Alice, daughter of Ranulf Fitz Walter of Greystock. 160
  
  bullet Information about this person:
  
  • Background Information. 141
  Hervey was forester of the New Forest and Arkengarthale, Yorkshire, by the grant of Conan, Duke of Brittany, and son and heir of Akaris Fitz Bardof, which Bardolf was brother of Bodin, who held Ravensworth, Micleton, Romaldkirk &c according to the Domesday Survey.
  
  ~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, (Fitz Henry), pp. 416-417, footnote (d)
  
  • Background Information. 967
  Hervey Fitz Akaris, living in 1165, ob. 1182, was "a noble and good knight," who consented that Conan, Earl of Richmound should translate the abbey of charity to East Wilton, and place it on the banks of the river Jore, from which it was called Jorevaulx. He was a witness with his brother walter to a charter of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond (11 Henry II, A.D. 11650); and about the same time he "gave his 9th sheaf of grain which grew on his lands in Lemingford, and Ravenswet to the Priory of Maryke in the Deanery of Richmond." [Burton, Monast. Ebor., p. 357]. He died, 1182, leaving three sons:
  Henry Fitz Hervey
  Richard
  Alan
  
  ~ Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, pp. 104-105
  
  === (21) dead ===
  (21) dead
  
  === !Ancestral Roots, Line 226-26. !Forester ===
  !Ancestral Roots, Line 226-26. !Forester of the New Forest & Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire, by grant of Conan, Duke of Brittany.

1. Henry FitzHervey of Ravensworth, b. 1167 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England     d. 16 MAR 1212 in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England

1. Title: Hervey of Ravensworth, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-BQCV : 11 June 2020), Hervey of Ravensworth, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-BQCV;
   
2. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Trees