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Adam d'Port
- Preferred Name: Adam d'Port[1]
- Gender: M
- Burial: 1030 in Basse-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.18 LONG: E0.38 with note: myheritage
Basse-Normandie, France
- Birth: 970 in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.3443 LONG: E0.7553
- FSID: LDZT-7QG
- Death: 1030 in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France at LATI: N9.3443 LONG: E0.7553 with note: myheritage
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_de_Port_(d._c._1133)
Adam de Port (sometimes Adam of Port;[1] d. c. 1133) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Baron of Kington.
Adam was the son of either Hugh de Port[2] or Hubert de Port.[3] The family originated in Port-en-Bessin in the Calvados region of Normandy.[4]
Before 1121, Adam was granted the manor of Kington in Herefordshire by King Henry I of England. Kington had previously been in the royal demense. This grant is considered by I.J. Sanders to have created Adam the baron of Kington.[2] Adam served King Henry in his household as a steward.[1] He was a witness on four royal documents in 1115 and four more in 1121.[5] Adam held 22 knight's fees in Hereford before his death.[6]
Adam may have been the Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1130,[7] and perhaps at other times also, as he may be the person listed as the sheriff in some documents.[8][a]
Adam founded Andwell Priory in Hampshire as a dependent priory of Tiron Abbey. He also gave gifts of land to Tiron itself and Les Deux Jumeaux, another dependency of Tiron.[7]
Adam died between 1130 and 1133.[3] His heir was his son Roger de Port, and he had two other sons named Hugh and Robert.[9]
Note: One document is dated to between 1107 and 1115, another is dated to between 1100 and 1128, and the last is dated to 1121.[8]
Citations
1) Hollister Henry I p. 361
2) Sanders English Baronies p. 57
3) Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 645
4) Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families pp. 79–80
5) Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility pp. 185–186
6) Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility p. 175
7) Jump up to: a b Cownie "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
8) Jump up to: a b Green English Sheriffs p. 45
9) Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 646
References
Cownie, Emma (2004). "Port, Adam de". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53947. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Green, Judith A. (1990). English Sheriffs to 1154. Public Record Office Handbooks Number 24. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 0-11-440236-1.
Hollister, C. Warren (2001). Frost, Amanda Clark (ed.). Henry I. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08858-2.
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.
Newman, Charlotte A. (1988). The Anglo-Norman Nobility in the Reign of Henry I: The Second Generation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-8138-1.
Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Hubert d'Port, b. 945 in Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France d. 978 in Seamer, Scarborough, North Ride Yorkshire, England
Mother: Eleonor d'Leon, b. BEF 955 in France
Family 1: Sybil de Yorkshire , b. 970 in Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
- Roger d'Port, b. ABT 1000 in Port-en-Bessin-Huppain, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France d. ABT 1066 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Adam De Port - Published information: birth-name: Adam De Port
Note: Published information: birth-name: Adam De Port
Published information: male
Published information: birth: about 0970; France
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247013845
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