Roger de Muschamp

• Preferred Name: Roger de Muschamp^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Roger-de-Muschamp/6000000003827915213?through=6000000003827701033
  
• FSID: G763-JTM
  
• Birth: ABT 1064 in Normandy, Plouigneau, Brittany, France at LATI: N8.5667 LONG: E3.7016
  
• Death: 1097 in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, , England at LATI: N3.224 LONG: E0.21
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  In the year 1060, there lived near Falaise in Normandy a minor feudal lord. He took his name from the lands he owned and was served and protected by a number of retainers who, as was the custom in those dark days, had been bred either by himself or his forebears.
  
  The name of this lordling was Roger de Muschamp , and the estate from which he derived his name had been variously interpreted as "The Field of the Fly" or as "Mossyfield" which would infer that his estate was small and swampy and that its owner was impoverished.
  
  The family was distinguished by a distinctive shape of nose. Leland, the historian, makes some reference to this when he writes "All Muschamps smell a little" which no doubt refers to this organ.
  
  When William of Normandy gathered together the flower of French chivalry for his invasion of Britain, Roger de Muschamp was anxious to accompany him, but unfortunately, the night before setting forth, he was warned in a dream, not to cross water. In consequence, it happened that when William called the roll, de Muschamp was marked AW.O.L. and it was not until two years later, when Britain had been conquered, that de Muschamp joined his beloved king. De Muschamp did not fit easily into the life of the Court so William wisely sent him as far north as possible. He was given a slice of territory on the Northern Marches, and his duty was to guard the border of Northumberland, in order to prevent the Scots from disturbing the annexed lands to the south, where the Normans were by now comfortably established. De Muschamp built watchtowers along the Border and madeshort work of any local peasantry who showed signs of socialistic tendencies, and the number of Muschamp noses became almost a "bulge" problem. After founding a family that was later to cause more bother in England than the Black Death, he passed away in 1099. His death was caused by his cook putting a handful of fish-hooks into his porridge in error.
  Source: http://homepages.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy2/ps31/ps31_011.htm
  
  De Muschamp family
  
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  Roger De Muschamp
  Birth
  1064
  France
  Death
  1086 (aged 21–22)
  Willoughby, East Lindsey District, Lincolnshire, England
  Burial
  Burial Details Unknown
  Memorial ID
  188218989 · View Sour

1. Thomas de Muschamp, b. ABT 1098 in (Wilgebi) Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England    

1. Thomas de Muschamp, b. ABT 1098 in (Wilgebi) Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England    

1. Title: Roger De Muschamp, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHV-5MSW : 10 September 2021), Roger De Muschamp, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 188218989, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHV-5MSW;