Hugh de Bolebec

• Preferred Name: Hugh de Bolebec^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Hugo de Bolebec
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: MJ9T-ZT6
  
• Death: ABT 1100
  
• Birth: ABT 1050 in Normandie, France at LATI: N8.928 LONG: E0.5326
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Biography
  A Norman knight of Walter Giffard (Earl of Buckinghamshire), he established a large barony, also called the barony of Whitchurch, in southern England, mainly in Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. Walter his successor in the early 12th century founded a second barony in Northumberland on the unstable Scottish frontier.
  
  Swaffham Bullbeck in Cambridgeshire is named after him, and both the baronies were also referred to sometimes as Bolbec baronies even after the family no longer held them. The Whitchurch barony became a part of the greater holdings of the Earls of Oxford in the 13th century.
  
  Despite being a major tenant-in-chief, Sanders remarks that:
  
  The centre of the Bolbec lands seems to have been at Whitchurch although the manor was held of Walter Giffard.
  Loyd writes that the family came from Bolbec, Seine-Inferieure, arrondisement Le Havre, and...
  
  Between 1067 and 1076 Roger Porchet, Hugh de Bolebec and others gave the church of St. Michael at Bolbec to the abbey of Bernay, Hugh's portion being a quarter; the gift was confirmed by Walter Giffard as overlord. In 1086 Hugh de Bolebec was holding lands in Hartwell, and elsewhere in Buckinghamshire, of Walter Giffard.
  
  Furthermore:
  there are but few traces of the family in Normandy, but the Norman Exchequer Roll of 1180 shows that the farm of the Norman lands was then 40li. 16s. 1d. It is perhaps significant that their attestations of the charters of their overlords are all to charters executed in England. The family appears to have been one originally of small account which owed its advancement to the Conquest.
  
  Death
  He had been replaced by his apparent son Walter by 1136, when Walter is noted as one of the barons of King Steven.
  
  Earlier, no Bolebecs seem to appear in the 1129 Pipe Roll of Henry I, although Walter was clearly already an adult and politically active in Scotland.
  
  Given the 50 year gap in records from 1086 to 1136, it seems impossible to be certain of the exact relationship between Hugh in 1086 and Walter in 1136, though they are generally considered likely to be father and son.
  
  === children ===
  children
  
  === (21) d. ===
  (21) d.

• m. BEF 1075 in France

1. Walter de Bolebec, b. AFT 1075 in Normandy, France     d. 1164 in Styford, Northumberland, England

1. Title: Calendar of Documents preserved in France
   
2. Title: HUGH OF BOLBEC DOOMESDAY
   Publication: Name: https://opendomesday.org/name/hugh-of-bolbec/;
   
3. Title: History & Antiquities of Newport Pagnell Hundreds