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William of Huntingfield Sheriff of Norfolk



Preferred Parents:
Father: Roger de Huntingfield Lord of East Bradenham, b. 1145 in Mendham, Suffolk, England   d. 1204 in Southorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Mother: Alice De Quincy, b. 1139 in Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, England   d. DEC 1204 in Frampton, Lincolnshire, England

Family 1: Isabel FitzWilliam of Gressinghall,    b. AFT 1150 in Gressinghall Manor, East Bradenham, Norfolk, England    d. 1207 in Framton, Gloucestershire, England
  1. Alice de Huntingfield, b. BET 1185 AND 1194 in Mendham, Suffolk, England     d. 30 MAR 1236 in Caernarvonshire, Wales
  2. Roger de Huntingfield, b. 1195 in Frampton, Boston, Lincolnshire, England     d. 10 JUL 1257 in Huntingfield, Blything, Suffolk, England
Sources:
  1. Title: "A New History of Dover and of Dover Castle, During the Roman, Saxon and Norman Governments," by W. Bathcheller
    Author: 1828
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=ENctuLyqWaUC&pg=PP5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false;
  2. Title: Wikiwand: William of Huntingfield
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/William_of_Huntingfield;
    Note: William of Huntingfield (d 1219/1) was a medieval English baron, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk and one of the Magna Carta sureties. He held Dover Castle for King John from September 1203 (as a Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports) and in exchange, the king took his son and daughter hostage. He was granted the lands seized from his disgraced brother and appointed Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1210 and 1211. In the First Barons' War he was an active rebel against King John and one of the twenty-five chosen to oversee the observance of the resulting Magna Carta. He subsequently supported the French invasion of England, and took part in the Fifth Crusade, where he died. Family William was son of Roger de Huntingfield and Alice de Senlis who was a great granddaughter of Simon, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton. He married Isabel, the daughter of William Fitz Roger of Gressinghall, Norfolk. Isabel had been twice widowed: her first husband was Berenger de Cressy, and her second Osmund de Stuteville. They had two sons and four daughters. William was succeeded by his elder son Roger.
  3. Title: "The Publications of the Pipe Roll Society," Volume XXXV
    Author: Published in 1913
    Publication: Name: http://booksnow1.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/42/piperollsociety35pipeuoft/piperollsociety35pipeuoft_bw.pdf;
  4. Title: Southside Virginia Genealogies
    Author: Southside Virginia Genealogies, John W. Pritchett, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 2007
    Note: Magna Carta Surety: null; 1215; Runnymede, Surrey, England This Source was downloaded from: http://www.adkins9.net/source.php?sid=S17820
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247023816
  5. Title: Adkins Family Genealogy, History and Heritage
    Author: About PhpGedView, Thomas Adkins, http://www.phpgedview.ne
    Publication: Name: http://www.adkins9.net/individual.php?pid=I1372;
    Note: Originally Created: 10 February 2014bythomas@adkins9.net
  6. Title: "A Short Historical Sketch of the Town of Dover, and its Neighbourhood...," by Z. Warren
    Author: Full Title: "A short historical sketch of the town of Dover, and its neighbourhood containing a concise history of the town and castle from teh earliest acccounts to the present time: with a description of the villages near Dover, within the distance of six miles." 1828
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=-NgHAAAAQAAJ&q=huntingfield#v=snippet&q=huntingfield&f=false;
  7. Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    Author: Dictionary of National Biography volume 28.djvu/312
    Publication: Name: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Huntingfield,_Suffolk;
    Note: HUNTINGFIELD, WILLIAM de (fl.1220), justice itinerant, was the son of Roger de Huntingfield. He was appointed constable of Dover Castle on 16 Sept. 1203, and gave his son and daughter as hostages for the safe holding of it (Rot. Pat. 5 Joh.) In the same year he received a grant of the wardship of the lands and heir of Osbert Fitz Osbert (ib.}, and in 1208 had charge of the lands of his brother Roger (who was also a justiciar), which had been seized in consequence of the interdict (Rot. Claus. i. 110). From 1208 to 1210 he was one of the justices before whom fines were levied, and from 1210 to 1214 he was sheriff of the united counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. So far he was in favour with King John, but next year he joined the confederate barons (Matt, Paris, ii. 585), was one of the twenty-five appointed to secure the observance of Magna Charta (ib. ii. 605), and a witness to the charter granting freedom of election to the abbeys (ib. ii. 610). He was one of the barons ex-communicated by Innocent III in 1216 (ib. ii. 644), and his lands were taken into the king's lands (Rot. Claus. 16 Joh.) He reduced Essex and Suffolk for Lewis of France, and in retaliation John plundered his estates in Norfolk and Suffolk (Matt, Paris, ii. 655, 665). Huntingfield was one of the barons taken prisoner at Lincoln on 20 May 1217 (Cont. Gervase, ii. 111, in Rolls Ser.); but on the conclusion of peace returned to his allegiance, and in October was restored to his lands (Rot. Claus. 1 Hen. III). In 1219 he had leave to go on the crusade and appoint his brother Thomas to act on his behalf during his absence. He married Alice de St. Liz, and is said to have died in 1240, but in 1226 his son Roger sued his bailiff for arrears of rents. William de Huntingfield's great-grandson Roger was summoned to parliament by Edward I in 1294 and 1297, and this Roger's great-grandson William was summoned from 1351 to 1376, but on his death without issue in 1377 the barony fell into abeyance. [Matt. Paris, in Rolls Ser.; Foss's Judges of England, ii. 83; Dugdale's Baronage, ii. 7; Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages, p. 293.]
  8. Title: "The History of the Town and Port of Dover and of Dover Castle: With a Short Account of the Cinque Ports," Volume 2, by John Lyon
    Author: Ledger, 1814
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=n8Y_https://books.google.com/books?id=n8Y_AAAAcAAJ&q=huntingfield#v=snippet&q=huntingfield&f=falseAAAAcAAJ&q=huntingf#v=onepage&q=huntingfield&f=false;
  9. Title: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700," by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall
    Author: Full Title: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals" Genealogical Publishing Com, 2004
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=3FFrederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall9nG8aFJ7MC&pg=PA176&dq=william+de+huntingfield&hl=en&sa=X&ei=op1YUq21I4Wm9gSux4G4CA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=william%20de%20huntingfield&f=false;
  10. Title: Ancestors of Anne Hutchinson
    Author: media.type.Electronic, Ancestors of Anne Hutchinson, Behling, Sam, Notable Women Ancestors, http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/ah2.html, August 8, 2000
    Note: occupation: null; ; Keeper of Dover Castle death: occupation: null; ; Warden of Ports of Norfolk & Suffolk birth-name: William de Huntingfield
  11. Title: Wikiwand: Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk;
    Note: This is a list of Sheriffs of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Sheriff (since 1974 called High Sheriff) is the oldest secular office under the Crown and is appointed annually by the Crown. He was originally the principal law enforcement officer in the county and presided at the Assizes and other important county meetings. After 1576 there was a separate Sheriff of Norfolk and Sheriff of Suffolk.

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