Adam de Port (d. c. 1133) explained
Adam de Port (sometimes Adam of Port; d. 1133) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Baron of Kington.
Adam was the son of either Hugh de Port[1] or Hubert de Port.[2] The family originated in Port-en-Bessin in the Calvados region of Normandy.[3]
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.[1] Adam served King Henry in his household as a steward.[4] 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]
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.[2] His heir was his son Roger de Port, and he had two other sons named Hugh and Robert.[9]
References
- Cownie, Emma . Port, Adam de . 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/53947.
- Book: Green, Judith A. . Judith Green (historian) . English Sheriffs to 1154 . Her Majesty's Stationery Office . London. Public Record Office Handbooks Number 24 . 1990 . 0-11-440236-1.
- Book: Hollister, C. Warren . C. Warren Hollister . Frost, Amanda Clark . Henry I . Yale University Press . New Haven, CT . 2001 . 0-300-08858-2 .
- Book: Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. . Katharine Keats-Rohan . Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum . Boydell Press . Ipswich, UK . 1999 . 0-85115-863-3 .
- Book: Loyd, Lewis Christopher . The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families . Genealogical Publishing Company . Baltimore, MD . 1975 . 0-8063-0649-1 . Reprint . 1951.
- Book: Newman, Charlotte A. . The Anglo-Norman Nobility in the Reign of Henry I: The Second Generation . University of Pennsylvania Press . Philadelphia . 1988 . 0-8122-8138-1 .
- Book: Sanders, I. J. . English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327 . Clarendon Press. Oxford, UK . 1960 . 931660.
Further reading
- Book: Cokayne, George E. . The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant . A. Sutton . Gloucester, UK . 1982 . XI . St John of Basing . 0-904387-82-8 . Microprint. George Cokayne.
- Round, J. H. . J. Horace Round . Genealogist . xvi . 1–13 . The Families of St John and of Port . 1900.
Notes and References
- Sanders English Baronies p. 57
- Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 645
- Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families pp. 79–80
- Hollister Henry I p. 361
- Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility pp. 185–186
- Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility p. 175
- Cownie "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Green English Sheriffs p. 45
- Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 646