Roger d'Abetot explained

Office:	Sheriff of Worcestershire
Term Start:	1108
Term End:	c. 1114
Predecessor:	Urse d'Abetot
Successor:	Osbert d'Abetot

Roger d'Abetot (sometimes Roger of Abitôt^[1]) was a medieval English Sheriff of Worcestershire.

Roger was the son of Urse d'Abetot, his predecessor as sheriff. He also held the custody of Worcester Castle, another office he inherited from his father.^[1] He may also have been a constable in Henry I's household, as his father had been.^[2] Along with the offices, Roger also inherited the feudal barony of Salwarpe in Worcestershire.^[3] He was banished from England in around 1110^[1] or in 1114 by King Henry I, and lost his office because of this.^[4] His lands were also forfeit.^[5] According to the medieval writer William of Malmesbury, Henry exiled him because Roger ordered that a royal official be killed.^[1]

The office passed to Osbert d'Abetot, who may have been Roger's uncle, before eventually ending up with Roger's brother-in-law Walter de Beauchamp.^[6]

Sources

• Encyclopedia: Cronne, H. A. . Johnson, Charles . amp . Introduction . Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum 1066-1154 . II: Regesta Henriici Primi 1100-1135. Cronne, H. A. . Johnson, Charles . Clarendon Press . Oxford, UK. 1956 . ix-xlvi. 634967597.
• Book: Green, Judith A. . Judith Green (historian)

. The Aristocracy of Norman England . Judith Green (historian) . 1997 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 0-521-52465-2 .

• Book: Hollister, C. Warren . C. Warren Hollister . Frost, Amanda Clark . Henry I . Yale University Press . New Haven, CT . 2001 . 0-300-08858-2 .
• Book: Katharine Keats-Rohan

. Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. . Katharine Keats-Rohan . Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book . Boydell Press . Ipswich, UK . 1999 . 0-85115-722-X .

• Encyclopedia: Round, J. H. . John Horace Round . Abetot, Urse d' (c.1040–1108) . revised by Emma Mason . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press . 2004 . 13 June 2009.
• Book: Sanders, I. J. . English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327 . Clarendon Press. Oxford, UK . 1960 . 931660.

Notes and References

1. Hollister Henry I p. 225
2. Cronne and Johnson "Introduction" Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum p. xvi
3. Sanders English Baronies pp. 75–76
4. Keats-Rohan Domesday People p. 439
5. Green Aristocracy of Norman England pp. 282–283
6. Round "Abetot, Urse d' (c.1040–1108)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography