Adam de Port, I, of Mapledurwell

From Wikipedia retrieved 7 December 2019

Adam de Port (sometimes Adam of Port;[1] d. c. 1133) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and Baron of Kington. Adam was the son of either Hugh de Port [2] or Hubert de Port. [3] The family originated in Port-en-Bessin in the Calvados region of Normandy.[4]

Adam died between 1130 and 1133.[3] His heir was his son Roger de Port, and he had two other sons named Hugh and Robert.[9]

Notes

Port, Adam (fl. 1161–1174) by Emma Cownie, ODNB: Link

Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174), landowner, was the son of Roger de Port (d. c.1161) and his wife, Sibyl d'Aubigny, and grandson of Adam de Port (d. c.1138), who was probably sheriff of Herefordshire in 1130, and who had the honour of Kingston.

Citations

1. Hollister Henry I p. 361
2. Sanders English Baronies p. 57
3. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 645
4. Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families pp. 79–80
5. Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility pp. 185–186
6. Newman Anglo-Norman Nobility p. 175
7. Cownie "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
8. Green English Sheriffs p. 45
9. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 646

References

• Cownie, Emma (2004). "Port, Adam de (fl. 1161–1174)" ((subscription or UK public library membership required)). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53947. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
• Green, Judith A. (1990). English Sheriffs to 1154. Public Record Office Handbooks Number 24. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 0-11-440236-1.
• Hollister, C. Warren (2001). Frost, Amanda Clark (ed.). Henry I. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-08858-2.
• Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.
• Loyd, Lewis Christopher (1975) [1951]. The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (Reprint ed.). Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8063-0649-1.
• Newman, Charlotte A. (1988). The Anglo-Norman Nobility in the Reign of Henry I: The Second Generation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-8138-1.
• Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.

Further reading

• Cokayne, George E. (1982). "St John of Basing". The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. XI (Microprint ed.). Gloucester, UK: A. Sutton. ISBN 0-904387-82-8.
• Round, J. H. (1900). "The Families of St John and of Port". Genealogist. xvi: 1–13.link
• “Domesday People: Domesday book” Page 257 GoogleBooks