Hervey (Bourges) de Bourges (abt. 1046)

Descendants

Hervey Bourges was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Keats-Rohan has an extensive and detailed article about Hervey, entitled "Herueus Bituricensis". Various points from it:

• Second name. The Latin byname could be translated as "of Berry" or "of Bourges". Berry (a region) and Bourges (a city) in France both derive from the Roman civitas of the Bituriges. But Keats-Rohan doubts that he was personally from there and points to examples of Bretons and others with this name, wondering if it is even a nickname related to the word for a wren (bitricus).
• Wife Judith. Keats-Rohan is confident that Hervey's wife's first name is Judith (Jueta, Ieuitia). She also proposes that it is likely she was a relative of the Malet family in Suffolk, perhaps a sister of daughter of Robert Malet, whose mother had the unusual name Esilia, also given to Hervey's daughter and heir.
• Association with Bretons. Before Hervey received them, his English lands had been held by William son of Gorhan, a Breton, and many of the tenants also had clearly Breton names. Keats-Rohan points to an entry in the Hyde Abbey Liber Vitae for "Vrvog et Iudith coniunx eius" explaining that Vrvog is the Breton form of Hervey. William son of Gorhan and his brother Hugh appears in the same column.
• Relative, Peter the cleric. Peter the cleric, also known as Peter Bituricensis, or Peter clericus Ambianensis (meaning from Amiens) was a landholder under the abbot of Bury in Suffolk. His lands went to the heirs of Hervey in the Pecche family. Hervey's wife and daughter were benefactors to Bury. As a cleric at Bury, he may have spent time in Berry.
• Children. Apart from his daughter Isilia, Hervey may have also had a son also named Hervey who challenged Isilia's son Hamon Pecche's possession of Bituricensis lands in 1129.

Sources

• Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, pp.253-4

Acknowledgements

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