Roger (FitzAlfred) FitzAlured (abt. 1144 - aft. 1187)

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Roger FitzAlfred (Alured) was born circa 1144 (est: he was 21 when his daughter was born and she married circa 1178^[1] aged 12).

Roger was the son of Alfred de Cumbray,^{[2] [3]} and his wife, Basilea.^[4] Alfred, lord of Lee Cumbray, now Lee Gomery, Shropshire, described as Lega Aluredi in the Pipe Roll of 1167.^[4] Alfred de Combre was granted the manor of Nether Whitley, Cheshire, by Randle earl of Chester, surnamed Blundeville, which was witnessed by Warren de Vernon, Richard Pincerno and Thurstn Bannaster, among others, at Braham.^[5] Tait says this grant occurred between 1141 and 1153^[6] and was from Ranulf II (not Ranulf de Blundeville), earl of Chester.^[4] Alfred was living in 1186 (Pipe R. 32 Henry II. 106), but was dead before Michaelmas 1187 (Pipe R. 33 Henry II. 168).^[4] Basilea's confirmation of her ancestors' grant of the church of Tattenhall to St Werburgh's, Chester, suggests that she was related to William Malbank, first baron of Nantwich, whose grant of the church and tithes of Tattenhall to St Werburgh's was in the abbey's foundation charter, and/or the Touchet family, as Earl Ranulf II confirmed Tattenhall to Henry Touchet, son of Henry, son of Jocelyn.^[4]

Roger had siblings:

1. John son of Alwred', who witnessed Roger's grant of his daughter, Agnes, and Warburton to Adam de Dutton;^[1]

Roger Fitz Alured [FitzAlfred] married twice:

1. Maude, with whom he had children:
   1. Alice,^[5] oldest daughter and coheir, who had the manors of Nether Whitley and Legh Cumbre, and was married to and was married to sir Robert Tuchet, lord of Buglawton and Tattenhale, the son of Simon Touchet and his first wife, Alice daughter of — Colevyle;^[7]
   2. Agnes, who married Adam, younger son of Hugh Dutton of Dutton,^[8] and ancestor of the Warburton family of Arley;^[5]
2. Leuline;

Roger also had a son and heir, William, who agreed to his sister, Agnes, and a mediety of Warburton being given in free marriage to Adam de Dutton by Roger;^[1]

Roger gave his daughter Agnes and a mediety of Warburton, with the agreement of his son and heir, William, in free marriage to Adam de Dutton, which was witnessed by Prior de Nort', John constable of Chester, Hugh de Dutton, John son of Alwred', Robert Venables, Gaut' de Dutton, among others.^[1] John constable of Chester also confirmed Roger's charter, which was witnessed by H. Prior de N, Roger son of Alured', Richard Fitun, Hugh de Dutton, Robert Venator.^[1] John was constable between circa 1178 and 1190 when he died in Tyre.^[9]

Roger was dead when his daughter Agnes assented to her husband, Adam Dutton of Dutton, making a gift to St Mary and St Werburg of Warburton, and the Premonstratensian canons,^[8] sometime after 1190, because the gift was for the health of the soul of John Constable, who was dead, for Roger son Alured's soul, and for the body and soul of Roger Constable.^[9].

Evidences from Contemporaneous Records

Before 1187: Basilea, Alfred de Cumbray's wife, confirmed the donation by her ancestors of the church of Tattenhall to St Werburgh's, Chester, and Roger, her son confirmed the donation.^[4]

1186-1194: "Grant by Robert de Hastings to Roger de Cumbray of Burwardsley, which his father Alfred had held of the abbey, for 5s to be paid on the feast of St Martin, on the condition that Roger—or, if he were unable, his steward—should come on reasonable summons to afforce the abbot's court, and that trail by battle arising out of the land in question should take place in that court, and the amends should go to the abbot, however the battle ended, once the champions had entered the court."^[3]

After 1190: The grant Adam Dutton of Dutton made to St Mary and St Werburg of Warburton, and the Premonstratensian canons, as transcribed by Sir Peter Leycester, is printed in Latin in Omerod's History of Cheshire.^[8] The English translation of the grant is by Farrer:^[10]

Grant in frankalmoign from Adam de Dutton, with the assent of Agnes his wife to God and St. Mary and St. Werburg of Warburton, and the Premonstratensian canons there, of the moiety of the town of Warburton, for the health of the souls of John, Constable [of Chester], and his ancestors; of Roger, Constable [of Chester], and his wife; of the grantor's father and mother; of Roger Fitz Alfred, of whose fee the said land was; of the grantor's son John, whose body lay buried there; and for the health of his own soul, his wife's, and the souls of all his ancestors. Witnesses — Hugh de Dutton and Geoffrey his brother, [s.d. 1189— 1208].

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882 p 568
2. ↑ A P Baggs, Ann J Kettle, S J Lander, A T Thacker and David Wardle, 'House of Premonstratensian canons: The priory of Warburton', A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3, ed. C R Elrington and B E Harris (London, 1980), 171, British History online (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/p171 : accessed 8 December 2015).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} James Tait, ed, The Chartulary or Register of the Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester, Part I, 246, Digital Image Internet Archive. Charter 383.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} James Tait, ed, The Chartulary or Register of the Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester, Part I, (NS: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1920), 122-4, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/chartularyorregi791manc#page/122/mode/2up : accessed 1 February 2018). Charter 85.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882 p 659, quoting Leycester, Peter. Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire. (London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673).
6. ↑ James Tait, ed, "The Chartulary or Register of the Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester, Part I", Remains Historical and Literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, 79—New Series, (NS: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1920), 69, Digital Image Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/chartularyorregi791manc#page/68/mode/2up : accessed 1 February 2018). Charter 11.
7. ↑ Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882 p 662.
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882 p 567, quoting Leycester, Peter. Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire. (London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673).
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882 p 694-5
10. ↑ William Farrer, ed., "The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey of the Premonstratensian Order. Printed from the original in the possession of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart., F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge, Near Huddersfield", Remains Historical and Literary connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol 43 —New Series, (Manchester: The Chetham Society, 1900), accessed 9 December 2015, https://archive.org/stream/chartularycocke00farrgoog#page/n222/mode/2up pp.736.

See also:

• George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. I, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), accessed 8 December 2015, .
• Eyton, History of Shropshire, VII:340.