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Ogerus was born about 1030. Ogerus Bedingfield ... He passed away after 1087. [1][2]
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The ”Benefield” surname began as ”Bedingfield”. The family are first found in England after 1066 with Ogerus de Pugeys. He was a Knight of William I Malet, a companion to William, the Conqueror, at the Battle of Hastings, in 1066.The Bedingfield/Pugeys are of Norman descent with their forebears settling in Normandy, France along with King Rollo of Norway. Rollo was a Viking leader of the principality of Normandy. The King of France gave Rollo the land of Normandy in an agreement to end the looting of France and to help the King of France defend against other Vikings attacking France. One of the Lords of Normandy was William, Lord Malet de Greville. Ogerus de Pugeys was a Knight in Lords Malet’s court.In 1066 when William The Conqueror came over to England, Lord Malet and his Knights came with him to fight the Anglo-Saxon King, Harold. Lord Malet was first cousin to the King of England’s wife, and was apparently entrusted with the guard of Harold’s body after he had been slain on the battlefield. After the conquest William (Lord Malet) was made governor of York Castle and was slain in its defense about 1071. At the general survey in 1086 (which became the Domesday Book) Lord Malet’s son Robert, possessed: thirty-two Lordships in Yorkshire, three in Essex, one in Hampshire, two in Nottinghamshire, eight in Lincolshire, and two hundred and twenty one in Suffolk. The near kinsman of this Robert, William Malet, became Lord of the Honor of Eye in Suffolk.
Because Ogerus de Pugeys fought bravely alongside Lord Malet he was given land in the county of Suffolk in an area known as ”Badyngafelda”. ”Badyngafelda” was a pasture or meadow that was primarily used for the grazing of sheep. Peter, the son of Ogerus was given the duty of caretaker for the second William Malet of Honor of Eye in Suffolk, England. Ogerus de Pugeys was given the title of ‘Sir Knight Ogerus de Pugeys of Badyngafelda’. The name was later changed to de Badyngafelda in recognition of the estate and manor and the de Pugeys was dropped. The family’s first seat was Flemmings Hall (it is now a farmhouse surrounded by a moat). Around the 1300s the ”de” was dropped, and the family became known simply as Bedingfield. In the fourteenth century the family divided into two branches, one of which established itself at Ditchingham, the other at Oxborough Hall in Norfolk, which continues to be the ancestoral home
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Therefore should his LNAB be changed to Pugeys?