Unknown (De Ogle) Hoggel (1034 - aft. 1055)

Born 1034 in Northumbria, England

Descendants

Died after 1055 after age 21 in Northumbria, England

Biography

De Ogle tempore Willelmi Conquestoris’ (fl. 1055).^[1][2]

Biography

"De Ogle 'tempore Willelmi Conquestoris,' as Dodsworth has it in his pedigree, or 'tempora Guilielmi Conquestoris' in his introduction, of the family, representing him as the figure of a man, holding in his right arm a shield, and his left extended to his line of descendants. He has been named Robert and also Gilbert, but with no authority whatever. By a comparison between the pedigrees of the Ogles and the Bertrams, he appears to have been of the same generation as Sir Richard Bertram, who dates from the Norman Conquest.

It has been said that:

"Humphrey Ogle esquire, lived at Ogle castle at the Conquest, to whom William the Conqueror by his deed without date, confirmed to him, all his Liberties and Royalties of his manor and estate of Ogle, in as ample a manner as any of his ancestors enjoyed the same before the coming of the Normans."

and these words were actually inscribed on the walls of Bothal church, but they are not the original words and a mistake has been made.

It is quite possible that there may have been two Ogles named Humphrey, and that this was one of them, and it is clear that he was the father of a Humphrey Ogle who, to judge from his charter, held by inheritance. He was probably born not later than the year 1055, in which year Siward, earl of Northumbria, died and Tosti became earl in his room. The latter having been expelled went abroad, and returning with Hardrada, king of Norway, invaded Yorkshire, but was defeated by Morkar, his successor, in the earldom, and Edwin, earl of Mercia.

In 1066 after the battle of Hastings, Alorkar joined Malcolm, king of Scotland, with other Englishmen and Danes disaffected towards the Conqueror, having in the meantime constituted Osulf, the son of Eadulf, earl of the present county, in his place.

In 1068 the Conqueror defeated Edgar Atheling and Malcolm, king of Scotland, at Gateshead Fell, and constituted Copsi, earl in Osulf's room. Gospatrick and Robert Comyn followed as earls of Northumberland, and after the death of the latter at Durham, William in 1069 invaded that county, upon which it is related the monks fled to Lindisfarne with the body of St. Cuthbert; at this time Gospatrick was again earl but disliking the Conqueror's severe proceedings fled with Edgar Atheling and Malcolm, who in 1071 roused the North against William, who passed through Northumberland the next year on his way to the Tay where Malcolm agreed to do homage for his lands held in England.

In the same year Waltheof became earl, but being discovered in a conspiracy, was beheaded at Winchester. He was followed by Walcher, bishop of Durham, who was burnt to death in a fire at Gateshead. In 1080 Robert Curthose, son of the Conqueror, on returning from an expedition against the Scots, erected a small New-castle.

It is conjectured that about this time, this Ogle's son, Humphrey, was born and the baronies of Alnwick, Morpeth, Mitford, Bolam, and probably Whalton, were formed.

In 1088 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutance, seems to have become earl of Northumberland, but soon after Robert, son of Roger Mowbray, was earl of the county. In 1093 King Malcolm again invaded the county and besieged Alnwick, but Earl Mowbray assisted by Morrel of Bamburgh, the steward and sheriff, defeated and killed Malcolm and his son, who were afterwards buried at Tynmouth.

In 1095 Mowbray being in a conspiracy against William Rufus was by that king beseiged in Bamburgh castle. Mowbray having fled to Tynmouth, Morrell surrendered the castle. For some years after this no earl is mentioned in history, and this Ogle having lived through these turbulent times, probably died in the reign of Henry I."^[1]

Children

• Humphrey de Hoggle (Ogle), esq. (b. abt 1080)[1]

son ____ de Ogle b. abt 1055^[3]

Death

The progenitor of Ogle family probably died during the reign of Henry I, but no later than Henry II (1100-35).

Sources

• Cokayne, G.E. (1945). Complete Peerage (Vol. X, pp. 21 - 41). H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White & Lord Howard de Walden (Ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press. PDF.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Ogle, H.A.(1902). Ogle & Bothal: History of the baronies of Ogle, Bothal, and Hepple.
2. ↑ b. bef. 1055AD, (OgleKin.org).
3. ↑ Baronies of Bothal and Ogle: probably Humphrey de Ogle, father of Humphrey de Hoggell (b. abt. 1080)