9994932. Lord Roger la Zouche & 9994933.
Margaret Biset
~1175, Roger
la Zuche born in England, younger s/o 19989864.
Alan la Zoche & 19989865. Alice de Belmeis.
~1195,
Margaret born in England, d/o 39979036. Henry Biset & 39979037.
Aubrey Fitz Eustace.
4/6/1199, John succeeded Richard I as King of England.
6/1199,
Roger heir to his brother William de Belmeys, paying £100 for his lands.
9/1201,
Roger made the final installment payment on the lands of his brother William.
10/1203,
Roger la Zuche, lord of Tong, essoigned his Salop assize because he said he had
gone beyound seas before the general summons.
8/15/1204,
The King’s Bailiff in Sussex had orders to give to William Brriwere all Roger
La Zouche’s lands in the Honour of Petworth.
1204, For a
fine of £100, Roger was returned his lands. Roger had pledges for the fine.
4/25/1205,
Roger’s debt to the king excused when he committed to serve the king in Poitou
for a year with another knight.
5/1/1205,
The King lent Roger la Zouche 50 marks, payable by William fitz Warin.
1205, John
le Strange invaded the lands of Roger la Zouche.
1210, Roger
accompanied King John on his Irish expedition.
6/6/1210,
King John launched successful attacks in Ireland [which he split Ireland into
shires ruled by the crown from Dublin]. King John launched 700 ships in the
attack.
6/28/1210 at
Dublin, Ireland, Roger lent 40s by the king’s treasurer.
Bef.
4/4/1211, Margaret’s father, Henry of Kidderminster, Worcestershire and
Rockbourne, Hampshire died.
1211, Roger
la Tusche holds Tong in capite of the king and is bound to the service of
finding 2 men for service in Wales.
1212, Roger
held the manor of Thonk by service of half a fee of William de Braose.
2/1214, King John landed at La Rochelle, France in
an expedition into Poitou. Roger with
the king.
5/26/1214,
Roger had letters of scutage with respect to his personal service.
5/5/1215, The revolting Barons formally renounced
their allegiance to King John and invited the King of France to invade England.
[The barons in revolt together held more castles and knights fees than John did
as King. Intervention by the King of France prevented by the Pope.]
6/19/1215 at Runnymede near Windsor, King John
forced to agree to the terms of the Magna Carta.
10/14/1215,
Roger granted the manors of Peterfield and Mapledurham, Hants, forfeited by
Geoffrey de Mandeville.
[––Roger & Margaret––]
~1216, Roger
married Margaret.
4/25/1216,
Roger given the manor of Fairford of the honour of Gloucester.
5/12/1216, Prince Louis [future VIII] of France,
after a successful landing, crowned King of England in London. In June, Louis
captured Winchester and controlled half of England.
6/11/1216,
Roger in the retinue of King John at Corf.
10/19/1216,
Henry III, age 9, succeeded John as King of England. Louis of France also
claimed the throne.
1216, King
Henry [through his guardian] immediately committed the custody of Costessey to
Roger la Zouch, sealed with the seal of William Marshall, earl of Pembroke.
[The seal of the king not yet created.] (S) Ess. Tow’s Topo. Hist. of Norfolk,
V2, 1805, Cossey.
3/15/1217,
Roger, retaining Mapledurham and Peterfield, ordered to give dower to Milisent,
widow of the earl of Everux, then wife of William de Cantilupe the younger.
5/20/1217, English forces, with the aid of previous
rebel barons, defeated the French forces at Lincoln.
5/1217,
Roger awarded additional lands of the king’s enemies.
9/12/1217, For 10,000 marks and land exchanges,
Louis forfeited his claim to the English crown by the treaty at
Kingston-on-Thames. A principal provision of the treaty was amnesty for English rebels.
7/22/1218,
Roger given lands in Costesey [Norfolk or Suffolk], which had belonged to the
Vicomte of Roain [likely a relative.]
5/1/1219,
Roger granted a market and fair at Black Torrington, Devon.
8/22/1219,
Roger granted a market and fair at Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire.
8/6/1220,
The king reserved to Margaret both her maritagium and dower, as Roger was going
on a pilgrimage to Santiago, Spain.
11/1221,
Roger was involved in a long suit over presentation at Tong; previously held by
his brother William. Roger claimed to be heir of his uncle as successor of his
son was Philip was Ranulph, then to Alice, Ranulph’s sister because Ranulph
died without issue, then to Alice’s son William, his brother, then to him the
litigant.
1224, Roger
gave land in Ludwark to the Priory of Maiden Bradley; a favorite of Margaret’s
father.
5/15/1227,
Grant to St. Mary and the leprous women of Bradele … of Margaret Biset, all th
service and rent … land in Wicheford, … of Roger la Suche, a half-virgrate in
Tudeuurth … (S) CChRs.
1/4/1228,
Roger’s grant of Black Torrington made a hereditary grant.
1228-31,
Roger, Sheriff of Devonshire.
11/1229,
Margery Bagot sued Roger la Zouche under
writ of novel disseizin for her tenement of Blymhill. [Formerly of Ranulph de
Belmeis.]
4/20/1230 at
Portsmouth, Roger given letters of protection for as long as he served the king
in foreign parts.
4/26/1230,
Roger la Suche was pardoned the 5m. which he owed for having a market at his
manor of Ashby de la Zouche, Leicestershire.
4/30/1230, from Portsmouth, King Henry invaded
Brittany in hopes of recovering Normandy. They established their camp at
Nantes, and captured a small castle.
3/31/1232, In cujus etc. fieri fecit rex, duraturas
tota vita Margarete Biset, sororis ejusdem domus: Grant to the leper ladies of land held by
Damiscelle Margaret biset with other land in [Maiden] Bradley, some of which
adjoins the chiminum ferratum to Mere, and land extending to Sewood Cross.
(Wilts) (Somers.) (S) UKNA, (S) CPRs.
1232, Roger
la Zouche, newly lord of the Richmond manor, claimed the patronage from Bon
Repos. (S) Hist. of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, V9, 1989, Fen Drayton.
5/4/1235, Grant, for life, at the petition of the said
Isabel [the King’s sister], to Margaret Biset, of 5 marks a year of the farm of
the king's manor of Braumpton. (S) CPRs.
1236,
Roger’s honor of Tange constituted a knight’s fee, rated at 2 marks, assessed
for aid in the marriage of the king’s sister.
9/1237, De
cervo dato.—Mandatum est Johanni de Monem' quod in Nova Foresta regis faciat
habere latori presentium ad opus Margarete Biset unum cervum et unum damum, de
dono regis. (S) CCRs. [Margaret to have the gift of a stag and a deer from the
king.]
Bef.
5/14/1238, Roger of Black Torrington and King’s Nympton died.
[––Margaret––]
[Undated], Maud
late the wife of Everard de Buriton to Margaret Biset : Grant of the land … in
Burton : ( Wilts. ) (S) UKNA.
1242,
Margaret died: Obiit autem eodem anno in partibus illis Margareta Biset, … (S)
Matthaei Parisiensis, Wendover, 1877, P200.
(S) Gaz. of
Markets and Fairs in England and Wales to 1516. (S) Antiquities of Shropshire,
V2, Eyton, 1855. (S) Hist. of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, V10, 2002,
Fulbourn.
Children
of Roger and Margaret:
i. Alan la Zouche (243376344),
born ~1217 in England.
ii. William la Zouche (4997466), born ~1220 in
England.
iii. Eudo la Zuche, born ? in England.
12/25/1262,
Where as the whole march of Wales is disturbed … the king is sending Alan la
Zuche, justice of the forest on this side of Trent, to the said march for the
preservation of peace and the defense of those parts, he commands [Thomas de
Orreby] to deliver the castles of Edward, the king’s son … to Eudo la Zuche,
brother of the said Alan … (S) CPRs.
iv. Loretta la Zouche (47279567), born ~1225 in
England.
