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Roger fitz Corbet, Tenant of Alberbury under the Earl, associated with the Corbet baronial family
Dates: Active in the late eleventh century; exact dates uncertain
Roger fitz Corbet was a Norman feudal tenant associated with the Corbet holdings in Shropshire. Domesday Book records him as holding Alberbury of the Earl.
View historical person →Roger Flower, Member of Parliament for Rutland, Sheriff of Rutland, Speaker of the House of Commons, Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster
Dates: died 1427
Rutland wool merchant, royal official, lawyer and parliamentarian. He purchased Whitwell in 1412 and served repeatedly as Speaker of the House of Commons.
View historical person →Roger Foliot, Feudal landholder
Dates: fl. first half of the 13th century; possibly later 13th century
A member of the Foliot family who held the Edwinston or Idstone fee during the first half of the thirteenth century and whose interest was later divided with…
View historical person →Roger le Strange, Lord of Ellesmere, marcher baron
Dates: died 1311
A member of the le Strange family who succeeded his brother Hamo in the Ellesmere lordship and was confirmed in possession in 1276. He died without issue in…
View historical person →Roger le Strange, 4th Baron Strange of Knockin, marcher lord
Dates: fl. 14th century
Member of the Le Strange baronial family of Knockin who succeeded his uncle Eubolo le Strange in the Ellesmere estate descent recorded here.
View historical person →Roger Manners, Member of Parliament for Grantham, squire of the body to Mary I and Elizabeth I, naval officer
Dates: c. 1530–1607
Roger Manners was a younger son of Thomas Manners, first Earl of Rutland. He served at court under Mary I and Elizabeth I and represented Grantham in Parliament.…
View historical person →Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, 6th Earl of Ulster
Dates: 1374–1398
English nobleman and heir to extensive Mortimer estates. The registry records him as holding Netherbury Hall and conveying it to Sir Edward Grey in 1409, although that stated…
View historical person →Roger of Poitou, Count of La Marche, Lord of Clitheroe, major post-Conquest feudal landholder, Norman magnate, Domesday landholder, Norman nobleman, lord of extensive English lands after the Norman Conquest, lord of the Honour of Lancaster and extensive lands in Lancashire
Dates: died 1102
Roger of Poitou was a prominent Norman landholder who held extensive estates in northern England after the Conquest, including the fief in which Airton was recorded.
View historical person →Roger Pont l'Eveque, Archbishop of York
Dates: Archbishop of York, 1154-1181
Medieval archbishop of York listed in the local succession of Acomb's archiepiscopal lords.
View historical person →Roger Prideaux
A grantee of the Lordship of West Almer with John Woollacomb after the dissolution of Shaftesbury Abbey in 1538; he joined in its sale to Thomas Butler approximately…
View historical person →Roger Scrope, 2nd Baron Scrope of Bolton, Lord of Bolton
Dates: c. 1348–1403
A member of the Scrope family of Bolton who held Bracken and Sledmer and in 1403 granted an income from those manors to Thomas Kesteven for life.
View historical person →Roger son of Corbet, Domesday holder, member of the Corbet family
Dates: Recorded in 1086
A member of the Corbet family who held the Actune estate in Shropshire at the time of the Domesday Survey.
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