GAUTIER LE EWRUS.

Gautier the Fortunate, Le Ewrus (Heureux) erroneously called de Ewrus and de Evreux by Pere Anselme, Le Brasseur and others, was of the family of Roumare (Rosmar) as proven by Bowles. Gautier accompanied duke William to the conquest, receiving extensive grants of land, including the lordships of Salisbury and Ambresbery. His hereditary possessions were inherited by his eldest son, Walter, and his younger son, Edward de Evreux (Edwardus vicecomes, Sarisbriensis), as he is inscribed in Domesday, received his estates in Buckinghamshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire Herefordshire, Middlesex, Somersetshire, Surrey and Wiltshire. He bore the standard of Henry I in the battle of Bremule with distinction. His grandson, William Fitz Patric, was created by empress Matilda earl of Salisbury, whose only daughter and heiress, Ela, married William Longue-Epee, natural son of Henry II by the fair Rosamond. From this family descended Robert Devereux, the ill-fated favourite of queen Elizabeth, also the Devereux's lord Ferrers of Chartley and earls of Essex.

--(This name appears on the Falaise Roll).