LE SIRE DE TOUQUES.

From Touques, at the mouth of a river of that name, in the arrondissement of Pont l'Eveque, where the castle stood. Wace (l. 13555) records "cil de Toulce," and Guillaume Tailleur in the Norman chronicle mentions le seigneur de Touque as among the companions of the duke William at the conquest of England. The ancient family of Toque of Godington of Kent claimed descent from this Norman lord. A branch was seated in Nottingham in the reign of William Rufus, and were benefactors to Rufford abbey, in which county they continued for 300 years. Jordan, Roger, Robert and Henri de Touques appear in Dugdale's Monasticon. Roger de Touques occurs in Hampshire 1130, Humphrey in Derby, Roger in Dorset in 1165. Other branches were seated in York, Cambridge, Hereford, etc.

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